| User: |  i_am_aj |
| Date: | 2009-07-12 18:48 |
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- There was a forest fire north of my store. Of course the smoke blew south and left it looking like we had bad fog. The smell was awful and gave me a headache. The smoke itself stayed for about 2 hours, which didn't help my health. It was just a miserable day.
- Played tennis again today and lost again (5-7, 2-6). My head was aching and shots just weren't falling for me. My brother lectures me and preaches when I get down. It tends to annoy me. I know I battle depression, and I don't know if God will or won't help with that. But this is just a tennis match. I'm down because I'm extremely competitive.
- Bought Nothing Personal by All Time Low off Amazon, and it should be here before the week's over. I took the recommendation of lord_kvlt. The little bit I heard, I liked. Dylan seems to be good at guessing what I will and won't like.
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I've decided that since I'm all alone this week, I'm going to try my hand at baking some yummy things for me to enjoy, and possibly save some for my roommates to try when they get back.
So I'm asking for your favourite recipes! What are your favourite cookies to make? Any other sweet treat recipes you love?
Share with me!
:)
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I find it too funny... With important things like jobs and appointments, If you don't show up very rarely do they call you at that time to make sure you come. Its kinda like, you snooze you lose, ya know. However I see some ppl put their efforts into more pressing matters. Such as when I intentionally dont show up to a party, I get multiple calls to come right away. Like... I forgot or something??? No i didnt forget... but if I did, it wouldn't be that important to me then huh?
I am baffled by this situation. I got an e-vite, though I didnt RSVP. Then I got a text, my reply was "Not sure, might work Saturday". Somehow that was interpreted as, I'm going to show up. Even though I didnt have overtime this week, I decided to just kick back. I appreciate the e-vite, but kind of tired of the party scene. I dont really care for a party every weekend. IDK, I kinda want to relax from working 5 days a week, 12 hours every night. And I don't want to be hungover on Sunday ALL THE TIME. Guess I'm a bitch for wanting that...
And Unlike some tools, I actually see some friends outside of parties and communicate to them on a regular basis, ie phone or in person, not facebook. So the whole hermit label and 'mingle with friends via party is relaxing' lecture, does not work on me anymore. Can you believe that some douche said that to me?
Shawn and I had a nice day yesterday till we got those calls, then it turned into wtf ranting fest. Remember Kids, NO MEANS NO.
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I awoke at the crack of 10:30am and with hangover in hand i found a pop tart that i had purchased the previous night before at woodman's . Kati was still asleep so i flipped around the tv till i found some Ben Stiller movie to curtail my hangover before Kati was awake. Kati awoke and i lay in bed with her for a a few minutes till we both deiced to get up and head to The Costume Sale for the Madison children's theater.
The drive to the costume sale was like driving in a combination of Minneapolis and St Paul. There were houses that reminded me of my youth and shops that looked like that had been brought from St Paul to entice me to move there perhaps one day i will but for now i was going to focus on the costume sale. We arrived at what look like a dock where someone goes to get beat up by gangsters.but clear as daylight there was a sign for the costume sale. Kati wondered around looking for costumes for Aladdin a show she would be staring as the mother in late July.I was all for this but hadn't been involved in theater for along time so i chose to just walk around and take pictures of all the interesting things that i had seen. I was facenated by an old broken reel to reel machine i pretended that i was a producer of some rock band in the 1960s and i was recoding there hit song shurley it would have been a one hit wonder but i was there for it.I did find a glass with some palm trees and umbrella since it was being to drizzle and i am a big fan of preparing for the worst.
After a lunch of some spectacular Chinese food. Kati and i headed to Half Price Books where i purchased some dvd,s and cd,s that i had wanted/needed to replace due to loss or selling them for some reason or another. After that we came back to her place before we had dinner with her moms.
Some people will say that getting your teeth pulled or havening to watch a Joel Schumacher movie are the scaryist things in the world. For me it is meeting someone you likes parents for the first time. As we drove up to the house i was ready to run out of my skin and head for somewhere else. My nerve's were settled as soon as Kati's mom Nancy opened the door to greet us and then i was more relaxed then Dubya when they told him it was only four more years that he stole from the American people . Nancy took me on a tour of the home that she and her partner Sue aka Kati's other mom were selling so they could move into a condo. It was amazing i wanted to put a down payment on it myself. The garden was like a tiny island with a pond it was just really freaking cool. After the tour we headed to Roman Candle a pizza place in Middleton. I sat there and listened with awe and Nancy told about her and Kati and Sue going to South Africa when Kati was a youth. I also told a couple of embarssing stories that Kati had told me to her parents which i had thought they had already knew.Man was my face red. When we returned to Nancy and Sues home they found out that they had a buyer for their house and that was even before they had the open house.
