so i just checked my school profile, and it says "Anticipated Completion Date: 5/2012". I think i may puke. i threatened to take a 9-month sabbatical from work to finish. haha.
nothing else new going on, other than my induction was awesome and i looked hot. okay, well, the ceremony was, um, strange, but my sister and her husband got to come, and tony's mom brought me roses (i was the only one with flowers!!). oh, and she also shouted "Go Laura!! You go girl!" (i was also the only one that had that)...
OH!! and i also drove to orlando ALL BY MYSELF. got to go hang out with my best boy Patrick from Charleston. we had dinner at Rainforest Cafe, i bought him alcoholic beverages at said cafe, and i allowed him to urinate next to my car at Downtown Disney. talk about feeling "adulty" (not to be confused with "adultery"...)
woohoo.
ahem….it’s
SPRING!!!
other than that, same old thing. well, THAT'S pretty sad...</font>
on a side note: i'd love to walk around my work with big bold stickers that say "CREEPY" and "WEIRD" and stick them to people's shirts as they walk by...(yes, i know from weird. but i am the GOOD weird kind. not the strange "doesn't ever blink" kind..)
we renewed our Netflix subscription. gah. insanity. but, it's only $9.62/month and i can watch whatever i want whenever, so whatever. lol. and their Our Recommendations (i STILL can't spell that word on the first try!) are always PERFECT. i haven't used any yet, but just browsing the list shows me they totally know me. haha.
fencing was brutal last night. gah. i broke my foil on the new kid..he's 11, that was his 3rd time fencing, and i go and break my weapon right almost directly where his little pre-pubescent heart would be!! haha. oops. Don was giving me a lesson, and he stopped halfway through and goes "do you consider yourself a tough person?" and i said "like stabby stabby?" and he's all "no, like verbal constructive feedback". so i'm holding back tears as i say "yes". haha. nice. and then i said "i know, i suck". and he's all "no, not that"...and then he just looked at me and went on with my lesson. i was totally worried that he'd be all "yeah, well, i can't have you in my class any more. you're not getting anywhere and you're basically wasting my time and not taking this seriously". but, he didn't. he DID eventually say "you've been at this too long to still be on THESE lessons. and i can tell from the things you can do that you have it in you to be a good fencer. it's just like you're waiting on someone to give you permission to be good. you don't need permission." so at least he says there's potential SOMEWHERE. gah.
work is good today. slow and quiet. i like it like this. i do have a couple of things left to do, but i will tackled those after lunch.
going to the beach at lunch yesterday was AWESOME. i found a horseshoe crab skeleton/carcass. i kept it to show tony, but it's the most fragile thing ever, so i'm sure i'll be trashing it this weekend - don't know what else i can do with it.
i'm going to go to the bank tomorrow to see if i can get some sort of credit card. i'll be up anyways because i'm getting an oil change from my friend's hubby, so i figured i'd try that too.
rock climbing on wednesday i think.
woohooooo!! time to get wild and crazy!! Wile out, as it were.
to celebrate, i will be wearing jeans to work every day. because i am a rebel.
nothing else too terribly exciting going on. there was a car stolen from my school last night. and it must have happened near my car, because the notice said it happened between 6:05 and 7something. and at 7:20 as i was going to my car, one of the campus security dudes was sitting in his golf cart near my car facing across our lane to the empty part of the parking lot and talking on his walkie talkie. so i figured SOMETHING was going down.
the girls and i are going to the beach today at lunch!! well, technically it's a park, but it has a beach, too. so that should be really awesome. :)
my 1 month netflix subscription ends tomorrow. i'm thinking of cancelling it today, and then waiting on them to send me some incentive to come back before i re-join. wonder if that'll work? :P LOVE the netflix. argh.
thought for the day:
when does the Sexy Secretary hairdo cross the line to become School Marm?
a) i am gassy.
