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A mustache, okay. But eyebrows belong there.
I got three hours or so of sleep last night, and woke up with my arms falling off because of the way I strained them after carrying ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
gatafairy's things earlier, and I was feeling sick for other reasons beside. Called the cab company and I didn't see them when I went down, but I did get another cab, from a new company composed mostly of ex-Albany students, which has really nice accomodations and takes appointments (very rare in Albany) and charged less than $14 for the trip to the Amtrak station.
When I got to the station my train was on time and I felt so good and happy and good-omened about the vacation that I almost wound up crying just because I was that pleased with it all. Damn hormones. The train rides were good to me and I got some more sleep, and I got home to what is literally a house with no second floor or roof or walls. There are four rooms intact -- the bathroom, my room, Ali's room, most of the kitchen -- and the basement. We've all been juggled like rabbits and I'm shafted to the basement, where the entire family huddles during meals and entertainment, and where there is no heating. (MY room still has heating, but apparently that room is only for younger sisters who steal their older sister's internships these days.) Construction will promptly start at 8 AM every weekday. Christmas week at Dad's can't come too soon, I say.
I decided a little while ago that I wanted to replace ZERO the Leprosy Demon Laptop, and there is a Toshiba on sale currently that costs around $700 for the same specs as ZERO had, only being a Toshiba, and not an HP, and thus inherently better. I spoke to Dad, who is awesome and volunteered to pay $500 of it if I went and bought it, although I'm not sure if that's part of my holiday gifts or what, but he also gave me enough to think about that I didn't go and charge it right away. I spoke to my mom first, which was a mistake, because there was some intimation that maybe they'd buy me a laptop for graduation in a few months and really, what do I need a laptop for?
I got home and Mom tells me that my graduation gift is going to be a total makeover in New York City by professional makeover people. Now, it's not that I couldn't use this, I guess, but from her description apparently this total makeover is going to be "a haircut and an eyebrow wax". As if I haven't spent the last five years of my life convincing her that I like my eyebrows fine the way they are. I think this attitude is the height of ridiculousness and she doesn't understand that not only do I not want to do it, I have objections on principle to allowing other people to do it to me for any reason. They are eyebrows. As long as there are two of them, they're fine.
The computer I'm on is a disaster, two generations of HP desktop (first my sister's, then my stepfather's), which has been so molested that there are programs on the Add/Remove Program list that have been uninstalled and are no longer even in the registry. I checked the startup tools and there's a thousand different programs with mysterious acronyms sitting around in System32 that I KNOW are not standard computer fare, running discreetly and invisibly in the background every time they start up this lumbering beast.
Going to buy the laptop. It has free 2-day shipping right now. I can have it by Christmas, it'll be awesome.
This place is fricking freezing.
gatafairy's things earlier, and I was feeling sick for other reasons beside. Called the cab company and I didn't see them when I went down, but I did get another cab, from a new company composed mostly of ex-Albany students, which has really nice accomodations and takes appointments (very rare in Albany) and charged less than $14 for the trip to the Amtrak station.When I got to the station my train was on time and I felt so good and happy and good-omened about the vacation that I almost wound up crying just because I was that pleased with it all. Damn hormones. The train rides were good to me and I got some more sleep, and I got home to what is literally a house with no second floor or roof or walls. There are four rooms intact -- the bathroom, my room, Ali's room, most of the kitchen -- and the basement. We've all been juggled like rabbits and I'm shafted to the basement, where the entire family huddles during meals and entertainment, and where there is no heating. (MY room still has heating, but apparently that room is only for younger sisters who steal their older sister's internships these days.) Construction will promptly start at 8 AM every weekday. Christmas week at Dad's can't come too soon, I say.
I decided a little while ago that I wanted to replace ZERO the Leprosy Demon Laptop, and there is a Toshiba on sale currently that costs around $700 for the same specs as ZERO had, only being a Toshiba, and not an HP, and thus inherently better. I spoke to Dad, who is awesome and volunteered to pay $500 of it if I went and bought it, although I'm not sure if that's part of my holiday gifts or what, but he also gave me enough to think about that I didn't go and charge it right away. I spoke to my mom first, which was a mistake, because there was some intimation that maybe they'd buy me a laptop for graduation in a few months and really, what do I need a laptop for?
I got home and Mom tells me that my graduation gift is going to be a total makeover in New York City by professional makeover people. Now, it's not that I couldn't use this, I guess, but from her description apparently this total makeover is going to be "a haircut and an eyebrow wax". As if I haven't spent the last five years of my life convincing her that I like my eyebrows fine the way they are. I think this attitude is the height of ridiculousness and she doesn't understand that not only do I not want to do it, I have objections on principle to allowing other people to do it to me for any reason. They are eyebrows. As long as there are two of them, they're fine.
The computer I'm on is a disaster, two generations of HP desktop (first my sister's, then my stepfather's), which has been so molested that there are programs on the Add/Remove Program list that have been uninstalled and are no longer even in the registry. I checked the startup tools and there's a thousand different programs with mysterious acronyms sitting around in System32 that I KNOW are not standard computer fare, running discreetly and invisibly in the background every time they start up this lumbering beast.
Going to buy the laptop. It has free 2-day shipping right now. I can have it by Christmas, it'll be awesome.
This place is fricking freezing.
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Eyebrow teasing is crazy. I've never done it myself, because they're... there and they always look really strange when they're attacked with wax or tweezers. And my friend told me that models have stopped tweezing their eyebrows. So you're with the highest level of fashion and style!
Yay for Toshiba laptops! <3