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MOAR LIST POST

1. Last Thursday Mike and I went to Animal Kingdom courtesy of my cousin who works there, and then we called Nick and had him meet us at Epcot when he got off work for drinking around the world. It was fantastic. I had a great time. I took some photos.

2. I finally got to meet Mike's girlfriend and all of his friends and they love me. They referred to me as the female version of Mike, which is pretty accurate. Mike and Jen are working on a New Moon trailer parody and have asked me to play Alice, which means I get to STEAL A CAR. Or rather, look badass next to my yellow Bug.

3. I'm home for Christmas and thus stuck with my old, shitty laptop that doesn't have AIM on it, so if I've vanished, that's why.

4. I've been shopping for presents for the past few days. I got my mom a Meiwa kumquat tree, which is perfect. We've been looking for a new citrus tree and her acacia tree just died after Hurricane Fay, so there's a tree vacancy in the yard.

5. I've been making slow-cooked scrambled eggs for breakfast. They're delicious. I also bought fresh scallops for Christmas dinner so we can do a surf-and-turf.

Today I bought this pretty clock. I also got some kitchen towels, a spice rack and a few other things from home that I needed.

I was going to work a boat show today, but we closed down after an hour because there was no one coming. Instead I went to dinner with my parents. It was a pretty good day.

Oh my God my legs. So sore. So much shopping yesterday. IKEA is awesome and I want everything in it. Specifically either two chaises to make my own sectional sofa or the sectional sofa and lots of bookshelves and a nice chair. I bought a tile wall hook for my bathrobe at Urban Outfitters.

Journeyman is very nearly canceled because NBC hates happiness. Woe.

Today I think I'll see if I can get my grandmother's sewing machine to work and maybe look at some fabric or something.

I came home this weekend for Father's Day to find the inside of my house covered in plastic and my room full of furniture. Hm. I was kind of unaware that it would be in such chaos. On the plus side, everything it cleared and put away now and the ceiling (which was the reason for the bubble house) is done and painted. We still have plywood floors and unfinished walls in half the house, but that's normal. That's been there for a year.

Yesterday was spent shopping for Father's Day with my mom while the house was all torn up. We got him a yellow poncho (to put in the bottom of the gear bag in case it rains unexpectedly and he doesn't have his rain gear), sunscreen towelettes, a digital voice recorder, a pen shaped like a golf driver, two pairs of shorts and a belt. All gifts were well-recieved. I really love buying presents for people.

In addition to the Dad stuff, I picked up a small canvas duffel bag (mine is blue) from Old Navy for $13 and a nice pair of jeans for $15. The bag is the same size as Dad's Cruising World bag that I used on the camping trip last weekend. After using it then, I decided I needed an almost-overnight bag like that, but sturdier than one that comes with a magazine subscription. So the bag is perfect.

Today I went down to Sebastian with my dad and helped him gas up one of the boats and then we went out on the river for a short while, but came back when it looked like rain. Then I went home, went to the meat market and got stuff for dinner. We had New York strip steaks and twice-baked potatoes for dinner and Key Lime tarts for dessert. And now it's one in the morning and I've got two different kinds of cookie dough cooling in the fridge waiting to be sliced and baked tomorrow morning. When I will also try and make fried rice before we go to Winter Haven to visit Poppy and Agnes for Father's Day. I'm only now running out of energy. But hopefully I'll have time to look up answers for my history quizzes before I really run out of steam.