Not Your Average Jane

This is actually 3 blogs combined..... From over the last week or so... The newest is on the top.

12/30 New Years Eve Eve
Ok so the show last night was awesome.... If not more so because I got to hear 9 Bullets like I've been dying to all week... And I found out its a Drive By Truckers cover song Justin does... Which makes me feel soo much better than thinking I was going nuts when I thought he wrote it....
I had wayyyyy more to drink than I usually do.... 4 shots.... 3 of which had too much Jager.... But I took em all the same way... Like a sissy.... So anyway I got home about 1 or so and I was zonked out by 2....
Tomorrow's NYE and today I finally made plans.... Some friends are going to meet at one persons house, hang out, play games, watch movies and then barhop for a couple of hours... Then back to that friends house before midnight to hang out, watch the ball drop and after midnight go home...
And I did actually make some New Years goals... I hate calling them resolutions, that just seems like giving myself the excuse to break em or not follow through on them....
So far I have:
1. Get the dog a new food bowl (I broke her old one before Christmas in a freak dish accident and she's been eating out of a paper bowl since.).
2. Get the new Cross Canadian Ragweed CD California, it's the first Ragweed CD I haven't gotten within a few weeks of its release…
3. Follow through with stuff more… I'm realllly bad about following through on stuff and I need to work on that…
4. Quit stalking Orlando Bloom. Its not healthy and not even the cutest accent is worth having a restraining order out against you… :0)
5. Get a better job. Hopefully one that lets me work with kids but pays well too.
6. Hang out with friends more often, and not always in just bars
7. Learn to dance more than just the basic 2 step and jitterbug – maybe learn to salsa?
8. I'm gonna live, laugh, love just for today. Gonna take all the trouble that tomorrow might bring and put it away. Gonna drink every drop of happiness. 'Til they cover me up (ok so I'm so plagiarizing Clay Walker but it's a good goal…) :0)
I may actually end up doing number one tomorrow... We'll see... I need to go to the post office to drop off a couple of things and get some stamps too.... Maybe I'll do number 2 too since I also want to get the Drive By Truckers CD with 9 Bullets on it... We'll see...
Thats it for the moment...
laters.

December 28th....

So I survived...
I have officially survived all the family fun....
Mom picked me up at 8 Wednesday morning and we hit up the Galleria for the after Christmas sales.... After almost 5 hours of shopping we called it a day and went to lunch. Final tally: 3 new shirts for 42 dollars at Macy's, 2 new pairs of black dress shoes for $100 at Macy's, and about $90 for a pair of brown boots that look like Uggs and cute brown dress shoes at Nine West.... I also got a new desk calendar and day planner for 10 bucks.... I cleaned up I think....
The only place we didn't go that I wanted to was Victoria''s Secret.....
But then I probably would have gotten in mucho trouble there..... So its probably a good thing we didn't go....
So after we were done shopping we all went out to lunch at California Pizza Kitchen.... Total yumminess.... Got dropped off about 3 and took a nap....
Wednesday and Thursday I was pretty much a recluse since I was sick of people... It rarely happens but when it does I just need some space to recharge. So Friday the repair guys came and fixed my bathrub leak (another maintence problem I'd reported like 2 weeks ago) and they were finally gone by 3 so I could go run my errands....
So I finished up my laundry at Mom's, got some cash, and went to Walgreens... Where I ended up loading up on greeting cards... They were having a bit of a special so I got a bunch....
So after dinner and taking the dog to the park (where of course she went nuts) I got ready to go to the Firehouse.... Got there about nine ish to find the first band was already on.... They weren't bad... Kind of young but they had potential.... And cute as buttons too... Check em out http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=114812042 The Josh Abbott Band. I may have a new profile song in "Taste"... And the lead guitarist had the coolest looking guitar.... Funny tidbit about him... His name was Austin but he's from Houston, but the band's based out of Lubbock (ie probably all went/go to Tech)... Ok so maybe its only funny to me....
ANYWAY so Adam Hood comes on about 10 ish and he was awesome, though his set was waaaaaaaaay too short... Literallly about 45 minutes, IF that. But it was still really good... Even if I didn't get to hear Justin do 9 Bullets. There's always tonight....
So then Stoney comes on about 11 and what can I really say that hasn't been said... He's Stoney freaking Larue.... He's one of the guys that can't do anything I don't like..... He could just stand there and I'd be happy....
But anyway I ended up hanging out most of the night with J's ex and a teacher chick that's always at the Bleu shows at the Firehouse.... Ran into a shitlaod of people I know... Both from Galley, a few from myspace (one whom I'd never met but been friends with on myspace for like a year even), a musician friend or two too, and some guys from back in the Mark Miller at Kay's Lounge days.... Its really bad I've had a thing for one of them for a while and I STILL don't know his name... Its very vexing....
Anyway I have to go to Mom's to shower, since I can't use my bathtub til tomorrow... No way am I going out tonight looking, feeling or even smelling like I do.... I walked through the smokers section a couple of times and I picked up a bit of that smell in my hair and skin.... Ah well...
Laters.


