Monday, February 28, 2005
Confessions Of A Twenty Year Lep Fan - The Early Years
Miles Run: 0 because Mother Nature is a bitch
Other Exercise: 200 and some stomach crunches
and 50 leg lifts - God I'm such a slacker
Weight Loss: Who fuckin cares?
I still don't own a scale.
Now on to the real business of this post....
Here it is.....the first installment of the posts I know you have all been waiting for. lol My Lep adventures. Yippie!
Let's start by turning back the clock to the very early 80s (frightening I know. LOL). I was around the age of 7 and my brother who is 10 years older than me had a copy of the High N Dry album. I can vaguely remember hearing him play it and liking it but I never really paid much attention to who it was. By the time Pyromania had come out, my brother had moved out and a foster kid my parents agreed to take moved in. He had Pyro on a cassette and after one listen to Rock Of Ages, I was hooked.
Fast forward to the late 80s. A few years had gone by and it was now the summer before my freshman year in high school. By this time I had pretty much forgotten about Def Leppard aside from the old stuff they played on the radio from time to time. I don't even remember hearing the news about Rick Allen's accident. Anyway, I was out by the pool in my parents' backyard one day and the song Animal came on the radio. It was an instant hit with me but because I misheard what the DJ said, I thought Van Halen was the artist. I couldn't believe that was right because it didn't sound anything like them but what did I know. lol
Later on during that summer, I was babysitting my nephew and happened to have MTV on. I was in the other room when I heard a song come on that I hadn't heard before (can you tell this was back when MTV was still at least somewhat Music Television? lol). The song immediately caught my attention and I went into the room where the tv was to watch the video. The first thing I saw was one of the most gorgeous looking guys I had laid my eyes on with this voice to die for standing on a stage in a pair of shredded jeans and a cut up t-shirt. Hello Mr. Elliott and Pour Some Sugar On Me! After that, I became a Lep lifer. I sought out just about anything and everything I could find that was Def Leppard from that point on.
I don't remember when it was exactly but I found out the Leps were going to be performing in Iowa City (about a two or so hour drive from my hometown). It must have been at some point during the last leg of the US Hysteria tour because someone had told me they had already played Ames. When I heard this news, I wanted more than anything to go. So did one of my friends but we had a small problem - neither of us were old enough to drive. I begged my mom to take us knowing that she was willing to go to those kinds of things even if she the music wasn't her favorite. Our luck was shitty though. She told me that she couldn't take us because it was a weeknight and it was too far to drive when she had to get up early in the morning. Fuck Fuck Fuckity Fuck Fuck! Ok, I thought. There has to be another way around this. Ah ha! My brother! Yah, that's the ticket! He likes rock music and concert going. Surly if I offer to pay for the gas, his ticket, and a t-shirt, he'll take us. WRONG! Not only did he say no, he told my mom that I probably shouldn't be allowed to go because the band might do something lewd on stage. Geez, thanks a lot big brother of mine. BASTARD! That squashed any and all hope of seeing them on the Hysteria tour. The next chance I would get wouldn't come until I was a freshman in college.
In 1991, I was a junior in high school and I will never forget that fateful January day when I learned of Steve Clark's death. I was standing at my locker getting my books out for the first couple hours of my day when one of my friends came over and broke the news. I had never met the man or any of the other guys but my heart absolutely sank for the band and their families. I also thought there could be a very good chance that would also be the end of the band. As sad as I would have been to see them go, I would have also understood their reasons for it. When the announcement came out that they would be releasing Adrenalize during the first part of 1992, I was elated. For the first time in my life, I actually made a point of purchasing an album on its release date. I can't tell you how many times I ended up listening to it in the first few months that I had it but I know it was a lot. It was in my collection I took with me the first time I visited France and England and even though I had quite a few albums with me, I think Adrenalize was the only one that saw the light of day. lol
The next ten years saw release of a few more albums (Retro Active, Slang, Vault, Euphoria) and a couple of tours. Finally I was able to see them live and boy were they worth the wait! I had yet to meet them though. Hell, I didn't even know that it was a possibility but that was ok. I felt like one of the luckiest people alive just being able to see them perform given everything that had happened to the band over the past ten years.
