Mist, I have no idea why you took offense to what I said. The reason I said it was weird that you're excited about it is because you have always been anti-travel. You've said you would never leave the country because you were perfectly fine in the country you're in now. You've never expressed an interest in traveling, so of course it surprises me to hear you so excited about a trip to California. Had I known you would be sensitive to what I said, I wouldn't have said it.
says MarissaD at 5/31/2002 08:52:00 PM
Man I have heavy bitch mode going on this week. I don't know what it is, but everything is pissing me off. I don't want to feel like this!!
says MarissaD at 5/31/2002 10:16:00 AM
May 30, 2002
Um. Hi to whoever from Cingular is looking at my website... someone from Atlanta. I see you. If you're from HR, I've never said anything bad, I don't think.... umm...
weird...
says MarissaD at 5/30/2002 09:38:00 PM
So I guess today is technically the day Adam is moving back to Austin. Even though he'll be back this weekend, his words still made me cry a little. Thank you too for everything. I was numb and going through motions when we started hanging out again. You reminded me how to laugh and that I do have a sense of humor. I found it! I had lost it for a while. I'm gonna miss you, too. Thanks for restoring me because I really wasn't me. I wasn't the girl everyone remembered. Now I am. Come finish my homework. Be careful. Peace.
says MarissaD at 5/30/2002 09:22:00 PM
I found my phone! :)
says MarissaD at 5/30/2002 06:29:00 PM
This is kind of hard to read, but here's a note I left for my mail carrier. I thought it was kind of funny.
says MarissaD at 5/30/2002 09:17:00 AM
May 29, 2002
I'm watching a special on ABC about the high prices of phramaceutical drugs. PHRMA is the guild thing (whatever you want to call it) that is defending the reasons for the high costs. The person they have speaking for them is good at spouting total BS when he is point blank asked, "If you are spending so much money on research, prove it. Show us the massive amounts that you spend that you are claiming are the reasons for high drug costs." Good excuse as to why they can't show those numbers, but they can show the numbers they generate in profit. It's pretty disgusting. The whole thing is pretty disgusting. They just ran a commercial right smack dab in the middle of this program to get people to go to the website and see all the good things they do. I think it's funny that on their press page, they JUST released this survey: "Survey Finds 194 Medicines in Development for Children," today! How unbelievably coincidental! Jerks.
says MarissaD at 5/29/2002 09:51:00 PM
So now that I don't have a whole lot to do at work and I'm basically just waiting for them to lower the axe on me, I wrote this.
Also I found this pic on my computer when I got home. Thanks for the surprise Adam. :)
says MarissaD at 5/29/2002 06:15:00 PM
May 28, 2002
Hoo boy. Need a job.
says MarissaD at 5/28/2002 10:23:00 AM
May 27, 2002
Either someone keeps jackin with me or my clock on my computer is possessed. I'll be guessing the latter.
Speaking of dreams, I don't ever post mine because they are either too boring and dumb or I don't bother to remember them, but this one was weird. I was hanging out with Papa John only it wasn't the Papa John that's in the commercials. It was an older, larger version of him. And he was all mafia'd out. So I was hanging out at their house, it was like I was part of the family. In comes Vanna White. She's part of the family too. She's sitting on the floor making a Papa John's pizza. We're all conversing. I'm new to the family and they're explaining to me how things work around here. I'm cool with it. I can deal. Then she finishes making the pizza and starts eating the leftovers and I move over and start eating the leftovers too. Papa John says, "We don't get any food on the floor. You know?" And I looked at Papa John and I says, "Yeah Papa John," I says "yeah, I know." Then he says "And what do we do if it starts raining Vanna?" And she looks at him and says, "We stand up and eat." ..... And that was the end of the dream. Right. Also I had another dream that I was going to make a 3.59 this semester. Which means no A in Algebra, which won't be a surprise. What an odd start for my day, eh?
Mist, I swear I had a reaction to the news of you going to Cali. It just hid under the drugs. And still is. Inside I'm thinking "Why is she so excited to go to Cali? Who is this person?" It's not weird that you're going, it's weird that you're excited about it.
