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....

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my hand stuck to a door handle today. that's all i have to say.

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...

i was kidding about having more to say about sponge bob. but it seems the creator is from deer isle stonington or somewhere in that area. i'm a fountain of knowledge today.

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...

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.

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...

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.

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!

how cool is my blog now. i rock!

testing 1 2 3

what do you guys think? it's orange. and warm. and nice. let me know.

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.

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.

it is snowing like the wolf. flurries my arse!

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.

today has been the busy. lots of banking in the last day of the year and all. i sent out christmas presents to amy and kirsten today so watch your mail ladies. tia and i worked as a seamless team today, which was totally weird but hopefully we'll get some credit for it. they give awards and stuff to people who work well together. working here is like being in first grade where you get treats for all the good things you do except it's money instead of stickers. i'm still listening to bridget jones diary and i've started to keep a diary in the pretty indian book my mom got me last christmas. i think it's mostly due to bridget jones' influence and partly to having pointless things in my apartment and trying to stop. there for i must use all of the things in my apartment. like the pasta pots. and the waffle iron. and the bread board. sheesh. so it's oddly warm and beautiful and is not at all a bad scary winter here in maine. not to say i'd like a bad scary winter...but it just seems odd. i was expecting something so much more scary. i'm sure by april i won't have been disapointed. we have a half hour left and we're practically counting the minutes. every other bank closed at three and here we still are...with NO customers. sigh.

i might have the gift of holly on friday. life is good. i got another gift of a different vein yesterday from darling dick and mimi. an elvis t-shirt that says "I saw Elvis, he was sitting next to big foot on the UFO" annie laughed very much but i say this is war. i just have to find the right something to send. i'm not sure. oooh but i'll find it and then they'll be sorry. or something. we jsut counted a boat load of money. and my mom called me twice to tell me that i have a glasses coupon at pearl vision. which could be cool, even though i found my glasses clip. i could do with an eye exam et c. i was thinking recently about things that i remember learning. i remember miss. axton telling us in 8th grade not to confuse etc. with et cetera. i remember her saying it was two words and every one with education will think you're a moron if you write etc instead of et c. she was a ho. she was my history teacher, you'd think i'd remember some of the history she taught us but no. i remember my senior history teacher saying that karl marx would only eat meatballs day in and day out but i hardly think that's relevant to any of my historical study since. i spent the morning looking at blogs that are cooler than mine.

we did have a very relaxing weekend. and now i am very sleepy here at work because my body wants me to be on my couch. when the alarm went off i didn't understand it. i didn't get it at all and it went off from 6:30 to 7:11 for me to realize tht the stupid box wanted me to get up. in other dubass moments last night while i was waiting for annie to call me and beginning to think she was dead i realized both my phones were unplugged and there for could not ring. annie also thought i was dead during this time because the phone on her end kept ringing. jeez man, jeez. i'm so grumpy and sleepy that i charged everyone overdraft fees instead of giving them benefit of doubt. the bank will be proud of me. fortunately today tia and i aren't alone and i can leave the bank later. i'm very excited. i'm gonna go to the post office and the grocery store. oooooh. and ofcourse i brought nothing which i have to mail. there are scores of packages waiting in my home for everyone. i have cold mountain in my bag to read. my daddy gave it to me. i'll let you know if its any good.

sarah~after much hemming and hawing we decided not to go to the show on saturday. so you don't have to worry about feeling well enough to go.

i'm wondering if annie bought tickets because it is snowing like the dickens out and it doesn't look promising. course that could just be here and not blue hill. anyway call me dear if you hvaen't gotten them yet...according to your account you haven't. i'm so sneaky. cause we should check the weather. today was a beautiful example of staying home and being cozy. i left my hear on 70 from the morning and i'm feeling really quilty because i'm not there so i'll have to turn it down when i get home and bundleup because i can't stand thinking i'm wasting oil. i deserve cold when i get home. i am listening to bridget jones' diary in the car which though completely different from the movie is still quite as enjoyable and i value each. i had a very nice christmas with annie's family. really it was. they talked and laughed and carried on and there were games. t'was so much more fun than christmas at the house of passive aggresive cheer. did i tell everyone that i finally got my name plate thing for work. i was very pleased. oh and annie i have your pounds. i'm going to buy them today. it's 60 something dollars but they halved the fee because i'm an employee. am i not fabulous? also i hope everyone had a good christmas. despite your anti christmas comsumerism kirsten w i got you a present. merely because it screamed kirsten and annie and i could not resist it. however...yours and amym;s gifts are still in my living room because 1 i don't have a box to ship them in and b, even if i did i ahven't had time to go to the post office because it's been so busy my lunch isn't long enough to stand in line and today and most of the week tia and i are trapped in the bank. i hate being trapped in the bank. but i just talked to the nicest man with a 13 yearold daughter and he's doing weight watchers so he can play basketball with her. he's a single dad. he was so nice. i was impressed with his dadliness. back to work...

my dearest annie got me a christmas tree for christmas. she is just the sweetest. miss sarah i'm sorry to day we probably won't be able to pick you up for the show. we haven't gotten tickets yet either, but i think if we go we'll have to meet you in boston. i hope that's doable. let me know because we don't have tickets yet and we may or may not be able to get them till after christmas. err. so any way as i related to amy the m there have been severe santa delays in bar harbor. there was this reindeer back up all the way to the head of the island, it was wicked bad. so uhh in light of this presents forthcoming will be delayed. so it'll be a surprise. i haven't finished anything i was supposed to be making, its an elf travesty. annie and i are to have a christmas party of sorts this afternoon. she's going to put together my tree and i'm going to bake cookies for her family. and there's even a present for her...but she should wait till i get home to open it. although i've left it out to tempt her. mwahahaha. i love you!

