Whew! I nearly went into a panic thinking that I'd lost this super-cute necklace I bought at Target the other week, but I found it. I'm silly...

I'm on Day 4 of my five days off, and quite enjoying it. I'll have four days off next week, but for two of them I'll be at the old office, doing an easy-but-boring project that, somehow, nobody else can (or will) do. I'm hoping it'll only take one day, but I'll just have to see how it goes.

As usual, I was buried this Christmas in a mountain of extremely generous and awesome gifts. Among them: pajamas, bath and body stuff, a Bath and Body Works GIFT CARD (so going there tomorrow!), a Torrid gift card (ditto; I mean, I'll be at the mall anyway right?), a Barnes & Noble gift card (I'm probably going to get a book and a 2008 planner) and a few cookbooks: one about muffins, one about garlic, and one about... grilled cheese sandwiches! I'm in heaven.

One of the "whole family" gifts is this big game board that has different games inside: Clue, Monopoly, checkers, chess, dominoes and... something else? Anyway, on Christmas Eve we had a Monopoly game that lasted for two hours, and ended up with my dad owning everything on the board, and having hotels on them all. D'oh? Another game got started yesterday before (and during) Christmas dinner, but I wasn't involved. I can, and will say that it's the most vulgar game of Monopoly I've ever heard.

Something we didn't do this year: Bake! My mom and sis did sugar cookies, and I made a flan for Christmas dessert, but usually we do lots of different cookies and treats. I'm thinking I'll take one of my days off next week to do that, and try to pawn them off on others so I won't eat them all myself. On my prospective yummy list: mini-cheesecakes, Rice Krispies treats, shortbread cookies and Quigleys. Chomp.

I don't have anything very strenuous planned for today. I'm going to go through my clothes to find stuff to give away; my wardrobe is getting kinda ridiculous, especially considering I can't wear 99% of it to work. I mean, I guess I could wear something cute, but it'd just get food on it. And flour; I always end up coated in flour at the end of the day, even if I didn't work with it. It's kind of scary. Anyway; and, in the afternoon, I'm going to a friend's party.

Though it's been nice to get some quality sleep on my days off, I think I might be sleeping too much. On Monday I slept in until nine, which is almost unheard of for me. This morning I woke up just before eight, but I feel like I could crawl back in and get another hour or two. I won't, though; no point in getting used to something I'll have to give up come Friday morning.

I still don't have any plans for New Year's Eve. What gives?

I'm almost completely better. Of course, every time I think I am, I start getting sniffly and/or coughy. Whatever else, I'm all done with cold meds (mostly because I ran out, and can't be bothered to buy more).

I don't know who, if anyone, goes house-hunting the day before Christmas Eve, but we're having an open house today, which means we can't be here - and I have no idea what to do with myself. I don't want to go shopping (wow, there's something I never thought I'd say!) because of all the jackasses who have procrastinated on doing their Christmas shopping, but I don't want to sit around with the fam in my grandpa's living room for five hours, either. I'm kinda "Eh" on the idea of going to a movie, so I might just hole up in a coffee shop, caffeinate (did I invent a new word?) and write.

For Christmas, I guess we're just hanging around here and having dinner. Ham (yum!), potato salad (ew) and... that might be it. I was thinking of doing flan for dessert; I have everything I need except for heavy whipping cream.

I actually had a rather social Friday night. After leaving work, and running (okay, driving fast) home to change, I met up with DM, MB and AM at Peet's. We were there for probably two hours, but didn't order anything until the last half-hour or so. And of course, I almost immediately spilled some iced chai on my jeans. D'oh? MB and I were hungry afterward and went to Blue Fin for some sushi and miso soup. I normally hate soup, but man that stuff is good; I wish I'd had some when I was all sick and dead last weekend.

I've been dreaming a lot more lately, though I haven't been as good about writing them down as I should be. I had a wonderful one just last night where the cable bill came, and it was "only" $152. Wouldn't that be nice? The last one, for instance, was $188; it varies by a few dollars each month because we have phone service from Comcast now too, but it doesn't get much lower than that.

Okay, I suppose I'll go clean something... after I eat something. I woke up at 5 a.m. feeling absolutely ravenous, but somehow fell back asleep for three hours. Sweet.

