best thing:
church (last service at home... then back to swat, where i actually go to church more often. hm.)
the renaissance festival with mom and sarah! (swordsmen, lucky bells, bottles of scented oils, a big pickle, handsome horses...funfun!)
going out with sarah and michelle and joey and kristin
seeing kristin's house and meeting her charming tabby kitten, nemesis
eating too much food at amol indian restaurant
a stop at the buzz, where michelle and joe and kristin knew lots of people, and sarah and i were introduced to many people whose names we promptly forgot (and of course no one could tell us apart... hrm...)
oscar's (fabulous! i say 'fabulous' a lot lately. interesting, at least. a drag show, and dancing, and other things. heh...)
worst thing:
the non-neutered territorial male cat that belongs to kristin's roommate and stinks up the entire first floor of their house
so much cigarette smoke (buzz coffeehouse, oscar's... ew! *sneeze*)
suspicious character on the dance floor
the downside of a drag show (okay... many men... many attractive... virtually all gay... dammit. dammit! oh well.)
a giant spider in my room (had to stand on a stepstool, trap it in a cup, scoot it down the wall, slide a piece of paper over the top... then i didn't feel particularly merciful, so i flushed it down the toilet.)
nosebleed in the shower (probably from all the damn smoke that made me sneeze. grrrrr.)
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August 26, 2000.
best thing:
walking down to pfefferle's with mom to get the car
cfg picnic (cfg = swil grown up)
veggie burgers at said picnic, how hostly!
scott's cheesecake
playing frisbee with a hat
a song on 97x called "i hate my frickin' ISP!"
playing my ace of base tape loudly, because i'm a dork, and i remember seventh grade (i was a dork, then, too...lol...)
running to the playground after dark where i was generally bouncy and climbed on things and kicked around a soccer ball
making plans, for once
IMing hollis (yay hollis!) and david and michelle
worst thing:
too too much food
people in my family who don't think it necessary to actually answer the phone when it rings...
accidentally killing a light bulb
************
August 25, 2000.
best thing:
last day of work!
and a paycheck!
and $2 for an instant credit!
seeing nancy's new granddaughter (tiny, lovely, lots of hair)
a visit from alaina at work
worst thing:
6 hours of daria during my work hours, rar!
owie eye (i've rubbed it so much it looks like someone hit me... ouch.)
************
August 24, 2000.
best thing:
early breakfast with mutti at panera (apple croissant and caffe borgia, mmm...)
out to lunch with amber at bob evan's
speed-setting the sale with amber (it's not that hard, people...)
seeing space cowboys with the family
worst thing:
somehow setting my alarm for 4 am
that one scene in the movie... where the kid threw up... ergghh...
************
August 23, 2000.
best thing:
a customer getting a $200 free wardrobe on her scratch-off card, that was exciting
re-filing (found a checkbook i didn't know i had, new yorkers i'd been meaning to clip for three years...)
labeling photos
going out to dinner with grandma and grandpa
cute children at the restaurant
worst thing:
a woman at work wearing obscenely short shorts, literally
chinese buffet restaurant (look, we can be gluttonous and cheap! better eat more!)
************
August 22, 2000.
best thing:
short work shift
wal*mart shopping (file box and planner and cashews and tea, who's not in hyde park... what?)
worst thing:
being sent places
hungry/tired/headachey at work
conscientiously healthful eating followed by the sudden consumption of a sizeable portion of starbuck's dulce de leche ice cream straight from the container
mosquito bite (the first of the summer, i think, so i guess i shouldn't complain)
************
August 21, 2000.
best thing:
breakfast at panera (got my free coffee today, too)
running into shelley again before work--i wish i'd visited more home friends this summer. :(
packing a lunch
a goldfinch sitting on the purple coneflower outside my bedroom window
running to the playground and playing, in spite of all the little soccer children and parents there
worst thing:
general disorder at work
more driving with grandpa (left on red after complete stop is not legal here... or anywhere else this side of the atlantic...)
being nearly crushed by a stampede of high school runners on my way back from the playground
************
August 20, 2000.
best thing:
brunch with con and lucy at bagel boulevard
downtown to see the pigs with sarah and dad and susie (piggies! fun! fabulous! there will be pigtures, eventually.)
perfect weather for pigging
cards and tea with mutti
worst thing:
an egg and cheese bagel (veganism? i dunno... eep!)
dinner out of boxes and served on paper plates
************
August 19, 2000.
