Flemmyville

Happy New Year!!

2006-01-04T17:12:00.000-06:00

MOA Tree
Originally uploaded by pirate johnny.

Sorry for neglecting this blog, I use the one on My Space way more now.. So everyone go make accounts!
My cat wrecked her knee jumping from a high shelf, so she has to have surgery in a couple weeks. She tore a ligament so they're going to put a suture over her knee bones. I am going nuts trying to stop her from doing normal cat things like jumping and climbing because she's supposed to be lying around. :P
This is the tree at MOA in the Rotunda. Bye?

Room

2005-12-12T19:28:00.000-06:00

Done Painting
Originally uploaded by pirate johnny.

Here's the color I painted the walls and my IKEA desk and my Urban Outfitters chair and my stupid twin bed that I had to get because it's extra-long. Oh, and Ivy's in the picture too. Bye!

Sleep

2005-12-12T08:59:00.000-06:00

Went to Lorie Line's Christmas show on Saturday night in Minneapolis. Some lady was yelling crazy stuff at nobody in particular on Hennepin Ave. I thought it was funny :( Lorie Line went around in the audience in the 2nd half and took requests, and then she played melody lines from all these different songs. One was an Eminem rap song, whatever that one from 8 mile is.. And then Clocks by Coldplay. I got another bell. It was only $5. I remember paying more in Madison 3 years ago for the bell I got there. See she has songs where the audience can ring bells if they want, so she always has a new bell every year. I'll take a picture of it today. I made a broccoli & cheese stuffed chicken breast (that I bought, not one I actually "made") & potato round things that look like potato oles from Taco John's but not spicy :(
I'm allergic to the basement so I've been sneezing all morning. Oh yeah, I want sleep because I went to bed at 2 a.m. and then got up at 7 to drive my mom & sister to work because my sister's window fell into the car door and 12-degree weather isn't good to drive in with your window down.. So I'm tired and I can't fall back asleep. I have to buy stamps because we did around 50 Christmas cards last night, we're early because we usually do them on New Years Eve and send out ones with the Wise Men on them because it's not Epiphany (La Befana for Hype) yet. K, bye

How to be cold

2005-12-09T13:17:00.000-06:00

It's freezing here! I should move to Florida where it's always 90 degrees and the alligators cross the road like deer do up here. (I saw one doing that when I was down there.) I am done shopping for 3 out of 9 people.
I want to buy the Aqua Teens season 4 dvd but I think I'm getting it for Christmas. I've been doing myspace stuff lately, I should learn more html so my profile looks better.
Bye?

Oooo

2005-12-03T13:42:00.000-06:00

Huffles has a blog

2005-12-03T11:58:00.000-06:00

Huffy emailed me and said she has a blog, but there's no thing to leave comments.
It's been snowing all week, I'm sick of brushing off the car and hoping the doors aren't frozen shut yet.
We went to Kohls last night because they were open until midnight. We got there at 10ish and left around 11:59.. Mom got lots of presents bought, but me & Anna didn't get as much. I picked out a lot of things that I'll have to act surprised about opening :(
We went to Marshall Fields in Minneapolis with Alex & Jack yesterday to see the Christmas display. It was Cinderella and I remember going when I was little and it was Cinderella that year too. I took pictures there, they're on Flickr.
I got roped into typing the Christmas letter, so I'ma gonna do that now since we bought fancy Christmas stationery. Bye?

Happy Turkey Day!

2005-11-23T17:22:00.000-06:00

Happy Turkey Day tomorrow!!

Today I went to the grocery store at 8 a.m. and that's when the old people are shopping so they like to slowly go down the middle of the aisle so your cart can't fit on either side and they look at things you want to buy for 3 minutes and then leave without taking anything so you're stuck waiting..
I went to watch my nephews this afternoon and we watched Polar Express, I only saw the last half, it was pretty good. Byrdy would like it because of Tom Hanks. Alex was all excited because Santa was in it. Then we were going to watch something else and Alex said no to Nemo, Brother Bear, Aristocats, and Shrek and then he finally said "How about No movie." and then we went and played with toys.
On Sunday we took my mom to Buca's for her 60th bday bash and invited 20 other people. Buca's is this Italian place where you order family-style and then pass it around. I was at a table with 7 other people so we all picked what we wanted and then we each got to try some of it. We had Chicken Marsala, Fettucine Supremo, Penne with spicy sausage, and then our salad had gorgonzola & proscuitto on top of it. Mmm And since it was mom's party, we got to bring home the leftovers. I had 3 drinks with apple pucker & pineapple rum in them and then a glass of wine.
I stopped taking my cough medicine because I guess it said you couldn't take it with alcohol and that would be a boring Thanksgiving. :P

I'm Phlegmy

2005-11-19T09:20:00.000-06:00

Gordon Loves Fridays!
Originally uploaded by pirate johnny.

My brother came over on Monday to take our bags of leaves to the compost and he said he had a sore throat and was all congested. The next day I woke up with a sore throat and I've been coughing up phlegm all week.. At least I was ok for the Gwen Stefani concert on Monday night, it was pretty awesome and she is very beautiful in person like she is on tv. The Black Eyed Peas were good, I didn't think I'd know their songs that well but they did their popular ones. I bought a $30 shirt with a banana on it.
So I've been taking stupid liqui-gels all week and coughing when I lie down if I don't prop myself up with pillows..
Yesterday I had to drive to Wisconsin to feed my brother's cats because he's deer-hunting. I finally got to take the liftbridge in Stillwater because it's fixed now. Otherwise you have to take 94 through Hudson and then drive north for 10 miles, it's out of the way. So I brought my camera along and took this picture of Gordon. He wanted to go outside and roam, but it's cold out and there's still snow on the ground from Tuesday/Wednesday.
I'm going to Harry Potter today. I bought the tickets online so I don't have to wait in line and I just hand this printed thingy to the ticket-bizzo.

Colder

2005-11-13T11:58:00.000-06:00

Eating: Ruffles
Drinking: Vitamin Water

Chips & vitamin water cancel each other out, right?

I guess I'm getting an inch of snow tomorrow night.. well, that's what the radio-bizzo said today anyways. So I'm going to have to rake a lot tomorrow before the snow lands on it. And then it's supposed to be snowy all week. I guess it's around that time of year up here though, because we used to get snow by Halloween so it's late maybe.
I'm going to the Gwen Stefani concert tomorrow, I've heard her new cd all the way through once when I was in the car with my cousins, otherwise I only know her singles. And I've heard a couple Black Eyed Peas singles, but otherwise don't really know them and they're opening for her. I don't remember the last concert I went to, so this should be fun?
My room is in shambles, so I have to put stuff back in boxes so I can move it out and the furniture out. Then I can paint and put up my IKEA desk and then bring everything back in. Maybe I'll be done with that by Friday.

Cold

2005-11-10T01:26:00.000-06:00

It is freezing here! I guess tonight is the first night it will be below 28 for several hours. Maybe I'll wear pajamas, usually I don't because they're annoying if you're in a hurry in the morning. But I'm not in much of a hurry these days. I saw a job where you worked as a lab technician in a land-fill, but that sounded questionable, and it's sort of far away.

Today was the first time I had ever been to Applebee's. We went after 9 p.m. so it was Happy Hour and appetizers were half off. I think the waiter was kinda depressed that we didn't want actual food because then you don't tip as much.. And all these other people were just ordering appetizers too. Being a waiter must be depressing. I have a friend who did that to pay for college and I always heard complaints about people tipping really bad or wanting all these extra things or changing their orders. I wouldn't remember anything and I don't think I'm a people person..

It's almost 1:30 in the morning.. I guess I should go to bed. AOL is so fast right now, it makes me want to be online all night! :(

I can't see

2005-11-03T20:18:00.000-06:00

Today I went to the eye doctor and got my pupils dilated, so it was annoying to drive home and there weren't any sunglasses in the car except my mom's prescription ones that didn't fit and I think they're bifocals. I had the visor down to block the sunlight, and then I couldn't really see the traffic lights that well, but I noticed when one was yellow so I stopped. Then I was going to make lunch and I couldn't read anything at all. There wasn't any macaroni & cheese, so I was going to use Velveeta and I could figure out that there was a recipe for it on the box, but there was no way I could read what to do or what it said.. So I had soup and grilled cheese sandwiches that I burnt. I could watch tv so that was ok, but nothing's really on during the day. I think I fell asleep.
National Write a Novel Month started, but I haven't started yet even though I signed up on the website. It's like school: I would get an assignment to write a paper and even if I tried, I couldn't write it until the day before because it just didn't work. I guess I write best under pressure. So maybe on November 28th I'll be trying to write all 50,000 by the end of the month. :X
I got invited by Jaz to join myspace, so I did. If anyone else has an account we should be friends! :)

Candy & More Candy

2005-11-01T22:30:00.000-06:00

Last year we had a bunch of trick-or-treaters, I guess. So we bought 6 bags of candy! And I picked good kinds so if we had leftovers it would be good. It was so cold out we maybe had 20 kids and they had coats over their costumes. So we're stuck with tons of candy.
I made a cake for work today since it's my last day. (Now what do I do?) It was a "Chess Cake" and it had a pound of powdered sugar in it.. And they brought in donuts because it was my last day. And someone brought in their leftover candy (which was Wonka candy: Laffy Taffy, Nerds, Bottlecaps, Spree!!) so I had a sugar rush all day. I'm afraid to make a dentist appointment because I'll open my mouth and there won't be any teeth in there..

Posts

2005-10-27T18:43:00.000-05:00

Well, it's almost been a month.. Let me try and think what I did this month..
I went to Wisconsin for Columbus Day weekend and drove a 4-wheeler around in the woods. That was fun, but I didn't go very fast.. (I'm safe!) I also drank booze and made smores and went to Walmart in Black River Falls.
Our chat room came back to life under the name of "Happy Hijinks" so come in some night if you haven't been on aim in forever, you slackers!! >:o
I've been working a lot, we weren't as busy last year in October as we have been this year and still are. That's probably why I'm always tired and never post on my blog. It would be like "Today I worked a lot and was tired and drank coffee." and it would be a month of that.
My room isn't painted yet, but it's 1/2-way there. Ooooo! Livin' on a prayer! Take my hand, we'll make it I swear, Oooooo! Livin' on a prayer! *guitar solo* Um, where was I? Oh, back in the 80s! I saw a little bit of some I lurve the 80's show on VH1 last night and Webster was talking about something. And then they showed when Epcot opened and I told Anna that I was there. :O
I have a club pogo thing Byrdys gave me for Halloween, so I should be playing games more. K, bye! :-*

You Wretched Reptiles!

2005-09-29T22:13:00.000-05:00

Shredder
Originally uploaded by pirate johnny.

It got really cold here for no good reason! I whined until my mom said I could turn the furnace on. I guess it's supposed to be 70's again this weekend though.

I went to Toys R Us and they had lots of Wiggles stuff on sale, but Mom said no. I was going to get Anna a Jeff doll and it sings the Where's Jeff song too :( All we bought was Crayola stuff for my nephew.

Happy Birthday to my nephew Jack!

Congrats to Scorpy on having a baby boy!! :)

Boozin' It Up on a Saturday Night

2005-09-25T14:58:00.000-05:00

I won my ebay auction on Cow & Chicken seasons 1 and 2!

Yesterday I went with B & M to Buffalo Wild Wings in Maplewood and we sat at a booth with one of those Megatouch TV game things. But I didn't have any one-dollar bills so I couldn't play games or pick songs. I think it would be funny to pick crazy songs because they play them over the loudspeaker thing so everyone at the restaurant would have to listen to it. The last time I was there, my sister picked a whole bunch of Prince songs.. It's like 50 cents a song though. So anywho, since I wasn't driving, I got 2 Captain & Cokes and that was fun because I never drink anymore. I'm usually the designated driver :[

Not that I was hungover, but I didn't get up until 9:45 today so I missed coffee hour at church, but I got there for the service. Alex had 7 Hot Wheels cars that he was driving around and I tried to take one and he said they were all his and then tried to bite me. I went up to Communion and then when I came back Alex asked me if I drank wine. I said "yeah" instead of giving him a nice theological answer like Anna woulda done. Sometimes Alex is like "Why does this happen?" and then Anna will give him this big scientific explanation and then he won't say anything for a while and then ask again. I guess he's being good in preschool because he's only bratty around family but he's quiet around other kids.

It's rainy out and there's still branches all over from the storm-nado last week. And it's down to 60's now so I gotta break out the sweaters.

Tornado Alley

2005-09-22T21:44:00.000-05:00

Last night I got home and was mowing the lawn and the sun had set already since it was 7:00 and it does that early now, and then the sky was funny colors and it started lightninging so I got 1/3 of the front yard mowed and then stopped and watched the sky because it was cool. We had really bad thunderstorms and the cities north of Minneapolis/St Paul had tornados and hail the size of golfballs. :o Lots of people didn't come into work today because they had no power or their homes were damaged.. Yipes!

The only thing that happened in my yard is branches all over and one landed on our patio table but it didn't break or anything. Ivy wanted to sit in the window and watch the storm but we didn't let her. She came in and woke me up to feed her at 6 a.m. so I'm tired. :(

Huzzah!

2005-09-13T23:49:00.000-05:00

Well, I was not too excited about going to the Renaissance Festival because I thought people would ridicule me and follow me around speaking British, but it turned out to be really cool and now I want to get a costume and go next year. The Puke & Snot show was funny and I also saw the Tortuga Twins (there's 3 of them) and they were hilarious. I didn't really want a turkey leg but got one and it was really good and sort of barbecuey, so I liked it. I went to the joust and that was cool, I felt bad for the knights with the metal armor though because it was in the 90's. That's why my face is all sunburnt and people at work are going "Did you get a little sun this weekend?"

I didn't know very much about who was running, but I voted at the primary tonight anyways. It was just mayor and city council.. I got an "I VOTED" sticker out of the deal..

