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1,450,156 | female | 37 | indUnk | Leo | 12,April,2004 | I got my errand done yesterday. I was starting to get a headache when I left & it was starting to get worse when I got home, so I laid down on the couch & fell asleep for about an hour. When I woke up it had gotten much worse. The whole right side of my head hurt real bad, so I took extra strength Excederin. It's the only thing that works. I've tried everything else on the market for the pain to no avail. I fell asleep for another hour. It had mostly gone away, so I got up & worked on my Psych report. Then my teeth started hurting. At first I thought it was bc I didn't wear my bite guard while I napped (I clench so hard, I managed to crack 1 bite guard & some mornings I have to snap my jaw back to where it's supposed to be, ouch). Anyhoo, I finally realized it's my sinuses acting up again. That hasn't happened for several months, but now that it's getting warm again... So I took a 12 hour Sudafed. Too late. The pain just kept getting worse. I went to bed, but I didn't sleep much bc I could feel my right eardrum & middle ear & the sinuses on that side burning like crazy. At 7:00 this morning it felt like my eardrum was going to burst & my eyeball explode out of it's socket. How I hate that. I finally took more aspirin & wrapped an ice pack around that side of my head & fell asleep for 4 hours. Then I got up & took another Sudafed. Feel better now, but the lack of sleep has me feeling crappy, but I still have to get these reports done. |
1,450,156 | female | 37 | indUnk | Leo | 11,April,2004 | Nothing terribly interesting to post really. I've (sort of) been working on 1 of my Psych papers. This one is on stress & what the body goes thru & how damaging it can ultimately be on the body when it becomes constant. I personally am not under too much stress, really. I would be if I had to work while trying to juggle the classes I currently have. It's strange how things sometimes work out. Being given the opportunity to be laid off was a blessing & I didn't know at the time how much of 1 it would be. For at least the last year or so I'd been able to manage 4 classes & work with no problem. With the exception of ASL class, I still have basic classes, but this semester they still require alot. Even tho I am quickly running out of extra cash & now have to stick to a very tight budget, but I'm not even thinking of that too much. Sometime today I intend to go out & get a newspaper (The Detroit News & Free Press) & a 2-litre Diet Coke (with caffeine-gotta have that caffeine). Anyhoo, back to the stress thing. Researchers are working on a drug that will suppress type 1 CRH suppressors-the chemical released in the body when under stress & that they believe is responsible for eventually damaging the organs when it's in the body for too long. Yep, someday we'll be in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, where you can take a pill every day & live a drug-induced, happy, carefree life. (Some people are already there, more power to 'em I s'pose). http://www.huxley.net/ (sorry, you'll have to copy it into you're url bc I don't know how create the link here & don't care to figure it out just now). |
1,450,156 | female | 37 | indUnk | Leo | 09,April,2004 | My sister tried talking me into going up north this weekend, but I just simply didn't feel like it. I'm back to feeling tired alot again. Maybe bc I have on my mind all the things I have to get done in the next couple days. I haven't even finished my taxes yet. Add it to the list. |
1,450,156 | female | 37 | indUnk | Leo | 08,April,2004 | So much to do, no desire to do it. I did however, change my 2-way pager number this morning. I had to. Was still getting random pages. 2 every morning. I'd turn it off at night, & turn it back on in the morning, but there's no telling how long this is going to go on. I asked her to take my pager address out of her computer address book. I don't know if she did, or if that even matters anymore. Anyhoo, I still have several things to do, so here I go. |
1,450,156 | female | 37 | indUnk | Leo | 07,April,2004 | Nothing overly exciting happened today. I don't have a class tomorrow bc of Easter break, so I can say 2 more weeks left of the semester. I have 2 papers due next Wednesday. I have another paper due on a Monday, but I don't know if it's next Monday, or the last Monday of the semester. The instructor's syllabus had an extra week on it. She didn't say anything about the paper this past Monday, but on the syllabus, she wanted it handed in the week before finals, which technically is next week. I'll decide in the next couple days what to do about that. I did decide to sign up for a CJ class for Spring/Summer. |
1,450,156 | female | 37 | indUnk | Leo | 06,April,2004 | I got done most of what I had to. I got my report done which consisted of printing out the correspondence I'd written to Governor Granholm telling her how filing for unemployment sucks when you tell the truth & admit your going to school. I never got a response which was disappointing, but not surprising. Which is also what I wrote for my report. I'm sure I'm getting points off for not getting a response, but there's only such much a mere Michigan resident (I) can do. I didn't get all the current events into my 'journal', but I got some articles to discuss. I'll put them in soon, as I'm actually falling behind on that. The quiz, on the other hand, didn't go so well. I think I didn't even give the answer I was supposed to. Obviously, I didn't read the material as closely as I should have. But today the instructor said that including last week's quiz, we are now only going for extra credit points. Granted, I could use all the extra points I can get, but there's still one more quiz next week. In a sense, last week's canceled out the one 0 pointer I got earlier in the semester. At least we got out of class early tonight. I'm glad I'm not working now. Especially during the lost hour change. The last few days I'd had a constant feeling like I needed more sleep, but haven't had time for a nap. Today, when I got up, I felt well rested. Tonight I'm going to bed right after Law & Order. |
1,450,156 | female | 37 | indUnk | Leo | 05,April,2004 | I gave my ASL presentation tonite, & boy did I suck at it. I hate giving presentations in any class. It was about the space shuttle Challenger that exploded after liftoff in 1986. After I got to school I realized there was more I should have included, but it was way too late. I also somehow didn't catch that last week the instructor had said the presentation had to be ten minutes. I only knew that the initial things I showed her, she had said was only a few minutes worth, but I had told her I planned to get more info. I do know, tonite's presentation wasn't worth 10 minutes. I also had more trouble than I thought I would with technical stuff. Also, I was so nervous I started fingerspelling dates & names wrong & would have to keep starting over. I think I prefer videotaping? Actually I prefer neither. *sigh* It's over & done with. Time to move on. For tomorrow night, I have to write a paper on a correspondence I'd sent to Governor Granholm 2 months back that I never got a reply to (no surprise), make notes for a quiz, & write brief summaries for some current events. |
1,450,156 | female | 37 | indUnk | Leo | 04,April,2004 | I almost forgot to call MARVIN today. That stands for Michigan's Automated Responce Voice Interactive Network. That's Michigan's system for getting one's unemployment checks. The day & time one calls is based on the last 2 digits of one's social security number. There's only a 1 hour block one can call at the the day & time designated. The calls are made every other week. Then there are some automated questions one answers & the answers are given by pressing the #1 for yes & #9 for no. I remembered within the last 15 mins, & then it took me a few minutes to remember what I'd done with the booklet. Anyway, I got my call in with a few minutes to spare. Otherwise one can call any time that Thursday or Friday. Yesterday I remembered I'd have to make the call, but this morning, I'd gotten caught up in something else. Someone's computer is infected with a worm. She was relying on the virus scan program to find it & get rid of it, except, she says every time she runs it, it says no viruses are found. From the info I'm getting, some worms somehow alter virus programs on the victim's computer. I've tried telling her that. Now she thinks it could be a version of the Netsky virus. My 2-way pager keeps getting random emails when the suspect computer is started up. If it happens again tomorrow morning, I just may get my pager # changed and tell her to NOT put it in her computer address book. Another reason I almost forgot about MARVIN is, this morning, I noticed someone else moving out of the apartment complex. Same building, one entrance over. Last week, I saw other people moving some furniture into an apartment right across the sidewalk, but, strangely, I couldn't tell which apartment. It wasn't much furniture. The same 3 still look empty. I wonder if one of them will be for show. Which doesn't make much sense considering there are probably empty apts. much closer to the manager's office. |
1,450,156 | female | 37 | indUnk | Leo | 04,April,2004 | Every single year at this time, I forget to change my clock. I don't know why I have trouble remembering that, I always remember to change them in October before I go to bed that night. I've been up for a couple hours, and finally crawled to my computer and it had the message that it readjusted the clock. That was my reminder. I think it was the last couple years or so too. |
1,450,156 | female | 37 | indUnk | Leo | 03,April,2004 | I went to Deaf coffee hour in Ann Arbor again this month. There were people there who went/are going to Madonna University (where I'm going to school). One girl was in a couple previous classes the same time as I, and someone else who is now enrolled in the first Sign Language Studies class, which isn't actually a sign class, but more a history of sign language class. She still signed very well. She actually commutes from Saline, where she lives, to Livonia for the class. That's a long drive. Speaking of ASL class, I really should be working on the assignment due Monday night. I still have to gather the info, then translate it into ASL, then practice it. Time is just going by way too fast. It also occured to me this morning that the stores where I work are back to being open 6 days a week. Even tho everyone still works 5 days. They just have a prechosen day off, possible for another month or 2. Then everyone works 6 days. I'm not really looking forward to going back to work. I still feel tired alot. Maybe b.c. frequently I forget to take my iron? |
1,450,156 | female | 37 | indUnk | Leo | 02,April,2004 | Only a little over a month left of unemployment, they didn't know when exactly they'll need me to come back. The countdown begins. It's actually kind of a bummer. Also there's only 3 weeks left until the end of the school semester, which is cool, but there's so much to do. I've been trying to stick to a more normal sleep schedule. But it takes me forever between the time I wake up & the time I can 'join the living.' I had to do laundry yesterday, but I'd completely forgotten I was almost out of fabric softener. I use liquid Downy in the Downy balls, as the machines are in the basement & I'm on the second floor. I had enough for 1 ball, 1/2 the other. I had to fill it with some water. I've been doing it in the afternoons well before I have to leave for school. And I was not yet 'among the living' enough to want to make a quick dash to the store. I also didn't want to wait another day to do the wash. Going back to work is going to be brutal. Financially, I'm ready to go back, but that's because I had the opportunity to pay off a debt that's been haunting me for several years & the deadline was the end of March. I just hope they hold to their end of the bargain & call it received in time & paid off. I need to run errands today, but I'm not ready to go out yet. Must*get*motivated.... |
1,450,156 | female | 37 | indUnk | Leo | 01,April,2004 | I got a letter in the mail from Secretary of State. Generated by the most recent speeding ticket I got last month. It says there are 6,922,000 drivers in Michigan who have 0-3 points on their records, which is 93% of drivers. 9 out of 10 are drivers without crashes. There are 412,000 drivers or 6% have 4-7 points (me included, I have 4) of which 6 out of 10 are without crashes. 107,000, 1% of drivers, have 8 or more points, & 5 out of 10 are drivers without crashes. There are a total of 7,441,000 drivers in Michigan. I really wanted to know this. I was starting to lose sleep wondering about it. Ok, no I wasn't. But they were kind enough to remind me when I got a ticket before last month. In case you're wondering, it was in June of 2002. For speeding. I was late for work. Ok, I'm a speed demon. I'm beginning to learn to slow down, even before the SoS's gentle reminder. They also wanted me to know how important wearing my seatbelt is. I know. There were 10 true/false questions on the 'Juvenile Justice' quiz & I got 1 wrong. I'm not the only one who got that 1 wrong either. It was in a video we watched in the last couple weeks, I don't even remember which video bc we've seen a few. |
1,450,156 | female | 37 | indUnk | Leo | 31,May,2004 | It rained some this morning, but then it cleared up for the most part & was nice & warm pretty much all afternoon. I went to the park & walked 2 miles. Then I flopped on the grass & laid there. 'Cept I always forget to bring a towel or blanket, so the grass is always itchy/tickly/prickly. There were some clouds tho, & I finally left when a big one covered the sun & the wind got chilly. I really don't want to go back to work tomorrow urlLink . I know, I haven't been back very long, & really, it isn't that bad...yet. It's just the getting up in the morning thing, & the occasional rude, obnoxious customers, who seem to be increasing in number every year. Anyhoo, I rented the Gothika DVD. I thought the movie was pretty good. A supernatural murder mystery. I was kinda disappointed that there were no good extras such as deleted scenes. I'm not sure I believe she could slip into the pool without disturbing the water like that, but, then I'm not an expert. I'd try it at the pool here at the complex, 'cept the water is too cold. I have to jump in. Otherwise I liked the movie. & it didn't even give me nightmares, which I almost expected. |
1,450,156 | female | 37 | indUnk | Leo | 30,May,2004 | ...and, as usual, spent alot more money than I intended. I was only going there for a few things, but naturally, as I walked around I saw stuff I knew I already intended to buy. Like another Brita water pitcher; I bought the cheapest 1 they had, & I had a $3 off coupon. I have 1 already, but I make lots of sun tea and drink lots of water & those pitchers are kinda small. Plus on the off chance we have another blackout like the one last year, I'm more prepared now. I also realized I needed more filters b/c the last 1 in the pitcher I already have is going to need replacing soon. Those suckers are expensive. I also found the urlLink Biosilk Silk Therapy leave in conditioner I really like. My hair is so dry & brittle it falls out too easily. I've tried most everything else, but this is about the only stuff that leaves my hair silky soft & keeps the curls. It smells really good too. But it too is expensive, & I ran out of the stuff awhile ago, but hadn't been able to afford it. I couldn't really afford it now, but it was there & my hair is like straw now, I couldn't resist. Going in I figured I'd spend about $50 - 60. I walked out having spent $91. While I was in Target, I heard a real loud rumble of thunder. I was contemplating whether or not to buy something. Some guy near me commenting on the thunder. Said something like 'here it comes.' I said that I'd just been wondering if it begun raining yet. I'd been in the store about an hour & a half or so already, & I had actually wondered if it had begun raining yet. When I got to the checkout, I saw that yep, it was raining. |
