from eighteen seconds before sunrise
"last weekend at the benicassim festival appearance in spain, orri’s fantastic crown went missing. if you have any information that would lead to the crown being returned to the band then please contact us. a reward is offered to whomever helps get it back."
Such a shame, too. It's so much more colorful than those crap ones from Burger King.
2 posts in one day, hasn't been normal for me lately! lol
I wish I woulda brought my camera cord with me I took a video of Ellie being silly yesterday after I gave her a bath. She likes to run at full speed throughout the house during her "dry off" time. She's crazy.
It's looking kinda dark and gloomy outside, yet it JUST.WONT.RAIN. please, just open up the sky and pour on us, cool it down a lil bit, I wont be mad at all I promise.
I think I'll get to writing some letters out tonight when I get home. Not much else to do. Don't feel like going to Stampede tonight.
I finished all my work on time/early so I have a few extra minutes here to do some stuff I need to.
Go ME! I processed 104 renewals today, and god knows how many handicapped placards probably over 50.
I'm super productive (=
I'm realllly craving wendy's right now.. but I know I shouldn't get any on the way home cuz I DO have some stuff there I'm just feeling lazy. Plus it'll be healthier anyways. Damn it.
Is it just insane that I feel like the only person in the world without kids?
ALMOST everyone I know has them, is pregnant with one, or can't wait to have them.
Am I the odd one out because I don't want any of the above anymore?
I mean I like quiet, sleeping, clean kids yeah sure they're cool.
But all the loud, obnoxious, dirty, grimy slimy ones... no thanks not for me.
I'd rather clean the litter box any day.
But every once in a while I see a cute one and for 2.5 seconds my mind changes... and then I slap myself back in to reality. Oh well, just a random thought to put out there... have a good one (=
Show us the last thing you bought.
Today I went to Relax the Back store. I have had a tempur-pedic contoured pillow for about 6 years now and its not doing it's job anymore....and lately my neck has been in so much pain because it's not getting any support when I am sleeping. My shoulders are so sore every morning and I am not sleeping very much at all because my neck is so sore and making other parts sore,too....and I have been getting a lot of headaches from the neck pain. So, I figured it was time to look into something new.
I love Relax the Back store and could spend hours in there. With anti-gravity chairs, lots of massage chairs, and a whole bunch of beds where you can lie on to test the mattress (most are memory foam) and to try out different pillows and leg wedges.....they expect you to try everything and stay awhile. I remember a long time ago, we spent a whole afternoon, practically, trying stuff out. And today, lying on the tempur-pedic mattress with a side sleeper pillow and a body pillow......it was so comfy and supportive, I almost drifted off and had a nap!!
Today I invested in a new pillow that is good for side sleepers and is amazingly supportive to my neck. OMG!! Love it! Love it! Love it! And I also got a body pillow which I have been wanting forever. I tried it out in the store and it's just wonderful.
It felt like a bit of a splurge....but, quite honestly, investing in things that help my back isn't really a splurge. Less doctors visits and less pain....is a VERY good thing! :)
Now, I just have to save up to buy one of those amazing tempur-pedic mattresses that are just a DREAM to lie on!
Why hello there!
If you've been on Twitter the last few weeks you'll have noticed about 1,000 "COME VISIT WE'RE STREAMING LIVE! LIVE I TELL YOU!!!" tweets from various people.
At first I was annoyed. WHY would I want to see you live? I barely know you! This is all moving too fast! Next thing you know you'll be wanting to leave a freakin' toothbrush over here and have your own drawer!
But now I totally get it. It's freakin' fun. I'll be trying to do one every night, so, come by and visit! I'll be posting on BitchBuzz's Twitter whenever we'll be going live on Qik.
Since I took yesterday off and it was utterly boring, all i did was lay around, eat, watch tv, eat some more, play with the dog, bitch about the heat, go to the library and then repeat all the above, I almost wish I had gone to work!
Today is going by incredibly slowly, and the people calling in are very argumentative and / or dumb as rocks.
I don't stutter, so if you listen the first time I won't have to repeat myself, is that too difficult a task for you to do? Argh.
I'm going to be super broke until my NEXT check in 2 weeks since my rent and car insurance both need to come out of this weeks check. That really sucks for me!
