mid-april ampitheatre tour…wtf?! april is still cold trent! that better not mean only warm climate shows. stripped down “white lights on the band” no big gagdets, and most importantly ROTATING SETLISTS.
booooo
holy unexpected batman…adr went to the last nin show in vegas, and reported back that josh AND ali said goodbye…whuh? ali? yeah that was a well kept secret, because no one had any idea ali was leaving too. trent said touring in feb in australia and US in april, as a 4 piece…how weird will that be? nin has always been 5 members, how are they going to play the songs without keyboards and random electro gadgets?? it’ll be interesting…
party time
christmas party season. did a secret santa thing with my work friends on thursday at brian and danielle’s house. i got lindsay who had me last year, and got her like 8 pairs of fun socks (she likes fun socks). danielle had me (but she admitted she cheated cuz she saw the gift before she picked the names ha), and got me these 2 neat framed pieces of glass that have architectural drawings on them. had a good time with everyone at their house. on my way home there was a house with EIGHT deer on the front lawn…8!?!?!? i’ve never seen so many at one time, and all on one lawn. i mean REAL deer too, not like, christmas decorations hahah
been busy running errands and making xmas gifts. slowly. i can only make one at a time so it’s taking awhile.
it appears that i’m really unknowingly stressed out about work. i’ve been having alot of chest pains, but realized only at work, or on my way to work. yesterday they started after i put my uniform on and was watching the sabres game. on my days off, or in the afternoons, i’m totally fine. it was sorta worrying before i realized it seems to be stress. still probably not good though. i have a drs appt on the 31st and the 2nd (maybe i should change the one on the 2nd because next year my benefits go up to a $25 copay).
but yeah, work hasn’t been fun. people are still upset and uneasy about more layoffs. jenn just told me quite an interesting rumor about the CEO getting fired today, but no one knows what is really going on. i just go to work with my chest pains and deal and go home.
i finished reading ender’s game, which was recommended by mary months ago. i quite liked it so i added the remaining 4 in the series to bookmooch. but while it’ll be months before i get them, i decided to read Atlas Shrugged again. with the economic problems and business/bank failures it sorta seemed appropriate. i read it in 05 and don’t remember enough to draw parallels so i figured i might as well read it a 2nd time. i’m remembering a bit even having just reread the first chapter and i’m thinking that john galt’s philosophy is actually the reason we’re in this trouble now…but we’ll see if it gets clarified in my head as i go. it’ll probably take me 6 months again to read hah (i found my boarding passes for my flights to reno to see nin in 05 inside the book haha). and i fully expect to skip john galt’s radio speech again too haha.
rawr
aunt trudy is volunteering at the thai buddhist tiger sanctuary that she visited last year. she’s been almost mauled by a full size tiger (teeth at her neck but then it only sniffed her) and bitten twice by the baby tigers. and is totally loving it. when i get laid off i’m going to travel with her.
and completely unrelated, headline: “Joe the Plumber turns on McCain over bailout support”….WHY IS HE STILL GETTING ATTENTION? who the FUCK cares?!
LOL!
US Open TV commentator: “One of the reasons Arnie Palmer is playing so well is that, before each final round his wife takes out his balls and kisses them…Oh my God, what have I just said?!!”
l.o.l.
compliments?
i got some weird compliments recently.
1. a girl asked me if my eye lashes were real. um yes. she said they were so dark and long she thought they were implants. you can get eyelash implants? yes apparently, she had it done in NYC…really expensive. it’s more like eyelash extenstions than implants, they glue like, caps, onto your lashes and they last a few months.
2. these 2 black women said i looked like that girl from top model, we had the same hair. and i said, oh the one who just won yeah we have the same hair. they were like, and your face too, you look like her. no thanks, i thought mckee looked ugly and scary when she smiled.
