a little more slowly please...

alright so i hadn't gotten around to posting on my birthday yet. haven't quite found the time really. it was fun. i was quite pleased with the turnout of attendance. we stayed at the essen haus for a couple hours. started with a boot, then scott decided we needed to do steins... um... my fucking god... 5L of beer. we did two. i thought we only did 2 boots, i'm told there where at least 4. so if anyone is not doing the math, that is 18L of beer consumed by about 12 people... egads

after the last boot was consumed, and bills paid (there's still some confusion to this as they lost my initial tab for the boot, and they kept my check card, must go get that back) we trudged up to the Dane. lost scott along the way (we noticed him talking up some chick at the cardinal *snicker*) but he reappeared later. i manged to piss off the snotty bartender by ordering a sampler. yes i know they're a pain in the ass to pour, but the $10 tip i gave him should have made it well worth it... prick.

had me a good time. drank waaaay too much fucking beer. then the shots where probably a bad idea, but meh. went back to my place, attempted to play guitar hero and then passed the fuck out.

sunday was a miserable horrible morning. i needed to die. spent the first few hours tyring to force myself to vomit out the toxins. then i napped. woke up to a kitty curled up in my shoulder and a trevor curled up by my legs. talk about adorable. and, thank fucking god, i felt better.

flamestar_m hung around for the majority of the day (she was also battling the hang-over from hell). i watched trevor play some x-men on the ps2 and ate pizza rolls (mmm... greasy pizza rolls are the cure-all). in the evening we dropped flamestar_m at her car, had dinner at perkins and then rented x-men and x-men 2 (since someone had not seen them yet) and called it a lazy movie night.

it turned out to be a very very nice way to spend my birthday. i was pleased.

now i have work today and for half of tomorrow. but! i get to sleep in for the rest of the week! yay sleeping in! i decided that since i have a dentist appointment at 11am tomorrow that instead of taking my half day in the afternoon that i would sleep in, go to the dentist and then go to work. which works out nicely since there is a run in WoW tonight. so i can stay up however late i want. and trevor is happy because he doesn't get woken up at 6am when the alarm goes off. ;)

thursday i have an early appointment to get my taxes done. i'm thinking, that after i find out what the actual and final damage will be, i'm going to go car browsing. i don't say shopping because i still have a few things i need to figure out (like the apartment issue) but i want a better idea of what i can get, if i can even get a loan and i want to talk to my insurance agent about cost of insurance on a few choice vehicles.

other than that. i have time off and no real plans. this makes me so very happy. now to jsut get through the rest of today...

had a tasty lunch with jkivela, rilawik and my sister. went to edo's wehre shannon and i got nummy teriyaki chicken. never had it served on a sizzling skillet before. nummy. we also sat in one of the private rooms. it was very nifty.

shannon and i did some light shopping. i didn't really buy anything, just a couple necessities on my list. however, they apparently don't sell the filters for our vaccuum cleaner anymore. durr. and this is bad as the spongy thing is really getting beat up and should be replaced. but neither target nor shopko had them. *grumbles*

home now. hanging out until mj gets home and then need ot figure out what's up from there. free time is neat! (though not terribly condusive to bill paying)

so as mj was leaving to meet his mom for lunch, i remembered that i needed to unbury my car from the parking lot. see this complex(like many others) has a 24 hour rule for heavy snow fall. you have 24 hours to move your car, following the end of a snow storm, so that the lot can be plowed.

what pisses me off about this is that i've been on the wait list for an underground parking stall since th beginning of winter. and i haven't gotten one yet. what pisses me off more is that there are at least 2 (if not 3) empty stalls on our side of the garage. that's 2 (3) stalls that never have a car in them. i could have one of these. there's no reason i should not be parking in one of these nice, empty, snow free stalls.

instead, i tomp out to my car to find it buried under 9 inches of snow, with snow plowed up to the bumper and bright yellow violation notice. now this notice is just a warning, stating that if it's not moved by noon friday the 17th it will be ticketed and towed. good thing it's 11 right? so i look at my poor, buried car and realize two things... 1. the snow at the bumper is higher than my bumper and 2. i don't own a shovel.

