I need a boyfriend. A fake boyfriend, let me clarify that. One that will easily roll off the tongue when a coworker inevitably says, "So...what are you doing after work tonight?" I've been complimented way too much by two of my coworkers for it to be just mild complimenting. And the one has gone so far as to start to ask me about my tastes in music. I know, *GASP!*. Lol. But really, it's not the questions, it's the way in which they are asked. I know these things. Just watch. I think I'm gonna head 'em off at the pass by talking about my boyfriend. Maybe that's mean. But I think it's a whole lot meaner to say, "Oh. Oh, um.... You know, I'm just not that into you." I've never been able to do that, ever. Maybe it's a personality flaw. Deep down, I hate ripping out people's hearts and stomping on them. Unless they're really really really mean first. And even then, I find it hard to do.

Anyway.

I just looked at the weather, and it's supposed to be at least 40 until December, now. I AM AMAZED. This NEVER happens. This is NE Ohio, people. This is the part of the state where it can snow on Halloween, and has before, often. This is the state where we get maybe 11 days of sunshine in January, along with sub-zero weather. This is the state that'll dump 6-8 inches of snow on your ass overnight. For ten nights in a row! Uggh, I hate Ohio.

I come up with all these things to say all day, then I sit down and they all hide in my brain. I don't know why they are so afraid of being put on...html and computer screen. Jeez, doesn't sound as poetic as pen and paper, lol.

Today was pretty good. My cousin's son's baptism lasted an hour and a half. Yeah, my dad missed the timing by 15 minutes. And everyone was talking about how fast and nice the service was. My cousin's baby is a cutie, though. He has NO hair whatsoever. He was really good during the service. That is, until they stripped him down and plunked him in the baptismal basin. He let the whole church know what he thought about that. My cousin's girlfriend, apparently, ( I thought they were engaged, but I guess not) introduced herself to me as the "baby-momma". I don't think I would ever introduce myself as the baby-momma. And yeah, they have a three month old and I've never met her. My cousin is so cute though. He loves being a dad. I think he'll be a good father.

It's kind of funny, though. There are STILL none from my generation of our family who are married. Or engaged. He has a baby, and my other cousin who pretty much is on her own doing whatever, has two, but no one is married yet. I have six cousins who are older, and a whole handful the same age and most of the younger ones are in highschool now, and none of us have the whole significant-other/engaged/married/kids plan going. I wonder what our parents did to us, lol...

I got a text today from one of my old coworkers. They broke the vacuum cleaner. Apparently I was the only person who ever changed the bag. That makes me laugh so hard! They hadn't changed the vacuum cleaner bag since mid-October! Poor vacuum... lol

My cat just got startled by something that wasn't there, and did a mad leap sideways and backwards to get away from said invisible enemy, and landed all paws and legs all over me. Considering that he's a very long 12.5lb cat, that was a lot of fur.

All right, I am so tired. I'm going to bed now.

I am so not a morning person.

I have lost my morning person skills that I used to have when I worked at PI: the acting all bright-eyed and bushy-tailed at unearthly hours in the morning. Today I had to work at 8:45. Okay, I'll wait until you've done rolling your eyes and such. But listen- I've been working until 10:00pm or 10:30pm almost every day I've worked. My earliest days are 11:00am to 5:00pm or so. It's been over a month since I've even been up at 8:00am. Therefor I think it's a bit ridiculous for me to be all bright and cheery, considering that I closed last night too. I drank coffee this morning and then had more on my break today but it wasn't until about 11:00 that I was starting to function. Thank goodness they had me in clothes, so no one was around asking me about toys or tablecloths.

I think I'll climb into bed with a movie. Maybe I'll try to finish one of my Netflix DVDs so I can get those sent back. My queue is growing, because every time I go to Netflix they have this great little feature showing me movies they'll think I'll like. And damn it, they're right, too! So many of them are things I've never heard of but look really intriguing. And so my queue grows but my free time doesn't, and as a result I've had the same movies out for a month, but I've added about 20 more to my queue. Oy.

All right, I guess I'll go heat up some food and then climb into bed. My cousin's baby's baptism is tomorrow, and they're Orthodox, so it may take awhile. My dad says no more than an hour. We shall see...

Later...

I am SO excited I have the Saturday after next off AND I'm not closing Friday which means I get to go to the moonlight Christmas ride at the Barn!! Yay!!!!

