it's days like these that keep me on my winning streak

I left work about two hours early. And it still took me 2 hours and 15 mins to get home. Not the worst drive home ever, but close. Yeech. Then I almost didn't make it up the driveway into my apartment complex because it hasn't been plowed yet. I actually had to reverse back down the drive, into the street, into the drive for the community college across the street and gun it forward. Success!

Don't go out if you don't have to, folks.

Plus, I was getting like a Twitter text every minute or so and it was so annoying I actually shut my phone off. Some of you are chatty! (although I'm very guilty about being pretty twitter-chatty today too)

In other news, I love my hair SO MUCH. I think it's my favorite color ever. I kept leaning forward at my desk so it would fall in my face and I could look at it. ♥

And now for a nice evening of not leaving the house. =)

How often does it happen that some jerkwad runs a red light right in front of you but there just happens to be a cop on the other side of the intersection who then flips on his lights and goes after the guy? Not very often, right? But it did indeed happen to me on Saturday. I giggled about it a lot. Moron.

My grandma is pretty sick and while I don't want to say I don't care...I'm more worried about Riley, who is also not doing so great. Riley is, of course, my dog. But my grandma and I have never been close. She's not very loving or lovable. In fact, she's pretty crabby & mean. But Riley & I love each other. (not like that, you perv) It's hard to know that we'll have to put him down soon, but he's getting first class care until then. We've all decided that we'll do everything we can to make him comfortable for now. Not that grandma's not being taken care of, but I guess I'm just not as concerned. That probably makes me a horrible person, but oh well. I can't change how I feel.

I have no idea where I was going with that...

To do today:
- Stop by the Sprawl of America to go to the Lindt store
- Go to Borders to use 'all CDs for $10.99' coupon
- Stop by Best Buy(?) to buy a new mouse to replace my old one that finally died
- Hit Wal-Mart to get more Aleve
- Finish Christmas cards
- LAUNDRY
- Renew SendSpace Max

Hooray! I can turn my head today! There's definitely still something wrong with my neck, but it's not crippling painful anymore. Driving was kind of complicated without not being able to look behind me.

I would rant about traffic and people and how much I hate them, but I don't have the energy. I'll just say that my almost new car has a huge chip in the paint from a rock, a ding in the windshield from another rock and SOME FUCKING MORON SWIPED MY BUMPER AND IT IS NOW SCRATCHED UP AND MISSING PAINT. It either happened at my apartment or at Hallmark and I am VERY MUCH NOT HAPPY.

*ahem*

The Will.i.am CD is horrible. Yeah, I know. What was I expecting? But it's even worse than that. =/

f_o_n_y gave me a list for the interest meme. Five of them are actually tied together.

celebreality
Oh VH1! How I adore you and your cheesy, addicting Celebreality TV shows! What would I do on Sundays if I didn't have Rock of Love and Flavor of Love and My Fair Brady and Surreal Life to watch? They also have one of the best blogs around, which I created an lj feed for: vh1celebreality

Sven Sundgaard
I'm kind of a news junkie. And on March 10th, 2006 (yes, I remember the exact day) KARE-11 introduced their new weather guy, the adorably elfin Sven Sundgaard. I was immediately smitten! How can you not adore someone named Sven? It became my life's goal to meet him, which finally happened at the State Fair on my birthday this year. Sven has a blog too, which I also created a feed for: svens_blog

it's just a ride
The other five interests jenni gave me all have to do with brilliant comedian Bill Hicks. "It's Just a Ride" is the title of the documentary that was produced about Bill's life after he died from pancreatic cancer in 1994. But it's really a philosophy that Bill would try to teach at his shows.

"The world is like a ride at an amusement park, and when you choose to go on it, you think it's real, because that's how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round and it has thrills and chills and it's very brightly colored and it's very loud. And it's fun, for a while."

( more of this long Hicksian quote behind the cut )

illuminate the collective unconscious
Bill's shows were just as much of a preaching session as they were about comedy bits. He often talked about how the human race was making itself dumber as a whole by watching things like American Gladiators and listening to people like Rush Limbaugh. He preached about trying to wake people up and making them realize that we need to better ourselves and make ourselves smarter so that we can move forward as a whole race.

squeegee your third eye
This is kind of the same concept as illuminating the collective unconscious. Clearing your mind (with or without the use of drugs), removing the haze put over us by the media and the government and seeing the world how it really is through your third eye.

people who hate people
One of my favorite Hicks bits is about creating a new political party, the People Who Hate People Party. They're having a little trouble getting together though. "People Who Hate People! Come together!" "NO!" *snicker*

Beelzebozo
Bill had a bit of an alter-ego that would come out during his shows, Beelzebozo. The satanic comic. He was pretty crude and rude and fucking hilarious.

FUCK!!

That is my official assessment of today. When I tell you that I absolutely DO NOT have any free time to work on any more projects this week, do not say "okay, but I need you to do this anyways." It's not even remotely my fucking job to do it anyways! AUGH!!!

Sadly, I still have the enjoyment of working at Hallmark tonight to look forward to. *headdesk*

Oh, and I've come up with a fab invention. You push a button on your car and a HUGE horn blares and a sign with big flashing lights appears that says "Move the fuck out of the left lane, asshole!" The text will be flipped, of course, so that the idiot in front of you will be able to read it in their rearview mirror. It's genius. I'm sure I'll make millions. Anyone want to invest??

We've suddenly gone from scorching summer to early fall in the matter of a day. I fell asleep with my bedroom window open and a fan on and it was freezing in there when I woke up. Heavenly! I actually dug out a sweater to wear to work today.

So, apparently I'm a huge bitch. My mother called me last night and said my aunt wanted to know if I could find out if B&N had the books on my cousin's summer reading list. Now, when I, you know, worked at the bookstore, this was fine. I'd grab whatever books they needed and get them my discount. But I don't work there anymore, so I'm not sure why I needed to be part of this transaction, since I couldn't really help. I told my mom that all I could do was call and see if they had the books, and my aunt (or better yet, my cousin) could do that herself. My mom got really huffy and I just got more confused as to why it was my responsibility to help my cousin get her summer reading list. Finally, my mom just said "Fine! I'll tell her you won't do it!" in that "you're an ungrateful bitch" voice that she can do so well, and hung up. Was I wrong? Why should I sit on the phone and rattle off names of books for someone to look up? It's not my reading list, or my kid.

Did anyone watch RAW last night? I completely forgot about it, since I'm not used to watching it anymore. CM Punk implied that he'd be making his debut, but I didn't see him mentioned in the report I glanced at. Maybe he's going to be on Smackdown instead. I guess I'm going to have to pay more attention to this stuff.

This day has started out badly. I nearly got clipped by some asshat who suddenly needed to be in my lane, nevermind that my car was already there. Now my CD player has decided not to work. This is bad. And they've somehow configured the WMP on our computers so it doesn't output any sound. I think my Yahoo! Launch player still works, at least. It's going to be a very, very long day.