01Jul

Free Agent Frenzy = love

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Fucking a’!

We’ve had this mouse (whom I’ve named Ralph after Ralph and the Motorcycle) make an appearance in the apartment from time to time in the past 2 months without any luck of us catching him. He’s tiny and he’d be cute if he weren’t a stray mouse! We’ve had this little black box trap set up ready to go but he’s been sneaky!

I got home today from work and I’m chilling on the computer when Mommy got home from hanging out with Kitty when she noticed the door to the trap is closed! w00t! Except for one problem: neither Mommy or I can bring ourselves to touch the box to throw him out! This leads to Mommy second guessing if Ralph is trapped and thus causing me to second guess myself. After freaking out, she says call Shelly as she figured Shelly would do it…so I did and she agreed (or rather she agreed to bring Yecenia to throw it out for us). Great!

Not so.

They get here and shake the box and lift the box…but nothing. You can’t feel a mouse in there, can’t hear it, doesn’t make any kind of thunk or scratching when the box was kicked or shaken. So Shelly and Yecenia tell us, nope no Ralph and I figure ok, they’re right because what do I know about catching mice? I open the trap ready to set it again when out of the freaking trap comes none other than Ralph scuttling toward the oven!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ARGH!!!!! Ralph is on the loose again and I go to bed another night nervous that a mouse could potentially climb a wall and into bed with me :(

In other news…

It’s July 1st so it’s FREE AGENT FRENZY! I love Free Agent Frenzy and seeing where everyone goes! So a few thoughts:

-Does Chicago feel now that they won the Cup, they feel “hey, we can wait another 50 years for another win!” Seriously Chicago, can you stop trading your team away…it’s getting a bit ridiculous.
-It makes me giggle that Adam Burish who made fun of Chris Pronger isn’t a Blackhawk anymore. Jerk!
-I love Antero Niittymaki <3 However I’m quite depressed the Niittyshark (as phrased by my LJ friend who is a Thrashers fan) is now a Shark! At least when he was in Philly or Tampa, they’d play Washington often enough! I don’t get Sharks games here! I guess there is adthe.net when I need a Niitty fix.
-I’m kind of confused though as much as I love Niitty…who gets rid of Nabokov and then decides on Niitty for a number one goalie? I’m really curious now to follow the Sharks season with a Niitty/Greiss tandem! This is his chance to prove himself :)
-I’ll be happy when someone that’s not the Caps picks up Theodore. However, I’m not so sure how I feel of a tandem of Varly/Neuvy in goal – it could be wonderful or it could be disaster.
-Why did the Habs get rid of Halak for Alex Auld and Curtis Sanford? Do you really have that much faith in Price? I know I don’t and I’m not a Habs fan!
-I really like the signing of Martin Biron as a Ranger except I’m really confused by the Islanders. They’re going with Roloson and DiPietro…who hasn’t played a full season in 3 years?!? That’s what happens when you sign your soul to a goaltender who can’t play.
-I would like to know why Jody Shelley is so hated.
-Boogaard is a horrendous last name!
-I get confused every time I go to the hockey TSN site and they talk about a capital situation and I think they’re talking about the Caps only to remember it’s a Canadian site and thus they’re talking about the Ottawa Senators.
-Actually I take that back on the goalie situation in Washington…dear Caps who I adore…please get Nabokov or otherwise please keep Theodore? I don’t want to see any of the other free agent goalies as a Caps player and I don’t like the idea of Varly/Neuvy! Kthx!

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30Jun

Thinking ahead!

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Last day of the blog-a-thon and I’ve been successful at writing for 30 days straight! I’m a bit proud of myself because it has been a goal of mine to be able to write for 30 days straight :) Now if I could be like that with writing my stories that I want to write, I’d be set!

I slept until two today! I don’t believe it! Seriously cannot remember the last time I slept that late and I didn’t even go to sleep ridiculously late (2 AM). I guess I needed it and it makes up for last week where many nights I was waking up almost every hour and not feeling so rested.

Despite sleeping until 2, I feel productive today. Irene and I went to Wheaton Library and bought a bunch of books for our classroom library, hit up Target for fun stuff for the classroom, and got some Starbucks too. I also finished finally the nametags (just need Mommy to cut and laminate for me because I’m afraid now that I’m going to break another laminater!). Back to work tomorrow but I’m ok with it as I work tomorrow full day and then work half day Friday and have a 3 day weekend! I just need to figure what I’m doing. I was thinking about going to see Jon but he’s going to his friend RJ’s bachelor party on Saturday night so I would have to leave Sunday and I’d basically be with him for 9 hours (he gets home at 3 from work and we’d go to sleep midnightish) and he has to work Monday morning 6 AM so I’m still debating if I want to make that drive. Truc is supposed to be down from NY and Rachi sent out a Facebook message so maybe plans can be formulated. I realize I’ve never had the same two 4th of July experiences since I turned 18 or spent it with the same people. It’s a bit strange. Looking over past LJ entries:

2004 I spent it with the ex sitting near the Washington Monument watching the fireworks with him and his family.
2005 I hung out with AM, JC and Shelly and we saw them at Wheaton Plaza.
2006 I ended up going with Alina and Arthur to Rockville to see the fireworks because Shelly and Ken got into a fight.
2007 I spent the 4th with Jon up in Allentown – the 4th was rained out and so the 5th, we went to J. Birney Crum Stadium and played Skipbo until the fireworks started (we’re dorks I know!).
2008 I watched the fireworks on TV with Mommy and Aba at the Legacy Hotel in Rockville where Aba was staying at.
2009 I went with Rachi up to Sean’s house in Davidsonville and we had a BBQ, swam, and set off fireworks.

