Not Your Average Jane
Sunday, January 29, 2006
What a weekend I’ve had… Starting with Thursday at the Firehouse and ending a few hours ago at Tila’s… Thursday I was at the Firehouse with Richelle… Oh my was I… What is it with us and attracting random guys? I guess it’s a good thing they’re not weird, old, perverted idiots… Yeah that’s definitely a good thing I’m thinking… Anyway so we were drinking and spinning on the stools and a group of guys behind us sort of gets absorbed into our group (is 2 technically a group?) over time… It started with one of them asking me who Ryan Adams was… And it didn’t end till they left for Woodrows, I left for home and Richelle went to Knuckleheads… A couple of em even got up and did a few songs… There was Mike, Josh and Josh’s brother, whose name I can’t remember… And I think if I remember correctly Mike and Josh were seniors at U of H… Lil young but adorable… Josh’s brother knew who Wayne Mills and Adam Hood were… So I was impressed… So Friday I did some job hunting and slept late… Linz called and I wound up going to the movies with her and Baby… We went to see Nanny McPhee (and Colin Firth is still one sexy man) and then we went to La Madeleine for dinner… Saturday… Didn’t do too much during the day… It was raining so I wasn’t really encouraged to do anything… Plus I slept like 3 hours Friday night (went to bed at about 1 and woke up at 3:30 and couldn’t go back to bed…)It finally quit raining and I went to the store for mom and to Office Depot… Big time fun I tell ya… So anyway Saturday night I go to the Firehouse to see Mark Miller… I heart that boy mucho… And he’s easy on the eyes… Muy caliente… ;0) And such a doll to boot… Darn him for being such a goodlooking nice guy… hehehe… Oh… And my cousin Flint called me… 1st song of the night and I feel my phone vibrate in my pocket and I’m thinking my text message thing is going off… I take out the phone and flip it open and see it says connecting with a 3 0 something area code… I’m like who the hell is calling me on a Saturday night, so I go outside so I can hear whoever’s talking… I get a hello, Alison… I’m like ok…. Hi… He asks do you know who this is? I’m like no (that’s the quickest way to irritate me by the way, if you’re not programmed into my phone I don’t know who you are… Sorry I suck at recognizing voices and remembering phone numbers…). He’s like its your favorite cousin Flint… All I wanted to say is fuck no you’re not and hang up… But me being the nice person I am, I don’t… He’s like yeah we just moved to Montana, blah blah blah freaking blah… We went snowskiing today… I’m like uh huh yeah that’s nice (while I’m thinking who the heck cares?). Then he asks if I have mom’s cell number (of course I do and its one of the few I have memorized) and I lied and said no I didn’t remember it… Then I was like I have friends waiting I have to go and hung up… I go back inside and get another sprite and settle in to enjoy mark… (not at all in the way I’d like to but that’s another story for another day… ;0) ) I eventually end up on the rolling box thing behind the speaker by the sound room… In my opinion the best place to watch any band… You get to see the full band, theres no crowd, the sound is good and you can sit down… So I get a text from Matt that he’s on his way from Borski’s… He gets there right as Mark’s ending… He, I and Melissa stood around talking and then some other people they knew show up and we’re all shooting the shit… I don’t remember most of what Max Stalling played except Running Buddy… And that’s mainly cuz I called Chelle during it… My stomach was icky and I had lil sleep the night before… So anyway I run into Josh and his brother (2 of the guys from Thursday night), Josh’s brother asked me where Chelle was and I explained and I made Josh wear a fuzzy crown that had made the rounds at the bar all evening… Quite humorous really…. Josh’s brother reminds me a lot of Kirby, I don’t know him well enough to say if it’s a total thing but just physically he’s tall, strawberry blond, has the facial hair thing and he’s really friendly…. I hadn’t thought of Kirby in years till I woke up this morning with a light bulb going off over my head… Like DOOD I know who he reminds me of now… So yeah… He wasn’t too shabby looking… In fact if I had to pick a better looking strawberry blond him or Kirby, I’d go with him, and now just cuz I knew Kirby better… :0) I got to talk to Mark for a few… Then I start heading home…. I get home about 1:15, let Matt know I’m home ok and I pass out till 11 this morning… It was kinda a lazy day… Gorgeous but lazy… I was going to start some housework but I put it off till tomorrow… I went out to dinner with Mom and John at Tila’s earlier and then came home and watched Extreme Makeover Home Edition… Doug Moreland was supposed to be in it in some context but I missed the first 15 minutes so I’m not sure if he was or not… I made my low fat brownies and now here I be… Tomorrow I have to call the bank and get my checking account straightened out, and call Nancy too… I also need to go to SBISD’s admin building still and one day this week I have to go to the courthouse to straighten out my ticket (the one for expired registration last month). I don’t really have any plans for the reminder of the night but I do think this is entirely long enough… I wonder if Galleywinter’s working yet? I checked like an hour ago and it wasn’t up yet… Maybe I’ll go do that…. Laters.
Tuesday, January 24, 2006
I have flip flopped so much today… More so than usual… I’m not prone to being overemotional and I have been today… I’ve broken out of the mold a bit today… Not much but it’s a good start.
So I got to thinking about that doggy daycare job… I started thinking that maybe I should take it for now, so I could have some money… $300 or so a week I don’t have right now… But the hours are weird, but it wouldn’t interfere with my social life… There’s a possibility I might have to miss Greenfest if I took it, since they want you to work every other Saturday. Then my mom brought up a good point. When will I have time to do my other job related stuff? (in order to sub and once I start getting interviews and stuff) And once I’m okayed to sub, then I’ll have the district office calling me, who knows how often but according to mom is they call and you decline 2 or 3 times, they tend to quit calling… And the first of the month is coming up so I’ll have my monthly amount put into my account, so I will have money to live on for now… So after going back and forth most of the day, mom helped me decide, as much fun as it could be, that I shouldn’t take the doggy daycare job… *sigh* So the hunt continues… I have Kel’s phone number and I called and left her a message to get her headhunter’s phone number and I’m waiting to hear back from her… I also did some more online stuff and I’m calling nancy (the temp agency lady) tomorrow too…
I went down to the kitchen earlier to try to find something for lunch right… And I have the tomato sliced and lettuce out and washed… I take out the bread and I go to get the mayo and turkey out of the fridge… THERES NO TURKEY… I go slamming through the drawers and slam the door then go bang through the cabinets, trying desperately to find turkey… Yeah don’t know why I thought it’d be in a cabinet… Ah well… So then I spend 15 minutes trying to decide what to do with sliced tomato and washed lettuce… I make a salad… I go to find salad dressing and THERE IS NONE (at least not that I like). So I take out a bottle of stuff that tasted ok on my finger and put it on the salad… Only to find out it tastes like shit. So what did I have for lunch? Tomato pieces that I picked out of the salad and blotted on a napkin and a lil cup of Jello…
And that ladies and gentlemen is the only sort of drama that is in my life right now… Ah the joys of being almost broke and unemployed… Or at least almost broke till the end of the month… That’s like what a week? SOOO hard to be me, right? HA! :0)
Yeah I’m bored… Tuesday night… and if I had money I might head over to Kay’s for a drink… See if they have their songwriters thing going on or not… It feels weird to be home so much… Seriously I’ve hardly left the house for like 2 days… Mainly cuz I can’t afford to DO anything… And then most of my friends are working so they can’t just hang out… Ah well… Hopefully soon I’ll be employed too so I can afford to do stuff again…
In the meantime I do have my Dale Jr DVD to watch… So I think I’ll go do that… laters.
So I got to thinking about that doggy daycare job… I started thinking that maybe I should take it for now, so I could have some money… $300 or so a week I don’t have right now… But the hours are weird, but it wouldn’t interfere with my social life… There’s a possibility I might have to miss Greenfest if I took it, since they want you to work every other Saturday. Then my mom brought up a good point. When will I have time to do my other job related stuff? (in order to sub and once I start getting interviews and stuff) And once I’m okayed to sub, then I’ll have the district office calling me, who knows how often but according to mom is they call and you decline 2 or 3 times, they tend to quit calling… And the first of the month is coming up so I’ll have my monthly amount put into my account, so I will have money to live on for now… So after going back and forth most of the day, mom helped me decide, as much fun as it could be, that I shouldn’t take the doggy daycare job… *sigh* So the hunt continues… I have Kel’s phone number and I called and left her a message to get her headhunter’s phone number and I’m waiting to hear back from her… I also did some more online stuff and I’m calling nancy (the temp agency lady) tomorrow too…
I went down to the kitchen earlier to try to find something for lunch right… And I have the tomato sliced and lettuce out and washed… I take out the bread and I go to get the mayo and turkey out of the fridge… THERES NO TURKEY… I go slamming through the drawers and slam the door then go bang through the cabinets, trying desperately to find turkey… Yeah don’t know why I thought it’d be in a cabinet… Ah well… So then I spend 15 minutes trying to decide what to do with sliced tomato and washed lettuce… I make a salad… I go to find salad dressing and THERE IS NONE (at least not that I like). So I take out a bottle of stuff that tasted ok on my finger and put it on the salad… Only to find out it tastes like shit. So what did I have for lunch? Tomato pieces that I picked out of the salad and blotted on a napkin and a lil cup of Jello…
And that ladies and gentlemen is the only sort of drama that is in my life right now… Ah the joys of being almost broke and unemployed… Or at least almost broke till the end of the month… That’s like what a week? SOOO hard to be me, right? HA! :0)
Yeah I’m bored… Tuesday night… and if I had money I might head over to Kay’s for a drink… See if they have their songwriters thing going on or not… It feels weird to be home so much… Seriously I’ve hardly left the house for like 2 days… Mainly cuz I can’t afford to DO anything… And then most of my friends are working so they can’t just hang out… Ah well… Hopefully soon I’ll be employed too so I can afford to do stuff again…
In the meantime I do have my Dale Jr DVD to watch… So I think I’ll go do that… laters.
I had forgotten how big a guy John Popper used to be until just a lil while ago… He was on a rerun of Roseanne from a couple of years ago(ie prestomach stapling) and I’ve had the mental pic of him from last year’s Reckless Kelly/Micky and the Motorcars show at Antones… The one Amy couldn’t stop saying… AND JOHN POPPER WAS THERE!!! afterwards…. lmao…
Also while I was flipping channels I saw something on eye gazing parties… Its like speed dating but you don’t talk, you just stare…. Only in New York I swear…. Check it out… www.eyegazingparties.com Its craziness….