why don't i get to have cool dreams like annie. do i get to have adventures? go through secret passages? have miraculous life changing experiences? no! i dreamed that charlotte called me and asked me to work. how weird is that? i had to think this morning, no i'm not working there anymore. it was weird and not at all cool. annie gets all the cool dreams. sheesh. but she does pamper me in my squeaky state. so far that's all that wrong with me. i'm very tired and blah and squeaky. but she lovingly says awww which makes me feel better. i made a groovy pasta salad and fresh salsa last night! and today i'm going to complete a focaccia margherita pizza for the work function. that is the one thing that could work out as a dinner option as we are always looking for dinner stuff. oooh or i could make fresh salsa for sarah and holly because they like salsa...i think. i'm having a bit of cooking frenzy. so far we've had NO customers for our little party. actually no customers at all. does everyone realize that pretty much i just sit around all day. for pay and benefits. hmm

i just saw a check from sinking spring pennsylvania. how wild is that?

i've been coughing all day and i don't know why. i really don't feel sick i'm just coughing. cough cough. i think i'll have soothing soup for lunch.

annie is right i never did tell everyone about our weekend. first of all we had to get up really early which was no fun but the bus wasn't so bad and there were two movies to watch. then annie's cousin met us and he didn't talk to us and we didin't talk to him and then we went out into cold boston. we were bery hungry and since the olny spot i know really well is harvard square i took annie there for lunch. and we walked around harvard and were very smart. and cold. even though i made annie pack her long johns, we never put them on...errr. anyway then holly came to rescued us from boston common in her civic shaped chariot and we went to the science museum which was way more fun with annie and holly than any field trip i took there. and then we ate. and then we walked a long ass way in the cold to the fleet center where we and ten thousand other people watched simon and garfunkel and the everly brothers play for like 3 hours. they played every damn song they know, and mrs robinson twice. meanwhile we should rent that movie...whatever it was called. and then we went home nd all was good. it was overall a very good weekend. and the bus though expensive was relatively comfortable and easier than driving into boston.

good morning! it's really a very nice day out except that i had to melt my doors with hot water and all of my steps were iced over. i do have to get some salt or something that melts ice. annie would like to go to jess klein for christmas on the 27th if the weather is good. the problem is the tickets are non refundable so we have to be able to go, as in no snow. but it would be fun sarah if you wanted to come. caribou got 27 inches of snow, dude that's alot of snow. ooh and there were cute little tiny foot prints on my porch this morning. i think it was a squirrel because it looked like he hopped off a tree, and hopped back to the tree after his romp. there were also cute cat feet on my car. cute foot prints make my day. things that also make my day are making a gingerbread house with annie. we have big plans, she's never made one before and i'm very excited. i see necco roof shingles and frosting snow in our future.

shovelled all morning, and then it started raining. car got stuck, driveway not plowed. got to work, very late. am very wet, very cold, but not dead so i am grateful.

i would like to thank dearest annie who cleaned up my apartment and painstakingly washed all of my dishes. and in thanks of her good deeds i publicly recant my calling of her as whiney. please forgive the discourtesy.

patience is a virtue. patience is a virtue.

i may have to kill tia today. it's my birthday, she should try not to be so annoying. when i came in she was talking mikey's ear off and mikey was desperately trying to start a conversation with me to save herself. it was very amusing. my mom left my horoscope on my phone this morning, she's the cutest. tia just said something about not understanding foreigners. she has a lisp and a maine accent and has the most unintelligible speech i've ever heard. try to imagine someone speaking with a lisp and a maine accent who sings christmas carols in a falsetto. mhmm. yeah. it's foggy and quite beautiful, but if one was going to visit bar harbor today they should be careful driving in case it's foggy. but it probably won't be foggy by the time someone might get up.

good morning! it was fun not working these 4 days. it was a pain in the ass getting up this am. but i have a new book to look forward to at the library and maybe birthday love in the mail. also there's the employee recognition day in january. they're renting everyone a room in a fancy resort. maybe i'll go if annie wants to be my family. we could bring princess with us. hehe. i'm not really studying for the gre and i told my mom i was. i'm a bad amy. i should really do that. huh. yeah. probably. they keep playing beach boy christmas songs over and over. it's inhumane. help...help me please...

the storm was not so bad. snowy yes, but otherwise uneventful. i did my first shoveling of the year which i was quite excited about. that was my big activity for the day. the power never ecen flickered although all of my light bulbs, well not all, but 3 have gone out and i can't get in to replace them. so it's very dark. i think i will make a proposition to annie to help me have light in exchange for cookies. nothing much else to say..

well i was planning to go home this weekend but there is a wicked snowstorm and so i'm home. it still isn't snowing, but it is a little forboding. annie is feeling better and we went to see love actually which was really quite fun. on the upside i get to work today and earn a higher living wage.

good morning lovelies! i'm celebrating that tomorrow i don't have to come to work but i'll be paid anyway! rock on. so. i spent the wole day so far typing and thus i am reluctant to type further but look at me go. i've been typing labels for the christmas cards. i earned points from the loan guy because i could discuss mail merge databases and applications with the best of them. talk about marketable skills. i'm also celebrating that annie is coming home today and i won't have to be solely responsible for my own entertainment anymore. and also my birthday is coming up and people keep reminding me and it's exciting. i keep forgetting and then someone reminds me and i get a little thrill. on the down side i have to go to the store again tonight because i couldn't fix the computer yesterday. my brain just wasn't in the mood. so today i'll give it another shot. and stay long enough to get paid, hopefully. i'm tiring of christmas music. it's rapidly becoming a medical condition. rashes, burning, ointment...no more celin christmas carols, please no.