I wonder what 7/4/2010 will bring?

29Jun

11 random thoughts throughout the day

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I woke up this morning and made the dreaded phone call to the company that’s handling my student loans. I had my account on forbearance until September because I didn’t make enough money with working just with Jake. Even with a full time job now, I wanted my account on forbearance so that I can save money to start paying them come September. However, I got a letter the other day telling me my payment is 46 days overdue and basically I better pay or else! WTF? Last I checked, it’s not September yet! I called them up pissed and got annoyed that I was talking to someone I could barely understand due to her accent (thought number 1: Why the hell does it seem every time I’m pissed off at a company and I call, I always get someone I can barely understand which just makes me angrier?). Basically it seems UoP decided they were going to remove my forbearance…but the company placed a temporary one back on until I can figure what the fuck is going on. Off I go to call the financial aid adviser at UoP…who seems to be a fucking moron with her head up her ass (thought number 2: why do stupid people end up with good jobs and I have a Masters and I make shit pay?) – seriously, even the University Services person was like WTF is wrong with this person? She was annoyed to by the end of the call. The University apparently is writing a letter to the company for me…hopefully that works. If not, I’m not sure what to do.

So then off I went to work on my day off (I needed to get stuff done) and on my way, I stopped at the Starbucks in Burtonsville to see Eva and get me some coffee and breakfast (after seeing a bus that said Derech Eretz and wondering where it was coming from because you obviously can’t drive here from Israel! That would be random thought 3!). It made me smile that she made my frappacino and drew all over my cup smiley faces and hearts (and a smiley with vampire teeth as she’s being dragged by Puffy tonight to go see the new Twilight movie) – I guess that’s what best friends from 7th grade are for – to put a smile on your face when you need it! I also got a huevos rancheros wrap for the first time (I always get the reduced fat egg white sandwich with turkey bacon)…this leads to random thought 4, 5, and 6. 4: Cilantro has a strong smell…finally see what Mommy is talking about when she rants about how much she hates cilantro. 5. The cilantro in that wrap is quite strong tasting as well – first time I can identify the taste of it separately, I can see why Mommy hates it. It is a love it or hate it taste. and 6 which made me giggle and call Mommy… the two things Mommy hates more than anything are cilantro and cats…I should threaten her with cilantro covered cats! She was not so fond of the idea when I told her but I like it!

I worked from 11 to 4 which wasn’t too bad. I l<3 Mandy’s son – he’s 2 years old and walked around with his Buzz Lightyear toy and ball in hand and all I could think (random thought 7) was I wouldn’t mind having a 2 year old around all the time. They’re quite entertaining to watch! Thought 8 is also brought to you by my job as Kathy came into the classroom wanting to show off her new arm chair that she has in her classroom for the kids to snuggle in as a reward and all I can think of was fuck the kids, I want to snuggle in that chair and fall asleep! Where’s my armchair in my classroom? Can we introduce naptime as part of the classroom day?????? Ugh and I broke up the brand new laminator I bought and as I broke it, random thought 9 comes into play as I swore my undying hatred toward the laminator and we’re now fierce enemies. I think I’m making Irene laminate anything from now on.

10 is brought to you by the Montreal Canadiens who just made me scratch my head because who the fuck gets rid of Jaroslav Halak, puts Carey Price as the starter and then brings in of all people, Dan Ellis? Don’t know who Dan Ellis is? Neither did I…however, he was the backup goalie to Pekka Rinne (who I just think has an awesome name) in Nashville. Yes, they got rid of Halak and didn’t even get anyone good? Who does that??? Montreal has slipped in my order of teams that I like on that deal. It’s not guaranteed though he’ll sign so we shall see…

My last random thought today is also work related … I have to make name tags for my students and I’m talking to Irene about it because she wanted a Superhero theme which I like but it’s so hard to pick a superhero for each child and then wonder if they’re going to like the superhero we chose and would that just lead to whining? As we’re talking, a Toy Story 3 commercial pops up and I think OMG, that would be a perfect theme and she agreed! So we start thinking of characters each of ours students could be…and oddly enough each of the characters fits our students quite well though I wish I could make JJ and NA (two boys) Mr and Mrs Potato head…because they are that old married couple! I made one Mr. Potato head and one the alien as otherwise, they’d kill me.

28Jun

Catching your attention

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I’m still on vacation from work but I went in today – I figured I’d work til 3 and get stuff done. Nope, I was there until 6! And going in tomorrow too *crossing fingers that I can make decent looking superhero nametags for my students’ desks!* I’m really hoping I can get what I need done tomorrow so I can relax Wednesday (and do some shopping with Irene for our classroom!).

