Saturday, October 30, 2004

Freak snow storm

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Well, yesterday was a weird day. It started out okay, I guess. A little rainy. Amy wanted to go home, but her dad wouldn't let her because there was a big blizzard going on back home. She was really upset by it, and even though we checked a bunch of weather websites to see what it was doing at home, she still wanted to go home. I told her if she was upset and needed someone to cry on when she got back from home because she hated it here, don't come crying to me. She does this to herself all the time. Saying, "I'll be better this time," when I really don't think she will be, because look at how upset she got because she couldn't go home for a weekend.

Anyway. We happened to get that same blizzard storm at about 12:30 in the afternoon. I don't know how long it lasted because I was at work and away from the windows, but I know that within 2 hours, it managed to cover the entire town in about and inch anf a half or more of slush. Not cool.

So I'm on my way to work, early because I know the roads are gross and people are idiots during the first snow storm. I turned onto the street that leads to the parking lot for work, only to find that it is entirely covered in slush. I can't see the curb, but I know that it's a little narrow, so I swing wide so as not to hit it, and end up getting stuck, going up a hill, in the crap. There's a van behind me, going the opposite direction because I swung a little too wide. Whoops. So now what do I do?! I was so pissed off. And stuck for about 5 minutes there, just telling myself "I'm gonna be late for work!!!"

The van behind me was making a left hand turn, so it took forever for him to get out into traffic. Because the only way I was getting out, was to back out into traffic and try a new entrance. When I told people at work that I'd gotten stuck, they're like, "Yeah, didn't you know you're not supposed to take that entrance when it's been snowing?" Uhhh, no. Thanks, though.

Oh, also, we have this really cool bicycle there that looks like a motorcycle. Huge fat back tire, the kickstand looks like a motorcycle's, and it has a leather seat. I asked my manager if I could ride it after I clocked out and he's all, "Sure! Just don't leave any black marks on the floor!" That sucker was hard to steer! But I managed not to crash into anything, and all was well with the world.

Friday, October 29, 2004

i miss home!

Today's Pooch Cafe'
Music: Gretchen Wilson - When I Think About Cheatin'

I've been getting a little homesick lately. I haven't spent the night at my house since the first weekend after school started. I've been home plenty of times since I moved out, but it's always been in the middle of the day when both my parents are at work, and the only way I can really see them is to go into their workplace and bother them for a while or mooch off Mom for lunch or something, and I don't like doing that so much.

So I'm going to try to take a weekend off of work here before Thanksgiving, which is only the next couple of weekends, and spend the weekend at home. That way I can see everyone in the day time, get some good meals, and spend more than 6-7 hours at my house, and not have to worry about driving home in the dark. Hopefully It'll be a nice weekend weather-wise when I do this.

Anyway...I just want to come home for a while. I've been kinda depressed lately, and I think that would help. As long as Dad doesn't start nit picking at something. I'm gonna have to put the request in tonight, I guess. Maybe Sony will be there tonight so I can talk to him, too.

can i chew my arm off now?

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Music: Ash - Sometimes

I'm so sick and tired of political ads on television. I know that there's only less than a week left 'til elections, but I've already voted damnit. And I voted in Wyoming, not South Dakota. So I don't want to see anymore South Dakota senator ads. Of course, after the elections, we're going to have to see why people voted this way and why this and why that. Blah.

But, I learned today that Tom Daschle is a very powerful man in congress. I had no idea.

I have got to stop eating my Halloween candy! There isn't going to be any left for any trick or treaters. I'll have to buy another bag tomorrow or Saturday. And try not to eat it. I need more caramel Hershey Kisses. They're the best. Thanks for introducing me to them, Jill.


Wednesday, October 27, 2004

ten things i love about me

Corey and Jill, I am stealing this from the both of you because my life sucks right now and I haven't posted anything decent in the last few days.

TEN Random Things About Me:

10. I'm left-handed
09. I love getting real mail in my mailbox
08. I love dogs and cats equally
07. I hate taking medicine, even though I know it makes me better
06. I love tractors
05. I like airports
04. Rollercoasters give me headaches
03. I look good with red hair
02. I hate my cell phone company
01. I prefer the company of animals over most people

NINE Places I've Visited:

09. Cooperstown, New York
08. Moab, Utah
07. Portland, Oregon
06. Biloxi, Mississippi
05. Denver, Colorado
04. Winnepeg, Manitoba, Canada
03. Johnson City, Tennessee
02. Dollywood
01. Las Vegas, Nevada

EIGHT Things I want to do before I die:

08. Be out of debt
07. Re-learn cello
06. Own a pet of my own
05. Find the love of my life
04. Get into a shape. One that's not round
03. Become a teacher who children love
02. Scuba dive in the ocean
01. Travel to every state

SEVEN Ways to win my heart:

07. Call me cute names that make me giggle
06. Make me dinner, with a lot of thought and creativity behind it
05. Love me
04. Don't stalk me
03. Touch me. Hold my hand, give me hugs, kisses, neck rubs
02. Suprise me
01. Laugh at my lame jokes

