ch-ch-changes!

About three weeks ago I applied for a different job at the agency I work at. The interview was the following week, and a couple days later I was offered the job. I'm very excited because not only did I get a raise, I will get every holiday off and most weekends. I have been meaning to update for a while now, but I just haven't had the time! I start training tomorrow, and I'm a little nervous just because it's new and unfamiliar, but I know a couple of my coworkers at the new site and I think it's going to be a lot of fun. Now I just need to buy some clothes because my current wardrobe is mostly t-shirts and jeans and I have very few "business casual" items. So a new job, a raise, and new clothes! Hooray!

Eddie and I went to the Cleveland Zoo yesterday with his mom, and we kept quoting lines from this monty python sketch where they are hunting mosquitoes. The opening lines makes me LOL every time.



The zoo was pretty top notch. They have this exhibit called Touch, and for $1 you can touch a stingray or a shark. It's an enclosed pool with about 10 rays and two small sharks and you put your hand in the water, and they glide right under it. It was by far one of the neatest things I have ever experienced! The rays feel kind of rubbery, but they are surprisingly soft at the same time. For another dollar you could feed them shrimp, and it feels like a vacuum cleaner running over your hand. Super cool!

I got a couple of really great pictures of the polar bears and a black bear, but the best one is an action shot I got of one of the tigers yawning:


And a shot of some amateur protology going on in one of the monkey enclosures:


Hey, I never said this was a classy blog! :)

Speaking of changes, I pulled six white hairs out of my head this morning. SIX! Wtf?! I'm too young to be getting gray hairs already! *sigh*

I've been away too long and there's so much to tell you...

Hey everyone! Sorry to have gone so long between updates but I have been a seriously busy busy bee lately! Between social engagements, family, and work much has happened to blog about but I just haven't had the time.

Hmm. Where to start?

::::C and J came to visit from Indiana a couple weeks ago. Inappropriate restaurant conversations about bodily functions, public drunkenness, and random acts of karaoke ensued. After much prodding and many beers, C convinced me to release my inner rock star and we sang "I love rock and roll". It was fun, but I think I will leave the singing to the professionals.

::::The weekend of the fourth of July, A had her annual summer barbeque. She decided to call it BeardBQ in honor of a copiously bearded gentlemen we had seen a couple of weeks earlier at Aladdins. We had originally planned on wearing fake beards, but it didn't quite end up happening. Along the way eddie ended up shaving his armpits and putting the hair in a sandwich bag, we trimmed cat nails, listened to 80's anthems, and ended up at a gay bar. Don't ask.

::::My parents divorce became finalized in February, and now both parental units are entering the dating world after many years away. Both have managed to score new significant others at roughly the same time and it is a bit overwhelming with all the desired meet and greets, and trying not to mention one parent to the other. I figured it would happen eventually, but it's still a bit weird.

::::I was at work the other day waiting to assist someone with meds. They came to the door with their jeans hanging halfway off their ass. (Nothing like a bit of buttcrack to greet me at 7 in the morning!) I noticed that the pants fell just as low in the front as in the back. That's when I saw pubes. PUBES! And not just a little bit. It looked like he was growing a beard down there. Can you say traumatized?

::::Oh and I'm turning 27 in an hour and 1 minute. Here's to a good year!

Went on vacation for six days, and it was fantastic! Did a lot of sleeping, eating, and reading. We had originally planned on going to Hocking Hills and staying in a cabin for a few days, but the weather seemed suspect, so we hung out in Columbus with Eddie's mom and aunt instead and had a great time.

Some highlights:

****Going to a Japanese steakhouse where they cook your food in front of you and do cool stuff like throw and light things on fire. Kickass.

****Checking out the German Village. The houses are beautiful, and it's just an interesting area in general. We went to this bookstore called "The Book Loft" which is a pre civil war building converted bookstore and it is a 32 room maze of bargain books. Amazing.

****Going to some local thrift stores where we found everything from stethescopes to felt pictures of JFK. I managed to find a copy of "Brave New World" for only $1. Score!

****Having a tumble on my rollerblades at the park and bleeding profusely from a quarter sized scrape on my right knee.

(Just for the record, Eddie and I went up a bridge overlooking the expressway which is far too steep for rollerblades. I wasn't going to go at first but Eddie egged me on, so to show I wasn't chicken, I went. Everything was fine until I tried to come back down, sped up to an uncontrollable speed, and found myself suddenly lying on the ground. The scrape looked far worse than it felt, and since it refused to stop bleeding down my leg in a scary manner, I was forced to improvise. So I took my right sock off and tied it around the cut to apply pressure and keep it from bleeding. Eddie's poor mother about had a fit when she saw the whole thing, and seemed to thing I would die from my grievous wound. But I think I took it like a champ, and skated all the way back to the restrooms at the front of the park. That's when I found out that the restrooms are closed Monday to Friday after 3:30 pm and not even open on the weekends! What the hell? Who ever heard of a part time restroom?)

Ugg. Sorry for that run along paragraph. It hurts the eyes a bit, and I wouldn't blame you if you have decided to skip it.