Otay, I'm going to leave it there for now because I've got a bowl of Ant's superfantastico curry waiting for me.
Tomorrow's post - The Online Years
Til next time kiddies.....
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Saturday, February 26, 2005
Opening Night - The Foreigner
Last night I came home from work briefly before taking off to my parents' house. After I got there, we sat and talked and I played with the dog for about fifteen minutes then left to go into town for my nephew's play. As we were walking from the parking lot, my sister and my other nephew pulled in so we stopped to wait for them. When they caught up to us, we continued on into the church where it was being held. My mom and dad decided to pay for all of us so we were all standing around the table waiting for the woman to add up how much we owed her. She asked my younger nephew's age and if he was still a student which he is since he's only 15. Next, she turned and looked at me quizzically. She said, "how about you?". I told her I was 31 and she just about fell off her chair. She thought I was a high school student too. LMFAO! My dad said jokingly that I was supposed to say that I was 13 not 31. LOL I think that helped to put the woman at ease a little bit because she started laughing too. It's rare when people don't think I look younger than I am but it has been a few years since someone has thought I was THAT young. Typically, I get confused for someone between the ages of 18 and 23.
The play itself was good and very funny although the accent one of the actors had was slaughtered. LOL I also noticed that there were a couple of places where the humor almost got the best of my nephew because you could see him sort of crack a smile then bite his lip but he made it through like a trooper. The costume worked really well but unfortunately I wasn't able to get any pictures of it. There were too many people sitting in front of me and there really wasn't any way for me to move around to some place else where I could have gotten a good shot. If nothing else, maybe I can get a picture after he is done with the play. If I do, I will post it when I get it. I do have a scan of the program though. They were even nice enough to give me props as one of the people in charge of costumes which I thought was kinda cool.
After the play was over, the cast came out and met with everyone. They were all really nice and expressed their thanks for the work I did on Justin's costume. I also ended up in a sorta awkward situation. A woman had attended who looked familiar but I couldn't quite place her. I guess she is one of Justin's co-workers. My mom knew who she was and I didn't catch her last name when the introductions were being made. It turns out she is the mother of a guy I was buddies with in elementary school. When she mentioned his name, I then realized why she looked like someone I should know. It's so sad....both of her children (the one I went to school with and her daughter who was younger) died in a car wreck quite a few years ago (I think they were coming home from college). Even after all the time that has past, you can still see the sadness in her eyes as though it was just yesterday when it happened.
Well kiddies it's time for me to be off. I need to go email someone and give him a piece of my mind.
Til next time.....
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Wednesday, February 23, 2005
Miles Run: 3
Weight Lost: Who fuckin cares? I don't
even own a scale.
I'm thinking I should have skipped that last mile tonight. Unlike Monday, the air is much drier and that third mile really did a number on my lungs. Oh well, I'm tough. I can take it and I feel better for it. ;)
So the costume is done. I went to my parents' house last night and finished it off in a few hours between growling and running with the dog. She's so funny. She only weighs about 6 pounds but she takes the tude of a dog 5 times her size. LOL At this point it looks like I will be going to see the play on opening night this Friday. I'm hoping that I will be able to get some pictures of my work for all of you to see. One thing I can say for sure is that I think it is pretty damn good based on the fact that it spooked me to see it on my nephew.
I got Ant totally rolling with laughter tonight all over a phone call from some guy named Mike at Dish Network. Here's a transcription of the conversation:
Me: Hello.
Mike: Hello?
Me: Hello.
Mike: Hello? Hello my name is Mike. I'm calling from Dish Network...
