*shrug*
can't think of anything worth taking up ones and zeros about.
August 26, 2008
August 25, 2008
in trouble
l'oreal has discontinued my hair dye, but i think i've found a suitable replacement.
funny pics
sexy people. this is one of the most amusing things i'll probably see all day.
August 22, 2008
erm
my lame attempt at forcing myself to post at least once a morning has left me with little to say today.
except, i could tell you about what i want to accomplish this weekend, mostly saturday. i'd like to try to record episode one of knitting with joy, take my lappy to mickey's and spend a couple hours setting up knittingwithjoy.com and editing the audio file. that last part probably won't happen until sunday cuz it's tedious. and i need to d'l some sound effects for the radio show.
August 20, 2008
meh
i'm achy and tired. i'm also anticipating this winter being the second worst insofar as my mood.
i just pulled my head down, chin toward chest, and felt the muscles in my back scream.
August 18, 2008
<3
i love how listening to alice in chains' dirt makes me feel; 15-years-old and all a-twitter about the boy who gave me the cd. lol.
:x i just spent the last 5 minutes googling him; apparently he still lives in middleton.
omg you guise
i just bought knittingwithjoy.com. joy's going to have her very own website!
can you believe no one, in the history of the internet, has thought of and purchased that url yet? weird.
counting
i just looked at the clock and thought "less than 9 hours." :/
had a pretty good weekend, but it went by too fast. i've been sleeping in later than usual, so that doesn't help. the dudes at revolution have had my bike since thursday afternoon. i've done a lot of walking this weekend. they better be done today or i'm going to take it back. seriously.
August 14, 2008
friggin chatty today
one more thing! i thought i may have been coming down with the strep, but it seems to be going away. that is all.
August 12, 2008
pets
i've had upwards of a million pets since my very first salamander. none nearly as long as my childhood cat, bailey (after bailey quarters from wkrp in cincinnati).
mom emailed me today to say that it was time for her to scoot along, she was either 21 or 180, not sure which.
no subject
i spent a large part of sunday listening to pandora radio in an attempt to expand my music collection, but i didn't find anything worth putting on my lala want-list.
on a side note: my left hand has been tingling since i got out of bed. i need an adjustment. except every time he's about to adjust my neck, i think, "what if he effs up this time?"
August 11, 2008
average
the weekend went a little faster than i would have liked... i did pick eight ginormous cucumbers which i gave to the kitchen at mickey's.
i have a pretty annoying work week ahead of me.
in other news, isaac hayes died?
August 8, 2008
ugh!
nothing is more annoying than people arguing about favre and the jets. as if anyone has any say.
August 7, 2008
more about joy
the story of joy is generating much interest at work; we've rounded her character out pretty well. we've given her a job at the relay system for the hearing impaired; but she keeps one shift a week at joanne fabrics in order to retain the benefit of an employee discount.
her eventual foray into a professional studio includes having to share the 3am slot with "najir @ night" on 95.3 kqad the place for rock in the quad cities.
please stay tuned, and thank you for being a friend.
huh
this friday is 08/08/08.
in other news, i've volunteered to cut a friends' hair this evening.
August 6, 2008
better
i got more sleep last night. things are turning up.
i will, however, have to manufacture some genuine energy for work soon. if i showed you a screenshot of my calendar for the next two work weeks (and if just hearing "work calendar" makes you throw up a little), you'd cringe. i have about 16 projects going on right now. i'm actually blocking time so people won't schedule meetings so i can get work done. O_O
p.s., i think it's funny and weird that i follow wil wheaton on twitter.
August 4, 2008
billz
i use my inbox as a todo list of things to respond to, things to read, or bills to pay. the only thing in it right now are four bills to pay. that's depressing.
lol
i need to round out my weekend apparel, so i just bought two new tshirts from bustedtees. this one and this one. hilarity.
long weekend
they go by too fast. i guess i shouldn't complain. i've been hangin' out with people whose schedules allow them very little consecutive free time.
i picked two ready cukes yesterday but i couldn't think of anything to make, so they're in the fridge. hopefully i won't just end up composting them. the dirt in the garden has really settled. i hope i don't have to get much more next year.
happy monday...
