kitty cat

So I have been thinking about it more (getting a cat), and I started looking today. This is the one that I like; she looks to be the right size in other pictures. I think I might have to go play with her sometime this week :).

in search of aloe vera

I finished another book today. My next one is going to be a long one. I'm sunburned too. Nanci, Sara, and I had a picnic. Nanci wanted to, and I went and read my book for awhile outside and then she and Sara met up with me.

Lunch was good. I really enjoyed the outdoors. I decided that I want to have a rock in my yard when I get older too. It was fun standing on the one out in front of the Old Capitol. I wanted to get on the other one, but there were two girls sitting by it.

I am now debating what to do about dinner. I have brats in the freezer, but I might decide to actually cook something. Maybe I'll find something interesting in the cookbook. It will be an adventure, and if I don't find anything there is always a frozen pizza in the oven.

I also talked to Jen today; I guess she is coming back to Iowa City this week. It should be exciting to see her again. I hope this next week goes as fast as last.

chips 'n' dip

Chips are good. I think I might go to Wendy's for dinner. I kind of woke up late today, and well I didn't really have time to take a shower or shave. It's okay though; my justification comes because it is Friday. I made it to work on time and that is all this matters.

On the way home the cambus passed a couple standing on the side of the road asking for money. The guy was wearing a Jim Bean shirt. First of all, I am not a big fan of Bean, and second why should I give money to a person when they're wearing a Jim Bean shirt? I think that fits the stereotype of homeless spending money on alcohol.

I think I am going to run the dishwasher after I finish my chips and salsa. Maybe Wendy's and a nap too. We'll see.

keeping in mind their increasing ages we read with hope the obit pages

Sigh. Tomorrow is Friday! So when I got home from work today someone was waiting to get into the building. I asked, "Are you waiting for someone or do you need to be let in?" She answered, "Yes." I guess asked the typical American question, and I really got the answer I asked for. I should have just left it as, "Do you need to be let in?" Because that is what she really wanted. Maybe she was a programmer; that would have explained the answer.

In the book I'm reading, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, I read a chapter called The Girl Next Door. I was sitting there thinking it would be an exciting chapter, but I should have known. The author is gay, but I still had this thought in my mind that it would be about "the girl next door". It turned out the chapter was very entertaining even though it was about a nine year old. It wasn't sexual if you were wondering. No, I'm not like that.

I've always wondered what it would be like to live next to "the girl next door." For some reason I don't think it will ever happen; but maybe. According to wiki she doesn't need to live next door:

"The girl next door is always physically in close range, yet simultaneously detached from the male protagonist (she needn't literally live next door). She is the sweet-tempered girl he sees daily, a really great 'pal' friend, hence the "perfect" girl to take home to his parents. Often, she is a sexual virgin, and, because of that, her "innocent" manner is the façade of many American erotic fantasies portraying her "girl next door" image as the pretense behind which is the true, very sexually aggressive woman." from Girl next door - Wikipedia

Sounds interesting, but I still have my doubts. I was going to go downtown again to read, but the weather was bad. It is really sunny out now, but I think I'll spend tonight in my room. Sounds like time for a Diet Dew.

on a leash

So I guess the bananas are gone because the coffee shop is closing. On the bright side they do have half price drinks now; this means I didn't have to pay full price for a smoothie. I decided to sit in the front of the shop today. I always thought sitting in the front would be awkward because people would be looking in at you. I guess I was more distracted by watching other people.

I am a people watcher; more specifically tonight I was a dog watcher. The place next door has dogs, and one of the workers was taking them for walks. The dogs were so damn excited when they came out for walks. Each and everyone of them popped up like a kid doing a wheelie on his bike. I guess I would be too if I were restrained to a cage all day. At least I am able to get up and go to the bathroom at work.

On the way back I thought I hopped on the wrong bus. Apparently they are doing construction under the Iowa Ave. bridge. I about shit my pants, but really it would have been okay. I just would have had to get off at the next stop and continue walking. Funny how one doesn't think rationally when he has realized he made a mistake. Anyways I think there is something wrong with the timestamp.

I wonder if she'll lay an egg...

