Coffeebration

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I thought you’d all like to know this. I beep when I go through the “you stole stuff” detectors at every single pharmacy in Oakland. Whether I’m coming or going … doesn’t matter, I beep when I walk in and out of CVS on Forbes, Eckerd on Forbes, and also at Rite-Aid. At first I thought it was the metal ring on my purse, but it is not. I must have eaten one of those metal strips and now the detectors think I’m a store item. When I go to Rite-Aid in the evening after I’ve been home, I often just grab my keys, my wallet, and my cell phone and go without my purse. I still beep. I don’t understand. Other people could go in there with a duffel bag of magnetic strips and they wouldn’t beep. Students go in there with backpacks that jingle with metal.

So one day like a week ago I asked our security guard at work to point his mail wand at me. Yeah, he has this wand that detects metal in the mail, and he has to inspect all of our mail that comes in before it is distributed into the mail slots. He did not detect any hidden metal inside of me anywhere. This has been happening now for at least a month. Different coats, different purses, no coat, no purse … doesn’t matter, I still beep! HELP ME PLEASE. I’m tired of feeling like an ass every time I leave a store! Arghh!!

I’m eating oodles of noodles again tonight. This is like the 4th day in a row I’ve eaten it for dinner. I’m going to turn into a noodle pretty soon. But its soooo cold and the soup is warm and salty … and I forgot I actually don’t hate it. Damnit.

That is all really. I had to sit here and let heat blow on my head as I thawed from being outside. I had no towels or socks so I had to go to the laundromat. It sucked. It is 21 degrees outside. BRRRRRRR!

Work wasn’t cancelled today but it should have been. I am getting a cold and it sucks. This is the most boring Friday night of my life. I can’t even sleep off my misery because the cold medicine I have makes me wacky and energetic. I cleaned my bathroom and did a sinkful of dishes in the past hour. I drank lots of OJ today and ate three of those big chewable vitamin C’s. And then I did the unthinkable. I indulged in my enemy of foods, the nastiest thing I could think of … I ate ramen noodles. Of course I drained out the murky starch water and replaced it with fresh tap water, added a bit of oil so it would coat my throat, and I ate it. Ughh … well at least I didn’t add croutons like someone I know, ewww! I’m sitting here with my heat up to like 100 because I’m so cold, so I hope my furnace doesn’t explode. Of course I’m listening to Wheatus but it isn’t making me feel much better. I want to drink coffee but if I mix it with the wacky medicine I’ll probably have some type of uncool spasm and start hyperventilating. I wish I had some diet pepsi. I’m trying so hard not be be whiny. I have nobody to whine to anyways, and nobody really cares. Maybe I’ll just go jump into a garbage can and roll down a hill. That would be fun.

Aren’t my post titles always so unique and appealing? Hahaha, I’m so creative that sometimes I just astonish myself. At work today, everyone was going crazy with talk of snow. What the hell is wrong with people though? Every single time it snows, the forecast always ends up being exaggerated. I’m not going to believe it this time until I see it. Anyways, the following email goes out around 1pm ….

subject: let it snow
since we are having a snow advisory for this evening, we want to make sure you use your best judgment when deciding to come to work tomorrow. what does that mean? it means roads may be better/worse in some areas of the city and outlying communities. you may have to adjust your travel times (earlier or later) to coincide with salting/ploughing. if you cannot make it to work, please leave me a message.

you should also check voice mail. if we would have to close the building, a message to that effect would be left for everyone.

if you have any questions, let me know.

As I’m reading this I am thinking, huh … work can be cancelled? That is crazy …. I worked there all of last winter since I started in August and work never got cancelled. Why didn’t I know this? It is like being in school all over again. I get to check my voicemail in the morning and find out if work is cancelled! But unfortunately I have absolutely no excuse to not show up at work unless I get snowed into my apartment (unless work is closed of course). I’ll leave a message that says “sorry, I can’t get my front door open, so I won’t be coming to work today.” That would be a funny excuse though.

