Happy Wintereenmas!

In celebration, my hair is an ever stranger shade of red. I do not believe this one could be conceived “natural”, although it is not precisely unnatural.

I am tired. I slept plenty, but the times I sleep keep changing. However, I got the W-2 from one of this year’s employers, and that is good.

Reminder to self: make sure Dad knows to forward my W-2 from Hell. I mean, the 7-Eleven.

Blah blah blah. I feel obliged to say something.
 
 
 
Izumi and Sesshoumaru are dueling on my desk. That is all.

Funny, I don’t feel any older.

Addendum: Whyyyy is Kingdom Hearts 2 so pretty. Whyyyyy do I like Kingdom Hearts. Whyyyyy is is going to take so long to be Americanized. SORROW. I WEEP. I also watch the ending. RIKU IS SO PRETTY HE LOOKS LIKE A GIRL.

I’m extremely happy! I talked to both my Kimbles tonight!

….

Downside: I swallowed a button.

She was going to sew it onto a vest. Maybe I should have a warning label: May Cause Accidental Ingestion Of Small Items.

Poking at schools again. Makes me just as ill and confused as the last time I had anything to do with it. Fortunately, I can put it off a while longer due to residency requirements. Money is very scary right now - I do not have as much in the bank as I thought I did, and I wish I would stop spending it on things like games and shampoo and clothing and gas. Never much in one place, no, but it’s enough. It’s more than enough.

I want that tax refund and I want it now and I want everything to be okay just the way it is.

Finally, finally have my financial stuff straightened out, meaning I can access my eBanking stuff. ^^; I spent an hour or so making everything check out and fixing my bad math. Ah, KMyMoney, you are only useful if I am smart enough to use you.

In accordance with my New Year’s decree, I am losing weight without really trying. This morning I saw a number on the scale that I have not seen in many a year. I was most pleased. Ten more pounds and I’ll reach the first part of my resolution! I am a bit worried by how much I’m thinking about my weight now, though - it’s not something I want to actively worry about. I wish to be ambivalently healthy, as it were. Instead, I find myself staring in the mirror with a frown. Sigh. Pounds really don’t mean so much, but as long as the numbers creep down I will reassure myself with that, even if I think I’m looking fatter. Whine whine bitch moan.

Am trying to figure out how to close my account at my old bank. Am failing. GIVE ME MY MONEY. RAR. The numbers in my other account are making me flinch. Let me make them biiiiiiggeeeeeer.

Snow snow snow snow snow.

That said, I like shinies. Got the second half of my Christmas presents, and am now allowed to buy things for myself again. <3 So I did. I need to cash the wonderful check I got to make up for the money I spent. XD Got the DVD of the L’arc concert I was at, the first volume of FLCL, a used video game that keep catching my eye, a manga, pins, and one thing that doesn’t count because it was a present. For gifties, I got the Myst collection, Myst V (two copies, actually, but I have gained the receipt for one), two necklaces, an awesome keychain, FMA manga, a Trans-Siberian Orchestra CD, and a partridge in a pear tree.

But now I know what on earth the band was doing during that concert. Little ants on a stage, they were. Yay for DVDs! XD It doesn’t capture the energy or the sheer size of the place, but that’s okay.

Ah, Winter.

I was going to go emo, but instead I will think of terms for various kinds of snow that we New Englanders use. When I heard the Eskimos have 100 words for snow, I thought, “Hey, so do we.” Thus, The List. I seem to do this ever year. Contributions are welcome - most wintery conditions count.

Snow, powder, slush, freezing rain, hail, slice, wintery mix, crunchy snow, wet snow, fluffy snow, picture-perfect snow, flurry, Nor’easter, slimy snow (refers to road condition only), skating rink (refers to walkway conditions or road conditions), skiing snow, snow shower, sludge, etc.

Kingdom Hearts 2 is gonna make me soooo happy. I hope. Well, as long as it isn’t an effing card game like Chains of Memories was. I can’t even get an eighth of the way through that one. (See, you have to play it twice, once as Sora and once as Riku, so I’m about a fourth of the way through the first playthrough.) I might get a walkthrough and restart it just so I know the storyline before KH2 hits the shelves. I bet it’s gonna be expensive, too. No $20 game for meeee. But if the trailers released say anything, it’s that they’re keeping with the bizarre but excellent combination they had in the first game.

We will not discuss the fact that I own a Gameboy Advance simply so I can play Chains of Memories.