Eleanor's Livejournal

So last night i came home around 2ish after having a beer with my coworkers. I walk in the door take off my clothes and start digging in my purse for my phone. Then i saw them. On the floor in front of my bar in the living room i saw some ants. I went to get a papertowel to kill them and i looked and saw a trail. I followed this trail all the way around the baseboards of my "dining" room, past the cat food area, across the front door, behind the couch in the living room and all the way to the fireplace. Thats about 40 feet of ant genocide commited with mr clean spray that smells like febreze. There were a lot of those fuckers and i think they are living in the rug in the part under the couch that i only vacuum every other time i vacuum.

So i was up for another hour and a half killing the ants.
I might go crazy if i cant get rid of them.

He cant remember to take his antibiotics every twelve hours. I have to drop one into his hand at the appropriate times or else he wont take them. Maybe he wants his ear to get all infected and fall off.

Oh yeah. he got shot with a BB gun Tuesday. The "entry wound" was in the cartilidge just above his ear lobe, milimeters from entering his ear canal. That would have been 10x worse. It got stuck a centimeter or two from where it went in and we had to go the hospital to get it removed. The doctor cut into the back part of his ear (the harder c shaped part) and had to pull to get it out. The doctor handed it to me once he had gotten in out and I put it in my jewlery box.

One of his friends was dicking around with a loaded BB gun and accidentaly shot him. But he didnt tell the doctor that. He said he was shooting it and it ricocheted off something and hit him. Other things were omitted too, like his actual legal name and lack of insurance.


On another note, I've decided to make an effort to do something "green" everyday. Yesterday, I cancelled any paper bills that i have left (it was only 2, but its something) and used my green bags for groceries. When i was leaving the store, a lady with her two little kids pointed out my green bags and told her kids "see kids, she remembered her green bags for the groceries. Every time we come to the store you can help mommy remember to bring ours so we dont have to use plastic."

I think ill tell my mom i want energy efficent bulbs for my birthday.

I checked my LJ it was the 25th of March the last time they shut off the water for "repairs" Thats twice in less than 30 days.

I went to wash my hands, had the soap already lathered up and NO FUCKING WATER!!!!!!!! BAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH

It really sucks having to wipe soap off my hands with a towel.
What if I had been in the shower? I would have marched down there dripping wet and soapy in my robe to yell at them that they need to fucking POST SOMETHING when they want to shut of the water.

Im thirsty.

Thursday at work one side of my throat started hurting, then by 4am i had chills a fever and my whole throat was on fire.
I spent my day off (friday) sleeping and wandering around my apartment. Every 4-5 hours, when the ibuprofen wore off, i would get a fever and chills again. Having to sweat out a fever once sucks. Doing it 4 or five times really takes its toll on you.
Friday evening Naser called and asked what i wanted from the store, trying to be sweet and take care of me. I told him chicken soup with noodles and OJ. He came back with Shrimp flavored Ramen and Sunny D. And a twix for good measure. I was almost pissed, but i just ate the damned ramen. It was warm and kinda tasted like chicken. And he tried real hard, im sure. But next time I go to the store ill show him what real soup is.
I had to work today, and i was really hoping to be rid of this. When i get sick, its usually 24 hours or less. Plus, I drank some Emergen-c, got some of that heavy duty Zinc shit you put in your nose to beef up your immune system and ive been drinking an assload of Echinaccia tea with honey. Almost no change.
So i went to the doctor. Unless you can walk into Trudy's and vomit or shit yourself on command, have a raging fever or a broken bone, you have to have a note from a doctor saying you're too fucked up to work. Doc did the throat swab thing for strep and it came back negative but looked in my throat and said "yuck... you have strep." 15% of cases have a negative strep swab within the first 48 hours, and i have all the symptoms inculding nasty pus spots on my throat. I told him I'm scheduled to work, he asked where, i said restaurant and he laughed and said it was a relly bad idea for me to work today.
The antibiotics dont feel like they're working, but i guess they are.
I want lentil soup from Zorba/Tinos. I know Naser cant fuck that one up.

I just bought http://www.zappos.com/n/p/p/7345048/c/94374.html this bag.
I love it so much i cant stop looking at it/touching it.
Its made of seatbelts!!!

So little WATER.

I had an ambitious to do list for my day off today. Top of the list was get the cat piss smell out of my closet/bedroom. Little Mister Willow has a problem spraying man juice/piss i dont know what the fuck in my closet. I located the source of the smell... my backpack and a canvas bag and rubbed his face all in it.
Then i went about the rest of my to do list and had a very productive day...

Wash Car covered in bird shit CHECK
Go to bank and deposit mad cash from weekend tips CHECK
Go to Target (cleaning supplies) CHECK
Go to HEB for groceries CHECK
Pay Electric Bill CHECK
Banish catpiss smell from apt __________
Clean apartment and do laundry _________
Shower/ get presentable go eat with family________

Until i came home to clean. And what do i discover?
I HAVE NO FUCKING WATER. AGAIN.
Thats the third time in about six months that i turn on a faucet and nothing happens. Nothing pisses me off more.
So now, i cannot wash the things covered in piss.
I cannot clean the rest of my apartment, to further banish the piss smell.
I cannot clean myself, before i go eat dinner with my family in Round Rock. At six.

The lady in the office said there was a "water emergency" and it had to be shutoff and will be back on in about 2 hours. Hey maintenance guys... I've got a water emergency. Its called cat piss smell and its the worst smell in the world. Febreze can only do so much.

