home again

it was so good to see everyone. thank you so much for making my trip home so wonderful. i hope to catch everyone i missed next time. the rumor is that we are coming to nonclave. which effectively means i need to bite the bullet and start playing up here. i have mixed feelings about this. in order to have a good time with sarnait i have to put a good deal of work into game. i have no natural talent at plotting and feel guilty for stealing ideas(with or without the inventor's blessing). it is very difficult for me to be as cruel as sarnait would. getting back into game means i need to start doing that kind of work again. on the other hand, i am looking forward to the possibility of meeting new friends. also when i have been there long enough i will have an excuse to go bug xerotic in chicago.

becca and michelle stayed with us monday night. it was lovely to have them. they got to their book-signing early enough to be done fairly quickly and get a tour of the new guthrie and lunch with us before they had to drive back to chicago. then susan and her man were over for dinner last night and i'm afraid lonewolfnight and i were at the end of our social tether. neither one of us was a very good host. simply too exhausted.

CHORES:
i MUST do laundry today. i have no clothes to wear...at least nothing comfortable that i would be willing to wear in public.
pick up dry-cleaning
clean bedroom (this has not been done in months)
bring in the trash can
take the recycling out
buy black jeans for ross
finish the hat i've been knitting

pants?

so when becca and michelle were here the other day, i decided i had no need to be especially fancy and pulled on my cargo pants. these pants are my favorite pants. they are men's cargos from old navy about two years ago. all of their pockets have zippers except the top front ones, which have snaps. i have never found any others like them.
i had already gone up stairs and thoroughly mooned poor becca and michelle before i realized i had a HUGE hole in the butt of my pants on the right side.
sigh.
these were my favorite pants, but now it is time for them to go. and i am desperate for replacements. all the cargo pants i find have only the two big pouchy-pockets in front with or without zip-off bottoms. OR they have all their pockets inside. not what i want. does anyone know where i can find cargo pants with a decent number of external pockets, preferably non-standard pockets?