Head over heels, half-naked and writing by hand

[cleolinda]

Aaaaand Horoscope of Irony is back on track with the scarily true:

Quickie: If you're feeling moody and slow, try to figure out why. The answer is obvious.

Overview: Tiptoe away from any meetings that look like they could develop into confrontations; you're feeling a touch introspective and really aren't up to dealing with someone else's mood. Be clear that you need your space now.

Daily extended: Feel like your home life is in need of some serious transformation? It's no wonder, with the mutable celestial influences going on in your life right now. You may decide a relationship needs a serious overhaul if you're attached; if you're single, you may radically rethink your approach to this whole love thing. An obstacle may emerge during all this change, but learn to roll with it and it'll be a molehill instead of a mountain

(Astrology.com, via my.yahoo.com.)

I have got to get off my ass and buy clothes, whether from a terrestrial store or an online catalogue, because I'm down to, like, two or three shirts that have not been worn down to holeyness. It's not that I don't like clothes, or don't like looking nice at all; it's just that 1) I don't go out much and 2) when I'm writing, which is soooo much of the time, I want to be comfortable in a "forget I have a body" sense. You know, when you're in the zone. It's hard to itch or tug at that collar and still be in the zone. It's a failing of mine that I don't care what I'm wearing most of the time, I admit this. So. Katrina guilt or not, must clothe self.

Later.

Have started keeping a handwritten diary again. Haven't done that in years, mostly thanks to computer. Even before I hit online journal services, I'd started typing up journals because I type faster than I write. Then I realized that I was actually having a hard time taking notes in class at my usual speed because my handwriting has atrophied that badly. That, and I saw a gorgeous journal at target.com that my soul must haaaaaave, and I already have an ever-so-slightly used "The Lady with the Unicorn" journal, so clearly, it was an idea whose time had come.

And there are things you just can't say on an online journal, and the more people that read it, the less you can say. I mean, if nothing else, because you know that there's a huge chance anything you say will get back to your relatives, particularly if it's about them. At one point I was keeping a private, locked-down, no-friends journal on another service (in a different name), but... really, I'm too lazy to keep up with things like that. I figure, with a handwritten journal, I can carry it around and it can also be my writerly commonplace book, I can pastede things in it, yay.

Oh, and speaking books (and tenuous segues), Venus in Boston arrived yesterday, thank GOD.  I was kind of going to my zen place of "Well, there's nothing you can do about it, you've already paid for it and they're not doing a good job of stocking it in town, you'll just have to go to class and take notes without the book, much less having read the book, and you'll just have to do the Julia Roberts Horselaugh of Oh, How Hapless and Quirky Am I. Or does this require the Reese Witherspoon Grin-Shug of Apologetic Spunkiness? Meditate on this." So I was prepared to make the best of it and not stress, and--hey! then it did come in. I may be on to something here.

(If you are wondering: the correct response is "the Reese Witherspoon Grin-Shrug." The Julia Roberts Horselaugh should be reserved for situations of extreme physical embarrassment, such as falling down three flights of stairs on your ass with a stack of books raining down on your head, that would otherwise require bursting into tears or dying of embarrassment. You can have that one for free.)

The CafePress store is coming along really well, by the way. It's just taking a while because a design for a sticker might also fit decently on a mug, but it's not going to fit right on a mousepad, so you have go through and redesign whatever to fit the dimensions of whichever product. It just takes a while, and I'm slightly terrified of opening the store with crap products and then improving them after half of y'all have bought the "bad" ones. So.

(I did come up with some awesome new Heroine Addict designs, if I do say so myself.)


Anyhoo, happy links:

oxymoron: Beedogs!

Lily Rose: Dogblog!


ETA: Sister Girl just brought me a Krispy Kreme. Cream-filled. Life is good.

 

Comments

[arpeggiodreams.livejournal.com]

The worst part about the shopping is the paying for it. I went clothes shopping this week, and spent $200 on pants and bras.

And I spent $75 on a pair of shoes last night. Why don't we just all run around naked again?

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Because it gets cold, man!

[arpeggiodreams.livejournal.com]

Oh, you poor thing that doesn't live in California :P

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Do y'all get any weather at all out there? Seriously, it gets cold even here in Alabama.

[arpeggiodreams.livejournal.com]

It's either 18 frillion degrees and sunny, or 17 frillion and foggy. Inbetweens are fairly unheard of, at least where I live.

[scornedsaint.livejournal.com]

I still keep a hand-written diary just cause I can write things that I will regret later but don't have to worry about who will read it. It's like a security blanket of agression in a way*.

*I also write about happy stuff though. Actually, my handwritten journal, apart from the occasional bitchy entry, is stuff I want to remember in 20 years; I'll still have the journal but prolly not my LJ.

[scornedsaint.livejournal.com]

And I love that dogblog site, by the way. Big hugs for linking to it.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I'm just now reading through it, really, and the guy is *hilarious.*

[reynardine.livejournal.com]

Yeah, still trying to balance the whole paper journal/online journal thing. Typing is so much faster, and the interaction with other folks gives a new dimension to what I write about my daily life, but damn, it just can't match the pretty! (I'm addicted to blank bound journals--it's like paper crack.)

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Gah, I just can't start buying blank bound journals again, because I'll never stop. P.S. Don't go to target.com. You'll have no money left afterwards.

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

I know all about the Handwriting of Ineffable Slowness. I was in class for the first time on Wednesday, and the prof is not one that I get along with. He was mathing on the board at the speed of summer lightening, and I was still taking notes when he called on me. I said, "Whuh??" to him, which is the way acute students indicate that they are still writing, have no clue what the question is, and would probably not know the answer even if they did because they haven't had time to read what it is they're writing. He made some sarcastic response and called on someone else.