I made zucchini bread and it's done now so I'm going to bed. I had bought zucchini at the St Paul Farmer's Market last week and so I started making the bread and then I went to grate the zucchini and it was all mushy and no good. Sooo I went to the grocery store (at 10 pm) and bought zucchini and some other stuff so I wouldn't look stupid just buying zucchini and then came back and grated it up. Lousy farmers market!

Bleah, I'm sick.

2005-09-07T17:56:00.000-05:00

IMing with: Byrdys

My head is plugged up and my nose doesn't work and I took lots of Sudafed & stuff. I am sick of eating chicken noodle shmersal, so I told Anna to make a pizza. I have been going to work instead of staying at home, so I'm hella tired.
I had to get 3 tickets to Gwen Stefani and it cost like $176 or something. *sorbs* It better be a good concert for that much! I'm going to the Rennaisance Festival on Saturday, I've never gone to one so I'm scared.
I went to the Minnesota State Fair on Friday and ate alot and wandered around. I didn't see anybody I knew there, I even looked around in the 4-H building for people but I guess everyone isn't in it anymore.. I bought a Squngee in the Agriculture building so now the squirrels will have to bungee jump onto the corn cob if they want to eat it.. I'll take pictures if I catch them in the act.
I ordered Garfield & Friends Season 4 on Amazon, and I'm probably the only one who did..

Strawberry Nachos

2005-08-30T19:07:00.000-05:00

Strawberry Nachos
Originally uploaded by pirate johnny.

So this weekend I went to Milwaukee and they have Summerfest every weekend and it was Mexican Fiesta weekend. They had a strawberry food booth and one of their things was "strawberry nachos" and they were really good. The chips were big cinnamon toast crunchy squares and then it was strawberries, whipped cream, and chocolate syrup.
I also went to an Indian restaurant and they had Aloo Gohbi in the buffet! The director shows you how to cook that on the Bend it Like Beckham dvd so I will have to watch it and take notes so I can try to cook it since it was really good. They also had Goat Curry, but I didn't try that. :X

Happy Hump Day!

2005-08-17T22:28:00.000-05:00

Summer is for doing nothing, so that's my lame excuse for not updating my blog that much? I always wake up and I'm as tired as I was when I went to bed, so I never feel like doing anything. My cell phone will let me onto AIM, but it doesn't let me send IMs so I went on and Byrdys was on but I couldn't send a message because it just kept saying it failed. :-/ @%*&@%*!!
I'm going to visit a pharmacy college in Chicago on Monday, it should be scary. We'll see if I have what it takes.. It will be like a mini-vacation because we're going on Sunday and coming back Monday night because I only took Monday off of work.
I saw a desk I want at IKEA for my computer and its name was Carlos and it's $70, so some time I'll have to go buy it. I am peeling the wallpaper off my walls and I picked out a paint color, so probably over Labor Day I will paint my room finally.
We were watching episodes from the Dukes of Hazzard season 3 dvd and Alex said he only wanted to watch the beginning because the cars crash. I used to watch that show all the time, but now I don't think it's any good.

Weekend!

2005-08-06T12:57:00.000-05:00

I don't do mornings
Originally uploaded by pirate johnny.

Hmm... I don't think I've posted in my blog for evers. So this week I finished Harry Potter and was annoyed that I have to wait for the next one, I guess the ending was good but I thought somebody else should have died. Well, I didn't mind the first death, but the second one was dumb.. And kids are supposed to read these books? WTF!
Anyhow, I worked alot this week and I'd come home and be all tired, but then I wouldn't go to bed until 12ish anyways so I slept until 11:30 this morning. I want to paint my bedroom.
I have to mow the lawn. I don't want to do anything since it's the weekend though.. :(
Here's a picture of Ivy with coffee..

Ducks for Sale

2005-07-21T20:45:00.000-05:00

Ducks for Sale
Originally uploaded by pirate johnny.

We were in Bayport, MN (on the MN/WI border) and these ducks at a petting zoo were for sale, but they were all going nuts because they were fighting over the water dish so I wouldn't want a hyper duck..
I think a white goose would be a cooler pet than a brown duck anyways. (Sorry duck lurvers.)
It's still in the 90's up here and I hope it decides to stop being so warm here because not wearing clothes to work would probably get me fired.

Waiting for the Riverboat

2005-07-18T19:07:00.000-05:00

Waiting for the Riverboat
Originally uploaded by pirate johnny.

I went on a riverboat ride on Saturday and it was cool to look at the scenery. My nephews liked watching the jet-skis go by.

Two Movies and a Book.

2005-07-17T23:21:00.000-05:00

On Saturday I went to see Fantastic Four with B & M. I thought it was really good and the only thing was that it didn't take very much to kill off the bad guy. I never read the comic or anything so I wasn't disappointed like M was. It was B's second time seeing it, so he must really like it. If I had to compare it to another superhero movie, I'd compare it to Spiderman rather than Batman.. :-/

Today I saw Charlie & the Chocolate Factory with J and the theater was packed with little kids who should have been at home reading Harry Potter 6. They weren't loud during the movie though.. I had a bad experience at League of Extraordinary Gentlemen where the kid behind us couldn't read so his dad had to read him the subtitles through the whole %*#^% movie. Johnny Depp is good at being Willy Wonka and I thought it was funnier than the old movie. I read the book in 1st grade so I have no clue if they wrecked the book or not. The Oompa Loompas were all the same guy, meaning he had to do everything or maybe they stuck his head on everyone's body, but they all were the same. Charlie's grandparents were funny because old people are funny/crazy.

Then we went to Potbelly's and I got an Italian sandwich, which wasn't as good as the pizza one and I shouldn't have had them put pickles in it. :X I went to Barnes & Noble and got Harry Potter 6, and the cashier was like "We have extra glasses from our Friday night party!" So she gave me a pair of Harry Potter glasses which wouldn't possibly fit my head, but might fit Alex's even though he doesn't care about Harry Potter yet. So maybe I'll start reading that book tomorrow.. I read book 5 in about 2 weeks because I didn't read it all at once like everyone else does and I took breaks. Byrdy is probably done with it already. :P

Meow?

2005-07-09T11:28:00.000-05:00

Meow?
Originally uploaded by pirate johnny.

Here's a picture of Ivy that I have on Flickr. She likes windows for no good reason (gith raisin)?

Sleep

2005-07-09T11:23:00.000-05:00

I slept from 11 to 9 so I was happy I guess. I usually get maybe 5 or 6 hours so 10 is fine. Pony updated his Flickr account with pictures now. I put some in mine of Ivy and I think I set it up so I could post pictures on this blog. We'll see! :X

Polkeasers are doin it for (with) themselves

2005-07-05T21:06:00.000-05:00

Don't be jealous, or be jealous if you want, but since I had today off I slept in until 11:30.. Then I poked around on the internet and went to lunch with my sister and the neighbors at Baker's Square. Then I poked around some more, but I mowed the backyard so I did accomplish something today.
We went to Target and bought stuff, including a big box of diapers because you get a free Blue's Clues blanket in it and we had to guess what size my nephew was. But I remembered because last weekend I was babysitting him and my sister said that he couldn't ride in the toddler carseat until he was 30 lbs, so I put him on the bathroom scale and it said 27. So that's how I knew what size diapers to get. Thanks for reading my boring story?

Fireworks are loud

2005-07-04T10:00:00.000-05:00

My pyromaniac neighbors have been shooting off fireworks for a couple days now.. A few years ago when fireworks were illegal in Minnesota, there were still some people who had some from Wisconsin that they smuggled across the border and they'd light them in their yard where they probably thought nobody would notice..

Yesterday I went back to Burger King and got a large value meal this time (compared to medium meal = bigger cup and ~4 more onion rings) and I got an amazon.com card. So I went to see how much it was worth and it's worth a stupid dollar, I don't know what I want to buy anyways but this just feeds my addiction.

I was up until past 1 a.m. watching Garfield (season 3) and playing around on Flickr. And then I woke up wide awake at 8:10, and nobody else is up yet so I'm bored and I watched Cold Case Files on A&E and Baby Looney Tunes and other mindless television programs..

Happy 4th of July! :B

Fridays are for Sleeping

2005-07-01T23:46:00.000-05:00

What is a blog? I don't think I remember.. I've been so addicted to Flickr and sleeping lately. :X
I'm not going anywhere for the 4th, but I don't have to go back to work until Wednesday. Today I got home from work and Anna and I went to Burger King to get value meals with amazon.com cards or something and we didn't know it had to be large and not medium sized, so we didn't get any cards with ours. >:(
Then I went home and slept alot. :)
Happy 4th! :D

Crikey! British Lesbians!

2005-06-19T22:27:00.000-05:00

On Saturday Alex turned 4 and we went to Como Zoo for his bday with all his friends and had pizza and cake and stuff. It was like 90 degrees though so we didn't wander around the zoo that much after the party.. I got a snowcone though.

Today we ate at Buffalo Wild Wings (BW3's) and it was awesome. And they opened a Potbelly's here too, so my two favorite Madison restaurants are now in Maplewood so I don't need to go there anymore? :P

I'm a big Agatha Christie fan, although I'm almost out of books, so tonight I watched the new movie they made of her Body in the Library book. Except there were lesbians in it, and I don't remember that in the book. And funny thing, the other movie they recently made they added some lesbians to that one too.. Maybe if the lesbians were like 20ish instead of in their 40's..

:X

Onions

2005-06-15T21:27:00.000-05:00

Tonight I got home and the only thing we had all the ingredients for that I felt like eating was meatloaf. Except the recipe said 1 medium onion, chopped, and I don't know why recipes always tell you to put in so much onion, so I put in 1/2 of one. It turned out good, but then I had 1/2 an onion left so I cut that 1/2 up and sauteed it and then when it was cooked through, I added beef broth and let it simmer and I ended up with some sort of beefy onion soup and it smells awesome in the house now (if you like that kind of smell) and I tried some and thought it was good. I should be the next Food Network star. :(

The Power Went Out

2005-06-13T22:23:00.000-05:00

So I was online IMing with Kay and then I left to go eat pizza and then we went to church. During the sermon someone said there was a tornado warning, but we didn't go in the basement or anything. Then when we got home the power went out so I lit some jar candles and played my gameboy because I couldn't do anything else and it was dark. The power went on an hour later and then I put pictures onto my flickr.com account (it's a photo-share website thing) and now I'm eating those little carrots.

I got the Wario Twisted gameboy game for my belated bday and the Spirited Away dvd and a new tennis racket and some balls.

Gotta be Cruel to be Kind

2005-06-10T22:53:00.000-05:00

It's Friday! I ate Chipotle tacos today because they're my favorite thing around work to get. It's been stormy and 80's, which is really cruddy. One day it was cooler out when we left for work and when we got home it was 90's so Ivy was lying there all hot and crabby because we didn't leave the air on for her. I had it on last night but then I froze all night.

I was looking at Target at shower curtains because one time Milo said I should put one up to hide my messy closet when I showed everyone a picture of me and my closet was in the background. So anyways, I found this fabric shower curtain thing and it looks pretty cool, so maybe I'll get it. They have California Closet Co. closet furniture things at Target too, but they're kinda short, I guess I could stack an extra one on top of the top part.

I finally will get to open my bday presents on Sunday because my family likes to clump my bday with my sister's (which is today) so I had to wait 3 weeks to get presents. I know I'm getting a new gameboy game since I beat Mario Party Advance.

Today on House Hunters they were looking at houses on an island next to Seattle and they were pretty cool houses so Kay should move there. Then she could take the ferry across Puget Sound (?) to go to Starbucks in Seattle..
Happy Weekend!

Mondays = Mange

2005-06-06T07:11:00.000-05:00

I think mange is something bad, I don't remember or know anything because it's Monday and I'm tired and I fell asleep watching Aqua Teens episodes and then it was 7 a.m. all of the sudden.

Yesterday I went bowlin' and I think I got a 97, which is pretty lousy but it's pretty good for me.

All my clothes are wrinkled and I hate ironing.

Down with Depressing Quizzes & Gardening & Mondays

2005-06-03T19:15:00.000-05:00

It's Friday! Fridays take forever (just like Mondays) and the clock at work seems to never go forward.. It was 9:45 forever this morning, I finally had to stop looking at the clock and then it was 10:28 the next time I looked. :P
I found this quiz on Hype's blog:

You need security.
There has been many changes in your life and
you have had to live in an unstable
environment. This has lead you to be suspicious
and always on guard. Your mind has a hard time
to unwind and this could lead to you having
sleeping problems, since you think too much.
People are a category you don't give much trust
at, and find yourself to be a better secret
keeper than they could ever be. Because in your
changing world you have learnt that you only
have yourself in all times.

What Do You Need in Your Life? [dark pics]
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Uh, that quiz made me want to go listen to whiny music and sit in the dark.. :P
It's stormy here so planting stuff will have to wait. Yesterday we bought a bunch of annuals and then some tomato & pepper plants, so I guess it's garden time again. Last year the bunnies ate all my pepper plants right away, but the tomato ones did good and we had tomatoes from August through October somehow.. I used to grow cucumbers & zucchini, but the old garden area is now grass because I didn't use it for a few years, so now I have nowhere to plant that stuff, but tomatoes & peppers can grow in stupid pots in the backyard..
And that was today's garden tip. Tune in next time for more problems...

Do you have any waffles?