I can’t wait for my Christmas vacation … today I sent appointment reminders to my co-workers so they could post a little reminder on their calendars that I’d be on vacation. I’m probably annoying, but I don’t care. Christmas, Christmas, Christmas is coming. And I had completely forgotten that I had a personal day to take before the end of the year. I’m not sure exactly what a personal day is, but I will just assume it is the same as vacation except I’m doing weird secret things. Because if you have a doctor’s appt, or your kid is sick, or someone dies … that is excused, and you don’t have to take a sick day, a personal day, or a vacation day … so what do you use a personal day for? Anways, I’m taking my personal day on Wednesday and my agenda for my personal day is already planned. It is going to begin on Tuesday evening when I will be watching the Pens game with Brian. And then on Wednesday we are going to eat food, go to the mall, and go see King Kong. It will be the best personal day in the history of the world probably.

I found my watch today that I had assumed was lost for at least the past six months now. It is my beautiful Anne Klein silver watch that falls off all the time due to a shitty clasp. Anyways, I found it in the bottom of my coffee mug / pen holder on my desk at work. I use two large colorful coffee mugs as my utensil holders on my desk. I feel that it gives flair to my coffee-natured personality. Besides, coffee mugs are much more exciting than like actual writing utensil holders. Those are just silly. And I secretly think I knew my watch was there all along, but I just wasn’t sure and I just never felt like checking. Yeah, its a pretty deep mug.

I just made a brand new pot of fresh tasty coffee and I plan on drinking at least one cup of it. I shouldn’t do the pm coffee thing, but I’m going to anyways. Bye!!

Life is good, just so you know. I’m sure you miss the daily updates and those not so rare days when you’d get blessed with two, maybe even three updates in one day! Writing badly, complaining, rambling, and contemplating life are things I think I tend to do more frequently when life isn’t good. Anyways, the only thing that really sticks out in my mind in the “not so happy department” is my job, and even my job isn’t horrible. And I don’t have time to waste thinking or writing about work. It takes up enough of my time. I just wish it was less important and controlling … and I wish I relied less on it. Kind of like how I really really didn’t want to go to work today because I definitely had other more exciting things I wanted to do … like sleep or something. But living in a box and eating bread crumbs isn’t my idea of fun in the long-run … so I went to work.

In other boring and uninteresting news, I was checking out apartment listings yesterday on Craigslist and found some nice sounding apartments that were in my price-range in the areas of Squirrel Hill and Shadyside. Those two places seem more appealing than my current area of residence. I think I have to set the bar a bit higher this time though. I must live somewhere that allows cats. It must have laundry on-site or very close. I absolutely must have a bathtub, and not some crusty moldy disgusting one. I miss bubble baths. Not that I’m officially planning to move, but when I do decide I’ll just do it. And that is that.

On Monday evening I went downtown to Kaufmann’s after work. I wanted to buy some new clothes for work and I don’t really know where I got the idea to go to Kaufmann’s. I don’t think I’ve ever shopped there before but I might have been there once a long time ago. And the more I think about how I ended up there, the more I think it must have been that dazzling window display that lured me in. About two weeks ago I was standing across from Kaufmann’s waiting for a bus and I just fell in love with the window displays. I guess they just stuck in my head. I’m glad I was tempted to shop there because it is a wonderful store. It is really big and it has tons of stuff, and it isn’t the mall … since I’m not a huge fan of the mall most of the time. Anyways, it was like my own shopping palace … because NOBODY shops there. It was deserted and wonderful! And best of all, there is a “warm and cozy” section, a pajama section the size of a small WalMart, and tons and tons of fuzzy slippers! (Not that I bought any of that stuff, haha).

Last night, I accurately predicted the outcome of three hockey games. And I even predicted the final score of one of them. I need to get myself that fancy hockey channel so I can sit around and predict hockey games all night. Maybe it could be my new career. Well, just in case its not, I better buy some lottery tickets. One way or another, I’ll be rich and free of responsibility soon.

