January 14, 2005

Ah, another Friday night spent singing Buffy karaoke alone in my house. At least I'm not drunk. And, honestly, this is the first time. Well, the first time along with the DVD, anyway.

I don't feel too bad about my nerdly Friday night because I've been getting plenty of healthy human interaction lately. The best part about moving is finally making time to see all my friends. Since the start of the year, I've had a new year's supper with the gang, two dinners and a movie with Suzanne & Jay, pizza with LB, and supper with Brian. Next week, I'll see Kelly Sue and Matt (although that's more a factor of going to Kansas for the closing than my being sociable, but still: friends!). And Rebecca and I are going to start kicking it Buffy-style and have a regular Lost/Alias date on Wednesdays, just like in the good old days of the WB Tuesday. I'm practically a social butterfly.

Hooray! Oh, I love the new year! I've finalized my überlist and I've even gotten underway. I've already memorized the phonetic alphabet (#19): Alpha! Bravo! Charlie! Delta! Echo! Foxtrot! Golf! Hotel! India! Juliet! Kilo! Lima! Mike! November! Oscar! Papa! Quebec! Romeo! Sierra! Tango! Uniform! Victor! Whisky! X-Ray! Yankee! Zulu! With any luck, I'll be a Brenda in no time (it's actually going to be a lot harder this year, with Andrea bumping up the stakes). <Subliminal message: Buy calendar>

Of course, now that it's all written in stone, I keep thinking of other things I want to add, like "Finally meet Jason's old lady" and "Grow out bangs" and "Don't always assume the worst." Plus there's all the good stuff that got bumped because of the move, like "Learn to cook a whole fish" and "Fast once a month" and "Quit talking about my fat ass" and "Quit wasting my wishes." But I'm standing by my final version.

I am particularly excited about #91, "Dye or get rid of all clothes that aren't red, brown, black or gray." I just dreamed that up yesterday and had to drop a lesser item. Pajamas, underwear & accessories are excluded, but I think I'm going to apply the rule to outerwear. It's going to simplify everything! Plus, I'm pretty sure I look better in black, brown & red than all those other stupid colors. Maybe I should forget about gray, too. I could dye that gray hoodie and that gray skirt black. That's what I should do. I'm going to miss pink, though...

I'm working on a real live book proposal, finally. I figured I might as well try to do something with all my (as far as I'm concerned) brilliant ideas.

Hey, does anyone know the significance of an upside-down card in tarot? I was playing with the Housewives Tarot (which is brilliant by the way--the art is amazing) Brian got me for Christmas and I got a bunch of upside-down cards and I wanna know, don't they signify something? The little booklet doesn't mention, and I could've sworn I remember.

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