Ramblings, musings, bitchings, and various other details of my oh-so-interesting life
December 30, 2004 Here's a question: Should it take a full week for UPS to deliver a package from some place in Nevada, to me here in north Idaho? Hmmm...there's a tough one. I suddenly found myself with a little extra moooolah so I decided to buy myself a late Christmas present...for myself. For ME! Got that? Anyway, so I went to Amazon and picked up a couple books I'd had saved for later purchase, plus a Led Zeppelin CD (Zoso I believe) and a Bill Hicks DVD!!! Wahooo!! So many times, I've listened to Bill Hicks' CDs and wished I could be watching him instead, but could never find any visual material on him. Until now!! Yippee! Yippee!! So now, the package has been shipped from somewhere in Nevada, and the estimated delivery date is later next week. I CAN'T WAIT THAT LONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I hope everyone had as good a Christmas as I did. My bro's little screamers came from New Jersey for a few weeks, and they're not so little anymore. My oldest niece is taller than me. Gah! Now I know how my petite little grandmothers felt when all of their grandkids starting towering over them.
Not much else going on here....uhhh....I did my dishes last night. It was long overdue. Then I made some real food (as in, vegetables and chicken that I actually cooked myself, instead of letting the microwave do it for me). And it was goooood.
Righto, well, I'm sure I won't be back here until next year sometime, so have a happy new year!!
November 25, 2004 Happy Dead Bird Day!!! I hope you all enjoyed your dead birds as much as I enjoyed mine. My stomach is currently in a state of distress, while I currently am on Christian's computer in search of some form of entertainment that doesn't involve Japanese porn. Wish me luck and happy shoveling.
November 5, 2004 It's been a few days, I've gotten some sleep, done some deep breathing exercises, and I think I'm finally back to some form of "calm". For the time being. I'm sure it won't be long before I'm wound up about good ol' Dubya all over again.
So I'm at work, slightly bored, so I decided to retake a personality test that I took last year. The results are here. I would like to call your attention to the fact that I am slightly less paranoid and obsessive-compulsive than I was last year. However, I have become a little more schizoid. Hmm.....
November 3, 2004 Prepare thyselves, yon venomous heathens! Due to the disastrous events of the last 24 hours and the relatively non-disastrous events of the last several months, my poor overburdened cranial cavity is in the process of hocking up a record-shattering wad of brain butter (as opposed to "lung butter". Ha ha! Get it?? HAHAAAAA!!!!). In other words, if you have no interest in reading what could be the longest, most pointlessly rambling novella ever entered into the annals of News Page-dom (assuming of course that I can accurately recall all the things I was going to mention) then I suggest you go here. But c'mon, we all know you want to. I see that greedy look in your eyes....the little bubbles of spit forming in the corners of your mouth....why torture yourself like this?? JUST READ IT!!!!!
Ahem, so anyway, I am currently in a state of what-the-fuck-do-I-do-now!?!?!?!? due entirely to the fact that I've spent the last few years thinking, no, knowing deep down in every cell of my body that there was absolutely no way Bush could be reelected. The American public just can't be that stupid. They just can't!! To elect him not once, but twice?? Noooooooooo. Not in a million years. Fool me once, shame on....those damned terrorists...or something. So I've been here at work today trying to figure out where and when exactly I stepped into this alternate reality. I'm going to start compiling a Bushzilla page of some kind, where I, and anyone else who wants to will be able to rant and bitch and find a soft shoulder to sob into. The man is so...so...WRONG!!!! Why does half of the country not see that?? I amend my earlier statement about the American public being stupid, I shouldn't say stupid. Uninformed, misled, delusional, apparently off the medication against doctor's orders, but not stupid...for the most part. I should also amend the statement that Bush is wrong, it's really more the evil little minions whispering in his ear, the whole adminstration, the whole damn government. Bah! Viva la revolution!
