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July 28, 2005

afternoon

i am listing to AM 880 KIXI out of a radio shaped like a piece of cheese. the cheese has a mouse sitting on top of it. if the volume is turned up loud enough the mouse mouth will move like it's singing a song. cat stevens is on now. "morning has broken"... i remember playing that in 6th grade band...ooooh. this is soo good. i feel like i'm at the chiropractor's office getting my bones moved. that or i'm in the car with brent and he's switching the channel to AM.
anyway, this radio thing only gets AM but i don't mind listening to KIXI all day. NPR was getting on my nerves.

i'll see you in my dreams,
alison

Posted by alison at 01:21 PM | Comments (1)

July 27, 2005

my hair is pretty and it smells good

an entire episode of fraiser just passed and i didn't watch any of it.
the kitty is really tired. she's laying on the chair and she's sitting funny. it's too cute. when i take a picture of her she looks at me and then closes her eyes again. earlier when i was trying to take a nap she clawed at a basket for about twenty minutes. i kept clapping at her to shut up and then she would go back to clawing. finally she got the basket lid to come off and then the basket fell over and she clawed some more and then she got bored and went somewhere else.
okay, i'm talking about the cat too much.

uh, so yeah. it's hot out. corey said the apartment peeps are coming over tomorrow and bringing the lease to resign.

my lower back hurts. i'm going to go do something else non computer related now.

Posted by alison at 06:01 PM | Comments (0)

man,

yesterday i bought some conditioner at the store. i haven't had a good conditioner in a while because i'm really picky and because i've been looking for a good shampoo without SLS in it. and that's dumb because i should be using only a conditioner because i have curly hair and shampoo dries curly hair and blablabla, conditioner will clean your hair just as well as the shampoo will. i learned this from the book curly girl. i think some people will tell you otherwise, but i read curly girl first so i believe it. anyhooo so i bought this conditioner and it's redken and it's for curly hair and it smells so soo good! i have smelled the smell before somewhere but i'm not sure where. it might have been in iowa city when i first moved there and maybe i only smelled it for a while and that is why i forgot. i've never used redken before but i think my mom has. i hope my hair dries and looks awesome. i should get a hair cut. then it would for sure look awesome.

i have a headache. i ate too much cereal this morning.(3 bowls).
butt.

two things are bothering me lately:
1. we are supposed to re-sign our lease. they were going to bring it by two weeks ago. our lease is up on august first. i'm worried that they might drop by in the evening (instead of taping it to the door like they usually do) and i don't want them to see that our place is a dump.
2. we haven't gotten our cingular bill in the mail yet. WTB?!?!
so the cingular bill isn't as important as the lease but whatever.

Posted by alison at 09:00 AM | Comments (0)

July 26, 2005

a few days ago

soooo. hi, how are you? i'm good. here is what i've been doing lately.

-sewing. i'm actually not sewing that much. maybe a few days a week. or less. it seems that i didn't do it too much last week. but i did it last night.

-i baby sat baby emily friday night. she's not so much a baby anymore. she's way bigger than the last time i saw her and she's walking and talking. and her hair is longer. right after lisa left to go to work emily started saying "chooochooo! choo choo!" and i thought she might be saying "doo doo!" because she crapped or something. but then later i figured out that she was saying "choo choo" because the train was going by. she's really smart. she did end up crapping though. and i had to change her diaper which was annoying because her shirt buttoned under her diaper area and that is a stupid place for baby clothes to have a button when the kid doesn't want to sit still long enough to get dressed again. also: she farted 4 or 5 times and didn't bat an eye. so cute! i planned on teaching her this song "My Bubbe made a Kishke, she made it nice and fat, and when she showed it to me, I said I can't eat that!" but istead of singing it i just hummed it and she would try and sing along to my humming like this: "doo do do do doo doo do!".

-saturday we had a the worst yard sale ever. i made $5 and it was all pretty stupid.

-sunday we went on our usual walk to the u-district and it was warm out and i thought i might barf at one point. i didn't barf and that was good. i picked carolyn up from the airport and we ate burritos and it was nice and good. then we went home and she helped me do dishes. then i dropped her off at nicks work and i saw matt c. there.

-i've been using tape to keep my seatbelt together because it broke on saturday. lame! you may or may not already know that the passanger side seatbelt is stuck in the buckled posistion. and the drivers side is now stuck in the un-buckled posistion. but guess what!? there was a recall on the seat belts in my car a long time ago we can get them fixed for free. hot dog. hot!!