That pretty much sums up the last 6 days. It was fun, and I wish I didn't have to go back to work. :(

Oh yeah, I almost forgot. We went and saw the "Get Smart" movie, and it was hilarious! Apparently Mel Brooks was a consultant for the film, so maybe that's why. All I have to say is that it far exceeded my expectations and I highly recommend it!

A compliment. Kind of.

I was sitting in the office at work the other day chatting with a couple of the clients when I took my glasses off to clean them. Then one of clients says:

"You know, if you didn't wear glasses you'd be really pretty."

LoL!! I love our clients. There's no brain to mouth filter at all, and it's kind of funny. I know I've mentioned this before, and I'll mention it again. How is it that a pair of glasses makes that big of a difference? Everytime I wear contacts, people act like I look totally different. Maybe there is some truth to that whole Clark Kent/superman glasses bit after all.

In other news, I think my car hates me. In the past 4 months, I have had to get about $1000 worth of work done to it. Mostly routine maintenance stuff, but it's been one thing after another. My car just hit 40,000 miles, and it started making a creaky noise over bumps practically the next day. I took it in for 2 different inspections at separate locations, and no one found anything. Finally the third time around they figured out it was the front struts. Once I had that taken care of, I figured everything was finally fixed and I wouldn't have to worry about anything for awhile. Then three days ago, my rear view mirror fell off! grrr! The car is only 4 years old, and I've only had it for 3. Parts should not be falling off at this point.

So I bought a glue kit, and I'm going to fix it today sometime. I just have to make sure I don't glue it on upside down! :)

The cat's in the cradle. Operation mail father's day cards is officially a success!

::::I am a total slacker when it comes to sending cards on time by mail. If you get your card a day after it's due, you should consider yourself lucky! Hopefully my dad gets his card tomorrow and not on Monday. oops! :S

::::I was at the library yesterday when I saw a poster for bowling green's upcoming terquasquicentennial celebration. Who has ever heard of such a term? I mean centennial, bicentennial, these are familiar, but this I had never heard of. A quick perusal of wikipedia enlightened me. I'm just going to start making up my own terminology for different anniversaries. Tonight, I plan on having a Bananasplitennial celebration at the local Dairy Queen to celebrate the invention of the banana split by Dr. Stephen Split M.D. in the year 1985.

::::Eddie and I rode our bikes to a friend's house yesterday, and I decided to wear a dress. I know, I know. Not the smartest idea right? To prevent any unplanned "flashing" of passersby, I wore a pair of gym shorts underneath. They weren't bulky or anything, so no one could tell, but Eddie gave me the hardest time about it. I thought it was ingenius, because I wouldn't have to constantly worry about it. Plus I tend to sit like a guy, and probably would've flashed my underwear at some point. Am I alone in thinking this is a great idea? Surely other women have done this other than me!

::::There's a new samsung phone called the glyde. Are we so hard up for cell phone model names that we now have to name and spell them like a lubricant?

Well, that's all I've got for now. Have a great weekend everybody!

A seinfeld moment

Yesterday Eddie and I went to an "attendance requested" (i.e. mandatory) meeting for work, and it was boring as hell. Eddie was pleased because he was getting paid for an additional 2 hours of work for sitting on his ass, and there was free soda. (What can I say? He is easily amused.)

My main gripe with the meeting was that we were given the impression that the talk was going to be about the Columbine shootings, and their affects on the local mental health agencies in the Denver area.

It wasn't.

It was a "budget cuts are pending, but don't freak out because sometimes good things can come out of these sort of shitful circumstances!" type of meeting.

In my opinion, doing this is much like a church advertising something like "free pizza party open to the public!" then locking you in afterwards to be proselytized. It is not cool at all.

Halfway through the meeting, we took a break and everyone went to the restroom, smoked, bitched about the meeting etc. When Eddie came back from the bathroom, he had a total OMG look on his face.

"Holy crap dude! I have to tell you something!"
"What?"
"I went to the bathroom, and Dr. _________ was coming out of the stall. And he didn't wash his hands!"
"eww! gross!"

We had to spend the rest of the meeting trying not to laugh/be grossed out as we were sitting directly behind him. What do you do when the CEO of your agency does something like that? And it was hard not to be painfully aware of everything and everyone he was touching. I teased Eddie that this was his Seinfeld moment, and that he'd better watch out because the good doctor might try to shake his hand later. Luckily that never happened. What sucks is that I know that every time I see the man in the future, I am going to think of how hot and muggy it was yesterday and that he doesn't wash his hands after peeing.

Don't mind me, I'm in the middle of a soliloquy

Ever feel like you are on the cusp of something amazing, and all you have to do is jump? Plunging blindly into something that is unfamiliar, scary, and exciting all at the same time?

I'm having one of those moments.

I know that I need to leave this town, but it's daunting to say the least. There are so many variables and I have to fight the urge to be a complete control freak about every little detail. In my desire to get all my ducks in a row, I've passed up opportunities in the past, and I am trying to keep my fears in check and just go with the flow.

It's kind of exhilarating. An adventure!