this is great.....i had to save it here in the confines of my blog. Festivus for the best of us!! :) ....Seinfeld fans....possibly.....anywhere?....

Football is here!!!! Football is here!!!!

...and I don;t mean pre-season...no my friends, I'm talking the real thing...the whole shebang...my reason for getting out of bed on Sundays!!!!! For a girl, I'm super obsessed...if I was a guy I'd just be average, but it's a double-standard, andI'm OK with that... frankly, I don't like it when girls watch football...they just don't get it, and they ask stupid questions, or if you take them to the game, they spend the whole time trying to watch everyone else to see if they should cheer, or just completely ignore the field and talk about anything but the game you spent 100 bucks a ticket to go and see....or worse yet...they flip straight through the program they give you to the cheerleader section to read about their grueling career...(pukes a little)....
.....so....I started thinking about the season and what kind of predictions I had...for the Colts and for the Chiefs since they are my favorites...although I think I may have to follow the Cowboys a little closer this year...with the acquisition of T.O. and Vanderjagt.... they got a sweet looking set up...I can see good things happening for them... but if you're not a football fan, I'd just stop reading now...if you don't know anything about football, it's OK if you're interested, read on...I will break it down into as simple of terms as I can... and here's a link to a football dictionary in case you need clarification of anything...but if you're a fan...take my predictions and assumptions with a grain of salt...I am not a sports broadcaster and I don't spend countless hours memorizing useless stats and analyzing game tapes..... I'm always reluctant to openly digress about football, some ass always decides he'll "out-stat" me or just simply ignore me because of my gender...it's pretty strange and annoying really, but this is the safe confines of my blog, so my opinion rules!!!! So here we go, kids....listen closely...you might learn something:
The Colts
Ok, for starters and newbies.....last year the Colts were looking pretty sweet with a 13-0 (that's 13 wins) season....then the Steelers sweeped in and simply out played 'em to serve them their first loss (something like 28-21..) and then they choked in the play-offs.....but that's usual... that's just about the 5th straight year that we've had a winning season and then needed the Heimlich Maneuver after the first game of the post-season.... The team is looking damn good thus far and the Colts are essentially injury-free and have been for 3 years.. (this is a red flag though, because the luck's gonna run out sooner or later...and Manning is thus far injury-free in his career....makes me a little uneasy) The team's lost some big players...but I think they drafted awesome this year, not waiting around to pick a 6th or 7th round back-up running back, but going hard in the first round, getting Joseph Addai to replace The Edge (Edgerrin James) who went to the Cardinals via free agent I believe. Now, Addai brings alot with him, he was responsible for a lot of yards as LSU, but his style isn't the same, and let's face it...he's a rookie... Rhodes is gonna have to step it up and play with the patience of the previous master if the Colts are gonna continue using their running game as effectively as they have. Next.... we lost Vanderjagt...... (cries a little).....(we was the kicker, for the newbies) I liked him...but apparently he was a nightmare off the field so they shipped him to the Cowboys... they like the drama down there I think...they're like a magnet for high-profile players....but we got Adam Vinatieri from the Patriots... he's a tryed and true Super Bowl hero...he kicks off and hits the FG (field goal) when it counts....an element most of this camp is missing. They signed the guy to a 5 yr 12 million dollar contract...so he'll probably be around for a while....he might like it.... the weather in Indy is a lot more mild than New England, and he won't have to try to fit into the locker room around Tom Brady's (NE's Quarterback) big overgrown ego..... Offensive line in general is the key element this team runs on...their ability to get the ball in the endzone...Peyton Manning (QB) is the star here....he has a quick release from the snap which keeps him from getting sacked (the guy NEVER gets hit) and a great line protecting,all of which are pretty much sticking around the year. Saturday's still center.....that's good, he's big :) We still got Marvin Harrison and Reggie Wayne as wideouts (the wide receivers, newbies) both of which can be counted on for 1,000 yard seasons if history teachs us anthing (Harrison has 6 straight 1,000 yarders and Wayne has 2) and I think the Colts will remain strong here. Stokley (who could miss the season opener with a sprained ankle) is a key here in my opinion. With the loss of Edgerrin, he needs another 2004 season. (in 2004, he caight 68 passes for over 1000 yards and had 10 touchdowns) but fizzled last year with only 1 TD.....but the defensive line needs to pull it together if they're gonna keep the other teams in check. We lost Tripplett (defensive tackle, methinks?) and Thornton (Linebacker) but still have Freeney who alone had 11 sacks last year, and Gardner can cover the strong side for Thornton. All in all, it's shaping up to be another great season....I'm not worried, but I do have a few doubts. Theoretically, if everything falls into place, we're looking at about a 11-3 season, i think....but I still think the choking will begin once the post season arrives probably leaving us with a 11-4 or or 12-4 (whatever the total is) final tally. I think we're still gonna rock the AFC south, coming out on top without even trying, but the Lombardi trophy is far out of reach unfortunately...... we'll see if you can trust a girl. :)

