No names, but....

[nwhiker]

Perry bought his girlfriend a teeturtle octopus for Christmas. I hadn't heard of teeturtles before then, but hello, octopus.

So I hit the website to find myself one. And immediately had A Problem.

See, like Clementine (I think it's from _The Talented Clementine_), my problem is not the choosing, it's the not-choosing!

There was a plethora of reversible plushie octopus to choose from and I could not, for the life of me, make up my mind.

It took about two weeks, and I finally got one (a few weeks later, I got another for a friend's kid. And I'm kicking myself for not getting ones for my niece and nephew for Valentine's Day.) I adore the things.

And since January, my octopus plushie has been sitting by my computer.

When she's in happy snowy mode, that means my thesis is being edited by Lynn and I'm off the hook.


When she's in bad cloudy mode, I've got the hot potato thesis and I have to deal with it.


I still haven't found names for her. Yet.

In other news, I've got a date set: Monday 28 Feb 12:00-14:00. Gulp. Remote.

And in no, really? LOL news.

I wasn't sure defense could be remote so I needed to make sure I had my dress clothes. Well, I'd lost my dress pants, grr, even though I know I saw them right before the holidays. Searched, could not find, finally have up and ordered a new pair from Lands Ends last week. Yesterday... I located the dress pants. They were under a towel I put on a chair for the cats to sleep on. I have no idea either. Of course today, the new pants show up, and I find out we're remote, so I didn't need them anyhow, because hello defending in my sweatpants, LOL.

Comments

[camelsamba]

Good luck on the defense - I'm sure you'll do a great job presenting your research!

And I can empathize on the pants situation. I had a pair of thrift store black sweat pants that I could pull on OVER my shoes (that is, no elastic at the bottom as in "joggers"). I put them on after parkrun, for example - I like to run in leggings but not traipse around town in them. Anyway, I looked all over the house to find those pants when the weather got cold in the fall. Nowhere to be found. Finally bought something at Costco - they're too long, though, and need hemming. A couple weeks ago when Matthew was going through the narrow baskets of gloves and hats and other winter gear? Found my black sweat pants. I'd even rummaged through those baskets myself. No clue how or why they were there.

[nwhiker]

There were visiting another space-time continuum when you looked for them and came back to be found by Matthew.

Glad they were located, though. It's always annoying to lose those items of clothing that, for whatever reason, are both hard to replace AND fill a need perfectly.