Same number of things as usual.

[mrissa]

1. I don't have my singing voice back, but I have most of my speaking voice mostly back. So that's a good thing. I have this stupid cold on the run enough that I can, y'know, do stuff. I like stuff and the doing of it. I'm crazy that way.

2. In other news, the electricity is back to all parts of the house, and the mistakes of the last electrician have apparently been rectified, hurrah. This basement-finishing job: it looks to me as though the bits we will see take far less time than the bits we won't see. I hope I'm not wrong on that, or we will be another twelve million years in getting the drywall up.

3. It's been snowing here since before I woke up. A few hours ago, the plow and the mail delivery came through at the same time, attempting to pass each other multiple times within our small cul-de-sac. They looked like a mechanized Three Stooges routine. I do not mean this as a compliment. Our driveway guy has not been here yet. That is such a hopeful "yet," sitting right there. I don't really know how to articulate how I want him to do his job differently. Perhaps he'll come along and clear just around the time the snow is stopping, and I won't want him to do his job differently at all this time. One can hope.

4. When I went to let the dog out, she looked out in the snow, and then she looked up at me like, "Okay, monkey, there's a difference between funny once and funny all the time."

5. We are now owners of a startling share of the world's supply of chocolate, hot (or, more to the point, potentially hot) and otherwise. Eeeeexcellent. Now with only four hundred and six more steps, my plan for word domination will be complete.

Oh, there's supposed to be an l in that? Hmm. This may require substantial alterations to the said plans.

Comments

[shweta-narayan.livejournal.com]

I think the l is optional.
The chocolate, however, is mandatory.

[carbonel]

So chocolate is like blood? I can accept that.

[shweta-narayan.livejournal.com]

Like blood, but better.

[orbitalmechanic.livejournal.com]

I do believe that finish work is like a comet compared to the slow precession of infrastructure work.

Possibly I just wanted to say "slow precession".

[buymeaclue.livejournal.com]

re: #4, the yellowdog is apparently convinced that it only rains and/or snows on one side of the house at a time. We'll try to put him out in the side yard and he'll refuse to go, but then run to the front door and wait there expectantly. It's so charming, and yet so sad when we have to open that door and dash all his hopes. (Luckily, he always has more.)

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

This may explain why Ista dashed from window to window this morning and barked angrily at each one.

(She doesn't always hate snow. Sometimes she loooooves snow. But apparently today was not a day when she felt like coping with the snow.)

[dichroic.livejournal.com]

Taiwan air pollution seems to have stolen my voice much of the time (I thought it was almost all of the time, but it feels like it's here at the moment - which may explain a lot about two weeks ago when I couldn't sing and was also feeling dizzy often.) I'm hoping I get it back on a more permanent basis when I move.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I hope you do, too.

[songwind.livejournal.com]

Where was there supposed to be an l?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

In the phrase "word domination."

[songwind.livejournal.com]

Oh, I see.

apparently, I have the dumb today.

[brooksmoses]

It's not just you -- I reread it about a dozen times before I realized where the "l" went, too.