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All right, let's try that again.

( Русский язык )

I swear, I have the clingiest cat that ever clung. I am, apparently, not allowed to have things in my lap that are Not Murdock. That book I was reading? Not Murdock. The computer? Not Murdock. That bowl of cereal? Not Murdock, and in fact that is Murdock's Cereal Milk, Human, Why Are You Drinking My Milk. I'm also not allowed to shower alone. He told me this at the top of his voice.

I am not allowed to buy any more yarn until I knit what I've already got. Seriously. I am going fingerless gloves happy, here, I am going absolutely nuts with it. By way of example, here are some of the projects I'm currently working on:

1 pair fingerless gloves watermelon colored Noro Kureyon.
1 pair fingerless gloves ribbed from freaky purple NatureSpun Brown Sheep
Wash ribbed and stockinette fingerless gloves from Brown Sheep purple to get an idea of shrinkage (lay flat dry)
1 pair fingerless gloves from slate blue NatureSpun
1 pair fingerless gloves from deep navy NatureSpun
1 pair fingerless gloves from deep navy NatureSpun with dark teal fluffy edging

And that's just the ones I have plans for. I also have a couple other balls of yarn I'm not sure what I'm going to do with, but. PLUS all the yarn I've spun. Although most of that is getting given away. I need to spin my two other monkeys and then box it up and send a bunch of it off to people. And set a bunch of skeins, too, which may happen tonight. And then I'll probably start spinning the other monkeys tomorrow.

Two scenes out of 16 are done for Yuletide and I'm almost at 1k. And let me emphasize, one of these scenes was a short intro scene. This is going to be a pretty big story, and it is going to be so much fun to write. I just hope my recipient likes it. I also managed to finish a short story I was getting stuck on yesterday, which was nice. Now I just need to revamp my writing schedule, figure out what I need to do for all my Bingos (which will have to happen tonight, since I don't have a computer I can look at my bingo cards on, argh) and get back on track. Cake.

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OKAY, JAG. Enough screwing around. Back to your languages. No matter how damn tired you are tonight, back to your languages. You do not get fluent if you do not do the work. And you enjoy it, and you do feel better afterward.

( 日本語 )

The boy took me to the Japanese steakhouse Ichiban tonight. Because he is an awesome boyfriend even when he doesn't know I have had the day from hell. He also bought me (all?) four issues of House of Mysteries trade paperbacks as compensation for not punching the dogfucker in the face. No, I'm not going to elaborate. Except that the man has already been kicked out of one gamestore for conduct unbecoming a gentleman and I avoid going to game stores he'll be at if I can. He irritates me that much, in physical person.

My legs hurt. My back hurts. I got in to work and did the mail pretty leisurely, then waited for UPS. And UPS brought me 60 pounds of yarn that, for a general estimate, usually comes in 4 oz skeins. That I had to check in and label. And then parcel out because that was ten or twelve orders right there that we'd ordered for, and that took up a good two hours. And then I had to pack boxes like a mofo because we already had about 10 orders to pick and there's a whole rant about a co-worker here that I'm not making either because I'm tired, but basically after I was done with that it was about 1.30, I hadn't had lunch yet, I and I still had to pick about 10 or more orders and pack them and run papers and labels by 3.45 pm. Yay. Thank god for the Beej. Still, we managed to get it all out. And THEN I got to sit down and do customer service emails long enough to stiffen up before I unloaded the shipping boxes that had also arrived that day. A bundle of about 25 boxes weighs anywhere between 10 and 20 pounds. I was schlepping about ten, twelve? More? Sizes of boxes, so... yeah, I don't have teh brain to math anymore, you do it.

All this by way of telling you how fucking tired I am. I hurt. I can't complain too much, I am gainfully employed, but god I hurt.

Stuff. Things. If it's quiet tomorrow at work I might actually be able to take some time to call up Asus and deal with my damn netbook. I miss having my netbook at work. I miss being able to look at things or check languages or write or just listen to my own damn music. I suppose, though, now that I'm knitting, I can do that when it's slow. Not that it's likely to be slow before January. Life in retail.

Murdock-kitten continues to be clingy. Someday he will allow me to be on the laptop and not ram his head into my chin like a very tiny brawler. Until that day, I get to amuse all my friends on chat with abruptly breaking into current discussion to type MURDOCK GET YOUR ASS OUT OF MY FACE. Ah, the glamorous life of a kitty mommy.

... Speaking of Murdock, I haven't heard him around in a while. Uh-oh.

Oh, does anyone have a favorite hat knitting pattern for a Jayne hat? I figure if I'm going to start making hats I might as well start with that one.