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So here’s a link to see some pictures from Tacky Prom.  Only one camera’s have been shared so far; I’ll add more when I get them.

When I’m feeling good I keep thinking of my new favorite things all the time, and when I’m not I think about all the things I can’t stand.  Today’s new favorite thing?  There are two of them, actually.  First: granola bars, the chewy kind.  I’ve bought a few boxes on sale lately and they are so good.  I like the texture, and the crunchy sound of eating them, and the way they hold together and can also be pulled apart, and the way I reach into the variety box without looking and act pleasantly surprised with each flavor.  (Cottage cheese, you say?  That’s so last week.  I’ve moved on, I suggest you do the same.)

My other new favorite thing is the package system at the apartment mailboxes.   There are maybe 8 large boxes that I never paid much attention to because they didn’t have apartment numbers.  Now, when I have a USPS package that fits into one of the larger boxes, I find a key in my own mailbox that opens a big box and there’s a package in there for me!  Previously, all packages were left with the office people and it was rather difficult to redeem the slip because their office hours coincide with my office hours.

Today I got my first package key and retrieved a medium-size box.  I looked at the return address for Erie, PA and wondered, “Who lives in Pennsylvania with my last name…?  Oh, my cousins!”  I gave them the baby quilt in March.  My first thought, sad and irrational, was that they didn’t want the quilt and sent it back to me.  I went so far as to think, “I know it wasn’t the best quilt and it’s ok if they don’t like the design because I myself couldn’t decide how much I liked it, but couldn’t they give it away instead of mailing it back to me? ?” and that’s when I realized what I was thinking and how absurd it was.  I’m pretty sure my uncle and aunt raised him well enough to not do such a thing, and it was probably some kind of gift for me.

And it was!  They sent a very nice thank-you card and homemade cookies.   Where they found time and energy to make cookies, package them well enough to be shipped cross-country intact, and head to the post office all while working and being new parents to a newborn, I don’t know.  It was very thoughtful of them.

I just signed up for a one month free trial of Netflix and I think it might just be the most fun thing that has ever existed in the history of humanity.  Right now I have 14 DVDs in my queue: “Freaks and Geeks”, “The Wire” season 4, some fitness videos, and “Dawson’s Creek”.  Over a year ago I had a dream, and I am making that dream become reality:  I will watch “Dawson’s Creek” — the entire series.  First I’m going to finish the one season of “Freaks and Geeks” though, so I put Dawson et. al. starting at #7 in the queue.  My first three DVDs will be shipped tomorrow!  If I needed a reason to spend more time on the couch then I believe I have found it.

I’m also about to sign myself up for Accounting Principles at a community college.  I did last year, too, and they canceled it a few days before the start so now I’m doing it again, and hopefully it will stick this time.  It’s on Monday and Wednesday nights, 7:10-9:50, which leaves Tuesday free for $1 Scoop day at Baskin Robbins and I do so enjoy my lemon sorbet in a sugar cone.  I plan to get the lemon sorbet, which has a sherbety texture to it, every time until the day that they don’t have it in stock.  On that day, I will get another type of sherbet, perhaps rainbow.

I have some pictures from Tacky Prom but I can’t figure out how to post them.  That is, I assume I have it figured out correctly and then WordPress wants me to log in again, even though I’m already logged in, and then it shows Error 404, whatever that is.   I don’t know if it’s a WordPress problem, something my computer, or my connection, or user error.  Whatever the issue, the result is no photos at this time.

I started sorting the huge stack of mail at 11:15 tonight, looking for his paystubs to add to the house file of paperwork he needs tomorrow. After going through all the mail I continued on the organization path, pulling magazines from various nooks around the house to put in a pile to take to the break room at work. I ended up with 15. Then I filed away all the odds and ends on the coffee table, creating a new bag labeled “Floral” to store the leftover supplies from Tacky Prom corsages.  (I’m basically working my way through Joann’s: quilting, sewing, cake decorating, floral, next is crocheting or scrapbooking…)  After 45 minutes of various tidying, filing, and organization, I’m about to tackle the large pile of laundry that has been on the floor for only a day. Perhaps midnight is not the best time, but I’m on a roll. I’ll feel more settled and neat and ready to relax into bed.