In my local section of Craigslist the other day, there was some guy promoting his web page that's basically a bunch of (mostly incoherent) complaints about the county. From what I can understand: They wanted to build a "small" house, the county made them build a large house; then the county stopped them from having a pumpkin patch and/or Christmas tree lot. It hurts my head too much to try to make sense of it, but there are some literary "gems" I just had to share with you:

From the "About Me" section: "First of all you need to know that my wife and I have thirteen children and now because of the jack booted natzis from the county we will not be able to afford a roof over our heads or the childrens."

Dude, thirteen kids? First, keep it in your pants... second... heh, natzis.

On the main page: "Our neighbors showed up, the ones that say they go to church, I now beleive that they do go to church but more likey the church of Satin."

The church of Satin? I'm definitely converting to that! Or maybe to the church of silk.

Okay, I'm pretty much done making fun of that. Right now I need to take off my nail polish (looks so bad!) and then relax before I go to bed and (obviously?) sleep! I had pretty crappy sleep last night, but I do feel a little bit better today. Tomorrow is normally my day off, but I'm going to do a half-day since we have some parties and the other cook can't come in til the afternoon. It's not like I don't need to make up hours, after having three sick days. Eep. I'll have Thursday off as usual, then only Friday and Saturday to get through before my five days of freedom, whoo!

To continue on my theme of "TV I've watched while trying to recover from the worst cold ever":

I'm pretty sure the first season of "Californication" is already over, but I've just started to watch it... and it just might be the most offensive and obscene show I've ever seen (Others: "Weeds", "Deadwood", probably "Rescue Me") and I think I love it! Any show where the pilot begins with David Duchovny dreaming about getting oral sex, from a nun, in a church, wants way too much attention; attention that I'm only too willing to give.

Plus, his young daughter cracks me up. "Dad, there's a naked lady in your bedroom... she has no hair on her vagina. Do you think she's okay?" That's probably the one bummer of this show so far* - lots of boobies and lady-bum, but no guy bum or bits. WTF?

*Besides it taking itself way too seriously; reminds me a lot of "Six** Feet Under" actually.

**Heh, I totally first typed that as, "Sex Feet Under." Come to think of it, that might have been a better title.

I'm also trying to get current on the second season of "Brotherhood," but Comcast keeps giving me an error at 22-minutes of episode 13. Grr. I should probably call them about that sometime. But yes, I'm definitely glad that Michael (Jason Isaacs) isn't dead! Only, you know, messed up in the brain somehow (if he pulls a Nate Fisher I'm going to be pissed!)

I have a headache, need to sleep now, continue to recuperate, etc.

That little "something" I was coming down with: Full-blown sickness. Ugh! I didn't make work or the party yesterday, and I was at work for a grand 45 minutes today before they made me go home. Not like they had to push me very hard; I thought I was doing all right until I had this terrible coughing fit. I wouldn't want to hear the cook, or any other employee, coughing like that if I was out to eat, either. Really, I feel fine... as long as I'm laying in bed not moving. Even sitting up in my desk chair to blog this has me kinda winded.

So the bright part of my miserable last couple days has been finally watching "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" from Netflix. I literally can't laugh because I start wheezing and dying, but it's been pretty hilarious. I definitely like the simple and usually inappropriate episode titles, too: "Charlie Gets Molested," "Mac Bangs Dennis' Mom", etc. I may as well be up front and admit that I totally have a crush on Rob McElhenny, who plays Mac. He's got an adorable face (I don't usually like facial hair, but it works on him) and a hot little bod. I also want the shirt he's wearing in this picture:





It took me awhile to figure out that the dude who plays Dennis was the main character on the short-lived "That 80's Show" from a few years ago. Seriously, wasn't that on for only like five episodes? This isn't a complaint from me; I love anything 80s-related but that show was really dull. I was also confused as to how and why they didn't just have "That 70's Show" progress into the 80s, but, whatever.

One good thing about my sickness: I can still taste! For dinner we had these chicken breasts that were filled with some combination of cheeses (brie, something else - maybe blue cheese?) and apple and cranberries. So delish. Probably something I could make, too... if I wanted to get all fancy and do annoying stuff like flattening and pounding chicken, and somehow getting the filling to stay inside it.

I'm amazed that Christmas is only ten days away! I had to admit I was mostly looking forward to it because I have some respectable time off; well, I've had a couple days off now, but I'm sick so I can't actually enjoy them. Anyway. I am definitely still looking forward to the holiday itself. Getting more Christmas cards in the mail (hopefully), giving people their presents, seeing all the lights; all that corny stuff.

