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$549 to get my nose pierced?!
i had a dream last night and that's what some fools at a piercing studio were trying to charge me (they showed me the bill after doing the piercing). i went ballistic and had to 'prove' that i knew the price was 10x what it should be by recounting a long history of piercers and piercing studios... somehow this demonstrated to them that i was part of their 'in-crowd' and not a johnny-come-lately who they though deserved to be ripped off.
i have no idea why this was the subject matter of my dream, but i'm pretty sure that all the garlic and peppers from the pasta i ate just a few hours before played a role...
8:40:00 AM
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12.06.2009
6 months old today!
i can't believe that it was 6 months ago that thea arrived. seems like such a long time ago, and yet so recent... i can't imagine life without her. being a mommy is the most rewarding thing i have ever experienced. (^_^)
10:04:00 PM
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12.01.2009
look, i'm getting better!
it's been less than a month since my last blog post. (o_O) really odd, some random person found my blog and submitted positive feedback to me about it:
"I found this site using Google And i want to thank you for your work. You have done really very good site. Great work, great site! Thank you! Sorry for offtopic"
i'm thinking that maybe the person who wrote this is just a random kind person who anonymously submits blog compliments in an effort to spread a little cheer in the world. or perhaps they are just mental. i don't know and don't really care, except the idea of randomly and anonymously sprinkling feel-good messages into the ether is kind of sweet.
my dear child did not sleep for more than an hour at a time last night, so needless to say i am a bit foggyheaded this a.m. i feel that a nap is in my future for sure.
got fabric and trim to make a christmas stocking for the bean. i think it is going to be supercute when i finally get around to making it. j/k, i need to finish it before 12/25, obviously, or else i will be a BAD MOMMY.
hehe. i like reading confessions from other imperfect parents on the intarwebs. my favorites are at honestbaby.com and babble.com. they make me feel less imperfect. :)
9:11:00 AM
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11.04.2009
a blog for thea?
ha ha ha, thought about putting one together, then realized that to do so would mean having two blogs to neglect. actually my thought for doing one for thea would be as a recording place for her various milestones (i.e., 1st time rolled over; 1st tooth; started to crawl; etc.). because in theory i should be writing all this stuff down in a notebook somewhere, but... i'm not doing a very good job of it. for some reason, recording this data digitally seems like it would be easier (???). then one day, i could just hit 'print' and get a single document with all the details. maybe she needs a twitter account for this sort of thing? NO!!! i could just record it all in notepad. but, i like the web-based aspect of a blog or twitter, so i can update it anytime, from any computer or internet-connected device.
oh, i give up.
9:50:00 PM
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9.06.2009
damn it, why didn't i know that fossils could be sold?
been playing "animal crossing: wild world" on my nintendo ds lately. just discovered that fossils, once identified by blathers the owl, can be sold at tom nook's shop for beaucoup $$. my mistake had been in trying to sell unidentified fossils to tom; he won't buy those (but he'll let you gift them to him), so based on that, i made the assumption that they weren't worth any money and have since been donating them to blathers' museum... turns out that i totally could have paid off the mortgage on my house by now if i had been selling identified fossils. (>_<)
also i recently learned that one catch bugs and sell them to tom nook. i caught some sort of beetle last night that was worth $10k!
i wonder what else i don't know about? guess i should do some research on the web. or, like, maybe read the instructions that came with the game. (o_O)
12:40:00 PM
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8.09.2009
skunked!
poor olive. last night, during her before-bed visit outside, she discovered and gave chase to a skunk. said skunk gave olive a mighty blast in her face (well, that's the part that smells the most foul, but she stinks all over).
wow. did you know, that "skunk smell" you sometimes might catch a whiff of while driving, is not what skunk spray actually smells like? nope, the real smell is 1000% worse. its like burnt rubber and something musky. made me dry heave. seriously.
she had to spend the night in the laundry room with the window open. today she is banished to the backyard. as soon as the pet store opened, i ran out to buy some de-skunker. i can tell that it's going to require much more than one application... letting her dry right now (outside of course) before re-applying.
somehow, the smell has gotten pretty much everywhere throughout the house, even though olive was totally confined to one small room. mom is blasting oust and febreze in an attempt to remove the stench.
not how i had hoped to spend my sunday, but what can you do. i really hope that we can get rid of the smell soon. sucks that so much of it is on olive's face, as that area is sort of difficult to saturate with the de-skunking liquid. :-(
10:15:00 AM
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7.28.2009
the stupid, it burns!
so, i went to the volkswagen dealer yesterday to buy a new car. i came home very determined to keep my current vehicle. what happened?
tom. tom the douchenozzle happened.
i went to the dealer to see someone named chris, who had located a car in northen ca with the specs i was looking for. as i arrived at the dealership, i was intercepted by tom, who insisted that he and chris were "partners," and that i could speak with him. ok, whatever. i told him that chris had located the car i wanted and that i was just there to do a final test drive before getting down to business. recounting the experience makes me cross, so i'm not going to go into narrative detail, but let me point out some of the ways that tom was a douchenozzle:
- didn't know how to open trunk of car, despite "27 years of experience selling vw"
- didn't know which safety features were standard and which were options; in fact, made several complete misstatements of fact
- couldn't listen to questions being asked without immediately jumping in with a wrong answer (hey douchenozzle! here's a tip --- listen and understand the question before you try to answer it)
- suggested that i could "lower my payments if i put more down" --- wtf?! JACKASS! i told you i wasn't financing the car!!
- offered me a "special military discount" of $2000 above invoice. uh, no thanks, considering that your dealership has a contract with USAA that says i pay $500 above invoice. oh, you don't know anything about that? well, chris already did/does --- too bad you wouldn't let me talk to him (and didn't bother to talk to him yourself). here's a copy of the USAA paperwork so you can read it yourself, douchenozzle. ugh, please don't move your lips while you read it to yourself. i hate people who do that.
- "came back" with a price that was... invoice plus $500! wow, that's great, i totally wasn't expecting that. now, the only problems are that (a) the car chris found had a couple of options that i didn't want (totaled $435) and (b) the price, including tax, title, dealer prep, destination charges, etc. was $1300 more than my personal 'walk away' price (at this point, please remember that i was prepared to give you CASH today). i offered to split the $1300 difference with you --- if you had gone back to your manager and taken $650 off, i would have signed the contract. but you gave up.
tom couldn't close a door, much less a deal. so, i left. in a way, i was relieved, because i found tom so fucking stupid and annoying that i didn't want to buy a car from him.
new plan: going to head to the flea market tomorrow to get some new leopard print seat covers for my truck. hopefully also a dashboard cover. might go today to get my tires rotated. and get a car wash. good as new! so what that it only gets 17 mpg. it'll run for another 100,000 miles, easy, and i'm sure that there'll be an even more fuel-efficient car available in a few years. that i can buy from someone who isn't tom.
10:36:00 AM
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