Blowin' in the Wind

...I miss Rolla a ton.

This weekend was fantastic.

J bought a chair off of a random guy on the street during the parade. We had to ratchet strap it to the trunk to come back to KC. It was awesome. Her level of ridiculousness makes me quite happy, and it also makes her fit in quite well with the Rolla crew.

We did a power hour at 10 AM.

Pie on Pi Day.

Some old TKE alums who were staying in an RV in the TKE parking lot offered us a place to stay. We were more than excited about it, but once it came time to pass out, we couldn't find them anywhere. So it was a weekend of 3-way spooning!! :)

Got drunk with Morning last night...It was pretty amusing. Except then he snored so loud I had to go to the spare bedroom and sleep for a couple of hours!!! :p

Unfortunately I missed a lot of people on my too-short trip to RoMO, so I shall have to go again before the semester is through!!

I have had literally no free time lately it seems. And add to that that I've been sick & not keeping food down, and I've been quite stressed. Then add to that Rasta being weird, and I just give up.

House things are falling into place, which is good, but I am frazzled. First off is the fact that once I move in I have no idea how I'll be getting to work for a month or so until I get a license. Which will be just in time for the icy treacherousness that is 210 Hwy in the winter. Then there is the fact that I won't be able to get painted/recarpeted before I move in like I had hoped.

Highlight of my weekend - David Byrne in KC:

Probably the coolest show I've ever been to. He is so amazing. I love him.

Besides that we also went to Em Chamas, Knuckleheads, & Ameristar, all of which are always good. Saw a lot of Krista & Dane & Zeke which was a nice change. Lost my money at the boat. I much prefer Argosy.

I've been super busy at work. Rasta has basically stopped contacting me at all. Generally he will answer my text messages but that's about the extent of it. I don't know if I did something, or if he's bored with this, or if he's just also stressed. I know everybody I'm close to seems like they're having a bad time of it lately. It sucks. His birthday is tomorrow and I am making him something for it. Also giving him an inappropriate gift. Except who knows if that will even happen, any of it... It's getting frustrating. I am thinking I will stop sending him messages and just wait and see if he tries to get a hold of me at all. I have a lot on my plate to be the only person making an effort. Granted, everybody wins in the end when we do get together...I still think though that with this whole 'friends with benefits' thing, even if we aren't having the benefits we should both make an effort to maintain the friends part...Bah. I dunno.

I can't wait for Halloween. I ordered the rest of my costume yesterday. :D I think we're going to be the most badass Spice Girls ever. Even more than the real Spice Girls.

So at first I was not sure I liked this song, but I totally love it now. (Unfortunately it's not on imeem yet...)
Ben Folds & Regina Spektor - You Don't Know Me

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 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!

That's right - Hues Corporation.

Mucho has happened since I last updated. My favorite IT guy was fired, for allegedly tampering with his timeclock records. Huge bummer. I now have no neighbor to throw food over the partition at me, or chat with about nerdy things. I am saddened by this. I hope he finds another job soon!

I have a second part time job online, but I will explain that in more detail some other day...

Last Thursday, Debbie & I got silly drunk with a group of Mexicans who were Bob's students. They were pretty fun, but I don't know that they much cared for me. Since I will never see them again, I don't particularly care. It was a good drunken time either way. Maple vodka is quite possibly the best invention ever. Although to be sure you will hear me refer to many 'best inventions ever'.

Friday I hung out with Mike & Jeremy, which was quite pleasant. Played some Madden XX for the first time, and it is possible that I now need an XBox 360. Whether or not that will happen remains to be seen. I bought the first season of In Living Color, and also Requiem for a Dream and Pi. That should keep me busy long enough to find a good new book to read. Anybody read a good book lately?

The fam & I went to Indy for Labor Day weekend, to spend the weekend on Heritage Lake with my aunt (Err..2nd cousin, or whatever she really is) and her fam. It was...interesting. Saturday I stayed back at the house with my...I guess 3rd cousin (this all gets confusing), and his wife. It was fun - we drank some beers, drunk dialed some people, "bonded", and all was good. Adrady ended up hanging out with us because the cousin that was her age was being a bit of a jackass. Which unfortunately continued throughout the weekend. Sunday & Monday during the day we just tooled around on the boat, resulting in me actually having a TANline! Holy crap! Sunday night we went to a bonfire. That was pretty much it. I got the impression we were cramping their style, which I find odd since a) they invited us, and b) we're pretty much awesome. What can you do, though, but live and learn?!


OMG, We're sooo excited!