Also I watched Missing in America earlier… Not a bad movie in general… The end made me cry… And I thought it should have ended differently but that’s just me…
The jobhunt continues… I spent most of Monday and Sunday online looking at jobs… Monday I talked to the temp agency lady… She called me back later to offer me a $10 an hour, non benefits, 30-35 hour a week job… Sure it was at a doggy day care which would be perfect for me… But the hours were weird (1-7 m-f and 830 to 430 every other Saturday) though it is about 10 minutes from my moms… And the pay wasn’t enough for me to be able to live on… Especially not if there weren’t any benefits… I worked out a budget this last weekend and I would have to make at least 23000 a year to cover all my basic costs and pay taxes and MAYBE have a lil leftover… No benefits and that goes up to 26000… A bit of a difference…. But I have a bunch of other options still I’m waiting to hear back about and this won’t be the only job Nancy ever sends me on so I guess I’ll just have to wait and keep looking…
Mom went out to dinner with Ms Tilley and Mom wants me, Ms. T, Nat and her to go out to brunch one day this weekend… I told her I’d prefer Saturday since I’m going out Saturday night and I know for a fact I won’t be up before noon Sunday… :0) Ms T also recommended I use Kel’s headhunter… I’m not real sure about that since she IS still unemployed… She could just be too picky (since shes friends with La that is entirely possible). But yeah it couldn’t hurt anything to try I guess….
I was going to comment on John Popper’s man boobs… But I don’t remember if he had them or not…. He always wears that vest with all the harmonicas on it so you can’t really tell… That was random shit…. :0)
Speaking of man boobs…. There was a bit of drama this weekend and Chelle and I are not speaking to one particular individual who needs to learn to grow the FUCK UP!!! Yeah, I won’t really go into detail other than to say, any friend who finds another friend may be hooking up with a guy shes (or hes) into should be happy for that friend and not bitch like a lil whiny brat to anyone who will listen…. Now I’m done with that… The Ali Zone is a DRAMA FREE ZONE!!!! :0)
This weekend is Mark at the Firehouse… I had a moment of doubt about going since Creagers in Katy(and I do LOVE me some John T Slaughter), but its supposed to rain this weekend and the Firehouse is closer… Plus I already promised Mark and Trae I’d be there…. And I’m big on keeping to promises… Plus lots of firemen will prolly show up… And I’m all for lots of firemen…. The hotter the better…. ;0)
Also Matt’s going to be in town this weekend… And Chelle and I have evil plans to molest all the hot cops he knows on HPD… Oops… Secrets out… Ah well…
Speaking of Matts… I saw a guy at Stoney’s show who looked like Wade’s friend Matt… I did a double take and then I realized it wasn’t him… Ah well…. He was too tall and a lil on the skinny side… Plus the tattoo on his neck was all wrong…
Allrighty, that’s all I got…. Laters…
Also while I was flipping channels I saw something on eye gazing parties… Its like speed dating but you don’t talk, you just stare…. Only in New York I swear…. Check it out… www.eyegazingparties.com Its craziness….
Also I watched Missing in America earlier… Not a bad movie in general… The end made me cry… And I thought it should have ended differently but that’s just me…
The jobhunt continues… I spent most of Monday and Sunday online looking at jobs… Monday I talked to the temp agency lady… She called me back later to offer me a $10 an hour, non benefits, 30-35 hour a week job… Sure it was at a doggy day care which would be perfect for me… But the hours were weird (1-7 m-f and 830 to 430 every other Saturday) though it is about 10 minutes from my moms… And the pay wasn’t enough for me to be able to live on… Especially not if there weren’t any benefits… I worked out a budget this last weekend and I would have to make at least 23000 a year to cover all my basic costs and pay taxes and MAYBE have a lil leftover… No benefits and that goes up to 26000… A bit of a difference…. But I have a bunch of other options still I’m waiting to hear back about and this won’t be the only job Nancy ever sends me on so I guess I’ll just have to wait and keep looking…
Mom went out to dinner with Ms Tilley and Mom wants me, Ms. T, Nat and her to go out to brunch one day this weekend… I told her I’d prefer Saturday since I’m going out Saturday night and I know for a fact I won’t be up before noon Sunday… :0) Ms T also recommended I use Kel’s headhunter… I’m not real sure about that since she IS still unemployed… She could just be too picky (since shes friends with La that is entirely possible). But yeah it couldn’t hurt anything to try I guess….
I was going to comment on John Popper’s man boobs… But I don’t remember if he had them or not…. He always wears that vest with all the harmonicas on it so you can’t really tell… That was random shit…. :0)
Speaking of man boobs…. There was a bit of drama this weekend and Chelle and I are not speaking to one particular individual who needs to learn to grow the FUCK UP!!! Yeah, I won’t really go into detail other than to say, any friend who finds another friend may be hooking up with a guy shes (or hes) into should be happy for that friend and not bitch like a lil whiny brat to anyone who will listen…. Now I’m done with that… The Ali Zone is a DRAMA FREE ZONE!!!! :0)
This weekend is Mark at the Firehouse… I had a moment of doubt about going since Creagers in Katy(and I do LOVE me some John T Slaughter), but its supposed to rain this weekend and the Firehouse is closer… Plus I already promised Mark and Trae I’d be there…. And I’m big on keeping to promises… Plus lots of firemen will prolly show up… And I’m all for lots of firemen…. The hotter the better…. ;0)
Also Matt’s going to be in town this weekend… And Chelle and I have evil plans to molest all the hot cops he knows on HPD… Oops… Secrets out… Ah well…
Speaking of Matts… I saw a guy at Stoney’s show who looked like Wade’s friend Matt… I did a double take and then I realized it wasn’t him… Ah well…. He was too tall and a lil on the skinny side… Plus the tattoo on his neck was all wrong…
Allrighty, that’s all I got…. Laters…
Tuesday, January 17, 2006
Do you ever just wish you could skip over all the awkward first stages of dating? You know the ‘I’m into him is he into me? Will he call?’ Then after he calls that usually awkward first date and at the end, your trying to figure out do I kiss him (and if you’ve already kissed, you’re wondering is he expecting more?)? Do I ask him in for coffee, will he expect more? And after you say good night you wonder will there be a second date… Then the whole are we dating exclusively thing… ugh… I don’t like that part of dating… I’m not good at the whole small talk, playing it cool thing… I like to just dive right in (much to my own detriment at times) and just immerse myself in good lovey dovey relationship vibes… Its not really the sex I’m talking about here… Its being comfortable enough with another person that when you get up in the middle of a movie, you bring him back a beer if you go to the kitchen or a blanket from the bedroom, whatever… Just lil things to let you know that you care for one another… The constant belonging to someone…. The intimacy of being in a relationship is what I miss… Though I realize that whole nerve wracking first stages contributes to the intimacy in a relationship… I miss sleeping (just sleeping, get your minds out of the gutter) with someone, and knowing them almost as well as I know myself… I miss laying in someone’s lap while watching a movie… I miss kisses that wake you up in the morning and put you to bed at night… I miss full body hugs that can turn to something more… I miss nuzzling… And cuddling in general… I like being single, don’t get me wrong, but there are things that I miss about being in a relationship… I don’t miss the bad stuff, the moodiness, the fighting, that sort of thing… But who really does? So yeah I guess since I’ve seen all the Valentine’s Day stuff at Walgreens the other day I’ve been thinking more about being single… There’s a good reason they call Valentines ‘Singles Awareness Day’… Though its funny cuz last year I was single and it was my best Valentines EVER… I got flowers from Sean and Mom and a sweet card and some chocolate from B and bubble bath from Nate… I watched Troy, had a bubble bath and treated myself to dinner… Not too shabby for a low key celebration if you ask me… :0)
So it was Richelle’s birthday today… I met up with her and Jeremy, her dad and Faith at some Mexican restaurant out on Dairy Ashford and Memorial… Not the worst Mexican food but not the best either… The service… Eh… Took me 3 tries to get a to go box… And the waiters barely spoke passable English… I’d have preferred to go to Ninfa’s (had I known it was down the street) but it was Richelle’s call since it was her b-day…
Lets see… I’m calling Nancy (the temp lady) tomorrow and I should have my Netflix movies in… Not going out 2morrow night… I’m going to try to get my laundry done and refill my Nexium… And Thursday night I have a choice of 3 things to do… Brett Mouton at the Firehouse, no cover and 2 $ longnecks, Shy Blakeman at Blanco’s OR Josh Grider at the Palace also no cover… I’m thinking if the music at the Palace starts as early on Thursdays as it does Tuesdays, then maybe I can do a lil bit of all 3… 7-8:30 see Josh, 9-10 (ish) see Shy and then go to the Firehouse till midnight (when they usually end)… But then that may be too ambitious… We’ll see… Friday I still haven’t decided between Wade Bowen and Josh Owen or Micky and the Motorcars… I dig the Motorcars and the hotness of the Braun brothers, but I also dig Josh and Wade…. Ugh, decisions… I don’t like them… I think I’m going to do something weird that I rarely ever do… Go to bed before midnight… Shocking, I know… Laters…
So it was Richelle’s birthday today… I met up with her and Jeremy, her dad and Faith at some Mexican restaurant out on Dairy Ashford and Memorial… Not the worst Mexican food but not the best either… The service… Eh… Took me 3 tries to get a to go box… And the waiters barely spoke passable English… I’d have preferred to go to Ninfa’s (had I known it was down the street) but it was Richelle’s call since it was her b-day…
Lets see… I’m calling Nancy (the temp lady) tomorrow and I should have my Netflix movies in… Not going out 2morrow night… I’m going to try to get my laundry done and refill my Nexium… And Thursday night I have a choice of 3 things to do… Brett Mouton at the Firehouse, no cover and 2 $ longnecks, Shy Blakeman at Blanco’s OR Josh Grider at the Palace also no cover… I’m thinking if the music at the Palace starts as early on Thursdays as it does Tuesdays, then maybe I can do a lil bit of all 3… 7-8:30 see Josh, 9-10 (ish) see Shy and then go to the Firehouse till midnight (when they usually end)… But then that may be too ambitious… We’ll see… Friday I still haven’t decided between Wade Bowen and Josh Owen or Micky and the Motorcars… I dig the Motorcars and the hotness of the Braun brothers, but I also dig Josh and Wade…. Ugh, decisions… I don’t like them… I think I’m going to do something weird that I rarely ever do… Go to bed before midnight… Shocking, I know… Laters…
Monday, January 16, 2006
I had a dream… And completely unlike, MLK Jr’s dream, mine was about Warwick Stevenson… I was laying in his lap taking a nap… And hes wearing camo shorts and a black top. No idea why I remember that… We were listening to Jack Johnson and I stood up and Chris Malloy is sitting in a rocking chair… That was sorta odd… So then Warwick follows me to my room down the hall (the building looks a lot like Smith or King Hall) And for some reason I remember my phone number… 2732… Which would have to be Maclean I think… And when he came in my room he was in a white pimp suit type thing… Another odd thing is that the tv in the room we had been in looked like the one from this room at my moms house and it was in an armoire that looked a lot like the one downstairs before mom had it restained… Very light brown… Interesting dream I thought….