-last night i woke up really sweaty and it was gross.

-today: i don't know yet. maybe sewing. maybe catching up on sleep. maybe going to the food store. who knows!

Posted by alison at 11:28 AM | Comments (0)

July 25, 2005

whoa

whoa! i made a thingy earlier tonight and now it is for sale.you can buy it if you want. i also put up something i made a few days earlier . you may also buy that if you'd like. oh, and i won't be offended if you don't buy it either.

now my neck hurts a lot. also, i ate cereal this morning that was too crunchy. now my mouth has cuts all over the top. crunchy cereal is stupid.

corey spent a lot of time making the cool banner thing on my etsy shop. he is way cool. i hope he changes my website thing soon too.

now i'm going to go to sleep and wake up not feeling rested. what is the point?!?

Posted by alison at 10:42 PM | Comments (0)

July 22, 2005

creaky voice

i think i have creaky voice.

Posted by alison at 12:01 PM | Comments (0)

toffee bar

shout out to kaeli: are you home yet? what about carolyn?
i wanted to try and call nick this morning but i'm afraid he will be asleep. if you're reading this please say hello.
love, alison

Posted by alison at 11:17 AM | Comments (0)

socks!!

yesterday i went back to target and got four new pairs of socks. all were on the clearance rack!i'm reallly excited about it because none of my
other socks have matches. lame! now i don't have to wear sandals every damn day. just every other day.
today is dummpy out so i'm glad i can wear shoes.
in other news, i'm going to work early and leaving a little early so i can pick corey up and take him to get his hair cut. finally. i don't know what we'll do after that.

i need to go put my face on.

bye.

Posted by alison at 08:27 AM | Comments (0)

July 20, 2005

other

this morning i stopped by marketime. first i dropped off a letter in the mail box. then i drove into the marketime parking lot thru the out part. there was a lot of cars already parked so it was stupid on my part to go in backwards. another guy was trying to go out the wrong way too and it was pretty much a big mess. i tried to park in this spot next some old woman drinking coffee in front of her volvo grocery-getter. what a bitch! i parked a little too close to her car and she was all "i'm not going to be able to get out!!!!" so i re parked like 2 more times. and her car was the one that was too close to the line. when i left all of the cars were gone except for two.

also: last night corey was telling me his shirt size which i always forget so i had him make up a little rhyme thing so i could remember:
"16/35 kitty stays alive". and then this for the pants even though i don't forget it: "36/32 kitty's chewing on my shoe." of course by the time i got to the store i was mixing up the numbers and had to call him. i looked at shirts and all the nice ones that were on sale were too big. then i found one and i guess i was just looking at the "16" neck" part and didn't notice the sleeve part. until this morning. it is size 16 32/33. i am so dumb. now i have to take it back.

Posted by alison at 10:46 AM | Comments (0)

here is what happened last night when i tried to fall asleep.
i got in bed and it was hot because corey doesn't like the window open. so i laid there and tried to get comfortable. i had the usual jimmy legs but since corey was sleeping i tried to keep them still. i think i ended up falling asleep but i would wake up and be all 'shit! was i just asleep and now i'm awake? now i have to start all over again!'
that happened about three times. then i fell asleep again and woke up as corey was getting up to go to the couch. i asked if he was going in there because of jimmy legs and he said no. so now i had the whole bed and a window i could open. yes! i fell asleep again and had a really scary dream about guns and stuff. i hate those kinds of dreams. right as my dream is reaching maximum scariness i woke up. someone outside was beating on the garbage cans and yelling. here is what it sounded like :
WHAMMM!!! (muffled) "son of a bitch!" BANGBANGBANG!!!!! (feet shuffleing) "ahhh!" BANGBANGBANG "i'm vewy upset!!!!" (shuffle shuffle shuffle) "BITCH!!!!"
so i went out to the living room and corey was up and looking out the window. i asked what was going on and he said "someone is beating up the garbage cans"
i saw the guy running around the laundry mat and he was wearing a hiking back pack and looked pretty short. corey then yelled at him to "be quiet or we'll call the cops" which i'm laughing at as i type because it's just really dorky. be quiet? ha.
so then i went back to bed and the guy made more noise and i couldn't sleep. i got jimmy legs again which turned into jimmy arms and then into jimmy body which really really sucks because it involves not only your regular body parts like legs, arms, torso, and head, but also your blanket, pillow, and matress. it was terrible.
oh yeah, corey also set the alarm to go off at 5am. i don't really have a problem with that if it's set to radio. but it wasn't, it was set to beep beep beep beep beep beep....

