We have a Doorbell!

Well we've moved all of our belongings into "the place." I'm not sure what to call it yet. Our apartment, our house, our 1/2 double (no that's too long), our cave. I'll probably call it all kinds of things. Anyway, it's a crazy house right now. WHY do we have so much stuff? WHY can't I throw anything away? I'll tell you why. Everything is an unfinished art project. "Oh, no I need that it's for a project." I'm sure Kent hears those words more than he'd like. Not only can I not throw away my own stuff. I take other people's stuff that they are getting rid of and save it for my various projects. Sometimes I don't even have a project in mind, I just get it for parts. If that's not bad enough, I dig in trash. It's like an obsession. I can't let good stuff go to waste. I just can't. It kills me to see good items in the trash. You'd be surprised all of the things around our home that I've gotten off the side of the road.

So, back to the new place. I really like it a lot. It's got a cute little picket gate and a big backyard for our new one. Not that they will be spending much time outside (you'll hear more about this after Feb. 11th). We have 2 bedrooms and one bathroom and no drawers in the kitchen. Plus, we have a doorbell. But most exciting of all! WE HAVE AN ICE MAKER! I'VE NEVER HAD AN ICE MAKER IN ALL OF MY LIFE! No more ice trays! I'm free!

Yesterday I thought I heard a jackhammer next door. Turns out it really was a jack hammer. Neat.

It's a good thing..

I like Martha Stuart Living, the magazine.

Kent and I put a deposit on a place. WOO HOO! We move in on Saturday, January 29th. Most excellent. It's a 2 BR, but small, like 850 sqare feet. That' s alright though, we like being close together. I think I'm going to grow tomatoes there. My mom and sister are going to look at a puppy for me tomorrow. If all goes well, I'll put a deposit on it. Oh, what a happy day it will be when I finally get my pup!! I think I'm going to start crocheting it a blanket or a sweater tonight.

Another thing I'm soooooo exited about, is finally being able to use my Magic Bullet when we move in. I was reading the instruction pamphlet yesterday. Guacamole, Smoothies and homemade tomato sauce HERE I COME! I'll probably just start turning everything we eat into smoothies and dips.

The Waiting is the Hardest Part

I only give websites about 10 seconds to load - then I close the window.
Songs get about 15 seconds to start having words, or I change the station.
I often stop the microwave with 2 or 3 seconds left.

Here's a joke that never gets old to me!

It does get old to Kent though...
Any time people start saying "OH, have you seen Sideways." "Yeah, it was cool. Have you seen Spiderman 2?" I JUST CAN'T HELP IT! I have to say "You know what's an awesome movie....JURASSIC PARK!" or "Have you seen Jurassic Park? That movie was awesome!" I think it's so funny because that movie is so old and it's just funny to me to be all excited about a movie that old. No one else ever laughs though. I mostly just get looks like no one knows what I'm talking about. I think Stacey A. (well its R. now) laughed at it, but so far, it's the only laugh that joke has gotten. Maybe I need to take it out of the rotation. It cracks me up every time though. I guess it doesn't take much to entertain me.

Okay. Lately I CANNOT CONCENTRATE WHEN I'M POSTING! I just jump from thought to thought. Is it better do make a completely new post or to include it all in one. Anyway...

I'm VERY VERY ticklish. I if my shoe touches the bottom of my foot wrong it tickles me and I kick it off. Sometimes, when I was teaching PE I'd ask Kent if he'd help me take my shoes off because my feet hurt. I'd usually end up grabbing my feet away because I just couldn't take it! I always tell Kent, "If you get the urge to tickle me, just go ahead and poke me in the eye instead, just right in the eyeball. I would rather that than to be tickled." Maybe I'm a "spoil sport" but I can't take it!!! Of course, I'll take any free opportunity to tickle others. :) Maybe I dislike it so, because of what happens when I laugh to much. I get the hiccups. And not just your average, everyday hiccups. They're deep from within the depths of my soul hiccups. They're very loud and hurt my chest every time. My dad gets the same kind. It's weird. He doesn't even like me to mention hiccups around him because he might get them. I really only get them from laughing. I don't mind if I'm having a good time laughing and I get them, but if you're tickling me and I get the hiccupps...big trouble.

