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January 1st, 2009
02:59 pm - Trying to make some changes...
So I know I haven't been a very good blogger in the past year with my cruise, crafting, Halloween, now the holidays. Figured with the new year, I should start making more of an effort.
Right now my apartment looks like its in a huge disarray because Gabe and I are moving. We found a 2-bedroom apartment in the same complex that's on the bottom floor, has a dishwasher and is on the end of the building, so more windows, which will make Gabe happy. And they gave us a great deal so its only going to be a little under $50 more then if we stayed here. Its going to definitely give us more space so our bedroom won't look like a wreck with my crafting and our bookshelves and boxes of junk.
Silly side note: His parents gave us a money tree for X-mas. Yes an actual branch that was stuck into a bucket of cement with dollar bills hot-glued to it. Its the silliest and most awesome thing I have ever received. Gabe decided to decorate it with some ornaments and lights since we didn't bother getting a tree this year. It was really cute.
After doing 14 swaps in about 10 months, I've cut back a lot. I even got a new sewing machine and haven't touched it yet. At this point its too late anyway. Planning on taking clothes that I have that I no longer wear and making them into bags and things of that nature then possibly selling things. Working out the kinks for that one.
Have to say spending New Years with Christina and Nathaniel last night was a blast. We just ate some junky food and I fell asleep while they took turns shooting down some zombies. I honestly just woke up an hour ago.
Current Mood:  busy
Current Music: "Way Back to Love" - Music and Lyrics
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June 17th, 2008
07:05 am - A letter or two or woe...
Dear gentle viewer,
I am wholly depressed today. I just woke up depressed and then on the ride into work I became even more depressed. I'm just depressed. There are many factors, some hormonal, others my life.
I don't enjoy my job as much anymore. If it weren't for the people I work with, and the fact that I can't afford a paycut right now, I would leave.
And now I'm struggling with my vacation time. On the one hand, yes I was excited about going to Canada, seeing it up there, enjoying some nice outdoor/woodsy relaxation. But now as we come down to the wire about it all, I would have to take 5 whole vacation days in order to go, instead of the 4 I was hoping for since the original plan was to go around the 4th of July. Now if we wanted to go, we would be going near the end of July. And it would cut into my mother's birthday which isn't really a big deal right now since she likes to forget about getting older but I'm sure she's going to be more needy about things now that she quit from her job. (Yes my mother quit her job and is taking the whole summer off.)
Then there's Gabe and him not finding a job anywhere. Well he could get a job anywhere like fast food places, but we were trying to steer clear of that sort of thing. Its getting really hard to keep being hopeful about it all and to keep telling people who ask me about it that, "No Gabe can't find anything." I kept saying that Canada was up in the air due to him not finding a job right away and what if he does in the coming weeks, then he can't right out say, "Well I have to take a week off in less than a month after I start this job for a vacation." I don't think they would be very happy. But now its getting to the point where he hasn't found anything, and we could go to Canada.
But of course, I'm the bad person in this whole scenario. Because I want to be selfish with my vacation time, and try and have a few days to either carry over or use before the year is up. And Gabe keeps saying that he understands and its okay, but then he turns around and basically says to his family that its all my fault we aren't going. Instead of making it sound like its OUR decision and that we are together on this, he makes it sound like its all MY decision and I'm the bad guy here. I know his dad probably understands, but Ella now has someone to blame for Gabe not going on vacation with them. So I said to Gabe, "Go without me" and he of course has to turn around and make me feel more guilty because he doesn't want to do that since he wants to share Canada with me. Its a part of his childhood that he enjoyed and he's only been able to share it with 2 or 3 other people before.
Of course I finally get rid of a stress yesterday by finally taking care of our passports, and he has to make it a bad situation, but I won't get into that.
Its just hard right now since we only have 1 true income coming in, Gabe's unemployment, which isn't much, our stimulus checks are pretty much gone now, my bonus that I'm trying to save for the cruise to take care of rent and getting new clothes and shoes, and that's it. Gas is a major bitch right now, and of course I only have 1 gas card left out of the 4 that I got for my car. And that last one I'm probably going to use today.
Everything is just so fucked up right now and my high-holding head days are over I think. I have two mothers that like to play mind games, two fathers who could give a rats' ass, one sister who can easily see me whenever she wants, another sister who can't, obligations, responsibilities, finances, bills, rent, insurance, food, gas, all this shit to take care of and I feel like I'm carrying most of the weight on my shoulders. Add to that, my hobby that was suppose to give me something fun to do and make me feel better about how I spend my days, is getting in the way and adding more unnecessary stress to it all.
But does he think about this or notice this? I think not!
Sincerely,
Headcase
Current Location: Work
Current Mood:  melancholy
Current Music: Foo Fighters - 'The Pretender'
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June 6th, 2008
05:14 pm - Nobody does it better...
So what's new with me? Hmmmm...
Gabe and I were obsessed with Ninja Warrior for a while there. They were having a full day of marathons of former episodes to celebrate an American making it further than other competitors on the latest one. It was pretty cool and it really draws you in. Have to say the Japanese have the right idea in having a competition like that. I don't know if it would work as well here in the US but I'm sure its a good way of encouraging people to be more active. Gabe and I were joking around about trying to get fit for it.
Swaps are taking over my life right now. I'm still waiting on my Jhonen Vasquez swap to end, waiting on international packages. Then I have a couple other swaps going on right now and then I'm organizing a Zombie swap which has been awesome so far. All the girls I'm working with on this one are awesome. They are so cool and make it fun to talk about different zombie movies, the funny and the scary.
I had an interesting experience over the last few days and then ending today. For some reason that I can't remember I started reading old deadjournal entries and I started around the time tensions were high in anime back in college. Then I watched The Paper on MTV today and I noticed the similarities with how things went down in that "reality" show in relation to how things went down in anime. Its weird to see how it still affects me too. But then again I lost a lot of good friends during that period due to the things that happened. Basically in The Paper, the two main people who wanted editor-in-chief were good friends. Then the girl won over the guy and all the people who were close friends with the guy started punishing the girl who won. They would not listen to her, gave her no respect, and tried to make it seem like she was doing a bad job compared the guy who they believed should have won. I just find it amazing how something like that happens even in people's senior of high school and even college for me. From what I remembered in high school, our senior class pretty much got along by the end of it. Not too many people were still bitter about things but I know we had tensions. But never ever exploded like it did in anime or this show. But that should be ancient history at this point but its still disappointing when you think about it.
So I guess that's all, possibly, for now.
Current Location: Home
Current Mood:  contemplative
Current Music: Voltaire feat. Amanda Palmer - 'Stuck with You'
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May 10th, 2008
01:48 pm - We won an award!
Well jeez...I haven't been talkative at all.
So first off I got a new car. I wasn't sure about doing it and I didn't want to be the kind of person who just gets rid of a car once it doesn't look good enough anymore. But I went to the sale at my bank and looked around and saw my Saturn. Its an Aura 08, silver with gray interior. Has so many great things in it and its four doors so now I don't feel bad about driving our friends around. And I'm trying very very hard at not smoking inside. So far we have been good. And it has an auxiliary hook-up for my iPod, so now Black Beauty sounds so pretty playing in my new car. And we found a great spot to put the TomTom.
Gabe is having a hard time finding a job. But we got some good news from Kelly last night. Just have to wait and see about it.
Work has been busy and crazy and frustrating. And now because I don't smile every time this one guy comes by I'm a bitch or a mean person. I'm sorry, I'm not a happy person. Everyone learns this about me. Yes I can sit there and joke around every now and then but not on cue. I see it as being real to people not mean. Life is not happy go lucky. There are so many things to be real about in the world. Yes I'm alive and working and have a great man who loves me and a roof over my head but there are also other issues in the world that get me down. I shouldn't feel guilty about being myself.
Other fun events: the Eastern Haunters Convention!!
Gabe and I went last weekend and it was so much fun. We had a blast. First on Friday we were able to go on a bus tour with other attendees to Eastern State Penitentiary then the Mutter Museum then the Fright Factory. Eastern State was everything I expected and more. They gave us a great tour of parts of the prison that they can show the public. Then we had a great lunch in the blocked off row of cells near Al Capone's cell. (His cell is now my background on my phone hehe) Then Gabe and I got into trouble for wondering around where we weren't suppose to be because I needed the bathroom but didn't want to bother the other people who were eating by squeezing between them and the cell doors. Then they took us through their haunt and let us talk to the volunteer actors they had and how make-up was done and how they built it. Then at the Mutter I got to walk around for a good hour to see everything. Gabe of course took the time to point out the important things since he's been there before. Then we headed to the Fright Factory in South Philly. They had a nice BBQ for us provided by this one guy from Jersey. We actually ate in their attraction near the asylum. Then we got pictures with this one character they have and a quick run through their attractions. Then with the lights on, we got to walk through again and see how they do everything. So many great things and ideas running through our heads of course.