best thing:
gardening in the wet grass with my bare feet on, and riding the little garden scooter down hills in the yard
looking for wallpaper with susie
central pastry, also with susie: chocolate things and a strawberry cake
a visit to con and lucy's, where we defended ourselves from the onslaught of stuff
vegetables (stuffed tomatoes, corn on the cob, baked potatoes)
subjecting susie and dad to being john malkovich
strawberry cake with fresh strawberries and vanilla ice cream
worst thing:
the unexpected closing of the parrot (for a family vacation... the nerve...)
con and lucy trying to give us things... aargh...
discovering that my little fridge has gotten moldy sitting in the garage all summer
************
August 18, 2000.
best thing:
off to dad's house
a new car (this perplexed me. here is my father, but where is his car? how did he get here?)
worst thing:
a ride from grandpa to work (stopped at two green lights; nearly turned left into another car)
confusion about who was to pick me up at work (grandmaternal confusion/forgetfulness/worry... bad...)
************
August 17, 2000.
best thing:
breakfast at panera with michelle (and buying her food = not being indebted = good)
nancy's new baby granddaughter
scrap paper (which the people at work do not adequately appreciate, so i took it home for myself)
fixing things (the ticket gun, the stapler... but i am not clever enough to fix the register)
loud thunderstorms
worst thing:
20% shopping pass for charge customers
queue numbers
malfunctioning register (wouldn't scan, had to hand enter each 12-digit ski number...)
customers! who are rude! and whiny! and unreasonable!
************
August 16, 2000.
best thing:
eating lunch at panera with michelle
nancy b. working in lingerie to keep me company (okay, that sounds wrong...)
starbuck's ice cream with mutti
worst thing:
customers after closing, and unappreciative ones at that
************
August 15, 2000.
best thing:
working over in lingerie with wanda
having the foresight to take my remaining money out of my wallet before going to work
shopping at big lots, where everything is cheap! and so am i...
worst thing:
difficulties with a refund, because i'm stupid. blech.
another bug in the peanut butter crackers (i never learn! but now i have thrown them out.)
************
August 14, 2000.
best thing:
fooling around online for essentially the entire day
the imaginary rope i seem to jump whenever i think about impending swat (!)
fruit and soy milk
worst thing:
stupid webpage! my html incompetence...
taking an hour to get to sleep (excited, already... ridiculous...)
************
August 13, 2000.
best thing:
church
tgif for brunch with mutti and alan and oma
meijer shopping! too much shtuff, funfun
worst thing:
general clumsiness/idiocy (spilling tea on floor and husband, toothpaste on shirt, purse in water...)
customers who persist in shopping after we have closed
************
August 12, 2000.
best thing:
thrifting with mutti (pjs, stockings, pants, 2 dresses, 3 shirts, robe, shoes, knife, skirt = $22 or so. heehee.)
pizza at dewey's (tomatoes and goat cheese and artichokes and mushrooms, yum.)
same day return of sammy
worst thing:
escaped sammy
needing a haircut, badly
work until 11 (who the hell shops at elder-beerman at 11 on saturday night? ridiculous.)
************
August 11, 2000.
best thing:
mushroom gardenburgers
more bed collage (i should bring my bed to swat next year. but i don't suppose i can. alas.)
worst thing:
the sudden termination of a veritable shitload of elder-beerman employees (made for interesting gossip/panic/distraction, though.)
grandpa's driving habits: left foot on brake, right foot on accelerator. simultaneously.
artificial sweetener
one-day sale that lasts four days
when people let the cats get out and i have to go chase them
"crash and burn" by savage garden (sorry, hollis. they play it every day at work; it drives me nuts.)
************
August 10, 2000.
best thing:
finishing good omens
vanilla soy milk
de-collaging and re-collaging my bed
worst thing:
not packing a lunch = getting hungry and buying an orange soda and payday bar for lunch
5 customers after the closing announcement
************
August 9, 2000.
best thing:
finishing girl with curious hair
tornado sirens, funfunfun
worst thing:
not doing very much that was on my list of things to do
an excess of root beer
************
August 8, 2000.
best thing:
mongo actually sitting on my lap for a minute or so
making pasta salad with fresh tomatoes for lunch (really fresh, i picked them from the rainy garden myself, filled my shirt up with them.)
blueberry smoothie
seeing mrs. nelson at work
worst thing:
spending the last of my money on a blueberry smoothie
work (13 more days...)
grandparental forgetfulness
************
August 7, 2000.
best thing:
early morning thunderstorms
seeing the new animal clinic (ohh and such a cute kitten to adopt but we didn't.)
performing a turtle rescue mission on elk creek road (susie and i weren't dressed for it, but we managed)
lunch at panera with vicki (finally! maybe we will still go sailing.)
re-organizing magazine clippings
worst thing:
jack choosing to run into my room at about 6 a.m. and open my cabinet and knock things out of it onto the floor
sad phone call from an unwell michelle at work (but i think she got to go home, so that's good.)
guilt
************
August 6, 2000.
best thing:
a double bass in my room (i think it should stay there. i like it.)
continued birthday et al: lunch and x-men and the cupcake store and dinner with jesse...
david foster wallace (girl with curious hair ...read, i command you.)
worst thing:
bleach (and the way all my clothing washed at my dad's house ends up splashed with it.)
