Evagation

Thursday, November 09, 2006

Princess of Procrastination.

Yes, kiddies, it's that time of year again. It's Nanowrimo time, which means I'm procrastinating like mad. Our house is small, cute and lovely. We've finally gotten DSL installed and our wireless router is up and running, which made Devin giggle with geekboy joy. My library is already too small for all of my books. Which is frightening. Especially since my parents constantly remind me that I still have boxes, and boxes, and boxes of books at their house. My addiction is a sick, sick thing. Speaking of addiction. Breaking free of opiates didn't go very well. Of course. Since I'm a freakin' addict and should probably be in rehab. But who has time for rehab? At least I'm not as bad as those women who go on the Dr. Phil show talking about how they take forty Vicodins a day. I only take four. Which, for me, is actually a huge improvement but... you know... still doesn't make me less of an addict, I suppose. My docs tried to switch me to a bunch of non-narcotic painkillers (Ultram and Ultracet, to name two) but they don't work on me worth a damn. I could take ten Ultrams and my knees would still be so inflated with pain that movement would be impossible. At least with opiates my knees might still be swollen with pain but I can't feel it. Back to house news, though. Devin is also having trouble fitting all of his electronic stuff into his gaming room, and it will only get more difficult on November 19th. What happens then, you non-gamer geeks ask? Well, DUH. The Nintendo Wii comes out! I keep offering to freeze Devin until then like Cartman but, for some reason, he doesn't want to emulate Cartman. Wonder why. Devin still hasn't decided where to set up the Wii. If he sets it up in his room, he won't have the space to use the full range of motion of the Wiimote. Setting the Wii up in the living room would allow us to utilize the entire range of motion of the Wiimote. But the living room is where I watch TV. Horrible things like Gilmore Girls, Oprah (yes, I watch the great O and I'm not ashamed), House and a zillion other shows that Devin has zero interest in. My bet is that it ends up in the living room. But only if I get to actually play with it, too. The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess is coming out at launch and boasts over seventy hours of gameplay. I'm not going to see Devin until Christmas. Which is why, if he's going to take over my space with Zelda, I want time to play some WarioWare (if it's coming out at launch) or Wii Tennis (which is bundled with the system, along with four other sports titles). I know. Devin's going to win the battle and the war. It's me vs. Zelda and he's been saving Zelda since he was a little kid. Zelda trumps all in Devin's world. At least the break from TV will give me time to work on organizing my library. My entire antique book collection is still at my parents, and I want to get that moved over and ready for display. I haven't dared to move them out of my parents house until Devin and I were somewhere relatively safe since it's quite an extensive collection. I also need to decide how I'm going to organize my books. Right now it goes (in a clockwise direction around the room): two bookcases of biography with some non-fiction thrown in to fill the 2nd bookcase up, two bookcases of non-fiction, a bookcase with poetry, young adult and a bunch of hidden romance books, two bookcases of fiction with my very special books on display (signed Michael Chabons, Dave Eggers, etc) and the last bookcase is writing, reference and Wicca. The writing and reference are closest to my desk, which is where I want them, but it looks like I'm going to have to hide the Wicca books (of which I have at least forty). Devin's parents and family still don't know about my paganism and we don't really want them to know about it anytime soon. Hence the hiding of the books. I'm thinking a cool little cabinet where I could also put my candles, wand and other Wiccan accoutrements. (This would have angered the hell out of me a few years ago but apparently I've mellowed. Good for me. It was probably about time.) And, of course, last but not least: Yay Democrats! I have never been more proud to be a Democrat than I am today.

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