This Is The Thread Where I Say.......Part Seven!

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Yeah, I'd like to join the sick as a dog contingent.

The move was as smooth as possible. We got help loading and unloading. We had zero problems with the truck.

It somehow still hasn't hit me that we're here. It's overwhelming.

What can I tell you about Chicago that I didn't already know? Well, I think it's weird how you have to show your receipt before leaving Kmart, and that you can't bring your grocery cart out to your car to load it at the grocery store.

My mom got along just fine with Nick, though there were a couple of ick moments when she basically accused him of being lazy and impatient, though not in so many words.

Oh! I forgot to mention that a neighbor across the way yelled out his window at me the other day saying, "Could you try to keep your trash on your side?!" Then he slammed it down. It shook me up a little because it was my first contact with any neighbors, but then I met a girl from upstairs who seemed nice.

In other news, HI, EVERYBODY! HAPPY NEW YEARS EVE!!!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 1 January 2004 01:35 (twenty years ago) link

Hey Sarah, Nick, Luna, Horace and others. Happy New Year from London, England, which may well be the best fucking place on the planet. Happy rain and cold and drunken people and 90s dance music.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 1 January 2004 01:50 (twenty years ago) link

happy new year and smiles to sam, luna, dee, julia, sarah and everyone! Hooray new year! Has to be better than old year!

― Orbit (Orbit), Thursday, 1 January 2004 11:17 (twenty years ago) link

Happy new year everyone - like Orbit, I have a lot more optimism about 2004 than last year, several real reasons to think it might be a good one for me.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 1 January 2004 15:59 (twenty years ago) link

Here's to that. Happy new year TITTWISers!

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Thursday, 1 January 2004 16:10 (twenty years ago) link

Happy New Year to my favourite ILXors. You lot rock the most. Let's hope 2004 is the best year for us all. xxxxxx

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 2 January 2004 09:45 (twenty years ago) link

Happy New Year ILXors. Moose Jaw is burning!

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 2 January 2004 14:31 (twenty years ago) link

Is that a good thing H?

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 2 January 2004 14:33 (twenty years ago) link

no, it's sorta sad.

http://sask.cbc.ca

however, it feels like a monday, but it's actually a friday! that's a good thing.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 2 January 2004 19:19 (twenty years ago) link

Happy Friday, Huck.

I can't believe I've been in Chicago since Monday morning! Crazy.

Anyway, I'm happy today because I'm feeling loads better, even though I had both ice cream and sorbet for dinner, and because I'm FAPing tomorrow night. So then maybe I'll know someone else in Chicago other than my - of course I love him - boyfriend.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Saturday, 3 January 2004 05:06 (twenty years ago) link

I woke up to snow! I love snow. Now you get to experience Chicago snow, Sarah and Nick! WooO!

I don't talk about my life in detail soemtimes because it seems like it would just be depressing. But once in a while I'll open up to someone and they'll be cool and understanding and sweet and that just rocks.

Things have really sucked the past few days, but now there are some little tiny hopeful things. Partially because snow makes me inordinately happy.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Sunday, 4 January 2004 18:24 (twenty years ago) link

We are enjoying the snow, Julia, especially since it's still in that pretty, fluffy stage right now.

It sure is weird living right next door to a church. Earlier we heard gospel music and real drums. Now it's quavery organ music and a choir. But also it's kind of neat walking down the block and seeing the big cross lit up right beside our door.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Sunday, 4 January 2004 19:46 (twenty years ago) link

Happy New Year, y'all!!

― luna (luna.c), Sunday, 4 January 2004 20:00 (twenty years ago) link

Yay New Year's! It is a good thing still.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 4 January 2004 20:16 (twenty years ago) link

back to work tomorrow for me
up to my neck in cases
i can only check in here and there
but all of you are aces!

― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 4 January 2004 21:44 (twenty years ago) link

ILX sabbatical HAD to end today, since I need to be amused. Hullo, everyone!

Things have really sucked the past few days, but now there are some little tiny hopeful things.

Hold on, Julia. Have things gotten any better?

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Monday, 5 January 2004 19:03 (twenty years ago) link

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/boostmiser/Pics/ExteriorAlbum/images/DSCN7456_jpg.jpg

This is almost exactly (ie, it ain't mine, and mine has different rims) my new car. Well, 2002, but it's new to me.

Yay car!

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 5 January 2004 20:31 (twenty years ago) link

people with cars are awesome ( i don't drive, but I'm going to need to soon)

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 5 January 2004 20:32 (twenty years ago) link

Well, if you were nearby, I'd drive you around - it's one of my favorite things to do ever.