July 30, 2008
tmi
i'm frustrated. i can't tell if it's all work, or work+aunt flo.
at least the dogs are making me smile right now.
hm
i may enter a contest to decorate a plastic toy for a children's benefit auction being held by our parent company. i can't decide if i have the mad skillz to do it...
i have
less than 13 available work-hours to get something figured out. i thought i had it last night, but now that i'm playing in photoshop, it's a lot more confusing than a 1"x2" thumbnail.
July 29, 2008
dudes
this is really ridiculous. i'm dripping from a 20 minute dog walk.
none of my shirts work; i sweat through all of them. actually, biking about was nice because it forces air past you. there were some kids on the bike path that gtfo of the way by one of them yelling, "biker!" i was like, "yr fine".
i can't wait until thursday... unless i can't take friday off. that's the kind of week i'm having. already.
trying...
i told you about morning coffee a couple weeks ago and how i wanted to use it to motivate or remind me to blog. i think it's been working. the page is fuller than usual (i know, no one scrolls to the bottom to check except me).
July 28, 2008
of dogs and nature
we took the puppers to kurt's mom's house yesterday to celebrate her 74th. she lives very near to a county park and the dogs had a blast. they ran about five times the length of the human walk, and were sufficiently exhausted quite early. it was nice to get out of the asphalt and traffic noise.
July 26, 2008
every time
i get a pang in my side, i have to look up to see where the appendix is located. you'd think i'd be able to remember.
July 25, 2008
dudes
i'm so glad it's friday.
also, check out this awesome clip a friend sent me. it's the cutest thing you'll ever see.
July 24, 2008
joy pt 2
so, joy's got a crush on a highschool sweetie named peter heckle, she also has a long-standing grudge against the bully from the same time named lucy manningham who tricked her into thinking there was a manual for the entirety of the girl scouts of america that she had to memorize. joy quit 2 months after learning there was no such manual.
she's also got a cat named purrl.
July 23, 2008
:/
that pang we talked about last week? yea, it's back.
also, i think i need to become a hermit. i think i mention that bi-annually.
or, maybe i could become a jaw-trap ant:
July 22, 2008
wow
four years ago today i had my first panic attack.
i can't effing believe that was four years ago. god, that was awful. i was sweating like a crazy person, i couldn't use my hands to pick up my pizza.
thus began a couple years of weirdness. i still get a little panicky in groups every now and again, but i've mostly been able to keep calm. i think it's been almost two years since my last one.
woodman's
carries two brands of deodorant that do not contain antiperspirant; it took me no less than 15 minutes to figure this out.
i've been not really wearing antiperspirant cuz because it doesn't anti-perspire me, and just leaves white stains on shirts and ruins them. and i like most of my shirts.
July 20, 2008
last night
not what i expected.
fortunately, i'm still good at pool. :)
July 19, 2008
bachelorettism
kurt and nar just left for elkhart lake (i think?). so, i'm a bachelorette until tomorrow some time. i imagine it will mainly consist of playing solitaire. fitting, really.
July 18, 2008
ouchie
the tendon that makes my middle finger work gets this little pang if i move my head to the right and front to stretch an aching neck/back muscle.
i need a chair massage; i don't like laying nekkid on tables.
July 17, 2008
lol
someone told me they read bekeeblog two years back, so i had to go look. the first picture of jones is so cute.
July 16, 2008
acv
i tried diluting my 32 oz of water with apple cider vinegar this morning. i was able to take only three sips the entire drive to work before exclaiming that it wasn't going to work. it appears i need to mix it with something that has a flavor. i'm sure passers-by were amused at the face i was making.