1,450,156 | female | 37 | indUnk | Leo | 28,May,2004 | ...because you pay the price. I'd been procrastinating about calling around to price my prescription med. I had an idea the pharmacy may have to order it, 'cept I didn't think about it being so close to Memorial Day weekend. Until today. I called 3 places--1 of them not being CVS. Click urlLink here for that. It figures, the one that has it in stock is the highest priced--only by $9.00, tho. One of them that didn't have it, the lowest priced place, he told me he couldn't order it til Tuesday. There was no telling how long it would take to get there, but I knew by then I'd be completely out of what I have. It had also occured to me that I'd left the script on the end table next to the door at home, & I was at work. And the pharmacy is closer to work. I had to get to the bank first, then home, then backtrack to the pharmacy. No problems getting the script, thank goodness. Now 3 days off!!! Woo hoo!! urlLink Me: urlLink tomorrow, anyway, cuz it's supposed to rain Sunday & Monday, but oh well |
1,450,156 | female | 37 | indUnk | Leo | 27,May,2004 | ...but I'm still gonna mention how much I hate mornings...again urlLink . I don't have a very bad commute--I live only about 7 or 8 miles from work. I don't have to get on any freeways. It's still frustrating. Rule of thumb: if your going to pull out of your apartment complex right in front of someone (me) forcing me to slam on my brakes, you should think twice when you have a license plate that's easy to remember, such as 1WOODY3 . What you don't realize is that I live in the complex right next to you. I could creep over & find your car and... But I really don't feel like wasting my time. Suffice it to say you're a urlLink . Some roadrager will get you eventually. Anyhoo, 1 more day to go b/4 a 3-day weekend. WooHoo!!! After that is a 6 day work week every week. Suck. |
1,450,156 | female | 37 | indUnk | Leo | 26,May,2004 | Way too tired to blog. I have a 3 day weekend coming up. I'll play catch-up then. |
1,450,156 | female | 37 | indUnk | Leo | 24,May,2004 | ...We were excessively busy today. By the time I got home, my feet & back hurt so bad I had to lay down on the couch. I got up about a half hour later & could hardly walk. My lower back, hips, & feet hurt real bad. I am ssooo tired I need a nap urlLink . I'd forgotten to set my alarm clock when I went to bed last night, but fortunately I just happened to wake up 20 minutes b/4 I had to get up. I looked at my clock & knew the radio should have gone on 10 minutes earlier. That's when I realized I'd forgotten to turn it on. I set it to come on in another 10 mins & rolled over & dozed until it did. Before I woke up I was having a strange dream that I was living in the 1800s & I had a sister (who was not either of mine in real life) who had discovered her long lost daughter who had been kidnapped as an infant about 10 years earlier was living with an older couple in the same town. The sister had gotten a complete medical check up for the girl by the local doctor & it turned out the people were physically & sexually abusing her. She came back to live with us. We were all preparing supper, the sister was in the kitchen, me, the girl & Orlando Bloom were setting the table. I think he was somehow related. He was telling her she'd won a scholarship to a good school, except she would have to travel away. She was very happy. She wanted to go to a good school to learn. I told them both not to say anything to the sister right away; she would not allow the girl to go b/c she had just found her & wouldn't be willing to give her up very easily. I told them to let me handle it. Then he started making passes at me. I told him to cool it b/c I thought we were related & he was way too young for me anyway. He said he didn't care, he was in love with me. That's when I woke up. I have no idea why he was even in my dream. I haven't seen any movies recently with him in it. I have the first 2 The Lord of the Rings and Pirates of the Carribean on DVD, but I haven't watched any of them in several months. urlLink |
1,450,156 | female | 37 | indUnk | Leo | 23,May,2004 | I finally got back to the park today & walked 3 miles. I wore my Birkenstock sandals this time, & now have blisters on the top of my feet & on the bottom of my left big toe urlLink . Ouch. I get my first working person paycheck on Wednesday, so I can more actively start looking for a good, yet cheap pair of shoes. I hope, b/c usually those 2 don't go together. Halfway thru the day my feet hurt alot. Mostly my heels. Suggestions anyone? Anyhoo, it's raining...again. And I so do not want to go back to work tomorrow. But I have to. Time to shower & go to bed. |
1,450,156 | female | 37 | indUnk | Leo | 22,May,2004 | Thank God it's Saturday. Who cares about whether or not it's a Friday. I have to work Saturdays. I made it through my first week back to work. Today was sort of an easy day. There was another thunderstorm early this morning. I woke up for a second, b/c as usual someone's car alarm went off urlLink . I fell back to sleep, then ended up oversleeping 15 minutes. And my sinuses & for that matter, my head, was stuffed up. I still managed to make it to work on time, tho. Not sure how. In a couple weeks I'll be working longer hours consistantly. Not looking forward to it. |
1,450,156 | female | 37 | indUnk | Leo | 21,May,2004 | We had severe thunderboomers last night. urlLink It didn't bother me too much except the thunder was close by & naturally following ever crack of thunder was the random car alarm going off. None of them mine. I think some people were ready, b/c only one went off for more than a few seconds. This afternoon the sky got black, then it lightened just enough to look green. Then we had a severe hail storm for a couple minutes. I loathe mornings. urlLink That's one reason I took the lay-off. I'd been losing the struggle of getting up every morning. Now that I'm back to work, nothing about that has changed. Sometime during last nights thunderstorm, it got quite cold. I'd left my bedroom doorwall open slightly b/c it felt good. This morning it made me so not want to get out of bed. urlLink After stumbling around trying desperately to rush to get ready & not be late, I had to give up--on the not being late part. I was 10 minutes late getting to work. I'd been doing that consistantly b/4 my lay-off. |
1,450,156 | female | 37 | indUnk | Leo | 20,May,2004 | It's 76 degrees (F) out & the humidity is 85%. I should have turned the air conditioner on earlier, but nnoooo. I just turned on a fan figuring it would cool off eventually. I feel crappy. Fortunately, I only worked until noon again today. That's probably only going to last another week, bummer. There is also Memorial Day weekend. Anyhoo, I wanted to go to the park & sit & study for a quiz I have next Wednesday, but I had to get laundry done & I didn't get started on it til kinda late. I have to go into the basement to do it. There's 2 washers & 2 dryers, & I only had 2 loads to do. Living in an apartment & having to pay $1.00 in quarters for each machine, I only separate my stuff into darks & whites/lights. You do what you gotta do. |
1,450,156 | female | 37 | indUnk | Leo | 19,May,2004 | Today was an easier day at work. Unfortunately, I got a bit of bad news. I asked when the insurance would take effect. I was told not for a few months. This is bad. I need to have a prescription filled next week. I would have had it filled if it weren't for the idiotic people at CVS. I'd been having trouble with them, & I knew I was making a mistake taking my prescription there back in January. It was the day before my insurance ran out. The pharmacist told me they didn't have any in stock. They'd have to order it, except they wouldn't until Monday. I told him my insurance would run out the next day so I asked if he could call around to other CVS stores. He asked me what my co-pays were & I told him. The cheapest was generics for $10.00. The moron looks in his computer & said it didn't matter, because my prescription would only cost $9+ even without it. So I figured no problem. Then they call me Monday to ask if I have other insurance. I told whoever, no, & what I was told that Thursday night. He told me he didn't know who told me that because it wasn't true. The prescription cost over $100. I repeated that cost was why I'd asked him to call around to see if another store had it in stock b/4 my insurance ran out. The guy on the phone just said I was given wrong information. The end. I told him I wished I'd known before. So he tells me if I want the prescription paper back, I'm welcome to come & get it. Gee thanks. That infuriates me. What I've had is what the doctor gave me as a sample which runs out this week. Sure enough--huge mistake going to CVS. Their pharmacy is the worst. In the past, it would take no less than 10 hours to get a prescription filled no matter what it was. Everytime I went, there would be at least half a dozen angry people being told their scripts weren't ready yet. Afterwards I heard on the news CVS charges over 150% above original cost for scripts anyway. I heard Costco is one of the cheapest, but it appears I have to call around anyway. The problem is coming up with the money for it. *sigh* |
1,450,156 | female | 37 | indUnk | Leo | 18,May,2004 | I was very busy today at the Livonia store. My job requires me to work 8 hours on my feet each day. Throw in another half hour at some point for lunch--that's my whole day. I busted my butt again today. There was ssooo much to do, I still didn't get it all done. When I got home, I had to lay on the couch for a while b/4 my legs & feet quit hurting. My back didn't feel that great either. But after my shower I felt better, so I tried adding my profile to my original blog template & it just wouldn't work no matter what. So I decided to just change the whole template. I like this one for now. Kinda girly-girl, but, what the hey. I desperately need sleep, but I have to finish winding down. My mornings aren't going well, but they hadn't for quite some time before my lay-off. Fortunately, I only work 4 hours tomorrow, b/c I just remembered I never finished my homework for tomorrow night's class. Big oops. I copied & pasted my sidebar add-ons into the notepad, so I'll add those when I have time. And tweak the rest of my page. In the meantime my brain is about to crash, so.... |
1,450,156 | female | 37 | indUnk | Leo | 17,May,2004 | I went back to work today. Along with 2 of the other 3 coworkers who were laid-off. Thus ends a 4-month 'adventure.' As broke as I'm getting, I'm still sorry to leave behind the 'life of leisure.' [I searched for jobs the whole time, I swear.] One of the guys went out on the road with the others in the morning. The other stayed back. 2 hours into work, he comes over to where I am & looks at the clock & shakes his head. We both laughed & he said, 'Man, it feels like I've been here aaalllll day.' I said 'Yeah right there with you, I was thinking the same thing.' He said, 'I'll bet you normally I'd still be asleep.' I said, 'I know for a fact I'd still be asleep.' We compared notes on what TV programs we watched. Turns out we both pretty much saw quite a few of the same programs. Not that surprising, really. I was busy all day today. Tomorrow I work at the Livonia store. I already know I'm going to be busy all day again. Meh, it's better than being bored. I hope I stay awake long enough to catch 'CSI: Miami in New York'. I'm already yawning like crazy. |
1,450,156 | female | 37 | indUnk | Leo | 16,May,2004 | Today, I had to get cat food. I also wanted to get a Detroit News and Free Press , which costs $1.35. I got into my car & started out to a nearby 7-Eleven for that. When I started my car, the low fuel light came on. Bummer. So after getting the newspaper, I went to the bank & got some I couldn't really spare. But I had little choice. Then I went to a gas station. I got $20 worth @ $2.01/gal. The cheapest I'd seen of non-ethanol gas. The ethanol kind burns too fast. Anyhoo, that got me 3/4 of a tank. Then I went to the grocery store b/c I needed some other things besides the cat food. I took a bag full of dimes, nickels, & pennies to put in a urlLink coinstar . I get there & someone else is using it. Then suddenly it quits working. She's got about half her change in there. After some screen changes & stuff, the computer reboots & the Windows NT startup screen shows. Then it's a 'machine not available' screen. Then an 800 number comes up on the screen. So the woman whips out her cell phone & calls it. She's told a store manager will have to service it. She didn't get a receipt for the change she'd put in, so she can't go anywhere. So I decided to at least begin my shopping. I got most of what I needed, but I started to panic b/c I only had $20 left & I didn't want to spend it all. I kept wandering back to the machine, but the woman is still waiting. I was standing near the manager's office & employee counter, when I heard an employee mention about the machine to another. Then 1 got on the intercom & paged the manager to the machine. So I look around for more stuff. I figured if the machine doesn't get fixed I'd have to put stuff back. About 5 minutes later I wander over & still the woman is by herself. I went back to the counter & asked if there was someone who could help with the machine. I told them the woman had been standing there for quite sometime & was probably getting impatient. I heard 1 more page for the manager & sure enough someone came & fixed the machine. Turned out a couple sticker things had gotten caught in the coin sorter. *Whew* Finally I got to put my coins in. It was my first time. Not too difficult. I had just $29+ worth of coins, but after their 'processing fee' (which the screens warns you about before you decide to continue) I ended with $27+. Still not bad. I had roughly $25 worth of stuff. I have more change at home but much of it is rolled pennies I'll someday take to the bank. |
1,450,156 | female | 37 | indUnk | Leo | 15,May,2004 | I love finding money I didn't know I had. Who doesn't. I went to the Wizard of Oz at Lahser High School in Bloomfield Hills tonite. The whole thing was done in American Sign Language by the students, with 3 people offstage doing the voice interpretations. I think it probably would have been better w/o the voices, but it was mostly for the benefit of hearing people who didn't understand sign language. I enjoyed it very much. They'd been working on it since February, and they did quite well. I knew Karen would be there, & sure enough I found her shortly before the play started so I sat with her. I also saw Fox News (my local channel 2) there. I rushed home afterward & caught it on the 10:00 PM news. Anyhoo, while I was getting dressed, I found a $5 bill in my pants pocket. Pretty cool seein' as admission was $5 (which I'd already known) & I had pretty much just that much in my wallet already. |