I'm still feeling like total crap. Trying to choke down some yogurt so I can take the antibiotics without puking it up. My throat doesn't feel any better yet. It's still swollen and it looks really horrible. I talked to mom about getting my tonsils out. That's what I asked the Doc about and that's what a few people have suggested to me. I really wish I could, but we looked over my insurance and I'm pretty sure it won't cover the majority of the cost of surgery. Oh well. I'll just survive through this one and get better insurance later. *sigh*
says MarissaD at 5/25/2002 08:26:00 AM
May 24, 2002
Okay. Reasons that I am upset about this illness: Had the first dr. actually given me some antibiotics, I might be well enough to go to work today. Unfortunately, all she gave me was a shot of penicilin and some painkillers. I know penicilin is an antibiotic, but it's not enough to do away with this throat thing. Any dr. should know that. They also told me at the ER that I didn't have a fever. Which is completely absurd. I was hotter than a thousand suns. I had a fever. So I went to a different clinic yesterday evening and they told me, yes, I did have a fever of 101.1. And he was astounded that they didn't give me any antibiotics. So he gave me some Augmentin, which is the stuff I had last time, and gave me a perscription for more Augmentin and now here I am still feeling like poo and about to throw up because I forgot to eat some yogurt before I took the one pill this morning. Oi.. jeez. More blog later.. maybe. Bleh.
says MarissaD at 5/24/2002 08:49:00 AM
Thanks to Sammy, I spent the last 45 minutes browsing this entire collection of celebrity high school photos.
Also, feeling a little better, but still having issues with the huge ball in my throat, known as Pharyngitis. Hate it!
says MarissaD at 5/24/2002 08:44:00 AM
May 23, 2002
Today is Retro Blog day!
First, the spikey coconuts are back. Attack of the killer pharyngitis. Not quite one year later and I get the exact same illness. Luckily, I went to the Dr. a little earlier than I normally do. Unluckily, I was planning on working mad OT this week. And I was well on my way too. Damnit. Another small check. Grrr.
Also, you might remember my Quest for the perfect writing pen. A random person was apparently looking for info on how to get the pens as well and found my page. The cool thing? He can get refills in San Fransico. Hooray! We're gonna hook that up soon, I think. That makes me so happy!!!
says MarissaD at 5/23/2002 02:59:00 PM
May 22, 2002
Well that's some total bullshit. I've been listening to NPR here at work lately and they just did a bit about settlements that are being reached for the 2000 election mishaps. No, not the Florida thing. Apparently, we are depriving minorities the right to vote because we aren't providing ballots in other languages. I guess some people who want to vote don't know the English language. Call me a crazy bitch, but what frickin country are we in again?! If you're SO interested in CHOOSING OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS, wouldn't it be nice to UNDERSTAND what they are SAYING?!? Don't you need to know English in order to UNDERSTAND them?! The way I see it, if a person is involved in politics enough to want to vote, that person is probably interested enough to learn English. I honestly do not believe anyone who tells me their rights have been violated by not getting to vote for someone they don't understand. No. That's bullshit. Now we've wasted God knows how much money on settlements and investigations, not to mention how much we're going to waste now that we have to produce ballots in other languages.
LEARN ENGLISH
says MarissaD at 5/22/2002 01:52:00 PM
My co-worker drew this yesterday. I quite like it. It's a nice wallpaper. Hurray for Laurie!
says MarissaD at 5/22/2002 10:20:00 AM
May 21, 2002
Thanks for the lead on the website job, whoever sent that to my phone. Next time tell me who you are!
says MarissaD at 5/21/2002 04:57:00 PM
Graphic Child Birth Talk!! BEWARE!
I just had the most graphic discussion about childbirth with my co-workers. Firstly, I have half a Schlotzky's sandwich here for the taking if anyone wants it. Secondly, from this moment on, I refuse to have children. The ripping and tearing and cutting and sewing. I'm not talking about booties here, people. And that's not even including the healing process after you've had the kid and the drippage and leakage the week or so after the birth. And then there's the shot they give you, directly into your spine!!! For the love of my womanhood!!! NO WAY!!! NO!!!
Disclaimer - The reason we had the child birth discussion was because they were talking about it on the radio and Laurie and I were curious. So we asked Kim, who just had a baby and Jason, who watched his wife give birth. *shudder*
says MarissaD at 5/21/2002 01:18:00 PM
Dear Blog*Spotters - Don't Panic! Just republish your last blog and your page should appear.
says MarissaD at 5/21/2002 10:17:00 AM
May 20, 2002
I do love him. I've known for awhile now. It seems like no one is surprised. They all expected it. I guess it just took me a bit to see it.
says MarissaD at 5/20/2002 05:23:00 PM
It's okay Mist. You don't need to apologize for putting a guilt trip on me. :) I should've had your name in there. You're just as important as Arby's Beef and Cheddar, afterall. I got the feeling last night that you were feeling kind of out of the loop. I think you should move up here. That way you'll always be right around the corner and you can just come visit or I can just go visit or we can allthree just go to the bar one night and hang out. If it makes you feel any better, I do miss you lots. I'm glad it makes you feel better to have your name there, too. Anything to help.
