my week in phonepics

technically this is over more than the past week, but "my past 3ish weeks in phonepics" just doesn't have the same ring to it, you know?

first off, we had a COMPLETELY AWESOME team holiday party just before christmas that was held at a laser tag place. (it was my idea. i know. i'm awesome to work with.) so apparently i got a little, uh, "into it," shall we say? and was ducking down onto one knee a lot to shield myself from incoming laser fire. which resulted in a leg that looked like this - but blacker - for about a week:

i can haz hotnass?

then new year's eve happened, and we had to work, but we worked from my coworker's house so that his girlfriend could feed us delicious dinner and so that we could start drinking as soon as we could stop working. it's sort of a long story, but we ended up drinking champagne out of frisbees.

just a sort of helpful fyi? that's a pretty terrible idea. i spent most of the remaining weekend doing a lot of lounging in bed and on my couch, in pjs, accompanied by my cats.who, by the way, are total assholes. i think i've mentioned before how EFFING COLD my bedroom is. my place is overall absolutely amazing, but they skimped haaaaarrrd when it came to installing the windows, because jesus h. if i stand in front of the closed - LOCKED! - windows, the hair around my face physically lifts and blows back due to the breeze that comes DIRECTLY THROUGH the closed window. and with windchills below zero recently, this has not been fun.

so! i got that crappy plastic insulation stuff, the kind you put up on your windows, then use a hair dryer on, and voila! U R INSLATEDZ. except wow is that stuff a pain in the hoohah to put up. to be fair, it might have been because i was trying to install the double-sided tape onto windows that were probably about 30° to the touch, so that could conceivably have killed some of the sticky, but damn. i put up the tape, and pressed the plastic sheet up against it - which is more or less the consistency of saran wrap - and the shit would just drop instantly off, like i was trying to adhere it directly to the wall or something. and not, say, to ACTUAL TAPE designed for exactly that purpose.

so i was a little cursey and stabby by the end of this project, and did not wake up in a bubble of warmth and unicorns, so i stomped off to work the next morning annoyed that i'd spent 45 minutes wrestling with the stupid stuff the evening before.

but then! i got home from work the next day, and walked into my room, and.... i wasn't buffeted by a wall of frigid air. (i am not exaggerating. that is literally what happens when you walk into my bedroom in the winter.) THIS WAS VERY EXCITING, YOU GUYS. the insulation was WORKING!

....and then this morning, exactly one day later, i woke up to the sound of oliver ripping the plastic to shreds. sigh.
that's one of the gaping holes my insulation now sports. i'm guessing that will render it a little less than effective.