Sorry for the rant, I usually keep my lips sealed about football, everyone looks at me like I have two heads when words like TD %, and pass completion come flying out...but this was theraputic....thanks for listening....and sorry to bore you all....If you have your own opinions or you agree or disagree, lemme know....I love educated opinions.....I get all excited when people start arguing over facts...but never engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed man.... I'm out children, I just wasted an hour of my life prophecizing the future for you :-) We'll see how it pans out. Next up: The chiefs....but I'm tired now, it's 2 am, and i have to be up at 6am...so good night children....i love you all.

Sometimes, the best things catch you by surprise. My friend Clint quipped that I was so "High Fidelity" with my Top 5 lists. ....only problem....I'd never seen the movie. I decided that I better see it though, because that sounded interesting.....so I told him I'd rent it. I did have every intention of renting it, although probably not tonight except when I logged on Myspace, he again asked if I had seen it...so with an impending hurricane and a free Blockbuster rental coupon in hand, I decided to head across the street and pick up it...possibly curl up in bed tonight and use it to drown out the terrential downpour. I walked right in, picked it up....and got in the 43 person long line..... (I counted....twice....I have a bad habit of doing that with lines...slight OCD possibly?) to rent it before they locked up at 6pm. I got out approximately 50 minutes later along with 3 purchased DVD's I aquired while waiting in line and a box of dark chocolate raisinettes because I'd never seen them before, also acquired from standing in line too long. I returned home, started up the computer and proceeded to immerse myself in the HTML coding antics of MySpace. I kept thinking about this movie....in my head, I had psyched myself out...."was this really a great gem of cinema masterpiece that somehow slipped through the cracks....I missed this?" I swear the DVD kept wanting me to play it....all night...so around midnight, I finally got settled and started the movie. I was hanging on every word from the first opening scene. It starts with a self-reflection.....and his girlfriend leaving....which in turn, he announces...his TOP FIVE WORST BREAKUPS OF ALL TIME and proceeds to list them individually with history...... and it just keeps going.....TOP FIVE SONGS FOR THE VERTICALLY CHALLENGED, TOP FIVE SONGS ABOUT DEATH....it;s amazing...I'm thinking, "Did someone follow me around....I mean, I've met and shaken hands with Jack Black...somewhere along the line did I somehow transfer quirky behaviors to him?" It was insane.... also... this movie was based on a book written by Nick Hornby...who also wrote About a Boy and Fever Pitch....both two of my favorite movies!!!! I own them both!!! I didn't know that!!!! , I didn't even know it was based off of a book. I loved the Springstein dream sequence where he gets his "advice" how great..... something about this film was just so familiar and identifiable for me...I thought it was great. It's sooo realistic, the compromised aspirations that we all lose along the way, the unhealthy fixations and lengths we go to when we lose what we never knew we had. The obsessive nature of our inner brain functions that causes such panic and fixation over cheating and loss of love when we can't ever begin to control it to begin with. The sudden actualization that true unfaltering love never really existed for any of us but that real life ups, downs, and cotton underwear can be better than the fantasy..... yeah....so I leave you with this
Erin's Top Five Favorite things about High Fidelity
1. The random listology.....I do it constantly and when I ran the CD store, I was obsessive about compilations and "mixtapes"
2. He gives the outline of a good mixtape. It's a lost art and anyone younger than me will never get to experience the joy and frustration of a cassette mixtape. If you ever received a mixtape from a significant other, it really meant something...and I always read so much into the song lyrics on my mixtapes....John Cusack was right when he said that the maker must think long and hard when selecting tracks because of the connotation associated with the lyrics of songs.....
3. There is a "Smith's" reference within the first 5 minutes of the film
4. He organized his record collection in Autobiographical order.....amazing similarity.....I once organized my CD books as to when I acquired the CD, not chronological to the date of release, but sort of a timeline of my own musical preferences and their evolution through time...it was pretty difficult but theraputic to tie a life memory to each CD to think about where it should be filed. Try it one day, with just ten CD's or so and just sit back and think about the memories we acquaint with music, it's out of this world.
5. It shines a light on the elitest personas that are music geeks. You know you do it....every time you hear someone listening to Fallout Boy, Nick Lachey, or some other top 40 fly by night band while you jazz to some lesser known singer/songwriter jam, admit it, you start feeling superior...you feel as if you are more enlightened, more in the know, "smarter" if you will, less of a "Follower", more of a "leader"...it's OK...it's actually admirable....I love anyone that can match wits when it comes to music or film...I I do consider them superior to the general population because my brain functions on pop culture......and so does yours.

