Today's whining

[cupcake_goth]

Sweet zombie Jesus, that's a lot of work I came back to. Hello, working late, how are you? I didn't miss you at all, but I guess I'm going to be spending a lot of time with you anyway.

Other Things of Cranky-Making:

- I gained 3lbs while on holiday. I'm not surprised by this, but still, vexing.

- I am, as usual, horrified by every single photo of me from the holiday. I was extremely tired, and it shows. I know that I am not good at candid photos, but I have no idea on how to position myself/tilt my head/hide behind someone else while shrieking "No pictures! No pictures!". Suggestions on how to do those things or how to look better in candid photos will be gratefully accepted.

Things of Not Cranky-Making:

- I slept last night. Everyone cross your fingers that this becomes a trend.

- stroppy_baggage is very, very good to me. Sure, he may be all sorts of evil, and loom at people, but I find that endearing.

- I have stacks and stacks of new books to read! Now I just need to find some free time ...

Comments

[durtro93.livejournal.com]

Things of Not Cranky-Making:

#4 - I have dolls for you :)

[cupcake-goth.livejournal.com]

!!!

Eeeee! Oh, you're very right, that is muchly of the Not Cranky-Making.

[durtro93.livejournal.com]

I shall call you soon, to arrange for delivery of the dollies!

[fiorituranotte.livejournal.com]

You looked fabulous in the F2F photos. When Teacup Guy saw your picture he said "She really is a perky goth", in a very surprised voice. Best of luck with all of the work stuff.

[lili-beth.livejournal.com]

Jilli, you look lovely in the pictures from the F2F. I for one, use them only as a reminder to bring up the memory in my mind's eye of the real Jilli, animated, graceful and beautiful, dancing at Prom.

Hope the work is the kind the keeps you busy (if it must) and not just watching the clock until it is all over.

[amy37.livejournal.com]

I heard you say in the HS that you bought mostly vampire books -- what did you get? Any brand-new authors?

[brendalu.livejournal.com]

- I am, as usual, horrified by every single photo of me from the holiday. I was extremely tired, and it shows. I know that I am not good at candid photos, but I have no idea on how to position myself/tilt my head/hide behind someone else while shrieking "No pictures! No pictures!". Suggestions on how to do those things or how to look better in candid photos will be gratefully accepted.

This is how I react to almost all the pictures of me - I'm trying to tell myself that if you (who look utterly smashing) feel the same, then maybe mine aren't as bad as I think. Trying, anyway.

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

You've seen this (http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/05/25/sleep.weight.reut/index.html) re: sleeping and weight gain, yes?

[cupcake-goth.livejournal.com]

Yep, I'd seen that, and freaked right out about it. Yet another thing to worry about concerning insomnia. Ack, I say. Ack, ack, ack.

[debg.livejournal.com]

I am, as usual, horrified by every single photo of me from the holiday

Actually, you only looked tired in two or three of the several dozen.

I, OTOH, appear to have been the walking dead in the, what, maybe three shots from the suite. And if there's more than two of me from the entire four plus hours of prom, I haven't seen them, which is probably just as well.

At least you aren't invisible, love.

But working late sucks.

[cupcake-goth.livejournal.com]

You weren't invisible, you were hugely, HUGELY busy being Organizing Woman, and moving too fast for mere mortal cameras to capture. I got to see you, what, four times the whole weekend? ;)

[debg.livejournal.com]

Ah, well. Moments.

Besides, you look better tired than about 99.99999% of the population of either gender looks under optimal circs, anyway.

If you don't believe me, go get a reality check from Peeve.

[weaselmom.livejournal.com]

That's what I'm blaming my problem on rather than this Venti banana split Frappuccino!

[staxxy.livejournal.com]

Hancock Fabrics is closing. The whole store is on sale. and they have really soft cotton candy pink fake mink fur. There was almost an entire bolt when we were there today.

[wormtorturer.livejournal.com]

Do you mean the local Hancock store is closing or the chain is going out of business? I hope it's the former--I don't want to be left with only JoAnn and the pricey quilting shops as the only fabric stores for about 100 miles.

[cupcake-goth.livejournal.com]

Just our local one. Rumor has it that the block containing Hancock, the very cool thrift store, and Fred Meyer are going to be demolished to build a MegaGiantFredMeyer. Which is not what I want, dammit.

[staxxy.livejournal.com]

if you have a local shop, you should check in with them. Apparently they are closing a lot of stores, nationwide. The chain is not closing entirely, but they are taking a lot of them down.

[wormtorturer.livejournal.com]

I suppose Mall*Wart would be worse, but ouch, losing a good thrift store. Nobody ever tears things down to build a bonafide Garment District (since that kind of stuff just grows up in cheap areas of town).

The Salvation Army closed ALL FOUR of its Humboldt County thrift stores. Claimed they were losing money on them... probably because most of the stuff was what people couldn't sell at yard sales or to resale shops.

[spidra.livejournal.com]

I guess this just shows that even beauteous people can get critical of their photogenic-ness. I thought you looked wonderful. Although it's naught to the splendor that is you live and in person.