SIX Things I believe in:

06. Life exists other places than Earth
05. Fate does not exist
04. My family
03. Gravity
02. Honesty
01. White after Labor Day

FIVE Things I'm afraid of:

05. Failing
04. Disappointing the people who love me
03. Never finding the right person for me
02. Losing my parents and sister
01. Getting hit by a car

FOUR of my Favorite Items in my bedroom:

04. My pictures
03. My teddy bear, Ben
02. My computer
01. My bed

THREE Things I do everyday:

03. Sit at my computer for countless hours, accomplishing nothing
02. Blink
01. Look at a clock/watch

TWO Things I am trying not to do right now:

02. Cry
01. Eat the chocolate I got for the trick or treaters

ONE Person I want to see right now:

01. My mom

gloomy

I don't know what's going on. We talked this morning and everything seemed normal. *sigh*

Tuesday, October 26, 2004

Havin' a bad day

Just get outta my way, 'cause I'm havin' a bad day...

Monday, October 25, 2004

just another post

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Tomorrow "Dawn of the Dead" comes out to buy, and you know I'm going to do it. This is probably the first DVD I've bought in 2 years. I don't work tomorrow, either, so I'm gonna go buy it and come straight home to watch it and scare myself silly :)

I finished my second scarf up last night. It could have been done a long time ago, I just never got around to doing anything with it. I'll try to take some pictures of them. I'm rather proud of 'em.

Shit. Snow is coming this way. Gonna hit my hometown first, then come for us if it hasn't dissipated yet. Looks like it could get Gillette today at the rate it's moving now. Eeep!

I got up way too early this morning so I could shower before class, but it's probably a good thing 'cause it's below freezing out, and I have a wet head right now. Probably not a good idea to walk around outside for 10 minutes in the freezing cold with wet hair.

Earth Science test today. Wish me luck! Still have to finish up some of my studying for it after Bio this morning. Woo hoo. I guess I could do some now, but I'm too tired to concentrate.

I'll end this morning with a song by the Beach Boys.

Wouldn’t it be nice if we were older
Then we wouldn’t have to wait so long
And wouldn’t it be nice to live together
In the kind of world where we belong

You know it’s gonna make it that much better
When we can say goodnight and stay together

Wouldn’t it be nice if we could wake up
In the morning when the day is new
And after having spent the day together
Hold each other close the whole night through

Happy times together we’ve been spending
I wish that every kiss was neverending
Wouldn’t it be nice

Maybe if we think and wish and hope and pray it might come true
Baby then there wouldn’t be a single thing we couldn’t do
We could be married
And then we’d be happy

Wouldn’t it be nice

You know it seems the more we talk about it
It only makes it worse to live without it
But lets talk about it
Wouldn’t it be nice

Sunday, October 24, 2004

Crop Circles

Today's Pooch Cafe'
Music: Joe Nichols - If Nobody Believed In You

So last night I'm watching Saturday Night Live, and after a great time of laughing at Ashlee Simpson and how retarded she is, a show called Unexplained Mysteries comes on, about crop circles. And I have the tendancy to freak myself out about stupid stuff like this, even though I don't really know what I believe about it.

So they're talking about aliens and animal mutilation, and how they've taken the shapes of the "signs" (crop circles) and made them into mathematical figures, and then turned those into musical notes, then played those notes, seeing if they could figure out what they were saying. Some people have too much time on their hands.

Then there were parts about some of the crop circles looking like our galaxy, and how Earth was missing from it, like aliens were trying to tell us that we were going to disappear or something. I don't know. For some reason parts of this really freaked me out, and when I start talking about stuff like that or watching it, my eyes get all watery like I'm crying. I don't know what it is. I looked like someone ran over my cat or something last night. Then I couldn't sleep, so I had to put it on South Park to get my mind off of crop circles, even though I still love them. I just shouldn't watch stuff about them in the middle of the night when I'm by myself...

Oh, on a brighter note, I learned how to mix paint yesterday at work :) It was pretty cool. That's one of the main reasons I wanted to move out onto the floor in hardlines, because I wanted to learn to mix paint lol.

I have a big comprehensive test tomorrow afternoon for my Earth Science class, and I'm trying to study for it, but it's really boring and dull and I keep getting distracted. Not by the TV or the internet. Not by anything, really, I just kinda space out.

HAHAHAAHAHA

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OMFG this is one of the funniest things I've seen in a long time. Well, maybe not a long time, since I just watched The Superbowl Shuffel a few days ago...but anyway...

Saturday Night Live is on tonight, and Ashlee Simpson is the the musical guest. She's about as stupid as her sister. During the beginning of her second song, she starts doing this weird dance, and then the song starts playing. And she doesn't have the microphone up to her mouth! But supposedly she's singing! So she starts doing this really goofy dance, then the singing voice gets quieter, quieter, and they can't fix it, so she walks off stage.

The new Milli Vanilli!!! Freakin' hilarious!

