Law of Averages + Mindwalk Blvd + Literal Videos = a Crazy Kind of Awesome

Worked halfday - you know, eventually, the law of averages is going to work in my favor and everything will be shelved at eye level. I told that to Space Cadet, she was like "Maybe in your lifetime! I'll be dead by then!" I'm gonna keep the faith, eventually it has to happen, right?

Okay, so there's an interesting story behind these videos.
I actually discovered these guys a few years back when I was working on a story. When I write things, like actually have a decent idea that I like, I research my characters, google their names or others names to find pictures so I know what they look like. Sometimes it brings inspiration. yes, I'm a nerd. Anyway, I picked the name "Tyler Hudson" as the geeky sidekick to my main character and googled him and this is what I found. Amazing.

This is Mindwalk Blvd, three boys all in their early teens, and they rock.
This is my favorite of their songs, it's called "Crimson Sunset" and it gets stuck in your head!

They do a lot of covers but this is one of their originals, I bought it as soon as it was available on itunes. Another good one is their cover of YYZ, awesomeness.

Check this out if you get a chance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8TSsiD_ozY
This was the first vid I'd ever watched of theres, 2:55 is pure awesomeness, but it's what got me interested in the first place, then found their website and all their myspace stuff and it took off from there. That kid is just a crazy kind of awesome. Seriously.

Okay, my first: YOU HAVE TO WATCH THIS VIDEO moment. Total Eclipse of the Heart the Literal Version These guys are fantastic, they have a lot of these - Meat Loaf, Beatles, Michael Jackson, even one for Jingle Bell Rock - he takes the music video and rewrites the lyrics so that they match. I came across it, also a while ago, somewhere in cyberland and I've shared it with a lot of people already, but oh man, it's just too good not to post.
But, since it won't let me embed the original, you're stuck with the second version with the random cat watching. Don't ask. Full-screen it and you'll be fine.


Here's the original - aka, same thing but minus the cat - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj-x9ygQEGA
Yes, I'm aware it is a little weird at times, but altogether it's hilarious.


"Fonzie's been clooooned..."

"Alright, which one of you preppies put gold dust in my fencing helmet?" "Ha-Ha!"

"It started out as Hogwarts now it's Lord of the Flies!" "I hated that book."

"Mullet with head lights? Over-surprised guuuyyyyy, weirded out..."

Here's my second favorite, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJz0q8O5PzM
Jingle Bell Rock

okay, I should stop posting. I actually get to sleep in tomorrow without my cat jumping on me for once, wow.

Baby, Baby, Baby, NOOO!!!

Soooo.... pretty sure my neighbors think I'm nuts. Started on my paper, just have to add final touches tomorrow after work when I get more info on Reference USA and how to cite it. After that I caught up on my shows, aka Castle, Glee, Harry's Law, good episodes all around.
Castle - Beckett quotes F. Scott Fitzgerald aka the quote I carry around in my back pocket, literally.
Glee - Mercedes and Rachel performed "Take me or leave me" from Rent plus Sue danced and sang in a flannel tracksuit.
Harry Law - Harriet goes all rambo and tanks her defense, and while getting dragged toward the holding cell by the bailiff she screams, "You're not gonna put me in a cell with my client are you? Cause he kills people!"
Anyway, they probably think I'm nuts because there was a lot of commentary (meaning screaming) coming from me while usually I'm pretty quiet. Except during Husker games. Or if I'm listening to music...which is always, but usually it's into headphones...so yes. Quiet, I'm a quiet neighbor. My cat, when he bangs on the door, he has a mind of his own. But I'm quiet. Anyway, I was stoked about Beckett reciting my favorite quote (yes i'm a nerd and a writer so i have a favorite quote) so there was some yelling there, I laughed hysterically at Harriet's quote about her client but my outbursts while watching Glee are probably why my neighbors think I'm messed up because at first it was, "Oh, god no, not Bieber!" but then like ten minutes later I was so excited for Rent. So there was a lot of shouting. Who doesn't shout for Rent, honestly? Probably a lot of people. But again, I'm a nerd and saw it live. Took my roommate and some college friends plus a high school one, it was fantastic. Surprised them with tickets actually. I think I pulled off the secret 'til we pulled up to the theater which is pretty impressive. Except Schwartz, I needed her cause I was freaking out. Everybody else I got pretty good.

