To-Do Lists and Wish Lists

Greetings, all.

I'm am using the free wireless at the library and typing on my spiffy, spiffy lap-top. Which now has Avast (fully registered, no less) anti-virus protection, plus firefox and (soon) limewire.

Have sent updated resumes out to two more temp agencies. My name is in for a few jobs via MaxSys (hopefully I'll get the "Union Presentation Prep" job at Public Health -- it's $14/hr, goes until the end of December, and can be got to on the #3 -- which stops right near my new apartment).

Things I want to do in the next few months:

Take a class - belly dance or pottery, perhaps - at McNabb community center.

Attend Sara's poetry concert fundraiser at the Mercury Lounge

Nanowrimo (must find Ideas... This may involve a red-velvet upholstered winnebago with a "Brothel on Board" bumper sticker or something... Some sort of wacked out "Continuing Adventures of Astrid" story that's heavy on sex and comic relief. Or something. ;-)

Go see "A Midwinter Dream's Tale" (Company of Fools) at the Gladstone theatre (former house of GCTC).



Things I want to get (I decided I give myself some "spree money" from the house funds -- $10K will get invested, and the better part of $2K will get put into a new Savings-Only account, but the last little bit (whatever it turns out to be -- not more than $500 and probably a lot less -- will go to Fun Stuff For Me) -- This is the Fun Stuff For Me:

Drag Queen Shoes (strappy, high-heeled sandals and knee-high, high-heeled low-platform boots)
BPAL (Bottles of "Eat Me" and "Blood Kiss" and a set of imps, most likely)
Lush (a couple of bath bombs, and some nice soap, or something)
Hiar Dye (because it's been going on four months, and I wanna feel spiffy and dramatic again. Burgundy hair has that effect on me. ;-)
Waffle Iron (which I may get for free, if Arndis and Tchang are getting rid of one of theirs)
Sadly, no dish-washer or laundry machines. I'm not allowed to have them in the apt. :-P (Still, saves me a good $350 in appliances, so I can deal with that for now. ;-)

For the Apartment:

Paint ("Penelope Pink" for the livingroom and bedroom, "Elise" (blue) for the bathroom)

Curtains (in Dark Purple and Dark Teal -- this will likely involve borrowing someone's sewing machine, though hand-stitching them wouldn't be difficult).

A Giant Compost Bucket and/or vermifuge DIY set-up -- an empty industrial paint pail (the kind that holds, like, 16L of liquid and has a snap-on lid?) would work for this.

A "little old lady" cart for transporting a full Giant Compost Bucket down to the Bronson/Laurier public garden where I can dump it into the communal compost bins.

A dish-draining rack.

Not sure what, if anything, else.


Anywhoo.


I gotta go. I need to pay the last of my property taxes (less than $400 -- hurrah!) and then get the reciept to the Lawyers before 4pm. (Not that this'll take very long).


- TTFN,
- Amazon. :-)

P.S.: Callwolf: I believe I've still got a wodge of BPAL freebies for you, do I not?

P.P.S.: CSI_Tokyo, Raynedaze, and anyone else who happens to be in the Bronson/Gladstone area on the evening of Saturday, Sept. 13th: As it turns out, I *will* be wanting some help unloading the U-haul. More hands will make it go faster, as the elevator isn't the speediest thing in the world. So your help would be very-much appreciated. Perhaps around 5pm. :-)

Link Spam!

Nifty Article on the Devadasi from $pread Blog.

A Company of Fools who are performing at The Gladstone Theatre in February (from the 4th to the 21st). They're doing "A Midwinter's Dream Tale" - which sounds like it could be good fun.