Are you guys doing Twitter? It is addicting! See that little pink Blurb over there on the right (no, down a little) that is me telling you what I am doing! Exciting isn’t it. If you don’t have one yet you may want to consider it. It’s oddly entrancing.
You can also update from your phone or instant messaging service. I updated yesterday twice while driving and once from the bar! I’m actually most excited about it because often I will think of something to write about or hear something I want to remember and now I can post it on Twitter and remember in the morning.
If you join feel free to add me. =)
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Also I got my package for the Black & White Swap last week and I took pictures, but since my laptop decided to self destruct I can not upload them. However my swap buddy Leta Joy posted what she sent me so you can view it here. If you are jealous of all the fun swapyness you should join! Our next swap is the Pink & Green Swap and it is still open. There are a few rules, but they are simple enough. You just have to have a Flickr account.
I have been scoping out some things to buy for the current swap. but I am waiting until I have a buddy because I don’t want to get anything that they may not like.
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In other news: I have been organizing, filing, making new projects and trying to get thing back on track at work. It feels really good. Hopefully I will be able to keep up the good work. Today I am terrified to be contacting old clients from Lia Sophia and The Body Shop at Home to see if I can get some parties booked before I am disqualified which means I can’t sell anymore and I would have to rejoin to have parties again. Not good.
I am just so scared of getting rejected*. Eep. I have a goal of getting 50 nos so that I don’t see them as a negative anymore because you need to hear a certain amount of nos to get a yes. Or so they say. I will probably update my progress on that later today.
*That is spelled right isn’t it? My computer says it isn’t, but offers no other suggestions for anything related to the word rejection. Interesting. (EDIT - All fixed! I had been using a G instead of a J. Go me!)
I can’t believe how happy this new design is making me. I know it’s a lot of red, but I am totally in love with red. I am also thrilled that I chose poppies. I don’t know what it is about them; they are just so beautiful.
I am not done with everything I have planned though.
I still want author comments (mine) to highlight. (I found out from Kerflop that this is built in so just a quick adjustment to the comment section in the code and it was done.)
I wanted to get rid of the comment link so when I choose to not allow comments there won’t be a link for it. This is done using these instructions.
The most important one to me was auto shut off comments. So that a week after I post the comments are shut off. I really want this because I get so many spam comments and as I mentioned before they really bum me out. I can’t for the life of me figure this one out. I may have to give up on this. I just can’t seem to get it to work. I may ask for help, but I hate being a pain.
My weekend was a little bit hectic. Friday night I had a party for Lia Sophia. My friend Ariana was planning on coming with me and I was going to pick her up. However first I had to drive a good distance away to get my kit. Then I picked up Ariana and we headed to the party.
Afterwards we wanted to go out to eat some yummy sushi. So we went back to Ariana’s house, picked up her little sister and went to meet The Mrs. at her job. When we got to the plaza Kalani (who works next to the sushi place) was getting out of work so we asked her to join us. I had a really good time and the sushi was just as good as last time. (I had the Fantastic Roll again.) When we were done eating The Mrs. and I went back to Ariana’s house and we didn’t leave till about 12:30 am.
When we got home The Mrs. and I ended up talking until 2:00 am. The next morning I woke up at 8:30 am and I was so tired. I had to get ready and out the door quickly though because I needed to meet Kalani a half hour away at 9:30 am. I ended up making it on time. Kalani and I went to New Jersey to go to Border’s. Neither of us ended up buying anything anyway. For me it was more so because I already bought my share of books for the month. Then we went to Macy’s and I was hoping to use my gift certificate to buy some coach shoes, but they didn’t have any red ones. That made me a bit bummed. After that we were both hungry so we went to Olive Garden.
Once we were done eating it was time to go. She had to be at work at 2:00. We headed back and I wanted to see some of the scenic overlooks. I then realized I had to pee really badly so we stopped off so I could go. We stopped somewhere with not a lot to see and one crummy gas station. I went in to use the bathroom and it was so horrible that I wouldn’t even walk in and the vision of what I saw still haunts me. No way. Even though I had to go really badly I could not go there. We stopped at a pizza place, but the bathroom was for customers only so Kalani had to buy a drink for me to be able to use the bathroom. Then we were on our way again and we stopped at a really pretty overlook. I wish I could have seen it in the summer of fall. Perhaps we’ll go again sometime. Then we got back to where I had left my car and she had about 20 minutes before she had to go to work. We decided to sit in the car and we were talking and listening to music and canoodling. Then she had to go.
