my darling locked her keys in her car late late last night. and now we're trying to figure out what to do. i think she's going to take my car and then somehow we're going to get her key from blue hill or call aaa tomorrow. i guess. and then i'm going to walmart to make 6 million copies of that key. i asked mary about the slim jim things that you can open doors with, but apprently they don't sell them here, unlike in New Hampshire where there are no laws and anyone can buy a slim jim. my dad has tons. but sadly they are too far away.
i tried the glasses again, as they match my outfit perfectly and i would look super cute, but alas they make me feel too weird. i hate that i can't figure out what's wrong with them. i really hope it's not just the prescription.
i just found out i'm expected to give up multiple evenings to learn about our new products. atleast i get paid and mileage for it. i wonder if they'll have snacks. i hate banking.
January 30, 2004
January 29, 2004
it's snowing. little fluffy snows. it's very exciting. meanwhile some fool was driving approximately 8 mph on the road to bar harbor and i was late. why so slow, why. it's very safe snow as far as snow goes.
the penny man just came in. there's this perfectly normal looking gent who comes in about once a month and asks for 30 dollars in rolled pennies. what does one do with rolled pennies, 30 dollars of rolled pennies. he has no business that we know of, he asks for no other change. what does he do with the pennies? we all want to know but no one wants to ask. it makes me want to go over to another bank and ask for 50 dollars in rolled pennies. and then pet them and coo over them and walk them slowly out the door in a pram.
so i'm wearing my new glasses. i like them but i can't see so great. the eyes see great individully, but as a team they're not so good. i don't know what the deal is. i have to get them checked. back to bangor.
it freaks me out driving to bangor by myself. especially at night. it's this long ass road through the mountains and it is distinctly like the road to the hotel in the shining. or atleast it reminds of that road. and it goes by the scary lucerne inn which stone face says is very haunted but i haven't investigated it because i have to drive by it and i wouldn't be able to if i knew how haunted it was. scary.
while i was in bangor i went to petco, where indulgent pet owners go, and i bought a hamster kingdom and a hamster potty, and a new water bottle that hopefully won't leak. it seems that you can train your hamster to use a cute colored plastic tube thing as a potty. all you have to do is put the potty in the corner where your pet evacuates. it didn't sound hard, and i was tired, and i bought it. i'm such a fool. i don't know where my pet likes to evacuate. how are you supposed to know. i mean it's a hamster. very small. it'll have to go back.
the penny man just came in. there's this perfectly normal looking gent who comes in about once a month and asks for 30 dollars in rolled pennies. what does one do with rolled pennies, 30 dollars of rolled pennies. he has no business that we know of, he asks for no other change. what does he do with the pennies? we all want to know but no one wants to ask. it makes me want to go over to another bank and ask for 50 dollars in rolled pennies. and then pet them and coo over them and walk them slowly out the door in a pram.
so i'm wearing my new glasses. i like them but i can't see so great. the eyes see great individully, but as a team they're not so good. i don't know what the deal is. i have to get them checked. back to bangor.
it freaks me out driving to bangor by myself. especially at night. it's this long ass road through the mountains and it is distinctly like the road to the hotel in the shining. or atleast it reminds of that road. and it goes by the scary lucerne inn which stone face says is very haunted but i haven't investigated it because i have to drive by it and i wouldn't be able to if i knew how haunted it was. scary.
while i was in bangor i went to petco, where indulgent pet owners go, and i bought a hamster kingdom and a hamster potty, and a new water bottle that hopefully won't leak. it seems that you can train your hamster to use a cute colored plastic tube thing as a potty. all you have to do is put the potty in the corner where your pet evacuates. it didn't sound hard, and i was tired, and i bought it. i'm such a fool. i don't know where my pet likes to evacuate. how are you supposed to know. i mean it's a hamster. very small. it'll have to go back.
January 28, 2004
"John Cusack: the poor man's Matthew Broderick"
i feel that today is going to be a good day. stone face is off to a field trip in bangor, and i'm hoping my glasses are done so i too can go to bangor and get stuff for me and mrs. whatsit. my darling furry friend has a cheap like you would not believe water bottle from walmart that leaks all over her cage. i'm solved the problem by putting an odwalla cap under the bottle to contain the water but the mrs. doesn't like that and pushes the cap out of the way. so i have to change her bedding every day. damn walmart and the false promise of reliable goods for low prices.
but i still i have hope for the day. mary was giving me more martha stewart gossip. she was horribly rude to mary personally and let her dogs be naughty on her lawn when she first moved here. ooh ooh and one time in the pine tree market she wanted to use the phone and the girl said no and she made a big deal about being famous and then david rockefeller tapped her on the shoulder and pointed to the pay phone. the rockefellers are so nice, and normal, with all their billions of dollars. uhhh i think i just ate some bad yogurt. mary said it wasn't bad unless it was green but i think there have to be more factors than that.
i tried to talk JJ into starting a blog, but she said she wouldn't have anything to say. she who is going to be teaching high school in frederick has nothing to say. i suspect there will be hijinx a plenty.