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

Oh, and after class I asked this same professor if there was a text that we were supposed to buy. He said there was. I asked, where do we buy the book. He replied, in the bookstore. I left feeling extremely stupid.

Today I went to the bookstore. They not only don't have the book-- they don't even have an order for it.

[mandy0x.livejournal.com]

Beedogs is the new Stuff On My Cat.

[squee1123.livejournal.com]

oh i love the dog links...cheered me right up after Ladder 49...horrible movie made me cry in front of my cousin adn ive NEVER cried in front of him...unless i was really little

[ter369.livejournal.com]

I bought my 2006 keeps-track-of-everything calendar, and lo, there was guilt.

As you said, it will tak a month or so to stop that. The week after the flooding I'd make a salad and ... just look at it for a few minutes. It's good to be reminded to appreciate everything.

But the clothes thing, uff. I'm at home, or Starbucks, writing most of the week. Sometimes I go to the theatre. I don't need a lot of clothes, and I keep that statistic in mind: We wear 20% of our clothes 80% of the time.

[saiyajenn.livejournal.com]

I'm down to, like, two or three shirts that have not been worn down to holeyness.
LOL. That's just like me. I have a couple of decent shirts and one decent pair of pants. Since I work at home, and stay in my PJ's most of the time, I just don't care about clothes. Plus, I would much rather spend money on DVD's.

I keep a written journal, also. I keep it so I can have a place to act like an insane fangirl. ^_^

[plazmah.livejournal.com]

I also keep a written journal, mostly as a travel journal thing, and for when I need to get something down before I forget (and I'm nowhere near a computer). Since this is my first year out the the Real World and no longer being a student, my handwriting skills have degenerated madly over the past few months. Woe.

[ambiguousreason.livejournal.com]

I have, like, five handwritten journals lying around that I've written in twice and then abandoned, because I am so bad at remembering to do stuff like that. Also because it's always seemed weird to me, writing in a book that no one will ever read, and then I get critical of what I'm saying, and tell myself that I sound stupid, and.. yeah. It deteriorates (sp?) quickly.

MmmmKrispyKreme.

[sualocin.livejournal.com]

Yay for paper pen journals. I try to keep mine, and generally I do, but lately I'm just so off in writing in it.

And I would love to see what the cover is. ;)
And do you go with spiral bound, or the ones bound like books?

[arielchan.livejournal.com]

I keep a paper journal as well. I only write in it in case of really memorable events or really emotional moments, though, so I've been keeping the same journal for three years now and it's only half-full.

It is, however, a nice journal.

[twilight-zen.livejournal.com]

I do private journal entries a lot. I've got a crapload of them right now from the seriously depressed cycle I went through.

[shesnotallthere.livejournal.com]

I kinda want to strangle whoever writes these horoscopes. My sister-in-law has moved into my house, my workplace has become toxic...no shit, I'm a little touchy. Forget meetings, BREATHING is enough to make me confrontational. Suck it, Horoscope.

There is no emoticon for what I'm feeling.

I am glad your book came in, though, and that you got doughnutty goodness. I'm pretty sure that the "manna from heaven" was really Krispy Kremes.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Aww, thanks. And sorry about the toxic workplace, etc. :/

[shesnotallthere.livejournal.com]

Thanks...honestly, even though I'm stressed and irritated, it's almost a relief to be freaking over relatively normal stuff.

P.S.
Snake Oil's not making anyone fall at my feet, but it's helping me chill out.

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

Aw, that sucks-- I hope things get better for you.

[shesnotallthere.livejournal.com]

*waves*
I was wondering where you got to!

[word-herder.livejournal.com]

Julia Roberts Horselaugh v. Reese Witherspoon Grin-Shrug

I seriously nearly fell out of this rolling computer chair because I was laughing and the chair is of course on wheels on a slippery floor. (It also happens to be in my husband's lab where he and his other PhD students obviously don't care about posture because these chairs are SO UNCOMFORTABLE.)

[edda.livejournal.com]

I shall miss Hilarious Personal Anecdotes, but can see why some must be kept private.

I need new underpants and made a recent post about it. Because my life is exactly that dull.

Thank you for the appropriate response advice. I shall venture forth into the world forearmed.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Heh. Seriously, if it's that funny? It ain't private. Private is mostly stuff like, so and so has a crush on so and so, and I hope it works out, but I can't tell anyone. Also, [member of my family] is driving me BATSHIT, etc.

[tabbyclaw.livejournal.com]

situations of extreme physical embarrassment, such as falling down three flights of stairs on your ass with a stack of books raining down on your head,

...and then you suddenly remember that your mom was a pirate queen and you must follow in her footsteps?

[lafemmeluna.livejournal.com]

Someone offering you a Krispy Creme is like someone offering you diabetes on a plate, lol. Not that that means you shouldn't eat it anyway! It just reminds you to moderate. *grin*

[foresthouse.livejournal.com]

Is the cafepress store actually open yet, or is it still in development? I assume still in dev?

Also, if you are looking for some cheap cute shoes and sometimes clothes (depends on your taste, but some of the stuff is comfy, cute, AND cheap) I always recc www.gojane.com. $10 for a pair of awesome sandals? How can you refuse? (right now I am valiantly resisting buying the cady heels in mint because I have nothing else in mint. But they are SO CUTE. And $9. *sigh*)