Oh...my Kidneys...

All day long I thought I had a kidney infection. But I've been drinking more water than normal. I actually didn't even have any soft drinks yesterday (I'm trying to cut down, I think they're dissolving my bones and teeth). Yet, my sides - like towards my back, lower back - have been aching all day. Now I'm thinking I must just have sore muscles. I went to a Yoga class last night and we did a lot of twisting. Are organs crowded in your body? I mean, are they leaning all over each other? I remember disecting a fetal pig in high school. I had some shoes that were the exact same color and texture as the pig's liver. Every time I wore those shoes I felt like the pig stench was in my nose again....blagh! I didn't wear them much longer after that. Here's something else interesting from high school science. I've actually SEEN my own DNA pattern! I think that's so neat. We did a swab of the inside of our mouths and then put it in a petri dish with that gelatin stuff and then it went in some type of centrifuge. After a while our DNA showed up as a pattern of bars on the gelatin. I've always thought that was really neat. I like science.

Who's in the house...hopefully us in about 2 weeks!

Well, we filled out an application for a 1/2 double today. For those who don't know what that is, its one side of a duplex. Why they call it a double around here, I don't know. Anyway, it's cute-y. And it has a big 'ol back yard for my pup (which doesn't exist yet, but hopefully will in the near future). Woo hoo! I hope we don't get turned down. AND it's about a block away from Tastee Donuts and Krispy Kreme. You can smell donuts from the yard. It won't be too much of a temptation for me, though. I'm not a big donut fan. Now if it was a block from Raisin' Cane's....You'll hear more details later if we get approved. If not, I'm sure you'll read a whiney post from me.

I may have already posted about this, but I don't know....

Here are a few things that make me cringe (or punch somebody) when I hear people say them:

1. Absolutely NUMBER 1 on the list has to be when someone prefaces what they're about to say with "No offense, but..." That does not clear them of all resposibility for what they're about to say. When I hear someone start to say that, I feel like telling them, " You know what, don't even say it because if you have to tell me not to be offended I probably will be."
   
2. "Boys will be boys" This is no excuse! If some little boy is pulling someone's hair and the response to his behavior is "Boys will be boys" I think it would be more accurate to say "Boys (or girls) will be obnoxious if you let them do what ever they want!"

People can mispronounce things, use words in the wrong context, or even use words that aren't real (this happens at my office on a regular basis, words that aren't real, that is) and it doesn't bother me. But for some reason those two statements really irk me.
Is there anything that people say that make you all crazy? I'd be interested to hear what they are.

Now for the bad news...

Well, even if it is bad news. I usually still think its funny...

Kent and I thought we found a house we wanted to rent. It needed a little freshening up, but it wasn't anything we couldn't handle. Plus, it had a lot of character. Very, very cute and finally in a safe neighborhood! BONUS! So, the two of us looked at it once and then I was going to go back on my lunch break the following week and fill out the application. Well, I went back and my mom and sister came with me. I still liked it a lot, but we noticed that the floor in the hallway was very uneven. So, we went outside where my mom decided to stick her head under the house (it's one of those old houses that's raised up). As she moved closer to the back of the house while looking under it, my sister and I heard a sound. We couldn't really make out what it was at first, maybe birds or maybe my mom trying to scare us, but she said it wasn't her. THEN it got louder and louder. It actually sounded like a guinea pig squealing! More like several guinea pigs! Well, I was 99% sure that there was not a nest of "guinea pigs" living under that house. More than likely, if it was a nest of some type of rodent, it's rats!! OH GAG!!! THERE'S NO WAY I WOULD LIVE IN THAT HOUSE!!! Not to mention, when we get our Chihuahua a giant rat could eat it! I had some friends who had rats and it was a nightmare! I saw one of their rats run across the counter once and (I know this sounds like an exaggeration, but it's not) it was about the length of my forearm. I almost wet my pants it scared me so bad! Well, at least we found out before we moved in. All I want is a place where we won't be called to court to be murder witnesses. But, I guess I'd rather be a witness than a victim. Oh well, back to the classifieds.

