I'm putting a new roommate plea on copperbadge's next Radio Free Monday; this is where prospective new roomies can contact me.

A little info: My boyfriend, our roommate, and I are looking for a new fourth roommate for the beginning of February. We're looking to fill the smallest bedroom in our three bedroom apartment in the Clairemont area of San Diego. The room is $445 a month; I can't remember its exact size, but it comfortably fits a queen bed and desk or dresser, stays the coolest room in the apartment during the summer, and has a walk in closet you could keep Harry Potter in (it was my room when we first moved in. I loved it until my boyfriend moved in with us and we needed more space). The complex is centrally located, on two bus lines, and has a fantastic view of Mission Bay. We're all in our mid/late twenties, pretty nerdy on a variety of levels and interests, theatre and film kids, looking for someone who could integrate with us and would be into occasional board game nights. No cats, as Roomie is allergic, but we might be open to other animals if you can make a case to the management for them.

LiveJournal keeps logging me out. Has anyone else noticed that there isn't a straight forward Login In link on the main page, or is one of my ad blockers fucking things up? What the hell?

Wondering if it's even possible to tell a well-meaning friend that he is mansplaining without hurting his feelings. Because he will take it as an attack, even if all I want to say is, "your experiences are not everyone else's experiences." And he is, overall, a very nice guy and a true, supportive friend, he just doesn't understand the difference between speaking up for women and speaking for women.

There comes a point when one of your favorite internet personalities has posted a video of himself reading the fic that got you into the work of another favorite internet personality and you simultaneously feel incredibly gleeful and little bit sycophantic... anyone else?

iTunes survey borrowed from thistlerose

How many songs total: 3,158
How many hours or days of music: 11 dats 2 hours 50 minutes 28 seconds

Most recently played: "Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire Chapter 2 The Scar" by JK Rowling, read by Stephen Fry
Most played: "No, I Don't Remember" by Anna Ternheim
Most recently added: um... the "Recently Added" list is blank... most recently bought is difficult to figure out too... o.O

Sort by song title.
First Song: "Abbey Road" by Tori Amos
Last Song: "1901" by Phoenix

Sort by time.
Shortest Song: "Postmortem" by Marian Call (0:06)
Longest Song: "Willie Wonka and The Chocolate Factory Rifftrax" by the Rifftrax gang (1:41:58)

Sort by album.
First album: "About A Boy" soundtrack by Badly Drawn Boy
Last album: I have 502 songs that don't have the album listed, but the last listed Album is "2000 Titan AE" soundtrack featuring many artists.

First song that comes up on Shuffle: "Head Over Feet" by Alanis Morissette.

Search the following and state how many songs come up:
Death - 44, 37 of which are "Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows", 1 is "The Deathday Party" from Chamber of Secrets and another is "The Death Eaters" from Goblet of Fire. The other 5 are actually songs.
Life - 79
Love - 74
Hate - 7
You - 225
Sex - 14, 10 of which are only listed because they are on the mix "Serenades for Sex Kittens" which shibaiko gave me about six or seven years ago.

I don't normally go in for all this tribute stuff, but Maurice Sendak was an incredible man with an incredible body of work. His Ida was one of my first heros. Just a couple weeks ago, we did a project with the artwork of children's stories, and I rediscovered so many of his works which I had loved.

"When Papa was away at sea, and Mama in the arbor, Ida played her wonder horn to rock the baby still - but never watched. So the goblins came. They pushed their way in and pulled baby out, leaving another all made of ice." - Outside Over There, my favorite book by Maurice Sendak.

A couple of guys I knew growing up almost died a couple days ago. I can't really say we were friends, we were never that close, but our moms worked together and we were friendly. I liked them, and I enjoyed the time we did spend together. They're a few years younger than me, twin brothers. I'm friends with their mom on facebook, so I hear about them from her periodically, but in my head they're still 13 or so, like they were the last time I saw them. One got his face stomped in and will need reconstructive surgery, the other was in a car wreck the next day and the driver was killed. I don't know what to say, except to tell their mom I'm thinking about them and hoping they both recover quickly. It's just so terrifying to hear about...

Yesterday I weighed myself twice; the first measurement was 155.4 lbs, the second was 154ish... Today, I did the same and ended up with 153 and 156. I think my scale may be a little off. Anyway, it gives me a ballpark reference, I guess.

I worked eight hours, standing the whole time (seriously, why is it so much easier to stand for eight hours at the grocery store than for two and half to four hours at the theatre?), and spent about an hour walking home. About halfway through the walk home my legs started to seriously ache, but I made it. Should have stretched after. Took a nap. Woke up with my right wrist too painful to move. Assuming carpal tunnel, have applied icy hot.

I downloaded an app to help keep track of what I ate today. I've always really strongly resisted counting calories; I kind of thought it was dumb, but today I gave it a shot, paying attention to what I was eating and how much of it, and it was actually kind of fun, especially when I finished dinner and had 297 calories left to play with for dessert. Now if I can just convince Dom that he needs to at least keep track of what he's eating...

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I was walking home from work and thinking about my resolutions for the coming year and how I aught to write them down when I got home and not get distracted by teh interwebs. I almost got distracted by my friendslist anyway.

Anyway.

I know that 2011 has been a crap year for a lot of people. For me it's had some awesome moments and some not so great moments, but I wouldn't over all call it a crap year. Maybe a hard year. Still, I hope 2012 is more enjoyable, even if it is just as challenging. I hope it doesn't go by so quickly.

Resolutions... I want to keep in better contact with my family this year. I have been a pretty bad granddaughter/cousin/niece when it comes to actually talking to my grandparents/cousins/aunts (oddly, I've never been close with any of my uncles...), and I guess I could put a little more effort into my communications with my brother and sister and parents, while we're on the topic.

I'm going to try to manage my money better. Eat out less, pay attention to what I'm spending my money on, so on. I need to save up for a new car, and will probably have to sell the old one before it starts racking up parking tickets, since it hasn't started since thanksgiving. I need to save up for the probable move to wherever I end up going to University too. I need to go to the credit union on monday and talk to them about opening a savings account and what I'll need to do for an eventual car loan.

The cliche: I need to eat better and exercise more. I'm five feet tall and 150 lbs; healthy weight for my height is 115-125. Time to accept that I'm fat. I've been talking about it since my birthday, time to act. Dom and I are thinking about getting bikes, since both our cars are pretty much out of commission. We're taking physical conditioning class when school starts. Dad and Michele were talking about this cleanse they're planning to do, which sounded pretty solid and I think could give us a good jump start, if they'll just send me the info in time... If not, I'm going to get on Spark People in a little bit and start doing some meal planning -- see better money management above. I think we should also plan to walk/hike more, see if we can carpool to school with one of our Company friends, I'll have to talk to Anura about getting rides to the Civic, maybe avail ourselves of Rachel's Wii Fit, look into yoga studios in the area, plan and prepare meals ahead of time, keep a journal of our progress... Probably some other stuff I thought about on the way home but can't remember anymore...

Anyway. I'm going to be posting updates here, since I don't really use it for anything else. I really, really, really don't want to be that person who only ever talks about their weight loss progress, but it's probably the only way to keep myself accountable. Start date goal is Monday, so I guess I'll be spending tomorrow planning...

So. Uh. Yeah. Happy New Year.