b) Rihanna is an idiot for even THINKING about going back to Chris Brown. i don't follow this stuff, so i don't know if it's already been said, but i don't care HOW in love with someone you are, there's no reason for going back to beatings. by not pressing charges, she is setting a horrible example for all women in abusive relationships. she is making it seem like it's no big deal, that no matter if somone hits you, as long as they tell you they love you, it makes it okay. it DOESN'T. i can understand those women who feel like they can't afford to leave an abusive relationship, that they don't have the amount of income necessary for them to live without that person, but Rihanna has the support AND the resources to get out. i've thankfully never been in her situation, but thousands if not millions of abused spouses are seeing her in the news right now, and there's a good chance they will either stay with or go back to their abuser if she does the same. it just blows my mind, really. i really liked her before all of this, and now i'm just wondering what the heck she's thinking.
c) um, Disney is AMAZING. i mean, way to state the obvious, but we were at Epcot friday and that's all i kept saying over and over. the ingenuity that the Imagineers bring to that park, the educational resources provided, the opportunities, it's just all so astounding. i'd give my left earlobe (just the very tip top bit, the part that the hair covers) to work there. gah. we did the Kim Possible secret agent mission, and they give you a cell phone that you can press buttons on and interact with, and by doing what they tell you on the phone, you can make things happen in the park, like statues light up and waterfalls work. stuff that is non-working one minute can just come to life with the push of a button, and you'd never know if it you don't do one of the missions. it's just awesome to think that all of these secrets are just EVERYWHERE at Disney. i just can't fathom it, really.
d) tony's birthday went pretty well. i'll be 28 in 7 months and 4 days, but i'm not counting. Orlando made me broke, so it'll be slim spendings for me for a couple of weeks.
e) no, i haven't written anyone any letters like i promised. yes, i am lame, and yes, i am kicking myself for it.
f) school is still going swimmingly well, though the realization that i have 2 more general math classes, followed by 3 more probable math classes is somewhat daunting and disheartening.
i'm on the Flight of the Conchords mailing list, as well as the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center list.
i just found out via myspace that FotC will be at TBPAC on April 6th (with Kristen Schaal, no less!). and the damn show is SOLD OUT.
that's lovely how neither of the stupid mailers told me they'd be here.
this happens to me all the damn time.
ARGH.
*flats
*cuffing my new jeans at the ankles
*my new bra
*being asked to attend a work seminar/workshop - my first ever! (has nothing to do with the new bra)
*my one month Netflix subscription
*my tortoise (need to tell you about him!)
*school
*I get to make tony a home office out of the guest room!!
*taking a day off next month to visit my Ctaci at Disney
*being a Kappa (oh! i didn't tell you? Phi Theta Kappa in the house!!!)
Things I am hating right now:
*not being able to find a cute pair of flats to replace my favorites I just had to trash
*not being able to find a suitable pair of black work shoes, when the ones I have been wearing for the past year are totally DEAD and threatening to leave me heel-less at any moment
*needing more jeans
*the prospect of having to continue bra shopping (why is it that bra shopping, jeans shopping, and shoe shopping can take so much out a girl?!)
*the fact that i am a dah-dah and didn't think to buy more than 1 of said bra & jean, to prevent having to go purchase more at a later date (i'm cheap. hello.)
*this new cough I am starting to develop
*I have to find something to do with the daybed in said guest room
*having to wait until April to be officially inducted into Kappa
*having no family that can come/offered to come to my induction
*the current Kappa convention being held in GRAPEVINE, of all places. and i can't go because I'm not official until April. what are the odds, ya'll???
i got really bothered at fencing last night, and almost cried. i realized that i don't fit in ANYWHERE. i'm incredibly weird, and while it may be somewhat endearing in small doses, i'm ALWAYS weird. and i know you're supposed to love yourself and all that jazz (hmm..."you must learn to love yourself before you can learn to love others"...maybe that's why i hate people generally?), but i just...ugh. then i thought about how that, as of last night, i've been a "fencer" for a year now, and i am not getting ANY better. and i know it's all practice makes perfect yadda yadda, but i don't see how i can a) practice by myself, b) practice with someone who is incredibly good and well versed at it, or c) practice with a newbie who has horrid form. i don't know what i can do. i should be getting at least a little better, but i don't see it. on occassion i will score points on the really good guys, but it's mostly just luck or a fluke. and i'm sloppy. Don can take me through the drills, and that's fine and all, but i can't do things in normal fencing speed. you can drill me all day long and i'll catch on automatically (at least most of the time), but when it comes to actually FENCING, that all goes out the window somehow.