I am so tired tonight, and I have to open tomorrow so I should probably be in bed now. I wish that I could stay up until 4:00am writing, because I'm just in that kind of a mood. Sighhh...

I'll be good though and climb into bed with a history book.

I can't wait for the day that I don't dread the weekend. I've been working weekends for a long long time, well not THAT long but the majority of my working career, and I'm so tired of working weekends. I would love to have two days off in a row a week, every week, and the same two days off every week.

I guess I should go work on my homework so I can get closer to that goal.

à tout à l'heure!

The ad on the side of the page is making me laugh. It's for an online shopping website that searches other websites to find products. Anyway, the quote they have up there reads, "I found them and was looking forever!" (The bolding is theirs, too...) Wouldn't looking forever NOT be a good way to promote an online retail site? Lol...

So I downloaded the Shaun Cassidy collection from ITunes (I HATE ITunes, btw. Just thought I had to throw that out there. It just sucks that there's no other place really to find so many songs. And it sucks that I can't make an MP3 CD with them.) Anyway, once I had purchased that, it recommended Rex Smith and his album as something I would like, based on my listening. Well, that and a whole lot of other things. I may have to try it out and see. I love Rex Smith in the Pirates of Penzance movie that I have. Which, they need to release on DVD! VHS is not fun. Plus I'm afraid I'm going to wear it out eventually. Apparently Rex Smith is doing plays and appearances as well. I would love to see him sometime. I'm going to add that to my list of life goals. All right, enough about Rex Smith.

Slept in a little too much this morning, but that's all right I guess. My dad would say that I needed the sleep.

I think I'll take off now to ride my horsey, because I have to work later this afternoon, so that would give me plenty of time in between to get showered and things. And steal the washer from my dad so I can get the massive pile of laundry done.

You know, I guess my posts at 2 in the morning ARE more interesting, lol.

I am in HEAVEN this morning!! The last time I checked Itunes, they had no Shaun Cassidy, whatsoever. (Go ahead, I'll wait for you to laugh.) This morning, just to check again, I typed in "Shaun Cassidy" and discovered the SHAUN CASSIDY COLLECTION!!! 48 SONGS! Some of which I've never heard before!!!! This can totally replace my CD and my records, so that they refrain from getting further scratched. The sad thing is they won't all fit on a CD, so I can't listen to all of them in my car. I really need to get a CD player with an IPod attachment for my car.

Anyway, I was checking ITunes just as this page was loading, and I completely forgot what I was going to say.

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Well, I am amazed. It's been two hours since my computer crashed in the middle of writing the content above, and it's STILL there! I am beyond shocked.

And I need a new computer. This thing has been getting worse. My monitor has frozen about five times in the last two weeks, and then today it just completely went dead. Totally dead, just gone. I tried to turn it on, and then it shut off by itself again. I think I'm gonna get a desktop computer instead. I don't really NEED the laptop, really, for day to day stuff. I can just save it for the times that I travel. Infrequently, lol. Plus I want a bigger hard drive. Only having...hold on, let me look... 66GB sucks. Okay, that sounds like a lot. But, considering that I only have 17GB free right now, and I have 1.5GB in music and 2.5GB in pictures alone, and that's not even everything. I have a bunch of data DVDs and thumb drives with stuff on them as well. I really need more space. And a computer that doesn't crash if you look at it funny.

All right, that is all for the moment. I'm going to clean today, and finish up some sewing, and try to get things situated for the weekend because most of it will be spent working so I won't have a lot of time.

Later!

Uggh, I hate being so out of it. I am so tired right now, and I so should be in bed. Am I? No. Nope, not at all. My bed is still covered with about 50 things that I wanted to get down today, but as of now, I give up. I'm sweeping it all onto the floor, and going to sleep.

