yes, i did write a new blog yesterday, it just never showed up... i guess if you're reading this, it finally has though

today my boss was MIA so took a trip up to payroll and asked what was up. i love it when he takes off and forgets to tell me. it's just so much fun, i tell ya. anyway, when i learned i wouldn't have to smell his extremely pungent cologne or see his stylish mullet today (much less answer his phone) i was absolutely overjoyed. i skipped back down to the dungeon office i share with him and began riffling through things. i was looking for a microphone to call my boyfriend, but i could find one. bastards... oh well, i didn't have to endure the brainwashing from "kickin country 103" today, so i'm in a good mood. i got to play my own mp3 cd. it's a few months old (RIP, old napster) but it's still good.

nick arrives at around 11 pm tonight. his mother has already made threats about the reunion tomorrow, so i'm braced for the worse. after that ordeal, i get a whole week with him! don't worry, i'll make time to keep this updated. lata

one more day of work, just one more... and then i'm gone for a whole week. i don't know if i'll make it. tomorrow will be the longest day ever, i'm sure of it. but at the end, i'll see nick again, and then saturday morning we'll leave for his family reunion (glamorous, huh?) and then for his apartment in athens, ohio. it will be the first time since we left school for summer that we won't have parents to deal with. i am so looking forward to that. it's been really hot in athens, though, and i'm worried about that. i'm used to these mild little 84 degrees and below days we've been having here all summer and i don't think i'll handle real heat very well. i'll cope i guess. i genuinely need this trip to keep my sanity. i have been on the slippery downward slope towards a depressive rage lately, and i'm counting on this trip to bring me back to some semblance of normal. cross your fingers for me, and pray if you're a religious type....

have i ever mentioned how much i hate blogger?
no?
well i do.

tiffany posted a link to a story on some urban legends site. i clicked through, all innocently, only to read the most disgusting thing i have ever set my eyes on. *shudder* so gross...

i had to bring my 12 year old brother to work with me this morning. he's attending a summer theater camp here in town at GVT but it doesn't start until 9:30 am. i start work at 7:30 am, so i had to kill at least an hour and a half with him before i could send him on his way. this place is not as glamourous as you'd think, being the department of highways and all, so he was thoroughly ready to leave by the time 9 o'clock rolled around. he should be back here in the next half hour or so so i can cart his butt home again. my life is fun!

i want to see jurassic park 3. i just may have to go alone soon. tiff saw it yesterday and said "it was gooood." some woman on the radio said she has already seen it three times. that's a bit excessive, but once would be good i think...

chinese restaurants are the GREATEST!!!!

just read this fortune i got at lunch today: "you are entering a new, rewarding period in your love life." isn't that just the best fortune ever? let me tell you, i can't wait to get to ohio now. i'm leaving saturday to spend a whole week with my hunny nick at his apartment on the OU campus. countdown...

i went to the optometrist yesterday. he's switching me to one month replacements (i was on three months) so no more of these gritty little devils bugging me for months. he claims it will be cheaper too, but still around $130 because i'm so blind. *sigh* oh well. so what if one of my contacts has to be weighted to keep it straight? can't they still be cheap? i need new glasses too, but i can't afford both at once. so poor...

i got three new guestbook entries yesterday alone! after nothing for two weeks! i am totally in awe and reverence to those who have signed the book. go on, you know you want to too. go ahead, you can do it.... i'll revere you too.... :)

well folks, i know it's been a few days, but i'm back at work and better than ever. traffic is really starting to pick up, which i couldnt' be happier about, and ever since i turned off cloaking on my redirection service, i can actually tell who referred people to me. joyous day! this site has never been happier in all of it's three weeks! yup, that's right, i only started this page on june 26th or 27th, and i've already had a temp layout and 2 real ones. guess i'd better get a good idea for the next one. can't slack off now... a big thank you goes out to missfaith who has decided to link me. she's another west virginian on the web with a great site. be sure to check it out. i've given her a button link on my leave page.

this weekend, i went to my mom's family reunion. i had never been to one before, so these people were completely foreign to me. luckily, i only had to hug my grandfather, the only living grandparent i have left. i met his sisters Geraldine and Gerita. his name is Romie. now tell me that's not f**ked up. who names their kids these things? i'm lucky my mom is normal. oh wait, she did name my brother Addison, so who knows? but anyway, this was an interesting event. one of my mom's cousins (cindy i believe) has a son who looks almost exactly like my brother, which just scared the pants right off me. genetics... this kid was a bit heavier, rounder face and a few more freckles, but the resemblance was striking...