************
August 5, 2000.
best thing:
the return of sammy!
ruby tuesday's for dinner with jesse and his mother and my father and stepmother... all those people...
jesse over for birthday celebration and such
extremely early birthday presents for me
worst thing:
working on a saturday that i'm at my dad's... stupid scheduling...
rushing around everywhere
************
August 4, 2000.
best thing:
wanda and nancy across the way to keep me company
continuing to resist the temptation of the 35% employee discount
worst thing:
still no sammy
being overcharged for lunch and not saying anything, since i'm me
dazed and half-asleep all day...
************
August 3, 2000.
best thing:
sam our former spec will be living in our old room... heehee!
kings island with sarah (vortex, racer, swings, the twirly rides, ice cream, top gun, face/off, interesting people-watching...)
a long and bizarre letter from david, fabulous!
sitting around with sarah and talking until (whoops) it was 6:30
worst thing:
no sammy
going to bed at 6:30 when we both had to be at work at 1
************
August 2, 2000.
best thing:
seeing shelley at the mall (she works at auntie anne's, the pretzel place! wow.)
buying apricot raspberry cookies on my break
actually making plans with sarah for tomorrow
worst thing:
scary detailed dreams
returning something that had been bought two years ago (in violation of the thirty-day policy? naah...)
************
August 1, 2000.
best thing:
it's august! yay!
amusing dinner
border's (money in, money out... immediately...)
seeing michael the future swattie
seeing henry from the theatre
worst thing:
it's august! eep!
customers who ask me to ring things up when i am doing markdowns at the other end of our area ("there are lines at those registers, can you ring these up?" riiiight... since there is no register in this department... let me check my pockets, maybe i have one with me... no, you morons! i cannot!)
many many many markdowns
************
July 31, 2000.
best thing:
puzzles et al at panera
impressive webpages
making pretty designs on my arm with colored pens ("not evaluated for cosmetic use on the skin" ... bah!)
worst thing:
markdowns
the largest mountain of stock i have ever seen
malfunctioning scan guns
being informed that my khakis are not, in fact, khakis
not being able to go sailing with vicki and bob again
************
July 30, 2000.
best thing:
church
lebanese pastries
gin (playing it, not drinking it)
finding a forgotten paycheck in a stack of papers
worst thing:
markdowns
customers who are morons, that is to say, customers
************
July 29, 2000.
best thing:
paycheck
15 minute breaks with michelle
going to acapulco's for a late dinner with michelle and joey
makeup shopping at meijer with joey
worst thing:
no cash flow
the return of the phone freak (but i don't think he'll be calling again)
************
July 28, 2000.
best thing:
old horse books
going out with chris and micah (flaming kung fu zombies, ass-trumpeters, empathy as a superpower...)
pizza at uno's
worst thing:
returning cold?
paying $20.01 for dinner when i think i bought about $8 worth of food
************
July 27, 2000.
best thing:
unpacking christmas merchandise instead of dealing with customers
showing lynn my webpage
worst thing:
late grandpa = begging ride from chris
falling asleep in the middle of the floor
************
July 26, 2000.
best thing:
"rock lobster" by the b-52s
an rem song other than "at my most beautiful" played at work ("bang and blame")
packing a lunch
feeling computer-competent (relatively speaking...)
nice last-minute customer
worst thing:
"astronaut" by the ass ponys
many boxes of ugly stock
************
July 25, 2000.
best thing:
writing letters
sort of finishing the cruise page
apricots
blueberries
going to lynn's
worst thing:
not cleaning
************
July 24, 2000.
best thing:
having 11 people's i.d. numbers memorized at work (it frightens them. hah.)
nicole and casey's fitting room secret club
making a nice box for my nail polish
worst thing:
peeling off my pretty red nail polish
boring slow work
dinner
missing sarah's email and phone call about going to kings island
************
July 23, 2000.
best thing:
j.b.'s farm and horses
lovely weather
bloodhound puppy at rest stop
bow tie pasta salad
bad tv
worst thing:
long trip back
pbj reese's cups (but dad and i didn't let them tempt us the whole trip back, no, we ate them all in the first hour or two. hah.)
