Friday, December 20, 2002
Everything about this graphic is correct... except for the pajamas part... I say "pa-JAHM-as" ... And a lot of people I know say "pahyamahs." And "Tennis Shoes" around here is just plain "Tennies"... Hmm... What do you think?
Mikey was being stupid at 10:53 PM ::
I was supposed to make lunch for Vanessa today, but since I didn't have any money to buy groceries, she invited me to go out. So, I went to pick her up at the clinic at noon. Her cousin Monica was there too, and so the three of us decided on Olive Garden. It was pretty fun, especially now that I can discuss Harry Potter with Vanessa. She's on Book 3 and I'm dying for her to read further... She still hasn't found out Scabber's little secret... that dirty rat.
Anyway, after dropping them back at the clinic, I went home and straightened up the house a little. Then my sister called saying to meet them at a restaurant for lunch. So, I decided to go just for the hell of it. So I met the fam at Sombrero's, and a couple of hours later, we headed over to my house because they still hadn't seen my Christmas decor. My tree got lotsa compliments, but I see it as being in shambles thanks to Lily's antics. She's already busted like 20+ ornaments.
The rest of the day has been blah... I really want to sleep and I'm hungry again, but my stomach is doing cartwheels for some reason and no hope for getting out of work early. Of course, it's now 10:30, deadline is at 11 and NOW I'm barely getting in all the photos to color correct. It never ends. Tomorrow's the first day of winter, and the temps are going to take a dive. Instead of our high being 82, it'll be 77.. sunny and windy. Hmm. Apparently Monday and Tuesday will be rainy.
Anyway, after dropping them back at the clinic, I went home and straightened up the house a little. Then my sister called saying to meet them at a restaurant for lunch. So, I decided to go just for the hell of it. So I met the fam at Sombrero's, and a couple of hours later, we headed over to my house because they still hadn't seen my Christmas decor. My tree got lotsa compliments, but I see it as being in shambles thanks to Lily's antics. She's already busted like 20+ ornaments.
The rest of the day has been blah... I really want to sleep and I'm hungry again, but my stomach is doing cartwheels for some reason and no hope for getting out of work early. Of course, it's now 10:30, deadline is at 11 and NOW I'm barely getting in all the photos to color correct. It never ends. Tomorrow's the first day of winter, and the temps are going to take a dive. Instead of our high being 82, it'll be 77.. sunny and windy. Hmm. Apparently Monday and Tuesday will be rainy.
Mikey was being stupid at 10:27 PM ::
Thursday, December 19, 2002
Went looking for the new Ninja Turtles toys at KB's tonight... They said on the phone that they had them, and when I got there, they said they hadn't put them in the computer, so I couldn't buy them. They only had ONE BOX of ALL FOUR of the giant sized turtles... at like 22 bucks each. So, even if I could buy them, it'd bring a whole new light to the term "insufficient funds" ..... ugh.
Well, when I got to work tonight, I noticed a little box on my desk. Apparently, Mary Lou and her team of holiday cheer people made little boxes of chocolates for everyone. Everyone had color pages of the newspaper wrapped over their boxes... Mine was black and white tv grids and horoscopes. Of course, they would have to cut off the Taurean horoscope... Now I'll never know if I'm having a five star day.
The upside: The box was filled with chocolate. Kisses, Terry's Orange, Rocher and Almond Roca. It's 60% gone. After biting into a Rocher, I had a big dribble of chocolate goo hanging from my mouth to my chin. I pulled my trusty roll of toilet tissue out of my filing cabinet and wiped my face. My coworker Odell witnessed the whole thing. We made disgusting comments about it, and finally decided to tell our other coworker that Odell had the paper stuck to her shoe... We succeeded in giving Veronica dry heaves for the past 20 minutes.
My nose still hurts. I'm starting to feel where the welt is, and maybe I'll be able to tell exactly what did it to me. My sister said that it might be a flea, since she just put the Advantage medication on Pippa... the fleas pop off ASAP when they smell that stuff. But I usually don't get a welt from flea bites. Mosquitoes and ants usually make the biggest welts... Though I've heard horror stories from my dad's stepmother that a roach pissed on her nose once while she was asleep and it made a "roncha" (welt) .... ::GHUK!:: My god that is so fucking creepy/disgusting ... i'm going with ant or mosquito.
