Coffeebration

I’m taking a break from trying to write a letter to my landlord stating why I should get my security deposit back and it isn’t fun. I can’t wait to move … one month and two weeks til I have windows to look out of! Wooh Wooh!

I’m going to recap my weekend since I can’t remember anything that happened over five years ago. I love it how Julie or Jaime or someone I’ve been friends with forever is like “hey remember the time we _____” and I’m like “uhhh not really”. I figure I better log everything I do from now on so I have some documentation that I did something in life besides take up space.

On Friday Bryan and I went to Eat ‘n Park at the Waterfront after failing to find anywhere in Pittsburgh that serves chocolate chip pancakes for dinner. Then we went to Giant Eagle so I could pick up some bagels and veggie cream cheese. It was only last week that I discovered the wonders of cream cheese. After years of despising it, I have acquired a taste for it. Much like mushrooms, sour cream, and thousand island dressing. Weird how my tastes are changing. We also went to Barnes and Noble to buy books and stuff, well I bought a logic puzzle book. I’m saving it for the beach since I’ll probably be left alone by the pool while Courtney sits in the hotel room and plays World of Warcraft all day.

On Saturday I went to Julie’s bridal shower and then came home and went to Mad Mex for dinner with Bryan. We went to the big cool one in Robinson and then came back to dirty Oakland and went to Dave and Andy’s for icecream. I have never been there before but they have some really good icecream cones. After we got back to my place I began to feel quite ill and layed on the floor for most of the night. But Bryan got sick when he went home later too so I think we were either poisoned by Mad Mex or icecream. Bryan says Mad Mex, I say icecream. I think I’m just becoming lactose intolerant, it sucks.

On Sunday I decided to go checkout the GoodWill that they opened down by Whole Foods since they closed the one on Liberty Avenue in Bloomfield. To my dismay it was not your regular GoodWill, it was very very small and more like a GoodWill Boutique. Everything there was more expensive and they really only had dressy nice stuff there. Like a “GoodWill Select” or something. It sucked and I stayed for approximately 6 minutes and then headed over to Whole Foods to get one of those tasty ‘make your own salad’ things. Mmmm, it was good. On Sunday night I went to Schenley Park to see a free movie with Jaime, Laura and Jess. We saw Charlie and the Chocolate Factory which was pretty good. I had never seen it before, but the Oompa Loompas were kind of weird in this movie. Gotta love Johnny Depp though!

Today I went back to hell … ahem, I mean work. Another joyous week. I can’t wait for vacation! Gettysburg with Bryan and beach with Courtney. Then I’m moving and it will be grand. You also need to mark your calendars for July 14th – Gin Blossoms at Station Square at 8 pm, it’s going to be awesome!

Summer is great.

Buy me presents.

Since I’m pretty broke these days if anyone feels like being charitable, there are several things I would really like. I am moving in August so I need moving things … such as an air-conditioner although I believe I have already delegated that to my parents to buy for me since they love me. Of course my dad says to me, “well you can have the one that used to be in our bedroom. It’s outside laying by the side of the house, I’d just have to clean it up.” My parents have had this air-conditioner since before I was even born I think. It is roughly the size of me and I have no idea how it even fits into a standard window. It is huge and brown, and I Think it is actually made out of wood.” So I reply “Ummm … well I can’t really afford high electric bills, how energy efficient do you think it is?” I was seriously trying to be nice, but my dad just started laughing at me. When I was talking to my parents I also asked my mom if my microwave was still there because I needed one. She replied that I could have the one that is sitting out on the front-porch under the mailbox. I’ve decided not to even ask why there is an air-conditioner sitting on the ground on the side of the house or a microwave under the mailbox. Now you’re probably thinking trailer-court with junk outside everywhere … well no, at least not last time I was home. As long as nothing crawled inside and made a home, I’m cool with it.

I also need a new set of bath towels, a hamper with a lid, a dresser, money … or if you really want to cheer me up, just buy me something off of my Amazon WishList, and by the way … I really really want the comforter on there. It goes with my sheets that I recently purchased at Macy’s and the comforter would complete my set and I would then have the most awesome bed in the entire world.