1,450,156 | female | 37 | indUnk | Leo | 14,May,2004 | There's just the rest of today and then tomorrow left of my extended vacation. I am ssoooo not looking forward to going back to work. Getting up several hours earlier than I have been is going to be a killer. It takes me a full hour to get rid of the grogginess every morning. I learned in Psych class that it has to do with the chemical that's released when we first fall asleep. In most people, the chemical is gone by the time they wake up. It is all going to suk. On the not so bad side, I'll still get Wednesday & Thursday afternoon off next week & probably the week after that. But in June I'll be working 6 days. But this should make the transition easier. Plus I've been so broke lately. I need to buy cat food & a couple other things, but then I won't have enough money to pay my car/renter's insurance. That's due on Monday, but I have a 5-day grace period & unless I discover on Monday my unemployment ran out, I'll get my check Wednesday. Otherwise, I have no idea what I'm gonna do. I'm done thinking about for now. Later tonight I plan to go to a play given by Deaf & Hard-of-Hearing High School students in Bloomfield Hills. It's The Wizard of Oz. |
1,450,156 | female | 37 | indUnk | Leo | 14,May,2004 | I ended up not getting out til much later & maintenence never showed up. But I had to mail Uncle Kenny's birthday card. So I walked the approximately half mile to the post office. Once there, I discover that mail pick-up from that box wouldn't be until 5:00 on tomorrow. Bummer, his birthday is Sunday, so obviously his card will be late. Then I walked around the track at Garden City park right next to the post office. Seems to me I heard that once around is a mile or something. I didn't take my GPSr with me. This time I wore a pair of Keds I've had. This time I ended up making the blister on the back of my right heel worse & got one on my left heel. I started out sometime after a brief rainshower, & it was threatening to rain again. It started raining just as I got back to the complex. I probably would have been at my apartment, but I'd stopped a couple times to re-adjust my shoes--to no avail. |
1,450,156 | female | 37 | indUnk | Leo | 11,May,2004 | I'm going back to work Monday. I ended up sitting at home most of yesterday waiting to see if maintenance would show up. Well, actually I didn't call them until the afternoon, so I didn't really expect them to show. I asked for a new air conditioner, but the manager said she didn't have them in yet, so I'm wondering if they are just going to wait to fix everything. I was hoping they would at least have gotten the other stuff done before I have to go back, and I don't want to spend my last free days just sitting here waiting for them. The air conditioner I have has been here since I moved in 10 years ago. It still works, but only on high & the thermostat no longer works. It was miserably humid yesterday which sucked. It's not so bad today. I'd like to go to the park & walk a couple miles. Granted the last couple times ended up being a bit painful. First I wore my only daily old, ratty sneakers & ended up with a blister on the back of my right heal. I can't afford a new pair right now. So I went again Wednesday & wore my aerobic shoes. Those shoes I don't wear very often, they are narrower at the toes and I ended up with blisters where two of my toes rubbed together and I aggravated the one on the back of my heal. Three blisters on the same foot, & I'd forgotten to take bandages with me. I still managed to get in 2 miles each time tho. Go me. |
1,450,156 | female | 37 | indUnk | Leo | 11,May,2004 | I'm trying out Blogger's new comment template, so here goes..... My apologies to all who have left me comments in the past. I was using Haloscan's tag, but I had to delete the whole thing from my template in order to use Blogger's. |
1,450,156 | female | 37 | indUnk | Leo | 07,May,2004 | I got the call tonite. I may be going back to work on Monday. One of my laid-off coworkers had called in to say his benefits ran out. I won't know about mine until Monday b/c that's when I make my call to MARVIN. This means I have less than a week to lose lots of weight, and get my apartment in complete order so I can call to have maintenance come & fix a bunch of stuff. I knew it would all come to a halt soon. At least I got a good advanced heads up. I know, I've had plenty of time to get the place straightened out, but I've been incredibly lazy. I just could never get the energy to do what needs to be done. It's not real bad. If I had lots more closet space to put all these boxes of stuff in...but I don't. Even the corners are taken up. But that's what I get for living in an apartment. |
1,450,156 | female | 37 | indUnk | Leo | 07,May,2004 | I haven't felt like blogging lately. Too tired. Anyhoo, I've gotten stuff done. I got my check Wednesday just in time to make it to the bank before they closed. I dropped my rent check off. The manager asked if I'm back to work yet, I told her no, & I told her why I had to wait to pay the rent. She told me I didn't have to worry about it, bless her sweet heart. Yesterday I went to Wal-Mart & got most of the stuff I needed. As usual I neglected to make out a list, so I only remembered what I'd forgotten long after I got home. At least it's all stuff I don't need right away anyway. Today I went to the fruit/veggie market & got lettuce, 3 large tomatoes & 5 big Golden Delicious apples (which all cost under $5.00), then went to the school, dropped off some papers at the financial aid desk, bought the textbook I should have had Wednesday night, then went to visit a couple co-workers. Then I came home & fell asleep for a couple hours. I'm still tired, but I figured I'd get this blog entry done. I still have to get the rest of my bills paid. Probably tomorrow for that. |
1,450,156 | female | 37 | indUnk | Leo | 04,May,2004 | I just posted to my blog an hour ago, but it didn't show up. Unfortunately, I just don't feel like rewriting the whole thing. That makes me mad, I don't know where it went. Here's the really condensed version. I'm running out of things but can't afford to buy them b/c I still don't have my check. If it comes in the mail tomorrow it won't be til late afternoon, & if it doesn't, I'm screwed & will have to find someone to lend me some $$ tomorrow, or I will have to ask the manager if she'll wait another day for the rent w/o charging me an extra $25. There was more, but the heck with it. A few minutes later I found it posted under April 30. I have no idea why. But I'll try this again, so here it is: I hate being broke Ok, I'm not exactly broke, I just don't have quite enough money to pay my rent. I pray my check comes tomorrow b/c that's the last day of the grace period. Unfortunately, the mail doesn't usually make it until anytime past 3:00. If my check doesn't arrive tomorrow, I'll have to scramble to try & bum some money from someone until it does which I hate doing, or try begging the manager to give me 1 more day. I've been here 10 years & never did it before so maybe I have a chance. It's my fault for paying for that class when I realized I would be cutting it too close. Good thing I have enough food, it's just other things I'm pretty much out of. Geoffery Fieger has his own imitation contest copying Donald Trump's, called The Intern. He's making them do stupid things. I don't mean to watch it, it just happens to be on the channel's news I happen to be watching. I didn't even watch Trump's program. First Fieger made them go thru an abstacle course. After they completed it, he told them they didn't strategize their way through enough. Then he made them sell Calgary Flames memorabilia--around Detroit. I guess 1 or 2 of them succeeded, which is saying alot. One of them suggested buying the stuff so they could have fun destroying it. (In case you don't see any big deal, Red Wings fans are very loyal & spend pretty much the most money on Wings memorabilia than any other team). And, yes, I know the Wings lost last night & are officially out of the running for the Cup. I guarantee everyone is well wishing Stevie a speedy recovery, but now he can relax & mend at his own pace. I also saw on the news that there is a gas station in Pittsfield that had a computer glitch. People started using their driver licenses in order to turn on the pump. They thought they were getting free gas. They didn't stop & think that the black strip on the back of our licenses holds some kind of readable info. Such as...oh, I don't know...our license #, which can maybe be traced back to one's name & address perhaps? It turned out it was mostly college students--go figure. |
1,450,156 | female | 37 | indUnk | Leo | 03,May,2004 | The Spring/Summer semester has started. The class I enrolled in- Criminal Justice Organization & Administration -starts Wednesday night. The instructor is also one of the department advisors, so I plan to set up an appointment with him to find out what GE classes I still need to take. Not including the class I'm now signed up for, I will need 6 more CJ classes. I got word that I'll be going back to work soon, possibly in the next week or 2. I'm not ready. There's so many things I want to do yet. Although alot of them, I just got too lazy & didn't bother to do. My bad. I had a headache & my sinuses hurt Saturday & today. Yesterday, was cold & rainy & nap day. Also some stuff I was supposed to do today involves spending money, & I want to wait until I get my check, which should be about Wednesday. Hopefully, b/c 1 thing is I have to get the book for class. |
1,450,156 | female | 37 | indUnk | Leo | 28,June,2004 | I'm very tired and my back hurts. Lots of heavy lifting & bending. Time for bed. urlLink |
1,450,156 | female | 37 | indUnk | Leo | 26,June,2004 | On the way home from work. I was on Cherry Hill traveling west approaching Middle Belt. I was still about a 1/4 mile away in the right traveling lane, when I saw a car pull from a parking lot on the south side of Cherry Hill into the same lane as me, but he was way up ahead. East & West bound cars were sitting at the red light. Suddenly the car started swerving way out of control. It pulled up onto the curb & onto the grass, clipped the truck it was trying to pull behind, & flew into the gas station right on the corner, still swerving all over the place. It just missed hitting some gas pumps &, thank goodness, there were no cars on 1 side of the pumps, or they would have gotten hit. He finally managed to stop his car & I saw him jump out like he was trying to get away from the car. It was an older model, I figure from the way the car was jerking the accelerator must have gotten stuck & the brakes wouldn't stop the car properly, & the guy had freaked (as I would have). The truck he hit was an older model too. The bumper of 1 of the vehicles had come clean off. Admittedly, I continued on my way home. I figured they didn't need me taking up space. |
1,450,156 | female | 37 | indUnk | Leo | 25,June,2004 | C.'s truck had a wrong tent on it, so I had to take the correct one out. My boss printed out a map for me. My destination was in Detroit near Evergreen between 6 & 7 Mile Roads. I get to the street, but there are no houses facing the street I was on. urlLink ?!? The addresses were not even close to what I was looking for. Fortunately, I'd remembered to borrow TC's cellphone (I don't have one b/c I don't talk on any phone nearly enough to justify paying the high price of monthly service). I was about to call back to work when C. called me & asked where I was. I told him & that's when he told me I was about a 1 & 1/2 miles north of where he was waiting. I found my way to the right house, & once I got back to work E. checked the program on a different computer, & that 1 was correct. The map I got was from a software program loaded on the computer b/c it isn't hooked up to the internet. It's strictly for everyone to print maps. And face the possibility of of being where they don't intend to be. A few hours later I had to run to the store for more cases of urlLink sterno b/c we were fast running out & had people buying it like crazy with the chafing dishes they were renting. As soon as I drove into the parking lot, I saw S. loading more chafers into someone's car & knew he was waiting for me to get back. Whew. Now I'm tired & really need a nap. 7 more hours of it all tomorrow. |
1,450,156 | female | 37 | indUnk | Leo | 23,June,2004 | I figured I'd stop by the bank on the way to work this morning & deposit some money in my account. I went to the branch 3 miles from the Livonia store. Wouldn't you know it, the ATM was offline. I couldn't go until later in the day. Once I got there & deposited some money, I discovered there was still enough, but I had no clue how. So I had to wait until after I got home from school to try to figure it out. I finally registered to get the info online. Lo & behold, my state income tax refund saved the day. urlLink Whew. |
1,450,156 | female | 37 | indUnk | Leo | 22,June,2004 | I work in Livonia tomorrow. And it's possible I have a bunch of checks bouncing all over the U.S. Long story I'm too tired & worried about to go into now. Suffice it to say, I didn't pay attention like I should have. I'll have to go the bank ATM b/4 work & deposit money in the morning. I'll find out what my balance is then. In the meantime I'm starting to get a headache over it, but there isn't much more I can do about it. urlLink |
1,450,156 | female | 37 | indUnk | Leo | 20,June,2004 | I saw urlLink Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban at the urlLink Imax theatre in Dearborn today. Wow, that was ssooo cool. Yeah, more expensive, but well worth it. Except I ended up in the 3rd row from the front, which may have been a bit too close. But I was right in the center of the screen, & the back had filled up, so I was afraid if I moved back, all the prime seats would be taken & I'd end up on 1 side or the other. Considering how big the screen is, maybe it doesn't matter, but I stayed put. It was still really cool. Before the movie starts someone on a loudspeaker explains all about Imax, & says you can see all about it after the movie. I probably should have, but after the movie, I couldn't remember where to go for that. He also said that if you experience any dizziness from the movie, to just close your eyes for a few minutes & the feeling will go away, because you are not moving. You remain stationary at all times. Fortunately, I didn't have any problems. The last time I saw an Imax type movie was ages ago for a class field trip. I couldn't even tell you what I saw, or what grade for that matter. |
1,450,156 | female | 37 | indUnk | Leo | 19,June,2004 | Only had a small fight with one customer. Everytime they come in to reserve something for a future date, as soon as we add everything, which is the rental, the sales tax, plus the deposit, they totally freak out. We require that they pay the deposit and the rental. How else do you think we can be assured that we will get our equipment back? Duh. It even says on the reservation form we fill out. At the very bottom deposits are in addition to the rental. I tried pointing this out to the woman, but she was so busy ranting, she wouldn't shut up long enough to read it all. Many of them do that tho. As soon as they learn they will get there deposit back (as long as we get all our equipment back in the same shape they received it) they calm down. Sheesh. I also had 1 person who thought he was being a smart ass. We always require a valid Michigan driver license to rent anything. So, as usual, someone wanting some chafing dishes and tables came in, & I asked for his driver license. Thinking he's being smart, he asks me what would have happened if he had walked there & didn't own a driver license. I told him he probably wouldn't be there for several chafers & 4 tables (2-6' & 2-8'), b/c how would he get all that home? His answer was that he would be making a whole lot of trips. Riiiiiight. |