Missouri River from the plane


Adrady & Capt. Bob


Cousin M & wifey J


A VERY drunk 1st grade teacher



...So as it turns out, not many people outside of Rolla seem to be familiar with the 'half your age plus seven' rule. I find this distressing since my current crush is 32, and people unaware of said rule seem to be uncomfortable by this age difference. It is completely legitimate for the time being, people! Hmmmph...

And I will leave you with this - a Freakshow we have been obsessed with for probably 6 or so months now, but has recently resurfaced in my life... Unfortunately I can not get it to embed correctly...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9-CS2v8wcc

It has been one of THOSE weeks. Perhaps because roughly half of the office folk have been gone every single day. The managers are on a retreat all week, which severely diminishes the number of people I have to talk to, especially when MC is also gone to Oregon. Also, I have finished most of the current time studies on the A shift. I started a new one, but there were only 2 people in that department so it didn't take long to wear out my welcome over there. This means that I have wasted much of the week fiddling around on the Interweb, mostly trying to find something supersweet to do for my dad's 50th birthday in October. Suggestions are welcome.

The weekend was great. Friday I was in (in MC's words) a "dreadful little mood", and after work we met up with Bob & Debbie at Tomfooleries, which ended up being a great time and so I was removed from my funk. Derek came out and we all watched a mediocre cover band all night and had our own band at the table, which consisted of silverware, glasses, the table, and loud singing. It was glorious. The actual band was made up of 4 aging white dudes in Hawaiian shirts - always a good sign. Xina and 'her boys' met up with us, which proved to make the night interesting. After Derek and I agreed to stay with them once the fam left, we ordered ourselves some beers and were less than halfway through them when these guys decided it was time to leave. We downed the rest of our beer and got in the car to swing through Burger King.
We are ordering when 'J' decides he has to pee, and steps out of the car and heads toward the retaining wall east of the drive-thru lanes. I can only presume that he thought there was something on the other side of the wall. The next thing I know, the car is moved and the Burger King man is yelling at me through the speaker. Derek walks up to try to get the food but he won't give it to him, as they don't accept walk-throughs. He's now yelling over the speaker to 'get out of the bushes before he calls the cops'. Now this is especially confusing as there are no bushes anywhere near me. Then I look over to my left to see Xina and 'D' carrying 'J'. I know for a fact he was not that drunk, so why they are carrying him is beyond me. I go over to tell them the cops are on the way, and see that 'J' is bleeding. A lot. And his ankle bone is exposed. Oh my. As it would happen, he walked over the wall and dropped approximately 15 feet to a grassy area next to I-29. Lovely. So we ended up cabbing it from the hospital to Derek's mum's house. And Saturday when I left town he was in surgery getting 2 plates & 3 pins installed...

Saturday - Tulsa. I had forgotten quite how much I miss Erica & Mickey. Erica and I got pretty lubricated, and I had a great time. The Effects put on a good show, and I got a new lady crush during the band that played before them. She was like Gwen Stefani when she was cool before she got really big. After the bar closed, we tried to get sushi, but the place inexplicably closed an hour early, so we tried another place that was also closed. Then E & I detoured to a random club which turned out to be awesome. We danced to a few songs, some drunk chick joined us, then the bar closed and we proceeded to get lost somewhere in Tulsa's railyard area. Ah, good times.

Here are a couple weekend pictures:





Others are less appropriate and thus not on my work computer. Now I must just bide my time until the next weekend comes, and brings with it the Mecca of neighborhood garage sales and Miss E Dat.

That is my life right now. I am spending all of my time pushing on a door that is clearly marked 'Pull'. It looks like it would be a push door, so I throw all of my weight against it only to find out that I am going about it completely wrong. I see an obstacle and pour all of my energy into it. The effort is futile because I'm simply going about it wrong.

Everybody is getting ready to head back to Rolla. Not me, I'm potentially getting ready to be jobless. Maybe I could get my online classes finished that way, I guess. And my house continues to be a source of stress. After all of this, I'd better get it! I'm going to come out of this with hypertension AND a house, not just hypertension! :)

I haven't been sleeping well, and it has made me quite a jaded little girl. I am hoping this weekend will be glorious - I am taking a trip to Tulsa to see Rocco's friends' band play, and will be hanging out with Erica & Mickey while there. I could not be more excited for these last minute plans - I miss those kids.

Last night was good - We went to Emily's apartment and played some SingStar. Also, I learned something about cucumbers. Inquire directly if you wish to hear more. :)

I'm listening to my old radio shows, and 2 things come to mind: 1. I miss Rolla, and 2. Damn, I have good taste.

Peace out.