I have to say I'm saddened that NH voted for Kerry although i'm not surprised. I have to call my mom and see who she fought with at the polls. she always fights with the campaigners. she also invites jehovah's witnesses in for a chat. it's so funny/embarrassing. because my mother was a nun, it's hysterical to watch her argue doctrinal import with those who unknowingly walk into her web of catholicism. she thinks it's highly innapropriate to violate peoples homes with religion. she does the same thing with the phone poll people, especially if they're GOP. some poor kid called and asked my mom if she supported privatizing social security..."do poor people have stockbrokers to invest their social security, no, poor people make money decisions based on food and heat to care for their kids, what's wrong with you!" my mommy!
but i still i have hope for the day. mary was giving me more martha stewart gossip. she was horribly rude to mary personally and let her dogs be naughty on her lawn when she first moved here. ooh ooh and one time in the pine tree market she wanted to use the phone and the girl said no and she made a big deal about being famous and then david rockefeller tapped her on the shoulder and pointed to the pay phone. the rockefellers are so nice, and normal, with all their billions of dollars. uhhh i think i just ate some bad yogurt. mary said it wasn't bad unless it was green but i think there have to be more factors than that.
i tried to talk JJ into starting a blog, but she said she wouldn't have anything to say. she who is going to be teaching high school in frederick has nothing to say. i suspect there will be hijinx a plenty.
I have to say I'm saddened that NH voted for Kerry although i'm not surprised. I have to call my mom and see who she fought with at the polls. she always fights with the campaigners. she also invites jehovah's witnesses in for a chat. it's so funny/embarrassing. because my mother was a nun, it's hysterical to watch her argue doctrinal import with those who unknowingly walk into her web of catholicism. she thinks it's highly innapropriate to violate peoples homes with religion. she does the same thing with the phone poll people, especially if they're GOP. some poor kid called and asked my mom if she supported privatizing social security..."do poor people have stockbrokers to invest their social security, no, poor people make money decisions based on food and heat to care for their kids, what's wrong with you!" my mommy!
January 27, 2004
things that are worse than s club 7
note prior rant about the gecko song before reading this:
i'm sitting in the bank. the radio is on in the background. the gecko song comes on again. in the course of 2 hours the gecko love song plays twice. i look at mary, i look at the radio, i look at mary. mary laughs. i am pulled by forces unknown to me to hit my head against my desk. bam bam bam when all of a sudden it is louder and tia is singing. this is tia's favorite new song. tia loves this song. tia wants this song to be played at her wedding.
needless to say i gave myself a concussion and i had to leave early to rest.
that's what should have happened.
if there was a god that's what would have happened.
i'm sitting in the bank. the radio is on in the background. the gecko song comes on again. in the course of 2 hours the gecko love song plays twice. i look at mary, i look at the radio, i look at mary. mary laughs. i am pulled by forces unknown to me to hit my head against my desk. bam bam bam when all of a sudden it is louder and tia is singing. this is tia's favorite new song. tia loves this song. tia wants this song to be played at her wedding.
needless to say i gave myself a concussion and i had to leave early to rest.
that's what should have happened.
if there was a god that's what would have happened.
"it could be worse-it could be S Club 7"
good morning! i think i'm becoming more tolerant of cold because i'm wearing a skirt today and i think i'll even walk to the post office in the course of the day, maybe even to rite aid if i'm feeling lucky.
they're talking about childhood snow adventures on the radio reminding me of when i went to catholic school. we all hated school so much we used to build snow caves at the bus stop so the driver would be fooled into believing we were all sick. and we planned to stay there all day, everyday. we had our lunches, we had toys, needless to say we took it all very seriously. and then every morning the driver would get off the bus and pull us out of the cave and we'd have to go to school with our kilts wet. but you can see it was a story of hope and perseverance because we still did it every morning with the hope that one day it would work. i really hated catholic school.
ooh this morning i used my unknown brute strength to almost snap a key in half in a bank lock. mary thought it was very funny and has told every customer about my skills at bending solid steel pieces of metal with my special powers. i feel like uri geller (sp?).
remember that geico comercial with the gecko and the lady in the field and generic sappy love song # 4 is playing in the background. that's a real song. it's playing on the radio. i thought it was a purposefully terrible love jingle written for tv. talk about depressing.
they're talking about childhood snow adventures on the radio reminding me of when i went to catholic school. we all hated school so much we used to build snow caves at the bus stop so the driver would be fooled into believing we were all sick. and we planned to stay there all day, everyday. we had our lunches, we had toys, needless to say we took it all very seriously. and then every morning the driver would get off the bus and pull us out of the cave and we'd have to go to school with our kilts wet. but you can see it was a story of hope and perseverance because we still did it every morning with the hope that one day it would work. i really hated catholic school.
ooh this morning i used my unknown brute strength to almost snap a key in half in a bank lock. mary thought it was very funny and has told every customer about my skills at bending solid steel pieces of metal with my special powers. i feel like uri geller (sp?).
remember that geico comercial with the gecko and the lady in the field and generic sappy love song # 4 is playing in the background. that's a real song. it's playing on the radio. i thought it was a purposefully terrible love jingle written for tv. talk about depressing.
