just a (transplanted) city girl

>is not really a park but it is a nice place to sit and play with my phone. I got 3 tins of cinnamon altoids and some orbit gum, I need to leave before my lettuce gets warm.

Payday today. Yesterday short-sleeved top. Today sweater with leather jacket. Wearing my crocs again today, I found my half-sock-tubes and my little toes are wrapped up in band-aids. The second skin all peeled off last night, if you didn’t know what it was, you would have been totally freaked out by my ‘scaley skin’. Bwah!! I got an e-mail from Amazon advertising Crocs with free overnight shipping. I will have to check that out. Someone just asked me if I had pink skin, I lifted up my pants leg so she could see the little half socks. Then someone else asked me what I had on my feet. I showed her, but now I think I should have said “Crocs.” Anyway, the little socks are really helping, I need to wash them and squeeze them out and hang them up so they dry for tomorrow.

I am staying home tonight, just feeling crummy, don’t know if I will just lie down or watch some computer TV or not. I think I will check some things then lie down for a bit.

>First day back after the long weekend, and I am home now and just taking a few minutes to check in. The boss is back so no more sitting in his office playing Tetris, I will have to go back to my old hiding place. I mailed the book I sold out, I mailed it first class, it was cheaper then media rate. Tonight I will give Tigger his money. I wore my crocs to work and now have blisters, I probably should have worn them around the house some more before wearing them to work. Good thing I have another pair of shoes at work and a bottle of second skin.

I saw these quotes on WW. I have seen them before but decided to stick them on here because I like them. I also sent them to the boss. He likes Groucho.

“I find television very educational. Every time someone switches it on I go into another room and read a good book.” -Groucho Marx

“Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.” -Groucho Marx

I feel so bad for Tigger, M took him to the doctor and he told me the doctor has no idea what’s wrong with him, I guess that means no medicine, he has to tough it out till he is better. When I got home, he was getting ready to go with the family, M said the doctor wants him to stay home from school tomorrow, but he wants to go.

As I was walking to the subway a man, kind of scruffy looking, was walking toward me and talking to himself, I thought, “It is impossible to tell the crazies from the people with BlueTooth.” I mean, was he talking to himself, or was he talking to someone on his phone? It is making me reconsider getting a BlueTooth for my phone, although it would be handy to have when I am driving.

Another thing that happened makes me think that cell phones contribute to road rage, a person was sitting at a green light talking on his cell phone, and the person behind him honked his horn, so how many people were inattentive because of the cell phone and someone got mad and ‘lost it’?

The last thing I have to comment about is trees, specifically the trees at the train station, I washed my car yesterday and today, a tree left yellow pollen all over it.

>So I am posting here before I run to the bank. I got my refund check (yay!) from 1-800-Contacts so I want to deposit it. Gwen is coming with me because she has a check to deposit also. This morning M and I went to NJ to do shopping, she really just wanted to get out of the house, we went to Crate&Barrel and I got some cute things. I got a package of India Dhal Lentil Soup with Spices, a glass bowl with a clear plastic lid, a stainless steel coffee scoop (to measure Nesquick to make hot chocolate) and a set of green chopsticks in a bamboo box.

Gwen and I went to the bank, then she wanted to practice driving, so we drove around the block, then by Memorial Park, then over by the football stadium. Then M asked me to go get soda for her and D. I dropped Gwen up at home and did that. We had a nice dinner of ice cream cake.

Right now I am upstairs in the living room watching Law & Order: Criminal Intent with M. It is a Logan marathon. So I just have to stay up here to watch.

Well, Stitch wanted to go to bed so I am going to bed too. Funny thing today, my right contact was bothering me. I took them out when M & I got home, now my left eye is bothering me, the right one is fine!

>I decided not to rush and catch the 6:33 today instead of the 6:18, my hurting tummy reminds me that I didn’t eat last night, but the way I felt, I couldn’t. I have cereal bars if it gets too bad before I get to work. I have to go throw some makeup on before I run out of here.

Rain today, I am wearing my spotted boots, even if they do look stupid with my skirt.

I made the 6:44. Then I stopped to get Band Aids so then I was truly late. As I was waiting for the Metro North train I thought about the things we miss when we rush, like the fact that there is grass growing on the platform, and the fact that it is sunny as California and I wore chunky black and white rain boots.

Today I stopped at this park I have always wanted to stop at for lunch. It is a pretty nice day except I know I look ridiculous in these rain boots. Well, someone told me its supposed to rain later and these boots are better then the shoes that are wearing away the skin on my heels.

