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I love my Prius. I love the built-in GPS and Bluetooth phone connection. I love the key-less entry and push-button start and leather seats. I love how it accelerates and handles and brakes on a dime. I love how its shape is easy for me to spot in parking lots around here. I love it every time I go to the gas pump. I hate how low the front bumper is. In addition to the famous "Prius Blind Spot," they're also known for getting a little too friendly with parking blocks, curbs, uneven roads, and sloped driveways. ( First Crack )( Ice Storm )( Final Straw )As we drove off I commented on how classy it was that I drive a loaded sleek hybrid machine that has a front bumber held together with zip ties, duct tape, and stop watch cord. That's when Jeff hearkened back to a previous discussion on how my car doesn't have a name and dubbed my beauty "Ghetto FabPrius." ...like ghetto fabulous...get it? GET IT??? Victory. ( Epilogue )And now a noble thought on Dental X-Rays from SteapandCheap's The Daily Dose: "I know they say it's a small amount of radiation, but I still think that blasting radioactivity into your skull at any level is likely a bad idea. I need to save those brain cells so I have something to kill with plastic-bottle whiskey."Tags: car stuff, quotes
The Bottomline:  irritated
Background Noise ♫: Oasis
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I just started my third week on second shift. That's 3-11pm, Monday through Friday. Second shift seems to work really well for me so far...It's going to make visits interesting for a while, though. FYI, I'm a manager trainee at a Nestle Purina plant and part of my training program involves a tour of back shift supervising (you know, to develop leadership skills and gain a greater understanding of what I'll be potentially managing someday). I actually entered the supervising stage about two months early in one of the most intense roles in the plant right now - Material Handling Supervisor/Production Data Coordinator/Receiving. It's definitely a challenge and I'm pretty excited about that. Seriously, I'm absolutely, positively, thrilled to be so busy and learning so much and making positive contributions to the company. The world is at my feet. I've been working a whole lot, which I really like right now (that "I'm accomplishing something" thrill mixed with a dash of beaucoup positive feedback). However, I have an increasing desire for adventure in my off hours. Girlfriend wants to do something amazing and live it up...as soon as I have weekend free. Wanna go adventuring? I need a good book to read. Something lighter than the holocaust memoirs I'll be sandwiching it between, yet not brain rotting. Nothing that might feature a flowing-haired Fabio on the cover. "Man is capable of changing the world for the better if possible, and of changing himself for the better if necessary." ~ Viktor E. Frankl Tags: books/poems/reading, quotes, work
Current Location: Jiggity Jig
The Bottomline:  satisfied
Background Noise ♫: The Killers - Romeo and Juliet
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I planned my Scouting U lesson a little too hard for the girls...but I made a website specifically for the class. The weekend was good in all. I semi-spontaneously went camping in just the clothes I was wearing. The sky was amazing. I accidentally ate a donut Saturday morning (circa 7:30am), but it didn't occur to me until 4pm that that was breaking my lent promise of giving up sweets. I say it's not that bad. I've been doing pretty good other than that, I mean I've wanted sugar but I never seriously considered giving in at any time. Lately, however, I've not just been wanting it with my head (yeah I think about the taste of cakes a lot and sometimes, when I see a pen out of the corner of my eye, I think pixie stick), but with my body (even when I'm full, my body yearns for that extra sugary sweetness). I've been trying to trick my head with fruit and my body with more complex carbs like bread. Speaking of Lent, I went to mass with Tyler and Doug on Sunday. It felt good. Of course, considering that I am not only not Catholic, but was not raised in a church, I was wee bit uncomfortable. I always tend to have that "I don't quite fit in" syndrome at churches...because I don't really. I simply don't know all the rules that almost everyone else was taught from birth, and whether they consciously acknowledge it or not that means I'm treated a little bit differently (To be clear - I'm not upset about this fact and it's not the reason I haven't been to church in so long). There's a lot to think about, a lot I haven't faced in a while. Believing in God is the easy part - that I've done even before I knew what it meant and even during the times I didn't particularly want to - it's what comes next that's always been more difficult. Animal control should be out here sometime tomorrow to take care of the squirrels. I had to play quite a bit of phone tag to get their number and I think I horrified a couple of receptionists. "So I found this trash can full of..." A link because I love you."If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time." ~Edith Wharton Tags: apo/service, friends, god, interesting links, quotes, self-actualization, website stuff
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Dear Internet, Please produce for me a Jayne Hat. I will wear it on my little head all winter long. Pretty pretty please? Dear Rude Women of the World, Holy fancy buddha on a pogo stick! Yes, I realize my nose is crooked. (No, I am neither of Jewish nor Greek descent.) I've actually lived with it for some time now and as far as I can tell I've never lost friends, lovers, jobs, leadership or service opportunities, or anything else important because of it. Please stop telling me to get a nose job. You are dumb. Go away. Dear Creepy Boys, I think I may get rid of that myspace I created a week or so ago, because you're make my skin crawl. Stop messaging me and being weird. Ah! Go away, as well.