Well, when I got to work tonight, I noticed a little box on my desk. Apparently, Mary Lou and her team of holiday cheer people made little boxes of chocolates for everyone. Everyone had color pages of the newspaper wrapped over their boxes... Mine was black and white tv grids and horoscopes. Of course, they would have to cut off the Taurean horoscope... Now I'll never know if I'm having a five star day.
The upside: The box was filled with chocolate. Kisses, Terry's Orange, Rocher and Almond Roca. It's 60% gone. After biting into a Rocher, I had a big dribble of chocolate goo hanging from my mouth to my chin. I pulled my trusty roll of toilet tissue out of my filing cabinet and wiped my face. My coworker Odell witnessed the whole thing. We made disgusting comments about it, and finally decided to tell our other coworker that Odell had the paper stuck to her shoe... We succeeded in giving Veronica dry heaves for the past 20 minutes.
My nose still hurts. I'm starting to feel where the welt is, and maybe I'll be able to tell exactly what did it to me. My sister said that it might be a flea, since she just put the Advantage medication on Pippa... the fleas pop off ASAP when they smell that stuff. But I usually don't get a welt from flea bites. Mosquitoes and ants usually make the biggest welts... Though I've heard horror stories from my dad's stepmother that a roach pissed on her nose once while she was asleep and it made a "roncha" (welt) .... ::GHUK!:: My god that is so fucking creepy/disgusting ... i'm going with ant or mosquito.
Mikey was being stupid at 11:20 PM ::
Well, this is just incredibly embaressing/hilarious/stupid .... Yeah, I'm in that pic above.The short one next to the Channel 4 logo... This was my junior year in high school. I guess I was 16 at the time. Our high school choir did a TV special for Christmas... called Christmas in the Valley. Basically, we would just sing a bunch of Christmas songs in our revealing medieval costumes. Quite embaressing, but I won't deny that it was fun. We raised the bar for other choirs. Sadly, the chamber choir no longer exists at Harlingen High... when our director moved away, nothing stayed around very long... They even changed the varsity choir to completely women's voices, instead of mixed. Anyway... Here's an MP3 of O Holy Night as sung by the HHS choir for Christmas 98. Since I'd already graduated, I'm not on the track, but I still got the CD. The reason I like this song so much is because my friend Becky sings the third solo... and kicks all sorts of ass. The other two solos are sung by the two primadonnas of the choir, and Becky just blows them out of the water.
So I went to see The Two Towers yesterday... twice. Yeah, I went at 1 pm with my family (who are big LOTR fans) and at 8 pm with Vanessa and her cousin Monica. I kinda freaked at how many similarities there were to Harry Potter... I mean, not plotwise... but like, there was Grima/Snape, the Elvish cloaks/Invisibility Cloak, Ring Wraiths/Dementors, Winged Nazgool things/Norweigan Ridgeback, Gollum/Dobby, Treepiat(?)/Whomping Willow, and of course Good Wizard Gandalf the White/Dumbledore and bad wizards Saruman the White/Voldemort ...... oh and of course, the relationship of Frodo and Sam/Harry and Ron .... Although, it REALLY looked like Frodo and Sam were gonna kiss in that one scene toward the end. I'm sure Fan-fiction writers are having a field day with that one.
I ended up falling asleep at my mom's and woke up at like 12 or 1 pm. Long sleep considering I fell asleep around 2 or 3 am. I awoke to the sound of crashing glass... Family feud? Nah, just my sister... She dropped a glass. Scared the bejeezus outta me. And I guess since I was still half asleep, I just got up, took over the situation and started sweeping it up. Weird huh? Well, I also felt a pain on my nose and it turns out something bit me in my sleep. So my right nostril is a little red and swollen. Hurts a lot though.
Tokka: Thank you sooo much for the gifts. Got it today... Everything's just so damm awesome. And you've convinced me not to "fuck with Kmart" anymore.