Then Saturday and Sunday was the convention and we got to hear so many different experts in the field of haunting and Halloween decorating. And luckily for the whole IRS rebate thing, we were able to purchase one kit for cutting foam, a pound of flesh, and memberships to Castle Blood. We met so many awesome people and definitely look forward to Halloween this year and the next convention. Our friends are in for a great treat this year.
So we won an award. A Halloween oscar basically. Gabe had entered our pictures for this DVD that this guy puts out of people's haunts and parties and costumes and such. We were put on the DVD and then people who buy them get to vote on certain categories. And apparently our party won for Best Haunt Party of 2007. Its part of the HauntX Awards. If you just go to this link you can see the list of winners for their awards.
This is Gabe with his new baby. I think he's going to try and carry it with him to all our friends' houses till they all see it.
Also in events, last weekend was also Gregg's b-day, so Saturday night we went to his place to have dinner and cake with the Neff family, Matt, Gregg and ourselves. And I finally got to meet the new baby, Lillyanna. She is such a cutie but seems to be temperamental. And apparently Gregg had a racing theme so he got the new Mario Go-Kart for the Wii, and a few extra wheel controllers to go with it. And also some race cars to play with on his old rubber track that he put up in the living room. And we also celebrated Alex's b-day since him and Sarah are going to see her sister in Phoenix on his b-day for a week.
Then just last night we went to see Iron Man with Gregg and Kelly. Always a good time hanging out with those two. Kelly and I just get along so great since we are the same age and seem to have so many things in common, including Gregg and Gabe. I actually enjoyed it, it seemed to not hit on certain issues that I thought it would. It was so not go USA, beat those terrorists. It was more fuck you, USA, you are the reason those terrorists are able to hurt us and other innocents. But then again as Gregg and Gabe explained to me, the comic was written many many years ago, long before all this Middle East bullshit. But I was just afraid that they saw a comic that was "beat those terrorists" and made it more propaganda to support this debacle of a war.
So that's all. Minus my crafting and doing swaps and getting more neat things, nothing else is new. Glad to write it all done finally.
PS: I'm welcoming a short break for this coming week from crafting, I've been doing so much since January.
Current Mood:  okay
Current Music: "Back to Sleep" - Synthentic Division
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March 31st, 2008
07:26 pm - Full from my great cooking skills...
Jeez. Its been about months since I've posted. Nothing really new was going on actually. Let's see...
Family stuff: My sister of course owns Mom-mom's house. I think I mentioned that already. My parents have officially sold their house. They are officially out of Linwood now. We are still going on our cruise in September, just have to work on that whole passport thingy. Money is kind of tight right now.
Gabe stuff: Still no prospects. Hence the tight budget. Hence the more cooking on my part also. But it seems like food shopping has gotten to be even more expensive. All I got was 3 pounds of meat, Smart Ones for lunches, some OJ, muffins, applesauce, and some fixings for meals and it was still $50. Craptatular.
Hobby stuff: I've been crafting up a storm lately. Lots of swaps under my belt and now I'm down to the point of where I'm organizing one. I'm enjoying it but its getting kind of expensive due to not having too many supplies. Plus I can't really knit too much right now since its getting warmer and who wants a scarf in the summer. But I'm taking advantage of coupons from JoAnns. But I'm realizing how limited my color choices are there.
Everything else: I've been so tired lately. I can't sleep more than 6 or 7 hours on the weekend and then during the week when I get that much sleep normally, its so hard to get up and going. Work is the same old, except there is the possibility of some overtime this month. So many projects are going to start up. We seem to be having a problem with tech support when it comes to our equipment. We sent away our microwave weeks ago and still haven't heard anything. And that company still owes us supplies that we ordered a couple of months ago. And then with the new microwave from a different company, the torque wrench is a pain in the ass to work with. Its like as long as my forearm and then hits me in the chest whenever I use it.
::le sigh::
Current Location: At home
Current Mood:  full
Current Music: Scrubs on TV
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January 30th, 2008
07:18 am - DIY to the rescue...
( Stolen from hecatemacbeth )
Current Location: Work
Current Mood: melancholy
Current Music: "I'm a Blonde" - from Earth Girls are Easy
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January 17th, 2008
08:09 am - What a fucking week....and its not even over yet
So many bad things in so little time.
Well I don't know if I've mentioned this before but Gabe is losing his job. His last day is actually tomorrow where he will help box up whatever is left in the store and helping to ship out to some warehouse or another Bombay store that may still be open. Even Will's store, the one in Wilmington, is going to close between today and tomorrow. It sucks but we are dealing with it as best we can.
Then the other night happened. Gabe offered to drive to his parents' house for dinner and since he's not driven in a while, I let him go ahead. I needed gas but I decided to wait till we left their house, use it as an excuse to get out early. Well on the way through Valley Forge park, a deer just came out of nowhere and we hit it, straight on. Gabe says it was a juvenile, pretty young, must have darted out between these two cars going in the opposite direction of us and just was in front of the car before he knew it. I of course was majorly upset, not about my car, but about the deer. I've been driving in that park every day since I moved out to P'ville and have never had any problems with the deer, always careful, and always mournful when I see one dead on the side of the road, because sometimes I think people are just not paying attention. These animals have no where else to live, this is the safest area for them, and yes there are tons of them there, so you know, you know they are there, so be fucking careful. I wasn't upset with Gabe because honestly I wasn't paying attention either like I usually do. I was actually getting comfortable being in the car with him in control. And it probably would have happened the same way if I was driving, except I probably would have caused the people driving behind us to hit my car because I would avoid the deer in no regards to the safety of my car or of the cars around us. Then my insurance would have probably gone up, yeah. Anyway, Gabe went to check on the deer after we pulled over and I looked at the car. He said it looked like the deer died on impact pretty much so I was happy to know that it didn't suffer at all. My car on the other hand was pretty beat up. The front grill was pretty much shattered and the hood has a nice dent in it right near the edge where I think the deer's head slammed. (I'm holding back tears while writing this, that's how bad I feel about the situation.) We called 911 after I calmed down and talking to Meesh to see if she could find a number for the park rangers. They sent one to us and we told him what happened and he said to call to get the case number, in case I need to claim the accident. Right now I'm waiting to see what kind of estimate I will get on the damage. I have it all planned out in relation to what I'm going to do, I just have to make a few phone calls and a few more trips to certain places to get it all settled out. It sucks, but I'm working on it.
Then yesterday when I got home, there was a message from John. Ends up Jen's mother passed away the other day. She was a great woman who was just unlucky enough in life to have MS. She had it the whole time that I knew her. But I'm glad her suffering is over and she's at peace somewhere up there with Denny who passed away back when I was in high school. I already talked to Gabe about it and what I'm going to do, but I just have to make a phonecall and its done. I don't feel welcomed by certain people and I'm sure they would want closer family and friends who were there for the past 5 years. I'm not that person but I am sorry for their loss.
Now today I got an email for a job offer. I have not been looking. I said that I was going to avoid the job search for the year considering the vacation plans we have set up. Plus with Gabe, I think stability would be best right now. But its a good job, don't know all the information, but it'll pay well and its with a good company, a pharmaceutical company at that. Some of the people I've told about it in confidence here at work have told me to go for it. But I'm afraid, and I don't want to be the kind of person who jumps from job to job when I don't necessarily have to. But its a new place, a new technique to learn, a new stamp to include on my resume. I'm conflicted but I'm going to give it some thought.
So I ask the cosmic, karma, whatever world out there, what else? I seem to be ready for it so go ahead. Throw it out there. Shake things up a bit. Maybe I needed this wake up call, I don't know. I thought I was going to fix things in my life, make myself happy on my own, work towards enjoying some new things, but you apparently couldn't wait for me. So what's next? Really?
Current Location: Work
Current Mood:  restless
Current Music: The Dresden Dolls - 'Girl Anachronism'
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December 26th, 2007
07:14 am - A close to the end of the year wrap up of the last 2 months
I know I've been totally slacking it with lj posts lately but I don't hear anyone else complain so I haven't been motivated exactly.
