meimichan

Had a great time in Chicago, thanks for all the congratulations. I really needed that day in Chicago, no matter how drop-dead exhausted I was at the end-I'd been awake for over 25 hours by the time we got home. I haven't been in this good a mood in months.

Unfortunately, my camera is hosed. It's still usable, but it does need to be replaced. There's a set of spots that show up in nearly every fucking photo I take, especially if it's outside and the background's a light color. It can be worked around, but it's also a serious pain in the ass. I may try getting it cleaned again, but the professional photographer I just chatted with said it's probably not fixable.

*sigh*

Shit continues to happen in Wisconsin.

Japan was hit by a massive earthquake a couple hours ago and is now being devastated by tsunamis.

I cannot sleep when this much bad news comes out.

Not that I could sleep well anyways as a matter of course...


Retail therapy planned for tomorrow. Need new jeans. And bras. And underwear. Possibly some patches for my old jeans, see if they can last a little bit longer.

My colon is making my life damned miserable lately(well, one among many things).

TMI? Yeah well you don't have to live with it.

TomorrowToday is not going to be a good day. And not just because of the weather. I'm not sure if it's living up to the meteorologist's snowpocalypse-like predictions, but I would not want to be out in that mess.

Need a rocket launcher for my truck.

The clutch went. Again. Sprained my finger trying to shift it. Fucking wonderful.

Jason thinks he can get a car loan. Let's hope so, or we're really fucked. I can't drive it anymore.

I will not cry, I will not cry, I will not cry...


*SIGH*

Talked to my mom on Friday, she's getting released on Monday. She's doing a lot better. I think I'll call her again today, try to be nice that way. I'll definitely be leaving my brother alone.

Spent a few hours yesterday meeting up w/ theatrophyannie for lunch and a walk around Olbritch Botanical Gardens. It was a nice change of pace/distraction. Then I got home, took a nap, got a bad headache, and wished I'd stayed in bed.

Actually, I kinda wish I'd been asleep for all of last week. REALLY wish just about everything that happened last week hadn't. It was a shit week.

I hate typing left-handed.

ETA: Jason's been pre-approved for a car loan. Forgot how advanced the internets were these days. =P So that's good for us at least. =)

Tis the new season, so I wrote recaps of Psych and White Collar. One I loved and the other...I did not. I don't think I'm going to post them to the communities. I said a few things in one recap that stand a good chance of hitting a few nerves.

Got the brush-off from Qdoba today. I really really REALLY suck at this. I seriously do not know what the fuck else I can do.

Got another office interview at Aerotek tomorrow. I'd try to think positively, but over the past 3.5 years, this particular agency has done nothing but waste my time. I've already done the office interview with this branch back in December. I have to give Jason a ride to Janesville tomorrow so I can have the car, but he'll have the company car for the weekend. Joy of joys. I will be running on coffee.

I can't remember the last time I slept more than five hours in a row. I seem to just catnap whenever I need it.

In other fun news, I fucked up my right foot sometime on Tuesday. Walking's a bitch.

It's Memorial Day weekend.

And here's something awesome to go remember. Or be reminded of it even happening in the first place(well-pre WWII). In other news, while I love history and find it fascinating, I didn't learn a fucking thing in any of my history classes and I've had to learn most of the good stuff on my own.

Women in Uniform, 1799-present



I planted my tomatoes, except the two Romas. I also clobbered my knee with the shovel and I think I'm really dehydrated, because the whole ordeal kind of wiped me out.

I am in the mood to watch Star Wars. Where on the fucking planet did my fucking tapes get to?! They've been missing for awhile now, and I'm fairly pissed off about this.

My brother is having complications, called he's developed an abscess where his appendix was and they're gonna have to do another surgery. He's currently at the ER with my dad having the CAT scan done to make sure, but they think that's what it is, and if that is what it is, he's going to be in the hospital for probably another two weeks.