annie-i'm off to island artisans...will be back at 5 probably incase you call and i'm not home.

i'm researching recipes for the banks open house. i'm going to make salsa and atleast one vegetarian item for me to eat at any rate. tia has been standing behing me and yakking about her boyfriends car accident to every customer. i screwed up three transactions because i just can't think. i may have to sedate her. charlotte came in to ask me to fix the store computer after work. it's good for atleast five bucks i say. i sent folks mail, sarah did you get your bread? have a good night all!

hello all. i didn't blog today at the bank which is weird for me. there was even news. tia's fiance had a car accident this am and so tia wasn't in. although she did call with updates. he's not really hurt which sucks because it could have kept him home. so in other things to report i read a very good book today called Angry housewives who eat bon bons. it's like the yaya sisterhood but better, so read it. holly has promised to come visit me. actually she wants to hide from her family and she told me i can't back out on her...hello, i'm dying for visitors. i shall hollyknap her if she doesn't come. that'll show her. i dropped my change holder thing about three times today and i thought my supervisor was going to laugh herself into an aneurism. what did laura say about dropping lots of things, it meant you were pregnant. i'm not sure about that but i'm definitely something. i'm all excited to go to the library tomorrow. i couldn't go today because tia wasn't here...but tomorrow...i heart the library and the library ladies are so cute. i keep listening to anchored down in anchorage and i think of my sarah. it was our song. hehehe

good morning all. i spent my weekend sewing and baking like the little stepford wife i am. annie is desperately sick in md, as is her mom so who knows when they'll be back. poor thing. sarah expect a package in the next few days. i stocked up on canned goods for winter...i guess i should have gotten more candles too, and kitty litter. things to remember. i miss annie and all of you guys. amy mas if you're reading i tried to call you but i couldn't get through. but i'm not really sure if annie's still going to hood because she's so sick. just wondering where you guys are and if everythings ok.
in other news i wore my retainers last night for the first time in a really long time. the top ones were fine but my bottom teeth have been mamboing all over my mouth. oww! i hate to end this exciting blog but i must be off. to do more banking. hmph

mr heatman has fixed my heat this am which is a beautiful thing because it was 51 this morning. but now it's rising! yay. i slept through all the really cold parts. so now it's warm again. and life is good.

i forgot...yesterday as i was leaving my house i had this little thought pop in to my head and it went something like this. "it was the house of whores, and it became the house of horrors" who can tell me who spoke these immortal words.

hope every one had a lovely thanksgiving. myself, annie's dad and the fur family had a very nice thanksgiving. i made a pumpkin pie, mashed potatoes, and stuffing, and her dad made this neat squash thing. we had a good time. we watched a very violent civil rights movie and football. i read my book. i had kitty love all day. and my mommy called me from michigan. i just realized that i've taken off the days annie is meant to come home, yay. tia and i are together all day with no breaks, maybe i'll go hide in the bathroom if something goes amiss. mostly i read and blog and play on the internet all day anyway. i haven't heard anything on my medical insurance but i really need to get a prescription filled so...i guess i'll just have to pay a million dollars. it hasn't snowed yet here except for a few halfass flakes one cold rainy night. not that i'm asking for snow. its just that everyday looks like snow. i don't have a shovel so i really hope it doesn't snow. maybe i should go shovel shopping tonight. or a broom, or something. and kitty litter so i don't kill myself coming down the stairs. i just granted bank clemency to two folks who were overdrawn. i paid their checks and i didn't even charge them. i'm a good soul. and i'm rambling.

"catalogues are my new porn. Check it: I'm looking at things that theoretically exist, but which I will almost certainly never have access to in this lifetime. Pour over the glossy pictures all you want - fold down the corner of the page so you can go back to your favorites...to that saucy endtable, that wrought-iron bed frame, that little hussy of a chenille blanket - have you no shame, chenille blanket? You'd cover anyone."

this was stolen from http://mybeautifulhouse.blogspot.com/ because i thought it was irresistably funny

totally stealing from sarah...my blog this day last year...

oh the healing power of kittens!

elvisngrcelnd: ruinization, is this a word?
IdiotProdigy: we're not sure
elvisngrcelnd: some girl in my india class said it and i
think it's not a word and it' been frustrating me all day
IdiotProdigy: you should look it up
elvisngrcelnd: she could have just said ruin,
it caused his ruin not his ruinization
elvisngrcelnd: ugh
IdiotProdigy: 20 minutes til french
elvisngrcelnd: will french be your ruinization
IdiotProdigy: 20 minutes til doom
IdiotProdigy: it might

i found this very bloggable...situation: tia is telling our mailman who is a very nice 26 year old boy, about her engagement and he wished her good luck and then when the door closed behind him i heard him say you'll need it. hahaha

Good morning! it's a beautiful day in bar harbor, warm and sunny and it's november. i forgot to reset the alarm last night so i woke up at 7:26 in a state of panic. however, i was not really late, only about 4 minutes which doesn't really count. i just ordered money from brinks, how neat is that? tia can't believe they're already talking about thanksgiving...uh, it's two days away. sheesh and no marianne her wedding does not sound pretty, or tasteful, or likely but we'll see. she was looking for a closer bank to work at yesterday...secret desires come to light. we talked to sarah last night and i didn't even fall asleep. has anyone else heard about the push to collect back sales taxes from items purchased online or in catalogs. lets hope maryland doesn't get their act together or i'll be in trouble.

