Sweet Catastrophe

this is definitely my favorite postie patrol yet! they just keep getting better!

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ted completely cracks me up with his extreme enthusiasm and the fact that he’s all for making a complete fool out of himself. i love it! the world could definitely use a few more ted’s. the completely random return of the catfish had me rolling in the floor too. other definite highlights would include the chicago-style rendition of rudolph red-nose gangsta, trying desperately not to have to write on her forehead, and the obvious fact that some of the objects were there simply because someone was hungry.

i’m ridiculously jealous of all the gear she got. i need a new camera so badly, and a photo quality printer for digital photo printing would be the icing on the cake. not to mention i adore free shirts. i’ve wanted to do the postie patrol since the first one. really, i’d love to do a postie patrol scavenger hunt.

This post was brought to you by HP, but the opinions are alllll mine.

wow….it’s taken three weeks, but i’m almost completely moved. surgery, christmas, and driving to atlanta have all slowed down the process but last night, ryan and i kicked it into high gear and finished the room. tonight, i left work early and picked up what should be the next to the last load of my stuff from the house, and when i got here with it, i took everything directly to where it goes! i was so proud of myself; normally i’d stack it all inside and slowly take it to its spot. tomorrow i should have one, MAYBE two trips left considering a lot of the stuff left is either breakable, squishable or just awkwardly shaped. on my last trip i’ll load stuff and clean up the room (clean any spots off the wall, floor, and vacuum) then i can pack up my cleaning stuff and be on my way! i’m really excited to have it all done either way. since the surgery ryan and i have been sleeping on the couches downstairs. at first because of the surgery, then later because the bed wasn’t all together in the room. and all my clothes have been in bags or suitcases. i haven’t really felt at home. so finally, sleeping in the bed together last night, i felt home. with the room rearranged, it feels like OUR room, not his. =) life is good.

update. heh.

instead of typing it all out again, i’ll just paste my convo with kristi earlier about my boob dr appt.

kriSti m 14 (4:14:46 PM): that sucks

kriSti m 14 (4:17:02 PM): aww that sucks

FadedJade23 (4:16:28 PM): it’s been raining all day it’s slippery

i’m thinking about buying all the harry potter books and reading them. i mean i’ve always said i’d read ‘em at some point, but originally i was gonna borrow them. now i’m looking around on ebay. i’ve got a bid in on the first six, in good condition, paperback. if that one works out, i’ll have ‘em for under ten bucks, including shipping. if not, there are two other auctions, both for all six still sealed, but those’d be buy it now for about $35 (total with shipping). sounds like a pretty good deal to me.

this is a test to see if krizit is emailed. this is only a test. had this been a real…er…post? you’d have been dazzled by my wit and instructed to send me chocolate. though you should probably do that anyway. i repeat: this is just a test.

so it’s definitely no secret to any of you that i obsess over the band Lifehouse. and most of you know that my love for Jack’s Mannequin/SoCo has grown to equal that of my love for lifehouse. what comes with all this band loving is an extreme concert addiction. i basically stalked lifehouse last year, going to five of their shows, skipping god knows how many classes, and putting my poor little car through hell. i’ve been attempting the same stalking with jack’s mannequin, but circumstances kept me from 3 shows, two of which i had paid for tickets.

now back in the day, i took a metric ton of pictures. friends laughed because i had like 130 pictures from an hour show…that’s at least a picture every 30 seconds. getting the stalker part yet? at my last concert, i probably only took 15. have my stalker ways subsided? nope. my camera has just been worn out, and it’s out-dated like whoa! it’s only 2 mega pixels. yikes. i love zooming in for close-ups, and i’m usually front row (when you show up at 11 am for a 6pm door, you’re pretty much guaranteed front row…and sunburn, fatigue, hunger and bitterness from all the folks who think they’re getting in front of you–HA) and front row sets me up for some really great zoom shots, but they NEVER come out looking as great as they do in my window. not to mention my camera is absolute shite now with concert lighting and fog. let’s look at some examples, shall we?

this is bryce, bass player of lifehouse:

this could’ve been an amazing picture of jason (lead singer) getting into one of my favorite songs…notsomuch though

playing the intro to a special song played only for our audience (i really wish this one looked better):

how about some jack’s mannequin? can you see andrew being amazing on his piano?

