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June 29, 2005
whoa
i just searched my site for "sleep" to see how much i talk about it.apparently it's a lot. huh...
i found this post from a year ago . weird! i was tired then too!
Posted by alison at 12:07 AM | Comments (0)
June 28, 2005
june 28th
so i just uploaded a few more wedding/reception pictures because i was really bored. i just tried to type bored and typed "borey" instead.
i found some pictures that i really liked and i forgot why i never put them up in the first place. wait a minute, i think i didn't add them to flickr because i added them to my other picture thingy. whatever, it doesn't matter.
this morning corey tried to trick me into getting up at 5:30 first by asking me to make him lunch, which i do sometimes but didn't want to this morning. i said "can't you make your own lunch?" and he said "no, i wanted to be to work by 6" and then i scowled at him and he said "just kidding! i'll make it!"
then he tried to get me up by telling me that it was 6:30. which is stupid because i wouldn't get up then anyway. so i looked at the clock and thought it said 5:30 and looked at my phone to make sure. then i said "no, it's 5:30." PLUS, he had just told me that he wanted to be at work by 6 which would mean that it was before 6. what a weiner. so, i went back to sleep and then didn't want to get up when it was actually time.
in other sleeping news, i took a long afternoon nap. something must be wrong with me because i am really tired when i wake up and when i go to work i get the afternoon sleepies by 11 which is way too early. it lasts until i go home and the only way to get rid of it is by sleeping.
i made black bean burgers yesterday. a more appropriate name would be "black bean sloppy joes" because they were really mushy. they were tasty and filling but i will have to actually follow the recipe next time.
oh, i just thought of one reason i get shitty sleep: i think i might have restless legs syndrome. it must be it, because corey is always telling me to stop kicking my legs around. the important thing to know is that i am not alone. up to 8% of the US population has it. so there. is there medicine for this?
oh, i just remembered the reason i told the story about corey waking me up early to make his lunch. he called my at 9:15 to tell me that he had already eaten his lunch. he's so funny.
Posted by alison at 11:38 PM | Comments (0)
June 27, 2005
ahh!
i can't believe i'm missing this!
Posted by alison at 12:48 PM | Comments (0)
June 26, 2005
morning, sunday
i just ate a waffle with jam and syrup. it was scrumptious.
last night we went out with brad for a while. we went to dicks on queen anne at about 1:45 as it was just about to close. i've never seen so many lynnwood townies in my life. it was really gross. one girl was wearing this tank top that only covered her front. i'm pretty sure it was something a stripper would have worn. anyhoo, so because we got there right around the time they were closing they had locked one of the side doors. some dudes were standing outside looking at me pulling on the doors and saying "come on!! let us in! come on!!!" and so i just stood there eating my peppermint ice cream and waving. it felt really nice to be a big bitch to people i didn't know.
earlier in the day we hung out with brenters at the coffee shoppe. then we went to the "bins" goodwill in south seattle and brent got a sack full of clothes for $5. i got the two cutest chairs ever for $5 each. we really don't need anymore chairs because we already have 12 i think. and now we have 14. plus a couch. corey just said i have an obsession. whatev.
okay, so we also went to the taco place and i got a veggi burrito. it was so very nice and good. my favorite. i will now be getting the veggi burrito the next time we go there.
also yesterday: we ate "bagle dogs" at the bar. it was basically a giant pig in a blanket that costs $3. brad says they sell them at costco, and you know what? i probably won't be making a special trip there to buy them.
Posted by alison at 10:05 AM | Comments (0)
June 25, 2005
i'm not at home but i'm on the inner-net!!
whoa dudes, i'm using brents computer at the coffee shop. isn't this exciting? i wish our laptop was more portable because i would be sportin' that thing all over the place. well maybe not. anyway, brent's going to come back in a few minutes and apply for jobs. then i don't know what we'll do.
bye boys.
