It’s like he’s inside my head.

Today involved: three coats of finish on our new table, new blog design (refresh your browsers) and a massive headache from the finish goo.

Neither of us have ever finished furniture (well, apparently Chop worked at an antique shop for five minutes before he got fired for not being so hot at refinishing furniture, hehe), so it was a very interesting learning experience.

It turns out we aren’t half bad… or it’s just not that hard, because the table looks pretty good.

It’s incredibly time-consuming (two hour wait time between coats, three coats, sanding, etc.), the odor is irritating and all the damn animals wanted into the kitchen to sniff around, but it was actually kinda fun.

We’re planning to tackle the chairs this week, before his sister comes to visit (on Valentine’s Day, the cock blocker), and hopefully they will be a bit faster.

Somehow I doubt it, lol.

Oh, and for added fun, the Chop is now blogging. Unemployment has made him very chatty. 😛

Before


After

When the Chop and I first moved in together, I was still unemployed following my departure from the job from hell. I remember being irritated that I had nothing really to do, and he was lucky to still have a regular job.

The role reversal is odd. And it’s only been one day.

Also, he makes more money getting unemployment (hell yeah we filed for that… damages the old boss) than I do. Problem? Yes, I think so.

Is gross, old insulation bad for you? We used masks, and gloves, and we showered immediately after, but cleaning the two bags full of fallen insulation out of the attic was disgusting. Also, we both bumped our heads pretty severely.

Then the dog had diarrhea, rapidly followed by the cat (who got a bath) and during some picture-hanging that we had neglected in the bedroom, Chop smashed his finger and his toe.

It was a really, really long day, lol.

It’s been snowing here since last night, which is good in the sense that it’s winter and we’d like to not have global warming, but bad in the sense that it’s cold, still snowing and Chop is supposed to head to NYC for work tomorrow.

Which means I’m on dog duty. In the snow. And I hate that.

Last night we went out to dinner with some friends, and after learning that they also have a Wii, ended up back here afterwards, drinking and battling rabbids.

It turns out playing Wii against a girl is SO much nicer than playing against Chop, who regularly kicks my ass. At least with another girl I have a chance in hell, lol. And he probably prefers playing against a guy occasionally, because it’s actually competition. 😛

We have to clean the attic space out today, and neither of us is thrilled. It’s a huge space, but it has some torn-down insulation on parts of the floor, so before we store in there, I wanted to clean it out.

We’ll be using masks and gloves, but if I don’t blog about the grossness later, somebody send a search party.

The DS? Awesome.

The Zelda Phantom Hourglass game? Totally awesome. (The Chop and I are fighting over who gets to play, lol.)

Obama’s taken Iowa! Woot! He is my only hope for getting the Republicans out of office.

The writer’s strike is pissing. me. off. Just give them what they want and bring back the good TV! I like reality TV if it’s good, but we’re now at the dredges of reality TV.. the crap that got veto’d at the beginning of the season but is now back because that is ALL THEY HAVE.

So annoying.

In other news, I am less sick, the weather here is so cold I refuse to go outside and some of my company’s websites got hacked while I was on vacation, so it’s been real fun going back to work.

How’s 2008 working out for ya’ll?

Going 30 miles in the snow at 8PM to pick up the Chop from the train? No fun.

Getting a flat tire? Definitely no fun.

Realizing that two computer nerds with no previous tire experience can change a flat tire, in the snow, and find the entire situation hysterically funny? Priceless.

Yesterday I spent three hours getting the Chop’s car so it wouldn’t be towed.

Three, you say? Yes. FREAKING THREE.

I picked up my friend Sara, we drove the thirty miles to where the car was parked in about 45 minutes and then spent 30 minutes trying to find the damn car. Yeah. Oddly enough, finding “C20” in a mall parking garage with three sections and nine levels (so three Cs) the week before Christmas is not an easy task.

Even if you set off the car alarm every few minutes, hoping to hear it above the din.

Then I realized that the $20 I had on me probably wouldn’t cover the fee for his car, so off we went to find an ATM.

Giant malls + Christmas = mass hysteria and insanity.

It was good times, all around, lol.

Suffice to say, the Chop owes me big time. 😛

Out of sheer boredom, and because my cousin asked me too, I joined Facebook last night.

Ugh, I know, but it’s way better than MyEvilSpace, and honestly, now I’m a little entertained.

I’ve had two long back-and-forths now with old friends who I haven’t talked to in over seven years. It’s a little insane.

Now I’m trying to stay off it, because really, it’s a little like crack, lol.

My dad is a very smart man. Brilliant even. And he should be, he’s a doctor. And he loves electronics, so computers aren’t foreign to him. He has a Mac, an iPod, etc., and he had a Mac way back when.. I remember playing on it in the early ’90s.

Today he called me, he couldn’t get onto a website, they said his password was incorrect, etc., etc.

I gave him my login, saying I wasn’t sure he ever had one in the first place, but sure, use mine.

Apparently he was buying Christmas presents.

And apparently he forgot that the confirmation email goes to the person with the account.

The shipping address was included on the email, LOL, so I now know what I’m getting for Christmas.

I really want to call him and be all, “Um, hello, confirmation email?” But I’m going to be nice and just pretend I don’t know, lol.