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feeling: Headachey and extremely tired

So, after about an hour of sleep I’m all refreshed and ready to work tonight – not. I went to bed around noon but just couldn’t manage to fall asleep, probably because I slept so much and so late this morning.

Anywhoo, I was waiting for Mom to call when she was done with work so Wendy and I could go over there and iron on some transfers to make Wendy a Dir en Grey tank top for her concert on Tuesday.

Unfortunately, it just wasn’t going right from the get-go. First, Wendy had to run home because she realized she forgot the shirt. LOL. Then I realized I had to invert the images (I lost the main instruction sheet and couldn’t remember since it’d been so long and the only one I had said you didn’t need to invert it)! Finally, we get to ironing after running home twice, having Floppy jump on the ironing board with the hot iron, and it doesn’t work.

It wouldn’t peel off. The paper hardened and stuff to the shirt. So we figure we’ll iron the back just to see if that would work and it turns out the image wasn’t inverted even though we’d run home to invert it? It didn’t work anyway so we attempted to peel the hardened paper from the tank top but that failed, too.

So now I’m home with a headache and no sleep and I have the distinct pleasure, no, honour of going in to work. Not only do I get to work with Diane (aka the slowest cashier on the face of the planet) and Kim (aka read my “Dear X” post) but the new overnight CSM, Katie, starts. After working there for a full 3 weeks she earns promotion – how the hell?! Anyway, I’ll miss Deb once she goes back to grocery but hopefully I’ll be out of there soon – I applied for 10 or so places online a few days ago.

hearing: Some country song
feeling: Tired but ambitious

The first major update is that I have renamed Canadia to Hockeyland USA. Canadians will now be known as Hockeylandics. Anyone who has any problem with this decision will be beheaded by me, Tsarina Cole the Terribly Great of Hockleyland USA. Actually, I’m not from Hockeyland USA but since I renamed it, I decided to appoint myself the new ruler. Prime Minister what? In all seriousness, now you Hockeylandics can’t insult Americans because you are officially apart of the USA! Ha!

On a truly serious note, I’m pretty happy with my most recent purchase: a new vacuum. It was $15 cheaper than the piece of shit I was using which had been a housewarming present from Mom and Tim and is about 15 times better, too. It sucks, in a good way. I picked up and vacuumed the living room so now it’s not such a mess. Maybe it’ll spur Wendy into cleaning something. Nah, who am I kidding?!

I find, though, that I have no place to put my stuff because Ashley’s stuff is in the closet. Actually, it’s just one exercise machine but it takes up the whole damned thing and her stupid broken piece of crap fake tree is sitting in my front hall because I don’t want to waste the effort to put it in the basement. Just get the shit out of my house!

Speaking of, I could put my stuff in the basement but a) it’s too much effort b) I’d need someone’s help c) I’d just be moving it in a few months, anyway and d) there are a ton of spiders down there. Besides, the tree smelled all gross when we brought it up anyway.

Enough of that. It seems that I will be doing some work for Regeneration magazine which is really cool! Check it out!

Lastly, I’ve updated the vote link on the blog pages. (oops!) and added an affiliate. I’ll try to upload a new song for you guys to download, too.

You know what’s crazy? How I’ve deleted, literally, hundreds off e-mails from my Gmail account and I still have 1921 left! It’s unbelievable that I could have more than that in the first place, though I do use it for all my mailing lists/Yahoo groups so I can keep up with music!

I’ve also taken on the task of typing up song lists for all my burned Cd’s, some of which are years old. It’s interesting to remember old songs I used to (and still do!) love and the ones I can’t quite recall as well. I’ve had to Google a lot of lyrics. So far I’ve typed up about 20. I knew I had some actually written down somewhere to I turned my room upside down looking for those little yellow papers only to remember I had typed them up months ago and they were already on my computer. -lol* I am such a dork!

Anyway, in that process I wound up going through a lot of my papers and while I threw many of them away, I found an article about Amanda after she died, lots of pictures of old friends and a lot of crappy, angsty poetry which I wrote when I was either a) depressed b) in love c) broken-hearted or d) all of the above. I really am a pack rat and hold on to a lot of shit I don’t need. I tossed a couple of binders of school stuff which is almost 2 years old, although I’m going to keep all my French stuff because I hope to relearn it and actually use it someday.

Anyway, enough from me for now.

So tell me what you think of me..