Anyway, I wanted to post that clip as it is awesome, but I couldn't find it so you're stuck with this one. Because I had to suffer through it you do too. My main problem now is before I could say I had never heard the whole song. I don't listen to the radio, so if it weren't for my niece and her Bieber Fever - well, past love of Bieber now apparently he's lame - I wouldn't even know of him. Now I have to actually claim to have heard the whole song all the way through and not hated it. Well, Sam's version anyway. He's not so bad. But don't worry, I'm not gonna go out and do anything drastic like listen to the original.
Here's Sam and his awesome dance moves that I'm guessing are what Bieber does.


Other than writing the paper and catching up on shows my day also consisted of searching for a new messenger bag online, found a cool one, and ordering my bridesmaids dress for the aforementioned roommate's wedding as she is getting married in July. Fun stuff.

Quote of the day comes from Idina Menzel for her double appearance as Rachel's mom in Glee and Maureen in Rent: Moo with me.
Unfortunately she didn't make an appearance in this one, but it was still kind of funny watching Rachel sing as Maureen.

Heart of Glass

Yesterday aka Valentine's Day I spent working then went over to eat crab legs and watch Despicable Me with my family. There was soooo much food! And that's actually a pretty funny movie.
Aannnd time with family means more quotes.
"I'm going crazy."
"While you're there look for Maynard."
"Oh, I think she's dead." Joey and Me

"This little piggy, I don't know what he did but he did it! And this little piggy went all Porkchop karate!" Joey

"Did you just turn that down with your butt?"
"Yes, my butt has magic powers."
"That's fantastic."
"My butt or the magic powers?" Oldest sister and Me

Day two and my Valentine's Day flower is still alive and kicking. We'll see how long that lasts.

Tuesday meant split shift, and as much as I wanted to be productive between them I instead spent the majority of the time on the phone. Cause apparently I'm a delicate flower or a pane of glass - both of those used today to describe me.


Song of the day.

Today I have two 'Quote Of The Day's.
The first comes from my second sister: "Sounds like the appropriate amount of freakage."

The second comes from Angela Montenegro since I've started watching season one again.
Brennan: He thinks just because Masruk's wife started working out and had a little makeover, she's having an affair.
Angela: Hmm, and how long were they married?
Booth: Eleven years.
Angela: I'm with him.
Brennan: There's no concrete proof.
Angela: Boobs perkier?
Booth: Mmm hmm.
Brennan: I don't believe this. If you're so sure, then why didn't you confront her?
Angela: Because if she and her boyfriend were involved, she would warn him.
Booth: Very good.
Angela: I'm a constant surprise.
(Bones, season one episode two "The Man in the SUV")

Tomorrow I only work in the morning, then I get to spend the rest of the day writing my paper for Friday. Cause I'm trying not to be the procrastinator I was in college. And it's working 40/40 on both assignments so far. Huzzah! That probably won't last much longer so I'm celebrating now. And at some point in the day I have to go get Carter more food.

Weekend plans keep changing, aside from class I mean. Maybe we'll do something at the farmhouse. That'd be nice. Except I have to work again on Sunday. But then have Monday off. Hmmm.... Still figuring things out. I'm not actually all that big on birthdays, especially this year with all the crap. I'd rather Mom just tell us what to do and I just show up. That's be nice.

I'm exhausted. And I actually wasn't all that productive today, aside from work which I actually did a lot since there were lists galore.

I should probably eat something at some point. But I don't feel like cooking, soooo ice cream? Mmm...sherbet. Sounds good.

Blame it on your heart

A great song for Valentine's Day...haha. And it's stuck in my head, so here you go.


"Blame it on Your Heart" by Patty Loveless
That's a great name. And such awesome 90's fashion designs there. Awesome.

This is a song about loooooove....

Halfday that felt a bit like a wholeday in the beginning but I think that's because I chose a fruit smoothie over coffee this morning. Madness. Falling asleep while walking meant dragging my feet again, dang. I was making such progress on the whole don't-drag-your-feet-you're-killing-your-shoes thing. Not really. Sometimes I just catch myself cause I hear the dragging so I try walking like a normal person until I zone out and do it again.
As there is not much to talk about today, aside from shelving, scanning YA stuff, doing laundry and dishes I won't bore you completely with more rambling.
So, moving on.
Here's a fun clip I found and I'm posting it because I think it's funny.