someone lovely came to have lunch with me..YAY! also yay for the thai restaurant that wasn't closed. i got my neat-o checks today, with the paintings on them...and i got complimentary labels. life is good. today is soft rock day...i really hate soft rock. tia is telling me all about her wedding. annie just asked me if she had told me all the details at lunch and now she did. it's going to be on new years eve, with poinsettias and pine trees with white lights. she didn't tell me all about her dress but her bridesmaids are going to have red tube top dresses with pearls sewn to them...and the men will have red bow ties. oh my. ooooh myyy.

i'm starting my work day with tia, totally bearable so far. she has a cold so she doesn't feel like chatting. mwahahaha. i left annie with pony and moosey in the nice warm house they're so lucky. maybe i'll get a christmas wreath or something, or a defective on sale tree. we watched the most bizarre show about people who get married with an unknown wedding planner, they have to choose from a good planner, a mediocre planner or a non planner and it's highly dramatic. we watched two episodes. we visited kitty at the herb shop andit was very funny. she keeps sniffing garfield but they seem amiable enough. garfield does sleep on her pedestal though...tsk tsk.

i talked to mimi for an hour last night. she's so funny. it's good that people call me because i always forget, thankfully i have a tenacious mother or she'd think i was dead always. i actually talked to amy mas the other day. it was surreal, hi amy mas! im watching the history channel and humphrey had to work his ass of to get ten guys excited while kennedy gets chased down the street by the whole nation. there's this whole kennedy special this weekend i'[m excited about. yay history channel. notice everyone that my week working with mary had involved very little bank drama. next week is a whole week with tia, just me and tia. sigh. a long ass week awaits me. i've been reading like a book a day, i think it'll get to two books a day with tia. sarah mimi says hi and she wants to call you. how busy are you this weekend? can we call?

hopefully the blog will be quicker now...we'll see. how was the apartment annie? call me at the bank. i'm going crazy with boredom.

we're doing an alarm test at work, i got to press my silent alarm. i should have gone to bed at 5:40 yesterday because now i'm tired and cranky. i sat up reading with a fervor and was a little late this am, so i didn't have breakfast which is probably more why i'm cranky. i didn't get to brush my teeth this am because the big bug came in my sink again. i don't like him. there must be somewhere better to live than my sink. it's a gloomy day, but it's really warm out. so that's good. i forgot the library items i was suppsoed to return and mary asked me what my thanksgiving plans were so today is rocking so far. i did get to meet a really rich guy though, so that's cool.

i have been screwing up all day. time for bed

tammy was late so i had to stand and post lookout until 8 this am and it was cooooold. but i'm over that now. it is extremely slow today and i think she might go insane. and i finished my book, sigh. i was trying to think of nice things to blog about. like how last night when i was going home the water looked exactly like blown glass. but then i gave myself a run in my cute tights and i wasn't happy anymore. we must find the marshalls...and toute suite(err french spelling most certainly wrong, but you get my point). and the annie thing was clearly a farce and all those comments...sheesh. i will remember to get the cow, let me know if you want anything else...

good morning all. there is no tia here this week and so what the hell am i going to write about. we're not sure. but stay tuned...there are thrills around every corner...

next installment of bank drama: tia's boyfriend proposed...but they won't get married till he comes back. she's going to take up the piano. god help us all. i have to get to work. sigh.

last night i chatted with my mom about them heckling the presidential candidates and sending blankets to iraq. she called 8 times making me think someone was dead.
i need something furry to be my friend. what do we think about hamsters? i've never had a hamster but they look cute and furry, and i did have mice. i could get him a wheel. and he could run on it. and be merry.

on a happier note i'm going to the nice patriot free library again today. i have my library designated tote all ready. i'm so excited. maybe i should go to library school like mo. it would be fun. i'll look into it. books i have to recommend to all are Eat CAke by Jeanne Ray sarah particularly will enjoy this and should stop by the library for it after classes finish. for the adventurer in us all i recommend any of the 8 books by Janet Evanovich. i"ve only thus far read the first and the last one but i have great hopes. they're about a clutsy woman bounty hunter and they're hysterical. more on that later. the librarians were very impressed with my selections and we chatted about them at great length. we got bank goodie bags today. mugs a hat and a visor, a pen, two keychains. i rock!

tia's boyfriend is going to iraq. she's overwrought because he's going to miss her birthday, again. the bastard. what was he thinking. i'm tired of the people who support the war and support the troops and get pissed off at the protestors until it's their boyfriend or whomever going to war...that's the unfair part. right. she keeps saying life is unfair. uhh gee if there were tens of thousands of iraqis patrolling our streets with guns and tanks we'd have a different perspective of what is unfair. i hate americans.

damnit this time i was dory but i screwed it up again. life sucks.

i stayed up late watching tv and annie stayed up late doing school work. we sw alot of reality decorating tv and one show where a couple's family plans their whole wedding without them. it was wild. the bank is very cold and i need muffin in a serious way. i may have to go to the muffin store. right now i'm learning how to make money off of disabled customers. its a niche in the market. errr. annie my phone battery is dead so i will call you from work around lunch time i guess. unless you have urgent banking needs. everyone here is just passing time till we go home. tomorrow being a holiday we're all pretending that we're not really here. i'm blogging, tia is in the kitchen doing homework and who knows what mary is doing at her desk. so our dedication is apparent. this am we had to photocopy money and mary told us to keep a look out incase the customers saw us. itwas hardly convincing as counterfeiting but the process made me laugh. posting a lookout by the employees is amusing. going to get a muffin.