Me: We are on the do not call list. Why are you calling?
Mike: Oh, you want me to put you on our "you don't want to save money list"?
Me: No, I'm saying we are on the do not call list and you shouldn't be calling here.
Mike: So you want me to put you on our "you don't want to save money list"?
Me: No, I'm saying we are on the National Do Not Call List which means you shouldn't be calling me in the first place.
Mike: So you want me to put you on our "you don't want to save money list". We have two lists. The do not call list and our "you don't want to save money list".
Me: Do you know by calling someone on the do not call list, you can be fined?
Mike: Oh, well, I'm not selling anything. I'm just calling to take a survey and find out what you are paying for cable.
Me: We don't pay for cable tv.
Mike: Oh so you don't even have cable.
Me: We have cable internet and cable tv comes with it free.
Mike: Oh, well, have you ever thought about getting a dish from Dish Network?
Me: Uh no. My parents' attempted to switch from Direct TV to Dish and the guy who installed it didn't know what the hell he was doing. He ended up putting a bunch of holes in their house and made an awful mess.
Mike: Oh that's not good. He shouldn't have done that.
Me: Yes, I know. They weren't overly happy with your company.
Mike: I guess you wouldn't be interested in a dish then would you.
Me: Uh no, not really.
Mike: Well, will you do me a favor?
Me: What's that?
Mike: Have a goodnight.
Me: Yah ok.
I swear these people have to have an IQ under 60 or something. Ant came up with the idea that we should use his DJ equipment to disguise my voice the next time someone like that calls because I like to have so much fun with them. LOL He then took it a step further by saying we should record some Foamy The Squirrel rants and switch those on when they call. That just had me roaring with laughter. LMAO!
Ok, on a final note before I get on my way.....
Project Runway
Talk about being underwhelmed. None of the designs really "wowed" me. Kara Saun really let me down. I didn't care much for any of her things. Wendy had a couple of things I liked and so did Jay. Personally, I think this competition is between Jay and Wendy but I'm sure Michael K won't see it that way. I swear that man has personal issues with Wendy. Guess we will have to wait and see.
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Monday, February 21, 2005
ARRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHH MAKE THEM STOP!!!!
I swear now that a do not call list has been established to keep the solicitors away, the survey crowd has come out in DROVES! Usually Ant and I won't even answer our land line because of these annoying people but lately I have been because I know my nephew might be calling about the costume thang. Anyway, earlier this evening I was getting ready to go for a run (I know I'm addicted. Who else would brave being pelted with snow and ice chips to make a two mile run. lol) and the phone rang. It was some lady taking a short water survey. Ok, it was only a few questions so I was nice for once (ooh I guess it was more like the second time this month - shit I'm losing my touch dammit!) and I humored her. Blah blah blah. At the end, she said something about being qualified for a free water test and some other shit. I declined that and told her we didn't want to be contacted for that and continued getting ready to go out running. The minute I got back downstairs and started to put my shoes on for the second time, the phone rang again. I couldn't help but remark, "Who the hell could that possibly be? Not like we get a ton of phone calls around this dump." Knowing it could be my nephew, I ran back upstairs to answer it. Wouldn't you know, it was the same woman AGAIN! Hello! Do you not pay attention to the names you are calling DUH!!! When I told her that she just called here, all she said was, "Oh" and then hung up. How fucking rude!
And now for something completely different.....