Oh … and my Chinese medicine friend at work who takes my pulse daily mentioned to me today that my equilibrium has been increasingly better in the past few weeks. He said he noticies a definite difference and that I seem a lot less stressed and healthier …. of course you have to believe this crap for it to have any bearing on you, but anyways … I found it to be interesting and maybe I believe it just a little. I do feel good though, so maybe he has a little something afterall. Or maybe I feel good because I just daydream all day now instead of getting stressed out and doing work. Haha, whatever it is, I like it.

Anyways …. get warm and be merry. Looks like we might get lots of snow tomorrow! I dont mind, as long as it doesn’t turn to brown gooey sludge all over the place. But I am sure it will.

Last night was Courtney’s 25th birthday. Woo. We took a bus to the South Side and hung out at the Tiki Lounge all night. I have never been there before. I had an interesting time. I drank some beer. I was a little drunk. We caught the last bus back to Oakland …. Kelly fell in the snow and injured herself. I slept in my bed. Yes, it was a strange night indeed.

Here are two pictures. I absolutely refuse to post any other ones because they all came out horrible and it saddens me to inform everyone that these are perhaps the last two pictures ever to be taken with my beloved camera. I had to slam the camera off of the table several times last night just to get it to work. Then for hours it refused to do anything. I finally was able to make it function today so I quicky grabbed my pictures off of it because my only other card reader is my printer and I have no idea how to use it. Anyways, you all should know Courtney. I also went to high school with the other girls.

Kelly and Maria



Courtney, Linsey and Me

I sure hope that I don’t have “psychic” dreams or anything. If so, the world is definitely coming to an end … but it probably won’t end soon and I’m just sick of these end of the world dreams. Death and destruction, life as we know it is over. Do I secretly have this fear? I mean the thought of the world ending has crossed my mind like any normal person, but it isn’t something I think about or worry about on a daily basis. Grrr … so the dream went like this … I was on the beach (yeah at least I was in the best place ever). I remember that I was laying on a towel and suddenly the sun got covered with a cloud. So I looked up at the sky and saw the sun move really fast from one side of the sky to the other and then it totally disppeared from the sky! Yeah, I knew something bad was up. So anyways, suddenly I was somewhere in Pittsburgh where I could see the entire city. Perhaps it was Mt. Washington, except I was really high up and I could see a grid pattern layout of the city. And I was just sitting there and “poof”, rows of houses / buildings just started to turn to big puffs of smoke …. the explosion / implosion thing going on was like a domino effect and just kept going down the line. So I just closed my eyes and prayed that I’d be spared. Then it all ended and I was sitting in an apartment (not mine, don’t know who’s) but it was crappy and there was this small TV. Television was still working, but the only thing on was the “end of the world cartoon”. It was like an animated flip book. It started with the pilgrims and then showed some wars and a bunch of other things in the history of the U.S. Then it showed an explosion and went back to the beginning with the Pilgrims again. In my mind, it was showing that everything we had worked for was over and we were back at the beginning. Haha …. I hate having weird dreams like this, I’ll be up now for a while! Thanks for reading, now go have some good dreams!

So the apartment is decorated for Christmas. Basically it is just the village, the tree, and the nativity thing. It is kind of a half-assed job because I didn’t feel very good when I was doing it. I thought I was coming down with something but whatever I thought it was magically went away. I’m glad tomorrow is Friday. I am looking forward to a relaxing weekend. This week has tired me out … I guess I just can’t handle all of the excitement, haha. I think I’m still recovering from Thanksgiving. I was in FC for like four days, and it was good … but when I got back I felt like I needed a few more days of vacation at my apartment just to unwind from my family.