So I got up early Saturday morning and got the Pat Green tickets in the 300s…. Not bad but not great but the tickets were just over 30 dollars each… Not bad at all… considering the great tix were like 200 dollars… no idea if Linz got George tix or not yet… I talked to her briefly today but we were talking about something else entirely…
Saturday night I decided NOT to go see Bleu Edmondson…. Mainly so I could save money for going out like 4 nights this week, but also because I was tired and I just wasn’t in the mood to go out….
So instead of that I made chocolate chip cookies… When B and Sean heard that I made cookies they came over with a couple of bottles of wine…
We watched 40 year old virgin with… the movie was kinda slow, the main guy looked like Luke Wilson, but then ending was the funniest stuff I have ever seen (the age of Aquarius musical number – I forgot the actual name of the song but that’s what I’ve always called it…) We stayed up most of the night and almost got kicked out of our neighborhood Whataburger at 1 am… Who knew they didn’t like it there when you have French fry fights and the French fries happen to have ketchup on them… Oops… Ah well… We came back to the house and then they left about 7 or 8 this morning… I never thought I’d say this… But I sorta miss the sexual tension… Like it was all completely buddy buddy last night… I don’t mind but usually B and I have some sort of attraction to each other and we flirt like mad… Last night… Nothing… Weird…
Sunday… I didn’t do jack… Woke up at like 1 in the afternoon… Thought about doing laundry… Watched a movie, got a headache… Very uneventful…
Monday I have my meeting with Nancy at 3 and I have to take Linz to the doctor for her appointment… Since she’s carless and all… I also need to get my sticker changed out, get gas, and one day get the oil changed on my car… I’m way overdue for that…
I’ve also been thinking about the guy I thought would call me but didn’t last week… I’m kinda down that he didn’t cuz he really seemed to be different from most of the guys I know… And I didn’t even want him to call cuz he was hot (though that was a bonus) just cuz he was different than my usual friends and I thought I might like to get to know him… I wasn’t planning to rip his clothes off and having my wicked way with him… At least not at first…. :0)
So yeah since I’m getting up a lil early in the morning (8 am is early for me here lately) so I guess I’m going to bed… laters.
So I got up early Saturday morning and got the Pat Green tickets in the 300s…. Not bad but not great but the tickets were just over 30 dollars each… Not bad at all… considering the great tix were like 200 dollars… no idea if Linz got George tix or not yet… I talked to her briefly today but we were talking about something else entirely…
Saturday night I decided NOT to go see Bleu Edmondson…. Mainly so I could save money for going out like 4 nights this week, but also because I was tired and I just wasn’t in the mood to go out….
So instead of that I made chocolate chip cookies… When B and Sean heard that I made cookies they came over with a couple of bottles of wine…
We watched 40 year old virgin with… the movie was kinda slow, the main guy looked like Luke Wilson, but then ending was the funniest stuff I have ever seen (the age of Aquarius musical number – I forgot the actual name of the song but that’s what I’ve always called it…) We stayed up most of the night and almost got kicked out of our neighborhood Whataburger at 1 am… Who knew they didn’t like it there when you have French fry fights and the French fries happen to have ketchup on them… Oops… Ah well… We came back to the house and then they left about 7 or 8 this morning… I never thought I’d say this… But I sorta miss the sexual tension… Like it was all completely buddy buddy last night… I don’t mind but usually B and I have some sort of attraction to each other and we flirt like mad… Last night… Nothing… Weird…
Sunday… I didn’t do jack… Woke up at like 1 in the afternoon… Thought about doing laundry… Watched a movie, got a headache… Very uneventful…
Monday I have my meeting with Nancy at 3 and I have to take Linz to the doctor for her appointment… Since she’s carless and all… I also need to get my sticker changed out, get gas, and one day get the oil changed on my car… I’m way overdue for that…
I’ve also been thinking about the guy I thought would call me but didn’t last week… I’m kinda down that he didn’t cuz he really seemed to be different from most of the guys I know… And I didn’t even want him to call cuz he was hot (though that was a bonus) just cuz he was different than my usual friends and I thought I might like to get to know him… I wasn’t planning to rip his clothes off and having my wicked way with him… At least not at first…. :0)
So yeah since I’m getting up a lil early in the morning (8 am is early for me here lately) so I guess I’m going to bed… laters.
Friday, January 13, 2006
So I got Ali Napped tonight… Been awhile since that’s happened… At first I was just going to rent a movie and eat pizza and chill out tonight… So I did part of that… Ate pizza and rented a movie… Still haven’t watched it yet… I was actually considering going to the Firehouse tonight (Magee Payne was opening and the U Joints were playing – I’m not a big U Joints fan but Magee’s aight…) and was actually ready to walk out the door when Sean called me… He’s like I’m almost there and then we’re going to IHOP… Okay, I guess… I figure I can try to talk him into a brief stop and maybe a beer at the Firehouse… And I could see if anyone was there I knew… That sort of thing… He was bound and determined to have belgian waffles and watch the Croc Hunter on Leno though… He says he really wanted to see Seether but the way he giggled like a lil girl when Steve Irwin was on sort of gave him away…. Crazy boy… I didn’t know Seether was from Texas… Interesting… I showed Sean my MySpace… He told me I needed to find a job and soon… I agree fully… I even looked at the Astros website on a whim and they don’t have any openings that I’m qualified for… ah well, it was worth a shot….
So all my alarms are set for 2morrow morning… Tickets for the rodeo go on sale at 10 am… I only have to be conscious enough to talk to Lav and get tickets for Pat… Since according to Linz, Ken will take care of the George tix… I have a feeling that she means take care of as in get for them and not me… Which means once more I may not get to see George when he’s in town… That’s like 25 straight years now… That’s right I’ve never seen George live… Poor, poor me… :0( I’m going to wait and see Ragweed next time they’re in town and if anyone happens to offer me rodeo tickets, I won’t turn em down… I’ve already been invited to the Hideout and parts of the stock show and carnival…. So I’m doing pretty good… I think the only part of rodeo this year I don’t know anyone in is the BBQ cookoff… And maybe the parade… I know a few people playing at the cookoff but I don’t know anyone to get passes from so I can get in free darnit…
Is it weird that I am so darned tired that I want to go to bed before midnight? Seriously I even laid down for like half an hour today to try to take a nap…. But I couldn’t fall asleep…. It was like being too tired to sleep… It was weird… Hopefully going to bed early tonight will help… Especially if I plan to make it through Bleu tomorrow night…. Or I could go see Austin Allsup at the Palace… I don’t know any of his stuff and he’s pretty but I think I’d rather see Bleu for the umpteenth time… Seriously I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve seen him… I’ve seen him a couple of times in New Braunfels and a few more in Corpus and more than 4 times here in town… Heck I’ve probably seen him at the Firehouse alone at least 4 times…. A couple of times at the Sidecar.... So yeah do I dig the BEB? Just a lil…. :0)
Ok, I’m off to bed now… laters.
So all my alarms are set for 2morrow morning… Tickets for the rodeo go on sale at 10 am… I only have to be conscious enough to talk to Lav and get tickets for Pat… Since according to Linz, Ken will take care of the George tix… I have a feeling that she means take care of as in get for them and not me… Which means once more I may not get to see George when he’s in town… That’s like 25 straight years now… That’s right I’ve never seen George live… Poor, poor me… :0( I’m going to wait and see Ragweed next time they’re in town and if anyone happens to offer me rodeo tickets, I won’t turn em down… I’ve already been invited to the Hideout and parts of the stock show and carnival…. So I’m doing pretty good… I think the only part of rodeo this year I don’t know anyone in is the BBQ cookoff… And maybe the parade… I know a few people playing at the cookoff but I don’t know anyone to get passes from so I can get in free darnit…
Is it weird that I am so darned tired that I want to go to bed before midnight? Seriously I even laid down for like half an hour today to try to take a nap…. But I couldn’t fall asleep…. It was like being too tired to sleep… It was weird… Hopefully going to bed early tonight will help… Especially if I plan to make it through Bleu tomorrow night…. Or I could go see Austin Allsup at the Palace… I don’t know any of his stuff and he’s pretty but I think I’d rather see Bleu for the umpteenth time… Seriously I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve seen him… I’ve seen him a couple of times in New Braunfels and a few more in Corpus and more than 4 times here in town… Heck I’ve probably seen him at the Firehouse alone at least 4 times…. A couple of times at the Sidecar.... So yeah do I dig the BEB? Just a lil…. :0)
Ok, I’m off to bed now… laters.
Thursday, January 12, 2006
I was going to go to the Firehouse tonight… Really I was… I just got involved in reading and by the time I looked at the clock it was 9:30 and by the time I could get ready and be there it’d be almost 11 and on Thursdays (if they hold to the old pattern of Thursday nights) everything is over by midnight or 12:30… So it really wouldn’t have been worth going… I thought about going to the Palace for Rex Robards or Blanco’s for Jimmy Kaiser but I just kinda said screw it I’m tired and I’m staying in… Besides I have to get up early (so before 10 is early for me now, so sue me…) and go downtown to get my registration renewed… I could do it early afternoon but Linz is only free to go early in the morning… Reminds me I need to call her and make sure we’re still on… Cuz tomorrow whether she does with me or not I have to go downtown (groan) since its my last day to renew my registration from my ticket (if I renew it in 10 business days I only have to pay the $10 fine rather than the $70 fine). Talk about your procrastination… :0) I still don’t know what I’m doing tomorrow night but I figure that will take care of itself… Worse comes to worse I can make it a blockbuster night… I have pizza and Dr Pepper… And a little chocolate… Perfect veg out night stuff… Saturday is Bleu at the Firehouse… You know I’m gonna love telling mom I’m going to that one… Especially with all that drama she was telling me about a few weeks ago… She’s gonna love it even more when I spend most of next week there… :0) (Thursday Brett Mouton/Magee Payne – no cover 2$ longnecks again, Friday – Wade Bowen with Josh Owen (Bowen, Owen, Coincidence? :0) ) and Saturday is Stoney.)