i got a library card today and much to the chagrine of the patriot act i did not have to provide any personal information except for my address. hahaha. i'm not sure that's how you spell chagrine but oh well. two things: tia has a cold sore i'm totally not interested in getting and she is learning disabled and has alot of trouble reading...therefor she cannot spell and it isn't really her fault. however she continues to sing and touch my things with her cold sore person and so something must be done. we'll have to think of a plan of attack annie. an environmentally friendly way of making me feel safer. i'm making myself a don't touch anything sign aswell as a patience is a virtue sign for my teller station. what else...oh a note to annie holly came intoday with her doggies and a lady friend and i totally think she's a lesbiterian. for the record. i keep forgetting that we close late on fridays. bummer!

i really like my job. it's really not hard to have a grown up job. it's amazingly easy. i wish i knew how to waitress. that would be a good second job. there's a gas station hiring in trenton...i could totally sell gas and snacks to weary travelers. just kidding. i'm not ready to pick up shifts at exxon just yet. there is a limit.

things that are not cool...almost hitting a wolf or a coyote in your driveway. i'm not sure which it was but dude, it was not ok. i ran up to my apartment. like the wolf, but not. i did my laundry at annie's house, well some of it. i know have some clean clothes and will attempt a laundry mat probably this weekend sometime. i'm also watching the shining, which is probably a bad idea. but i flipped by it and i couldn't help it. now i have to watch the whole thing under a pillow. i locked my door so the wolf can't get in. i'm going to bake peanut butter cookies now. laters.

my supervisor encourages reading while atwork. how groovy is that. she said we'd all go insane and quit if we didn't read. tia doesn't read, surprise surprise, so she'll do crossword puzzles. sigh. maybe it'll improve her spelling. annie visited me. i'm going to need lots of visits. i'm finding it hard to hate this job, it's really a very nice company. and we have these two cocolate labs and a yellowish dog tht visit us everyday and we give them treats. life is good.

good morning all. at work again. wearing purple tights. i'm excited about my rights. actually i'm excited about my tights, there aren't that many rights to be excited about. as a bank professional one of my duties is to work under the patriot act. good god. i hate the patriot act. but i like the doggies that run around upstairs with thunder paws. princess was a thunder paws. annie's parents go to deer isle just to have dinner with princess, isn't that cute? if i had pictures of elton john i would totally put them up on my computer. did any one see the comercial for builder bob with co start elton john. it's very bizarre. it's almost sunny out today. it's a good thing. oh annie! we should to to cadillac this weekend for sunrise before it gets too cold. whatcha think? if anyone comes to visit we'll have to take them too. although not in january. i live the closest to the bank and i'm always late. i don't know what the deal is. i guess i have to get up earlier. i spent the morning holding my shirt over the heating vent because it wasn't quite dry. tres pathetic. i must go to annie's house and comandeer her washer tonight. annie won't mind. there is a definite laundry crisis at my house. i hate the idea but i really think i have to get some antibacterial hand stuff for work. the gross money and keyboards and phones are scary. i don't really think i'm a germaphobe but tia likes to touch all my stuff and she could be carrying all kings of yucky germs from her stinky boyfriend and who knows about the festering federal currency. so i think i must get antibacterial stuff for work. enough bank chat for now.

i deteste being treated like an idiot by an 18 yearold with a speech impediment. i know it's not her fault she talks like her mouth is full of marbles but it's driving me nuts anyway. i put up pictures of annie and kitty to counteract her rampant heterosity. heterocity. hmm. so...i like this blogging at work. there's really nothing else to do. i have no intention of attempting to make a career out of this, unlike tia who keeps talking about the people's jobs she'd like to take, and so i must enjoy myself while i can. the new rental car is so much better than the truck, it's like my car but with a cd player and a rental car smell. it's groovy. waiting for the bank to open so i can pretend to earn my pay. love you all

i lost my dyke mobile. the truck had a flat tire this morning which was traumatic. and last night i broke my favorite pair of ancient jeans getting into the damn thing which was even more traumatic. now i have a mitsubishi i think, a lancer...oooooh. it's very geo like and so much more my speed but not very butch. sigh. pretty much i sit around all day and play on the computer for pay and benefits. one can't complain. it could better if i had a place to do my laundry.

guess who's driving a massive pickup truck? that would be me. it's my rental car while mr prizm is getting fixed. a four door silverado. it's unreal. the bar harbor bank is so much cooler than ellsworth. my supervisor is really nice and tia the crazy 18 yearold is totally annoying but very sweet and very 18. i know all about her "baby" who is in the army. but anyway...the bank provides us bottled water because they don't have room for a water cooler. and i can do homework all day...but i don't have any, so i'll get a book. the day went by very quickly, even the boy at the bank is nice. i got a post office box today and my hair cut. i was so good. i even remember to pick up my truck. i wish you all could see me. oooh and i got an email from emily miller who was very surprised and she rambled on. it was so funny. she's making money playing the piano and has no friends. and i realized i can take more that 2 days off so we're going to plan a road trip. kirstens in love. what the hell happened. kirsten w is a wonder. god bless ya.

i got to meet over 100 bank employees today...one by one. you know that was a good time. sigh. i'm going home this weekend to get some stuff. maybe even my mumma's sewing machine...so i can sew stuff. i'm sooo excited. sad about the condoms. bastard catholics.

so this weekend i moved, celebrated one year with annie, and started the new job monday. poor annie was sick but she approves of the apartment. it's very cozy. and we have beautiful roses. everyone shold plan on visiting. i'll book your appointments. banking is a bit boring...but i have paid vacation, holidays and sick time. it is exciting. i've been watching law and order...it's just like school. i miss you all so much. come visit. come come come.

