and so it continues

it's funny, all week i've been thinking of things to put in here, and now i have blogger's block. we got a ton of new (to us) furniture from jane, who won't be needing any of it in russia. which means i spent the last few days reorganizing and rearranging my house to make it all fit. i kind of admire the kind of life where you can just share out your possessions (among friends and the guy in front of wal-mart who collects donations) and take off for some foreign country. i am trying to consciously detatch myself from random items i've been keeping forever because "it was free" or "i might take up cross-stitching someday"...
on a more amusing note, tomorrow marks the first workday of my new co-manager, lynda. not that it will be at all confusing, because she spells it lynda, and i spell it linda. i can hear people paging in my head "linda with an "i", you have a call on line 4". and so on. also, my boss is leaving us in two days, and has not yet been replaced, so jason and i will be muddling through on our own, trying to keep a store running and have fun at the same time. it's kind of fun to plan out all the things we're going to change and/or do differently now that we can. power to the peons! yes!
also, for those interested, my brother david is about to become a mormon missionary in orlando - spanish speaking. which should be interesting, since he had to repeat spanish 1 in high school. and he's coming out to visit me for a few days at the end of july (before he leaves).
note to potential visitors: notice how far in advance i know about the impending visit! this gives me time to plan, clean, arrange to get off work, etc. also, i am fond of presents.
this past weekend we helped jane "move" (as in: move her stuff to my house), and then had a party. we went to a russian/georgian restaurant and ate some very spicy stuff, and drank some very spicy stuff, and all in all, most of those involved had interesting gut reactions... but we did have fun for 7 people for just under $200 (no, we weren't planning on spending that much). there are photos on jane's website (janekeeler.com - the daily blah). there was much booze involved, and then we watched old school, which seems to amuse drunk people more than it does sober people, so i guess this was good timing. so it was a late night, and then sunday morning i had to go to a store meeting at work. they announced all kinds of fun things, like go team, we can make budget! and don't let's be slackers; let's be champions! and such. then i went home to sleep and missed church, and then i forget what happened, and then it was monday. oh yeah, we cleaned. jane left her apartment on tuesday, picked up adam from the airport, and came to our place to crash before leaving wednesday morning. since i knew about this plan in advance, i was forced to play the happy homemaker and clean and cook and decorate (i finally hung all the pictures i've been meaning to hang, and in all the right places). so i was quite tired most of the beginning of the week.
i would like to take this opportunity to bring attention to a wonderful product that has enabled me to function through the madness, and that product is essensia brand mocha biscotti crunch: a delectably sweet creamy mocha ice cream, with an espresso/fudge swirl, and chocolate-coated chunks of almond biscotti. this wonderful, bliss-inducing delight is, unfortunately, going out of production. i purchased the last carton available at my local albertsons, and i highly recommend that all involved do the same. good stuff! it almost rivals godiva's belgian dark chocolate for ice cream perfection. almost.
and i am once again at the blogger's block. it must be a circular track.
farewell all!
{[side note: spay your girl cat! (if you have one) otherwise she will go in heat again and again and again, and yowl and purr and cry and seek male kitties, and create a nuisance, and basically beg to be mated by anything in sight for several days at a time. i am currently saving little bits of paychecks and researching local vets in order to put a stop to her skanky madness. seriously, if this little kitty wore clothes, they'd look like rosario dawson's outfit in sin city!]}