I'm getting really sick of this hot weather we've been having its like 10 days straight over at least over 90 degrees if not 100. My house stays at a totally UNcomfortable 83-85 degrees. The fans just blow hot air. At night it gets a LITTLE cooler, maybe 1 or 2 degrees and its so hard for me to sleep at night being so hot and uncomfortable. Ellie woke me up around 2am because she was on the bed panting so hard. So I got up and gave her some new water and ice cubes and had myself an otter pop, i also grabbed one of those blue ice packs and put it on the bed with me so I could have a lil coolness.
But I just feel exhausted like I'm not getting good, deep sleep and thats a big bummer.
Well I guess I don't have as much to say as I thought I did, it mostly just rattles around in my head till I forget about it all.. oh wells.. happy hump day everyone
i often disagree with hillary. she thinks video games are bad and make people kill. she's with tipper gore on the anti-music and anti-video game thing.
but hillary was on board with plan b. she speaks out on behalf of women's health, and contraceptives, and i love that. i like that someone is championing a right that i strongly subscribe to.
so the bush administration is currently seeking to put into legislation a law that will make birth control pills and IUD's be considered "abortion".
abortion: noun. 1: the termination of a pregnancy after, accompanied by, resulting in, or closely followed by the death of the embryo or fetus: as a: spontaneous expulsion of a human fetus during the first 12 weeks of gestation — compare miscarriage b: induced expulsion of a human fetus c: expulsion of a fetus by a domestic animal often due to infection at any time before completion of pregnancy — compare contagious abortion.
yeah. i don't see anywhere in that definition, from merriam-webster, that says that abortion is taking a contraceptive to avoid and prevent getting pregnant.
i am just losing my shit with this administration's need to constantly interpret things their way to enforce their ideology on everyone. it's already difficult enough to get birth control with the rising cost of annual exams and the increasing lack of "free" or "low cost" clinics. what used to be "low cost" is now way too much. it isn't affordable and easy for us anymore. and i'm not just saying women, i'm saying men, too, because planned parenthood also treats men. i saw this dude walk in there during my visit yesterday, and he just came to get some condoms. he knows he has very little money, and he knows he's going to fuck, and he was being responsible. it was so great to see that.
if this sort of thing passes into legislation, guys like him won't be able to go to these helpful clinics, who are still trying to be as helpful as possible with the rising economy and the pressures from state and federal goverment, and pick up some condoms so he can go home and tap that sweet ass without knocking the bitch up and adding to the welfare/food stamp/WIC epidemic. without taking more money out of our pockets with the taxes that support these programs.
during my visit yesterday, which used to only cost 45 dollars and now costs twice that, or 60 bucks just to tell a doctor you like your pills, get your blood pressure and weight taken, and get more pills (which you have to pay for separately), i was pleasantly surprised that planned parenthood now has a new form of convenience: you can get a year's worth of whichever birth control method you use now (provided they have enough of your prescription in stock), and pay later. i got 13 packs of pills, and i don't have to start paying until september, at which point it comes out of my bank account every month on the 20th. way to fight back, planned parenthood! i'm proud!
but still. here we have this bullshit conservative bush administration trying to tell me that birth control is considered abortion, and make it virtually impossible to get. yes, that's what this country needs, more poor people making babies! more welfare! more food stamps! in a perpetual cycle of relying on the government!
i'm sick over this. if you go to the link above, mrs. clinton has provided a link at the bottom to sign a petition urging the government not to go through with this. PLEASE SIGN IT. it takes two seconds, i swear.
it's been a while, and this is past due anyway...
loathe:
- my boyfriend drank a half liter of whiskey by himself again last night. i woke up at 5 this morning having to pee really bad, and there he was, starting in on my vodka and kahlua and having a white russian. he had stopped drinking when i did around 8 last night. he made me some dinner. i thought he would come to bed around 11, at the latest. nope. he drank the whole bottle of whiskey and then started in on MY booze. i took the drink out of his hand, dumped it in the sink (thank god it was half empty and was in a small glass, or i'd feel guilty as shit), slapped his hat off his head, and went back to bed. i think i scared him because he slept on the couch after that.