As I was playing Tetris, while sitting in the boss’s office, Tigger sent me a text. I turned off the game and got up, it was dark outside. We were no longer in California. I saw someone in the parking lot rub his head so I looked at the jeep near the window and saw raindrops on the roof. As I watched, more appeared. Not a lot of rain but enough so I won’t look so silly in my boots.

Now I am sitting at my desk, eating my salad one vegetable at a time while sending and receiving text messages. Now who says I can’t multi-task?

It is a sad day because Sassy died. I was surprised at how sad I felt. But when you think about it, she has been with us for 19 years almost. Longer than Tigger and Fred. I went to the meeting because I had a talk with Nancy, but I didn’t stay, and now I have to go get ready for bed.

>sassy is gone
seizures
M

Wed, May 21 3:37 pm

>i know
its sad
but it happens

Wed, May 21 3:38 pm

Something very annoying happens when I use this e-mail system, it picks up whatever I wrote before, like I want to resend the same information over and over.

I have something new to be annoyed about today, but isn’t there always something? This time it has to do with the WW message boards and a person who always starts a new thread when I have started it. The opening post instead of saying ‘anyone can start the thread’ should say ‘___ will start the thread because she’s so important she doesn’t have to check for anyone else, and if anyone else is stupid enough to start it, they have to just come over to her thread.’ Today is not the first time this has happened, it happens every time I start it but not when other people do. And I try not to take things personally, because I don’t really know these people but sometimes things pile on top of each other and I get upset.

Was it supposed to rain today? Cause it is, not as much as the other day when I didn’t have my hat, but it is raining and it is cold. I just cannot believe it.

Just now I bought some cinnamon Altoids at the store for Tigger, I will send him a text about that. He will either be happy or ask me for Riesen. That I have to get someplace not as expensive since I get the big bag. Well, my drink is ready so I better go.

And when I told him, he said, ‘Yay’, he didn’t ask for Riesen, just told me not to forget it, now that I am leaving work and walking to the subway, it is pouring down rain. I am soaked to the skin.

Time for bed and I have an upset tummy.
^. .^

>I just found out that someone has been reading my blog! Eeek! Now I have to remember if I said anything about her hmm. Don’t think so, she is one of the newer posters, but this thread is not like some of the others I posted to, not that I was abused, just ignored.

So I went to lunch and it is raining, you know I do not carry an umbrella, now it is pouring and so I stopped at Brasil Coffee House, you know the place on the corner with the tables with the coffee beans under their glass tops. I am hoping the rain stops because I put my hair back with a barrette and so do not have a hat. It does not look like it is stopping anytime soon so I will most likely get soaked. Well I will enjoy this latte before that happens.

Yes, I got soaked, and it is still raining, even here at home, well I am going to get some dinner than go to Allsport. I will talk to you later, or maybe tomorrow night.

Made it to Allsport, now I am home and soon my phone will be telling me to go to bed. OK it already has I just didn’t hear it. I should put my time on the challenge but I don’t think there is room yet. I will check in a minute, then I will do all the things my phone told me to do.

>I just could not get up today, kept thinking it was Friday and I could use a long weekend. When I remembered it was Thursday, I decided I would get up in an hour and go to work, take a ‘mental health’ me morning. I decided to catch the 9:06, got to the train station before 9:00 and wouldn’t you know it, the train was ‘running 10 to 15 minutes behind schedule’, train speak for late. I was surprised at how many people were at the train station. I suppose some could have been waiting for the train to Poughkeepsie, but there were a lot of people there.

So I am peeved at myself. I took someone’s advise, someone on the WW board and bought some ear buds, you know my problem with my tiny ears. Anyway, the ones I found, same brand name, which I won’t mention, were twice the price she said they were, and they don’t fit, even using the smallest size. They either fall out or I have to push them in and they hurt my ears. I think one ear is swollen from having the ear bud pushed in. So today I am using my red Sony ones and feeling like an idiot for buying the ear buds.

On a brighter note, I paid off one of my loans so I have more money in my paycheck. And I got a call from the Poughkeepsie Journal about that commuter thing I answered. So that is the total of my excitement for today. >^..^<

My State Tax return came today, all $13 dollars of it. I am supposed to get the other check no later than tomorrow. We’ll see. I am not going to Allsport, I have a stomach ache after eating dinner. No idea what caused it. Usually I can figure out something I ate that I shouldn’t have, but tonight I can’t. I had steak, corn and broccoli, it may have been the corn, or just poor eating today cause of how late I got to work. Anyway, I decided I didn’t want to risk leaving the house.