aprilstarchild | Randomness is my specialty

My mom gave me some pajamas of hers that I wanted. They shrunk in the wash, and now they're mine. They're covered in many sizes and colors of stars, with blue satin on the hems. They make me think of what Rainbow Brite would wear to bed. I should put them on and get a picture. I told my mom that, and she said I'd have to put my hair in braids like Rainbow Brite too.

Rainbow Brite and Punky Brewster both heavily influenced my childhood. I know that must be a shock to you. ;^)

I have a to-do list today. So far it mostly involves laundry and cleaning my room. They tend to go hand-in-hand, actually. I should also cook myself something (I have the stuff for one of my favorite recipes from La Dolce Vegan, as long as the broccoli isn't off by now).

It used to be that when I was queasy, I always craved a can of tuna fish. Sometimes I'd go for days feeling oddly nauseated with no obvious cause, and when I finally gave in to the tuna, I'd feel better. I kept this up even after becoming a vegetarian, figuring that since it was only a few times a year....

I haven't done it since I became vegan, though; and I'm trying to figure out what it was about the tuna that I needed that always ended the queasy feeling. Especially since yesterday was one of those days. I'm thinking it was protein and a little fat together, because all day yesterday I craved edamame instead. I know that when I feel icky I tend to eat very strange things, so is edamame just another food I wanted (I also ate cookie dough, ramen, chocolate, naked salad, and drank ginger ale) or what I actually need? Hmmm.

I'd like to think I was capable of just keeping edamame around, but when I have it, I eat it. I like edamame.

I had a long list of possible New Year's resolutions. The only one that really sticks out in my head as something to commit to, is spending less time online. I think I may impose an actual time limit for a while, until I can figure out how to get online once a day without spending every free moment plastered to the computer. I don't do all the other things I want/need to do, because the internet is always more appealing and easier. I'm late to work almost every day because I "have" to check my email before I go to work. And my friends list. And some webcomics...

So, my time limit is 1.5 hours total daily. Except for one weekend day, when I can spend all day looking up fanfiction and reading articles and chatting on AIM. Apparently, this week's day for that is, uh, today. Not the best start. Grr.

Of my friends that grew up in other places, Utah and Michigan are the most-represented. WTF is up with that? I have at least a hundred or two hundred relatives on my dad's side in Michigan (mostly second cousins), but that's not how I met those people.

(Speaking of which, People From The Mitten-Shaped State, you can get Vernor's here now. My dad flipped out when he saw the cans in the fridge that were left over from my trip this weekend. Mmm...Vernor's...the taste of my childhood roadtrips to my dad's family. *lol* The first time I saw it in Oregon (a bottle of it at a Pizza Schmizza a few years ago) I got all excited.)

I mentioned on here that I needed some double-pointed knitting needles and where I went didn't have those sizes in stock. My Christmas present from