response 50 of 160:

Nov 20 16:30 UTC 2003

Heh. The trains make the floor of my house rumble too. I like Sidetrack 
for the fried pickles mostly. :)

response 52 of 160:

Nov 20 17:43 UTC 2003

Better.  Fried green tomatoes are your basic tart crusty pan-fried hard
green vegetable.  Fried pickles are extremely vinegary crusty deep-fried
soft green vegetable.

response 54 of 160:

Nov 20 21:56 UTC 2003

Now I am intrigued.  I forsee a visit to Sidetrack in the near future.

response 56 of 160:

Nov 21 05:14 UTC 2003

I am also intrigued... but doubt I could visit such a place.

response 58 of 160:

Nov 22 02:07 UTC 2003

I dont really have much to write about today. I think the Zoloft is 
kicking in. Um. I dont think those things are related. I am just kind 
of free form jotting down whatever comes into my head ;) 

I decided to try to be a little more healthy a while back so I have cut 
way down on sugar and white flour. For some reason today, all I can 
think about is donuts. I tried eating a whole wheat bagel but it just 
isnt the same. Oh well. If I am still thinking about donuts tomorrow 
I'll drive to the good donut place because if I am going to cave and 
have a donut, it had better be a *really* good donut. 

One more week until Thanksgiving. I am just doing the usual thing with 
the family. My brother is bringing his girlfriend. I think my family is 
ok but every single other time my brother has brought a woman home to 
meet us, she has dumped him a few months later. ;) Maybe this one will 
be different. Even though I havent met her, I hope they get married. 
She is from Mexico so I imagine that if they do get married, the 
wedding will be there and I would really like to go down there for a 
party. Oh, I guess it would cool if my brother were happy too. 

I wonder if they have good donuts in Mexico...

response 60 of 160:

Nov 23 20:39 UTC 2003

resp:59 - heh. I dont even know what a panaderia is. 

Gearing up for Turkey Day-

The holidays always make me feel more single than usual. I love 
spending time with my family but it annoys me that yet again, I am 
showing up to the family dinner alone. This year, the only other single 
people will be my widowed grandmother, my spinster aunt and my 8 year 
old cousin. 

OH well. This holiday is not supposed to be one where we focus on what 
we DON'T have. It is supposed to be one where we focus on what we DO 
have. I have to admit that I have quite a lot. 

For one thing, I have a large family to have dinner with in the first 
place. It would really suck to be single and NOT have a family dinner 
to go to. I have a lot of friends who really really love me. So even 
though no one is "in love" with me, it isnt as if there is a lack of 
love in my life. 

So, for the next few days, my goal is to focus on what I *have* rather 
than what I dont have.

response 62 of 160:

Nov 24 07:56 UTC 2003

resp:60 in Spanish, anything ending in -eria essentially means "shop."

carne= meat carneceria= butcher (meat) shop
zapato=shoe zapateria= shoe shop
pan= bread panaderia= bakery, bread shop.  Pan dulce is sweet bread.

response 64 of 160:

Nov 24 20:41 UTC 2003

It's just another day in my life...

I woke up a little late this morning. I typically sleep on my stomach 
and lately my cat has taken to sleeping right in the small of my lower 
back. It is weird. I wonder if it is warmer there or what. 

I rushed off to work. It was snowing but not so much that the roads 
were slick. Didnt matter. Everyone drove like bozos anyway. Sometimes I 
think if there were a soundtrack to my life, it would sound like those 
Benny Hill Show segments where everyone runs around acting silly with 
the film sped up. ;)

Got into work. Got pissed that there werent any emails from a certain 
even though I havent sent him any emails all weekend either. We had a 
small argument on Friday. I am still annoyed with him. But now I am 
annoyed because he isnt paying attention to me even though by being 
kind of bitchy on Friday, I can kind of understand why someone would 
want to avoid me. heh. But, I will pat myself on the back for not 
turning this into a huge drama. I used to have a big problem with that. 
I mean, I couldnt just be angry with someone...I had to make sure they 
*knew* I was angry so I would scream, yell, stamp my feet, etc. I dont 
do that anymore but sometimes the urge is still there. I think I get 
credit for not caving into it :)

I went to my class at lunch. More bad drivers. ARGH. It was really cold 
and windy with snow flurries when I walked to class. I noticed that I 
walk slower than almost everyone else. I tried to walk faster. I guess 
I am just pokey ;)

My class was kind of interesting for a change. We talked about 
monopolistically competitive firms. I wont bore all of you with the 
details but I have once again been reminded of why I take classes in 
Economics. It is helpful to understand such things. Things are clicking 
for me in this class and I love that. When I did my homework over the 
weekend, I felt like all the answers just flew into my head. I am 
*sure* I'll get 100% on the assignment. I got so geeked about it last 
night that I actually danced around my living room with a bunch of Econ 
equations in my hand. Then I laughed at just how DORKY that is. I am 
not sure when I turned into such a geeky dork but it is kind of fun.

response 66 of 160:

Nov 30 19:26 UTC 2003

Yesterday, I woke up early and went to the big cookie making party at 
my aunt's house. That went well. Making cookies is fun and when there 
is a lot of people, there is a lot of chit chat going on and I like 
that. 

Then I went to a different aunt's house for dinner. That was nice too. 
I had a chance to talk a lot to my brother's girlfriend about Mexico. 
Now I *really* want to go there. :). 

On the way home from my folks house though, my car died. It just 
stalled out and died with no warning at a stop sign. Bleh. Luckily I 
had my cell phone with me so my parents were able to come rescue me. 
Also, I had the dogs with me so I didnt have to worry about rushing 
home to let them out or whatever. I was able to get my car towed so it 
is going to need some repairs on Monday. I dont have the money for it 
really but I have to have a car so I have no choice. I am feeling 
pretty stressed out about that aspect of things. My mom is going to 
lend me her car though because she doesnt have anything going on this 
week. Whew. That is lucky for me. I am not sure exactly what I would 
have done without a car this week. I cant take any time off from work 
because we are in our busy period and we arent allowed to take *any* 
time off.

response 68 of 160:

Nov 30 22:32 UTC 2003

She is from Tampico. 

response 70 of 160:

Dec 4 17:03 UTC 2003

I bet you could get your couch professionally cleaned for a whole
lot less than $700.

response 72 of 160:

Dec 8 04:14 UTC 2003

*hugs slynne*

response 74 of 160:

Dec 11 02:08 UTC 2003

Something I can moderately appreciate.  I'm an east side Washingtonian 
(I think east and west side tend to have meaning only when you live 
over here) and quite a bit of Central and southeastern Washington 
depends on agriculture somewhat for the economy.

It's never an easy thing.  Farmers tend to struggle, although you 
never tend to see it because the price jacks are at the grocery 
store.  I've heard this tends to be true for milk, so dairy farmers 
have to operate large scale to make it.