She said at the end, "I'm so sorry! My band started playing the wrong song, so I thought I would do a ho-down," 'cause she was doing this really retarded dance. Ummm...pretty sure that the tape was playing, her voice was singing, but she wasn't moving her lips. Nice try.

Saturday, October 23, 2004

Savings Up To 50% Off - Storewide!

Oi vey!

Today marked a weekend sale of 50% off selected items store wide. There were signs posted all over town that said exactly what my subject says; "Savings Up To 50% - Storewide!"

Well, this doesn't necessarily mean that everything in the store is 50%. And it doesn't mean that everything on clearance is 50%, either. It's UP TO 50% off. So you can imagine there were quite a few upset customers. "Is this 50% off??" *Holds up a $300 camera* "No ma'am, I'm sorry. When the signs say 'storewide' it means that every department in the store is having clearance items on sale, but not that everything in the store is on sale."

I really fucking hate it when the guys up at the very top do this shit. I know that it brings the sales in, it brings customers in that wouldn't normally come to Kmart because they think everything in the store is half off. Well, I'm pretty sure that keeps some customers from coming back, after they've had to figure out that the sales signs are misleading. We associates get yelled at a lot by customers, even though it's not our fault, and we didn't make this stuff up, it's just something we're made to do. And I don't know why they're so worried about sales. Crap, it was busy today. And the day after Thanksgiving up until Christmas are going to be just like that. Only without the deception. Hopefully I'll know a lot more about where things are and what to do by that point because it's all still a little confusing right now.

Anywho, I'm poop, I think I might go take a nap and wait for Wes to gimme a call, since his team won and all, and he said it was a morning game.

Friday, October 22, 2004

Another day

Today's Pooch Cafe'
Music: Tonight Show w/ Jay Leno theme music


Work tonight was not too bad. At the end of the night, Trevour and I got to hang signs up on the ceiling :D It was fun.

Tonight on Jay Leno, William Shatner is singing. The only reason I'm watching this is because Ben Folds is playing music for him, and I love Ben.

Gotta open tomorrow at 8am, so I'm going to bed. Hopefully I'll be able to catch William Shatner lol. G'night

Happy birthday Lacey!

Today's Pooch Cafe'
Music: Blake Shelton - Some Beach

Today is Lacey's 22nd birthday, so this goes out to her :). Gave her a birthday call just now to see how she was doing because we never talk anymore, and because she forgot my birthday. Well, didn't forget it, but didn't CALL me on it. Oh well.

The new alarm clock is rather loud. And I accidentally hit the "Nap" button, so I had like, 10 minutes before it went off and I couldn't figure out how to turn it off, so I had to get up and find the instruction book. Whoops.

Mom leaves for Mississippi today for her sister's wedding. Lucky duck. I keep telling her to take me 'cause I wanna go see my boyfriend. He's a lot closer to Mississippi than to South Dakota...

Rainy and foggy today. Made for a gloomy walk to school and back.

If you take a Himalayan rabbit or a Siamese cat and shave a design on their white back, their fur will grow back black. You can do designs! It's 'cause their skin color is determined by their temperature on their body. So the cooler the spot, like their nose, toes, ears, tail...the darker the fur. Also, Siamese cats with whiter fur are more likely to have crossed eyes. Pretty cool, eh? I love genetics.

I remember when my sister got her cat, Salt, who was part Siamese, and a little cross eyed, that she didn't want it beause of the cross eyed-ness. She thought the cat was retarded lol. OMG. It was too funny. I later learned that she maybe was a little retarde because she walked into walls...

Thursday, October 21, 2004

Superbowl Shuffle

Okay, I know this is the third time I've posted today, and I apologize...but I just witnessed something really funny. Funny Ha-ha and funny Weird.

Channel surfing, and I run across ESPN2...and there are a bunch of football players singing, "dancing," and rapping to The Superbowl Shuffle. OMG. So fucking hilarious. White men cannot dance, and they should not be allowed to rap. It was one of the funniest things I've ever seen, and it made me laugh out loud. And I'm the only one here!

I don't know how to describe it...it's just that weird. It's like that car wreck that you just have to look at as you drive by. You can't stop looking. It's sickening. In a humorous way.

New toys

Today's Pooch Cafe'
Music: King of the Hill Theme

Ooooh, I bought a shiny new alarm clock today! I know that doesn't sound very exciting, so here's some back-story:

The night before I moved out of the dorms, Jill and I were lowering my bed down to a level that was deemed "appropriate" for leaving it alone in a room for a summer. Because I didn't want to set my alarm clock on the floor and risk stepping on it, I did the other logical thing; set it on the bed springs. As I pulled the spring support out of the head posts, the clock went flying and slammed into the ground. This in turn made the face plate and the dark tinted glass fall off. Also a few knobs. So uhh, yeah, that was great.

I was able to fit most of the pieces back together, like the knobs and whatnot, and it looked pretty cool without the face plate on it.