so i think this will be a somewhat sporadic blog. my goal is at least a once a week thing, but hey, we'll see how it goes.
today i was spammed again by an annoying website (it rhymes with "assmates.com"). they tell me that a Friend has posted me a message! and for this limited time only, i can JOIN for FREE for a whole week, at which point they will charge my credit card a bajillion dollars. but the Benefits of Joining include that i can VIEW THIS POST by my FRIEND! who i am assuming is some affiliate of assmates.com welcoming me and thanking me for my credit card #. too bad for them i didn't give it, but it makes me sad that enough people must fall for that crap to make it worth their time...
on a more fun note: we caught a matinee of batman begins yesterday. i was quite impressed. the whole thing was dark and sinister, and just how i pictured batman and gotham and the whole bit. it was kind of tough to swallow that liam neeson was supposed to be sort of a bad guy, but i liked the fact that he wasn't the only bad guy. and i'm stopping there so i don't spoil anything else.
i did not appreciate, however, the preview for charlie and the chocolate factory that showed before batman. i never, before yesterday, even considered that johnny depp could resemble michael jackson, but he can be made to look frighteningly similar. and the film advertised is about a man in a crazy invented world, who invites small boys to come share it with him. now don't get me wrong, i love the book, and i have immense respect for roald dahl (i think the man was a brilliant storyteller!). but i think that tim burton/johnny depp watched the willy wonka movie for characterization instead of reading the book. and gene wilder is just creepy, even without the michael jackson look.
and all kinds of drama have been let loose in the vicinity of the thornton residence. michael wants us to move to colorado (he's planning a transfer there about october-ish and has already scoped out possible places of employment for us!) and when we told john that, he countered with reasons we should move to washington (relatives, a lack of my allergies, etc.) and then we got a phone call from quasi-relatives in chile, who want us to move there. and then my aunt and uncle came to visit (and took me to sea world, which i could not have afforded by myself, so thanks!) and they want us to move to utah... so it is nice that we are all popular, but what if we like it here? i'm starting to feel the tonka truck thing...
the tonka truck thing started when i was dating shaggy, and he and april didn't get along. they would try to get me to hang out with just them and not the other person, and i had only so much time on my hands, so i pitched a hissy fit and said that i WILL NOT be some yellow tonka truck that little kids fight over who gets to play with it. we are all adults, and when i go somewhere, whovever wants to go is invited, as long as they are civil and don't ruin it for me. sounds simple enough, right? you'd be surprised how often the same sort of thing crops up. like if all these people would just buy us plane tickets to visit them, there wouldn't be a problem...
and jane is moving! i can't believe the alias parties are over! we might have to actually start paying for tv reception unless someone else volunteers to record next season for us... and the fie dolla sto (five dollar store) will miss her frequent contributions, i am sure. based on recent events, i'm almost expecting a suggestion that we pick up and move to russia.
so anyway, a couple of years ago, shaggy went to a training academy for the defense department (yes, i know it sounds cool) and met up with deanna, who is basically a girl version of him. so they decided they're cousins and drop emails once in a while... but she's dating a guy she met on the internet, and where does he live? escondido. less than 3 miles from our house. and she's visiting him this weekend, so we'll get to go hang out with cousin deanna, who i haven't met yet.
and hobbes needs attention (he's trying to walk on the keyboard) which is an indication of enough blog. later!

blog part II

thought for the day: boys are lucky because they don't have to worry so much about hair and nails and clothing. on the other hand, girls are lucky because they can dress up if and when they want to.

awright! i made a blog!

Good morning, and welcome to blog-land. Not that I expect many readers, but getting the thoughts on paper (or screen) is always a good thing. Who knows, some people might comment, and then I'd have more fuel for my "the general public are morons" theory. Yep, that's right. I operate under the firm belief that the majority of humans have about as much sense as the average doorknob. I do include myself in this generalization, however, I aspire to the status of the kind of doorknob that actually works, instead of the loose, rusted variety.
So - thoughts for the day... pizza is good, kids make a lot of sense sometimes, and when planning a long walk, one should always ensure that one's shoes will be comfortable, instead of throwing on a pair that have not been worn in recent memory. Can anyone guess who has a blister on her heel? I went to church (yeah, I do that sometimes), and I didn't have my car today, so I hoofed it the mile and a half in a skirt and heels. yes it was dumb, yes, I'll probably do it again, and yes, I misjudged how long it would take me and I arrived to services late. What fun! I filled in as a sunday school teacher for some 9-10 year olds. It was an interesting experience. On the one hand, some of these kids had some great insightful comments. On the other, they don't seem to know how to sit still. I remember quite clearly not jumping up and running around the room when I was a 10-year old in sunday school. It makes me wonder if the parents of today are smarter, or dumber than they were back in the day. I was able to bum a ride home after which I scarfed some jeno's pizza (those little 99 cent kind) . It's funny, I actually really like them, more than half of the takeout pizzas that cost 10 times as much.
Okay, good enough for a first blog? I can't think of anything else. It was a boring day, which is why I'm spending time playing on the internet setting up a blog. later...