On the Stage

I had a good weekend, it felt really long...which is a very good thing!

Friday just hung out with the kid and the sister, and when the kid went to bed, V was home from her play and we watched I, Robot which I enjoyed quite a bit! It was a very powerful piece of theatre.

Saturday woke up and went to meet the lady that was going to watch our kid for the 2 weeks after our daycare lady's daughter has a baby. She was very cool, and her kids were very cool, so I'm excited about that. I'd actually like her to watch Kaia permenantely, but, I don't think she wants to be a daycare provider anymore, she's just home all day anyway and told our daycare lady she would take some of the kids if they couldn't find anyone.

However, she did say she'd babysit for us sometime! So that's awesome, if all goes well we may finally have a babysitter besides my parents!

Then, after that, we went shopping at the mall. It was awesome! I found some awesome new jeans and a button down shirt and some boxers from AE. Love them, and needed them!

Then, Kaia and V went to Claires and got 20 items for $10 and some of the items were things I collect that I wont mention here since it's pathetic, but Veronica and I are obsessed. Anyway, the packages were $.50 since it was 20 items for $10 and inside one of the packages was a special one of the things I collect that it alone is worth $30-50 depending on how much a collector is willing to spend. So...spend $.50 get something I can sell on Ebay for $40. But it was SO exciting because I've never gotten something so special before, but I will probably eventually sell it...but I have quite the collection of this specific thing going and I can sell my collection for hundreds of $$ and I've only spent about $50 on all of it so far, so I'm doing good!

And the awesome thing about the mall shopping is Kaia did a fantastic job! She had fun with Mommy and Daddy and she never threw a fit or anything, so that was such a fun day out at the mall with the family! :-)

Then Kaia took a nap for us and that was grand.

Grandma and Grandpa has us meet them at the car lot and we went a looked at a couple of sweet 2005 cars, I should *hopefully* be needing to make a decision today on a car and *hopefully* have that puppy by the end of the week.

My first new car **SQUEEEEEEEEAAAAALLLLL**

Then my sister and I went to see V in her show, and it went very well!

We went out to eat at Perkins and then we went home to bed.

Woke up Sunday, V went to the play and I lounged around at home and did nothing but watch TV (even though the apartment needed cleaning) and I loved it!

I watched "Stuck on You" with Matt Damon and Greg Kinnear and I thought it was hilarious and I loved it! But that's just me...

Then, after more TV V got home with the car we went and had supper with my mom and dad and Kaia and then went home!

Good weekend...and now I'm back...at work...but I'm waiting for a call on the new car situation! :-D We have a call in about a house for rent (it's better than renting an apartment) for $450/month which is a hell of a lot cheaper than our apartment, but it's in Story City and I don't like that.

I want to live in Ames, I want to live in the town V is going to college in. I want to live CLOSER to Des Moines since I STILL work in this town and I want to live in the town that has Target and the mall and Wal-Mart and movie theatres and all that...I don't WANT to live in Story City dammit...I guess I'll have to look again at what might be in Ames for us...

oh, the woman that is going to watch Kaia for us, her and her two kids and husband live in this townhome sort of thing and they got it for $550/month when it's normally $700-900 because it happened to be open when they were looking and the guy wanted to rent it to a nice family...frick! a 3 bedroom for $550/month...luck bastards!

Here it is folks!

Come ON now, there were WAY too many choices to go through them all, and way too many combinations to do that were cool and looked good, so, fine, I settled on this



or with a background



or the hot pink hair for J :-)



oh! sassy aint she!

Veronica NOT my wife had a big post on dating and changing names and all that, and it got me thinking about my dating and all that nonsense.

One thing she talked about was that she is Mexican and has never dated anyone out of her race.

That's a rather funny topic for me. I'm white...my wife is white...this will be interesting in a minute, trust me.

My favorite women to oogle and be attracted to are NON caucasian. I get made fun of by my friends and co-workers all the time because they know my preference in women. I love Hispanic, Black, Italian, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean...now I have a certain body type and facial type in mind, but I prefer the non-caucasian. Don't get me wrong there are, in my opinion, more hot white girls than any other race and I do find them very very sexy too, but there's just something to the other races.