1,450,156 | female | 37 | indUnk | Leo | 18,June,2004 | I spent some of the day in the back. At one point, I wandered up front to see if there were alot of customers up front. There wasn't, but I noticed a contract sitting there for a lawn edger that had been rented an hour earlier to be returned in another hour by a name & address I recognized, her house is kittycorner to the one next to ours. I made sure I was up front when I knew she'd be returning it. I recognized her as soon as she walked in the door. I'd mentioned to I. that I knew her when I saw the bill. So when J.R. came in, I. said out loud for her to hear 'There's your neighbor back with the lawn edger. Your former neighbor anyway.' J.R. glanced at me, but was trying to figure out what I. was talking about. I knew she didn't recognize me at that point. I had to tell her I'm one of G.'s daughters, the middle one. That her daughter used to come over all the time. Then she asked me was I C.'s or her younger son's age. I told her 'my younger sister L. is C's age' I'm the middle daughter. She finally started to remember. I. told her I'd seen her name & address on the contract & recognized her. J.R. said that yes she still lives in the same house. I wasn't sure if she knew about why mother sold the house, so I told her that she had after Grampa died & moved to the place up north. She asked me where was it & I told her Grayling. She said that was quite a ways up. I told her not really that far & that C had gone with us one year. I could tell she vaguely remembered that, then she said 'Oh yeah, I do remember that.' She asked me how long I've been working there, I told her 17 years, but normally I'm at the Dearborn Heights store. She said 'WOW 17 years? Wow that's a long time.' (yeah, tell me). Then she told me that C is married, has a 4 year old daughter & lives in Oxford. I didn't get any info on S, I got the impression she had to get going, plus we were starting to get busy again (as was happening all day). We did our great seeing you & I'll tell the others I saw you thing, then she left. She was quite energetic, almost jumpy. That also reminded me of yesterday, I was at Dbn & when one of the guys got back from their deliveries, he told me they were in my old neighborhood (they delivered some stuff to a house on Fox). (He knew because in the past, stuff in that area came up, like what stores used to be called & stuff, that's a whole other story). Anyway, he was surprised that there are still some dirt roads over there. I told him, yeah like Norfolk. He said yes they were on Norfolk. They drove up to Fox from Beech Daly. He mimicked bouncing around from potholes. I laughed. I told him I think they left it a dirt road because many of the cross streets are the 2-way stops & the potholes act as speed bumps otherwise people go zooming thru there too fast. (Ok, I don't know how true it is). I also told him I remember the busses went up Norfolk & every one used to crowd the back of the bus cuz it was fun being bounced all over the place (I do remember kids used to do that for that reason). I'm in the Livonia store again tomorrow. |
1,450,156 | female | 37 | indUnk | Leo | 16,June,2004 | There started out 3 of us, 'cept I.'s son called her this morning while he was on the road for his job. He said his chest on his right side felt like it was going numb, so he was on his way back to his job & asked her to meet him there & take him to the hospital. She got back to work about 2:00 or 3:00. She said his whole right arm & leg had also gone numb. The doctors did a EKG or EEG (I always forget which is which & I could have looked it up b/4 this post, but I didn't feel like it), but it didn't show anything. But they still think something happened like a real mild heart attack or he may have a clogged artery or something. He opted to go home & go back tomorrow for all the tests they want to do. So they sent him with a prescription of Nitroglycerin & told him to take some aspirin as well. Even tho it was just R. & I most of the day, I still got quite a bit done. I even got to take my lunch break at a reasonable time-1:15. I sat & read the Detroit News. They had an article in the Health & Fitness section about iron deficient anemia. From what I read, it definitely explains why I feel so fatigued, & is the probable explanation of why I find it hard to concentrate & remember stuff, & of why I'd experience painful heartburn so much. I try to remember to take my iron every day, but once in a while I'd forget. I did notice that after taking it for awhile, even sporadically, my heartburn & indigestion lessened a great deal. There was alot of nights I couldn't sleep at all or I'd have to sleep sitting up b/c my esophagus felt like I had swallowed a gallon of lighter fluid & followed it with a couple books of lit matches & drank some sulfuric acid to wash it all down. Since I started taking iron supplements, my stomach & esophagus has calmed way down, but I didn't realize the connection until I'd read the article. 'Course, I've also cut way back on diet coke, so I know the decreased intake of carbonation has helped too. Besides water, I drink more sun tea made with a combo of urlLink mate & urlLink rooibos teas. I put 7 bags of mate & 2 bags of rooibos (pronounced roy-boss ) into a glass jar of filtered water & put it out on the balcony for the whole day. With a little lemon juice & some artificial sweetener it tastes sssoooo good. 'Cept it makes me have to urinate alot. Fortunately, there are bathrooms nearby. I didn't used to like tea until I discovered mate. It is very mild. I wish I had a gourd & bombilla for it tho. Rooibos is much stronger, being a red tea, but I've developed a taste for it. Anyhoo the iron deficiency article also listed quite a few foods that contain iron, so next time I go grocery shopping I can pick some of them up. YAY PISTONS!!!!!!!! |
1,450,156 | female | 37 | indUnk | Leo | 15,June,2004 | My legs & feet hurt real bad & I felt a bit nauseated. So I went for a bike ride. Strangely after my ride, my feet didn't hurt nearly as much as they did b/4. 'Cept the seat makes my arse hurt. Oh well. I'm working at the Livonia store tomorrow. I know I'm gonna be real busy. This morning wasn't too bad, but it was busy this afternoon. Yesterday was really busy. Yesterday I didn't get to take a lunch break until 3:00. Today it was 2:30. Not that I mind too much. It seems to make the rest of the day go faster. 3rd period & the Pistons are up by 11 points. WOOOO HOOOO!!!!!! YAH PISTONS!!!!! urlLink FEAR THE 'FRO!! |
1,450,156 | female | 37 | indUnk | Leo | 14,June,2004 | Ok, they wouldn't be quite so bad if I would get together everything I need for work the night b/4. But nnnoooooo. I'm always too tired Sunday night. I always figure there isn't that much to do, it won't take but a minute. Hah! Silly me. I end up running around the apartment grabbing things: water bottle--drat needs refilling, prepare my ice tea in a travel cup, toss everything back into the purse, grab the contact lens stuff from the bathroom, etc. I always end up leaving at least 10 mins. later than I should. Thank goodness alot of kids are out of school for the summer, so traffic is much lighter. Finding a place to park once I get to work is becoming a major hassle. There are more people working & the female who lives in the house right behind the office/showroom is a freakin' weirdo. She has several people living with her, & feels she's entitled to the whole side street. My coworkers & I have been parking there for like a million years. She just moved there a couple years ago or so, & figures she can take over. Last summer, anytime someone parked in front of the alley directly behind URA's building, she started leaving notes on the windshield telling them they cannot park there. She'd sign it 'The Mayburn neighborhood' or something like that. One of my coworkers beat on her door & told her she was a stupid bitch & to never go near her car again. It eventually became my turn for the note receiving. Then she started laying in wait for me to get to my car & she'd chase me down. Once she called the police. I was still at work at the time. They left as I got out there so I didn't think much of it. That was the second time she chased after me. By that time TC had already talked to the police. They said the street is public property & she has no business telling people (us) we can't park there. So, she tells me she had the police out. I asked her what did they say. She said 'Never mind what they said.' I told her I already knew what they told her--the same thing they told us. She asked what that was. I told her that it's a public street, not exclusively belonging to her & we have every right to park there. She tells me that by her living in a house, that gives her more 'power' to park there. I told her only in her dreams. We've been there a whole lot longer than her. I then suggested she go to city hall & find out exactly where her property line is. She went back into her house. Anyhoo, I had no choice but to park on the street next to her driveway one day last week. After work, there was a note on my windshield telling me she must have all those parking spaces for everyone living at her house. She puts in the note that I should park in front of the house across the street from her (which doesn't happen to have a driveway, so where are those people supposed to park?). The next day, again, no where else to park. So I left a big note on my own dashboard saying 'If you come anywhere near this car, I will call the police & report you vandalizing this car and for you stalking me.' What do you know, no notes from she-whacko on my windshield. 'course I'm not sure if she even looked, but oh well. |
1,450,156 | female | 37 | indUnk | Leo | 13,June,2004 | ...because I am incredibly tired. Only having 1 day off a week kinda sucks. I end up sleeping most of the day away. I went for a bike ride this evening. My first 'real' bike ride in a very, very, very long time. Yep, I finally got the bike fixed. My bum hurts from the seat & my hands kept going numb from me gripping the handlebars real hard. The bike is a tad taller than is actually comfortable for me (no the seat won't lower anymore than it is). Anyhoo, I rode to Merriman, then turned around & rode to Venoy. On the way to Venoy a large portion is in front of a Landscaping place that has all rocks going to Cherry Hill. I actually managed to ride the whole thing w/o losing my balance or control of the bike. Then I rode back to Merriman again, & also rode around a couple of the apartment complexes a few times each. All pretty cool for me. |
1,450,156 | female | 37 | indUnk | Leo | 10,June,2004 | Ronald Regan died Saturday 6/5 @ age 93. Ray Charles died today @ age 73. |
1,450,156 | female | 37 | indUnk | Leo | 07,June,2004 | I was starting to feel resentment at the beginning of the week b/c it seems every time I have a test coming up in class we are also super busy at work. I crawl home exhausted & in lots of pain & can't concentrate enough to retain all the information I need to for the tests. My midterm was yesterday: 10 essay questions. I kept getting brain farts & couldn't remember everything. The information was in my brain, but for some of the questions I couldn't for the life of me get it out, but I think I still did pretty well. I answered all the questions, but I couldn't elaborate the way I wanted to for some. Oh well, I'll find out for sure how I did next week. The godawful heat & humidity didn't help matters at all. We don't have any air conditioning where I work. But we do have a couple fans strategically placed to circulate the hot air. That almost helps. The cold actually felt good today. 'Cept the rainy weather made it dreary. I got to take a quick drive out to Plymouth this morning b/c S. & J. were missing something for one of their orders, & they couldn't finish w/o it. Being so busy at work also caused me to keep forgetting to buy a birthday card for my older sister. She just turned 40 (oop, I probably shouldn't have said that) & the only time I'd think about getting a card is at night when I'm already home & too tired & achy to get the motivation to go out & buy a card. Or I'd think about it while at work when I can't exactly go anywhere. After work today I went to the grocery store b/c I had a strange want for a salad with Feta cheese, salami, & Ranch dressing. I bought a premade salad & the rest of the stuff & added it in. I also got a belated b-day card. As I was leaving, as usual, I realized I'd forgotten something I meant to buy. Arrrgh. But there was just no way I was going back. Some other time. |
1,450,156 | female | 37 | indUnk | Leo | 07,June,2004 | WOOO HOOO!!!!!! Fear the 'Fro!!!!!!! |
1,450,156 | female | 37 | indUnk | Leo | 05,June,2004 | Sometime late last year, someone threw out a 12-speed bike. I figured it was meant to be thrown out b/c it was sitting next to the dumpster. It sat there for a couple days. I'd been thinking of buying a bike, but they are expensive & I wasn't sure how much I'd actually ride it. So there was my opportunity to have a second-hand one. Considering my financial situation, I don't mind getting second-hand stuff. I now have 2 pair of good, comfortable 'hand-me-down' (ok, hand-me-up b/c they're from my younger sister), shoes; thanx again, Lyn urlLink . Anyhoo, about the bike. Both tires were fairly flat, so I figured it had to be a cast-off. I called TC who lives on the other side of the complex to swing around & toss the bike in the back of his truck, & take it up to work. It was already getting cold out, so I didn't do anything about it then. As it started getting warmer out, I started thinking about it. I meant to start 'working' on it b/4 Memorial Day weekend, 'cept I forgot when I left that Friday (it's still at work). I finally remembered about it this week. So I got the tire size a few days ago, but didn't get to a store b/c I was way too tired. The first 'always something' was yesterday. I went to Sports Authority for the inner tubes. They only had 1 of the 2 in the size I needed--at least the size was right, but I wasn't sure about the width, but I bought it anyway. Then I went to another bike shop & got 2 that I still wasn't sure of the width. Oh well. Then I had to backtrack to the health food store not far from SA for a couple other things I wanted. All this w/o much gas in the car. I got home & figured I'd fill up the tank on the way to work. Just b/4 going to bed, I realized I hadn't paid rent. And I had 1 more grace period day. I figured I drop the check off on the way to work, 'cept I hadn't even written it yet. In the morning. I got up a little late, & on my way into the kitchen to make a cup of mate tea, I saw the DVDs I had to drop off (due back b/4 noon, I work til 3:00). So I did my morning routine a bit faster. Not fast enough. As I was getting my purse together, I'd realized darnit!! the rent. No time. I got in the car & realized drat!! no gas in the car. Still have to drop off the DVDs. The latter is first, I pass it first, next is gas. I passed up 4 gas stations b/c they were a bit steep in price. I got to a BP & it was the cheapest. Got 3/4 of a tank. Ended up 10 mins late to work. *meh* Secondly: After work, I figured I'd get the tire tubes changed & take the bike for a ride. Hah. I got the tire tubes changed (the back one had a gash in it, hence why it was flat)--except the back tire is frayed in 1 spot. No way the tube will stay in with the correct pressure in it. FUBAR. Need a new tire. So I went to a bike shop on the way home today & got a new one. But I have to wait at least until Monday, now. It was a real good day to go for a ride too. It's always something. urlLink The back brake cable needs reattaching too, plus it could use new handlebar grips, but those are a cinch. Oh yeah, I dropped my rent check off b/4 coming home. |
