oooh yay alison bechdel got married! that's so cute. there's also a very cute cartoon about her and her partner. do you think my mom would be excited if i got married? would she buy me more dishes? a cake?

today i'm buying a toaster. i'm going to search the internet through for the coolest toaster. maybe a red one, maybe a hello kitty. i'm not sure yet, but as toast is my very favorite food i must commence the search.

the old apartment is currently filled with gas. atleast it was last night. we got home in time to rescue mrs. whatsit. the building has not blown up yet, so far as i can tell. good thing i don't smoke, right? mary says that's a condition to break the lease. i think i'll just prorate my rent payment, and maybe if i have to i'll tell her she killed my hamster, although hopefully she didn't.
miss kitty really likes mrs. whatsit. she gets more cat-like everyday. she sits with her furry face plastered to the glass waiting for mrs. whatsit to move. and we thought it was funny when she chased her own tail.
this weekend we spent every cent i had at target. some things are going to have to go back out of guilt. i shall buy cheaper versions at walmart or mardens.
we also had a sort of picnic at schoodic point. it's very beautiful. it's different than mdi with bigger waves and more rocks. we decided sarah will like it and we'll take her there. also i noted on my lease that i can have a roomoate for 200 more dollars. hmm.

my boyfriends new movie is playing tonight here. we should go.

kitty was pronounced fine at the vet. she helped me bake cookies and build a table. we were really very busy. kitty was offended by the trailer boys confederate truck. she has high morals about things like that. she wanted to get up in their faces but i decided it would be better to turn off the porch light and double check the deadbolts.
i realized last night that although i have two bathrooms, i only have one medicine cabinet. i was hoping to have two so i could keep dental floss and the like in one, and then really interesting things in the 2nd. people are judged by the contents of their medicine cabinets. it's important. i want fabulous things in my medicine cabinet. like chanel number five and one gorgeous diamond earring. or a rubber chicken foot and hello kitty bandaids. you know, really great stuff.
in other news. i think i have decided that my neighbor is the source of all the smoke and coughing. i think she smokes all day and coughs all night. or even smokes all night and coughs intermittenly. something along those lines. i'm disturbed that i can hear her coughing all the time. i hate to think of how thin the walls are.

hey, remember that time my blog was really dull? uhh yeah, sorry about that. i've been trying to think of like, amusing things, to like, blog about. i'm hoping the kitty will be really funny. and i can get her a mike, and she can do stand up, and pay for her own kibble. but so far she just gets fur everywhere in her insistence to show us how much she loves us. she actually fell over herself last night trying to make annie pet her more.
spring is springing in bar harbor. except for all the snow. the bike guy has 200 bikes to build, and the kayak guy is already almost fully booked with tours. the last three weeks folks were wondering if they would earn their bread this summer but it seems that bar harbor will do ok.
i just saw annie and her mom driving about 6 mph down the street. your guess is as good as mine.
while we were at hood, we heard rumors that icky jennifer was cheating on her girlfriend. if i'd known that i might've made more of an effort to run her over the first and only time we had to see her. rats.

welcome to astra vision. where the only thing i talk about is astra kitty. well, only a brief paragraph. we picked up the kitty last night. there was a very weird lady who kept saying that astra liked her better and she wanted to adopt her but she couldn't because of us. she was weird. kitty meowed for about five minutes but she started purring before we got her home.

so we are indeed leaving today. as soon as mary gets back from break. one of the regulars brought me a book to read today. another janet evanovich. bank customers are a weird and loyal breed.
today some poor soul called from north carolina thinking that we are in london and that we were going to give her 20 million dollars. she wired 4000+ dollars to some foreign country. really folks, really. i'm sure that must have been on law and order at some point. don't people learn anything from tv nowadays.
so i probably won't be blogging whilst i'm gone. have good vacation sarah. feel better all the sick folks. see you all next week!

damn you snow! the plans are in the air...

my mother is so excited she's getting 2 cakes. one for tomorrow, one for sunday. that's how much she loves me.

i bought tools this weekend! we built a cat scratcher and tonight i might build a futon. i should do laundry but i can't afford to, so i'll have to take all of my clothes home tomorrow. soon we'll be on our way to beautiful maryland. we have so much to do before we can leave. annie's car is going in for a check up today. we're getting very excited. yay for car trips.
it's a beautiful day. sun-shiney goodness all over. and dudes walking by in green hats. st. patrick's day isn't until wednesday, right?
oooh ooh ooooh. you know what abounds in frederick, antique shops, junk shops, value city. that means cheap ass junk furniture is mine for the picking. oooh. we can even go to the junk shop on market. i'm hardly contained in my excitement.