2005-06-02T18:26:00.000-05:00

It's finally Thursday! I had Arby's for lunch and it was like $6 :( They should have a fast food place for poor people.. It's really humid out but I'm gonna mow the lawn anyways because it looks like the savannah out there. We're having hotdogs for dinner, I wish we could grill them because they're really good when they're all burnt and stuff.
Today I didn't go to work as normal as usual so I watched tv and some stupid dog cartoon was on at 8 but Anna and I watched it anyways, then we watched Baby Looney Tunes and ate waffles.
I think it's about that time (finally) where we take the cover off the air conditioner thing because it's humid out and I should rearrange my room again because I had stuff by the windows since when my bed was there in the winter it was too cold but now I could move it back and that's too much work but I have an empty weekend for once so I suppose I can fill it up again.
*dies*

Star Wars 4 sale

2005-06-01T19:16:00.000-05:00

I had my Red Mt Dew icee and a big thing o' popcorn and I went to see Star Wars with M. It was pretty good, but I felt bad for everyone and it was depressing and Anakin turned into Darth Vader and it didn't seem like it was his fault.. *sorbs*

On a happier note, I had beef lo mein tonight and I treated myself to Chipotle for lunch because everyone else went to some boring meeting thing with free pizza but I said free pizza wasn't worth being bored for an hour.

I lurve my new cell/flip phone now that I know how to use it. I want to get more text messages because I think I only get 20 and I use more than that each month and pay like 10 cents each for the extra ones, it adds up though and I think having 100 a month is only $3 more if it's on your plan.

I guess I'm going to Blockbuster with my sister to rent moovies. I should get a horror one! :D

Hooray 4 Vacations

2005-05-31T19:11:00.000-05:00

So...I'm finally back from being gone. For those of you who didn't know where I went, I was in Florida for 8 days and then I went to WI for Memorial Day weekend. Today I went to work and it seemed like the longest day ever and people kept saying it was Monday when it's really Tuesday, but it felt like a Monday.
So here's what I did in Florida: I went to Disney World and went on all the rides and met Lilo & Stitch (no Mickeys around or he hid the whole time); I went to Universal Studios and went on rides and went to City Walk (the Universal bar/night club thing twice and had a margarita at Margaritaville and ate dinner at the Bob Marley restaurant. I went to Downtown Disney (Disney's version of City Walk) on my bday and got a sundae at the Ghiradelli place and it was really good. I went to the ocean for the first time (I've been stuck in the midwest..) and it was really cool how you can be 10 feet from the water and then a huge wave will come from nowhere and water will be up to your knees. I brought some shells home.. I took some pictures of the ocean but they all look the same since it's just water & sky.. It was cool though, so I'm not knocking the ocean or anything. I went to Ron Jon's Surf Shop at 3 a.m. (it's open 24 hours at Cocoa Beach) and bought a shirt with a gator on it.. There were only like 8 customers there at 3 a.m.
So I thought FL was fun, but you need $ to go there because it's sort of a tourist trap.
I caught 3 bass this weekend when I was fishing, but I threw them all back since I didn't want to clean 'em and one was too small to keep. I said "see ya" to the last one and my brother told me I was supposed to say "grow up" and then they'll be bigger the next time you catch 'em.
Being on vacation makes you not want to do anything when you get back because you've been doing nothing and then you have to start doing things again...

Birthday Vacation!

2005-05-17T19:56:00.000-05:00

I'm leaving for FL tomorrow and I'll be gone for a week, but sometimes I don't post in my blog for that long anyways, so it's not like anyone will think I'm deceased. My birthday is this Saturday, so happy birthday to me early! :O

Hooray 4 Chicago

2005-05-16T23:40:00.000-05:00

Watching: Wiggle Bay on dvd

We spent the weekend in Chicago to visit relatives & I went to a graduation in Deerfield. I thought it was nice how everyone goes 15 over the speed limit and the cops didn't care. I was driving on Saturday night and I only saw one cop on the highway and he was cuffing some guy who had his face on the truck of his car. The tolls are annoying since if you don't have an I-Pass because they are up to 80 cents or $1.00 instead of 30 cents like they used to be. :P I got to watch the Friday the 13th movie marathon on Friday (yay!) so I got to see the end of part 5 finally. I think I'll get the dvd of 1-8 anyhow because it's a good deal.

On the way home from Chicago we stopped in Huntley at some Outlet place and bought stoof. I got this dragon thing that's pretty cool and it was only $8! We went nuts at the Fitz & Floyd outlet though. And then Mom bought tons of stuff at the Carter's one for the nephews.

Speaking of those 2, we watched a Veggietales movie tonight and it was pretty funny, it was a cartoonized version of Larryboy. the bad guy was an onion and his sidekick was a lamp with a smiley face drawn on the lampshade and its name was "Lampy" and so there were all these Lampy jokes, and then this inventor lady made a machine that turns the hair from bathtub drains into nightcaps. :X Alex watched the whole thing and didn't do anything naughty. Jack got bored and ran off and pulled all the magnets off the fridge, knocked over a pile of folded clothes, took all the books out of a basket, and threw toys. :( He's not the innocent baby anymore, now he gets into stuff and says "No!" and some other words too, and he's a troublemaker like his brother.. Arrgh! So I said by to them and said see you in a week since i'm going to FL on Wednesday until the Wednesday after that. :o

Lousy technology

2005-05-11T19:08:00.000-05:00

I got a new cell phone and I wanted a flip phone like everybody else, and it makes no sense and I should have kept my normal phone that didn't have so many buttons and stuff.
I mowed the lawn yesterday and then it rained so I didn't do the backyard yet.. I hope it rains alot so I don't have to do it for a couple days. :X
Nothing else is new.. Z z z z z

Vroooooom

2005-05-10T07:32:00.000-05:00

Oh, it's time for work.
I had weird dreams last night but then I would hit snooze and go back to bed and have another one and it happened like that for a while..

It's nice out and I'm drinking...

2005-05-06T21:55:00.000-05:00

Today it was finally above 70, it's been in the 40's for days and I was wondering if we'd ever have spring. So to celebrate I went and bought booze at the liquor store and tried to make a Tom Collins. It's ok, but I think the ones at the bar are better.

Today we were driving and there was a train so I had to back up and go around it somehow. *sorbs*

I haven't bought the Phantom of the Opera dvd yet, I might just buy it on amazon if I don't go anywhere tomorrow... But I have to go to the Fossil store at MOA to get a new watch battery. :( MOA is crowded on Saturdays... *sorbs*

Funny Prank # 2682693-5555

2005-05-02T19:02:00.000-05:00

Eating: Lucky Charms (with New Revealing Cloud Marshmallows!)
Doing: Procrastinatin' :X

I saw Hitchhiker's Guide on Saturday and I liked it even though I hadn't read the book. :)
I have to pay my bills and I keep forgetting so I better do them now so I can mail them tomorrow.. :X Arrgh! Being responsible is annoying! Anyways, onto the prank!

PRANK!
Today's victim was Mom and she left her cup of tea in the living room when she went to look for something in her room, so I thought that it would be funny if I switched her tea with something instead of being really mean and putting something in her tea.
So I took an identical cup and put hot water in it and then added beef boullion granules because that looks like tea! Except it smells like beef broth, so I lit a jar candle by the tea to hide the beef smell. Then I took the tag from the teabag and sorta hung it on the teacup so it would look like tea.
Then I was waiting for her to come in and try drinking it and she found whatever she was looking for (a phone bill?) and stayed in her room and I got all mad and thought about bringing her "tea" to her, but I didn't want to look suspicious..
After a while she went back in the living room but didn't drink the "tea" so I gave up and went somewhere to play gameboy and then I heard that she took a sip (my sister was in the room) and said it was beef broth and they knew it was me so I acted like I didn't know what they were talking about and they didn't believe me so I ended up going and getting her real tea out of the kitchen.
So I guess it was sort of a success, but I wasn't in there to see her expression or anything. Boooo!
Anyways, it was fun thinking it up and I had originally wanted to put boullion granules into a tea bag, but I didn't know if I could pull it off. Maybe next time...

Arrrgh

2005-04-28T21:07:00.000-05:00

Everyone's on my case so I'm having a breakdown. :-/
Today I ordered a chai at Steep & Brew and they make it with powder, which is weird because every other place uses concentrate, but it was pretty good. :)
I made hamburgers in the broiler and they took forever...but they were good. :-/

Meh...

And boy are my teeth tired!

2005-04-27T09:40:00.000-05:00

Ack, just got back from dentist and they weren't as mad about my coffee-love as usual, but they scraped alot so my mouth is broken. :(
I am getting ready to go to work now. Last night when I turned my alarm clock on, I didn't push the button all the way so it didn't go off this morning but I woke up around that time anyways because that's when I always wake up.
I bought a 2-pack of Wiggles dvds for $15, that's a g00d deal! If Alex ever comes over he can watch them or I guess I could leave them at his house..
Nothing's on tv right now except Lazy Town, but I've seen that episode so I guess I'm headin' to work. :X

Don't go breaking my heart - I couldn't if I tried

2005-04-22T20:23:00.000-05:00

Hype made some "guess the songs" things on her blog and I had no clue what they were. I looked up the lyrics on google and I hadn't heard of the artists either.
Today I slept in until 8:15 (which should be an oxymoron phrase) so I got to work around 9:30 and worked until 6, which shouldn't happen on a Friday. Blech! Everyone left at 4:30ish so it was quiet and I was tired and stuff. Then it was freezing out when I was waiting for Mom to get me and then it started raining and the doors were locked so I had to wait outside anyways.
I like complaining!
Anyhow, tomorrow I have to be up by at least 7:30ish because it's a busy day and we're going to the Festival of Nations in St Paul (yay!) which is fun and they always have good food. I wish I could have a weekend where I didn't have plans or anything and I could just sit there and watch tv and do nothing the whole time. I think I should plan to have a nervous breakdown one of these days... :X

I used to be anti-drugs, but now I'm prozac!

2005-04-20T19:01:00.000-05:00

Eating: Peach cobbler
Doing: Relaxing the night away
Watching: Lil Brudder!

I'm tired and I work alot and my new job is nice but it's quieter and so I listened to cds all day and one of them was Eric Clapton for Hype since she mentioned it the other day.
Today at lunch I went to McDonalds with Anna because we haven't gone grocery shopping in forever so we had no lunch foods, but anyways they have cat and dog happy meal toys, so we ordered those and then the crabby bizzo said they didn't take visa or checks so we had to cancel our meal and go to the instant cash machine and come back and reorder again. *sorbs* Every other store takes credit nowadays because Corporate Americans don't carry moneys around anymore, just plastic.

Clutterrific

2005-04-17T21:25:00.000-05:00

I've been trying to find stoof to get for my friends who are graduating in May, and it's like I've bought everything I can think of for their birthdays or Christmas for the past few years, like one year everyone got fleece blankets, so I have no clue what I'm doing. People like to buy me stuff and then I end up trying to put it somewhere and in all actuality I should get rid of it because I already have too much stuff and I can't find my floor. And I want to get a double or queen bed so I want to get rid of stoof in my room so I have space.

Today it was supposed to get up to 80, I don't know that it did, maybe because it was windy so I didn't notice. I helped the mom clean the garage and now you could actually fit a car in there. We threw out 3 bags of junk and I cut up some cardboard boxes from the kitchen remodeling days that were just sitting in there.

I sure like to talk about clutter problems.
Yesterday at Sam's Club, Alex got all excited that they had chocolate milk and he screamed "MOMMY! CHOCOLATE MILK!!!" until my sister went and got one. Jack waved at people and said hi to them and then old ladies thought that was cute so Alex started doing it too to get attention.. Sibling Rivalry at its finest?

omg stfu n00b

2005-04-14T19:34:00.000-05:00

Watching: The Office
Doing: Playing literati with Jaz

Jaz and I just played Literati but she is really good so she beat me by 100 points! And I even had a good start because I spelled "SENDERS" and got 47 points for using all my letters.

I gave blood on Monday and it's made me tired all week because I didn't drink as much water as I should have and I still have been drinking mt dew and stuff. *guzzles*

Bye

It's Nice Out

2005-04-10T17:05:00.000-05:00

Listening to: thunder
Eating: peanut m&m's
Doing: not organizing stoof

It was 70's yesterday and today so it's finally nice out and the windows are open finally, which makes the cat happy too because she was going through withdrawal all winter from not getting to sit in them.

I guess I should stash all my winter clothes somewhere, but I don't know where.. I guess a tub or something. My room is a mess and I have too many books so I'm glad I didn't buy any at Barnes and Noble yesterday. I don't have time to read anyways. I don't know why I have no time for anything.

I made muffins yesterday and you needed 1/3 cup oil and there was only enough vegetable oil to make 1/4 cup so I added olive oil to make it a third cup and they taste ok anyways. Usually substitution is dangerous when it comes to cooking, but somehow they were still muffins. Maybe I invented Italian muffins! I'll be rich!

Moooooo

2005-04-06T18:06:00.000-05:00

I had such the nicest vacation weekend at the WI Film Festival in Madison. But now i have flu-ish symptoms. :X It's annoying but I'm going to work anyways because I need moneys.

I bought a game called Neighbors From Hell for the computer and you go in your neighbor's house and pull pranks on him and then he gets mad and stuff. It's pretty fun. And then I bought Mario Party Advance for my gameboy so now I'm happy for the moment.

I bought a shirt with a skull and 2 crossed white spoons underneath and it says "Cereal Killer" and mom said it was bad but everyone else in the world thinks it's funny and it's piratey too!

I lurve Better Cheddar crackers.

Thunder fun der

2005-03-30T19:09:00.000-06:00

IMing: Huffles
Watching: Sonic cartoons

Today we had a thunderstorm and I watched the lightning from the window at work. It was pretty neat. It's been rainy all day and we went to the store and it was all muddy. I bought a tv dinner at the grocery store. I want to buy stuff on amazon, but I'll do it later. :(

I want 2 ovens

2005-03-29T18:12:00.000-06:00

IMing with: Kay
Eating: scalloped potatoes
Doing: a dance

Our stove died last week and so on Friday we went to the appliance joint and the first thing I said was that I wanted 2 ovens, and they actually had some models where there's 2 ovens built into a regular-sized oven! Then I could cook 2 things at 2 different temperatures! :o But they were small, like 1/3 and 2/3 ovens compared to the regular size. They were $1000 more than the regular one though so we got a normal one :(

I had a good Easter even though I got up at 5:30 to go play at the early service at 6:30 and so I was tired but I made a new drink that night and it was Lemonade, Sierra Mist, and Captain Morgan. I should name it something but I don't know what yet..