So, to the only three people that will probably read this (Jen, Clint, and Tim).... know that I consider all three of you in my personal "Top Five pop culture vultures". Wear that badge proudly. It's 3 AM, I'm heading to bed........ thanks for the tip off.....sorry for the rant...thanks for making it this far :)

Cartoon of the week

If you don't get it, then piss off....but if you do....then laugh hysterically at the stupidity of the American government, wasting precious congressional meeting and voting time on deciding whether or not our criteria for a "planet" was clear enough...and if Pluto should be allowed to stay in our solar system... It's a rock...it doesn't give a shit...it's a giant ball of ice...and I kinda like Pluto...it's non-conformist....just look at it's orbit...it's always been the rebel, of course it's gonna catch all the shit :-)... ok...so...maybe I'm just a little off my rocker...but don't fuck with my astronomy, damn it...this is coming from the girl who wanted to work for NASA all the way through high school....and then I woke up......

"15 bucks, little man.... put that shit in my hand"

So.......I want these.....someone needs to find these for me.....ok....that's enough....just thought you all should know.

So, I'm a total girl... I bought my graduation dress last night. I can't copy the picture in here.....but her's the link if you wanna see it. I saw this and had to have it. It's polka dots!!!! ok...girly moment is over.
http://www.pacificplex.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=11K&Category_Code=D

TOP FIVE ATTACK!!!!!

Tonight.....it's my top 5 tentative locations for my first travel assignment. I applied to all of these travel companies and like everyone is making offers I CAN'T refuse (like, I will be making way more money than someone who pushes an xray button should be making....) But, I'm weighing out my options, and like always, I took out a piece of paper and thought out my TOP 5. So, as I laughed at myself... I folded up this piece of paper,placed it in my pocket, and now I'm using it to keep you all informed as to my complicated decisions. Any opinions are very welcome...please do..... with that said....here goes:
1. Northern California- This seems to be my first choice at the moment because of the pay rate. Like all travel agencies, they have paid housing and benefits, but this is also paying over $40/hour with extra call time and optional 8 hours of overtime a week.... it's also in a children's hospital which is where I want to end up anyway... I absolutelty LOVE working with kids and the neonates.....they are amazing.....
2. Houston, Texas- Texas would be a blast...pay is the upper 30's an hour and my whole family lives in Texas, around Houston. My grandmother, two aunts and uncles and all my cousins...so it would be nice to have them close for once in my life, if even for a few months.
3. Washington, D.C.- This is probably my last choice for location on the list here, but it has one really big perk. If I go to D.C., my friend Sasha will travel with me. So, I would have a buddy who is from DC who knows the area, the metrorail system, and all the surroundings...not to mention, who also has friends in the area and would proably make the social side of it much more interesting and fun.
4. London, England- Nuf said... all I need is a passport and I'm legal to work there for as long as I want. They pay travel expenses and all that, plus provide a "flat" in the city..... Only downside, you get paid 45/hour USD but the USD to the euro right now is about 50% so that's like 20/hr, plus, my whole point of traveling right now is to sock away some cash for a house....so if I go to europe right now, I'll spend every extra cent I have on sight seeing and travel. Also, they only do one year contracts, so I would have to commit to a year straight out of the gate.We'll see... they idea is amazing...but I think I might get a little homesick after a year.
5. Louisville, KY- It's close to home, I could live in B-town, and commute to louisville. Allowing myself an extra 1000 a month in "housing allowance" I would not be using because of the free rent at home. Downside...it's home.... it's living with my parents again.....and if I'm gonna travel, I should just travel....you know, see places I've never been, not go back to what I know. There are afew reasons I would find this satisfying though. I have spent the last two years in a "foreign" place and it is very nice to just be able to pick up the phone and call one of 50 people and find out where everyone is hanging out that night. Sometimes, just having people around is a nice comforting thing. Plus, if I didn't move back to daddy's..it might not be so bad....

