Life in the Cheese Drawer

my posts are far and in between mostly because my job doesn’t suck so much that i have to post about it sucking so much all of the time.

anyway, let’s see….

angie got married. her bachelorette party was pretty fun. i made her a shirt that was cute and her cousin and cousin’s gf got her some standard bachelrette party fare.

the wedding was very pretty. i really liked the colors, and it was at the green lake bible camp, which was especially pretty. afterward i got pretty well smashed off vodka and wine, which gave me the headache from hell the next morning, but that was to be expected. stupid screwdrivers; get me every time.

i went out to st john’s to take pics of the leaves, but they were pretty well gone, which is weird because you drive through town and the leaves haven’t changed that much. anyway, the trip was worthwhile because an arboretum guy stopped and told me about a photo contest they were having, so i’m going to enter some photos i took last year (he said that was ok) and maybe i’ll be a finalist or something. who knows. here are the photos i’m going to enter. what do you think? we can enter 5 photos, so i’m entering all these.

well, that’s all i got for now. work keeps me busy, and that’s good. no time to complain about it!

holy crap, i have just run into the most ignorant person who has ever bid on an ebay auction.
this girl won the auction on sept. 1. after 4 emails and a non-paying buyer notice from ebay, she finally sent me payment on the 15th, via paypal, with a credit card. it was in the auction that i don’t accept credit cards. i stated in the invoice that i don’t accept credit cards. i emailed her back and said, i don’t accept credit cards, and she writes this back to me today:
“I didnt realize you didnt take credit cards makes it really hard to pay you. Im working today and wont beable to get a money order until sat Ill send a pmt then just give me a address and Ill send it I wish I would of seen that you didnt take credit cards I would of never bought it.”
holy crap and a half. i wish she would’ve never bought it either! this has turned into an ordeal of astronomic proportions, and i’d file an agreement to not complete the auction with ebay, but i’m afraid she would take too long to agree to it!

DDR and my flat feet made my heel spurs!!!
ok, so i have heel spurs. they are annoying buggers. i wake up in the morning and i can barely walk on my right heel it hurts so bad.
so i finally looked up heel spurs and what exactly they are. the muscle that connects your heel to the ball of your foot is what actually causes they pain. it’s inflamed (apparenlty all the time). this gets inflamed from lack of arch support (i have flat feet) and lack of calf muscle flexibility (when your calf muscle isn’t flexible enough, this muscle in your foot makes up for it). when i play ddr, my poor little heel muscle is working overtime, because my calves aren’t working AND i play on the balls of my feet.
and i realized my heel spurs really didn’t start to be a pain until after i started playing DDR.
so now i’m going to do calf stretching exercises and wear my tennis shoes (with arch support) more often.
stupid heel spurs!

so today i was productive! i’m pretty impressed with myself, i do say. i did some laundry, watched a movie, worked on one of my freelance dude’s brochures, printed the rest of liz’s programs, and started folding them.
here is my sickening moment of the week. i went to pick up my dress for liz’s wedding. all it needed was to be hemmed and pressed. how much was it? $47. yes. it was all i could do to keep my mouth from dropping open. my wedding dress alterations cost $120, and that was hemmed, pressed, sleeves completely redone, waist taken in, and neckline completely redone. well, needless to say, i am NOT going back to that alterations place ever again. ugh. i am absolutely disgusted and sick about spending that much on something i could have done MYSELF. what a waste of money i don’t really have to spare.
i also got liz’s wedding present! 🙂 heehee!

costs $1800 to fix. 🙁

wednesday night i went to angie’s so we could do something (she was bored, i was bored, it worked out). i arrived and parked in an illegal spot because i was just picking her up, then we were leaving on a mission. walked out of her apt., got in the car, turned the key, and….nothing. it cranked. and cranked. and some more cranking, but it didn’t start.
now some of you may remember that this happened before, in my work parking lot. i took the car to tires plus, they did some diagnostics, cost me $150, and they coudlnt’ find anything wrong. it just miraculously started after doing all these tests.
well, this was just fine. not only did it not start, but i was in front of a no parking sign. well, with some help from angie’s landlady’s hubby, we got the car parked in an actual spot. i called nate to pick me up, and we made plans to return the next morning to see if my car’s attitude had improved.
got there the next morning, same old crap. i gave in and decided to take the thing to an actual chevy dealer, cuz they might know what was going on better than the dude at tires plus. towed the darn thing, got it fixed at gilleland, and it cost $385.
so what was wrong? apparently, the ignition cylinder (the thing you put your key in to turn on the car) was going bad. which in turn tripped on the theft system, thinking someone is trying to break into the car. so, when i turned the key to try to turn it on, the theft system turned off the fuel pump. joy!! at least the theft system works. which would also explain why my theft system light was on a lot of the time. (oops.)
didn’t need to spend $385 though to find out the theft system works…

