Plastic-covered furniture

So I discovered this.

I think I'm going to add it to my Reader. Possible.

Yeah, I can get behind that. I have my moments with the whole "50s Housewife" resurgence, moments of both annoyance and triumph, but this site speaks more to me, I think.

It's the idea of being as self-sufficient as possible (without going to extremes, of course) within your particular limits, not regressing back to a weird stereotype. I don't like the idea that women should be subservient to their husbands. I like the idea that intelligent women make a choice to beautify their surroundings and maginify their callings as wives and mothers. Whatever that means to them.

But don't become all needy and co-dependent while doing it.

Overused Words:

Pop

Fresh

Fierce

I hate them.

Colds suck

Also, there are certain types of piano music I can't stand. Like the one I'm unfortunately listening to now. I want to kill it, but I have no choice because it's part of the documentary I'm watching. I'm getting angrier and angrier at it and really would like to see that piano dumped into a pit so it's never abused like this again.

I really really want to blow something up right now. Probably because I finally got a cold and my ears are stuffed up and my voice is going and I'm NOT GOING TO CALL IN SICK because I don't do that. I'll leave that to the flaky employee who has mysteriously had the flu three times in the last 8 months. Please. Sometimes I can't wait until I quit my job so I don't have to deal with her anymore.

In totally unrelated news, I need an off-white summer top that works with skirts and pants and doesn't make me look boxy or pudgy. Good luck, right? *sigh*

I hate today.

For your consideration.

"Patriarch" is not the same word as "patriotic".

Therefore, it follows that

"Patriarchal" is not the same word as "patriotical" (which isn't even a word).

Look at them closely.

Think about it.

Once more, side by side:

patriarch------patriotic

patriarchal------patriotical

Note how there is only ONE "t" in "patriarchal" and no "d".

Why, then, is it so hard to pronounce the darn word correctly?


I ASK YOU.

argh.

Let me just say that I will be incredibly happy when we finally move to our new office and I don't have 8 million people a week asking me where Academic Advisement or the financial aid office are. It will be such a relief to be in a place that is obviously ONLY my department, with a door and everything, instead of being at one end of a hallway that houses, oh, let me count...5 OTHER DEPARTMENTS. I will be mighty happy to no longer be treated as the front desk of all these other departments. I will smile every day knowing that no one is going to ask me to set up an appointment for anyone other than my office. I may even skip to work, secure in the knowledge that one of the creepy-but-well-meaning people I try to avoid can't just walk through my office on his way somewhere else.

These are all very good things that make it nearly impossible to wait another month to get to my new office.

noisy. NOISY.

I don't think it's too much to ask to want to live in a neighborhood where motorcycles and big trucks do not exist. So much for a quiet Saturday...

*sigh*

Fashion tip:

You know how some coats and skirts have walking vents or slits? You know how, when you buy them, those vents or slits are stitched closed with an X of thread?

Well. I am here to inform you that the clever thread X is not decorative. It is there to keep the vent from ripping or becoming misshapen when people try on said skirt or coat. PLEASE unpick the darn thing! Cut the thread! It looks so sloppy when you're wearing an otherwise nice outfit but you haven't cut the thread on your walking vent!

Details, people. Details.

PS: Also check the pockets in coats, especially suit coats. They're usually stitched closed in the store, but are easily opened with a nice seam ripper at home. A whole new world of pockets awaits.