So on a less, ah, serious note, I haven't written anything here since June, and I would like to say it's because I've been sooooo busy with my social butterfly lifestyle, I just *sigh* haven't had the time. But that would be bullshit. I am still working the second job at the surgery center, so I really don't have much free time (and the free time I do have is usually spent sitting on my ass and/or sleeping). Which leads me to another rant on Bush: I work two jobs, and am still unable to afford insurance. Lucky for me, it's been years since I've been sick enough to need to go to the doctor. There are millions of people in this country, our countrymen, fellow patriots, in the same situation that are not so blessed with good health. And how many of those millions are children?? That's a good question. Here's another good question: What would you do with $420,700,000,000?? Oh, the possibilities!!! Let's see, that's about half of the United States GDP. Evenly distributed among every single human being in the country that would work out to about $1400 per person. You may be asking, "But, Elaina, what is this magical, astronomical, completely ridiculous number??" It's the amount of money our illustrious president and his snickering imps have requested for military spending in 2005. $420.7 billion!!! BILLION!!!!!!!!!!! I remember choking on whatever it was I was drinking when I saw the headline announcing Bush had requested an $87 billion increase for Iraq. Imagine my surprise when I went to globalissues.org a few minutes ago and found the $420 billion, just sitting there, staring at me with those beady little eyes (that particular page of the website can be found here).
Okay, I'm DONE!!!! No more bitching for me for at least 30 seconds. Lucky for you all, in 30 seconds my shift will be over, so that's all the online bitching I can do.....until TOMORROW!!!! MMMWWWWAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHHAHAAAAA!!!!!
June 18, 2004 Well, I started an overhaul of this page almost a month ago, and got distracted with something else and then completely forgot what I was doing here. I don't even remember what I was going on about in the previous entry. Hmmm......give it up for short-term memory loss!! So even though I don't remember what all the exciting happenings were that I was going to talk about before, I think I've got a fairly good handle on all the SUPER EXCITING things that are going on with me right now (that's sarcasm, my dears, if it wasn't already apparent).
So I got a second job, mopping up blood and chunks at a newly opened surgery center here in town. I have no complaints as of yet. I don't have to deal with any members of that bothersome species known as "customer" (something that I thank God for every single day), and the girl who is my co-blood-mopper is pretty cool. Okay, so I exaggerated a little, there are no actual chunks involved and very little blood, but a girl can dream, right?
Spring-a-ding-ding and Ahmad were in Grangeville a few weekends ago so I went down to hang out with them, and one night we ended up scaring the shit out of each other with ghost stories, which is always entertaining. A few days later, I got the bright idea to write scary stories and email them to them (email the stories to Spring and Ahmad, not send Spring and Ahmad to the stories - ohforgodssake you know what I mean!!), and then that turned into the even brighter idea of ripping off Katy's idea (Katy's Picture of the Week, which I think I'll start posting here, because they're too neat to delete, but I don't know what else to do with them) and sending out a scary story of the week to everyone that I know. Hee hee hee!! The madness!! The mayhem!! *cue evil laughter*
On a more depressing note, my other reason for going to Grangeville on that particular weekend was to hang out with my nieces and nephew during their last weekend in town. A few days later they moved with their mom and stepdad to NEW JERSEY!!!!!!!!!!!! *sob* As far as I know, they're enjoying themselves, and everything is going well, which I am very happy to hear. But still, how am I supposed to be the cool/slightly strange aunt and alternative lifestyle role model from thousands of miles away?!?!?!?!?!?!!!! *sob* I think they're coming back for Christmas though. I'll be counting the days until then.
Right well, since I am currently at my first job (the ever-titillating motel-by-the-highway desk clerk position) and I was supposed to put away our complimentary continental breakfast 10 minutes ago, I should get on that now. Later, gators!!
May 24, 2004 It all started innocently enough: I was thinking maybe I should write something in my news page since it had been a while, which led me to read through it all, which then led me to three conclusions.
(1) There was too much love to be contained on one little page, so I'm starting a new one.
(2) I actually have a lot of things to talk about!!
(3) Okay, I guess that only led me to two conclusions.
So much excitement, I just don't know where to start!! Well, it's finally starting to get warmer, so at least I don't have the weather to bitch about anymore...for a few months anyway. School's out at the university, so the town is emptying out for the summer, which is always nice.
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