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LittleMoxie
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Randoms go here...
Why on earth is Bow Wow on my Bob Dylan Pandora station?! Bob Dylan, Carole King, The Beatles, Joni Mitchell.... and Bow Wow? WTF?
Re: Randoms go here...
Why don't latex-free condoms come in more than one size? Like people with latex allergies are all sleeping with the same dude.
Dear Trojan,
Make them bigger!
Peace and thanks,
-Cee
I got flamed to high heaven on my old club board. It just reminds me of how very glad I am not to be a part of it any longer.
I swear it's like clockwork. They get bored, stir up some sh!t, and recycle in about 3-4 months.
ETA: They're probably stalking me here, because that's what they do. Just a heads up, I'm not Hustle&Flow. ywia!
Zuma Zoom
DD has a my little pony and she calls it "tony" because she doesn't get that you use a "P". Her teacher at daycare keeps calling it "tony" too and it's driving me nuts! We sit in the car all morning going "puh puh puh pony" and she can do it like 25% of the time, but then we get there and teach is like "its Tony!!!1"
::headdesk::
Cee-Jay - it sucks they don't make them, but it's a good problem to have
Dyl - I love your gif! I wish my dog would do that.
I'm also irked because our phone stalker called today, and my brain is so foggy I just don't have it in me to deal with him today. I'm supposed to give him a firm-yet-friendly notification that he isn't to step foot on the grounds of our business campus unless he needs medical care, and do it in such a way he doesn't want to go cray-cray and bring a firearm to brandish in my face.
I just don't have it today. So hopefully he doesn't call back and doesn't try to visit.
I double dog dare them biitches to start some ish on PCE. We haven't had a good board fight since the bloggers showed up on the board. Fighting among ourselves about fatties is old and tired. We need fresh meat around here.
*suits up in her Gladiator/Spartacus attire*
My feet are huge. Like, my flip flops barely fit. It doesn't help that my mom keeps saying "my feet never looked like that, not even with your brother" (the 12 pounder who was 3 weeks late.) It's not my fault! I can't do anything about it! but seriously, they are huge. it's kind of bizarre to me bc I've always had relatively bony feet.
H and I are going to dinner and the movies tomorrow night. H has said he refuses to eat at "old people" time (ie 5 oclock) so we can see the 630 showing of hunger games, so I'm going to have to stay up for the 930 showing I think bc I reallllly want to see it in the theaters. I'm going to have to take a long nap and drink a coffee after dinner.......
It also irrationally annoys me that H goes to sleep at the same time I do, maybe earlier (we get into bed at the same time but he often goes to sleep before I do) and wakes up an hour after me. No fair! I'm the pregnant one! I get to sleep later! Of course, its completely my fault bc no one MAKES me get up at 530, I do it because that way I can leave work earlier.
We set up the co-sleeper last week and each morning our golden retriever is closer to it - he gets on my pillow after I wake up and at first just his nose kind of hung over the co-sleeper, and this morning his head was resting in it and both his front paws were in it. It's really cute but I'm also going to be really mad if he breaks the damn thing.
I had leftover frosting from making cupcakes for my son's birthday party. I've been eating spoonfuls of it as snacks.
Here's a picture from his pirate party. He turns 3 this sunday ::tears:: My kids are the 2 on the right.
WHINY B!TCH ALERT.
I am going to see The Book of Mormon tonight. We got tickets 2 months ago (the wait is otherwise close to a year!) through Chase for a steal, and it includes pre-show reception at a great restaurant. The deal was only for tonight's show, and it was perfect because tonight is my last night as a twenty-something. I'm not a Broadway show fan at all but I have heard awesome things about the show and am so excited to see it. What could be better, right???
...Except that the Rangers are playing in a Game 7 tonight 15 blocks south of where we'll be and somehow, someway we want to avoid game updates so we can go home after the show and watch the game from the DVR. Except that the show and the game will end at about the same time (unless the game goes to overtime) so unless we can find our way to our car with blindfolds and headphones on from the theatre, we may end up seeing fans on the streets cheering or looking sad, thus spoiling the results. WAAAAAAHHHHH.
<a href="http://www.thenest.com/?utm_source=ticker&utm_medium=HTML&utm_campaign=tickers" title="Home DI leave for my trip tonight. 2.5 weeks of fun! I haven't packed or printed my maps or anything like that.
