:D
I am feeling goo-ood (good in two syllables for emphasis).
:D
I like Sundays.

Good night

Good night

I'm all clean. Dinner was good. I have a bad headache now. Taking ibuprofen and going to lie down in the dark. We'll probably watch American Idol on Tivo if I feel up to it.

Weeeeeeeeekkkkkeennnnnnnnnnnnndddd!!!

Weeeeeeeeekkkkkeennnnnnnnnnnnndddd!!!

Yay! :) :) It's the weekend. It's the weekend. (Doin' a little weekend dance.) This is my first weekend free since early December. Woo-hoo! It's mine all mine.

Got home from work about 20 minutes ago. Gonna shower. Cuz I did a bunch of dirty work today -- held squirmy long-haired guinea pigs to trim their nails, and I spent most of the day cleaning up dirty shelves and merchandise from under the animal cages and moving the shelves and merchandise around and getting down on the floor and pulling things out from under the shelves.

I wish I was dirty from greeting doggy customers but I think only one came in today -- a long-haired chihuahua.

After I wash the pet store funk off of myself, I'm doin' laundry. Then makin' some healthy yummy dinner. I went to Whole Foods last night and they had so much yummy healthy food.

I'm going to have turkey breast wrapped around a spinach-gorgonzola cheese stuffing, potato skins, spicy green beans, salad and wheat sourdough bread. And probably some wine I bought at the "cellar" next to Happy Tails.

Yay yay yay.

American Idiots

American Idiots

Also awesomely entertaining: these early-in-the season episodes of American Idol. The crazy people who suck or are just insane but think that they're great are so incredible to watch. Amazing stuff.

So Much Fun

So Much Fun

The drumming game my roommate bought today for his PS2 is SO MUCH FUN. I wanna rock and roll all night.

Breakthrough?

Breakthrough?

Franko trusted me enough to accept a veggie chip from me today. I'm so tickled.
(Franko is a parrot who tends to be very not nice to people.)

Daily Affirmation

Daily Affirmation

I am the stupidest girl.

A Three-Hour Drive, A Three-Hour Drive

A Three-Hour Drive, A Three-Hour Drive

I had to work yesterday because J decided he would rather go to California than work. My normal weekday shift begins at 11:30. Yesterday, on Saturday, I had to get up at 6:45. It started snowing when I was almost to work. It snowed A LOT.

We sold a lot of dog food in the first hour. Our store is next to Giant, which was insane. I knew we'd be closing early and we didn't have an animal care person coming in, so between rushes of panicked customers, I was hurriedly tending to all the food and water needs of all the critters (fish, toads, reptiles, birds, & small mammals).

The snow got worse and the customers dwindled. I was permitted to leave a little before 2. My coworker stayed by himself, planning to walk home. I layered up and hiked to my car at the edge of the parking lot and started it and cleaned it off. I pulled out at 2:05.

I could go about 5 mph for the half-mile to the main road. Turning was fun. Then it was 3 miles on the main road to the beltway. Up and down hills. At some places there was 1 lane, at some places 2. And by lane, I do not mean that there was any pavement. Just some tracks in the very slippery churned up snow. I was not alone on the road by any means. I don't know where everyone else needed to go in these horrible conditions.

I should mention that my car is really quite bad for snow driving. It is tiny and light and has rear-wheel drive. And there's that little problem that using the heat (or windshield defroster) sucks carbon monoxide into the car. Yum!

I definitely experienced some slippage and fish-tailing. At first I was a little rusty at handling it and I ended up 90 degrees to the right. Then I got the hang of it and tried to keep the wheels perfectly straight and stay within the tracks and to only accelerate or brake very moderately.

In addition to my driving skills, this was also a test in panic control. I had to make myself slow and deepen my breathing and attempt to relax my body somewhat. I was very tense. And I knew I had a long, hard trip ahead of me. It was very slow-going, very slippery and the snow was still coming down, hard. And I still had about 25 miles to go.

About a half-hour later I made it to the beltway. This is the second time in my life that I have made the mistaken, hopeful assumption that since it's the beltway it'll be somewhat clear, right? Um, no.

I do a little fish-tailing. I stay to the right w/ my hazards lights flashing so everyone knows I have a sucky car and will be going very slow.

After 3 grueling miles the traffic comes to a halt where another major highway is merging into the beltway. I am not happy. I am freaking out a little. Because I still have so far to go and the roads are so bad and the stuff is still coming down.

I would have expected that there would be fewer lanes than the usual 4 because of the snow all over the road. But no, people decided, hey no lanes means I can drive wherever I want, including making a lane on the shoulder and cutting off everyone who's been sitting here much longer than me.