Thanks,
Jess

I’m tired.
My weekend was good … but too short. On Friday I watched Girl Interrupted with Jaime. I had forgotten how weird that movie is, but good nonetheless. On Saturday I slept in and did laundry. Bryan and I went to the Arts Festival for a few hours. It was really crowded and I really didn’t get to look at things, but I don’t have money to buy anything anyways, so maybe it’s for the best. It got really cold and I had to lay on the ground in order not to shiver while Bryan ate a snow-cone. Seriously … cold! Bryan took me to Dave and Buster’s … my first time there. Fun, odd … kids, adults, beer, food, and arcade games … all in one room. And me, who sucks horribly at all games that require skill … well I did ok at ski-ball anyways. And I got to sit in the electrocution chair and I made it the whole way without letting go … and the damn thing didn’t even reward me with any tickets! Arghh. It was such a fun evening though. I think I slept a lot on Sunday and did a lot of nothing like a lazy bum, but that’s what weekends are for!

Bryan and I are going to Gettysburg for a couple days during the fourth of July. I’m really excited. New places, fireworks, a cute boy … I never went anywhere with a boy before. I feel special :).

Listening to some Wheatus right now … oh so good, killing some time before my chica gets here and we go off to get some salsa con queso … I’m starving. On the topic of food I am excited to say that I had the Polish Platter last night at the Bloomfield Bridge Tavern for the second time in my life and it was ohhh so goood! I couldn’t eat it all and got really full and wanted to fall asleep for a while but after a few more beers I felt much better. Then some other people came and we had this bright idea that we’d push two tables together and that Vanessa (who conveniently lives above the bar) would go upstairs and get a deck of cards. She came back a few minutes later and informed us that the only deck of cards she owned had naked guys on them. I don’t think the guys liked it that much, well neither did I … naked guys aren’t that hot really, but we played cards and acted like we owned the place … it was great! All was well until I drank a beer that tasted like sugar mixed with flour and cornstarch but luckily Bob traded beers with me and I drank something called “King” … so yeah the selection isn’t that great when it is almost midnight on dollar beer night but it was still fun. Jaime and I made up for the naked guy cards by engaging Bob and Steve in one of our favorite conversations … well I think it is becoming our new favorite drunk conversation lately. Oh am I being vague? Well if you really want to know you’ll have to come out with us some night and find out! Especially if you are a guy … we’ve become quite popular lately with our awesome conversation topics. Haha, good times.

So tomorrow I’m going to the Arts Festival with Jaime, Avi, Vanessa, and Brian … and hopefully some other people will come. I’ll be sad if I’m the only single person again, sometimes I feel very out of place … but just sometimes. Usually I’m not the only single person but I’m beginning to feel outnumbered on a more regular basis these days. Of course being single always leaves me with opportunities to flirt with random hot guys who are out. Ok, so that doesn’t really happen … but theoretically it could!

Oh yeah, so I bought this really cute skirt yesterday and wore it out. I was feeling quite girly in my skirt and sandals and I even found this cool shirt to match it. Maybe I could get into this being a girl thing. I’m thinking about hitting up some thrift-stores tomorrow morning to see if I can find any cheap cute skirts. Yeah so I was feeling all good and cute in my skirt and then it ripped. I went to the bathroom and was adjusting my skirt which was two layers. The top layer is thin and kind of see-through and it went rippy rip rip, sadddd!! I was devastated … my first cute casual skirt in like ever, and it is destroyed the first time I wear it! No worries though, I think I’m going to use my awesome sewing skills and patch it up. I like it too much to toss it. Wow, I sure talk about cool things, don’t I?

So anyways, that’s about it. I guess I’m just happy it is the weekend and I’m excited about stuff. Blah Blah Blah. I’m sorry I’m a bad blogger, I just ramble and my sentences are filled with poor grammar. But at least I’m hot, yeah.