Let’s see… Boys. Boys are silly… But so much fun… Tommy isn’t feeling that chick I was talking about at all, he just thought it was weird she hadn’t seen him in a few weeks and was just now asking for his number… So I worried for nothing… Nay and Ra are arguing again… This time about whose right about what they did New Years… The gooses… Sean and Laurie are still busy making plans for the big day… B is dating… That was rather shocking coming from the guy who swore he’d wait till I came to my senses, forever if need be… Guess forever only lasts a few years now? Ah well, there was no chance of anything happening there anyway its just the concept of the thing… And I know people stay happily married for decades, otherwise where do all those cute lil old couples come from? :0) So somehow someway theres a way to make marriages last… When I get married (one day far in the future) I’m going to go up to one of them and ask how they did it… Other boy stuff… A guy tried to hit on me at Borders when I was buying Memoirs of a Geisha… He’s all like so you’re into Japanese stuff? I was like not so much, I just enjoyed the movie and thought I’d read the book… He looked all Dudgeons and Dragons nerdy… In a cute way… Then he slipped and admitted he’d just graduated high school last year…. Crap, do I look THAT young?!?! I may date younger guys but they have to be old enough to drink at least…. Sorry, Charlie… Ah well, life goes on… that’s about it for now… I think I’m going to try to finish the chapter I’m on in Memoirs and hit the hay… Laters.
Let’s see… Boys. Boys are silly… But so much fun… Tommy isn’t feeling that chick I was talking about at all, he just thought it was weird she hadn’t seen him in a few weeks and was just now asking for his number… So I worried for nothing… Nay and Ra are arguing again… This time about whose right about what they did New Years… The gooses… Sean and Laurie are still busy making plans for the big day… B is dating… That was rather shocking coming from the guy who swore he’d wait till I came to my senses, forever if need be… Guess forever only lasts a few years now? Ah well, there was no chance of anything happening there anyway its just the concept of the thing… And I know people stay happily married for decades, otherwise where do all those cute lil old couples come from? :0) So somehow someway theres a way to make marriages last… When I get married (one day far in the future) I’m going to go up to one of them and ask how they did it… Other boy stuff… A guy tried to hit on me at Borders when I was buying Memoirs of a Geisha… He’s all like so you’re into Japanese stuff? I was like not so much, I just enjoyed the movie and thought I’d read the book… He looked all Dudgeons and Dragons nerdy… In a cute way… Then he slipped and admitted he’d just graduated high school last year…. Crap, do I look THAT young?!?! I may date younger guys but they have to be old enough to drink at least…. Sorry, Charlie… Ah well, life goes on… that’s about it for now… I think I’m going to try to finish the chapter I’m on in Memoirs and hit the hay… Laters.
Monday, January 09, 2006
Today started out well enough… And it just seemed to go downhill from there… People seem to want to frustrate and irritate me… If its not my mom, its my sister, if its not my sister it’s a guy… If its not a guy, it’s the internet… Yeah… So it started out rather normally (or what has become my version of normal since I’ve graduated and moved home and started looking for a job) about 10 ish… I wake up to find a message from a cute guy in my in box… I’m thinking it’s a good day… I was pretty sure I had unsent the letter he was replying to but I guess not… Ah well… I think I may go to Kay’s tomorrow night… There should be a songwriter type thing going on according to said hot guy… If there isn’t, then I’ll just have a Smirnoff ice and chill (is that a bit redundant?), no biggie… But I don’t think said hot guy knows I have a thing for him, I don’t think that mutual friend told him (though I know how badly guys gossip in general) I dig his gravy, and I’m pretty sure he’s never read my blog and figured out that I like him… Now I don’t want to marry the guy or anything (Lord only knows that’s not in the cards for a few years yet) but I don’t even think that he dates at all… He seems too busy for it… If he’s not working, he’s working… Does that make any sense? Its like even when he’s not AT work, he’s working on stuff FOR work… I almost want to say he has workaholic tendencies but that’s not true… At least I don’t think so… I think its more like he’s working hard toward this goal and he’s so focused on that goal that he doesn’t have time to stop and smell the roses… So if I will ever date him or whatever I don’t know… I honestly think that a. he doesn’t have time, b. isn’t really inclined towards dating or c. is just so focused he isn’t thinking about a love life at this time… But that could just be me….
Back to the rant though… So after answering that message and playing on the internet, I ate lunch and dyed my hair (red again – its awesome!)… Linz came over and started working on stuff for her sorority on the ‘net and playing on facebook…. So I finish my hair and run some errands… I was almost on TV at the post office, a tv camera came in and was asking about the 2 cent stamps, and I was behind him… So anyway I got back and Linz was still on the internet… I just wanted my room to myself so I could read in peace… So 4 oclock comes around and mom gets home… Starving, since shes barely eaten all weekend (she’s been sick) and she ate not one but 2 of my turkey burgers… And a variety of other stuff… I don’t mind if she nibbles on a burger or even eats a whole one… But 2??!?! That’s one more meal I have to make… Ugh…. Least I still have baked potato stuff… So 5 and 6 come and go and Linz is still in my room on the internet… 7 rolls around and she finally leaves… Bout time… I love her but I wanted some privacy in my own room… I can’t find anything that looks good to eat for dinner, so I snack… And I’m still kinda hungry right now and I’m getting the beginnings of a headache… Plus my back hurts… Then Mom talks to John and finally admits that I am right, that receptionist job that fell through last year was a one time gig but it really gets me that she had to get it from JOHN and not just take my word for it…. UGH!!!!! Then I finally get on the internet and MySpace isn’t working…. I wanted to go to Cali and hurt Tom very badly for that…. Seriously that site is more addicting that Galleywinter… So I call Sean, whose out with Laurie… So I go straight to voicemail… B is unfindable… Is that a word? I couldn’t find him anywhere… And I really just needed to go to House of Pies for a piece of Bavarian Crème…. Argh…. And I watched part of the Bachelor and decided I love the new Bachelor (he's a hot ER doctor from Tennessee) but all the girls there are nuts... So now its almost 11 and I have an interview in the morning that I’m pretty sure is a waste of my time… Its an insurance company that sounds like its looking for salespeople but a recruiter saw my resume and called for an interview… So I’m going to go and we’ll see… And I’m not usually pessimistic but in this case I have a feeling in my gut that I’m right about this… And then at 3 I have a meeting with Nancy (the temp agency lady), so hopefully I can start working a couple days a week through her…. Then Wednesday I’m going to go downtown and get my registration taken care of and maybe finally go to Spring Branch’s admin building to sign up to sub and ask about job openings… So if you need me for the next few days, try my cell… laters.
Back to the rant though… So after answering that message and playing on the internet, I ate lunch and dyed my hair (red again – its awesome!)… Linz came over and started working on stuff for her sorority on the ‘net and playing on facebook…. So I finish my hair and run some errands… I was almost on TV at the post office, a tv camera came in and was asking about the 2 cent stamps, and I was behind him… So anyway I got back and Linz was still on the internet… I just wanted my room to myself so I could read in peace… So 4 oclock comes around and mom gets home… Starving, since shes barely eaten all weekend (she’s been sick) and she ate not one but 2 of my turkey burgers… And a variety of other stuff… I don’t mind if she nibbles on a burger or even eats a whole one… But 2??!?! That’s one more meal I have to make… Ugh…. Least I still have baked potato stuff… So 5 and 6 come and go and Linz is still in my room on the internet… 7 rolls around and she finally leaves… Bout time… I love her but I wanted some privacy in my own room… I can’t find anything that looks good to eat for dinner, so I snack… And I’m still kinda hungry right now and I’m getting the beginnings of a headache… Plus my back hurts… Then Mom talks to John and finally admits that I am right, that receptionist job that fell through last year was a one time gig but it really gets me that she had to get it from JOHN and not just take my word for it…. UGH!!!!! Then I finally get on the internet and MySpace isn’t working…. I wanted to go to Cali and hurt Tom very badly for that…. Seriously that site is more addicting that Galleywinter… So I call Sean, whose out with Laurie… So I go straight to voicemail… B is unfindable… Is that a word? I couldn’t find him anywhere… And I really just needed to go to House of Pies for a piece of Bavarian Crème…. Argh…. And I watched part of the Bachelor and decided I love the new Bachelor (he's a hot ER doctor from Tennessee) but all the girls there are nuts... So now its almost 11 and I have an interview in the morning that I’m pretty sure is a waste of my time… Its an insurance company that sounds like its looking for salespeople but a recruiter saw my resume and called for an interview… So I’m going to go and we’ll see… And I’m not usually pessimistic but in this case I have a feeling in my gut that I’m right about this… And then at 3 I have a meeting with Nancy (the temp agency lady), so hopefully I can start working a couple days a week through her…. Then Wednesday I’m going to go downtown and get my registration taken care of and maybe finally go to Spring Branch’s admin building to sign up to sub and ask about job openings… So if you need me for the next few days, try my cell… laters.