Posted by alison at 03:14 PM | Comments (0)
June 24, 2005
later
so, now corey's not leaving until 12:25. fuck that shit. i'm tired and i want to go to bed.
i tried to go to joanns earlier. while driving there i started to think 'man i'm hungry!!!' so stopped at the sunny teriyaki in ballard. not to be confused with the sunny teriyaki around the block from where we live. this one time corey called in an order to what he thought was the place by us. so he walked over there and said he was there to pick it up. they had never received his call or order. probably because he called a different sunny teriyaki!! whoa! for some reason that makes me feel bad. like this other place made some food and then nobody came to pick it up. i'm sure it happens all the time. anyway, this place i went to in ballard gives you more food then the other one. huh.
okay, while i was eating my mom called and i ended up taking a long time to eat and by the time i got to ho-anns it was closed.
i'm going to get corey at 2 something now. i'm really tired.
now i'll go fall asleep to david letterman.
Posted by alison at 11:39 PM | Comments (0)
the following conversation just took place
me:(picking up phone) Hello?
lady: corey!?
me: corey isn't here right now.
lady: mrs argentina?
me: yes?
lady: hi. if you participate in this short 5 question survey we will send you TWO FREE videos!! do you subscribe to cable or satellite?
me: uh, neither.
lady: oh? okay, do you have a VCR or DVD player?
me: both.
lady: both? okay do you rent or buy movies?
me: rent.
lady: okay, well what was the last good movie you watched?
me: uhhhhhhh, i don't know...
lady: (laughs) too many to choose from?
me: yeah, i guess
lady: so what do you usually watch? action, drama, romance, comedy, or adult?
me: (those are my only choices?) i guess comedy.
lady: okay do you think watching girls gone wild in your home is favorable or unfavorable?
me: (laughing) well. i don't watch it in my home. But I guess I’m not really offended by it...
lady: good then we'll send you two girls gone wild videos for free: girls gone wild games and girls gone wild co-ed tryouts!
me: oh, well i don't think i need that..
lady: okay bye.
man, corey's flight got cancled because the plane engine is a piece of crap.
i'm so sick of seeing tom pukeface cruise on tv. i just got off the phone with corey and told him how much i hated tom cruise. he said "psssh that's the popular thing to do now!" i'm sure it is, but i still think he's ugly and stupid and dumb and i hate him. i have nothing more to say about it here. if you want to know more, ask me in person.
corey's coming home at 1 in the morn now, so i'm going to go hang around joann fabrics.
Posted by alison at 07:28 PM | Comments (2)
June 23, 2005
bloop
i'm trying really hard to clean this dump before corey gets home. i sort of cleaned the bathroom. but who cares about a clean toilet when the rest of the house has paper and fabric scraps all over the floor? will someone come do this for me? i'm having major problems.
BUTT!
Posted by alison at 07:32 PM | Comments (2)
June 21, 2005
tip
if the fridge stinks like butt and you suspect that it is probably a dairy product that has gone bad, don't just throw out the obvious choice (the cream) because it's almost empty. check any other dairy cartons that happen to be in there. you've got the fridge open so why not just take anything else out that is expired too? like the 2% milk that expired in mid-may. because that is actually what stinks like butt. it wasn't the cream at all. and now it is wasted and the fridge is still stinking like ass.
Posted by alison at 02:01 PM | Comments (0)
June 20, 2005
corey's gone. WAAAH!
so i ended up leaving work early to take corey to the airport because he needed to be there earlier than he thought. it was really hot out. the traffic wasn't that bad but i still felt like i was going to get the squirts because i was nervous that he wouldn't make it on time. oh, and another thing: while we were driving past boeing field we both let out a collective sigh. it lasted the same amount of time and when we were done we both looked at each other and laughed. if you were in the car with us you probably would have vomited because it was wickedly cute and wickedly awesome.
i went shopping for my own food for a few days and it was kind of weird shopping for only me. i wasn't sure what I wanted. but when i passed by the nutty bars i grabbed them because i haven't enjoyed a good nutty bar in some time. i also got soup and crackers for lunch, 3 go lean bars, cheeseburger flavored boca burgers, and bananas.
kitty misses corey so much that she wants me to hold her like a baby. which is totally weird because she hates it when he holds her like a baby.
hahahahaha.
anyway, girlfriends is on! gotta go!
