went on a cleaning spree yesterday. not even a cleaning spree...a "i'm tired of living in a trash heap and i'm going to have to do this anyway so i might as well do it now" spree, coupled with a "it's obvious that doing the dishes and cleaning the kitchen once a month (or less) is too much to ask so i'll just take the 20 minutes that it takes and do that too" spree. it's funny how i can look back on things and go "there was a reason i was against this...that reason being that i would end up being the one to do it anyway..." and sho' nuff...i was right! my favorite part was when i got to scrape month-old-dead-bug crust off of the dishes. though cleaning month-old slime out of the bottom of the sink was a close second. i also enjoyed the part in which i dumped the "since mother's day it's been hanging out on the stove" spaghetti fixins.

i'm going to allow myself to be bitter about this for a full 24 hours before i let it go...because i don't know what i was more sick of - hearing that the kitchen was going to get clean for more than a month or actually looking at the filthy dishes. and i'd like to think that i'm typically pretty good about looking at the big picture when it comes to crap like this, but after all the hubbub of a "house meeting" involving this exact thing, i believe that i'm entitled to a day of house-related pissiness, too. so you'll have to excuse me.

(it should be noted that this in no way involves the bathroom, in which i said "if you do this, i'll do that"...and things got done on both ends, however delayed on my side.)

okay. that's out of my system. and at least now, our house looks like a place where people live. and that is acceptable to have other people see in the daytime.

john lovitz is the new subway ad campaign dude. every time i hear him on the radio ads, i'm like "oh! jay sherman!"

i killed time with a nap yesterday and then treated myself to metro and a package of bali shag. for whatever reason, my cigarette roller has decided to work for me again. i'm assuming it's because of the reintroduction of quality tobacco into its little pouch. i've been smoking camel lites wides, which is kind of like smoking poisonous cardboard. those little guys are made for chain smoking. i enjoyed the buzz the hand-rolled cigarettes gave me and the fact that they're not AS awful for me. plus, they taste close to a million times better and don't leave my mouth dry and ashy-tasting. i'd pretty much forgotten how superior hand-rolled cigarettes are. i drove around with the windows down and listened to ok computer and felt alright about things.

they have abita pub glasses at whole foods. (they also have fat tire pub glasses, but i already have one of those.) i'm going to go get one today. i'm excited for myself in a dorky "omg i collect these!" way.

they also have austin king at whole foods. that's pretty exciting, too.