What’s your favorite awful movie?

Big Trouble in Little China. If not my favorite, it’s certainly on my top five “Really Awful Movie That I Can’t Help But Love.”

So I decided to dig into my closet and find a wall-shelf I bought from IKEA about six years ago. It’s one of those units that mounts directly onto the wall with no visible support. I didn’t even bother putting it back up after Tippy decided to jump onto it: it came down very early in the morning and I awoke with quite a start. However, being as where I thought of hanging the shelf (over the closet in my den) is not in Tippy’s jump range, I decided to give it a try, primarily so that I could move some of my grandfather’s train-landscape and free up some additional shelf space.

So I stopped by Home Depot and bought a pack of plastic anchors and screws, then came home and tore my apartment up looking for my level. I bought it about a year ago, from Target. It’s big. It’s cumbersome. It’s yellow. It’s also, surprise, nowhere to be found. I bought it because I lost my first level, a smaller red thing that was far easier to use. I considered — briefly — running back out and buying another level, but said to myself “Meh, fuck it.” So I eyeballed the shelf mount, made my drill marks with a pencil, drilled, mounted the metal unit, mounted the shelf around it, then moved the big wood building that was once part of my grandfather’s train layout off the bookcase it has dominated for the last several years, and placed it atop the IKEA wall shelf.

It’s actually pretty level. I used my level to figure this out. No, not the yellow level. See, when I moved the building, I found my first level hidden behind it.

Which just goes to show that I’m twice as appreciative that I didn’t go out today to buy a third level.

Now, if only I can find the big yellow level …

Nothing like some girl-on-girl wrestling — and the follow-up phrase from one of them, after looking at her knees, “I’m going to wake up tomorrow and wonder how long I spent blowing guys in Mt. Washington” — and some booze to cheer a fellow up, although, sadly, my bedmates tonight are my lovely pillows-with-legs otherwise known as “my cats”.

Meanwhile, this has also contributed to my cheering up:

Oh, and also? CNN says Barack Obama won Washington, Nebraska and Louisiana which is like cheerful x infinity!

I think I’m going to have yet another beer before tumbling into bed. Read a chapter of Deathstalker.