floatingleaf: (mystery man)
Floating Leaf ([personal profile] floatingleaf) wrote2008-12-20 10:55 pm
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humbug, basically

I feel sooo tired. Saw my chiropractor this morning (she said I was just as tense and knotted up as I had been at the time of my first appointment back in October :/). Then went to the post office to pick up the last item for my Santa sack (I ordered most of the gifts online this year, to save time and avoid holiday madness at the stores - only to end up having to stand in long lines at the hellishly crowded local post office, because they always deliver when I'm at work, and for some unfathomable reason online bookstores refuse to send the entire order in one package, so that I would need to collect it only once and be done with it, instead of having to pick up each book separately; how is that 'better service' for me, I'll never understand). Then spent $90 on groceries - even though I went to one of the supposedly 'cheaper' stores and only got essentials (milk, cereal, eggs, yogurts, canned soups, chicken tenders, beans, onions, apples, bananas etc.). Maybe I need to change my definition of 'essentials'.:/ I also drove downtown to see if I could find my way around the area, because I am invited to have dinner with [profile] akashaelfwitch, [profile] jades_tempest and namarie120 (who's in Chicago for the holidays) at a downtown restaurant on Monday night. Unsurprisingly, I gave up on that pretty quickly. Not on the dinner, that is, but on trying to find my way around downtown while driving. It just doesn't seem to be on the list of things I am capable of.:( Screw it. I'm taking the train. Never mind that it's supposed to be around 5F/-15C outside. Which it probably already is at this point. Btw, there's a nice little Arctic blizzard picking up right now. If I don't use my car tomorrow (and I don't suppose anything will make me go outside in this weather) or on Monday (since I'm planning to take the train to work and then straight downtown from there), I might have trouble finding it under the snow on Tuesday morning - let alone digging it out.:[

Yeah. So much for holiday spirit. I thought I had it for a moment there, but it's gone. Can I just go to sleep and wake up sometime in the spring, perhaps?... With sunshine and flowers and enough money in the bank so I don't have to compare the prizes of canned foods?... Not really?... Oh well. Figured as much.:|

ETA: The nice little Arctic blizzard has been raging all night, and is still very much in force as of next morning. My windows are rattling, and I feel chilly despite the fact that the radiators are too hot to touch. And it's only the FIRST official day of winter in sweet home Chicago. *swallows a nasty curse*

[identity profile] floatingleaf.livejournal.com 2008-12-21 04:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Hi! Hope you're still having a good time. I read your recent posts and meant to comment, but somehow never got to it. *hugs back*

[identity profile] dissonant-dream.livejournal.com 2008-12-22 09:48 am (UTC)(link)
I am good, thanks. Still loving being back here. :) And don't worry. You comment or don't comment as you wish. So long as you still want me on your flist, I'm happy. :) I just wish I could offer something more helpful than *hugs*

[identity profile] floatingleaf.livejournal.com 2008-12-23 04:03 am (UTC)(link)
Hugs are very helpful. Essential, even. *squishes back*

[identity profile] dissonant-dream.livejournal.com 2008-12-24 01:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Very, very true :) *more hugs*

Happy Christmas Eve!

[identity profile] romi.livejournal.com 2008-12-21 07:09 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm so sorry that you don't like snow! I hope it all comes here instead. I hear rain outside right now
*cries a little*

When you see namarie120, please if you may give her a hug from me. And hug yourself from me, or how to put it. ♥

[identity profile] floatingleaf.livejournal.com 2008-12-21 11:52 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm so sorry that you don't like snow

I am sorry too. I used to like it, I really did. Before I knew the joys of having to remove it from the car each morning, or drive in it.:(

I wish I knew a way to send it over to you, so we're both happy.;)

When you see namarie120, please if you may give her a hug from me.

Will do. If I don't freeze mid-step on my way from the train station to the restaurant, that is.;)

[identity profile] samtyr.livejournal.com 2008-12-21 11:39 pm (UTC)(link)
I know just what you mean! ::hands you a hot drink::

[identity profile] floatingleaf.livejournal.com 2008-12-21 11:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks. A glass of hot rum with a little tea in it would be nice.:P

[identity profile] samtyr.livejournal.com 2008-12-21 11:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah, that must be why all the rum is gone. :)

[identity profile] floatingleaf.livejournal.com 2008-12-22 01:30 am (UTC)(link)
Of course.:P

[identity profile] taelyn-sass.livejournal.com 2008-12-27 11:33 pm (UTC)(link)
How was your dinner with the ladies? Hope you stayed warm!

[identity profile] floatingleaf.livejournal.com 2008-12-28 12:28 am (UTC)(link)
The dinner was lovely, but the cold was nearly unbearable. I only walked a short distance from the train station to our meeting place at a Borders store, and I thought my nose & fingers were going to fall off before I got there... lol. Btw, on Christmas Eve my brother-in-law had to tow my car out of its parking spot by my apartment building, because the tires were stuck in the frozen snow. This winter is really looking to be more fun than I can handle.:|

[identity profile] taelyn-sass.livejournal.com 2008-12-28 01:02 am (UTC)(link)
This weather has been insane, and winter has just begun. *sigh*