Ugh it was so muggy and hot today that my glasses steamed up! Can I have Spring back please?

So I was browsing through memes (I like the daily meme website) and there’s a Manic Monday meme that had a question that caught my eye:

Imagine you could go back to the age of five and relive the rest of your life, knowing everything that you know now. You will reexperience your entire adolescence with both the cognitive ability of an adult and the memories of everything you’ve learned from having lived your life previously.

Would you lose your virginity earlier or later than you did the first time around (and by how many years)?

I recently had this conversation actually with Eva and Lina (at different times too haha). I sometimes wish when I think back to middle school, I knew what an straightening iron was and I had the nerve to wear cute clothes because all I wore were huge baggy t-shirts with the front tucked in and the back hanging out (these shirts are still absolutely huge on me!). Had I worn the cute clothes and my hair wasn’t so frizzy, I wonder if I would have been more popular and thus attract the attention of the guys I had a crush on (hey, maybe Teddy would have danced with me at the 8th grade dance rather than telling me he didn’t dance only to be seen 5 minutes later slow dancing with Marissa! Jerk!). I had no prospects in middle school and that’s perfectly okay because well what the hell did I know about sex beyond the notebook that Eva and I kept with all our stories and my love of romance novels!

But then I didn’t really have that many prospects in high school that I would have considered sleeping with. Maybe had I been hanging with that popular crowd, I would of had more prospects *ponders about certain classmates naked back then*. Then again, I remember my senior year Ian came over and I was paranoid that Mommy was going to find a hickey on me after we made out. I could have easily lost my virginity then – Mommy was at work and we were in my bed (and on the floor!). I was too paranoid not to! I don’t think I would of! Plus I remember being way too shocked when Mary lost hers when we were 16 and thinking WTF, that’s way too young! I still think 16 is too young!

Come to think of it, there’s only really one guy I really wanted to lose my virginity to in high school. Maybe had the timing been right and we actually dated, sure, I would of. Either way, we did end up having our one night…when I was 19 and after I lost my virginity! Timing has never been our friend! So after all that’s said and done…all I really wish was that I waited 5 more months from the time I lost my virginity and then I would have lost it to the guy I wanted to! I would have been then 19 rather than 18. That’s all I really would change after I really think about it.

27Jun

Just one more thing before you leave… Don’t forget to remember me.

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I was talking to Tanya yesterday on AIM and she said something that struck me odd. She told me she was was going to have a small wedding because she doesn’t feel close to half of the people she used to know. I asked her why that was and she said it’s a sign that she hasn’t been invited to anything (i.e. weddings) and no one makes an effort to talk to her so why should she? I wanted to respond back something to the extent of: well, there’s your answer why you’re not invited – you don’t make an effort yourself so why should others? I didn’t because I know in her own way she does try and does seem to get rejected often.

But then I realized the opposite is true in my case…I do try and I feel as if I’m getting rejected by the ones I call my friends. I have barely talked to 3 of my closest friends in two months because they’re so wrapped up in their boyfriends (or husband as the case may be) that I feel like I’m just an afterthought. I don’t expect to talk to them 2 hours a day, 14 hours a week (as Lina’s friend expects of her) but I would like to hear from them more once a month or so and maybe actually see them once in awhile . I seem to find out what’s going on in their lives based on their Facebook statuses rather than them actually talking to me. I know I’ve been playing phone tag with one of them so it’s not as if I’m completely forgotten but I’d like to see sometimes more of an effort than me trying to do it all the time. And then there’s my best friend who I either hear from her on a regular basis and then she doesn’t call me for a month or two. I’ve given up calling her – at this point if she wants to talk, she can call me. Cold maybe. I spent 6 months in college calling her on a regular basis begging her to talk to me and just tell me what’s wrong with her and she wouldn’t answer my calls. I won’t go down that road again. Most of my closest college friends I barely hear from either and I know they’re really busy and wrapped up in work and life but it would nice to hear from them once in awhile.

I feel like I’ve very few friends that I can really talk to right now about anything that I trust or just spend time with. There’s Jon. But what happens when I want to talk about my doofusface to someone else or need advice? I can’t go to him to bitch about him. Micah is in VA and works a lot. I can go to Shelly but I know she’s busy with Ethan and work and her own problems. I’m just rebuilding a friendship now with Charlie. Jason I know is busy and dealing with a lot of drama. Yup 5 people. Well 6, if Romeo got his cell phone back and it was easier to contact him – but he tries nonetheless. I know it’s quality over quantity and I believe that wholeheartedly. However, to be honest, I’m also lonely. Yes I’ll admit that.

Charlie has been telling me I should join some kind of activity to meet people and make friends such as joining a kickball league. I see my Facebook friends post their pics from their kickball leagues and it looks like fun. I’m thinking about joining one that starts next month. Beyond that I don’t know what to do and I hate that I just feel stuck at home with no one really to talk to. Any ideas of what else I could do to get out there and meet people?

I used to think if I ever moved, what would I do without my friends. I thought I’d be lost. I’m still here and I feel lost without them so what’s the difference, I wonder?

/whiny look at me post here.

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