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Nov. 8th, 2012 04:30 pm( Русский язык )
I may have finally caught up on the lost sleep from Tuesday night. I didn't actually go to bed until 1.30 (In winter I usually go to bed at 11.) because as I was going to bed they announced Obama's win, so I was all "oh thank god maybe I can sleep now." And then I found the Huffington Post's real-time-ish updates on the four marriage equality votes and spent the next two and a half hours mashing the refresh button to find out how they had fared. And it looks like we have four more states for marriage equality! I bought chocolate for my friend at the Chocolate Fetish yesterday.
And I wanted to go to bed early last night. But no. We went out and looked at appliances, and found a place that will give us a 24 month no interest payment plan if we buy our mattress from them too, which, eh, we were in the market for one anyway, so! And hopefully this one will last the full 25 years, I think it's guaranteed for that, anyway. Plus we found relatively inexpensive dishwasher and washer/dryer, and probably relatively inexpensive stove. Mom and Aunt are helping on some of that, and we still have a fair chunk of change left over from the down payment that we were saving for this, so. Actually, looking at the numbers we should just be squeaking by. Appliances we definitely wanted to get new, anyway, furniture can come slowly and over time. Bonus points if we leave a bit over to pay down over time and/or if we manage to get some cost knocked off.
And in a couple of weeks the major work should be done so we can get them actually delivered. Holy crap. Appliances and things delivered to the house, a washer and dryer in my home so I can do laundry whenever I need to. After four years of apartment living that's becoming precious again.
Utterly randomly I wonder if I should get a nice Moleskin or something and write down these side-by-side translations from English to Russian. If I handwrite them it might embed itself deeper into my brain. If I can get them into the same level of my skull as that quote from Dark Knight Rises that would be fantastic, because that quote will not go away and will not stop being in Bane's voice. Stupid movies ruining perfectly good speech patterns.
Right. And on the way home, stopping to measure the appliances for the umpteenth time because I don't know what the hell happened to the notebook with the measurements in it. Probably it got its pages pulled to feed a sphinx. Measuring that, looking at the hot water heater, checking in on what work's been done, watering plants, then home and doing all the goddamn Nano catch up ever, as well as working some on Yuletide. I've been on my own at work so it's been a bit awkward in terms of finding time to do anything, although it's also been eerily quiet. This that and the other. I miss writing. And... well, writing. BUT. I don't have anything else to do tonight. SO there. Also gratuitous Haven icon is gratuitous only not quite because NOW NATHAN AND DUKE CAN GET MARRIED. (Okay, yes, gratuitous shipping is fairly gratuitous only I totally now want to write the fic where they eventually go to the courthouse to get married because they both have family shit they don't want to fall into untrusted hands, and maybe a year or three later they kind of realize they kind of get jealous of each other and quietly sneak out and buy rings and NO ONE TALKS ABOUT IT because Nathan gets surly if they do. Because he still hates Duke. Really. Promise.)
I may have finally caught up on the lost sleep from Tuesday night. I didn't actually go to bed until 1.30 (In winter I usually go to bed at 11.) because as I was going to bed they announced Obama's win, so I was all "oh thank god maybe I can sleep now." And then I found the Huffington Post's real-time-ish updates on the four marriage equality votes and spent the next two and a half hours mashing the refresh button to find out how they had fared. And it looks like we have four more states for marriage equality! I bought chocolate for my friend at the Chocolate Fetish yesterday.
And I wanted to go to bed early last night. But no. We went out and looked at appliances, and found a place that will give us a 24 month no interest payment plan if we buy our mattress from them too, which, eh, we were in the market for one anyway, so! And hopefully this one will last the full 25 years, I think it's guaranteed for that, anyway. Plus we found relatively inexpensive dishwasher and washer/dryer, and probably relatively inexpensive stove. Mom and Aunt are helping on some of that, and we still have a fair chunk of change left over from the down payment that we were saving for this, so. Actually, looking at the numbers we should just be squeaking by. Appliances we definitely wanted to get new, anyway, furniture can come slowly and over time. Bonus points if we leave a bit over to pay down over time and/or if we manage to get some cost knocked off.
And in a couple of weeks the major work should be done so we can get them actually delivered. Holy crap. Appliances and things delivered to the house, a washer and dryer in my home so I can do laundry whenever I need to. After four years of apartment living that's becoming precious again.
Utterly randomly I wonder if I should get a nice Moleskin or something and write down these side-by-side translations from English to Russian. If I handwrite them it might embed itself deeper into my brain. If I can get them into the same level of my skull as that quote from Dark Knight Rises that would be fantastic, because that quote will not go away and will not stop being in Bane's voice. Stupid movies ruining perfectly good speech patterns.
Right. And on the way home, stopping to measure the appliances for the umpteenth time because I don't know what the hell happened to the notebook with the measurements in it. Probably it got its pages pulled to feed a sphinx. Measuring that, looking at the hot water heater, checking in on what work's been done, watering plants, then home and doing all the goddamn Nano catch up ever, as well as working some on Yuletide. I've been on my own at work so it's been a bit awkward in terms of finding time to do anything, although it's also been eerily quiet. This that and the other. I miss writing. And... well, writing. BUT. I don't have anything else to do tonight. SO there. Also gratuitous Haven icon is gratuitous only not quite because NOW NATHAN AND DUKE CAN GET MARRIED. (Okay, yes, gratuitous shipping is fairly gratuitous only I totally now want to write the fic where they eventually go to the courthouse to get married because they both have family shit they don't want to fall into untrusted hands, and maybe a year or three later they kind of realize they kind of get jealous of each other and quietly sneak out and buy rings and NO ONE TALKS ABOUT IT because Nathan gets surly if they do. Because he still hates Duke. Really. Promise.)