January 2002
 

1/29/02
Please god let my past stay in the past!! My comments in hot pink italics

You know you grew up in the 1980's if . .

  • You ever ended your sentence with "psych" Not!
  • You solved the Rubics cube.....by peeling off the stickers yeah, and they never stuck again
  • You watched the pound puppies i even had a stuffed one i "adopted"
  • You can sing the rap to "the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" i can sing along. i can't think of a word right now
  • You wore biker shorts under your skirts and felt stylish god i miss that. i feel naked without it.
  • You yearned to be a member of the Baby-sitters club and tried to start a club of your own.
  • You owned those little Strawberry Shortcake pals scented dolls we actually found her 5 years later, naked, at the bottom of our toybox. her hair didn't smell anymore
  • You know what 'Whoa' comes from Blossom and i remember when joey lawrence had a video
  • Three words: M.C. Hammer one word: bankrupt
  • You remember Vanilla Ice,...Ice Ice Baby ice, ice, icepick?
  • You thought it would be great to have a friend named "Boner" yes, but i dont remember why. Teen Wolf, maybe?
  • You can sing the entire theme song to "Duck Tales" like that's hard.. "Duck Tales - Woohoo!"
  • If you played the chipmunks Christmas album all year long! No, but i had the 80s hits (featuring Jesse's Girl and Queen of Hearts) on 8-Track
  • If you remember reading Kool-Aid man comics my mom still has one of those kool-aid-man cups in her cupboard
  • You ever watched Fraggle Rock back then Disney was a pay channel we couldn't afford
  • You had plastic streamers on the handle bars of your bike
  • You remember when it was actually worth getting up early on a Saturday to watch cartoons like the one where that band was practicing in their garage and they accidentally got turned into a cartoon? that one was cool
  • You wore a pony tail to the side of your head thank god there is no photographic proof
  • You saw the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on the big screen i was too old by then
  • You got super-excited when it was Oregon Trail day in computer class at school i still do!
  • You made your mom buy you one of those clips that would hold your shirt in a knot on the side they had clips for that? no wonder my knot never stayed in place
  • You had a Kirk Cameron poster on your bedroom wall
  • You played the game "Mash" with friends at school i think i still remember how! and cootie catchers with fortunes inside?
  • You wore a Jordache jean jacket and L.A. Gears sneakers and you were proud of them no, but i remember trying to bleach my generic jean jacket with bleach and it coming out looking really stupid
  • Your mother wouldn't let you have garbage pail kids she wouldnt buy them, but somebody gave me one or two
  • You wanted to change your name to Jem in Kindergarten i actually liked the Misfits better
  • You know the profound meaning of "Wax on, Wax off" where's mr. miagi when you need him?
  • You wanted to be a Goonie..."Hey yooooou guuuuuuuys!!!!" i have that movie memorized. to this day. "the octopus was very scary!"
  • You ever wore fluorescent, neon if you will, clothing thank god there is no photographic evidence
  • You wanted to be on Star Search no, i wanted to be on "puttin' on the hits" - the lip sync show
  • You can remember what Michael Jackson looked like before his nose fell off a lot less like Janet
  • You watched the original movie and cartoons of the GhostBusters at a Drive in, nonetheless!
  • You have ever pondered why Smurfette was the ONLY female smurf she must have been one busy woman
  • You remember the craze, and then banning of slap bracelets my wrist hurts just thinking about it
  • You still get the urge to use "NOT" at the end of every statement you make see the first entry on this list
  • You remember Hypercolor T-shirts i got one from the thrift store. it didnt work anymore.
  • Barbie and the Rockers was your favorite band uh, no. who writes this crap?
  • You remember Punky Brewster Soleil Moon Frye was rumored to attend CU when I went
  • You loved Howard the duck i thought it was kinda dumb and i hate how when they air it on tv they cut the evolution part and oh my god was the dorky guy who worked at the museum TIM ROBBINS?
  • You thought Sheera and He-Man should hook up i actually liked HeMan better. SheRa was a wus
  • You thought your childhood friends would never leave because you exchanged "friendship bracelets" i just thought it was cool to know how to do a "craft"
  • You ever owned a pair of Jelly Shoes yes, but unfortunately they were out of style by the time i got 'em
  • After you saw Pee-Wee's Big Adventure you couldn't stop saying "I know you are but what am I?" i still hate the song "Tequilla" because of that movie
  • You remember "I've fallen...and I can't get up!" late night commercials ain't what they used to be
  • You remember going to the skating rink before there were inline skates i remember being annoyed because people kept bringing inline skates
  • You ever got seriously injured on a slip and slide by the time we got one, i was too old to do that
  • You know not to mix pop rocks and soda (but did it anyway!) never had the opportunity...maybe i'll try it now!
  • You have played with a 'skip-it' i really wanted one, though
  • You had or went to a birthday party at McDonald's i had one, and my best friend at the time didn't show up, and shortly thereafter wasn't my best friend anymore
  • You had a Glow Worm or watched the cartoons glow worms are still around. my nephew got one for christmas a year ago
  • You remember dancing along with the Bangles in "Walk Like An Egyptian" and doing the susannah hoffs eye thing, just like in the video
  • If you remember Heathcliff the orange cat i liked riff-raff and the gang better than heathcliff
  • You watched G.I. Joe "Remember, knowing is half the battle!"
  • You watched the Muppet Babies why did we only get to see Nanny's unfashionably horrible tights?
  • You saw the California Raisins Christmas claymation special
  • You remember Popples *DON'T WORRY, BE HAPPY!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • You wore socks over tights with high-top Reeboks or something like that
  • You wore like 8 pairs of socks at once, scrunched down more like 3, because i couldnt get my shoes on otherwise
  • MISS MARY MACK MACK MACK ALL DRESSED IN BLACK BLACK BLACK.....
  • You remember boom boxes instead of CD players and MIX TAPES!
  • You remember watching both "Gremlins" movies corey feldman was in the first one. i swear to god!
  • You remember the Transformers and those pesky knock-offs, the Go-Bots
  • You remember Pipi Long Stalkings
  • You know what it meant to say "care bear stare!!" and you had a favorite i liked the movies better than the daily cartoon. what about the Snorks?
  • You remember Rainbow Bright and My Little Pony Tales and had the toys!
  • You remember watching TV thinking Doogie Howser was hot! apparently, Neil Patrick Harris gets really really pissed off if you call him "Doogie"
  • You remember Alf, the little furry brown alien from Melmac why can't they have an "Alf "reunion?
  • You remember the large amounts of hairspray used...the bigger the poof the cooler you were two words: Aqua-Net
  • You remember those very stylish headbands i still hate headbands
  • You remember Vicky the Robot god what show was she on? oh yeah! "Small Wonder"
  • You remember Eve Garland from Out of this World and how she could stop time by pressing the tips of her index fingers together and talking to her dad through a glowing cube in her bedroom i thought Greg Evigan was cute. and Paul Reiser (who went on to Mad About You) was the lame dad
  • You remember the beginning of New Kids on the Block it was all about Joey's falsetto
  • You remember watching The Cosby show and the sweaters
  • You remember Mr. Belvadere and Webster
  • You remember Michael J. Fox in Family Ties and Back to the Future and Teen Wolf
  • You know all the names of the gang from "Saved by the Bell" Zach Morris, A.C. Slater, Screech, Kelly Kapowski, Jesse Spano, and crap i can't remember the girl who loved shopping...but i remember her real name...Lark Vorhees
  • You know all the words to Bon Jovi's "Shot through the heart" song and "Livin' on a Prayer" and "Dead or Alive"...
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    1/27/02
    It's Sunday-Sunday SUNDAY! (can't you hear the monster truck commercial booming voice?) and i haven't done any chores all week long. looks like i get to spend today scrubbing countertops, folding laundry, grocery shopping, and paying bills. woohoo!! i dont know if i'll get around to reading my book.

