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Dec. 1st, 2006 10:25 amNot that I'm complaining, but it's kinda weird for it to be over 70 degrees on the first day of December.... I haven't lived in VA long, but I don't think this is normal. Is it?
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Oct. 5th, 2005 12:15 pmHaha, people are getting upset around here because there are mannequins in front of Victoria's Secret wearing, get this.....UNDERWEAR!
Apparently it's going to corrupt the youth or something if they know that women wear fancy underwear under their clothes sometimes. (I personally think children don't care, and would rather get to the toy store as fast as possible.)
I saw the pictures of the things. Really, there's nothing to flip out about. People are so weird. It almost makes me want to go out there and buy something so I can go "RARRR! I WEAR UNDERWEAR!!!!!" at any crazy person who gets upset over such a stupid thing.
There are wars and stuff they could be worrying about. But no....it's all about the panties.
In a completely unrelated topic, the angles in this room make my head all wonky.
Apparently it's going to corrupt the youth or something if they know that women wear fancy underwear under their clothes sometimes. (I personally think children don't care, and would rather get to the toy store as fast as possible.)
I saw the pictures of the things. Really, there's nothing to flip out about. People are so weird. It almost makes me want to go out there and buy something so I can go "RARRR! I WEAR UNDERWEAR!!!!!" at any crazy person who gets upset over such a stupid thing.
There are wars and stuff they could be worrying about. But no....it's all about the panties.
In a completely unrelated topic, the angles in this room make my head all wonky.
Adventures with animals
Sep. 30th, 2005 11:37 pmWhen I drove ben to work, we saw a fox! I thought it was a cat, but ben insists it was a fox.
Then on noname's nightly walk, she had nasty pooping issues. She eats my hair and when it comes out, everything sticks to it and trails behind my poor dog. I had to wash her off, it was so bad. But I wasn't paying attention to the water temperature and I burned her butt a little. She's upset with me now.
Then on noname's nightly walk, she had nasty pooping issues. She eats my hair and when it comes out, everything sticks to it and trails behind my poor dog. I had to wash her off, it was so bad. But I wasn't paying attention to the water temperature and I burned her butt a little. She's upset with me now.
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Sep. 20th, 2005 11:40 pmIn another adventure of I hate virginia: I was driving in a residential area and there was a dog running on a lawn. I was worried the dog might run into the street, so I slowed down a bit. Guess what? Yup, got honked at. But someone going in the OPPOSITE direction! *cries*
I needed to be comforted when I got home, but ben was asleep and I didn't want to wake him. So I burned anime for jenny instead. Until I ran out of disks. Then I had to order more. I wanted to get 200, but it was cheaper per disk to buy 100 with a coupon. Too bad the coupon couldn't be used twice. That would have been perfect.
Eventually I had to wake ben. He started a new game and I was already starting to get jealous of it. But then he agreed to watch some Kaleido Star with me. That cheered me up a lot. (The fool always entertains me.) I am horribly tempted to get the rest of the series from netflix, but then I'd never go to anime club ever again.
I just accidentally poured a bit of ben's banana orange juice into my regular orange juice. I am a sad melissa now.
I needed to be comforted when I got home, but ben was asleep and I didn't want to wake him. So I burned anime for jenny instead. Until I ran out of disks. Then I had to order more. I wanted to get 200, but it was cheaper per disk to buy 100 with a coupon. Too bad the coupon couldn't be used twice. That would have been perfect.
Eventually I had to wake ben. He started a new game and I was already starting to get jealous of it. But then he agreed to watch some Kaleido Star with me. That cheered me up a lot. (The fool always entertains me.) I am horribly tempted to get the rest of the series from netflix, but then I'd never go to anime club ever again.
I just accidentally poured a bit of ben's banana orange juice into my regular orange juice. I am a sad melissa now.
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Sep. 19th, 2005 08:09 pmBah, did another bad website at work. This time I apparently copied the other sites too well, and didn't have enough info anyway. From now on I'll just write outlines forever and ever and ever. I wish I was a better writer....
After feeling bad about that, I started the car only to hear the familiar noise of it begging for gas. I figured I could get a couple miles on fumes, but not much more. So I stopped at the first station. It was mobbed and people were cutting me off and this huge fat lady in an suv blocked me from getting out of the parking lot and then glared at me like it was my fault. Oh my god I hate the people in this state.
