Tuesday, February 27, 2007
hmmm.... about that looney bin....
As we get ready to move, I find myself more ocncerned about getting my specialty flours down tor birmingham than most of my clothes. Yeah, it's about time to make the phone calls to the nice men in straight jackets
Friday, February 23, 2007
minor update
So ummm... let's see. The recruiter for baton rouge eventually stopped calling and stopped returning calls. We're assuming this means that either Whitey didn't get the job or the company couldn't give a decent enough offer that the recruiter wanted to tell us about it. I swear to god that is so fucking tacky when a recruiter just leaves you hanging. I mean, I know that some people can be assholes when you tell them they didn't get a job, but the ones who aren't assholes don't deserve to wait a week and a half for you to call back only to have you avoid them. We need to know if we have to rearrange our lives or not. I put so much shit on hold because we might be moving to baton rouge and now I have to rush to get it all done.
Speaking of, I have been working on CEU's for my social work license and have managed to knock out 14 hours worth in about 5 hours time with a lovely online CEU site. I'm sure you wanted to know that.
Whitey got offered a job in Birmingham and is going to take it. We should be down there in a couple of weeks. Actually, if any of you know of good places that do short term rentals, let us know. We want to be sure he gets hired permanently (it's a contract to hire position) before we buy a house.
In the middle of all this, I decided that I wanted to put together a dance for a talent competition that is taking place on march 3rd. I decided this last weekend. Yep.
In other news: I used my $50 that my mother gave us as a valentine present to go impulse buy things like orange chili coated cashews and kashi chocolate chip cookies and parmesian potato chips and bake doritos and gourmet soda.
yes, I said $50.... actually I had to kick in $10 of my own too.
Yeah.
Speaking of valentines: mine was rockin'. Whitey and I went to Tai Pan on tuesday to celebrate Valentine's (going out on actual Valentines is insane). Wednesday I went to work early and helped with the valentines party which meant free pizza and goodies. I knew my mom had put vegetables and stuff on the list, but I figured people would bring 109283091283091238 cookies and cupcakes and a tablespoon or two of vegetables and fruit. There were quite a few cupcakes and cookies, but there were waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more fruit and vegetables than cookies. I had like a cup and a half of carrots and some other mixed raw vegetables and a cup or so of fruit salad by myself and that barely made a dent in either. I was ecstatic. That night for dinner, whitey's mom made an exceedingly yummy pot roast. I ate too much and caused my stomach to be upset.
For valentines I gave whitey some cookies and some gourmet lemonade and he bought me dinner, ice cream twice, gave me a lovely card and got me some sugar free peppermint patties. yum!
Anyways... um... yeah that's my life.
Speaking of, I have been working on CEU's for my social work license and have managed to knock out 14 hours worth in about 5 hours time with a lovely online CEU site. I'm sure you wanted to know that.
Whitey got offered a job in Birmingham and is going to take it. We should be down there in a couple of weeks. Actually, if any of you know of good places that do short term rentals, let us know. We want to be sure he gets hired permanently (it's a contract to hire position) before we buy a house.
In the middle of all this, I decided that I wanted to put together a dance for a talent competition that is taking place on march 3rd. I decided this last weekend. Yep.
In other news: I used my $50 that my mother gave us as a valentine present to go impulse buy things like orange chili coated cashews and kashi chocolate chip cookies and parmesian potato chips and bake doritos and gourmet soda.
yes, I said $50.... actually I had to kick in $10 of my own too.
Yeah.
Speaking of valentines: mine was rockin'. Whitey and I went to Tai Pan on tuesday to celebrate Valentine's (going out on actual Valentines is insane). Wednesday I went to work early and helped with the valentines party which meant free pizza and goodies. I knew my mom had put vegetables and stuff on the list, but I figured people would bring 109283091283091238 cookies and cupcakes and a tablespoon or two of vegetables and fruit. There were quite a few cupcakes and cookies, but there were waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more fruit and vegetables than cookies. I had like a cup and a half of carrots and some other mixed raw vegetables and a cup or so of fruit salad by myself and that barely made a dent in either. I was ecstatic. That night for dinner, whitey's mom made an exceedingly yummy pot roast. I ate too much and caused my stomach to be upset.
For valentines I gave whitey some cookies and some gourmet lemonade and he bought me dinner, ice cream twice, gave me a lovely card and got me some sugar free peppermint patties. yum!
Anyways... um... yeah that's my life.
Friday, February 2, 2007
most of you have probably seen this by now....
....But in case you haven't. The press conference video for the cartoon network employees arrested for the whole "OMG BOMB HOAX" thing.
Fucking hilarious.
Fucking hilarious.
Monday, January 29, 2007
I think there is something seriously wrong with me
I have mourned the loss of my home made strawberry pear applesauce since the day we had to turn the power off, four days ago. I spent an hour online researching flours and grains to potentially put in breads, crackers, etc. I spent at least another hour reading about different types of cheeses, oils and sugars.
yeah.
Just do me one favor: make sure the loony bin has a good kitchen and an organic market next door.
yeah.
Just do me one favor: make sure the loony bin has a good kitchen and an organic market next door.
