so-as-of-this-second-right-now my friend amanda is at the hospital preparing to birth her first child! yay amanda! and yay nat, her husband and father of her child! good luck! godspeed! the anticipated time of arrival is tomorrow, august 28th. i wish you a speedy birth! yay baby!
update 8-31-07--
baby jack randall has arrived! he's freakin' huge! he took 23 hours to get here! he's so damn cool! yay baby!
so if you go to the bottom, you will see that i have added my cybertwin to the blog. and yes that is me, but no stalking! stalking bad! i expect you all to play "stump the robot" so i have more nifty things to teach her.
on the coventry tip, fraternity row is nearing capacity and once again there is football in the streets. gods help us. i'm sorry but aren't these the same kind of people who beat up people like me in high school? i moved here to get away from them. can't we just be left alone? why do we have to keep moving like gypsies to stay ahead of the white hat onslaught?
i shall engage in "mundanes"-bashing now so avert your eyes if you find it objectionable.
muscle-necked, khaki-panted, polo-shirt-wearing, same haircuts, same exact shoes, same exact ruffle skirts, pottery-barn-living, fraternities, sororities, no-minorities-please, only-had-office-jobs-that-don't-require-actual-work, cell-glued-to-head, paid-for-by-parents, sports-bar-going complete fucking buttmunches!
i have more but i'm tired. i have to get up in six hours to go to my two jobs that i require to keep myself in house, food, cigarettes and internet.
*end on a happy note...?*
um.....knitting is fun?
truly boring day, unless you count my mom's car getting totaled.
so last week this drunk guy hit my mom so hard he left an impression of his license plate in her bumper. he also knocked the lid off the cottage cheese and squished the bananas in the grocery bag in the backseat. she also had the cremated remains of my cat orca back there but his lid did not come off, thank you jay-sus.
the repair guys told her today that the impact crumpled part of the frame and the car is unfixable. so she has to get a new car. or rather a new-to-her car cause insurance will only pony up $4,300. which isn't bad, it just isn't a new car.
today was also everyone-in-the-universe-who-i-know-outside-of-work-visits-me-at-work day. which was cool but it was a fairly busy day so noone got an actual conversation from me. sorry!
on a happy thing, my coworker ed participated in a make-a-film-in-48-hours thingy and his team won "best editing" so yay ed!
as for me, my new red doc marten's are breaking in well and i made really good tea in my crappy coffeemaker. so yay and nyah nyah!
and what do you get the virgo who wants nothing? tell me quick, cause i only have til the seventh!
...all two of you! thanks to the person in brecksville who came back and read a little more. thanks to the person in argentina who i hope comes back again!
site tracking stuff is addictive. now instead of thinking of a new topic to blog about, i'm running home to check who came by to visit! just so you all aren't creeped out, i only put the tracker on so i wouldn't feel like i was shouting into the void. at first i didn't care if noone read this but now i want to know if someone is listening. *insert sally field oscar hysterics here* i promise i'm thinking of something else to write about.
in the meantime, please vote for a new place for me to live. the winning state will have the cities findyourspot.com suggested to me listed for your voting pleasure.
i also have a quote today: "you can get an awful lot done if you don't care who gets the credit."-george c marshall
and i'm very happy to note that phoenix coffee finally opened on monday. thank the caffeinated gods.
so i asked google "where should i live?" and it gave me sites that want to tell me. i filled out one questionnaire and these are the top 5 results:
1) wisconsin
2) vermont
3) new mexico
4) illinois
5) it's a five-way tie-connecticut
massachusetts
nevada
ohio
west virginia
i skewed the city size 4 ways (small, medium, large and all sizes) and out of the 4 sets of 24, wisconsin was far and away the winner with 29 places out of 96. no other place even came close. vermont the runner-up only got 8 places and new mexico in third got a paltry 6.
so i'm making a poll with these results. go vote for where you think i should live. email me with why i should live there. maybe i'll move there and blog about your crappy house.
all day yesterday. so far, all day today. isn't it done? isn't it enough yet? sure, i'm enjoying the cooler temps but i'm tired of being wet. at least i can finally turn the air conditioners off.
the last big rainstorm uncovered a giant 20 ft circumference sinkhole on taylor rd in east cleveland. said sinkhole lives behind some guy's house. it continues to grow everyday. pretty soon, it will eat his house. and he will be S.O.L. because he lives in east cleveland, the shining example of how NOT to run a city.
the evil rain also canceled the august coventry street fair. apparently the coventry merchants association is out of money and unable to reschedule. so no more fun on the street this year.