i'm in so much pain right now from the sunburn i got while meeting all those nutty people.... i'll take my skin extra tasty crispy, please....

and the crowd goes wild!!!

introducing the long-awaited version 2!!! this layout is more of my own work than the last one was, and i'm proud of it. so lovely, so yellow.... makes me want to eat my sandwich now instead of waiting until lunch. hopefully, more improvements will come and more content will be added. well, get started! explore, and don't forget to tell me how you like it! you can do this via my lonely guestbook, or by sending me some mail.

one last post for the morning.... i must be making up for skipping yesterday :)
as you would know if you read my info page, i work for the state of wv, division of highways. they do stuff bass-akwards in government jobs, i tell ya. as noted in a previous post, there was lots of flood damage around here about a week or two ago, leading to lots of flood damage cleanup and reconstruction by the division of highways. some engineers were reassigned to the hard hit areas and one called the office here to request a gas card so he could refill his state car without having to pay for it. fair enough. so the people here get the card all ready and activated, and wait until the next day, and gather a couple of us college summer workers to drive it all the way over to him. heaven forbid they waste $0.34 to mail it to him, no, have two paid employees take a state car, fill it with gas, and put a hundred and fifty or so miles on it driving it over there. geez. well, anyway, we were having a boring day, so beth erskine, my partner in crime for the day, and i decided to stop at the crossroads mall. just for a little while. i ended up in a shopper's dream in the clearance racks at jc penney's, coming away with 3 cute shirts for only $11. then when i got back here to work, my boyfriend gets mad at me for shopping on state time. as if it mattered to them. they usually ask how we got back so fast, so we didn't feel too bad. anyone out there care to give an opinion on the issue? i'd be glad to hear from you and post some of the more interesting replies i get. would you feel bad about getting paid to shop?

church ladies....

my family (minus dad, who stays at least 20 yards away from any church) had dinner at church last night. it was our monthly fellowship dinner. don't dog me yet. if you've never had a huge potluck church dinner, you are definitely missing out. those old ladies love to cook. imagine how much you like it when your grandmother cooks dinner for you, then multiply that by like, 40 grandmothers. then imagine the desserts they bring.... mmmm. anyway, it sure beats any of the restaurants we have around here, even applebees. well, after stuffing myself on some lovely enchilada bake courtesy of an older lady named annabel and several delicious desserts, we finally started to pack up. my mother went to collect the leftovers of the fruit pizza that had been our contribution to the feast. at the dessert table, she was surrounded. a woman who we all love named mildred (very old church lady-like, right?) who was about 4 feet tall and 110 years old pushed a giant bowl of sauerkraut and sausage under her nose, imploring her to take it home to my father. my mother politely declined, informing her that no one at our house liked 'kraut that much, but mildred would not take no for an answer. needless to say, we have a boatload of kraut at home now, as well as mildred's "vegetable salad" which looks suspiciously like cole slaw to me. then my father's cousin ollie pushed pineapple upside down cake on us, which my mother did not decline, so we have a plate full of that at home too. again i'll say it, if you haven't had a church dinner lately, go soon. not only will you have a good meal, you'll have lots of varied leftovers to munch on later. if you can stand a little cheek pinching, that is...

my GOODNESS, hotmail is so beautiful now! how did they sneak that up on me like that? and they made it look just like i would have if i were them. i think they are inside my head.... it only makes me sadder that i use outlook express to check my hotmail at school. but oh well, i have another month and a half to enjoy this lovely blueness! lovely, i tell you, lovely...

it is a wonderous thing---blogger actually works today!!! oh glorious day!!! but of course there is a dark cloud right over my head---angelfire doesn't work today. why do i bother updating then, you ask? noone can even read it until angelfire works again, i know, but when they do, i want them to know why. i had to rant about angelfire. they have been pretty reliable until now, but i am getting fed up with this stuff lately. their site has been down the whole day. that is forever in internet terms. grrr!!!

i bought a new printer on sunday. it's an apollo 1200 by hp. it really sucks, only holds one print cartridge at a time and takes forever, but it only cost me $19.99 after rebate and it looks kinda cute. so i have a printer when when i get back to school now. ink costs more than the printer did though. lol

i'm taking ricky (my ferret) to get a rabies shot at 4:30. it's not required, but they tell me that if he doesn't get one, anyone he bites could request to have him tested for rabies and they would have to kill him to do that. i can't let them hurt my baby, can i? so off we go to the vet....

hopefully, i can continue working on the new layout tomorrow, as long as angelfire gets their act together. cross your fingers for me.