January 26, 2004
i was just reading more of sarah's archives and i found the coffee cow post about beefy goodness and business ethics and how all vegetarians eat chicken and i was laughing so hard that my coworkers demanded to know why i was laughing and so like i always do i foolishly told them and they look at me and go "oh that's funny" and then i started thinking about "it's the tuna of the land" and i laughed so more because i'm just jolly today i guess and tia said "i won't ask" to which i laughed more and then foolish^2 i again told her why i was laughing and now i sit alone with a barely controlled mirth bubbling at the surface and i read more archives about the nazi dinosaurs that brought christianity to india and the bodhisattvas that saw eternal peace few yards ahead and said "whoa there, can't get too close to that nirvana we gotta go back and help the others" and it just won't end, will it?
"snowmen don't fly...unless you kick em!"
ruthlessly stolen from sarah's archives, which are very inconvenient by the way, because it's my favorite and it makes me laugh and i'm bored...
"As many of you know, I have issues with the Jesus Fish. You know, those little outlines of fish that are often found on the backs of minivans and other various vehicles. Sometimes they have Greek writing in the middle. You may have also seen some of the "response fish" that the Jesus Fish has spawned, like the Darwin fish with legs, etc., you all ride in cars, you all know what I am talking about. Anyway, back to the Christ Cod. My question is, What is the point? Well, the point, dear lady, you might say, is to signify that the owner of the car is a Christian. Once again, I reply, so what? In the first couple centuries A.D., Christianity was an underground cult that had fervent followers, but was reviled by the public at large, kind of like the polka scene today. Special symbols that only Christians knew were used so that they could identify each other--symbols like the chi-ro (sp?) and the fish. It was necessary to keep it all on the down-low because in the Roman Empire, Christians often ended up as lion kibble. Today, all a Christian has to do to find another Christian is, well, spit. Chances are it'll land on someone who is a member of some branch of the religion. Also, if you publicly reveal your Chrisitianity, the government won't execute you in a giant brass pressure cooker shaped like a bull. So basically, all of the above is to illustrate that the purpose of the Jesus Fish is to say, "Look at me. I am a Christian and I am so hardcore into Jesus that I glued this fish to my car, ultimately bringing down its value in the name of Jesus Christ our lord, amen."
"As many of you know, I have issues with the Jesus Fish. You know, those little outlines of fish that are often found on the backs of minivans and other various vehicles. Sometimes they have Greek writing in the middle. You may have also seen some of the "response fish" that the Jesus Fish has spawned, like the Darwin fish with legs, etc., you all ride in cars, you all know what I am talking about. Anyway, back to the Christ Cod. My question is, What is the point? Well, the point, dear lady, you might say, is to signify that the owner of the car is a Christian. Once again, I reply, so what? In the first couple centuries A.D., Christianity was an underground cult that had fervent followers, but was reviled by the public at large, kind of like the polka scene today. Special symbols that only Christians knew were used so that they could identify each other--symbols like the chi-ro (sp?) and the fish. It was necessary to keep it all on the down-low because in the Roman Empire, Christians often ended up as lion kibble. Today, all a Christian has to do to find another Christian is, well, spit. Chances are it'll land on someone who is a member of some branch of the religion. Also, if you publicly reveal your Chrisitianity, the government won't execute you in a giant brass pressure cooker shaped like a bull. So basically, all of the above is to illustrate that the purpose of the Jesus Fish is to say, "Look at me. I am a Christian and I am so hardcore into Jesus that I glued this fish to my car, ultimately bringing down its value in the name of Jesus Christ our lord, amen."
i want all the luxuries of the modern age, every item on every page, in the lilian vernon catalog
oh sugar daddy, handsome needs some sugar in his bowl...stuck in my head.
oooh i forgot to mention in the last post the eyewear trend that is coming back, which i was very excited about....rhinestones! there were rhinestone rimmed glasses everywhere. i was so excited. but i looked like a dork in all of them. or so says annie. it was very disapointing. oooh but i'm thrilled to death that it's coming back and i hope i see someone wearing such glasses soon. although i'm sure i'll be jealous. sigh. maybe i'll have to go to the craft barn and pick up some jewels and super glue them to my glasses. how cool would i be then? mhmm, oh yeah.
i'm super caffeinated today thanks to a big cup of english breakfast. actually two cups because i had one last night and then i couldn't sleep, and i could figure out why until i had a cup this morning. hmm. mystery solved.
last night i had to mourn for the fact that my digital cable isn't working and i couldn't watch bbc america. i would have mourned earlier but i've never used my digital cable and i'm not even sure it is digital cable. maybe satelittle. the point being i have been missing out on bbc america, for months now, and not just because i'm not british. it's at my fingertips and i can't have it. and the mourning continues.
apparently i was mentioned as a new employee at the big employee retreat this weekend. we didn't win any awards, and they didn't have any veggie food, and i would have had to spend the weekend with everyone i work with so i can't say i'm sad i didn't go. but i did miss out on alot of bank paraphenalia...i don't have enough of that yet. shucks!