A month or so ago, Dad fixed it so the face plate stayed on, but the tinted glass fell off. Last night I accidentally hit the radio button, and then it wouldn't turn off! I just had to turn the volume all the way down. Then this morning when I hit the snooze button, it just sitched over to tell me how many minutes I had between snoozes, so it never went off again. I almost missed class. Whoopsie.

So now I have an alarm clock that has all the same features of my old one: dual alarm, CD player, wake up to a certain song on a CD, wake up to the radio, "Grad-U-Wake." It's pretty cool. AND the CD player works, unlike the old one, AND it has a blue screen instead of green, AND it's half the size and half the price.

Okay. I know that's totally nerdy. But I gotta make it to class on time, right?!

And I bought some chocolate and Doritos. Yum.

Personality Cocktail

Today's Pooch Cafe'
Music: Fossils - by some French composer



How to make a Andrea
Ingredients:

3 parts pride

3 parts courage

5 parts instinct
Method:
Layer ingredientes in a shot glass. Add sadness to taste! Do not overindulge!


Username:


Personality cocktail
From Go-Quiz.com

Got this from April's Blog, and I think the "sadness" part is a little off, but I like the rest of it!

Today is Biology Extra Credit Day and Music Appreciation Extra Credit Day. Happy Extra Credit Day!

Wednesday, October 20, 2004

Laundry

What in the Fuck?! So I've got laundry going, waiting for the guy with the dryer to get done while my stuff is washing, since my stuff would be done first. I pop in a movie (Eternal Sunset of the Spotless Mind, great movie, btw) and figure by the time the movie's over, his stuff will be dry and I'll be able to get my stuff in the dryer w/o having to go downstairs to do laundry like usual.

So the movie's over and I head down to the laundry room with my last load of clothes to put in the washer and to go transfer my stuff into the dryers. Well, I see that my laundry hamper has been moved to a dryer, when I'd set it on a washer earlier.

I also find that all my fucking clothes from one washer have been taken out and put on top of one of the dryers. WTF?! Then the other washer with my other load was opened, but nothing had been taken out. Both the dryers were empty. And the washer that my clothes had been taken out of was empty as well. Was someone going through my clothes?! And if so, why can't they have the fucking common decency to fucking put them back in the fucking washer?!

ARG! That really fucking pisses me off. I don't go through other people's shit because I know it's rude. I just go downstairs and do my laundry on second floor. The only thing I can even think of that would remotely give anybody any reason to go through my clothes is because when I was pouring my laundry detergent in the bottom of that washer, there was a stray sock in there. But I'd already dumped detergent on it, so I didn't want to take it out of the washer, covered in soap...So I left it in there.

So maybe the guy realized he was missing a sock, knew what washer it was in, and then fucking went through all my clothes to get his sock??? I don't know. But he could have at LEAST put my clothes BACK in the washer so it didn't look like he'd gone through my shit. I'm so pissed off.

I know it's just laundry to some people, but that's just fucking rude, man. No reason to do that. Put things back where you found them. Didn't your mom teach you that when you were THREE?!

FUCK.


***Update!***
Whilst folding my socks, I found the extra (HUGE) boy sock in my laundry. So..um. I really don't know why someone would put all my clothes up on the dryer, then not use the washer they emptied...

So productive!

Today's Pooch Cafe'

Wow. Spent 2 hours in the library today after Biology, and now I have 4 of the 5 articles read and outlined, and I just found the 5th one that I will read here soon. I'm going to finish watching this episode of A Makeover Story, go shower, go get some change for laundry, START said laundry, and then finish up my outline.

Or I might just go shower now and not finish this episode...But I really want to see their haircuts lol. I'm such a nerd.

Today and tomorrow: no work!

Tuesday, October 19, 2004

Grumpus

Today's Pooch Cafe'

Today's not a good day. Class all morning, work 'til 10pm tonight, with only an hour and a half break in between, by which I will try to check my email, get a blog post in, eat lunch, and attempt to relax.

Amy stayed over way too late again last night. I can't accomplish anything when she's around. She's a sweet girl, I love her to death, but man. She can talk someone's ear off. Plus, we wasted so much time yesterday running all over town, going to Kmart twice to get stuff for her, going to the dorms, then to Arby's, then back here and there. ARG! Tomorrow is homework day, however. I have Bio at 9-10am, then NOTHING, so I'm going to be doing homework that I should have been doing last night. Grr. I need happy pills.

Monday, October 18, 2004

sleeeep

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Amy chopped off all her hair today and donated it. It was really cool. Now she has a foot less hair, and a really cute little hair cut.

Then she stayed over for like, three hours, saying she was going to do homework, but didn't work on anything, then decided half an hour before she left that she was going to skip out on the homework. Gah. I need to do homework, too! So here it is, 11pm, and I am too fucking tired to do homework. Guess it'll have to wait 'til Wednesday, since I have a day off of work. And it's due on Thursday. Grrr.

Oh well, partly my fault.

I watched Quantum Leap this morning before my afternoon class. Oh, it's a great show. I used to watch that alllll the time when I was younger.