so more about the ark. it's really a giant house filled with cats. cats every where. in every corner of the house there was a curled up sleeping kitty. we found them in closets, on bookshelves, having a scuffle on the staff desk. it was an experience. the place is remarkably clean, and they obviously take care of their animals, except that everybody has a cold. what i meant to say in previous post was that sally was not a player. in that she was not interested in playing. atleast with us.
so as i mentioned we spent the whole day shopping and putzing around bangor like idiots searching for target. we found the target, which is exactly behing walmart. it was like christmas, in the "oh my god look at all those cars" way. this was also noted in that we almost ate it by a big suv who's driver had a latte in his hand. i was confused because you don't see idiots driving with coffee in their hands in maine, atleast not in the special starbucks-esq cups. but to our surprise there is a starbucks in the target. it has to be the most northern starbucks in the country. i wonder if there are enough mainers who can identify a tall skinny mochachino, or whatever, to keep them in business. there was nothing we wanted to get at the store so we fought the crowds for nothing. but it was an experience.
however when we went to walmart, it was almost enjoyable because all the people were at target, or the walmart supercenter. they had what i wanted and they were very flexible really. our poor helper guy had to take apart the futon box and stuff each individual piece in to our tiny car, and the manager offered to take it back if it didn't fit. what more could we ask for.

nobody likes me, everybody hates me...

it snowed again last night. not like real snow, just like a dusting, but that was after the rain and the hail. all in one night. very weird. i had a realization last night as i was walking to my car after visiting stone face. here i should make a special note to HEATHER, DO NOT READ FURTHER. now i know people usually see those notes and then automatically have to read on, but i'm telling you, theres no way you want to read on, trust me. i'll make another note when the coast is clear...
ok so now that i don't have to worry about making heather throw up, i had the weirdest hood memory. remember how whenever it rained there would be thousands of worms everywhere. that doesn't happen here. i'm not really sure why. i was walking in the rain accross dirt and i had this thought, eww don't step on the worms. but there weren't any. isn't that weird. why would i be worrying about non-existant worms? i just thought that was so random i had to blog about it.

HEATHER FRIENDLY AREA AHEAD
in other news we're getting very excited to meet kitty tomorrow. stone face has had some sad news and she needs furry love. lots of it. we're also going to do our favorite thing tomorrow, go pet store hunting. when we got princess we spent hours and went to three stores to find the purrfect kitty scratching post. note that when we shop for ourselves it takes about 20 minutes and then we go get lunch. last time we almost got the kitty couch, and we really wanted the kitty oak tree (a carpet mock up of an oak tree for your home, it was fascinating).
we might even get people furniture. target is open, probably crazy, but it's still exciting. but i can't figure out where it is. the target website doesn't tell me where it is, but if i ask enough customers i should figure it out.

all of the regulars like my haircut. including one seriously creepy guy whom i would rather did not notice small changes in my appearance. also the penny guy is now my new best friend. he walks all over town and i've seen him a few times and waved. today i met him on the street and he was worried that i was out sick because i was on my lunch break. cute old people are fun. this is definitely the sort of job where you meet alot of locals. i saw twice as many people at the store, but they were all tourists, or artists.
speaking of tourist season, the onslaught of out of staters has begun. i know this because a very fancy suv from mass. containing a perfect suburbia family (their two daughters even had matching shirts on, with no coats) parked in front of the bank today. what they can possibily be doing with their time is anyone's guess. now i didn't actually see the plate, but children that are dressed to match and seem to think that spring begins in march are indicators of awayness. i've also witnessed a few coa students defy death by oncoming folks from connecicut. what is with connecticut? these kids were in crosswalks and had to hurl themselves into a row of bushes. i can't wait for the start of the season.

since there were like real bank people here i couldn't do my usual things like read every blog on earth and post about kitties or apartments. one minute they were really nice, and then the next it was like "mary, is it the usual practice to blah blah blah" it was ouchy. the irony is that last night there was this thing i didn't want to do and i said "so if we get audited tomorrow and i don't do this we'll be in trouble" thankfully i did it. they're gone now and mary went out to smoke a pck of cigarettes. because i don't smoke i had to have another donut to calm my nerves. mary was shaking this morning, it was scary.
moving on...my mother is trying to bribe us into coming home on sunday with cake. to my mom, cake, especially fancy expensive cake, is the only real currency. it's the only thing worth living for. the day she called to tell me she broke her rib she started out with ten minute discussion about the 5 cakes she ordered for my sisters' baby shower. the day of the baby shower, she told me the cakes were great and she couldn't remember most of what my sister received as gifts because she was busy with the cakes. at my graduation, she bought cakes to take into two different restaurants, on two different days. do we all remember the graduation cakes?
my mom who loves me, would like us to come back from maryland on sunday and stay the night in exhange for a cake. although i deny the effectiveness of the cake bribe, maybe we could leave sunday afternoon. my mom also has great hopes that i will move all of my belongings to the new apartment. it's going to take a lot of cakes to make that happen. but i do have a lot of things to take north with me, and a 13 hour day plus a cake stop at my house is going to be trying.
speaking of movign belongings...sarah i still have your tv & vcr. my question to you is, what should i do with them. should i bring them up here, or would you and tracy like to go have cake at my house and pick them up? you can think about that too and let me know. i'm sure you want them...