    my computer is pissing me off again. i'm trying to browse the web, click on links in emails, research my next car (my lease will end in 90 days - i even got a letter from the finance company about it) but webpages aren't loading, email won't send... things are just super slow. i'm about ready to slam some doors and curse. i think it's time for me to turn this thing off and go write a grocery list. that'll take about an hour and put me in a really foul mood. i can't wait!!

    woops. i took a two hour nap from three-thirty to five-thirty. didn't get the laundry folded or the countertops scrubbed. and i didn't make those damned cookies that have been staring me in the face. and ivan changed some networking thingee and nothing's working. again. woohoo! this pisses me off immensely and i feel like i shouldnt have bothered turning the computer on. i think i need to take another nap.

    Song of the Day: Like a Prayer

     

    1/25/02
    i figured i wouldn't turn the computer on Friday night, so I sent myself an email with a paragraph to include here. enjoy!

    i was dreaming this morning that my boss from Blockbuster called me up around 6pm and said they needed me to work tonight. i agreed, and then proceed to go to a different desk job than the one i have in real life. hours kept ticking by until finally it was 10 o'clock and i was wondering if i should call up Blockbuster and let them know i wasn't coming because i had to work at my other job and couldn't make it. apparently the real reason i went to my other job wasn't because i had extra work to do, but because i couldn't find the piece of paper that listed the Blockbuster closing duties, and most importantly, the security code to lock up afterward. and i remember i kept thinking while i was working away at the desk job "hmm, this pays better anyway" and "well, i guess you can never work at Blockbuster again" ... and i kept feeling *guilty* about not calling Blockbuster up and telling them i wouldnt make it. i woke up before making a final decision, but i think it was around 11 o'clock and i had decided to head over to Blockbuster to see if they needed my help. i dont know. i could be editorializing that last part because i'm awake now. it was really odd. i dont know why my brain chose to think about Blockbuster. doesn't make any sense.