So my landlord comes to my door today and just stares at me when I answer the door. Then he says to me with his gay 90 year-old Italian accent “So don’t you have a calendar?” I am like “uhh yeah” as I stare back at him. He goes “well maybe you should get a pen and write things on it sometimes.” Ok, at this point I wanted to kick him because I knew what he was getting at. The rent was due on June 1, but I had written him checks out for three months – April, May, and June. I had the proof. Then he says “that’s a mortgage payment I have to make tomorrow.” Do I care? Actually, yes. I wish I was the one making a mortgage payment on a house so I wouldn’t have to look at his crusty face and give him my money. It is not my problem he is senile … I can’t wait for a few days from now when I give him my rent for July with a nice little letter that says goodbye motherfucker, I’m moving. He also bitched at me for having a window fan, AGAIN and he bitched at me for his high electric bill which is all my fault because I am not a vampire and I need light sometimes. No, maybe it’s due to the fact that the faggot upstairs never leaves or sleeps and therefore uses WAY more electricity than me. And also that he had his air-conditioner running when it was 50 degrees out while I was running the heat. I cannot help it that this place is not functional when it comes to temperature. He needs to realize this. Ughhh.

Work sucks, I want this week to be over. Thursday is pierogie and $1 beer night, Friday is hot date night with movies and tostitoes with salso con queso, and Saturday is something or other at the arts festival and a concert of someone I forget and a wine party afterwards. Fun stuff. Ok, Friends is on … I must go watch. My real point of this was to rant about the gay landlord and now I’m done. Feel much better.

Besides getting stranded on the South Side last night for many hours and having to call a cab, it was lots of fun! I’m posting a picture cause we’re hot. I think it’s about to find a nice spot on my coffee table in my nice pretty frame which once had a picture of me and a boy, but somehow that picture hopped out of its frame and shredded itself into thousands of tiny pieces …. I don’t know why these types of things always seem to happen to me. I’m too lazy to repost the rest, but they’re here.

I realize I haven’t written in quite some time. I’ve been contemplating giving up on the whole blogging thing because I feel I’m growing out of the whining thing and I don’t have the talent to fill my blog with witty and funny comments. I’m not big on politics or writing reviews so I’m not really sure where to go from here.

Update on my life. I hate my job and I’ve been applying for some other jobs. Well ok, I applied for two jobs and put my resume back up on monster and hotjobs. It is a start.

I went to a picnic at Jaime’s on Memorial Day and had lots of fun. I made pasta salad and a veggie tray and other people brought stuff. People also cooked chicken and tofu fajitas but I was too hot to have any appetite. So I just drank a lot of beer and felt satisfactorily intoxicated by the time I got home and had to pass out so I could go to work on Tuesday. I had intentions of taking pictures but only ended up taking a couple of Jaime and me.

I got some pretty pink flowers today. I have no idea what kind they are but I think I must be allergic to them because I’ve sneezed nonstop since they have been in my possession. Right now they are just laying on my table. I don’t have a vase big enough to put them in so I have to figure something out.

Tonight I’m going to Bloomfield Bridge Tavern with Jaime and some people for $1 beers. I went last Thursday and had the worst hangover at work on Friday. But I don’t have to work tomorrow so I’m planning to get lots of drunk tonight. I’ve had a pretty bad week, although I only had to work three of those days. Last night I felt the leg alien (aka anxiety) briefly. Too much shit for one week, its just one thing after another… I need a vacation real bad and some positive things in my life. Tonight will be good though. A fun drunk night and no bullshit to deal with.

Last night I bought some lunchables at K-Mart. I wasn’t excited about the price of them, but they are good, they fill me up, and make me feel like I have an excuse to eat cheese. I am in the habit of throwing away the cookies that come with them because cookies aren’t going to help me look hot in a swimsuit, ok neither is cheese …. Anyways, I decided to eat one for lunch today, turkey and american cheese. I diligently put the first one together, a cracker, piece of turkey, and cheese. I took my first bite and there was no crunch. The cracker was soft. Ewww. So I began inspecting all the crackers to try to determine why they were wet. I took out all the crackers and I found something very disgusting at the bottom of the cracker pile:

WTF? I believe it is a piece of rotten shriveled up ham. I have no desire to ever eat again. Thank you lunchables, I may actually lose some weight now (or die).

