Packing! A Wed Update.

Ok, ok, I'm very sad to be leaving California for two weeks because of course lots of things will be happening without me, I will miss my friends terribly, and my poor roomie will be alone since our other roomie is in Boston for a few days. But I am excited to go back east. Apparently the weather is better in VA than CA this week. Interesting. I have always hated packing, and I'm terrible at it really. I always try to bring way more than in necessary. Case and point, I have 6 pairs of shoes for 12 days. Probably not necessary, but too bad, I obviously need all 6 of them. Other activities for the day include catching up on the Tudors, since I don't get Showtime at home, and going to the knee doctor. Finally had to admit to myself that my knee is the size of a baseball and I should do something about it. Don't worry though, its just the same old crap I've been dealing with since I was 12. The needles never get any easier though... So wish me luck on my crazy day! 

XOXO

Just for Jennie

Monday Life Update.

1) I got laid off. I'm officially a big girl now.

2) I'm watching TV online, and it is wonderful. 

3) I'm going back East for a bit! Going to see my family and friends, very excited.

4) Of course I will miss California family and friends, but I will be back in like 2 weeks.

5) Jen, if you see this, please water my plants while I'm gone. I don't want to repeat Christmas break...

6) Doing laundry is soooo boring. That is what I'm doing right now.

7) I started knitting a scarf, just for fun. It's not super pretty, but I have a lot of yarn to use up, so why not?

8) I am embarrassed by my music inclinations these past few weeks. Lets just say I'm reliving the 90s a bit...

9) I am 23, ahhhhhhhhhhh.

10) I own way more bags of pistachios than is necessary, and I will no doubt eat them all. Thanks Cor!

Time to switch out the laundry, I hope you enjoyed this Jennie! See you tomorrow.

Life Overhaul

1) Clean my room, and I mean really clean my room. I am going though every dresser and drawer to clean out the junk I have collected over the years. Eventually, the junk from my parents attic will have to fit somewhere in my life out here in California, so I better consolidate now!

2) Plan my summer. It is officially April, and I have a lot of plans for this year!

3) Find a new apartment, or paint me and Jen's bathroom. The bathroom is the only part I truly hate about our current apartment, so I may have to take drastic measures.

4) Save money, monitor spending, but still have fun!

That's what I'm working on these coming months!

More Quizzing

You are Buffy Summers. You are a very strong individual. You do, however, have some trouble admitting how you truly feel. You've experienced a lot during your life, but you more than manage. Always willing to help, you're a great friend.

Buffy Summers: 75%

Dawn Summers: 63%

Anya: 54%

Rupert Giles: 54%

Xander Harris: 54%

Tara Maclay: 46%

Spike: 46%

Willow Rosenberg: 29%

Try it!

http://quizfarm.com/quizzes/new/corporatecunt/which-buffy-the-vampire-slayer-character-are-you-most-like/

100 Books, How Many Have I Read?

BBC believes the majority of people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here:

1. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (X)
2. The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkein (X)
3. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (X)
4. Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling (X)
5. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (X)
6. The Bible
7. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
8. 1984 by George Orwell
9. His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman (X)
10. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (X)
11. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (X)
12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy (X)
13. Catch 22 by Joseph Heller (X)
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare (X)
15. Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier (X)
16. The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien (X)
17. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger (X)
19. The Time Traveller's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (X)
20. Middlemarch by George Eliot 
21. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (X)
22. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (X)
23. Bleak House by Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
25. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galexy by Douglas Adams
26. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (X)
30. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame (X)
31. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis (X)
34. Emma by Jane Austen (X)
35. Persuasion by Jane Austen (X)
36. The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis (X)
37. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (X)
38. Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis De Bernieres (X)
39. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
40. Winnie the Pooh by AA Milne (X)
41. Animal Farm by George Orwell (X)
42. The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown (X)
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (X)
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney by John Irving
45. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
46. Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery (X)
47. Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
49. Lord of the Flies by William Golding (X)
50. Atonement by Ian McEwan (X)
51. Life of Pi by Yann Martel (X)
52. Dune by Frank Herbert
53. Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons (X)
54. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (X)
55. A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
56. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (X)
58. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
59. The Curious Incidend of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon
60. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (X)
62. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
63. The Secret History by Donna Tartt
64. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold (X)
65. Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
66. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
67. Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding (X)
69. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
70. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
71. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
72. Dracula by Bram Stoker
73. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett (X)
74. Notes from a Small Island by Billy Bryson
75. Ulysses by James Joyce
76. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (X)
77. Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
78. Germinal by Emile Zola
79. Vanity Fair by William Mackpeace Thackeray (X)
80. Possession by AS Byatt
81. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
82. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchel
83. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
84. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
85. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
86. A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
87. Charlotte's Web by EB White (X)
88. The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom (X)
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90. The Faraway Tree Collection by Enid Blyton
91. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
92. The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93. The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
94. Watership Down by Richard Adams
95. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
96. A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
97. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
98. Hamlet by William Shakespeare (X)
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl (X)
100. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (X)

I have read 47. Take that BBC!