Mikey was being stupid at 3:21 PM ::
Monday, December 16, 2002
"In English, I am known as the.... NINO!"
Seriously... Is El Nino the cause for all this non-holiday weather? Today was 82 degrees. Hardly average temperature for December 16. I managed to find my mom's Christmas present today... Got her a chanille sweater and some blue jeans... only cost about 40 bucks all together. I also bought my dad some crossword puzzle books to go with his Elvira's Haunted Hills DVD. He should love that.
I feel so bad for my dad... He's been wanting to buy himself a Lexus SUV for a long time now... When he and my mom visited my aunt and uncle in Austin on their way to Louisianna, my dad carried on about how much he wanted one, their great quality and style, etc. Before my parents returned from their trip to Louisianna, my aunt and uncle took a road trip down here to my home town... guess what they were driving... that's right. They bought a brand new Lexus SUV. My aunt carried on about how much her husband had been wanting one. And that he's been saying he's wanted a Lexus for years. Right... They are always trying to one-up everyone in the family. They upset me. Of course, my dad was crushed.
A few weeks ago, my dad was preparing to get the cash from his retirement savings for a down payment on a Lexus. Then my sister called him up. She and her fiancee could not get a vehicle in their names because a) her fiancee is an idiot and never signed up for selective service, so he has no credit and can get no loans, and b) My sister has great credit but no driver's license... Apparently you gotta have one of those in order to buy a car. Anyway, she asked my dad if he could put their new truck in his name, and they'd give the payments on it. This of course, is a disaster in the making... That pair is notorious for not paying money that is owed by them. With this new debt on his credit, he can't get his Lexus... again.
The other night at dinner, he told me, my mom and my other sister that he really liked those holiday commercials where the people are giving Lexuses as gifts. He said it was "neat" but he knew he'd never get his own. So, that was kind of a downer to the evening. Poor guy.
Oh before I forget, I wanted to thank everyone in the blogging community who has linked me up to their sites. I'm trying to get more additions to my links page as I discover more and more blogs. So yeah, thanks!
Seriously... Is El Nino the cause for all this non-holiday weather? Today was 82 degrees. Hardly average temperature for December 16. I managed to find my mom's Christmas present today... Got her a chanille sweater and some blue jeans... only cost about 40 bucks all together. I also bought my dad some crossword puzzle books to go with his Elvira's Haunted Hills DVD. He should love that.
I feel so bad for my dad... He's been wanting to buy himself a Lexus SUV for a long time now... When he and my mom visited my aunt and uncle in Austin on their way to Louisianna, my dad carried on about how much he wanted one, their great quality and style, etc. Before my parents returned from their trip to Louisianna, my aunt and uncle took a road trip down here to my home town... guess what they were driving... that's right. They bought a brand new Lexus SUV. My aunt carried on about how much her husband had been wanting one. And that he's been saying he's wanted a Lexus for years. Right... They are always trying to one-up everyone in the family. They upset me. Of course, my dad was crushed.
A few weeks ago, my dad was preparing to get the cash from his retirement savings for a down payment on a Lexus. Then my sister called him up. She and her fiancee could not get a vehicle in their names because a) her fiancee is an idiot and never signed up for selective service, so he has no credit and can get no loans, and b) My sister has great credit but no driver's license... Apparently you gotta have one of those in order to buy a car. Anyway, she asked my dad if he could put their new truck in his name, and they'd give the payments on it. This of course, is a disaster in the making... That pair is notorious for not paying money that is owed by them. With this new debt on his credit, he can't get his Lexus... again.
The other night at dinner, he told me, my mom and my other sister that he really liked those holiday commercials where the people are giving Lexuses as gifts. He said it was "neat" but he knew he'd never get his own. So, that was kind of a downer to the evening. Poor guy.
Oh before I forget, I wanted to thank everyone in the blogging community who has linked me up to their sites. I'm trying to get more additions to my links page as I discover more and more blogs. So yeah, thanks!
Mikey was being stupid at 8:00 PM ::