Garfield cakes

2005-03-26T17:38:00.000-06:00

People are nuts and they drive nuts around holidays. This stupid guy drove up the parking aisle the wrong way at the mall to steal a spot from me that his truck barely fit in and he had to back up 5 times before he got in and I could drive by. Arrrgh!
We went to Dairy Queen to buy an ice cream cake for tomorrow and got one with Garfield on it and he has bunny ears and it says hoppy easter. omg lol *dies*
Bye! Happy Easter tomorrow!

Maunday Thursday!

2005-03-24T18:30:00.000-06:00

IMing with: Byrdys
Eating: Sloppy Joes
Doing: Jonesin'

Arrrgh, I can't find my cool shoes that I bought 2 years ago and then never wore because they got dirty but now I have leather cleaner so I can clean them and I have no clue where they went.. I wore some other tennis shoes today and they look goofy, I think I'm gonna give them away to goodwill or something because I felt stupid wearing them and they're maybe 7 years old but I never wore them that much so they're sorta newish.

Anyhow, some stupid "poetic" hacker broke into my blog and put in a poem about someone who died a year ago, so I had to change my password and fix the post and everything. Hackers are stupid and nobody loves them because they're asexual.

Don't go breakin' my heart

2005-03-23T21:09:00.000-06:00

Watching: Rocky Horror Picture Show (for no good reason)
Eating: Nothing :(
Doing: Making coffee at 9:30 p.m...

I don't know why I'm watching RHPC.. I found the tape in a box. Oh, I think it's because when I taped it it was on a channel with no commercial breaks and I've been frustrated watching other tapes with 7 minutes of show/movie and then 10 minutes of the same commercials at each break. :X But I don't feel like watching this anyhow and it's Holy Week and this movie is naughty..

Yeah, so today I got up at 6:50 when my sister's cell phone alarm clock thing went off over and over. :-/ I usually try to sleep in until 7:10, but not today... We didn't leave until 7:40 anyhow and I didn't have breakfast or watch tv or anything. Nothing is really on at 7 except Ed Edd N Eddy or Higgly Town Heroes. Mom likes to watch the TIPical Mary Ellen show on HGTV for no good reason.. The Wiggles are on at 6:30, but I don't feel like getting up that early. I still wanna get the Wiggles Live dvd and it would be hilarious if I was on it if they had the part where Jeff was running around or the part when Murray was doing stuff because they were right by us.

It's Maunday Thursday tomorrow! :o

Don't go hacking into my blog, biatch!

2005-03-22T19:30:00.000-06:00

Watching: Friday the 13th part 2
Drinking: Mike's Hard Lime
Doing: whining about the oven
Singing: Don't Go Breakin' My Heart by Elton John

I remember the Aah Real Monsters show and they went to monster school and had to go up through the sewer to go scare humans. Monsters Inc sorta stole their idea from that show! They should complain. And I wish Rocko's Modern Life was still on tv because I liked that show on Nickelodeon too. Don't get me started on cartoons, I'd have to write a separate blog and the posts would be too long..

Anyhow, on Sunday when I made a pizza in the oven, I preheated it for 10 minutes and then I put the pizza in and it didn't really cook that much and after 40 (!!!!) minutes it was still just sorta thawed and sitting there, so I turned on the broiler and cooked it for 10 more minutes and it turned out ok but the crust was gross from being thaw in the oven for so long. Anyway, I didn't really think anything of it except I told Mom that the oven was broken but we didn't do anything about it.

People who hack into my blog are stupid and should get beat up.

Fortune cookies in bed & Elevator boredom

2005-03-21T20:01:00.000-06:00

One time Milo said that you can add "in bed" to the end of any fortune cookie fortune and after 4 tries I finally got one that worked. It was something like "Your talents will make you very famous." and then you add "in bed" to it and you get "Your talents will make you very famous in bed!" I wanted to tell people at work but they'd probably say I was sexually harrassing them to try out my bed talents or something. Actually they probably wouldn't care but my boss was around so I didn't just in case.

My piano music came from the internet music store (encoremusic.com) so I tried to play Phantom of the Opera music and it was good, but there's 5 flats in each song, so musical people can feel sorry for me because they know how annoying it is to have to remember all the flats and sharps. I had gone to 4 music stores all over the place to see if they had it and they were all sold out (because of the movie probably) so I ordered it online a few weeks ago and even then it took a while, but this way I have the music without words so there's less page turning and maybe someday if I'm rich I'll buy the book with the words. My cousin has 3 or 4 different books for a bunch of different musicals and I have no clue why since she doesn't play piano or anything.
I'm downloading some napster upgrade and it's been 2 hours so far and 72% done.

We bought more Easter candy at Walgreens but the store was full of old people so I kept saying I wanted to leave because they were just wandering around like zombies and looking at stuff and not buying anything. I would lose my patience if I had a store and old people just wandered around in it all day without buying anything. I'd have to put up a sign that says "No old people" on the door. Or "no old people without supervision of someone with money."

This morning in the elevator full of people I noticed that people in the elevator either:
a) say nothing
b) talk about the weather
c) complain about the elevators being slow/broken
d) tell a story about some person they know who was stuck in one of the elevators
e) mention something "witty" about it being Monday or Friday or "almost Friday."

I would tend to do "a" unless I knew somebody in there, but this morning there was an "e" 2 "c's" and a "b" so I was sorta talking to the "e" but then after she left I was an "a" again. I should write a book about elevator personality disorders. Nobody better beat me to it, I need the $..

Palm-Waving Fun

2005-03-20T19:01:00.000-06:00

So today was Palm Sunday and at the beginning of church the kids get to walk down the middle aisle with palm branches and then they leave them in a pile at the front of church and go back and sit down. Well, Alex told me that he wanted me to go too. :( So I got a palm branch too and it was like 30 little kids and then me (ok ok, there were some moms with smaller kids) so I felt sorta embarrassed, but it wasn't so bad I guess. And then after church we went back up and got some palm leaves to take home.
I had the day to myself today so I went shopping for Easter candy and bought a bunch of it at World Market, and then I ended up going to my sister's house and helping her put a piano together that she bought. It's a cool digital one so it can play songs and it has karaoke on it too. But the nephews are already running up to it and trying to play it and then getting confused because it's not turned on so the keys don't make sounds.
I made a pizza but I think my oven is stupid because it took 30 minutes, maybe it wasn't done pre-heating when I put the pizza in. So I'ma gonna go eat it now. :X

Moononites Attack

2005-03-19T23:50:00.000-06:00

Eating: Limited Edition Star Wars Cheez-Its
Watching: SNL for the first time in years; Surreal Life earlier
Doing: Being sorta tired since I got up at 7 on a Saturday which is stupid

I finished moving furniture around today. So now my bed is where I wanted it to be 3 weeks ago and it's weird in here but I'll probably get used to it and then I'll move it some other way. Moving furniture is a lot of work, but then you feel obligated to clean the dust that you find behind stuff and I threw out a bag of trash and stuff so that's pretty good..

Today I watched cooking shows in the morning and those people always have immaculate kitchens and never burn anything and all their ingredients are always pre-measured in little bowls next to the stove.. If I ever had a cooking show and I burnt something, I would just say it was cajun and my show would be really long since I had to take the time to measure out stuff and do the dishes, but those are probably edited out on real shows or they have slaves to do it for them.

I hung out with B & M today and we went to Barnes and Noble and I didn't buy anything, but then I went to Spencer's and bought a Moononites shirt for $9 since it was on clearance!! :O My sister thought it was cool just now when I showed her. Then we went to the arcade place and I won a bouncy ball playing this soccer game.. I tried to win a Garfield in the animal crane and didn't. Everyone was crowded around people playing Dance Dance Revolution which reminds me of the time I didn't bother changing the channel after Pokemon and so Yu-gi-oh (sp???) was on and they went to some arcade and this guy was challenging people to play DDR and it was nuts since all these people were watching it, so I guess that really does happen. I think I was the oldest person at the arcade since the people who worked there looked like they were 17.

HAPPY ST PATRICKS DAY!!!

2005-03-17T18:18:00.000-06:00

Faith n' Begorrah! Between you and me and these green walls, I think Minnesotans are crazy because there were lots of weirdos in green clothes today (including me) and some even were completely dressed like leprechauns and stuff. My sister wore a green wig to work even. :P
There's a St Patrick's Day Parade so they were there for that. I didn't drink any green beer, but I got a little shot glass mug with green clovers on it!
We're going to eat our corned beef & cabbage in a bit, it's still crocking (cooking in a crock pot = crocking?). Being Irish is keen?

Make Good Choices!

2005-03-10T20:49:00.000-06:00

Doing: Chatting with Amanda in Slacker since everyone else left
Eating: Beef Stew that Mom made :o
Drinking:Mike's Hard Lime :)

There were lots of people in the chat room and now it's just me and Amanda since everyone abandoned us. Tekky told Cat she sent me a picture of her boobs by mistake to see if he'd get jealous but he just called her a liar instead. Kay said Mt St Helens blew up and Melvin and Raven were being crazy before it happened so that's funny since the animals were going crazy before the tsunami I read in some articles.

I worked from 8 to 5:15 today so I'm tired and wanna go to bed. Mom and I drove up to White Bear Lake (Ooo 10 minutes north) because they're building a CVS up there so I wrote down the phone number to call to apply for a job. I have to get my haircut tomorrow before I look like a sheepdog. Woof!

Oooh, now Cat's back in the room. Today on the radio they were saying Bruce Willis and Lindsay Lohan made out at a party and then went upstairs to a room. Ooooh :-*

Fill Your Eyes With Double Vision

2005-03-08T19:25:00.000-06:00

Eating: a reuben that I made
Doing: thinking about accomplishing things
Listening to: NCIS on tv in the other room

Oh, I should be watching American Idol but I forgot and everyone else is watching NCIS so whatever. I watched the end of it yesterday and the only good singer was Constantine so I text-messaged a vote for him. We got home from work around 6 and I wanted to get my hair cut off and I drove to 5 places and they were either full or closed. So I'm still shaggy. I was crabby because it took me half an hour to drive around to all these places and then I went home and made reubens because we had sauerkraut left from cheddarwursts we had last weekend and then we bought Swiss kraft singles and corned beef and rye bread and 1000 island dressing. They're pretty good. Swiss kraft singles are sorta weird though.. :X I forget what kind of cheese actually goes in reubens, some white kind..
On Sunday it was over 60 (!!!) so I spray painted the clothesline poles outside and now they're incredibly white. Unfortunately I now have little white specks all over my glasses but I only see them when I look at them when I'm cleaning since they're so small I'm still wearing them. I have another pair somewhere but they're weird and I wouldn't want to freak people out by having new glasses tomorrow, or new to them anyways.
I keep having daydreams about writing novels so I could brag about that to people I went to school with, but I'd probably have to have a catchy penname like "John Powers" or "Hunter Fields".. Do people come up with a penname when they send the book to publishers or do they think of one later? This one lady who writes quilt mysteries that my mom reads had a website so we went to it the other night and she had a list of all the names she has used for writing books and I thought that was strange that she had 4 pennames. How many do you need???
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Quote of the day
Me: I wish I was a lawnmower!
Alex: Me too!

FT = P

2005-03-06T08:22:00.000-06:00

I'm sure that's a physics formula that I have forgotten because physics was the most evil college course ever. I was saying last night that ft = p because we were driving around scenic 'Maplehood' and the mall had a craft show so mom went to buy useless things that people make.. We ended up buying nothing at the craft booths and bought stuff at Barnes and Noble and the Dollar Store instead. I hate craft shows and it was busy there, but there wasn't anything exciting except this lady had cool paintings for $285 :-/ So that's why ft = p because the craft show was a crap show. haha
I must be sick since last night I had weird dreams. I dreamt out my entire 5th year highschool reunion that we ended up not having this summer, and then I dreamt that my friends and I were crank calling this place and they sent some guy in a boat after us so every time he'd come by I would go hide inside. Then I was at a restaurant and the bill was $1600 and I asked why it was so much and the host guy said it was because they charge by the minute besides the food. And somehow my credit card paid it even though in real life it's a $1000 limit one so I can't buy anything cool.
Someone in Norway used my sister's card to buy something so visa called her and asked if she was in Norway and she said no so they're sending her a new card. That must be a fun job to sit there and look at people's bills to see if they make sense.
K, I'm off to church.

Cruisin' for booze

2005-03-04T14:31:00.000-06:00

Eating: a grapefruit
Doing: unworking
I've been thinking about booze alot lately, after I tried a Tom Collins last weekend I think I really like them so I was trying to remember what was in it today at work. The bartender said Gin Sprite and Sour, but when I had looked it up somewhere it had all this other stuff instead like lemon juice, but maybe the Sprite compensates for that.. I wouldn't know how much of which one to use if I bought the stuff, I'd have to experiment. Gin and Sour can't cost that much, I could go to the liquor place by my house, but I only know where the Mike's Hard Lime is there and whenever I wander around in a liquor store they wonder what my problem is and/or if I'm a minor since I don't know what I want to buy, it's usually because I can't find anything right away. Liquor stores should be alphabetical..
I had a McGriddle today and I was happy because I didn't want the egg and it was removable without taking cheese with it. The one I go to always has crabby cashiers that dont' like it when you order something with changes like no egg or no bun or no meat... Those things are so greasy, I hope I didn't get it all over my desk. I should eat it on someone else's desk when they are in the bathroom so everything gets oily.
Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy is on, but it's the episode that's always on. Maybe I'll go watch it anyways before I drive by CVS to see if they say where to call to apply since it's not completely built yet. *vrooms*

The fish aren't in a potty

2005-03-02T23:55:00.000-06:00

I hate cleaning the aquarium, I said if my fish ever all died, I wouldn't buy new ones so I wouldn't have to clean it ever again.. The water was cloudy and orange (fish poop color?) so I found the net and got a vase and put water from the tank in there... It takes forever to use the net to catch those lousy fish. The cat wanted to jump on the table and watch/eat. After I got everything cleaned it was probably 11:05 p.m. so I put the fish in a bag in the aquarium so the water would be the same temperature and then called my friend until 11:30ish and then let them outta the bag. So it will be nice if they all make it, but I have this "talent" of killing my fish by changing the water and cleaning the aquarium and then when I put them in I do something wrong and they end up being dead the next morning. So hopefully there will still be 3 fish there in 6 hours, otherwise I guess we can have a fish fry on Friday.. :X

We went to the grocery store so now I have food again. There's no fridge at work on my floor though, so I don't bring lunches. If I put it in a fridge on a different floor, it would probably get stolen.. Today I had lemon chicken and fried rice, and my fortune cookie told me that if I wanted to conduct the orchestra I had to turn my back to the audience.