Ant is in the process of rebuilding his computer. I guess earlier tonight he was messing around with the fan and some how managed to stick his finger in it in a way that it cut it up pretty bad. Almost looks like it went through the nail down to the skin underneath. He's such a gump. He was hopping around here singing the "owie" song right after he did it and I was rolling because it was so funny to watch him. I didn't think it was funny that he was hurt but his reaction was hysterical. LOL He told me that he had stuck his finger in the fan before but it never did anything like that. It was funny because last night we were watching Mythbusters and they were going to do an experiment to see if a ceiling fan could cut someone's head off. Unfortunately, I dozed off before they completed it so I didn't get to see the results. I don't think Ant saw them either but I said something to him about not paying attention otherwise he would have known better not to play with the mean old bastard of a fan. :P
A little later on, he had me laughing again. I was watching American Idol and that Scott guy (the one who has a decent enough voice but not the looks of and up and coming) came on. Ant was sitting beside me and not long after the guy started singing, Ant raised his hand and started sweeping it across in front of him yelling, "OFF!!! OFF!!!" I couldn't stop laughing.
Otay kiddies I'm off now. Gotta go finish up the costume and vote for my next American Idol although I'm a bit torn between Bo, Anwar, Judd, and Mario. Maybe I will just have to vote for all of them. LOL
Til next time...
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Sunday, February 20, 2005
I'm in sewing hell!
Ok, so I lied but it made for a zippy title. :P
Last night my mom and nephew called me up to ask a huge favor. My nephew is studying acting and does a lot of community theater plays. I guess he is going to be in one that starts this coming Friday evening and he needed his costume (a KKK type of uniform). Hopefully, I will be able to get some pics of it during one of the performances to post. All I can say is that I've toyed with the idea of doing costume design before but I don't think this was really what I had in mind. LOL Oh well, I guess you have to start somewhere. ;)
Otay chil'en, time for me to bust a move outta here. I've got some spuds that need some attention.
Til next time....
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Saturday, February 19, 2005
Snip snip here, snip snip there
Today I made my every six week trek to Ames to get my $65 hair wash & cut. Like my last trip, most of my drive time to and fro was used thinking about the new car I am going to buy. I also realized just how much I am going to miss the car that I have now. It's just so fun to drive and feels like putting on a pair of old worn comfy pants. It's been well loved, well cared for and would probably make it to 300,000 miles without too much complaint. It's already made it nearly 200,000 with all its original parts except for the battery (I haven't even had to change a headlight) and that lasted seven years before pooping out. Even when it did, it was nice enough to wait until the morning when I was getting ready to go to work so I didn't get stranded anywhere away from home. I am truly going to miss it when it is gone.
I'm off to snoop around in the freezer for a popsicle.
Til next time......
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Thursday, February 17, 2005
Memories of days of old.
One of the last times I went to my parents' house, my mom gave me a bag of goodies that she found when she was cleaning out the basement. Last night was the first time I had time to go through it. It had lots of different little things in it which I had collected and made throughout the years. There were two little stuffed Dilbert characters my mom gave me, a couple of miniature dresses (one made of paper, the other of cloth) that I made just for the hell of it during my college days, a book from one of my college design classes, and my old screen printing frame. All of these things brought back a lot of fond memories but it was the last item I pulled from the bag that really gave me a good laugh.
When I was in high school, I became a member of the now defunct Def Leppard fan club called the Rock Squad. If I remember correctly (and because this was about 15 years ago, I'm not putting any money on that. LOL), when you signed up, you sent a 2 x 2 photo of yourself and the club would return it on a laminate pass for the club. I've included a scan of it but I'll be dammed if I am going to let anyone see the picture of me that was on it. LOL Seeing this pass again made me reflect back on the years I have been a fan of this band and figured I what better place to write about it than on my blog so keep watching this space. Some time within the next few days, I will be posting about the last twenty years of my Def Leppard experiences.
Here are a couple of pics of the cloth dress......
And here are the scans of the laminated pass......
Righty ro kiddies, I'm off to watch some soup cook.
Til next time!
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Tuesday, February 15, 2005
I'm feeling a little lightheaded and some other stuff.