Now here's the funny part, because my wife...WHITE...WHITE AS CAN BE. Ghost, see through, transparent, paper white. The opposite of tan. If she tried to tan it'd turn her MORE white I'm quite sure of it.

When it comes to dating, that's another funny story between me and my wife and I think universally through men and women.

To me (the male race), I have only gone out seriously with 3 women - one being Veronica. And the rest dont count, they weren't real girlfriends, they were girls I dated for a month at best and nothing even happened we just went to movies and, with a couple of them just kissed. We were never serious, we were exclusive, but not serious, like I was with the other two and then Veronica.

She tells me this number when we first started going out of the guys she went out with, then I find out they're almost all like 2 week relationships...psht! that doesn't count...

I went out with Allison in high school. First girlfriend, loved her with all my heart, broke up with her after around a year, have NO idea why I did it, tried to get her back for the next year (didn't work), then went off to college. Still don't know why I broke up with her. #1 girl I loved. Didn't kiss for 6 months..and that's all we did. Still very good friends with her.

I went out with Marci in college. Loved her with all my heart, but damn she had no common sense, neither does anyone in her family, and she just ended up bugging me SO much I knew I couldn't marry her, even though we had talked about it, I knew it wasn't to be, so we broke up. Didn't do anything but kissing with her. #2 girl I loved. Still very good friends with her.

Then Veronica, we all know her, we all know where that went...I've got the ring on my finger! ;-) #3 girl I loved, love her the most too!

Now, I can explain every girl that I have gone out with and why she is not considered a "girlfriend" but I wont do that. Just some stupid week long relationships that involved seeing each other every now and then going to movies and some of them involved making out.

Now is that strictly a guy way of thinking? Little stupid relationships don't really count whereas the serious ones are the ones that count? Because I've talked to my guy friends and they all agree with me and then V and my sisters and her girl friends think it's not that way.

So the way I see it I went out with three girls: Allison, Marci and Veronica.
I can name the other ones too: Sara, Jenny, Juanita (not caucasian :-D but that's not why I went out with her!), Randi, Mary Sara, Christy, Stephanie. There's a few others that I don't remember their names right now.

I've only had one "secret" daring relationship that a handful of people know about and it really needs to stay that way...

But for the first couple of years everytime a new name popped up V would say, "Oh, another one you didn't tell me about!" LOL and I say "Well, it doesn't count."

Interesting side note -- never NOT been friends with a girl that I went out with or dated or saw or whatever you want to say. Still would be considered friends with all of them!

Maybe it's stupid and maybe it's superficial but I wouldn't be happy if my wife had chosen not to take my name. It's just something you do! It makes me happy that she has my last name now and that our kids now have my name and we're a happy little family. Hard to explain, it's just something I was always looking forward to. And I have always thought that if I were a girl I would look forward to the day that I meet that man that is going to give me my new last name. Annoying to change all of your stuff to the new name, but exciting to have something new like that.

1.) I am glad I'm a guy. With pants and a belt and tucked in shirt I can stand there with my willy hanging (pointed in the right direction) and just pee while I do whatever else I need to do with my hands.
- For instance: Today I was eating a Kudos bar and there was chocolate on my hand so I was eating and licking off the chocolate leaning against the wall, while I peed.

Now granted, women can do the same thing while sitting there, but you always have to wipe AND, big thing here, you have to sit on the damn seat...that's my #2 point about bathrooms.

2.) Guys, girls, who can relate to me here? When you enter a stall to either pee or poo do you have to wipe down the seat thoroughly before sitting down? I HAVE to. Yuck, I hate knowing I have to sit on someone else's ass. Especially, for guys mostly (though I have cleaned bathrooms at Subway where girls have managed to piss all over the seat -- can someone tell me HOW?) there is piss all over the seat. Occasionally there will be poo on the seat...now that's DISTGUSTING and if it's too gross, I'll hold it dammit. Shit, toilet seats gross me out, big time. Especially in public restrooms. And especially if it's bad or I don't like the vibes I"m getting I'll use the little paper thing you can sit on. Why, with those little paper things, they don't come with the middle already cut out is beyond me. Why, why, why?