This is Charlie who was challenged to write/record a song using only his voice and household items as instruments. Pretty creative - I love the Doctor Who police box. Tardis! I've been a fan of his for a while but I'm posting this now since Valentine's Day is like soon so it sounded fitting. The other videos on his channel are pretty funny as well - lots of "Challenge Charlie"s and songs and stuff. You should check it out.

"Thus the basis of its appeal!" name that Julia Stiles reference that for some reason is in my head and makes me really want to watch that movie...

What if the Hokey Pokey really IS what it's all about?

Like really? What would that say about life?

Hooray for a split shift! Went in twice and spent the time between writing. Which I miss immensely. But working in public service is always good for inspiration and humor.
Got to work with Space Cadet again tonight. She called me dirt. Then said I'm below dirt, mining for minerals. It's not as bad as it sounds when it's in context of what we were talking about, but out of context is what I gave her crap for. It's funny because two days ago she called me her kid - we matched with like the same color green shirts jeans and red hair as did the QofA we should have taken a group picture - then earlier tonight she called me a wizkid and then like ten minutes later I was dirt. But it's worth it cause now I get to say "She called me dirt...." in a sad voice every time I see her.

The song of the day I listened to repeatedly while writing more adventures of Sketch and Edit. It's like relaxing, I love the deep voice. It zenned me out. So I'm posting it. This one came out last year. He's probably wildly popular - like I said, I don't listen to the radio - but I do enjoy this song.

Lover, Lover by Jerrod Niemann

Your automobills?

quote of the day comes from a work friend - "it was like bad karaoke...to their own music!" which i had to agree with, as much as i like the black eyed peas, they aren't as great live. but that's probably true for a lot of performers.

so, i figured i'd give you an example of some good music that came from sunday. glee awesomeness, and it's been stuck in my head ever since.



and as awesome as thriller is, if not a bit overrated, it's not as awesome when mashed up with something else. so my favorites were probably this one and "she's not there" a remake of the zombies which i've been singing all day at work, had to buy them both off itunes.
i should post their original version as well, both awesome but this is like a spot on impression with the background noises. amazing. why not.


this is back in their '99 album Writings on the Wall when there were still the original 4. shortly after this is when they broke up and started suing each other. yep i'm a fan. scroll down to yesterday's post to read about destiny's child fangirlness.

tonight was the mother of all grocery shopping. like seriously, and i didn't want to make more than one trip up the stairs so i carried everything in at once almost wiping out on the ice. smooth. but i got new shoes since dragging my feet causes a definite lack of traction on my other ones.

tomorrow is split shift. maybe i'll take a nap between, that'd be nice. usually i run errands but now they're done. speaking of, i totally made food tonight for supper. like fajitas, and after successfully finding the fan, didn't burn down the building. shocker. i should have taken pictures, space cadet will be amazed.

His Name Was GADE - Delayed...Reaction

I should write a song. I've been listening to too much music today. It's all sort of blended together. But writing one wouldn't be too difficult, I mean you tell them who you are, why you're in pain, who caused it, which window you're standing underneath while writing this ballad and then when you get stuck throw out some "hey"s or "oh"s or "yeah"s. How hard can that be? Although, if you're me, your songs usually turn out a bit like this one.

This was at camp back in....crap now I have to count backwards...just camp 2010...we didn't start camp j 2009...war of the cosmos 2008...that puts GADE in 2007.
We wrote this song for our fellow counselor who was having kind of a rough camp experience to cheer her up, and it worked, you can hear her cheer at the end. Anyway, this is the kind of stuff that happens when you have too much time on your hands at camp, well mostly teen camp. There were many encounters between this counselor and a certain camper but the breaking point took place when the camper stole her shoes without asking and the counselor found out about it in an interesting fashion. So we used that as an inspiration and decided to write a song about it.
But we loved writing it so much that we've written one every year since and recorded them. If you go to camp you'll get a lot of the inside jokes (well if you're a counselor anyway) so, since the majority of you haven't, I'm assuming, I'll post the lyrics as well.

His Name Was Gade
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Yes my favorite part is at the 3:01 mark. There's a reason I only play guitar once a year.

Here's the lyrics in case you missed them.