i added really ugly new graphics today kiddies! obnoxious, yes, but i am working on a new layout. who knows when it will be done though, so you'll just have to suffer through the orange glow for a while. if you really hate it and let me know through feedback or the guestbook, i can change them back to the old ones for the time being. anyway.

i went to see AI on sat night. that was one long movie. the first 25-40 minutes were enjoyable, the stuff i expected to be in this movie. then, it took a twist on me. after that, it just became... well, unbelievable. or as unbelievable as a sci-fi like this can be. 2000 years passed in that movie.

you know, with all the ridiculousness that went on in that movie, the most memorable thing was the supertoy teddy bear. "no, martin"

and bobby showed up after the movie. stalking tiff this time though.

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yes, that's what i got when i tried to get on blogger. i love it, yes i do! unreliable piece of [censored]!

well. finally, i'll give you my thoughts on scary movie. first, the wayans brothers are too old to play college students, and second, didn't that whole cast die in the original? and i faintly remember the movie poster for scary movie saying no sequel. just go ahead and disregard earlier promises. that aside, and not holding the fact that a lot of it didn't make sense against them, the movie was actually a lot funnier than i thought it would be. i got quite a few good belly laughs out of it. true, as the new york times said, the movie did have enough bodily fluid in it to drown the whole cast it, but who doesn't enjoy a little urine/puke/ejaculate being thrown around now and then?

if you enjoy mindless comedy, go ahead and go see it. hope you have better luck than i did getting in though. i got carded -- at the theater. i'm 20 years old, and you only have to be 17 to get in. do i look that young?

i've been thinking about my post from this morning. why is it that natural disasters, ie flash floods and the like, only happen to the hicks? (assuming that they only happen to hicks because the news only shows hicks. i know, flawed reasoning, but hear me out.) I think that to understand, we need to turn to the father of modern biology. that's right, Darwin himself. it seems to me that what we're seeing is survival of the fittest. the smart people don't build in a narrow-ass valley with a creek running through it. they know what that means. so the dumb people see all that free land, go park their trailers/mobile homes on it, and poof! washed away. nice to have an explanation for the madness.

i don't know how many of you know this, it's been on the national news lately, but over 8 inches of rain fell in just a few hours in southern wv on sunday. of course, flash flooding ensued. many people are left homeless, and at least one person died. tragic, horrible, news. well, the local news station here decides to hit the road, interview some "survivors" and show them on tv.
i have come to the conclusion that there is a detailed process they must go through when they choose who they are going to interview and show on the news. first of all, you have to have an accent so thick that noone can understand you. second, you must be so ugly that not even your own momma loves you. being grossly fat and unwashed is a plus. third, you can't have had any education past high school. the lower the education level, the better your chances of getting on. fourth, you have to be extremely poor and/or live in a trailer (mobile home) at least 15 years old. lastly, we throw in some early 90's fashion and hairstyles, and of course, bad teeth. sure-fire winning combination right there.
let me tell you about this stringy-haired fat troll they interviewed first. her words were priceless "we lawst ever'than we had. eet's gawn, all gawn..." she may have babbled on after that, i don't know. apparently, her trailer floated away or something. then they switched to an interview with a man. *shudder* this guy opened his mouth and i almost threw up my mini-wheats. i don't even know what he said, because i was en'grossed' with his teeth. he had like some twisted picket-fence grill, with one black tooth, one white, one black, one white... it was mesmorizing. how the hell do you rot every other tooth and not those in between??? good heavens, i was scared.
i don't know if i'll be able to watch the news anymore. this was just too much....

well, seeing as how my posts usually take a day or so to appear, this may or may not matter....

but i'm going to see scary movie 2 at the seneca showcase tonight. yeah, i know, the reviews are horrible. and the first one was so stupid as to not be entertaining even in some places. i know that the entire dead cast has been resurrected. but i'll try it anyway :) can't hurt me too bad, right? i hope not. anyway, tiff from over at sugacookie.com has invited me to go along with her and her sister, so i'm braving it. i'll let you know what i thought tomorrow. unless it's just too horrible to speak of.