December 25th, 2007
PCSD
I've just invented a new disease... PCSD. Post Christmas Stress Disorder.
Its only cure - a shot of alcohol.
Soooo while my Christmas was pretty sweet.... It almost left me with the urge to kill my whole family... Hence the invention of my newest disease... And its cure....
Too bad I don't have any hard liquor and all the bars and liquor stores are closed. Darnit man.
So lets see for Christmas eve... The whole fam did dinner around 6. Then we looked at Christmas lights and went to the 9 oclock service... Where we ran into a guy that is a friend of the family but we hadn't seen in years.... He joked he was surprised the place hadn't fallen down around us when we walked in. He didn't know it but I was bracing myself for just such an event.... So then this morning we do presents... Then watched Ratatoulle... And had brunch... Then we went to see Enchanted and had dinner. I got home around 7 and have been throroughly enjoying the first evening to myself at my own house in over a week. Its awesome.....
Why haven't I been at my house at night in over a week?
Simple. I had a broken window....
I reported it a week ago... Then the leasing company was bought by another company and Wednesday was their first day on the property.... And they had no record of my request... So I had to request it get fixed again... So Thursday they came and measured... Friday the contractor was supposed to come... Never did. Saturday he was supposedly on his way around noon. Never came. After yet another angry phone call to the office, it finally got fixed Monday morning. I've been sleeping at mom's, mostly on the couch since I discovered the window was broken... Coming back to walk Maggie and eat pretty much. And then pretty much Wednesday night on we did family type stuff anyway... Wednesday John took us all out to dinner at Mark's.... Thursday was the day we went to the Nutcracker... Then Friday and Saturday and Sunday were pretty much just hanging out, doing Christmas stuff, watching movies and shopping....
Speaking of which we're hitting up the early morning sales at the Galleria. AT 730 in the freaking morning!!!!!! Which means I have to get up around 630. At least I'm getting picked up and don't have to deal with driving or the headache of parking at the Galleria.
Anyway I'm decked the halls out... lol...
I'm going to walk the dog and hit the hay.
Laters.

posted by Ali @ 12:18 AM 0 Comments

So tomorrow I turn 29....

There have been days I didn't think I'd live to be this old...

And there have been others I didnt worry about my age...

Yesterday was almost one of those.

Then I started thinking about where I'm supposed to be in my life plan...

But you know what they say... You want to see God laugh? Make plans...

So now I'm back to taking it one day at a time...

Soooooooooooooo I spent most of the weekend working on Christmas cards. And I sent out most of them today... I have another batch I just finished up tonight and I'll drop in the mail box tomorrow.

And when I thought I was done Christmas shopping on Friday... Saturday I'm reminded I need to get something for my stepdad... But I have no idea what thats gonna be yet... He's got to be the most difficult man to shop for ever.... Most dudes I know are happy with something that relates to music, extreme sports, or just clothing... If worse comes to worse I can always get him a gift card and put it in a cute little polar bear card...

So I dyed my hair blond again... I'm tired of going between blond and red for now.... So I'm just gonna stick with the blond for the forseeable future....

And my cell phone's being wacky right now... So if you need me you'll have to email me, or message me on myspace....

Thats it for the moment.

Laters.

posted by Ali @ 1:00 AM 0 Comments

I love this time of year... Every day someone with a birthday or some holiday almost every freaking day for over a month... How often does that happen????? And all the good stuff that goes along with Christmas... How can you not love it?

But there is one sad point in the whole holiday season thing.... Decemeber 18th is one of my big sad anniversaries. I don't have a lot of days I let myself be down but the 18th is one of them. October 1st is another one of those days.... But the 18th of this month is the bigger of the two. At least to me...

December 18th is the official anniversary of my dad's death. This year it'll be 17 years since he died. And every year on the 18th I just take the day to sort of reflect, having a good cry and just trying to remember the good stuff about him. But every year the picture I have of him in my head gets foggier and foggier... Its like an old picture of him that just keeps fraying around the edges in my head... And as more time goes by the picture gets more and more frayed around the edges and I have to focus more to be able to see it.... Luckily I have a few pictures of him around and the whole family is pretty open about talking about him... And about how life was when he was around. And as my mom likes to say... She's got a constant reminder in the 3 of us girls.

As for October 1st... That's his birthday... And its not as big a day as the 18th of December but its still a biggie. I may suck at remembering peoples birthdays as a whole but that one is etched in the granite of my mind.

Which in a way brings me to thinking about my own birthday. I plan to spend the next couple of nights at Blanco's... Friday seeing Dane Cook... And Saturday a slumber party at a friend's house.... If thats still on that is... I haven't confirmed that in the last few days... And at some point I need to go by Mom's and do the presents thing (since I have a crap load of new clothes)... And eventually we're all going to get together (probably once La's back in town) probably next week sometime for a big bday dinner with me and Baby since hers is Sunday....

Anyway thats it for the moment.

Laters.

posted by Ali @ 10:45 PM 0 Comments