I eventually gave up and drove to another station. Made it just barely. Must remember not to let my tank get that low.
Put half a tank in and drive home with a happy car. Then was glared at AGAIN by this old man. I don't know who he is, but whenever I see him he glares at me. I have no idea why. His glare causes me a great amount of stress and I try to avoid him as often as possible.
Ben gave me a hug when I got home, and my dog showered me with adoration. But then ben went to play warcraft and noname went to sleep. :(
I played some warcraft for a bit, to kill time. I randomly decided to cure a guy that had a whole bunch of monsters on top of him. Next thing I knew, he was helping me on two quests. We even got a bunch more people to join up. So that was pretty cool. I didn't even have to do anything. Just buff and cure everyone. Easy enough.
I was getting tired of it though. So after we got back to the city, I signed off.
Poooo, I just lost my internet.... Hopefully it comes back soon.
After feeling bad about that, I started the car only to hear the familiar noise of it begging for gas. I figured I could get a couple miles on fumes, but not much more. So I stopped at the first station. It was mobbed and people were cutting me off and this huge fat lady in an suv blocked me from getting out of the parking lot and then glared at me like it was my fault. Oh my god I hate the people in this state.
I eventually gave up and drove to another station. Made it just barely. Must remember not to let my tank get that low.
Put half a tank in and drive home with a happy car. Then was glared at AGAIN by this old man. I don't know who he is, but whenever I see him he glares at me. I have no idea why. His glare causes me a great amount of stress and I try to avoid him as often as possible.
Ben gave me a hug when I got home, and my dog showered me with adoration. But then ben went to play warcraft and noname went to sleep. :(
I played some warcraft for a bit, to kill time. I randomly decided to cure a guy that had a whole bunch of monsters on top of him. Next thing I knew, he was helping me on two quests. We even got a bunch more people to join up. So that was pretty cool. I didn't even have to do anything. Just buff and cure everyone. Easy enough.
I was getting tired of it though. So after we got back to the city, I signed off.
Poooo, I just lost my internet.... Hopefully it comes back soon.
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Sep. 15th, 2005 01:41 pmToday on my way to the post office, I saw a group of black vultures eating roadkill on the side of the road. They're like 2 feet big! They could probably eat my dog!
Nature in Virginia terrifies me.
( Black Vultures )
Nature in Virginia terrifies me.
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Sep. 14th, 2005 09:10 amThere is a cricket in our apartment and it chirps constantly. Ben has warned me that if I come home and he's not in bed, check the back porch for him in a sleeping bag. This is the cricket of doom that is too stupid to realize he's not going to find any ladyfriends in our apartment.
Anyway, yesterday my monthly moodiness of doom took over. It was triggered by a mean guy who honked at me and waved the finger because I couldn't read his mind and know he'd be switching to the lane he wanted to be in. (He might of signaled. That would have helped me guess.) I had virginia drivers. Then more people honked at me for not making a deadly left turn into traffic. I suspect they are not aware of what happens when two forms of matter collide at high speeds.
I wanted ben to comfort me and give me a hug and reassure me that the world wasn't going to destroy me, but I couldn't just say so because I was moody and crazy. Instead I told him I was moody. A couple times. Then I ran to the bedroom to cry. And I cried about everything under the sun.
It took ben a while to calm me down. Then we went for chinese food to cheer me up, but some of the food melted to the styrofoam containers and tasted bad. It made ben sad, which made me sad, which frustrated him, which made me sadder.
We took a nap until it was time for ben to go to work. I came home and fell asleep very fast. Crying makes me so tired.
Ben was happier this morning, which cheered me up. I am significantly less crazy now. And ben will get some sleep and he will be happy again. And all will be good in the world. (Except I'm still stuck in virginia.)
Anyway, yesterday my monthly moodiness of doom took over. It was triggered by a mean guy who honked at me and waved the finger because I couldn't read his mind and know he'd be switching to the lane he wanted to be in. (He might of signaled. That would have helped me guess.) I had virginia drivers. Then more people honked at me for not making a deadly left turn into traffic. I suspect they are not aware of what happens when two forms of matter collide at high speeds.
I wanted ben to comfort me and give me a hug and reassure me that the world wasn't going to destroy me, but I couldn't just say so because I was moody and crazy. Instead I told him I was moody. A couple times. Then I ran to the bedroom to cry. And I cried about everything under the sun.