This is a song about a man named Gade
Who had shoes that were too small

His name was Gade
He had it made
His guitar he played
While he sat in the shade

Gade stole some shoes
That were way way too small
He stole them from
A woman at the mall

That woman freaked
When the shoes were gone
She didn't know what to do
So she wrote down this song

Chorus-
Oh those shoes, they were too small
too small-too small
Oh the pain of it all
of it all-of it all

The train whistle blew
Gade arose from his bed
He could not see
His glasses were not on his head

It was 5AM
He put on those shoes
He went into the bathroom
And started to sing the blues

Chorus-
Oh those shoes, they were too small
too small-too small
Oh the pain of it all
of it all-of it all

There was a party
At a fancy place
So Gade wore his shoes
With a smirk on his face

He got the attention
Of all those fancy guests
Gade always spoke loudly
And he always dressed the best

But just by chance
The old woman was there
She saw her stolen shoes
And gave Gade the glare

Gade saw her too
They came together
She told ol' Gade
That her name was Heather

At dinnertime (cher style)
He called her name
He wanted to know
Why she came

Chorus-
Oh those shoes, they were too small
too small-too small
Oh the pain of it all
of it all-of it all

She ignored Gade's call
So he tried again
He wanted to know
If her shoe size was ten

She said, "Oh No!" (cher style)
"I wear an eight!"
Gade said, "No wonder
These shoes don't fit me so great!"

The guests were appalled
They didn't know what to say
They just sat in shock
At what they saw today

The moral of this here story
When you steal someone's goods
Return them clean
Or those bears will eat you in the woods

Because that's what happened to Gade...

Chorus-
Oh those shoes, they were too small
too small-too small
Oh the pain of it all
of it all-of it all
I said those shoes, they were too small
too small-too small
Oh the pain of it all
of it all-of it all

That's right, that's the story of the ballad of Gade in my words that was given to me by that very woman

Oh Gade,
(Random ranting in Spanish - something about wearing socks...)

Let's do the Time Warp again....

Time: 9:15 PM
Location: Couch
Music: Hey Soul Sister - Glee cast version
Attitude: Tired, yes that's an attitude.

Slept in, went to work, shelved books, came home, watched NCIS on USA - hooray for the season one marathon, I love Kate - went to nephew's basketball game, got updated on who was winning the SAG awards while at the game, came home from the game and watched the rest of the SAG awards and now am sitting on the couch staring at my computer screen. I'm exhausted. My nephew is actually quite good btw, very aggressive under the hoop, he made me proud. I hope I get to go to the games at my high school, every year they do a tournament with all the grade schools. I remember playing in those, oh man, and it seemed so much more fast paced at the time. But now just watching it's like, was it really like this when we played? Maybe it was and I'm just building it up in my mind.

The SAG awards were awesome, as always. I'm kind of an awards junkie when it comes to movies and music. I keep up with the nominations and the red carpet stuff, yeah I'm a nerd. But I'm very happy that Natalie Portman won for best actress and Colin Firth for best actor and then that the King's Speech won for best ensemble. That was very exciting, Colin's speech was funny. The speeches usually take so long, some people ramble longer than I do and I secretly want the music to start playing so that they'll go away but his was great.

I'm sad that Glee didn't win tonight but I mean, it's hard to beat Betty White in any category really. So, in their honor, I'll hit you with one of my favorite songs at the moment. They did this Rocky Horror episode in the first part of the second season (now out on DVD btw) which is probably the most well-known episode of the show. It was fantastic, and the music was fantastic. And it came out right before Halloween so Grandma (25-year-old coworker) and I went to go see the real Rocky Horror in a theater for Halloween and I think it scarred her for life. Haha, but it was hilarious because they're yelling out commentary, throwing toast, spraying water guns, so basically if you haven't already seen the movie you have no idea what's going on because you can't hear what they're actually saying. Since the movie really doesn't have much of a plotline anyway that makes things even harder to follow. Luckily I had already seen it so I kind of went with the flow. And I'm thinking about going again next year. It was just too funny. So, in honor of Glee and Rocky Horror I'll hit you with my music rec of the Glee version of Rocky Horror's probably best and most popular song the "Time Warp". Enjoy.

