Maledicte

• Alas, no car for me. Or, not that car. It had a thing wrong with it that would take too much to fix. So now I keep looking. On the upside, I have an appointment to take the road test on Aug. 9th. So. Hopefully there is still a car in my future. At least there is probably driving in my future.

• Also, no phone today. Verizon tricked my mom into thinking that I was eligible for an upgrade, but it was this weird early upgrade thing where you pay not quite as much as buying the phone outright, but if I just wait a month—til Aug. 22—I can get the expensive blackberry for free. So, we shall wait. *taps foot impatiently* I will look forward to not having a touch screen. I am way bothered by it now.

• My tattoo is all itchy, but I know if I scratch it it's going to hurt—or at least tingle and ache. And I have a feeling that one of the things they forgot to tell me was not to pick at it when it peels. But it's making me fidgety. And it itches! I keep almost scratching and then remembering not to. I won't always remember, damn it.

• I was looking at ads for kittens on Craigslist. Even though I am not getting a kitten at any point in the foreseeable future. Kitten. Wants.

• Um. I would like things in my life to stop not going my way. I mean, I don't expect everything to go my way, but I'd like a couple things to go better than they have been. And no one seems to have useful advice on what to do, including myself. Pretty much the only useful things is today's Twitter horoscope and a random twitter from a new friend. Otherwise.... so much mental flailing.

• TATTOO. OWS. Actually, it stopped hurting like... 10 minutes after it was done. And it wasn't totally unbearable while I was getting it either. The weirdest part was when the guy was right over the bone, and it made my bone vibrate. Weird and uncomfortable. Still, I AM VERY HAPPY. Picture of my ankle coming as soon as I take the bandage off. (Which is to say, probably tomorrow because though it'll come off tonight, I am tired.) Guys, I have a tattoo. Ehehehe. :>

• I have absinthe lollipops! They have been added to my collection of alcohol flavored lollipops—so far I have Irish Creme and White Russian, and now Absinthe. :) Isn't that awesome? For those interested, I highly recommend heading over to Lollyphile. It's awesome.

• Tonight was a lot of fun, and then it was almost disappointing but it started to look up, and then it was disappointing again but with hope for later in the week. That's... quite a lot of ups and downs for a few short hours. Still, looking forward to the beginning of my week.

• I'm trying to maneuver my dad into taking me to see the car tomorrow. Can't buy it tomorrow, but we can check it out and get some first impressions and tell the guy something like, "If the mechanic checks it out and says it's good, we'll take it." I'm crossing my fingers and toes. I've started having distracting daydreams about having a car of my own. I swear I stared off into space for a good 15 minutes today at one point.

• My dad and I finished the 6th season of The West Wing tonight. Don't know how long it will take us to watch the last season, but jeez. Jeeeeez.

• There was a polar bear in my dream last night, and today my dad told me about the pizzly bears. Also, there was a black bear in my front yard last night, which scared the crap—which was almost just typoed to "carp"—out of me. Whooo boy. Can you tell it's time for sleep?

• I had what I hope was a prophetic dream last night. I woke up slightly giddy this morning from it. I swear, I woke up giggling. (I was a little glad to be alone in the house—it was either really cute or really creepy.) But yeah. We'll see!

• I made my appointment for my tattoo! This Sunday at 3pm I will sit down and get inked. I am super excited. I also learned that you can take some pain killers preemptively. I can't even begin to tell you how relieved I was to hear that. Pain scares the crap out of me. I have to brace myself to get my ears pierced. :o But. I am braving it for the awesomeness that will be my tattoo. Plus, once I know what to expect, I can be prepared for my next ones. (Haha, why yes, I am thinking about the next ones already.)

• I'm really hoping this weekend will be awesome. There's a lot that could go really well or really badly. I'm just hoping for slightly more goodness than yuckiness. Yeah, this totally plays into that whole prophetic dream crap. (But it was a really great dream! It could conceivably come true!)

• I'm going to a masquerade this weekend. :> Yeah, I know. Isn't that awesome? I'm probably just going to wear something nice and wear one of my two masks with it, instead of trying to theme a costume. But I was thinking about making a Zorro-type mask out of a piece of black cloth I have, which will involve fiddling with the sewing machine until I'm reasonably sure that I can do something with it that doesn't look like a piece of crap. Hmmmm. I'm debating wether or not this will be a wig event, too. We'll have to see how I feel, and how much crap I feel like lugging with me to work so I can change at a friend's house.

• I'm still doing a whole lot of mental flailing. It's kind of awesome, and kind of not. It's just one of those things, I guess.