The Thing That Goes Doink

It snowed sometime during the night. That means that the roads are completely covered in snow and slush, and I still haven't had any winter driving experience in a front wheel drive car. I can rock in the show in a rear wheel drive car, but I've never actually driven in a front wheel drive. Hell if I know exactly how that happened, but I digress.

Anyway I'm going to bundle up and head out, and I'm going to try and find an empty parking lot to get my bearings in. The way we see it is that this is as bad as it's going to get as far as driving conditions go, so that if I can handle this I can theoretically throw anything else nature throws at us.

Wish me luck. I'll probably be back later to update how my little trip went.

I smell like almonds, myrrh and dark musk. I smell quite witchy, actually. Today's scent is Hecate from BPAL's Excolo collection. It's rather enchanting in a dark and mysterious way. I like it, and I think I may get a bottle of it down the road.

In other news, I'm plugging along in DotNW because I have copious amounts of downtime, even though I should probably go through all of my drawers again and clean out the stuff that I don't wear anymore. I should probably also get a box to put all of this in, but that would require use of my car, which is currently down with a case of, "WTF SPEAKERS GO IN." My husband is replacing all of the speakers in my car (since he replaced the back deck speakers two weeks ago) to give me the most rockin' sound system EVER. In theory this is all great and grand, except he's having issues getting the speakers into the car. I'm wondering if he should have started with the back door speakers instead of the front door speakers, because I could still use my car.

I have the sinking feeling that I'm housebound for the next couple of days until he can get everything figured out.

Boo.

Well, I suppose I should finish cleaning off the grill. I need to get that taken care of so we can do dinner the rest of the week.

So I'm going to hang out with desertkitsune today, but before all of that could go down, I had to make a few repairs to my cars. More specifically, one. The dome light was out when I bought the car, and a few weeks ago I finally got around to purchasing a replacement bulb. My husband had originally gone out to fix the bulb, but was unable to get the cover off. This morning I went down and found exactly where to place to screw driver to get the cover off and then removed the dome light. However in the process of replacing it, I blew the fuse.

I will be making a couple of quick pit stops before I do anything else today (including getting gas and stopping at the bank). Because with that one fuse blown, I can't use my key fob to lock and unlock the doors, none of the interior lights work, and neither does the stereo (strangely enough I can lock and unlock the doors using the button on the door, since apparently that's on a different fuse - but supposedly so is the stereo system and that's not working).

Of course, as all of this is going down, it isn't lost on me that today I chose to wear my "Self-Rescuing Princess" tee shirt.

First of all: NaNo.

Trucking along on NaNo, though all regular NaNo related updates are still at penismighter Word count is sufficient for now, plot seems to be holding together, and the characters are finally holding fully formed conversations in my head as I scramble to get it all into a .docx file. I did take a break to write a short Castle drabble that is posted in castle_fic and on FF.net. I'm even thinking that I'll write a few drabbles for the series as I work on my NaNo when I figure I need a break.

Second: Sold the Thunderbird.

Dirty Diana is no longer mine - I did the transaction this afternoon. I only got $200 for her, but to be perfectly honest I didn't expect to get much more that $250, and at this point I was tired of the lack of response on Craigslist. I'm still holding onto the money though - if this guy decides that he doesn't want the car, I'm willing to buy it back for the $200. But he's only got until December 5th to decide that he doesn't want it. After that month, it's his.

Third: Today is Bonfire Night, so I post the following poem below the cut so as not to spam/offend my f-list.

( This is the whole thing, people, anti-Catholic bits and all! )

By the way, most people only know the first part of the poem, mostly thanks to is repeated use in V for Vendetta. However it is commonly recited on November 5th in Great Britain, Canada, and sometimes Australia to the first "Hip Hip horrah!" The part about killing the Pope is often left out anymore, the UK having finally comes to terms with that whole freedom-or-religion thing - though I still get the feeling they still aren't particularly fond of the Catholics. If anyone is insanely curious, ask and I shall tell you all that I know about the holiday - I had to come up with a lesson plan for it in my methods of teaching social studies class. (And yes, I did that by choice.)

Fourth: I can totally hook up my computer to my TV and use it as a monitor.

d00d. I can watch Hulu on an actual TV. I think I'm going to invite sideshow_ericka over on her birthday and see if she wants to watch Inuyasha: The Final Act on the TV. Cuz it's ridiculously pretty. ZOMG.

Fifth: I need Seven Brides for Seven Brothers on DVD.

I don't know how many people on my f-list have even seen the film, but it's a GREAT MOVIE. Great musical numbers, great dancer numbers, and solid performances from Howard Keel, Jane Power and a very young Russ Tamblyn (who would be best know for his role as Riff in West Side Story and being the father of Joan of Arcadia actress Amber Tambyln). Oh yes, can't forget that Julie Newmar (as in To Wong Foo: Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar AKA Catwoman) had her first major film role as Dorcus Gailen. You can tell that MGM put very little towards the production of the film, instead channeling what should have been its budget to Briagadoon, which did well but didn't match the success of Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. I happened to be up when it came on TCM last night, so I stayed up until one AM, happily dorking out on the film and humming, "Bless Your Beautiful Hide" as I brushed my teeth before going to bed. And yes, the song is STILL stuck in my head.  Must get this movie so I can watch it whenever I want.

I think that sums everything up for now.  I'm starting to fall asleep and I hopefully this will be the last night I need anything medicine related before I go to bed.