Fragments of a Forgetful Mind

I've been forgetting things muchly, and it's annoying me. The only thing I can recall is the sense of just how many things I've forgotten, but I'm hoping typing them out jogs the memory. I do know that I wanted to blog about some of them, but now I'm just filling the page with words about everything but. Bother.

On another very excitingly nerdy note, I got to typeset for the first time today! Even more excitingly nerdily so, I did it on InDesign! It's all so geeky and my-kind-of-wonderfully-challenging I'm just... giddy with excitement! I said excitement already, I know, but I just so am.

Oh yes. I had fun putting together the Present-A-Present hamper and gifts. All that planning and buying and wrapping and arranging and bow-tying is right in my pocket. T said the kids weren't gonna appreciate any of the artistic effort I put into presentation, but nothing's gonna burst my bubble. This is kickstart to the rest of the planning and buying and wrapping and arranging and bow-tying etc etc this Christmas season, and I love it!

I don't think it'll measure up to the exercise I get clubbing, but it's definitely a start. Groovin' to my spankin' new BopIt, that is. It's better than all the non-exercise I've been doing at any rate.

Lately, my love for shoes is truly needing to manifest itself. To be accurate, it already has in the past couple of days, but it needs to expand further, and I don't think there's any stopping it. (Who am I to object, really?) Happily, I think the boy has acknowledged and accepted and *gasp!* (even if only) marginally supported this fact, so I'm a happyclappy camper.

I feel like doing happy things: watch cutesy movies (Happy Feet, Ice Age 2), cook (roast lamb leg, lush salads, creamy mash), artsy things (Christmas gifts, painting), listen to new music (c'mon Bobby, cut an album!, Over My Head), read (the numerous things on my bookshelf), go crazy at DFO (to do the obvious), lie around at parks then cool off with gelati. There's more, but I'll start off here.

This has gotta be one of the most random posts ever. Hey, I'm random sometimes!

The Prestige

deserves every bit of the prestige it gets.
More convincing here, (as) if you need.
Goodnight.

Misc.

• It's been more than a month now since I blogged, wow.

• Today, the weather was a whoopin' 36 degrees. Far cry from less than a week ago's 14 and snow just before summer. I embraced it by having a toffee nut crunch magnum which was, and I quote, extra thick milk choc coating with peanut and toffee pieces & a divine toffee sauce, unquote. That was it - indulgence, nothing more nothing less. Oh, that and the tip they left on the back of the wrapper: Streets Ultra Magnum is an indulgent adult treat & to be enjoyed occasionally as part of a balanced diet. If you overindulge we recommend some brisk walks or an intimate romp with your partner.
  

• I've cleaned up all evidence of caffeine from my fridge, which is not to say I shall stay away from the call of the bean. Only now, it will be purely for pleasure.
  

• Although the fantasy where you bump into your dream girl on the tube and everything pans out in slow mo like in the movies is (for now) shattered, I'm glad you're staying. Who will we bully otherwise?

• Happy Birthday to very straight-faced Expert. Even after what when down, you are still that impressive! Time for party every weekend 'til dawn? I have at least 3 excuses, if that's what it takes.

• Every coming weekend from now on is one with excuses to dress up!

• Christmas is coming, and I swear I love the planning, listing, buying, wrapping as much as anything else. So I do it for my own sake, sue me.

• I said to the boy something to the effect that I'm probably doing a lot less exercise now than before because I'm wearing heels a lot less often than I used to. To which he said I was probably right. I'm so not gonna check if he was answering in jest; I'm taking it as gospel, and everyone knows you should try and abide by gospel. Besides, I might as well reaps the benefits of having a chiro handy now, shouldn't I?

• I don't care whose money it is, what I did or didn't do to deserve it, when I'm gonna regret it (I won't, never do), why I don't need a reason whatsoever, or how I will be succumbing to my every whim and fancy, I'm GOING SHOPPING!
  

• I handed in my work today. Yup, all six of them. Didn't even check them, don't give a toss. I don't care how well I do as long as I pass (maybe because I'm [too?] confident I will do better than just pass [eek!]), but as of today, I shall never ever have reason to be bogged down by assignments and classes ever again! ...Unless, of course, I forget the pain and decide to do it again, but that's another (very distant, if at all) story. (This, in part, explains the shopping.)