I am NOT a germ phobia when it comes to eating or drinking things that someone else that I know has eaten or drank from. Not a germ phobia about anything BUT toilets...grosses me OUT.

Oh, and I also flush with my foot. No way I'm touching that handle.

My wifey V is in this and it opens tomorrow and is just for one weekend. It's just as it says it is in the description.

V's monologue is "Dragons" and she plays a woman in labor.

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Talking With

by Jane Martin

Talking With is a poetic celebration of women. Through a series of diverse, revelatory monologues by eclectic characters, Talking With explores the experiences, the perspectives, and the voices of women, some of which are hilarious, some are soulful, all are poignant. From the actress who threatens to kill her cat if she is not cast, to the evangelical snake charmer, to the housewife lost in Oz, Talking With appeals to the hearts and the funny bones of both women and men.

Performed at the M-SHOP


Jan. 27, 28, 29 at 7:30pm
Jan. 30 at 2:00pm

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Still coughing, still coughing and hacking up phlegm likes its no one's business, still sore throat...still want to DIE

I HATE BEING SICK..........................................

Damn, damn damn. Mamma Mia! is at the Civic Center, but we don't have the time to go see it :-( ANOTHER musical this year that I have to skip out on. I already missed The Producers and I haven't even SEEN it before. And Movin' Out, same thing there I bet, it's coming up and I bet we miss it too. AND Peter Pan with Cathy Rigby, it's coming up too...damn, damn damn. Grease is coming up, but I don't give a damn about Grease. So is Miss Saigon, we will do our damndest to see that...dammit!

WOOHOO!! One week and counting baby! Kaia, V and I are headed to Dora the Explorer Live! ;-)

I hope Kaia has a good time, I think she will...but we'll see!

Tell all your friends about it, I'm only 75 views away from 2,000 on my counter...so if I look at it 50 times and can get all of you to look at it 25 more times then I will have hit 2,000 :-D

If I had something useful to say here, I'd probably say it!

Las Vegas the tv series season one DVD came out just recently, I went to Target to see if I wanted to impulse buy but I couldn't! I have never bought a season of TV shows on DVD, ever, I decide maybe to splurge on this one even though there are SOOOOO many TV shows I would buy on DVD and they're out! It was $45.99 anyway, so no friggin way, but still...when I went to buy Napoleon Dynamite at Target they were out too. Use your brain Target STOCK PROPERLY...

so instead Kaia and I bought Mommy a doormat that was cool lookin brown with some froggies on it because Mommy collects froggies.

I said, "Oh! Look Kaia, should we get this for Mommy?"
"ooooh, yeah!" she says.

When we get home I have Kaia call Mommy's cell phone and leave a message saying we have a surprise for her. Then we go set it outside the door for Mommy to see.

So when Mommy gets home last night at 10:15 I have Kaia all but asleep in her room in her bed, her eyes are closed, I'm out watching TV, but Mommy goes in to give her princess a kiss and she wakes up (dammit!) and as Mommy is leaving anyway, hoping she'll go back to sleep, Kaia whispers...

"Did you see your surprise? It's right behind the door."
"Yes I did! Thank you sweetie."
"It's froggies. We knew you'd like it."

Just makes you smile :-) She was so excited for Mommy to see her surprise!

If you are at all weak of stomach turn back now for the tale I am about to weave is one of bad tastes and worse smells.

Don't say I didn't warn you!






So, last night I was home with Kaia (Veronica's show opens this weekend so it's tech week -- you theatre people will know what I mean by that) and I have been sick, we all know that. Most of it is gone, but I have a backed up nose and a cough to beat hell. Well, after supper (tuna noodle and chips) and a slight dessert (Peanut M&Ms) I have a tickle in my throat.

I start coughing, no big deal, but the tickle wont go away and I'm coughing hardcore now, it's heaving and it wont stop and my eyes are watering.