So my mom just called me up and told me to get to Cleveland. Not sure HOW I'm getting there yet, and I'm most likely not leaving until tomorrow.

I find it beyond fucking odd that Windi King is arriving via bus to Madison TODAY because her mom is in the UW hospital downtown having complications from a transplant, and I'm most likely about to bus out to Cleveland to visit my brother having complications from appendicitis.

Don't you love it when real life happens? /sarcastic voice

I just got back from my garden plot, tilled another row, mostly of dandelions and rocks, and I need a shower. Then a beer. Or a spiked Coke, whichever.


UPDATE It's apparently not nearly as bad as they'd thought, he had the surgery, he's most likely going to go home tomorrow to finish recovering...so I've been told not to rush out. O_o So......okay then. Still waiting for more phone calls.

Jason got his second FOAD because we made the ill-fated decision to check our mail after buying the good ramen across the street.

We're drinking. Heavily.

Also watching just about every episode of Big Bang Theory. Not often I come across a show Jason and I both love. Yes Josh, sorry. :p

My parents have swine flu, and my brother is starting to show symptoms. Fucking wonderful. I really hope my nieces don't get it.


While we're at it, I hope I don't get it.


Also, I'm 27 today, but not until 8:20pm.

HOLY SHIT. Oh. Serial killer/rapist. In Cleveland. Apparently a sausage factory can only disguise the smell of dead body for so long. Also proof that I can never retire my Fuck Ohio icon. It gets too much usage.

I obviously didn't leave Cleveland a moment too soon. Apparently the police are venturing out to Warren and Youngstown to see if they can get the bodies identified.

In somewhat less exciting news, I am getting the cough from hell. And I know the lady at the DMV was coughing up a storm yesterday. This wouldn't bug me so much if swine flu wasn't running through Madison like none other. Time for some hot tea, possibly a hot bath.

And more time to be relieved that I'm no longer in Cleveland. God DAMN.

Welcome to the national news, Cleveland. And so not in a good way.



In political news, mostly that I just care about:

Maine repealed their legalization of same-sex marriage, because California is a good state to idolize. Also they fucking suck. They did legalize medical marijuana. So getting high is more important than giving your state's residents equal rights.

NY-23 has gone to a Democrat for the first time since...I think someone in the forum said 1880? That can't be right, since districts get redrawn every 10 years because of the census, that thing Michele Bachman's protesting because she is batshit. Whatever, a long fucking time.

NJ elected a GOP governor. NJ has also had 8 governors in the last nine years, so why people are in a frenzy about this one is beyond me. Never been to NJ, would you believe I have no desire to ever go there?

Kalamazoo, which is still holding the title of favorite city I've ever lived in, passed an ordinance banning discrimination based on sexual orientation.

Geauga County, where I just left, has failed for the 3285712th time to pass the school levy. It failed by eight votes. I think it failed by seven votes last spring. I moved out and didn't vote this year, so what, two people voted no who didn't? I bet dad and Kevin on the two new no-votes. Ledgmont spent an assload of money building a new schoolhouse that could have held my elementary school, which was 500+ students. How many students in Ledgmont? 80. No joke. Wonder why they're having money issues. It's just a matter of time before the state steps in and dissolves it. For myself, I just can't fund stupidity like that. Dissolve it, and we'll pay Chardon or Madison's school taxes, whichever. At least the kids might get a marching band with more than four people. In any case, no matter how many times Montville Township runs this ballot measure, they're not changing anyone's mind.

Ohio will be building casinos in their four major cities. This will do nothing to improve the scenery in any of these towns, and let's face it, Toledo could really use the help. Only uglier city in Ohio is Youngstown. Casinos in Detroit obviously didn't revitalize that town, so I have a huge bucket of salt for everyone saying they'll revitalize Ohio. For the most part, I don't care.

All right, I'm out. I'll be glued to a news source for next year's election night, guaranteed. ^_~