so i start the car up and proceed to unbury it. i get this done, i reasses the situation and then i thank god that i drive a manual. i managed to rock that bitch out and get her moved into a new stall in under 2 minutes. ;) yeah. i rock. i felt i should help some of the jackasses while they tried to hit the gas and gun it out, only getting it buried deeper. but alas... i was gold and it was too amusing... am i mean? probably. is it worth it? most definately.

well anyways. car is safely moved to an already plowed stall. when mj gets back from lunch we're going to go to the bank and then do some grocery shopping. yay groceries!!! then it's off to work for me!

so after leaving work early i went over to matc to pay my $100 deferment bill and pick up my first set of books.

bill paid, no issue.

books... well i find the books for both html and flash. i decided to pass on the books for dynamic and flash since i don't need them until the last week of october. go over to the graphic arts section for my books for intro to comp graphics and find that it's completely unlabled. there's about a dozen large, scary priced looking books there, but no idea which ones i need. i ask and they say that the teach for that class hasn't released a book list to them yet. wtf. classes start in less than two weeks and there's no book list? so i have to call next week to see if it's in.

well, while paying for my one book (a slender little thing that costs $30. yay textbooks!) the girl hands me a campus starter pack. i'm accostomed to these things, they where waiting for us at the start of every year in dorm land. in platteville it was filled with stuff like razor and shaving gel, tampons, toothbrush, toothpaste, coupons for local stores, you get the idea. well i didn't look in this one, but instead just walked away because i'm too damn nice to tell them to keep it i've been buying my own tampons for quite some time. while i'm walking out i spot the boys pack. yeah. they get fucking stewing from freaking family guy and a bunch of funny ass quotes. what's mine? reese witherspoon and adverts for her upcoming movie.

bastards.

fine whatever. i get home and open it up... wtf do they think girls need these days? i have here a trial tube of perfume, lipstick, body gel with glitter and 3 types of moisturizer and a pack of ramen (i can't fault them for the ramen). so wtf. i feel like calling and asking "is the boys pack full of axe cologne, hair gel and an underwear sock?"

*sigh*

i'm too damn cynical for this world anymore. i really think i am.

i forgot my lunch today. and with everyone out, i doubt anyone will be going out to lunch... >sigh< stupid. i had every intention of grabbing it too... that's what i get for goofing off and rushing out at the last minute...

>tummy grumbles<

guess i'll just go somewhere by myself. strangly enough, i kind of want taco bell... maybe i'll go to the mall for lunch...

we can work a 4 1/2 day work week. i had asked, months ago, that when we get all the new people if i can have half days on fridays as there would be severl people to cover my absense. i was told no, there was still too many people with half days of fridays.

fine, wasn't that important anyways.

then i found out that one of the new people was allowed to take their half day on fridays...

fine. i was pissed as hell but i delt, again, not a big deal.

our new temp started monday. guess which half day she's taking. (please note that when i was a temp i was ineligble for half days, so that's two things i'm confused about)

blythe is a complete idiot and now knows who dies!

thank you. i'll be here all night.

(ps i don't have my copy of the book yet either so it's doubly annoying.)

(pps did i ever mention how much i HATE reading spoilers. seriously ruins everything for me, yet i saw it... quite by accident, i think i knew better, but i saw it none the less)

i stopped at pdq this morning to grab some cash and coffee. go to the atm machine and it tells me i don't have enough funds. huh?! i'm asking for $40. there should be $600 as it is payday. so i'm sitting there asking myself "it is friday right?" "it is payday?" "where's my paycheck?" so i leave with no cash and no coffee... i jump online as soon as i get to work and there's my money. at home in my bank like it should be. so wtf? did i just catch it like 2 minutes before it went in? usually it's there right away...

>grumble<

anywho. yeah. i'm tired, crabby and stuck doing app entry at work today. i'll head down to the c-store in the minute and get the fucking awful shite they refer to as coffee just to get some caffeine in me... but really people... grr...