12 of 12: September 2009

I was totally exhausted at work today, because Kaite (ladyvivien) is in London for the week (yay!) and stayed over at ours for the night. I met up at Million Monkeys (writing group) with her, lazyclaire, silly_cleo and apotropaios, which was fun, especially as I've never met Cleo but have heard lots about her from Kaite. (*waves!*) I think we scared/impressed each other with our LJ-stalkeryness about equally, so that worked out alright. Anyway, after dinner and a bit of a wander in downtown London, we hopped on the tube for home. Claire and Kaite and I then proceeded to stay up until 2AM with girly gossip and a neverending game of Trivial Pursuit. It was good times, but man was I tired today!

But anyways, actual life info aside, here it is, the point of this post, only three weeks late - my 12 of 12 for September. I am really going to have to get better at posting these! I've done a terrible job these past two months. (And this one is actually even later!) As I said before, I want to post these for completeness (and really, what does it matter when it goes up?) and so here it is, my 12th 12 of 12 in a row! A full year. Yay me. And (as I was just thinking the other day) with my new house and new commute and all, it's perfect timing to shake up my weekday 12 of 12's a bit. The old trip back and forth to Awesome Manor was getting a bit stale. :)

What's that you say? I haven't blogged about the move at all so you have no idea what I'm talking about. Riiiight. Actual updates is the next step, but at least I got this up. I'm not even unpacked yet. Baby steps people!

Post 12 pics of your day, and then link back to Chad, who started it all!

1) ALL PHOTOS MUST BE TAKEN ON THE 12TH OF EACH MONTH.

2) After you post your pictures onto a webpage of your choice (Livejournal, typepad, MySpace, Flickr, etc...) please post the TIME, LOCATION, and A SMALL COMMENT on the pic.

( I must warn people that there are pictures of us standing in a giant glass box off the side of a building under here. So, um, no one freak out! It turns out okay. (No one was harmed in the taking of these pictures...) )

So that's Chicago! Or one day of it anyhow. I have tons of pics from my whole USA trip that I really should get up onto Facebook at least, but I think we all know me well enough to despair of that ever happening. Right now all I'm hoping for is to have my room unpacked and cleared up and decorated before Nano descends. Because there goes November! And then it's Christmas, and then it's 2010. Ah geez. Also, after all my complaints about going to bed late last night, look what time it is now. Whoops.

FML

I hate the entire world today.

I was in a terrible mood when I got to work, and now things just keep happening. I don't really know what's wrong, other than the fact that I feel like life went into overdrive as soon as I got back from the USA trip, and I just haven't been able to find my footing yet. I hate complaining about stress, because I know everyone in the world has a lot going on, but right now I feel constantly like I want to tear my hair out, and that I have a million things to do that I haven't done, and that I'm missing things because I'm so frenetic.

Anyway, I'm in this weird zone where one minute I'm boiling mad and the next I feel like I'm going to cry. It kind of sucks, and mainly I'm just trying to ignore it and focus on work, but I've already snapped at my boss twice, so that's not great.

Oh and also I fell on the way to work and ripped my tights. I have been through far too many pairs that way, and it hurts and I hate how embarrassing it is. I was flat on the London street, feeling like an idiot. And no one stops, but then again you don't actually want them to stop, because it's stupid and what can they do, but still it's weird that they don't, because it isn't exactly inconspicuous when you completely bite it like that, and you kind of want it acknowledged. Or something.

Urgh.