People are a*#holes

How would emergency vehicles get by if there was an accident? (In this fabulous weather? No way...) I know all these people weren't all trying to get home from work. Why the heck were they all out in this? And with children in their cars/pickups/SUVs. Too much risk. The weather bulletins online, the radios, the TVs were all saying "Do not drive!!!" People are stupid and annoying. I know I was one of them but I had more of a reason (people needed their dog food at the last possible second before being snowed in for like 12 hours for pete's sake) and I knew my limitations and actually drove with extreme caution.

Thank god it actually unexpectedly stopped snowing. The traffic jam inched along and eventually passed the accidents and spun-out and stuck people. (Haha suckers. So glad that wasn't me.) Once the traffic wasn't bumper-to-bumper, the road was worse, though. Back to the wheel-gripping 10mph please-don't-slide fun. Then another traffic jam. Then really bad slippery parts with every other car sliding sideways, including mine. People, when your wheels are not gripping, don't keep hitting the gas. Or the brakes. Dumbasses.

At about 5:15 I finally made it home, exhausted and feeling sick from the exhaust fumes. My neighborhood was actually plowed. Before the beltway.

Still Here

Still Here

Oh BTW, I didn't move. So I'm really broke and I owe my roommates rent money since I paid rent at the other place.

Moving Day arrived and I just really didn't want to do it.

IOU

IOU

I wrote an IOU to a gas station last night. Yep. I'm pathetic. I forgot to bring my money, ID & check card to work yesterday. I borrowed $12 from Lex for lunch (spent $1 on frozen pizza) and gas.

After work I went across the street to put $11 of gas in my car. When I went to prepay, I saw huge signs, "Pump First, Then Pay." OK... So I start pumping. Then my inability to stay focused kicked in and I started daydreaming. Suddenly I looked at the pump and exclaimed a bad word and stopped it at $13.41.

I emptied my purse and then dug through the piles of crap in my car. I came up with some change, but I was still $1.43 short. I took my sad story inside to the kind gas station representatives and they told me I could just come back. I gave them $11.41 and wrote an IOU on the back of a business card for $2. Shameful.

I am off today and live nowhere near there so I will have to pay them tomorrow when I go in to work really early (yuck) on Saturday (yuck) in the big snow- and sleet-storm (triple yuck) in my POS car that was not made to ever even see a flake of snow.

Hello

Hello

Haven't posted much. Haven't been home much. Was of course very busy before the holidays. Had a really nice Christmas with the family. Then dog-sat for 10 days. Been going out more than usual.

Worked long hours yesterday. Slept in today -- yay. Had dinner tonight at Carrabbas (so good!) to celebrate my dad's birthday (Jan. 3).

I should be cleaning and packing like crazy but I'm lazy. I'm supposedly moving out Saturday. It seems likely that I will. It's been the plan since Brian & I broke up a month ago.

But I should say supposedly broke up. Because we've been getting along great. It's all rather confusing. I don't know what to say about it. Our relationship was full of issues. So we broke up. It seemed to help (after sucking and making us really sad).

Now it's like we can't take each other for granted or get mad over expectations. The pressure is off. Anger and frustration have faded and patience and fun have returned. We almost feel like more of a couple now than before. Very odd.

Miam...Miam HAP!

Miam...Miam HAP!

So I bought this lunch box at the dollar store cuz it was so freakin' weird. Went online to find out what it meant. I found this.

Then I found it in a French site so I went to a Francais-Anglais dictionary site and found out miam miam means yum yum.

And I saw :HAP: used in an emoticon kind of way. Like :LOL: So I'm guessing it means I am happy?

Dog saves boy from tsunami

Fish Decor Shopping

Fish Decor Shopping

Trying to decide what to get for my newest fish's tank.

• Pagoda ABLEE556 030157004606 BR GARDEN PAGODA WITH FU DOGS


• APPRRP400 030172001956 PP CANY ROCK W/PLANT NAT MINI


• APPP08SGL 030172030383 PP GLO CLUB MOSS 6" ORANGE (kinda like this but smaller, orange and glows in the dark)


• APPP12SGL 030172030390 PP GLO LUDWIGIA 6" BLUE (kinda like this but smaller, blue and glows in the dark)


• PP PEARL CARDAMINE 6" BLUE (kinda like this but smaller, and a pearly blue)


• PP PEARL AMBULIA 6" BLUE (kinda like this but smaller, and a pearly blue)


• Scuba Dog APP082 030172010828 PP ORN DIVING SEA DOG