It's because of all the checks I wrote today to pay the bills. There's nothing like watching over 7 grand walk out the door to leave you feeling a little woozy and wanting to cry. lol There is an upside to dishing out all that cash though. My student loan which I have been meaning to pay off for quite some time now will finally be gone and the first half of what is left to be paid on Ant's car will be taken care of. You won't hear any complaining from me about the extra $500 every month we will have at our disposal because of it that's for sure. :)
I was watching the local news the other night and they were talking about which big act might be the one to kick off the opening of the new events center downtown. Nothing has been officially announced yet but there is talk about it possibly being Paul McCartney. Ooooooh how I would love that. He performed here once before in the 90s at the stadium in Ames but I didn't get to see him and really wish I would have.
YAY! I just heard that there are plans to build a WalMart within a couple of miles of where we live. No more shopping at the ghetto store! :P
Otay kiddies, gotta go help the little boy find something to put in his wee wittle tummy since he can't fend for himself. Awwwwwww
Later taters!
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Monday, February 14, 2005
Happy Anniversary Chi!
Exactly 6 years ago today at a little past 7 in the morning, Anthony (or Chi as I call him) and I were married. I can't believe it has been that long. It's even harder to believe that exactly 4 months from today will mark 8 years since we met for the first time at 5pm at the Marble Arch Tube stop in London. Time has really flown by.
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Sunday, February 13, 2005
Open letter to WalMart Windsor Heights store #1764
and Kathy checking at lane 19 Saturday evening February 12, 2005. You SUCK big humongous donkey balls!!!
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Thursday, February 10, 2005
A very iiiiiinnnnnnnnteresting day
Today started out like most days but that was about it for the similarity. Sometime during the midmorning hours, I heard one of my co-workers talking on the phone. She said something like, "WHAT?! Are you sure?!" I then heard a couple of other co-workers over by her telling her to "leave it - just go" and asking if she needed someone to drive her to which she replied, "Yes.". I didn't know exactly what was going on but I knew it couldn't be good.
A little later on, a regional for one of the clients I work with stopped by my desk. He was bringing me my "bonus" I was promised in December for coming in on a day off a couple of days before Christmas. Now normally I don't do overtime not only because my company doesn't allow it except in special circumstances but also because I put in my forty or so hours during the week. The weekends, weeknights, and vacation/sick leave are MY time. The only reason why I decided to do it this particular time was because I knew I was going to be out and about that day anyway and I was told the regional would make it worth my while (to me, that would be a minimum of $500). I found out today that "worth my while" translates into $100 to this "big wig".
When I found out that was all the guy gave me, I was PISSED!!! Ok, so $100 for an hour's worth of work isn't too shabby, however, when you take into consideration the fact that it took me over two days to earn that hour of vacation (at my regular rate, I make over $300 in that time) it sucks! The other thing that has me irritated is the fact that my supervisor who also works with this client was called in to the office when I was and even though I did all the work, she stayed there the full time I did and the regional is going to give her the same little "gift" he gave me.
The next "holy shit how much worse can this day get?" came at lunch time. The co-worker who drove the other to wherever, was in the kitchen when I went in for lunch so I decided to ask her what was going on. She said that the woman's mother called and told her that her dad had died - how awful! The woman I spoke with thought that maybe since this was an older couple, the mother just thought the father had died but the mother was a nurse so you would think she would know when someone is dead. I guess as it turns out, the paramedics were still at the house when they got there and the guy was still alive (they think he had a massive heart attack) but I don't know if he is still ok.
At the same time I was being told about this, I also found out that my friend that I work with had to be taken to the emergency room early this morning. She had stayed home yesterday because she wasn't feeling well but I guess it got a LOT worse. Turns out she has influenza. I guess she told the woman I was talking to that she wanted to come back tomorrow but my supervisor wasn't sure she wanted her back in the office because what she has could be very contagious.
