feeling off

I went up on the roof today, brought my computer thinking I'd do some blogging, but I didn't have any reception. So instead I read a Kipling short story about a croc called mugger who eats people. I was already feeling a tad queezy from watching the South Park movie Imagination land and that did not help. I feel poopy. In part because John invited me to go to the park with him and _Rick_ and when we got down stairs a whole host of other boys showed up on bikes, including Eddie who is very bosy in my not so humble opinion and he decided he would rather bike around. Which ended up meaning biking into the city. Which I am not about to put myself through, these are a bunch of big boys and I haven't been back on my bike long. I wouldn't be able to keep up. So I feel baited and ditched. :( I know that is how things go with John. I just have to find my own friends and accept that nothing, nothing, is a guarantee with my brother. I'm also irritated because I hauled my fucking bike down three flights. He threw out the potential of park later, in reality I'll just be trucking it back down to haul my bike up again. (don't worry, mom, it's locked to a post. I think I'll do some grocery shopping and then take myself to the park. Screw the boys.)

I've encountered a complication with peeling the paint off the brick. There is a section that seems normal, all I have to do is get my fingers under a bit of the latex, which has separated from the brick, and pull and it comes off in long strips. Being the odd person that I am I do in fact enjoy this. But my finger tips are extremely sore. The complication is there is suddenly this nice straight line going top to bottom where the paint just stops peeling off. I think something must have been applied to the brick in that section that causes the stripper to be less effective. If I feel like it I can scrape that whole section. But I don't, that is hard, slow, ungratifying work (and it's labor intensive). Must find other way...I still have stripper left, I'm going to test out a section by a second generous application. See how that goes. Fingers crossed it works.

I changed out the brita filter, and also hand washed the water pitcher. My guess is it doesn't get washed, and I know that water on plastic creates bacteria and that is nasty. Why totally defeat the point of the filter by not having a clean container? It sucks that I am in fact washing everything with cold water. Gives me a dubious sense of hygiene.

I think I'll go make that grocery run now.