If I Were Musically Inclined

Step One: 

- Go to Wikipedia. Hit "random."

-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random

-The first random article you get is the name of your band.

Step Two:

*Go to Quoations Page and select "random quotations."

*http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3

*The last four or five words of the very last quote on the page is the title of your first album

Step Three:

-Go to Flickr and click on "explore the last seven days."

-http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days

-The third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.

Step Four:

*Use Photoshop or the like to put it all together

I Really Really Hate Dogs

I'm totally serious. I don't just dislike them, or find them annoying. I really, truly, sincerely hate them. All of them. I feel totally justified in this passionate hate based on my history with dogs. Please enjoy:

I would like to state for the record, that I have always been a cat person. I own a cat, I tend to sympathize with their lifestyle, and I understand cats much better than dogs. Many of my friends have dogs that are perfectly OK. (Sadie, Mikey, Jordan, you guys are OK by me.) I don't love them, but I certainly don't hate them. My hatred started exclusively with poodles. I haven't met a poodle I liked, and you can blame my overarching dog hatred on them entirely. 

Two years ago, while I was home from college for a month in the summer, I made the terrible mistake of agreeing to house sit, which also included dog sitting for two mini poodle creatures. Right from the start, I hated those dogs. They would yap and yap and yap and yap when you pulled up to the house. Every single day, they were waiting in the window to yell at me. The worst part was, one of them was supposed to be locked in a cage upstairs, but somehow she managed to get out every single day! I still don't know how she did it. At the time, I was also working 8 hours a day, because dog sitting sure as hell wasn't going to pay my way thorough school. I guess between me being gone, and the dogs realizing their owners had left them to my care freaked them out to the point where they were unable to control their bladders and bowels. Every day, and I swear I am not exaggerating, after a long day at work, I came back to the house practically covered in pee and poop. After congealing all day, it got so bad, my mom and dad had to come over with scrapers to help me clean up. We are talking every room, every different type of floor surface, carpet, concrete in the basement, and hardwood. After three or fours days, the flies invaded. I am pretty sure I called my parents crying a couple times because I wanted to kill those dogs so badly. I even started covering the floors with newspaper every morning before I left, but the dogs still found ways to pee and poop on the floor, not my clever newspaper set up. The family was gone for twelve days, and by the time they returned, I said GOOD RIDDANCE to those little terrors and vowed never to dog sit ever again. As the capstone to my horrible experience, I also only got 10 bucks a day for living at the fly/dog poop infested house, cleaning up after the mangy mutts, and God forbid I should let them starve, feeding them so they could just keep peeing and pooping all over. Not that I would EVER consider it, but my parents have banned me from ever dog sitting again. 

I thought that was the end of my horrific dog experience, but no. Dogs apparently cannot control themselves in my presence, they MUST pee or poop by me. A very good friend of mine was over at my apartment hanging out with myself, my roommates and a few other friends. I love this friend dearly, but on this particular occasion, she had brought her dog along so he would not feel neglected being left along at home. Apparently, none of us there that night were giving him enough attention though. He pooped right on our brand new carpet, and boy oh boy then did he get some attention. This time, I wasn't head of cleanup. My friend had to do that. But nonetheless, I was not happy with her precious doggie, and said goodbye to my friend that night stone-faced. 

All of this is in the past though, so you would think that I would get over it. But alas, for me, the dog drama is never-ending. I cannot seem to get away from it. Since I have been working at my current job, a few coworkers have brought their dogs in for the day, every now and then. I have tried my hardest to be nice to the dogs, but I tend to wear my feelings about dogs on my sleeve. This past month at the office, we have had the unfortunate task of having office dogs daily. Sometimes it is just one, most often it is two, and at most, it has been four. One of my coworker's dog must think we work outside. She never has to pee or poop on one of the hourly walks she is taken on. Instead, she relieves herself on the carpet in the copy room, in front of my bosses office, and her absolute favorite spot, in front of my desk. Generally, I am the lucky one to find her pee, and have to be the bearer of bad news to my coworker that his dog is slowly destroying our office. Yesterday, after a successful Monday with no pee, I suddenly smelled the undeniable stench of poop throughout the office. I proceeded to walk around the entire office, only to find some of the poop right next to my desk, and the rest in the storage room also next to my desk. That was it. I couldn't handle it anymore. According to my coworkers, you should have seen my face. Priceless.

I hope you have enjoyed my insane stories, and can now understand and appreciate why I hate dogs so passionately. I'm sticking to cats. : )