Lazy day with the Warehouse gang, Hey Monday and Stacy Clark

Hooray for a day off! I debated calling for pizza but I thought it would be mean to make them drive all the way out here on the icy roads. Plus I don't have cash. Maybe they would let me pay in fruit rollups. I have plenty of those. I would cook but while the flames that would shoot out from my kitchen would temporarily keep me warm with all this snow it probably would be bad in the long-run. Whatever, more microwave lasagne for me.
Me and my big fat cat had a lazy day. Slept in til noon - don't tell mom - mostly because I looked outside and was like whoa! k, not driving on that. There's like a foot of snow all over our parking lot at my complex.
So, I finished Warehouse 13 season one - um whoa, cliffhanger! and debated watching the other things I have out - The Runaways, Blazing Saddles, The Nanny, Murder She Wrote - yes I'm a complex woman - but nothing sounded good. So I'm just listening to music instead. And on Facebook. Which I haven't been. In forever. Good to have it updated.
So, instead of rambling about things I haven't done today I'll hit you with another music rec and get back to my laziness. Lately I've been feeling artsy - most of the recs have been pretty artsy, but I listen to a lot of top 40 stuff too. This one is a little artsy I guess as well. Itunes freebies are always fun and lead to other good stuff which is how I found Stacy Clark and also Hey Monday. Both great bands. I love the entire "Connect the Dots" CD by Stacy Clark but my favorite is probably Touch and Go or White Lies. I highly recommend you check them out.
Hey Monday is quickly rising to the top of my list of favorite underrated bands. I hope they hit it big time soon. Catchy melodies and lyrics. And a lot of angry chick stuff too, haha.

Here's I Don't Wanna Dance.
Again, not a spectacular video but really, I don't know what would be one nowadays. I just flashback to the early days of TRL when they were good. Once upon a time. But this one isn't awful so I'm embedding it.
Another good song by them is How You Love Me Now. Here's their channel if you're interested. http://www.youtube.com/user/heymondayVEVO

And I'm off. Hope you have a great night.

Christmas Came Indeed!

Even though I didn't watch the Grinch - will have to tomorrow - or listen to any Doris Day - left cd at apartment - or watch Home Alone - watched old dvr'd xmas episodes of favorite shows instead, Christmas did indeed come.
My great aunt came out after church and we played some pitch and watched the parade, (hooray for Amber Riley!!) Dad and I won 3 games out of 4. After she left we opened presents, ate more food, mom and dad danced to Squeezebox - long story - then we laid around and watched tv. Well, I laid around and watched, Mom fell asleep in her chair as usual, and I'm sure Dad watched football or something in the other room. We're very social. The presents were fun, Dad was excited about his The Who cd which he put in immediately and Mom liked all her stuff from me - asti, earrings and bath n body stuff. Some of my highlights were pajama pants, a sweatshirt with headphones in it as the strings, fancy vodka with shot glasses (my aunt picked out. mom was like "how does kathy know you collect shot glasses?" Cause I got one in Kansas when we went to the last Husker game down there. Mom thinks it's bizarre that I collect them but I got it from my brother - he does it too.) and wine in a bottle shaped like a cat. Seriously. It's awesome. I'm going to have to upload a picture.
All-in-all it was a good day.

Xmas episodes I've watched this weekend - NCIS, The Closer, Bones, How I Met Your Mother, Glee, NCIS Los Angeles
Wow, I totally need a life. But it's Christmas. I'm entitled to be lazy, right?
I'm actually kind of sad that it's over. It always feels so weird, that you wait so long for it to come and in like 24 hours it's over. Oh well, technically ours isn't over since our family xmas isn't until New Years. Since all my siblings have in-laws and lives and stuff it was the only free day. This means I get to go back to work this week and buy more stuff, woohoo!
I'm still missing something for my sister. And I think I'm gonna go find more for mom since we're getting her one big thing - which she'll love - but I dunno how much other things they're getting her. And I gave her all my other stuff today.
I'm not allowed to buy my niece anything more - or so my sister says. I've spent far too much on her, but honestly I spoil her. It's true. She's the oldest and she thinks I'm the cool aunt and she's funny. So's my nephew. They're both really funny. But she takes after me with the writing and the one-liners she's stolen from me and the red highlights - her mother hates me for that last one. I hope she doesn't inherit my talent for procrastination. And she's taller than me already. I honestly can't stand next to her anymore.

I mentioned last time that I love the songs. That's one of my favorite parts of Christmas, right after crazy moments with family. My all-time favorite xmas song is Oh Holy Night - well, depending on who's singing it. Christina Aguilara's version isn't my favorite, Lea Michelle did it justice on the Glee xmas cd. Another gift from mom. But my second favorite is the 12 Days of Christmas. Relient K has a great version but no matter which version I listen to the only ones I end up singing over the actual lyrics are Jeff Foxworthy's or Janice Dickinson's. Weird combination, huh? Especially when it ends up as something like "5 Flannel Shirts, 4 Italian Suits, 3 Former Husbands, 2 Giant Breasts and some parts to a Mustang GT."