************
July 22, 2000.
best thing:
painting my nails sparkly red (dorothy's ruby slippers or diner seats)
family reunion (family, nice weather, food, playground...)
visiting the cemetery (commentary by j.b. and jeff, re: kuykendalls and gravestones. heehee.)
dinner at a random mexican restaurant (they had room for a party of 20. we were impressed.)
worst thing:
long drive
family reunion (talent show, random relatives, southern illinois...)
************
July 21, 2000.
best thing:
garden tour at dad's
mst3k movie (funny, silly. may have to see more...)
worst thing:
drugged daze
work
messy fitting rooms
************
July 20, 2000.
best thing:
only four hours of work
a trysta-visit at e-b
blueberries
worst thing:
cold ('s not fun. heh heh..)
work (stupidpettyirritatingpointlessgrrrrrrr...)
weird nyquil (maybe the same as codeine and me, i dunno. made me really sleepy but prevented me from sleeping.)
nosebleed
************
July 19, 2000.
best thing:
cleaning (funny how my day off is more work than the rest of the week put together.)
daria (haha haven't watched that in a long time. funfun.)
worst thing:
impending cold
stupid old friend person of mutti's
************
July 18, 2000.
best thing:
reasonably healthy food
interesting work: shoplifters and cross-dressers and wanda to keep me company in the evening
cat antics (marble and bath mat and silly kitties...)
worst thing:
sickies: grandpa and uncle steve brought a cold back with them; everyone is catching it
************
July 17, 2000.
best thing:
postcard from eileen from france (or rather, from france from eileen. yeah.)
cherries
apricots
yoga
worst thing:
uncle steve leaving (er, again.)
ineffective dishwasher (i dislike finding bits of old vegetable matter in the bottom of my tea.)
************
July 16, 2000.
best thing:
bagel butterflies
seeing uncle steve's alaska pictures (he got photos of actual whales. humph.)
worst thing:
uncle steve leaving
being clueless (dad: "you knew about ann's mastectomy, right?" me: "um...no...")
WORK
uncle steve not leaving (not that i wanted him to, but the airline was being a bitch and we had to go get him and take him back to the airport the next morning. rar.)
************
July 15, 2000.
best thing:
lunch at ruby tuesday's with michelle (bug in salad = free chocolate tallcake...mmm...)
buying stuff (bad! but it would have been $110 full price, and i got it for $18. doesn't that count for anything?)
going to the buzz with michelle (i ordered a hot frothy bunny, just so i could say "i'd like a hot frothy bunny, please." it was worth it.)
a mini-tour of uc (yay college campus! even though it wasn't swat. still nice.)
grandma's paranoia/worrying/overprotectiveness (comes in handy when i've forgotten my house key and it's 3 a.m.)
real mail
worst thing:
curling iron mishap, ow
horrible people who leave a dozen things wadded up in the corner of the dressing room for me to hang up and put back
noticing that i'm catching an ohioan accent from amber
cockroaches
slugs
being locked out of the house very late at night
************
July 14, 2000.
best thing:
uncle steve
bagel + coffee + puzzles at panera
classical music in the morning (i really can't deal with lyrics before noon.)
confetti stars (i made a mess, heehee...)
box in receiving marked "bad tree don't sell" (strange things amuse me when i haven't had enough sleep.)
thunderstorm
ward connerly loses! haha! (or at least is slowed down...)
semi-intelligent editorials in the enquirer for a change
improvised dinner at tandoor
pineapple delight at aglamesis' bros.
worst thing:
uncooperative hair
forgetting to use the coffee card at panera
thunderstorm messing up the phones and isp at work
the sprinkler system at pacific moon going berserk and closing down the kitchen... no dinner for us :(
************
July 13, 2000.
best thing:
early morning shopping at bigg's
lots of stock to keep me busy
packing a lunch
tangerine shake
willpower
worst thing:
keeping busy with stock when i should have been setting a sale
a bug in my peanut butter crackers
negating the money-saving effect of packing a lunch by buying dessert
crosswinds misbehaving
************
July 12, 2000.
best thing:
sleeping in until 10:30
cleaning the bathroom (including my usual convention of mopping the floor while standing on the toilet and rinsing the mop in the tub. haha.)
making curried fruit and tofu with quinoa for lunch (i was not exactly faithful to the recipe, but it used up the damn tofu and quinoa.)
fun with dynamic drive
worst thing:
whiny cat waking me up at 6:45
smell of ammonia-based cleaners (like the barn in august. at least i stopped short of using the bleach stuff with it.)
glass cleaner (tip for beginners: make sure the nozzle is pointed at the surface to be cleaned, and not your face. yeah. i'm chemically delicious.)
stupid computer claiming it hasn't got enough memory for anything
************
July 11, 2000.
best thing:
cinnamon crunch bagels
cribbage
late-night grocery shopping (i got to pick out whatever cleaning products i wanted, and mutti paid for them! woohoo! um...)
yoga
playing dress-up
worst thing:
crowded panera at lunch
stock (long-sleeved turtlenecks in july, juniors' shirts saying "daddy's girl" and "spoiled little princess." what the hell is wrong with the buyers?)
headache (i think. this is unheard of, for me.)
distressed customer
customer with vomiting baby (ewewewewewewew! aack!)