In other news, I found the comforter from Macy’s that goes with my bed-sheets for $79.99 at Amazon.com It is still sold through Macy’s but is $20 cheaper online. I added it to my Amazon wishlist and perhaps one day I will buy it for myself. I really want it. I wish I had a lot of money.

I’m addicted to Amazon.com. Recently I was offered a free Prime Account for three months so that means that everything I order is free two-day shipping. And one day shipping for $3 . It’s like instant gratification because I can buy whatever I want and get it in like a day. I just wish Amazon.com had a buyer-rewards program because I’d be so eligible for some free stuff. I don’t go that crazy, but I also shop on Amazon.com at work for stuff and use my boss’s credit card. I’ll always be a fan of Amazon because the time my stuff got stolen from the stupid USPS who delivered my package on SUNDAY (retards) … Amazon replaced it, no hassle or questions asked. And it was a combined shipment of lots of stuff (over $100) for Christmas presents and I got it all replaced before Christmas so I didn’t look like a cheapskate with no presents for anyone. Now I just get everything delivered at work because it’s safer.

I just booked my first plane ticket ever and I’m quite excited. I’m going to go up in the air, weee! I’ve never been on an airplane before. I want to find a new job because I’ve had this desire to kill some people the past few days. Except my one boss, who snuck up behind me this morning and hugged me and messed up my hair and then brought me a salad because he didn’t want me to be quote ‘hungry and sad.’ Normally this behaviour isn’t welcomed by me, but I love him. Of course if I find a new job I may not be guaranteed any paid vacation or even allowed vacation, and I have my plane ticket and nothing is going to stop me from lounging on the beach and floating in the pool all day and night.

My future roommate informed me that she wants to adopt a puppy. Ok, puppies scare me but I’m sure I’ll love it. She already has a cat that is awesome. Remind me to invest in lots and lots of lint rollers or I’m going to be a furry.

So it’s 10:30 am on a Saturday and I’m already bored. I was up today at 8:30 am today … not by choice, but regardless I couldn’t go back to sleep and so I brewed myself a big pot of coffee and now I’m ready to dance. I also feel an cold sore outbreak coming on … my lip is tingly and in the past twenty minutes two small bumps have already formed. I haven’t had one since November so I can’t complain too much. I take 2000 milligrams of lysine everyday and I use SPF chapstick with lysine and I have abided by the no chocolate, no chicken soup rule in my diet (almost) … and I’ve been cold sore free for six months now … but then yesterday I ate a brownie and on Wednesday I was out all day in the sun and had forgotten my chapstick. I knew my lips got burned a little bit because they were stinging when I got home. Sun is very bad for cold-sore proned people. So I guess I have to deal with it, I just don’t want to! If you get cold-sores then you know my whining isn’t for nothing, these things hurt and suck and are impossible to ignore. And if you have had cracked-lip or a bump on the corner of your motuh, don’t call it a cold-sore and say you know what I’m talking about … it isn’t the same thing.

Anyways, my week has been hectic as ususal at work. I was outside all day Wednesday for a festival we had. I was at the park from 9 am – 10 pm and I busted my ass all day. On Thursday I thought I was going to pass out at work. I was sunburned, tired, sore, and bruised from falling and having a table attack me when I was trying to break stuff down at the end of the night. My fingers also got a bit blistered. All morning we were setting up tables for tents and they’re the kind that you have to pull up the legs and then pull on the hinge thing to make sure they lock in place. After pulling on over 100 tables my hands hurt so bad that I wanted to cry. I like being active and doing stuff outside but I was just irritated that there were just three of us doing all of the setup and it took us until 2pm just to get all the tables, chairs and banners up. Around 1pm all of the people who were working in each tent came and they decorated their own tents so that was good. The event was fabulous, seriously. About 2,500 people showed up and the weather cooperated! I’d love to post pictures, but … oh well.