^^^terrible, right? what kind of stalker am i if i can’t even get a clear picture!? if i had one of those SWEET 6 mega pixel hp digital cameras that the payperpost folks have, i’d be BEYOND stoked. really, a stalker is only as good as her equipment, and frankly, my equipment SUCKS. 6mp > 2mp….seriously. check some of these cameras out. they’re amazing for digital photography. i wanted a new camera for christmas, but instead, i’m getting a spare tire and a water filter. i’m 21 years old and instead of getting awesome gifts, i’m getting crap i need ’cause i’m a desperately broke college student. new hp camera > SPARE-FREAKING-TIRE x’s infinity. i really do need a new camera though. how else am i gonna take drunken blackmail photos of all my neighbors? or have proof of when the guys of when i finally get a chance to go out and party with the boys of lifehouse? (it’s gonna happen! i swear it will!)

This post was brought to you by HP. —and a stalker near you.

so tonight was my first night back at work. i spent my first 30 minutes up at the returns desk, dodging some complicated returns and leaving them for the girl who was on break i really hate returns. seriously. then i got stationed in outside lawn and garden which was great; if i have to be at work, that’s my preferred spot. it’s not very busy out there right now so it took a pretty long while before i started aching. i tried to leave, but david got pretty much abandoned up front so he was closing down garden to bring me inside. after that, when i got stuck behind a busy register, the pain really hit. it started with all the crazy aching muscles and then finally escalated to the incision site actually hurting. when that hurt, it really hurts. i hate it. david let me go right on time though, so i can’t really complain much i suppose

ryan finally got started on the room that’s all i wanted was a start. now it’ll get finished pretty quickly. he got interrupted by work calling him in, but that’s okay! he turned on king kong earlier. i didn’t watch it originally ’cause i thought it was gonna be ridiculously awful, but i got sucked in and what i saw was actually pretty good. i was surprised. i missed the first little bit and the last hour (it’s a little over 3 hours long….) so i’m watching it right now. movies OnDemand are pretty much amazing =)

my incision itchessssss. i go in tomorrow morning for another appointment. i guess they’ll be removing the steri-stips and everything. i’m thinking about asking for another prescription. not for loratab, but for something ’cause ibuprofen just ain’t gonna cut it. i also may not go into work tomorrow. we’ll see. i’m gonna talk to the dr about it probably. maybe, if i’m lucky, i can talk him into writing me an excuse for a few more days. i’m kicking myself for not just taking more time in the first place. i dunno why i didn’t. if i had just taken two weeks then i’d be covered through christmas. yeah, i’m not dumb or anything.

it’s been a rough week. late sunday we left for atlanta. almost 5 hours later, we made it there. should’ve been a 3 1/2 hour drive. i won’t even discuss why it took so damn long. i really didn’t want to go because i have to go back to work tomorrow and there’s so much left here to do with the move and i’m aching, but i can’t really finish all the moving until ryan finishes rearranging furniture so i’d have been sitting here alone for 3 days with nothing to do. we went to atl to pick up Duke. that’s ryan’s mother’s dachshund. we’re taking care of him while she’s in louisiana for the holidays. so i really needed to go so i could help ryan with the drive back. it’s all been really rough. the drive was terrible. i was aching and just wanted to go to sleep, but duke was either sitting uncomfortably on me or jumping around on me the whole drive. of course he and willow aren’t the best of friends yet so they keep freaking out on each other and that’s got me on edge. i don’t want my cat to get hurt and i sure as hell don’t want to take an injured dog back to ryan’s mother. she’d die. that dog is her world. i got godiva and macaroni grill on the atl trip. that’s about all i have to report in the plus column lol. ryan’s mom made me a blanket for christmas it’s dark green, maroon, gold and white….i promise all the colors look great together =)

i think i finally got my comment counter set the way i want it. hopefully i’ll be set to do some payperposting soon! i got my last payment from them a day or two ago so it’s gonna be at least a month before i earn anymore through them. i may give it a shot tonight and see if i can actually submit and everything. the sooner the better.

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