the bottom line is that i'm up now so who really cares? nobody!
okay bye,

love,
alison

Posted by alison at 07:25 AM | Comments (0)

July 19, 2005

fake meat

ever since i had a tofurky dog at brents i have been craving fake meat stuffs. i think it's weird because i don't mind meat i just don't really like to cook it. and all this fake meat stuff is pretty much ready for you to eat. it's convenience food that i don't feel bad about eating.
anyway, so we went to FM and they didn't carry tofurky brand. i didn't really feel like trying the other fake hot dogs so we went to PCC and bought two packs. tonight we ate the tomato basil ones which i do not think are better than the kielbasa flavored ones. it doesn't mix well with ketchup. but it wasn't terrible.

we also ate potato fries and they were good.

i wanted to do some sewing earlier but i think i have sewers block. i decided that it would be a good idea to go to target and the bon to check out stuff there. and by "good idea" i mean "really stupid idea". i am trying to pay down my stupid bon card. some how it got charged up the butt and i have nothing good to show for it. anyway. i bought a skirt, jeans and a work shirt for corey since all of his are getting ruined. including two new ones we just bought.
then i went to target and i want to go back later when i get paid and buy things i don't need. yay for things i don't need!

oh yeah, and my mom wants to have a yard sale on saturday so i need to find some old crap to get rid of. i should also get rid of one skirt and one pair of jeans so that i can keep the clothes population down. boo for things i don't need!

Posted by alison at 11:02 PM | Comments (0)

July 18, 2005

i forgot to tell you some reallly important information

yesterday i ate a tofurky dog. i dipped in it ketchup and mustard. it was really good. lately i've been really into all that fake meat stuff. i like it because it doesn't taste like it's supposed to be meat. except for morningstar farms breakfast patties. those taste like sausage which is really good if it's between an egg and english muffin.

yesterday i called brent to see if he needed to sell clothes. i don't like going alone. he said he'd go. i picked out some jeans that i bought from value village a few weeks ago. here's a funny story: a few weeks ago on a friday i was finishing up work and i really need to buy something. i stopped by the value village in ballard. i ended up buying some useless but cute bowls and a pair of maverick jeans and a leather over the shoulder boulder holder bag. i spent most of our weekend money on this stuff (it wasn't that much but value village is soooo overpriced) and when i told corey about it he got pretty mad at me. i felt so bad that i was ready to return all the stuff to the store but they would only do exchanges. so the next day i got a bunch of stuff together including the bag and jeans and decided that i would try and sell it to make my money back. first we went to red light and they bought some stuff but didn't want the jeans at all. then we went to buffalo exchange and they were going to give me only $3 for the jeans. i said no. i ended up selling everything but the jeans and bag and i made all of my money back. yay!
sooo, fast forward to yesterday. the jeans were still folded up on the dresser and i hadn't worn them at all. i found some stuff in my trunk that i intended on giving to the goodwill which smelled like gas because it was laying ontop of a gas can. hahahaha! i went to brents and he had a bunch of stuff that he didn't think they'd buy. we went to red light first. brent had good luck with his stuff so i decided that i would try and sell my stuff there too. (i originally figured that i'd just go to buff-ex based on my previous experience with both stores) so the girl said she'd take the jeans for $15 and a gas soaked tank top for $4.
yes!!
next we went to buff-ex and they bought a dress that i got from my gramma a few months ago. it didn't fit and i wasn't very attached to it but i still feel kind of bad for selling it. they didn't buy any of the gas tank tops though. meh.
the point is that i made my money back on jeans PLUS $5!!

i'm hungry for fake meat.

oh yeah, last night i saw a blimp out the window. a blimp!! i couldn't find my camera in time though so i have no proof.

Posted by alison at 05:47 PM | Comments (0)

it's hot

you guys, it's really warm out. i'm not gonna say "hot" because whenever i say "it's hot" and it's 67 degrees corey gets all uppity about it. but i'd say it's at least 80 outside right now.
okay, well weather.com says that it's 90 degrees and it feels like 87. i think that qualifys as HOT OUT.

anyway, if you want to go buy some handmade stuff you should do it here. i'm going to go look at some more stuff. i wonder if i could sell anything on there...hmm.....