Circus Fun and Booze Fun

2005-03-01T20:17:00.000-06:00

I went to Milwaukee for the weekend. It was pretty fun and I got to drink booze alot! I went to the Shrine Circus on Friday night and it was awesome, I haven't been to the circus ever unless I mighta went when I was like 3 I don't remember.
Anyways, there were 9 tigers and a lion and they did cool tricks, and a bunch of elephants that stood on their front legs and stuff like that, it was nuts. And the tight rope guy was jumping rope up there and fell off! But he caught the rope on his way down and climbed back onto it and jumped rope some more. They didn't have a net either.. But they had a net for the trapeze people.. I lurve the circus now. Kay said she wouldn't like the clowns, but the clowns at this one were more like the stooges and didn't have painted faces. They were foony..
I went to Water Street Brewery and ordered this thing where you can try the 8 beers they make and they bring them out to you on a tray in 4 oz. glasses. I didn't like the dark one or the lemon one.
Milwaukee is an awesome place to visit, but I probably wouldn't like living there. all the streets are one way.. We went to this awesome authentic Italian bakery on Brady St and I got Amaretti cookies and they are/were awesome. :)
I went to the Johnson Creek Outlets between Madison and Milwaukee and bought a St Patricks day shirt at the Old Navy outlet. I bought other stuff there too since it was cheaper than the real Old Navy. And I bought a cool shirt at the Nautica outlet. I lurve outlets.
The bus ride home was crowded and some guy had to sit on the steps in the front of the bus since there were no seats. The bus was late too and I didn't get back to St Paul til midnight.
This guy at the Milwaukee Greyhound station (scary place to be) was saying he never puts any luggage under the bus because it got lost once. And I was thinking to myself that I was pretty lucky because i've been on the greyhound like 20 times and never lost anything. So then of course when we got back to St Paul and the driver took out the bags, I didn't see mine :0
And then some guy told the driver his bag wasn't there and so he opened another compartment and it was in there and so was mine. Whew!
I had a Tom Collins at this awesome restaurant in Fort Atkinson WI on Saturday. I think it was called The Eats and Drinks Place, and everyone should take a pilgrimage there to eat there, it was the best food ever. Now I want to buy the booze for Tom Collinses so I can drink them all day. Bye?

Vacation Fun

2005-02-24T23:32:00.000-06:00

Yay! I get to go to WI for the weekend! :o
And I got the day off for work tomorrow! :D
see ya later?

Meow-meow-meow, we want Meow Mix.

2005-02-22T22:00:00.000-06:00

Ack, I hate amoxicillin. I was taking it for my bum ear, and then the side effects were terrible so I finally quit taking it when I had one day left.. I have no clue how I was able to go to work all week, on Friday I came home and went to bed and woke up a few times but was too sick to get up and went back to bed until Saturday morning.
It snowed alot. I had to shovel on Sunday.
We were watching the extra thing on the Spongebob dvd where they show the people who do the voices, and it was weird so I quit watching and then Mom complained about it and so I think only Anna was watching. It was sorta cool to see what they looked like.
I was sickly at work today so I had soup for lunch. Of course it cost me $5 for a cup of it because downtown food = $$$$. And then I felt better that afternoon. Mom was like "You should have brought a can from home and heated it up because that's a dollar instead of 5!" I didn't know what I wanted to eat this morning and I was thinking about chinese but I would get sick because I can't eat alot and I've somehow lost 10 pounds since I was at the doctor 2 weeks ago and it's probably all water. So I've been living on Sprite and I got a vanilla latte today because I'm bad so maybe that's why I was sick later. No more coffee. Not even an Almond Roca Mocha at Steep N Brew. :( (We have Almond Roca coffee syrup at home, but I can't make mochas.)
Yeah, so I'm sorta alive. Sorta..

That Valentine Movie..

2005-02-12T15:19:00.000-06:00

Listening to: 80's stuff on the radio like Queen
Eating:those hearts with words on 'em (fax me, true love, do me, etc..)
Doing:not much and it's about time I did nothing

Ooookay, I spent $9.50 on Valentine the movie with David Boreanaz and friends since I couldn't ever find it at Best Buy for less, so I bought it at Barnes and Noble.. And then yesterday I'm at Best Buy and there it is in the crap dvd bargain section for $6. I have been to Best Buy 3000 times and never saw it there (well I did see it at the Apple Valley Best Buy but who'd drive all the way down there) so I gave in and bought it online last week. So since nobody's here but me, I watched it and it was pretty good. The best part was when someone was talking about David Boreanaz's character and they said "He's no angel!" and that's funny because he was Angel on Buffy (and on the Angel show) so ha ha? They did that on purpose. Yeah, so go get it and have a good Valentine's Day watching a horror movie about Valentine's Day instead of making out. Amanda said it was good when I told her I bought it, so there you go.

At work yesterday somebody was complaining about having to buy her bf a present and someone else laughed and said they didn't have anyone to buy anything for.. That's a good attitude! I don't need anybody either! I've got me..

I stole a survey from Cat

2005-02-12T13:13:00.000-06:00

*TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF - The Survey*
Name:	Johnny
Birthday:	May 21
Birthplace:	Minnesota
Current Location:	Sittin up in my room
Eye Color:	blue
Hair Color:	blonde
Height:	5'11"
Right Handed or Left Handed:	Right
Your Heritage:	German-Irish-Czech-Lithuanian
The Shoes You Wore Today:	were brown
Your Weakness:	a good song on the radio when I'm turning off the car
Your Fears:	spiders, public embarrassment, failure
Your Perfect Pizza:	thin crust, mushrooms, sausage, bacon, pepperoni..
Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year:	get into grad school?
Your Most Overused Phrase On an instant messenger:	**ungh ungh :-***
Thoughts First Waking Up:	how much longer can I stay in bed?
Your Best Physical Feature:	the smirk
Your Bedtime:	11:30
Your Most Missed Memory:	the rush when I jumped out of the plane and fell from 15,000 ft when skydiving
Pepsi or Coke:	pepsi
MacDonalds or Burger King:	Taco John's
Single or Group Dates:	Two dates at once??
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea:	Lipton
Chocolate or Vanilla:	Vanilla
Cappuccino or Coffee:	Latte
Do you Smoke:	not since 2003
Do you Swear:	not since this morning
Do you Sing:	not in front of people
Do you Shower Daily:	not in the woods
Have you Been in Love:	only when it's too late
Do you want to go to College:	yeah! it's the snooze button of life! I only have 5 years under my belt.
Do you want to get Married:	eventually
Do you belive in yourself:	ha! not very often
Do you get Motion Sickness:	when I'm reading in the car sometimes
Do you think you are Attractive:	well, sometimes when I'm full of myself
Are you a Health Freak:	once in a while
Do you get along with your Parents:	once in a while
Do you like Thunderstorms:	yeah
Do you play an Instrument:	yeah, piano and euphonium
In the past month have you Drank Alcohol:	yes, I have a supply of Mike's Hard Lime
In the past month have you Smoked:	no
In the past month have you been on Drugs:	prescription ones
In the past month have you gone on a Date:	no... stfu
In the past month have you gone to a Mall:	yeah
In the past month have you eaten a box of Oreos:	a box?? I think I had one cookie and it was stale
In the past month have you eaten Sushi:	no
In the past month have you been on Stage:	no (???)
In the past month have you been Dumped:	no
In the past month have you gone Skinny Dipping:	in the bathroom
In the past month have you Stolen Anything:	not really
Ever been Drunk:	not really :(
Ever been called a Tease:	maybe when drunk
Ever been Beaten up:	no
Ever Shoplifted:	yes when I was 4
How do you want to Die:	yipes... I would prefer someone unpainful
What do you want to be when you Grow Up:	I'm not old enough to worry about that
What country would you most like to Visit:	France
*In a Boy/Girl..*
Favourite Eye Color:	brown or blue
Favourite Hair Color:	dark brown
Short or Long Hair:	in the middle
Height:	tallish
Weight:	eh
Best Clothing Style:	eh
Number of Drugs I have taken:	hahahahaha
Number of CDs I own:	probably around 150
Number of Piercings:	none
Number of Tattoos:	none
Number of things in my Past I Regret:	all of them?
CREATE YOUR OWN! - or - GET PAID TO TAKE SURVEYS!

Robots in Disguise!

2005-02-10T18:51:00.000-06:00

Eating:leftover shmersal & a grilled cheese sandwich
Doing:thinking about warshing clothes.. hmm....
IMing with:nobody :(
Listening to: Maroon 5
Ugh! You never know how good it is to be unemployed until you're employed! I did have a nice week and a half break between jobs, but today I had to start again.
I went to Arby's for lunch because I didn't know where else to eat.. I didn't feel like bugging people to see if they were going to go eat somewhere so I just went myself. I thought I could play with my cell phone at the restaurant but then it beeped really loud so I turned it off. For some stupid reason, when I have a text message and I don't go read it right away, my phone decides to beep really loud every 3 minutes since I didn't go look at it..
I got alot of paper cuts today at work, I guess the money I make here can go towards bandaids and replacement blood. :-/
I went to Best Buy to buy the newest Phil Collins cd and couldn't find anything but several different "best of" cds.. So I bought the Maroon 5 cd instead and it's pretty good. I wanted to buy dvds but they were all $60.
Oh! Pony made a website and so I went to it and it was pretty hilarious!

Happy Ash Wednesdayyyy

2005-02-09T20:23:00.000-06:00

Eating=shmersal
IMing with= Huffles
Doing= nothing?

I remember a long time ago when our school shared the buses with the Catholic school down the road and every Ash Wednesday they'd come on the bus after school and they had black ash on their foreheads! :O We didn't get any on us today because Lutherans don't do that. :-/

The doctor looked in my ears and she said "Oh, your ear canals have inflammation!" :0 So I got some amoxicillin and it's making me really nauseus so I don't really want it but I have to take it for 10 more days because she said it is good for ears. It was only $6 at Walgreens too! :)

It dusted instead of snowed last night but then today it was sunny out for 2 minutes and then it snowed and it's still snowing, but it's the nice fluffy stuff.

The UPS dude brought my Barnes & Noble box today, that was only 4 days since I ordered! :O Now I can watch Valentine and have a festive holiday! :P
I start my job tomorrow :(

Huevos en la boca

2005-02-08T09:58:00.000-06:00

Happy 21st Birthday to Crzy!!!!!

It's Fat Tuesday, so I bet everyone went to the Fat Tuesday restaurant at MOA today.. Maybe I should throw beads at random people since it's the last day of Mardi Gras.
I haven't been on or updating because I have a stupid ear infection and I'm going to the doctor in a few minutos so maybe they can get rid of it because it's bugging me and it hurts really bad. And then this morning I drove my mom to work and when I was getting in the car, I whacked the side of my head on the door frame. That never happened to me before, it must be one of those days again..
Yesterday we went to Culvers and while we were eating some people showed up for orientation and for a few seconds I actually thought about applying, but I would be miserable. And so luckily today my old job called me back so I'm starting there on Thursday again. (That means I can buy stuff on amazon to celebrate!) And I ordered the Valentine movie from Barnes & Noble because it was pretty cheap and it's about Valentine's Day maybe..
CSI Miami was pretty good last night, they could probably make it a half hour show if they didn't have 2 separate murders in each episode.. The murderer is usually always the first or second person they interview who turns out to be lyingrvfg5t (Ivy jumped on the keyboard), but last night it wasn't, so they're keeping me on my toes..
Oh well, time for the doctor and then tonight I get to see the nephews and I'm making manicotti! :o

Grab your things I've come to take you home

2005-02-04T17:43:00.000-06:00

Eating: Meat & Potato Burrito and Potato Oles at Taco Johns :o
Doing: Being bored

So today I remembered I had a $20 Walmart gift card from Dec of 2003, so I called the number on the back and it still had all its money on it. I didn't want to drive to the new Walmart by the U, so I went up up up Highway 61 to the Vadnais Heights one instead. They were playing country music and half the people shopping had cowboy hats on. ?!?! Anyways, I looked at all the dvds and had no clue what I wanted, none of them were anything I really wanted, so I didn't bother buying any. I bought photo paper for the printer and rustoleum spray paint because it's supposed to be 60 tomorrow and I can spray paint the clothes line poles because they are nice & rusty. Yeah, so I wandered around Walmart and didn't know what to buy, I think I'm going to try the new Walmart because I think they had better stuff.. This Walmart had a whole shelf of Magic Tree House books for Byrdy's brother though. And they're only like $2.97, so she should buy them all. I thought about getting the Dean Koontz Frankenstein book, but I didn't know if it would be cool or boring. :P

So then it was 2:30 and I realized that I hadn't eaten anything all day, so I was going to stop at Arby's and then I couldn't get into the left lane when I needed to turn so I ended up down where my only choices were Taco Johns or Roly Poly or Subway, so of course I picked Taco Johns. I took it home and ate it while I watched Grim and there was a cartoon with a talking burrito, so that worked..