    Song of the Day: Sleeping Satellite

     

    1/24/02
    harry potter or a self-help book? that is the question! i think i'm going to go with harry potter. i'll save the self-help for the weekend. then i can concentrate on the book and take notes. yes, take notes. it's an embarassing habit i never really shook after college. hey, at least i'm not taking notes on harry potter. though i should be. j.k. rowling really pisses me off how she intentionally writes so that you start to believe a certain character is oh-so-obviously the bad guy...then you find out in the last chapter of the book that you were completely and totally wrong. it's a very stupid trick to play on children, much less on adults. why am i reading harry potter? because "she's come undone" by wally lamb started too damned slow and i got bored before i'd finished chapter 1. i can't bring myself to even start chapter 2. at least potter's a quick read.

    i still have that cookie mix sitting in the kitchen. i bought the eggs (well, "egg beaters") so i could make them, and here it is nearly the end of the week and i'm still cookieless. maybe i'll get around to it this weekend, in between "Our Careers" and "Our Finances and Other Loose Ends" (Sections I and V, respectively)

    oh yeah, i've also got a birthday party to go to on Saturday. Alex (my sister's son, therefore, my nephew) turned 2 yesterday, his party is Saturday. if i only knew when!

    Song of the Day: Tangerine Speedo

     

    1/23/02
    my computer is still pissing me off. i wasn't able to upload yesterday's update. i probably won't be able to upload today's update either. doesn't mean i shouldn't write one.

    today was the day from hell. first, i got up at 5:30 in the morning because it snowed the night before and i knew i'd have to shovel the snow before i could pull out of the driveway. so at 6am i was out front with my snow shovel. damn, was that shovel loud every time it hit the pavement. i could hear people waking up and cursing at me every time i put the shovel back down. around 6:30 i actually left for work (yes, it took 25 full minutes to shovel the driveway) and some moron who still doesn't know that red means "stop" tried to hit me on the drive in. i got a good hour of work done before we realized that the computers the "tech guy" had set up for the 3 new people starting in, oh, 20 minutes, weren't really "set up"... wasted an hour and a half getting the computers up to "functional" and had to deal with the stress of new people asking questions every two minutes. finally get to meet with our team and learn that while we are allowed to work overtime (although it still has to be approved on a daily basis) we won't actually get paid overtime wages. realize i haven't eaten my breakfast yet, much less lunch. it's 1:30 in the afternoon. try not to scream in horror when the internet breaks and 3 new people are sitting around getting paid to wait for the internet to repair itself. (do i need to go on?)... i can't wait to go back and do it all over again tomorrow.

    i had something else to bitch about but i cant remember what it was. i'll ramble on about Kathy Bates, the cardio kickboxing teacher at the rec center. she's cool. the class is pretty cool too. for an hour, we're doing kicks and punches and somehow keeping our heart rates up. did i say an hour? i meant fourty-five minutes. the other fifteen minutes are strength training type moves, 10 of which are ab-focused. my abs hurt right now, just sitting here typing this. my abs hurt when i smile. they dont seem to be looking any firmer, though. i guess i shouldnt expect too much after 3 classes.

    that's all for tonight. the perpetual headache is rearing it's ugly head.

    must

    find

    advil

    . . .

    Song of the Day: Birdhouse in Your Soul

     

    1/20/02
    you could say i've been a little lazy with this thing. and you'd be telling the truth. i wont deny it. i haven't written since early november. since then, we've bought a house and moved. and are stuck dealing with dial-up over a LAN network, which works about as well as building a snowman in july.

    so the new house is good. there are tons of home improvement projects just waiting for us to earn the money to do them. but after the initial money dump, we're holding back... right now it's a big deal to buy doorstops. as a matter of fact, i bought four of them only to have ivan tell me they were the wrong kind. so they're sitting on the dining room table, still in their protective shrink-wrapped package, waiting to be either used, or returned to the store.

    work is tons of fun. (dripping with sarcasm). the system was broken for almost the entire month of december, now we're discovering we'll probably have to reinput most of the data back to september. as if we weren't far enough behind before.... at least this time they're allowing overtime... so maybe i'll earn some of that home improvement money faster than i thought i would.

    the mary kay story is worth sharing. i'm going to copy it from a sent email, so it may look familar.

    i also made the mistake of saying i "might be interested" in selling mary kay cosmetics after a coworker who sells the stuff dragged me along for a free facial. despite all the hearsay, apparently it is a really good company...but i quickly realized that the way to make the real money is to convince other people to join, and frankly, i never ever want to put anyone in the position my coworker's "director" has put me in. no matter what i say to try to convince her i don't think it's for me, she has something to counter it with. for example: me: "my biggest con with selling mary kay is that i dont care about the product." normally, you'd think that would be enough. but her: "what do you mean? you dont care for our brand of products, or beauty products in general?" me: "in general. i thought it was fun to try them out in the facial but i couldn't imagine doing that every day, much less selling it to friends and family" her: "well, you dont have to use all of our products. do you use perfume? body lotion? soap in the shower?" .... ugh... it went on and on like this for 20 minutes. i finally told her i needed to find more information (her response: what type of information do you need to help you make a decision, maybe i can find it for you?" and that she could check back in two weeks


    it's been two weeks. i successfully weasled out of joining. however, i did not escape unscathed - i bought $25 worth of eyeshadow, lipstick, and blush. did i mention i wear makeup an average of once a month?!?

    Song of the Day: ???

     
     

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