- said boyfriend is not awake yet. i figure if he's not up by the time i go to lunch, i'm going to have to drive home and let the dog out of her kennel/bed to go do her business. no telling when he put her in bed, but her tiny bladder and digestive system should not have to suffer because he can't put the bottle down.
- said boyfriend drinking AFTER he's already accomplished drunkenness. this leads to wasted booze. thank god the half liter of whiskey he always gets is 8 bucks. but the fact that he drinks the entire bottle, and then starts drinkin MY booze? no, i don't think so. kahlua is not cheap, even for that smaller bottle i got. milk was 3-something for a half gallon. i want to scream at him right now. he wastes, so much. he can't be bothered to eat the serving size of anything. instead of one or two corn dogs from the box of frozen ones i get at the store, he'll eat 3 in one sitting, with chips or mac n' cheese. he's been known to put away a bag of chips in one day (usually tortilla chips, which pisses me off, because i like to get down on tortilla chips and salsa every now and then), although it doesn't happen often. but i'll get a bag of chips and some salsa, and you can bet your ass it's gone in 3 days or less, before i can even touch it.
- i hate that he's home right now, not working, and eating all the damn food..and sure, he cleans the house and does dishes and makes dinner the best way he knows how, but then i come home and want to vent about my day or whatever, and you can tell he's not interested. in fact, at times, he makes that known. and it's like, you know what? you don't fucking work, so if i want to come home and bitch about my fucking day, you better fucking pretend your interested because those half liters of whiskey you're drinking and those cigarettes your smoking? i paid for it. that laundry? i washed it. that food you eat? i bought it. spent more than i should have, every time, and for what? 2 weeks of food that should last almost a month? christ.
- i hate that i spent an hour making him a resume and i posted it on careerbuilder.com for him, and he applied for two jobs. both of which were out of his skill range.
- i hate that i told him yesterday that my dad just found out he can apply to jobs through my dad's company online, so it puts less work on my dad to find him a job, and my dad found out that there are TONS more positions open than he thought, which is awesome. did he get on and check it out? no.
- i hate that he spends like, 2 hours a day for the past couple of days studying for this online class thing for school because he fucked up his accuplacer, and because he does that, he feels like he gets a free pass to not do anything else all day. i know this mentality. i was jobless at one point. you pick one thing that you feel is exerting to do each day. one day you might clean. one day you might go out and apply for a job or two. you do maybe one hour of actual responsible activity, and then you think you're spent for the day and get an out. fuck that. unemployment is paying 600 bucks every two weeks. you know where that's going? in.my.fucking.wallet.
- i hate that i feel like a nazi for taking his unemployment debit card because he never did that to me when i wasn't working. then again, for the majority of time i was on unemployment, i was working, so i deserved to keep both paychecks. i just feel like he's going to resent me for it, even though he willingly handed it over. he's irresponsible with money, and i don't want him getting drunk and ordering shoes or hats online or whatever at 2 AM, which he's done a couple of times before. one time, i told him not to, and i hid his card. then he said he wouldn't, and i gave it back, and what did he do? ordered a jersey online that we couldn't afford, and he had to cancel the transaction and wait for the refund.
- i hate that he bitches about going grocery shopping with me or going to the liquor store, but since he isn't working or doing much of anything, i feel like he kind of owes me that. i'm not going to go out and spend money on shit we need if he's not going to show some level of appreciation.
- i hate that i feel like i'm not appreciating what he IS doing. like cooking and keeping the house clean.
- i hate that he tells me i still have growing up to do before we get married, but i feel like the grown up in this relationship.
- i hate feeling like i'm in a police state at work now. every time someone walks by, i have to minimize the internet window, if i have it open. even if i'm eating breakfast and reading the news, which is what i do every morning around 8 or 8:30 to take a little break for 5 minutes. it's ridiculous.
- i hate that i just poured my guts out and said all the things i should say to my boyfriend, and now i look like an asshole to you guys.
- bob, the boss that i think ratted me out about internet usage. when he's at his desk (the cubicle next to mine and liz's), he's loud. he gets on the phone and talks really loud, he slams shit around....right now he's rearranging his area and fucking with the desk. the desk that is attached to the cubicle partitions. right. and i'm trying to answer phones and hear customers, and it's very rude.
love:
- the seasonal s'mores ice cream from HEB. it's their generic brand, but they have the best ice cream besides ben and jerry's, i swear. i think i need to buy like, 30 cartons of this stuff. they only have it in quarts (yes, quarts! for 2.50! and all of their flavors are creamy and yummy and taste more expensive!), and it won't be around much longer since it is seasonal.
