damnit!

on having blogger delete my entry:

1. anger
2. frustration
3. palpitations
4. irritation
5. umbrage
6. conniptions
7. seething vexations

neglected

huh. found this in my drafts. guess i'll post it!

whoopsie!

i haven't posted in quite a while. this must be remedied.

after reading madge's blog, i really had a desire to try the nablopomo for march; the topic is lists! i heart lists, they keep me mostly organized and on track.

BUT, i knew i couldn't keep it up each and every day for a whole month. and, as you can see, it is already the 3rd and i am only just beginning.

catch-up list

1. anthony moved this past weekend


2. i move in in 2 weeks


3. excited!


4. visited my family 2 weekends ago and had a lovely time


5. my dad is doing so much better and is refraining from fried foods (finally)


6. i'm on the last disc of 'to kill a mockingbird' and it's just sooooooo good, i adore the nickname 'scout'

things to do list

1. ren fest at MOSI!


2. strawberry festival!


3. paint bookshelves!


4. shooting range!


5. plan shuffleboard b-day party!


6. buy veuve and find out what all this delicious fuss is about!

random thought of the weekend: though i love my ipod, some sort of tangible choice/choosing is lost. as anthony noted, it really homogenizes your music.

calm

he's stable and doing well - thanks for messages and calls!

i just drove back into town tonight w/ ant. exhausted.

xoxox,
kim

please to keep

good thoughts in the direction of my dad. he's in the hospit

wallet? lighter?

all photos from 1997 - present have been sheathed. target had some great $3 albums on clearance!

next step: high school photos & prior. i just need to get them OUT OF THE WAY. they're in this bag just sitting on my floor. driving. me. insane.

next next step: organize photos on the computer (post computer reformat)

next next next step: enlarge and print cute photos i love to put into new apartment w/ ant


this weekend was really lovely. far too much money spent, but all for super enjoyable food and events. anthony made fondue tonight. i made a quiche this morning. yesterday we made veggie subs w/ roasted red peppers and salads with roasted garlic cloves. expensive goat cheese. delicious coffee.

today we went to st. pete and spent time walking around in 65 degree weather, drinking fruit smoothies and organic coffee and meandering the vatican splendors exhibit at the florida international museum. it was a great time and a pretty good exhibition. though just not as "impressive" as when you actually go to the vati-CAN (as professor "ducky" duckworth would have said).

cojoined 2 taggings

i've been remiss. 2 tagged memes and nothing to show!

one from the smirking cat and one from fb. so here we go.

first was from the smirking cat - 6 random facts.

in fact, both are about random facts! fb's requested 4 random facts. i'll simply put 10. can i say that i am SO bad at these?


1. when i was younger, i LOVED ketchup. i couldn't pronounce it very well, "ka-kahtch". i ate it on practically everything. i was the family dubbed 'ketchup queen.' rice, broccoli, eggs + ka-kahtch = DELICIOUS.

2. chess is not my game. i truly and horrendously suck at strategy games. i don't play offensively, but rather, from a cowering, freak-out defensive position.

3. (i'm only on #3?!) i am pretty flexible, but was even more so when i was younger. imagine taking your leg, bending the knee, grasping the foot and stretching out your quads. then keep pulling. i could hook the top of my foot in my ribcage and hop around like a side-show freak.

4. i love packaging and industrial design. this causes me to occassionally spend exorbitant sums on stupid things, like frozen pizzas and q-tips.

5. "a clean house is a sign of a wasted life." i read this recently and want to believe this is true, so that my messy house will be a sign of a life well lived.

6. "you have everything you need." another phrase i read recently; i try to keep this in my mind. especially in regards to items that are related to #4.

7. the smell of gardenias and jasmine make me deeply happy. one day i'd love to have a gardenia tree. and lots of night-blooming jasmine.

8. i don't know where i want to be in 5 years.
... wait, that's a lie. i'd like... to be working for myself. perhaps in graphic design. making items. i need to get myself some confidence. and just start throwing work out there.

9. i just sent out a bunch of postcards with 24 cent stamps. it costs 26 cents now! argh.

10. i throw my support to obama.

room 11/15

room 11

there and back again.

we are back in rome. the three of us had a much smaller room this evening, a 4 bed mixed dorm. jen and yen had the bunk and i got to "share" part of a double with our roommate, yet unmet (1 bunk bed and 2 twin beds somewhat close to each other).

the three of us traipsed about rome, heading to st peters and the trevi fountain. a college age boy interrupted drawing in his moleskin to take mine and yen's photo at the trevi. we joked later about how it was a shame we didn't have etch-a-sketches with us so we could join him in his artistic endeavours.

jen had a bit of a migraine, so yen and i went out for sundries at the supermarket and then ran out for dinner.

we asked the guy at the desk for a good restaurant and he recommended one just around the block!
the food was wonderful! red wine, of course, but also marrow (fried zucchini flowers). yen completely dissected her flower, noticing they were filled with mozzarella. erika had mentioned these to me in the past, but this was the first time i got to try them. SO GOOD. i drool just thinking of them.

note to self: grow zucchini when i am able to have a garden. gorge on the flowers.

towards the end of our meal, who should sit down next to us, but alex, davin and christopher (our roommates from our first night in rome)! we talked about our respective trips and had a really great uproarious time, especially towards the end of the evening when the server put our tables together (ignoring our requests for the check) and bestowed upon us a delicious, sparkling bottle of spumanti dolci.

we made our tipsy way back to the hostel to find jen and our roommate, some 21 yr old named ... leelo? leelee? lolee? regardless, he was insanely creepy and oversexed. he seemed nice enough, i suppose, at first.

discovery: CREEPIEST ROOMMATE EVER.

we all went to sleep and i had the worst time falling asleep. and poor yen, her top bunk was SO LOUD and sqeaky. she mentioned in the morning that she had tried not to turn about too much.

naturally, the instant i actually fall asleep is the moment our neighbor decides to tap me on the shoulder.

lala: are you awake?
me: wha? um. i am now.
lalee: i can't fall asleep. i'm bored. wanna make out?
me: um, no.
loser: are you sure?
me: yes.

at this point, he turns over and leaves me alone.

in the morning, i tell jen about it in the bathroom and she said how he asked her the same thing and creeped her out so much that she slept with a sharp implement (a cuticle trimmer) in her bed in case he tried anything.

apparently he regaled her with stories of his explicit sex life, informed her that he was ok with the "idea" of rape and noted that he thought there was nothing wrong with really young boys being with (in the biblical sense) really old men (5 yr olds with 80 yr olds).

UGH.

room 15

the next day, i walked yen to the train station and jen and i got a new room.

we walked about the city, from the coliseum to the forum. very relaxed, overcast day. *sigh*

overall, i had a lovely time in italy. delicious food and delicious wine.

it was surprising because i expected to enjoy florence the most, but really, ravenna was my favorite. and i wasn't expecting rome to as fun and walkable as it turned out to be!