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Kitten has muchly improved. ( Kitty baby (almost) allllllll better )

Oscar's doing better hasn't changed my plan to spoil him and Wally rotten by giving them human-approved tuna in the evenings--I pretty much have to let them finish the can I opened because Wally stuck his paws into it (and, much as I love the darling, I'm not eating the tuna that his dirty paws have been bathing in).

( My feet are sore because I cleaned for hours last night )

( And this is how Trinity is decorating/living this week )

What couldn't be taken care of, I pushed against the wall, and it rather nicely doesn't stick out beyond the end of my dresser-bookcase set, so it doesn't look too much like crap I piled in a corner because I ran out of hours to clean (I went to bed at 2:30 am). Man, do I wish life were more like Animal Crossing sometimes. I could just pocket my inconveniently large box-o-crap instead of having to go through it to weed out junk. I'm also so exhausted that I was late to work because I couldn't get out of bed (I have a ten-minute walk for a commute; there's no reason I should ever be late to work).

The apartment is looking more put together than ever, though, so it's worth it. theKathy said I had a grown-up room because my desk wasn't in it (as opposed to dorm-style living where a desk is always in your bedroom), and now I feel like we've finally got a grown-up apartment. It's partly due to the size of our space--it's so huge that it feels like a house whenever I've got to clean it--and partly to the actual furniture occupying the space. There's a real couch, with recliners around it in the living room, and a whopper of a TV with a DVD cabinet (not just racks! Amazing!) holding all the components next to it. We have a table--okay, it's darkling1's table, but it's a real table and not just a picnic table we keep indoors. There are curtains! Enough curtains to go around the place and back again!

More than that, there are extra rooms--rooms that aren't bedrooms (or strictly functional rooms like the kitchen and bathroom). There's a separate kitchen! An office! Closets in the hallway! Hallways! Like I said to my roommates when we first moved in: you have to go places to find people sometimes (not often, since now as ever we tend to congregate in the living room)! That makes it like a home even more--you can be off by yourself but not secluded in your room. It seems friendlier that way, like you're just in the other room because you are not because you need to be in your space. It's all come together so nicely.

Now, all I have to do is tackle the problems that are a) being ignored (half the lights in my room not working) or b) not being fixed because the repair folk conveniently come whenever we're not able to receive them (or, as Liz-roommate told me, not actually knocking to announce themselves despite our sign, like the guy who was supposed to fix the doorbell did). I actually ran into our realtor on my way out after lunch yesterday, and he said the management company mailed him our copy of the lease, so he's going to mail it to us. That was good; I keep forgetting to call him about it, so I forgive him for getting it weeks ago and not yet mailing it. If we don't have our copy by August, then I'll scream at him.

Boy, has *this* icon gotten a work out of late...

How terribly sad.

The full ruling can be read here, and the case is Andersen v. King Co., Nos. 75934-1, 75956-1. As a legal matter, as I understand it, the judges in Washington argue that they can't overturn a band on same-sex marriages. I'm confused, though, as I thought overturning laws that were unconstitutional (state or federal in their respective courts), was part of the job of the judicial branch. Then again, I'm no lawyer and I've not studied government for some time now. It's too depressing to study clearly.

However, there is this choice snippet I got off a blog as to why the judges find that gay marriage is not cool, Zeus:

Under this standard, DOMA is constitutional because the legislature was entitled to believe that limiting marriage to opposite-sex couples furthers procreation, essential to survival of the human race, and furthers the well-being of children by encouraging families where children are reared in homes headed by the children’s biological parents. Allowing same-sex couples to marry does not, in the legislature’s view, further these purposes...

( Make with the gnashing of teeth, people. )

On a lighter but still terribly bitter sarcastic note, I'd like to ask the judge who wrote this ruling if we are now once again allowed to use infertility as grounds for divorce (in Washington state if not the entire country). By their reasoning, childlessness by biological impossibility outside of external involvement (which, conveniently, they have ignored the possibility of for gay couples) is counter to the very foundation of marriage. Thus, any childless marriages due to one or both partners' infertility issues should be nullified and then have the offending, non-reproducing folk branded as 'unmarriageable' for life. I mean, those fuckers can't even make babies, so why the hell would they be allowed to get or stay married?

Also, the state is now going to repossess all adopted or foster children and, at great expense, relocate them to their biological parents' homes--is that it? Are they going to force step-parents out of wedlock and force divorcees back into it? Any children whose parents are, say, dead are clearly useless because their well-being won't be cared for adequately without their biological parents' input, so we should probably just kill them. You know, for their own well-being (otherwise, they might grow up well adjusted with foster parents and kick idiots off the bench! ::gasp!!!:::).

Some "Defense of Marriage" that act turned out to be. By the application ruled in this case, marriage will be outlawed for more couples than it would have despoiled had the institution been given out to the gays (note: I went to Free Republic on a link from the blog where I got this story originally--they really do call gay people "the gay" and "the gays" without irony--it's scary how easily they hate on people). Not to mention the fact that the "encouraging families" part of this ruling is kinda invalidated by the fact that people thrown back together against their will because "It's better for the children--won't somebody please think of the children!!!!???" is probably going to rear a generation of kids who hate their families and want nothing to do with having one of their own...

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Okay, this strip is why I think Foxtrot is so endearing He's poking fun, but he's also clearly a geek (he admits to be playing WoW, for those on my f'list who care, i.e. not me).

I think I'm going to go put all of the Foxtrot anthologies on my Amazon wish list. It really is a funny strip, and I still remember the ones from when Episode I and The X-Files Movie came out. They aged well.