Lots of fun things have been happening in my life lately. Lots of hangage with the P'ville peeps. Everybody is just a huge blast and its hillarious when we have just Alex, Gregg and Gabe around each other because they always seem to dress alike in some way. It happened at my first birthday dinner where all three were wearing docs and leather coats. But then again Sarah, Kelly and myself were suddenly sans hair (we chopped our hair off one after the other) and had black zip-up boats on. I'm really growing fond of P'ville the longer I stay here and have fun with friends at the bars and the Vale. I even had one of Gabe's oldest friends, Annie, ask me if I really like it up here and I said yeah, its just a fun place to be in. Plus we have pagan festivals like The Firebird and Rocky Horror and soon I hope I can bring Buffy to the Colonial with a little help from Joey and Sarah. Oh and can't forget Blob Fest which I am yet to do but I plan to check it out this coming year. I'm also hoping to check out the First Friday festivities with Sarah possibly. Plus a town that has an old style movie theater that will allow people to get married in it for just $500 is fucking awesome.
For Gabe's b-day I got him a nice digital camera with the help of Gregg and Kelly so if you notice a lot more pics in myspace, that's why. He's really taken a liking to it and it has a great video quality to it.
With the holidays came a lot of time with the families. Thanksgiving was Gabe's family for dinner then my family for dessert. The worst part about Thanksgiving was the fucking power. That's the only downside of my apartment. I was all ready to go but Gabe still needed to shower and such (of course) and the freaking power goes out. Of course I'm pissed but I was happy that I wasn't stuck cooking something at least. Then we finally get to Ella's brother's house for dinner and I'm telling them about how much we lose power and how much it sucks and boom! the power goes out there. Luckily Weineta had already finished everything but the rolls. But we didn't lose power at my parents' so I didn't feel like a magnet for blackouts just yet.
After that we had Yule which Meesh and Christina decided to make into a family thing this year. So we had my parents, Will's parents, Gabe's parents and sister, Christina's mom, grandparents, aunt, uncle and two cousins, Mary's mom and her brother Patrick and then Meesh, Christina, Will, Gabe, Mary and myself. It was a full house. Lots of great food because everybody brought more than just ONE family favorite dish (it said it on the invite) but I was just as guilty since I brought tomato pie and brownies. But its all good since nobody really ate much of the desserts. It was a lot of fun to have my family finally meet all of Gabe's family. And it seemed like everybody was enjoying themselves.
Then we just had Christmas of course. Eve was with Gabe's family and then last night was my family. So Christmas Eve we went to Gabe's parents' house kind of late and of course Zua wanted to open presents as soon as we got there. And she wasn't doing it in a bratty way, she just wanted to give us our presents. And you would never believe what they gave us right away.
A Freakin' PS3!!!!!
Yeah, that's right, a PS3. Gabe had asked just for money towards one since he's been saving up since his birthday. And every year when he usually asked for something specific, he usually didn't get it like when he wanted a Nintendo and a computer when he was younger. So he thought that just by asking for money that it would work out that he would just get money. But instead they decided to just get the damn thing. And luckily his dad ran into some nerd at the store who knew things about the PS3 so he was able to make the right choice. Can't believe them. Only problem now is we have to get games for it. We also got lots of gift cards which will help out in the coming weeks with food. For his family we got Ella a Visa card so she can get herself something nice, Zua a sketchbook and a Fender starter kit with an amp, tuner, DVD to teach her, and extra strings and picks (she loved it but I think Joel loved it better) and Joel a watercolor painting box that has a stand and paints and brushes to go with it. Then we had lots of food and of course had to drag Zua to bed so we could leave to let them put presents under the tree.
Then my family's get together was last night which consisted of my parents, Meesh, Will, Gabe and myself. There was lots of good food and then of course Meesh and I started going nuts and wanting to open presents. My parents got my sister and I both Tom Toms, waffle stick makers, and comfy spa robes which I'm going to save for those special days I like to pamper myself hehe. Then they got all four of us young'uns gift cards to Wawa and money for our passports since all four minus Will have to get ours for the cruise, well Gabe and I need ours before July for Canada at least. Then Meesh got me two really nice sweaters, a gift card to JoAnn's (I think the fact that I'm getting more crafty is sinking in), and a really nice calendar from this artist she met at GenCon. Meesh and Will got Gabe a really nice Jack shirt and the Nightmare Before Christmas party game. We got my parents a DVD-VCR combo recorder and DVDs to go with it, my mom some local cheese and wine (as a way to say, "Come on up sometime for a visit"), and my dad a desk golf game and a race car shot holder since he has his RC cars displayed around the bar in the new house. We gave Meesh gift cards to Loews, some gardening gloves, SingStar the 80s version, and Unicorn bandaids hehe. We gave Will Pirate bandaids hehe, a bonsai tree kit, pruning shears, and the Simpsons movie.
We went to Meesh's house to meet up with Christina. We gave her a nice clear tea pot, the warmer plate for underneath it, some blooming tea bulbs, and Jesus bandaids hehe. We got the same tea kit for her mom too since they like the herbal stuff. Christina made us herbal rice bags, gift cards to Hot Topic, and a really nice picture frame with this really cute picture she snapped of us at Yule. I was going to ask her for that picture but she beat me to it.
Also at Shawn, Kelly, Eva and Tommy's holiday party on Saturday we gave Shawn ice cool shooters (they are shot glasses made in the freezer), Kelly some of the blooming tea bulbs, Eva some chocolate and their other housemate who we never see some wine. Then Sean got me Holy Toast maker and Gabe the smoking baby to go with our smoking monkey. Kelly got us both classic B horror movies. Alex and Sarah got us a dancing robot and later Gabe the new NIN remix of Year Zero and me a Bart keychain from the manic series.
Overall it was a nice holiday and I was really happy to make everyone so excited with the gifts we picked out even though we did do it all last minute but we at least had ideas in mind ahead, was just waiting for the money to roll in.
So here comes the new year and I'm stuck at work for the next three days. Only because I wanted to carry over some days for next year with the vacation plans and JM screwed me up with the whole change in policy to cut 5 days from us and make it all paid time off instead of the separation of sick/personal time from vacation that we were use to. Of course they had to do that in the year that I have 2 huge vacations planned out.
I hope everyone had a happy and safe holiday with family and friends. Here's to the New Year since I probably won't blog again till then hehe.
PS: I really missed you, Mom-mom.
Current Mood:  tired
Current Music: NIN - 'Capital G'
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November 8th, 2007
07:14 am - Yeah I'm a quarter of a century old...
Just wanted to post up a quick thing since a. its my birthday and 2. we have lots of pics from our Halloween bash and the many activities we did before hand.
So without further ado, go to Gabe's picture site.
Just go under the main menu at the top, click on Samhain, and there are a bunch of pics from the Renn Faire, pumpkin picking, Sean's party, and our own party.
I would try and link but he's got it set up so that I can't put the pictures in a link. Sorry. I'm not lazy...well maybe a little.
Current Location: work
Current Mood: mellow
Current Music: 'Cool Rider' - Grease 2
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October 24th, 2007
10:13 am - Lucy in the sky with diamonds...
Okay I'm going to do a quick play-by-play since its been a while and I probably won't remember everything.
-Went to Sarah and Alex's wedding which was awesome. They had a beautiful Scottish/Celtic ceremony where they said their vows while placing a hand on a rock (its a tradition apparently). Sean did an excellent job as "president" and I held in the tears for Gabe's and my make-up's sake. The Colonial Theater was a great place to have it I have to say and the Valley Forge bagpipe band were excellent (they played the procession in and out). We were definitely a sight to see on the main street of P'ville that's for sure. And the men looked very handsome in their tartans.
The reception was beautiful too and they had an excellent idea where after the usual dancing occurred, they had the dj do a sort of karaoke thing for anyone who wanted to sing. I should have but I was too busy drinking, smoking, and laughing it up with people I hardly get to hang out with.
The afterparty was awesome too. We went to this clubhouse sort of thing at Dave and Flea's apartment/condo community. They brought all the leftover booze from the reception and Alex's band played a one point. It was a rip-roaring good time. Definitely a highlight on my year.
-Both families are in their new homes and quite settled in. My parents gave up their TV to Gabe and I since they got themselves a couple of flatscreens for the new place. Gabe's parents have definitely downsized a good amount but they have a great backyard that's perfect for parties.
-The costumes are finished, but I am redoing my vest. I did a trial run on Sunday at the Renn Faire and that's the only piece that left me a little disappointed. The skirt just needs a little bit more added to the waistband so that I can make it a little tighter since I didn't take into account tights when I sewed it together.
-We have a menu all planned out for the party and this weekend will probably entail shopping and a good amount of cooking when we aren't out partying with our friends.