Posted by alison at 03:21 PM | Comments (0)

July 17, 2005

plans for today

here is a list of things i might do:

-take a shower and get dressed
-do the dishes
-pick up stuff around the apartment
-sew some stuff
-do some laundry
-sort through clothes and find stuff to sell.

i'm really broke right now. last night i had $3.00 and so we walked down to pcc and got fruit bars and mineral water. i got a coconut bar and it was tasty. anyway, i don't get paid till thursday which is really stupid. stupid!!

i have to go do stuff on my list now. i also need to stop looking at flickr so much.

Posted by alison at 10:24 AM | Comments (0)

July 13, 2005

tonight is wednesday

susan is here. she is sleeping on the couch and i hope i'm not being too loud typing this. i'm still up because i have to do the stupid laundry.

today we ate burritos and then went to carkeek park and then to golden gardens. golden gardens is full of nineteen year old girls with miniture dogs. it was weird. anyway, we also saw some guy fishing who had caught a tiny shark. i think he was going to put it on a leash and then carry it around in his backpack as a fashion accessory. HA HA! just joking! actually, instead of putting it back in the water like he's probably supposed to do, he put it in a bucket. i felt bad for some reason. i usually don't really care about animals (except for kitties. like mine) and most water animals are gross. except for dolphines and whales. oh, and seals too. but sharks and eels other stuff are gross! but i sill felt bad. it might be because after he caught it and was taking the hook out he was squeezing it really hard and the eyes were bulging out and it almost looked like a face. a human face.

enough about that. the laundry better fucking be done soon because i'm tired.

Posted by alison at 11:42 PM | Comments (2)

July 12, 2005

i need sweets

i am full from dinner. i ate spaghetti and then had cereal because i needed something to satisfy my sweet tooth. it worked for about 10 minutes. i need something more.

corey bought me some fancy acne medicine for my pizza face today. it is by the same ladies that make proactiv only it's way more expensive. the lady who sold it to him said i need to stop using clinique soap. she says it's very drying on the skin. i agree but every other soap i use is worse. i hope this new stuff works. it is only a "trail size" so we'll see. zits be gone!!

tomorrow susan from iowa is coming to town. i will be picking her up from the airport after i get done at work. i want to do some fun stuff that costs little or no money. i don't know if that will happen. i want to go to uwajimaya and buy lots of chocolate biscuit cookies and jappy magazines. i was trying to save my money for stuff like that but then i blew it all over the place on saturday and sunday.

okay. i'm going back to sewing stuff now. have a wonderful evening.

Posted by alison at 08:37 PM | Comments (2)

July 11, 2005

f-ing m-day

has anyone seen the new nickles? the ones with the buffalo with the wang doodle showing? go look at it.

here is whats new with me:
- yesterday i switched the posistion of the garbage and the recycling under the sink. i don't know why. it's really messing with me so i might switch it back.
- last night the cat went nuts from 12am-1am and wouldn't stop jumping on the fan. she might have only jumped on it once but that is too many times. she knows that it pisses me off but she continues to do it. i had a really terrible night of sleep which included a dream about the upstairs dude and him not having hands or feet, and a sinus headache which was pretty much all i could think about while sleeping.
- sinus headache
- i bought three magazines this weekend.
- we went to marysville to watch my parents cats on saturday and i felt guilting for leaving our own cat alone.
- i ate 7 cookies and a half of a brownie on sunday.

Posted by alison at 09:11 AM | Comments (0)

July 06, 2005

what is grosser than stepping on a snail shell?

i just made corey a lunch for today. last night he went shopping with me and it's never a good idea for us to go together because we always remember that we need all of these expensive things and then we spend too much. also, he likes to buy lunch meat in those little cardboard boxes. i like to buy it from the deli counter. so last night he picked out two butterball turkey card board packs. this morning i opened the one that i thought was a grosser flavor. i mustarded the bread (no mayo because he had an over load this weekend) then i opened the plastic thing of the meat and there was blue and green mold all over it. BARF! i showed corey while he was taking a shower. he said i should return it. i will never again by boxed turkey. or ham.