(Clearly I should become a taxi driver)

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 5 January 2004 20:33 (twenty years ago) link

If it talked too, Luna, then that would be the new definition of cool.

(double x-post)

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Monday, 5 January 2004 20:34 (twenty years ago) link

yay! car!

― Kingfishee (Kingfish), Monday, 5 January 2004 20:34 (twenty years ago) link

nearby is relative, and I'm now much nearer in relation to you having a hot set of wheels. I'm done work in 45 minutes.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 5 January 2004 20:35 (twenty years ago) link

Okay, if I leave now, I can pick you up... hmm... sometime in the middle of the night.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 5 January 2004 20:41 (twenty years ago) link

well, it's not like I have anything to hurry home for

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 5 January 2004 20:43 (twenty years ago) link

Luna don't need no stinkin' speed limits.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 5 January 2004 20:43 (twenty years ago) link

I rarely ever speed.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 5 January 2004 20:51 (twenty years ago) link

Much.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 5 January 2004 20:51 (twenty years ago) link

oh, we can change that right quick.

since roadtrips are being undertaken(undertook?), please head eastward after you pick up Mann. Canadian bands tell me that you can get back across the border easiest in Montana, then you're only two time zones away from michigan!

― Kingfishee (Kingfish), Monday, 5 January 2004 20:54 (twenty years ago) link

Okay - I can pick up one more person then - unless someone wants to ride in the trunk (which has a safety release, btw).

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 5 January 2004 20:55 (twenty years ago) link

*whistles idly*

― oops (Oops), Monday, 5 January 2004 20:57 (twenty years ago) link

boy, if you mean to come along, yer gettin' strapped the hood.

― Kingfishee (Kingfish), Monday, 5 January 2004 20:58 (twenty years ago) link

once again, what I thought was a romantic rendezvous turns out to be a carpool

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 5 January 2004 20:59 (twenty years ago) link

"Strapped the hood"? How quaint.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 5 January 2004 20:59 (twenty years ago) link

Ned, it's the new standard of romance.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Monday, 5 January 2004 21:01 (twenty years ago) link

autoerotica?

― Kingfishee (Kingfish), Monday, 5 January 2004 21:02 (twenty years ago) link

Aww, I just didn't want you to think I only wanted one thing, Huck.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 5 January 2004 21:07 (twenty years ago) link

well that much is obvious!

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 5 January 2004 21:09 (twenty years ago) link

Right, two things.
And whoyoutalkin' to, K-fish?

― oops (Oops), Monday, 5 January 2004 21:10 (twenty years ago) link

But I... I mean, I... well, um... but there's th... yeah ok.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 5 January 2004 21:11 (twenty years ago) link

But I... I mean, I... well, um... but there's th... yeah ok.

uh oh. we broke luna.

clearly, only chocolate gelato can save the day.

http://www.pasticceriaquadrifoglio.it/images/gelato01.jpg

― Kingfishee (Kingfish), Monday, 5 January 2004 21:24 (twenty years ago) link

What, no cherries? Philistine!

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Monday, 5 January 2004 21:25 (twenty years ago) link

No, I just couldn't deny what he said.

No gelato - I'm cold. Besides, I like spumoni better.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 5 January 2004 21:28 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.edys.com/images/flavorImages/1626b.jpg ?

― Kingfishee (Kingfish), Monday, 5 January 2004 21:35 (twenty years ago) link

Better. I'm still too cold though. The AC is set on 'Arctic Circle at Three AM on the Coldest Day of the Year" in this bitch.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 5 January 2004 21:40 (twenty years ago) link

Crack the thermostat open and change it, Luna. Simple.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Monday, 5 January 2004 21:46 (twenty years ago) link

use the skull of your cow-orker, if you need to.

― Kingfishee (Kingfish), Monday, 5 January 2004 21:47 (twenty years ago) link

I'm not a moron - the fucking thing doesn't work. You can't change it more than 3 degrees at a time, or it shuts down and defaults to 'really fucking cold'.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 5 January 2004 21:47 (twenty years ago) link

Fuck. Why would you need the AC in CA in *mid-Winter*? The lawyers afraid of falling asleep?

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Monday, 5 January 2004 21:50 (twenty years ago) link

chair thru the window?

― Kingfishee (Kingfish), Monday, 5 January 2004 21:51 (twenty years ago) link

Mid winter in LA is practically high summer everywhere else.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 5 January 2004 21:54 (twenty years ago) link

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