Nohari

Johari

I saw an article in the paper (the website of which never works for me) that discussed how some scientists had discovered a portion of Indonesia (In New Guinea?) which had been uninhabited and basically untouched by humans. Anyway, the paper showed the picture of pretty much the cutest animal ever! I want one of these and this one, too!

Surprisingly, I couldn’t find a lot of articles about this online. I mean, this is huge don’t you think? Maybe it’s just me but I did find this Yahoo article. The kangaroo inspired me to write a song:

i want golden mantled kangaroo
and so should you and you should, too
with fur and stripes
hed complete my life
a golden mantled kangaroo is just the type
to make me grin

if you saw a golden mantled kangaroo
youd want one too
you could start a zoo
and everyone would win

with fur and stripes of black and gold
your pet kangaroo will never get old
he’ll chase his tail
and fetch your mail
and do just as he’s told

he’ll curl up in your arms
i promise he’ll do no harm
your golden mantled kangaroo
will be sure to love you

i’ve said it before and you know it’s true
i want a baby, oh-so-cute, i love you, golden mantled kangarooooooooooo
and so should you!

hearing: Audioslave
feeling: Alone, incomplete, miserable, you name it
browsing: Talk

I’m home. I am safe and none of my flights back were canceled. Although I don’t think I would have minded if they had been, just to spend more time with Rian.

My aunt Karen picked me up from O’hare and we stopped for breakfast on the way to my aunt Becky’s house in one of Milwaukee’s suburbs. Karen is extremely religious so I got to listen to her talk about God and she made ‘us’ say “grace” before eating because our tote at McDonald’s had been $7.77 and the total at Starbucks had been $6.66. XD

Becky was at the store when we arrived and Ed, Grandma and Reine, who were supposed to be driving me from Milwaukee back home, weren’t there yet. I had been hoping they’d be there so I could head straight home but that hope was dashed. So, I missed Samantha’s little birthday party thing and I felt bad because I told her I’d see her on Sunday. )=

Karen had to leave because she sold her condo and is preparing for a 12 year mission trip Romania so I hung out with my cousin Violet who is now 13 and I simply cannot believe how grown up she seems. I always remember her as an 8 year old but she isn’t anymore.

Eventually Becky returned home and we hung out as she planned a meal and I realized Ed and the group wouldn’t be there for several hours. We played cards and talked about the family, my trip, etc. I really enjoy being around her and hope that I will be able to spend more time with her in the future. We talked about how she looks like Dr. Weir from Stargate: Atlantis. (=

I don’t often have the chance to spend time with Becky, Violet or Karen so that was nice. I have more of a chance to see Ed or my grandparents but I don’t or can’t make the effort so seeing them was also pleasant. We all stayed at Becky’s for supper after which I started falling asleep until we left.

On the way to Grandma’s it started raining and then eventually turned to snow. Apparently, there was some big semi crash on the highway and it was started to go completely white out so Ed was relieved once he was able to find the first exit from the highway.

We stopped at Grandma’s long enough for refreshments and for Ed and I to make our calls back home to Wausau then we transferred all my stuff from Reinie’s car to Ed’s and headed home. It took us about 2 hours to make a 45 minute trip because of the snow and road conditions, however, and I was so tired that I bought a Diet Dew at a gas station instead of Dew and didn’t notice until after I started drinking it!

At home, Wendy was all huggy and told me she loved me which I appreciated. Karen gave me another box and bag of stuff and I have an additionally bag of gifts I bought for friends so I have quite a bit more than I did when I left which might seem expected to you but I didn’t expect to buy anything at all, really!

I’m slowly readjusting to being home. Somehow, everything seems not quite right although I know it should be. I was in shock at what a mess everything is and I know, for the most part, it’s my fault and just how I left it.

However, it would have been nice for the roommate to do a bit of cleaning. At least sweep and mop all the tiles floors or clean the bathroom. It would have been a nice surprise to come home to.

Alas, I will have to start cleaning. I think I’ll take a shower first and then tackle the bathroom and see what I can do about the front hall.

I feel extremely incomplete. I cried a bit when it was time to sleep because I didn’t want to sleep without Rian. While part of me is relieved to be home, I know that I should be with him and I’m not so sure I can keep doing this. I know he would have left for Afghanistan anyway, even if I had been able to stay somehow, but I still didn’t want to leave. )=

Well, off to the shower for me.