I'm slack from my head to my toe

So I'm sick. I feel like I'm coming out of a two-day hangover, but really I'm sure it's because I was sitting out on the back stoop Tuesday night in like 40º weather in a T-shirt, yoga pants and bare feet. This is what happens when you drink the equivalent of nine shots of tequila with only one meal a day, I guess. And all that delicious Cointreau. I'm beginning to think that Cointreau does a next-day number on me. But it's so delicious! I can't stop drinking it!!! So that means that just thinking about "American Idol" made my head hurt even worse. I'll catch up on it eventually though.

I meant to write about last weekend, but then everything went haywire and I didn't feel like writing about anything. We saw Kill Bill Vol. 2 on Friday, which is like the first time I've seen a movie the first day it's in theaters since ... I can't remember the last time I've done that, honestly. It was great! Maybe I'll write about it some other time! And then on Saturday we went to Modesto for this football bet dinner that Christopher has with his friends, and there was lots of food and drink and whoa, did I have a lot to drink. I also forgot to mention that I was getting new lenses put in my old frames, but the place F-ed them up and warped some coating on them so they needed to take them back and reorder them and then send them out to another store with a different machine that wouldn't F them up. So since then I've been wearing a prescription that's like five years old. It's GREAT.

Then on Sunday, after Christopher came back from work, it was RAINING and we went to a nursery because they were having a sale on herbs. When I moved here, I got this great herb-growing kit from Martha and it was so much fun and joy to see all the little herbs sprouting and whatnot. But then they would grow all out of control, and then I would invariably kill them, and now I'm too impatient to wait for like three little plants to sprout when we could just go to the nursery and get a big fat pot of 'em for $2 a piece. Which is what we did! We got tarragon, sage, rosemary, oregano, sweet basil, giant basil, thyme, dill, cilantro and garlic chives. They had no regular chives, otherwise we would've gotten those too. And parsley. So I'm growing parsley in my Martha kit. The thyme and rosemary are unbelievable. Like, I developed this hate for rosemary when I worked at Scholastic because the caterers who ran the cafeteria always overloaded everything they made with rosemary and it was disgusting. But I just smell this plant and whoa, it is hot. So yes, that was an exciting development. Also the Kings winning, that was good.

So then we get back and are watching some other playoff game in the living room and the TV dies. Just dies. It's this gigantic Sony Trinitron that Christopher's had since forever. I don't know how big, like 40" or something, but it's huge. It's huge, and now it is dead. He tries to revive it and at some points some sparks come out of a socket, but otherwise it is a lost cause. The funny part is that he had taken my old baby 22" Hitachi to his office and we were trying to figure out where in the house to put it, now that he has to move it out of his office. Well! That solved a problem right there!

So now we've swapped out the giant broken TV for the one he had in the office. Funny how that TV seemed to be ENORMOUS in my old apartment. Here is a photographic depiction of the difference.

I'll point out that the "before" picture was also taken on Christmas Day, which explains all the festive lighting and presents and chilling emotional disparity. There's only room for like one Pokémon on this TV, it's crazy.

So now the smallest TV in the house is in the biggest TV room. Eventually we're going to have to rotate all three TVs, because now the biggest one is in the bedroom and the second-biggest one is in Christopher's office (a.k.a. "the storage room"). Or maybe we'll just move everything out of here into a new place? Who knows.

Posted by Kim at April 22, 2004 04:10 PM | Non-Moving Pictures