A good friend from college will be in town while we're gone, and I'm pissed I'm going to miss her, but I'd already offered her my place to stay, so now I have to clean enough for a guest I'm not even going to get to see. I don't have time for this today!
Also, do they have those footie socks in America for mary jane type shoes? Does anyone know what I'm talking about? I don't want to wear a visible sock, and the shoe is mostly open, but it will be stanky/uncomfortable to wear the shoe without a sock. I saw them all over in Japan, but I don't know if it's also available here.
I'm on a committee where the chair's assistant sends out emails like this:
From: Assistant
To: all the committee members
Subject: Can you attend the BlahBlah meeting on February 12?
Message: blank
drives.me.crazy. It's so unprofessional!
If I were the Chair I would speak to her. I have thought about saying something to the Chair as it's so annoying but I can't figure out a way to do so in a professional manner.
Bummer about missing your friend.
You can find those sock things at most retailers. Macy's, Marshalls, Amazon too.
Eloise - cute kiddos. Love the eye patches and mustaches.
Zuma Zoom
Yay, another Taurus! (I'll be 30 in less than 2 weeks.)
My crazy ass neighbor who keeps screaming to people that she's pregnant got locked out of her house last night by some dude who I guess is moving in/taking her spot and told her that her roommate was kicking her out/told him that she didn't live there anymore. So she was walking around the property, screaming at him to let her in. Finally she came to my house to use my phone (she does this often). She asked for a drink, I asked what she wanted, she asked if I had vodka, and I gave her a good 2 shots over ice (her request) because I momentarily forgot she keeps telling people she's pregnant.
It was our good vodka too. Then I gave her a cigarette because she was chain smoking anyway.
Inviting her in ended up being an awesome idea, though, because I could eavesdrop on all of her phone conversations and found out she just got out of jail (and it was the "new" roommate/neighbor's fault) and she's moving to Washington.
40/112
There was a company that would send us orders like that. This company had different offices all over the country, that were named differently (it was a cable company, so all different regions). So we'd get an email from mary@cable.net with an order attached from Bob's Cable Company, and then another from john@cablecompany.com with an order attached from Bob's TV Company, and a third from henry@cctv.com with an order attached from Bob's Company - it was a big ol'd hot mess. I ended up with random people I'd never had contact with before emailing me excel spreadsheets with no subject and no message. And then they got mad that their orders weren't processed.
He's not retarded. He's challenged! He's a big-foreheaded, drooly, kinda-pervy challenge. Who talks funny I'll bet.
Ninja edit: Before any wisegals think they're funny with a potentially inevitable quip, I don't drool. So screw off.
We're all full up with the crazy over here, you must mean the *other* Washington, right?
I'm resigning myself to Bella's Kindergarten status being up in the air through most of the summer. After dropping off the wait list at our #1 choice school (because, natch, you can only be on one wait list), she's now wait listed at our #2 choice (which has a great dual language immersion program, English/Spanish. She's #8. The person there said they usually get through about #10 on the wait list.
::fingers crossed::
I am the 99%.
We do that all the time here we just end with EOM so people don't bother to even open it. Time-saving measure.
Whoooo saiiiiiiiiiii, this, right here, all day long. I HATE this.
I work with a guy who has been known to type an entire paragraph into the subject line of an email. If he'd just type the paragraph in the body I would see the message without opening it in the preview pane. But since the Subject line cuts off I have to open the stupid thing. Annoying.
I think I hurt my boss's feelings today. I'm not sure I care.
chicken pot pie ?? ???????
We had a tenant die last night (car accident).
Even though we certainly weren't friends, I feel a lot of sadness....he was a singly guy in his 50's with a history of mental health issues. He had an adult son, and an ex-wife but I know very little about them. I think the police are still trying to track them down.
Its very weird - aside from figuring out legally what to do with his stuff, etc. I feel quite strange going into the unit. A lot of unfinished business.
Olympia, so you can exhale now.
Far enough away, right?
40/112
Ugh, I'm sorry. That really sucks. I had to help the mother of my best friend from law school pack up her apartment after she randomly had a stroke three days before our first final and it was very weird.
Like, Anthony Hopkins in Legends of the Fall sorta weird?
"Scrwwww d'gbmnt!" "Scrwwmm."