by the way, don't ever check your source code using a validator. it will just make you feel bad. and want to kill someone as you valiantly try to correct all the thousands of mistakes. lata

have you ever seen the Shakespeare play othello? i just got back from seeing it at GVT. that is one dark play. shakespeare was quite the freak, i do believe. first of all, how many interracial marriages were there in elizabethan times?? and how many rich and powerful ex-slave black men were there cruising around courting "fair alabaster skinned" girls? and what the hell is a moor? i thought (thanks to gothic romances) that a moor was a squishy boggy area near wind-swept cliffs that always grew heather and called to melancholy young lovers who would come and walk there.... but apparently, in shakespeare's day, it was just another term for a black person. i wonder if it was derogatory? it was a pretty racist play anyway, and bodies kept piling up on the ill-fated couple's bed in the last act. i can't figure out how those people stood still that long while more actors plunged daggers into themselves and each other and fell over them in what must have been the longest last scene in history.

yeah, the precious hankie you gave your wife happened to turn up in a friend of your's hands. people lose things sometimes. get over it. (the tics were complimentary because of my family's involvement with the theatre, so the only thing lost was 2 hours and 45 minutes of my time. i guess it wasn't that bad)

well, i hated that old htmlgear guestbook i had, so i junked it for one from cgi freebies. it's a lot nicer and more customizable, but i'm having trouble with it. i can't get people's urls and email address to hyperlink. i think i'll take the weekend off from worrying about it. email me if you have a suggestion, i'd appreciate some help.

no plans for the weekend, so if you wanna do something, let me know.

grrr..... not much new today, except my flash-splash. give me some feedback on whether you like that or not. but anyway, nothing new because they stuffed me up in the attic all day shredding papers. 6+ hours of shredding papers is torturous. plus, the state of wv owns a crappy piece of poo of a shredder that holds a bag in its own cabinet so that it fills up faster and i have to open it and get all up in it and push all the paper down. what was i shredding you may ask? well, it's the payroll timesheets of the entire district going back like, 10 years. that's about 2 reams of paper per month for 10 years. it takes forever. GRRRR!!!!! anyway, i must be going home now. see you all tomorrow.

i'm off from work for the 4th, so nothing new for today. i know my splash page is down, but i was trying to put some flash up and it wasn't what i wanted. it should be back tomorrow. sorry for the melancholy blog yesterday, i was feeling kinda down. have a nice holiday everyone, and i'll see you online tomorrow.

i've been thinking a lot lately about how antisocial i've become. i never call my friends or go out with them (the friday evening pizza hut adventure was the first time all summer) and i stay home with my parents every night and most weekends. it's getting bad. i'm to the point that i'm afraid to call my own friends out of fear that i might interrupt their lives to talk to me or that they just might not want me to be with them, or they would call me. i love them all very much, but i think i have a psychiatric problem brewing here. my job doesn't help the situation either. i am pretty much alone and on the internet for 8 1/2 hours a day without even a window to the outside world. i am isolating myself at work too. if the phone rings, i get off of it as soon as possible. during my lunch break, i sometimes opt to sit in my office and eat so that i don't have to feel uncomfortable around anyone else. my office is even recessed from the hallway so that people who pass by can't see in without coming down a short hallway. i am a hermit. the only time i actually go anywhere is with my mom or when my boyfriend nick visits. when he's here, i have lots of fun and go anywhere. without him, i have no desire to leave home. i'm not depressed really; actually, i'm quite happy most of the time. what am i going to do?

check out Sinners Cereal- c/o 2k1, run by Egofreeze, who has graciously offered to link me and to whom i am forever indebted for his advice and his lovely little cheats. because of him, ur not seeing popups right now. (hopefully). anyway, thanx Ego, i owe ya!

i really must tell you about my adventures on friday evening. i was 15 minutes late for dinner and all upset, but the only people who had showed up were candice and her sister. i felt so bad! they were just sitting there nibbling on some breadsticks. another 15 minutes passed, then tiff and her sister showed up. half an hour passes and our final guest amanda shows up. she had a horrible day and her car died, but that's another story. anyway, 2 pizzas and 2 hours later, we paid our bill and moved it out to the parking lot. we were ready to leave, but just couldn't. my friends are the type that will just stand there beside their cars and talk for another 35+ minutes or until something scares us off. well, something pretty scary finally scared us off. as we were talking, i looked over at the road and caught a glimse of a trashy old gray car with one red front panel. panicking, i began to back behind my friend candice and stammer "you guys, you guys..." to which all my friends just stared blankly. it was my ex boyfriend bobby, aka "the boob." he had seen us and pulled in just to make himself known. now, in my defense, he had been a preppy little rich boy with a red probe when i had dated him. he's now a skank. *shudder* well, tiff yelled at him and told him to stop staring and take a picture. after babbling something incoherent above the roar of his broken muffler, he sped off to terrorize others. read all about her version of the incident at her site. she even goes on to tell about how he stalked her home that night. *shudder* again. why me???