Since it was 52 today (heat wave!) I was raking the snow off the roof and it got me all dirty because snow is dirty nowadays, not like the kind you could eat when I was a kid. I prefer climbing up on the roof and shoveling it off, but I guess some dullard invented snow rakes so you don't have to do that..

IHOP In The Snow

2005-02-01T23:39:00.000-06:00

Yesterday it snowed in the morning so I took a picture of the yard for no good reason. We didn't get very much when it was done snowing and it was warmer enough later that it melted off the car windows.

Today Mom had the day off so we went to IHOP. I had an omelet and pancakes because the fruit-filled pancakes weren't very exciting looking. It sorta looked like they dumped a can of fruit in the middle of a pancake and then rolled up the sides. :/

I got my pictures back from Target and emailed people the ice sculpture ones. Everyone will be mad at me because it was probably a 200K email. If you didn't get it it's because my internet hates me or I don't have your email or I don't know you or I have your email address wrong. One of those.

My back hurts so I went to some Quack Dr website and it said to take a bath (?!?! stupid online doctor sites), so I tried that just now and then in comes Ivy. I don't know how cats can open doors, but she's good at it. So I'm in the tub and this tail comes into the room and then a cat head peeps up over the side of the tub and then she attacked my hand. wtf. But at least she didn't attack something else. :X I think she wanted cat food, but after I fed her she meowed at me to follow her somewhere and led me to the hall closet and I opened it for her and she sniffed around in there and then looked at me.. If they had a cat translator I would be first in line to buy one.

Emesis

2005-01-31T11:23:00.000-06:00

Eating= Mountain Dew
Doing= Having a headache

I thought I'd be so excited to be home on a weekday for television purposes, but it's been reruns and boringness so far.. Everyone was so loud leaving the house this morning that I couldn't get back to sleep, so I was up around 7:30!
Last night I took my bed apart and the pieces were in the hallway so I could clean out whatever was under there. After 4 hours of having no clue what to do with everything, I pulled the mattresses back in here so I'd have a bed, and so today I'm going to finish cleaning hopefully.
The problem with cleaning is that you find things that you probably could have lived without but now that you have them again you don't want to get rid of them. And that's why I have so much stuff.
It's been snowing all day so I don't think I'm going to be driving anywhere. I have too much to do anyways. Ivy wouldn't leave me alone all morning but now she's in the hallway. She was excited last night when the mattresses were in the hallway because she clawed up the sides and sat on the top.

Phil hits the 5-4 & I hate snow

2005-01-30T14:46:00.000-06:00

Eating= Pineapple Upsidedown Cake
Doing=Relaxing & Doing Nothing (for once)
The 80's station told me it was Phil Collins's 54th birthday today so happy bday!!! You know, since he reads my blog all the time... Pssh!
Anyways, yesterday I was perfectly fine watching my Food Network shows because Saturday morning = good shows. And then Mom wanted to go places, so I only got to watch Paula Dean's. We went to Daytons (Marshall Fields) and she bought the Jackie-O-Kennedy gives a tour of the White House dvd because she lurves her and probably saw it when it was on tv (haha). We went to Barnes & Noble and had Venti Chais and desserts for lunch ($11!) and then we went to Stillwater because she wanted to sign up for some quilting class thingy. Then we went to Fleet Farm and I bought a hat that matched my Columbia jacket because I guess black and blue doesn't go together.. :-/
They had lots of awesome toys, it stinks that when I was a kid none of this stuff was around.. We were at Toys R Us for no good reason on Friday, oh we were buying a game, and they were showing the new Wiggles Live dvd on the tvs. :O Maybe I'm on it since I was right by Jeff and Murray when they were in the audience. :O Mom didn't fall for the "We have to buy this to see if I'm on it" trick.. And she wouldn't let me and Anna get the singing Jeff & Anthony toys. :(
They had Muppet Babies dolls with dvds and now they're only $5 so I was considering buying them and giving the nephews the doll and keeping the dvd. Back in the 80's, I would watch Muppet Babies at 7:30 and then Woody Woodpecker at 8:00 and then the bus would come.
I think that was after Jem was on because my brother and I would watch G.I. Joe and then Jem and then leave for the bus.. And then in the 90's I think I'd watch Power Rangers before the bus showed up..
So this morning we "slept in" until 9, which wouldn't normally count as sleeping in.. But we still got to church before they threw out the coffee, so I had some.
I was IMing with Kay on my cell phone on Friday on the way to the Winter Carnival. I took pictures of the ice sculptures they made, so I hope they turn out! Vicki Lawrence (I think the lady from Momma's Family) was the grand marshall at the parade on Saturday that I didn't go to. I don't know if anyone found the medallion, those clues are so stupid.. If I was gonna go dig in the snow for the medallion, I'd buy a winter carnival button because I think you get more $$ if you find it and have a button than if you just find it.
Oh, on Friday I was walking to the ramp after work (my last day :o waah?) and a firetruck fulla Vulcans pulled up to the stop light and I was holding a coffee thermos and they asked what kind it was and I said it was empty because it was, and they said there was a Starbucks 3 blocks that way. :o I guess you're a somebody if the Vulcans talk to you..

They're furry, they're funny, they're Babs and Buster Bunny

2005-01-27T06:14:00.000-06:00

Eating:nothing
Doing:grad-school yack and being cold/tired
It's cold out again. I don't think we're getting a lot of snow though, so that's good because I don't like to shovel. Isn't it Groundhog's Day soon? Then spring should show up, except this is MN so it'll be 2 months after that.. Ooo, that reminds me of the Christmas show where Buddy Hackett is a groundhog and he sees his shadow so then he goes back to bed, even though that normally happens after Christmas.. was that the Jack Frost one? They sure were busy back then making Christmas movies with those stop-animation figures.. That's too much work.
Speaking of work, it's 6 a.m. and I'm up trying to finish my grad school application. :X I think I should be done by 7 and then I can go to work. I had my alarm set for 5 but then I figured it wouldn't take that long to finish, so I changed it to 6, but I don't know that I fell asleep at all between 5 and 6 because that always happens to me.

Stop peeing on the car!

2005-01-25T19:28:00.000-06:00

My hands hurt all day, but maybe it's because I've been doing data entry for about 8 months now.. I don't think I'll be doing this for the rest of my life, otherwise my hands would fall off. Ow?

This morning I woke up and it was dark out and I looked at the clock and it was 6:20.. Normally I get up at 6:45ish, so even though I felt completely awake, I stayed in bed until I fell asleep again. And then it was 7:15 and I didn't wanna get up. On the way to work I told Mom that and she was like "You shoulda got up when you woke up!" So if that ever happens to me again, maybe I'll get up. It was just weird because I was totally awake and refreshed and not tired, but my laziness won the war.

Songs from Phantom of the Opera were in my head all day, so Anna & I are going to Barnes and Noble when NCIS is over (bleah, they found a icky dead body in a hole and then I quit watching) to buy it there because that's one of the cds you can buy to get a free Valentine's cd with a Chris Botti song on it. :o

A sheep farm burnt down in Southern MN but I guess a sheep gave birth during it and they showed the baby lamb on tv since it survived and it was cute. And the news guy was holding a kitty that survived the fire too. Awww! Cute animals must have super powers to survive barn fires? Some of the sheep they showed had spots where their wool was burnt I guess.

:(

2005-01-24T22:59:00.000-06:00

No time at all, but I wanted to update.
I saw Phantom of the Opera on Saturday night and it was one of the best movies I've seen in a while and I would probably go back and see it again if I had time. Unlike the broadway experience, you can hear what everyone's saying and see what he looks like when his mask comes off!
I saw Alton Brown at his book discussion/signing, but I didn't know I had to get there earlier in the day to get a calendar page from a pull-off calendar which is how they did the order for when he started signing his cookbooks, so I gave up after 2 hours and was luckily able to buy an autographed book the next day. That guy is really famous! People braved the 6 inches of snow we have and triple-parked in the Barnes & Noble parking lot to see him! Boy was it crowded! I told Kay to go see him when he went to WA, and he's there tomorrow! :o She didn't know if she'd go.
Tonight we had Emiril brand bratwurst and I cooked them in my Emiril saute pan. Oo lala!
I went online today and got 3 invites to the chat room right away :o
I heard that Wanda (Biker) has 6 months to live because her cancer has spread, which made all the other stuff I worry about not matter as much.. :(

Pinkeye for sale

2005-01-19T22:03:00.000-06:00

Eating: Chex mix that I made
IMing: yesterday = Kay, Huffy, Toonie, and Maj
On Sunday my nephews were over here and after they left, they were taken to the doctor's and we heard they had pinkeye. :X So then Mom kept saying her eyes were itchy. Then we all had Monday off of work so what did we do? We babysat 2 kids with pinkeye.. Alex was his usual hyper self, but Jack was worse off and you could tell he was sick. We watched the Dora in fairytale land dvd and then Teletubbies was on and they lurve that show. Some catalogs came in the mail so Alex looked at one and I looked at one, and he said he liked snakes, then he said he liked bunnies and he goes "Sometimes I hear a bunny outside and I go to the window and see it." and I didn't ask him what bunnies sounded like or anything, I probably should have. Then he said he liked starfish and I asked him if he saw any out the window and after a while he said that there weren't any lakes by the house so he didn't see any.
I worked on Tuesday and I finished up a project. I had been calling the pharmacy test place at different times during the day and being on hold, but today I talked to someone so it's all fixed and I might make the deadlines, so yay?
It's so cold out and we went to the grocery store and they had a picture from the Bewitched movie of Nicole Kidman and Will F. and Nicole had funny curly hair instead of Samantha hair. Booo!

Busy as a bee

2005-01-12T22:29:00.000-06:00

I was entering stuff into my pharmacy application that's due Feb 1 (bleah!) and I have to call for my test scores to possibly be resent quick before that deadline (ack!) but at least the place I call is in Texas so they're nice Southerners. :P
On the way to work today the 80's station djay was like "Ooo we're gonna get a winter storm!" and I guess we did. ~9.5 hours later when I was leaving work (I work long hours *sorbs*) it was snowing and the roads and sidewalks and cars were all white instead of unwhite like they were this morning. So then we got home and our presents had come from our relatives! yay!! I got a nutcracker that plays music! :0 Then I had to hurry up to church because I'm playing in a few weeks so I had to meet to practice. But first I had to spend 10 %^*#^ minutes scraping the ice off my car because it was home all day getting wet and snowy. At least everyone was late getting up there because I'm usually late and the last one there. :(
So then I got home and made a frozen pizza because I bought some yesterday and I was contemplating going to Taco John's but then I was like "Why do that when I bought pizzas?" even though I didn't want pizza I ate some anyhow because I bought them and I guess I can't eat out all the time like I did at school :(
So then I finally got to finish watching Evil Under the Sun and I remember seeing the ending once but I didn't really remember it so it was good. But then Anna got home right at the end so I had to turn it off so she wouldn't see the end because she hasn't seen it yet either.
Last night I went to Target and bought a storage tub and it was only $3.00!! I'm going to put things I don't really use in there and hide it under the basement stairs because there's lots of room under there because I threw away some stupid old popcorn tins that were gross and other stuff that got wrecked when the basement flooded so I figured if it ever floods again, a plastic tub will be ok..
Mom's in FL til Friday and she keeps calling and asking what I want and I said a pet alligator but that didn't go to well. *sorbs* Last night Kay said I had to clean the house before Mom got home and I guess it's only fair because it was clean when she left and now it looks like she hasn't been here for 2 weeks, but that's the truth so maybe she should just accept the truth. My brother's coming tomorrow to finish tiling the kitchen, so then he'll say that the house is messy so maybe I'd better get going.
Last night I made Chicken Chili exactly like the Barefoot Contessa did and it turned out really good. I also made her Iced Tea and I have to try that because it's been sitting in the fridge all day so it should be ready. It has zinger teas in it. *zings*

How to sleep alot

2005-01-10T01:03:00.000-06:00

Well on Friday night I was going to go see Phantom of the Opera the movie but then we didn't so I decided I was going to bed because I've been sick and tired for a week now so I slept from 6 p.m. to maybe 9 and then talked on the phone with M and then went back to bed until 9 or 10 a.m. on Saturday :O I lurve sleep! Then I went to Menards with the 11% coupon from the paper and bought a jigsaw and a philips screwdiver and some caulk. Then I went to MOA with J, B, and M. We went to IKEA first and they had cool stuff so if I ever got an apartment I would buy IKEA stuff (unless it was huge and I'd have to put it together) so we went to MOA and ate at the Peanut Butter place for lunch and it was high school dance team contest day so there were like 20 trophies in the Rotunda and the teams did their dances so the mall was crowded :( I saw lots of stuff I'd like to buy, but I didn't really buy anything. We went to some tropical restaurant on the 3rd floor for dinner and I had grouper and it was good and I had a Raspberry-Rita and it was like an icee with booze.
Church was fine today because Alex ate fruit snacks the whole time so he didn't yell or do anything naughty. I drank alot of coffee and Anna ate the donut I took because it wasn't lemon it was raspberry filled so I ate her plain one which was boring. :X
I babysat today and it was just Jack but he ran around the whole time and we watched Kenny Loggins on Ice a little bit but then he'd run into another room so I had to just basically follow him around the house for 3 hours. Kids are alot of work. I don't know how Byrdy can handle working at that daycare.. They'd better be paying her alot for putting up with several kids. :X
I was just bringing some trash down to the can because Anna put it by the curb already and some weirdo was walking down the street by ours and I was like "Oh no! A crazy guy is out here and it's 1 a.m. and everyone is asleep so they won't know if I get abducted!" so I didn't throw the trash away until he was further down the road so he wouldn't know I was there and then I went in the house because I was wearing sandals and they weren't very good at keeping my feet warm in the 13 degree weather. It rained this afternoon but then it was hail and then it was snow.. But not enough. :(

The last day of Christmas :(

2005-01-06T07:38:00.000-06:00

I guess now I'll have to come up with a new title for my blog since it's the 12th day of Christmas and also La Befana and Epiphany. Happy La Befana to Hype!! :) This morning I was thinking that the 3 stooges shoulda done a movie where they were the wisemen, but it would have been very sacreligious for that time, and weren't they Jewish? Oh well. I don't know why I thought of that.
I called mom and she said she went to the ocean but it was night there so she couldn't see it that well, but it smelled like salt (weird!) and she could hear the waves. I think it's her first ocean visit, and I've never seen an ocean either so I wanted to know what it was like. And Alex told her to bring him a shell back so I think she found one on the beach. The Marshall Fields down there had huge ones for $20 but that's alot of $$ for something you can find and Alex wouldn't need one bigger than him. He'd probably just throw it at his brother (hopefully not).
Work is busy again and now I have a lot to do. I emailed the pharmacy test score place to see where my scores are, and I hope they answer. *sorbs*
I bought Garfield season 2 last night at Target when I bought a bookshelf for cookbooks and so we were watching that last night and it was funny. I like Garfield. :P

The curse of the mummy!!

