weekend update

the middleton police department left a birthday present on my windshield in the form of a parking ticket for expired registration a few weeks ago. i went to the dmv that day and took care of the problem but in order to fight the ticket, i had to go to court last week. i had to stand when the just walked in, stand in front of a podium in the front of the room, state my case to the judge, and show my updated registration. it was all quite intimidating. i had to make a plea (i pled 'no contest'), the judge found me guilty (she had told me in advance that she would, no matter what i pled), and then she reduced the fee to $10. all in all, not bad for 15 minutes of my time. my biggest beef is that the dmv never sent me a reminder that my registration was going to expire. yeah, yeah, it's my responsibility to remember, but like that's ever going to happen. and yes they have my correct address, i checked.

friday i got a massage to celebrate the end of the semester and the loss of twenty pounds. it was a beautiful, wonderful thing and i remembered how much i loved massages. the massage therapist suggested i get a heating pad for my shoulders since that's obviously where i carry a lot of my tension. i went to bed bath and beyond and bought what is my new favorite thing in the whole wide world. if i could marry it, i would. you heat it in the microwave for a minute and a half and then wear it like a shawl. hea-ven.

yesterday i bought a pair of jeans from a store that sells pants in three lengths: short, regular, and tall. the 'short' length is two inches too long. cest la vie.

this morning i woke up with a sore throat, headache, and stuffy nose. this is a result of kissing my irresistible niece and nephew. i knew they were sick but they're just so darn cute, i couldn't help myself. i can't have juice because of my diet so i dropped some airborne into a citrus soda; it wasn't terrible. rally, my crazy, diet coke-drinking cat, kept trying to drink it and i kept pulling her away so we finally had it out. she won. she didn't get any of the soda, but i ended up with scratches. dummkopf kitty.

and with that, i'll end this post and go to target for tissues and then back to bed. adieu.