Melange

Thanks to thesaurus.com for the post title. What a cool sounding word. It's supposed to have the little accent mark above the first e, but I don't know how to do that. Anyway, it means mixture, potpourri, hodgepodge, etc. Maybe everyone else already knew that, but I'm getting stupider in my old age.

--Whatever happened to instant win bottle caps? Everything nowadays comes with some stupid little code that you have to go to a website and register to enter to even see if you won anything! It's ridiculous. I wonder if people actually take the time to do that. If not, the chances of winning might be better. Hmmm...

--My sister and BIL are having some trouble deciding on a name for the baby. It's going to be a boy, and the front running name right now is Aidan. Well, actually my sister said she would spell it Aiden, but that looks weird to me. My mom said she thought it was spelled Aden, which is just all kinds of wrong.

Amy also likes Conner for a name, and so do I (waves to Boo) but my BIL doesn't like it. Actually, at this point, he's pretty much closed off to any other names. No matter what we say, he will say he doesn't like it. He's stubborn and immature that way. *rolls eyes*

So anyway, you guys have any suggestions? I told her I would poll you all, and maybe you'd come up with a name they hadn't thought of. She doesn't want a "normal/boring" name like John or Jim (no offense to anyone who has named their child that, to each their own) and she doesn't want anything that starts with a T because she doesn't want matchy names like Tate and Tyler. They are considering Tyler for a middle name though. Oh, and their last name is two syllables, starts with H and ends with ing. Ideas?

--My mom and I went to Target, Bed Bath and Beyond, and Pier 1 last night. At Pier 1 they had these reed diffusers.

OMG, each scent was better than the last. They smelled soooo good. They had them spread out all over the store and I kept discovering new scents every time I turned a corner. They were $12 and I didn't want to spend that much money, but my mom said she would buy me one. I didn't put up a fight. :) I got the Mad Love. "a memorable affair of black and red raspberry fragrances with essences of peach, strawberry, coconut, lime zest, vanilla bean, and creamy cassis." Yum.my. They also had 2 scents that are a standard favorite of mine. They were named Aqua and Downpour. I think you can imagine what they smelled like. I always say anything with the word ocean, water, or rain in it will most likely be something I would love. They didn't have any in lavender though, which is my absolute fav scent.

On the way to the checkout we came across this wine rack thingy that had an Asian flair to it. (Darn it. Couldn't find a pic.) A piece of it had broken off, so they were selling it for $4, originally $30. A deal too good to pass up, no? My living room has a lot of Asian touches and I thought this would look cool somewhere. I probably won't use it for a wine rack. It doesn't hold boxes of wine, so it's useless to me for that. *grin* I just have to glue the piece back together and then find somewhere to put it. Ugh. I said I wasn't going to buy any more useless junk to take up room on my tables. Guess I lied. But I'm planning on hanging a lot of the picture frames I have sitting around, so that will free up some table space.

-- I was supposed to go to the grocery store after work, but I was wiped out. So instead I came home, fixed myself a cocktail, and I will be playing on the computer and watching movies for the rest of the night. Soooooo much better than going to the grocery. And I have something to make for dinner (pork chops and mashed potatoes) so it wasn't absolutely necessary that I went tonight anyway. /rationalization.

--I tried to use bullet points for this blog entry, but they were messing up my formatting. So you get two dashes instead.

--Hope everyone has a good weekend!

Since Arkie asked...

My sister is having some troubles with her pregnancy (again) and has just been ordered to be on bed rest for the remainder of the time, about 3 months. This is going to be tough on everyone. When she was on bed rest with her first pregnancy it wasn't such a big deal, but now that she has Tate, it is going to be rough. We're all going to have to pitch in, take time off work (which I really can't afford to do) or use vacation days (which I really don't want to do because I have so few.) Add that to my problems that I've been having, and I just feel overwhelmed. More overwhelmed than I did already. And then I feel like a selfish, horrible person for having these thoughts about dreading helping out and not wanting to give up my time. Bah. Whatever. I'll do what I can, and that's all I can do.

