Month: November 2007

Saturday Morning

Here I am awake on a Saturday and I don’t want to be but I have to walk the dog. A. had business in the city so he couldn’t do it. Not that I’ve been to bed in a proper way, yet. I spent the night on the sofa by mistake,woke up and decided to watch the last 6 episodes of Californication that I missed.

I really meant to get to bed because we just bought a new down comforter (which replaces the pathetic little square of fabric we’d been huddling under for the last 6 months) and I wanted to luxuriate in it’s massive, king sized fluffiness…oh well tonight is another night.

Seriously this thing is really cool. I spent a bleak few hours in Target trying to find a duvet cover for it because of course we got the dry clean only kind and can’t afford to get it nasty or we will go broke on the dry cleaning bills. I don’t know what Target thinks it’s doing but it’s killing me. I swear there isn’t a worse stocked or staffed store in Brooklyn.It’s been here for ages now and you’d think it would realize it needs to re stock merchandise more than once a week because nothing is ever in stock. I had a choice of 3 duvet covers. 3. Paltry. 100 bucks for a color you don’t really want but have to settle for because there’s nothing else and we have a dog who thinks the new comforter is a great place to lick his areas on.

The sad and funny thing is that I had bought a full/queen sized machine washable and dryable comforter and a beautiful cover for 259.00 but A. thought it was too small and too expensive so I returned it. Truth is I bought the full/queen because I found this gorgeous cover marked down from 340 to 95 and couldn’t pass it up. So here we spent about 200 and yeah the thing is big. So big in fact that it kind of takes over the room. I know I’ll be grateful for its hugeness once it gets really cold out…I just wish I hadn’t settled on chocolate brown for the cover. I panicked! Green? Tan? Brown? Oh the choices! Thank you evil Target. The bright side is that the dog can lick himself all he wants on it and the dark color will hide his enthusiasms.

I have to go walk the dog.

You can’t live without it but some try to

oh toilet paper

My boyfriend’s younger brother has found his own place. Our living situation has gone back to normal. Or as normal as we can get,anyway. We seem to have toilet paper when we need it and coffee is lasting longer. I hadn’t met anyone who drinks as much coffee as Adam until I met Eli.That’s another story.

The problem of maintaining the toilet paper levels so that there was always a roll on the holder and at least one spare drove me nuts when we had 5 people living here. It just wasn’t happening and it led to ill feeling. The guys living here seem to think that buying toilet paper is not their concern.This amazes me as it is just one of those things you can’t live without like air. And as for souring roommate relations go it tops the toothpaste top being left off (a crime of mine, I am not perfect) and stealing food.
Toilet Paper–you’ve got to buy it to have it. There isn’t a T.P. fairy.
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What I’m Reading right now

front cover

Never let Me go by Kazuo Ishiguro.

I stay with it because I want to find out what happens to the main character and so I suppose the author has achieved his goal: making me stay interested enough to keep reading.Duh. The style is a bit irritating because it’s written from a female point of view and I don’t feel convinced by Ishiguro’s voice that I am reading about a feminine experience rather than a man writing as a woman. I guess that is hard to do…

Perhaps his voice is secondary to the lives he is writing about. I can’t say much because it would be easy to give it all away. And this book really depends on slooowly unveiling certain truths and facts to the reader page by page.

The plot is a unique premise and he manages to bring it off without getting too science fiction on us. I’m not done, though so maybe there’s a big spaceship/coccon/lab experiment gone bad waiting for me at the end.

Weekend Bitchfest

Everyone has a rant in them and here is mine because I can bitch about anything in exhaustive detail.

The Offenders:

  1. Inconvenient Shops
  2. Moldy Bread
  3. My Boyfriend
  4. His Mother

Organic bread. Hm. I don’t really care about organic. I care about whether or not it tastes good. Which is why I began to buy Bread Alone, maker of French Sourdough and Organic Mixed Grains. It’s delicious stuff.

I have an inconvenient shopping experience in my neighborhood with only 2 sub par groceries within walking distance from my house.When I say walking distance Continue reading Weekend Bitchfest