I bolt for the bathroom fearing a "tossing of the cookies" a "ralp" a "puke" a "throwing up" a "hurl" a "reverse parastaltic rush" coming on.

Now, I have never thrown up whilst coughing before...never! When it comes to throwing up, I made a pact with myself a long time ago that I would just not do it. I don't enjoy puking, I don't enjoy the feeling that it gives me, so I made the pact and I stick with it, only straying slighty from time to time.

Well last night was one of those times. It was a feeling unlike any other to puke because you are coughing too hard. It was right after supper too, so all it was was the food coming back up, it was not runny it was not full of water or anything (this happened to be the night I was too lazy to get up and get some water to drink with supper) and so it was odd.

I didn't get to puke in the toilet either, oh no, it was in the sink. I was still under the impression as I high-tailed it into the bathroom that there was NO way I could puke from coughing, so I was just standing over the sink because I thought I might need to spit out some phlegm or what have you.

Two heaves later and half of my supper and all of my dessert lay in a mass in my sink. "Well," thought I, "That is not going to wash down the drain." So I had to find a way to get it out of there. And smell it did, just like any other throw up.

Now mind you, Kaia is asking the whole time if I'm ok and if she can play with a certain toy, she had her heart set on this damn toy because she kept asking about it as I was coughing and heaving and coughing, lol. I let her know it was ok to play with that toy and that Daddy needed a minute.

The tickle is not gone, and I fear more heaving will be on the way, so I search for a way to get rid of the damned tickle. I drink some milk, something to coat my throat, nope. Ice cream is just BURIED in the freezer. No cough syrup to take. So I guess I'll wait it out.

In the meantime I need to take some paper towels and scrap out the mass of puke and insert it into the toilet. That worked fine and I wash out the sink, flush the toilet, and...luckily...the fiasco is over.

So that was my night in a nutshell...

Haloscan commenting and trackback have been added to this blog.

Apparently I can get to posting quite easily but when it comes to trying to comment on my fellow bloggers I can't do it, friggin thing just wont load...stupid blogger...

Well, the Kaia picture was big and didn't get that big of a response, so I'm goign to take it down. I thought it was funny though :-D

Wish I had something exciting in my life to post...but I don't...so I wont...

I know there is something that hates that (meritt, I think) and I just realized that after I typed the title, but I'm going to leave it anyway :-)

I'm going to attempt to actually tackle one of those issues I say I never have enough time to tackle...and in 7 minutes or less!

Smoking

I hate it. Hate it hate it hate it. I'd vote to make the whole fuggin' thing illegal except I know it'd just be another prohibition and it'd never work. I could never in my whole LIFE working for a tobacco company. NO matter what job or money they were giving me, couldn't do it.

Disclaimer: Seriously, I DO care if you do it, but I'm not going to treat you different or hate YOU or anything, just the fact that you smoke.

It's the STUPIDEST thing you could do. Now, I may be wrong, but it's stupider than drinking. There is nothing good about smoking. You can DIE from smoking. Sure, some people live until 105 and have smoked every day of their life, no I can't explain it, but tons of people have died from smoking too.

I can't understand why someone would possibly do it? Once your addicted, and I understand how addicting it is (not because I've ever done it, so no I don't know THAT way, but it's something people can understand) and once you start it is very hard to stop...but I can't understand why you wouldn't TRY to stop. Some people just go on about their business not even caring that they smoke. SOme make an effort to stop. I know lots of people who "try" over and over. If you really wanted to you would stop.

The thing I can't understand the MOST is why you would ever even start. Why?! It's beyond me. There is not a single healthy thing about smoking. It's a "cancer stick" or "death stick" whichever you prefer. Peer pressure? I don't believe it. Have some will, I had peer pressure all up in my face, but I never did (and no I don't think I'm better than you, I'm just saying that it's possible to say no to peer pressure). "I just wanted to try it, so I could say I know what it's like or so I can say I've tried it." Well don't be stupid and don't try it. Who cares if you can say you've tried a cigarette? I don't see that as a good reason. Did you try it or do you smoke to look cool? Stupid...