-This past weekend we finally went pumpkin picking with Gabe's family. Headed to Linvilla and man that place has gotten so much more popular since my childhood. But their pumpkins were pretty cheap, about $.59 a pound. We got 2 large ones, one medium, and 3 little ones for decoration. For Zua's sake we went on this hayride to the Witch's house they had set up. It was cute but I don't think it was worth $8. And I was freezing afterwards because during the day it was gorgeous so I wore only a tee and shorts with my hair sort of still wet and back in a bandana. By the time the sun went down, it got chilly. Luckily they had fire pits set up for people to roast marshmallows so I took advantage when we got off the hayride. Also Gabe bought a hot cider, and it was good, so we asked the girl how they make it, and she said they probably had a bag of the tea/herbs in the shop. So we picked up that and a jug of their cider and will probably serve that on Halloween if its cool enough. If not I can always save it for Thanksgiving or something.
-Also we went to the Renn Faire with Meesh and Will. That was fun and Gabe and I tried out for the Halloween costume contest. Neither of us won and we were all upset about it even Christina, Josh and Moo by the time they got there. I mean we knew that Gabe wasn't going to win first place compared to this one woman who was a whole haunted house but still, he made that head all on his own. Oh well. We were really hoping for 3rd place so we could get tickets to the Poe Evermore show they do in early November. Tartan Terrors were awesome as always and they had a new skit about the evolution of kilts. They were hillarious especially the Pa Renn Faire kilt.
-Now I'm just working, staying a little late the past few days to make up for Friday. I took a half day and I really need to save some of my vacation time. Next year is pretty cramped because they decided to give us only PTO days (all your paid time off is one category, sick, personal, vacation) and they took away 5 days in the process. So instead of 10 vacation days and 10 sick/personal days, I know have only 15 days. But I think since I've been with the company for 3 years coming November 8th, that I get 2 extra days. And if I carry over at least 4 days, that gives me 21 days not including whatever they do for our floating holidays. I'm going to be a bitch by the end of this year but it'll be worth it I guess. And it doesn't help that the last real vacation I've had (and I mean a good week away in another state or country where I have to fly or drive for very long to get to) was two summers ago at Myrtle Beach. Yeah I'll definitely deserve a week in Canada and a week on the cruise next year.
So that's that. Parties this weekend at Sean's then at my sister's coworker Michelle's place. Then cooking, decorating, pumpkin carving, and Halloween will be here before I know it. I still have to make my horns for work. I'm coming in on Halloween as Lucy the Daughter of the Devil. Nobody at work will know who she is and probably just think I'm wearing horns and I've renamed my labcoat to Lucy. But I'll know and that's all that matters.
Current Location: Work of course
Current Mood: bored
Current Music: Theme to the Nightmare Before Christmas
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September 10th, 2007
08:28 am - The geekies mullet in the world...
I don't know why I could care less to write in here all of a sudden. Guess I never really see the point anymore.
But I'll just give a quick update on things.
Work has been busy in a good way and bad way. But with the help of Gabe's schedule I'm able to stay late almost every Wednesday and Thursday so I can leave early on Fridays. But it seems some of the guys in the back have a different plan and want to make me work even more for that 1 extra hour of freedom I've worked towards. Still trying to figure out how much time I will be willing to carry over without using it this year and then I will have to do some overtime I'm sure next year. With vacation plans and possible moving plans, I'm going to need all the time I can get next year.
Finally saw Wicked this weekend. I really loved it. It was a good choice for a play by mom. Gabe and Will enjoyed it also but they seemed to be taking some parts of it literally of course being who they are. Meesh of course just enjoyed it for entertainment sake like myself.
Also saw The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters last night. That was so good and just awesome to watch. A total geek/gamer movie. Enjoyed watching it with Christina and Josh since they are always fun to hang out with. And I always seem to stick myself between Christina and Gabe who both seem like to throw out little lines or jokes around the same time in movies. They did that to me last weekend when we went to see Balls of Fury. I highly recommend both.
Of course Gabe is already into Halloween mode so I'm being dragged along. Not really dragged but I just want to take it slowly and think about the money situation before we splurge on something else for the house or our costumes. I'm going to be a gothic/psychotic version of Little Red Riding Hood. At first it was going to be raver like with black and hot pink being my colors. But then with everybody complaining and the complete lack of finding the right fabric that I wanted even online, I gave up on that color scheme and decided to just do red and black. Its a bit easier to do. I wanted to get a small crossbow but I doubt that'll be inexpensive. But I still need a wolf head to put in my basket. The house party is pretty much settled out with relation to food and drinks. We have so much alcohol in the house already that I doubt we'll need much more minus a bottle or two more of wine. Hopefully a good amount of people will come to make it a little more worthwhile this year.
My parents bought a new house. I got a quick tour of it on Saturday with Gabe. Its really nice and pretty much in a decent secluded part of town. They are a few things that need to be fixed like the paint and cleaning/scrubbing certain areas. They are not completely moved in, not until next week or so. So by the end of the month, they will probably be living there officially and then putting up the old house for sale. I'm glad they are getting out of our old neighborhood, but its going to be a large undertaking since we've been living there for 24 years.
I'm starting to worry about many things and the real world is just not helping. People think I'm stressed at work about how much work I've had lately but when I'm home I start to worry alot about certain things. Like our vacation goals for the whole year which include Canada in July, possibly HOPE in NY in July too, then the cruise in September. Then we are considering finding a house which puts a financial strain on things. Then we need passports also for the vacation goals since now you need one when even just going to Canada. Then if we get a house, will we be able to maintain and afford everything that comes with it. With Gabe's job and the way things are going there, I think he needs to seriously consider a new place, preferably a 9 to 5 monday through friday job. If not then something he can do from home on his computer for 8+ hours a day. Then if we do get a house/townhouse/condo will I have the time to take off for moving and will Gabe be able to take the time off also. I mean I lucked out when we moved to our current place since it was right around Christmas so I just took those two days between Christmas and New Years and had a full week to work with. Then if the whole getting a house thing doesn't pan out I really need a bigger space to live in. So should we ask our apartment manager if there are any two bedrooms to move into and soon. Or do we need to ask for a month to month thing till we figure it all out. And honestly I feel alone in these thoughts, because Gabe could care less. But that's how I feel so yeah. Its just that next year is going to be kind of hectic and possibly crazy for me and I really could use someone right there with me going through it and supporting me the whole way.
What else to say....nothing really.
Current Mood:  worried
Current Music: Kajagoogoo - 'Too Shy'
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July 12th, 2007
07:37 am - Gyno...a woman's new age priest
Felt like doing a quick little write up about life and all the things that are happening in it.
Gabe and I have been hanging out with my sister, Christina, and Will a lot lately. We did Wizard World in Philly in order to show support to Will's company ::cough Fantasist Enterprises cough:: Lots of game playing, hangage, foodage at different places including Cheeburger Cheeburger and Max & Erma's. Meesh and Christina recently came up this past weekend for sushi and Rocky Horror. They were de-virginized, yah!! And Kelly came to hang out also which was cool.
Gabe and I had a mini-vacation last week for the 4th. We both took off the 2nd and 3rd and headed down on the 1st after a long day of packing and cleaning up at his parents' house (another story). We shopped, relaxed, ate a little too much, and had Meesh and Will join us our last night and on the 4th. We played Munchkin Chuthulu and saw the Invisible (don't recommend it) and ate a lot.
Also this past weekend we took Gabe's sister, Zua, to see Ratatouille. We were keeping her occupied while Joel and Ella packed up the house and their things for Canada. The house has been sold and they are moving by the end of July, but only a few blocks away. So we were there twice to get most of Gabe's stuff out that we could and pick out more stuff that would have been trashed or just stored at the new house. But it was nice to have a night out with Zua. She is a lot of fun to have around. Plus she kept busting on Gabe about not driving and then we were in the Hallmark store and she kept showing me the baby themed stuffed animals. I think she was hinting something.
My parents are currently working on getting a condo/townhouse for themselves. They are then going to put up our current house for sale and hopefully with some repairs they have already done, can sell it pretty fast. It really is one of the best houses on that street, maybe even that neighborhood. So I will have to repeat the same thing at my parents' house that Gabe and I did at his parents' house.
I've started looking at houses again. I have a list but I still have to look at our lease to see what kind of compromise we could configure. We also have to talk to a realtor which I need to talk to Gregg about, maybe he or Alex or Sarah could suggest someone.
Recently I've become obsessed with Sudoku. It was only a matter of time considering my leaning towards puzzles. I've already finished a 100 puzzle book that I got a while back. Now I'm trying to figure out where I can get some free ones to print out from online. Well that's if I get my printer to communicate with Jarod again.
Also I picked up knitting finally. I've learned how to cast on and to knit stitch. I think I have the purl stitch down, but I have to practice some more.
And I started dieting again in a sense. I mean I'm eating every 3 hours again, and I'm trying to limit my dinners, but that's the hard part. Mom-mom's passing really screwed up my eating and smoking habits, so I'm trying to get back on track. I know she would have encourage it.