It took ben a while to calm me down. Then we went for chinese food to cheer me up, but some of the food melted to the styrofoam containers and tasted bad. It made ben sad, which made me sad, which frustrated him, which made me sadder.
We took a nap until it was time for ben to go to work. I came home and fell asleep very fast. Crying makes me so tired.
Ben was happier this morning, which cheered me up. I am significantly less crazy now. And ben will get some sleep and he will be happy again. And all will be good in the world. (Except I'm still stuck in virginia.)
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Aug. 25th, 2005 11:23 amYesterday I made vast amounts of muffins. However, they had fake blueberries in them, which makes me quite sad. All nasty and crunchy and artificial tasting. I shall keep that in mind next time I buy muffin mix.
After muffins, I went to cassandra's to watch Sailor Moon. We are almost done with R. Only five episodes left. I hope we can finish before cassandra runs far far away to college.
When I got home (much later than ben had expected), he seemed very down. Nothing I did could cheer him up. It got me all upset and I ended up crying and being all crazy because I wasn't a good enough girlfriend to make him happy. I then spent the evening crying until I went to sleep and had bad, stressful dreams.
Ben seemed a little better when I picked him up this morning, which in turn made me feel better. He went to the post office for me and mailed my health insurance out. I hope it gets there on time. The last one was late and they got angry at me. I really wish they had online bill-pay.
At work now. More stuff to do than lately this week, but still lot's of downtime. It makes me nervous when I am not working because I feel like I am not earning my keep. If I am not useful, what reason is there to keep me around? So I've been filing lots of stuff and fiddling with the printer in an effort to validate my existence.
Oh, and I'd like to mention that is has started to get COLD around here. People said the weather here is mild. This is not mild. This is cold. I want to go back to new orleans now.
After muffins, I went to cassandra's to watch Sailor Moon. We are almost done with R. Only five episodes left. I hope we can finish before cassandra runs far far away to college.
When I got home (much later than ben had expected), he seemed very down. Nothing I did could cheer him up. It got me all upset and I ended up crying and being all crazy because I wasn't a good enough girlfriend to make him happy. I then spent the evening crying until I went to sleep and had bad, stressful dreams.
Ben seemed a little better when I picked him up this morning, which in turn made me feel better. He went to the post office for me and mailed my health insurance out. I hope it gets there on time. The last one was late and they got angry at me. I really wish they had online bill-pay.
At work now. More stuff to do than lately this week, but still lot's of downtime. It makes me nervous when I am not working because I feel like I am not earning my keep. If I am not useful, what reason is there to keep me around? So I've been filing lots of stuff and fiddling with the printer in an effort to validate my existence.
Oh, and I'd like to mention that is has started to get COLD around here. People said the weather here is mild. This is not mild. This is cold. I want to go back to new orleans now.
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Aug. 19th, 2005 09:52 am*gnaws arm* What part of "I'm really busy" does my mom not understand? Gah, so much stuff to do! I barely got any cleaning done last night. I did some laundry and put some stuff away, but the place is still a mess. Ben helped and did the dishes though.
He seems completely unconcerned that the house is a mess for his mom's visit. I don't think he is aware of how badly it looks for me. Maybe it's just the place I grew up, but if the house was a mess, it was always the fault for the woman of the house. She was then seen as inferior in some stupid way, because she couldn't even keep her own house clean. Maybe ben's family is different, but I am scared to take chances. I want her to like me and to like that ben and I are together.
Nothing new other than that. Well, except that I learned today that people in virginia are too stupid to know how to drive in the rain. They were driving so awful. Like they had never seen rain before in their entire lives. It made for a very unpleasant drive to work.
I am all by myself today at work. But I have a lot to do. Better get to it. I've been given permission to leave early, but I don't think it qualifies if I haven't finished my things to do today.
He seems completely unconcerned that the house is a mess for his mom's visit. I don't think he is aware of how badly it looks for me. Maybe it's just the place I grew up, but if the house was a mess, it was always the fault for the woman of the house. She was then seen as inferior in some stupid way, because she couldn't even keep her own house clean. Maybe ben's family is different, but I am scared to take chances. I want her to like me and to like that ben and I are together.