Once Kalani and I parted ways I decided to call The Mrs. at work and see if her break was coming up. It was in just a few minutes! So then I met The Mrs. and spent time with her on her break. I had just had lunch at 11 so I wasn’t hungry, but I went with her to a pizza place so she could have lunch and I shared her fries.
Sadly after a short time she had to go and by then it was time for me to go home and prepare for my party that night. So I got ready and went and did the party. It went good, but I was glad when it was over. I was so tired.
I got a call from The Mrs. just as she was leaving work and she said she was going to make us dinner. Even though we were coming from two separate directions we both got home at exactly the same time. Weird.
Yesterday I spent much of the day redoing this website and then after work The Mrs. and I were going to meet up with Kalani to see The Last Mimzy. Kalani ended up not being able to work so it was just The Mrs. and I. We had dinner at Olive Garden and watched the movie. It was really good, but I don’t know if it was such a great kid’s movie. It was a bit intense.
Oh! Have you guys gone to the movies lately? WTF? We got a small popcorn and a small soda to share and they were HUGE. It was like a little bucket of soda and it was a small. Those two items alone also cost $10.00. Are you kidding me? Now I know why we usually sneak shit it.
After the movie we went home and went to sleep and today I am still tired. Yuck. I hate feeling tired and the bags under my eyes make me look 15 again. Not good, people. Oh! I am also breaking out.
Haha. Okay I will go now. Sorry for the recap, but weekends always leave me with a lot to catch up on.
EDIT @ 1:52 pm -
I almost forgot. George/Izzie!! They hooked up on Grey’s and it was FANTASTIC! I really like Callie, but if you guys know me at all you know I have been rooting for George and Izzie to be together from the beginning.
Here is a sappy clip video of them together before this happened.
This is a clip of them after. I was going to go with just a clip of them in the closet, but then I found this longer clip and I think if you are someone who doesn’t watch Grey’s, but wants to know what the heck I am talking about will let you know what is going on.
So in my putting things off (which I mentioned last post) I only today heard from my downline and she let me know that my kit is with another one of my downline. Crap. So I got a hold of her and now after work I am halling ass to pick that up in Stroudsburg then I am picking up Ariana and then we are heading over to the party. Ehh. I’m tired just thinking about it.
My car is still about 1,000 miles over the point when it should have gotten an oil change and I need to put gas in it and buy new tires and I am just not in the mood. I hate spending money on cars.
Besides the actual jewelry I am all set for the party tonight. I have a gift for the hostess and two gifts for games. I am playing a right/left game and Ringo which is like bingo only with our rings. So that part will be good. I am also really looking forward to the party in general. I have a lot more fun doing Lia Sophia parties than Body Shop parties. I don’t feel as stressed out and unsure of myself.
After the party I am going out with Ariana for sushi. Yum! It’s also kind of funny because I went for sushi last night with The Mrs. Is there a limit on how much raw fish you can eat? I am going to get the same thing tonight as last night. It is called a Fantastic Roll and it really is fantastic. The only sushi I have ever had that we better was at a four star restaurant and it costs a whole lot more. This place is in a strip mall and it is a combo chinese/japanese restaurant. Anyway the Fantastic Roll is shrimp tempura with spicy yellowtail, salmon and tuna on the top. I tried to take a picture of it, but my camera has been utterly sucktastic. I wanted this camera because it’s the updated version of my older camera and I like things simple, but it’s bumming me out. I think it might have been the batteries dying so we’ll see how it does tonight.
Have you guys heard of Paperbackswap.com? It’s awesome! The whole thing is you post books you have that you no longer want, people choose your books, you mail the book at your cost ($1.59) and when they receive it you get a credit for a book of your choice. So really you can get any book you want for $1.59. You also get 3 credits when you join and list 9 books. I used my credits right away and got The Red Tent by Anita Diamant, The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver and A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving. Hmm…I just realised I bought one bible based fiction, one with bible in the title and one with prayer in the title without me realizing it. I am giving myself subliminal messages!