Saturday, January 07, 2006
When did my mother become such a negative nelly? I guess it might have been gradual… One or two things last summer that I just kind of laughed off… But here in the last few days I’ve noticed it more… Now I know I used to be really paranoid about people breaking in and stealing all our stuff, raping us, a fire burning the house down, etc. I’m only really concerned with the house burning down now… But that’s a life long I don’t want to die in a fire fear more than anything else… Its weird cuz quite a few guys I’ve dated have been pyros… Ah well… Anyway Mom and her negative nellyness… I think I just made up a word… Ah well, not the first time and it probably will not be the last… So yeah… Mom’s quit being funny in her paranoia… I know I wrote about the whole murders near the Firehouse/driving through a bad part of town (Richmond to Fountainview is not a bad part of town… Not like its one of the wards or something…) and a couple of things last summer. NOW she’s bound and determined that washing my car with my body wash will ruin the paint job… I don’t know if that’s true or not, but there was so much dirt on there, I don’t know if the body wash even touched the paint job… (Seriously it was dirty enough to write wash me on the back – which someone was kind enough to do last week *coughSEANcough*. : 0) ) She’s such a worrier… She’s also attempting to make me put all my chickens (or is the cliché eggs?) in one basket. I have an interview Tuesday morning and then my meeting with the temp agency lady Tuesday afternoon. Shes like you should cancel your interview in the morning and not use the internet to look for a job. You don’t know anything about the company (or companies) and you might get screwed like you did with the secretary job last year. I told her I was pretty sure that was a one time thing and shes like I thought you weren’t going to look anymore until after you talked to Nancy (the temp lady)? Um, no… I WANT a job and I WANT to get the heck out of this house… And I’m doing my darnedest to do those things… I would think she’d be excited for me to have a job interview, it’s a step in the right direction…. At least that’s what I think…
ANYWAY… Other junk… I went to see the Burtchi Brothers at the Palace tonight with Lavinia… We went out to dinner at Goode and Co BBQ across the street first for some dinner… We spent the evening sinning and grinning… :0) And talking about stuff… I told her all about the new crush until I think I almost made her hurl… (Hey Lav? HODOWN!!!!!!!!!!!) But I’m pretty sure I got her to agree (a bit reluctantly) that perhaps he wasn’t like a lot of other guys we’ve both known… And I told her about being called on my stuff by the mutual friend… Who read my blog and messaged me… (He had delivered my message and I apoligized for having doubted him... I tried to explain I was being a bit of a brat just bitching in general in my blog but I knew they had other stuff going on and I didn't expect... Well anything to come of it... It'd be nice yeah, but I was thinking just to enlarge my circle of friends, you can never have too many ya know... If something did happen cool... if not, then oh well...) I wasn’t embarrassed or anything… I don’t really have much of a private life… I have a blog on the internet that Lord only knows who all reads (though I do know a few people that do including a few friends and at least one of my exes... I'm not psychic, they just leave me comments and messages about entries) and I’m extremely open about my life in general… You ask me a question and I’ll answer honestly… You may or may not like the answer but I have little to no shame so I really don’t care… I think its cuz most of my friends are guys that I’m almost shockproof… I’ve heard a lot that not a lot of girls have and I’m one of those girls guys think of as ‘one of the guys’… Mainly cuz I’m not like any other girl I know… I dig sports and the occasional beer… I dress really casually most of the time in jeans and t shirts and lil to no makeup. Its not a bad thing at all… In fact I rather enjoy it… But I also enjoy dolling up sometimes and going out and being girly… But back to the band… I really dug their stuff… I’m not really familiar with their music or who they are… But I’ve heard their name and I know other bands they’re written stuff with or collaborated with in some way that I do dig… So I figured what the heck… and I wasn’t disappointed in the least… So yeah… For once I’m out of stuff to stay… so that’s really it for the moment… laters.
ANYWAY… Other junk… I went to see the Burtchi Brothers at the Palace tonight with Lavinia… We went out to dinner at Goode and Co BBQ across the street first for some dinner… We spent the evening sinning and grinning… :0) And talking about stuff… I told her all about the new crush until I think I almost made her hurl… (Hey Lav? HODOWN!!!!!!!!!!!) But I’m pretty sure I got her to agree (a bit reluctantly) that perhaps he wasn’t like a lot of other guys we’ve both known… And I told her about being called on my stuff by the mutual friend… Who read my blog and messaged me… (He had delivered my message and I apoligized for having doubted him... I tried to explain I was being a bit of a brat just bitching in general in my blog but I knew they had other stuff going on and I didn't expect... Well anything to come of it... It'd be nice yeah, but I was thinking just to enlarge my circle of friends, you can never have too many ya know... If something did happen cool... if not, then oh well...) I wasn’t embarrassed or anything… I don’t really have much of a private life… I have a blog on the internet that Lord only knows who all reads (though I do know a few people that do including a few friends and at least one of my exes... I'm not psychic, they just leave me comments and messages about entries) and I’m extremely open about my life in general… You ask me a question and I’ll answer honestly… You may or may not like the answer but I have little to no shame so I really don’t care… I think its cuz most of my friends are guys that I’m almost shockproof… I’ve heard a lot that not a lot of girls have and I’m one of those girls guys think of as ‘one of the guys’… Mainly cuz I’m not like any other girl I know… I dig sports and the occasional beer… I dress really casually most of the time in jeans and t shirts and lil to no makeup. Its not a bad thing at all… In fact I rather enjoy it… But I also enjoy dolling up sometimes and going out and being girly… But back to the band… I really dug their stuff… I’m not really familiar with their music or who they are… But I’ve heard their name and I know other bands they’re written stuff with or collaborated with in some way that I do dig… So I figured what the heck… and I wasn’t disappointed in the least… So yeah… For once I’m out of stuff to stay… so that’s really it for the moment… laters.
Friday, January 06, 2006
Ok so in this entry Dr Phil says to define your character of Him (ie your perfect guy). But he says (and I believe him) you’re never going to find someone whose 100% of your list but if you can find a guy whose 80 % then you can work on that last 20 %... That’s kind of a cool way to put it… So here’s my definition of Him. I’ve been told I’m either too picky or not picky enough in a lot of cases… I need to find some happy medium… (ie find the guy with 80 %) And I agree… So my list… Its really hard not to think of any particular person… Its like I want to take bits and pieces of different people I know and put em into this one perfect man… Very Frankenstein-like… So lets go shall we…First and foremost he’s got to have a sense of humor… I’m amused by pretty much anyone and everyone in some way so that’s not too difficult… Someone who’s a bit of a smart ass, like Kevin… But knows when he’s gone too far… One who can be my friend and my man at the same time… Someone who is respectful of me and women in general… A gentleman or a nice guy, if you will… Like Ev or W…. Someone who’ll open doors… Also someone who can be romantic… I like hearts and flowers and all that good jazz… Someone who can give good back rubs would be a bonus… Someone with a passion for music, since it’s a huge part of my life and who I am… A guy who likes to cuddle but isn’t clingy…. Someone honest, sincere, and trustworthy…. Someone who respects my uniqueness… Also unmarried, uninvolved, and not gay are kind of givens…. At least for me… Also someone whose not into drugs, or is an alkie (though alcohol in moderation is okay)… Which brings up the age thing a lil… He also has to be old enough to drink legally… Someone who is intelligent, and responsible. Someone who is successful, ambitious but not a workaholic, has goals in life, financially stable, not living with his parents, keeps in shape, likes kids and animals, gets along with his family, and respectful. Someone tough but sweet. Like a Blow Pop. Or jerky… Also I’d like to find a guy not afraid to be the ‘man’ in the relationship but respects the fact I have a life apart from him, I did before I met him and I will continue to. Someone I can trust, respect, and who can communicate well.
Physically… I have a weakness for blue eyes, but its not that big a deal… Matthew McConeghey’s body, eyes and dimples would be nice but unlikely… I really like all guys physically… Short, stocky types, tall, skinny ones…. (though I think its nice when a guy is taller than me (and I'm 5'5" so its not hard to do)and not a bodybuilder but not Chris Farley either)Blond, brunette… blue eyes, brown or green…. I like all types of guys.. The preppy ones… The artsy/alterno/musician types…. Surfers and other extreme boys (skaters, etc…) … I do have a weakness for cowboys I have to admit… The physical stuff isn’t really as important as all that other stuff, but there has to be some sort of physical attraction…So that’s my 100 % list. Now I just have to find the 80% guy… The story to be continued on As Ali’s Life Turns… Laters.
Physically… I have a weakness for blue eyes, but its not that big a deal… Matthew McConeghey’s body, eyes and dimples would be nice but unlikely… I really like all guys physically… Short, stocky types, tall, skinny ones…. (though I think its nice when a guy is taller than me (and I'm 5'5" so its not hard to do)and not a bodybuilder but not Chris Farley either)Blond, brunette… blue eyes, brown or green…. I like all types of guys.. The preppy ones… The artsy/alterno/musician types…. Surfers and other extreme boys (skaters, etc…) … I do have a weakness for cowboys I have to admit… The physical stuff isn’t really as important as all that other stuff, but there has to be some sort of physical attraction…So that’s my 100 % list. Now I just have to find the 80% guy… The story to be continued on As Ali’s Life Turns… Laters.
Ok, I thought I’d blog about this since 06 is about improving myself… Most people know I started reading love smart a week or 2 ago and in one chapter Dr Phil says to be your authentic self… Who is my authentic self? I know and have known who she is for a while… It took me a long time to figure it out but here I be. My authentic self. I’m funny, though sometimes I’m a smart ass. I love kids and animals because even in your worst moments one of those two things can ALWAYS make you smile no matter how reluctantly.
I love my family and friends and I’m an extremely loyal (much like a dog). I’m not drop dead gorgeous in the classic sense but I’m attractive, even cute. My sense of style is really laid back and I’d rather be in a tshirt and jeans than a dress, but I’ve been that way most of my life… I’m intelligent, cuz you know they don’t just hand out college degrees I worked hard for mine… I’m smart about people in general and I can read body language pretty well. I’m honest sometimes to the point of brutality, but I am working on developing a sense of tact, so as not to hurt feelings. I’m laid back and I don’t have much of a temper. Anger, hate and jealousy seem like such wastes of energy to me. Though if you do get me mad, you better watch out I’m likely to blow up like a volcano though I try not to hold a grudge. I’m working on being independent. I love to laugh and I’m easily amused, but I cab be serious when the situation warrants it. I’m a good listener and I enjoy being able to help people with any advice I might be able to offer. I’m not the greatest driver in the world. The most adventurous I get is when I get lost driving… I don’t get upset or lose my cool easily but I take things in stride. I’m sweet as well as compassionate. I’m a night person and I enjoy sleeping in if I can get away with it. I don’t really have any bad habits, I don’t drink much, and every now and then I may have a cigarette. I need to learn how to budget my money better but I’m working on that too. I like being in control but I’ve learned I can’t always be in control. I enjoy reading and learning about new things. I watch too much TV. I love music and all sorts of food. I am far better organized than I used to be, but that’s a work in progress too. I’m a little goofy and off the wall. I have ADD. I’m not the most mature of people, in fact at times I’m just a big kid at heart. I like sports, though I don’t always understand them… I love men though I don’t always understand them either… I’m a bit of a flirt, but I’m old fashioned at heart. I believe in love lasting forever, in romance, and in butterflies and fireworks. I believe in lust at first sight and love developing from that. I believe in God, though I may not go to church all the time…
Those are the biggies/basics… Coming soon… The character of him… Laters.