Posted by alison at 08:53 PM | Comments (0)
it's monday and i'm tired
hey what song was it that soul asylum sang? oh yeah, runaway train. now i remember... anyway, somebody died. so yeah..
i'm driving corey to the airport tonight so that he can go to some thingy in san francisco. i can't go because i have a job and i don't get free vacation. so i asked corey to buy me a present. the last time i asked someone (my mom) for a present while they were on a trip (to california) they came back with a 1000 piece puzzle (of the peanuts gang). so corey: no key chains, shot glasses or puzzles. please.
so i walked to the store this morning at 7:15 to get some breakfast items. it was already really warm out. a while ago the radio said that it could get to 80 degrees. hell no. last time it got sort of hot out the kitty just layed around being a lazy bum all the time. i also want to clean and cleaning is impossible when it's hot out.
in other news, i have pizza face and it sucks. i think i'm going to try proactiv.
Posted by alison at 02:16 PM | Comments (0)
June 17, 2005
no title
puke. guess what guys? tom cruise is lame. lame!! and so is dakota fanning. i just spent 5 minutes looking through pictures of him and katie what's-her-face. i guess there's not much news. boring!
anyway, i remembered this thing i used to do in alaska to ensure that i would have a great day and i wanted to let everyone know about it. every morning when i woke up the first thing i would do is pump my fist into the air and say "YES!!" very enthusiastically. it usually puts me in a good mood for a few hours. i did it this morning and today is has been great. well, so far. i'm not really looking forward to going home to our dump sweet dump. sometimes i wonder why it is so hard for me to keep things clean and orderly. i mean, i really like our apartment when it's clean. and i hate it when it's messy. sometimes i'll be walking to one room from another and i'll be carrying a pen. and i'll think i'm done with this now! and then i'll just drop it on the floor. or i'll be wearing pants and sitting on the couch and be like i'm hot. these pants are stupid! and i'll take them off and just leave them. i think that's normal though. it's the dropping of the things i'm done using in the middle of the floor that bothers me. like yesterday, i needed a paper towel to clean something in the bathroom. so i got a piece and then ripped it in half because i only wanted part. so i just dropped the other piece on the floor. why? why!! i could i have just used the whole piece. but i didn't. anyway, i don't know how corey can live with me. oh wait, he's exactly the same. match made in clutterville!!
Posted by alison at 01:37 PM | Comments (0)
June 16, 2005
barf butt
so i was walking home from the store earlier and passed by the "living room" and they were having some crappy punk bands playing. so i noticed one guy and thought he looked reallly familiar. like from highschool or something. then i thought that it might not be anyone i remember, and he just has a common look. so then i noticed this other guy, who was brown and had slicked back brown hair and a ton of eye liner on. and he was chunky. when i saw this dude i knew that i had seen them at marsyville. they were in band together and i think they both played drums. the one that wasn't fat looked like an uglier version of john cusack. anyway, i didn't say anything to them because chunky was wearing eyeliner and they were in a punk band. and i don't associate with people like that. no thank you.
so, i just looked for information about the living room and it turns out they're closing. so sad. NOT!! here is a story about why i don't think the living room is that great: one day i was driving home from work and when i turned onto the street i saw a pug dog running down the side walk with a leash dangling. so first i thought it was cute. then i got out of my car and went upstairs. when i got inside i looked out the window and saw that the pug dog was sniffing around the car port thing and getting it's leash all tangled around this big post. i watched for about 5 minutes until it started barking like it wanted to leave. it was stuck. i figured i should go out there and just help it because i'm gonna have to be a good samaritan sooner or later and this was just too easy. i'd rather untangle a puppy then give someone cpr. right? right. so i go out there and get the dumb dog unstuck and walk it over to the living room which is where i saw it run from. so i'm standing in the doorway and these people who are either there all the time or run the place are just sitting there looking at me like all "what?? " they didn't even acknowledge that it was their dog at first. so i said "i saw this dog come from in here and thought you should know that he was getting himself tangled up at the house next door" and they said something dumb like "oh. well he usually just hangs out around here" oh. well okay. sorry i untangled your stupid dog you jerk. so i said "oh. well he his leash was all wrapped around this post so i thought i should just help him and see who he belongs too." this whole time i was holding the dog's leash and i felt really weird about it. so then they said something else and i just dropped the leash on the ground and walked away feeling kind of stupid. okay, so was their dog free to get into any kind of trouble it wanted to? i hope they don't care about it too much then because it's probably gonna get hit by the bus. anyway, the whole point was that i thought i was doing something good and someone would be glad that i helped their fucking dog. but they didn't care and i ended up getting no points for that situation. now i will probably have to deliver some lady's baby or something. that is why the living room is stupid.