************
July 10, 2000.
best thing:
phone customer (i have concluded that he was definitely a freak, but his request kept me entertained all morning.)
online personality tests
dynamic drive
falling asleep to the sound of rain
worst thing:
work starting early
not knowing how to get in (and wandering... for an hour... RAR!)
shoes turning evil (i'm becoming amelia; there are 5 blisters on my left foot.)
************
July 9, 2000.
best thing:
scanning pictures
con's birthday
dirty dancing soundtrack
candles (in dishes, of course.)
worst thing:
stupid modem
stupid crosswinds
************
July 8, 2000.
best thing:
spending the day with jesse (movies, games, killer brownies...)
seeing scary movie
new couch (it's massive and purple and they won't let me take it to school.)
worst thing:
oversleeping
************
July 7, 2000.
best thing:
berries
clean laundry
sunshine
e-b ice cream discount
working with amy (at least i was entertained.)
worst thing:
work (until 11. no one should be shopping at 11. go home. go out. go somewhere else.)
deer guts on the honda
************
July 6, 2000.
best thing:
root beer float (for lunch, bad!)
seeing someone from high school
lynn coming over to, um, not paint
worst thing
another freaky dream
work
stock (2 new racks of the stuff no one buys. brilliant.)
icky perkin's food
************
July 5, 2000.
best thing:
music
candy
very few customers
worst thing:
strange surreal prison camp dream
work
disturbing stories
************
July 4, 2000.
best thing:
applying at dillard's (dillweed's? dullard's?) with michelle
seeing sarah in swimwear (the department, that is.)
cheap mcdonald's food, courtesy of michelle's brother's 50% discount
movie (M:I2) and dinner (bob evan's...joy...) with mom and grandma
IMing
yoga
worst thing:
inattentive drivers (who provoke wrath in my driver, causing her to gesture obscenely at them with a dinosaur puppet through the sunroof)
bobbit bunny (the poor thing! looked like both its little ears had been chopped right off to about an inch and a half long! square little stubby ears.)
************
July 3, 2000.
best thing:
cute curled hair
buying CDs
casual clothing
mail! lotsa mail! :)
worst thing:
dreaming that my tongue piercing came out and that someone stole my wallet
getting up early
work
************
July 2, 2000.
best thing:
sharing a banana soy shake with the cat
clean laundry
worst thing:
work!
register short 9 cents
alone in juniors all day, from open to close...rar...
bratty children
giving in to temptation and buying stuff
************
July 1, 2000.
best thing:
kimberly to entertain us on the plane
home again
worst thing:
getting up early
late flight
non-vegetarian sandwich
kimberly entertaining us on the plane... continually... loudly...
rude stupid woman in red
discovery of a used airsickness bag on the second flight (*shudder* ack! you know how i am about that. ick ick ick. *cringe*)
having to work tomorrow
************
June 30, 2000.
best thing:
seeing a whale (finally! very cool! it was breaching, and spouting, and rolling and stuff! and it was nearby, too. wow.)
seeing nail polish change color
hanging out on deck 10 with cathy (time well spent... sighted some real nice rocks. there'll be pictures.)
last dinner (alas! waaah! no more inacio, no more desserts... *sniff*)
writing things to throw away
worst thing:
packing
eating too much
concluding that we actually underpacked for the cruise. oh well.
wandering vaguely
************
June 29, 2000.
best thing:
sleeping in and skipping breakfast
buying stuff in ketchikan (eagle purse, color-changing nail polish)
opals (i was bemused.)
kimberly antics :)
worst thing:
salty avocado soup
bad movies
no sun to make my nail polish change color
************
June 28, 2000.
best thing:
hubbard glacier
pictures
midnight gala buffet
playing sorry!
worst thing:
too much food
unsuccessful nap
boy: stupid whore!
************
June 27, 2000.
best thing:
skagway, i suppose
starbuck's
chilled fruit soup (smoothie in a bowl, only better! yum!)
the word "glacier"
haines eagle preserve tour by jet boat (saw eagles, swans, maybe an otter, a bear, maybe a moose.)
worst thing:
the name "skagway"
ID card confusion
gelatinous vegetable terrine (suspicious. i ate a little, and stopped.)