Nothing new other than that. Well, except that I learned today that people in virginia are too stupid to know how to drive in the rain. They were driving so awful. Like they had never seen rain before in their entire lives. It made for a very unpleasant drive to work.
I am all by myself today at work. But I have a lot to do. Better get to it. I've been given permission to leave early, but I don't think it qualifies if I haven't finished my things to do today.
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Aug. 2nd, 2005 11:36 pmNext time we do this trip, we leave far earlier. Either that or we develop a car that can fly.
We left around 11, after mom gave us practically everything in the house that was edible. We hit nasty traffic so it took us two hours to get out of new york. We hit traffic on the goethels bridge that was so bad, I parked my car. It was insane.
After that, traffic moved really well. I got to nearly the end of new jersey before I finally had to stop to get gas. I must compliment the new jersey turnpike people. After driving in the car all day and being all nasty and sweaty and horrible, it was REALLY nice to find a bathroom that was so clean it even smelled nice. There were even flowers by the sinks. I felt almost civilized.
Things continued going well until we got to DC. Just as we were on 495, leaving dc, we hit rush hour. Took us over an hour to go about 10 miles. It made me so sad. I was hot and ben was miserable and it was all such horrible doom with no air conditioning. I could never sit in traffic like that every day. It was horrible. I don't know how people do it.
When we got home, we had the most wonderful pint of ice cream ever. It was cold and yummy and perfect. After that break, we brought all my stuff into the apartment. I own far too much stuff. That's all I've got to say on that.
After a nap and a shower, I feel a bit like a real person again. Though I'm kinda sore and really sunburned and not ready to start work tomorrow. I am going to go to bed soon though. Today was a very long day.
We left around 11, after mom gave us practically everything in the house that was edible. We hit nasty traffic so it took us two hours to get out of new york. We hit traffic on the goethels bridge that was so bad, I parked my car. It was insane.
After that, traffic moved really well. I got to nearly the end of new jersey before I finally had to stop to get gas. I must compliment the new jersey turnpike people. After driving in the car all day and being all nasty and sweaty and horrible, it was REALLY nice to find a bathroom that was so clean it even smelled nice. There were even flowers by the sinks. I felt almost civilized.
Things continued going well until we got to DC. Just as we were on 495, leaving dc, we hit rush hour. Took us over an hour to go about 10 miles. It made me so sad. I was hot and ben was miserable and it was all such horrible doom with no air conditioning. I could never sit in traffic like that every day. It was horrible. I don't know how people do it.
When we got home, we had the most wonderful pint of ice cream ever. It was cold and yummy and perfect. After that break, we brought all my stuff into the apartment. I own far too much stuff. That's all I've got to say on that.
After a nap and a shower, I feel a bit like a real person again. Though I'm kinda sore and really sunburned and not ready to start work tomorrow. I am going to go to bed soon though. Today was a very long day.
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Jul. 27th, 2005 11:28 pmI chewed my nails down really short today. They hurt so much now. I think as soon as the pain goes away enough, I'm going to paint them so this doesn't happen again. *ouch* It even hurts to type!
It took me nearly 20 minutes to get home from work today. For some reason I got stuck at every light. And the lights down here are so long! Sometimes I actually consider putting my car in park, or even turning it off at certain lights.
Ben and I watched Wrath of Khan this evening. He had never seen it. My dad and grandpa really like star trek, so I've seen it a billion times. I was actually surprised that ben had actually not seen it!
There's this spider cricket that has been stuck to the duct tape by the front door for days. He's alive and just sits there, day after day. He can't move anything but his antenna. I'm starting to feel horrible about it. He's probably starving to death, slowly. Dehydrating too! And there's no escape! He can't even turn his head to look at anything. I feel like an awful awful person. I want to free him, but that type of bug scares me so much. Plus if I tried to take him off the tape, I'd probably accidentally rip a leg off. :( I don't know what to do....
It took me nearly 20 minutes to get home from work today. For some reason I got stuck at every light. And the lights down here are so long! Sometimes I actually consider putting my car in park, or even turning it off at certain lights.
Ben and I watched Wrath of Khan this evening. He had never seen it. My dad and grandpa really like star trek, so I've seen it a billion times. I was actually surprised that ben had actually not seen it!