it's 9:30 now and i would normally go out running but it started raining and i would rather sit here in my underwear and listen to radiohead.
kaeli is in alaska right now. i am a little jealous. the nice thing about working in the cannery is that because you are doing the same movements over and over your brain has time to wander. the last year i was there i made a mental list of things i wanted to do/buy when i got home. then i wrote the list on an envolope and i found it today.
when i get home:
-beck one foot in the grave
-neil young
-sambas
-thrift store
-dickies overalls
-big brown cut off pants
-apartment with corey
-make a patchwork quilt
i never did get a pair of sambas.
but i did move in with corey. and i bought the beck cd. and i made a mis-matched quilt thing (it's unfinished. but whatevs)
i just remembered this hilarious sign language dance brent did while listening to heart of gold. oh, man.
man!!
Posted by alison at 09:52 PM | Comments (2)
June 15, 2005
toffee bar!
today i stopped by marketime to see if they had restocked the toffee bar case. they handn't so i bought a different toffee bar. this toffee bar comes on a tray and has six smaller cut bars. it cost $4. it tastes almost the same though, so i'm happy. however, i'm close to eating almost the whole thing over a span of a few hours. i don't care though, i haven't had a toffee bar in months!!!! months i tells you!
corey is taking a nap with his eyes open. what a weirdo.
here is a question: did anyone else not hear the tsunami warning? because they didn't announce it? because the phone line was out? so, since we already live on a hill does that mean we have to go anywhere if there were a warning? i really hope not. 'whatever' is all i have to say about it.
i took a nap today which was a really bad idea. i feel like i could go right back to sleep. and it's almost 8. i didn't really even need the nap. i just took it because oprah was on and she was talking about how all these women and children are treated really badly in other countries. then she said "being born female in the united states means that you are one of the luckiest girls in the world". so i thought 'yeah! that's right! i am lucky. and you know what? if i have the luxury of taking a nap whenever the fuck i want, then i'm gonna do it. i mean, come one, if i don't do it who will? it's my duty.'
anyway, you might be interested in knowing that i did not watch any tv last night after 7:30. i was bored. but i lived. bloofer.
Posted by alison at 07:49 PM | Comments (0)
June 12, 2005
sunday sunday sunday
i found an old bra in my car today. i'm thinking i bought it about a year ago so it's possible that it's been in there for at least 6 months or more. it was stuffed under the drivers seat in the back and corey is the one who found it. i wonder if the people who fixed the car saw it and put it in there. it seemed that my car was a lot cleaner after i got it fixed.
anyway, we hiked around heather lake today with carolyn. it was a really nice hike and there wasn't a lot of people around. before our hike we stopped at some thrift stores. after i got back from going with brent corey was all "how come you never look for blazers for meeeeeeeeeeee?" so we looked for stuff for him today. i bought a small piece a fabric and he bought a western style jacket thing. it has leather on it. i know, i know. it's tastefull though. as tastefull as that can be.
we also stopped at my parents to eat lunch and they had an awsome sammich spread layed out for us. all kinds of meat and french bread and tater salad. and strawberries. we also ate dinner after the hike and i'm still full.
our apartment is a humongous dump. i really don't want to clean it but it's gonna need to get done sooner or later.
it's bed time. so i'll leave you with this:
how cute is that?!