Surprise number three and four arrived when I got home. I picked up the mail and then drove around to our house. Before I came in, I dug my cell phone out of my bag and noticed I had a message. It was from a friend of mine who I have never met face to face or talked to on the phone but have spoke to over the internet and through text messages almost on a daily basis over the last three years. He had been out of the country for the past month so we haven't been in touch and I was really wishing he was around to vent to when I got that bonus. Well, as it turned out, this message was sent about the same time the thought was going through my mind. It's weird, he and I have always had this strange connection like that. Neither of us really believe in stuff like ESP and all that crap but it is strange how we often times have the same things going through our minds and how well we can read each other when we have never met or spoken over a phone.
That brings me to number four. A letter that was received in the mail from our property management co. It said that we were three months behind in our dues and if we didn't get our account current by the end of the month, legal action would be taken. URRRRGGGGHHHH? That got the immediate "What the fuck is this shit?" response from me. I had my bank records, checkbook, and phone dialed in two seconds flat ready to rip somebody a new asshole I was so TORKED. Well, wouldn't you know, the woman who answers the phone is like 70 years old (family business yee haw) and basically tells me that she didn't see the letter even though it had her name on it (I guess she lets others sign her name without looking things over) but it was sent out in error. Well no shit! My biggest beef aside from the unnecessary "harassment" of it is that not only could the person who did type it up not add, this company doesn't double check shit. What made me laugh was that this woman told me that she thought it could have something to do with a computer not updating overnight like it should. Uh....scuse me but if that were the case, I would think in order to show us that far behind, it would mean that hunk of junk hasn't updated three months. Oh well, at least it was easily sorted out but not before I heard this woman's life story. LOL There was a plus side, I talked to her about the whole snow removal thing. I told her I sent a letter with our last payment but I think that fell on deaf ears because I know they received our payment but I have yet to get a response. She said she would address the issue with the woman the letter was addressed to so we'll see if any action is actually taken.
The last event was hopefully something which can be considered positive. Unfortunately I can't give the details but if it is what we are thinking it is, it will be something along the lines of "sweet revenge"
Otay kiddies, I've got to run so I can go watch some ice cubes melt before Red Dwarf comes on - SMEG! lol
Later taters
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Wednesday, February 09, 2005
Underwater Haircuts???
Ripley's Believe It Or Not was on again tonight. Thankfully, I didn't have to endure anything quite as gross as the guy who swallow snakes although the parasite worm story wasn't exactly the most appetizing thing I've seen. It was worth it though. They had some Belgium guy on there that actually cuts people's hair underwater (I guess it's the "new" thang). Amazingly, this guy is good! He nailed the styles on all the models. I was really surprised that he was only charging $200/cut plus scuba equipment rental.
Ooh and Project Runway - I soooo love this show. Last one before the final three. It's funny, they were showing the tents being set up in New York for Fashion Week and it reminded me a lot of the Fashion Week show I attended in London. That was the first time I had ever had the opportunity to go to that sort of an event and let me just say, it was great! Just people watching at those things is amazing but I digress...back to the show.....
What is up with this Wendy chic and why the hell is she still in the game? I mean the guy they launched last week (Robert) was rightfully so but I just can't understand how Wendy lasted past the first couple of weeks. Granted she has done a few things that I did like but this project they are doing tonight (a gown for the Grammys), YUCK! Kara Saun gets my vote. She is utterly fantastic!
:O The judges don't like their work at all?! Michael Korrs is underwhelmed?! Give me a break! This is a guy who did a plain ass dress with a belt wrapped around it for J-Lo to wear. What a bastard!
YESSSSS!!!!! Kara Saun made it. Unfortunately she didn't win but she did make it to the final three! Holy SHIT! Wendy won the challenge?! Dayum! Poor Austin, that kid is going to commit suicide from being so crushed.
Otay, I'm off to count the hairs on the cat just for the hell of it and because I'm curious to know how many he has. LOL
Til next time....
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Tuesday, February 08, 2005
This weather is wrong!