oooh i forgot to mention in the last post the eyewear trend that is coming back, which i was very excited about....rhinestones! there were rhinestone rimmed glasses everywhere. i was so excited. but i looked like a dork in all of them. or so says annie. it was very disapointing. oooh but i'm thrilled to death that it's coming back and i hope i see someone wearing such glasses soon. although i'm sure i'll be jealous. sigh. maybe i'll have to go to the craft barn and pick up some jewels and super glue them to my glasses. how cool would i be then? mhmm, oh yeah.
i'm super caffeinated today thanks to a big cup of english breakfast. actually two cups because i had one last night and then i couldn't sleep, and i could figure out why until i had a cup this morning. hmm. mystery solved.
last night i had to mourn for the fact that my digital cable isn't working and i couldn't watch bbc america. i would have mourned earlier but i've never used my digital cable and i'm not even sure it is digital cable. maybe satelittle. the point being i have been missing out on bbc america, for months now, and not just because i'm not british. it's at my fingertips and i can't have it. and the mourning continues.
apparently i was mentioned as a new employee at the big employee retreat this weekend. we didn't win any awards, and they didn't have any veggie food, and i would have had to spend the weekend with everyone i work with so i can't say i'm sad i didn't go. but i did miss out on alot of bank paraphenalia...i don't have enough of that yet. shucks!
January 25, 2004
so annie and i went to bangor today and i picked out new glasses. they're sort of modern horn rim but they're red and they're neat. we also got sneakers for annie which is exciting. i'll let you all know how the new glasses are when the lenses are in and i can see them. when are you going back to school sarah? i have something for you. mrs. whatsit is growing exponentially. she's going to outgrow her tank soon. her rump is even rounder than it was. annie took me to school today and we got to play in the museum. it's cool because its all taxidermy that previous classes did and is now in the museum. they're having taxidermy classes again in the spring but stone face doesn't think she can handle working with dead things. wouldn't it have been cool if they had taxidermy at hood? in only...
January 24, 2004
i made a serious dent in rearranging my house today. sarah you would be proud. stone face was shocked. it looks pretty good. she's trying to put together a federal resume. tricky. it was about -20 today but my thermometer was in the sun. how do you know if your hamster is too cold? i'm afraid she's too cold. but i don't know how you can tell. tomorrow we're going to bangor to pick out new glasses. and get toys for the baby. mrs. w and i need to bond more. today she bit me and did the hanging from my finger thing. cute furry pain.
January 23, 2004
there is a serious case of the grumpies today at the bank. some of these grumpies were mine, but i'm past them now having journalled and gone to a happy place. annie took me to my house for lunch searching for her wallet and i brought back gingerbread cake to fight back the mean grumpies and i must say i had some success. almost all of the cake is gone and there was joy in this office! i am a peacemaking success. atleast my cake is anyway. mmm cake. does anyone remember why mmm pie was so funny? sarah. i just don't remember.
it's only four oclock. sigh to fridays, silly convenient hours for working folks. i hate being convenient.
there was just a very amusing customer that was telling tia about his pay raise due to inflation, and it was some silly tiny sum, and he said "oh but i forgot there is no inflation, the president said so" and then i said "isn't that great? and i'm really excited about pigeon holeing childrens future potential."
it's always fun when there are politically savvy customers to chat with.
although i have been trying to limit my grumpiness i have to tell you all that i have been controlling very violent tendencies today. there have been moments, i'm ashamed to admit, that i just don't care that tia has to shave her legs so she can abstain from having sex with her boyfriend with whom she's going to sleep in the same room and everyone is going to gossip at the employee retreat that i'm not going to. these are help me moments. some days i can feign interest in idle chat, some days i just really can't. i'm very much looking forward to a quiet me and annie weekend.
it's only four oclock. sigh to fridays, silly convenient hours for working folks. i hate being convenient.
there was just a very amusing customer that was telling tia about his pay raise due to inflation, and it was some silly tiny sum, and he said "oh but i forgot there is no inflation, the president said so" and then i said "isn't that great? and i'm really excited about pigeon holeing childrens future potential."
it's always fun when there are politically savvy customers to chat with.
although i have been trying to limit my grumpiness i have to tell you all that i have been controlling very violent tendencies today. there have been moments, i'm ashamed to admit, that i just don't care that tia has to shave her legs so she can abstain from having sex with her boyfriend with whom she's going to sleep in the same room and everyone is going to gossip at the employee retreat that i'm not going to. these are help me moments. some days i can feign interest in idle chat, some days i just really can't. i'm very much looking forward to a quiet me and annie weekend.
ooops
so i went sledding and i completely forgot to mention it. i think it was the euphoria of actually getting to go sledding that just stunned me into silence. when sarah was here we took a tour of COA and there was a sledding path...it was love at first sight (and the golf couse didn't have snow) so we went to buy a sled. actually a tube, which is good for the coccyx. oddly enough, having mentioned ethan frome, there was a large tree stump that the hill lead right into. no one hit it although i was scared that we would sled into the ocean. but we didn't.
this has been a banner week for screwing up at work. if i did things like get drunk i would do that but instead i buy pumas when i'm upset so maybe when we're at the mall i'll dig my whole of debt a little deeper for some commercial type shopping gratification.
there was a car accident yesterday and the guy from eden rising, where you bought your hat stone face, broke a rib and another boy from trenton was killed. it's very sad when there are accidents here because everyone knows everyone. in maryland it was never anyone you knew.
this has been a banner week for screwing up at work. if i did things like get drunk i would do that but instead i buy pumas when i'm upset so maybe when we're at the mall i'll dig my whole of debt a little deeper for some commercial type shopping gratification.
there was a car accident yesterday and the guy from eden rising, where you bought your hat stone face, broke a rib and another boy from trenton was killed. it's very sad when there are accidents here because everyone knows everyone. in maryland it was never anyone you knew.
