update and my sekrit marriage.

we have finished painting (yay!)--though i'm looking at the wall above the stairs and it looks like it needs another coat, which is so not yay--and cleaned up and i bought curtains and installed them and the living room looks really good as long as i don't look at that one wall that needs another coat of paint. < /unnaturally long and confusing sentence>

beagle dog just ran downstairs doing the screaming thing, so kate and linda, i want to warn you what beagle dog is capable of. he's screaming less these days, but still. if he does it while you're here i'm truly sorry (in advance) because it's going to scare the shit out of you. it sounds that bad, and like he's hurt, but really he's just being annoying. if his vocal cords just happened to fall out i would still be ok with that.

also, beagle dog sometimes thinks it's funny to act paraplegic by using his front legs to drag himself across the living room floor. he only does this on the living room carpet, so i think it scratches his stomach and he likes that. if you see him do this, it's not because his back legs are broken. it's because he's lazy and itchy. did i mention smelly? i'll give him a bath before you guys get here.

oh, and other dog will totally steal your stuff if you leave it on the floor. just keep the door to the guest room closed. that's all i have to say about the dogs, lest you decide not to visit because of all the dog warnings. they're sweet when they're not actively trying to annoy me.

and linda, i've got directions to the library. it's easy to get to, and not far from here (should i be encouraging this behavior?) so no problem.

in other news, i'm kind of concerned about my statistics class. class was cancelled yesterday because the instructor was sick (from chemotherapy, much to the class' surprise because we didn't realize she was still doing chemo)...we have four weeks of class left and three scheduled exams. i know, there's no way to get through three exams in four weeks, but what are we gonna do? there's no way we can cover the rest of the material in the time we have left. should i be worried about the instructor? should i have to worry about the instructor? i am concerned that i'm not going to learn everything that i need to know before i start school in january. this is a new type of worry, because normally i just want to get through a course or get a good grade. now i'm worried about content because it actually matters. eeeee!

and because i have to blog about this or it wouldn't be fair: after i got married, a friend of mine took one of my wedding pictures and photoshopped a picture of my longest standing crush into it. it looked cool and pretty believable, considering. unfortunately, i only have a framed version and not a digital copy so i can't post it here (i'm sure the person in question would find it and remove it, anyhow). a couple of days ago the photoshopped picture was posted on a nine inch nails message board by the aforementioned friend, with a disclaimer about how entirely fake the photo is. people were undeterred by that disclaimer, however, and the picture spread to other message boards and rumors were started about how i am trent's sekrit wife. i guess they thought it was a picture from our sekrit wedding.

hehe.

not long after, trent became aware of this rumor and had his people--beacuse trent has people, everywhere--delete our sekrit wedding picture from the sites it had been posted on.

i hear that trent is perhaps annoyed by this. that makes me sekritly happy.