So here’s an interesting story, also related to the above paragraph. I was cleaning off tables where people had been eating and I just happened to see something shiny on the one table and went over to discover it was a cell phone. I decided to be a nice person and not throw the phone away. I had assumed that someone would call the phone eventually and see if someone had found it, but by Thursday afternoon nobody had called. I wanted to find the owner before the battery died because then I wouldn’t be able to answer it if anyone called. So I browsed through the contacts and found a number that said ‘home’ so I called it and left a message that I had found a phone. Then on Thursday evening, someone in their address book kept calling and hanging up on me. I kept answersing ‘hello … do you know who this phone belongs to?’ There would be no reply and then it would say that the call had ended. Finally the fourth time this person called I answered and said ‘Hi, I found this phone the other night and would like to return it to its owner.’ The person finally said ‘oh yeah, here’s her daughter’s cell phone number.’ So I call that number and leave a message. Finally, around 11pm the lady calls my cell phone and is like “OMG Thank you so much!!!!” It turns out that I actually know her because I planned and staffed an event that she came to a few months ago and I had the pleasure of getting to know her a bit. She goes on about how her life is so crazy that she didn’t even realize it was missing because she has six cell phones. Ok, who the hell has six cell phones? Anyways, she says she’ll come by first thing in the morning and pick it up where I work. She never came. Guess you don’t really care when you have five other phones! See, I try to do something nice and went to way too much trouble to hunt this person down … I should have just kept the phone. It was such a nice little Samsung. Just like my nice Samsung that I was forced to quit using because Cingular people are bastards.

In other unrelated news, Bryan and I went on a hunt yesterday … yes my first experience at this cool thing called geocaching. It was fun even though I did not find the hidden treasure. I was sooo close and I missed it. Bryan ended up finding it and I was mad that I was right beside it but oh well … I got to carry around a GPS that was surprisingly not too hard to use. I thought I wouldn’t understand it, but it was pretty easy. I think it is a fun hobby … it’s like playing hide and seek! We wanted to go to Mad Mex for Cinco de Mayo but it was way too crowded so we were going to go to Max and Erma’s in Monroeville but Bryan spotted Boston Market before we got there so we ate there. So much for Cinco de Mayo. It was very good … I’m sad to have to admit it, but their turkey dinner was better than the one at Kings. I still like Kings because their mashed potatoes and stuffing and cranberry sauce are sooo good, but Boston Market’s turkey was better than Kings. Not that I’d EVER pass up a turkey dinner at King’s or anything … just nice to know that there are other places that have Thanksgiving everyday :-). Then we came back here and fell asleep by 11pm. Guess we were both pretty tired from a long week, hunting for treasure, and eating turkey!

I’m defrosting some chicken in the refrigerator because I’m going to attempt to make my made up chicken-cabbage-stir-fry meal later. I love Napa Cabbage more than anything in the world and I’m always trying to think of things I can make with it. Napa Cabbage is the cabbage they use in Asian salads but I don’t really care for them because I don’t like the peanut oil-dressing that they use. Last time I made chicken napa cabbage soup. It was delicious. Just like chicken soup, except more cabbage than noodles. I found out you can use it in stir-fry too so I bought chicken and lots of frozen stir-fry veggies. I might use some soy sauce and add a few other things in too. However, I bought the cabbage three days ago and now it is looking a bit wilted. I hope it is just the outside layer … if not I’m going to have to go buy more. And I wish I could be a vegetarian because I paid $12 for a three pound bag of chicken! I swear, chicken used to be cheaper. I don’t know what happened. I’m just going to blame it on Giant Eagle. That always makes me feel better. I spent $42 the other day on chicken, frozen veggies, and fresh vegetables. I ended up buying organic celery because I just wanted the celery hearts and the organic ones were cheaper than the non-organic ones. And it was $5.80 for three tomatoes! Seriously, I need to buy a house and grow a garden so I can have all the free vegetables I want. It’s trips like that to the grocery store that remind me why I eat out so often.