Want to know what gets my goat?! Medical professionals who smoke...WTF? They should know even MORE than others the health issues with smoking. I don't even know what else to say about that...medical professionals who smoke, MAN I don't get that.

What to know what gets my goat even more?! PREGNANT LADIES WHO SMOKE. Can't get much worse than that. YOu're just asking for health issues with your newborn. How can you want to be a mother and be all motherly and fucking smoke while with child? Shit...those people should be taken to some camp where they can recovering from the addiction while with child so they don't hurt their child anymore.

One step below that is people who smoke with or around children.

Do you know why you're banned to the back of the building or outside or in a corner or why you can't smoke in a lot of public places? Because no one wants you around them, except other smokers. I've been around smokers, I don't say anything to them, but if I can get away I do. Like I said, I don't care any less for smokers, I have a good friend who smokes, but it doesn't mean I have to like the fact that he smokes.

I don't even like someone having a smoke "every now and then" or "when I'm out drinking." Sorry, still think it's stupid. What, I can shoot myself in the lung "every now and then" or "when I'm out drinking" just so long as I don't do it enough to kill me right away?

Remember how I said I had a dream two nights ago about Veronica and smoking? Well in the dream she was outside of FMH smoking and I walked up and somehow I knew she was on her third one already and she just kind of was all "I don't care anymore if you know I'm smoking so take that" and I just flipped out! I did a little yelling, not much, but I gave her a piece of my mind and I just walked away with Kaia, really in all anticipation to never return, but she came following after me and then I woke up shortly after she caught up to me.

I really do think I'd leave her if she started smoking, if she didn't stop right away. Honestly, it'd be killing her, me and our daughter and any future kids. Sorry, but I'm not going to accept that.

I'd never tell anyone to their face how much I hate smoking, because I don't want them or me to be uncomfortable, and then they'd think I hate them, which is not true. I have been called a "loser" or "stupid" or "not cool" or shit like that for never having smoked or drank (yeah I've had one strawberry daquri here or there) but so what? It's what I want to do, if you don't like it that's fine, just don't dislike ME, because I won't dislike you for smoking, I'll just dislike the fact that you smoke.

It was busy busy today. Meetings from 8-4:30! I had to present too...ooooh! It went fine though.

Sore throat still there, thank you everyone for your advice!

I had an interesting dream about Veronica, but it's opening up a whole can of worms on the topic of smoking that I can't sit here and type it all out.

I'm sick...

I don't feel like eating because it'd hurt too much, but I'm SO hungry.
It's the throat/nose area that's just raw and shit...

why did this have to happen the week Veronica is gone?!

fuck...

This week, since Veronica is gone, I've been a good boy! I cleaned the kitchen last night, that felt good. I put away both of our laundry baskets of clothes, Kaia has gone to bed very nicely for me this whole week. I have gotten up at least a half hour earlier than normal every morning this week thus far, giving me plenty of time to shower and dress and watch the weather and get the car warmed up and get everything together in the morning...it's just fantastic.

However, I'm tired! I'm getting up a half hour earlier, but I'm not going to bed any earlier either...that's not wise thinking.

I think I'll try to go to bed earlier tonight...

So, I feel like a million dollars, but a tired million dollars.

oooooh doggies, my new shoes sure are making a splash at work :-D Everyone is commenting on them and people are walking into my office saying "I was told I need to see the shoes." hahaha, I love it! I love these shoes, I have been excited to get these shoes since I designed them almost a year ago!

Now I just wish they were comfortable... :-(

For reference:



:-D

unky moods is gone apparently, it's not on anyone's site anymore and their web site doesn't work....strange.

Holy shit they piss me off. There is SUCH a huge story about fire alarms at 2 in the morning and blogged toilets and snow and everything that I can't even begin to type it all out, unless I REALLY have some time on my hands. I wish I knew you all in person so I could just call or see you and tell you about it, but let's say for the fire alarm we had to LEAVE our apartment early Saturday at 2:30 AM and go to my parents house because the fire alarm had been going off for over and hour and a half and I was told could be on all night and into the next day or more...piece of shit apartment frigging managers, I am filing a complain with better business bureau or the Ames Chamber of Commerce or whatever I have to do and as soon as I find a better place we're getting the "f" out.