I'm off too... well, do nothing, actually. I'm hoping to get a night of sleep that's as good as, or hopefully even better, than the one I had last night. I didn't even have any scary NyQuil dreams, yay! Um, maybe because I'm taking Tylenol Cold... but all cold medicines are basically the same, I think? Just good enough to get you to take them, but not so good that you can actually function normally.

I'm coming down with something. Cough, cough. It's actually not too bad, unless I'm trying to sleep (or more accurately - if I'm trying to breathe when I sleep). We're having a big day at work tomorrow that I kinda have to be there for, so, there you go. Eh, I wash my hands like a million times a day anyway; I'll just go ahead and make it two million. On the plus side, it will be a short day and I have a party to go to in the evening!

Yesterday was a very lazy day off. I did absolutely nothing constructive, and had dinner at In n Out with LS and JH. I almost had the Flying Dutchman, but decided to not be a total carnivore, hehe. After our present exchange (LS got me CD by The Start I don't have, whoo, and Jess got me this neato chemistry-lab looking set of fruity drink mixers and glasses) we went to the mall, where I somehow didn't buy anything. I've heard rumors about me windowshopping, but didn't know it was actually possible!

Amusing: We saw a couple girls we went to high school with, neither of whom look like they're doing that well (hey, I'm just sayin'). And in kinda similar news, a friend of mine from junior high/high school is having a party the day after Christmas that I'm planning on going to. All of this former classmate stuff is making me think of the reunion (only two years away!) and how I'm not ready for that yet. Note to self: Get skinny, rich, and invent Post-Its.

Today was quite similar; I had lunch (Golden Dragon Buffet... mmm sesame balls and cheese wontons) with LT and we also stopped by Target. I have nothing planned for the rest of the afternoon except to do some laundry and hopefully watch the stuff I got from Netflix almost two weeks ago: the first two discs of season one of "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia." I've seen the commercials forever and thought it looked hilarious, but never got around to watching it while it was on.

Dumb girly stuff:

- Yesterday I tried to use this instant French Manicure kit I got at Bath and Body Works awhile back, with disastrous results. The guides refused to stick to my nails correctly so the white tips were all weird, and the pink is so pale that I might as well have left my nails nakey. I ended up taking it all off and putting on a shimmery Goldie pink.

- I went to Longs a couple nights ago to buy a toothbrush, and accidentally bought a purse. That does happen to other people besides me, right? But I couldn't not buy it; it's pink with some blingy stuff, a giant fleur-de-lis buckle and a leopard print lining. Ack! It ended up being on sale, which I didn't realize until afterwards but was heartily grateful for.

- At the grocery store the other day, I tried (and maybe actually did) flirt with this kinda cute guy who works there. During this conversation, he mentions... his wife. Dammit! I'd set my sights on this other really hot guy who works there, but he's a serious jerk. Ugh.

Something else I didn't get at the grocery store: Enough food! Nothing sounded good and so I only bought a few of my Most Commonly Purchased items (cheddar bacon potato skins, a Stouffer's Cheddar Potato Bake, roasted garlic bread from the bakery), zucchini for an appetizer I'm taking to tomorrow night's party, and a few Odwalla Vitamin C monsters. Mmm, one thousand percent...

I have ten minutes to blog before I have to get ready for work! Can I do it? Let's see...

Sunday was cool. It was weird to have the day off but... you know, nice to have the day off. Go figure. On the way back from church I stopped by one of our "competition's" (but not really) restaurant but couldn't stay to eat due to a long, boring explanation. I grabbed an iced chai and a snickerdoodle (it was soft and yummy) from the Starbucks right near there and headed back to Pittsburg to go to Fashion Bug.

Clearance prices are my friend! I ended up getting four tops for about $40, which is really good. Two of them are "nice" ones and the others are: a gray t-shirt that says "Good girls love bad boys" (corny, but funny... possibly true?) and a black one with colorful writing and sparklies that says "Peace Love and Rock." I can dig it.

Work yesterday was very low-key compared to most Mondays. We had a party of either nine or ten that we already knew about, and only three other small tables. Today we're having a party of fifteen and no idea what they're going to have, so it's going to take... not forever, but longer than it would, but then I don't care much, either. They'll get fed when they get fed, darnit. Other than them, I'm envisioning a slow day. I am tired enough to fall back asleep right now, so not being busy isn't going to bother me in the least.