Speaking of subliminal messages from the lord I had sex. again. last night! Madness. No really! It is crazy! I think with sex the more you do it the more that you want to do it. That has to be the case because we have gone about 2 months without sex in the past and I’m all whatever about it. We have sex 5 times in one week and I can’t stop wondering when we will be able to do it again. We also even discussed getting a local hotel room for the night. What are we 16 again? Don’t think I am complaining either because I’m not. I am more confused at what brought all this on. I would go into more details, but I think I will spare you because I tend to just rehash everything and that will only embarass me later.
The Mrs. gets the 500 points from yesterdays post. She didn’t guess it right, but she researched it for over a half an hour to try and figure out how racism fit into my post. Hint: Don’t think too much into it. The lyric was part of a song in the CD she burned me from The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Perhaps I will make this some sort of real competition where the point mean something and you could win Lia Sophia or something. What do you guys think?
I forgot to tell you guys my sad story from Wednesday! Okay. So Kalani and I are driving to New Jersey. We are talking and it’s all good. I am randomly bringing up the cuteness of puppies** and she is wondering how the hell we go from talking sculpture and art to the adorable factor of certain animals. The we see a huge truck in front of us and there seems to be movement in the back and some feathers flying out. It’s ducks! Adorable big white ducks all stuffed on top of each other in this horrible truck. So we get bummed and we go to pass it so we don’t have to look at the ducks all caged anymore. We are passing the truck and it looks like there is a chunk of material blowing in the wind and when we are passing it we realise that it is a dead duck. Guys! It was the head and neck of a dead duck flapping in the wind as this truck of horrors plowed down the highway. Kalani drove really fast so we could pass it and I almost started crying because it made me feel so sad. Luckily Kalani was able to calm me down, but it still makes me feel all shaken up. Poor ducks.
Since I told you a sad story I will leave you with a kind of funny picture of me at the laundry mat that makes me laugh everytime.
*Are you tired of my starring things? I hope not since it is one of my favorite things to do. This lyric is from my favorite song of all time. Can you guess which version I like best?
**See I was already in a cute state of mind too with the puppies and I think we were also discussing what would happen if a bunny and a guinea pig feel asleep next to each other because it would be too cute to handle. Then I had to see the duck situation and it was awful.
I am numbering this because for the most part one paragraph has nothing to do with other.
1. This week is going a little rough for me. I feel like there isn’t enough time to get things done. I have orders to deliver to about 45 minutes away in one direction and my kit to pick up 20 minutes in another direction. I haven’t been preparing for my upcoming parties and bridal shows at all. I’m just really stressed out. I also have a horrible way of dealing with stress which tends to be to ignore the situation as long as humanly possible. Then I have a much bigger problem to deal with. I am trying not to do that this time, but I can’t find the hostesses cell phone number. I have what I guess is her work number and when I call some guy picks up the phone, I ask if she’s there and he say, “I don’t think so.” And hangs up! It is very frustrating.
2. In happier news I have been having a lot of sex lately. Tuesday night was awesome, last night was not very good** and this morning was awesome. It’s putting me in a very good mood.
In addition to the actual having of the sex there has been the eternal wanting of the sex which is different for me because while I greatly enjoy sex it’s not something I think about. Lately though I can not get enough.
3. Yesterday my wonderful friend Kalani picked my up from work and we went out to dinner in New Jersey to TGI Fridays. It’s interesting to me that I will drive an hour away to Allentown just to go to bookstores and the mall, but I never go to New Jersey which is even closer. I guess just the thought of going out of state makes it seem so much farther. The Mrs. was at work and called to say she wasn’t feeling well so we weren’t sure if we were going to do tacos, but by time 8:00 p.m. rolled around she was feeling better so we went.
It was a little lackluster anyway. Kalani forgot it was taco night and ate too much dinner so she wasn’t hungry for tacos and her tummy was also bothering her so she didn’t really want to drink. I was a little bummed the she and The Mrs. didn’t want anything because Kalani bought me dinner and I wanted to repay the favor by buying her drinks. That didn’t work out, but I think a better idea would be to pick up the bill next time we go out to dinner anyway.
4. Tonight I am going to see The Women of Distinction Awards at The Mrs.’s college. She usually wins one so it will be nice to see her get it. Then we may go out with our fantastic friend Ariana for sushi. Yay! Ariana called this morning to say she wasn’t feeling well so she may not make it. We’ll see what happens. Hopefully she will be feeling better because I have a bunch of stuff to give her.