************
June 26, 2000.
best thing:
docking in juneau
seeing mendenhall glacier
food
crossword puzzling
sending e-mail (heehee...)
perfect weather
worst thing:
confusion from lack of planning
gimmicky touristy souvenir shops
lady with scary eyelashes (omg i have a picture, you will see, just wait! ahahahaha!)
************
June 25, 2000.
best thing:
wildlife sightings (dolphins, whales...)
illegal gambling with dad
wandering
writing letters all the way aft on deck 5, right next to the railing
yoga
peculiar fear/fascination/wonder of/with/at the ocean
worst thing:
me not seeing any wildlife
time confusion
karaoke... particularly when performed by members of my family
yoga while pulsating loud music is playing
************
June 24, 2000.
best thing:
all 22 of us arriving in the same place with all our luggage
big, impressive ship
dinner: many veggie options, way too many desserts :P
pseudo-veganism
relatives
worst thing:
much airline confusion
vancouver bus tour (vancouver is not dazzling. wood chips and potash are not interesting. expo '86 is over. shut up already.)
big, impressive ship... wretched excess
exercise center closing at 8
internet access... for $0.50 a minute
************
June 23, 2000.
best thing:
last day of work (for a week, at least)
worst thing:
tempation to buy things
work
traffic
cute shoes randomly turning vicious and giving me blisters
************
June 22, 2000.
best thing:
lists
painting toenails
pearly crayons
helping michelle pick out sunglasses
speed-closing (out before 9, hell yeah...)
casual dress code starting in july
worst thing:
work
stockings
bratty children (teenagers, really. even worse.)
************
June 21, 2000.
best thing:
IMing people
ice cream
crossword puzzles
worst thing:
long and boring work
new skirt turning out to be too big (anyone want a long twirly flowered skirt?)
************
June 20, 2000.
best thing:
11 hours of sleep
no work
making a pie
rain
traditional summer dessert: blueberries, nectarines, sour cream and brown sugar
finishing new page (sort of... close enough, you'll live.)
yoga
worst thing:
making a pie
gelatin
time-consuming web page
************
June 19, 2000.
best thing:
breakfast and puzzles at panera
buying completely unnecessary gel pens with metallic colored ink
amusing ourselves at work
real mail (yay eileen!)
playing with web page
worst thing:
folding
the grammatical structure "[noun] needs [past participle]" (as in, "the tables need straightened." either insert an infinitive or use a gerund, folks! rar!)
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June 18, 2000.
best thing:
church
yoga
worst thing:
lack of sleep
having to get ready for church in 15 minutes (and i did, showered and all, i might add.)
pettiness
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June 17, 2000.
best thing:
going out to breakfast and thrifting with mutti and alan
bowling with work people (ha, i lost miserably the first two games, and then beat all 6 of them the third.)
going to shirley's and the buzz and steak 'n' shake with michelle
worst thing:
car trouble necessitating a ride from grandpa
work
more shrunken clothing
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June 16, 2000.
best thing:
successfully begging a ride from chris
lunch at panera with michelle
writing letters
worst thing:
discovering i'd bought a skirt 2 sizes larger than i meant to
owie knee
shrunken skirt (ack! couldn't wear that to work after all.)
having to beg a ride from chris
work
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June 15, 2000.
best thing:
a ride to work from michelle
lunch at bob evan's
buying stuff (remembered i have a check card, haha...)
running
worst thing:
alarm announcing that sensor 14 is unarmed at 4:30 in the morning
horrible people (i must stop reading the newspapers)
grandpa's car dying
stupid knee
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June 14, 2000.
best thing:
breakfast at panera
doing a cash refund all by myself, and right, no less
raspberry smoothie
real mail (yay amelia!)
yoga
worst thing:
realizing that i will work 7 successive days, starting yesterday
poor mongo running out in the big bad thunderstorm
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June 13, 2000.
best thing:
panera (for breakfast and lunch...hm...)
shopping at work
shopping after work (i am a shoe whore. i need more money.)
running
worst thing:
getting up early
spider (up my dress? apparently not.)
work
people who chew gum vigorously
stupid neighborhood kid
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June 12, 2000.
best thing:
grades being fine
having the house to myself
playing with my web page
hanging out with chris
gone in 60 seconds (hell, it was free, why not?)
worst thing:
parents caring about grades
shaft not out yet
not running
going to bed late
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June 11, 2000.
best thing:
scanning a veritable shitload of stuff
ice cream cones
watching midnight in the garden of good and evil with susie and dad
worst thing:
heat and humidity
misbehaving modem and websites
not running
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June 10, 2000.
best thing:
random book to read
games, movie, dinner et al with jesse
desserts at truffles
worst thing:
merely perfunctory yoga
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June 9, 2000.
best thing:
having the house to myself
grandparents' safe trip to new york
working in children's instead of tommy & liz
a surprise visit at work from chris
seeing grandma t.
worst thing:
work
no yoga again
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June 8, 2000.