Yesterday was nice though. I found out I wasn’t actually getting sick, I had a productive day at work, and then I was the subject of more testing by my friend Brian :). It was much better than the IQ test. This time I got to spell words, read words, and do math problems. And then I got to administer my soon to be world-famous test for the first time. Luckily my subject passed with flying colors, but that is because he is a lot smarter than most people.

Wheatus is going to put me to sleep. I love this island song. I think I am going to take a nap because I’m tired like a dead girl. Of course that is what happens when I decide to make irresponsible grown-up choices and not go to bed on a work-night. Oh well … I’m always being a responsible grown-up … I have to have a little fun once in a while.

I am going to decorate my apartment for Christmas when I’m done writing this. Decorating is fun, but it also means I have to clean and I don’t want to clean. And I have to try to fix my Christmas tree stand. And my sad excuse for a living room is arranged differently than it was last year so I’m not sure where I’m going to put my village. I feel slightly yucky today. It could be because I didn’t have my first cup of coffee until after 12pm. Yeah it was a rare day. I never thought the day would come where I could actually function semi-normally without lots of coffee and a few cigarettes. For the first time since I quit smoking, I didn’t have a cup of coffee before heading out the door this morning. And I was ok. The no coffee wasn’t for any particular reason, I’m not giving it up or anything. I just slept in a bit and I didn’t have any coffee here at my apartment. Don’t worry though. I bought two big things of it at CVS this afternoon. Buy one get one free, yeah … I’m going to be good on coffee for a while now.

I just don’t want to be getting sick. Everyone in my office is sick. Luckily my job encourages sick people to stay at home, so they aren’t passing their germs all around, but there is also that incubation period. The sickness has almost gone down a straight line … and I’m next in line. And I have this awful headache which isn’t a good sign. I was sick with a horrible cold back in August. I thought I was going to suffocate and die one night. Then weeks later I was still coughing up my lungs. And I cleaned my floor with clorox and thought the fumes were going to be my demise. I’m kind of interested to see how much faster I’ll recover from a cold now that I quit smoking. I really do enjoy the fact that I have absolutely no phlegm ever. That makes me feel a lot more sexy. Not that I had nasty phlegm like yucky guys do … but I still had that smoker’s cough going on. And please, if I must get sick, let me get sick right now. I don’t want to be sick during Christmas, or in two weeks 🙂

Dear Germ Monster:
I would like to be sick now so I can be not sick later.
Or if you really love me make me not sick ever at all.
Thanks!

I’m going to decorate now.

My weekend was so LONG. I felt like I was in FC forever and I started to go insane a few times, but all is good now and I’m back in Pittsburgh feeling right at home in my little cave. Thanksgiving itself was rather uneventful except for the apple pie which was just … orgasmic! Except that I waited until 7 p.m. on the eve of Thanksgiving to buy the ingredients and I was SOL when it came to acquiring a Pillsbury pie crust at any grocery store in FC …. so I improvised. It worked. And the pie was … yes orgasmic. Next year I won’t wait until the last minute to buy a pie crust though. Grocery stores really need to be more prepared. They should know that everyone makes pie and that I was going to come staggering in at the last minute demanding pie crust.

Thanksgiving was the same as it is every year. It was ok. My mom crocheted a wonderful warm blanket for my apartment. I’m so excited … I can’t wait to wrap up in it tonight while I do nothing. I also went out with my favorite people in FC – Brian, Eric, and Courtney. I thought they all died, but Thanksgiving is a magical time. We had a wonderful time at the FC bars despite the flashbacks and feeling like I was at my high school reunion. I prefer to stay out of FC bars as much as possible and pray that people I once went to school with would just forget about me or assume I died. But now they all know I’m alive. Damnit … I guess I’ll have to re-fake my death again sometime soon.

You knew I wouldn’t come back without pictures ….. so here you go. They are pretty self explanatory if you read the above paragraph! And they’re rather boring, posed, all the same. Sorry – I didn’t have the camera out when Courtney was dancing on the bar! Hahahaha, just kidding.