2005-01-03T21:43:00.000-06:00

Well today Mom left for Florida for 2 weeks for her business trip. *sorbs* No fair!!! She called tonight and said they have bows on the palm trees (instead of pine ones) and they're going to Key West for the weekend and she's wearing a t-shirt and taking a walk and going to look at flamingos, all this stuff I can't do in my 4 degree weather up here. :(
So Anna and I drove in our ice-covered car to the library and tried not to slip on the freezing-rain-turned into ice that's all over the streets and sidewalks here.. I got a book about making shelves because we have wood and I wanna use my new drill and make some for the closet. Anna got one that was called "NO MORE SNORING" in capital letters and everything. :P
We got home from work and it was just in time for Grim, it was the one where Billy thinks Irwin's mom is a mummy!!! And then he gets the curse of the mummy and keeps ending up naked and running by Mandy and Grim. :0
My head is stuffy still in my sinuses, but I didn't take any medicine today because all the other days I did I was sooooo tired and drowsy that I couldn't function. I just used lots of Kleenexes.
Today on my Harry Potter daily calendar it was Hermoine day! YAY!!! :-*

Happy New Year! 2005 :o

2005-01-01T09:58:00.000-06:00

I wonder how many weeks it will take me to stop writing 2004 on checks and stuff..
Yesterday was nuts! There was more traffic than on Christmas Eve and the grocery store and mall were insanely packed. We went to Target so Mom could return Candyland because the illustrations on that one had been revised and they were disturbing. :X And then had I found the old version of Candyland at Walgreens on Christmas Eve so we gave that one to Alex because it's normal. Then we went to Cub and bought stuff for New Year's Eve snacks. They had toys and Christmas candy on sale half off, but they were out of Peeps. :( We had melk and stuff, but it was 15 degrees out so we left the groceries in the trunk and went to Barnes and Noble to get things. I bought a book of Clue mysteries :o When I was in gradeschool the book order thing had Clue mystery books for kids, but this book was in the adult mystery section so that was cool... and also $10 :( Then there were 2 Mall Cops (they have black cowboy hats) and they went with the manager to some back room so Mom guessed that somebody was trying to steal stuff and they locked 'em back there until the cops came. haha!
Then we went home and I made one of those Oreo no-bake things. We made chow mein for supper because we always make that on New Year's Eve for some reason. It was good though. And then we went to New Years Eve church and it wasn't crowded. There was this kid in front of us who was maybe 2 and when everyone was standing up singing out of the bulletin she tried to do that even though she was holding hers upside-down. And then she yelled at her sister for some reason. That's stuff Alex would do usually, so at least everyone his age does it. At communion we just have wafer things so I didn't get any special bread like Byrdy did. *sorbs* I thought that was always cool how Catholic churches have actual bread for communion since Lutheran ones typically have white wafer things. (One time in Madison we went to church at the Catholic place.)
So then we went to the neighbors and ate snacky stuff and we didn't rent any movies because we all forgot, so we watched whatever was on tv. I was watching Cops and everyone complained. :( But then the only movies I could find were Groundhogs Day or the Abba Movie, so we watched Cheers on TV Land and then at midnight we turned it to a local channel and some weather guy blew a noisemaker and said Happy New Year.
It was really cold which is stupid because on Friday I guess it was 59 here and that's why there's no snow. I was going to rake leaves yesterday because it would be funny to say I was raking on Dec 31st.. Ok Bye

"Non-drowsy" my @ss

2004-12-29T21:25:00.000-06:00

I've been waking up sick for days now, but it was really bad today. It must have been bad since I took Sudafed. It claimed to be Non-drowsy or I wouldn't have taken it, but then at work I was just exhausted.. And I must have had 7 hours of sleep so there's no reason for me to be really tired like that. So I forced my sister to go to Caribou with me and I got a chai. Then I drank a big bottle of Mt dew and I was still tired. I came home and watched tv for a little bit and then fell asleep in my bed until now. I probably will go back to bed in a while too. It's funny because Anna made dinner and she was going to put it on my desk and I think she figured out that I was barely awake so she put the plate in the fridge instead.
Yesterday the 80's station was giving away tickets to some New Years Eve party and I thought it would be cool to win because they're like $40 each. So I was waiting until 3:35 so I could call in, and then I realized that I had no clue what the station's phone number was. And the DJ didn't say what it was so I couldn't really dial it in my phone and then just wait to hit the call button.. :( Then my manager came and got me and I had to go in his office and that was at 3:20 and I was thinking "Oh no! I'm going to miss the contest!" but it only took a second and then when it was 3:35 the DJ said the number really fast and I dialed it wrong so after it rang twice some robot operator lady said that my call couldn't be completed as dialed. *sorbs* But who would I take to the party anyways??
I lurve my new drill and I used it to put a storage thing together and I put the screwdriver bit on it so I could put batteries in my new shower radio. Mom wouldn't use it because she said she'd get electrocuted, but I tried to tell her that it was a shower radio so it's waterproof and stuff..
Oh well, time for zonking again! :(

Drilling through the country-side

2004-12-26T21:35:00.000-06:00

Yay! I got a cordless drill for Christmas!! :) I also got the 3rd Harry Potter movie, the Bill Clinton autobiography (956 pages!), a wooden case with the 12 days of Christmas and each one is a nutcracker and it's really cool, and I got one of those things you can plug into the tv to play PacMan on. :o I also got a food processor so now I can make stuff like they do on tv instead of using a blender or a knife. Psssh! :P

I am so exhausted though because Dec 23-25 I barely got any sleep and I was tired enough from my job because I've had to get up around 6ish and then I'd get home from work at 6ish again and that was my life. *sorbs* And I don't get paid for 2 more weeks! *sorbs*
And plus I barely ate anything because I had no time, and I had to play for 3 church services and make tons of dessert and food for Christmas dinner. And I finally got the IKEA rocking moose put together at 2 a.m. on the night before Christmas. So Christmas morning after church I took the gingerbread men out of the oven and the heads fell off 2 of them and I was like "That's it! I'm going to bed!"

I was so exhausted and fed up and then my cookies died and I had a headache anyways, so I actually went to bed. And then Mom and Anna were like "Come on! We gotta go!" but I wouldn't get out of bed and then my brother called and they told him I went to bed and I don't know how they convinced me to get up but I finally did and we went to my aunt's and we drove by the place where the Vikings practice on the way there :o But I was tired the whole day and everyone said my desserts were awesome and Alex didn't care that 2 out of the 20 cookies were broken because he ate the heads off other ones anyways.. And then we went to my sister's to open more presents and we ended up getting home at 9 pm which is early but it felt like 4 a.m.

I think I did get 9 hours of sleep last night, but if I want to do that again tonight, I would have had to be in bed already. *sorbs*

But I hope everyone had a great Christmas, I don't know if anyone celebrates something besides Christmas, so I'll just say that because none of you should get offended

Happy Christmas Eve

2004-12-24T15:00:00.000-06:00

Argh! It's my first day off since my new job so I slept until 10 so we had to hurry to get groceries for tomorrow because I had to be up at church at 1 to practice with the other brass players. The store was crowded, but not too bad and they weren't out of food or anything, so we got everything we wanted. (Last Christmas Anna and I were still shopping for presents on Christmas Eve and when we went to the grocery store it was closed already!! At 4 pm!! So on Christmas morning we bought stuff at our neighborhood minimart place. ack!)
I went up to church and played everything pretty well considering they didn't have the lights on so I couldn't tell which notes were what some times.. Then Mom got me and we went to the liquor store and I got a case of Mike's Hard Lime (yay) and Mom got some White Zinfandel (bleah) and then I got a little bottle of tequila for my friend for Christmas.
I have to bake a cheesecake, chocolate cupcakes, a torte, and the gingerbread cookies. Then I have to bake 20 potatoes and then scoop the potato out and mash them and add cheese and bacon and put it back in the potato shells and wrap them in foil because we have twice-baked potatoes every Christmas but my sister has her inlaws over today for presents so she didn't have time so somehow I automatically had time??? Beh.. And I have 2 hours until I have to be up at church to play because there's services at 6 and 10 and then I have to play tomorrow for the CHristmas service too.
So Christmas is hectic for me and I wish I could have time to sit back and have fun but that's never what happens for me I guess..
And the pharmacy school application site never got my PCAT scores so I have to call and yell because the test place was going to send them 4 weeks ago.. Arrgh! Oh well. *drinks booze*
You know people, if you read my blog, then I think you're all members of that message board Slackervania. So why not post there? It's just Hype and Clowny right now and me on random occasions when I'm not at work pulling my hair out.. But now I made Clowny a forum guy so he should have fun.
I set up all my Rudolph figurey set things and realized that I have alot of those.. Like how I put all my Nutcrackers up on a bookshelf and realized that no more would fit up there if I had anymore.. I have like 20 and they're all different ones. Ok bye.

HOPE EVERYONE HAS A MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!

Fill your eyes with double vision

2004-12-22T23:42:00.000-06:00

I haven't blogged in forever! It's partly because I use a computer all day at work, so I'm sick of computers, and also that I leave for work at 7:30 and come home at 6 so I have no time for anything like I did when I was happy and jobless. *sorbs*
So on Friday I went to Madison with M and we got there at 11 and went to State St. and had booze with our friends we hadn't seen in like 7 months. We stayed at the Red Roof Inn so it was really reasonable and not so far from campus.. On Saturday we went back to State St and met another M for lunch, then we went to the mall with E and it was really crowded. Some crazy people were singing songs and ringing bells for money and they were more like contemporary Christian songs than Christmas carols, which probably would turn alot of people off.. I didn't mind it I guess. I just wouldn't go to a church that only sings that sturf..
Anyways, we went to Memorial Union and I took pictures because there was ice on the edge of Lake Mendota and it looked neato. Then we went up n' down State St some more and it's the same except there's a few lingerie shops now where other stores were, and nice glass bus stations on the sidewalks instead of the old crappy spider-filled ones.
We left Madison at 10:30 and listened to Douglas Adams read one of his books on cd on the way back. I think it was the lonely teatime one.. But we only got halfway through and then it was 3:30 a.m. and we were back in Maplewood!! We stopped 3 times for beverages n' gas, I'm so thankful that Wisconsin has 24-hour gas stations in every city on 94! Otherwise I woulda been sad and dead, ok maybe not dead... but I was really thirsty!
Alex's Christmas service was Sunday morning and he sang all the songs, but this girl behind him was loud so he was looking at her sing loud the whole time so he was facing the wrong way. Then we went to a chinese place for lunch *drools*
I worked alot at work, I'm tired of working! I wish I was a millionaire so I could do nothing... :(
So now I'm watching Aqua Teen Hunger Force on dvd and making gingerbread men & bells & ducks (using non-Christmas cookie cutters = funny!) and I'm going to frost them funny for work. I have a glob of dough left to make normal ones for Christmas..
I am done Christmas shopping! And it's not even Christmas Eve like every other year! Anna and I went to Best Buy and bought bought bought last night so we are done and Mom and I bought bought bought at Kohl's tonight, so now I can sleep in on Christmas Eve since work gave me it off.
I bought the Foreigner cd at Best Buy because there's an episode of Aqua Teens where if you wear the Foreigner Belt and quote a song it does magic stuff, so now I can hear all the songs they mention. I'm too young to have heard of them all.. I think Double Vision is a good one.. If you like Foreigner songs, you'd better leave a comment! :(
Merry Christmas if I don't get to talk to anybody! :( *hugs?*

I'm tired!! :(

2004-12-15T21:40:00.000-06:00

Congrats To Bluey on having her baby!!

I'm so tired from actually working today since today was my first day of work.
And I think I left work at 5:30...
Then I had to be up at church to practice for Christmas Eve service at 6:15..
And I got there at 6:20 instead...
And I ate a handful of popcorn for dinner between getting home and going to church...
And this is the first practice I've been to so I didn't know how to play it...
And I'm tired...

But then at church my friend was there because he was done with semester finals yesterday. That's early! I would normally get done at Madison on the 21st or 22nd, and then have 3 days to buy all my Christmas presents, so I'm on the ball this year. *sits on a ball*

No More Sleep

2004-12-14T11:36:00.000-06:00

The Good News is that I got my job! The Bad News is that I can't sleep past 7 anymore! Although I enjoyed my 6 weeks of unemployment, I'd probably run out of money in a week or two considering it's Christmas and I've been buyen presents! OMG LOL *sorbs*

It's been incredibly freezing here! The weatherdude said it was 7 degrees out last night on the news and he was probably right for once.. But we don't have any snow yet. There was frost on the ground, but that's it.