and i'd quit, since it's obvious i don't really have what it takes, but then where would i be? i mean, fencing at least lets me feel like i have some sort of social life, even if its for 2 hours every week, but when i feel like i don't fit in, and don't really enjoy my time there, it's pretty pointless. i sit for a good 1/2 of the class. and it's not because i'm lazy. it's mostly because whenever i ask someone if they want to fence me, they say they are waiting on so-and-so, or taking a break, or anything other than yes. i've never had an outright "no" (noone is THAT rude), but 95% of the time i get something along the lines of "i can't right now because". and so i sit. and so in turn people think i'm lazy, most likely. and then i'm sure Don thinks "well dummy, that's why you aren't getting any better. because you're sitting on your butt the entire time". but i do ask, it just never works out. so i just sit until someone else asks if i want to fence. and it's obvious i'm not waiting on so-and-so, and so i fence. and i get beat. and then it's back to feeling like crap. i'm either a) the no-good fencer, or b) the social outcast, at any given moment.
i just want somewhere i can fit in, and not feel awkward, just be me and have people embrace the weirdness/strangeness/me-ness. i don't know.
i know, way to be Debbie Downer. and i know i've probably mentioned all of this here a bazillion times. just needed to get it out. eh. at least it's friday. that's something.
someone is making this annoying noise. i might have to go kick them. once i figure out who it is, that is (is is?)
i look sort of decent today, sans the lint that is everywhere, my hair that is falling out, my broken heel on my horribly worn-out shoes, and my "obese penguin" stripey socks, which stand to take away any sense of classiness i may have otherwise had with the top half of my outfit. lol.
two days after i hit the gas pump (seems as though i backed up into the actual NOZZLE, not the large rectangular pump itself. lol.) i ran over one of those plastic reflector tube thingies that go in the medians...i didn't HIT it, someone else did. i just purposely ran it over because i didn't really have a choice. i lined my wheels up with it prior to leaving the other red-light, and then just drove so it was perfectly under the bottom of the car. got to work and had to pull the dang thing out. no damage done, surprisingly, and it's sitting at my work in my cube now. fyi, the bottoms of those things are completely asphalt, with a big metal pipe hunk holding the plastic pipe up. i thought it was all just dinky plastic. otherwise, i would have tried to not hit it. but i know for next time...
okay, GRAVY. i totally started typing this DAYS ago. WHICH day, i can't remember, but then i started researching those "median delineators"^, and then got involved with work, and school, and and and. so here i am again. lol.
one of my most favorite websites is Frolic, and i have been just WISHING there was some sort of easy interface that would let me have a website like that. i keep finding things i LOVE, but can't be bothered to go through the hassle of copying, saving, uploading, htmling, and then posting, just to show you a cool table i found on Etsy, or the last movie i watched, or some song i'm into. it'd be so much cooler if there was some sort of drag and drop interface that i could just go click, pheww, see? but instead, i have to type in notepad, copy, save as, blahdeblahdeblah. all that said to say that i am much cooler than ya'll know, but am too lazy to express that coolness either outwardly or online-wardly. :)
in OTHER news, i did my taxes on Friday. not getting anything back, but not owing either, so that's cool. i guess. stupid gvt. in my head just now that was "gee-vee-tee", not some loser texting abbreviation. that was so that THEY don't find me. lol. in other other news, i got a 100 on my first text in my new math class. woohoooo.
in further news (hah), i watched Definitely, Maybe last night, with Miss Abigail Breslin and Ryan Reynolds. CUTE! Abigail Breslin is a DOLLFACE. ugh. so adorable. so now i'm all about Isla Fisher, and i think Rachel Weisz has some NICE hands. like, hand-model worthy. haha. oh crappity. Isla Fisher is in Confessions of a Shopaholic. so i have to go watch that now. LOVELY. okay, and can i complain that it's not out until February 13th??? I am in need of a movie to watch this weekend (SuperBowl being played here and such), and nothing i want to see comes out until next Friday! what gives? that most likely means that by that time, i will have decided that i am in fact too cheap to spend the $8 (is it still $8?) to see the movies i want to see. or else i'll decide that i'm too lazy to wake up that early for no good reason, and just sleep in and later be too lazy to go. whatever.