5. I was in Washington, DC on vacation in February of 1999. There was a mall in the hotel we were staying at for the first three floors. I was shopping at a bookstore and I saw a book in the new releases called The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky. I realize that it is fairly popular now, but I had heard nothing about it at that point. Something about that book drew me to it and I bought it right away. I spent most of my time in DC reading that book while listening to The Cranberries on my CD player. It was the most influential book I had read up to that point because something in the story resonated so deeply with me. I just knew exactly how he felt. I used to talk about how much I would love to make my own CD of the songs he puts on the mix tape for Patrick. I had a copy of the book that had been read, reread and highlighted so much it was falling apart. I lent it to someone and they never returned it. I wish I still had that copy. I have bought the book about 5 times and I still don’t have a copy because I kept giving it away. Whenever I listen to that CD by The Cranberries I still remember what I was reading when I listened to it and how the story made me feel. Three years later The Mrs. burned me the mix tape on CD and gave it to me for my birthday. It is still one of the best presents I have ever gotten. I recently put that CD on my iTunes. I felt compelled to listen to it today and all those memories started flooding back. I have to buy another copy of the book sometime.
6. Have you heard about the Honest Photography group on Flickr? It’s an interesting group where we all embarrass ourselves by posting less than perfect pictures of ourselves and our homes. The conciliation prize is knowing that you’re not the only one who works in an office where it looks like someone threw a grenade on your desk. You’re not the only one who doesn’t constantly have a nice glowing smile and you’re not the only one who looks that crap at the end of the day. So for that the embarrassment is sort of worth it. I say sort of because of the pictures I put up there.
See what I mean?
7. I have a lot on my mind right now about topics I want to discuss so perhaps I will curl up with Microsoft Word a bit today and sort that out.
*Yeah, I went back to naming all my posts after song titles and lyrics. Remember the game for bored people? You get 500 points if you know why I choose this particular lyric.
**So I sort of drank a lot last night (Sorry Mom!) I didn’t realize it at the time, but I had 3 Cosmos (top shelf, no less), 1 Fuzzy Navel and 1/2 a double Malibu Bay Breeze. Being semi-drunk does not lead to good sex! I am talking for you or the other person. It is clumsy and a little heavy on the friction if you catch my drift. It’s also hard to have a serious argument when you’re a little sauced. I’m kind of glad it did go down like that because I am on my new 1 alcoholic drink maximum whilst out. This will also be beneficial to my bank account. So yeah, last night…not so good.
1. Spam comments. They are a part of having a blog. They are annoying and you just have to deal with it. The thing is I never stop feeling sad when I see 81 comments in moderation and not one of those comments is actually for me.
2. I really don’t know how to take people ignoring my comments on their blogs. Partly because it confuses me. I mean, I love getting new comments. I really enjoy finding new blogs to read and people to connect with. Isn’t that the whole point of blogging? I am not talking super famous bloggers either. I often keep going back anyway. I keep leaving random friendly comments and seeing if I can get some sort of response. Nothing! I would link to the sites (yes sites) in question, but that is likely rude. Is this common? Perhaps it is the easy way for bloggers to try and weed out the people they don’t wish to converse with; they ignore them until they go away. Or maybe they are just too busy, they read my comments and enjoy them, but don’t have time to respond or visit my site. Has anyone else come across this? I mean over the years I have conversed with the Kerflops, Fussys, Finslippys and OMSHes of the internet. So why is it that at the sites I am referring to I get the ever present cold shoulder? I think I am a little too sensitive sometimes to blog. I need to stop thinking of it as a rejection.
CHEAP FOOD, SUSHI AND BEER.
On to people who love me. Last night I got a call from my friend Jayleen. She was upset because she got rejected from the Grad School she applied to and since it was the only one she applied to at this point she was pretty bummed. So I called The Mrs. and we decided to take her out. We’re a little poor so we took her to Burger King. It was still nice though because it gave us a chance to talk for a while without worrying about annoying a waiter. We were there for almost 2 hours talking. I had a good time. After we ate she decided to go back to her apartment to sleep and The Mrs. and I decided to go visit our friend Kalani at work. We talked to her for a while, but they were starting to close and we didn’t want to get her in trouble.