1,450,156 | female | 37 | indUnk | Leo | 04,June,2004 | Yesterday I got home from work & fell asleep on the couch. Woke up just after 9:00 & watched CSI. After that I took a shower & went to bed. Tonite I did laundry. B/c I had to. I so did not feel like it. But I also had rented the Finding Nemo DVD last weekend & it's due back tomorrow morning. So I had to watch it. I'll drop it off on the way to work. It wasn't too bad, I guess. It dragged in places. I liked the Ellen Degeneres fish, Dory. If it wasn't for her, I would have started bawling & turned the movie off. IMO. Now it's late, I'm really tired, & I still have to make my bed & take a shower b/4 hitting the sack. |
1,450,156 | female | 37 | indUnk | Leo | 02,June,2004 | I was at the Livonia store today. As usual I couldn't make myself get up in the morning & dawdled too much, so I ended up late. It was pretty much as busy as I thought it would be. Trying to get my work done, answer phones, wait on customers, etc. I still managed to get quite a bit done. But I didn't get time for a lunch break. I'd gone to Burger King for R. & myself, so in between phone calls & stuff I munched on my fish sandwich which was at about 2:00. R. was busy helping one of the guys who came from the Dbn Hts store to pick up lots of equipment for their orders; so it wouldn't fail, every time I took a bite & had a mouthful of food, the phone would ring. People asking all sorts of questions. There was so much stuff to do, I still didn't get it all done. Even the stuff I'd left 2 weeks ago. All that was pushed to the back & more piled in front. I did get a little of the stuff that's been there done. But, oh well. I'm back at the Dbn Hts store tomorrow. Anyhoo then I had to rush home, take a fast shower & get to class. Fortunately, class was an easy session. But midterm next week urlLink yuck. |
1,450,156 | female | 37 | indUnk | Leo | 01,June,2004 | Oh yeah, several times. I don't know why, but I feel strangely sick & lethargic when I have to get up early. It eventually passes, but it makes me run late for work. I've been like that for quite awhile now. I wonder if it has something to do with my low blood pressure, now that I think of it. Once I'm up getting the ole juices flowin' for a bit, I get to feelin' better. I work at the Livonia store tomorrow. I know there's going to be a ton of work. And only 1 other person there. Bummer. It's probably going to be real busy customer & phone call wise too. I hope I can get enough done. Best to not think about it now, otherwise I won't be able to sleep. |
1,450,156 | female | 37 | indUnk | Leo | 31,July,2004 | I don't normally get much time to rent DVD movies, but I rented 3 last week: Haunted Mansion which was kind of amusing. 50 First Dates which was mostly funny, but I didn't agree with how the family handled her short-term memory loss. That was a dumb. Other parts were more sad than expected in the movie. Mystic River which I thought was a good movie. I didn't like what happened at the end, but I liked the end in that it was very unexpected. There was a moral to the story. Sometimes, you think you have the facts you need, fill in the rest of the blanks on your own & jump to your own conclusions. Unfortunately, you end up completely wrong. Several people I know do this time & time again at my expense. At least the end result is nothing like that of the movie. |
1,450,156 | female | 37 | indUnk | Leo | 30,July,2004 | I took my car to the dealership before work. I'll need the back bumper & the whole exhaust pipe/tailpipe and muffler replaced. The guy told me that the exhaust system is a depreciating part. In $$ terms that means if they can find an aftermarket one, I pay nothing. If they have to put on a new one, I pay a percentage of the cost based on how many miles are on my car. I have just over 25,000 miles, so I'd pay 25%. Because I had to be up abnormally early, I was excessively tired by midafternoon. So I decided to try a lightly carbonated, sugar free Red Bull for the first (and last) time. Yuck The only description I could think of is that it tasted like a glucose flavored jolly rancher. urlLink |
1,450,156 | female | 37 | indUnk | Leo | 28,July,2004 | I was at the Westland Police Department to file an accident report this evening & Fox 2 News was sitting in the parking lot. I asked at the desk why they were out there. The officer told me a body was found buried in the yard at a house. The body had been there for 7 years. I wanted to ask more questions, but he probably didn't know much more, & even if he did, he probably couldn't tell it anyway. Oh well, I'll just watch the 10:00 news for more. On a very different note, I got an A- in my Criminal Justice Organization and Administration class. Go, me. urlLink |
1,450,156 | female | 37 | indUnk | Leo | 23,July,2004 | Some jerkoff keeps driving back & forth thru the apartment complex with his car stereo at top volume with the base cranked up to the max. It sounds really bad. He'll be deaf before he grows up. Anyhoo, I got back the paper I wrote for class & got a 100% A. I also got the remarks: 'You did your usual excellent work. Nice presentation & paper.' urlLink Go me. I think I may actually get a grade B for the class tho. Everything on the final exam was too much information for my brain to retain all the details of, so I just wrote down as much as I could remember. Ah well. I'm not gonna worry about it. |
1,450,156 | female | 37 | indUnk | Leo | 20,July,2004 | I've been trying to study for my final exam tomorrow night, but it's hard. It's been kind of hot & real humid. It's 79 degrees out now & the humidity is about 69%, which I suppose is not really that bad right now. I'll get back to studying in a minute. I can't wait for this exam to be overwith. I feel so tired all the time because I haven't been getting enough sleep. I wake up every morning feeling real tired & lethargic & sick. By 3:00 every afternoon I have a desperate desire to take a nice 15 hour nap--but, obviously can't b/c I have to work til 5:00. Several times I've taken a nap as soon as I got home. Ok, urlLink back to it. |
1,450,156 | female | 37 | indUnk | Leo | 15,July,2004 | Not sure if it's good or bad... As mentioned in a urlLink previous post, I did a presentation in class that included the Sex offender registry. Last night in class there were more presentations. One guy, before beginning his, said, 'Someone last week did one on the pervert list.' (It took me a minute to realize what he was referring to.) He then said, 'Yeah, I looked at it & discovered my Aunt Betty was on the list, so I called her, & we had a nice long chat, & I just want to say thanks for that.' Wow. He didn't sound mad or anything, the way he said it made everyone in the class laugh. Next week is the final exam. WOOOHOOO. Last night I registered for 2 more classes for the Fall term, so I have 4 classes. 'Cept from my calculations I will only need a total of 11 more classes & I would love to graduate in May, so I may actually take 7 classes for the Winter term if I (hopefully) have no scheduling conflicts. And yes, I plan to take a lay-off from work for that. I may even try signing up for 1 more class in the Fall. Then, I figure once I get the syllibi (plural for syllibus?) for all the classes I could then determine if I will have enough time for all the homework & stuff. If not I can drop a class immediately without losing any money. But I have plenty time to decide as the class I have in mind still has plenty of available seats & classes don't start til September. I have no idea how this post is going to look upon publishing as it appears the people at blogger have once again been busy. Now the composition is set up just like Word 'cept not nearly as many font choices. |
1,450,156 | female | 37 | indUnk | Leo | 09,July,2004 | Last night, I went back to the urlLink Imax theatre in Dearborn to see Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban. The first time, I sat in the 3rd row (read urlLink here ). So last night I sat much further back. Way better. The movie started shortly after 7:00 PM. I'd made the mistake of getting some popcorn. I knew it would be around 9:30 when the movie let out & I'd be kinda hungry b/4 then. That's all the food Imax has other than candy. As soon as I tasted the popcorn, I knew it was too salty & I'd get an 'allergic' reaction. Anytime I eat stuff with too much sodium, I get a bad 'too much sodium' headache. My head feels like what happened to Aunt Marge (if you haven't already, you'll have to read the book, or see the movie for more on that). I ate slowly, so I didn't start getting the headache until the end of the movie. I didn't want to drink too much pop during the movie, b/c I didn't want to get up anytime during the movie to go to the bathroom. I hate that. I had to take a couple Excederin on the way home, but by the time I got home I was feeling sick. Fortunately, it was time to shower & go to bed anyway. I still enjoyed the movie--more so b/c I didn't have to strain my neck to see everything like last time. Thus this, urlLink this , & urlLink this , ends my busy week. |
1,450,156 | female | 37 | indUnk | Leo | 09,July,2004 | As soon as I got home from Up North (we were west of Escanaba, btw), I just got my stuff in the door, discovered the cat had thrown up near the front door, cleaned it up, & I went straight to my computer & started on my paper. I'd gotten some stuff written down already, I just had to get it into Word . I still made sure I got to bed at a decent hour b/c I had to work the next day. Right after work Tuesday, I settled in front of the computer & got cracking. It had to be at least 4 pages, otherwise it was 10% off the grade. I only had about 2 pages. But then, around 10:00 PM, I started brainstorming. I did my paper on urlLink the Sex Offender Registry & the urlLink Offender Tracking Information System . That led into the fact that, in Michigan, all convicted offenders must submit a DNA sample to police authorities. Unfortunately, there is a huge backlog of samples needing to be entered into the national DNA database. This led to 2 more pages all about urlLink CODIS . I finally finished my paper and the Powerpoint slides for the presentation I had to give in class about 1:30 Wednesday morning. Still had to get up at 7:00 for work. Then, during my lunch break, I was reading the Detroit News paper & saw an article pertaining to the sex offender registry, about a bill the House of Reps & the Senate had both passed & was on Governor Granholm's desk for review & her possible signing stating that juveniles who are convicted of having sex with minors within 3 years of their own age not being put on the registry. I kept thinking of my paper, & had already decided I wanted to rewrite some of it, plus I had forgotten to create some Powerpoint slides for my presentation, such as the title slide, and decided I also wanted to add the stuff about the article. So I'd asked my boss if I could leave work early (he said yes), I left 1 & 1/2 hours early came home & added all the things I wanted. Class starts at 7:00 PM, & I knew I had to leave home by 6:15 at the latest to make sure I got there in plenty of time. There's a computer in the classroom with internet access, so I could show all about each of the internet sites. The presentation went quite well. |
1,450,156 | female | 37 | indUnk | Leo | 09,July,2004 | I know, it's been awhile since my last blog. I have lots to tell, so get as comfortable as you can. Last week I was surprised to find the place where I work would be closed July 3, 4, & 5. That meant I could to L. & J.'s reception party. That also meant lots to do before going. I also knew I had a 4-page report due for class on July 7. So in between making the arrangements for the trip, I also had to find as much information for my paper as I could & print it up to take with me. Anyhoo, on the 3rd is when I left for Up North. And, apparently Murphy was a bit bored & decided to have fun at my expense: more things went wrong than I cared for. First I got off to a late start. Then I went to get D at her apartment. Those stupid, lame, dolts who run the complex decided to not have anyone assigned to work the gatehouse, but they left the gates down. They have an ultra lame teleprompter thingy that is hooked up to people's land line phones. For those who actually have a land line phone. If the resident doesn't too bad. I got out & tried shoving the gate up, hoping to break the motor or something, but I couldn't. I don't normally have a cell phone, because I never made enough calls to justify paying the hundreds of dollars each month. Fortunately, I'd borrowed one from work for my road trip in case of emergency. And luckily, D has a cell phone. So I called her. She was going to come down & swipe her gate pass for me, but I got tired of waiting & when another resident swiped his/hers & went thru, I hit the gas pedal & zoomed thru behind 'em. Anyhoo, I finally got there, we packed her things into the car, & then her husband asks if she has the phone # of where we're staying. No. She hasn't a clue. I tell her it was on the invitation. She has no clue where the invitation is. I finally go to my car for mine. I'm rooting thru my purse & realize that for the 5th or 6th time, I'd forgotten to drop off my rent check. AArgh. So she gets the ph# written down, we leave, go back to my complex, I drop the rent check off. Then, b/c my GPS had sounded the low-battery warning, I stop off at CVS for more batteries. I decide to get a new pair of sunglasses. I get in line. There's 5 people ahead of me & no cashier. The photo cashier is open. An old woman gets in line ahead of me. She puts something up on the counter, the cashier rings it up. The woman drags out her checkbook, doesn't know the date. Asks anyone including me if we know the date. No I just know the days of the week (mostly). I see a bunch of other things in her cart. Oh geez, she's gonna pay for stuff separately. The other cashier is back & ringing people up. I move there. The next one in line hands her a card the register won't read. She keeps swiping it, but the register does not recognize it. Cashier has to call the manager. Finally, the customer pays for something. Next. Eventually, I hear in the photo line, the woman paying with a check that she has more stuff in her cart & it would help if she paid for them. Duh. I finally pay for my batteries & sunglasses, & get to the car. I search my backpack for my swiss army knife, find it & cut the price tag off the glasses. I peel the sticker off the lens, that's when I notice it's missing a nose pad. urlLink !!! So I go back in & there's no less than 6 or so people in each line. So I grab another pair just like the ones I bought, make sure there's nothing wrong with 'em & get in line for the cashier I got b/4. Finally someone else opens a register, but I still got the same 1 as b/4. I explain about the glasses, she checks & makes sure the new ones are the same, they are, she enters it into the register & I'm on my way. I get back to the car, retrieve the knife & hand it to D to cut the tag off, while I changed the GPS batteries. Done!! We're finally on our way. Much later than I would have liked, but no more major crises after that. Several hours later we cross the Mackinac bridge. Right after that is when I remembered I should check the driving directions. Ok, the exit we take is.....the one I'm passing up. AAHHH. So I take the next one & we end up in St. Ignace. I need a gas station anyway. I finally find one, & I also learn I'm making my way back to the road I need anyway. It would take another 4 hours to get to our destination, so we decided we should get some food. No fast food joints in St. Ignace. Didn't surprise me really. So we stopped at urlLink Bessie's Original Homemade Pasties & got vegetable pasties to go. On the way back, naturally there were traffic jams on I-75, everyone else also driving back from Up North. A couple times when we were crawling along, I could hear a strange creaking, flapping noise coming from the front driver side wheel/tire. After awhile, after I'd driven over orange strips placed at construction points, the noise stopped. Once I got D. home, we looked at the tire & discovered a nail in it. So on Tuesday I ran it over to the Shell gas station across Telegraph & had the nail taken out & the tire patched. Whew. The rest of the weekend went quite well. There was so much excellent food at the reception, I probably packed on another 20 pounds. I certainly feel like it, everything was so good urlLink urlLink I'm glad I was able to go, I had fun. It's a shame our mother was unable to go. |