I love my family and friends and I’m an extremely loyal (much like a dog). I’m not drop dead gorgeous in the classic sense but I’m attractive, even cute. My sense of style is really laid back and I’d rather be in a tshirt and jeans than a dress, but I’ve been that way most of my life… I’m intelligent, cuz you know they don’t just hand out college degrees I worked hard for mine… I’m smart about people in general and I can read body language pretty well. I’m honest sometimes to the point of brutality, but I am working on developing a sense of tact, so as not to hurt feelings. I’m laid back and I don’t have much of a temper. Anger, hate and jealousy seem like such wastes of energy to me. Though if you do get me mad, you better watch out I’m likely to blow up like a volcano though I try not to hold a grudge. I’m working on being independent. I love to laugh and I’m easily amused, but I cab be serious when the situation warrants it. I’m a good listener and I enjoy being able to help people with any advice I might be able to offer. I’m not the greatest driver in the world. The most adventurous I get is when I get lost driving… I don’t get upset or lose my cool easily but I take things in stride. I’m sweet as well as compassionate. I’m a night person and I enjoy sleeping in if I can get away with it. I don’t really have any bad habits, I don’t drink much, and every now and then I may have a cigarette. I need to learn how to budget my money better but I’m working on that too. I like being in control but I’ve learned I can’t always be in control. I enjoy reading and learning about new things. I watch too much TV. I love music and all sorts of food. I am far better organized than I used to be, but that’s a work in progress too. I’m a little goofy and off the wall. I have ADD. I’m not the most mature of people, in fact at times I’m just a big kid at heart. I like sports, though I don’t always understand them… I love men though I don’t always understand them either… I’m a bit of a flirt, but I’m old fashioned at heart. I believe in love lasting forever, in romance, and in butterflies and fireworks. I believe in lust at first sight and love developing from that. I believe in God, though I may not go to church all the time…
Those are the biggies/basics… Coming soon… The character of him… Laters.
Corndog and cabbage… Not so much part of your average every day diet… But then neither are Pei Wei’s lettuce wraps… Eh, they could be but I don’t feel like checking into it… Add a lil cup o Jello a couple of sweet teas and a dr pepper or 2 and you’ve got my day in food for Thursday… Oh and I had a couple of yeast rolls from Hartz and a lil slice of cheese… It was sharp cheddar and it was calling my name… :0)
But at least I washed my car (by hand) so I worked off some of the calories… Sure I couldn’t find the thing of soap I’d gotten at Target so I had to use my old rose body wash, but that thing is darn near spotless…
So in the job arena… I have a meeting with Nancy (the temp agency lady) on Tuesday at 3. I also have an interview off Richmond and Sage at 11 am Tuesday morning for another job… What it entails I’m not exactly sure. A recruiter saw my resume on Monster and called me. I think its something about selling insurance, but I’ll see in the interview. If it is, I’m out… I’m no salesperson… Plus it looks like they want you to do some sort of schooling on insurance… Another major minus… Other than that I’m just going through classifieds, using Monster and other internet things…
I still need to go the admin building for SBISD and sign up to sub and see if they have any clerical/receptionist/teacher aides jobs open…
I also have to go downtown not once but twice… Once before next Friday to renew my registration and again after Monday to pay the $10 fee at the court house place (justice of the peace’s office). Lucky me… I hate going down there and now I have to do it twice…. Ugh…
Still no word from the cute boy… I’m beginning to wonder if I should move on… I know he’s a busy bee but still… Heck, I don’t even know if the friend gave him my message or not… So maybe theres still hope… I guess we’ll have to play the wait and see game… I hate that game… I have no patience for it…
Big item of the day… Saving the best for last, so to speak… My mom. Oh my… Poor dear is sick and didn’t go to work Wednesday and she came home early Thursday… Now she’s debating on whether to go today… I told her she should wait and see… She thinks she has acid reflux like I do… I’m like no, you’ll know when its that… You want to throw up all the time… She’s just got an upset tummy and she can’t stop burping… But she’s not nauseous. But that’s not my story about her… Oh no… She talked to John tonight, like she does every night… And this time he had some news for me… In the last 2 weeks there have been 2 murders by the Firehouse… Not at the firehouse but at 59 and Fountainview the same intersection as the Firehouse… Actaully it was people on the freeway that were pursued onto the feeder and then shot. Mom was like, I’m not going to tell you not to go (cuz according to her I’m an adult and can make my own decisions – afreakingmen thanks for noticing…) but I really don’t think you should… I tried to reassure her that I was only planning to go to a show or 2 this month anyway and that I take Richmond to Fountainview… She immediately goes into a spiel of that’s not a safe way, there are gangs and stuff there… And Sharpstown is right down that way too… It seems I can’t win for losing with her sometimes… I don’t know if she understands that I ALWAYS think I’m in some sort of danger, whether its physical or whatnot… I grew up in this city, I’m fairly certain I know the majority of the dangers and hazards I may face… Sure some areas are worse than others but there are places like the Firehouse, where I feel safe meeting friends… I know the doorguys and bartenders and theres always a cop or 3 around the building, so I don’t really feel as though NOT going there at all (like she suggested) is really the answer for me… Its like letting fear rule my life… Not going somewhere just because I know crime has occurred near there… I tried once again to point out the whole Angel Rodriguez Ramirez thing (she took us to a liquor store a member of our family owns on the tracks – he had been spotted IN the store like a week before – and he hadn’t been caught yet) but she wasn’t having that… So I guess I’ll just have to be extra special careful going and coming to the Firehouse… She’s all for the Palace though… Safety and money wise… She’d probably feel the same about Blancos and Kays if I told her about them… But I’ve already promised to go to 2 shows there this month and I plan on being at both of them, being extra careful. Come on I’m a single white reasonably attractive female who grew up in a city while not full of crime has enough to make ya cautious, I’m always careful…
Anyway I’m going to bed… Laters.
But at least I washed my car (by hand) so I worked off some of the calories… Sure I couldn’t find the thing of soap I’d gotten at Target so I had to use my old rose body wash, but that thing is darn near spotless…
So in the job arena… I have a meeting with Nancy (the temp agency lady) on Tuesday at 3. I also have an interview off Richmond and Sage at 11 am Tuesday morning for another job… What it entails I’m not exactly sure. A recruiter saw my resume on Monster and called me. I think its something about selling insurance, but I’ll see in the interview. If it is, I’m out… I’m no salesperson… Plus it looks like they want you to do some sort of schooling on insurance… Another major minus… Other than that I’m just going through classifieds, using Monster and other internet things…
I still need to go the admin building for SBISD and sign up to sub and see if they have any clerical/receptionist/teacher aides jobs open…
I also have to go downtown not once but twice… Once before next Friday to renew my registration and again after Monday to pay the $10 fee at the court house place (justice of the peace’s office). Lucky me… I hate going down there and now I have to do it twice…. Ugh…
Still no word from the cute boy… I’m beginning to wonder if I should move on… I know he’s a busy bee but still… Heck, I don’t even know if the friend gave him my message or not… So maybe theres still hope… I guess we’ll have to play the wait and see game… I hate that game… I have no patience for it…
Big item of the day… Saving the best for last, so to speak… My mom. Oh my… Poor dear is sick and didn’t go to work Wednesday and she came home early Thursday… Now she’s debating on whether to go today… I told her she should wait and see… She thinks she has acid reflux like I do… I’m like no, you’ll know when its that… You want to throw up all the time… She’s just got an upset tummy and she can’t stop burping… But she’s not nauseous. But that’s not my story about her… Oh no… She talked to John tonight, like she does every night… And this time he had some news for me… In the last 2 weeks there have been 2 murders by the Firehouse… Not at the firehouse but at 59 and Fountainview the same intersection as the Firehouse… Actaully it was people on the freeway that were pursued onto the feeder and then shot. Mom was like, I’m not going to tell you not to go (cuz according to her I’m an adult and can make my own decisions – afreakingmen thanks for noticing…) but I really don’t think you should… I tried to reassure her that I was only planning to go to a show or 2 this month anyway and that I take Richmond to Fountainview… She immediately goes into a spiel of that’s not a safe way, there are gangs and stuff there… And Sharpstown is right down that way too… It seems I can’t win for losing with her sometimes… I don’t know if she understands that I ALWAYS think I’m in some sort of danger, whether its physical or whatnot… I grew up in this city, I’m fairly certain I know the majority of the dangers and hazards I may face… Sure some areas are worse than others but there are places like the Firehouse, where I feel safe meeting friends… I know the doorguys and bartenders and theres always a cop or 3 around the building, so I don’t really feel as though NOT going there at all (like she suggested) is really the answer for me… Its like letting fear rule my life… Not going somewhere just because I know crime has occurred near there… I tried once again to point out the whole Angel Rodriguez Ramirez thing (she took us to a liquor store a member of our family owns on the tracks – he had been spotted IN the store like a week before – and he hadn’t been caught yet) but she wasn’t having that… So I guess I’ll just have to be extra special careful going and coming to the Firehouse… She’s all for the Palace though… Safety and money wise… She’d probably feel the same about Blancos and Kays if I told her about them… But I’ve already promised to go to 2 shows there this month and I plan on being at both of them, being extra careful. Come on I’m a single white reasonably attractive female who grew up in a city while not full of crime has enough to make ya cautious, I’m always careful…
Anyway I’m going to bed… Laters.