i had a busy weekend.
friday i got back from austin and i was completely exhausted. i took an hour nap, got meds for my UTI (yes, another one, bleah, but didn’t have to go in to the doc! yay!), then hung out with grandma, and nate came over and we ate supper together, then i went over to my other house and watched sideways, which was a weird little movie.
saturday i slept til 1 p.m., and nate had off, so we went and bought some tomato and green pepper plants and carrot, radish and bean seeds and dug up the garden and planted them. you can read about the ensuing neighborly disaster here. i also cleared out my kitchen of all the boxes, hung some pictures and designed charlie’s grad invite. nate and i went to wally world late and got curtains for the computer room, charcoal, planters, some other crap and it cost $75! eek!!!
sunday, i planted some flowers into pots, watched the veggie garden to see that it wasn’t being plowed under or shed-ified by the neighbors, and figured out this crate shelf thing for the kitchen for the recycling and garbage. i planted some of these suckers:

as well as some other weird looking flowers and some daisies!! yay for daisies.
i figured out the bathroom, too. the blue carpet just wasn’t jiving with the slate-like tile on the floor.
and as an update to the neighborly dispute, yesterday they cleared out the patio at the bottom of our steps. there was a whole bunch of crap in it, as well as their garden swingy sitty thing. they also took down their rope light they had wound around the fence. are they trying to get back at nate and me for planting in the garden and calling the landlord? cuz decluttering the yard isn’t the way to do it. morans.
oh, anyone know anything about MN multiple tenant law? nate’s old roommate moved out and nate renewed the lease, then got a new roommate, who didn’t pay anything for a damage deposit. he also didn’t clean a darn thing at the end. and he got half the deposit back. anything nate can do besides complain or take him to small claims court?
ugh, well that was a small novel.
ps-i have applied for 3 jobs in the past week. cross your fingers i hear from one of them!!!! 😀

i went with nate last night to go see :sin city.” we don’t go see movies much, so this was a big deal.
well, as far as the movie, if you want to tear out your eyes because of grossness and overzealous violence, this is your movie. i do admit, the production and the direction as awesome and VERY true to how a comic book reads. if you can stand holding back puke because of gartuitous violence (or you can cover your eyes, that works too), then please, see this movie, because it’s really a pretty-looking movie. the black and white interspersed with color here and there, and the intertwining storylines are all very spectacular.
the bludgeoning of bad guys’ heads til they’re pulp and the cutting off of limbs to leave to die to the hands of a wolf and the smacking around of women (THAT’s what got to me the most), not so nice.
my survey results: more women than men choose to not see a violent or sex-filled movie.
more women than men choose not to view them because of religious reasons.
the men who feel change after viewing a sex movie feel better about themselves. half the women who feel change feel better about themselves and half feel worse.
and, about half the people feel the government should limit the number of violent or sexual movies released. otherwise known as censorship people! read the first amendment.

well, nothing from a real person yet, but if you want to further the caus:
case number 222447
email: customercare@t-mobilesupport.com

those of you who know me (and i think all of you do) know that i am rather amply blessed in the chest area. given this, when i go clothes shopping for button-down shirts, i head over to the plus-size because they are normally more giving in the chest area. what i DON’T want, however, is a mumu. it is possible for someone to have a shape (note: not apple- or pear-shaped) and looking for clothes in the plus-size dept. what is a girl to do?

(here is a pic for those of you who haven’t seen me lately. conincidentally, my cat is also in the pic and you can see basically a good depiction of my current living room.)
not only that, but i have a problem with pants, also. the only things i can confidentally say i enjoy shopping for are: non-button-down shirts, shoes :), underwear, bras, and socks. the pants? i get a pair that fit my waist, and oops, my buttcrack is hanging out for all to see. i get a pair that fit my butt, and oops, they’re too big around the waist, fall down, and my buttcrack is again hanging out for all to see. DILEMMA. (i know, belt! i have one, sometimes it is helpful, sometimes not)
anyway, i may have solved the pants dilemma, as old navy recently came out with some that have more give in the backside dept. i still have not solved the button-down shirt problem (non-button down shirts, they’re fine. i can get those in the regular women’s dept!). i’m off to search the internet for possible solutions.

here is a fuzzy pic of my plants as i was setting up my camera for the picture. basically, the point of this whole post was so i could use my new tripod and remote clicker thingy!!