Posted by alison at 07:43 AM | Comments (7)

July 05, 2005

tuesday

the cat is meowing up a storm. i think she wants my attention. but she's not going to get it because i have to tell you a story!
i just went out "running" and "stair going-up". it is my new nightly excercise. i go out for about 20 minutes. one time i went seven days in a row. then i skipped four or five days. then i went for two or three days. then i didn't go for a week. you get the idea. anyway, so i went out tonight because i was sewing and i decided that i needed to give the sewing machine a break. it's old and it can only take so much.
right before i left i drank a glass of water which i know is really stupid. i got half way through my running part and had to start walking because my tummy hurt so bad!
by the time i got to the first set of stairs i go up it started drizzling. barf!! here's the exciting part of the story: when i got to the bottom of the stairs i heard a crack! what did i step on? at first i didn't care, but i decided to look anyway. it was a snail! all this clear goo was oozing everywhere and i felt really bad. i am a terrible person! i examined it a little closer and there was a non-clear gooey part sitting a little ways away from the cracked shell and stuff. i think it was maybe an eyeball. and when i say eyeball i mean one of those little feeler thingys. or something.

so that is my story.

oh, here is another one: last wednesday or thursday i was out and as i was jumping off the sidewalk i saw a hugh pile of barf that looked like hawaiian pizza. it was a perfect round pizza shape and all of the 'toppings' were arranged nicely too.
i know it was barf because when i ran passed it the next day the area had turned white. i know that barf turns white if you don't hose it off because someone barfed on the sidewalk outside of the laundry mat three times and nobody did anything about it. it turned white. it was the worst. i still try and step around those areas when i walk by there.

Posted by alison at 09:56 PM | Comments (1)

July 03, 2005

bicycle ragoholic

today corey and i went on a long walk on the burke-gilman trail. we were inside of the designated walking area when this group of three bikers came around the corner towards us. they were also in the walkers lane and i started to move over to let them pass but corey pulled me back behind him. as they passed us the guy biker said "jackass!" and then after a minute i said "did he just say 'jackass!' to you?" and then corey said "yeah, i think he did!"
i hate bikers. they are so stupid in their tight little shorts. they can all go to hell.

anyway, this reminded me of another time we got yelled at when corey was visiting me in iowa city. we were leaving a bar and i was pretty drunk and corey might have been drunk too. he had his arm around my shoulders and i had my arm around his waist. some guy walked by and said "hey lovebirds!!" and it was the nicest yell anyone has ever yelled at me.
yea!

Posted by alison at 09:55 PM | Comments (3)

July 01, 2005

i'm so hungry i could barf

all i've eaten today is fiber and sugar. i forgot my lunch and had to eat a piece of cake instead of real food. for breakfast i had super fiber cereal and i just ate another bowl. it's going to be a long night.

i went back to joanns today because i couldn't wait for the sale tomorrow. i don't think anything i bought was going to be on sale anyway. the lady who cut my fabric stuffs looked like amy sedaris. her name was lisa. i wonder if they were related. anyway, she said my purse was really cute. then she said "you could sell that!!!" when i left. that pretty much made my day.

anyway, i think we'll eat quesadillas for dinner. do people usually put beans inside of that? i think i want to. i hope i'm not commiting a crime or anything.
i'm still really hungry so i have to go find something else to eat.

oh, and according to this, i can put beans inside it!

Posted by alison at 04:21 PM | Comments (5)

it's july and i'm going to bitch about the weather.

why is it cold out?
i was going to say something the other day because it was shitty out. there is no way of telling if it is summer or winter here. i really hate it sometimes becuase it's summer now and i want it to be october and cold out. but when it's october it will be warm and i will want spring.

anyway, i'm going to wear a sweatshirt today so there. THERE!

yesterday i didn't go home from work right away. instead i went to joanns. i didn't buy anything. i got tired and wanted to go home but i made myself stay out. so i went to the new ballard library. it is nice. they had the air conditioning turned on which was probably unnecesary. then i went to bartells.
so later i was telling corey how i went to joanns and stuff and he said "do you have a problem with shopping?" and i said "no. i didn't go to joanns to buy anything. i went to look." and he said "yeah. well why did you go into bartells?" and i said "well they had a sign that said '10% off sunglasses" then he started laughing it up and was all "see! you went in there to see if they had sunglasses!!! you were going to buy some if you saw something you liked!!!"
he's full of it. i didn't even look at the sunglasses. i looked at mascara. so whatever. i don't have a shopping problem.
but i think i should sell a chair on craigslist soon so i can have some cash in my wallet so i can buy something without feeling guilty.

Posted by alison at 09:34 AM | Comments (0)