After congratulating Nancy and Sue on the selling of the house we stopped at the liqure store and headed home to cuddle and have a few drinks. Eagle Vs Shark was on tv and it was really awesome like i suspected i kinda want to show it at the A/V Club this year but will see how that goes. After the movie we took a late night walk to Bear Mounds park were we looked at the stars and had a good talk about life and the universe.
Then it was off to bed and dreamland . A great thing all in all
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| User: | sinisterfeeling |
| Date: | 2009-07-12 11:34 |
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I started watching Lock, stock, and two smoking barrels last night. Couldn't make it through because I had logged onto vent/wow and ended up doing another fail mount drop run in S. Halls.
One day..one day that mount will be mine..then Ecke's..then Fev's and Zeeb..and everyone else that helps me run it. Lol.
I feel like sporting a cockney accent all day long. I really can't tell the difference between a real and a fake cockney, but I do enjoy either one. I 'specially enjoy the way Alan Ford talks in Snatch. OINK OINK.
I has pretty bento?
Beans & corn, edamame & snow peas (I needed something green >>), cherry tomatoes, and cheese tortillas! OMG delicious watermelon for desert. I ate the rest of it last night, although it was a very small watermelon, not the huge California crazy hooker boobjob gone wild size watermelon, it was a feat that lasted all night. If I could get one of the guys in produce to cut another in half for me, I'd totally bring another home tonight.
You can see the new bathroom wall color, which I do love oh, so much.
So I went thrifting a bit yesterday with my momma. Who can say no to surpise invites to a thrifting excursion? We went to the regular places, St. Vincents, Granger Bigwood, and Grape Rd. Big Wood.
I found a few cute & cool things, like a small Yoda backpack, a book of photos of Johnny Cash, a mini makeup mirror made in Israel, a Tupperware lid holder, a set of plastic drinking cups with a cute little golden fish on the sides, and a plastic doohickey that makes microwaved muffins :x
I was perusing through the record albums at St. Vincents, and I found a couple really cool ones, like Doris Day's greatest hits, "Do the twist!", and Nat King Cole, then I found this one;
Note the title as well as the crazy front layout.. "This time Allan Sherman's mother proudly presents Allan Sherman, my son, the celebrity". Now, I imagine that Allan Sherman's first record wasn't so great, and this dissapointed his wealthy mother. So she rounded up her nephews, house staff and had them park one of her cars in the middle their front lawn.
No idea where the dog came from much less why the lady serving tea is wearing a fur coat, but I do know she had spent the whole night before drilling into poor Allan's head that if this record doesn't work then he's going to have to go into the family business. Which has apparently nothing to do with commerical design. This record is on my top list of firsts to listen to once I get a record player.
Hmm..however on googling this dude, I find that he was a Doctor Demento/Weird Al of that day, so that makes me much more interested in hearing the album!
I have to stop writing posts -right before- I leave for work, I'm too rushed :p
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I have a VHS copy of The Nightmare with Alice Cooper (and Vincent Price!), a special originally made for TV in 1975. Or, as I lovingly refer to the 70s, back in the day. What it is is a theatrical performance of the songs on Alice's album, Welcome To My Nightmare (one of my favorites). I can remember seeing it when it first aired, back in the day, and having watched it last night with The Mrs. and a few coldies I can't help but wonder.....how the fuck did I ever slip that past Mom? Don't get me wrong, Mom has come a long way in the past few decades, but when we were kids...back in the day...let's just say, if you said "cheese" you'd damn well better be talking about the dairy product because if she thought you were saying Jesus in a less than prayerful fashion......THWACK! So yeah, there wasn't a whole lot of weirdness being tolerated back then (though I always thought, and still think, that the Baptist church is a baptismal font full of weirdness...but I digress). Between seeing Alice and KISS on the Paul Lynde Halloween Special in '73, and watching The Nightmare in '75......I'm beginning to understand why I am the way I am. And when I watched the following video, a montage of videos from Alice's new album, Along Came A Spider, I can't help but wonder how many weird motherfuckers will be born as a result. There's hope for the future, yet.......
