so i'm sitting here in my office bored off of my ass and i'm listening to Hair of the Dog. and of course, my one boss walks in when "I Used to Work in Chicago" was on. And I didn't want to change it really quick, because that just about screams "i'm listening to slightly inappropriate music!" so I just left it on figuring maybe he wouldn't notice. but of course he was in here for longer than he usually is, and he heard the last verse "a man and his wife/came in for a WWII german fighting airplane/what kind of plane said I?/Fauhker she said/And Fauhker I did!/And I can never go back anymore..." I turned bright red, but he wasn't looking at me, so I thought, maybe he didn't notice, or maybe he just won't say anything, but of course luck was not with me. as he was leaving my office he said, "that's some funky music you've got playing there" and i stammered something like, "yeah, um, it's, ah, Irish drinking music..." That was just too embarrassing... how do I always end up in situations like that? at least i wasn't listening to puddle of mud (she hates me or smack my ass) which are also on this disc... why couldn't he have walked in when some of Hair of the Dog's more traditional stuff was playing? I suck. I am just so professional...

so i just wrote an email to beck detailing how my week will go next week. it was so boring. i think i'm going to run away and join a circus or something. i could be... um... i don't know. i couldn't be a tightrope walker (i had extreme difficulties crossing a fallen tree over a stream in beck's backyard last week) and i really don't see myself on a trapeze (yeah, I'm terrified of heights...). I couldn't be like an elephant trainer or anything because very large animals freak the shit out of me. and yeah. no. i couldn't be a clown either... they're just so freaky. i hate sad clowns. i want to punch them. ok. so i'm not going to join the circus if i run away. oh! i know, i'll be a roady for some kickass band. I don't really know what band though... Beck and I were going to be roadies for Aerosmith after high school, but we decided to go to college instead (what were we thinking?)...

so i added a little pull down menu on the left there to get to my different photo albums... please let me know if that doesn't work right! it always works for me, but I'm the owner of those albums, so i'm never sure if it's letting me see them without issue because i have the link right or because i'm the owner... beyond a color change (when i stop being lazy) i think that's the last thing i'm changing/adding to the site for a while... unless i find some really cool little script that i can't pass up... :)

"you're never too old to burn to death in a fire" - Red, "That 70's Show"
so my smoke detector sucks. It's way too sensitive. nothing is even burning and the freaking thing goes off. i think it responds to hot air. everytime i use my oven the freaking thing starts beeping. and it's so loud, everyone in the building can hear it. they must all think, "that weird girl that runs all over her apartment all the time is trying to cook again." I'm not a bad cook! anyway... so i freaking took it off the wall because it sucks. so now i'm probably going to burn to death. suck.

so yay! I'm getting this site a little better... I've added some tiny blogs at the top corners: *random thought* and *random link*... let's see how long they last! I bet i never update them... maybe i will... beh. anyway. so we're still green. idunno. maybe now that i've got the javascript working that i was freaking being dumb about so it took me all afternoon (dammit, i can be such a dumbass sometimes. i hate it when i make it harder than it has to be...) i'll get to the colors... the thing is, i'm so obsessed with green rightnow (it just looks so pretty to me) that i'm really diggin' the site. and the text is so much more visable... and changing the colors requires thought. beh. i don't want to think. so i downloaded Hair of the Dog singing "sweet caroline" last night and it is just the most perfect song. i could listen to it always. and that means that i probably will for about a week and a half and then move onto something else. anyway. the song just really makes me want to be out. dammit. why am i not out right now? why do i spend all of my time in front of my computer, fucking around with my webpage? oh yeah, that's because i'm a dork. well, at least i'm a cute dork ;)

ok. i'm sticking with the green for right now. but i think i'm changing it to red and blue, because those aren't "fad colors" for me (in other words, i've liked them a lot for a while and i won't be completely obsessed with them for a month and then jump to something else like with pink... and green...).
the green is just too "st. patrick-y"... Becky was being too nice when she said "not bad, just very festive." so it's going... just as soon as i get motivated to change... the top corners look very naked now. i'm not sure what i'll do about that... they may stay naked, or i might end up sticking something back up there. i dunno. (or, as Ms. Kindl would say, "AH don't know!")

well. i'm really not sold on this green. i'm having this thing for green lately, but this is just too much i think. otherwise, i'm happy with the way it's turning out. i have to fix a few more things. i'll probably do that tonight instead of going to bed early because it'll bother me if i don't... i really need to fix these colors, but i don't know what i want... beh...