I'm so freakin' tired tonight. So...blah. Don't want to go to class in the morning, and FUCK, I have a test. Shit, fuck, piss. God! Okay. Print off study guide...go to bed, get up early, study, take test. Ugh. I can't believe I forgot that.

Sunday, October 17, 2004

Have your cake, and eat it, too

Today's Pooch Cafe'

Mmmm, chocolate birthday cake is the BEST. I had some last night after dinner, and some this morning after breakfast, and some tonight after work. (That was actually left over from this morning 'cause I was in a hurry and couldn't finish it if I wanted to be to work on time.)

Stayed up way too late last night, went to work today at 12:30pm, found my birthday card that I accidentally left there on Thursday, went out on the floor for a while and straightened for most of the night, found out that from now on I'm out on the floor in electronics and not up at the registers, so that made me really happy :)

Amy spent the night, I worked on making something to cover up my bed, separate the bed from the rest of the room-type thing, it's pretty cool if ya ask me. Still need to work on that. Amy wants to cut off all her hair and donate it to Locks of Love, and she's trying to get an appointment to do it tomorrow and wants me to come with, so that will be fun, 'cause this will be the first time she's had short hair in forever. I hope it looks cute on her. All she can do with it now is wear it down or wear it in a pony tail pretty much. Kinda dull.

Now I'm trying to decide if I should make popcorn since I found the rotatey thing for my microwave finally (it wasn't at home, I'd brought it with me, it just never moved from the point I moved out of the dorms 'til this morning lol...so I never saw where it went after I packed it. And that was five months ago! Oh well. Now my plate turns in the microwave.

Also, found out this morning that my freakin' cell phone bill was over 140 dollars because I went over my 400 daytime minutes. I was pissed. So I had to upgrade to a bigger plan for $10 more/month, which is much better than an extra 80some dollars per month. Cripes.

Anywho, waitin' for the boyfriend to call 'cause I didn't get to talk to him at all yesterday or all day today up until like, 10 minutes ago. Not a great recapitulation of the birthday goings on, but we didn't really do a lot 'cause 22's not that exciting around here. Nothing will be from now on, I bet.

Good night, and have a pleasant tomorrow.

Saturday, October 16, 2004

Happy Birthday to me!

I hate it when people do this, but whatever! It's my birthday! I'm 22 years old now. Yayayayayayayayay! Not that ANY of this matters because I still can't rent a car from an airport and my car insurance still sucks. Oh well. Now I have a reason to eat cake!!

It feels weird saying that I'm 22, though. 'Cause I got so used to saying that I was 21, obviously since I've been saying that for the past year. But 21 is a milestone, y'know...you can go out and get sloshed at a bar if you want and not get in trouble for it. But 22? There's really not a lot goin' on here. And it just makes me feel weird. Hmm. Hopefully I'll get over this.

Friday, October 15, 2004

K. here's another good picture of me in my glasses. The last one kinda sucked, sorry.
Just a picture from out my windshield on my way home from school on Wednesday. It was the only one of my "drive by shots" that looked halfway decent.

Game Night

Amy made me go to this Game Night that the UP Team hosted tonight at the Student Union. I don't remember what the UP Team does, but it was fun. We played life-sized Sorry!, Family Feud, Jeopardy, and Win, Lose, or Draw. Our team got second (and first) in Sorry! because one of the members from the first place team joined us after her group left her, so we got their points, too. Then we got first in Jeopardy 'cause we got the two 1,000 questions right, and then 2nd in the other 2 events. So we came out with a total of 120 points for the whole night.

At the end of the night, they tallied up the scores, and prizes were given. We tied for first place with another team, and I don't think we even played against that team in any of the events, but oh well. So, each of the first place teams got $100, and since there were four of us on my team, we each got $25! It was so much fun. I only wanted to play Sorry! which was a little confusing at the beginning, anyway, but oh well, we got the hang of it.

Also, they gave out TONS of candy, and I think perhaps I should not eat any more of it lol 'cause I'll probably make myself sick.

Wes called me today to wish me a happy birthday since he and Darrell are going camping this weekend and there's a good chance he won't get to call me ON my birthday, so that was really sweet of him. I had to send him my address so he could send me a card or something, which is fair, 'cause I didn't get him anything for his birthday, except I flew out to see him. Drats. Maybe that's what he's doing...a suprise trip to South Dakota. That'd be so cool.

Anyway, I have to get to doing homework, making outlines, and all that good stuff. *Gag me*

G'night!

Hotmail

Today's Pooch Cafe'

Somehow, my NON-premium Hotmail account has more storage space than my premium account. I'm wondering how that happened, but I don't really care. Now I don't have to check that account on a daily basis because a mere 20 new messages in my inbox puts my storage up to the "red line-warning!" limit.

Gotta work on homework now. Just a thought I had while I was eating lunch and checking my (bigger) email. Toodles.

YAYYYYYYYYYY

Music: The Beatles - The Inner Light

Roomie has her internet back! Yay!