Current Mood: geeky
Current Music: Imperative Reaction - 'As We Fall'
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June 18th, 2007
06:09 pm - My Father's Day Present
So Saturday night on my way home with Gabe from Meesh and Christina's after a fun-filled day in Philly at Wizard World, we get about 10 minutes on the road when my check engine light goes on. I ask Gabe what does that mean since he always goes for the manual about stuff. He said that basically I would have to drive slowly and take my time on the way home. Well we get about 20 minutes from our place and my car starts smoking. I freak out and we pull over in a well-lit area to see what happened. Well Gabe asks for water and some kind of towel or rag. I give him my jacket that's been in the car for months and the last DeerPark in my trunk. He pours some into the radiator cap to cool the engine down. We waited a few minutes and got back on the road slowly taking my time as smoke kept coming out of my engine. So needless to say I'm freaking out. We get home and start looking up Honda dealerships in the area. Of course its Sunday so nobody is open. So we crashed and Gabe had to get up early to catch the bus.
After Gabe leaves, I call my parents to see what assistance they could offer, like maybe a spare car to hold me over till I get this fixed. My dad insists on coming up to see what the problem is and if we couldn't figure it out, he was going to leave me the car. So I get ready as he's on the way. When Dad arrives, we head down to look at what was under the hood. He pulls off the radiator cap and finds bits and pieces of other things inside the neck like a spring, a gasket and a washer. Since he doesn't know too much about Hondas, we came upstairs to consult the wise old internet to figure it out. I find an European schematic of a Honda Accord and see the radiator cap. Then I realize that the cap and those pieces are suppose to be one, not how it was inside my car. So we found an Autozone in Norristown and headed out to pick up a new cap. When we were buying the cap and then the coolant, the guy asked what was going on. We explained what we were finding underneath and he suggested I may need a new thermostat also if the cap isn't the only problem. So we returned to my car and put some fresh coolant in and replaced the cap with the new one. I started up the car and after a few shaking moments of really loud grinding it eventually started purring like the first day I bought it. But then Dad started getting some backflow of the coolant while he was trying to pour more in to help out. So I shut down the car and he realized that the top tubing was hotter than the bottom tubing. And we also heard sputtering like the coolant was being boiled again. I also pointed out this huge hole that was on the elbow joint connecting the tubing to the overflow reservoir. Dad of course said that it wasn't a good thing. Oh.
Next we hopped into the car to head to Pepboys because Dad didn't have the proper sized wrench to get the thermostat out. So we picked up a new gasket and thermostat along with some oil and a few tools and started to head home. But midway Dad realized he forget to get epoxy to fix the hole on the elbow joint. So we had to turn back around and get that. As a side note, where Pepboys is, its a huge pain in the ass to get to and from around that area because all left hand turns are made from the right lane and there's always a median right in the middle of the road. Huge headache. So we return here to get started again. I put the hood up and Dad pulls out a wrench to get the thermostat out. Well he must have jerked the car or slipped on something to cause it to jerk because the hood came flailing down onto him and he drops the wrench. I of course run over and try to figure out how that happen. I asked Dad where a good spot would be to place the stand and he puts right where its suppose to be, this little niche that I have never noticed before, and I mean never in all the times I've worked under the hood. But being my Dad, he doesn't say and word and gets back to work. So when the wrench fell we both heard it hit like the concrete, but when we looked under the car we couldn't find it. So my Dad ended up pulling the cover and main tubing for the air filter so that he could have more room to take out the thermostat. Without finding the wrench even after rocking the car from behind, Dad got the new thermostat in, I fixed the hole on the elbow joint, and he put the air filter cover and tubing back on. I started up the car and let it run for a while after Dad disconnected then reconnected the battery to stop the check engine light from being on. I noticed nothing major happening, the temp just went up a small amount, almost halfway and the check engine light never came on. Then Dad got in the car and turned on the radio and it said "CODE". I turned to him like "WHAT?" He realized that when he disconnected the battery, it activated the anti-theft on the car and that I needed the code to get the stereo to work again. I said I never heard of this code and I have no idea where it would be. So we looked through my manual and all the other paperwork I had stuffed in the glove compartment from the Enterprise sale. No code to be found. So I told Dad not to worry, that I would figure it out later.
Then he suggests that I put the car in reverse and try to jiggle it around to get the wrench out. So I put it in reverse and went for the gas pedal. But the gas pedal was stuck. So I told Dad what was happening and he was like "WHAT?" So I put the car back in park and hit the gas pedal as hard as I could. ::clink clink:: "Found the wrench!" Somehow it wedged itself inside the car around the gas pedal. So Dad told me to take the car for the ride which I believed that 1) he didn't feel like going under the car to get the wrench and 2) just to see how it would run. So when I got back from my little ride around the neighborhood I told him that it worked fine and that the temp gauge never went above halfway and the check engine light never came on. So he showed what to look out for in the morning when the car has sat overnight like the coolant and he gave me the extra tools and oil that we bought at Pepboys. I gave him some water, a huge hug, and thanked he so much for helping me out.
The funniest part is later on when I was talking to Mel and about it I mentioned how my temperature gauge has been at H for the longest time and I thought it was just meaning the car was working at maximum capacity. She laughed for a good minute and explained to me that the temp should have never gone over halfway.
So needless to say Kristen knows shit about cars.
And I feel really bad for my Dad since I made him come all the way up here, work under the hood of my car in 90 degree heat, drive me all over town, and I dropped the hood on his head. But the good side is I spent the whole day with my Dad.
Current Location: Living room
Current Mood:  ditzy
Current Music: VNV Nation - 'Kingdom'
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May 28th, 2007
10:24 am - I've never been in a theater that lost power before...
I keep wanting to write an update but I haven't quite decided on what to tell.
There's been a few amount of good things happening. We had the Celtic Fair here in P'ville. It was pretty cool, but I saw a lot of the same vendors that I would see at Mt. Hope for the Celtic Fair there. And they were making things pretty expensive. We saw Enter The Haggis which was an awesome show. I know it wasn't Gabe's kind of music but oh well, pretty cool.
I've hung out with some of the P'ville crew out here too. We had Gregg's 30th birthday party at his place where everybody decided to give him toys, at least 30. That was awesome since Sarah and Alex got a Spongebob pinata filled with lots of strange candy. Gabe and I got a Munny and made it to look like Gregg which actually turned out pretty well. We did a good job and we made him a Chaos superhero since they give you accessories, which were a cape, goggles, spray-paint can, and a broadsword. Then during the Celtic Fair, we went to see Mother Superior play which is Alex and Sean's band. That night we went to Sean's place for a drinking/bbq which was a blast.
Then this past weekend has been Meesh and Christina's move to my Mom-mom's house. They really lucked out Saturday because we saw the rain clouds coming as the movers were finishing up and by the time we got to Mom-mom's house, it stopped. So this is going to be different but fun for a while I guess.
Mom and I have been discussing the possibility of me and Gabe moving into a house. She's going to let me use my inheritance as the down payment. I've been looking but I'm not rushing into it since we are still in this apartment till January. Eh who knows.
Current Mood: blah
Current Music: VNV Nation - 'Testament'
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April 29th, 2007
11:33 am - It helps to think she's happy somewhere
This long crazy weekend is over.
I thank all who came to pay their respects and comfort my family.
Everybody did a beautiful job with the flowers and other gifts.
It feels better to know that Mom-mom is at peace after battling cancer for so long.
I just hope through her faith and all other views of heaven in all the religions that she found the peace and afterlife that would make her happy.
I hope she knows how sorry I was and still am for not being there as much as I could.
I just pray in my own way that she knew how loved she was and still is.
Goodbye Mom-mom.
Current Mood: thoughtful
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April 24th, 2007
11:21 pm - Sad news
I'm just going to do a quick post about what happened today.
I got a phone call from my sister saying my Mom-mom was not doing too well. So I decided to head down this time in case. Well on my way with the iPod playing, I finally got to some White album songs. Eleanor Rigby and also Blackbird.
When I arrived my sister was outside waiting for me and I knew. I was too late and Mom-mom had already passed while I was on the road. Meesh was there with my mom when she left us.
Tomorrow I will be with my family working out the details, helping my sister moving Mom-mom's things out of her room at the nursery home, all that stuff.
I feel bad because I was going to take a half day from work and head down there to see her since she wasn't doing too well recently. I guess I wasn't suppose to be there. At least I had Blackbird at the time she supposedly went.
So I will be gone from the net for a while, but I will check when I can for any messages.
::hugs::
Current Mood: sad
Current Music: The Beatles - 'Blackbird'
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12:02 pm - Tell me, do I?