and for some reason, rain is the international signal to visit the stone oven. time and again. a rainstorm packs the good ole SOB to the rafters with people who act as though they've never been to a restaurant in their lives. and they don't tip. here we are, running as hard as we can to keep up with the line out the door and folks just won't cooperate! i know you've been in line for several minutes; don't come to me with, "ummmmmm.....i don't know.....what's good?" or "what do you have?". it's so lame. instead of discussing your gall bladder surgery with your pal there, why not look at the giant chalkboards listing everything we serve? they are at least 6 ft tall and 10 ft wide, located convieniently above the counter for your viewing pleasure. and tip us for god's sake! yes your food didn't magically appear the second you finished ordering and that's because we make everything right then and there. there are also 20 people in line ahead of you.
i hate the f'ing rain!
it's august and i'm finally getting around to doing something summery today. i bought a new bottom for my swimsuit and i'm headed to pioneer waterland ( http://www.pioneerwaterland.com/ ) and then the mayfield drive-in
(http://www.funflick.com/).
in other news, i plucked a stray eyebrow hair like two weeks ago and got an ingrown hair on my eye. i tried to pop it to pull out the backwards growing bastard. now i have this nasty scabby thing going on and the space between the 'banana' (as makeup artists call it) and my eyebrow is all swollen. thank god i wear glasses cause my left eye has a strange, vaugely asian look to it now.
put ice on it? i would, but my little fridge in my new apartment is apparently incapable of making ice, despite having a 'freezer compartment'. the 'freezer compartment' is only able to build up frost to fill itself, then mysteriously begin to defrost for no known reason to man and dump the resulting water on the floor, causing what looks like major waterpipe leakage in the downstairs apartment ceiling. once it has disgorged itself of the compacted ice, it will refuse to freeze anything placed in it for the purpose of keeping something below 32 degrees and, in fact, give off heat.
so yay for pioneer waterland!
so my oldest friend and first boyfriend is marrying his totally awesome retro psychobilly girlfriend. this is really really nifty and totally a bummer.
why?
first the nifty part: the wedding is gonna be spectacular with a rolling spanish R! they're both super-weirdies and art freaks so this will be a great fun wedding to attend! plus she's cool as all get out and i like her munches and bunches!
now the bummer: when they get married, i will be the last single person in my circle of friends. wait, scratch that: my friend kelly and i will be the last single people in our circle of friends. which isn't the way it sounds in writing. i'm not bemoaning my single status here. i'm bitching about the 'when are you going to get married?' undercurrent.
i'm annoyed that my family feels it's okay to ask me when i'm getting married, why aren't i married, when am i having kids, blah blah blah. now our friends are getting that look in their eye. they're starting to chant, "one of us...one of us..". they're having kids! granted, we're all around 30 now but this isn't the fucking 50's! it seems that 30 is the age when perfectly independant, equality-minded, gainfully employed slacker-era women are tossing aside everything they've done with themselves to become mommies and housewives.
sure, one day i want to get married...but maybe i won't. i don't have a 'need' to get married, i'm not chasing my boyfriend around with ring ads, and i sure as hell don't want kids. marriage, kids, if it happens, it happens. if it doesn't, oh well. no big deal. i just want someone to love who loves me back.
now i want some cake.
roommate thought he could ride out the end of the month without paying the cable bill (from which we got our internet from which we got our phone). but he was wrong. just as the moving frenzy reached it's crescendo, we woke up one morning to no tv, no internet, no phone 5 days before we moved out. we hadn't rented a truck yet, couldn't contact our landlord, couldn't contact the utilities. it was a mess in short. i am happy to report that i am finally amongst the living and myspace is jammed full of messages for me. i'm also getting $200 back from the gas company for overpayment, whee! that'll cover the air conditioner i had to buy for the new apartment so my cats didn't overheat and die (which they were fixing to do).
i am without cable so i can't watch buffy anymore but i don't have to watch tv because it's there anymore either. i think it comes out even.
i am on the 'wrong' side of mayfield now where the scourge of east cleveland is rearing it's ugly head. last night, my downstairs neighbors got into a fight with their brother and asked me to call the cops. it's only been 6 days since i moved in and i'm hoping this isn't a taste of things to come.
coventry has been coffee-less since the caribou fracas but phoenix is moving into the spot. they've been painting and doing a little remodeling and i'm dying for a freaking cup of coffee! c'mon people! chop-chop! just put in an espresso machine and a couple of pots and call it a day, we're wasting away out here!