(for an illustrated guide to today's exploits, click here)
*warning! this will take you away from sccs, to evil crosswinds, which is full of pop-up ads. i may get around to changing this later. but probably not.*
best
thing:
planting marigolds and sweet william
making lemon pie
bowling and waffle house with michelle and sarah
worst thing:
digging up anthills
being attacked by a wayward rose
pie mishaps
random unnecessary criticism (no, grandma, dar doesn't need singing lessons.)
learning that my cousin was accidentally set on fire at work (he's okay. second degree burns, though.)
work
no yoga
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June 7, 2000.
best thing:
braiding grandma's hair
"working" with michelle
4 customers in as many hours
running
worst thing:
fire alarm ("fire! fire! sensor 14!" what? there is no fire, and where is sensor 14, and when there really was a fire, the wiring all melted and the alarm didn't do shit.)
cats (hairballs, ignoring litterbox, disgusting little animals today.)
webpage misbehaving
giant soft gingersnaps ("snaps." this indicates that they should be capable of breaking your teeth. and they should be small.)
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June 6, 2000.
best thing:
making cute little pizzas for lunch
fun with html (pop-up captions!)
check-yourself-out machine at kroger (like, scan your own groceries and put your money in the slot, not like, "damn, i'm fine.")
brown cows at jolly's
yoga (i think i did a headstand! and i can almost do a diamond.)
worst thing:
tired grandma (she asked me to make dinner. she never does that.)
attempting random asanas without preparation (ow!)
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June 5, 2000.
best thing:
very few customers
buying things to make my cute black shoes fit
running
worst thing:
weird dreams
surcharge for getting money at the atm
suspicious activity in my department as soon as i go on break
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June 4, 2000.
best thing:
church
twirly skirt
home food: quinoa, avocado, baguette
yoga
worst thing:
grandma hating foods (tofu, for example)...why bother! what's the point? argh!
mall food: reheated spanakopita, milky way
work (bad sales associate! bad!)
delayed mourning
yoga inadequacy (headstand, locust, diamond, crow, peacock...)
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June 3, 2000.
best thing:
fresh lemonade
chris's graduation party
old friends (chris, jennifer, aaron, doug...not the song.)
paycheck
running
worst thing:
all the old friends smoke, grrrr
work
lack of transportation (no party for me, *sniff*)
lack of proper undergarments for running
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June 2, 2000.
best thing:
making muffins
rain
smoothie
cooking with mutti
border's (bought a cd & a book & read many random things.)
yoga
worst thing:
disturbing books
honey mustard onion pretzel things from behind the microwave (never eat anything you find behind the microwave.)
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June 1, 2000.
best thing:
mutti's new hedgehog-hair
a mostly vegan day
running
worst thing:
declining an invitation to go sailing
silty almond milk
stockings
evil shoes
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May 31, 2000.
best thing:
spending hours messing around with my webpage (isn't it pretty? say yes.)
running into lynn at kroger (haha paul and his family are moving to florida. good.)
a grapefruit juice-sprite-frozen raspberry-peach orange mango sherbet float (it was medicinal.)
playing pass-the-mongo with mutti (he hops from back to back, funny cat.)
yoga
worst thing:
people wanting to use the phone line for the phone
work
broken earring
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May 30, 2000.
best thing:
cleaning out the refrigerator (it took me four hours. i am very very brave.)
assembling an arch for the garden (how constructive of me. although perhaps it was not too bright to do it in my room.)
running to the playground, running some more
traditional tea and cards with mutti
worst thing:
no sandals (i suspect i left them at swat. whoops.)
scary refrigerator things
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May 29, 2000.
best thing:
lunch with sarah at work
online-ness
yoga (not everything, but better than nothing)
worst thing:
scary bumper sticker seen on the way to work ("Charlton Heston is my president.")
closing the register all by myself (i probably screwed it up; i don't really care. grrrr.)
evil shoes
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May 28, 2000.
best thing:
going to see gladiator
smuggling candy into the movies
worst thing:
arm going dead while sleeping (don't you hate that? mine does it all the time. gross.)
too much food, again
stupid knees (we'll amputate! oh wait, no...)
