Blowin' in the Wind

I have a new home officially! A new townhome that is! I get the key tonight; closing on the 10th of October. Huzzah!!



I am beyond excited! There is, of course, work to be done. A minimal amount though, and that's good enough for me! Yay homeowner! Sad is the fact that I am really mostly curious to see how Yoshimi adjusts. It's a good thing I don't ever plan to have children I think; I would end up ignoring them for my baby! But look at how pretty she is!

Did I ever tell you the story about my boss's dog? If so, I apologize for repeating myself! Shortly after I started working here, when I got my 2nd boss (on number 3 now since June), I was in his office and saw that he had 2 framed pictures of dogs. One of them looked like Yoshimi. We've never been sure what breed she is, but from books and the such the closest we can tell is she is a Rhodesian Ridgeback mix. Here is a Rhodesian Ridgeback:
...So I ask my boss what type of dog it is, and he says he doesn't know. She was a rescue dog and they THINK she is a Rhodesian Ridgeback mix. I just thought that was really strange - since Shimi was also a rescue dog, etc. That's all.

Tonight E Dat is coming into town! Very shortly actually! YAY! And we are going to go eat Japanese Steakhouse (Yum!) and go look at my house (!!!!) and then probably watch a movie with Rasta (:D). Tomorrow we will go to Knuckleheads, and I am making MC come with because he needs to start socializing. It's something I've decided.

Yesterday my horoscope said I might be wasting time on my latest crush, and that I should ask them. So I did. He said I wasn't. :)

I got my T-Mobile Wing Monday night. It is both wonderful and intimidating. I've had only a few problems so far and I have quickly figured out how to overcome them. Luckily I am somewhat technically inclined so I am tackling this beast. There are a few modifications I want to make to it - install TouchFlo, fix the page pool, etc... But even before that I would say I am pretty satisfied. I just bought the red casing for it, because this one is beat up. So right now it looks like this:
Engadget.com


Soon it will look like this:
...Well actually I can't find a picture to show you. I will take one when it happens. Anyway, it will be tasty. :)

So this week has been pretty good. Monday was a completely insignificant day. There is not one single thing worth mentioning that happened on Monday. So I'll spare you.

Yesterday I was Miss Hyperproductive and got quite a bit accomplished at work. I have now started time studies on the Ship-alone low velocity pickers. Which means I will be following Raisin. I know how you all love him. An aside, I followed him on Monday and he randomly stops and turns around and asks if I want anything. I have no idea what this means, so I mostly just stare blankly. "What do you mean?" He replies, "Do you want a pop? A candy bar? I'll buy it for you." Me: "No thanks, I'm okay." Him: "You're not supposed to turn down offers!" He's really very nice, but SO random. I don't get it at all. I also have a hunch that his supervisor either has a strange crush on me or desperately wants to be my friend.

The plot continues to thicken with Rasta. I don't know what I'm getting myself into, but I've a feeling I'm already too far gone to go back now. I'll let it play out and see what happens! I am enjoying it though, and am pretty sure he is also, so there's no harm done.

Last night I helped MC move. It was actually kind of fun! Mostly because I feel like we're more friends than coworkers now, and prior I would have still called him a friend, but more a coworker. I didn't get home till midnight, but the actual moving part we did pretty fast. It was the long drive from new to old to new apartments, and the hunting down of somewhere to eat after 10 that took a long time. Anyway, I enjoyed it. Now I must get him to start being social so he can see that a) KC is not a bad place, and b) There is life after P.

A while ago I wrote an entry about "King Corn" & high-fructose corn syrup. It was not very detailed, and chances are this won't be either. BUT I am wondering how many of you have seen the recent ads that are pro-HFCS. They drive me INSANE. There is also a website as part of this campaign, which includes the ads if you haven't seen them. It is completely frustrating.

If you're going to drink pop, drink Jones or Goose Island (they make good beer also, and it's in Chicago so it's relatively nearby). They are sweetened with pure cane sugar, and why shouldn't they be?! Americans value cheap more than healthy, and that's just weird to me. Although there might not be enough evidence to make the FDA change their mind about HFCS, there is still a staggering amount of evidence against it. I am going to recommend King Corn yet again...Watch it. Even if you don't believe the hype about it making people fatter, there is no way to deny that it is harmful to the environment.

On a related note, I caught a documentary ("Sweet Misery") last night on 'excitotoxins' such as MSG and aspartame. They caused holes in the brains of lab mice, and these studies were hidden from the FDA when aspartame was in the process of approval. Excitotoxicity is the damaging and/or of nerve cells from said toxins. While the documentary wasn't presenting in the most interesting way possible, the facts presented were interesting and you should definitely consider them.

I am starting to love my job again, which is nice, now that we have a new IE. We'll call him Ralph, since that's how I introduced him to everyone. At first I was not a fan - he is one of those overly happy people, and he always uses 2 greetings when I see him (e.g. "Hi! Good morning!"). While I am all for people being happy and polite and friendly, this was just too much. Now that he's been here for a couple weeks surrounded by a normal level of happiness, his has started to turn into something far more tolerable. Now I just need to get him to walk a tad slower, and life is good.

