Presents!

I got two packages today! =D One from Dave and the other from Mommy. The socks from my beloved boyfriend are perfect and nice and warm and I love them. And Mom sent loooots of food. It made me feel like it was Christmas Day to pull all these goodies out of my backpack that she sent me!! I got almost as giddy about it, too. You know you're deprived when you get really, really happy about non-perishable items, and the person who sent them to you becomes God.

Today was another inside work day. Crappy weather. Chris wanted to work on his paper that he wants to have done by tonight, so I set to plotting more points for us to go to, this time on the other side of Mount Crested Butte. I got almost halfway finished with what I had to do, then met Laila (pronounced Lila) so she could take me into Crested Butte to the hardware store and the grocery store. I got a can of expanding foam for Zach and some sandpaper for the spots in the cabin that look questionable, and some of the basics (such as ice cream) at the grocery store. Laila was right - that stuff can be pretty expensive. A normal size box of Life cereal is like four or five dollars. But some things weren't so bad. It all sort of depended on whether or not you cared about getting the brand name of something.

The work crew came today to check out both our stoves. They're gonna take out the one with the oven and get a professional to look at our heating stove. Either that or someday when they have more time they'll come by and build a fire and check it out. There's probably something wrong with the damper.

Tomorrow may be either an inside day or an outside day, depending on what Chris feels up to and how the weather is looking. It is pretty crappy today. I'm debating whether or not I should go back down to the computer lab to keep working. He didn't seem to care if I did it all today or left some for tomorrow in case it was another inside day. Maybe I'll do a little and if it drives me nuts I'll just stop and not worry about it.

There's a draft >.> I feel it on me. It's coming from something I already supposedly sealed, but those were really deep cracks that were tough to totally fill because I couldn't see. Zach is gonna use his can on some spots in his cabin that he noticed, and said that since you have to use the can all at once, he'd just give it back to me and let me use up the rest on whatever places I missed in here. There are parts I'll probably have to schlack all over again.

I'm gonna go read. I'll go down to the lab if I get bored, maybe after dinner. I also need to do laundry soon. I'm running out of shirts.

Oh! And we have another mouse. I saw its poop this morning on our "clean" dishes. Mice are butt faces, I've decided. Cute, but butt faces.