I got a couple more weeks before I have to sign any contracts, so let me know..if it were you, what would you do?....I'm curious....

I made a resume tonight..... I think it turned out rather well..... well, as well as it can seeing as how I have absolutely no job experience for the field in which I am applying..... HaHa!!! so, I just thought you should know that I AM trying to eventually become a member of the working population and not just a collge student in between sucky fast food jobs trying to get through. I am offically graduated on September 29th!!!!! Woot Woot!!! and my awesome friend Bethany is coming down for my graduation! Isn't she the bestest????? Anyway, I'm rambling, and I'm fucking tired, so I'm gonna hit the sack. Oh, and everyone should wish my friend Timmay good luck since tomorrow he will be embarking on a new life. He is leaving me....damn him, ...and starting a new life, with much cooler Myspace-aquired friends, in Tennessee (did I spell that right?..I'm too tired to even spell check it....) good luck with new job, new apartment, new friends, and no furniture...I'm sure you'll do GREAT!!! Drive it Mexican style all the way, baby, and drive that Kia proudly!!! :-) ($10 bucks says you don't read this until after you've already made your grand adventure) HaHa good night everyone..... bed bugs and shit....

Bruce Plante is my man crush of the week for this hilarious toon from the Chatanooga Times.

Random Photo of the Week

Affirmative Action knows no bounds.....

.......I'm going to hell

NERD ALERT!!

I read a new book yesterday..No..I didn't start a book..I read the entire thing between midnight when I got home, and 4 pm the next day..... NERD ALERT!!! But it was really, REALLY good!!! It was called Confessions of a Memory Eater by Pagan Kennedy and I highly recommend it. It's loosely based on Thomas DeQuincey's Confessions of an English Opium Eater, only adds a little bit of Sci-Fi twist and it is, in fact, only fiction whereas DeQuincey's book is a first hand account of the effects of opium and his book created the opium epidemic in England in the 19th century.... the author took that theory, and twisted it into something so ingenious..... I loved it. The whole story when it was over had a very "Adaptation" feel to it for any Nicolas Cage fans out there that actually saw that movie and understood it. (Hint, if you thought it sucked....you should stick to films such as John Tucker Must Die). But honestly...read it... I emplore you to read it...it's like 200 pages, and if you are near to me, I'll even let you borrow it. I'll need collatteral though, my friend Alicia has it right now, and I have a shiny new silver bracelt of hers until she returns it...... I'm a cunt like that. :-)

Top Five Attack

I was thinking......yes, I was....... I was thinking that I always think about things in "top 10 lists". Example....I see something funny, I automatically say to myself, "Wow, that's got to rank in the top 5 funniest things I've ever seen." Or "God, this restaurant is definitely in my top ten" ...see what I mean, Vern? Yeah, so I decided, that's something that is undeniably ME...so why not incorporate it into a blog based solely on ME??? So, that's how the Top 5 Attack came to be...... and now....what to start you children out on for your first Attack ........hmmm... OH...I know!!! Sunday, I was working...ALL DAY.. and by all day I mean I put my Papa John's cartop on at 10 am and I finally took it off at 11:00..... P.M.!!! so, I spent ALOT of time in my car....and all day, I kept hearing these AWESOME random songs on Sirius and so, here ya go....

