Long time no Post (and I don't mean the cereal)

So in between this and my last post (before the London one, which I felt needed to stay on its own), Chrissy's made like 80 posts. Still, I got home on the 29th, and since then I've been lazing.

So to bring you up to the minute, here's a rundown on what I've been up to:

1. I am an underachiever and apparently now it can't be remedied. I didn't do the 33 Things You Should Do Before You're 10. I count 14 that I did (and that's stretching things a bit). That's less than half, and the gods probably won't change space and time just so I can go back. On the other hand, why would I ever want to make a mini-assault course in my garden? And what is Pooh Sticks??

2. I hate Wal-Mart. A lot. I know everyone knows this already so I won't go into all the old reasons, but I'll hit the new ones. I hate it because there are always a million people wandering around with their heads so far up their ass that their body is a hat. I can be dialing my phone, pushing my cart with one hand, and weaving, but I'm still paying more attention than they are.

I also hate this whole, "You can make meth with suphedrine, so we'll have to lock it all up" idea. Most of you will know that I hate Wal-Mart's moral stance on the Morning After Pill and the magazine FHM, specifically that they won't sell them). Now, I don't do drugs. I have never done drugs. I've never even had a single puff off a cigarette, but damn it, if I want to make meth, leave it to the drug task force to make it difficult for me. Because by making it difficult to buy Sudafed, you're really just picking on people with allergies. I just don't like the fact that an international corporation that pays its employees minimum wage and fires their butchers when they try to unionize tries to take the moral high ground in what it chooses to sell. They're running other stores and companies out of business by demanding cut rate prices on bulk orders, but it would just be wrong of them to leave Sudafed out where anyone with allergies could pick it up. Fucking Wal-Mart.

3. I'm making a bow ponchette, which I'm kind of making up a pattern for. I found it in the free patterns pile at Wal-Mart (see above). However, it was a knit pattern, which I realized after I had it at home. It's basically a long straight piece joined in a circle with a smaller piece joined around it so that the whole thing looks like a bow. Maybe I'll put a picture up since that didn't make sense at all. Should be cute though.

4. Speaking of pictures, I'll have to get a pic of the fabulous painting Ali did that I get to keep now. It's a city scene with a checkerboard sky. Awesome.

5. And finally, I saw Jimmy from The Lone Gunmen on She Spies a few nights ago. It's good to see he's still doing quality TV. Does anyone want to tell me that She Spies isn't quality TV? 'Cause you'll get a beat down for that.