There's this spider cricket that has been stuck to the duct tape by the front door for days. He's alive and just sits there, day after day. He can't move anything but his antenna. I'm starting to feel horrible about it. He's probably starving to death, slowly. Dehydrating too! And there's no escape! He can't even turn his head to look at anything. I feel like an awful awful person. I want to free him, but that type of bug scares me so much. Plus if I tried to take him off the tape, I'd probably accidentally rip a leg off. :( I don't know what to do....
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Jul. 22nd, 2005 10:00 amYou have no idea how happy it makes me that my car worked this morning. It's fantastic. And it only took me 10 minutes to get to work! Yay!
So, on a bike, if I don't get lost, it takes me half an hour. Bus+walking takes slightly more than an hour. Car, 10 minutes.
As much as I think it is important to use less environmentally unfriendly forms of transportation, it's hard to follow through with it because it takes so long to get where I need to go and then I'm too tired to do what I need to do.
Public transportation needs some reworking down here. It needs to go to more locations. The bus line should be able to take me closer to work than it does. It stops at practically the town line between reston/herndon and great falls. Perhaps the wealthy don't need buses?
But yes, having a car is fantastic.
I need to make phone calls today but I am terrified to do so. Unbelievably terrified. I need to get information they may not have from a department that I may not be allowed to speak to. I have trouble coping with rejection, so this looks to me to be a very bad experience.
However, I love ben!
So, on a bike, if I don't get lost, it takes me half an hour. Bus+walking takes slightly more than an hour. Car, 10 minutes.
As much as I think it is important to use less environmentally unfriendly forms of transportation, it's hard to follow through with it because it takes so long to get where I need to go and then I'm too tired to do what I need to do.
Public transportation needs some reworking down here. It needs to go to more locations. The bus line should be able to take me closer to work than it does. It stops at practically the town line between reston/herndon and great falls. Perhaps the wealthy don't need buses?
But yes, having a car is fantastic.
I need to make phone calls today but I am terrified to do so. Unbelievably terrified. I need to get information they may not have from a department that I may not be allowed to speak to. I have trouble coping with rejection, so this looks to me to be a very bad experience.
However, I love ben!
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Jul. 19th, 2005 02:33 pmOk, aside from crazy car stuff...
I was feeling really sick when I came home from work yesterday. I think it was the water I drank. The bottle had been open and sitting out on my desk for over a week. And I didn't start to feel sick until right before lunch, when I started to drink from the bottle.
Ben tried his best to make me happy, but I was all crazy and sick and moody. I wouldn't even eat or drink anything for fear of throwing up. And I didn't want to do anything that involved moving either.
He brought me in the living room to watch tv, where we discovered free anime from the on demand channels. I was very pleased to watch azumanga daioh. I wanted to watch pretear, and they had the exact ep I needed to see next, but ben didn't want to. Because I was sick and crazy, that made me break down and start crying.
I cried myself exhausted and ben took me to bed early. I woke up in the middle of the night starving and dehydrated. I had a hot dog and a glass of water and managed to sleep the rest of the night all right. Although then I had a weird dream about the world being flooded and people had to use each other to float around the world. I think it was my crazy brain demanding water before it dried up.
Ben got me more water this morning when I woke up. I had a hard time getting out of bed, but felt better after I ate something. I should always listen to ben when he tells me to eat. He tends to always be right.
( I had a bad day )
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I was feeling really sick when I came home from work yesterday. I think it was the water I drank. The bottle had been open and sitting out on my desk for over a week. And I didn't start to feel sick until right before lunch, when I started to drink from the bottle.
Ben tried his best to make me happy, but I was all crazy and sick and moody. I wouldn't even eat or drink anything for fear of throwing up. And I didn't want to do anything that involved moving either.
He brought me in the living room to watch tv, where we discovered free anime from the on demand channels. I was very pleased to watch azumanga daioh. I wanted to watch pretear, and they had the exact ep I needed to see next, but ben didn't want to. Because I was sick and crazy, that made me break down and start crying.
I cried myself exhausted and ben took me to bed early. I woke up in the middle of the night starving and dehydrated. I had a hot dog and a glass of water and managed to sleep the rest of the night all right. Although then I had a weird dream about the world being flooded and people had to use each other to float around the world. I think it was my crazy brain demanding water before it dried up.
Ben got me more water this morning when I woke up. I had a hard time getting out of bed, but felt better after I ate something. I should always listen to ben when he tells me to eat. He tends to always be right.
( I had a bad day )
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