we're being audited. it's very nerve wracking but they brought us donuts. more later.

they're going to put a hold on sally for me, until saturday and then we can talk about possibly boarding. annie is concerned that i would leave her in salsbury cove alone, but i'll keep her in hulls cove and see if i can break my lease. we did discuss my having a very nice kitty that might live with me someday, she doesn't have to know that this isn't the same kitty. i'll just cover the couch with some sheets, she may even be declawed i'm not sure. ooooh, i'm excited.

oh my, i've found my own princess. i emailed the people at the shelter but i just realized we're leaving on vacation next week and if i adopted her now i'd have to leave her and she'd hate me forever. but she's so pretty...

the landlord guy has not come, and i am becomming increasingly nervous about giving some guy all my money. i have till 4 and then i will really lose it. i've been anxiously awaiting updates and emails from folks to no avail. this is nervous blogging. that's what this is.

tonight tia and i have to go to ellsworth for bounce protection training. essentially this means that the thing that mary explained really well 3 weeks ago, and the thing that mikey explained really well two weeks ago, and the thing that bob explained really well last week, will be explained again by someone new. i heart business. considering the problems some other banks had, like accidentally giving folks 600 dollars (ooops) is something worth avoiding. and i will get paid for my mileage and over time. i guess i'm just cranky about not getting to play with my new apartment. mr. landlord is supposed to bring the keys today. i am going to bring annie by this afternoon and hold up her jaw as she sees it's dimensions. but it has two bathrooms! as long as you can get really excited about that you can deny that the rest of the apartment is so tiny. atleast in a deluded sort of way.
i'm thinking of it the same way that the japanese koi judges judged fish, according to dick. they don't count the bad points against the fish, they only judge based on the good points. i think this is a great philosophy. apply this philosophy to my hair and you get the good points: it's still curly, it's real, it's curly, it's clean, and then you can overlook things such as it's resemlance to joanie or rizzo from grease.

i just don't see how tnt can call men in black a drama. does anyone see that connection?
jonathan would be the poor soul i confused with russ. the lotr chatter was just so in character. however, it's a very enjoyable blog and i recommend to sarah. i can dig the lotr trilogy, but the hobbit just makes me think of that book cart with the 30 year old paperbacks that they used to wheel between english classes. anyway i think i must have linked from pinky and got confused.
annie's daddy said there's nothing wrong with the car. and then we took my car to maryland. unless we get hers a clean bill of health.
this afternoon at the bank we heard sirens, a very rare occurence, and we all went to be nosy and they stopped right in front of the bank. two cop cars and an ambulance. apparently a woman tripped and was bleeding on the sidewalk. we think the town officials are practicing for the summer...

between now and june i have two apartments. apparently this lease isn't up until may 31st. hmm. so now thru june would be an opportune time to visit with lots of room for visitors. this was to be expected. the landlady was very impressed with the 450 a month thing. she wants to live there too. err

i just rented the worlds smallest apartment. for a blessed amount of $450 a month. it's really very small. 2nd floor. it has two bathrooms and two doors. it's weird. and yet so cheap. it's a whole building of single women, and they're going to get rid of all the trailers next month. he said that those tennants are leaving at the end of the month. oooh and i can have a kitty. and a hamster. it needs a lot of art, and a lot of furniture. oooh it's so cheap! and as long as no one notices how long term my guests are i can have them.

so i saw the apartment of the lady who accidentally stood me up. she called yesterday and was very embarrassed that she forgot our meeting. she's a nice lady and the apartment was quite nice too and she's flexible on the payment. which is good and yet means i'll be paying off another thing forever. well i haven't actually accepted it yet, i'm going to see the cheap ass hovel tomorrow. i'm trying to decide if it can be turned into a 2 person house somehow. it does have a big closet, she said it could be a 1 1/2 bedroom if you counted the closet. hmm. we'll see about the efficiency tomorrow. i have to stop thinking of it as a hovel because i might be living there.
it's just so exciting to think i might live in a place i could walk to town from and do my laundry at. she also said she heard the laundrymats might be turning into condos and a garage. how much would that suck.