TOP 5 HAPPY-DANCE-IN-YOUR-CAR Songs

1. Everclear- Santa Monica Just the bass line at the beginning kicks it in.......nuf said....
2. R.E.M.- It's the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) I still know every word to this song... "That's great, it starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes and aeroplanes, Lenny Bruce is not afraid"
3. Rancid- Time Bomb I think the song is actually suppose to be sad and about a kid dealing drugs...but hey...the beat kicks ass.... "Black coat, white shoes, black hat, Cadillac, Yeah, the boy's a time bomb"
4. Barenaked Ladies-Grade Nine.... Anyone ever heard this song?......I love it....It's so upbeat, you just have the dance along in your car...."Went into the classroom and my knowledge was gone...I guess I should have studied 'stead of watching Wrath of Kahn" or "Went out for the football team to prove that I'm a man, guess I shouldn't tell 'em that I like Duran Duran"
5. The Marvellettes- Please Mr. Postman Who doesnt like a good ole Doo-wop every now and again...I don't know much about this song except that the three or four times I've heard it...I just sing along and am so content with my little existence in my Honda Civic.....I should have lived in the 40's and 50's.....I just adore poodle skirts...

Random Picture of the Day

If I could do this....I'd be alot more popular with the gentlemen.

I wanna be a gangster.

Not a gangster like 50 cent or Snoop, but a real gangster....like Don Corleone in the Godfather...... I just saw that movie for the first time the week and I think I could pull it off. I could be a damn good mobster. Except for the fact that I'm female and I'm not Italian..... but...those are just technicalities...... What a life.... all the money in the world, no law enforcement, royal treatment by everyone, and I'd even get to say cool things like, "Leave the gun, take the cannoli"

Idiot of the Day Award

I'm not sure "Grand Theft Stealing" will get you twenty years...and that's NO JOKE... however, I'm pretty sure someone found this in Seymour! HaHa What fucking morons..... they get the idiot of the day award, which I created just for them!!!

Stings Rays are cool...... in pictures.

As stated in the title, I like sting rays. They are very cool animals. The're graceful and peaceful, and most people would even say inquisitive and playful. Yeah....well, said "people" were not assaulted by one in the ocean at midnight last night either.....
Assaulted is a strong word...he didn't like feel me up under the water, which is more than I can say for some male friends of mine, but he did however, swim very, very close to me in the pitch black ocean water and proceded to give me a "nudge" as I'll call it.
My friend Rob warned me... he said, "Sting Ray,Sting Ray, look, it's swimming at you...." but he had also been screaming, "Shark! Shark! Out of the water!" all damn night, so ya know, the who wolf/boy story.... I didn't believe a word of it. So, I'm frollicking...as I do when I take my usual midnight trip to the ocean...and all of a sudden my hand hits something in the water....and it wasn't just water!!!!! I screamed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Rob and Alicia were already halfway to the shore by the time I turned back around to tell them, that there actually was a sting ray in the water, and it actually was trying to eat me. :-) So, I decided a beeline for the shore was in my best interest as well. Needless to say, we were all done for the evening. But, I did leave the beach with a war story...I had an altercation with a sting ray.... (which I text messaged to everyone in Indiana, and no one even so much as responded to see what the hell I was talking about except Jay who just called me back to say, "See, you shouldn't be swimming in the ATLANTIC OCEAN AT MIDNIGHT!!!!") Yeah, ...i know....but no one else is there....and it's cool, and the water's warm....too bad sharks come inland and feed at that time, and crabs think it's a swell time to start working their way through the sand, and the sting rays wanna molest you..... other than that... I like the beach at midnight!!!

Random Photo of the Day Winner

Even the turkey isn't safe....."Remember to always have your child spayed or neutered to help control the stupid tennager population."

Two things that should NEVER mix!!

