Doug

Journal of a Domesticated Lunatic

Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change.

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Afeared
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 today was going fine, until dad e-mailed me. Now I just wish I had the resources to get Felix, Mel, and a few other of my girlies all together in one place. And maybe a few of the guys too. Just for a vent fest and drinking. *sigh* I need hugs

Yay
Derringer
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 I got to go to Lush today and buy nice smelling things. Its been a good day for me. Now to scrub the shower and them make lasagna 

Conor's family confuses me...
Dook?
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They don't steal sips from each other's drinks, or steal bites from each other's food. But his mother is perfectly fine with sticking her hand in a toilet and using it's water when she cleans her bathroom. My family does the food things I mentioned, but I know I would have been strung up if I had every used "camode" water to clean the bathroom. Even if I had cleaned and flushed the toilet first. 

ow...
Fucking Ikea
[info]nor2266
 So earlier today Conor accidently broke a wine glass. So I went to Pier One to buy another and two extra so we have a set. 

WELL

The stemware is down stairs so I go and huzzah find the same glasses! So I grab three and start upstairs and when I am most of the way up I trip on my own feet. Grace, my name ain't.  Well In the fal i land on my left knee, hit my right shin, break the base of the glass in my right hand, and hit my face just below my left eye with the glasses in my left hand. yeaaaaah. well the ladies in the store run up to me and do everything to make sure I'm ok and offer me ice for my eye and all that. Well I AM fine. I have a bruise on my face where I hit my eye, and nice lump on my knee where it hit, and a not so painful bruise on my shin where the right leg hit. 

I still got three glasses to come home with and they didn't charge me for the one I broke. I just thought I would share.

Let the frantic cleaning, BEGIN!
Fucking Ikea
[info]nor2266
 Okay, so Conor and I knew we were going to have to clean the apartment for my mother's eventual arrival anyway, but we had planned it over a week. Yesterday we got a happy letter under our front door saying "We're showing your apartment on Monday around 10:30am!"

...OK! So from that point until  a few hours later when I was hurt and drenching in sweat from cleaning and Conor was hurtting from dragging things out to Goodwill and his folks to get it out of our way. But it's still only half done. We need to finish the livingroom and the kitchen. I am so hungry right now though.

Kity Fricase
Doug
[info]nor2266
 It seems my cat is the unselfish kind. He is willing to sacrifice himself to feed his owners.






Just for reference, no we did not put him in the roasting pan. We found him that way when he had disapeared. We just HAD to take a picture. Now Conor keeps asking the cat if he wants to go to the "happiest place of kitty Earth"


well...
Doug
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They always say these things come in threes. Ed McMahaon, Farrah Fawcet, Michael Jackson... Frankly I think the last was the biggest suprise to all. But such is life. I lost interest sometime around ten or eleven.

And every now and then...
Dook?
[info]nor2266
 You just have something random that makes you go... WTH??

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Doug
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 So I've been keeping myself busy lately. At least trying to. We've been painting Conor's folks' inside of thier house. The living and dinning rooms are now compleate and the next task will be the kitchen followed by the poarch. After that she will have to decide on a bed room color and I know we will be painting the hallway at some point. But they wanted to clear the fumes out of the house by the weekend for Sunday brunch this weekend. And to give us a well needed rest. We're both so sore from paiting and stooping and bending and just holding our bodies in positions they are not acustomed or pleased to hold for as long as we are forcing them to. LOL Learn to cope! 
 
Well time is going slowly. I am still seeking employ as fervently as I can. I feel like I have applied to everyone in the cities. Well everyone except minimum wage jobs. "Why not Bess?" Well quearying reader because if I take a minimum wage job there is no way in hell that I will be able to afford my apt, car, other bills bills, and food. And it would negate my unemployment which currently manages to just cover the bills. I have resolved if I do not have a job by the end of July I will be applying to all meanial jobs that I can find. At that point I will permit myself to accept up to three part time jobs depending on the number of hours they are willing to spare me. I'll do what I can to jugle as best I can to make the money I need until I can find one real job and be able for us to once again move out on our own. 
 
I requested an appt at my local PPH. Nothings wrong, I just skiped my yearly check up in March, filled my prescription for three more months and now here I am. About to start my last month of pills. So I figured now is a good time to do these things. Hoping with thier sliding scale that I will be on the lower end of things what with jobless and all. 
 
Mom, Dad and Judy will be visting next month for undetermined amounts of time. Dad asked me when I expected mom. I told him what I knew so with any luck any confrontation shall be avoided. Mom is (shudders a little) staying with us when she comes to visit. It shoud only be for a few days I think she intends to spend the majority of her visitng up north. But because she is staying with us this means massive cleaning. And I do mean MASSIVE. The whole apt needs cleaning big time. We need to anyway. I mean it's not atrochious or anything. it's just bad. 
 
Anywho speaking of cleaning I should go wash dishes.

So bored
Doug
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 Bored enough that I made a new icon from the movie Up!  For those who have not seen it I recomend it. it's not gotten a lot of press but it is worth while. 

I'm beyond bored. There's only so much excitement in searching the job sites and checking ones email to see if anyone has responded and finding they have not. such is life. I'm still looking. And as some would say I am keepin on keepin on. Conor and I will most likely be moving in August. By then if I have not found anything i will be applying ANYWHERE for ANYTHING and even contemplating applying at the mall. *shudders* I hate working at malls. 