What else? I'm finally caught up on "Dexter"... just in time for the season finale this coming Sunday, argh! I'm nervous like you wouldn't believe. Also still amazed at how conflicted this show still makes me feel... but of course now that I'd like to go into that, I have to go make myself presentable for the (kinda) public eye. Sigh.

I've been staying up too late recently... and tonight is no exception. I should probably also mention that I am for some reason having a soda at 11 p.m. Sleep, what's that? I was doing good at quitting caffeine for awhile, but I've fallen off the wagon. Hard. Last night I hung out with DM at Starbucks for two hours (we only left because they close at 9! WTF?) and had chai after chai after... okay, I only had the two, but that was at least one too many.

I also went by the mall for some Christmas shopping, and while I got one more person checked off my list, I was also quite naughty and did shopping for myself. Some shimmery hair and body spray from Bath and Body Works and a t-shirt at Torrid, which I've heard of for a long time but hadn't been before. Basically: Sexy clothes for chubby girls. I wasn't really in the mood for clothes shopping at the time, so I only tried the one thing I ended up getting: a kickass t-shirt that has a drawing of the Golden Girls and says "Stay Golden." So awesome.

Tomorrow is going to be the first Sunday that I haven't worked since my birthday back in October! I was originally going to commemorate this special occasion by not doing anything, but since we're having an open house and I can't just hang out I'm going to spend the day churchin' (free coffee! or in my case juice) and, again, shoppin'. Fashion Bug is apparently having some big sale and I need a Christmas shirt. And a New Year's Eve shirt, although I have no plans for that night... yet.

Of all the things I have neglected lately, this night I caught up on one of them: Reading some of my favorite blogs. And I totally missed that I got tagged by Rebecca as part of the growing "Outstanding Blog" list. Aw! I really appreciate that, especially after making the move to the new domain and possibly losing a lot of readers. I was even considering giving the whole thing up for awhile there! Crazy, huh?

In any case, to this list I've added some of the "newest" additions to my blogroll: the Bullshit Observer, No Accent Yet, and - though he certainly needs no help from me in garnering readers - the West Virginia Surf Report.





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For some reason I'm half-watching "Judge Maria Lopez" and really, she's had some of the worst-dressed plaintiffs and/or defendants I've ever seen! In the episode at ten, there was a mother and daughter (I think) who were wearing neon pink and bright yellow tops respectively, and in the episode ending right now, the plaintiff and her girlfriend are wearing these matching black button-down shirts with giant flames on the hems and the arms. WTF are these people thinking?

I didn't sleep that great last night. I woke up around midnight feeling like "Oh, it's time to get up!" I felt it so strongly that I was actually annoyed it wasn't morning. And I was super-thirsty and needing a glass or three of ice water, but I was too lazy to get up and get a drink so I just laid there all miserable until I fell asleep again.

Yesterday was kind of a so-so today. In the morning, I was exhausted and really dreading work. Monday was busy enough with customers that I didn't feel as if I accomplished anything I needed to catch up on the weekend, and I was thinking yesterday would be similar. Fortunately (or not, depending on how you look at it) we only had three tables come in! I think it was the weather; it rained overnight and was still super-gloomy outside. This also did nothing to improve my mood.

Knowing that Betsy the Superjeep will in the shop for a couple days, I went out after dinner last night to Target for necessities (soap, blotting papers, paper plates) and to Barnes & Noble to get a Christmas present for somebody - and, yes, bought something for myself. I've been wanting to re-read Stephen King's "The Stand" for hella weeks now and since my copy fell apart years ago, I gave in and got a new one. Oh! And the alarm dealy went off as I started through the exit, and I was so startled that I think I literally jumped back inside. Of course everyone is looking over to see who's stealing something (I'm not a shoplifter darnit!) and the cashier just waves for me to go ahead. So I leave... setting the alarm off again. Grr.

Something else I bought last night: The Killers "Hot Fuss" album. I've had "Smile Like You Mean It" and "Mr. Brightside" stuck in my head since watching the videos on YouTube while trying to decide whether Brandon Flowers is crushworthy. My final verdict: Nah, not really. He's kinda pretty when he doesn't have that ridiculous mustache, but he's not that cute. Plus, he looks short. Is he short? Okay, according to the Celebrity Wonder website he's 5'11" - not too short. He does have a sexy voice, but his being only a year older than me makes him too young to be one of my celebrity crushes - ha!