July 15, 2008
head. ache.
i just tweeted about having a headache. i never get headaches without a reason (drinking too much, heatstroke, head trauma*), so i'm slightly annoyed by it. i also have an aversion to analgesics and pills in general.
it's actually subsiding as i type. i can only blame the temperature and humidity; and the fact that i've been sedentary for about 30 minutes.
*this hasn't actually ever happened to me, i just assume it would be a good reason to have a headache.
trying
i installed morning coffee, which is a firefox extension that you can assign websites to open by day. so, i'm trying to blog once each morning, even if it's pointless. it helps that i consider no one reads this blog with any regularity.
i have a 9:55 deadline, so i must un-distract.
July 14, 2008
green utensils
i currently use stainless steel cutlery, but if i didn't already have it, i think i'd buy the polycarbonate spork
July 8, 2008
must. resist.
a little bit ago i told you i wanted that laptop holder thingy from ikea but it wasn't available online... well... it is now.
lights and sirens
some a-hole honked at me this morning because i pulled over for a firetruck that he didn't see. then it turned behind where we were and i looked like the dope.
July 5, 2008
lol
according to googleads, the most relevant ad to push up right now is for safe genital hair removal.
July 1, 2008
result
this is me, scowling at the tv.
interesting
so, i started dying my hair at 15. long, curly locks dyed turquoise. someone at school said it looked like snot. which it kinda did. then i started shaving the back of my head. you could hardly tell with all the hair i had. mom said, "stop being so radical!" i blamed the temperature. i have lots of follicles per square inch, it's one of those things you can complain about when you have thick hair.
thusly, green turned purple turned blue... black for a minute, not good with my complexion. it also resulted in some ruined bathroom floors, pillow cases, and the like. i recall ending with green bangs and a shaved head. a teacher in college asked if i'd ever "dye [my] hair a color found in nature?" i said that green was in nature, dummy. i then switched to orange. it's a little more socially acceptable (i.e., "found in nature").
i liked the brand of orange because i didn't need to bleach first. bleaching the hair just ruins it. and the scalp. like, your scalp is screaming for help.
i stopped dying my hair a year and a half ago just to check for greys before turning 30. i haven't found many since, and there's no need to keep track of them. so, as i write this, the dye is soaking into the follicles of my numerous hairs; making my scalp scared (not scarred). the after-shower mirror-look will be one of wonder which shouldn't surprise me, but is imminently going to; in some weird way.
see you tomorrow; orange, shiny, and as loud as before.
June 25, 2008
if we weren't
tumbling into a recession, i'd buy this:
June 23, 2008
:/
someone called me at 10:30 last night. unfortunately, my ringtone is the same as my alarm clock, so i "turned off" my alarm, thereby answering my phone. the person then hung up and called back! so i did it again, but this time i realized it wasn't my alarm because i was awoken. they didn't get to leave a message, so i hope it wasn't important. a quick google search leads me to some arts & crafts thing in stoughton in december.
June 20, 2008
broke down
and took cold&sinus this am. it seemed to work... i only took half a dose, cuz even though they claim non-drowsiness, i fine pseudoepinephrine to make me drowsy no matter what.
i also grabbed mr. pillow* off the floor this morning at 5 and something stung me. great.
*the pillow i cuddle when laying on my side.
June 19, 2008
stayed home
my head is stuffed and my voice is almost gone. and i'm unreasonably exhausted.
June 18, 2008
sick
i've contracted some sort of communicable disease which involves lights breaths and coughing up loogies; not common for me; lately. i used to get bronchitis every january and june to divide up the year...
this bring me to the rules of going to the dr.
1. if it's a different color than it was yesterday
2. if something is where it shouldn't be
3. if something is missing where it once was
4. if something is leaking that shouldn't
5. if something is obviously broken
these are my rules for calling dean care.
anyhoo... i'm getting some hott thai food in order to kill the bug that resides inside of me. i'll let you know how it goes.