One of my fish died, but those fish are 4 years old and they are just zebra ones that were like $1.00 each so I have no clue how the other 3 are still kickin'. I just made up 4 names for my fish, so I'll probably have to decide which one died and then stop using that name. Maybe it was "Zebrar" so "Bitey" "Stripey" and "It's Lent Eat Me" are left then.. Poor Zebrar!! :(

Dust gets in your nose

2004-12-13T01:57:00.000-06:00

It's 2 a.m. and I must be lonely.. *sorbs* Anyways, I spent today in the basement cleaning and going through boxes of stuff I had thrown into boxes at one point in my life. I found some missing stuff which is good, but I also got sick from the dust which is bad. I hate cleaning the basement or anywhere dusty because I get allergic to the dust and end up being sick for a few days... But hopefully it will go away. :P Blech!
No, my room is not rearranged yet, but I am sitting on a new desk chair!! I was sick of the old chair and it was an old dining room one that I had at college, and my brother wanted a desk chair for Christmas so when we were buying his I convinced Mom to buy us one too. And it has wheels and you can raise the height and it's comfy and I put it together in about 5 minutes which is pretty impressive. I think I will attempt to move my room around tomorrow and then my bed won't be by the drafty winders (yee haw!) and the computer can be over there and that might inspire people to not be in my room when I wanna sleep if they're cold..
I had a Mike's Hard Lime today that I found in the fridge and it was pretty good, but I think it was my last one. :( Tonight I watched Charlie Brown Christmas, It's Christmas Time Again Charlie Brown, A Garfield Christmas, and Rudolph. I think my sister is borrowing Frosty, but I don't remember liking that one as much because the magician killed him *sorbs*
I saw a commercial from Barnes and Noble and now if you spend $25 on their site they ship your stuff in 3 days, which is better than Amazon's 5-7 day thing so they're trying to steal business, but I have a Barnes and Noble card so I'd get a discount too.
I wish we had snow. But maybe some sort of hybrid snow that could happen and it wouldn't be so cold out? Yeah...

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I Heart Vacations (not Huckabees)

2004-12-10T11:23:00.000-06:00

I'm sure everyone missed me! Anyways, here's how my vacation went:

On Monday morning I had to get to the Greyhound joint by 7 and there was rush hour traffic and a blizzard, so it was more like 7:15 but the bus was late because of those too. There weren't alot of people on the bus, but that's fine because there've been lots of trips where I had to share a seat with somebody so I didn't mind having 2 to myself. I tried playing Gameboy but the bus was too shaky so it was hard. I did 2 logic puzzles and a crossword, but then I got sick of doing those. It was too foggy from the snow/rain to look at scenery. When we stopped for a half hour break at McDonalds, it was still breakfast and so I didn't know what to get so I got a McMuffin, and then after I ordered and paid, the manager yelled out that they were changing to the lunch menu. But that's my life and stuff like that happens several times a day, so nothing was new.

When the bus headed to Madison, it was still incredibly foggy, so when we were driving up the isthmus it looked cool because all you could see was the skinny strip of road and the lakes were "invisible" and anything 30 ft ahead was hidden so everything was white except the road. It would be cool in a movie anyways..

Madison to Milwaukee didn't seem to be as long and then I got out and the bus station was scary but there was a cop there. ("What did you do in Milwaukee?" "Got molested at the bus station" was a conversation that never had to take place.) So one of my friends picked me up and we went to their apartment which I thought was way cool but they said was tiny. Yet somehow it was $200 cheaper than my Madison efficiency was (I paid $515 a month) and it had a huge closet and a kitchen as long as the main room even if it wasn't very wide. It was like one of those Let's take an old historic building and turn it into apartments! buildings, and you would know whenever somebody was coming up the stairwell (creak creak creak).

So on Tuesday we drove to Illinois and went to Gurnee Mills and I bought a bunch of Christmas presents because that mall is cheap. It also wasn't crowded at all! Maplewood Mall has been crowded since Thanksgiving, yet this Chicago area mall has room to walk?! WTF!! So then we visited friends in that area and left around 12:30 am so we got up to Milwaukee around 2ish.. Wednesday was sleep day and I slept until noon and we watched movies and that night we went to the Cheesecake Factory, which is awesome and I'm pissed that there aren't any in MN. I had Tiramisu Cheesecake and it was awesome, it made me want to make another cheesecake. (One time on that Food Network show where they go around the U.S. to different restaurants, this lady from Chicago moved to the Twin Cities and she was mad that they didn't have Cheesecake Factory so she started her own cheesecake place and there's 2 locations now, so I guess I could go there..) Oh, we rented 28 days later since i was the only one who saw it but I said I'd watch it again, and one of my friends had a hard time understanding what the UK people were saying and we said they needed to watch more britcoms because the rest of us understood fine. It would be like if you talked to Gaz and you had no clue what he was saying.. :P

On Thursday we ate lunch at P.F. Changs, which was at some mall in Milwaukee and it was really awesome. I had the Kung Pao Chicken and I made the mistake of eating a chili pepper so my sinuses cleared at least, but I drank alot of water.. We had lettuce wraps for appetizers and they were good too. Then we went to the Mitchell Park Domes, it's like a greenhouse thing but they're big circles of glass and one was a Christmas one so I took pictures of stuff. Then it was time for me to catch my bus, so I went to the Greyhound station and the baggage guy put a claim check thing on my backpack and I wanted my backpack on the bus, so I put it on this shopping bag o' presents, and when I handed the bus driver my ticket he went nuts about the claim check on the shopping bag and said the baggage guy shouldn't have done that and so we pulled it off and he let me have that bag and my backpack as carry-ons. This bus was fuller, but I still had my own seat.

My cell phone had no signal between Wis Dells and Eau Claire, so I couldn't talk to anyone or go on aim. I did talk to Kay on AIM while I was in Madison though :) Oh, and then I got this message saying "Welcome to AIM! Each IM costs 10 cents!" so that's not so bad. Byrdy was thinking it was more than that.

Everyone wanted to sleep since it was dark, but this dullard had his overhead light on so he could read a book, but there's always one or two of those on a bus.. We stopped at McDonalds in Tomah again and I had chicken selects and it was "only" $5 because I got 3. :( I got home and it was rainy and not snowing. I went in my bedroom and there was a spider hanging from the ceiling so I got all mad and went to find a shoe (I'm brave!) and I found my mom's shoe and when I came back the spider had moved up to the ceiling somewhere, and of course it's one of those stupid light brown house spiders that blend in with everything, so it took me a while to see where it was up there and then I bashed it and let Ivy sniff it when it was stuck to the shoe.. And then I yelled at mom & Anna about how come I had to sleep in my room since there was a spider in there..

So now I'm back and I can take my "vacation status" off nation states and sturf. I had a list of things to do today, but I'm tired still so they can shove themselves. :P

Bye for a while

2004-12-05T23:27:00.000-06:00

I'm off to WI for the week, I'll be back Thursday late night/Friday early morning so it's pretty much for the week. I'm going to hang out with friends and we're going to Gurnee Mills which is a huge mall somewhere between Milwaukee and Chicago that I went to once like 8 years ago. So it will be nice to have a vacation from uh, vacation? After this I'm going to job hunt some more because I dunno if I'm getting that one job.
Today in church Alex was drawing on the bulletin and he was talking loudish and he said "It's a ghost! It's scary!!" and then he made booing noises, it was sorta like a rectangley ghost. I would have scanned it onto the computer but he scribbled over it so we left the bulletin at church. Then he was using my sister's credit cards to play war and he'd go "I won!... Mommy won!"
I raked leaves because they were not frozen to the ground so the bad part of the yard where the tree threw up leaves all over is now grassy and that's good since we're getting snow tomorrow. I'm tired and I have to get up at 6 so I can get on the greyhound at 7. I hope I get my own seat and that I can sleep and there's no jailbirds on there this time.. :P Have a good week without me! :(

MN Swear Words

2004-12-04T20:43:00.000-06:00

I really wanted/needed coffee yesterday but there was no place to get it between Menards and Anna's work (except maybe a gas station) so I was crabby and it gets dark at 4:30 around here now so that's really annoying for driving.. Anyways, I got cut off by some stupid car when I was leaving Menards (I have a gift card and no clue what to get) and then cut off again on the highway on the way to downtown St Paul.
So I decided to swear at the people even though my windows were up (30 degrees = too cold for windows to be down) so I was like "@ss!" and that was good because I sorta felt better.. Minnesota drivers are stupid and should be nicer to me. Our relatives in Duluth call people from the Twin Cities "cidiots" because they drive really slow to look at scenery up there so nobody goes more than 25 mph. :P
Anywho, then this bizzo drove really fast in front of me to get down the parking lot row before me at the mall today and got a kick-bum spot right by the Mall doors. So I was like "You shmuck!" and then I asked Mom if it was ok to say "shmuck" and she was like "Instead of Shmoe?" and I said "No, like if I said "Shmuck you!" >:0
We bought a bunch of Christmas presents at the craft show they had at Maplewood Mall because making crafts is probably hard work unless you're at the sweat shop and they whip you until you're faster at it.. We went to the new Barnes & Noble but didn't buy anything because we spent all our $ on crafts and the book we were gonna buy was $5 and charging $5 on a Visa is lame unless you're a poor college student. *sorbs*

Happy December

2004-12-01T10:08:00.000-06:00

Watching: Cheaters on WB
Eating: Chicken Chow Mein

Oy! I missed another National Novel Writing Month! (November) Last year I thought about it and this year I wanted to do it, but I never got around to it.. Maybe next year. :P

My brother came over after work yesterday and we tried to put up a railing on the front steps. We got the posts in on one side, but then his drill ran out of battery power and the sun sets at 4:30 around here and it was 6:00 and I kept saying we should quit because I was freezing, so I'm glad the drill died. Some handyman had come over and said he'd charge $250 to put the railings in and everyone thought that was alot of money. Last night I said that maybe they'd give us a discount since we were 1/4 of the way done.. I said that we'd pay $240. haha

I started wrapping presents, but I can't find any gift tags and I know we bought 2 packages lately.. I stopped after 3 presents so I can remember what's in what box. I guess they're on sale at Walgreens this week. *polkeases* I have tons of presents for Alex and one for my brother. I have a lot more to buy, but nobody gave me a list, and I just bought Mom and Anna's bday presents and I have no clue what else they want.

Yesterday Jaz was on so I talked to her and then later I talked to Kay until I ran off to answer the phone. Then Mom took over the computer to play freecell, so I don't know who else was on last night *sorbs*

I have to put the IKEA rocking moose together. I was cleaning my room and I found a bunch of missing sturf under my bed. I guess I'd have to clean my room before I can rearrange the furniture in here. >:(

Lumpy Sheets

2004-11-28T19:32:00.000-06:00

I haven't oopdated in forever! I got a Z-pack from my doctor and then my coughing and phlegming went away and I could sleep without coughing the whole time, but now I'm starting to cough again.. Beh! This morning I woke up and had a sore throat so I didn't go to church.

Hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving!! I made a pumpkin cheesecake and it was yummy. I had to play my baritone for church on Wednesday night and Thursday morning, so I ended up making the cheesecake at 11:30 on Wednesday and it had to sit in the oven after it baked so I took it out at 2:30 and then I had to get up at 7:30ish for church and so after we got back from my aunt's that night I went to bed right away. On Friday we went to Maplewood Mall at 6:45 and bought sturf. It wasn't as crowded as it was later like noonish, and Caribou Coffee was open so we got coffee.

We got snow on Saturday morning and it hasn't gone away yet, like 1.5 inches. I was uneggcited about driving on ice, but I went slow enough that I didn't crash. :P

I was making my bed and there was a bump on the sheet and it was the sock that I had said the dryer ate 3 days ago! :0

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Happy New Year!!

Room

Sleep

How to be cold

Oooo

Huffles has a blog

Happy Turkey Day!

I'm Phlegmy

Colder

Cold

I can't see

Candy & More Candy

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You Wretched Reptiles!

Boozin' It Up on a Saturday Night

Tornado Alley

Huzzah!

Bleah, I'm sick.

Strawberry Nachos

Happy Hump Day!

Weekend!

Ducks for Sale

Waiting for the Riverboat

Two Movies and a Book.

Meow?

Sleep

Polkeasers are doin it for (with) themselves

Fireworks are loud

Fridays are for Sleeping

Crikey! British Lesbians!

Onions

The Power Went Out

Gotta be Cruel to be Kind

Mondays = Mange

Down with Depressing Quizzes & Gardening & Mondays

Do you have any waffles?

Star Wars 4 sale

Hooray 4 Vacations

Birthday Vacation!

Hooray 4 Chicago

Lousy technology

Vroooooom

It's nice out and I'm drinking...

Funny Prank # 2682693-5555

Arrrgh

And boy are my teeth tired!

Don't go breaking my heart - I couldn't if I tried

I used to be anti-drugs, but now I'm prozac!

Clutterrific

omg stfu n00b

It's Nice Out

Moooooo

Thunder fun der

I want 2 ovens

Garfield cakes

Maunday Thursday!

Don't go breakin' my heart

Don't go hacking into my blog, biatch!

Fortune cookies in bed & Elevator boredom

Palm-Waving Fun

Moononites Attack

HAPPY ST PATRICKS DAY!!!

Make Good Choices!

Fill Your Eyes With Double Vision

FT = P

Cruisin' for booze

The fish aren't in a potty

Circus Fun and Booze Fun

Vacation Fun

Meow-meow-meow, we want Meow Mix.

That Valentine Movie..

I stole a survey from Cat

Robots in Disguise!

Happy Ash Wednesdayyyy

Huevos en la boca

Grab your things I've come to take you home

IHOP In The Snow

Emesis

Phil hits the 5-4 & I hate snow

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