Apr. 19th, 2004

titusnowl: (dory thinking)
I'm gonna create a filter or something so I can ramble about wedding stuff, feel like I'm not talking to myself, but not bore people.

Since I don't have it set up yet, here's two things:

1. The Carlson Craft book at work has a section on matchbooks and stuff. They have a matchbook logo that looks vintage - old-looking car driving down a vaguely-sketched street, "Just Married" written on the back, tin cans on the bumper, very cartoony. We will have these.

2. I mentioned the prospect of a pumpkin coach for Tina's wedding to mom and now apparently it's my job to find such. I looked online but I can't find anyplace with a closed carriage in Albany. I doubt the Great Escape would let us borrow their Cinderella coach. Dammit.
titusnowl: (penguin Hoboken sad)
I am an utter failure at the housewifely arts. My stovetop is a huge mess and I'm afraid to take it apart to clean it. It, and the counter next to it, are covered in baked-on flour and cocoa powder and pancake mix and other assorted side products of baking and making dinner. There are cornflakes and sugar in the little metal cupthings under the burners. BOTH of the front burners are making scary "pop" and "snap" noises when I turn them on, one in the back is producing huge epic clouds of smoke when heated, and the other rear burner is all floury. I'm out of lunch-food except for one box of macaroni and cheese, and I'm afraid to turn the stove on to cook it for fear of burning the house down. I don't know how to take anything on the stove apart for cleaning, I don't know what products are safe to use if I *did* know how to take it apart, and in fact I don't *own* any cleaning products besides paper towels, water, dish soap and some Clorox wipes that I keep intending to use to clean off the counters, but forgetting. Cleaning the kitchen is something I really need to do but it seems so hugely impossible that I can't figure out where to start - i need a home for the plastic bags and a better way of storing things and a place to put all the stuff on the counter while I clean the counter and I need to do the dishes and I need to sweep the floor and I don't own a mop or a bucket or a sponge and it's all so intimidating.

I'm in tears over the whole thing.
titusnowl: (penguins are in wuv)
This is my little brother, a Mexican baby my parents are adopting. He is I think two years old. He has lived with us since he was just two weeks old. His mother named him Stefan, but my parents have changed his name to Mark to honor my father's best friend (to whom my brother bears an uncanny resemblance). His mother was a crackhead, but he seems luckily unaffected except for a slight delay in language (he's seeing a speech therapist, and is picking up words nicely). He's bright, cheerful, and inquisitive - sometimes dangerously so; the mark on his cheek in the picture below is from a severe scalding he received when he grabbed my dad's mug of boiling water (for tea) and dumped it on his head. He's healing nicely, though, and the cosmetic surgeon says he won't have any scarring.

At Disney, he decided he loved Justin to death, and it was just adorable watching them play together.

Photo: He found one of my old hairbrushes and decided to brush his teeth. Read more... )
titusnowl: (etouffe the cookin' catfish)
The kitchen's still a mess, but thanks to y'all I know how to take care of it, and I've calmed down. I had a horrible day at work, but did my grocery shopping and bought Sleepytime Tea, which I'm looking forward to having tonight.

And I'm cooking a real dinner! I'm having fish and chips. Sure, I had to get breaded whitefish in a BOX in the freezer section because they don't have whitefish at the seafood market in the grocery stores here, but still, I'm having fish and chips.

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