I wasn’t hungry at Burger King and only had a small milkshake (which was actually ice cream in a cup because it wasn’t really mixed) and someone who works with The Mrs. told her that the Japanese place in the plaza has really good Sushi. So we decided to go there while we waited for Kalani to get done with work. I had some yummy tea and I didn’t put any sugar in it! That is one new habit I am trying to get into tea without sugar. I typically put 4 sugars in each of those tiny cups and I think artificial sweeteners are the devil. I also had 2 pieces of Fluke sushi and 2 pieces of Tuna sushi. Yum! The Mrs. got the Tuna roll which I usually avoid because I hate seaweed. However she gave me a piece and it was really good. We will definitely be going back there some time.
As soon as we got the bill and paid Kalani called saying she was done. So we went outside to meet her. We figured it would be easier to take one car so we got into hers and headed over to the bar.
I had a good time, as always. The conversation was a little sadder, but it’s good to be able to have deep conversations with your friends. It was still a wonderful time.
Now I can’t wait until our Monday night wing date. It’s going be so much fun. I am also meeting my friend, Jayleen, earlier because we are going to go to Target together.
MUSIC TASTES NOT SUITABLE FOR WORK
I really enjoy Regina Spektor and I often try to listen to her at work, but her musically styling is a little too strange for the office. While listening to Just Like The Movies my boss paged over to me we had the following conversation:
Him: “What the hell are you listening to over there?!”
Me: “Uhh…music, Regina Spektor.”
Him: “Well it sounds like some sort of cult chant! Turn it off.”
Alrightly then.
Oedipus has also been an unpopular choice, which stinks because that is a beautifully sad song. He doesn’t complain about much of the music I listen to. So far it just been Regina and Kate Bush. I can’t blame him too much. The choruses sound a little crazy. He did have a mini heart attack once when he came in and I had The New Pornographers album on my desk.
Him: “What on earth is this?!”
Me: “Uhh…it’s an album. Their music really doesn’t have anything to do with the band name.”
Him: “Looks like smut to me. Get rid of it!”
So I had to put it in a drawer. Did I mention that my boss is also my father? He’s kind of nuts.
KIDNAPPED!
I just got a call letting me know Jayleen and Kalani were going to pick me up from work tonight and that I had no say in the matter. I was planning on driving up there myself and just not drinking tonight so now I can have some drinks. I think that was so sweet of them. I can’t wait for 5:00 now! Woo hoo! I really hope I am able to leave work for a half hour so I can pick up some last minute things I need at home. I want to actually put on make up tonight. Hopefully I will remember to take some freaking pictures for once that I can share with you guys.
The party? It was ehh. I was there from 12:30 p.m. to 8:45 p.m. It was a supremely redneck bar. I could have easily been in Alabama. The hostess was already tipsy when we arrived and sans underwear of any kind. The whole party took in $1,000 in sales, which is my biggest party to date, but not awesome. It just took so much time and effort and 3 helpers who I could not have survived without. It wasn’t at all what I had expected and I was really hoping to be able to compensate my girls a lot for all their time and hard work. The hostess is also talking about having another party in a few months and I don’t know what to do about that. She did say she is going to have another $1,000 in outside orders for me by March 18th so we’ll see if that happens. It would be amazing if it did. Perhaps I can offer her an extra incentive for that.
The Sunday of that party I also developed a yeast infection. I didn’t realize what it was at first and if I wasn’t monogamous with The Mrs. I would have thought it was some sort of nasty VD. So The Mrs., (god love her) checked it out for me and it was indeed a yeast infection. Great. I avoided getting medication for it until Tuesday when I nearly died of discomfort. I was very snappy all day and just pissed. I worked up the will to call the doctor’s office, a feat all in itself. I have phone issues to begin with and we all know about my anxiety so discussing my vagina issues over the phone with a doctor I have met twice is not on my list of easy tasks.
When I did call I let her know. She said she was sure it was a yeast infection due to the harse antibiotics I am still on so she said she would call me in a prescription to Wal-Mart. I had to wait until The Mrs. got home from work at 7pm so she could take me to pick it up. You know, for as much as I hate Wal-Mart I love their prescription plan. All generics are $4. So my pill cost $4 and was supposed to work in 24 hours. That was Tuesday night and I don’t feel 100% better yet, but it is miles away from where I was.
