The temporary Hastings thread

Tuesday is frustrating. You're right. Why isn't it Friday yet.

Tues. esp sux b/c yesterday was happy birthday funday and now it's back to regular programming. bah.

I've given up on both frustrations and am now playing bookworm.

Sam, does it help your post-birthday let-down to have the holidays coming up, or does that make it worse?

As for the hat, I meant to amaze A. by giving it to him as a Father's Day present, but that was the day I fell and broke my wrist and shattered my elbow, so he didn't get it until I was out of the hospital. I think that kind of ruined the impact of "what a cool present!"

Sara, my birthday generally gets lost in the xmas rush. but then I don't know any different really.

wed. be boring.

I'm sorry your birthday gets lost in the Xmas rush, Sam. I know several people with the same problem. My SIL's birthday is the 26th of this month, and we try to make a big deal of it, but...

My Wednesday will involve last minute studying for tonight's final; afterward my class is going out together. I have some crazy test anxiety going on; I've had some weird dreams the last two nights. (Including one where I was trying to get into the high school scene shop door and M1k3 H0pk1ns was there. He apologized to me for "carrots." No idea what that means. The rest of the dreams were even weirder.)

I used to own an iguana *sniff*. He ran away when we were moving into our house and G. won't let me get another b/c he shit everywhere.

I'm def. a cat person but love our doggies too.

I've also been having very vivid dreams lately too. Is it something cosmic going on?

I'm a cat person; although I like dogs, I find them kind of overwhelming. My husband is both, but he's also allergic to dogs. Plus just keeping up with the two cats and the kids is more than we can handle!

Hmmm, vivid dreams. Maybe it's the MOON.

They are a pain to own. High-maintence diet and special lighting needs. And mine hated me. Always scratching and biting. Liked G better. Little bastard.

His name was Chingy. When I first got him an Ilx0r made a good but frightening photoshop of his namesake with a lizard face. I think it got lost when my computer crashed.

Yes you have! L34h H3b3rt and N4t4l13 L0v3j0y, for starters!

I think everyone knows that my secret to appearing to have a great memory is that I write a lot of shit down. That combined with some degree of photographic memory.

My memories of L34h have nothing to do with iguanas at all. Probably because she was - of course - in dance with me.

(Also, that tarantula lived in your room, John. You can't deny that Muffin was yours!)

I knew I should have made the "jaymcdan" joke before John could.

Alex came home from the library last night with a book called Spiderology and now he wants a pet wolf spider. You can imagine my thoughts on that.

Sam - EW! (although alligator is pretty good... tastes like chicken).

L34h had a boa constrictor?! And a ferret?!!!! Wow.

http://www.csulb.edu/~scrass/Arden/Pics/2006/cat.jpg

Also, he offered my advanced bio class extra credit for beheading roadkill of various sorts, cleaning it up and bringing in the skull. I was willing to go pretty far for biology class, but even I had to draw the line there.

So John, who is that little girl? She looks kind of like you. Same expression on her face.

L34h and I were in classes together from preschool up until she moved up to Mpls with her mom, plus they lived out our way, so I knew the family well before taking H's class, too.

Mr. H put up with my increasingly snarky attitude through my senior year, which I appreciated, and I enjoyed his craziness. Like cooking morels for us while we were dissecting our pigs. Also, hiring me to help with ski club accounts. And he put up with my refusal to take a pass to the bathroom with me after I was 18, because I thought it was ridiculous and said so.

I'm simply subjecting you all to the finer birthday images I'm finding for Kali's myspace comments.

T0ny4 was more than okay! That little girl just reminded me of her.

On an unrelated note, Dan...was it mongrel, or mutt?

Dan... I only wish I remember that moment in bio class. Why does John remember it when he wasn't even in our class?! So unfair. Then again, John had his own biology-class related fun.

(I like this one, but I'm not sure you should call K4l1 "yak." She seems cool and all, but that might be pushing it. The image is pretty great, though.)

The really good part: tomorrow I get to start my baking and wrapping frenzy, and get started on the 90-100 Xmas cards I need to get out. YAY!

My cat is sitting across from, and staring at, my nephew.

I humbly as those here to listen to some things as they are put up, and recommend other do so as well if you enjoy it.

Also Dan, if you are reading this, thank you for being too polite to point out that none of the solutions to the proposed problem (on my blog) were correct. (Well, I'm pretty sure. Insomnia and exhaustion are still influencing my ability - or inability - to think. The sad part about it was that I was completely sober when I wrote it; since I had to make the hour drive home I didn't have the Bloody Mary I wanted. Probably a good thing!)