I ended up being lucky with the "shared germs" I picked up at work. The cough did get a bit worse partially to my own doing since I decided to stir up the dust and give myself an allergy attack on top of it Friday night but it never progressed into a full cold where my nose runs so damn much I wipe it raw. Yah, I know - nice visual ;) At least the weather was nice (in the 60s) and my bod gave its usual ass kicking to the little green guy that came to visit - take that MUCUS BASTARD!!! Neener neener I win! Plllllllbbbbbbbsssssstttttttt
So now that I have given out the 411 on my sticky bodily fluids that I just know you all wanted to hear about, let's discuss this past weekend and maybe even Monday and today if you're good. ;)
Saturday (another nice day of weather and temps close to 60) I went to visit my parents and Sadie (their sweet little Maltese). Well, mainly my mom and the pup since my dad was off gallivanting mid afternoon. We gabbed about everything just basically catching up on the last month since Christmas was about the last time we talked/saw each other. What? Hey a month is good for me. When I lived in London, I was there for six months and I think I talked to her all of three times on the phone. It's not that I don't like my parents or that I don't care about them, I just the independent type. So anyway, later in the afternoon mummy dearest and I went to see the movie In Good Company. Was good but the ending wasn't what I expected. I think my favorite line from it is, "Did you switch from mocha to crack?" LOL When we came out, we discovered a couple of fucking morons had decided they needed to park along the street where I was as close as they could get to my car without actually touching it. After going back and forth over twelve times, I finally got out of the space but not without tapping the car behind me once. I told my mom that if I had some paper and a pen on me, I would feel very inclined to tell the bastards just exactly what I thought of their parking skills. My mom said I should have just hit them and hit them hard. LOL Of course she knows I would never do that for several reasons, the biggest being that I wouldn't want to damage my car. After working like a madwoman to get out of that tight ass parking spot, we went for Chinese and then back to her house to yak some more before I had to head home.
Sunday. I woke up late. I meant to be up by 9. The alarm went off and I think I ended up dreaming that I got up rather than actually doing it. Dammitdammitsonofabitch! Ant and I had plans to go to some friends' house for a Super Bowl party which meant the laundry had to be done before we left. Luckily, we did get it done (barely) in time. Party was good but the game - oh my good God who the hell taught those guys to play ball? I'm not big on watching sports and all that shit but I can recognize a odoriferous game when I see one. Damn, my lazy ass cat could play better. At least the performance Sir Paul put in was worth suffering through the thing for. :D
Monday Monday. So after a weekend of fairly decent temps which melted just about all the snow away, wouldn't you know the powers that be would feel the need to dump another couple fucking inches on us. ICK! At least the commute wasn't too horrible and the plow job was half respectable this time around. Kinda makes me wonder if my nasty letter was heard. Naw....probably not. It was probably just better because there wasn't as much shit to shift. Oh well, as long as the stuff is out of my way, that's all I really care about.
Today wasn't much to brag about. Typical work day. Another day another dollar. It's snowing again . Oh, I did discover that I should not be allowed in the kitchen after 8pm. I went down to heat up some leftover soup in the microwave and left it in there about 10 seconds too long. The carrots in it were starting to pop. That by itself wasn't that big of a deal - they usually do that but one of them popped good enough to tip the whole container on its side. The lid was vented so of course there was chicken noodle soup everyfuckinwhere. I even managed to scald my wrist in the process WAAAAAAAA!
Righty Ro Reorge I'm outta here. Gotta go read the microwave its Miranda rights for committing assault on me.
Til next time.....
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Thursday, February 03, 2005
My Goodness Sakes Alive!
You make one little comment about a "star" basketball player who was kicked off the team at a major university and the blog hits fly! I swear I must have had fifty hits alone from Collegeball.
I am, however, a little perturbed by the person who owns this blog and decided to link to me though because he stated that "Anne enjoyed the limelight, but is concerned about her neighborhood." Seeing two news vans counts as enjoying the limelight? LOL WHATEVER! Ooh yah, lots of entertainment. My God you would think I was one of those gawkers or something with a statement like that. From my point of view, I would say I was the last one to find out what was going on.