My DSL. Still doesn't work right. I have this grand new computer and the DSL is still poo. So I called them last night and talked to them for awhile. Now there's a trouble ticket opened and they'll be contacting me tonight sometime. Oi. They better fix it. So annoying.
I had a fun weekend. We played a Star Wars role playing game. I was the smart chick hanging out with a drunk human guard and a drunk wookie guard. The wookie's name was Bewchaca. Haha!! We all escaped and got off the planet we were on. Only killed a few Imperial officers and a Tie Fighter. Hurray! Hmmm. I feel more and more geek everyday. I didn't think that was possible. I was wrong.
Tribes II. I'm trying to gather people to play. I'm not sure how we'll get a server to ourselves, considering I can't host and play at the same time and I don't know anyone else that hosts. I think it would be fun if I could get enough people and if we could play regularly. I don't know, maybe once a week or so. I can probably come up with five or six people to play, but we need more. More! If you're interested, let me know. We'll get our Tribes on. This is me - - - Out.
says MarissaD at 5/20/2002 10:25:00 AM
May 19, 2002
I'm officially fedup with public servers. Again. I love Tribes, but it's so unfun when there is no teamwork. For instance, when I am flying a bomber, I expect the person who chose to be my bombardier to actually drop BOMBS. Not shoot the stupid baby energy gun, or whatever it is. Not to mention the fact that that stupid gun lowers our shield in the bomber. So many frickin idiots. My first day on the job, I didn't know what to do either. But I figured it out real quick like and now I'm an excellent bombardier. I can also fly the things, which is what I enjoy more, but it's useless when my teammates are complete morons. If I knew people who played Tribes II, I would play with them. I might even try to join a Tribe, but I just don't know anyone. I don't even know if there is a decent community for Tribes II. *sigh* I just want to play a good match with other people who are good. That so much to ask?
says MarissaD at 5/19/2002 12:21:00 PM
Mmmmmmmm... guess who got a brand spankin new computer today? Yeah. ME YOU BIG MOFO!!! Woot! Athlon XP 1700, 256 ram, 20 gig HD.. gonna get more of that... new pretty case.. and a CD Burner, but that's Adams! WOOOFRICKINHOO!!!!
says MarissaD at 5/19/2002 12:53:00 AM
May 17, 2002
Oh duh. I completely forgot to talk about this. Last night we went to see Dweezil Zappa and Lisa Loeb at the Brook Mays down the road from my place. I gotta say, I liked Lisa before, but I really like her now. She's so cute. And her humor is dry and crisp and perfect. I love her voice and she's just dang cool. Dweezil is cool too and he's a bit of a hotty, IMHO. He plays the guitar pretty well and even made this cool amp called a wiggy with Peavey. I don't know much about music equipment so I don't know if that thing is as spiffy as he was saying, but it looked neat.
I've been listening to Five Iron Frenzy since lunch and I really like them. Yep Yep Yep!!
And to keep from breaking the recent tradition, today is Friday, so in the environment of high tension, we had to have a meeting with bad news. So as to destroy my weekend of course. Plans were thwarted, according to authorities, thanks to the spectacular show put on by several, or at least one, team member during the meeting of doom. Hurray for "shows" being put on by "team members" during meetings of "doom." More leads for jobs. More resumes sent off. No interviews so far. Keep the fingers and toes crossed please. Thanks!
Oh yeah. I found a better Dickie's site. Better for me at least. Did I mention I got some new Dickie's? A few pairs. I like them. I'm wearing them now. They're cool. I got these and I think these and one of these in grey.
Sitting around. Listening to music from Nintendo games. Heheh. We're trying to figure out how to burn these onto a CD so we can cruise around town and crank up Double Dragon. Then we'll watch all the people around us explode as they try to remember what game it is. Weeeee!!! Not a whole lot of success on my job search today. I went to a software company, but I wasn't really specific on what kind of job I wanted. And I don't think I was really talking to anyone that was in charge of those types of decisions anyway. Oh well. It almost feels like a broken heart, but not quite as bad. That would be a really amazing job. To be there during the process. *sigh* Pipedreams, eh.
