| cleaning therapy, and birthday whatnot |
[Jul. 7th, 2009|01:52 am] |
Happy early birthday, ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) ownsimscorner and dragancaor! And I'm really sorry to my plethora of friends whose birthdays I've missed posting about, like Cat, Nett, and Selzi. :( I feel like a heel.
Speaking of birthday stuff, I celebrated my birthday with my family today.
But let's start with last night, when Gashi, Nathan, and Rachael and I went to Kyoto. We ate sooo much sushi. It was fantastic. Then, Gashi and Nathan and I stayed up until 3am playing Monster Hunter and doing test battles for Hunter: The Vigil (we like hunting, okay?).
At 9am, my dad calls me, says he has part of my present in the car, and that I should get the boys up to help him carry my BRAND NEW COUNTERS upstairs! Sadly I had to put it off, because everyone was still super sleepy, but around noon, everyone got up, we assessed the situation, and started getting stuff done. My kitchen was a disaster area. We had to take ALL of my food and food paraphernalia off of the hutch, to move it across the room. To do that, I had to clean up a bunch of boxes sitting where it was going to go. In order to get the new counters in, I had to clean The Kitchen Corner (aka, the crap I don't know what to do with corner), which had become overgrown with craziness.
So, tons of organisation later, we get the counters and countertop in. Then, some sawing, to get the counters to fit over the pipes, to make room in the countertop for the sink, etc. My poor cats were terrified. Finally get the sink (with new, non-broken faucet of fanciness!) installed, only to realise that there's a clip of some sort missing, and in fact if I run water, the world may end.
At this point it was getting quite late in the day, and almost time for my party, so dad ran to the hardware store, and we rushed over to mum's. Much to our starved happiness, there was food! She made two kinds of pasta salad, one with tomatoes, and one without, but both with artichoke hearts and ziti or penne. She also made the corn and tomato scramble that I posted a link to a while ago. Muy delicioso.
AND THE CAKE. OH GOD THE CAKE. It was the BEST Danish Layer cake ever, with whipped cream frosting, and fresh strawberries, and spongey angel foody cake...yeah. I didn't get to take much home because we ate most of it like ravenous cake eating people.
For presents, my mom got me a bunch of stuff from the store that she used to own, of my choosing. I got some henna, which I intend to tattoo myself with (if I do, there will be pictures), and also some medicine, which I'd been running out of, SWEET.
Emmu and Jason got me some transparencies (like for an overhead projector) for me to draw D&D maps on, which are bloody expensive, and are going to be most spectacularly awesome. In addition, they also got me the Pixar Shorts Collection on Blu-Ray!
Patrick got me an anime called Tekkonkinkreet, which features a drawing style that I quite like as far as background/architecture is concerned, but I'm not sure about the people part of it. But, it is about street urchins, which automatically puts it up a few notches. XD Because Tokyo Godfathers was awesome.
As an opener present (a little present, which everyone attending receives one of), I got the Best of Star Trek: The Original Series, which should be hilariously great.
Nathan provided me with invaluable help cleaning my kitchen up and stuff, and Gashi has not gotten me anything yet, but I am hoping for one of the Voyager DVDs on my wishlist OR ONE OF THE FULL LIFE CONSEQUENCES SHIRTS. HINT HINT.
And of course, my dad got me new cabinets, helped me install them, and then also got me a new faucet and a new-to-me sink. And $100. XD
After the party, I had Emmu come over to collect some of her things, and then Gashi and I ran out to Best Buy. My old mouse was beginning to go a little funny in the head, I think, so I invested in a new one. And actually, I decided to just go the whole nine yards, and got the Logitech wireless keyboard/mouse combo, with fancy buttons and curly keyboardiness. It is fancy, and I have programmed all kinds of fun little hot keys (like, I can press buttons on the sides of my mouse to copy and paste! Is that not amazing?!) It was $80.
And thennn we went to Wal-Mart, so I could find out the price of paint, which I did not do. However, I did grab some paint swatches of colours I want my house to be, in various places. Also got some "contractor trash bags" for THROWING MY HOUSE AWAY purposes! XD
Back at the ranch, I then went insane on my belongings in the kitchen. I had a bunch of contraptions that I'd managed to collect too many of (seriously, I had THREE handheld blenders. Same model. THREE OF THEM), or that had missing parts (a rice cooker with no cord), or whatever. Food that would never be eaten but was opened got trashed. Food that was still sealed is going to be donated to a food drive. Old broken furniture got tossed out. Empty boxes got broken down and recycled. It was a ~cleansing of my soul~.
Seriously, my house is SO. CLEAN. Well, my living room and bedroom still need work. But the kitchen, bathroom, and hallway, all got the garbage taken care of, and the floors swept (I probably had 3 cats worth of hair lying about on my floor, yuck). At the end of the night, I think we threw out nine or ten 55 gallon industrial trash bags of JUNK. Unfortunately I apparently threw away one that was NOT garbage, that in fact had some things I wanted to keep in it, but the only item I can remember was the recycling bags, and I can just buy new ones. Hopefully I will not have a horrible realisation that my cat was in there, or something. I'm not going through all that trash to find the one bag with good stuff in it.
Now, the other night, I posted about my epic tale. At 4 in the morning, it seemed quite epic. But in reality, it was just a scary bug, that scared me and my cats. I took a bunch of videos of it, but I am likely going to be consistently too busy or too lazy to upload them. Sorry.
This entry is long enough. Going to read friends page and then SLEEP. :D |
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