Whoohoo! Just saw a commercial on tv for A Knight's Tale. It's going to be on TBS tomorrow night. Ooh Heath Ledger drool drool slurp slurp - bib please!
One final thought before I go. This goes out to all those people who come to work when they are ill and hack all over everything in site. I raise both middle fingers to you! I believe your mucus made it over to my desk because I now have a cough. Thanks a bunch buttholes. I never asked for any part of your sickness and I was liking my good health. The vision that comes to mind at the moment is that little green mucus blob in the musinex commercial packing up his bags and moving from their bod to mine - EEEKK!
Hopefully it won't get any worse than what it is now because at this point, it is bearable and by no means full cold status. I usually get one a year but from what I have heard these people saying, they had a nasty flu rather than just a cold. That I DEFINITELY don't want. I've never had it (haven't ever had to resort to a shot to avoid it), don't care to either.
Otay, I gotta dash - I have bills to pay. LOL
Til next time....
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Wednesday, February 02, 2005
Yeeeessssssss!
Well, I just finished doing the taxes and it looks like we will be getting a nice little refund back. Granted over half of it will go to paying the property tax but what is left is nothing to spit at. We filed electronically through Turbo Tax so hopefully it won't be long until our chunk of governmental moolaa shows up.
That's all for me tonight kiddies. Project Runway is on - they are redesigning postal worker uniforms which has to be better than the howling dogs from American Idol. LOL
Til next time...
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Tuesday, February 01, 2005
The Riff Raff has come to town
When I came home from work yesterday, there was a tv news station's van parked along the street a couple of blocks away - lights set up and everything but no one to be seen. I didn't think too much of it but I was a little curious why it was there. When I was on my way back from my run, I noticed another news van (one of the competitors to the first) along another street. I figured whatever it was must have been rather newsworthy to get two stations out here but I couldn't imagine what since I don't remember hearing or seeing anything out of the ordinary.
A little while after I got home, I got my answer. Some woman from an independent newspaper called our house (amazingly I was polite to her - usually I have a few choice words for "cold callers") and asked me if I had heard any of the neighbors talking about a burglary last week. WHAT??? (eyes popping out of my head) I told her that I hadn't and that I had seen the news vans but didn't know what was going on. I also told her that it was disconcerting knowing something like that happened so close to home. She said that it didn't seem to be a random type thing which was a little more comforting but even so it's not the kind of thing you like hearing about happening in your neighborhood.
As it turns out, the prime suspect in this incident is Pierre Pierce, a basketball player from the University of Iowa who was in trouble a few years ago for third degree sexual abuse. According to news reports, the crimes he could be charged with are: first-degree burglary, second-degree criminal mischief and false imprisonment. Dumbass kid
After watching the latest update of this story on the news tonight, there was one thing that gave me a little chuckle. When they were talking about this kid and Iowa City, they showed Steph's apartment complex. I'm not sure if the guy lives there but if he does, it would just be too funny. Btw Steph, should that be the case, don't get any ideas and keep the Iowa City trash there biotch! LOL
I also got a good chuckle earlier today when I was at work. Ant called me because he got a weather notification on his phone when he was at lunch and he wanted me to have a look at the news website to see what it was all about. It turned out to be a stagnate air advisory until tomorrow. Now for any of you who know my husband fairly well, you know that he is rather proud of the stinch and stink he can bring to the world with his ass (what man isn't right?). Because of this, I couldn't help but giggle to myself after I read the information he wanted me to look up and ask him what the hell he did. LOL When he called, his friend Jerry was with him and when Jerry asked what it was all about, Ant passed on the information by saying, "Someone let out a humungous fart." It was at that moment that I couldn't contain my giggles anymore and completely burst out laughing. LOL I tell you, it is things like that which just brighten the work day.
Til next time kiddies....
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