Horoscope for Scorpio for April 24, 2007:
Re-evaluate goals and look at long-term commitments with a judicious eye. The stars want you to think about the life you imagined and the life you're living. Do you need to revamp anything?
Current Mood:  annoyed
Current Music: DJ Hanz - 'Wake up and See'
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April 23rd, 2007
09:20 am - For the love of God and my sanity, call your parents!
I figured it was about time I wrote something again about my life.
Work has gone back to the usual handful of samples, with lots of time on my hands. So pranks have started to increase again. Well mainly between Phil and myself but its all innocent fun hehe. Soon I'll get my "bonus" and raise hopefully. That should help the hurting wallet despite my taxes.
In social news, there was a tragic but in the end really funny incident that happened last friday. VNV Nation was in town with And One. Gabe and I never purchased tickets, one because Ticketmaster is the freaking devil with the charges those fuckers apply, and two we weren't really sure we were really going till that day when I made Gabe call out sick from work. I'm evil I know. So we left around 5:30 from our place to get there hopefully by 6:30 to get the tickets as the doors opened. So we hit massive traffic because this is Friday night in Philly just near the end of rush hour, so everybody's still on the roads getting home. And we didn't find out till later that oh yeah, there was a Phillies' game also that night. So we headed for the backroads which means light stop light stop light stop, etc. My sister calls us to tell us she just got there so we asked her to pick us up two tickets and we'll pay her back. Then fifteen minutes later she calls back and I said this wasn't a good sign. It wasn't. They were completely sold out. But the best part was Deacon didn't get a ticket either and Meesh, Will, Christina, and Amy were already inside the Troc leaving Deacon outside alone in the middle of Philly which is a bad place to Deacon. So lots of phone calls were passed around back and forth for a good half hour as we gave up and got on the highway to inch our way towards Center City. We picked up Deacon before he completely lost it, parked nearby and convinced him to enjoy some Chinese with us at the Imperial Inn. Such great food was had and I don't think Gabe realized there was shrimp in that eggroll, oops. Then we got in the car and this whole plan was concocted of us getting drunk on Meesh and Christina's porch just in time for them to get home. So we drove down towards their place, got some wine at Total Wine (including a bottle of Poison and a cheap jug of wine and also $7 plastic wine glasses), went to a bar down the road to enjoy a drink to start it off (awesome Melon margarita!), then toasted with the Poison in my car, yes in my car. Then we moved to the porch where Deacon and Gabe were completely determined to drink half of the jug of wine and I was just barely sipping away. Overall everybody but Amy since she went home (she's preggers) just laughed at us and Will and Meesh joined in while Christina and I talked. By the end of it Gabe had about 13 drinks of alcohol and proceeded to drunk talk my ear off the whole hour drive back home.
The rest of the weekend was pretty slow, I guess we didn't feel like topping Friday night.
This past Friday we headed out to Cheeburger Cheeburger finally. Gabe of course got the 1 pounder burger (the story is at this place is if you eat a whole 1 pounder burger then you get your picture taken and put on their wall, 1/2 pound for the kids) and I just got a semi-serious size. I ate about half my burger and he already ate his whole burger. So I jokingly said, "Are you going to get a second?" and when the waitress came back to see if she should get the camera ready, he ordererd a second. Told me it didn't feel like a challenge to him. So he got his second one as they were closing so we felt a little bad and he tried to scarf it down even faster. Didn't help that it was hot off the grill when she brought it. But he ate it all and now has his picture hanging up. Its a really funny picture too.
Then we headed to Gregg's since he was staying in and wanted to hang out with us. So we talked and talked and then he took us upstairs to show us his new Esteban guitar. There's a long story behind that. Then Alex and Shaun showed up and did a small jamming on the keyboard trying to play this 80s song which I completely forget now. Oh well. Then Gregg, Gabe and I played some South Park Jeopardy game on the Dreamcast. I won only based on the trivia. It was solely based on the little games you play each round, Gregg would have won.
Saturday after taking Gabe to work, I figured out what fabric I needed to get. I decided to make for Zua this thing called the Sube sac (but with accents over the 'u'). This girl created a tutorial on it based on a Japanese design she found. When I get a chance, I'll take picture tonight before I give it to her at dinner. I definitely didn't dress the part of seamstress when I went either. Daria shirt, hair down and messy, camoflauge boy shorts, and birkenstocks. Yeah that's me, the feminist who sews, what's it to ya?!
That night we headed down to see Meesh and Christina because Gabe begged them to let us come down. Plus we still had Christina's birthday present laying around. Gabe had me go to K-mart though for his gag gift. He's been planning this for a while and we finally got around to doing it. He bought my sister and Christina each a white shirt and water guns. Just think about that for a second. Let it soak in. Of course all the men in their lives are going to love him for it. Will joined us and we decided to play a game by the Cranium company. It was light a combo of charades and drawing and all kinds of things. But it was a lot of fun.
So I'm at work on a gorgeous Monday morning and I'm bored to tears already. Oh well.
Tonight we have Zua's 8th birthday dinner at Bertucci's. Its just going to be Ella, Joel, Zua, Gabe and myself. We are still thinking of getting Zua a movie too, something like My Neighbor Totoro or Howl's Moving Castle. Any suggestions?
Nothing else really new. I've lost about 5 pounds so far "dieting". Its hard since on the weekends I completely backfire when it comes to dinner time. But I'm still conscious of the types of foods I'm putting in and keeping in mind how much is going down. But I plan to keep this whole metabolism thing going but start eating a few less salads and just stick to how I was eating before minus dinners.
Current Mood: blah
Current Music: VNV Nation - 'Testament'
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April 9th, 2007
02:56 pm - Lots of peeps...that company sure made a lot of money this year
I've been spending so much time commenting on other journals, that I almost forgot about my own.
Well my Mom-mom has not gotten better. We've been back and forth on the phone whenever someone visits her from the family to hear how she is. Some days she'll be completely coherent, sitting up, talking to you the whole time. Other days she's the exact opposite. Suzy, my mom's cousin, came up from DC before her business trips to see what kind of input she could offer since she's a nurse and all. She talked to the hospice people and they agreed on what medications they need to change or keep the same. But then Uncle John came up to see her on Friday and she was in her bad stage again. Don't know what is going to happen with it. I've gotten through my hysterics stage for now. At least I'm able to talk about it without crying, so that's a start.
Last weekend, I drove down to see Mel in Ocean City Saturday night. We talked a lot, ate a good amount, tried to go dancing, but was instead tortured by the local cover band. Really didn't enjoy them one bit. I loved seeing my Mel, she's always so good to me and makes sure we have a good time together when we do see each other. Luckily there was a cheerleading competition, so a lot of places were open. Normally off season you would get one arcade and maybe a restaurant here and there.
I left there Sunday afternoon after some fun arcade playing and the indulgence of Thrasher's fries which honestly weren't as good as they usually are. I miss my Mel.
Then I started my four day week at work and had my ass handed to me. It was so busy and I hardly had a chance to breath from the minute I walked in the door. I had to take breaks in order to keep myself calm. Eventually I Started feeling sick and I'm still feeling it. Don't know if its the mutation of the last cold given back to me by Gabe or Mel had something or I'm just so stressed out from my family stuff plus work that I'm not all there right now.
Thursday night Gabe and I went to see Spamalot at the Academy of Music. That was awesome. Such a great show. Now I wish to own a video of Tim Curry as Arthur. Not to say Mike Sidberry wasn't any good but I just wish I had seen it with Tim. ::le sigh:: We stayed at the DoubleTree across the street courtesy of my mother again. She gave us the tickets at Christmas to make up for the cruise that they were taking Meesh on and then she felt bad again when I told her how expensive the hotel rooms were for me so she offered to get me one along with breakfast. So that's what we did. It was nice to just walk across the street and crash immediately.
Friday we headed down to see Meesh and Will eventually joined us. We headed down to IHOP to meet up with Christina, Jake, and two of her co-workers, Fredo and Shaun. Ate good food, then headed back to the apartment to watch The Last Dragon. Fucking awesome cult classic movie. So bad and yet so good. Its one of those movies that my sister would make me watch with her when I was little. I'm always being forced to watch certain things by my sister and Gabe, it must be a generational thing. Then we played some Wii which was classic since Shaun decided he wanted to play while holding onto his beer. Never see that again probably. Then we headed down to Roy Rogers off of 95 at the service station since they live so close to it. Ate some okay food and headed back. Everybody started crashing so Gabe and I headed home.
Saturday I was super lazy since Gabe didn't have work till 2pm. So I caught up on my DVR before and after Gabe went to work. Pretty much just did nothing, which I shouldn't have done since I have tons of laundry to do and Giant decided to not be open on Easter, but oh well. That night Gabe and I decided to see Grindhouse. AHHH!!! That was awesome. My butt paid for it by the end of the night but man, that rocked so hardcore. I don't want to say too much but I highly highly recommend that one.