And I got to train out in electronics today. I didn't think I was going to get to do that 'til a week later! It was great, I only had to cashier for like, an hour, total. And it was a lot of fun. I got to watch Aladdin lol, trained in inventory, which was easy 'cause I did that at Pennzoil, anyway, and Jim got us all candy, even the guys up at the cash register :) And I got to pick it out! MMMmmm, Hershey's Miniatures. Yum.

Also, I got my birthday present from Orlando in the mail today. Thanks so much! I love it, and thanks for the Altoids, too! I haven't had those in a LONG time! They'll do well at work in my pocket :) Thanks again!

Oh shit. I left the birthday card I got at work AT WORK. It had a free lunch combo at the "K Cafe'"...I better stop in tomorrow and see if it's still there. What a bummer. I totally forgot about that.

Woke Wes up tonight to talk to him for about 5 minutes 'cause he's been really super busy and stressed lately that he needed some sleep really badly, so that's going to be good for him, I think. Hope it helps.

We watched part of the tribute to George Harrison today in my Music Appreciation class because we're learning about World Music now and George Harrison did a lot of work with Sitars and Ravi Shenkar, and his daughter, Anoushka, played the sitar at the concert, who is Nora Jones' sister. Bit of trivia for ya there. Took me like, an hour to figure out what the title of the song was so I could download it since I didn't know what CD it was on and I didn't feel like listening to all my more "recent" Beatles albums.

I get Saturday off work, so I'm going to sleep in 'til noon again like I did on Monday, and it's going to feel SOOOO good! (Teen Girl Squad!)

Anyway, bedtime for Bonzo, I'm a sleepy girl. G'night!

Wednesday, October 13, 2004

on top of spaghetti, all covered in cheese...

Today's Pooch Cafe'

First off, I want to apologize for the double post of the Calvin and Hobbes strip, but since I have comments on both of them, I'm not going to delete either of them.

MMMMmmmmm. I went home today to see my parents and the cats and to get a homecooked meal. As the title may suggest, we had spaghetti, per my request. It was yummmmmmy and I got some leftovers to take home so I can have some real food.

I stopped in at the bank to talk to Mom, and she took us out to lunch at the new Asian Buffet. Not too shabby. Then I went and filled up my car, got new wiper blades for my car, then went to Dad's shop to get them put on since I can never figure them out anyway. Then I went home and harassed the cats, talked to my sister, and took a nice nap. Felt goooood. Then I drove home in the dark and it was scary because of all the deer around here. But I came out of the ordeal unscathed. Yay for me.

Now it's back to working on homework and finding articles for my stupid music class.

Only three more days!

Tuesday, October 12, 2004


Hahaha, I've always wanted to try this!

Monday, October 11, 2004

shakey legs

Music: Eliot Sloan - I Want You

Went to Wal*Mart (the dreaded enemy of Kmart) to get some furniture 'cause I wasn't really finding anything at Kmart. I found a folding table with four folding chairs for only $36! I couldn't find anybody in the immediate area, and it was the last one (not like a ton of people were buzzing around it or anything, but I didn't want to leave it after I'd found it) so I hefted it off the shelf, deciding it was too heavy to carry all the way across the store, I started pushing it through the aisles towards the checkout lanes.

It wasn't until I had sighted the checkout lanes that someone spotted me and asked me for help. Doing his Wal*Martly duty, he asked if he could help me, I told him I'd be fine getting to the checkout counters, (since I'd made it this far already) but that I'd need some help once I'd paid for it. So he "guided" me the rest of the way by holding on to the top front end of the box, and his shoe kept hitting it, making the rest of the trip a little bumpy. Oh well. I guess it's the thought that counts, right?

Got it loaded into my car, went home, spent 5 minutes trying to get it OUT of my car, and another 5 minutes "rolling" the box along the parking lot and up three flights of stairs. Talk about some exercise. I was all shakey when I got done. Now it's all unpacked and unfolded lol and sitting around in my apartment, waiting to be used. The only bad thing is that the top of it is cushioned, so I'll have to put something down when I want to write or draw or something so I don't punch a hole through the paper!

I'd take a picture and post it, but it's pretty boring lol.

What a bum!

Today's Pooch Cafe'
Music: Keith Urban - Days Go By

Holy crap, I slept in until noon today! I could have probably stayed in bed longer, but I figured I should do something productive with my day. I might even go to the Salvation Army and try to pick up some chairs and a table.

Got my movie watched and the report for that done. I searched all over my apartment for almost an hour trying to find the stupid sheet that the teacher handed out that tells us what we have to write for the movie. So I gave up, having searched every square inch of my one room and having no luck. I did the best I could, and I hope it's sufficient. Eeek. Now all I have to do is read some stuff for my Earth Science class, answer some questions that are due on Thursday, and something else. I don't remember.

Oh, and change of plans on the new "Ab machine of the week" that I want...I watched infomercials for quite some time last night, and the one I was drawn to was the "6 Second Abs" machine, for only 2 easy payments of $29.95." That's only $60! And it works in 7 days! I'm such a sucker for this stuff. I guess we were selling the Ab Lounge at Kmart, but I think there were only a few of them there, 'cause I saw 2 go through my line, and they're all gone now. Drats. It was "only" $99.99. Cheaper than the commericals, I guess.

