You know you live in a small town when ...

you call a repair man for your faulty heater and it turns out to be the guy who was drunk and chatting you up at a bar last week!

My new table

Yippee! I finally got a dining table. It's a counter height table. I've wanted a pub table for a long time. The store I went to didn't have any, but I saw this counter height one and I like it better. It's kind of a tight squeeze now, but once I move, I'll make sure I have a proper dining area to fit it.

Here are some pics.

I'm so glad finally not to have to eat on the couch anymore. Now that I think about it, I haven't had a dining table since my first and second apartments back in the mid-90s. I always intended to buy barstools when I was in my last apartment because I had a huge service bar. I never got around to it. But now, I have a real table. No more crouching over the coffee table and no more kitties trying to horn in. Yay!

Dating persona test

The Sonnet Deliberate Gentle Love Dreamer (DGLD) Romantic, hopeful, and composed. You are the Sonnet. Get it? Composed? Sonnets want Love and have high ideals about it. They're conscientious people, caring & careful. You yourself have deep convictions, and you devote a lot of thought to romance and what it should be. This will frighten away most potential mates, but that's okay, because you're very choosy with your affections anyway. You'd absolutely refuse to date someone dumber than you, for instance. Lovers who share your idealized perspective, or who are at least willing to totally throw themselves into a relationship, will be very, very happy with you. And you with them. You're already selfless and compassionate, and with the right partner, there's no doubt you can be sensual, even adventurously so. You probably have lots of female friends, and they have a special soft spot for you. Babies do, too, at the tippy-top of their baby skulls. Your exact female opposite: Genghis Khunt Random Brutal Sex Master Always avoid: The 5-Night Stand (DBSM), The False Messiah (DBLM), The Hornivore (RBSM), The Last Man on Earth (RBSD) Consider: The Loverboy (RGLM)

Link: The Online Dating Persona Test @ OkCupid - free online dating

Boooooo!

Not as in "Boooo! Hiss!" or "Booo-urns!" but boooooo as in scary boooooo.

I saw A Nightmare Before Christmas in 3-D last night. It was so fun. I love that movie! I'm a sucker for stop-motion animation and (non-sappy) musicals. This and James and the Giant Peach are two of my favorite movies.

"Rip-Off Strength" not catchy enough?

I know you've seen by now the ads for Secret Clinical Strength antiperspirant. I was going to get over my shock at the almost $8 price tag and try some. Luckily I decided to read the label first. I thought they were using some new ingredient that made it stronger than regular antiperspirants. Nope, they're using the same Aluminum Zirconium Trichlorohydrex GLY that they've always used. This time is 20% instead of 19%.

Not worth 3 times the price.

Especially not when I can get Mitchum (for women) with 20% Aluminum Zirconium Tetrachlorohydrex GLY for the same price or less than regular Secret. I don't know the difference between Trichlorohydrex and Tetrachlorohydrex, but 4 is more than 3 so maybe it's better. Either way, Secret Clinical Strength can gather dust on Target's shelf.

Wheeee!

High school, anyone?

So I saw my friend at work walking with this guy. I thought it was her boyfriend, but it wasn't, and I told her I think he's cute. So then I was all, "Ask him if he dates black girls." She asked him and he said he doesn't care about color.

Then he was all, "Who wants to know?" and she was all, "She'll be at my Halloween party. You can meet her there." He was like, "I want to know now," but she went, "No, you have to wait."

So then she had a happy hour and I totally went to it. The guy was there and it was kind of cool, 'cuz I got to talk to him and stuff, but then at the end of the night, my other friend was all, "That guy is a jerk," and I was like, "Yeah, he kind of is." So that was it.

But then today, my friend was all, "OMG. Right after the happy hour, he totally called me and asked if you were the girl." I was all, "No way!" and she was all "Yes way!" She was like, "You don't know it's her," and he was like "She was the only black girl there." She went, "But I didn't say the girl was coming to the happy hour." Then he was all, "Well, whatever. I really like her. She's cool."

I know, right?!

So anyway, he totally doesn't know for sure that it's me. But I told my friend to tell him that she thinks I might be interested and see what he says.