Tuesday, May 15, 2001

It rained yesterday and today and I have the biggest hair in the world. It's hard to believe it's a part of my very own head. It's Rosanne Rosanadana and then some.

Sunday, May 13, 2001

I got my tomatoes in yesterday. I'm not sure what to do about the cucumbers. I sort of cleared a patch but it's pretty dry and weedy and rocky and not the kind of place you'd want to raise cucumbers. But I could put the seeds in and let them decide.

I bought this OneClick software years ago and still hardly ever take advantage of it and I'm finally trying to play around with it and can never seem to make it do anything that the books/tutorials suggest. Like it will say, "open the ---- menu" and I won't have that menu which makes me feel like a big fat idiot.

I baked a pie tonight and we'll be digging in when Simpson's is on.

Thursday, May 10, 2001

I wrote this earlier and my blog got eaten. What a world.

SNACKS
Bob and I have been talking about cleaning out our shop for months. The "shop" is a room off the garage that's a handy place for throwing empty boxes, broken chairs, old moldy tarps - you get the picture. We never seem to get around to it so I decided to schedule a time. Last Friday I taped a sign to the microwave that said, "Sunday Shop Cleaning 2-4pm, Featured snack: vegan chicken nuggets with dipping sauce." Bob thought this was hilarious. I explained that I thought a snack would ensure participation.

CINCO DE MAYO
For Cinco I made a bunch of festive foods. I tried a Sunset magazine recipe for Green Chili Rice which came out great even though I didn't have some of the ingredients and I didn't follow the directions very well. The recipe said to add to make 3 cups of liquid but I accidentally put in 4 cups of liquid so I just threw in some more rice and we didn't have long grain so I used short grain -- if you enjoy eating it that's all that matters, right? Then I made sweet potato quesadillas which sounds like a yuppie restaurant food, but we liked it. Next time I'd mash the sweet potatoes better. The last thing I made was chicken posole soup and I used the slow cooker which turned out to be a mistake. But we added green chili rice and salsa to our bowls which perked up the boring soup.

GARDEN
I'm behind in the garden. I got one row of greens in a month ago and now that the sun's come out they're growing like crazy. I put in two more rows last weekend and bought my tomatoes yesterday. Earlier I reported that I'd planted about 60 peas and only about 3 have come up -- the slugs eat them as soon as they show their faces. Next year I'll sprout them inside first.

CUSTOMER SERVICE
I hesitate to even write this because that goofy guy from SW Airlines is probably going to come back and beat me up again for having my panties in a wad and wanting the world to run my way. (Well, we all do, don't we?) But since when did customer service turn into employees running over to you the instant you pause in a store to ask, "Can I help you find something?" Yeah, it's nice to see there are employees around who can help you if you need it and if I need help I will ask for it, but sometimes you just like to look at the salad dressings to see if there's a new one to try or you need to stand there for a minute to remember what you need and you've got some employee interrupting you and saying, "You look like you need some help." Sometimes I want to hand them my shopping list and just go wait in the car with a magazine and some cookies. The latest that got me going was this goofy guy in this bookstore downtown who says across the entire store in his priggy voice, "May we help you?" when I very clearly did not need help.

Wednesday, May 09, 2001

Today I was standing outside Pioneer Place and a sort of skanky looking guy walked out of the mall and I could seem him holding a wad of cash and then stick it in his pocket. About 15 seconds later he comes up to me and holds out his hand which has a couple of coins in it and asks if I can spare 50 cents. I did not feel inclined to share.

Somewhere I have a bunch of notes for items I want to blog but I think it's at home so it will have to wait until later.

Saturday, May 05, 2001

I want to add something about Billy's computer which FINALLY got fixed on Thursday when I convinced the audibly sneering techie guy to drive to my office to do it for me. I guess it was a master/slave problem and slightly above my amazing technical skills. I just couldn't deal with it anymore, I could not be kind concurrently with trying to fix that f*#king thing and it cost me about $5 to the potty mouth jar.
oh, another week like this.

Just have another margarita. My car developed an unfortuate sound like the Karmann Ghia I drove when I was in college and the lovely repair shop, once they got their heads under her skirt found about a zillion dollars worth of maintenance that I should look into, why would I be driving a 100 year old car with zillions of miles on it if I had money laying around?

So how does anyone know how to make webpage stuff? Am I just slow? I've been trying to work my way through these tutorials and I still can't create anything.

Wednesday, May 02, 2001

Monday was an incredibly wet day so I decided to do the non maintenance hair and it ended up looked just about the same as if I would have tried to use products to force it into submission.

I bought a new CD last week, the new Limp Bizkit. I can't tell you how happy I am that I like a currently popular band. I was walking downtown and this young guy said hi to me and I think it was because he knew I like Limp Bizkit.