first: my friend kelly who lives in arlington VA with her husband Rob and daughter Katie who has a friend named Kate wrote to me and said she went to see the touring show of “clifford the big red dog” and i have to say that clearly an advantage of having children is that you get to see stuff like that, whereas i never ever go to kid’s productions and i’m sure it would be a lot of fun but i guess i could just go all by myself without any children with me anyway.
but so Kelly told me that some woman in the show looked EXACTLY LIKE ME with the same mannerisms and everything except she was a little heavier. so wow, i have a FAT TWIN somewhere, who’s touring around the country? pretty neat. and plus my fat twin must be REALLY fat because i weigh less now than the last time kelly saw me which was quite a while ago.
it is impossible to find miniblinds that are 72 inches long. the windows in my new duplex apartment (is it a “duplex apartment” or just a duplex?) are very long because it’s an old house and NOBODY MAKES 72 INCH MINIBLINDS.
i gave up on curtains because they are ridiculously expensive. i should really make some curtains except that sounds very tedious.
tonight i started at Menard’s, where i did save BIG MONEY on a shower curtain liner, and then i went to wal-mart that had four beige 72″ ROOM-DARKENING mini-blinds and one white one, but i needed seven, plus they were kind of too much money because i’m just renting this place.
so then i tried target and they have NO MINI-BLINDS AT ALL and isn’t that rather un-american of them? and then meier and i bought three really cool bamboo blinds there and was very happy about that. then i drove all the way across town to SUPER WAL-MART except i didn’t actually get there because i decided to stop in at lowe’s just for the fun of plodding through yet another gigantic shopping emporium.
and there i found some cheap miniblinds that were 75 inches long and if they’re TOO long it doesn’t matter, thank god, except i hadn’t taken a cart with me because i assumed they wouldn’t have any and so i had to carry my four rather heavy and definitely unwieldy miniblinds all the way across the store.
but now i have NO MORE WINDOW WORRIES!
but then there’s the gas issue…
i got to my place and it was cold. i called the gas company and they said somebody would be there by four to turn on the pilot light in the furnace.
no hot water either, so it wasn’t so easy to clean. thank god for windex which i could easily use for cleaning everything.
but so nobody showed up and i called them again and this woman said that there was no order for the gas ever being turned off so there was no order to turn it on and somebody was supposed to come read the meter but that’s all.
YOU MEAN I WAITED AROUND HERE ALL DAY FOR NOTHING?
i mean, there was lots of cleaning to do, but still…
so now somebody is allegedly coming tomorrow, but we’ll see.
they say it was 72 degrees here today (ironic, that number 72, isn’t it?) but i spent the day inside the duplex which was about 50.
ok, and because i said i needed to buy a modem, i was told by two VERY VERY COMUTER-SAVVY PEOPLE that i DIDN’T NEED TO BUY A MODEM.
my friend jerri is one of the people, and yesterday or maybe the day before we were talking on the phone to arrange for me to go to LA and she wanted to look at a calendar so she had to go on her computer.
DOESN’T ANYBODY HAVE PAPER CALENDARS ANYMORE? I LIKE TO LOOK AT THE PICTURES ON CALENDARS.
calendars are one thing i found while trying to pack. what am i planning on doing with these old calendars? well, i could cut out the pictures and fram them.
YOU SHOULD JUST THROW THEM ALL AWAY. YOU’RE NEVER GOING TO FRAME THEM.
see, i spend so much time arguing with myself. i never get in an actual argument with any other human beings, but i do yell at myself quite a bit.
ok then, goodnight,
nighttime grace.