grateful
tiredI started taking short-term-memory-enhancing herbal supplements on Monday and haven't missed a day yet. I figured it was worth a try since I'm always losing my keys and debit card, forgetting to do tons of things my employees ask me to do, and have a crippling fear that I'll screw up someone's cookie order at the bakery. I can't say that I've noticed a difference in my memory but I've certainly noticed a difference in my overall mood (unless this is a placebo). I put in 40 hours at the video game store and about 20 at the bakery. I still manage to get 1 or two days off a week. I haven't been getting as much sleep as I would like, but this week I haven't really felt physically exhausted. The supplements are all vitamins and like sage and licorice and peppermint but I really do feel different. A good different. Like, I-got-10-hours-of-sleep-and-woke-up-earl
At the bakery, an older gentleman gave me a tip. It was my first so far. He said he was donating to my college fund. I didn't want to tell him I graduated college years ago and have to give the tip back.
Tonight I was telling a woman about RockBand and she steered the conversation towards how she firmly believes that Michael Jackson "pedophiled" every last one of those kids including his own, who weren't even his own, but were given to him by poor people and OJ Simpson murdered someone but went to jail for baseball cards. It was very awkward but the weirdest thing she said was that she couldn't understand half of what I was saying because my "accent" was so "thick." She was from Jersey but she had little to no accent. On occasion I will entertain the suggestion that I may have a slight accent, but I can't agree that I sound like a total redneck to the point that my words or sentences are indistinguishable. I don't even blame the braces. So weird.
I'm exhausted. All kinds of exhausted. CoDMW2 launch went extremely well. I've worked 18 hours today. I never understood what an 18-hr bra is nor have I ever worn one. I don't even know if they still make them. I just remember plenty of tv commercials for them when I was a little girl. Anyway. If I did wear one, it woulda stopped working by now.
Came home and the only mail was a Cabela's Holiday catalog. No mistake. Jason bought his orange puffy vest from them for Halloween and now we're on their mailing list. Yeehaw and let's shoot a Thanksgiving deer.
Oh yeah...
Some kid told me a) Niko Bellic turns into James Bond and that James Bond is a fictional character. Don't ask; I didn't dare.
Some guy asked Sarah to pricematch Craigslist.
weird
sick
Halloween was mostly good people. My first year ever of NOT dressing up. Hit up a haunted house the night before with my Sarah. Made some socio-economically-insensitive remarks to a hillbilly who scared me. He was dressed that way on purpose and I paid for him to scare me. All is fair.
okay
uncomfortableI carved a sugar skull pumpkin today.
It's not as intricately decorated and or symmetrical as I would have liked. I free-handed it (took about two-ish hours). It was my first time carving a faux pumpkin. It's the same type of pumpkin that is sold for decoration that is pre-carved with a light bulb inside, except not carved and without a light fixture. Same premise though. Cost about six dollars at Michael's. I used a small set of hand tools that are apparently especially made for carving artificial pumpkins. They run about 3 dollars. I picked up some cute fake tealight candles (they even have fake flames and flicker like a real candle) at Walgreen's (a pkg of six for 5 bucks). It was a fun project I did on a whim. We purchased two real pumpkins from a farm today, but since J and I work on Halloween this was nice to do in advance on my day off just in case.
Breakfast for dinner.
And it rains iron on brown dwarfs.
I'm much more upset than I look.
I broke a phone today out of anger. I'm not psycho.
indifferentBowie gets ridiculously jealous when Jason plays videogames. To get his attention, she jumps on his back and starts nibbling his ears. It makes it difficult to game in our house at times. On the other hand, she LOVES RockBand, and will fall asleep at Jason's feet while he drums. she becomes very calm from loud noises. We used to turn on the vacuum or hair dryer to help her fall asleep when she was a puppy.
okay
dumb
unicornsI took this a few years ago. It's pretty awesome. The American Museum of Natural History (the museum in the Ben Stiller movie) in NYC had an awesome Christmas tree display decorated entirely with origami ornaments. More pics on my flickr. These unicorns were surrounding the base of the tree. At the time they had a mythological creatures exhibit which explains the unicorns and mermaids etc.
John Mead: and netflux party mistie.
ceck0face: netflux capacitor?
John Mead: Doh.
John Mead: Marty!
tiredIt's a heart. Or a strawberry. I'm not very good at this. Yet.
I took a nap today and had a dream directed by Quentin Tarantino. The beginning was the end... which was, very simply, a lizard had got inside my house. The rest of the dream were events unfolding to how said lizard got in my house. It wasn't a very good dream or movie. It was pretty boring. Creative, but boring.
sore
excitedI'm in the process of slowly/finally uploading our rodetrip pictures (yes, rodetrip, not roadtrip). This was taken over a year ago but it's new to you.
Saw the rifftrax plan 9 encore tonight with Jason, John, Chris and Sarah. That movie will forever be awesome but it is downright magical when riffed.
We were messing around with the telescope I bought Jason for Hanukkah last year. I grabbed my Canon powershot for giggles thinking we wouldn't be able to take a decent pic until we buy some more parts/pieces but was pleasantly surprised. We also saw Jupiter with four distinct moons but the clouds started rolling in and we called it a night before I could get more pics.
sleepy
poopedHome again, home again, jiggity jig.
Coming home tomorrow.
Everybody here is getting ready for Halloween. It's super windy and cold outside. Fall is tons of fun outside of a desert. Getting off the plane tomorrow will be weird.
yayTook this while riding the world's second tallest Ferris wheel with my brother-in-law at Navy Pier in Chicago today. Long days call for long sentences. Many many more pictures on my flickr. I've never been more ready for bed.
jet-laggedSlept on the plane. Unusually short in comparison to my usual NY-bound flights. Sat next to someone who was supposedly famous. He kept signing autographs and I kept wondering who he was. Finally used my Zune for the first time.
allergicI had another allergic reaction today. My eyes became very puffy yesterday and gradually got worse. I had to go to the doctor and get another steroid shot. My puffiness is coming down but now my ass/hip hurt from the dumb needle.
On the flipside Jason got a new serpentine belt today and a chicken finger that looked nothing like a finger but instead shared a striking resemblance to the continent of Africa.
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