Since it's officially Christmas I'll share my favorites.
Number one xmas video on my list is of course Janice Dickinson's. I die every time I watch it. It's highly inappropriate but it's sooo funny.


I love 1:03 I literally fall over laughing at that part and 1:13...and 2:12...too funny.

Second is Jeff Foxworthy's Redneck Xmas which you can find here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJOe3CXE-mA
Is it just me or does the Mustang GT part recipient look suspiciously like Jim Carrey?

And a close third is the Indian 12 Days of Christmas. Very funny. And catchy...

Love the look on the wife's face.


Peace on earth.

Pitch tourney + The Hero of Canton, the Man They Call Jayne.....

Ohhh, emotional high. Such a good day. Went to work downtown this morning, and aside from the creepy guy in the lab staring at me (like i moved and his eyes followed, it was creepy) that was fun. Short and sweet. Then went to Barnes and Noble for some last minute shopping, then came home to wrap and THEN family xmas at my aunts! Not like immediate family but aunts and uncles xmas. We used to have these big pitch tournaments that lasted all night and we thought we should bring them back. It was awesome. I got partnered up with my cousin and we finished the night at the winner's table! Yeah!! Took down my undefeated sister and brother but then lost to my nephew and sister-in-law. My nephew somehow ended up with the perfect hand on the last hand. AKQJJ2. Seriously. Who gets those? Ever?! So they won toasters for being "hot" and my dad and sister got snowmen for being "cold". They were the ultimate losers. Ha. Too much fun.
And I got some awesome presents. This wicked cool hat from my aunt. I loved it so much I wore it for the rest of the night - tournament included. Got a bunch of pics taken, will have to upload one. It's very "the man they call jayne" except black and multi-colored instead of yellow and orange. If you get the reference.

Tomorrow is work then head to the farmhouse with my cat and all my presents since I have 24-26th off. Woohoo!
Now is eating breadsticks, watching the Nanny and then crashing.

In case you don't get the reference, here's Adam Baldwin singing the song from his favorite episode and wearing his hat. Video of the week.


Have a merry xmas!

Thank God the Dog Days Are Over

Today and yesterday were kind of crappy. I told my grad rep why they were crappy, because apparently I like to ramble to people who have nothing to do with the situation but are very supportive, (which suddenly sounds a lot like a blog) And she said, and I quote, "You do more things right than wrong. Your colleagues speak highly of your energy, good ideas and work ethic." Awwwww... right? Totally lying, but I'll take it. She's awesome. Jalapeno Margaritas awesome! Which is like a 10/10 coming from me.
Hmmm... maybe I should make an official "Scale of Awesome". That might be interesting. Like a 7/10 would be the NCIS marathon that was on tv today. They were all seasons 3 and later and although Ziva is awesome I love Sasha Alexander and Kate was my favorite character until they killed her off. So, good episodes but I had seen them all. Which, I guess, makes sense since I own all the seasons. But there were commercial breaks which seriously made me want to pull out the dvds and watch those episodes without them. And usually I do. But today I cleaned instead.
A 5/10 would be the average day - not too awesome but not crappy enough that I want to yell and throw things.
A 3/10 would be today and yesterday because of the incident, but also because it was good day up until that point.
And a -10/10 would be the movie Rushmore. Two hours of my life that I want back. Seriously. I compare all crappy movies to it.

On a different subject, you know, it's amazing how many chores you can get done when you're avoiding doing something else. Like usually, I put off cleaning my apartment. Because it takes forever and I have no motivation unless my mother is coming to visit. Today, after putting it off for weeks, I needed to register for my grad school class. But, since I didn't want to do that because it involved calling the IT people and having them walk me through it, my apartment is now practically spotless. Like, you can actually see the floor, like all of it! My cat walked around meowing like, "whoa? what's going on? what's that big gray loud thing she's pushing around? maybe i should run and hide in the closet." Which he did, so I vacuumed and now it's all pretty. Don't worry, I'm sure it won't last long.

And, because it's been a crappy week so far, I watched Glee and here's the clip of the week. I bought the song on itunes and have had it blasting in my headphones on repeat. I feel it fits my life at this time.


It's reversely screened but it does the trick. Is that a word? Reveresly? I'm making it one. It seems to me that it's the cast singing it as themselves instead of their characters and that it's not really choreographed. Which I loved.