Last night I went to the bar with Kasey and The Mrs. and we had many drinks. We have been going out on Mondays and Wednesdays lately and it has been fantastic. I really love spending time with Kasey and it’s good for The Mrs. and I to get out and mingle with actual people and when I say The Mrs. and I, I really mean me. It’s been great! My main problem is keeping my flirtiness in check. When I drink I get really lovey. Since The Mrs. is in the closet and people from her work go to that bar I can’t flirt with her at all. I can, however flirt with Kasey and believe me I do. Yesterday both she and I had been drinking so we were both being lovey and it’s just a little crazy. I don’t want her to get nervous though because she and The Mrs. are such good friends and I don’t want to mess that up with my insanity. It was wonderful though. I love being flirted with. Especially when I am in a room of tiny college girls with perky breasts and someone chooses to put their arms around me. Thanks guys, you have no idea how much I needed that.
The Mrs. and I are going on vacation this weekend!! It is going to be a mini vacation to Lancaster, PA. We are going to be staying at the resort my parents have been taking me to since I was 10 days old. They have been going there for over 30 years, when my sister was a baby. I can’t wait! We are leaving Saturday and coming home Tuesday. My parents got The Mrs. and I a gift certificate for Christmas. We recently decided to be responsible and instead of saving for Disney we are saving for a home. As soon as I am able to I am going to be opening a joint money market account for us. That means this trip to Lancaster is going to be our last vacation for a while. I really can not wait. We may or may not be bringing some things with us from here, that I have not seen since I packed them to move almost two years ago. There is WiFi in the hotel room so I will be posting and uploading pictures (finally) to my Flickr account.
In other news I want to buy myself a Superhero necklace. I have been wanting one since I read my first SARK book in 2003 and she mentioned that a friend of hers made awesome jewelry. I went online right away to have a look and I fell in love. Madly in love with these necklaces. Then I saw the price and I just couldn’t. Now though, I feel that it would be worth the cost. My current problem is choosing one. There are three that I want Passion, Angel and Joy.
Passion and Angel are both designs I could see myself wearing if/when I get married. I have often thought of having a red, white and pink theme. I also have thought a lot about what I would wear and while I may go traditional white (in which case I would wear the Passion necklace) I may also wear red (in which case I will wear the Angel necklace). So perhaps they would be best saved for that?
I like the colorfulness of the Joy and I think a lot about finding joy, being joyful and adding joy to my life. So perhaps that one would be appropriate. I don’t know. Help me people! What do you guys think?
I’m going to go clean my office because in a drunk dial answering machine message from Kasey I tell her to tell me to do so. Perhaps I will transcribe the message for you guys. It’s pretty wonderful. Look out for that a little later. It’s long so I would want to have speaker phone on so I can type it out and I probably shouldn’t do that at work.
So I went to a bar in Stroudsburg called Rudy’s last night with my friends Ariana and Diana and, of course, The Mrs. It was a lot of fun and I was happy to be able to destress a bit because this party tomorrow really has me on edge.
I think by the end of the evening I was kind of drunk. When I came into my office this morning and took a look at my myspace this gem of a picture was in my comments.
Uhh… I think I am singing Black Eyed Peas. It’s pretty much The Mrs. and I’s song. As some of you may recall.
There were also some embarassing videos made that night of me singing and dancing in the bar. I will likely not be sharing those. Haha.
In any case it was such a fun night. I love hanging out with my girls. Today it is back to the stressing and working like crazy to get things done.
So if you came to my website sometime last week you may have noticed that it was no longer here. Whoops! I had been getting reminders about paying for the renewal, but I have been going through a rough patch money wise so I couldn’t spare the expense. Then when it was down to the last minute to pay I really didn’t have any money. So I let it go and about a week later I arrived to a blank page.
Once that happened I was sad, but I am also having health issues once again so I tried not to think about it. Then I realized that I was not only losing my website I was also losing and entire years worth of entries and that is when I began to feel panicked. I contacted Jessica to ask if she knew how I could get my archives back and the best way seemed to be renewing and hoping they still had my files. The Mrs. had already been trying to get me to put it on her credit card so I finally broke down and let her. So Wednesday night I paid for the site and when I came back into work today my lovely website was just as I left it.