But yeah, I like how I went from thinking I hated that band to having both of their CD's (do they only have two? I don't even know). Still, "Somebody Told Me" is definitely in my Top 10 Most Obnoxious Songs Ever list. Also on that list: basically any song by the Spice Girls, who for some reason had a big article in the paper the other day. Why won't they do the decent thing and disappear off the face of the planet?

I've been writing this post off-and-on for almost an hour, trying to figure out how to end it! I suppose I just don't have a graceful exit in me today (do I ever?)

You'd think that since my workweek is Friday through Tuesday, Mondays wouldn't suck so bad for me as they do for just about everyone else. Today, though, was one of those days when I just couldn't seem to get anything done. I was attempting to play catch-up from the weekend, and every time I started (or tried to start) something, a group of people would come in wanting to be fed. What's up with that?

Oh, but at least I've only got tomorrow to get through, and Tuesdays aren't usually too bad. Then I'll have two glorious days off... in which I'll be able to do very little since my car will be in the shop getting the rear bumper repaired. Sigh. Other than the 'employee appreciation' party on Wednesday night and my writer's club/party on Thursday nights, I didn't have plans except for maybe some more Christmas shopping.

Still, just the idea of being housebound is annoying. I could drive my parents' van, but... that thing is huge! I've only ever driven it once because it's too awkward; like the front end is way too long, and the back - well, if I ever had to reverse for some reason (like back out of a parking space) I'd probably kill somebody. Anyway.

LS and I went to Uno's last night and had both a pizza appetizer (potato/pizza skins - whatever they're called, it's brilliant even without the bacon) and a pizza main dish (the flatbread pizza with roasted eggplant and pesto). It was pretty great, even though the staff would not leave us alone. Our waitress would check on us, then this other random waiter would check on us, and then some other dude (manager-type person?) would come check on us... and so on. To add to the "Monday sucks" evidence, I think my one wildberry lemonade cocktail gave me a mild hangover today. D'oh.

That's pretty much it for today. I'm planning on going for a walk, and have some laundry to do, but otherwise... with "Prison Break" on break (ha) until January, I just don't know what to do with myself on Mondays. Or rather I wouldn't, if I didn't have so many other shows to catch up on. I should probably also remember that since writer's club is this week, I should probably write something, because I should be writing anyway... which reminds me... I completely lost NaNoWriMo this year! I did even worse than I did in '04 (word count about 26,000), coming in at only... 12,297 words.

Yikes. That's (according to my trusty Windows calculator) 400 words a day. To be fair to myself, I "quit" around the 19th, so the average is really... 647 words a day? Still pathetic! Okay, if I only count the days I actually produced* (11 out of the 19) the REAL average is 1,117 WPD.

*You should see the spreadsheet I set up to track my wordcount; it would make my ex-bosses (Kings of the Anal-Retentive Spreadsheets) proud. Seriously, the spreadsheet tells me everything except what I was wearing at the time I wrote... only because I was probably always in pajamas. I'd rather be comfy than be... well, anything else, really.

In the "I'm an idiot" file: I'm sitting here trying to type with numb fingers, and struggling as to figure out why I'm so cold: My window is open. Duh.

If you're reading this, it's because the new site/blog is finally up and running, yay! Not everything is complete yet, but pretty close. And I'm determined to actually update the different sections once in awhile.

Ah, Saturday... a day of relaxation. Yeah, not for me; I work Saturdays. At least, thanks to the willingness of the other cook to trade off with me, I'll have every other Sunday free.

It's only December 1 and I'm almost ready for Christmas! Half of my shopping is done, and I've got all my Christmas cards ready to pop in the mail on Monday. One thing I still have to do: Dig out my collection of miniature Nativity scenes and decorate my room. I'm not sure why or how I started this collection, but there you go.

I was looking through this catalogue the other day and they were selling these craft kits to make a small Nativity scene (Joseph, Mary and Baby Jesus only) out of foam marshmallows. I don't know, but I think it would be more fun to make them out of real marshmallows so you can eat it when you're done. Mmm, sacrelicious...

About that "America's Psychic Challenge" show: I think the winner, at least, ought to know who they are. Don't you?

One last thing for this entry: I'm finally catching up on this season of "Dexter." I'm still not sure how I feel about it compared to the first season, or compared to the book(s), but I do like that he's kinda spinning out of control. It doesn't hurt that Michael C. Hall is totally cute, and I love his voice. He always sounds sleepy. I don't know why that's hot, but it is.

Off to work! Well, in an hour.