Okay, in the past few weeks, I have:

- not had internet
- finished painting my house
- started to decorate
- gotten lice
- hopefully gotten rid of lice
- let everyone in my immediate social circle/randy's social circle know about said lice to prevent spreading
- witnessed a KIDNAPPING
- got some free drapes from a man who may/may not be a sex offender (I am researching right now)
- was (knowingly?) exposed to lead posioning, had to make a big stink about that.
- gone through several bottles of wine. The big ones.

So I have learned, briefly:
- Lice are the STD of children (if you're 14 and embarrassed to buy tampons, wait until you're 22 and buying every NIX product on the shelf. This is modern romance: stark naked in the bathroom with the boyfriend, picking nits out of each other's hair. Yeah.)
- My neighborhood is a lil scary sometimes. I now want a Doberman more than ever.
- Know your rights, as Angelina's back tattoo says.



Conversation at the coffee shop right now:
"Listening is definitely a lost art."
"What?"