Posted by alison at 11:37 PM | Comments (1)
June 11, 2005
i'm tired
brad called a while ago and asked if we wanted to go out. i said no. i feel sort of bad because it's not like we're doing anything. but i'm tired. and i took a nap from 7:30 to 9:30. anyway, i promised that we'd do something this next weekend. it is the solstice naked parade after all.
speaking of, this was going on while we were still sleeping this morning. here is a funny story: a few weekends ago we were crossing the street to go to the tully's in wallingford. when we got to the other side a dude was handing out flyers. he said something like "something something annual bikeride!!!" and i put my hand out to take it and thought to my self 'shit. if i take this i'm going to have to throw it right in that big blue garbage can because i don't want it. and... wait a minute! that isn't a a big blue garage can but a big blue mail box. and i think it's illegal to throw garbage in a mail box'.
so, the guy was about to hand it to me and then i pulled my hand back and shook my head really fast to let him know i didn't want it.
corey was laughing at me saying 'oh, you looked like you were really offened by the flyer. i think he thought you were offened" and then he told me that if was for the naked bike ride thing. i guess i tuned that part out. either way, i probably would not have participated.
anyway, we have this movie on the table called "suicide club" and corey is laying on the couch reading a book.
also: i got a free issue of lucky magazine for the month of july. now i don't have to buy it. yea.
Posted by alison at 11:45 PM | Comments (0)
June 10, 2005
back sack and crack!
Posted by alison at 06:43 PM | Comments (2)
back from thrifting
i went to everett and marysville with brent today. you can see what we did here.
also, i just bought myself some flickr pro. how 'bout that?
it needed to be done.
my hands smell like hospital and i think it's from some soap at brents house. for a while they smelled like these scented colored pencils that he had but i think i smelled that smell off.
it's getting late so i think i should go to bed or something.
i had a lot to talk about but now my mind is blank.
Posted by alison at 12:01 AM | Comments (0)
June 08, 2005
not sewing
i really wish i was at home sewing right now. i have a lot of ideas in my head it is the worst when all i can do is write it down. because i know when i get home i'll be tired or some crap like that. shit! i'm not gonna be tired when i get home!
Posted by alison at 12:03 PM | Comments (0)
June 07, 2005
yeah
not to keep talking about how much i hate the jerk upstairs, but it sounds like he is running laps right now. i don't get it, i just saw him leave and then return with a bag, presumably with a sandwich from the cuban place. anyway, i can hear his tv and his floor is squeaking all over the place. i hate him and i hope he chokes on his stupid food.
corey went to bed early because he has to work a lot tomorrow. i am bored and i don't want to watch tv. i just finished sewing some pouches. i can't give any details about them though, because they are secret pouches.
Posted by alison at 07:44 PM | Comments (4)
not important
i actually have something i should be doing right now, so i'm just going to write about how i could be doing it but i'm not.
since i don't have anything else to say about it i guess i'll just go do it.
Posted by alison at 11:58 AM | Comments (0)
June 05, 2005
it's sunday
you're not gonna believe this, but i saw the starwars movie this weekend. with corey and brent. i didn't try and fall asleep this time. probably because we went to the store before hand and bought candy. i bought a coffee crisp and it was delish. if you see one at the store GET IT. because they are so good. GOOD!
after that brent had to study so we left him and went to agua verde and waited a really long time for a seat to eat dinner. we waited in the bar area with drinks so it wasn't that big of a deal. i got fish tacos and didn't finish one of them. i felt bad. i also didn't finish my taters. after that we went to sonic boom and bought four cds. four cd's that we had/heard many times before: radiohead 'ok computer', joni mitchell 'blue', daft punk 'discovery' and TMBG 'apollo 18'.
joni mitchell and TMBG were both supersavers and cheap but the other too were overpriced. whatareyougonna do?
while we were there i listened to the new white stripes and i think i'll have to buy it on tuesday because i was unsure about it. buying it will make me sure.
today we sat in front of pcccccc and ate some food. the dancing lady was walking (dancing) on the sidewalk when we left. i wanted to stay longer but corey said no.
now i am home and that is all i have to say about that.
Posted by alison at 07:26 PM | Comments (0)
June 03, 2005
everything right is wrong again
here is a list of all the annoying things that have happened recently:
1. last weekend we were at market time and although i wasn't going to buy a toffee bar, I looked in the bin and there was a pile of fig bars and a new lable that said something like "fig bars". i asked what happened and they said "oh they're probably just out right now. we put that other stuff in there to make it look full". okay. last night i went there to get corey some salt and pepper chips and still NO TOFFEE BARS! i don't remember the last time i had one but it was a while ago. if they never get them again i will feel bad.