This weekend was a pretty good one. We went to the wedding on Saturday, where my mother proceeded to get extremely drunk. It was amusing at first, and then a tad stressful, but I got enough pictures and videos to make it worth it. :) To be fair, it was the most amazing open bar I had ever seen. We were drinking liquor that isn't even out on the market yet (Captain Morgan 100 proof = wonderful), there was Los Cazadores tequila, a Jagerator and a bunch of Monster (I hate Jager bombs), and a bunch of premixed shots & drinks (margaritas - lime & strawberry, Rum Runner, Cosmos, the list goes on). The wedding was very nice, and the reception was a lot of fun. I suppose it was everything a wedding should be.

Sunday we spent the day working on the grandparents' house. What I refer to as 'Estate Sale Vol. 1' is this weekend. It amazes me the amount of stuff we are selling; I'm not entirely sure how it all fit in the house. Perhaps my grandparents were magicians. They were pretty damn amazing, I wouldn't put it past them. My uncle decided he wants to sell hot dogs & the such so that he is out of our way but still helping - good call. :) I am in charge of making signs - so many signs - 'Keep children attended at all times', 'Not responsible for personal loss or injury', 'All prices negotiable', 'Mobility equipment available - inquire if interested', 'Please buy everything', 'Hot dogs & blow jobs available in back'. Sigh.

While in theory this is all a great idea, I am afraid to see how we will react when people start carrying our beloved family's belongings out with them after giving us a measly dollar. I imagine it will go something like this: "You take care of that ashtray. My grandfather spent YEARS getting emphysema with it. You don't know what a good deal you're getting for 10 cents - It's already been broken in for you and everything!" and then crying. I guess we'll see. If that doesn't happen, I'd say the odds of my crazy aunt showing up and causing a scene are pretty high.

My cell phone's internal speaker inexplicably stopped working this weekend. My options were to have all of my conversations on speakerphone, or use a ghetto backup phone I happened to have. I opted for the latter, although I am starting to wish I hadn't. Sometimes when I open the phone the screen is blue, so I have to keep closing it and opening it, or bend the top back to see anything. Anyway I ordered a new phone Monday night and it should be to me hopefully by this weekend, early next week at the latest. It should be the bomb, but I'll let you know when I get it.

In other news, I have poison ivy. Many of you might already know that this happens to me fairly often, like every time I am downwind of it. The strange thing is that when it first started showing up, it was just all over my ass and inside my bellybutton. Not sure about that!

Pressed about what insights into recent Russian actions she gained by living in Alaska, Palin told Gibson, "They're our next-door neighbors and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska."

(from this article)

Call me a skeptic, but I have serious doubts about that...

Sarah Palin, I hate you.

This site makes me pretty happy - The Sarah Palin Digest

Sorry, MC...

It hurts. Oh my.

How can the entire bottle be gone and why was I woke up at 4:30 in the morning? Furthermore, why was I asleep in the bathtub?! My fingers were still pruny on the way to work this morning. McDonald's breakfast has never tasted so good. Totally worth being 10 minutes late.




I've been wasting a lot of time playing this game today.

Update - 3 pm, and the urge to vomit is overwhelming. I finally decide to succumb to it, right as all the associates go on break. I go in the bathroom, and there is a woman on the phone in there who will not go away. I hate her.

Update - McDonald's breakfast not so tasty on the way out. Is it time to go home yet?!

I'm allowed to say that, because I am one.

http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN097920080909?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews

Just because someone bears social or physical resemblance to you does not make them qualified to run the country. This applies also to blacks who are voting for Obama for no other reason. The difference being Obama is not Palin. She is insane. Why anybody supports her is beyond me!

Why Sarah Palin should not be the VP:

1. She is a female. Take that! I said this when Hillary was running, and I'll say it again - women are too unstable to run the country. I am for womens' rights and all that jazz but seriously, estrogen is a less than ideal hormone to possess for someone with that much responsibility and/or pull. Hillary, though, did impress me. Sarah Palin, however...

2. She was recently photographed for Vogue. What better way to show you're serious about politics?! Granted, Obama has been on a lot of magazine covers, Men's Vogue included, but I am not okay with that either. To me it would have been better for her to say she had been offered and turned it down. One-up Obama, in a sense.

3. She loves to talk about domestic oil independence...which is great. But when you consider the fact that her husband is an oil-field production operator, do you think she is a proponent of this for the "right" reasons??

4. Palin has requested (much) more money per capita be earmarked for the state of Alaska than any other state this year. Hmmm... Then she talks about how opposed she is to earmarking dollars.

5. The Iraq war a task from God?!?!

6. Her obsession with unnecessary bridges bothers me.

Also, Meghan McCain is stupid.

It's hard to know what to believe and what not to believe in written form, but when there's video...Dumbass.