on the iPod, The Eagles' hits. for the past week I've woken up to ABBA from the old man cranking up the tunes downstairs in the big player. Don Henley singing "Desperado" during the concert will be right up there as best all time life memories. Along with Eric Clapton singing "Wonderful Tonight" and I looked up to a starry night.
the to-do list is getting quite massive but they're getting done at least. yesterday i tried to complete my mandatory phone call application to NY unemployment office. with thousands of people unemployed, the system puts you on hold & if it can't locate an open operator it'll tell you to call back in 15 min and then disconnect you. hopefully i'm more successful today.
i'm still sleeping with the door open and the closet light on, although in a stroke of genius [a really slow stroke] I put some tissue paper of the gift wrapping variety just on the uppermost part of the door. the light is angled just so that when I'm lying in bed not sleeping late at night, it hits my eyes. so now it's muted by tissue paper with snowflakes patterned across it and I don't have to hide under my blanket to get some darkness.
my Dell RAM is shipping out late, annoying. probably mentioned that already since I'm really annoyed. one of the few purchases I made on black Friday, which I learned is called that after an old accounting practice of marking costs with red ink and profits with black ink in the books. the other modest purchases I made were at Target: Goonies, The Devil Wears Prada, Iron Man. what I really wanted was the Dell Mini 9, originally planned to buy that on the account of having a job but oh well.
the Christmas budget went up: $261.12. that's how much spare change I had in my room! all in random vessels, old Christmas box, plastic bag under the dresser, and an actual piggy bank. so yay! we must be more thought oriented this year considering the bank balance. but I do so love giving presents especially when it's something the person would enjoy. we will have to pool money with the siblings for the extended family and in-laws. sheesh, last year I gave uge-wan $300 for a snowboard alone. goes to show how I love giving presents or how much I love certain people. what? I'm emotionally constipated; I can't show affection any other way. well I could, but I'd rather not have to kill unless absolutely necessary.
was talking to chasingamy last night and she'd suggested even though we can't go and do our Fifth Ave shopping for that ONE thing we could afford Christmas extravaganza, we could still capture the Christmas spirit. we could still go see the Rockefeller tree, have some D&D coffee or cocoa & have a hopefully cheap but good lunch. there are times I hope to be as self-assure as her. I also know if she read this, she'd scoff since there are bad days & maybe she doesn't think of herself that way some days but she's a woman who knows what's good for her. she told me hkn asked how I was doing & how the communist said she didn't know "they" were going to do this to me when she went on vacation. complete horsepoop as department heads aren't left out of monumental decisions such as this. plus the little tidbit she let slip to chasingamy before leaving for her vaca was more than enough proof she knew beforehand. chasingamy is a good friend, called hkn on her sh!t & said if you thought soco was such an unreliable flake then why'd you put her in charge of so much crap. defending me and poking another hole in hkn's faulty logic, if she had any to begin with. people who don't stand for anything fall for everything and I actually pity hkn for how she is. when I first met her I thought she was just a victim of her youth but really she's just a scummy idiot. speaking of which, I realized yesterday that since I'm no longer anyone's boss I don't have to bite my tongue about any of the other morons and low lives I met there. how utterly satisfying to tell lesliegirl what I really thought of alex. LOL
it's getting close to the end of the year blog, the rundown of all things good and bad, lessons learned from 2008. most times when I remember to do the end of the year blog, I start composing it ahead of time because I can't remember it all in one sitting. I'll probably just do a rundown, mind dump, Doogie blog. or not. whatever heh heh. I need to get off my ass if I want said ass to fit in something summery by the end of the month. if all goes well, I'm going to be on a jet plane after Christmas. in the meantime, chasingamy suggested the Special K diet. uge-wan managed to eat only one bowl of oatmeal this morning [he said he was on detox hahahaha] & I've already dug out the perfect push up, the exercise ball, and resistance bands for his fat ass. the fridge door has some explicit picture instructions: feed cat, kill Dawn, water plant, and make fatboy slim. we can't exactly do the 2nd, but we've all ignored the last for too long.
little things (about daily life):
- Shimmy has a pet rock, no idea where she got it as she's an indoor cat. but sure enough, she was playing with a rock that is way too big to have been caught in someone's shoe. cat magic I guess.
- beer bottles, I keep finding them everywhere. grapegum & the old man leave them wherever they finished drinking it. I told him that this morning, and the cheeky response I got in tagalog was it's good to be buzzed. there are still 2.5 cases in the kitchen. *sigh* it's annoying enough they have that talking bottle opener which can be heard all the way upstairs behind closed doors.
- where did my collection of mugs go? the Star Trek mugs! lol... and my X-Files mug that changes the message on the side when you pour hot water in it.
"I suffered fools so gladly. And now I find, I've changed my mind."
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