class tonight, nothing else really exciting going on (SuperBowl? well, Diddy AND Snoop will be in town so that's interesting..) i did park my car behind two other cars yesterday, in a space made for 2 cars. lol. but in my defense, it was at work, and we have like no lines in the parking lot. and i was parked quite superbly, ignoring the fact there were already 2 people there. but in the end it all worked out. haha. you'll be needing my license now, won't you?
off to a potty break, and then to get my learn on. woohoo.
nice.
the maintenance dude at this point was, oh, um, 2 feet (if even) away from my driver's side door. when i hit the pump, he yelled "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" and i think i yelled "SHUTUP!!" and threw my hands up and sped off.
got back to work and saw that there's an inch circle of paint missing from my car, precluded by two horizontal scratches, and all surrounded by a teardrop shaped dent (the worst part, where the paint was missing, was at the "fat" end of the vertical teardrop). so i called tony all freaked out and asked if maybe i shouldn't have left. then i talked to a couple of people at work, and they said yes, i should either go back or call. one told me not to because my insurance would go up. so i decided to anyway. dialed the wrong number, debated back and forth over whether or not to call, and then one of the girls who was at the scene of the crime (dun dun dunnnnn) that works with me (her hubby was there too at the time. i knew he was there, but didn't know she was) called me to tell me that a) the pump was working fine - people used it after me, and b) the maintenance guy got back into his truck, and did not go into the store.
i called tony, and talked to him, and then freaked out over possible criminal charges i could face if they had a) gotten me on camera and b) i was stopped by a cop and caught as "leaving the scene of an accident"). so then i got all worked up (cried), called a different 7-11 to get the right phone number, and then called the kid back and explained what happened. he acted like he could care less, and said the pump was fine. ah, teenagers. awesome :)
and just like that, it was over.
and the kicker in all of this is that i have only ever like twice paid cash for my gas, and this was one of those times. had i paid on my card, i would have HAD the damn phone number on the receipt. oh bother.
uh-oh, better get Maaco.
(although, really, how much damage could i HAVE done, going less than 2 miles an hour, being like 5 ft at the most away from the pump?)
went to school Saturday morning, got home about noon-ish...tony and i went to Subway for lunch. spent the rest of the day cleaning the house like crazy people. you can only moderately tell we did anything to it. the upstairs still looks like a natural disaster took place in it.
saturday night lowell came over, as usual. i made bison burgers with some sea salt and olive oil fries i bought at The Fresh Market. then yesterday morning, i woke up at the crack of down and drove in the thick fog to pick up the kids to take them to the zoo. it was $5 day, so i wanted to take them. normally it's $18, which, i found out, as expensive as everything there is, is NOT cheap. i spent nearly $75 ($20 to get in, $20 for animal food/ride tokens, $14 for ice cream...). and then after we went to Target and i bought them one of those mini-pizzas that they split with each other, and icees, and i had a mango smoothie. mailed Patrick's present off, filled up our 4 water jugs, and then came back home. the day started at 7:00 and their mom came to get them at 6:10. WHEW. it was fun, though.
we hand-fed the giraffe, koi, goats, llama, stingrays, and budgies. so the expense was worth it. the girls rode the camel, but they paid for that with their own money. the ice cream was delish, and i think i walked off at least some of the calories. we got to see the African penguins (from Namibia), and the sweet little blue duiker. we saw the manatees, and i realized after we got home that we must have missed the pygmy hippo. i'm sure we missed a bunch of things...those kids were so frantic...all over the place. but it's fine...mildly organized chaos and we saw PLENTY. and of course we visited the meerkats, and the boy for some reason wanted to use this (shoe-on) foot massaging machine, so we did that. and we rode the family coaster, the Tasmanian Tiger. lots of walking and way worth it. and at the end of the day, i was able to send the little brats HOME. haha. (strangely enough, the oldest was the worst, and the youngest was the best.)
and then tonight i have school, for my math class.
i did, however, find out on Saturday morning that with my degree, i will qualify for 3 additional business certifications. as of right now, i'm halfway done the qualifications for the first one! all three will only maybe require me to take one additional course, and i'm sure i can get that covered by my work since it's business-related as well.
so woohoo!! nice to find out all of the crap the advising office never tells you..
happy monday. i'm starving!
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