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| User: | i_am_aj |
| Date: | 2009-07-12 05:14 |
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Yesterday started out with a ton of potential, but it just got squandered. I did make spaghetti, but I wound up overindulging. That really hurt when I played tennis and lost 3-6, 2-6. I was cramping so badly that I could barely move. Even when I came home to rest, lying down hurt too much. I had to sit up for about an hour before the pain subsided enough for me to lie down and slip into sweet unconsciousness. I don't need to make that mistake again.
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He was your Elvis, and when your Elvis dies, so does the private lie that someday you will be young once again, and feel at capricious joy that is unchecked by the injuries of experence and failure.
In other words, you two died a bit today.
Welcome to the only game in town.
- From Archwood
Its also kind of intresting how Michael dropped of the face of the earth right after the funeral. Don't see any news reports about it either.
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Oh, for the love of Pete, please tell me I did not just reference the Bay City Rollers. What the fuck, I couldn't think of an appropriate Shaun Cassidy quote?
Here are my mid-weekend updates, in no particular order...
Now, you had to know going into this that I was going to mention Alice Cooper....that's pretty much a given until I post pictures on August 5th.....so you can file this under "W" for what-the-fucking-fuck........
I told a female coworker (she's about 19) that I ordered tickets to see Alice Cooper. I'm stoked beyond belief, I'm telling pretty much everybody I come within ten feet of.
Tori, the coworker, looks at me kinda blankly and asks, "Who's she?"
Which, of course, made me think of this line from Alice's "Be My Lover"......
"...I told her that I came from Detroit City,
and I played guitar in a long-haired rock and roll band.
She asked me why the singer's name was 'Alice',
I said, "Listen baby, you really wouldn't understand..."
A male coworker, younger than me but closer and more wordly than Tori, had mentioned a party...he was going to call shortly after 8:00 to see if The Mrs. and I were interested and to give us directions, but here it is, 9:03 by my count, and still no ring-a-ding.....which is just as well because work today was...hmmm, what's the word? Oh yeah...fucking hell. I'm wiped. To be honest, if he called right now I'd probably go just for the relaxation factor....but I ain't gonna weep none if he doesn't. I'll just finish my coldie, hit the sack, and head out for a few miles of road hiking tomorrow morning.
Well.....that's about it. Not much of an update. I mean, there's plenty going on....just...I don't know. Think I'll see how much of a movie I can watch and call it a day. Been a long one. At least this was time spent posting and not fucking around in that Satanic virtual world known as Facebook.
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They are almost two weeks old they are so beautiful I wish could keep them all . Need names for them anyone have any suggestions ?
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| User: | iceraver |
| Date: | 2009-07-11 18:42 |
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Hey all I know its been a while! :D
So I have my ups and downs as always and lately the cats have been annoying the shit out of me. Every night the cats spend a substantial time bathing. Costello the most, spend all day doing it and is always drenched in his own saliva. He just recently got fleas and we're starting to wonder if he's allergic to fleas. And in the morning, this has been happening every morning as of late, I find hairballs and throw up all over the floor. We are already running low on wipes, clean rags and stain remover.
When I am awake I hear the heaves and for some goddamn reason I seem to be the only one coherent enough to pick the cats up while they are heaving and throw them in the kitchen or bathroom(linoleum makes it easier to clean). Because my little brother Sai, who seems to be playing WoW at the time and is sitting closer to the cats, can not get up off his ass and do it. Neither can shawn, who is playing WoW or rockband too sometimes. Oh no, I hope they like swimming in hairballs and cat vomit.
So today we're going shopping-YES I LIKE SHOPPING!!(lol Taffie), for some cat lax and advantix. Someone said buying kitty crunchies with special hair ball treatment helps but i object! We've been buying Purina special diet and hair ball treatment cat food for months when we had planned to keep them as inside cats. But it never-ever worked. So here's to hopping no more hair balls. If anyone have any advice on this fiasco please! please help me ;_;
Other then that my job has been alright. I've been more focus and determined to do things better then before. They've already made me a permanent employer as of the 2nd of July, judging by the deduction in my was-fatty check for union dues. Y__Y
This new girl Reina, pisses me off so much and I think Barb thinks its funny to pair me up with her. So to Reina, I probably seem like a bitch. Reina likes to cut corners and I always find little tiny mistakes and since I am the double checker I have to tell her to fix this or that chicken. Oh yea and she doesnt speak english aarrrrghh ><
When it comes to the gizzard table, I want to pull my hair out. Reina cheats A LOT! she's suppose to separate the yellows from the good gizzards and my job is to take care of the yellow ones. Well Reina likes to give me a part of her job too, so it looks like my work is more piled up then hers. Thanks bitch, die in a fire!