Wednesday, January 04, 2006
So last night… Was awesome… Went to the Palace about 7ish, met up with Nicole and them… Marshall seems bound and determined to call me Ali (not Aly – Ah-lee as in Muhammad), which is kinda cute and funny… I’ve been called that before but that was like UT tennis camp WAY back like the 80s… Ryan was great and the entire table I was at (all Galley peeps) got a kick out of heckling him. He even got an older couple up and dancing… That was kind of cool… There was a table of girls wanting to hear some ‘country’ and then they requested Clapton… (Indecisive much?) Then there was the girl who was determined that Ryan was singing directly to her… Ah I remember back when I was that girl… Thank God I got over that in a hurry… But yeah the whole night provided much entertainment… We all went over to Kay’s afterward and had a drink… I got home about 11:30 and went to bed… So I think there is some sort of conspiracy against me… I got home last night about 11:30 and went to bed shortly after that. My phone rang at 1 and my mom is calling me to ask where I am and if I can get her a Pepsi… At one a.m…. Craziness… But I guess since she didn’t hear me come in, I did pretty good at being quiet… She asked where I was and when I told her I was in bed, she was like “oh, ok. Night.” Then an hour later my phone rang again and it was Sean, making sure I’d gotten home okay. I go back to bed to be woken up by Mom’s alarm at 5… It keeps going off for like an hour… Then she’s on the phone talking and coming in my room and using the computer, and I finally get back to sleep about 7… Only to have La come in about 9 to use the computer… WTF?!?!? About 10 I gave up the ghost and just got up… So needless to say I’ve spent the day sort of out of it… I’m debating on whether I want to go watch the Rose Bowl at Kay’s or the Palace or just stay home and chill out tonight… We’ll wait and see… I went out last night and I’m thinking about going out tomorrow night… So we will see…
Before I left for Kays though… I had 2 phone calls that I’m really curious about… Both times it came up # unavailable… I hate when it does that… But the 2nd time I was getting ready and I faintly hear “Well I’m one bud-wiser… than I was…” I’m like holy crap… I forgot I set my ring to that so I run out of the bathroom and jump across the bed trying to get it. Whoever it was hung up right before I could yank it out of my purse… And they didn’t leave a voicemail… I hate when people do that… Especially when I have no idea whose calling… It could have been about a job (though at 6:45 that’s doubtful) or a call from a pay phone from a friend… Though there’s also the slight possibility that it was the hottie from last week… I don’t know if that friend ever gave him the message or not… I’ll ask the friend if he doesn’t call by 2morrow. Lets see, what else… Oh, yes… My mother… She stayed home sick today, so she had lots of extra time to nit pick me… I love her to death but when she’s got free time on her hands and me conveniently close, then its dissection of Ali time… I know she does it out of love and concern but its getting kinda old… A few examples…
“I’d like to see you doing more jobhunting every day…”
I didn’t mention theres only so much I can do, I have to wait for employers so decide whether they want to interview me based on my resume and I just started applying places in earnest Sunday night, so give me another day or so before bitching at me please.
I was walking down the stairs in a pair of clunky heeled sandals to go run errands…
“You should get rid of those old things, they’re too loud…”
Um, ok… I got em last summer and while they are clunkers I don’t think they’re THAT loud…
Another one… I went to run one last errand an hour or so ago and shes like have you done anything about looking for a job today? Have you looked at the airlines yet?”
I told her yeah, I had looked at Continental, Southwest and Delta but most jobs they had that I could (or would do) are in Dallas or California… Her reply?
“So move to Dallas or California… At least you’d have a job…”
Dood, I don’t have a death wish… I know Houston, I know people here, I know how to get around, short cuts and stuff, and I’m working on improving my dating life… You think I’m moving to Dallas (I have friends there sure but I could never live there – the traffic, the men… Yeah, no…) for a job? I think not… And California? Theres no way I’m leaving the damn state again… I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again… If I live in some other state EVER again, I will either be brain dead or in Hawaii, deeply in love or dead (technically not living but that’s beside the point)…
Away from that particularly touchy subject… I went to Soundwaves today… They finally have a section for womens clothes… I looked at their used CDs (a guy I swear had been at ½ price books like 20 minutes before was there too and no he wasn’t really attractive…) and shopped for the guys like I always do there… Then I looked around the new womens section… They had some cute stuff… Affordable too… I don’t know if I could wear much of it but I liked it… Most of it was too casual for teacher clothes or to look professional for working in an office or whatnot… Ah well… I did get a big ass brownie at their lil café and a Dr Pepper… I couldn’t finish the brownie cuz it was so damn chocolatey… But damn it was good…
Thinking of jobhunting… I did get an email from Nancy (the temp agency lady) that said to send her my new resume and we’d start trying to get me some work… I’m also going to SBISD’ s admin building tomorrow to ask about subbing and any other teacher’s aides jobs they might have open…
At some point I also need to take care of my ticket for my expired registration, but my court date isn’t till February 3rd and I have until the end of next week to renew it and pay a 10 $ fine (at least that’s how I understand it works). So that might be my plan for Friday…
Ok, this is entirely long enough… I think I’m going to quit now… laters.
Before I left for Kays though… I had 2 phone calls that I’m really curious about… Both times it came up # unavailable… I hate when it does that… But the 2nd time I was getting ready and I faintly hear “Well I’m one bud-wiser… than I was…” I’m like holy crap… I forgot I set my ring to that so I run out of the bathroom and jump across the bed trying to get it. Whoever it was hung up right before I could yank it out of my purse… And they didn’t leave a voicemail… I hate when people do that… Especially when I have no idea whose calling… It could have been about a job (though at 6:45 that’s doubtful) or a call from a pay phone from a friend… Though there’s also the slight possibility that it was the hottie from last week… I don’t know if that friend ever gave him the message or not… I’ll ask the friend if he doesn’t call by 2morrow. Lets see, what else… Oh, yes… My mother… She stayed home sick today, so she had lots of extra time to nit pick me… I love her to death but when she’s got free time on her hands and me conveniently close, then its dissection of Ali time… I know she does it out of love and concern but its getting kinda old… A few examples…
“I’d like to see you doing more jobhunting every day…”
I didn’t mention theres only so much I can do, I have to wait for employers so decide whether they want to interview me based on my resume and I just started applying places in earnest Sunday night, so give me another day or so before bitching at me please.
I was walking down the stairs in a pair of clunky heeled sandals to go run errands…
“You should get rid of those old things, they’re too loud…”
Um, ok… I got em last summer and while they are clunkers I don’t think they’re THAT loud…
Another one… I went to run one last errand an hour or so ago and shes like have you done anything about looking for a job today? Have you looked at the airlines yet?”
I told her yeah, I had looked at Continental, Southwest and Delta but most jobs they had that I could (or would do) are in Dallas or California… Her reply?
“So move to Dallas or California… At least you’d have a job…”
Dood, I don’t have a death wish… I know Houston, I know people here, I know how to get around, short cuts and stuff, and I’m working on improving my dating life… You think I’m moving to Dallas (I have friends there sure but I could never live there – the traffic, the men… Yeah, no…) for a job? I think not… And California? Theres no way I’m leaving the damn state again… I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again… If I live in some other state EVER again, I will either be brain dead or in Hawaii, deeply in love or dead (technically not living but that’s beside the point)…
Away from that particularly touchy subject… I went to Soundwaves today… They finally have a section for womens clothes… I looked at their used CDs (a guy I swear had been at ½ price books like 20 minutes before was there too and no he wasn’t really attractive…) and shopped for the guys like I always do there… Then I looked around the new womens section… They had some cute stuff… Affordable too… I don’t know if I could wear much of it but I liked it… Most of it was too casual for teacher clothes or to look professional for working in an office or whatnot… Ah well… I did get a big ass brownie at their lil café and a Dr Pepper… I couldn’t finish the brownie cuz it was so damn chocolatey… But damn it was good…
Thinking of jobhunting… I did get an email from Nancy (the temp agency lady) that said to send her my new resume and we’d start trying to get me some work… I’m also going to SBISD’ s admin building tomorrow to ask about subbing and any other teacher’s aides jobs they might have open…
At some point I also need to take care of my ticket for my expired registration, but my court date isn’t till February 3rd and I have until the end of next week to renew it and pay a 10 $ fine (at least that’s how I understand it works). So that might be my plan for Friday…
Ok, this is entirely long enough… I think I’m going to quit now… laters.
Tuesday, January 03, 2006
There are a few things I've forgotten over the last few days... First of all I forgot to write about what happened when I was watering the yard last night... So I was out watering the plants in the front and back last night... I had my IPod on and I was kinda singing along, as usual... So I go out front to turn off the sprinklers and I'm listening to Jonny Lang, some song I vaguely know (ie started making up words to) and I'm at the far sprinkler by the crazy neighbor and he's out doing God knows what... He tried to talk to me and I ignored him... Not only is he like internet stalking me, he's giving my sister the run around about insurance (since he hit her car last week-I still don't believe the "I saw it but forgot it was there'' excuse... Thats something I might have said after I had just gotten my license not at 30 years old....), he's trying to make himself part of the family (like thats gonna happen), AND he's been all up in my business where he has NO business (ie tattle telling jackass). So yeah ignoring him may have been small and petty but it gave me a small sense of satisfaction... Sure he'll probably go straight to mom but I no longer care. And if she asks me, she knows he's a nutter and I was wearing my IPod... :0)
I was also wondering what has happened to Wade... I've text him a few times, but I haven't heard from him since before Thanksgiving... No DDs, no nothing... I'm wondering if he dropped off the face of the earth...
I also had a dream about his friend Matt... I don't remember all the details anymore but it was something about him being sick (or was it hurt?) and Wade was feeding him chicken soup and no one would let me in (he had like 2 Marine guards at the door) to say hello... Very odd...
Another thing I forgot about was when I was at the Firehouse a few weeks ago, I had never realized how much Dale Jr merchandise that they have... The #8's plastered on various parts of the building, theres a huge banner strung along the bar with a pic of the #8, and a car model of the #8 hanging from the ceiling... Think Dwayne's a NASCAR fan? Or could that all be random? I don't know but I'm tempted to ask next time I'm there...
Yeah so its lunch time and I'm starving... Then its back to jobhunting... laters.
I was also wondering what has happened to Wade... I've text him a few times, but I haven't heard from him since before Thanksgiving... No DDs, no nothing... I'm wondering if he dropped off the face of the earth...
I also had a dream about his friend Matt... I don't remember all the details anymore but it was something about him being sick (or was it hurt?) and Wade was feeding him chicken soup and no one would let me in (he had like 2 Marine guards at the door) to say hello... Very odd...
Another thing I forgot about was when I was at the Firehouse a few weeks ago, I had never realized how much Dale Jr merchandise that they have... The #8's plastered on various parts of the building, theres a huge banner strung along the bar with a pic of the #8, and a car model of the #8 hanging from the ceiling... Think Dwayne's a NASCAR fan? Or could that all be random? I don't know but I'm tempted to ask next time I'm there...
Yeah so its lunch time and I'm starving... Then its back to jobhunting... laters.
