Lisa and I were cleaning the apartment today after work and we discovered numerous spider corpses in the spare room, as well as along the walls in my room.
At least they were dead. When they're alive, they seem at least ten times bigger.
Monday, April 26, 2004
Friday, April 23, 2004
Friday Five
1. What did you have for breakfast this morning?
I had scrambled eggs, sausages, and hash brown potatoes, courtesy of the Conk.
2. What's your favorite cereal?
Lucky Charms. I like to eat the plain cereal first and then save the marshmallows for the end. By then, they're all mushy and have made the milk turn purple.
3. How often do you eat out? Do you want that to change?
At most, I eat out once a week, usually on the weekend, unless Scott gets an urge to drag me to Applebee's for some boneless buffalo wings. When Josh and I do go out, we enjoy our food at very tasty places. I don't think I'd change anything about how often I eat out. If I had the money, I'd do it more often.
4. What do you plan on having for dinner tonight? Got a recipe for that?
I believe the only things on the menu tonight have alcohol in them.
5. What's your favorite restaurant? Why?
It's very hard to decide. I love food! In New York, my favorite restaurant is Blue Water Grill. It's got great seafood, awesome service, and a super cool atmosphere. A few episodes of Sex and the City have had scenes shot there. There's also live jazz at night in the dimly lit downstairs dining room. Tres chic, no? In New Jersey, I'd have to say my favorite is Meritage. Hands down, best filet mignon I've ever had - it was like butter melting in my mouth, along with some exceptional desserts.
I had scrambled eggs, sausages, and hash brown potatoes, courtesy of the Conk.
2. What's your favorite cereal?
Lucky Charms. I like to eat the plain cereal first and then save the marshmallows for the end. By then, they're all mushy and have made the milk turn purple.
3. How often do you eat out? Do you want that to change?
At most, I eat out once a week, usually on the weekend, unless Scott gets an urge to drag me to Applebee's for some boneless buffalo wings. When Josh and I do go out, we enjoy our food at very tasty places. I don't think I'd change anything about how often I eat out. If I had the money, I'd do it more often.
4. What do you plan on having for dinner tonight? Got a recipe for that?
I believe the only things on the menu tonight have alcohol in them.
5. What's your favorite restaurant? Why?
It's very hard to decide. I love food! In New York, my favorite restaurant is Blue Water Grill. It's got great seafood, awesome service, and a super cool atmosphere. A few episodes of Sex and the City have had scenes shot there. There's also live jazz at night in the dimly lit downstairs dining room. Tres chic, no? In New Jersey, I'd have to say my favorite is Meritage. Hands down, best filet mignon I've ever had - it was like butter melting in my mouth, along with some exceptional desserts.
Friday, April 16, 2004
Friday Five
1. What was the last song you heard?
Siren, Tori Amos
2. What were the last two movies you saw?
X2 and Ever After
3. What were the last three things you purchased?
Half a gallon of 1% milk, Tollhouse chocolate chip cookie dough, and round cotton wipes
4. What four things do you need to do this weekend?
Go to Sephora and sniff perfume, work on a picture frame/collage, buy an iron (not a golf club), and read One L.
5. Who are the last five people you talked to?
Anita (Golf Shop), Pete (Maintenance), Michelle (Asst. Club Manager), Susan (Controller), and Scott (Asst. Golf Pro).
Siren, Tori Amos
2. What were the last two movies you saw?
X2 and Ever After
3. What were the last three things you purchased?
Half a gallon of 1% milk, Tollhouse chocolate chip cookie dough, and round cotton wipes
4. What four things do you need to do this weekend?
Go to Sephora and sniff perfume, work on a picture frame/collage, buy an iron (not a golf club), and read One L.
5. Who are the last five people you talked to?
Anita (Golf Shop), Pete (Maintenance), Michelle (Asst. Club Manager), Susan (Controller), and Scott (Asst. Golf Pro).
Thursday, April 15, 2004
Reality TV
I'll admit that I loved watching "The Apprentice" this season and there is little left on TV to watch anymore (until next Fall). Normally, I don't like watching reality TV shows. Granted, I did watch some "Real World Las Vegas", but that's because I didn't like the people on the show and I wanted to see if they got theirs in the end. Of course, like most things MTV, the ending didn't deliver and was insubstantial at most.
Somehow, Scott and I started watching "The Apprentice" and we got hooked. Then I got a couple other people hooked. Josh doesn't understand why I love watching the show and he claims that all reality TV shows suck. Yes, I will admit that most of them are crap and don't show people doing anything that they'd ever do in real life. Who is going to swim in a pool of spiders?
Josh mocks me for watching the show as though I'm watching people eat mashed up cow brains and testicles and then puke them back up. I think I liked “The Apprentice” because the challenges faced by the contestants were more practical and real than anything on “Fear Factor” or “The Real World.” I mean, he watches football a few times a week for several months out of each year. You might as well count that as reality TV. They’re real people and the producers make the events that occur during the game and in the players' personal lives uber-dramatic. They have dramatic soundtracks to back up the story as well. They even have an entire TV channel dedicated to football!