Today, being the genius of a female I am, decided it was time to be a little more independent. To learn the trade of which only men dare to go.... I was going to work on my car. I learned how to change a tire a couple of months ago, and how to use a car jack, so naturally, I'm an expert of all things auto now.

This magical epiphany took place Tuesday, when I got up super early to take my car to get new brakes, it also needed new rotors, but I said screw it, we'll just try the pads and see how that works cuz I think I'm going to trade in my vehicle anyway. So, I went to school, and then to work, and on a delivery, I noticed that my front headlight had burned out. I thought, I'm sure it can't be too difficult to change a headlight, I mean, I'm sure if I just go into AutoZone the guy will pity me enough to just go grab the one I need anyway, so that's what I did. Oh, and I've went 77,000 miles without changing my air filter, so I decided that I'd just, ya know, pick one of those up too while I was in the neighborhood. (I don't even know where the air filter goes!!!) But by god, I'm a quick learner, I can figure this out!!! I'm on a fucking mission! Who needs men! Who needs 'em? I say fuck men, I can do this ON MY OWN!! Yeah....... that happened......NOT...... so....just for the girls reading this... this is a head light:

I was a little confused, 'cuz I always kinda figured a headlight would look kinda like a house light... ya know, screw in and be round and all that....so I was a little confused...but have no fear! I still have...AN OWNER"S MANUAL!!! which tells me that I will have to unhinge my battery holder thingy-mabob to give myself "room" to work. To me, I think that you should drop the engine to have room to work, cuz I have small midget hands and they were not too comfortable in the "work space provided" So, I followed instructions like a good little mechanic.. I twisted and pulled and pressed the tab and viola! it popped out..... so I throw it on the ground, grab the new bulb...(careful not the touch the actual bulb because that's what Fred at AutoZone told me) and I start to put it back in, only...it doesn't fit like the last one.... so I try..and try...and finally, I pull it back out....I grab the old bulb from off of the ground, and compare it to the new bulb. The old one says 9005...the new one says 9006..... well, shit...there's the problem, doofus gave me the wrong bulb!!!
So, here I go, greasy and dirty as hell, sweating my ass off, cuz need I remind you, I live in FLORIDA, in my car to go across the street to autozone.... I'm actually thinkin' I'm kinda cool, ya know, a chick all dirty from working on her car....yeah, that lasted 2 seconds until i go to the counter and explain the situation... "Ezio" is standing behind the counter and I explain I'd like the pick up the RIGHT headlight for my car, since Fred gave me the wrong one....

(You guys reading this know EXACTLY what's coming........ but wait for it....)

Ezio asks very calmly and politely, "Is it your low beam or your high beam?" Low beam..... OK, "Well, that bulb you pulled out, that's your high beam....you need to put that back in...and then look farther to the side of the car, there will be another bulb, that's the one you need to replace"............ yeah......real good......smooth move....... I REMOVED THE WRONG LIGHT!!! and then went on the accuse the AUTOZONE GUY of fucking it up!!!! JESUS!!!

Oh... but the fun doesn't end there, OH NO!! I go home, frustrated and completely embarrassed, by this, and replace the CORRECT bulb, which by the way, makes the other area look like the grand canyon, this was a very, very tight spot in a Honda Civic....but I succeeded, so I replace the high beam I so brazenly removed, and go to test her out before replacing the battery thingy. But much to my shock, my HIGH BEAM not longer works!!!!! I broke the good bulb!!!!! So, back I go, to AutoZone...... I go to the aisle, I pick up the 9005 I need, I go the counter, and Ezio, noticing the complete look of defeat in my eyes, says, " Ya know, if ya want, just pull your car up here and I'll replace it for you." Are you kidding me??? Do I look that pathetic, the car guy is offering to replace it for me, instead of watching the pain and anger I'm going through????? No.....I say, absolutely not.... I'm on a quest and I will do this the right way...ON MY OWN!!!!! He chuckles at me and runs my debit card...and as I leave, says "Let me know how this works out" I reply..." OH, you ain't seen nothing yet... I bought an air filter too and that's next up after I get this headlight in......"

