Saved by tow truck man! ...for $125...eek. Who knew getting stuck could be so expensive. Wow.
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Soooo...not sure if I still love this road trip...
There's about six inches of snow that we are currently stuck I'm on the side of the road. Evan pulled into the left lane to pass someone not realizing that it wasn't plowed enough and there was still some snow in it. Cue us spinning out into the wide median towards oncoming traffic which he quickly somehow got us spun back around towards our side and now we're stuck stuck stuck. Luckily a roadside assistance truck rolled by as we were trying to push it out and he called the state troopers for us. Three (count 'em: three) cop cars rolled up with their lights a blazin (to the world we look like drug dealers or murdered on the run now, ha) and they told us to sit tight and wait for a tow truck.
And so here we are. Alive, thankfully (if I had been driving we would be dead no doubt due to my not knowing how to drive in snow), stuck in a snow bank, surrounded by cops, an hour behind schedule and waitin for a tow.
What an adventure! Now I just have to catch my breath, put my heart back in my chest and forget my panic as my life flashed before my eyes. Ugh. Scary.
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On the way to NYC. Just passed an exit sign for Buttzville in NJ.
...who would name a town "Buttzville"?? Are the people called "Buttzvillians?"
I love this road trip.
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Me: Thank you for calling [company] at [location], how can I help you?
Customer: Yeah, I found this LG phone lying on the ground and it's in pretty bad shape. Do you guys repair cell phones?
Me: No, I'm sorry, we don't, but you can turn the phone in here and we can try and locate the owner.
Customer: No, I want to use it, do you know anywhere that repairs phones?
Me: I'm...not sure. But if you found someone's cell phone you may just want to turn it in...
Customer: No, I didn't find someone's phone.
Me: Oh, I misunderstood--it's an old phone of yours that you need repaired?
Customer: No, it's not mine, I found it on the ground, no one's using it so I want to, where can I get it fixed?
Me: There are places around, but I'm not sure the name off the top of my head. Sorry about that. Have a nice day.
...seriously, dude? Seriously? You just magically found a phone that no one else had ever owned before on the ground and therefore think it's a free phone sent from the gods for you to use? Really? I do not feel the least bit guilty for lying to you about whether or not there is a company that does cell phone repairs in town. Nope. Not one bit. Enjoy your non working stolen phone.
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annoyed
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amused
(the sig says 'loser' which is my nickname for him...yes, dysfuntional, I know, ha).
In the meantime the pot the soup was being cooked in seems to have been full of soap which was only discovered after the broth had been put in. Oops...
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silly
I had a dream last night that I stood up in the middle of the sermon at church and shouted "BULLSHIT!!" Wonder if that was a preminition as fuck it was hard not to do so for the past 45 mins I've listened to this offensive man speak. Ugh. Why am I ending up in such offensive situations this week? First Evan's friends who refuse to believe that another friend really loves her new wife cos she doesn't conform to traditonal gender stereotypes and wouldn't a "real" lesbian want to date a "real woman" teehee? Then while at Bible study/early Thanksgiving with church "friends" talk is made about how "weird" it is that a girl one of them teaches is biologically male but presents as a girl and how "uncomfortable" another was when a classmate who was transitioning *gasp* used the women's restroom, all the while using the wrong pronouns, and now this guy saying how all Muslims only want to kill Christains and other bullshit. Ugh. Fuck thus church. I'll fulfill my promise to sing over Christmas but after that I'm not going back.
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Must not walk out of sermon and leave Evan to fend for himself. So far this guest pastor has said that all Muslims want to kill Christians, that Christians should revolt against the government so that we have a purely Christial theocracy, and that saying you're spiritual means that you don't have the intellect to understand religion and make up your mind. And people are laughing and agreeing with him. Gah. Must not walk out of sermon and leave Evan to fend for himself.
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:D <-- that is my excited face. Why do I have on my excited face? Because Evan just told me that we are going to spend the weekend of my birthday in New York City! Aaannnnddd go see Wicked on Broadway!! Squee!! Oh man I'm so excited! Really, however did I get this lucky? :D
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( Recipe )
A little history: They didn't have cattle in Key West when the pie was created which is why condensed milk is used traditionally instead of fresh milk--all they had back then was canned milk that would come into port on ships. Traditionally it's not cooked, either--the lime juice works to stiffen the egg yolk. However, due to salmonella and all that, yeah...you should cook it, ha.