And then there's Bonnie, who I've been getting along really well with until lately. She seems to be acting really weird around me. I dont understand why exactly and maybe its just me. It seems to happend quite often though I notice in all work place in past or present. I become friends with someone and then later on when they get to know me they become distant and maybe hateful. Makes me wonder what is wrong with me... I dont think Bonnie is a catty person but I'm just worried is all. Maybe its cause i've been doing so well with my job and getting a lots of pats on the shoulder or maybe it really is my personality. Do I seem like a terrible person at a second glance?
Its been realy hard for me in the morning. I sometimes get short out of breath, especially when I have to clean hair balls. Sometimes its just from phlegm build up and I spend a while just coughing it out over the sink and all is well later. Sometimes its inflammation and it wont go away till I get some albuterol. Unfortunately I am out of my inhaler and have to drive to my parents house to get a puff of my mom's. At times, its not that easy cause my mom takes it with her to work. So I gotta go to the free clinic and get me a doctor's prescription. This is not that easy for me!!!! SO STFU everyone who has been telling to go to the free clinic. And I'll tell you why...
The vancouver free clinic's schedule is conflicting with mine and there's only a small window of opportunity for me to get help. They only do walk-ins, and the only time I could go is mornings. Oh yea and the morning clinics are only open on mondays and wednesdays. Also, there's always a line and they say to be expected to wait hours for help. Oh yes and the clinic opens at 9AM. That is very fucking late for a morning shift. I have to leave for work at 1PM, so thats a 4 hour window and its kinda squeezing it for me. If only they opened on weekends. :(
anyway, thats enough of Sam's stories
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7/09/09
I miss life on the road, I miss doing an honest day of manual labor. My soul hurts. My heart burns for glory days.
I spoke to DLG this morning. Had an ok talk.
07/10/09
Slept a bit, went and networked with tgsf. Chilled out around drunks and remained sober at some slezzeball nice queerish sf anything goes at the encore karokie lounge.
Ran into some old friends and foes enjoyed pizza, and reamined sober by 10pm i was likly the only sober person in a bar full of drunks.
Stoped by divas and saw some hot asian chick strip on the 3rd floor. Had fun around town i suppose.
Didnt drink and will have two years of continus soberity soon and i continue to grow.
I had a talk with my wonderful therpist luanna rogers today, it was progressive we discussed more ground rules.
The aparmtnet I apllied fell through in Daily City, California.
I ate healthy and when I saw my wonderful doctor sarah at Lyon Martin I felt progress. I got new insperation.
07/11/09
My two year soberity date is fast aproaching. I fell in love or at least had chemestry. To be honest my girlfriend made the move on me, i felt it also but I was shy. And we are very well close, safe and honest with each other.
I had my feelings hurt. I have a woman whom I must deal with, last night a clergymember was intrested in me, and I was outed in Trans-phobia. Another woman looks at me differently, she didnt know.
It makes me angry that MB said what he did to a friend of mine genia, it pisses me off his gropeing of boobs and legs, and sexual harassment.
I thought Id share something. Really intimate. I became sober on July 13th, 2007 at Lambda center , becuse I had enough. One of the things that keeps me sober is my shame, guilt, and remorse for how I treated christan williams. In my allmost two years of recovery, I have started dealing with PTSD, Borderline personality disorder, and other issues.
I left the church of jesus christ of latter day saints. I came out, I restarted hrt, I changed from McInnis Lee Gaetjens to Leigh McInnis Gaetjens.
I went throgh many strides and hardships. But the one thing that hurts me most. Is what I did and didnt do. I want to hug christan, I know shes in recovery but I cant force her to change. And I can understand she may never want to have anything to do with me, I would probbley feel that way if I was in her shoes.
My soberity date was centered around fear, when she stuck out her hand to me at an event. It led to my soberity. One of the hardist things I have had to face is. I
I wish I was with my partner in Vegas but I understand she needs her space and time shes burned out in LA, I cant wait till she moves back to the bay area. i PLAN TO GO SEE HER IN LA.
shes so cute, and I posted a photo of herOne thing i repsct about my poor transgressions directed at an individual whom I have accepted may never want anything to do with me. A leader of the TS community in houston.
