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Oscar nominations are out

We will probably have a smallish Oscar party, as we did last year. (Nacho
fountain, anyone?) Nominations are
here. stonebender and I will probably try to see all the
nominated films, as we tried to do last year (we did pretty well). Anyone
who wants to join in the quest, let me know -- I love the movies. Also,
we will likely have a prize for the person who guesses closest on the
winners. I love the Oscars almost as much as the movies themselves. Now
to go see who's gonna be hosting.

listy thingy

1) Just saw my reflection in a co-worker's window -- god, I love my hips.

2) The munchkin was here and now is gone. Today will be a really
stressful day at zir house, so I'm hoping it goes as well as it can.

3) We get to have fun feeding ourselves and doing laundry on seventeen
dollars until I get paid (typo pain) on Thursday. Good thing we're good at
being frugal, and we like beans a lot. :-)

4) My COBRA paperwork came. It's gonna cost me a lot of money, but I'm
gonna have health insurance, and that makes me feel so much more secure.

5) There is no 5

6) I feel happy and peaceful. This is a good thing, especially with the
week the children in my life are having (my own munchkins and the munchkin
of a friend are having stressy parent weeks, and I ache for them).

weird habits

You know that weird-habits thing that was going around? I couldn't think
of many that I hadn't already talked about here, but I just did one that
I haven't done in a long time, and I thought I'd post about it.

Since I was a teenager, I've done this strange thing where I write the
initial letters of a song, but write each phrase as a word. For example,
"Oh say does that star-spangled banner yet wave / o'er the land of the
free / and the home of the brave?" would come out as this, in cursive:
Osdtsbyw otlotf athotb? I would just sit doing that with songs, as though
I were doodling. And the fun part was later, when I would try to read
"Osdtsbyw otlotf athotb?" and try to decide what song I was writing.

Right now, on my scratch pad on my desk, is "wyltbapt", and though I wrote
it five minutes or so ago, I have no idea what song was going through my
head at the time. Hmm.

A real common one in the day was "Awasigpac". Any guesses?