just so you all know, i am a banking genius. i have opened five new accounts this week, all of which are strive for fives. for all of you who don't happen to be employees at my bank or annie, this is a good thing which means we are getting closer to our bonus goals. bonus goals, apparently, are the things we have to do to get bonuses equalling up to 10% of our pay. i am psyched because the more valuable things i do the less likely i'll be fired if i screw up. i hope. silly at will employment. on the downside tia did not get her transfer to ellsworth, and will have to stick it out driving to bar harbor every day all summer. gee, i wonder what that's like? if she complains too much she might end up loose coinage embedded in her skull.
*(be it known that the commute from ellsworth to BH is 1/2 hour and my former commute from Deer Isle to Bar Harbor was 1 1/2 hours, but i didn't complain, and to show you how vehemently i did not complain i'm complaining right now for your further information)

so err the lady didn't come to meet me. and i also sort of talked myself out of it because i really can't afford to move there just now. ofcourse it'll all be 900 a month for one room soon so maybe i should suck it up. i drove by the efficiencies. it's sort of a hovel. but a cheap hovel. my appt isn't until sunday, i will very seriously consider the hovel because it's so cheap. i'll get a dead bolt, it'll be fine. i just saw annie drive by. it's weird living in such a small town.
i'm sort of excited about the hovel. it's only two small rooms, but it has two bathrooms becuase it used to be a motel. i could even afford a futon with all the money saving there would be. i'm getting sort of frantic about this apartment. i want it bad. do we think i am just generally frantic. possibly. maybe.

i have an apartment meeting at 4:15 tonight. it's a sweet deal really, it might even have a dishwasher. i'll let you all know tonight.

graham from but i'm a cheerleader was on buffy this morning. how unexpected.
my sister discovered last night that she can send me messages and call me from dad's cell phone. they gave it to her, a because my dad doesn't ever use the phone in any capacity, and b so she can call them asap with baby info. the baby isn't due till april, but whatever. mean while she called my cell four times last night and sent me the message "you stink". i was thinking that she was mad at me, but not if she bothered to call me four times. it must be love.
i had this weird dream last night about hood. i dreamed that one of my boxes was really heavy and security said "what, do you have a body in there" and for some reason i did and we all had to pretend to laugh and not look guilty. is it a bad sign to dream that you have dead bodies from college. is that like a message or something.
i've found yet another way to make my computer find pictures on my camera. i'm so tricky. actually i'm a computer genius. i can't help it. some people just have certains gifts. what i do not understand, what is not part of my gift, is why after a few weeks of normal picture removal something happens that causes computer to stop recongizing the pictures. it just gets tired or hormonal or something and tells me to eat it. i'm tired of it. now instead of the beautifully simple program that popped up when i first installed the camera...i have to go to search, pictures, external drive e. i suppose i should be glad my expensive camera isn't worthless...but i long to know what the deal is.

i don't think it's a secret, or indeed ever was...

i've got some apartment leads. i hate this. now i remember why i chose the first apartment i saw, because apartment shopping is the pits.

why i hate walmart

as if there weren't enough reasons to hate walmart, they just started a new policy regarding returns and exchanges. let me tell you all about it. the new policy is they have to exchange your item with an item in the same condition. now odds on the girl behind the desk didn't see the irony of this statement. the reason one returns or exchanges something is because the condition of the item is unsatisfactory, right. case in point: i bought happy texas the dvd, because it's funny and it was five dollars. while stone face and i were enjoying the movie it went all weird indicating the unsatisfactory condition for which i later returned it. so there are no problems actually returning it, she didn't even ask me to tell her what was wrong with it, she just said go get a new one. then she starts to open it. and i say "err why do you have to open it?" it's the new policy yadda yadda yadda. i think about this as she uses her fingernails, like four fingers at a time, to scrape the security sticker off. i probably should have asked for the manager at that point, but instead i just made her switch the new disc into the old unmangled case. why god, why?
the thing that really bothers me about walmart is that they don't have to be fair, or rational, or have any of the skills that other retailers need because they put all of their competition out of business.
in other news my mother broke her own rib the other day. she hit herself with her hand and fractured a rib. isn't that wild? poor mommy. she's overcome with excitement that we are going to be stopping by my house for a night. i don't think she realizes what a short time we'll be there.

so my boyfriend didn't win. but he was there and it was exciting. i couldn't stay up for all of the oscars, but i did see lotr win a million times. and all the geeky art guys make nervous speeches. and rene zellwegger winning was very cute. stone face is feeling a little better. her mother nicknamed her typhoid annie as she's always sick. hehe.
i sent my sister the worlds cutest baby gift. the one i bought is even cuter than the picture, but it's the general idea. let's hope she likes it.
it's a beautiful springy day and i'm contemplating my landlady's desire to sell the house. no more september. wrut wroe. and then i was homeless...