So I finished my third book today. Exciting. I have my next one picked out, and I'm going to return the rest of the books I had to the library in a bit here. I was thinking about using my free burrito card today at Chipotle.

I hope they have bananas at the coffee shop. All last week I wanted a banana smoothie, but they did not have any. Just in case I ate a banana when I got home from work. That should hold me over for awhile.

So there is this lady that works in the Technology Innovation Center (where I work) and she is abnormally loud. I don't really think that she realizes she is that loud, but she is. I can hear her talking all the way down in her office; and then there is her laugh. My co-worker thinks it sounds like a cackling chicken. It doesn't bother me so much, but it does alert me that she is in the building.

I am kind of hungry at the moment. I need to look up the book here that I want and then go to the library and get it. I don't know why but I always feel paranoid that someone is watching me there when I am looking up books. Who knows; maybe someone is.

all white meat

I got quiet a bit accomplished today at work. I am building a device to measure blood pressure now. I probably shouldn't get into it too much here (for legal purposes), but it really is exciting. I was planning on going downtown to the coffee shop again, but it is kind of nasty out. Plus I had to run to the grocery store for a few items that my brother took on the camping trip without telling me.

I had to go because I don't feel like cooking tonight, and I wanted Ketchup to go with the chicken tenders and fries that I am placing in the oven tonight. I know Jennifer must be jealous; I always tell her how I had chicken fingers and she seems to always recite the same thing. They're probably not healthy for me, but they sure do taste good.

Tomorrow night I think I will be going to return a few of the books that I have borrowed. I feel bad for having two that I have finished (I returned the one that was an Express copy right after I finished it) that other people could be reading. I hope I can finish my current book, Magical Thinking, tomorrow. Today as I was reading it on the bus ride home from work I couldn't help but laugh. Normally books don't make me laugh at all; maybe a grin or a smirk, but this one just tickled the funny bone. Maybe because I'm an engineer and it had something to do with the author's genius brother.

Tonight should be relaxing though. Nothing terribly exciting happened today; I wish I would have started writing earlier because last week was much more fruitful along the lines of intriguing stories.

what makes your eyes so blue?

The first week of my summer has been quiet interesting. I finally got my hard drive back from WD. It still feels like I'm settling into the computer again. I love having my monitors back, but I still feel naked. I guess that is just how it goes sometimes.

I think I've settled into my work schedule a little. The first day was overwhelming. I guess the job is more independent than I thought, but I think that it is going much better. It seemed like the first day I just sat there shell shocked trying to figure out what the heck I was doing. I will say now that I have a direction, and I think that it will be highly possible to complete the task at hand.

As a few of my friends know I have made a list of things that I would like to do this summer. I feel that circumstances in the past have kept me from being the person that I am. I don't think that it was a bad thing, but I really haven't had a chance to discover who I am. I guess I just grew up too fast; I don't think it was a bad thing, but at this point in my life I should be experimenting more. This is why I decided to make the list.

The first item that I accomplished was to read a book. I thought that I should go to the book store and buy the book I wanted to read. I drove by the bookstore last Sunday after a dinner with my family, and it was closed. I'm glad it was closed. I don't know why I felt as if I had to go and physically buy the book when I could borrow it for free at the library. Let's just say I hadn't been to the library in such a long time that I had been purged from the system.

The book that I chose to read first was "The Last Lecture". I really enjoyed the book, and I think there are things that I personally took away from it. Reading it inspired me to watch the actual lecture on YouTube, but after reading the book it seemed like he had to leave so much out due to the time constraints. I've since read "The Secret" and started another book. I won't get into these much because I don't feel like writing about them at the moment.

The weekend has been fun. Alison came back to see Brittany, Kelly, and her family. That girl is such a doll. I don't know what to think about it anymore. I think I'm more sure about what I'm going to do with my life without her than with her. There are just certain things that have been brought to my attention that are finally sinking in. I think I have proved to myself that I'm not going to settle for anything that isn't a right fit for me. Also it is just one of those things that I'm finally ready to just let happen, but at the same time I'm O.K. if it doesn't happen. If what I want doesn't come along I'm not going to force anything.