And then there was my uncle's place. I talked to the boss guy for a little bit. That won't pan out for a full time job, but he might call me for some web work. We'll see. I really just want something, ANYthing lined up before I get canned. Ya know? Just a little something. My cousin said I could do some stuff for him if he has work for me until I get something full time. Hope he has a lot of work. Haven't talked to him lately. How are you?? Email! I have drained a lot of time in Tribes II. I was talking to Adam about it yesterday... I hope I don't ruin my love for the original. Really. I like II a lot. I can't take all this drama! I'm going to explode like people who can't figure out what Nintendo game they're hearing! AHHHH!!!!
says MarissaD at 5/15/2002 10:17:00 PM
YIPPI SKIPPI!!!!!!!!!!!!! Another wedding!! HEHEH!! I'll be there with bells on! Seriously, I probably will have bells on.
says MarissaD at 5/15/2002 06:33:00 PM
May 14, 2002
Woot! I have to agree with Mykie. The days have been comfortable, despite the distinct slap of life that I'm getting straight across my cheek. I've decided to ask for a job at a few ... less than traditional places of employment. I'm not putting all of my eggs into that basket, by any means, but I am a little excited that I even have the balls to go to these few places for a job. I also don't have my hopes up, as I'm hardly qualified for any position that they would normally hire a person for. [read - programming] I am, however, in school and about to learn some things that I'm sure will be helpful and I am also very good at just about anything anyone could give me, given a scoch of training. Now I just have to sell myself to these people. I still don't know what approach I'm going to take. I guess I'll just go balls out. hehe
This is a little late, but I want to say hi to my friend PA. The Paranoid Android, who for the most part, is extremely mysterious after knowing him for the better part of three years. I'm pretty sure I know more about him than most, but he's still "an enigma wrapped in mystery." There's some old school for ya. Anyway, hi PA. You're the coolest, even though I sometimes say you're a big jerk. ^.^
says MarissaD at 5/14/2002 10:48:00 AM
May 13, 2002
I just realized that I've been using Blogger for a little over a year now. Neat. What a long, long year.
says MarissaD at 5/13/2002 08:29:00 AM
This is the second time I've heard really huge news on my little alarm radio as I woke up. This morning, Pope John Paul II was shot and fatally wounded. The other time, Arafat was killed in his hide out. Both times, I think "wow this is huge news." Then I go to work and look around all the news sites to get more info and there's nothing to be found. I'm not sure if this means that the station I keep it on really sucks at verifying information or if it means that I'm completely dreaming the news that I hear in the morning.
says MarissaD at 5/13/2002 08:11:00 AM
May 12, 2002
Actually, my mom is the best mom evar. So nyah. And also, Happy Mother's Day to my mother whom I've called and left a message with, but haven't heard from. I hope you're out having a ball momma.
Today we went to the Dickie's outlet store in Ft. Worth and I was gonna get me some Dickie's, but they were closed. I went to their website, but they don't have any cool stuff on there. Not a very good online catalog, I say. They do have a cool section telling just how cool they are with all the bands and tv shows and movies that sport Dickies. Anyway, that was upsetting. Both that they were closed and that their website sucks. So we're going to try to go later. The only day they aren't open is Sunday. So absolutely perfect!
Last night I played my first ever D&D campaign. I fell asleep towards the end because it was really late for me, but I still had a blast. It was hilarious. Me, Adam, Mykie, Evan R., Evan S., Mark, Tom and Richard. I brought a lot of food and they didn't eat it all! Amazing. I was a cleric and I didn't really do a very good job, because I don't really think I should have to heal a dumbass dwarf who attackes a mob of guards that are gathered around the back of a prison wagon that we're all sitting in. By mob, I mean at least 5 in the direct vicinity of the wagon, as well as, oh, say 100 that are milling about around GUARD CENTRAL STATION where our wagon is parked! Geezy Chreezy. I honestly thought the campaign was going to end very soon, so me, being a tiny gnome, I snuck out of the wagon and crawled up under it. I was going to hide under the wagon so I wouldn't get killed. But then the dwarf started kicking some ass and it became appartent that the game wasn't nearly over, so I crawled out and healed him some. We ended up winning against all of the guards and then we crawled into the sewer to get away. Did I mention I was a three foot gnome? Sewers=bad. Mmmkay? Well anyway, there was a lot of laughing and cussing. It was great fun. Adam illustrated for the first half of the game until we all became distraught and stressed thanks to the ballsy dwarf. That's that. I'm going to play me some Tribes II, cuz I rock out.
