So a while back I was talking to Shannon (http://wilddreemer.blogspot.com/ and she said something along the lines of: when her jeans are too tight, she sprays them with water to loosen them up on all the right places. Ok, I totally forgot about this idea until yesterday when I went to put on a pair of jeans that 2 days ago I tried to wear and then immediately took off because they were WAY too tight. So I remembered this yesterday morning and there I am standing in my under ware, spraying my jeans. Well, apparently I sprayed them TOO much (or I lost like 20 pounds in 2 days and I seriously doubt that is what really happened) because I spent the better part of yesterday pulling up my pants and making sure everyone i work with doesn't see what kind of under ware I wear.
Thursday, May 31, 2007
Why I think I have a dwarf stalker...
I drove my car to work this morning, wearing the same shoes and I am pretty sure measuring the same height as I did when I left work today, and no-one else drove my car during the day, but somehow when I got in my car this afternoon to leave work, I felt like someone had rearranged all of my mirrors and moved my seat up about 5 inches...I could barely get my knees behind the wheel...WTF? Am I completely going mad or do I have a dwarf stalker that broke into my car and rearranged my seat? (I'm not sure I want to answer to be either of those).
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Top 10 things my Mr. Right will have to put up with...
10) The fact that instead of walking the 2 feet across my kitchen to throw away a paper towel, I will drop it on whatever counter I am closest to. I clean up my random pieces of trash probably once a day.
9) Some weekends I truly enjoy waking up, walking my dog, eating breakfast and then sleeping until about 5PM.
8) I don't really ever put my laundry away. By the time I put my laundry away, it is time to do laundry again.
7) My kitchen counters are normally clean enough to eat off of, however my kitchen floors probably have a small community of fuzzballs living in each corner.
6) I only sporadically water my house plants. This is probably the reason I can keep orchids alive, however other house plants are consistently on the verge of death.
5) I LOATHE doing dishes. I would hire a maid primarily for the purpose of doing dishes if I had the money.
4) I eat dinner anywhere between 8 and 10 pm most nights. Sometimes it consists of cereal, somethings it is extravegant meals...it's purely random what you're going to get.
3) I like to start projects and then walk away from them for days, or weeks, or months...
2) I hit the snooze button more times than I will actually admit to anyone, but needless to say I am always in a rush in the morning even though my alarm goes off hours before I have to be at work. I have tried everything, even putting my alarm in the other room...I actually got up, hit the snooze and laid back down.
1) I talk to myself. When I still lived with my parents I would be up late studying for exams and my mom would walk by my room and think I was on the phone with friends...nope just having conversations with myself.
My dog is so cute...
See that tub in the back...yup, my parents have a "pool" for her because she loves swimming so much. I took her camping this weekend and between playing stick for like 10 hours straight and eating mosquito's for me, she would go for little swims in the lake and just paddle around, get out, paddle around, get out, paddle around...ok you get the point.
Lessons learned from my dog...
My alternative title to this blog was "Why I think my dog is cooler than I" but I decided to look at it positively and not that my dog is cooler than I (although I am pretty sure that she is)...
1) Always pretend like you are cooler than everyone else, even if you don't believe that you are. It's all how you present yourself to others. I little growl goes a long way.
2) Say hi to everyone, you never know when you will meet your next best friend, your next great lover or just someone to wrestle with for the day.
3) Play hard!
4) Sleep harder!
And most importantly...
5) Always chase after the cute boys at the dog park, you have nothing to loose.
I have yet to master many of these lessons but I am slowly but surely breaking out of my shell and trying them all out (for those of you who don't know me, I am a Cancer and feel very much at home in the comfortable shell of my every day existence...I thrive on the exciting but I approach it slowly and with caution).
Some protests aren't necessary.
So apparently I am being silently boycotted by some of my loyal blog readers because I don't write often enough. Fair enough but give me a break, I have been working 12 hour days and then I was out of town for 4 days. But I promise I will write more often (or seriously try to)...you guys are lucky I don't really have a life...If I had a life I would never write...or maybe on the contrary I would have more to write about so I would write more often...
Sunday, May 20, 2007
How do you sensor what you say?
What makes people sensor what they say to other people? On that note, what makes people think it is ok to say politically incorrect things to "almost" complete strangers?
I walk my dog at the park near my house. Because I always walk around the same time of day, I tend to run into the same group of people. Most of these people I know nothing more about them than their dog's name(s). Even though I see these people day in and day out for the better part of 2 years, I do not know anything about them. On that note, while I am not registered to vote, I definitely classify myself as a liberal democrat. Although my political beliefs and feelings about certain people in certain important positions who got this country into a war that is headed down the road of another politically controversial and senseless war that lasted for years upon years, I don't go spouting my political or social beliefs to strangers. In fact I rarely talk politics or make social commentaries unless you know me very well.
This leads me to Sat. morning. I was out walking my dog and ran into this older guy that I "know" (as in I know his name and his dog's name, and I know that he is ok with me having my dog off the lease) (and he is really old, like probably in his 70's). He's nice enough and in general he is very nice guy to talk to while you are wandering around the park. Saturday morning we were standing there talking and an African American guy goes jogging by us. Mind you he jogged by us and jogged up a hill that I can barely drag myself up at a turtle pace, let alone JOG up. The older guy I was chatting with responds with the following..."That reminds me of a joke (at this point in time I have no idea what reminded him of the 'joke' he is about to tell)...Why doesn't Mexico ever have track & field athletes in the Olympics?" Seriously, did he just say that? Since I can barely understand why he would tell this 'joke' to someone he barely knows, I utter "ummm, no, don't know". He responds "Because any of the Mexicans that can run or jump have already left the country." Ok, for a racist joke it is kind of funny but regardless, it is a racist joke. What makes a person think it is ok to go around saying things like this to people they barely know.
Now mind you I am not the kind of person that thinks that we can create a world where racism doesn't exist. I am a realist and realize that there are people that will always believe that they are better than someone else, purely based on the color of their skin. I also realize that make racial stereotypes have a lot of factual origin. But I also believe that anyone with the least bit of social or political sense knows that even if they hold those beliefs, they censor their own thoughts until they know how and if a person they barely know will react to a 'joke' like that.