January 22, 2004
it's still snowing. i must learn to realize that a flurry in maine is not a flurry in maryland. it's ridiculous because i grew up in NH and i'm totally spoiled by maryland pseudo-winter. i almost ate it on the sidewalk today, which would have been like the hundredth time i've fallen on my bumper in bar harbor. i used to have equilibrium. it used to be sarah with the interpretive dance all the time.
my landlady is back and i have to decide if i'm going to ask her tough questions like "is it okay that i have a hamster?" or "so if i had a roommate this summer?" I would be sad because i like mrs. whatsit and i would miss her wheel running all night and also because i'll have to have two jobs feeding my rent habit to live there this summer by myself. i'll let you know how it all goes sarah, if she's against we may have to rethink plans...but i plan to bake cookies for her. leverage
my landlady is back and i have to decide if i'm going to ask her tough questions like "is it okay that i have a hamster?" or "so if i had a roommate this summer?" I would be sad because i like mrs. whatsit and i would miss her wheel running all night and also because i'll have to have two jobs feeding my rent habit to live there this summer by myself. i'll let you know how it all goes sarah, if she's against we may have to rethink plans...but i plan to bake cookies for her. leverage
it's snowing
were we to expect snow today? i didn't. i also didn't expect to hear fom heather so soon, but YAY. i'd love to hear her opinion of the stripper pole. also president liz, don't you think she's pissed she didn't think of it first.
on the radio just now a bunch of towns in western maine want to get rid of their towns and become part of the unorganized territory. that would be neat wouldn't it? much lie those books we read with dr.g that i can never remember the names of. some days it really kills me that my books and things are still at hood and probably destroyed and then i think they are just things. things you didn't even care enough about to take with you, or make plans for. get over it. kirsten if you're ever at hoood will you check on my stuff? stone face and i might come down in march. she has to make a documentary for school and that might be the idea for it. on the road, with stone face and elvis. sounds interesting, no? we could do educational things...like...um...i can't think of any educational things on that trip.
in other news i think my little coworker might be wearing three wonder bras today. for the most part i try not to notice such things but i really think it's getting dangerous. she could injure herself with those. it's scary. she's also pissed at her fiance because she hasn't seen him since monday. he's a moron and she's sick of him. hmm, marriage, at 18, hmm.
on the radio just now a bunch of towns in western maine want to get rid of their towns and become part of the unorganized territory. that would be neat wouldn't it? much lie those books we read with dr.g that i can never remember the names of. some days it really kills me that my books and things are still at hood and probably destroyed and then i think they are just things. things you didn't even care enough about to take with you, or make plans for. get over it. kirsten if you're ever at hoood will you check on my stuff? stone face and i might come down in march. she has to make a documentary for school and that might be the idea for it. on the road, with stone face and elvis. sounds interesting, no? we could do educational things...like...um...i can't think of any educational things on that trip.
in other news i think my little coworker might be wearing three wonder bras today. for the most part i try not to notice such things but i really think it's getting dangerous. she could injure herself with those. it's scary. she's also pissed at her fiance because she hasn't seen him since monday. he's a moron and she's sick of him. hmm, marriage, at 18, hmm.
January 21, 2004
i was just reading pinky's comments about the cold. and it just strikes me so funny because she was too cold in north carolina, her friend was too cold in chicago, kirsten is too cold in maryland, as is JJ, and sarah felt survival oriented panic about the cold here. it's just so funny. it's like a contest for coldness, wait till summer...
stone face rocks! she brought me candy because rite aid is having a sale. am i a lucky girl or what? and yes i am very glad that mrs. w doesn't want to eat me. that would be trying. also you left your socks at my house, you fool. shall i mail them to you? is that too weird? getting socks in the mail. i never did get around to mailing you that beaver. i don't know where it went.
hamster chasing...
so i tortured poor whoosie (mrs. whoosie whatsit) last night trying to look at her little ear and a tiny bite mark on her back. i'm hoping for the best that her siblings beat the crap out of her and that she'll be ok. tonight i may try to hydrogen peroxide her wounds, as stated here, but it's really quite difficult to get a hamster to stay still and i don't want to traumatize her. we used to put bacitracin on the koi they didn't seem to mind except that they were out of water. in this respect i guess a hamster is easier.