Sunday we got up really late and rushed over to K-mart after getting ready to pick up things for Zua's Easter basket. Tons of candy, a few toys, a thing of hair things, and more candy. We headed over to his parents' place and found all of Ella's family there. Lots of good food and good company. Watched the kids do their Easter egg hunt, played a game with them to keep them occupied while most of the family set up dinner, ate some more food, talked a good amount, ate a little more (who ruins cheesecake by putting that nasty liquorice tasting stuff in it, really?), started into some philosophy with Joel, Barry, Mike and Gabe. That was definitely interesting. Left there around 9pm and that was that.
I'm still exhausted from my three day weekend. Holidays are supposed to be relaxing, right?
Current Location: Work
Current Mood: tired
Current Music: Evanescence - 'Sacrifice'
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March 27th, 2007
12:15 pm - Where's my dessert?!
So much news and yet it doesn't feel like it.
Thursday I almost had a meltdown because there were more parts frying in my ICP than our tech thought. So he put in an order for parts and gave us an estimate of 5 to 6 days. I just couldn't handle it anymore.
Friday morning came around and I decided that I would drag myself out of bed but I was only going to do half a day at work. I just had that gut feeling that a freak-out was on the verge due to the bs with my ICP. So I came in an hour early, did a few things to get stuff started, got snubbed by the QC people, then left at 10am. I ended up at home for a while just relaxing then I woke up Gabe to see if he wanted to go see 300 around 1:50 with me.
So we headed out and went to see it in the IMAX. It was fucking awesome!!! I loved it. I mean for the graphics and the telling of the story and just the blood and guts and gory factor. And especially for the half-naked gorgeous men on the screen. That was definitely an enjoyable part. But they did a great job overall, it was really well done. It was kind of cute because at the end this older couple sitting in front of me started to get up and leave during the credits and the woman turned around and smiled at me then said, "Alot of blood, huh?" Kind of cute. I hope to not be that woman when I'm her age.
That night we went out to Liki's with Gregg which was a blast since I haven't seen him in so long. Gabe seems to always hang out with Gregg either when I'm feeling sick or when I'm sleeping lately. A lot of good food and Gregg had a lot of fun with the orange peels at the end of night. He tried to create a monkey face with them and then proceeded to take tons of pictures at many different angles. And we ended up pissing off the people who work there just a little since they were waiting on us to leave so they could close up. Watched Chronicles of Narnia with Gabe when we got home. Now that I'm older and more wiser and have developed my feelings towards religion, I can't but watch it and feel its so wrong of me to enjoy. But it was really well done at least. It still tugs at the heart strings a bit.
Saturday I had to go down to my Mom-mom's apartment and help my parents clean it up. The story goes that my parents are going to move into my Mom-mom's house with her so that she is not alone. So we were taking all of her stuff out of the apartment and back to the house. I of course got stuck in traffic on my way since I live the farthest away. What a pain in the ass. Then with the help of Will, Meesh, Dad, Mom, and myself we got pretty much everything out of there minus the furniture which they had someone come pick up yesterday. Then we ate at Stanley's which was good but the host staff are asses. We got in there just before the rush of people and we were still asked if we had a reservation. This is a fucking sports bar/pub, we don't need a reservation here. Ugh.
That night after picking up Gabe from work, we headed back towards Delaware to join my sister, Will, and a huge group of other people to try some karaoke at this bar in Wilmington. It was very crowded surprisingly since its karaoke, so Gabe and I went down to the dining area to munch on things. Meesh and Will soon joined with Stacey, her roommate Matt, and another couple which I feel so bad for forgetting their names. We had a few drinks and conspired to get rid of a table filled of older women. I tried to send the guys as sacrificial lambs but they didn't go for it. So Josh and Christina showed up and we told them the dilemma. So Josh, using his suave language, got our waittress to get us when a big table opens up since we are now 10 people. And sure enough in 5 minutes, she came back and got us the table left behind by the older women. Everybody got a look at the book to figure out what they wanted except for me. I was last. So needless to say everybody got to sing their choices, including Gabe, except for me and Matt. Even Will got up twice. Oh well, cest la vie or some shit like that. Another day I guess. The one thing that annoyed me most about it though was that it was obvious the "dj" was picking and choosing who she wanted to come up there.
Sunday was a lazy day and I was kicking myself for it since I wanted to set up a grocery list for my new diet. Well I shouldn't really call it a diet since I'm not really depriving myself of a lot of things. Its the 3 hour diet if anyone cares, and I am okay with it so far. Basically I eat every 3 hours, breakfast within in an hour of getting up, then a snack 3 hours after that, then lunch 3 hours after that, then another snack, then dinner, then some small treat. Its all based on the timing and spreading out of calories through out the day. This is only my second day so I can't really give any impressions on it just yet. But the funny thing is I just picked a random "happy weight" to write down and figure out how long it would take me to get there, and I would be at that weight just before my birthday.
So the last two days on top of starting this "diet" I have been able to do my job. Eric, our tech, called on Friday apparently to tell John that we would be getting all the parts by Saturday morning at the latest. So he was able to come in yesterday and fix it all up. And so far, we've been running okay ::knock on wood::
I guess that's all the events so far. I'll probably figure out the weekend soon enough since it'll probably involve a trip to my parents' to clean out my stuff, then Mel wants me to join her for just a day down the beach but its up in the air right now.
Current Location: Work desk
Current Mood: apathetic
Current Music: Blur - 'Song 2'
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March 21st, 2007
03:18 pm - We need t-shirts that say 'John is Our Hero'
Well the snow/ice storm on Friday pretty much killed all plans for the weekend. Plus Gabe's sickness.
Basically Friday we got hit with a ugly storm of rain, sleet, snow, then some more sleet and rain, etc. I couldn't drive in it since on my way home my anti-lock brakes kept kicking in. Gabe was home anyway so I just figured we'd stay in, order some food that would deliver in that mess and do nothing. Well Kelly and Kaycey decided they wanted to come over. So we had them hang out with us for the night. We talked about whatever, Gabe played every single showtune he had on his iPod, we then decided to play Trivial Pursuit, the 90s edition, and Kaycey and myself slowly started to drift off into dreamland around 1am. So they went home around 2:30, 3am, whenever Kelly finally got Kaycey off of the couch and down the stairs. It was fun having them over since we always seem to talk about the weirdest things and then the most normal stuff also. Its an even playing field with us I guess.
Saturday morning Gabe felt the sickness that I had the week before. So he called out of work and I fell back to sleep for another 3 hours. Finally around 1pm, we got out of the apartment to clean off the car and see what Wawa had to offer. Got some food there and then headed back home to do nothing again. Watched the competitive eating competition on Spike hoping that the Japanese guy would be on there but it ended up he had a family emergency. But it was interesting to watch and see how much of a sport its starting to become. Soon there will be Sumo wrestling on TV every day. Finally around 10pm we resolved our issues on what it means when we argue over where to eat for dinner and headed to Max & Erma's. Got some good food there, I had an appletini in celebration of St. Patty's Day, and we ate cookies of course.
Sunday Gabe still felt like shit and slept most of the day away hoping to cure himself. I went to the market and got him a few things to help him out along with normal groceries.
Monday I went to work and was reminded how my machine was still broken and then later found out that our tech wasn't coming in to fix it till the next day. So the whole day was spent either in my office or John's office talking. Its better than getting carpal tunnel from playing too much solitaire. That night Gabe and I headed out to his parents' house for some potluck dinner. I swear that every time they know we are coming over, they take out whatever leftovers they have and throw it out on the table for us to eat. Not in a mean way, just in a way of hoping we could help them empty out the fridge a bit. So that was good and it was nice to see his family again.
Yesterday the tech came in for my ICP and he put in the part that he ordered and then found out that there's another part that needs to be replaced. So it hasn't been a good week so far.
I'm hoping to get out this weekend, see 300 at the IMAX, see the Delaware crew since I really should do my taxes (its nice to have a sister who knows what all that shit means), and relax a lot hopefully without a sick boy in the other room.
Current Location: Work desk
Current Mood: exhausted
Current Music: Cheap Trick - 'Surrender'
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March 15th, 2007
08:13 am - He's a Morman, a what?, Morman, oh I thought you were saying Woman!
Just cause I want to see who's bored like me.