On a more positive note, I'm going to meet Boo next week! *big grin* She has a 3 hour layover in Cleveland for her trip, so I'm going to pick her up at the airport and we're going to go to Olive Garden for dinner. Mmmmm, breadsticks.
This peep meet will be a bit of a new experience for me because almost all of my other meets have involved a group of people. Asrai is the only person that I've ever met one-on-one. Hopefully Boo is chatty like Asrai. I'm usually more of a listener than I am a talker. Unless I'm drunk. *makes note to drink at work before I leave for the airport* *grin*

The things I do for beauty

I just had a placenta on my head.

*waits for everyone to go and vomit*

More precisely, I had animal placenta extract on my head. I just used this deep conditioning treatment, creatively named Henna 'n Placenta. Seriously. Now, if I were a marketing pro, I'd try my hardest to keep the word placenta out of my product name, but that's just me.

Anyway. My hair is really soft now. Anyone wanna touch it? *gigglesnort*

Any coupon WORKS!

Kim posted about the spongmonkeys over in her blog, and it seems a few of you don't know what they are. So I submit for your enjoyment, one of their Quiznos commercials.

Yes, they are scary. Yes, they make you say "WTF is that thing?!" Yes, they are hilarious.



I've been reading your blogs, but haven't been posting much. I'm very grumpy lately, and didn't want to take it out on anyone else. So I've just been keeping to myself for the most part.

I have tomorrow off work. Yay! I have to go to the grocery store for a quick trip. I need to buy eggs for the deviled eggs I'm supposed to make for Easter. How do you make deviled eggs? I've made them a couple times, but they never taste as good as my mom's. Maybe I need a new recipe.

I have a crush on a guy who works at a convenience store by my house. I keep going in there to buy bottles of water or a 2 liter or beer. I spent my last dollar there the other day and he wasn't even the one who rang me up. I was pissed. LOL. His name is Ben and he kind of looks like a jack-o-lantern. *snort*
It's fun to have a crush. It gives me something to look forward to, every morning when I drive to work and when I come home I look to see if his car is there. It's silly, but it makes me smile, if only for a minute.

I need a new hairstyle. My hair is getting way too long. I'll probably just go and get a few inches taken off. I don't think I'm even going to get layers like I always do. Boooo-ring. I don't know what else to do though.

On Tuesday I wore a t-shirt and capris. It was 80 degrees. Today we had about 4 inches of snow. It's in the 20's. *sigh*

I had another weird dream the other night. This one starred Zombie and involved her flinging bits of dead jellyfish at me. I'm not even going to try to explain. *snort*

I think that's all I got for now. I hope you all have a Happy Easter! *smooches*

Dinner at Carey's

I don't have much to say lately, so I thought I would tell you all about my dream last night.

I was over at Carey's house (except it wasn't actually her house- it was my Aunt Chris's) and one of her friends came over. The friend was a very tall, blonde drag queen. Heh. Carey had made lasagna, so we all took up a plate and went into the living room to eat. The drag queen didn't like me very much. She kept giving me nasty looks. Carey said that she was Viennese and I didn't know what that meant. The queen scoffed at me and said "I'm from Vienna" and rolled her eyes. I think it's funny that in the dream I didn't know what that meant, but obviously I do because my subconcious was able to come up with the right answer.
So then this little baby/toddler came wandering out of somewhere and went up to the queen and smashed her hand in her food. Except it wasn't lasagna anymore, it was a big plate of whipped cream. Carey and the Queen of Vienna were laughing at this little girl, while I was just concerned that she was getting whipped cream all over the carpet. Then a dog appeared and started licking the little girls hand and she was toddling around trying to get away from it.
So then some more people magically appeared on the floor. I'm guessing they were Carey's parents, but we were never introduced. The little girl went and got more Cool Whip on her hands and the people on the floor started licking it off her hands. I was really grossed out, but everyone else seemed to think it was hilarious.

Then I woke up.

The End.