stone face came over last night and we watched the state of the union. mostly we just yelled at the tv. there were 69 applause breaks where upon half of the room stood and half sat there sort of dazed. the close ups of hillary clinton and teddy kennedy were the best parts. it was like all the democrats had nail files and were just sitting there shaping while he rambled on. even the military personnel he brought in to clap had faces that said "do we have to?".
in other news the town of mt. desert voted to pump a whole bunch of sewage over a mountain to dump it into seal harbor. they approved cutting jobs and funding this very expensive project that will dump even more sewage into martha stewarts backyard. it's the most ridiculous scheme but it is sort of amusing that it's seal harbor of all places. mary says you never see her around town. funny that.
i'm not expecting it to be a very busy day. i'm hoping it will be better than yesterday. i was a wild and crazy fool yesterday. making lots of mistakes at work, burning myself with hot water and setting off the fire alarm, i can't remember anything else but i was very lucky to have an annie come play with me and keep me from offing myself. by accident. as i am prone. to accidents. err...
stone face came over last night and we watched the state of the union. mostly we just yelled at the tv. there were 69 applause breaks where upon half of the room stood and half sat there sort of dazed. the close ups of hillary clinton and teddy kennedy were the best parts. it was like all the democrats had nail files and were just sitting there shaping while he rambled on. even the military personnel he brought in to clap had faces that said "do we have to?".
in other news the town of mt. desert voted to pump a whole bunch of sewage over a mountain to dump it into seal harbor. they approved cutting jobs and funding this very expensive project that will dump even more sewage into martha stewarts backyard. it's the most ridiculous scheme but it is sort of amusing that it's seal harbor of all places. mary says you never see her around town. funny that.
i'm not expecting it to be a very busy day. i'm hoping it will be better than yesterday. i was a wild and crazy fool yesterday. making lots of mistakes at work, burning myself with hot water and setting off the fire alarm, i can't remember anything else but i was very lucky to have an annie come play with me and keep me from offing myself. by accident. as i am prone. to accidents. err...
January 20, 2004
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mrs. whatsit has the itchies
although i am a new hamster mommy i am already concerned that mrs.w has a problem with her little ear. she is scratching the heck out of it. worry worry. i'll keep you all posted because i know you're all just as worried about mrs. w as i am. yesterday sarah and i bought her a running wheel because the ball is too big for her to move around and a pink plastic house to nest in. and yogurt treats. and unscented bedding because apparently the cedar i bought is lethal to hamsters...who knew? i'm learning all about hamsters and it's all very exciting. apparently they can be tamed...what exactly they mean by tamed i'm not sure. do you think i can teach her to sit? hmm.
so i've had a headlight out for just a few months and what do you know the other one went out on the way to pick up annie for dinner. because it's maine it gets dark at like 3:30 so it was a little tricky to see and i sort of blinded a bunch of people with my highbeams. luckily it turned back on to drive home and i have since had them both replaced, but it was a bit trying. shavonne will be so disapointed in me for my lack of car care. i swear i bought a bulb for it months ago, and i read the book on replacing it...but i just couldn't do it. it's too tricky.
we're back at work today and it seems we were the only people that closed on MLK day. not that i mind particularly i just figured that schools and other places would close. the weather is really quite lovely today. it's amazing how excited you can get about 30 degree temperatures.
ps kirsten! are you really going to nail care bears to the walls? that hurts my heart.
so i've had a headlight out for just a few months and what do you know the other one went out on the way to pick up annie for dinner. because it's maine it gets dark at like 3:30 so it was a little tricky to see and i sort of blinded a bunch of people with my highbeams. luckily it turned back on to drive home and i have since had them both replaced, but it was a bit trying. shavonne will be so disapointed in me for my lack of car care. i swear i bought a bulb for it months ago, and i read the book on replacing it...but i just couldn't do it. it's too tricky.
we're back at work today and it seems we were the only people that closed on MLK day. not that i mind particularly i just figured that schools and other places would close. the weather is really quite lovely today. it's amazing how excited you can get about 30 degree temperatures.
ps kirsten! are you really going to nail care bears to the walls? that hurts my heart.
January 19, 2004
January 16, 2004
Sea-Smoke, noun, referring to the 8 feet of steam above the ocean in cold weather
I learned that today because Mary's brother is a lobster fisherman and he said the smoke can get up to 20 feet high and you can't see the boat next to you. and he's fishing today. apparently the pier is iced in so unless Islesford is a hell of a lot warmer I don't know how he got out today. I've decided that I have to stop blogging about the cold because 1. it is not the Maine way to complain about the weather and B. because it makes me feel even colder to enumerate the coldy coldness. so unless I actually get frostbite (which annie did last night driving three minutes home from school) I will not mention the cold anymore.
