работа

Я журналист. Моя работа хорошо.

тетя

я дбадцать четыри. я не девочка. я женщина!!!

мой дом

Мой дом оранжевый. Эта мой!

Мой собака, Хамлет, черный.

Сегодня суббота.

моя русский

я изучаю русский язык. я плохо гавараю па-русский. Эта не хорошо! Сегодня пятницу! Я женшина.

aka - i've joined livemocha.com. reallly cool site where you can do lessons and interact with other people learning languages. hopefully this will help me improve my russian and at least be conversant in the language. lifelong goal, here i come.

nanowrimo

so i went and joined this website with these crazy people who think they can write a novel in a month. it's a movement called nanowrimo - national novel writing month. i've been so lax on my writing, it's disgusting. how do i expect to get published one day if i don't even bother to write anything? (or if what i write is total crap because i haven't been writing?) writing, like anything else, takes practice. writing a story, novel, poem, whatever, then forgetting about it for a week, is usually the best way to improve your writing. but you have to keep writing other things while you forget about what you already wrote, then go back and improve what you originally wrote as you're forgetting about the stuff you already wrote. it's confusing, but this is one of the best self-editing tools for me and the only way i can be objective about my stuff.

and nothing like a little pressure than joining an online group of thousands of people around the world, all of whom are churning out novels that have to be 50,000 words or more in 30 days. crazy, right? but it's going to be fun. and maybe just the kick in the ass i need.

the cat i never had

pros of owning my own home: my rules, my stuff (everywhere), my choices about where my stuff goes and what my rules are.

cons: shit goes wrong. and mom won't fix it.

i just need to wake up every morning and say to myself "what today?" today's particular problem: i have a mouse in my house. it's not cute because it rhymes; it's disgusting, especially when i found its poo all over my pantry.

so i'm debating something that i've been wanting since i was six: a cat. the whole mouse problem would just be a side perk to having a cat. it would really be me fulfilling a lifelong dream, plus i get to save another animal, and that's the best thing of all.

what do you think?

i'm home

ok. so...

• i have no money
• there are sprikets in my basement
• no washer/dryer
• no dishwasher
• i may or may not have ruined my porch floor with my crappy paint job. that is also unfinished
• my house is a mess. my stuff is everywhere. i hate unorganization, but may have to live with this for awhile
• my to-do/to-buy list just gets longer
• everyone and their brother wants to stop by, even though my house is a mess.

even with all that, it's still really, really cool being a homeowner.