Monday, January 02, 2006
Yippee…. Today was the first day in the last week or so I haven’t woken up because I couldn’t breath or I coughed so hard I woke myself up… I consider that amazing… I had one of those Ricola honey lemon cough suppressants last night right before I went to bed so I think all the credit for the sleeping late with no interruption to that lil miracle cough drop… I heart it mucho… So lets see… I had Whataburger for the first time since I’ve been home tonight for dinner. So it wasn’t the healthiest of meals but it took care of my craving for a burger and fries… I’m not good at denying myself something when I really want it… It’s a bad habit I know… But I’m a wee bit spoiled… Though can you be spoiled if you’re doing all the work to get what you want? I don’t know… So La slept till almost 4 and she’s already asleep… I’m shocked… Either she’s still really sick or the visit from the boyfriend exhausted her… Speaking of the boyfriend visiting I’m still shocked Mom let him crash her, knowing they sleep together… And that they’re not married… But he seems like a really nice, sincere guy and he seems to bring out the best in my sister… Which can be difficult, she can be a hard girl to get to know… So that’s cool… I don’t know how long term they are since they’re both still 1st year law students but I don’t think they’re really thinking long term at the moment…
Mom also had a brilliant idea to sort of teach Shar/Sean (the formerly hot neighbor whose now psycho) a lesson of sorts. Since he’s such a wanna be player and trying so hard to be a member of someone’s family she was like lets give him what for and have like a revolving door of nothing but hot men… He knows its just us girls, it’d drive him nuts… We all bust a gut, but I admit I’m tempted to start inviting the guys over more and all their friends and all the guys I know in general… Not mature at all but it’d be fun… Between my 2 sisters and I think we could take him… Shoot, just Linz and I could do it, between my friends and Ken’s friends, I think we have a shot at driving him straight to a padded cell… I’m evil I know but at least I’m not really going to do it… Ah well…
So I’m going to go to the Palace tomorrow night for Ryan Turner.. I’m hoping that guy will be there… I don’t know for sure if he will be or if he got my message or what… If he’s not on duty I’m pretty sure he may be there since I told him about it last week and he knows/likes Ryan… But if hes not there, I’ll be disappointed of course but if he calls I will be jumping off the walls in my excitement.
I’ve also spent like 3 or 4 hours jobhunting today… on the Chronicle.com and monster and on HISD’s website… Tomorrow I want to go to the SBISD admin building to sign up to be a sub and apply for any secretarial, clerical, or assistant teacher jobs that might be open… So hopefully I can start getting some interviews by the end of the week, beginning of next week…
That’s about it for now… laters.
Mom also had a brilliant idea to sort of teach Shar/Sean (the formerly hot neighbor whose now psycho) a lesson of sorts. Since he’s such a wanna be player and trying so hard to be a member of someone’s family she was like lets give him what for and have like a revolving door of nothing but hot men… He knows its just us girls, it’d drive him nuts… We all bust a gut, but I admit I’m tempted to start inviting the guys over more and all their friends and all the guys I know in general… Not mature at all but it’d be fun… Between my 2 sisters and I think we could take him… Shoot, just Linz and I could do it, between my friends and Ken’s friends, I think we have a shot at driving him straight to a padded cell… I’m evil I know but at least I’m not really going to do it… Ah well…
So I’m going to go to the Palace tomorrow night for Ryan Turner.. I’m hoping that guy will be there… I don’t know for sure if he will be or if he got my message or what… If he’s not on duty I’m pretty sure he may be there since I told him about it last week and he knows/likes Ryan… But if hes not there, I’ll be disappointed of course but if he calls I will be jumping off the walls in my excitement.
I’ve also spent like 3 or 4 hours jobhunting today… on the Chronicle.com and monster and on HISD’s website… Tomorrow I want to go to the SBISD admin building to sign up to be a sub and apply for any secretarial, clerical, or assistant teacher jobs that might be open… So hopefully I can start getting some interviews by the end of the week, beginning of next week…
That’s about it for now… laters.
Sunday, January 01, 2006
Allrighty, so I decided not to make New Year’s resolutions but instead to make a set of goals that I think I can achieve by the end of the year. The reason for this is that resolutions are usually huge things you know you’re never going to be able to do, while goals for the year make it more realistic. So here’s my list of goals for the year 2006.
1. I will find a job, whether it be in an office or school, as long as its not retail, sales or working around food, and lets me make enough money to live on then I’m happy.
2. Hand in hand with that, I will learn to budget better. I will learn to control my spending impulses and not bounce a check in 2006. I’m old enough I should have been doing this long ago, and I have no excuse for not doing so. I have to start paying my own bills, so I need to have enough money set aside for that, food, gas, and a lil money for entertainment. Hopefully soon after I get my own place I can start saving money to get a pet and then I will have to budget enough money per month for that as well.
3. I will lose at least 12 pounds. At least. I lost 30 pounds while I was working at Dillards, but somehow gained back almost 15 pounds between going back to school and the holidays. So before I can get new clothes for my new job I need to lose the weight. It doesn’t mean however that I stop jobhunting of course, I’ll just continue wearing my old clothes until the pounds disappear.
4. Along with the losing weight, I will also begin and maintain a healthier lifestyle. No more smoking (sigh), start working out again, cut back on the cursing, eat healthier, and don’t allow drama to stress me out.
5. I also want to start dating more in 2006, I had a handful of dates in 05, but I think I’d like to actively pursue having another relationship maybe. If I could find the right guy. In order to do that, I need to maintain my standards and go places single guys go. I also need to learn more about the dating ‘game’ in general. I know what sort of person I’d like to be involved with I just need to figure out how to go about getting it. Which is part of the reason I’m reading Dr. Phil’s book, Love Smart, hopefully that can help me a little.
Those are the main ones that I’d sort of been thinking about the last day or so. If I think of anymore I’ll add them. For now this is it. My list. I may falter, I may fall, but by the end of 2006 I hope to achieved all of these goals and maybe a few more. Laters.
1. I will find a job, whether it be in an office or school, as long as its not retail, sales or working around food, and lets me make enough money to live on then I’m happy.
2. Hand in hand with that, I will learn to budget better. I will learn to control my spending impulses and not bounce a check in 2006. I’m old enough I should have been doing this long ago, and I have no excuse for not doing so. I have to start paying my own bills, so I need to have enough money set aside for that, food, gas, and a lil money for entertainment. Hopefully soon after I get my own place I can start saving money to get a pet and then I will have to budget enough money per month for that as well.
3. I will lose at least 12 pounds. At least. I lost 30 pounds while I was working at Dillards, but somehow gained back almost 15 pounds between going back to school and the holidays. So before I can get new clothes for my new job I need to lose the weight. It doesn’t mean however that I stop jobhunting of course, I’ll just continue wearing my old clothes until the pounds disappear.
4. Along with the losing weight, I will also begin and maintain a healthier lifestyle. No more smoking (sigh), start working out again, cut back on the cursing, eat healthier, and don’t allow drama to stress me out.
5. I also want to start dating more in 2006, I had a handful of dates in 05, but I think I’d like to actively pursue having another relationship maybe. If I could find the right guy. In order to do that, I need to maintain my standards and go places single guys go. I also need to learn more about the dating ‘game’ in general. I know what sort of person I’d like to be involved with I just need to figure out how to go about getting it. Which is part of the reason I’m reading Dr. Phil’s book, Love Smart, hopefully that can help me a little.
Those are the main ones that I’d sort of been thinking about the last day or so. If I think of anymore I’ll add them. For now this is it. My list. I may falter, I may fall, but by the end of 2006 I hope to achieved all of these goals and maybe a few more. Laters.
So its now New Years Day. And what did I do last night? I visited with mom, la, john and la’ s boyfriend, Chris… Went to dinner at La Mad, came home and decided NOT to go out. I had invites out to a bunch of places (Katy, Kemah, the Sidecar) and a couple of other places I could have gone but just didn’t feel like going out. I was just so tired last night. Seriously, if I hadn’t have started reading this month’s Cosmo at 11:30, I would NOT have managed to stay awake till midnight. I spent almost 2 hours rereading stuff I’d written in my blog over the last year and wrote that summary I posted last night. There was some stuff I completely forgot about happening at the beginning of last year, for good reason – drama sucks. For about 2 seconds I thought about going to Coldspring, till I found out it was on Lake Livingston… I’m sorry no matter how hot the boy, I’m not driving 3 hours roundtrip on New Years Eve. So yeah I flipped between Carson Daly’s New Year’s thing and Dick Clarks… Saw the ball drop on Carson Daly’s thingy. Finished Cosmo and laid down about 1… After a plethora of texts were sent and received. One drunken call and then Richelle called and we were on the phone a good hour. Then I finally went to bed… Woke myself up with the whole coughing thing at like 8 this morning… Somehow managed to get back to sleep till noon… Woke up, showered, and mom made brunch for everyone. La, and Chris and her and John then Linz and Ken came over later. She told me yesterday I could invite someone over too if I wanted to, but I kind of tried to shrug her off… Then it kinda hit me… I’m the only one that’s single in my family right now. I don’t mind. I’ve been single like 2 years and I enjoy it… Its just sometimes a very lonely life. Speaking of being single on New Years… I have at least 5 other single and awesome friends that stayed home alone last night… I was reading Cosmo and it said 67 percent of people were staying home this year, but I’m thinking that’s mainly couples, though it could be a mix of both. B almost had me convinced at like 11 to go over to his place (like 10 minutes away), but I was in my PJs and didn’t feel like going anywhere… God I’m getting old… I’m going to see Ryan Turner Tuesday at the Palace (7-10 pm – no cover!!!) and I know I’ll make it an early night (at least before 1 am – that’s early for me). I hope that that guy shows up… Heck I hope he calls… I’ve had some really interesting dreams about him… And no not all of them sexual. Though there have been a few doozies… If he’s half as good as in my dreams I’ll be a VERY happy camper… ;0) Ok, I won’t start gushing about him but I’m very tempted…
So New Year’s resolutions… I’m not really making any this year… To me resolutions are meant to be broken. Instead what I’m going to do is make a list of goals I want to meet this year. Much more realistic and much more likely to be effective. I’ll post those as soon as I get it all done… But its very basic… Get a job, lose ___ pounds, get my own place, get a pet, date more, etc… Things that can be done maybe not with a deadline but can get done this year for sure. K, that’s about it for now… Laters.
So New Year’s resolutions… I’m not really making any this year… To me resolutions are meant to be broken. Instead what I’m going to do is make a list of goals I want to meet this year. Much more realistic and much more likely to be effective. I’ll post those as soon as I get it all done… But its very basic… Get a job, lose ___ pounds, get my own place, get a pet, date more, etc… Things that can be done maybe not with a deadline but can get done this year for sure. K, that’s about it for now… Laters.
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