Again. I'm such a sucker for that stuff. But the fact that I can't afford it keeps me from buying shit like that, or I would. Maybe I'll ask for it for my birthday (5 days left) from Mom and Dad. Only $30 each! Kidding. At least I wouldn't be paying for it that way *wink wink*

Alright. I'm going to go shower, check out ye olde Salvation Army for some furniture...and figure out how to fit a table in my car. Wish me luck!

Sunday, October 10, 2004

relaxin'

Today's Pooch Cafe'


Wow! I found three bills in my drawer from Where's George, and one was from my hometown, one from New Jersey, and one from Pennsylvania! The NJ one took over 4 years to get put back in the system. The PA, almost 2 years.

Monday is homework day. Watch Spiderman and do a report on the soundtrack. Then do something with my Earth Science thingie. I don't remember. Writing some paper. Gotta find some more articles for music.

Been watching The Surreal Life wayyyyyy too much. I'm sucked in.

Saturday, October 09, 2004

Sometimes...

Today's Pooch Cafe'


Work, work, work. Seems that's all I do around here. And school. I don't know which sucks more. Rawr. Just having a grouchy day 'cause people don't listen to what I say and I hate having to repeat myself. And it's not like I mumble or don't word myself clearly. They just don't listen or are uninterested.

Saw a bazillion babies today at work for some reason, and got 2 of the new Fifty dollar bills today :) They feel funny. They're really thin, and almost too colorful for my taste. I guess they're making a new $10 bill soon, too, with colors. I bet it's purple and blue.

Trevour, one of the guys I work with occasionally, is turning 21 on Tuesday, so I might go out to the bar when I get off work for a quick drink and buy him a birthday drink. He said he'd buy me a candybar for my birthday. Better be a good one.

Then Saturday's my birthday, the big ol' two-two. Time to bake myself a cake, with the help of miss Amy, and perhaps some mixed drinks back at my apartment later on in the day/night. I did get my birthday off, so I don't even have to work, so that's great, I was pretty excited about that. Which means I get 3 days in the past 3 weeks to sleep in. Awesome.

Still struggling with my Music Methods paper, and with Biology. I don't think I did well on that test I took on Friday. I guess we'll see on Wednesday (another day that I don't have to work! Whoopee!) I sure got a lot of days off next week. Kinda weird. But nice, 'cause I need it.

Anywho. Enough of me. I'll try to be happier next time. No one likes a grumpy gus. G'night!

This isn't exact feelings...but a lot of it rings true for me.

"Sometimes" by Ash

Can't sleep in the city, you're far away,
Cigarettes keep you skinny, and your mind off the rain,

Oh sometimes, sometimes,
Oh sometimes, sometimes

Feelings are distant, I know guilt by name,
It was the hardest thing, watching you slip away,
Oh sometimes, sometimes
Oh sometimes, sometimes,

Sometimes it happens, feelings die,
Whole years are lost in the blink of an eye,
We once had it all but events conspired,
Sometimes

Good morning sweet thing, you're safe in my hands,
I am no saint, but I understand,
Oh sometimes, sometimes,
Oh sometimes, sometimes

Sometimes, it happens feelings die,
Whole years are lost in the blink of an eye,
We once had it all but events conspired,
Sometimes

Now that it's over, it is through,
It gets me every time I think of you,
Sometimes it happens, feelings die,
Sometimes

I miss your warm skin, beside me at night,
I miss your flesh, in the dawn light,
Oh sometimes, sometimes,
Oh sometimes, sometimes

Sometimes, it happens feelings die,
Whole years are lost in the blink of an eye,
We once had it all but events conspired,
Sometimes,
Saturn's decline in my star sign,
Seasonal adjustments, stars realign,
Sometimes it happens, feelings die,
Oh sometimes.




Friday, October 08, 2004

The Ab Lounge

This is what I want for my birthday. It's only 12 easy payments of $14.95, so c'mon folks. Let's get it started. Or something.

I'm so bored. I should be doing homework right now, but it's so hard to when I don't have a proper table to sit at. Boo. Now. Back to my attempt ad productivity.

Thursday, October 07, 2004

Kmart is sexist

Today's Pooch Cafe'

Last night when I was at work, the front end manager told Nathan to go out onto the floor and straighten up out there, while he told me to stay up at the registers and dust. WTF. Nathan has only been cashiering for a week. I've been there for three. Not fair. I asked my front end manager, and he said that he had to have someone up front to cashier. Duh. But why me? Because we needed the handicap register open. Which just happened to be mine. Grr.

And earlier in the week, one of the guys who works out in "Hardlines," which is the automotive stuff, electronics, toys, paint, and pantry, told me that because I'm a girl, I'll probably get put out in "Softlines," the clothing, jewelry, makeup, and baby stuff area, which I really don't want to do. So I'm going to have to talk to the Hardlines manager tonight if he's there and tell him I think I could benefit the store more if I were out in the Hardlines department. I just want to get off the registers, basically.