so exciting things to chat about...hmmm. apparently everyone in town is going to reel pizza tonight. the station agent is playing at 5:30 and 8. any takers? Sarah do you remember the south shore plaza drive in? just wondering
So yesterday I went to the optometrist and I got the blinker award. I just can't not blink. you know the glaucoma test where they blow the air at your eye. that's usually my worst event at the eye doctor and i was so thrilled when it seemed I didn't have to do it this time...but then...he tried to touch this blue light thing to my eye. this is a better test for glaucoma that is not new but rarely used. I was not cooperative despite my best efforts not to move those reflexes are strong. so the doctor said he had to dilate my eyes so he could get a real good look. although over all I liked this doctor he made it seem like it was a punishment instead of an alternative. the way I see it my eyes should be praised for their protectiveness. it's evolution, right? we're not supposed to let stuff get in our eyes. but moving on the point is my eyes were all dilated and I couldn't see so great, but sarah can't drive, so I drove us around anyway. and we went to the grocery store where we were almost asphyxiated in the parking lot. I was just telling sarah that everyone leaves their car running, usually at anytime of year but particularly just now, and low and behold there was an example. the bad thing is you can't breath but who cares about breathing if your car runs? since i'm getting close to talking about the bad four letter word i think i'll go to patagonia and get some warm things. brrr....
so exciting things to chat about...hmmm. apparently everyone in town is going to reel pizza tonight. the station agent is playing at 5:30 and 8. any takers? Sarah do you remember the south shore plaza drive in? just wondering
So yesterday I went to the optometrist and I got the blinker award. I just can't not blink. you know the glaucoma test where they blow the air at your eye. that's usually my worst event at the eye doctor and i was so thrilled when it seemed I didn't have to do it this time...but then...he tried to touch this blue light thing to my eye. this is a better test for glaucoma that is not new but rarely used. I was not cooperative despite my best efforts not to move those reflexes are strong. so the doctor said he had to dilate my eyes so he could get a real good look. although over all I liked this doctor he made it seem like it was a punishment instead of an alternative. the way I see it my eyes should be praised for their protectiveness. it's evolution, right? we're not supposed to let stuff get in our eyes. but moving on the point is my eyes were all dilated and I couldn't see so great, but sarah can't drive, so I drove us around anyway. and we went to the grocery store where we were almost asphyxiated in the parking lot. I was just telling sarah that everyone leaves their car running, usually at anytime of year but particularly just now, and low and behold there was an example. the bad thing is you can't breath but who cares about breathing if your car runs? since i'm getting close to talking about the bad four letter word i think i'll go to patagonia and get some warm things. brrr....
January 15, 2004
January 14, 2004
oh my holy god is it cold. -14. I think i have passed the point of convincing amy and kirsten to visit. only sarah the otter scrubber will visit in this cold. so due to the coldness there is no business today and the little kids don't have to go to school. there are no people on the street, although mary says there were some folks working on a house in otter creek. sarah is going to bake today. i like having a housewife...she cleans and she even shovelled yesterday, twice! i'm expecting dinner on the table tonight. at 5. on the dot.
a customer just brought us the most humongous box of pepperidge farm cookies. gee this is a hard job...
a customer just brought us the most humongous box of pepperidge farm cookies. gee this is a hard job...
January 13, 2004
i should be glad that the snow isn't causing havoc but there just isn't enough to go sledding and i am in a sledding frenzy here. i need to sled. i want whooshing, and jollyness and post sledding cocoa. dammit. that said i can move on.
apparently the boys at hood are causing a ruckus. some idiot in memorial put a stripper pole in his room. dude. that's just lazy. they should go to West Virginia like the rest of us. no class. that has to be some kind of honor code violation...i just don't know which one.
there's the cutest little old man taking a walk today and i'm very worried he's going to fall down. mary said he walks in all weather, and always by himself. that's so sad. there was an old lady walking into town on the highway this morning and i signalled to pick her up and she told me to keep going. maybe it's my out of state plates. i'd hate to think i look like a serial killer. maybe it's because my car is messy.
we just got an emergency call to let us know you can get sponge bob on your checks. we thought we were being robbed. sponge bob is an important guy, apparently. more on sponge bob later...
apparently the boys at hood are causing a ruckus. some idiot in memorial put a stripper pole in his room. dude. that's just lazy. they should go to West Virginia like the rest of us. no class. that has to be some kind of honor code violation...i just don't know which one.
there's the cutest little old man taking a walk today and i'm very worried he's going to fall down. mary said he walks in all weather, and always by himself. that's so sad. there was an old lady walking into town on the highway this morning and i signalled to pick her up and she told me to keep going. maybe it's my out of state plates. i'd hate to think i look like a serial killer. maybe it's because my car is messy.
we just got an emergency call to let us know you can get sponge bob on your checks. we thought we were being robbed. sponge bob is an important guy, apparently. more on sponge bob later...
