is this thing on?

there's a chick-fil-a nearby that is celebrating their 5 year anniversary. one of their very kind employees (and i'm not singling him out, they are seriously all very kind employees- have you noticed?) came into my office and gave us some coupons for a free chicken sandwich to help them celebrate. he also handed us a flier informing us of all the fun activities they would be hosting all week in their celebration. i was immediately drawn to Monday's activity: if you go through the drive-thru to get your free sandwich, you get a free antennae ball. i have never owned an antennae ball nor have i ever really had the desire to have one but for some reason i got really excited about it. apparently i am in a stage of my life where i am ready for my first antennae ball. so i made plans to go there on my lunch break and i made sure i followed the directions exactly and went through the drive-thru. the very nice drive-thru cashier handed me my bag of goodness and... alas, she did no...

i've decided to start blogging on here again. call me finicky. i just got back from the 24-hour wal-mart. the one closest to our house just so happens to be the wal-mart that doubles as a circus. and over the months, i've learned that the demographics surrounding this wal-mart like to use it as a means of entertainment for their small children. who needs a babysitter when you can just unload your children into wal-mart and let them run around and play with toys for hours on end while you can have a nice, quiet dinner at mcdonalds? i will have to log that solution away for when i have kids of my own. we went because my husband desperately needed shorts. he has been aware that he needed shorts for a while now. but tonight, tonight was the magic night that he had to go get shorts. now. (he limits his options of fine shopping when he does that. seriously.) he wanted me to come in the fitting room with him and when i took a step towards him, the fitting room guard growled, ...

i've taken to writing blogs on my myspace profile instead of here on blogger because people actually read them over there... therefore, i can't say i'll be writing much on this thing in the future...and honestly, i'm not sure anyone will notice, or care. but if you DO care, join myspace. find me.

having an ad in the paper proclaiming $2 games and $2 shoes for the local bowling alley followed by the hours of operation = 5:00pm-midnight Friday night. getting to the bowling alley at 6:30pm to find the doors locked and 2 of the employees calling their boss to see if anyone with keys is going to come open it for the evening. double-checking the hours in the paper and seeing the words "subject to change" in small print next to the hours. basically, what it SHOULD have said is this: "Hours: Friday 5:00pm-midnight unless the boss finds something better to do with his time".

i've always thought i had "fat arm" genes and there was absolutely nothing i could do about it. i have worked out consistently before and have seen no definition form in my arms no matter what i did. i even had a personal trainer for a while and still, nothing. well, i found this article saying that no matter what genes you have, you can always have thin arms...for some reason, that was the hook for me. i know every magazine article says they have the answer to all your body problems but this one seemed do-able. there are 4 or so exercises that you are supposed to do for an allotted amount of time equaling 15 minutes in total. what's 15 minutes of my day, right? easy. and then you are just supposed to do that 15 minute work-out at least 4 days a week. still, i can do that. i tried them out the other day (wednesday night) and they honestly kicked my butt 30 seconds into the thing! you start out by doing push-ups for 4 minutes. 4 MINUTES . that's a long time to b...

brian drove his '79 mercedes up a few weekends ago, we were pretty excited to have two cars again but when he went to take it to work it wouldn't start. he took the battery down to napa to get it tested, they recharged it and the car started. we drove it around for a while and the next day, it wouldn't start again. brian decided it's the starter. he also decided he's going to fix it himself. really, his only other option is to have it towed to denver as we don't have a lot (if any) specialty car places up here. he did some research online and went to go unscrew one of the bolts on the starter and it was so corroded, the entire bolt just broke off the starter (leaving a big hole in his starter...so if it wasn't the starter before, it sure is now). in his efforts to get the bolt unscrewed despite the massive corrosion he did some research online and was told to soak it in some good old soda pop for 10 minutes. so, is that a good thing or a bad thing for our s...

so, we got a delivery of 3 large boxes on monday and i volunteered to keep them at my desk until the professor needed them. today, another faculty member came in and said, "would you like me to take the dead cats upstairs for you?" not cool.