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That is all.
Actually, wait, that's not all. I'm incredibly irritated at the fact that the clay heads I made are too heavy for the clay bodies and therefore I will have to start all over again making the heads lighter by using a paper ball as the base. Problem with this, outside of the time already wasted, is that the first redo I did didn't look nearly as good as the original so now I fear that I have the same "cannot duplicate" problem with clay as I do with drawing. Bugger.
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exhausted
Racial tension between black and whites is becoming more prominent by the day in certain areas, and some of them aren't too far away. I personally worked at xxxxx mall for a year and saw some of the most extreme racism i have ever seen. It seemed like some people went out of their way just to be racist, and i don't just mean towards black people. I worked at Gamestop and I was referred to as a "White piece of (expletive)" because i could not take in someone's obviously stolen Xbox 360. It had nothing to do with the customers race, i simply wasn't going to accept that console.
Really? Really? You're calling a black person racist for calling you a "White piece of shit" and then in the same breath stating that they were trying to return "obviously" stolen equipment? Had he stated how he knew for certain it was stolen that would be one thing, but as it is...yeah...you're missing the point, dude.
The stereotype the blondes are dumb and Asians are intelligent might give a job to a fairly qualified Asian person over a highly qualified white Caucasian woman.
Wow, that is actually a whole new twist on the "Affirmative Action hurts whites!" argument.
My grandfather came here from Italy when he was a boy, he always said; There are White Niggers, and there are Black Niggers. What does Nigger mean? Most people think it means a dirty black person. The word actually mean: A person of any race or origin regarded as contemptible, inferior, ignorant, etc. (dictionary.com).
Except for the fact that white people aren't called the N word unless it is likening them to a black person as an insult.
This is still a problem; because, the main reason, and I am not judging; but, In America, and other parts of the world, such Calgary, we are Worldly, instead of Godly. Look what Jesus went thru (sic) so many years ago, he was put thru (sic)crucifixion of the worse kind; he died for our sins, so we may have a better life, and how to we pay God back, by being mean, selfish, and being rasist (sic) with everything that is not our way, or the way we think
Jesus? Really? Granted his point is about how we treat other people in the world, but saying "Look at what Jesus went through!" in a conversation about racism when he was killed by his own people and not because of being another race, but for his ideals makes no sense in context.
*headdesk*
...Does anyone else see what's wrong with these statements? Evan assures me that there has to be some way to respond and explain to my fellow students where they are going wrong with their analogies without calling them idiots, but I'm not so sure...I kind of just want to like an explanation of white privilege to every one of them but I know it will probably do no good.
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Therefore, I am ridiculously excited to fnd out about this. This is Blizzard's new cash cow--a pet store. You can use real money to buy in game pets. This is not what I am excited about. What I am excited about is that the Pandarian pet is a Make A Wish pet. If you buy him, 50% of the proceeds until Dec 31st goes to Make A Wish. The pet itself is $10 and will be availible on all characters as it's bind on account. You can also send the code to a friend as a gift. WoW players, as silly as it sounds to pay real money for in game toys, this is for a really good cause.
I do find the Pandarian to be an interesting choice and I wonder if this means we won't see them as a playable race. I would have thought they would make such a pet a phoenix in memory of Ezra Chatterton (Ezra was a 10 year old boy with cancer who LOVED WoW and whose wish was to be a developer for a day. He went to Blizzard studios and designed a NPC (which he is the voice of) and wrote a quest (a really cute one in the Tauren starting area where he asks you to help find his dog, Kyle). He also designed a rare weapon and the first of a rare mount that was designed for him (which is a phoenix). He passed away last October).
So, fellow nerds, buy an in game pet for a good cause, will ya?
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impressed
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We have a giant chocolate chip cookie cake hanging out at our house that was bought for Halloween but never eaten. Evan, because he is awesome, got up early and made me lunch to take to work today and put a piece of cookie cake in with it for dessert. What makes this super duper awesome is that he scraped the icing off for me knowing that I don't like it. <3 That just made my day (even though I know that part of the reason was so that he could keep the icing for himself so it didn't go to waste, ha).
Bestest boyfriend ever. <3
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