3. i was called sarah palin again, and i said please don’t call me that. and they said, but she’s a very pretty lady, and i said but she’s an idiot so that’s not really a compliment to me hahaha
layoffs :(
it appears i survived lay off number 1. many of my friends didn’t. looks like they are using seniority, because both dealers and supervisors who were laid off were all the most recently promoted. it sucks. on my shift 5 floors were cut, and the rumor is 17-25 dealers but i’ve only heard of about 10. i really think i am ok (for now). if the layoffs are based on seniority i am way up there, there aren’t many day 1 dealers left in the place. if it’s based on attendance points and “behavior” i’m also fine as i may have 1 point which will go away on new years day (from calling in for the ice bowl ha) and i’ve gotten 1 write up in the last 3 years since i demoted myself. still sucks though.
layoffs coming?
the news paper has it that 210 people at work are getting laid off tonight…the first one seems to be our boss. apparently just got laid off when he went in this morning. fantastic.
*edit*…i don’t understand economics, i admit it never made sense to me in school, so i while i realize the economy right now is bad, and may get worse, it’s not THAT BAD! i think all these companies are freaking over reacting and making things even worse. my company apparently has made 450 million this year. but because it’s not at the projected 500 million they are crying in their peace pipes. they’re trying to get us to work 4 days (so they can save a whole 61.40 that they pay me each day) and now laying off because the “economy is bad”. maybe if all the companies kept all their jobs, people would continue to have money that they could then spend at other companies and no one would have a problem.
400 and 50 fucking million! apparently it’s more than last year at this time, but still just not enough. maybe my communist side is showing…
Thanksgiving
thanksgiving in detroit. we headed up wednesday afternoon and had a basic pizza dinner at my dad’s sisters house where we were staying. thursday we surprised ed and laurice who didn’t know we were in town and went to their house for a few hours and then back to my aunts. my 2 cousins arrived with their kids, 9, 7 and 3. i haven’t been out there in probably 5 years, and had never met the 3 year old. i don’t know what to do with kids but some how my bedroom became a dance party, where they figured out how to use cassettes (i didn’t think they even knew what they were!) and blasted rock and roll (disco really) and danced and jumped on the sofa bed. the little one announced he liked motley crue and that “dad has alot of loud cds” hahaha. he started dancing “like a cowboy” with his hands on his waistband, and doing what i would sorta call the “new kids dance” haha it was cute. the 7 year old was disco dancing like john travolta and i’m like, how do you know that, you’re SEVEN?!
back home early friday morning, so i could nap cuz i barely slept, and then work tonight.
twilight *hangs head in shame*
i got a hand written letter inviting me to attend church at the lighthouse baptist church on wheatfield st. and i wonder…how do these people get my address…or rather, i keep getting sent things (from companies mostly) welcoming me to my new house and blahblahblah. how do they know i moved? this church one has an amusing disclaimer at the bottom “for your information we received your name and address from a new move-in list provided by Welcome Card in Portland Oregon. If this letter was sent to a child or teenager, then we apologize. Our intent is for letters to be received by adults only.” hahah…but PORTLAND OREGON? how does portland oregon know i moved?!
so i went to see the twilight movie with stef and paul this morning. they invited me so i said sure, otherwise i’d never end up seeing it. maybe i shouldn’t have gone…stef and i agreed it was disappointing. now i’ve made it clear i think the book is fluff trash, tho i quite enjoyed it, and the movie was really really missing something. i think it was edward. i don’t remember cedric diggory being so stiff and weird. pattinson as edward is just not right. the whole time he’s stiff, but stooped over cuz bella is short. stand up straight! and he always looked like he was in pain (maybe that was supposed to be on purpose), or constipated. it was not attractive and he’s supposed to be all super hot. bella was ok, i don’t think she had to be SO sort of antisocial and weird, she always looked miserable even when supposedly happy with edward. carlisle was too white, almost albino. jasper looked weird. rosalie was not gorgeous. emmett and esme were ok. alice was the only one who was cast right i think. she didn’t exactly have a big part though. neither did jacob, 5 lines maybe. i can’t remember if he had a bigger part in the first book or not though. anyway. there was no chemistry between the characters, or even badly acted passion. it just sorta felt empty. the story was mostly the same, but great hollywood romance it was not….however the harry potter trailer looked great!