Things That Make You Go

FUCKING MOTHERFUCKING BITCH ASS TITTIES COCK SHIT BALLS CHRIST!!!

so in the middle of packing in order to move this weekend, i recieve two bits of wonderful news. i'm sorry... "wonderful" news. all in the space of two hours this morning!

a) my car seems to have a few things seriously wrong with it. nothing fully life-threatening, it seems, but i have yet to hear the full and final report. i just got a preview because i called to be a pain in the ass and gently inquire if they had had a chance to look at my car at all. apparently, they have. i get a call-back later today. fun...

and now for the REALLY good stuff!

wait for it... wait for it...

b) sam, the ur-housemate from austin (the one who sells hot-dogs from a cart to support his band habit) called to inform me that the landlord had informed him that... DUH DUH DUH... she will be selling the house and march is everyone's last month of residency. come april first, we all gotta be out. which is GREAT considering that i don't even LIVE THERE YET! so when i cart a load of stuff up this weekend, i'll sit down and talk with him and the others about what our options are, if we should look for a place together, etc. etc. meanwhile, i'm not even sure if i should move up at all since if i can't find a place in time, i'll just have to move all my stuff back down here...

maybe i could just rent an air-conditioned storage locker from u-haul... or find a way to squeeze myself into an actual bus station locker, like the muppets did when they first got to new york...

anyway...

things could be better... they're all right, in that i'm healthy, alive, movin' on up, etc... but this is definitely a wrench in the works... in truth, its all a little too unreal for me to fully "take it all in" as they say... but i'm sure that will pass and i will start hitting shit soon enough.

in other news, i got a haircut yesterday (long overdue) and shaved (REALLY long overdue.) issue: i was so sick of looking like mountain man that i trimmed my beard with the 1/8th inch guard rather than my standard 1/4 inch guard. the net result: i look and feel like a naked mole rat... i'm just happy i didn't actually shave with a razor... i would have screamed loud enough to break the mirror at the result. i feel nude. and my face looks completely different. i also finally got rid of some major uni-brow growth (once again, overdue...) so i feel like i look, and just feel like a different person. hell hath no fury like facial hair scorned...

so that's it. i'm tired, depressed, and my place to live in austin is suddenly REALLY short term, if it is at all... effin great. and i know it will all work out, i'm just not sure what to do about it all. how to make it happen.

but in other news, i took cuttings from two really cool plants at the crappy chain nursery around the corner yesterday, in addition to doing lots of more useful things. one is a dragon wing begonia, which has dark brown leaves with chalky white spots. the leaves are deeply serrated, and the plant can get huge! and it has beautiful big hot coral blossoms. the other one is a little viney thing that cost nine dollars a pot. i thought about buying one for mom, since i've knotted her a glut of macrame plant hangers, but i couldn't find anyone to tell me about the plant. so i just took a cutting and will wing it. its got cool greeny grey leaves with off-white spots on them.

i'm thinking i should go back today and enlarge my cutting stock... i might as well... packing doesn't seem as urgent anymore for some reason...