At least neither of the programs involves people eating bugs.
And that was my reality TV rant.
Somehow, Scott and I started watching "The Apprentice" and we got hooked. Then I got a couple other people hooked. Josh doesn't understand why I love watching the show and he claims that all reality TV shows suck. Yes, I will admit that most of them are crap and don't show people doing anything that they'd ever do in real life. Who is going to swim in a pool of spiders?
Josh mocks me for watching the show as though I'm watching people eat mashed up cow brains and testicles and then puke them back up. I think I liked “The Apprentice” because the challenges faced by the contestants were more practical and real than anything on “Fear Factor” or “The Real World.” I mean, he watches football a few times a week for several months out of each year. You might as well count that as reality TV. They’re real people and the producers make the events that occur during the game and in the players' personal lives uber-dramatic. They have dramatic soundtracks to back up the story as well. They even have an entire TV channel dedicated to football!
At least neither of the programs involves people eating bugs.
And that was my reality TV rant.
Saturday, April 10, 2004
No complaints
I will never complain again that I am bored while at work. The first time I did it, I was supervising at my old bookstore. There was absolutely nothing to do, and then one of my employees had a fight with his boyfriend. Yes... you read that right. It led to a screaming, crying fight in front of the store and I had to call mall security.
Yesterday, I was bored at work and I complained that I was bored and wished something would happen. After lunch, Michelle told me that Nine West was having a huge sale, so my spirits perked up, figuring I could go to the shoe sale after work, even though I'm not supposed to spend any more money.
But that was not all the excitement to be had...
Josh called me at 3:45 (He was my ride because my car was in the shop having its brakes serviced), telling me that his mom was in the emergency room, so I had to be ready to leave at exactly 4:30 so we could go to the hospital.
No more complaints at work about being bored... I'm afraid of what will happen next time.
Yesterday, I was bored at work and I complained that I was bored and wished something would happen. After lunch, Michelle told me that Nine West was having a huge sale, so my spirits perked up, figuring I could go to the shoe sale after work, even though I'm not supposed to spend any more money.
But that was not all the excitement to be had...
Josh called me at 3:45 (He was my ride because my car was in the shop having its brakes serviced), telling me that his mom was in the emergency room, so I had to be ready to leave at exactly 4:30 so we could go to the hospital.
No more complaints at work about being bored... I'm afraid of what will happen next time.
Monday, April 05, 2004
Guilt food
I went back to my old home today because my cousins were visiting. It's not my whole family I have a problem with.... just my parents. I talked with my cousins and my aunts and uncles. My mother kept asking me if I wanted food, plying me with leftovers. I didn't really want the food, but it would've been bitchy not to take it. Of course, my father didn't look at me or say a word to me. Status quo.
I think my mother asked me to come home because they'd rather not be embarrassed by the disowning of a daughter in front of the whole family. To them, saving face is more important than anything else.
I think my mother asked me to come home because they'd rather not be embarrassed by the disowning of a daughter in front of the whole family. To them, saving face is more important than anything else.
Thursday, April 01, 2004
Crash
I think I've just been disowned.
My father was being so unhelpful with my financial aid requirements. He told me to give me my forms and he'd send the out in the mail with the copy of his tax forms. I asked him why he didn't want me to see them, and he tells me that it's not me, it's the "other people" who'll see them.
What other people? Does he think I'm going to put them on the internet and show them to the world? What does he have to hide? Maybe he's afraid Josh will see them, but what would happen if he saw them? I just love the way he assumes the worst about me. My parents don't know me at all.
In the end, the conversation degraded into an argument with them yelling about my attitude - again. Apparently, they think I think they're dead. Again, they're assuming the worst, painting me uglier than I actually am. I think it's so they'll feel better about themselves when they tell the rest of the family about how I'm a horrible daughter.
They weren't even happy for me when I told them I got into law school and had decided to go! Josh's mother was happier for me than the two of them combined. It makes me sick. I feel so disgusted because my father isn't even a decent human being.
The more I think about it, being disowned from my parents doesn't feel much different than before. I'll take care of myself and I'll make my graduate education possible on my own.
My father was being so unhelpful with my financial aid requirements. He told me to give me my forms and he'd send the out in the mail with the copy of his tax forms. I asked him why he didn't want me to see them, and he tells me that it's not me, it's the "other people" who'll see them.
What other people? Does he think I'm going to put them on the internet and show them to the world? What does he have to hide? Maybe he's afraid Josh will see them, but what would happen if he saw them? I just love the way he assumes the worst about me. My parents don't know me at all.
In the end, the conversation degraded into an argument with them yelling about my attitude - again. Apparently, they think I think they're dead. Again, they're assuming the worst, painting me uglier than I actually am. I think it's so they'll feel better about themselves when they tell the rest of the family about how I'm a horrible daughter.
They weren't even happy for me when I told them I got into law school and had decided to go! Josh's mother was happier for me than the two of them combined. It makes me sick. I feel so disgusted because my father isn't even a decent human being.
The more I think about it, being disowned from my parents doesn't feel much different than before. I'll take care of myself and I'll make my graduate education possible on my own.
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