Friday, February 27, 2004

 
Too ill to leave the house anymore.

It's cheesecake bakin' time!

For the lesbian: Imagine me saying that the same way the Thing says "It's clobberin' time!"
posted by Alleen at 9:07:51 PM

Thursday, February 26, 2004

 
It's fricking Thursday.

Time is just flying this week...

So, Tuesday night, I was struck by inspiration and decided to put together my roommate's bed. I started out doing this in the hallway, which probably made it take much longer than it should have. I eventually finished it four hours later. It was a beautiful moment, let me tell you. I stood there and marvelled at not only my ingenuity, but also the ingenuity of the IKEA designers, who had allowed me, a complete idiot with tools, to build a bed. It was a beautiful moment.

Well... all good things must come to an end, and it was then that I discovered that the bed had no slats. So basically, I had just spent four hours putting together a bed that couldn't be used, unless I went back to IKEA at that very moment.

IKEA being closed at this point, I threw in the towel, went downstairs, ate a pile of chocolates and then bitched and moaned to my roommates.

Sigh.

Eventually, I went back upstairs and took the bed apart again so I could get it out of my roommate's room. It's now sitting in the hallway in pieces.

Wednesday, I had the day off, and I have to say, I got a lot done. For example, I ate a grenadilla for the first time. Apparently, a grenadilla is some kind of mutated passion fruit. The insides are like really sweet grey snot with little seeds in it, which believe it or not, is pretty tasty. I also mailed out a package, went to the doctor, bought a strapless bra, and dragged Martien out of his sickbed twice -- once to go to lunch at Dudok, and once to drive me to IKEA to buy slats.

Fucking IKEA.

I hate them. I hate them with a passion. I think after this I'm going to boycott them and their Swedish fucking common sense.

Anyway. The bed has all its pieces. I categorically refuse to go near it ever again.


posted by Alleen at 9:21:55 AM

Monday, February 23, 2004

 
So I had something of a slow weekend as well, though I did get out of the house quite a bit. Friday night, I got my hair cut, then went to dinner with Joanne and her daughter Kara. It was pretty funny because I'd forgotten what it's like to be 12. It was a hell of a crash course, I can tell you that much. Everything was about her and her friends. She showed me her entire yearbook and explained who everyone was, and the various cliques. Then she showed me a book she'd made, which was a replica of the book of shadows from Charmed... she'd made it from information that she'd gathered from various Charmed websites, which she'd written out in longhand. We're talking in excess of a hundred pages.

I had to give her credit. I doubt I ever finished anything like this, even at her age.

Saturday I stayed in bed fairly late and then eventually hauled ass to IKEA to buy my roommate a bed. We decided to grab a drink in Delft and ended up having a four-course surprise meal at a little Italian place called La Tasca. It was really nice, excellent food, good atmosphere, and possibly the best service I've had in Holland. Also, they started out with some olives, and let me tell you, they were the absolute shit. My parents are from Lebanon, so I've eaten a lot of olives in my day. But these Sicilian thingies were the best olives I've ever had. Mental note: Move to Palermo.

Anyway, we got home around midnight, and I logged online to check the delivery time of the bed. I found two drunk boys waiting for me on MSN and proceeded to have one of the funniest conversations I've ever had. I spent the next hour laughing my ass off maniacally. Which is weird for me.

Sunday... I don't even remember Sunday anymore. In the evening I think I went to Dudok and had soup with my roommates and Amber. But I could be wrong. I'm sure it was a very nice evening.

Anyway.

That's really about it.
posted by Alleen at 1:30:52 PM

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