so....i've got an apartment. it's only for the winter but it's furnished and i hated apartment hunting. so. people can feel free to come visit. i was going to go home this weekend but annie is on deaths door with some awful virus , but is feeling better, anyway she fears i'll get sick while i'm home and not be able to come back. that was some atrocious sentence writing. but i don't care. i have an apartment. it even has a pullout couch bed thing. i am excited. i'm supposed to be packing and doing laundry but i'm not so much. sigh to me

i just noticed that my storm windows are down. i wonder who did that. there are always tell tale signs that someone has been upstairs. theres something different about the medicine cabinet. i've taken to leaving princess' rug art caused by her running the way it is because when someone comes upstairs they fix it and i know there was a security breach. there is no power at the moment because there is a rain and wind storm out there. i slept toolate to take a shower, now that the water is also off, so i'm sitting here dirty and i can't really leave without a. risking my life or 2. being really dirty. and so i'm stuck here. and annie is sick and i can't go take care of her. pout.

i'm going to see an apartment on tuesday. not actually in bar harbor but very near by. it's on the sound. very beautiful, you'll love it sarah...if it's nice and i take it. my mom is already shopping for me. she's crazy. kirsten wolle you won't mind if i pick up my kitchenaid when we come visit will you? i'm excited to bake like a fool this winter. car is going to get fixed and i might get to have a rental car on their insurance. won't that be cool. i think so, as long as i don't hit any deer. everyone seems rather relieved or something that i'm leaving the store. err. oh well. annie and i climbed blue hill, it was neat and very beautiful. we came down a very unsteep side and we kept waiting for the steep part but then we were at the bottom and it turns out they redid the trail. which is cool because it would be fun to go up for sunrise on new years day and not die on the way up. the ani concert is on the 11th of november not the 1st, ooops.

so i told cherie i found a job and she was like oh ok, so that's interesting. and now i have to tell charlotte. i am both afraid and boasting a sick pleasure in this. i'll do it this morning. hehehe. errrrr. kitty stood on my tummy and sneezed on me this am. i can't say i approve. but i am worried she has a furry cold. poor baby!

well folks, i have technically accepted the bank job...but i haven't actually told the island artisans people yet...err tomorrow for sure. so ah we'll see about that. i'm looking for a place to live closer to bar harbor. and still looking at jobs, of course. oooh last night annie and i and annie's housemate went to see i capture the castle which was really very good although annie did not heart the ending. it makes me want to read the book. the chatty housemate chose it and it was really very good. the audience was mostly over 60's except for us which was weird. and this old man with a walker standing out in the rain and wind looking as though in deep peril yelled at us for holding the door for him and inviting him inside. c'est la vie. i think kirsten should tell us all how her birthday went, because we love her and are insanely jealous of people who can go places like sheetz and target and need to hear about such adventures. it is not ok that we're starting to get stir crazy now that winter is upon us. not ok at all. with my whole two days off until january i think annie and i are going south, prolly in november but i don't know when. it will be a non stop friend seeing tour. i miss you too sarah, and i know annie does. i miss every body and every one should come visit.

so now that i have been almost offered this job in bar harbor...i'm not sure i want it. i am being so crazy. i would have two days vacation until january and it only pays 8 dollars an hour. i totally can't decide what to do. sigh. i have to call the lady today though or i may not have a decision to make at all. last night when i got home i was extremely tired and out of it and i fell asleep at about 9 and this morning i realized i put kitty's food in the freezer last night. sheesh. there is a scary guy chasing people with a knife at coa and it's very upsetting. it's also very not bar harbor...they must be from south west. pepper spray all around. kitty says hi to everybody...she's purring at the computer. when annie left on monday am she was very upset. she doesn't like to see people leaving with lots of stuff unless it's jack. whenever i come in she looks around me for annie...or atleast i think she does. sarah i have some bananas slowly going to the other side so you might get some banana bread soon. do you like nuts? i have to buy a pan though...do we think banana bread cupcakes would work??? hmmm

i can hear the neighbors goats conversing and kitty very much wants to make their acquaintance. i have yet again gone on an interview and heard nothing back. i know i should call them, but i don't want to. i'm tired of job hunting. i'm friendly, reliable, flexible, will to relocate within reason. sigh. annie's parents are down at the camp rowing, annie's mom wanted me to come but i need to search job ads and such. i'm going to try and bake a pie, and cook some dinner. and finish my laundry. i'm so very busy. annie had a goo dinterview at the grand for a movie showing gig but it pays very little...so err. it may not be worth it but it's exciting none the less. sarah i sent you a package so watch out for it. i didn't send you ramen although you may decide that would be welcome and you can let me know.

annie just went off to her first day of school. hehe. kitty and i are rearranging our finances. we are getting rid of some credit card debt. it's gratifying to pay it off. capitalone is soooo impressed with me that they are giving me a nice low transfer rate. they are soooo sweet aren't they. ok, desperate to get my money but it's a good deal for me too. anyway. it's a very exciting morning. i should be off soon, i'm going to try to meet annie for lunch in bar harbor. princess says rowwww to you all.

annie is showing winged migration. i didn't go because although neat it's a little nauseating. i spent the morning painting a new floor cloth. jack said it was nice twice, i think he prefers it to the old one that was a little more funky. sarah likes her school...that is so great. i'm excited for her. how are kirsten and amy? i'm trying to decide whether i should get some more clothes from ae. i really shouldn't but it's all on sale. i'm a bad amy. a very bad amy.



i hope that works, i took kirsten's quiz. i'm not a sir. the kitty is totally sleeping on me. she's warm. annie comes home tomorrow! i baked her cookies. i'm so excited!