ARGH

Am I the only one that does not like sending my kid off to spend 10 hours with a stranger and then I only get her for 3-4? I hate that, hate it a lot. Now sure, she does a good job, but she says she loves them and she has all her idioms that Kaia then brings home with her.

She's MY kid, I want to spend the most time with her, it SUCKS. :-( I miss my little princess, I do everyday. Ok, she pisses me off sometimes ;-), but kids are suppose to! I still love her more than imagineable and just love looking at her and knowing she's mine and how cute she is and then I just want to grab her and hug her close and never let her GO!! But...lol....then she squirms and breaks free and "let go" or "I want down" or "no kisses!" but she's so cute!

Ok...gushing done :-D

But still, I don't want some damn stranger spending 10 hours with her while we get 3-4 dammit! But, there really IS NOTHING we can do about it. We would be dead if V didn't work and there's no way in hell V isn't getting her college education and I'm not making her take night classes, sorry, but she's getting the college experience, plus with a theatre and english education major, there's no way she can't be taking a full load like normal college students. So, this is just what we have to do.

But then, when she gets old enough for school those punk asses will have my kid all day too, but I liek the idea of her being at school all day better, not a lot, but better, than at a damn daycare all day. I don't want her to go to school either :-( But I want her to develop good education background and social skills and all the extra-curricular activities and so she needs to go to school, I don't much like "home-schooling" that just me, so if you do it that's ok!, but I just don't like it.

Oh and on the wife or husband note, do you people with wives or husbands find it odd that when you know they're going to be gone for more than one day that within one day you miss them a lot already. But if you just don't happen to see them for a day, and not because they are on vacation, then you don't miss them near as much.

Funny how that works huh? Either that or it's just me.

Yeah, it's me! ;-)

I don't make a big deal out of my birthday's because, well who cares? But, this is blogger, how would you know, so I'm letting you know now! Ha!

This is the most boring birthday ever, and that's ok. I've had some doozy birthdays!

On my 21st birthday I was attending my grandmother's funeral. She was my closest grandma to me, she lived across the street my whole life and she was a blast of a woman! Oh, and we shared Jan 16th as a birthday and then she was buried on our birthday...sucked...a lot.

Veronica left for St. Louis this morning for ACTF (American College Theatre Festival) and I dropped her off at 6:00 am, so my wife is gone for my birthday :-( and for the whole week. But I got to see her this morning on my birthday, so that's ok.

Well, time to go back to football!

I had so fantastic things to talk about on my blog, I was all ready to do so...and then I got busy.

So, too bad for all you deep thinkers, you're not getting any food for thought from me today! ;-)

One was about money and tv and the connection I found...it was a good one too!

I can't remember the other ones, seriously, but I know they were good too...lol, dammit, that always happens to me

But the money one was good...

I made it to work on TIME!

This whole week I've taken Kaia to daycare, which normally isn't a problem but it does involve driving about 15 minutes total to and from out of my way, but the traffic in and around Des Moines has bee atrocious! I mean, just awful. Bumper to bumper, stand-still, piece of horse patooey traffic. So, I've been 15 minutes late every morning.

This morning, traffic moving right along at a brisk pace...what the hell?! Why today? It doesn't make any sense and I hate that I have to take my PTO because the traffic is so fucked up. I used an hour of PTO just on being late this week.

But here I am, 8:00 am, ON TIME! :-)

Oh, and I got a new phone for our apartment last night because our other one SUCKS, so it should be all charged up and I'll wonder how this one performs, maybe I'll have to call Veronica and have her switch out the phones and let me know how it goes.