So, after all that, my headlights are working fine...both high and low beams...but I spent 30 minutes looking through my owner's manual and under my hood for my air filter....I still don't know where that is...I don't think Honda's have them... I'm convinced but I gave up... I've conceded to the fact that I am not a car girl. I will stick to softball, health care, trivia games, and Kevin Smith movies..... those are the subjects that I know and I think at 22 I'm just too damn old to learn words like DOHC, bearings, calipers.....I don't have the brain capacity left. I wasted it all on learning every word to Dr. Dre 2001 :-) HaHa So to summarize:

FEMALE + CAR = BIG FUCKING EXPLOSION!!!!

I'm done, I no longer have the drive to do this on my own..I need a good guy that'll just say, here honey, let me do that for you....no, it's ok if your brakes are grinding when you stop, I'll fix them tomorrow.. Oh, you went 9,000 miles without an oil change...that's no biggie, I'll take care of it.... Sure I'll replace your windshield wiperblades, they look like they need it.... HaHa But alas, there is no magic dream guy here, and if there was, I'm sure he'd just tell me to take it to JiffyLube anyway!!! But damn it, a girl can dream.... Hope your night went better than mine... love y'all....

Priceless photo of the Day

I couldn't resist... I just couldn't...so here ya go....

So what did we learn here today, kids? That messing with police officers is funny shit....

Cartoon of the week

I am overly amused by cartoons, especially political cartoons, but basically anything animated, so, for your viewing pleasure, I give you my first liberal political post.

Enjoy.

Hello everyone! Here I am again.... trying my hardest to become one of those super-cool blogging types. I am insanely jealous of serial bloggers, like my friend Gigi.... she is the QUEEN of this shit...she's amazing...you really should see the empire of data she's collected. Again, insanely jealous...so they say that imitation is the greatest form of flattery... I hope so...because I'm taking quite a few tips from good ol' Gigi, so no one can say I never gave credit where credit is due.
So where to begin.....how about TODAY.... or actually, I think I'll start with how this epiphany of blogging genius came to be.... I was on my computer, deleting history and cache and all that, ya know, the semi-annual clean-up so that you can google somewhat faster than a snail shits, and saw this bookmark to my last attempted blog... I named it 5th degree monotony, a word play off of a great local band here in Florida, it had one entry.. (I told you, I'm horrible....) So, I start reading, it's from like 6 months ago, and to my surprise, I was in exactly the same spot I'm in now. I had just returned from a short vacation back home to Indiana and the blog was a reflection of my trip, and apparently of some frustration involving a boy.... said boy will probably read this...so in advance I apologize...but I thought I'd copy it in here before I delete it from the blogger database. In hindsight now I know I was reading way to much into these events and poeple, but I thought it was a damn good entry, and one that should be included if for no other reason than the nostalgic factor it has.
So, in it's entirety, with names removed as not to piss anyone off, here was what I decided was worthwhile enough to start a blog about 6 months ago:

I can't really tell you what made me decide to start a weblog, but
something about it appeals to me. As it does to countless of other thousands of
people. But what though, why would we record our innermost thoughts in the most public place possible? Maybe it's the thought that others might care about what we have to say...our opinions, our problems, or complicated lives or maybe it's just so it WILL get read by someone. I think that I'm in the latter catagory, a
journal or diary never appealed to me, why would I take the time to write down
my thoughts...for only myself? But this...this is different, there is always the
possibility that someone somewhere might see this and relate or completely
disagree. So that being said, I'll begin my first entry.