2. i made a fish cat toy the other day. i attached a leather string to it and the cat loves it when we dangled it around for her. yesterday i noticed that more than half the string is gone. maybe she chewed it off? maybe she ate it?? i don't know. but what i do know is that last night i had a dream that she had a kitty ultra sound and there was a long string in her tummy and she needed an operation. i cried about it because i didn't want her to die. i really hope she didn't eat it.
3. last night i slept on the couch because corey has weird sleeping patterns and i didn't want to wake him up with me rolling around and the baby kitty jumping all over the place. so he woke up 3:45-ish because he was done sleeping. (what the fuck?!!?!) and so i went into the bedroom to go to sleep. so i was laying there and the cat wouldn't come sleep by me. instead she sniffed my toenails. she is gross. anyway, i fell asleep for a while but then corey got ready and made a lot of getting dressed noises and it sucked a lot. it seems like if I get good sleep then he gets bad sleep. if i get bad sleep he gets good
sleep.
4. even though i got crappy sleep i made myself get up at my normal time, 7:45.the whole reason i get up then is so i can shower and get dressed before little house on the prairie comes on. so i got in the shower and noticed that nobody else (upstairs) was using water. so i was 3/4 of the way done when ass-face upstairs decides that he
needs to use the shower too. ohmigod. this infuriates me beyond belief!! why does he do this?! we have never had these kinds of water problems before. i have never heard anyone taking a shower at the same time before. i remember when it first happened the next day after I got up 10 minutes earlier to avoid it. and SO DID HE. i hate him so
much. so anyway, this morning: i turned all of my water off. then I turned the hot water all the way on. then i turned it off and turned the cold water all the way on. then i finished my regular shower and then just to drive the point home i turned the hot water on all the
way for about 5 minutes. he is a jerk. so by the time this ended it was already 8:10 which means that I missed the first part of LHoTP!! and guess what? i heard some noises
in the stairwell and looked outside and saw the across the hall neighbor and upstairs jerk getting ready to go FISHING. fishing?! why does he need to shower for fishing? and why didn't he leave at like 5 in the morning? isn't that what people do when they go fishing? plus, he's balding so a shower for him should really only take 2 minutes. a
scrub here and a scrub there. i am a girl and i am allowed to take 20 minute showers.
5. people who call work have really bad phone manners. here is a lesson on manners for everyone reading this: if you are calling a business to talk to a particular person, don't just say "is jerk-face there?" and when the person on the other line says "may I tell him
who's calling don't say "it's butt-face". Guess what? You are not the only butt-face that calls here. so tell me where you're from. and you are not in 5th grade anymore, that is not how to ask for someone on the phone. instead, why not say: "hi, this is (your name here) from (wherever you work) and (i'm returning so and so's call or i'm calling about such and such)."? if you decide not to do this, don't act put out when the person on the other line asks for your name or where you're calling from because you could have just mentioned it in the first place. also, maybe you are one of those people who say's "this is jerk-face calling for thestoredownthestreetgarblygookfloopydoo". Well, thanks for telling me where whoyouareandwhereyou'recallingfrombutFLEEPITYDOOOFLARFIMOO!
maybe you could be a little more clear about it when you call. if some one asks you to repeat what you said don't say it so slow and over emphasize your words. "it's jerk. face. from. the. store. down. The stre-eet. " i am not retarded. you are retarded because you don't have phone skills. and i hate you and don't call back again.
Posted by alison at 08:18 PM | Comments (0)
June 02, 2005
scannnnnning!
i just scanned a lot of photos and added them to flickr. go see if you're in one of them!!
Posted by alison at 06:59 PM | Comments (0)
i have baby doll legs
i went jogging and stair running last night and the night before. it feels like someone has swung me around by my legs.
i bought a bar of dagoba dark chocolate today to get cash out. the label says Conacado 73%. i guess that means that it is dark. i have only eaten about a fourth of it. it is really good. a long time ago i used to hate dark chocolate and now i don't. i think it started when corey's mom sent a bag of mini mixed chocolates and i didn't have a job so i ate a lot of it during the day. i don't know what not having a job has to do with it but whatever. okay. so anyway, i think i'll shop for a small amount of food after work and then go home and try not to take a 2 hour nap like i did the past few days.
just so you know!
