My other gripe about the new blue tooth law? Everyone uses it when they're at restaurants, and I have no idea why they're speaking animatedly, it often looks like they need attention, and then we go to check on them and they're irritated at us for "interrupting." OK, then don't wave "us" over. The person on the phone can't see you, so just stop it.

Dear 2009 -

Don't let the door hit you on the way out. Good riddance. All that. You sucked even more than 2008.

I said "For realsies" yesterday. In front of people. It was kind of embarrassing. Then one of my coworkers admitted he had once accidentally said "Get 'er done" in front of people, and it was a little better.

Driving home, crying, and fixing myself a stiff drink. Yep, my mother's visit is right on schedule.

I need to call my mom and say "Hey. I love you. But when you get here I won't have had a day off in the last twelve days, and my time off is spent working on work events that apparently might not even go through. So my house is going to be a fucking mess. This is not out of lack of respect for you, but because holy shit I just need to lay in the bath for about three days."

Uncool neighbor laundry room behavior:
Last night:
4pm:I went downstairs to put in a load of laundry. There were some clothes in there, so I let them be.
5pm: I went downstairs and they were still there. I left it.

I went down around 7:30, and the same clothes were there. Since I had two loads to do, and we "aren't allowed" to be there after 10, I took the laundry out, set it on the dryer, figuring the person would be back shortly and deal with it. (I don't know why, since they left it for four hours, but whatever.) After all, it was just sitting in the washing machine, wrinkling and getting ready to grow mold. Parts of it were dry, other parts smelled mildewy, which means they'd been in there for a really long time.
25 minutes later, I went down, put my first load in the dryer, put my second load in the washer, and went back upstairs. 45 minutes later, I went downstairs, waited for the dryer to finish up, put the first load up on the lines (because the dryer doesn't dry things completely, which is shitty) and put my second load in. 45 minutes after that, I went down and put another 75 cents in so I could dry my second load. It had my work clothes in it, so it was pretty important to me that it end up dry. Matt and I went to a late movie, and I figured I'd grab the clothes when we came home. I went downstairs when we got home, and all my clothes had been taken out and put on the drying lines. Uhh, OK. Except that they're totally not even close to dry, which means that they were taken out pretty shortly after I'd put them in. I decided that I'd let them sit overnight, and come back in the morning for them.

I went down around 8 this morning, the earliest we're "allowed" to be in there doing things. I take things down. I fold my clothes.

MY FUCKING WORK SKIRT IS MISSING. What the fuck is wrong with people? I don't have the money to buy a new work skirt, nor the time, nor should I have to buy a new skirt. Also, several pairs of my underwear are missing. Not even the nice ones. Seriously, people. Who the fuck steals their neighbor's clothing?

Matt's out of town. It's crazy how bored I am.

Step 1: Put your iTunes or equivalent on random.
Step 2: Post the first line from the first 30 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing,
Step 3: Bold/Strike out the songs when someone guesses correctly.
Step 4: Looking them up on Google or any other search engine is CHEATING!

ADDENDUM RULE: If the first line contains the title of the song, choose the second line, or the third, etc. If it's too prevalent and is just awkward, then, ya know, skip it.
GO! NOW!

1) Maybe when the room is empty, maybe when the bottle's full, maybe when the door gets broke down - love can break in.

( And more! )

If you're going to call a number you don't know at 11pm (or ten til, whichever) at least have the decency not to demand to know who it is. You called me, dude. And I answered despite it being far beyond the limits of polite times to call.

I have a second interview, a working interview, and I'm so nervous I could throw up.

Dear body - Really? You're serious? About 40 hours before we head off on a three day drive, you decide to get a UTI? You really think my enjoyment of Northern California and Southern Oregon, regions I've never really seen, will be enhanced by needing to pee every 30 seconds? I mean, at least you usually give me this bullshit as a result of something I did. This one is completely unnecessary and causeless. I hope you're ready for nigh lethal doses of that stuff that numbs me up. Also, where's my Valium?

Remember when I said 2009 was going to be a good year? I'm not sure I said it online anywhere, but I said it in real life. 9.31% of the way through the year (more, if I wanted to count hours) I can report that this is true. More details when I'm not wondering how to convince my cat to get into his carrier without killing me. Do you think they sell those gloves bird handlers wear up in Flagstaff?

Is there a reason that GChat feels as though it's too good to give me the popups I requested for each new email? I mean, it'll tell me I have a new email, but it won't pop up with the little info unless I click and ask about new messages. I know that gchat is pretty busy with whatever it is that gchat does, but.... c'mon, it has a job to do.

A few days ago, my neighbor, who has some serious mental health problems, went to the hospital on Tuesday for evaluation, etc. Her husband asked me the next day if I could keep an eye on their son while he ran down to the laundry room. I kept an eye on him at their apartment twice within about two hours, for about five minutes each time. It was kind of awkward, but I figured that I could use some good karma. About an hour ago, he knocked on my door, and I said hi and all the pleasantries and kind of ask what he wants. He said he just wanted to stop by and say hi. I don't know why, but that totally rang false to me, and it gave me the creeps. I don't know why. I'm not a very social person, and save some of my closest friends and family members, it wouldn't cross my mind to say hi for no reason. And it was just odd. I don't know. I'm going to let it go. But it was definitely weird, and definitely creeped me out.

It's the 26th. Is it terribly unreasonable to think that, given that they have four days left, two of my three my W-2s should be completed? Bitches, I MADE W-2s last year when I worked at the CPA firm. Trust me, you need to give yourself time in case you realize you fucked up (which many people do!) Ugh. I am irritated.

Basically, no matter what I do, no matter when I do this, my move is going to inconvenience someone greatly.

Seriously, facebook. I am having such a hard time not commenting on my friends' relationship ending. I want to say "Oh hey, did she find out the same things I did last night?" or "Did she find out about Amanda and Brit, too?" I'm a terrible person, and you're only tempting me, facebook. (Also, I'm very fond of her, though not him, and if she doesn't know, I don't want to tell her. That'd be shitty of me)

It looks like school+work is going to be intense this semester.

Liz and Yim did this a long time ago. I'm hopping on the bandwagon.

1. Pick 15 of your favorite movies.
2. Go to IMDb and find a quote from each movie.
3. Post them here for everyone to guess.
4. Fill in the film title once it's guessed.

1. You've always taken care of me. My turn.

2. I've found almost everything written about love to be true.

3. Well, I'm really not supposed to speak to strangers, but we've met before.

4. I've come to the conclusion that my guts have shit for brains.

5. Are you suggesting that coconuts migrate?

6. So it's not gonna be easy. It's going to be really hard; we're gonna have to work at this everyday, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, everyday. You and me... everyday.

7. Mmaaatt Dammmoonnnn!

8. She was amazed to discover that when he said "as you wish," what he actually meant was "I love you"

9. It wasn't logic. It was love.

10. Marriage is like a tense, not funny version of Everybody Loves Raymond, only it doesn't last 22 minutes. It lasts forever.

11. Obviously, Doctor, you've never been a 13-year-old girl.

12. DESTINY! DESTINY! NO ESCAPING THAT FOR ME!

13. You don't buy black lingerie unless you want someone to see it.

14. This is Yzma, the emperor's advisor. Living proof that dinosaurs once roamed the Earth.

15. He's dull as powder, Meg. Can't you at least marry someone amusing?

I could not be happier that tax season is over. Even with tax season "over," I'm working Sundays. I'm off to Flagstaff in a few days. Yay!