Something Disturbing Happened Today...

Well, most of you probably don't know that my office is in a Medical Office building. So, I'm surrounded by sickies all day. In the elevator, the halls, stairs, wherever! Today I was leaving for lunch and I walked into the stairwell. I saw, lying on the steps, some papers. So, I stooped down to see what they were and where I should return them. Then I heard someone down the hall say, "Oh, Those are mine." So, I thought I'd just pick them up and bring them to her. THEN! Right as I touched them she yells, "DON'T TOUCH THAT!" So I dropped them. I thought geez louise, lady, I'm not going to steal your identity. Then I realize when she comes into the stairwell...SHE HAS RUBBER GLOVES ON! OH MY GOSH! WHAT HAVE I TOUCHED! I asked her, "Uh, should I go wash my hands?" She said, "I would if I were you." And that was it! No explanation! I was a tad concerned, I must say. I mean, what in the world was on those papers! So I went back in my office and told one of the girls what happened. She went out to find the lady and figure out what I'd been exposed to. She found the office the lady was in, and called her out into the hall. Turns out...she has Scabies. What the heck is Scabies? Now I know and I hope I don't get it. I washed my hands really well, with hot water and soap for like 2 minutes, so I hope it helps. If nothing else, it made my day a little more exciting. My back itches.

When, oh when, will Sopranos Season 5 come out on DVD?

Why, oh why, do I like such a violent show?

I don't know, but when we rent it I have to watch all 3 or 4 episodes on the dvd in one day. THAT'S 4 HOURS! I usually cannot and will not sit in front of the TV for 4 hours. That's why I've never seen Braveheart or Lord of the Rings. I can barely make it through a 2 hour movie without finding something else to do while watching it. For some reason if the Sopranos are on, I'm glued. It's mostly only TV shows that I can watch for long periods of time. Even then, I can only continuously watch them if they don't have commercials. So, pretty much only shows that are on dvd. But, I'll never buy a season of a show on dvd, because I just don't buy dvds. There are very few movies that I've ever seen twice so, for me, dvds are basically a waste.

Some other favorite shows both past and present:

• Full House
• Seventh Heaven
• Friends
• ER (I don't watch it anymore, it got too stressful)
• Big Brother
• The Apprentice
• Six Feet Under
• Law & Order: Special Victim's Unit
• Family Ties (Didn't start watching it until 2002)

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Defining Chewing on My Face

It's a habit I have of biting off the skin inside of my cheeks. I mean, I will contort my face all sorts of ways just to get that one piece of new skin way in the back! I do it mostly if I'm nervous, or driving, or in deep thought, or sometimes if I just feel a loose piece of skin. Once you start doing this it's very difficult to quit. You actually develop a callous where you chew your cheek and everyday after you chew it all off, while you sleep the callous comes back. So, then you have to start over again the next day. I wonder why tissue grows back so fast in your mouth? Anyway, I hate the habit and I've noticed I'm getting little creases around my mouth from doing it. YIKES! One time Kent asked me, "When did you get that scar on your lip?" But it was a chewing crease. It was pretty funny to me then and now, but it makes me think I'm going to have some serious mouth wrinkles! Oh well, at least I don't chew my arm or Kent's face...I think that may be a more serious problem...

One of my Favorite Websites (Well, that's what the title started off as, then I started rambling)

Craigslist

These are a few of my favorite things:
The Sims, Bettlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, As Good as it Gets, James Taylor, Jimmy Buffett, Bare Naked Ladies, Sheryl Crow, Alan Jackson, Olives, Pickles, Popcorn, any type of dip, Chihuahuas, Tetris, Chocolate Coke, I actually don't have a favorite color. I have two colors I don't like - orange and yellow.

Happy New Year! I made a New Year's resolution. I've actually only kept one ever. I try not to make any now. I resolved to cook more 2 years ago and a I did! It felt good to keep a resolution. This year I'm resolving to break my habit of chewing on my face and lips. It's such a bad habit, but very hard to break. I have 363 days to work on it. I've tried to stop before, but nothing works. Anyone have any ideas? It's just a nervous habit.

So, anyone else make any resolutions or do people not do that anymore?