January 12, 2004
oooh apparently the golf course is public and we can go sledding there. who wants to go get some sleds tonight? sarah? mary said it's a great place to go sledding and then she told us a story about going airborne and breaking her back. but i still think it'll be fun. and we all have health insurance, right? then tia and i had a discussion of ethan frome. she liked the movie. why, why, why? edith wharton wrote some really great books....why ethan frome? sigh...
on the upside i got to go buy more doggy treats and i'm in charge of the sticker basket. could my job be more fun? and it's been 80's movie ballads on the radio all day. Flash dance, Dirty dancing, Breakfast Club. all in all it's a very good day.
on the upside i got to go buy more doggy treats and i'm in charge of the sticker basket. could my job be more fun? and it's been 80's movie ballads on the radio all day. Flash dance, Dirty dancing, Breakfast Club. all in all it's a very good day.
ooooh snow all week...
well we finally got the snow everyone else has been getting but it's not so bad. it's really very pretty. and it's so warm now that it's snowing it's hard to know if you should be happy about the snow or not. we went to bangor and we didn't have time to look for stephen kings house. we never find it. everyone else can find it. there must be some blackhole or something. we did find the mall and we saw a girl who was too scared to enter hot topic. i thought it was sort of unreasonable at the time because i think hot topic is fun but i have to say i'm pretty scared of abercrombie and fitch so i guess it's all relative.
Annie and I gave sarah a very short tour of coa where pipes have burst everywhere so there is very little heat, like in the dorms and the classrooms. no one seems to really mind. at hood there would have been a bloody revolution. i want to invite all the cold people to my house and give them cocoa but it's just not big enough. maybe they could come in shifts. hmm...
Annie and I gave sarah a very short tour of coa where pipes have burst everywhere so there is very little heat, like in the dorms and the classrooms. no one seems to really mind. at hood there would have been a bloody revolution. i want to invite all the cold people to my house and give them cocoa but it's just not big enough. maybe they could come in shifts. hmm...
January 09, 2004
Why have I never played with mr.blog before?
well today i learned alot of things about blogger. this week has really been dead here at work. just the first signs of real winter deadness here. tia is now a part time employee for three months. i felt really guilty when i found out because she was hired first but apparently it was part of her agreement. thank heavens it wasn't part of mine as i could never afford rent at part time. other things to feel guilty about i keep forgetting to call NH and register for my out of state ballot. i can't vote here, so by not calling i am choosing not to vote in the caucus which is disgusting. sarah you too should get an absentee ballot. and amy mas. kirsten are you registered? if not this could happen again. no one wants that. now do they? nahhh.
Highly embarrassing link now present to greater world blog population, or atleast north carolina. Pinky as seen on the bottom of my links page was added when i redid mr.blog at the bank tuesday. I have been addicted to reading it every day since it was stuck on the blogger ten most recent last spring. You should all visit, especially kirsten who will enjoy the shopping commentary as much as i do.
In less embarrassing news, i think, annie's not sure whether or not to do her Drag Queen Box. The Mother was appaulled but I still think it's worthwhile. The drag queen box is for a museum class project to build a curiosity cabinet. What could be better than a drag queen in a box? not much. especially in Maine in winter, there is a definite lack.
Speaking of winter, it's negative 10 today and mr. car was most seriously displeased. note to sarah, pack very warmly for sledding and romping. it hasn't actually snowed so we might be able to drive up cadillac and you can really see what cold is like.
In less embarrassing news, i think, annie's not sure whether or not to do her Drag Queen Box. The Mother was appaulled
Speaking of winter, it's negative 10 today and mr. car was most seriously displeased. note to sarah, pack very warmly for sledding and romping. it hasn't actually snowed so we might be able to drive up cadillac and you can really see what cold is like.
January 08, 2004
home sick today. i think it's my sinus' because they feel all funny but they got really happy after my shower. i think i'll just stay in the shower all day. i am baking a cake, fudge swirl. and i've cleaned a little of my house. for sarah. i've been watching pride and prejudice all day, i'm almost done. yay for british stuff!
January 07, 2004
i am desperately bored today. there is just nothing going on. annie is supposed to visit and do some banking. i think we're going to open her a new account. i have a new book in my car but i can't go get it until chris comes. or annie. ooooh. i baked some pumpkin pies last night but i'm not sure how they came out. will have to wait for annie's assessment. i also make spaghetti sauce which i have to work on, but it was edible. it tasted just like the bottle actually. hmm. can't wait to have company. am sleeping on my desk. think i'm getting sick. wrut wroe.
January 05, 2004
this weekend annie and i had a gruesome discovery. there was a very large, very furry, very dead squirrel in the driveway. it was awful. we think it was electrocuted because it was directly below the transformer. also i lost my land lady's cat, but i'm sure he'll come back. right? i'm glad that everyone liked their presents. i got a very lucrative coupon from my mom for new glasses but i cant get to the eye doctor in time. i'll just need to come to terms that new glasses are not in the cards. i balanced my check book today. it's amazing. i hadn't written in any transaction prior to this. but now i feel bank savvy, as i should. i hope sarah isn't dead. she's been incognito too long. they said we're to expect flurries today, but i see nothing. not that i mind. i have no desire for snow. and we have to go to walmart today and get a snow scraper for annie.
January 02, 2004
i'm getting really into bridget jones diary and i can't stand to get out of the car when i get someplace. now that holly isn't coming this weekend i have lots of time for errands. and hopefully some sewing because i've been slacking. and annie needs her jammies. i hve nothing else to report except that i have four calendars in my station. way too many. the lady who's husband just died came in and now i'm all depressed. oh and if annie reads this a bomb hit my apartment. there's no explanation of how it could be so messy. or a troop of bears. it could be that too. silly bears.
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