so in other news, melvin the caretaker called me amay which is the first of that sort of maine accent that i have heard since being here. and i am excited. he's so nice, the caretaker guy. makes me wish i had a house that i lived in that he could take care of. and call me amay and say annay and deah. note to self, i was supposed to work tomorrow...but i feel like shite so i think i'll call catherine and switch. i hate passing out, and i keep thinking everytime i feel a little funky...is this passing out funky, which makes you think about passing out and then you do pass out because you are thinking about it sooo much. blah!

so ahhh. despite my head injury i'm working on all my days off this week...of which i am ofcourse thrilled. i will be more thrilled when i get my paycheck. but anyway. annie's mom is convinced annie has frozen to death and that i am going to have serious car trouble at midnight on my commute. she's really very sweet ordering me to call her if i have car trouble, she is a concerned mom afterall. kitty and i are cuddling...she keeps looking for annie i think, or she's seeing ghosts. in any case she keeps looking at the door. there were only creepy straight people there when i worked at the mall. how weird. when do you go to school sarah? i can't remember but i think it's soon. are you excited? i hope so. i miss you so much. i'm trying to find us an apartment, do you still want to visit in january?

so there is much less excitement about coming home when there is no annie to come home to. she left on her trip today, and there's another annie in her group. a redhead with freckles who she thought was very much an annie type. sarah had robots in the ovaries when she came home with annie that time and she got her thing in the car. annie's mom hasn't been as bad as the car ride i think because she has to think up reasons to call me. princess and i are chillin, preparing to go to bed. we miss our annie. sigh. i think the kitty was naughty in my room but i can't find proof. maybe i'm just paranoid. the other day she was naughty on jack's bed which we thought was both sad and sickly amusing. as annie's mom put it "you don't shit where you sleep" so she probably didn't damage my room. i'll find out for sure tomorrow in the daylight. sarah i have a gift for you. i'll tell you what it is so you can tell me where to send it. i found a sort of honey butter, it's creamy spreadable honey...but i can't remember if it was for you or your mumma so let me know who and where to address the package. goodnight everyone... especially my annie out in the woods...

so uhh, last night i passed out again for no reason. sarah, remember freshmen year when i passed out in the middle of memorials bathroom and then threw up alot. well you probably don't remember but i think i told you about it. well, i did it again last night and i scared annie harris to death. and the kitty too, who's been following me around. she was first on the scene as annie said with saucer like eyes as i lay unconscious. annie goes on her camping trip tomorrow and is spending the night in blue hill. her mom keeps calling to see if i'm dead. it's all very exciting. so, errr, i've been laying around all day. kitty and i listened to a book on tape about these siamese kitties that solve mysteries. we enjoyed it. so that's it, unconsciousness, no job offers, and kitties that solve mysteries. maybe if i could teach miss precious princess to solve mysteries i wouldn't need a job and it wouldn't matter if i was unconscious. err, or not.

we're watching bowling for columbine again, and it's super disturbing. i hate charleston heston. he's such a bastard, and dick clark too. michael moore is a god for speaking his mind. the news media is the devil. annie is packing for her trip. we made a fancy dinner, and even a pie to celebrate her last dinner before her trip. they talk about the welfare to work program and how evil it is to take the one parent out of a one parent home to earn 5.15 an hour and have no time for your child at all. grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

annie's mom built a new driveway at the house because we all keep dieing(how do you spell that?) so that's exciting. also sarah sent us banana bread which we are very excited about. i should be getting ready for work but annie said there's no hot water so i'm taking my time...things are well here. i haven't heard about the job i interviewed for, but i'm interviewing again somewhere else on wednesday. do we see me as a banker? fortunately it's really easy and you get great benefits and 14 an hour. woohoo. i keep hearing about why hood is stupid. it's very upsetting. they're such bastards. grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

so my computer needs to be fixed...that silly virus thing. so err...what's new with everyone since puter worked? last night annie and i camped out at the beach and built a very fabulous fire and roasted marshmallows and it was super fun. i had an interview for a bank job yesterday...we'll see. it's on deer isle but i'd have a 401k. ooooh. everyone at the store is quitting...so if i get this job the world will end for the store. but anyway. sarah, i sent you my parents phone number...sorry i didn't have email for a bit. how's work kirsten and amy, and living with imani. hope it's all going well.

so uhh my parents are here. they're staying at a really nice inn, but ofcourse the pump for the water is broken so there's no water till the am. haha. normally i would feel bad about this except for the fact that my bigotted father was ranting about the greedy rich new york jews. so that was nice. so err. i just had a very stephen king thought. the door just creaked open, which it does when kitty is coming in. and then i started talking to her right, and i put my hand down under the bed, and i had this thought that maybe it wasn't a furry kitty after all, and it was in fact a non-furry/evil creature that was going to eat me. this all makes me think of sarah. on the upside of the day my parents bought me yummy food and a groovy spatula that i've been eyeing at the store. oooh spatula. remember the ergonomic ones sarah? oh yeah. i'm excited. so i was a tourist for sure in bar harbor today. it seems i spend every waking moment in bar harbor. tomorrow we'll do blue hill and stonington instead. i'm very glad that sarah had to watch harry potter. woohoo. thankgod my parents only visit me sometimes. i think i'd go insane.

i just baked fresh hot biscuits. mmmmmmm. annie's parents are here. err. and annie's at the opera house. i'm watching legally blonde. again. it's sooo funny. insert amy mas's comment here. i might apply at the blue hill video store...tres impressive. but it's a full time job, full year, and it would be fun. they have all the a&e movies on tape, and pbs series. ooooooh. so we'll see. how is everyone. so few blogs. reese witherspoon must have had such a good time making this movie, it's so funny.