June 17, 2008
from the weekend
a post-storm rainblo on my bike ride (i had to wait for the marble-sized hail to stop before i could leave the house:
(click to see larger)
June 16, 2008
sorry
i haven't had a whole lot to talk about.. been outside and on the bike a lot. i tried not to use my car at all this last weekend and was almost successful. i couldn't get kurt to bike to breakfast on sunday am, so we drove. but i did hook up the bike trailer and cart it to woodman's. i'd like to get some side baskets but they're so loud. and the forreal panniers can be very expensive. i've seen them for as much as $220 online.
my plants are doing okay... the hail on saturday took quite a toll on a lot of the leaves, but no fruit is up, so it might still be okay.
i've had quite a difficult morning so i came home from work at noon; but we don't need to get into it here.
i made my first amigurumi this weekend. it's for the little boy of one of the cooks at mickey's:
June 5, 2008
uhmm..
i found this site today while taking a little break from work. i can't stop looking at it like it's a car wreck.
May 30, 2008
$$
so, i get 29mpg on average and i drive 27.5 miles round trip to work. lunch is $5.50, if i get the special, $10 if we go out. that means i'm spending $10-14 per day to get to work and eat lunch. that's $220-$308 per month. that's a lot of money that i'm not saving.
that makes me feel foolish.
May 20, 2008
this am, when i walked out the door, i said to kurt, "when are you going to win the lottery?"
May 17, 2008
stimulus?
yesterday was the final day for direct deposit, according to the irs website. we still haven't received ours. i filled out the form for figuring how much we're getting and it says the full $1200 is coming to us. according to their payment schedule (and the fact that it comes to the first ssn on our return) we should have received it may 9. when i use the "where is it?" form, it says they don't have info pertaining to our check. :/
the house account is quickly being emptied and we'd like to replenish soon.
May 16, 2008
humble pie
it occurred to me on the drive in to work, that humans aren't humbled often enough to keep from feeling entitled. or maybe that's just americans.
May 15, 2008
bed
whenever i wake up perpendicular to my bed, i wish i had the ability to watch how i got that way.
May 12, 2008
sick day
i'm staying home today. i woke up at 5:30, left a voicemail for my boss, checked my meeting schedule, and cancelled a meeting i had. all from my bed with the awesomest phone ever.
woke up nauseous and dizzy with a headache at 9. the dogs weren't going to let me sleep any later. kurt made me drink alka-seltzer (yuck!) and now i'm feeling slightly better. but not better enough to go in to work.
i do have some ia to work on this afternoon, though. let's see if the brain is working well enough.
May 9, 2008
dressing
i'm running out of clothes. things are wearing out in places, holes are appearing. i had to wear a skirt yesterday because i no longer have suitable pants to get me through one week of work! so, this weekend, kurt and i are going to kohl's. hopefully they have reasonable styles.
May 7, 2008
uncommon
someone i know died from an o.d. last night. this marks the second person with whom i've had casual acquaintance who o.d.'d. the weird part is how it shouldn't even be possible for anyone to have had that experience. but i guess the circle of friends i once had are susceptible to the lifestyle that makes it possible.
anyway, a handful of friends are reasonably distraught by this today.
there's a strange feeling that happens when you hear about someone you know, who is mere days older than you, is no longer walking the earth. it has a sort of empty feeling to it. it's much different than when it's a great aunt or a soldier in this shitty war. it's too close.
May 1, 2008
crack doctor
that's what i refer to my chiropractor as. i'm down to once-a-week visits (i was 3-times in feb, and then 2-times until this week), i was gunna break up with him yesterday, but my re-exam went so well that he said i didn't need therapy (the little zappy things and the traction machine), just adjustments... so my appointments just went from an almost unbearable 45 minutes to about 7.
now i just have to wait for the insurance agent to call to tell me i shouldn't have needed treatment for this long.