1,450,156 | female | 37 | indUnk | Leo | 05,August,2004 | I met a friend from Sign Language class who is a sign language interpreter at the Golden Corral Buffet last night. The food was good. It was quite busy, so people ended up doing pretty much an assembly line type of thing where we start at the salad making section, then work our way up to the entrees. Anyhoo, we hadn't gotten very far when the line seemed to be almost at a standstill so we decided to sit & eat what we'd gotten & wait for the line to decrease. I needed lots of signing practice, so we signed our conversations. We'd been sitting for an hour when K. wanted some water & we realized no waiters had come to ask us how we were doing. Everyone around us were being waited on. I told K. that maybe they all thought we were both deaf & were afraid to come up to us. She laughed & decided that if we could flag down a waiter we'd pretend she was deaf & I was her interpreter. Waiters were all around us but they were busy seating new people so we waited some more. I wanted some macaroni & cheese b/c I hadn't gotten that far the 1st time, so she told me to go ahead. On my way there I noticed around me that other people were being waited on. 1 waiter was even asking someone if she wanted a refill on her coffee. I was making my way back & was almost to the table when I saw K. had finally gotten a waiter's attention. She was signing to him, but naturally he didn't understand. He kept asking her did she want some rolls. I made it to the table & interpreted to him that she wanted some water. He asked if we wanted anything else & I told him coffee for myself. He looked at K. & asked if there was anything else, she signed no. He didn't know so he asked again if we wanted rolls. I said no, nothing else thank you. 5 mins later the waiter came back, but he was carrying a few bakets of--rolls. He laid a couple on the tables of some people who had just sat down. He had an extra so he put it on our table. Finally he came back with our water & coffee & put both in front of K. We just laughed. After that the waiter did come back & check on us a couple times. I only screwed up once being K.'s interpreter. I forgot she was supposed to be deaf, &, when the waiter checked on us around 9:00 (the place closes at 9:30) he said we could stay another hour. She had to ask me what he'd said b/c she wasn't supposed to have heard him. |
1,450,156 | female | 37 | indUnk | Leo | 03,August,2004 | It's a good thing I took a nap yesterday. We had more thunderstorms around 1:00 AM. urlLink Normally they don't bother me, 'cept these were real loud. One sounded like a massive explosion right outside my bedroom doorwall. I got up early & took my car to the dealership & got it fixed. They had it finished this afternoon, so I picked it up after work. I meant to go vote, but I forgot. Oh well. It was miserably hot & humid again. Yuck. It's 79 degrees right now & the humidity is 82%. Today's high was 87 degrees urlLink |
1,450,156 | female | 37 | indUnk | Leo | 02,August,2004 | I never did catch on the radio what the temperature & humidity got up to today, but it was miserable, & I see the weatherpixie is down right now. I don't work where there is air conditioning, just some fans blowing the hot air around, but it's something anyway. Right now it's 84 degrees & the humidity is 63%. When I got home, I turned my air conditioner on & took a nap. The dealership called me this afternoon to tell me the parts for my car are in, so I'm taking it in first thing in the morning b/4 work. It's supposed to only take them the 1 day, so hopefully I can pick it back up after work. |
1,450,156 | female | 37 | indUnk | Leo | 01,August,2004 | I went to the park & walked about 3 miles. It was hot tho, & I was tired. I'm always tired. It's been a couple weeks since I've been able to get to the park & walk. I want to go walking every day, but it's all I can do to crawl home after work. Anyhoo, after my walk, I grabbed a mat & towel from my car & laid on the grass for a couple hours & took a cat nap. I'm still tired. |
1,971,929 | female | 17 | Student | Virgo | 30,May,2004 | Well, after careful consideration, I've realized that I would be too disturbed by the thought of going out with Jared. I mean... not disturbed exactly, but it wouldn't be right. Of course, I will try my best to move on. So far no one knows about the break-up excluding my mother, best friend Talley, and whoever Lucas told. I at least know he told his mother and his sister Rachel overheard. Anyway, I'm still uber upset. I'm not sure how long it will take for me to get over it. Oh well, it's in the works. |
1,971,929 | female | 17 | Student | Virgo | 29,May,2004 | I've done some thinking, and I've decided that if I were to have a rebound relationship, it would have to be with Lucas's best friend, Jared. I mean, I'm pretty good friends with Jared, we talk all the time, and it would really make Lucas mad. The only problem would be getting Jared to go along with my master plan. See, the thing about Jared being Lucas's best friend, is that he's his best friend, so the chances of him betraying Lucas are slim to none. On the other hand, it is Summer, and Jared just might be bored enough; maybe even desperate enough to try escape such boredom by way of my plan. So Operation Jealousy has commenced, though the odds of success are lingering. If all else fails, I'll just hook up with some random guy from the beach or something. I think June will be dedicated to Operation Jealousy or 'OJ' as I have decided to call it. Bring on the envy. |
1,971,929 | female | 17 | Student | Virgo | 29,May,2004 | Well, well, well. It seems that I, Julie, have been, for the first time, dumped. I'm really kind of shocked here. I mean, I saw it coming, but then again I didn't. So here's what happened: School let out on Thursday of this week. I didn't see or hear from Lucas at all that day, or Friday, or Saturday, until I finally decided to break down and call him. I had talked to his best friend, Jared, about the possibility of Lucas breaking up with me and Jared said (this is a direct quote) 'I can tell you with 100% accuracy as his best friend that he wouldnt do that'. Well thank you, you dirty liar. When I called Lucas I used the premise that I wanted him to help pass out programs at the graduation with NHS. (I'm an officer, by the way, so it would make sense that I would try to recruit people for this.) He said he would help me and when we hung up, for the first time ever, he didn't say that he loved me. Now I was a little confused. After he came to pick me up, 15 minutes late might I add, we started on our way there and again, for the first time ever, he didn't hold my hand as we were driving along. Obviously, something was up, so I asked him if it would be alright if we just didn't go and he felt that would be fine. As we started back I began to cry because I knew the inevitable was about to occur: he was going to dump me. He noticed the tears and asked me what was wrong. After no reply he pulled into the parking lot where we had our second date; the place where he had first kissed me. Again, he asked me what was wrong and this time I told him. 'I'm afraid.' 'Of what?' 'I'm afraid about you.' 'Why's that?' 'I think you know.' Oh, he knew alright. We talked and according to him he was dumping me because of my friend Talley, because I'm a pushover, and because I automatically assume the worst about situations. Of course, I cried... and cried... and cried some more. Then he threw out the can-we-still-be-friends line and I started to bawl. When I finally got him to take me home I was able to hold back my tears and joke about the situation sayin things like 'At least now I have a reason to eat too much ice cream' to make him feel less awkward. After we got home I got out of the car before he could open the door for me, the little bastard, and sat on the driveway where he gave me a hug and two kisses: one on my head and one on my forehead. Then he held me between sobs. The last thing he said to me was 'Goodbye, lovely' wich really pissed me off. How could he say that? It's going to be so hard to see him now. Everytime I looked up and my eyes could see clearly enough to make out his face, I broke down again. I love him so much. I told him I would miss him, and he said he would miss me, that dumbass. I don't understand him. Of course, I've decided to go out with someone else as soon as I can to make the little jerk jealous, and believe me, he'll get jealous. Now to pick a target... |
1,971,929 | female | 17 | Student | Virgo | 22,May,2004 | What the crap happened today. I said I had plans, did I not? Apparently Lucas (my significant other) didn't want those plans to fall through. The intention was that I go have dinner at his house upon the request of his mother. For some reason unbeknownst to me, the little jackass didn't call. Not only that, but when I called, no one answered the phone. Obvioulsy, something is awry here, and it's not making me too happy. In fact, I'm pretty pissed right now. Yesterday, he said he would call me, but he didn't. And when I called him, he wasn't home. Of course, he got home eventually, but somehow found it unnecessary to call me. Bastard. I hardly ate anything at the crawfish boil I went to this afternoon, and I left there early so I'd have enough time to get home with enough spare time to primp myself more than usual. I even went out and bought something special to wear to dinner tonight, but nooooooo, Lucas doesn't even call me. I'm so mad at him. Wouldn't you know my luck? The day after I start this blog announcing that I love the moron, he dumps me. I can see it happening. Guess I'll just report back tomorrow with the news. I hope the rest of the world had a better day than I did. |
1,971,929 | female | 17 | Student | Virgo | 21,May,2004 | As ways should have it my life is at an impass, I've lost all sight of the habits of a life of normalcy and thus I come here, friendless and I, as the evergreen, have turned brown. On a more positive note I've become more interested in reading, preferably about history, which in turn increases not only my knowledge, but ability to intake knowledge, which, can be considered a good thing. So here I am, 17; a youthful age, and this time in my life is perhaps to be considered the best years of said. Too bad. My life isn't going to be too much fun now, is it? I guess you could say I have a few friends, only a handful. I do have a significant other, I'm quite fond of him actually. All in all, however, I AM sitting at home on a Friday night. Of course, in all fairness I'm being punished (for something untrue, need I say) and I do have plans for tomorrow night. Alas, my motivation for remaining awake has faded, and I know revert to a state I would prefer to be found in: sleep. |
1,971,929 | female | 17 | Student | Virgo | 30,June,2004 | Totally had a bad day yesterday. I found out that everyone thinks I'm annoying, and Lucas dislikes me. Then just now Jared tells me that I'm a good person, but I need to acknowledge my faults... ow... that one hurts. Apparently it's annoying when people compliment you and you don't believe them. I guess I'm going to just have to start taking compliments without contradicting them. I think that's one of the reasons Lucas dumped me - because I wouldn't believe him when he said certain things. Anyway, enough about that. Talley's finally back in town, and raving about a band called urlLink The Elms . I've never listened to them so I don't know that they're any good, but Talley's in love. She's going to marry the chubby one, Thomas. He amuses me because he's chubby. I'm gong to be the maid of honor. Even though she hasn't asked me yet... The garage sale is supposed to happen this weekend. I really wish it wouldn't. It's Independence Day weekend and I don't think we'll draw much of a crowd, so it'll be a waste of our time. Oh, and I've decided that either Monday or Tuesday is to be dedicated to Ocarina of Time. So one of those days I'll be missing in action until midnight that night when I either succeed or fail. For Hyrule! By the way, death to Trevor for telling me happy Canada Day. Watch oot, eh? |
1,971,929 | female | 17 | Student | Virgo | 28,June,2004 | Well, Warped Tour comes back tomorrow, but I'm not going to be attending. I've been getting horrible random pains since Saturday afternoon and they tend to last for a few hours, then get worse for like five minutes, then suddenly go away. I'm not sure that's a bad thing, but I know it's not good. Not to mention the fact that I still haven't gotten a ticket and it's starting an hour earlier than it would have on Friday. I don't want to be a burden on my Warped Tour companions. All I'll do the whole time is be like 'Oh... I don't feel well... I'm going to sit down.' And they'd be like 'Ugh!' and that would be their way of expressing their annoyance. So, I feel it's better that I don't go. Therefore, the saga ends with only three parts to it. Shame on me. |
1,971,929 | female | 17 | Student | Virgo | 26,June,2004 | Oh, my God. That is the only reaction I can blurt out between the sobs after seeing this movie. After trying the whole movie to hold back my emotions, I let he rivers of tears stream down my face when they're finally together at last. Oh, it was such a great movie; the best movie I think I've ever seen. I cannot express how great this movie was. Of course, don't go see it just because I say it's tremendous. Everyone has their own opinion, but mine is that this is the best movie ever. Everything was excellent: the acting, the actors they chose, the plotline, the ending, the script. I couldn't have imagined a better movie. I don't think I've ever wanted to burst out into tear so much in my life. It was so wonderful, I just can't stop raving about it. In my eyes, it's the greatest movie of all time. I'm going to buy it on video as soon as it comes out and watch it all the freakin' time, because I'm in love with it. Oh... I clench my heart as my eyes swell up with tears. |