I just got back from Indiana this morning. Called in to my clinicals today to catch up on some sleep that I missed this weekend. I went home on a whim. I got a conference call from about 15 of my friends one night a couple of weeks ago, saying that there was a big party planned on "the hill" so I took the weekend off of work, filled up my tank in Boca Raton, and headed north on Thursday afternoon. I had a good time, saw people that I never get to see, and some that I never cared to see at all. But doesn't everyone have that one place that will always be "home"...no matter how long it's been since you've been there, no matter how many other houses and apartments you've lived in, it just doesn't have the same feeling as "home" does. I'm realizing this the more I'm away, the more times I return just to leave again, it seems to intensify every time. It seems that I miss it more, instead of it slowly fading away like one would imagine it would. Memories
fade...people you never keep in touch with fade...but why then can I distinctly
place the smell of the woods around that house...the sounds of every animal and
the tractors in the distance? Shouldn't that fade like other memories? It's just
strange....So, anyway, I saw everyone except for the one person that I was
anticipating. I was disappointed I didn't see . In fact, more than
disapointed, I was considering not even going home when he told me that he
wasn't going to get to see me, but inside I was just hoping that I would at
least get a few minutes alone with him. I was wrong...In fact, I didn't even get
a phone call the entire weekend, not on the drive up, not on Friday night, not
on Saturday, not until I was driving home yesterday, he called. Not that he has
an obligation to me...and not to sound like a typical girl when I say I was
waiting on his call, because I'm really not like that, but it was just the fact
that it's him.....he does something wierd to my brain. I actually care about
seeing him, I start going crazy when I haven't talked to him in a couple of
weeks, I feel like a can connect with him differently than anyone else in my life. I've dated people in the past that haven't meant this much to me, so I can't help but feel
there could be soo much there. I'm not sure what to think about us...I'm stupified
honestly. The one thing I've always prided myself on is my level-headed
thinking, and that I could see the truth and I never fell for the guy tricks,
and I never read more into things than what was there, but here...he's got my
number, he's stumped me. I believe that if I still lived in Indiana, that we
would have at least tried dating, I honestly do. However, I'm in Florida, and he's at home. I'm in school here and he's got job there there, end of story. But this
in-between-dating-in-between-friends thing is confusing. I've never played this
game before, I should have asked for the rulebook before the game started. In a
semi-dating relationship (which is what I'll call intermittent sex for lack of better
terminology) is it OK to ask if they're seeing other people?...or is it off
limits?...Can you ask then who else they've been with?, what about phone
calls?...if the person is 5 states away and phone or internet is your only means
of conversation, how long is acceptable before another call, what's too short,
what's too long? And do I have a right to be upset if I drive 15 hours straight
for a weekend and they have Search and Rescue Training that they forgot about
til 2 days before you come? I just want to be somewhat of a priority to him. He
can tell me or other people he likes me all day long, but until I feel
I'm a priority, I'm going to question it. I really have no right to act like
this at all. I'm the one who suggested taking it one weekend at a time, when I
was home because Florida was a long way away. Now, I'm afraid saying anything, afraid to screw up what is happening now, because I'd rather have this than nothing, so I think I'm just more confused with myself than him....I have to
know what I want before I can know what he wants. I think my next entry will be a rulebook for dating me. Maybe if I take the time to write out the things that I
want in a relationship, the things that DO matter to me, maybe I'll see myself
in a different light. I've had David Gray on repeat this entire time I've been
writing, and I love the lyrics, so I posted them, and for anyone who's never
heard this song...you don't know what you're missing.

This year's love had better last
Heaven knows it's high tide
I've been waiting on my own too long
When ya hold me like you do
It feels so right I start to forget
How my heart gets torn
When that hurt gets thrown
Feeling like ya can't go on
Turning circles and time again
It cut like a knife oh now
If ya love me, got to know for sure
Cause it takes something
more this time
Than sweet, sweet lies
Before I open up my arms and fall
Losing all control
Every dream inside my soul
When ya kiss me
On that midnight street
Sweep me off my feet
Singing ain't this life so sweet
This year's love had better last
This year's love had better last
Cause who's to worry If our hearts get torn
When that hurt gets thrown
Don't ya know this life goes on
Won't ya kiss me
On that midnight street
Sweep me off my feet
Singing ain't this life so sweet
This year's love had better last

So.....after reading that, I decidedto give this another try... I whole hearted try. Who knows, maybe the next entry will be a rulebook....that could be interesting.... but I'd like to keep this blog away from the dating side of my life....that could get frightening and catty...so let's DON'T and say we DID, and skip the intimate details....agreed?...Good! So, same bat time, same bat channel tomorrow. I anyone under the sun gives this a read, I'd love to know!