And now, because my brain has decided to beam back into my head, Holliday, when you said that I remembered a website from awhile back that has all these misheard lyrics. There's some pretty funny ones. I could probably create my own dictionary with mine, lol. AD, I wish I had been talking the whole night through! Well, not because of lack of sleep, but... yeah. It's like matches...some you strike and they never light, some spark a little and never light, some light but go out right away, and some burn your fingers. And that has nothing to do with anything really, because there's also about 6 other scenarios with matches. And none of them apply and I don't really know what my point was anymore. Hold on, let me read back.... oh yeah. Um, this all-night-talking turned out to be match scenario #2. Who knows though. Sometimes after it sparks and goes out, you can try later and it'll light. And sometimes you just give up. I guess if you really care enough about getting a working match, you'd try again and see if it was the one that would light the candle. Unless you really didn't care about that certain scent at the moment, and then you could wait. Ooh! There's this really pretty peppermint scent candle at work that I want to get... AND we have the peppermint coffee creamers! I don't drink coffee, but I bet they would be really good in hot chocolate. I love peppermint. I think I got a peppermint mocha today. I can't remember. Borders has a really good peppermint drink. Their cocoa trio is really really good too. Especially if you take the chocolate stick and drop it into the hot chocolate and let it melt. It turns into this gooey, melty mess when you finally reach the bottom of the drink, and it's SO GOOD! Everyone at my old job used to think it was so gross, but I don't think I ever tried it. I was thinking about taking them some cookies, but I really don't want to see the manager again, so I'd have to go on her day off and just drop them off. I'm sure they're all going nuts again, but NOT ME! No, I'm going to be conscious for Thanksgiving this year! I don't even remember Thanksgiving last year. I've yet to find the fake turkey stuff yet though, so I may just make Morning Star chick'n. I found some great recipes for veg stuff online that I want to try. Maybe I'll just make quinoa. Oh! That's why I'm hungry...I didn't eat yet tonight. Well, it's a bit late now, I'll probably just go to bed.

Wow, I just read that and I think I'll leave it. I've been trying really hard to write posts that make sense, but this one reflects my state of mind. I should try to post earlier than the moment when I'm at the peak of my exhaustion tipping into beyond tired.

I'm going to bed.

*Drums fingers together evilly*

I don't know why, I just did that just because. Lol.

So busy. I don't like being this busy. I need some downtime, too...

Not too much going on, I suppose. I had a ton that I thought about writing, but now I can't think of anything. Ummm... let's see. Oh, I may be getting promoted at work. He's going to "try me out" and see how I do at ordering and label making. It's between me and one other guy, apparently. Hey, I'm fine with whatever. If I don't get it, I'm still looking for something more permanent so I can get my horse in the spring. I was supposed to do my ride today, but I didn't. I'm going to go maybe tomorrow and for sure Friday.

I think that's about it. I'm going to go now and work on some curtains for the zimmer (what my dad calls the garage room). I found some awesome fabric. In fact, I'll post some pics when I'm done. The room looks directly into our neighbors kitchen, bathroom, and bedroom windows, so no one has privacy. All right, later!

I don't know which was more annoying... the talking bravenet lady, or the stupid commercials that play automatically. I wish there was a way to turn them off so they wouldn't just start playing. It's so annoying!

I am TIRED today! I got up at 4:00am to watch some meteors. I saw two. My dad was daydreaming and saw none. In his defense, he was still half asleep and cold. I slept in half my clothes, and I still had on my thermal long underwear from the barn, so I was toasty. It was pretty funny actually. We were out there for a couple minutes, and I saw the second one. I said, "Look! There! Look look look....(looking at my dad, and realizing he had been looking at the ground) awwwwww....... you missed it again!" My dad replies, "There was another one? Okay that's nice...well I'm ready to head in, how about you?"

Ever get lyrics messed up to songs? I do it ALL the time. I'll be singing along, and not even realize that I'm butchering the lyrics either. This morning I had to stop and think, "WAIT. 'Shorty is like an elephant in my head ' does not make ANY sense!" And this was after I had sang it that way for like ten minutes. Shorty can be a melody, but not an elephant. My sisters go nuts when I sing lyrics wrong, like there's some rule or something that says you have to know all the words before you're allowed to sing. Oh well.

Well, I gots to go! I have to do laundry and clean up the room a little and clean out the litter box. Marlon is using it again! Yay!!! I was dumb, and changed the litter without keeping any of the old stuff. I found this natural, biodegradable litter that's supposed to be pretty good, so I thought I'd try it. He finally used the box at about 9:00 last night, I think, after having it all day. Poor cat. And he's actually burying now. He hates touching stuff with his paws, and usually spends a few minutes wiping his feet on everything before he gets out of the box. This stuff was supposed to be softer and I was hoping it wouldn't bother his feet so much. We shall see...

All right, I must go. Later!!