So I keep thinking that I want to revamp my site. But then I really think about it, and I'm happy with the layout... I've moved/added links and I'm pretty sure I'm going to change the colors, but for now the layout stays the same... I've also removed the pic at the top left corner and replaced it with a quote... not so big on graphics right now... in fact, sometimes the webcam pisses me off... it may go soon. i dunno... comments, questions or suggestions? leave 'em below or email/im me... :)
also, does this kinda look like a little girl with pigtails (and with no nose, mouth or arms) if you tilt your head to the left? i think it does... }(:)<)=

So, I've suddenly decided that my friend Carrie should definately have a blog. She has a marvelous command of the English language and people who can speak and write well are always worth reading, even when they are simply saying that they are bored. Carrie can really tell it like it is, and she should. Her blog could be "Carrie tells it like it is" or something like that. She could post her clip of Michael Keaton (yes, Batman) on her voicemail at work saying her name... Who else has that? I'd link to her. I'll have to remember to tell her to make a blog..

people from PA are gross. they eat this stuff and this stuff among other really gross things...
hmm... wait... grammar question: would it be "this and that among other things" or "this and that amongst other things"? I'm now thinking that it's amongst. sounds better. maybe it would be "this among other things" but "this and that amongst other things" because it should be among when singular and amongst when plural. yeah. i'm gonna go with that. if you know the real rule, please inform me as i for some reason really want to know. i have the means of finding this information out for myself (i've got a few excellent grammar books and the whole internet) but i'd really just rather wait for the info to come to me. i'm lazy.

"The inside creamy part stays cool, while the outside is warm" That article just about makes me want to die... (thanks for the link beck!)

so random-guy-hit-on-me week continues... I met Amy and Carrie for lunch at the Metro 50 diner outside of Crossgates (we'd never been there before, and Carrie wanted to try it out because it's shiny [it's covered in chrome]) and there was a fire truck outside with its ladder extended. I guess one of the local fire companies was promoting halloween safety or something. Anyway, so they had some guy walking around in a dalmation suit and he came inside the diner a couple times and was kind of barking which kind of made me want to be hysterical. So when we left Carrie and Amy's car was right near the truck so we walked in that direction and I was standing there talking to Carrie and looking at the truck. I got out my cell phone and returned a call to Beck to see what she was up to, and the firemen and the guy in the dog suit were kinda making fun of me because I was on the phone. The dalmation pulled out a cellphone and pretended to talk on it, and then he came up to me and put his arm around me and continued to pretend to talk on his cellphone... I wish someone had a camera, it was too funny. So anyways, before I left, I went over to the truck and asked if I could have a hat, and they gave one to me. So now I'm a "Westmere fire district Junior Cheif" :) I wanted to climb the ladder, but I didn't ask because I didn't think they'd let me... That and if I did climb up to the top I'd probably freak out and have to have someone come and help me down...

so yesterday we (becky, kelly, michelle and I) went to Pizzaria Uno's at Crossgates for lunch. We ordered 2 pizzas to share: a tomato and cheese and a spinoccoli (spinach and broccoli). It was too much pizza for us so we had most of the spinoccoli pizza left over. When the waiter came to drop off the bill and ask us if we wanted to have the pizza boxed, everyone kind of looked at each other to see if some one wanted it... They all kinda said no, and someone said something about putting it in my car while we shopped and I said, "No thanks, it would smell like ass." And the waiter kind of got this weird look on his face and took the pizza away. I said that it would smell like ass because it would. Anything with broccoli in it, while it may taste good, would smell like ass (and make your car smell like ass) if you left it in your car for hours and I really didn't want to smell it because I was hungover and already not feeling so great. So we figured out how much we owed, and then suddenly the waiter returned with the manager and she said, "let me see your check" and she took it from beck and said that they were taking the spinoccoli pizza off of the bill because we didn't like it. We were all shocked, and then we started protesting saying that we did like it, and the waiter looked at me and said, "well, i overheard your comment about how it would smell..." and I almost died. I said, "anything with broccoli would!" and tried to let them know that we did like the pizza and that it was unnecessary to take it off the bill. But they weren't hearing it, and the manager said, "yeah, it's always going to smell like that, so just don't order it again" and walked away with the check. The waiter returned a few minutes later with our new edited bill... i was so embarrassed, that pizza was like $13 and I never said that I didn't like it, in fact, I didn't even eat any of it! We left him a big tip... I can't believe that they insisted on removing it from the bill... I just can't figure out why he did that...

So has anyone ever heard the expression, "the whole thing from soup to nuts"? I was sitting in class Wednesday night, bored out of my mind and staring off into space, when I heard my prof say, "It was the whole thing, from soup to nuts." I immediately looked up with an odd look on my face. First of all, I heard "soupy nuts" which is gross, and I almost started laughing right away when I realized that she said "soup to nuts." Then the girl next to me said, "yeah, I've never heard that expression either, but I think it means when you have dinner you'd start with soup..." and I'm thinking, "and end with nuts?" The whole thing was just too odd for me, and frankly I guess I'm not that mature, because I couldn't help but want to laugh. So I had to sit there for ten minutes trying to supress a giggling fit. I just kept thinking "nuts?" You end dinner with nuts? And, you know, in what sense of the word? God, I'm so immature. Whatever... I just couldn't help it. So later on, during a break, this guy that I'd never talked to before from my class who looks German to me because he looks Aryan (and kind of reminds me of Billy Idol) came up to me and said, "So, what got you laughing so much about 'soup to nuts'?" I was hella embarrassed... I'd never talked to this kid before and he comes up to me and asks me about nuts... I said, "Well, you know... I'd never heard that expression before, and I was thinking... Uh, you don't want to know what I was thinking..." and he laughed and said that sometimes he starts laughing to himself in class and can't stop either. I told him that I was so glad that I'm not the only one that it happens to, and that it happens to me all the time and he laughed. I was just so embarrassed though that someone caught me, and then asked me about it...