It's no good trying to fool yourself about love. You can't fall into it like a soft job, without dirtying up your hands. It takes muscle and guts. And if you can't bear the thought of messing up your nice, clean soul, you'd better give up the whole idea of life, and become a saint. Because you'll never make it as a human being. It's either this world or the next.
- John Osborne All the greatest things we know have come to is from neurotics. It is they and they only who have founded religions and created great works of art. Never will the world be conscious of how much it owes to them, nor above all what they have suffered in order to bestow their gifts on it.
- Marcel Proust Tags: firefly, quotes, strange
The Bottomline:  my left tonsil feels funny
Background Noise ♫: Adam Baldwin - The Man They Call Jayne
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I got the Scouting University prototype website up today! Rock out. Next, I need to get the Tri-Sectional Conference website up...I'm co-chair of that one. Biatches. I tend to prefer the term "I love person x" as opposed to "I'm in love with person x." Just loving is so much more passive (as far as love will let you be passive) than being in love with, especially when you're doing it all by yourself. The act of being in love can really take a lot out of you...you know, all the yearning and agony. I'd rather keep my one-sided feelings in a nice clean neat box on the shelf where I can see them, but not be thrown into chaos by them. They're impotent, inconsquential emotions when not returned; might as well be seen, not heard. Well, recently the damn lid came off Pandora's box. That means I get to sit around and get the shit kicked out of me by love. Woo doggies. I probably had it coming. Maybe I'm having all these troubles with having my emotions returned because I broke that chain letter in grade school (...and every one after that one, including the two I got this week). It could be worse, I could be a robot. I'll probably grow or find some meaningful life leason out of it. Go go character-building-mobile! Holey Moley, I need a job. Seriously, someone start paying me please. Man. Like now. Also, I've been trying to weed blasphemy out of my cursing vocabulary. I think I'm doing better on paper, but not so well in my head. Things like "holey moley" and "golly gee" are probably my attempts at editing. Sometimes I just open up my semantic journal client and put random quotes or songs in it. I guess they've kinda accumulated this time... "Once you wanted revolution, now you're the institution. How's it feel to be the man?" ~Ben Folds, The Ascent of Stan "Hate to see you lying there in your superman skivvies. Lying on the floor, lying on the floor..." ~Weezer, Undone (the sweater song) "It's sad when people get too old to play pretend." ~Boy on a Stick "People don't stop pretending. They just start pretending really boring stuff." ~Slither "Guns are like highly concentrated projectile karate." Tags: apo/service, quotes, touchy feely, website stuff
The Bottomline:  what's love got to do, got to do with it?
Background Noise ♫: Harvey
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I'm all enrolled up in classes now (I finished getting in Tuesday after school started). As is William, who said "screw math and science, I'm an English major all the way!" after attending the first day of classes and proceeded to switch things up. An inner dialog.Why are you in a robotics class? Shouldn't you have chosen an easier tech elective?They said that the teacher is supposed to be easy! "Robotics" is in the name. Well, um...maybe it's not so bad...the course packet looks helpful and it only cost $8... ROBOTICS!!Yeah, so... You have to PROGRAM ROBOTS and then run them IN FRONT OF THE ENTIRE CLASS AND PRAY YOU DID IT RIGHT! And you could LOSE YOUR FINGERS OR TOES IN THE MACHINERY!!I, uh...well...shit. ( my schedule, minus work )I start classes earlier than last semester. Le damn. You may be thinking, "who does this bitch think she is that I could give half a flip what her schedule is!?!" Well, the only answer I can give is that it is time to look deep inside yourself and come to terms with your overpowering jealousy over the fact that I've gained a full cup size over the summer. I wore my tried and true black cotton number and I'm overflowing out all over the place. ALL OVER!! And I don't even want to talk about the escape tactics attempted with my one cup size larger pretty pink one. p.s., Hey, you ladies who made fun of me and called me flat and told me I "wasn't a real woman" in grade school, you and your b cups can eat it! HAHAHA. *ahem*I only fluently speak/read/understand one language. I feel so inadequate, yet paralyzed to learn another. "Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women." ~Natalie Portman Tags: quotes, school, strange
The Bottomline:  full...of bosom-ness!