She works in social work
She is in recovery 10 years or more
We both came out and transitoned in our 20s
Shes about a generation older than I
She does a lot for the community
Even though she can be a stuck up, she cares and is a loving, kind person
She is a very generous person and actvist.
I accept. That this person may never or it may be a long time before if ever I am able to have contact with her. I only help god willing through my program, Im able to make ammends and be part of her life. If she ever were to become sick, I would be first to donate blood or plazma for .
I feel shame, remorse and guilt. I hope one day her being in recovery can allow me into her life and community. But I accept the things I am powerless over, she is another person,palce and thing. I change myself and maybe she will forgive me and begin to see me in a diffrent light.
Only time will tell
Leigh "Lee" McInnis Gaetjens
Soberity date 7-13-2007
Born 1-18-1981
Houston - New Orleans - San Francisco
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I wish I was with my partner in Vegas but I understand she needs her space and time shes burned out in LA, I cant wait till she moves back to the bay area. i PLAN TO GO SEE HER IN LA.
shes so cute, and I posted a photo of herOne thing i repsct about my poor transgressions directed at an individual whom I have accepted may never want anything to do with me. A leader of the TS community in houston.
She works in social work
She is in recovery 10 years or more
We both came out and transitoned in our 20s
Shes about a generation older than I
She does a lot for the community
Even though she can be a stuck up, she cares and is a loving, kind person
She is a very generous person and actvist.
I accept. That this person may never or it may be a long time before if ever I am able to have contact with her. I only help god willing through my program, Im able to make ammends and be part of her life. If she ever were to become sick, I would be first to donate blood or plazma for .
I feel shame, remorse and guilt. I hope one day her being in recovery can allow me into her life and community. But I accept the things I am powerless over, she is another person,palce and thing. I change myself and maybe she will forgive me and begin to see me in a diffrent light.
Only time will tell
Leigh "Lee" McInnis Gaetjens
Soberity date 7-13-2007
Born 1-18-1981
Houston - New Orleans - San Francisco
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I wish I was with my partner in Vegas but I understand she needs her space and time shes burned out in LA, I cant wait till she moves back to the bay area. i PLAN TO GO SEE HER IN LA.
shes so cute, and I posted a photo of her
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| User: | chikkiboo |
| Date: | 2009-07-11 10:26 |
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The Fabulous Adventures of James & Bond
Part 3: You Only Die Once
Chapter 2
2800 words
( in which we meet a russkie )
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So, in order to do research about a genre, I've gone and ordered a book from Borders. The site said that it would take anywhere from 3-8 days to get here, depending on where the distribution center is. That I'm okay with. If it's coming out of the middle of nowhere, Kansas, I would expect it to take a week.
The book's coming out of New Jersey. Not only that, it's coming out if EDISON, New Jersey...if I'm not mistaken, that's maybe an hour or two away from NYC. It shipped yesterday. Therefor, the expected arrival date is...
July 17th.
...which is the full week.
Okay, it's 5-6 hours straight from NYC to Plattsburgh, not counting pit stops and randomness, but seriously...seven days to get from the middle of New Jersey to the top end of New York? What are they doing, taking it through Times Square?! Hitting every single toll booth in throughout the state of New Jersey?!
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| User: | rachel_doll |
| Date: | 2009-07-11 06:34 |
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Lamb of God are opening for Metallica?! Holy crap! I already have tickets for the November Albany show! Im more excited to see LOG than Met! Ive seen Metallica before. Didnt get to see Lamb of God when they came and I was sad so this is awesome! Wish I had pit tickets though =( Last time I saw Metallica I was 5 feet away and it was lovely. I just have seat tickets this time. I hope the seats dont suck extremely bad.
I need a nap. After not being on Ambien for a week I realized that the reason I feel drained all the time is due to Ambien... I wasnt drained & lifeless feeling without Ambien like I am with it. Just exhausted and cracked out because I was unable to sleep... So I guess it is a choice of feeling drained or of feeling exhausted.
Hot boy that looks exctly like JACOB was just talking to me! Maybe it was him! lmao Doubt the real jacob would be waiting for the bus trying to get to the college lol Must be a smart lil Jacob going to Skidmore. I should go find myself some 18 year old Skidmore boys. lol Sorry guys, I tend to like them young! Although 7 years is a bit much lol
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