What was that you said about your health? I swear people. I have years of journal entires where I don’t get sick. I’m not usually like this. My newest theory is that once I got health insurance I gave my body permission to feel sick and I relaxed about it and that is when the sickness took over. In any case on Friday of last week I woke up with a sore throat. I assumed it would soon go away and it didn’t. The next morning I woke up with a sore throat and a runny nose. I continued to get sicker until finally on Monday I broke down and made a Doctor’s appointment for Tuesday morning. I went to my cousin’s house to do a Body Shop party and my face was pretty raw from blowing my nose. Not pretty. Then afterwards I wanted to keep my plans and go to the bar with The Mrs. and Kasey. We got there around 11 and left at 11:45. I was feeling so crappy. I barely enjoyed the hot wings and I kept having to blow my nose.
On Tuesday I went to the appointment and the it was found that I have a really bad sinus infection. As a matter of fact it is the same sinus infection I have had since October that I was treated for in January. I noticed I didn’t feel 100% after I finished my medicine last time, but I had no idea the infection was still there. So I am now on a decongestant and an antibiotic. The antibiotic is quite a bit stronger than the last time and I have to take it twice a week for four weeks. I can also not have any chocolate or soda. This is really hard for me. I miss my chocolate & soda. Those were like the two bad for you foods I really loved. So I now have constellation prize vanilla pudding and plenty of water at home.
So I took off work the rest of the day on Tuesday. The Mrs. had driven me to my appointment and she also took me to Wal-Mart to get my medicine. We actually had a lovely day together and she made me feel so much better. I decided to go into work on Wednesday, because I hate taking off of work. However, I would have been much better staying at home because my boss kept calling me into his office and sending me on errands where I fell in some ice in the middle of parking lots. It was a terrible day.
Since Wednesday went so great I decided to stay home on Thursday. I went to my parent’s house so I would get to see my dogs and they could keep my company. I watched crap on TV (Regis & Kelly, Ellen and The View) and on Ellen her guest for the ENTIRE hour was….OPRAH! It could not have gotten any better. My two favorite girls. I am also starting to think I should look into Barak Obama for my presidential pick. I have been kind of hooked on Hillary because I like her and she is a woman and I just think that would be so great, but so many people have great things to say about Obama that I think I should educate myself on everyone.
After those shows I watched Forrest Gump. I hadn’t seen it in years and I just bought it at Target for $10. So that was nice. Then I got in the shower and got dressed because I had an eye doctors appointment scheduled for that night.
If there are any people that wonder how The Mrs. and I can stay together for so long and how I am sure she is the one for me this is an example. She had school in Stroudsburg all day on Thursday and she drove home (about a 30 minute drive) to pick me up to take me back to Stroudsburg for my eye appointment. That makes me fall in love with her all over.
My eye appointment went well and confirmed that I really should be wearing glasses full time. I brought my old frames in to get new lenses and I picked out a pair of simple black metal frames with a couple rhinestones. You can see them here. I was really hoping to get something like this or this, but they didn’t have anything like that there and I’m cool with the ones I chose. They are simple enough and they will go with most anything. I am hoping to get another pair this summer so I will have a variety and I don’t have to wear the same pair all the time. I am planning to get these. They are a little more fancy and I think they would look really good for when I am going out. My current glasses should be here in about a week.
So today I am back to work and ready to go. One of our workers has been out for 3 days in a row so that is putting a damper on things. It means we have to cancel some jobs and guess who gets to do that? Woohoo for being back to work! I have already been yelled at a few times. And people wonder why I like doing the parties so much.
Tomorrow I am going to Wilkes Barre to meet a woman who is leaving The Body Shop. I am going to buy some of her supplies off of her. Then my cousin and I are going to the SPCA to get her a new cat. Her old one died a few weeks ago and she has been really sad about it ever since. So it will be nice. We are in the market for a female short-haired lazy cat that will get along with a rowdy husky. It should be interesting. Plus the people who work at our SPCA pretty much hate people and really give you a hard time adopting animals. We’ll see how that goes.
So that is about everything that is going on right now. I have a huge Body Shop party coming up in a week with about 100 guests for me to stress about. I am sort of in a panic about it, but I am sure it will all work out. I have a week to figure it out. Perhaps I will take Monday or Tuesday night to action plan for it and I will also need to buy supplies.
I am waiting on hold with Lia Sophia customer service about some missing items from an order in December (luckily mostly for me). I was getting a little annoyed and I was wondering if anyone else was having this problem so I searched, I hate lia sophia, on Google for fun. Guess who comes up as the second link for that on all of Google? This website. That’s going to be great for business.
