whew. each day i keep doing too many different things. but tonight was the LAST NIGHT OF CLASS for 2005, which is a very good thing. it wasn’t really a class, it was mostly a party, which was a great way to end the semester.
ok, so i told kurt about the people dancing around with wheat thins on their heads. wheat thins hats. not triscuits. and he had never seen the commercial either. i really can’t understand this. tonight randy tried to convince me that i was hallucinating the whole thing, but i know i’m not. dad has seen the commercial. so therefore it must be real. dad knows.
kurt and i got a lot of editing work done, and i got him to work fast because i said LET’S GO OUT TO LUNCH WHEN WE’RE FINISHED. food was an excellent motivator. the show is mostly done, editing-wise, right now. plus i got to go out to lunch; we went to coz’s, which is a pizza place, but i was going to get a healthy chicken sandwich, but then i decided on french dip instead, which was not healthy in any way. so let’s say that TOMORROW is the day when i start worrying about parading around onstage IN MY UNDERWEAR. because i have plenty, PLENTY of time.
unless i keep eating french dip sandwiches, because then before you know it, there i’ll be onstage, waddling around in my underwear. not a pretty image to contemplate.
kurt’s diet suggestion is always “drink lots of water.” i mean, that’s it, that’s his entire diet strategy. he’s actually lost about 10 pounds, but i can’t imagine that it’s just because he drinks more water. kurt has many theories about many things, and they’re highly interesting. he always has an opinion, which is good. sometimes i don’t agree with him, and sometimes i think he’s living on a different planet than i am, but we see eye-to-eye on many things.
i helped randy decorate his tree tonight. i broke a huge expensive gorgeous ornament. this was directly after he said “be careful with that one, it’s my favorite, and it’s expensive.” and then, CRASH. they didn’t name me grace for no reason, you see. my parents have a very good sense of irony. and then i broke another one. bad. please don’t ever trust me with anything breakable.
luckily, randy also broke a couple of ornaments, and he seems kind of sick of ornaments, even though he has some of the fanciest that i’ve seen. he says maybe next year he’ll just put lights on the tree, no ornaments at all. maybe he’ll lend me some of his more fancy ones. except maybe that would be a lousy idea, because wouldn’t i just break those, too?
i took gingerbread cake to the party tonight, and i’m taking more of it to another party i have to go to this weekend. gingerbread cake for everybody! it seems silly to call it gingerbread CAKE, but if you just say gingerbread, people think cookies. and the cake is much more delicious than gingerbread cookies.
except i’m getting kind of sick of it now. this is a good thing, because gingerbread cake isn’t so great for you, either.
last night jerri wrote to me that she feels all the mountains of snow in minneapolis makes it a “winter wonderland,” and she said she’s allowed to think like that because she’s new to the snow. i wish i thought it was pretty, but i think the only way i’d think so is if i did not have to go outside at all. tonight a woman in class was telling a story about living in steamboat springs, colorado, where it got down to SIXTY BELOW, and there would be walls of snow EIGHT TO TWELVE FEET HIGH down the street. she seemed to think this was neat.
all i have to say is, i’m thankful i don’t live in steamboat springs.
i told a friend about my own personal skiing horror stories, and he said that his wife cried when skiing, and then she took the skiis off and walked down the mountain. i think this is a BRILLIANT idea! i don’t know why that never occurred to me. but i have total empathy with her. walking down the mountain, i’ll do that if i’m ever forced to ski against my will.
you wouldn’t think this would happen to a person, but you never know.
tomorrow, FRIDAY.
ok then,
mid-december grace
p.s. do you realize it’s NOT EVEN OFFICIALLY WINTER YET???