OH, and Kaia last night, wow. I gave her a bath, then she wanted to finish her mini M&M's, so I let her, and then I read her a book and put her in bed and covered her up. I turned on her Wizard of Oz soundtrack, got her some new water, shut off the light and said goodnight I love you and gave her a kiss. I left the room and never heard from her again. That has to be about the first time ever! What an amazing thing putting a child in bed and they stay there and actually go to sleep!

My damn blogger "creat a new post" wasn't working all day long.

Now I don't much feel like typing. I find myself enjoying commenting on other people's blogs more than writing in my own.

I don't feel like I can weave tales or have anything worth commenting on because I don't get many comments. So it just makes me think I don't have what it takes to be a good blogger, but I can seem to be witty on my comments to people's blogs...go figure huh?

But, alas, I shall keep blogging away and be not interesting and if all else fails, I have a documentation for myself of what was going on in my life.

Still need to comment on the movies I saw, but I saw GOOD movies and I have SO much to say that I don't have time to just sit here and try to tell people how much I loved them.

Let's just say:

The Incredibles: A++ SUCH a good movie! and Kaia loved it too
Napoleon Dynamite: A++ SO FUNNY I CAN"T STOP QUOTING IT, man it's a good movie!
Lemony Snicket...:A Good movie...books are better...

Those are the main three...there! done, got the movie reviews out of the way ;-)

I discovered a viscious cycle today:

the less sleep I get -> the more tired I am -> the less I want to do my work -> the more I avoid my work -> the more bored I get -> because I'm bored, the more tired I get

repeat cycle until death occurs

I'm so tired...folks, let me tell you something, don't stay up until 2 am every day, it's not good for you.

I'm feeling sick in the nose throat area too...dammit...at least it waited until after all the holidays and singing and acting and everything, that's good.

Bleh...still haven't got to talk about the new movies I've seen and how much I loved them...but I'm too tired to type

Pictures have arrived of the new musical set to arrive on Broadway for previews Feb 14:


From Left: The Chicken of Bristol, David Hyde Pierce, Hank Azaria, Christopher Sieber, Steve Rosen and Tim Curry


From Top: Tim Curry; David Hyde Pierce; Hank Azaria

It is currently in previews at The Shubert Theatre in Chicago to mainly good reviews. I wish I was single or married without a kid so I could just get up and go down there and see it and all those famous people! A couple we're friends with is going to see Wicked in May in NYC. They're just engaged and can go do whatever they want and spend what money they want! There is good and bad sides of thr fence though...so keep that in mind.

"... and WHY aren't you updating your page mister!?
I want to hear about everything. I'm waiting... waiting... (tapping my foot impatiently).

What in the heck is going on at work? What happened while you were gone? With you and the other oldtimer gone at the same time who ran your part of the office? Who are you working with now? WHAT IS GOING ON!?"

LOL

They hired someone to take her spot, someone from a different department, and I know her well, so that's good. SHe's very fun and she will catch on and do quite well. The person who, I guess, is under me, who I trained when she came on the job and she works with me and I showed her how to do everything, she's the one that ran the place while I was gone, and it was a very slow week, so everything was fine!

I'm very lightheaded today, like a constant swimming feeling in my eyes/head and I feel like I could pass out, but I never have before in my life, so I don't know why I Would now.

I have different topics I will open up soon on my page about movies I saw recently, my new collection and other little nonsensical things.

Boy did we have a toilet issue last night!

Don’t ask me how, but we didn’t have a plunger (this information will come in handy later).

So, it starts filling with water and then takes forever to drain but doesn’t take out the nasty with it. So, I do everything I think I can do to fix it, because we’re ALWAYS having problems with our toilet, and nothing works.

Now here is another piece of information: our apartment complex got bought out by a different company, Haverkamp Properties, and all we got telling us this was a fuckin’ piece of paper stuck in our door jam. No PHONE NUMBER no NAMES no ANYTHING but to let us know to make the rent checks out to them.

So naturally something breaks. I go ONLINE to find the damn phone number, which I shouldn’t have to do, and call it up, mind you the ONLY number listed anywhere. You have to call this one number for everything. No one there, of course not, it’s 6 pm. Get this message, 4 options, I take the “it’s an emergency like running water or an emergency” option and wait for someone to talk to me.