1,971,929 | female | 17 | Student | Virgo | 25,June,2004 | We now begin to follow our hero on her journey to Warped Tour. A journey of intrigue, suspense, action, and cancellation. As our story begins, our hero is riding in the car with Ashley, sister, and sister's friend. She has procured shotgun and her head is filled with excitement. She is on her way. However, a quick stop to pick up friend Rachel Cornelius ends in tragedy after a broadcast airs on the radio. 'Um, well it looks like Warped Tour is going to be postponed until Monday. That's Monday. It seems that they were unable to setup due to the torrential downpour last night, of course they will be back on Monday, so don't worry about the wasted money,' the announcer person said. Our hero's smile now turns upside down, but is interrupted by a phone call. Ashley answers: 'Hello? Yeah, I know, we just heard it on the radio. OK. OK, bye.' Could this be the end for our hero? Will she survive yet another day's workload of garage sale duty? Tune in next time for Chapter Three of our saga: The Return of the Tour. |
1,971,929 | female | 17 | Student | Virgo | 24,June,2004 | So I was just hanging out out MSN, like any normal day when Ashley gets online. So I started talking to her and we got to the subject of Warped Tour. Ashley: 'I hope it doesn't rain too bad since it's tomorrow' Me: 'Yeah, and make sure to video tape Taking Back Sunday... or I'll kill you.' 'I know. Why don't you just come?' 'I don't have any money.' 'Don't you have a bank account?' 'Yes... I guess I could dip into that.' 'Well do it woman.' So after a rather lengthy conversation about circumstances and the plan of action it was decided that I was going. So I woke up early today, showered, went to the bank and took out $100 (not sure what all I could use it for but you never know), bought myself breakfast at Shipley's for $2, and returned home to dress. Oh I have really bad hiccups right now because I ate so fast. I don't know that any of you have ever heard me when I have the hiccups, but I make this rather annoying squeaking sound. It hurts when I hiccup. Poor me. Anyway... Ashley should be here any minute now. I hope I don't have to sit in the back with her sister and her sister's friend, although her sister amuses me. I'll come back with the details probably this afternoon. Peace out... :S |
1,971,929 | female | 17 | Student | Virgo | 24,June,2004 | Do you know what time it is right now? 9:15. 9:15... at night? No, 9:15 in the morning. But isn't that before noon? Yes, yes it is. This isn't right. I'm not supposed to be up before noon, especially since I went to bed last night at 3:30. I have to go finish painting at the Bayou House. We missed a wall. Of course, the woman wakes me up at 8 even though all I had to do was eat, so of course I choose to sit here on the computer and waste time. Ugh, this garage sale is going exactly as I had expected. No one is doing anything, and Rachel's complaining. I feel psychic, but I'm only psychic on Tuesdays. I think my system may be awry because I woke up so early today. How did I get so weird?!?! |
1,971,929 | female | 17 | Student | Virgo | 22,June,2004 | So here's the thing: This coming school year I'm going to be a senior. That means within a matter of months I have to start applying to colleges. What college shall I choose? This is a decision that affects the rest of my life. Do I get to pick any college that I want? Of course not, because my mother has popped out five children. All of whom, must go to college, paid for by my parents. Thus, I am told that I cannot attend any out of state college, nor any private college. I've always known I don't want to go to A&M or UT because they're huge schools and I really don't like crowds. So what does that leave me with? Basically, I'm left with my mother's alma mater: U of H. Now, it's not a bad school, but it's not where I want to go. Where is it that I want to go you ask? Why that would be Baylor University in Waco, Texas. You'd say, 'No problem, that's in Texas. It follows the rules.' Does it? Does it really? No, it doesn't. It's a private school. And private schools are considered to be out of the question. But Baylor is where I need to be. As of right now, I want to do something in the medical field, preferably the surgical field. I'd like to be a neurosurgeon. And if I have to stay in Texas for my colleging (oh yes, it's a word), I need to go to Baylor. Baylor is obviously the best institution for the field I'd like to pursue. All that I need to do is convince my parents. In order to do this, I have to add a new... oh curses I missed 11:11 by one minute... subject to my to-do list: write an essay explaining why I need to go to Baylor. I mean, I've got all summer. It'll be great. I'm going to make it into a big project and I'll have visual aids and everything. It'll be great. They'd have to let me go then. Right? |
1,971,929 | female | 17 | Student | Virgo | 21,June,2004 | How is it that I'm so bored right now? I have the entire internet at my fingertips, and yet I'm capable of boredom nonetheless. I was able to keep entertained for about 45 minutes reading short stories by Ross and his friend Phillip. Alas, the short story flow has ceased and I am left with no form of stimulation. Of course, I can always turn to my old fried Food. Oh, wow, I eat way too much. If I keep this up, by the end of the summer I'll have gained like 20 pounds. I don't like being fat. I was fat a few years ago. Well, not exactly fat, but pudgy. Pudgy Pudgy Pudgy. I'd hate myself so much if i were fat. I used to be horribly afraid of fat people. It's amazing how most of my fears, past and present, have to do with people. I don't understand how I'm afraid, but I am. I feel really bad about it, but it's not like I choose to be afraid of it. I have like the weirdest fears ever. If anyone can think of anything their afraid of that's stranger than old people, let me know so I won't feel so weird. The cats are fighting. It's funny because they'll be clawing at each other, then turn to run and smack right into a cabinet or something. Then every few minutes they take a break to lick themselves, which I find rather amusing as well. You know what I haven't had in a really long time? A Chicken Burger. I should really get me one of those. If only I had money... OK, now the cat fighting is getting kind of annoying. I mean, them running into things can only be amusing for so long. We're going to try to do the garage sale this weekend, but according to my fkoibn RFBG['P Gah! cat on the keyboard... anyway... according to my father it's supposed to rain this weekend. So I'm not sure that the garage sale will actually happen. I hope it does. I just want it to go away. |
1,971,929 | female | 17 | Student | Virgo | 19,June,2004 | I had an awesome time at the beach and bowling alley yesterday. I still feel really bad about promising Austin I'd take him to the Rec Center and coming up short of that promise. I think he's fine, though. I'm going to be away from the house for a couple of days, depending on my mother. The whole family is going to be staying the weekend at the Bayou House, since it's Father's Day weekend. It makes my dad happy when we all go there, so my mom has decided to make us all go, even though the only one of us that actually likes it there is Austin. I always get sick when I go there. It might have something to do with the air, but I could be wrong. I could just be allergic to being away from the computer. It's going to be really weird because it'll be the first time all summer I haven't been on the computer at night. There's nothing to do there. I'll probably spend my time laying out in the sun or painting one of the rooms. A project I started Thursday, but have failed to finish. I'll miss the lot of you. Miss me, too. |
1,971,929 | female | 17 | Student | Virgo | 18,June,2004 | OK, so Jared wasn't mad at me, and he's not a failure. He was just busy with church stuff. That's a pretty good reason to not respond. It kind of would have been nice if he had though. |
1,971,929 | female | 17 | Student | Virgo | 17,June,2004 | I've been away from the blog for a couple of days, but there have been a couple developments. First, I've discovered I like Ross. I've also discovered that Jared is upset with me or something. He's kind of the person that I always complain to and he makes me feel better about situations, but he didn't make me feel better about a problem that I was having earlier this week. I sent him an e-mail about a hypothetical situation (the one I explained to Ross), but it's been three days and he hasn't responded. Also, I haven't talked to him since, I'm pretty sure, the same day I sent him the e-mail. I always talk to Jared and all the sudden he doesn't want to talk to me? What's up with that? All I asked for was a little help. Alas, I solved my own problem anyway and things are looking OK. I'm getting a haircut tomorrow. Finally. I didn't go to take senior pictures today because I need one. Right now my hair is all one length and it's really boring, and I'm finally going to get one. I sure hope it's not ugly, because I don't like to look ugly. |
1,971,929 | female | 17 | Student | Virgo | 14,June,2004 | Today was spent, beginning-wise, at church. There was a mission trip meeting. Then when I finally came home, Rachel found another roach. Like the 6 yesterday weren't enough. Dear Lord that was horrible. My number one fear is roaches. I nearly had an anxiety attack trying to kill three of them yesterday; Rachel killed the other three. So when the seventh one appeared today, neither of us were up to killing it. I was talking to Ross online and he jokingly volunteered to come over here and kill it, so I took him up on it. I went to his house and picked him up so he could kill it, but when he got here the roach had been scared away be Eeeevil Tristan the Canadian. Stupid Canadian. So I just got Ross to pick up the roach corpses that Rachel and I had taken care of last night. Then Ross and I played video games and I discovered that I should really play more, because I'm not good anymore. Then we played Monopoly, but Ross had to forfeit because he needed to get home. I would have won though. |
1,971,929 | female | 17 | Student | Virgo | 12,June,2004 | Yesterday was Laura's birthday so she decided that we needed to go to the beach. Beachgoers included myself, Laura, Ashley, Lisa, and Melissa Ontiveros. We had a super fun time. First we drove around Lake Jackson for like an hour going to people's houses and collecting stuff, so we got to the beach at like 3:15. We swam around for a while and then these three guys came. Only one was moderately attractive, until I glanced over and watched him pull up his boxers, but pull down his pants. Then I decided he's weird. They asked us if we wanted to go sailing with them, but they didn't even have a sailboat. It was one of those blowup boats that you use in swimming pools. So I also decided they were lame. Who asks someone to go sailing if you don't have access to a sailboat? They finally kind of drifted away from us, but came back to say goodbye when it was time to leave. We went back to the cars because we felt like we should be leaving too and then it happened. We were just standing there, minding our own business, when some black guy in a silver passenger vehicle drove up, stopped and hung his head and gold-plated teeth out the window and yelled 'I just want y'all to know y'all all fine. Y'all all fine.' We figured it was probably a really good time to go and started to get into the cars. His two black buddies then drove up, stuck their heads out the window and asked us what we were doing later. We were saved by the sailboatless guys who revved their engine and sent the black guys away. It was very amusing though. I also fulfilled one of my life long dreams of building a tunnel, though it was crushed shortly thereafter when the sailboatless idiots threw a football at it. I was crushed. Next time, I'll just have to make it bigger and better. |
1,971,929 | female | 17 | Student | Virgo | 09,June,2004 | I've been thinking about all the upcoming expenses I'll be in need of covering and I'm thinking it's not going to work out. Looking at my list of needs (well, not really needs so much as things that would make my life incredibly more convenient), I can tell that I'm pretty much screwed. The littler items I can do without until my birthday on September 13, though it would be preferred that I procure them as soon as is possible, but the larger, more essential things, I really really need. Number one, obviously, is a car. Cars are a very versatile part of any day: they can be used for transportational purposes, as a home, as a bed... I just really need a car. Number two is a cell phone. Now, I know that at times cell phones are extranuous and unnecessary, mostly for 12 year olds, but in my case, it's pretty much crucial. OK, so not crucial, but I'd love to have one. Story time: Last year I celebrated my 17th birthday. It was a hot hot September day and my little brother Austin (who had turned 5 two days prior) was having his very first soccer game. Of course, I wanted to go and support him and all that good stuff, so I went. I wore jeans because I hadn't shaved and I knew I was going to be under the shade and the game wouldn't last for but and hour. I was a little inconvenienced by the heat, but I wasn't bothered. So,I watched as Austin's team got the crud kicked out of them. The game eventually ended and it was time to leave. Well, my boyfriend at the time, urlLink Tim , had come to the game and brought my birthday present with him since he was unsure that he would attend the party I was having later. He had left it in the car so we went off to his car to get it. I told my mother 'I'll be right back,' and we started for the car. I got the present (a pretty pair of pink heart earrings and some ankle socks with little kitties on them, thanks Tim) and we said our goodbyes and I started off to my mother's vehicle. As I was walking away I saw Tim drive off. A0s I walked still further I saw my mother pulling out of her parking space. I assumed that she was just readying herself to leave, but as I continued on my path, she continued on hers and drove away. I watched her drive trying to convince myself that she wasn't leaving, but she didn't turn around. No, sir. I looked around for my grandparents' car because they had come, too, but they were gone as well. They left me. They had all left me. It was my birthday. I had no phone and there were no pay phones. No one was there to lend me their phone. Everyone had left me five miles from home on a hot September day: on my birthday. It was horrible. If I had had a phone I could have just called someone and they could have given me a ride, but I had no phone. So, I walked the five mile trek home in my blue jeans, carrying my box of birthday gifts. A sad tale indeed. If only I were in possession of a cell phone, my pain would have been prevented. I think that's one of those things I'll cry about every time I think of it and forever be scarred by. That's not the only time I've been left or forgotten, either. There has been many a time when no one came to pick me up from school when I stayed late or from soccer practice when it finished early and all that. Poor me. |