Saturday, January 27, 2007
quick update
well... there's nothing going and tons going on all at once.. per usual.
Whitey might be getting a job in baton rouge. I'm not entirely thrilled at this idea because I just moved, it's not within an hour of family or friends, etc. However, we wouldn't be more than 7 or 8 hours away from everyone, there's great fucking restaurants (most of which have seafood which is fabulous for the diet), and it looks like my artistic hippy side could be in full swing there-- several dance schools, symphony, a choreography/dance festival, etc. Oh, yeah, I forgot the best reason to live there: Fleur de tease, (sorry their site doesn't work in firefox) a true burlesque entertaining group.
heehehehehehe, So anyways, back to the update. I'm still working at the daycare and am proud to report (read mortified) that some crayon artwork that happened on my shift has caused the walls in the toddler room to be repainted. Our wonderful (read stupid) son (dog)has learned how to speak on command (and sometimes not on command too). I managed to make whole wheat, reduced fat, reduced sugar, chocolate mint cupcakes that tasted fabulous (even whitey approved and he's the pickiest goddamn eater I know).
Oh yes, I forgot the fun event from Tuesday. We woke up Tuesday to a lack of power on the upstairs floor (except one outlet) and part of the downstairs. I saw Nana (my new nickname for my mother-in-law: that's how we distinguish between her and other people when we talk to the dog) when I was fixing my oatmeal and she said that she tried to flip the breaker but the box sparked when she tried. So she called an electrician and I went to work. Whitey calls me at work, "yeah um, the wiring in the house was so bad that the wires on that circuit (yes, all of the upstairs and half of the downstairs was on one circuit) shorted out and started melting the wires on the other circuits. We're lucky the house didn't burn down. Can you get off work early tonight so we can get our stuff together to go spend the night at your mother's (known to the dog as "grandma")? We have to shut off the power to the house tonight so that the city can shut of the main power so that the electricians can come first thing in the morning to fix the wiring. So we packed up our son and his bed and his toys and a few of our own things and headed to grandma's for the night where ahboo got to play with another dog and run around a fenced back yard.
When I came home from work the power was back on and we thought that maybe some of the food in the fridge and freezer might be okay until we saw that the ice cream had melted all over everything. Whitey and his mom spent a nice chunk of time throwing out everything in the freezer and fridge today. Bah. So much yummy food and so much money spent on said yummy food, completely down the drain. Goddamnit (yes, I know this complaint pales in comparison to having a house that was supposed to be built to your specifications wired so badly that the house could have burned down and then having to pay an exorbitant amount to have to fix it, but I like my food).
Other than that, we have a Wii and we got the WOW expansion, but that's about it.
Whitey might be getting a job in baton rouge. I'm not entirely thrilled at this idea because I just moved, it's not within an hour of family or friends, etc. However, we wouldn't be more than 7 or 8 hours away from everyone, there's great fucking restaurants (most of which have seafood which is fabulous for the diet), and it looks like my artistic hippy side could be in full swing there-- several dance schools, symphony, a choreography/dance festival, etc. Oh, yeah, I forgot the best reason to live there: Fleur de tease, (sorry their site doesn't work in firefox) a true burlesque entertaining group.
heehehehehehe, So anyways, back to the update. I'm still working at the daycare and am proud to report (read mortified) that some crayon artwork that happened on my shift has caused the walls in the toddler room to be repainted. Our wonderful (read stupid) son (dog)has learned how to speak on command (and sometimes not on command too). I managed to make whole wheat, reduced fat, reduced sugar, chocolate mint cupcakes that tasted fabulous (even whitey approved and he's the pickiest goddamn eater I know).
Oh yes, I forgot the fun event from Tuesday. We woke up Tuesday to a lack of power on the upstairs floor (except one outlet) and part of the downstairs. I saw Nana (my new nickname for my mother-in-law: that's how we distinguish between her and other people when we talk to the dog) when I was fixing my oatmeal and she said that she tried to flip the breaker but the box sparked when she tried. So she called an electrician and I went to work. Whitey calls me at work, "yeah um, the wiring in the house was so bad that the wires on that circuit (yes, all of the upstairs and half of the downstairs was on one circuit) shorted out and started melting the wires on the other circuits. We're lucky the house didn't burn down. Can you get off work early tonight so we can get our stuff together to go spend the night at your mother's (known to the dog as "grandma")? We have to shut off the power to the house tonight so that the city can shut of the main power so that the electricians can come first thing in the morning to fix the wiring. So we packed up our son and his bed and his toys and a few of our own things and headed to grandma's for the night where ahboo got to play with another dog and run around a fenced back yard.
When I came home from work the power was back on and we thought that maybe some of the food in the fridge and freezer might be okay until we saw that the ice cream had melted all over everything. Whitey and his mom spent a nice chunk of time throwing out everything in the freezer and fridge today. Bah. So much yummy food and so much money spent on said yummy food, completely down the drain. Goddamnit (yes, I know this complaint pales in comparison to having a house that was supposed to be built to your specifications wired so badly that the house could have burned down and then having to pay an exorbitant amount to have to fix it, but I like my food).
Other than that, we have a Wii and we got the WOW expansion, but that's about it.
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