A guy gets on the phone and asks me what I want. I told him what was going on with my toilet and he said it sounds like it’s clogged and to use my plunger, I tell him we don’t have one, he says to get one and if that doesn’t work to call.

So I go get one and work on it, can’t get it to work at all.

Call him back at 10:50 PM because none of us have got to go to the bathroom and Kaia is crying because she has to go to the bathroom but won’t go until we flush it (remember she’s three and hard headed as HELL) and I get the same guy.

Long story short, because it pisses me off and I couldn’t put it into words and I’m tired, he says there’s nothing he can do until the morning, normal maintenance hours are 8-4:30 unless it’s an emergency like running water, etc. This is a toilet dammit, it’s not like my friggin SINK is clogged, this is a human function that needs to be done by myself and my family. I say “well, if I flush it again the water and shit and piss will overflow and then would that be an emergency?” he said “yes, but I don’t think you want to do that” I say “I don’t think I want to do that either, but I want my toilet fixed.” I explain people needing to use the toilet and we argue back and forth he says “normal maintenance hours blah blah blah BLAH” and I say “So you expect my toilet to break between the hours of 8 and 4:30?” which is just a ridiculous statement by him. He also says “Well, this sounds like an ongoing thing, you should have called earlier” WHAT?! I called at 6 pm when it first happened, do you think ti was happening before that but I just thought “eh, my toilet is clogged with piss and shit, but what the hell, I wont worry about it yet” I DONT THINK SO. So, another stupid comment shot down.

After arguing and talking between myself and him and then my sister(posing as Veronica) and him and threatening he finally says he’ll come over even though he’s not maintenance. Fine, whatever.

He gets here with a toilet plunger and DAMMNED IF HE DOESN”T UNCLOG IT (after plunging so hard that he slopped poop/pee water all over my damn floor), which just pisses me off to no end. He had a better plunger than me and when he’s done he says “You shouldn’t buy a plunger like that next time” and then says “Oh, and just keep this in your head, clogged toilets cost money to the tenants because it’s not our fault it’s clogged. But I’ll let it go this time.”

Oh, ok, I’ll “keep that in my head.”

Did I mention he is about 20-23, he is not older me, this much I know. And when someone came over to check to see if our heat was left on over Christmas, even though they came way after Christmas and we were back at our apartment, the kid couldn’t have been more than 18.

So, I despise Haverkamp Properties and will tell everyone I know. I need to complain to someone big and tell them how displeased I am with everything, and there’s more than their shitty maintenance (a whole laundry lists of things they’re doing wrong or not doing including a broken security door, what’s the use of the security door and key if the thing is broken?) and their shitty contact information and their shitty snow removal, I need to tell them I am never coming back to these apartments and I will tell everyone I know.

But, I don’t know if I have enough balls to do that and I know they wont care. Also, it was only a clogged toilet and it was our fault, so they do have us there, so they’ll probably just shove that in my face. Even though, beside the fact that I couldn’t get it, it was a clogged toilet that needed to be fixed and not wait until 8 the next morning. I have a family that needs to go to the bathroom, it’s a necessary tool to everyday life. If I as a tenant have a problem then they as apartment owners/maintenance/staff need to fix it. It’s not my job to go hire a plumber and pay him, and if I had to, you bet I’d have taken it out of my next rent. Now maybe it ended up being something stupid, but that’s just part of the job of having tenants and owning apartment buildings. If I was in my own house I’d have to fix it myself, but I’m not, I’m in their building and I’m paying them a shitload of money to do their job.

Ugh…our last building maintenance was SO terribly bad, thought it might be better, but apparently not…

You're looking at the new Vice-President on the Board of Directors for the Judge Story Theatrical Troupe!

This is most excellent and I look forward to this year and learning a lot, hopefully to use as good reference for a future job at a professional theatre, and to be re-elected in 2006.

Hello all, back from Washington!

Had a fantastic time, loved it, wish I could have stayed longer.

Now very, very tired...so off to bed we go!

Happy New Year too!