I really do love doing it and I am having a lot of fun with it. I just hate being on hold!
EDIT- Okay, yeah. Thanks to this entry I am now #1. What a great accomplishment.
Yesterday was a very busy day for me. After work I went home and showered because if I am going to go play boss I think I should smell really good. Then I had a super quick dinner and I met my new girl, we’ll start calling her Elle.
Well I didn’t mention, but at her starter show she got one of her friends so excited about her new job that she signed someone on too! So I now have an adorable team of two. I am supposed to talk to another woman about joining today as well. I can’t believe how well things are going! I just need to get some parties in to fill up my calendar and I will be good to go. My goal is to get 5 Lia Sophia parties booked by January 31. If you live within a 50 mile radius of where I live or you are interested in doing a catalog party contact me. Ha-ha!
Anyway, so the meeting was a new consultants meeting so I went for moral support, but as always I came out of it with a lot of great info. We car pooled and on the ride home I had a nice talk with Elle where I came out to her. It went really well. She had mentioned a lesbian friend of hers so that’s why I choose to tell her. Also I don’t want to let her think I am hiding it from her, but I also don’t just want to announce it to everyone I meet. It’s important that I don’t loose business contacts and potential advisers just because of who I am in a relationship with. She took it really great and we actually had a very pleasant conversation on the ride home due to it.
After I dropped her off at her house I drove to Stroudsburg to go out with The Mrs. and one of our friends. We went to a sports bar called Front Row. They have $1 drafts and I had a glass of wine. Then I switched to Cosmos after I noticed they had martini glasses. I hate to tell you people this, but the Cosmo is my drink. It’s sad, but true. It’s actually not Sex and The City based. I just had one as my first official drink out and I loved it. I always wanted to drink martinis and one a cruise ship with my mom I got a classic gin martini and it was terrible. It tasted the way that bad perfume smells. People who like martinis are either real tough or real crazy and I prefer to think it’s the latter. So when I had a Cosmo I thought it was wonderful and its pink a cute so that’s my drink. Keep a note of that. Where was I? Oh. So the bartender seems really entertained by me after the wine and then the Cosmo, and he seems happy to be using his fancy drink making abilities. Then I look around the bar and notice that I am the only one not drinking beer. The only one! In the whole bar! I decided that this made me real classy. I drank another Cosmo and did I mention I had a Pinot Grigio earlier at the meeting? Well I did. I would not say that I was drunk, but I was defiantly feeling happy and chatty.
Most of my time at the bar was spent eating 5 very yummy and very cheap ($.20 each!) hot wings and hitting on out friend Kasey. (There is no way that I spelt that right.) Let me tell you something about me. If you take me out for drinks, get me a little toasty and hit on me even a little bit I am hitting right back. I also told her that The Mrs. and I swing. My poor wife, I love her so much. She puts up with a lot.
So we didn’t stay long. After that I left my car and The Mrs. drove me home and I went right to sleep. Something I haven’t done in a long time.
We are planning on going out with Kasey again tonight. That would be fantastic. I doubt drinks will be involved since drinking three days in a row would make me feel like an alcoholic not to mention it would be expensive.
You know what else I would like to mention? My Dad actually yelled at me today for not driving my car home last night and leaving it in Stroudsburg. Excuse me? He would rather I drove home drunk than leave my car somewhere else. It could get broken into, you know. Yeah. You know what else could happen? I could cause an accident, kill someone and get life in prison for murder. That isn’t that crazy of a statement either. They are so strict about that now. If you cause an accident and kill someone while under the influence you will get charged with murder. I saw that on Oprah. I get everything from Oprah.
I have the whole upcoming weekend off. Do you know what I am going to spend my time doing? I am going to tackle The Laundry because The Mrs. and I are losing our freaking minds and it has piled up again. I think this time when I wash some I am going to leave some clean clothing at my parents house. We don’t need all those clothes around. They just take up space and make me crazy. Perhaps I will photograph the situation so you can better understand the enormity of it all.
Also going on this week is practice for The Vagina Monologues for like the 4th year in a row I am performing in it with a little nothing part because I am still too much of a chickenshit to try out. Go Me! I’m still happy to be a part of it. I’ll be proud to tell my daughters someday.
Does the paperclip in Microsoft Word seem to patronize anyone else?
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