- new season of project runway, although it is their last on bravo. suck. they've been bought out by lifetime, and the new production company is bunim-murray, the same assholes that gave us the real world on mtv. puke. i don't know if i'll watch it when it goes to lifetime, but i love it right now. i'm going for the chick that does all the plaid stuff. she did the neat dress with the vacuum cleaner bags and dye in the grocery store challenge last week. i, however, do not like the "girlicious" guy with the orange leather bag tan. everything is something "icious" to him. and he's so creepy looking!
- that my boyfriend is cooking, and cleaning, and doing dishes. it's role reversal, definitely, and i can't say i hate it. i just wish he was working.
- wii fit, even though i haven't been using it as often as i should. i always feel guilty when i turn it on and the wii board dude on the tv is like, "we haven't seen you in a while, you should use me every day to be healthy!" but then my trainer makes everything better because she's really nice and encouraging.
- amanda palmer's new single, "leeds united". i listen to it on repeat on the way home every day. lovelovelove.
- my boyfriend, even when he's pissing me off.
i can haz analogy at 40 second mark.
so this guy in florida shakes his baby because he's frustrated since the baby won't stop crying. he's the baby's stepfather. he shakes the baby, the baby stops crying and goes to sleep. some time later, the baby's lips turn blue, he rushes it to the emergency room, but the baby dies the next day. no word on sentencing yet. and here's this lawyer saying, "he did something not only out of frustration, but out of irrational thinking". and this gives him an excuse? are you kidding me? don't EVEN try to excuse that behavior. unless the parent was psychotic as all fuck and had no knowledge of what they were doing, then i'd say, "well, they were not self aware, so you can't blame them, really."
what pisses me off? if you continue reading the article (and i posted this bit in the link above in case you were too lazy to navigate), there's this story about a guy that shook his 9 month old baby. his excuse was that she stopped breathing and he shook her to revive her (which is false). she is now 10 years old. she is blind, she can't feed herself, and she can't speak. you know what this guy's punishment was? 5 years probation and a $10,000 fine. wtf? i guess you could argue that his punishment is taking care of his disabled daughter and having that daily reminder for the rest of his life, which is pretty good punishment...
i guess it pisses me off that people go to jail for years for crimes that aren't nearly as horrible, and it costs millions in taxes to lock up these "criminals" (some of which are innocent and shouldn't be there at all), and yet this guy does something pretty fucking brutal to his own child, a baby, and he gets off with 5 years of probation. do people honestly sympathize with baby-shakers? it's good to know my tax dollars are being put to good use, yeah?
loathing:
- that i need to clean the house, but haven't had time this week.
- that it is hurricane season, and apparent because there is a storm in the Gulf.
- that my mother wants me to go see her...she forgot to call my 10 yr old daughter on her birthday! (still pissed about that even though it was back in April)
- that i don't have the right shoes for the outfits i want to wear
loving:
- my new makeup brushes from Sephora!
- my new white button up shirt!
- the cute new vest i bought to go with the white button up!
- the new necklaces i found last weekend.
- that i have all of Claudia's school supplies except a backpack and zipper binder (but i found where we are ordering them! she just has to choose which one!!)
- that there is this new thing called the JUMP scholarship for students in their last year of school, and were affected by Hurricane Rita in 2005! not sure what they are going to give me yet, but it will be something to help with school!
- that i am going to be working in the infirmary in the fall! i can't do anything with patients, but just being in that environment will be awesome!
- that i have decided to apply for one of the student programs at a local hospital. they don't hire until November, but i am putting my application in early, just in case!
- Project Runway! it makes me want to learn some basic sewing skills!
- Shear Genius!
- watching movies again! we watched "Invasion" last night. it was really cool!
- going to the cinema to see movies! we might go see "Dark Knight" this weekend, and i want to go see "Tropic Thunder" when it comes out!!!
- grape juice. i haven't had it in years, and now i am addicted!!!
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