1,971,929 | female | 17 | Student | Virgo | 08,June,2004 | And here I was worried that I wouldn't get to see it once. I have just returned from my third viewing of urlLink Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban . I saw it once on Friday, a second time today at 7:15, and a third today at 9:45. 'My, you wasted no time between the last two times,' one may be thinking. Yes, you are correct, for immediately following me second screening I ran into Talley and Rachel (Lucas' younger sister) at the movie theater. As I was driving away with my mother and 12 year old sister Elizabeth, I saw Talley's car driving into the parking lot. So, I told my mother and she followed the car and the passengers after their exit of said car. She was honking and flashing her brights on and off, but they were completely ignoring her. Finally Talley turned around and realized that we weren't some crazy stalker people like she had firstly presumed. She walked over to the car and told me to get out. Of course, I asked why, though I had a pretty good idea. She said that I was to go to the movie with them. Then, I asked which movie they were intent on viewing, and Talley replied that the movie in question was none other than Harry Potter. So, naturally I replied that I had just finished watching it, but she said something along the lines of 'I don't care' and told me I was going to watch it anyway. So I did, thus upping my total viewings of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban to three. |
1,971,929 | female | 17 | Student | Virgo | 04,June,2004 | I'd just like to start off by saying thank you to all the employees at Starplex for making this moment possible. The ticket seller, the popcorn butterer, but especially the ticket checker, for not stopping me from going into the Harry Potter theater and forcing me to see The Day After Tomorrow again. It started like any normal movie swapping, we bought tickets for one movie, and arrived on time to see Harry Potter instead. Then, things became unusual. Instead of stopping us from walking into the wrong theater, the ticket tearer simply shrugged it off and continued ripping those tickets. Next, as we took our seats in the worst possible place: the very end of the very front row, we were surprised by the lack of security. Unlike the average Houston theater, Starplex Cinemas of Lake Jackson didn't have someone roaming up and down the aisles to make sure everyone had their ticket stubs. Strangely, we were undisturbed the entire time, and didn't even see someone checking people's tickets. So, thanks Starplex Cinemas. I couldn't have done it without you. |
1,971,929 | female | 17 | Student | Virgo | 03,June,2004 | What a failure this day has turned out to be. First of all, I didn't get to leave the house to pick up movies and tickets like I had planned and thus was thwarted in my effort to attend Harry Potter and escape the obese children. Then, when it came time to stuff my face with hotdogs, I was limited to three because the fat kids had to eat too. Psh. They could live without five hotdogs each. Then I talked to my friend Laura on MSN and she said she'd go with me to see Harry Potter since Talley, whom I had planned on attending the film with, had already seen it earlier in the day. So she went to pick up tickets for the 6:45 show, but they were sold out already, and so was the 7:15 showing. Then I talk to people and everyone and their mom has already seen it and they're all telling me how awesome it is, and all I can do is just sit there and feel sorry for myself. I guess I'll just see it tomorrow after the SATs. If I don't see it tomorrow, I'm going to be sad. Tear. |
1,971,929 | female | 17 | Student | Virgo | 03,June,2004 | Tomorrow is going to be a busy day. It's the day of my little sister Lizzie's birthday party, thus I am flogged with chores. I shall perform as usual and disregard my assigned chores and do whatever I feel like. So, the plans for tomorrow are as follows: 1. Wake up around 10. 2. Think about cleaning the bathroom and the hall, but eat breakfast instead. 3. Drive to Blockbuster and pick up some movies for her fat friends to watch at the sleepover. Included will be: Donnie Darko, and whatever the heck Lizzie wants 4. Swing by the movie theater and see if I can pick up a ticket or two to the new Harry Potter movie because I'm a nerd. 5. Decorate the house, because, though a chore, I enjoy it. 6. Go swimming with Lizzie to get her used to jumping off the rope swing. 7. Think about cleaning the bathroom and hall again, but eat lunch instead. 8. Tell Lizzie she needs to hurry up and clean the bathroom and hall before her friends get here. 9. Lizzie's friends start arriving and I watch Donnie Darko while the fatties swim in the lake. 10. Chubby people come inside and I leave to watch Harry Potter so that I don't get the fat disease. 11. Go back to the house so I can stuff my face with hotdogs and pray that I don't get the fat disease from the infected children. 12. Rest up for SATs Saturday morning. Yippy. |
1,971,929 | female | 17 | Student | Virgo | 03,June,2004 | I had a dream last night that Lucas read my blog and thought that I had said I hate him in one or some of the posts, not actually came out and said it, but implied it. So when I woke up, I felt really horrible. I spent today reading through all of my posts making sure I didn't allude to a hatred of any kind toward Lucas or anybody else. I just want everyone to know that I don't hate anybody, regardless of how angry I seem to get. Sure, I used to hate my sister Rachel, but I realize that she's probably the way she is because of a hormone problem or something. She's probably really depressed and I don't blame her. I mean, she IS going out with Scott Lord, but I digress and lie. Scott's not that bad, he's just boring, and it really doesn't matter if he reads this because he already knows that's what I think. I've decided they probably mesh so well because Rachel's always talking and talking and talking and Scott never says anything. So Scott doesn't care that she's infinitely gabbing, as long as he doesn't have to say anything. So anyway, I just want to let it be known that I don't hate anyone, no matter how raged I appear to get. |
1,971,929 | female | 17 | Student | Virgo | 02,June,2004 | At least I can always find comfort in the distruction of another human being, especially if that other human being is Lucas. I totally annihilated Lucas at Monopoly. It was excellent, and good medecine. The only thing was having to look at him the whole time. I'm really confused about the whole thing. It's hard to decide whether or not I still like him. On the one hand, all I'm hearing from people is that he wasn't good enough, I was too good for him, I'm too pretty for him, I can do much better, blah blah blah, and all that gets me thinking that maybe they're right. I mean there wasn't really anything fantastic about him, other than the fact that he's the nicest guy I've ever met. Well, he was at first. Then on the other hand, he's Lucas. However, talking to Ross has made me realize that because of his lame reasons for dumping me, he wouldn't exactly be a very commited husband, so there's really no reason for me to date him ever. After all, the whole purpose of dating is to find the person that you want to spend the rest of your life with, and why would I want to spend the rest of my life with someone who can't even come up with good reasons to break up with me? I sure hope that made sense. |
1,971,929 | female | 17 | Student | Virgo | 01,June,2004 | Well, here it is: le premier de juin; what I am considering the start of my summer and the start of my getting over Lucas, and I have to say it started out pretty well. Last night, well, early this morning, at like 1 I took my sister Rachel, her 'best friend' as I am told to refer to her as, Sarah, and a guy named Ross (who is friend to all of us) house wrapping. It was Rachel and Sarah's first time house wrapping. It was hysterical to watch fifteen-year-old Rachel stand there mumbling to herself about how she felt 'so bad'. Oh, I needed that. Ross is hilarious. Rachel and Sarah are really lucky he was there because they would have been complete failures on their own. I drove, since the two girls are 15 and Ross's license is suspended for 6 months after running into a guardrail and 80 mph and into a ditch. We parked sort of across the street at some Baptist Church/School and Ross went to check the house out because Rachel was paranoid that we were going to get caught. After he told us the coast was clear and they grabbed the toilet paper they went across the street and began the wrapping. I later joined them, but only as Supervisor, and I told them where to go and what to wrap. It was so funny watching Rachel and Sarah in all their confusion. When we ran out of toilet paper we tried to go back across the street and take off before we got caught, but a car came so we took off back to the house and hid. Then we tried to cross again, but another car came and we had to hide again. Once more we tried and again a car came. There must have been like 5 cars. When we finally got across and to the car Rachel remembered she left the flashlight. Who brings a flashlight house wrapping? Moron. So we went back and Rachel and Sarah hopped out of the car the search for the lost flashlight while Ross and I drove around the block trying not to look suspicious. Ross is a really cool guy. |
1,971,929 | female | 17 | Student | Virgo | 09,July,2004 | Here it is, the day before the mission trip has finally arrived. Wow, it's 11:00 and I haven't even started packing yet. That's fine, I can just sleep on the way up there I guess. Anyway, I'm going to be leaving tomorrow at 7:00 AM and arriving sometime next Saturday around 5:00 PM. Some people tell me I'll have a good time, and I really hope they're right. After all, it will be a whole week's worth of whatever it's going to end up being, and thus I pray for it to be enjoyable. Supposedly someone is going to be posting daily on the urlLink Mission Trip Website . There's also a place for you to urlLink contact me while I'm on the mission, like send me a good luck e-mail or profess your undying love for me. Either way, I'd love to hear from you. I'll have my mother's cell phone and I just might call some of you during my absence. According to my sources I'll have about an hour every night to do so. Well, wish me luck. I shall miss the lot of you. Well, maybe not Trevor because he was mean to me today. I sure hope I didn't forget anything. |
1,971,929 | female | 17 | Student | Virgo | 08,July,2004 | Well, the campaign came and went: it came with promise, and went with failure. Of course, I do know that it is possible to beat it, and when I come home from the mission trip, it's going to happen. The Garage Sale also came and went, but I'm just plain glad it's over. Of course, we will eventually have to do something with all that stuff in the garage. It really wasn't that bad since I had company. Ross came, and so did Trevor who brought Mairead. I love Mairead, she's so cute and so sweet. She's even pretty clever. She drew a picture of me, which I'm going to do my best to get on the blog, all I have to do is find a scanner... coughRosscough. I went to see Ross's play today: Cinderella. It wasn't absolutely awful, but I really didn't like it. By the end of the performance I hoped a random stage light would come crashing down on Cinderella... actually it was more like as soon as she started to sing. Anyway, don't go see it. It's definitely not worth the ten dollars the evil ones will try to collect from you. Although, I did get a kick out of their inability to get the curtain down during the one of the scene changes. |
1,971,929 | female | 17 | Student | Virgo | 02,July,2004 | Well, I'm posting this early in the morning because I'm stupid and have decided to just not go to bed. Not the brightest idea since I've got garage sale stuff to do today, but oh well. I'm sure I'll survive. It's summer, I'll catch up on my sleep eventually. Speaking of which, I'm going to be pulling an all-nighter again sometime next week because of my Ocarina of Time Campaign, as I have chosen to dub it. So far I've gotten Talley and Ross to agree to help me. Talley's free to bring Lairen, the more the better. I asked Jared, but he'll have to 'see how he's feeling' next week when we decide to do it. I may have asked Trevor, but I can't really remember. So Trevor, if I haven't asked you yet, feel free to join us. I'd invite Scott, but he told me he hated me today so I think I'll just not do that. Then I could invite Sarah Williams, but I don't know if she'll contribute as much as I'd like. Either way, I've already recruited Rachel to be in charge of refreshments and all the random things we need. I guess she's kind of the go-pher. I'm really hoping this works out well. I have to talk to everyone and figure out what day would be the most opportune to take on the task, and I still have to ask my mother when it's OK. Hopefully I'll be able to pick a day in which my father's out of town allowing my companions and me to play downstairs in the living room. Well, wish me luck on my endeavor. |
1,971,929 | female | 17 | Student | Virgo | 27,June,2004 | urlLink This is my little sister Elizabeth. She's 12. This is her wearing my shirt and jacket... both of which I'd like back sometime soon. She's really strange and has horrible taste in friends, of course, it's not like she has much choice. She goes to a parochial school and the friends are slim-pickings. Well, I say slim, but they're all really fat. Poor chubby kids. |
1,971,929 | female | 17 | Student | Virgo | 19,June,2004 | urlLink This is Jay. He has his own category because he's Jay. I remember my sophomore year he was in my Algebra 2 class. Talley and I never felt like doing our homework so we would so something stupid like play MASH and we would put Jay down in every category. It had to say something about Jay. Husband: Jay... Car: Jay... Honeymoon: Jay's house... Pet: Jay... good times. The hand pointing to his head belongs to Tim. |
1,971,929 | female | 17 | Student | Virgo | 07,June,2004 | urlLink This here bes Ross; friend of me and all woodland creatures. Ross is really cool. You should worship him. urlLink This here bes Jared. He's not quite as cool as Ross, but he's way up there. He's really nice, too. urlLink This one is Trevor. Sure he looks like a ten year old stoner to some, but he's actually 16 and not on drugs. He's cool most of the time, but sometimes he can be a jerk. He's also Canadian, and for that we mock him, but it's all in good fun. I don't have anything against Canada... or do I? |
1,971,929 | female | 17 | Student | Virgo | 03,June,2004 | urlLink This is Ex-Boyfriend Number 1, Tim. He's a little out there. We suspect he has a few screws loose. Tim and I went out for nearly eight months, starting in April of 2003, ending in December 2003. We broke up because I felt like we were only friends. He never seemed too interested and in the last couple of months he stopped asking me to do things with him. We pretty much only talked at school and he always seemed to have his mind on other things. So, it really seemed like there was no romantic interest, I mean, he never even kissed me; he never tried to kiss me. EIGHT MONTHS! Sheesh. |
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