Five Things Making Me Happy Today. With two bonus things.

[mrissa]

1. Woke up without vertigo. Yay, lack of vertigo!

2. Lunch: salad! with good dressing! and crumbly elderly gouda! (I am really quite irrationally fond of salad.)

3. Books are all reshelved. No more swapping sections around; markgritter's office eventually gained economics, philosophy, history of technology, and history of cryptostuff, leaving more room for history of...um...not either of those categories...in here. Much needed. Whew.

4. Blue! skirt! The girljock online store has officially won my heart with my new brilliantly blue ridiculously soft extremely washable skirt. I am restraining myself from buying more in the other colors at the moment, in part because I don't actually need them, and it looks like they'll carry them for awhile, and my mom likes to give me clothes for my birthday. But: blue! skirt! Whichever of you pointed me at this place -- dichroic, I think? -- totally wins LJ Friend Of The Day for May 14, 2007.

5. What We Did to Piss Off the Continent, despite its irreverent use-name, is continuing to behave like a good book: by driving me crazy with things that will make it ever so much cooler, faster than I can get them all written down. This is the book equivalent of a newborn spending its time eating, sleeping, and pooping: it's a little hectic, and you kind of look forward to it being done with that phase, but in the early first couple tens of thousands of words, it's exactly what a book is supposed to be doing, and you don't really want it to stop, lest you are left with a wan and pallid book that kind of mopes around having plot and characters and setting and style and theme and dialog and description and no particular justification for its existence. The last sentence of my notes file on this book reads, "There is much to do."

The last bit of the book file itself reads, "Chapter 30: Freedom and the open sea." I am a little alarmed by my subconscious conviction that this book has 33 chapters: where will the other three go? What will be in them? Why on earth would I have any subconscious belief about the number of chapters at all? and why 33? It can't be anything mystical or it'd be 34. I'm stumped. But I trust the book, because that is what we do: we keep writing, and we trust the book. Meep. (But good meep. Really.)

6. I live here. This is where I live. Here. Yep.

What? It makes me happy.

7. My people are wonderful. My friends, my relations, the people who have neatly made the transition from one category to the other. They are nifty. They are keen. (In many cases, you are nifty, you are keen.) They do interesting things and have interesting ideas and sometimes are wrong in interesting ways. And their varied and particular modes of expression and affection are so good. I'm lucky, and I know it.

Comments

[dichroic.livejournal.com]

Yup, that was me. Glad the skirt works. Maybe I need one, myself - looks extremely packable. (And looking at its cut, it looks like the rare item of clothing that would work as well for me as for you.)

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Full skirts are everybody's friend!

(See also: kilts. See also: haddayr's post on same.)

[writingortyping.livejournal.com]

You probably already know this, but just in case, the other girljock online store (http://www.titlenine.com/jump.jsp?itemID=0&itemType=HOME_PAGE) tends to carry some pretty nifty items as well. Its bra-selection page has been a wonderful thing for me.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

It looks like most of their bras available in my current cup size would make many of my shirts unwearable. Sigh. Still, definitely a good resource for sports bras not intended for general wearing purposes.

[writingortyping.livejournal.com]

The other clothes are good too - the bras are pretty much good for sports, not so much general wear.

[dichroic.livejournal.com]

For clothing styles the main difference between them seems to be that T9 is a bit more conservative - their blurbs often say things like "These shorts have a longer length for those who don't want to show all that God gave you", whereas Athleta will have both short and long lengths. What I like about their catalog though is that they generally show real athletes doing their own sports in T9's clothing.

[dichroic.livejournal.com]

Not all men look good in kilts. (Trust me on this. I've been to Highland Games.) But it's true that the ones who do look reallyreally good.

[zwol.livejournal.com]

... what is the mystical significance of 34?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

If you're not a Twins fan, there is none, so far as I know.

[zwol.livejournal.com]

Ah. (I was ever indifferent to sport.) And if one is a Twins fan?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Kirby Puckett, the heart and soul of the team for the period when they won two World Series championships in five years, wore #34. He died last year.

I was mostly being silly for laurel's benefit.

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

Oh, okay; I figured it was just twice 17 (and hence the number of chapters in Paarfi books).

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I am not quite that much of a squealing fangirl.

[skwirly.livejournal.com]

Ooo, I have that skirt in gaucho form (from Target, actually). They are my computer pants. And so! soft! Love.

Also love? That their name for their gray color is 'light toast'. For some reason, it made me giggle.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Monitor differences: I'd call that a pale brown color. But yah, so! soft!

[haddayr.livejournal.com]

I, too, am in love with this skirt.

I think it would look horrible on me, though. I'll bet it looks awesome on you (if body parts came in "opposite," do you think it's safe to say you and I would be "opposites?" I think it is.)

However, if I ever come across it in person I will try it on anyway, just in case. Because it seems PERFECT.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. I think body types do come in opposites, but there's more than one opposite per body type, if that makes any sense.

Anyway, no one will ever mistake us for each other, is my theory.

Also, the most likely place you could come across it in person is on my butt, in which case please leave it there. I mean, we're friends and all, but.

[haddayr.livejournal.com]

Agreed. You are as sensible as you are lovely.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I thought I was being silly. Maybe my silly is sensible. Hmmmm.

But thanks.