Background Noise ♫: Maroon 5
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My co-op interview was moved until next week so I'm going down to visit William in Little Rock! Guess how I'll be traveling! I'm going down there by greyhound and coming back up with William. That's right, tomorrow at 2:00 a.m. I'll be traveling alone in ghetto style, to arrive in 5:50 a.m. and be greeted by a lovely William who will promptly take me to breakfast and a nap. Adventures ahoy! I'm bringing muffins!! I really don't want to fall asleep...or die.Also, dear pirate lovers... Bratz has jumped on board. Another nail in your conformist coffins. *scoffs* "People prefer to follow those who help them, not those who intimidate them." ~C. Gene Wilkes "From the backstabbing co-worker to the meddling sister-in-law, you are in charge of how you react to the people and events in your life. You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead. Take control and choose to focus on what is important in your life. Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life." ~Anais Nin, American author (1903-1977) Tags: quotes, travel, william
The Bottomline:  excited and daring!
Background Noise ♫: Second Hand Lions
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I've been playing with SmarterChild lately. I made it say that it loved me (although, it wasn't interested in a mad, steamy internet affair)...and also I played hangman a lot. I think a haircut and color are on the horizon. Long and sexy is crossing the line into long and stringy...and Krissy keeps telling me I look like a hippy. Grarr. If that's not enough of a hair report, next week I can give a detailed report of my shampooing routine (the sad thing is, I could probably write a paragraph or two on it :P). Yesterday I tried really hard to be a consumer and failed. I went to the mall for pretty much the first time all semester with plans of buying buttons and cute shirts and maybe shoes. The mall did not offer anything interesting other than bad-for-me food...and I really did try to let it. After the failed mall excursion with ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) peggy_the_angel, we went to Friday Night Live on Campus. We met Kent and Krissy there and got some photostickers made together. Then we watched a student comedian competition (that peggy_the_angel would have dominated if she had sucked it up and entered) then got our event shirt. One of the actors in Emilio's play got second place in the competition. After the show he came to talk about us (because we cheered for him and were generally loud in the audience) and we cornered him with chatting for far too long (at least for his comfort, I'm sure). Today we had the Pledge/Active Retreat at Gully Park. There was volleyball, football and softball playing, kite flying, interviewing, food grilling, and general hanging-out-ness. It was a good time and I got a bit too much sun. Farmer's tan and clown nose here I come. (Dear Ancestors, Thanks for having no pigment whatsoever and thus setting me up to get lobster burns oh so easily. No really, thanks. Love, Alex) I just sent out Mid-Semester Service Reports for everyone in APO (yes, I'm talking about being VP Service again). According to my email's Sent Folder I sent my first email at 6:04p and my last at 8:26p today (which I did with one bathroom break and no internet surfing). Then of course there's all the time I spent compiling and double-checking the information for said reports and writing the format of it (a multi-day process). In short, while no one else has to be, I am pleased with myself. ( Mine ) Rock. Rock on. "I am actively pursuing happiness. And I marvel at how happy I can make myself just by thinking certain thoughts, by knowing that people really can be happy. I am very optimistic in many ways, and this is one of them: I don't believe there's anything in life that cannot be fixed.
The things that used to make me unhappy in life -- my active self-destructive tendencies -- I don't have those anymore. I've made a choice to be happy."~Christina Ricci Tags: apo/service, consumerism, nerdiness, quotes, shenanigans
The Bottomline:  I miss my contacts.
Background Noise ♫: Pet Shop Boys - Was It Worth It?
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Deja vu. I spent Valentine's day dinner with my mom eating steak and a baked potato. I did the same thing two years ago, except I didn't make all the waiters uncomfortable by sniffling and crying this year. William and I are still celebrating v-day on Wednesday with our 1/3 anniversary. There shall be crab leg devouring, movie watching and enough snuggling to overdose even the most die-hard romantic. I do not feel bad about this arrangement. I told him not to get me anything, but last night he surprised me with the 50th anniversary edition of Singing in the Rain (which is so utterly perfect for me). Lovely lovely. I got him Léon in return. This weekend went really, incredibly well. William's parents are very nice and cool about things. I didn't feel like i was being judged at all, they seemed very accepting. I played pool for the second and third times in my life...and it was fun. I might just play more. I also got ot play ping pong for the very first time, and it's a load of fun as well. William's friend Jonathan spent the night. The guest bedroom is upstairs, so all three of us were up there (Question: if you were a parent would it reassure you that his friend was up there or make you more nervous?). "All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still." ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley Tags: movies/plays/television, quotes, shenanigans, william
The Bottomline:  loved
Background Noise ♫: The Kinda Long Haired Band - Circles
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