yesterday i was walking down the street in bar harbor and this dude on a bike(which he was riding on the sidewalk) said "lemmings" under his breath. it was funny. and also, i heard baby's got back lounge style which was also funny. yesterday was full of weirdnesses. my laundry is not so very small...i think but i may encourage annie to go to bangor with me on wednesday anyway.

and then sarah was gone and there was great sadness among the people.

i have no motivation this morning to go to work, except that the sooner i go the sooner i can come home to annie and sarah and kitty. jack was hanging out in the kitchen this am so i couldn't steal bread to make annie toast, and so she's hungry. poor annie. i don't want to go to work!!! NO NO NO. tired of work. there was a wicked thunderstorm last night and now today is all windy and such. it's lovely. kitty is sitting by the window and her fur is ruffled in the wind. must get dressed, must go to good paying and enjoyable job. must must must.

last night sarah and i went to see the two towers which annie projected very well. even though it's the longest movie ever and it was her day off and she was most unhappy. today i am taking sarah to northeast harbor where the pornographically wealthy live and play. she'll get to see where i work and we'll have a jolly good time. this morning annie had to be at work at 8:30 but when i woke up the phone alarm said 10:30 and i had a minor coronary and so did annie. but then it was only 7:10 and the phone is just broken. or something. whew. we have so much planned for sarah and so little time to do it. so we're going to have 4 or 5 adventures on wednesday. someone called me to work on my day off, but i'm going to pretend that my phone is broken and hopefully she'll find someone else to cover for her. i'm a total whore for this because she covers for me all the time. but annie and i only have two days to see eachother and it would be tres awful if i had to work. sarah and i reenacted the civil war with my civil war teddies and it was both entertaining and historically accurate. although i don't think annie's mom really thought it was that funny. what kind of person doesn't think the civil war was funny. err...

i use peepees because i'm refering to the functions of a kitty, which even while it involves excrement kitties add cuteness to all things. you can say boobies it's just unrefined and it makes my skin crawl. say boobies all you like. boobies, boobies, boobies! now i'm going to have adds for the wonderbra and plastic surgery. but anyway. we have a sarah. and apparently we picked her up at the dunkin donuts famous for it's hookers. we had no idea. and we didn't actually pick her up there. her mom couldn't find it and we actually picked her up at a burger king with no hooker affiliation that we know of. although annie and i did stand around the d&d for a while. errr. anyway we sort of went the wrong way to portland and we got to see all sorts of stuff. like bad neighborhoods, and u maine, and where the portland sea dogs play. ooooh!!! we're going to a bangor lumberjacks game tonight(maybe tonight) and it's going to be good fun. it's 3 whole dollars!!! it's all part of annie's birthday fun and sarah's visit. when you come kirsten we'll have a page of fun for you too! last night we watched crazy beautiful which is a tear jerker and not so terrible. yay for that. right now sarah and i are preparing to go and make birthday fun for annie who is at work. mwahahaha!!!

all of my blogs are annie this, annie that. this time annie took me rowing at sunset and we saw a seal...and the water was so beautiful it was like glass and not like water at all. yay for maine.

annie taught me to skip stones yesterday. i got to 6 skips, i'm so proud. it's chilly today. silly maine. we're going to see dracula on saturday at the opera house. it's a production from new york that the opera ladies friends all did. tres exciting. i listened to the second book of the lord of the rings and they left it in an exciting spot. bastards. so now i must go to the library before work so i can fulfill my lord of the rings need. kitty did not howl all night. she did meow at annie's head for a bit, and she tossed her scratching pad down the hallway. kitty has huge peepees in her litter box and we've been worried about her little furry kidneys but it just seems to be her pattern. she runs around and plays like she feels just fine. i think it's undignifying for her to be seen in the litter box and therefor goes very little. we're not sure. we rode our bikes to the camp yesterday and we didn't die once. we were both impressed. this morning there was a young buck hanging out in the backyard munching. he was cute. the mean new lady hasn't been so terrible lately. atleast not to me. she's stepping way more on the other girls job and than mine. on wednesday we went to COA which is very beautiful and full of old homes. it's very cool. and kirsten you would have died! the tofu from the cafeteria was so good. very unmarriot. i hope you're doing better. we miss you guys too.

annie and i broke out our sparklers last night. they were really cool, like little fireworks instead of just regular sparklers. It was very exciting. and we didn't set the house on fire. which was exciting. our alarms were weird this morning and annie was a little late for work. we rented igby goes down and a movie that i'm watching that i can't remember the name. igby goes down was not completely satisfying. which makes quite a score of movies that we have rented which are rather awful. although the one i'm watching now isn't so bad. it has edward burns whom i like. ryan phillippe is annie's boyfriend. she thinks he's very attractive. hehe. she's cute. life or something like it, that's what this movie is called. it has angelina jolie and she's short strategically to avoid her tattoos. i just noticed. it's pretty interesting. kitty was howling all night for no particular reason. sheesh kitty.

I am preparing to play hookie today. i'm going to pretend that i don't feel well. there is a new manager at work, a part time manager, and i dislike her greatly. i was trying to be open minded, but i've decided that i hate her and i can't work with her. the search for a new job begins again. sarah has not returned my email, that bitch. i'm astounded. i have to go to NH tomorrow to get car inspected. i think my parents and reid are going to meet me in portsmouth. good times. i have to call one of the owners and tell them i'm ill. annie said not to use too many details. or they'll know i'm faking. we'll see, i'm going to call. well i left a message, and i totally did not sound perky or give too many details. actually i'm going to go food shopping and make cereal bars and send out resumes. i saw on annie's box of cereal that you can make cereal bars with honey and chocolate chips and i'm excited. she said i'm a housewife. oh well.