Conor an I have been dreaming of things we can't begin to afford. Like camping equipment. We both want to go camping. The weather is great for it and a yearly state park pass is only $25. Fishing lisences I forget are how much. But there are some not so pricey starter kits at Target and Walmart both. Bait is easy enough. I have often found hotdogs to be a universal bait. But the kits also come with fake loures. Which I forone have never used but you never know. I know a lot of people say it doesn't take a lot to go camping and this much is true. But Conor and I are sticklers for having at least one thing when camping. Shelter. IE: Tent. So we have to save for that. It will happen eventually. Until then, we dream.

Hmmmm
Dook?
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 I'm kind of wanting to get a hair cut. But I don't know how to cut it. Part of me just says cut it like I always do and let it be. But part of me is just eh. Another part of me thinks about getting it cut extra short but at the same time I have straight hair and the likelyhood of my styling everyday before leaving the house is slim to null. So I'm stumped. Let it grow and leav it alone, cut it normal and cut it short. Right now I'm just thinking let it go and save the $14.

pokes my head out from under my covers...
Sleepy gir
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 well after it starting with allergies it escalated to allergies with a dollop of food poisoning, thank you Noodles & Co. (I think) Seeing as everything else I ate after them and before had also been eaten by others as well who all did not get sick and they were the only thing I ate that was different from anyone else. So yeah. Not sure if it was the pasta the salad or the dumplings. And now conor is mocking me asking me why i keep pretending to type. ... yeah... he does that a lot.  Anywho. So yeah allergies wasn't fun, allergies+food poisoning= horking and the eventuality of there being no toilette paper ON EARTH being soft enough! my ass still hurts. 

My stomach still gurgles from time to time but hasn't a lot just now. I have kept to safe foods. My body KNOWS it needs to eat and it wants to but at the same time the thought of eating said food kind of is disgusting. I'm sure it will pass in a day or two. Just need to rebuild my streangth. 

Saturday apparently I am going to the zoo with a friend and her daughters. I'm ok with this. It's free. (volunteer donation)

hate allergies...HATES
Inu Yasha sick
[info]nor2266
 I have had allergy issues all week. It started with a scratchy throat that went away after a night of taking nyquil to help stop the tickling. However the drainage continued. I was queasy most of the time due to the drainage but found that eating helped to make me less so. Until yesterday. When I was trying to make it through the day without any meds just to see if I could make it go away. That was a bad plan. It lead to being physically ill, twice. I felt better this morning but I'm still queasy. Despite my past issues with Zyrtec via prescription I am contemplating taking it tonight. I thought Allegra had be made available OTC but I am mistaken. And as I have no insurance I can not see a doctor. Trust me, If i had insurance i would be at a doctor tomorrow instead of being here still queasy. I've never had my allergies be this bad. But with some searching in the intra-webs I have found it is not uncommon with severe issues. *sigh* why do I have to have severe issues?? such is life. 

yeah yeah I'm having an allergy pitty party leave me alone. and for god sake don't jostle me.

on a related note Conor and I were on the sofa.
Me: I love you.
Conor: I love you to...don't hork on me.

ahh love.

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Inu Yasha sick
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 Allergies suxorz A pox upon them! wait... anywho. Lemon juice, honey and hot water are my friend right now with the oh so yummy drainage. weeeeeeeeeee. And the cat is following me everywhere through the apt. I think he's waiting for me to be unsuspecting.

ps. I hate summer. When will fall be here?

hurray.... -_-
Sadness
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 Today is three months since I was laid off from my job. I'm still looking. I've had one interview in that entire time. I'm almost ready to start applying to coffee places. I see positions listed for night auditors but I just can't bring myself to do that. I don't want to go back to being an overnight person.  I enjoy being a day person again. *sigh* suxorz... Conor is suggesting we write the next broadway hit "FRAUD: the musical!" I'm not sure if it will take. 

I'll be 28 in two days...I'm not really looking forward to it.

I bathed the cat yesterday
Doug
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 And he used his mind to make me cut myself on the cheese grater.

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Doug
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an update
Kitty
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 Well...its thursday. Since Sunday, I have applied for unemployment, cleaned the bathroom, the bedroom, the living room, did the laundry, put away the laundry, washed delicates, vaccuumed basicly been called "crazy" by Conor because of my mad cleaning frenzies. I attempted to make bagels but once again they did not rise so such is life. I may try to find my own bagel recipie and try again since dad's does not seem to work for me. Yesterday I got to a point that I HAD to leave the appartment. I just couldn't stand to be inside anymore. So we went oot and aboot. Today we are "splurging" on $5 movie tickets to see Coraline. Then we have a coupon for a $6 pizza. 

I've gotten out of doing my Wii Fit which I need to amend. I also plan to try and clean the kitchen some today. At least to get a good dent in the dishes. 

I have sent out resumes. And I am still looking every day.  so there you go. one day at a time, right?

end to a "super" week
Sadness
[info]nor2266
Now I've been sacked...

unemployment here I come

Holy tax refund batman!
Victory
[info]nor2266
I finally got my federal return. Finally! Now I can make my appointment to get my wisdom teeth pulled!

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