Posted by alison at 11:02 AM | Comments (0)
June 01, 2005
it's june.
(note: i wrote this in word and that's why it has proper punctuation. for the most part, that is.)
Last night Corey woke me up to tell me something he forgot to tell me earlier. Yesterday morning while he was waiting for the bus the dude above us was outside getting into his car and says to him "i need to talk to you" so Corey says "okay" and dude says "so we're having a party the morning of the solstice parade and we have it every year, and this year we wanted it to be really big because so and so is moving. So we were going to have it in the parking lot area so we were wondering if you could move your car."
Uh, excuse me? So i said to Corey "what? We’re not invited?!?! That is lame" Corey says "well then he said 'oh well we're going to have mimosas and it should be fun, so you can invite whoever you want. So we'll see you there?'"
Sometimes living in our apartment really pisses me off. First of all, it seems that everyone here is friends with each other. LAME! The other day i was in the laundry room and "long haired dude" who lives on the first floor with his wife was in there when i went to get clothes out of the dryer.
Longhaired Dude: oh, hey!
Me: hi.
lhd: how's it going?
me: good.
(long silence)
lhd: so i'm (name withheld, but it’s the same as my brothers) by-the-way.
me: oh, i'm alison
lhd: so are you new here?
me: no, we've lived here almost 2 years.
lhd: oh. that is really freakish that i haven't met you before.
me: eh. there are people in the building who I’ve never seen before either.
So then I left and I’m sure I came off as rude because I didn’t ask how he was when he asked me, and I didn’t want to stand around and chit-chat with him. I went upstairs and thought about the conversation i just had. Okay. First of all, WHAT THE FUCK? it was "freakish" that he hadn't met me before? I think I have run into him in the laundry room at least twice before. AND!!! I remembered last night when we were talking about the solstice thing that we met him last year at the party they had! it went like this: we came home from eating breakfast at hatties hat. It was early like 10 or something. There was already some kind of a party going on and we walked in the door and he was coming out of the other door and said "oh, are you guys going to 10?" and I was gonna say "no, 5" but didn’t. He thought we were there for the party (that we weren't invited to) or some shit.
Back to the laundry room: I don’t like the way he said “are you new here?” like he’s lived here long enough to know everyone and say it with authority. I don’t like people like that, who act like they own the place the minute they walk in the room. Jerks! Also: hasn't he noticed our names on the mailbox? It hasn’t changed for a long, long time. Like, BEFORE they moved in! Oh, I saw the wife yucking it up with dude upstairs the other day. Just like they were old friends from high school or something. Give me a break.
I wonder if they brought a welcome basket to the new girl who just moved in next to us….
Which brings me to another thing: way back in November, the night before thanksgiving, the wife of longhaired dude knocked on our door. I was making pumpkin cheesecake. So she says "oh, well we're having a thing tomorrow. In the morning, just like coffee and muffins and stuff, you know, just to meet some people in the building" and I said, "oh, okay" then I slammed the door in her face and said "fuck that shit! I already have a muffin in my cupboard to eat!" Okay, so I didn’t really do that. I’m rude but not that rude.
Anyway, I’m sure if we would have went to that thing we would have met them and it wouldn’t be such a big deal now. And maybe then I wouldn’t be bugged about the annoying things they do in the laundry room, like leaving their dirty clothes basket in there if someone is using the washing machine as a ‘place holder’ or putting their shit all over the drying racks and leaving it there for two weeks. OTHER PEOPLE HAVE STUFF TO DRY YOU KNOW!
I guess the bottom line is that everyone in the building probably hates us and now we have to move the car on the day of the solstice parade, the day that everyone comes to Fremont to see naked hippies ride bikes so there won’t be any other spots on the street, because if we don’t move our car everyone will continue to think we’re jerks. AND we have to avoid our OWN APARTMENT because there is no way that I’m going to mingle with dude upstairs and dude downstairs. No way. No thank you!!!
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