Blah. I just need to get away from the registers. The "assistant" managers or whatever, the people who are my age or younger, who are telling me what to do and how to do it and all this shit, just because they're in a higher ranking position, are driving me bonkers. I'll shout at someone if they don't get away from me and stop breathing down my neck.

Wednesday, October 06, 2004

Today's Pooch Cafe'
Music: Paul Simon - Graceland

According to the Which Something Corporate Song Are You? Test...


Tuesday, October 05, 2004

Gmail

Ack! My Gmail is acting weird. It keeps telling me I have new messages in my spam folder and in my inbox, but there's nothing there...sometimes I can find it in a label/folder, and sometimes I can find it if I look up emails that a contact has sent me...but otherwise...it's just not there...It's so weird. But it's in the beta phase, so whatever, guess I'll have to wait for the bugs to get smushed.

Plus, half the links don't work, like I can't invite someone to Gmail from my computer, but I can from someone else's computer, and I've changed all my security settings and stuff like the troubleshooter told me to. Grr. Any ideas?


Cellular One Must Die

Today's Pooch Cafe'


Well, my freakin' cell phone got disconnected. AGAIN. Not because of a payment not being made or anything like that. Which, by the way, was their fault last time. Anyway, it was because my address was still set for when I lived in the dorms. Which was five months ago since I've even had that address. So FIVE MONTHS LATER they decide to disconnect my phone so that I will call them up and see what's going on. Because I needed to change my address to something current, because apparently someone sent back my mail, five months later. WTF? Whatever. I got my phone reconnected and I didn't have to pay any stupid reconnection fee. So that's good, I suppose.

Went into work to get my schedule changed around a little bit so that I can have my birthday night off, and the morning after off, in case I feel the need to liquor it up. We'll see.

Also, my parents got back from New York tonight, and on their way back home from the airport, they stopped here to show me some pictures, say hi, and get dinner. Mom picked up a "Who's on First?" t-shirt from the Baseball Hall of Fame, and an "I heart NY" sweater/longsleeve for winter time. It was good to talk to them again, since it'd been a week since we last talked, and I call Mom up at least every three days to harass her for a bit.

Now I have to try to find an article for my Music Methods class. Adios!

Sunday, October 03, 2004

Some Beach...Somewhere...

Today's Pooch Cafe'
Music: Blake Shelton - Some Beach

Arg. Been kinda busy at work this weekend. Amy spent the night last night, and we accomplished nothing except staying up WAYYYYY too late, considering I had to work at 8am today. Oh well. I managed to make it okay, didn't have any old ladies bitch at me too bad, so that was kinda nice.

Plus, Amy did all my dishes! I left in the morning before she did, obviously, and while she was here before she left, she did all my dishes :) That was so sweet of her. I really didn't expect her to do that 'cause she jokingly said she would. Made me feel mucho better. She's gonna come over so we can work on a Bio extra credit thing (which I need badly) here in a little bit, but damn, I'm about ready for a freakin' nap. But I don't have to work tomorrow or Tuesday, so THANK YOU LORD.

I'm gonna ask to work in the morning on my birthday which is a Saturday, and either not work at all the next day, Sunday, or work in the evening on Sunday, since I think I want some alcohol in celebration of turning a whopping 22 years old. (Send money, inquire for my address at bubbletoes@gmail.com.)

Anyway, I'm gonna go lay down 'til Amy gets here...Adios.

Friday, October 01, 2004

Sappy List

Today's Pooch Cafe'
Music: Toby Keith - Stays in Mexico

I know yesterday I had my "Bitch List" because I was being grouchy and didn't have a great day. Well, today in my Earth Science class, the teacher was talking about science projects in 4th grade, and that got me to thinking about my dad helping me with it, and then that got me thinking about all the things my dad has done for me throughout my life, no matter how difficult I was being with him. So today, even though Dad never reads this thing, I just wanted to say thank you and put up a list of things he's done for me. Thanks Dad :)

  • Taken out splinters and cactus needles from my hands and feet.
  • Helped me set up lamps for my science project and helped me plant my bean plants.
  • Taught me how to play baseball, and all the rules. Watched baseball games with me, even though he doesn't watch sports.
  • Coached me on my baseball team because I was the only girl there, and I'm sure he was just looking out for me.
  • Drove me to Casper when my best friend moved so I could still see her.
  • Taught me to drive a manual transmission, even though I'd given up on it.
  • Taught me to shoot a gun, even though that was probably a dangerous idea.
  • Rescued me twice when I wrecked my car, once in a ditch and he had to cut me out of a barb-wire fence, and once when I ran into another car and mine was declared dead at the site.
  • Helped me move into the dorms and my apartment, moving heavy furniture with me even though his back's not that great.
  • Supported me financially throughout my entire life.
  • Taught me how to be a good person and to respect others, even if I hate them.
  • And finally, like he told me through my entire life, he's the nicest guy I've ever met.
Thank you.