says MarissaD at 5/12/2002 07:34:00 PM
May 10, 2002
YAY! Screw the man trying to get me down on a Friday. I'll collect that unemployment and I'll be damn proud! Well it's not actually to that point yet. But I have approximately two weeks. Hurrah. Oh well. At least my site is finally up, right? :)
says MarissaD at 5/10/2002 08:03:00 PM
I feel a storm coming on, and I'm definitely not talking about the weather.
says MarissaD at 5/10/2002 03:36:00 PM
May 09, 2002
Amanda is not kidding when she says her cat bite hurts. At least my finger isn't huge and swollen!
says MarissaD at 5/09/2002 11:31:00 PM
May 08, 2002
No grandma's were jealous at all. I didn't go to bed so early, but I did go shopping! I got a really cute skirt and some shoes and a blazer to go with the skirt so I could look professional today at my meeting with my client. It went well. I also bought a cute little straw purse. It's tiny and I love it. I'm sleepy again. I have laundry to finish. I need to read for my business class. I also need to find something online that has to do with business. It's something specific like the unemployment rate or ... hm. I guess I'll be getting the unemployment rate then. I ate a breakfast burrito for lunch today. This is officially the most boring post of my entire life! Go read about Amanda's cat bite or something.
says MarissaD at 5/08/2002 02:31:00 PM
May 07, 2002
So I found a nifty new job listing today. It's rather perfect for me and I really, really want it. It's for a web design assistant at Brook Mays Music Company. It's so so perfect for me. Please, oh please let this work out.
Other happenings: tonight, I sleep. I'm going home after work and I'm staying there and I'm going to sleep so early it will make old grandma's jealous. I am so tired.
I've gotten a little more into The West Memphis Three lately. This is one of those situations that makes you want to just scream "What is WRONG with you people?!?" My opinion of Arkansas gets worse each day. Jerks!! All of them! Well no, not all of them. But a lot of them!!
Spider-man was cool. I've noticed something funny. Before people went to see the movie, they wrote Spiderman. And then like me, everyone saw the opening title: Spider-man. So I'm seeing a lot of the correctness appearing about the intarweb. Yes, so, Spider-man. I liked it. It was nice. It made me want to have spider sense and power and web silk that shoots out of my wrists. For some reason, I just don't know what to think about Kirsten Dunst. I just have a weird *what's she all about* feeling there. And Toby Macquire (sp?) is one great dork. He has that role down well. I love me some dorks, too.
As you may have noticed, the new site is not up. That is because when we moved all of my stuff onto Adm's computer, we somehow missed the new site. Don't worry. I haven't reformatted my drives yet, so I can still save them. Just not til at least Thursday. Fleh. I'm tired.
says MarissaD at 5/07/2002 02:33:00 PM
May 06, 2002
Hi! Seems to be a popular word lately. I had a very relaxing weekend. Well mostly. If you take out all the time I spent trying to figure out Algebra stuff. Odd, I thought it was just the first week. Oh wait, it is! And so far we have covered every single last bit of Algebraic knowledge that I have. In one freakin day. Four hours. It's all uphill from here. Yay!
That was Saturday, Sunday really was extremely relaxing. I went up to the lovely Copperas Cove (I don't know if that's spelled right,) with Adm and the elusive Evan to see A's parents and deliver something to them. Of course when we got there, he realized he left the something on his drawing desk at home. That's the way things are supposed to happen around us though. It gives us just one more thing to toss our hands in the air and laugh about. We hung out with Ben and Miranne. hehe Mirrrannnnne. I want her hair. I hate my hair. I need a haircut.
My computer will be reformatted this week. I demand it to be so. And then all will be well. I'm going to finish up my last few pages on my site tonight before we go see Spiderman and then I will upload it and then you can all be happy with me at how cute it is. Yay! And we can all be happy that there will not be hundreds of .eml files all over my hard drives. Yes. I know it's Nimda, but I need to reformat none the less. And all my pictures and journal entries and mp3's from over the years will not be lost, thanks to Adm's computer.
Considering I am at work, I think it would be a great idea to go ahead and do some work.
says MarissaD at 5/06/2002 11:56:00 AM
May 01, 2002
Well then. I added a forum to my site. All are welcomed, as long as you're not mean! If you're mean, you eat a bag of hell!!
