Down the Toilet

Blog No. 165: Down the Toilet

In case you guys really wanted to know, my toilet's busted. To be honest, it's been busted for awhile. What happens is that every 6 hours or so, my bathroom floor would be flooded with water. I've put a cup under where the knob to turn the water on and off was so that it didn't leak, but every morning I've still woken up to a flooded bathroom, a full cup of toilet water, and the smell of eau di FISH TANK.

So I had to turn the water to my toilet off, making it less convenient to have my time to get ready! system to work! Plus, whenever I wake up now, I have to walk downstairs for me to pee. It just ruins this man's system...

A plumber will be called, soon hopefully...

Anyways...

I've scanned some more sketches.

This is Mila, daughter of my favorite high school english teacher and the super awesome technology teacher! XP

Eric, in the Philippines. Those monkeys creep me out! XP

More of my sketches here: [grimshawdmac.deviantart.com] Still not a link.

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Today was pretty smooth.

I had to spend time with family today, so I didn't go and play Ultimate Frisbee with JT today... (Alas, my husband, we will meet again someday! *dramatically reaches hand into the sky* XD)

Still, I had fun.

I went to Mel's with Audrey and Lennox. We met up with my mom, grandfather, and Jabyne and Nicole. (Side note: It still feels weird, Jabyne is technically in my generation, yet I group him so often with my mom's generation that I sometimes want to call them "Uncle Jabyne and Aunt Nicole" XD). Jabyne and Nicole wanted to bring their kids, Ayanna and Gaby, out and about today, too. I really wasn't contributing much into the conversations, but I have listened intently to what they've had to say, seeing as we hadn't seen them in awhile. I find consistency to be a good quality in this case. There were only a few times where I was dragged into the convo...

Jabyne's getting an AA degree soon, which is apparently the highest degree anyone has in my immediate family, (which made Nicole include me in the conversation, asking what my college degree was going to be in. She was amazed, though, when I told her that I'm planning to study abroad within the next two years. XP). Gaby still tries to act shy around me, so I just stare at her to make her feel more uncomfortable, corrupting the mind of today's youth as always. XP

Jabyne and Nicole also brought up how they wanted to go to Disneyland, which made me pay more attention. When Jabyne asked mom if we were going this year, I looked up at her to see what she would say. She replied that I was in summer school, that we would have to work around that, yet I've told her that I only needed to be present 6 of the 16 days of class. So the thought of Disneyland has entered my mom's mind, again. I'll ask her tomorrow if she actually plans on making arrangements this summer... XP

Ayanna and Gaby wanted toys out of the claw machine, which led mom, my grandfather, and Audrey to bring up that I was a "master against the claw" so to speak. Way back when my grandfather lived smack dab in the middle of Downtown Sacramento, we would always visit him at Denny's, where we had a bi-weekly dinner. I would go to the claw machine, whenever I didn't have my DS or sketchbook, and win one or two toys. They were remarking that I'd sometimes help out other kids win toys from the machine for them. Jabyne had complained that those machines were rigged, which I agree. Thing is, he never had much luck with those machines as I have. So, he handed me two dollars. A minute later, I walked back with Ayanna and her stuffed frog. Then mom handed me a dollar in quarters. The next minute, Gaby ran back with her soft plush piglet. Sure, Jabyne has seen the world on his travels as a marine and army man. Still, he felt outmatched by his lucky college cousin. XP

So yeah, it was pretty much a family lunch thing...

If you were wondering about Lennox the entire two hours, he was asleep the entire time. XD