1. Can you cook?
2. What was your dream growing up?
3. What talent do you wish you had?
4. Favorite place?
5. Favorite vegetable?
6. What was the last book you read?
7. What zodiac sign are you?
8. Any Tattoos and/or Piercings?
9. Worst Habit?
10. Do we know each other outside of Livejournal?
11. What is your favorite sport?
12. Do you have a Negative or Optimistic attitude?
13. What would you do if you were stuck in an elevator with me?
14. Worst thing to ever happen to you?
15. Tell me one weird fact about you.
16. Do you have any pets?
17. Do you know how to do the Macarena?
18. What time is it where you are now?
19. Do you think clowns are cute or scary?
20. If you could change one thing about how you look, what would it be?
21. Would you be my partner in crime or my conscience?
22. What color eyes do you have?
23. Ever been arrested?
24. Bottle or Draft?
25. If you won $10,000 dollars today, what would you do with it?
26. What kind of bubble gum do you prefer to chew?
27. What's your favorite bar to hang at?
28. Do you believe in ghosts?
29. Favorite thing to do in your spare time?
30. Do you swear a lot?
31. Biggest pet peeve?
32. In one word, how would you describe yourself?
33. In one word, how would you describe me?
34. Will you repost this so I can fill it out and do the same for you?
1. Male or Female?
2. Fandom you most associate with?
3. Fandom you associate me with?
4. Chocolate or Vanilla?
5. Coke or Sprite?
6. One person you'd give anything to meet?
7. The most famous person you've met?
8. Something about you that you think I should know.
9. One thing you're dying to have.
( The events so far... )
Current Location: Work desk
Current Mood: tired
Current Music: Hedwig and the Angry Inch - 'The Origin of Love'
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March 8th, 2007
07:19 am - What does a hacking cough got to do with it?
Ughh....sick again. I thought I would make it through this winter on the up and up but the Flower Show I think sealed my fate.
Sunday night we saw Black Snake Moan which I will say is really good. I enjoyed the characters, the incorporation of blues and religion, and the psychological ticks. I recommend the movie, I think it deserves any recognition it receives.
Monday was the Flower Show. We decided to do public transportation the whole way since the regional rails all go to Market East where the Convention Center is. The commute there wasn't too bad, despite the almost hour wait at Norristown for the R6. The Convention Center itself was packed when we got there. So we had to change course and wander closer to the middle for most of the day and wait for most of the crowd to leave. We have lots of pictures to show, so I'm just going to post the link to them when Gabe puts them up on his site. Rather do that then sit here and describe everything.
The commute back was what did me in. We grabbed the 6:45 train back to Norristown but ended up sitting in the transit center for almost an hour waiting for the next bus to arrive. I really think SEPTA needs to learn some better timing between buses and trains. So we caught the 8:18 bus back home. Needless to say we were exhausted at this point. I kept thinking to myself that I should have drove to King of Prussia and parked at the mall to grab the bus there instead of getting it all the way out by us. So I kept asking Gabe if he was sure this was the bus that went all the way into Phoenixville and he wasn't sure, but the woman on the SEPTA hotline that he had called said it went to Royersford, which is past our town. So we get into Phoenixville, and what do you know, the bus' last stop was over a mile from our place. And remember this was Monday night when we had gusty, freezing wind blowing around town. So needless to say we froze our butts off the whole way home. I kept trying to think up worst case scenarios in order to make it feel not so bad to myself but it sucked. My thighs and face were so red by the time we got home and I've had wind burn on my face ever since.
So I think being in a crowded area plus walking in sub-freezing temperatures/wind for over a mile are contributing factors to my sore throat and cough. And I'm sure some people are saying, "Well why didn't you just call in sick to work since you feel like shit?" Well the problem is I took off last Monday because I thought I had the flu but I didn't. Then I took this past Monday for the Flower Show and then next week I may have to take two days off for Jury Duty. I don't think it would be fair to Corey or John if I kept skipping out of work. But I feel if tomorrow gets worse, besides just a slight cough and achyness, then I might consider it. Its only one day left after today till the weekend. I'm hoping I can hold off till then.
Current Location: Work
Current Mood:  cold
Current Music: Metallica - 'One'
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March 3rd, 2007
05:43 pm - When its all said and done...
Well ignore that last post completely if anyone read it. Its apparently completely untrue mainly. I mean yes, I had fun with people, I've watched a lot of movies, and work has been work. But the rest, just go ::backspace backspace backspace:: I like chicken. Don't want to get into it. I just basically learned that its all on me, not two people thinking of those things. Whatever.
Onto news. There really isn't much good news for the last week.
Gabe's great uncle had a brain aneurysm recently. He thought he was fine but he was rushed to Christiana Hospital and was being monitored in neurology to determine how he was doing. Haven't heard any news since that night so I'm hoping no news means good news.
My mom-mom had to be put into the hospital. She seemed to be in more pain then we thought and stopped taking care of herself. The theory is she was over-medicating herself probably and just got too disoriented to eat or do anything for that matter. Once they put her on a regular dosage of morphine, she started eating and was feeling better. But the worst part is they gave her a CAT scan when she went into the hospital and they discovered that her cancer started to spread again and doubled in size. So what I've heard so far is she needs to be monitored basically for 24 hours in order to ensure she is taking her medicine properly. Right now she is in the hospital, going to get some rehabilitation again, and my family is going to work on selling her house so that they can pay for her future care.
::sigh::
So future good things I guess are Gabe and I are going to the Flower Show in Philly on Monday and then who knows. There are things probably happening, I can't just think of them right now. The Flower Show should be fun since the theme is Ireland so there should be some nice floral arrangements. Probably going to invite whomever will feel like going if they have the day off. I know Gregg has class early in the morning.
I don't know if I mentioned this already but I have jury duty. Well I've been picked for it, if I actually go, that's up in the air since you have to call the night before to see if your number is picked for the day. I feel bad since I took this past monday off, I'm going to take this next monday off and then after that I may have to take 2 days for jury duty. But my excuse is I didn't know the Flower Show was going to be so soon. I remember it being later in the month or maybe in April, but oh well. I've been craving a good vacation, since I haven't had a nice long vacation far away where I can just relax, sleep in, go swimming, enjoy some nice meals, all that shit. One day.
Current Mood: bored
Current Music: NIN - 'Survivalism'
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February 24th, 2007
03:49 pm - The future bears down...
My life has been the same. Nothing new to inform people on. We have been just hanging out, arguing over stupid shit since we have been stuck in this apartment for too long together, watching more movies than I can count since we have been really active with our Netflix, and the snow is finally clearing away in time for another major storm to roll in.
Lately I've been thinking about getting a house and possible wedding options. No, we are not officially engaged but we have been discussing what is possible.
The house issue came up after Gabe and I were going to kill each other. I figured we need some space soon. The lease goes to the end of next January, so we have the rest of this year to pick something out. Well till the end of November since we'll have to do the whole 60 day thing. I guess this summer, we'll kick into gear even more. Only problem is Gabe wants to live around where he grew up and the property taxes are expensive. I like it around here since I have a whole idea of where things are and the trip to work isn't half bad. So who knows. Maybe a relative or two will help us out or something.
Marriage, well its seems to have become a more serious conversation at times. But he has been a dumbass about certain things. Like I mentioned getting married on Halloween so that it won't be hard for him to forget the date and he turns around to say, "That would ruin Halloween for me." This was brought up because I asked him why he kept saying that Valentine's Day would be a good choice. He said it was easier to remember and it basically kills two birds with one stone. Yes, this is the man I want to spend the rest of my life with. He is such a typical male when it comes to romantic things.
I had a strange theme idea the other day. Guys and Dolls, the musical. Just do the whole time period fashion, I don't know. It was a silly idea that came out of a dream with the added factor that Gabe and I both performed in the play, well he sang a song from it for a Broadway revue in high school.
The other idea is just going to Vegas. But not the trashy, drive-through type Vegas wedding. I saw a special on Vegas weddings and there was a couple who just called all their friends and family that they would want to be there and told them that they were going to Vegas, so join in if they want. They did a nice wedding and were able to have a lot of fun with it.
But eh...
Whenever he's happy and ready I guess. It also doesn't help when we watch Bam's Unholy Union, so many good ideas. I am surprised she's wearing a white dress. Not for me.
I guess some real events: Last night was a lot of fun, we went down to Cheeseburger Paradise with Meesh, Christina, Will, and Jake (a new friend of Christina's). Good drinks, good burgers, good friends, but the only problem was the band that play. We were seated pretty close to them so it was hard to have a conversation.
This morning we had breakfast/lunch with Gabe's parents and Zua. Its Joel's birthday today so we did a quick thing before Gabe had work. Tomorrow night we are going over there after Gabe's done work to have a nice dinner. Should be even more fun, but I'm going to try not to mention the whole house/wedding thing. Ella would go nuts.
I guess that's all.
Current Mood: blah
Current Music: David Bowie - 'Bring Me The Discoking'
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