Archive for July, 2005

i hope it was a joke…

walked in on a conversation at work the other day. for some reason, the older ladies that are employed were talking about s.i.d.s., and how their young daughters were afraid to let their babies sleep on their stomachs. they insisted it was ridiculous and i agreed, stating that i always slept on my stomach and ‘I’m only dead on the inside’. they didnt really get it.

a few hours later, i spent some time out in the fine okrahoma heat. when i came back inside to try and snack on a sugar cookie, a discovery was made. i think i have brain damage. there is no possible way that any sugar cookie is going to taste like cherries, and only cherries. thats all i could taste.

after that, you’d think i would have been having a bad day. not the case, my friends. i did have one or two spots of happy news. ‘Machismo’ called me and told me that our upstairs neighbors are looking to move out. FINALLY. no more midnight vacuuming sessions. no more stomping. no more Jay-Z (unless its coming from my puter). no more pointless arguments about who put whom’s shoes where. we might even have to buy them a going away gift, but i wouldnt even know what the proper gift is. they havent even hit thier paper anniversary yet….

also, i procured something for yon ole homestead. ok, so maybe i dont drink beer at all, but i like having a tacky neon sign lighting up my place.

last saturday.

it’s funny. i spent a greater part of that day with some billy crystal quote (from city slickers) running around my head. didnt really do anything that day but that and laundry. the greater part of my immediate family had flown back into town from canadia that afternoon, and were beat. of course, if i had just spent a week up north working in a church camp, i’d want to be beat also.

the next night, we decided to do dinner. after our ill-planned dining decision and a 45 minute wait, we gorged ourselves and i was updated on the weeks happenings. got to listen to my brother-in-law discuss the differences in attitudes and demeanor between our two countries. was very interesting, and a little unexpected. and some of you will get a kick out of this. as much shit as i’ve given canadia over the years, guess who got stuck with a brand-spanking-new canada ballcap? i even think they expect me to wear it. which i will oblige, if only for irony’s sake.

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hopefully, this picture wont serve to aggrivate an ex-cyberstalker of mine.

of course dinner had to be mexican. i’ve had 28 years to enlighten my family on public embarassment, you’d figure they’d have listened…at least once. sorry, no go. before the end of the night, Lando was smack dab in the middle of the eatery wearing a giant sombrero whilst being sang at. not exactly my ideal situation given the fact that i had not a one drink in me.

pretty tame i suppose, knowing that after all this, we ended up playing yahtzee at my parents house and i had none of ‘the sex’. it’s like my birthday is nookie kryptonite. ha, now if i could only figure out how to not make everyday my birthday.

thanks to everyone that remembered.

my life recently

when did i get so boring?

tuesday. car-fixin’ day.

i woke up very tired. not sure if it was because of the newfound summer cold i’m rockin’ or the fact that i didnt get to bed until 3am. so yawning and coughing peppered with a few blowing of the noses was the routine from sunup to sundown (or as close as i made it to sundown).

i’m not sure what the hell happened. i had a day off of work and i found myself wishing i wasn’t, because i would have enjoyed just about anything more than what i ended up doing.

see, my family (all of the ones that live within a state of me) are on vacation in canadia. why would anyone want to vacation in canadia? some church camp thing is having a to-do in alberta. for the low, low price of a few hundred dollars, they get to fly up there and teach something or another to someone or another (i kinda lost interest, sorry). basically, a working vacation. erm, but 5 sentences later, this is besides the point. the point was that they arent in town. and after ‘Machismo’s car accident, he’s not allowed to drive for 6 months (guess who gets to play chauffeur?). everyone else i know was at work. so i had to hang around the auto shop while they fixed the old girl.

FOR 5 FUCKING HOURS.

my regular shop (that a made an appointment with last week) was still backed up 2 days, so they sent me to a shop nearby. “no waiting!” they said. if only that were true on my account as much as my cars’. i paced. i sat. i looked through, humorously, magazines apparently stolen from other auto shops. i stared at team photos of the owner sponsored 12 y/o female softball team. prayed for my death. oh! then i paced some more and listened to a couple cd’s. i might have even fallen asleep at one point, im not really sure.

they finish up, hit me with a $300 bill, and i leave. as i’m leaving to go home, i realize that i hadnt used the bathroom the entire time. i’m sure my neighbors got quite the pee-pee dance extravaganza on my way in. next time, i’m charging for the show.

i get in, last an hour before i pass out, and wake up at a quarter till midnight. where the fuck did my day off go?

the slow, prolonged death of a loved one

wonderful things! my car has yet again decided to show me her age. she’s taken to drooling antifreeze all over the place. a couple of possibilites, one being sucky and the other being disasterous. replacing a water pump is pretty acceptable when faced with the alternative of having a blown head gasket. sparing you from any details, the earliest i can have it checked out is tuesday. FUCKING TUESDAY! i’ve had this car going on 11 years. i love this car (and as bad as it looks) i think it only adds to the surly, ‘big ugly woman’ personality. pray for the old girl.

oh! kudos to Kat, for admitting to her gaping chasm. very brave of you when no woman i know would admit to such a thing.

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