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May 27, 2000.
best thing:
an amusing dream (swatties, alien invasion, furry bird thing with a long tail and wheels, an alternate universe...)
haircut, finally
white flowers
strange animal noises from the backyard (very interesting, i wonder what it is...)
dinner with con and lucy
worst thing:
moving the hair salon (way to confuse me, guys. grrr.)
too much food
being lazy
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May 26, 2000.
best thing:
panera in the morning
opening an instant credit, aren't i clever?
organizing random things (ocd finds a home in retail)
using my employee discount
worst thing:
egg salad sandwich (drifting toward veganism, i am)
shoes that won't stay on
a short run
being told that my hair looks like martha stewart's
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May 25, 2000.
best thing:
going to the parrot with con for lunch
going to the baseball game et al with jesse (and his mother, even. who seemed quite nice to me.)
liberating cds from my father's collection }:)
meeting a nice white cat while out running
worst thing:
scary topic on maury ("my baby weighs over 100 pounds!")
messy salad dressing
freaks in a pickup truck who yelp at night runners such as myself
my own mother turning off the lights i left on to find my way home
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May 24, 2000.
best thing:
cleaning
laundry
IMing people
new skirt (fun and twirly)
going to dad's house
peculiarly affectionate cat (it's because we shaved her. no fur = friendly kitty.)
worst thing:
other people's laundry
too much food
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May 23, 2000.
best thing:
very few customers
amusing co-workers
shopping (a skirt and a pair of shoes that do not match each other, or anything else i own... hm... )
fun swat-chat late at night, heehee
worst thing:
being woken up by banging at my door 15 minutes before my alarm would have gone off
weird restless dreams involving scanning and cash registers
the nasty metallic smell that hangers leave on your hands, sort of like blood, but worse
beginning to find certain things in the juniors department strangely appealing (so shameful, i must go thrifting)
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May 22, 2000.
best thing:
embroidery (currently paisleying one of the back pockets)
playing online (much e-mail, IM, pictures...)
worst thing:
the canadian islamic frozen pizza i had for lunch (actually, it wasn't that bad. it was pretty amusing, come to think of it.)
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May 21, 2000.
best thing:
church
embroidery
worst thing:
retail: the land of stupid
(people are stupid! they leave stuff in the dressing rooms, they take those little paper liner things out of the swimsuits and stick them to the walls, they return things and buy them again to save negligible amounts of money, they show up 5 minutes before we close and want to return a bunch of stuff and then buy other stuff and get 10% off for opening an account a month ago... argh! stupid!)
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May 20, 2000.
best thing:
work = money
lunch with michelle
seeing mrs. wilson
going to bed at 9:30
worst thing:
work
waiting to be picked up (an hour and fifteen minutes...um...)
realizing once again that i am a complete loser (don't you hate it when that happens?)
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May 19, 2000.
best thing:
bed collage
smoothie (my traditional summer occupation: seeing if anything palatable happens when i put a bunch of stuff in the blender)
clipping magazines
dad sending pictures
worst thing:
hairball (i thought i missed the cats. maybe not.)
work
lack of work clothes
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May 18, 2000.
best thing:
job training (will get me out of the house, and earn me money)
michelle working there too
IMing with eileen (finally!)
taking over the class of '04 chat room with david and tiffany
the metal scroll thing from 10th grade OM (i just noticed they all wrote stuff on the back! aw...so great)
worst thing:
job training (boring and annoying)
dress code
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May 17, 2000.
best thing:
going to books and company
buying delightfully unhealthy desserts
shaving the cat (don't ask...)
running at night to the playground
worst thing:
orthodontist appointment
defective video
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May 16, 2000.
best thing:
IMing with amelia and david and jesse
getting pictures back
brown cows at jolly's
going to dad's
scanning pictures
worst thing:
dad's computer refusing to acknowledge the existence of a modem
running in the dark in an unfamiliar neighborhood (it's sort of funny when you can't find your own house. sort of.)
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May 15, 2000.
best thing:
cleaning room
amusingly vertical whale-spout hair
cute new shoelaces with strawberries on them
susie and dan bringing my stuff early
setting up my computer all by myself
running
worst thing:
boredom
no nap
no mutti
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May 14, 2000.
best thing:
12 or 13 hours of sleep
e-mail
mom's house (more cats, more people)
going out to dinner
doing massive quantities of laundry
cleaning room
going running at 1 a.m.
worst thing:
missing swat
room still a mess
stupid computer
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May 13, 2000.
best thing:
humorous preposition use by a random highway patrol person ("I'll keep my eyes out on for you.")
home
cats
people
worst thing:
*leaving swat*
not getting to say goodbye to some people
long car trip
not enough sleep
strange state of hunger combined with lack of interest in actually eating