Cars, make up, house work

I finally took the Kia in for an oil change.  It was only five months past due.  I half-expected the guys at Walmart to laugh me out of the garage.  Monday must've been oil-change day for Altoona because there was an hour and half to two hour wait.  I said it was fine; I had to eat and do my grocery shopping anyway.

I stopped by electronics to check out Xboxes.  I'm thinking of getting Chris a new one for his birthday.  One that's wireless, so we don't have to drape that ugly blue cord all over the living room any more.  Then I walked up to McDonald's and got some food.  That took a while.  They claimed it was for my chicken nuggets, but I think they fried my fries three times while I waited; they were hard as wooden rods.

Anyway, after I ate, I started grocery shopping.  Halfway through the car/bathroom/paint section, I realized my ticket for the oil change had "walked" out of my back pocket.  (That's short for, "My ass is so big, as I walked, it pushed the paper out of my pocket.")  So I retraced my steps and found it in the cat food aisle.  Back to shopping.  I shopped on auto-pilot, mainly because, I hate grocery shopping.

I found a line that wasn't too bad and checked out.  I felt like a weirdo walking back through Walmart with my cart full of bagged groceries, but I certainly wasn't going to go outside and walk around the building to get to the garage!  My car wasn't done yet; it was about another half hour wait back there, as my eggs and milk got warm.  I opened the Hard Candy makeup set I picked up and looked at it.

I love the make up aisles.  I looked at the Hard Candy stuff for a looong time, and finally decided on a pack of new blush that came with highlighter, primer, and lip gloss sample-sized tubes.  I tried the primer today.  It was weird.  I'm not sure it made any kind of difference on my face or with my makeup, but I really like the new blush.  I don't have to use as much as my old one to get the color to show up and it's a little sparkly.

At Walmart, I also got plastic for the windows.  Tomorrow, since I'm off work, I think I'm going to plastic-up all the windows and start going through the mess of clothes Chris and I have.  Nothing is put away; each of us has a dresser that is pretty much empty.  I'm getting sick of living out of laundry baskets.  Now, I've been meaning to do this for a while now and I always get too lazy.  I'm really going to try tomorrow.

Oh, working on a new story.  I've pretty much finished the book I started for NaNoWriMo and, even "finished" it doesn't make the 50k mark.  Blah.  I'll let it sit for a while and go back to it some other time.

Frustrations

My hands have been really bothering me lately.  I'm having trouble texting (not too big of a deal, but annoying none the less).  Both of them are acting up.  You know that feeling you get in your legs if you jog up stairs really fast?  When they fill with lactose or whatever?  That's why my hands feel like when I do stuff.  I've been trying to Google information, but I just find the same articles over and over.

Chris is at his brother's house this weekend.  =(  I'm home alone.  Well, I'm here with the cats.  I'm working tomorrow and Sunday, so that's why I'm not at Dave's with Chris.  I'm bored already.

Research

I was researching the 90's for a new story I'm working on.  Did you know that on Wikipedia you can search for a year and it'll give you a run down of what happened?  I typed in 1994.  Here's what I found:

August 20 – In Honolulu, Hawaii, during a circus international performance, an elephant named Tyke crushes her trainer Allen Campbell to death before hundreds of horrified spectators, at the Neal Blaisdell Arena.

So I clicked on "Tyke" for some more info.

On April 21, 1993, 16 months before the incident in Hawaii, Tyke ripped through the front doors of the Jaffa Mosque during a performance and ran out of control for an hour in Altoona, Pennsylvania. An estimated 4,500 school children had to leave the building as it was evacuated, and the rampage caused more than $14,000 in damage.

Dude, that totally happened in Altoona, where I live, and I had no idea.  Granted, I was 10 years old, but I have no recollection of hearing about this elephant running loose. 

I went to youtube and found the video of the elephant attacking his trainers and then being shot.  It just reaffirms my hatred for zoos and circuses.  The trainer had cocaine and alcohol in his system when they did the autopsy; he had complaints filed against him before for abusing elephants.  You'd think by the 90's that PETA and all those kinds of groups would've done something about the mistreatment of circus and zoo animals by then.  And, since they hadn't, it kind of makes me think that almost twenty years later not much has probably changed.

Failure

Well, I failed at NaNoWriMo.  5,000 words short.  The last day of it, I was coming down with a cold (which I still am fighting off).  I sat on my "thinking chair" (ha ha, Blue's Clues!) and just stared at my lap top.  I couldn't even think.  I'm still going to finish the book.  Chris keeps telling me to hurry up and get it and the other one I finished published so he can "retire".  Right...

Debating what to do for Christmas for the girls at the office.  I was thinking about getting them each a nail polish that I think would fit them, but if I go with OPI (my natural choice), I'll be pushing $115 total, not including cards or any kind of wrapping.  I don't want to go cheap, though.  Sally Hansen nail polish is...ok, but not the best.  Maybe I can find some middle ground with Orly or China Glaze at Sally's...that is, if Chris works out our bills and such and says it's ok for me to spend the money. 

Originally, I was going to make my car payment late this month (like I pay it on time any other month or something) and get my Christmas present: a tattoo.  But now we have to give Chris' mom money, we need groceries desperately, and I want to get stuff for my coworkers.  My tattoo might have to wait til next year.  :'(

I had a dream about getting a tattoo.  For some reason, I wanted to get flames or something on my toes and I was calling tattoo places, or text them maybe?, and asking when they could get me in.  They were being really mean to me.

It's been a while

Since I usually blog at work, I haven't been blogging much because now at work I either work or write my book for NaNoWriMo.  My schedule coming up really sucks.  I'm going to be 9-5.  :P  Actually, a couple days next week I have to be there at 8 to learn the mail room.  Hooray.  As far as I can tell, the mail room really sucks, so not looking forward to that.

I'm trying to convince Chris to get me a tattoo for Christmas.  I have so many ideas for tattoos!

  

Weird soreness

Yesterday, I woke up feeling like my cat scratched me on the neck.  Nothing was there, though.  As the day progressed, my neck got more and more sore.  I took some ibuprofen and went to sleep, but when I woke up today it was the same, even worse.  Now other parts of my body are following suite.  I will feel random sore spots on my skin.  It's really weird.  I'm not sure what to do, other than take pain pills.

A week of ramblings

Well, I've been away from my blog to participate in NaNoWriMo.  I'm past 14k words, but kinda stuck.  My story wants to end itself rather soon, so I have to stall it.  Lulz, my story has control of me!

I ended up dressing as Sally from a Nightmare Before Christmas for Halloween and I won movie gift certificates for being "Most Theatrical", so that was nice.  When I wore my Sally costume at NAC, I lost the contest to a lady who dressed as a witch (or, everyone else said, wore a hat to work.)

I was driving my nephew home today from preschool and he started telling me this elaborate story about how the sun was fake and was just a normal light but was losing power.  He was carrying the "real" sun into the house and it was sooo heavy.  It has me thinking now about writing a kids book about all the stories he makes up.

Alexander the movie was on TV today.  I don't know how I missed this jewel of hot guys before!  Colin, Jared, that other hot guy...and I'm pretty sure they're all gay for each other.  OMG, love it!  Why hadn't anyone told me about this movie?!  I'm kinda angry!  Lol.

Chris is finally back to work.  When I found out my boss doesn't like tattoos, I've thought about nothing else.  I really want another tattoo, but we can hardly pay our electricity, water, and gas bills.  Bill collectors call me every day.  I'm still thinking about bankruptcy.  I should talk to Chris about it.