I know it was that damned Willow who did this. Juniper has never peed anywhere. Ever. Not even when she got super pissed when Willow came to live with us.
He is getting dropped off at the Vet's office at 7:30 am Thursday to get his balls cut off. Maybe that will teach him to make stinky piss/man juice everywhere. He can pay me back the $105 for the surgery by never pissing anywhere but the box again.

And my mom, my stepsister Ivy and I are in charge of the shower, sometime in June. 
We must think of a theme, do invitations, and make sure everyone is entertained. Im sure it must be g rated for grandmas. 

This could be fun but I will feel really bad if this gets fucked up. Denise is awesome.

We're not on food, thankfully. 
Oh jebus i hope there is liquor.

That make me happy. 
Organix Teatree and Mint shampoo and conditioner.
Organic Free Trade Morrocan mint green tea
Raw  honey  from Llano (3lbs)
10lbs of  pecans. 
Making money without having to go to work.

Naser showed up a little while ago with the Honey and Pecans. He was real excited about them and shoved a huge spoonful of honey into my mouth.  Willow was really excited about the big paper bag they came in.  I love honey in tea, and i love mint green tea... brewed  strong and sweet.  I was reading about honey, and it has medicinal uses in healing wounds, because of its antiseptic properties. And its pretty tasty, considering its bee barf.

I sold my painting today!

I think i'll go shower now.  Not because i really need to, but because i want to wash my hair again. And i need to shave my legs.

Yesterday was strange. At work mostly, so if you dont like work-talk, dont read this.

A work friend of mine (Jolee) got in a pretty serious car wreck on her way to work. I saw her in the lobby talking to the managers crying and shit. I went up there to talk to her and half her face looked like frankenstein. Huge lump right above her brow bone, eyelid all jacked up and swollen and bleeding a little bit. She lost conciousness too. She was the middle car in a three car pileup when a pedestrian crossed unexpectedly, the first car stopped, then she stopped and the car behind her didnt. She got a ticket for following too close. Car is totaled. She was out of her head from what was probably a concussion and asked the managers to hide her in the back so she wouldnt go to jail and she refused go to the hospital until another server who had just gotten off insisted and took her. Burnet was all jacked up near Trudys.

I had an extremely annoying table (not even mine, just carried over from the am shift) that was taking up 75% of my section and offending anyone within earshot with their screaming/laughing. And yes, they were all adults. Other customers were asking me to tell them to leave.

We were having power outages all day. Luckily by the time i got there, at least the credit card system was running.

Some lady reached out and slapped her 2 year old across the face in the middle of dinner and told him to "shut the fuck up" then closed-hand punched the other toddler in the chest and told her to "sit the fuck down and shut up" wow. forced sterilization?

I was drinking upstairs after work and discussed in depth with our ubergay host how to determine if the hot new expo guy is gay or strait. It took a while, 4 frozen margaritas to be exact. Now my head hurts from all that fucking sugar.

I have to go vote today.

Today was interesting.

It was Doug's mom's birthday, so the whole family went to this winery/restaurant in waaaay south austin. The food was great and the wine was good too. I had the duck, and oooh was it a tasty lil bird.
Some drunk lady fell of the toilet while I was in the restroom.
My mom is getting a hysterectomy on the 18th.
My dumbass stepbrother is in a big ass green cast for breaking his heel bone because he did something stupid whilst drunk.

I had to take my clothes for work with me so i got to change in the bathroom at Trudy's trying not to put my bare feet on the nasty floor.
Work was ... not a typical sunday lets say that.

I expected to come in, and have the "pop" where its busy, then dick around, get cut and be home by 12 at the very latest. I got home around 1:15 and thats only because i ran like the wind through my closing duties. When i got to work, we were on a wait... It didnt really slow down until 9. And i kept fucking shit up. I was forgetting alot and people were one tripping me all over the place. I rarely have any comps but tonight... about 20 dollars in all had to be comped off bills because my dumb ass was pocketing appetizer orders.

Then my night got better; I got cut and saw that I am now in the "A" tier... the top tier before trainers and Manager assistants. Better shifts up there. I've been trying for a couple of months to break into A and I did it!!

Naser and I went on a date last night... Its been a while since we did that. It was nice, there is still salmon and mashed potatoes and veal in my fridge that i think ill hit up. Would have been better if i had remembered my ID so i could drink.

There is an "all employee clean" tomorrow at 8am. No one even knows what it is, people who have been at Trudy's for years have never done this. I'm thinking it will be at least an hour of cleaning nasty shit with 20 of your closest friends. Dusting rafters, scraping gum... who knows whats in store for us.

I think I'll start writing in this thing again. 

I think it will be good. I can keep up with myself and maybe other people too. 

Plus I've noticed that I reallly lack creative outlets in my day to day life.  Painting again felt really good, and writing in my LJ ( however lame it may seem ) might help too.  

So... what has my life been like lately?

I go to work... 5 days a week. I like Trudys about 95% of the time.  I like the people I work with and I have friends there, not just work "buddies" but friends that I actually see outside of work too.  I didnt really think that I would find that when I started working there. I'm really glad that I got out of Zorba  when I did.  Probably the best change I made in 2007. Somehow it amazed me that people I dont know would want to hang out with me and be my friend.

I'm not currently enrolled in school.  I kinda have had a problem going for the last year... I dont know what my fucking problem is. Lazy? Depressed? Unmotivated? Uninspired? I dont know. Spring of 07 was when I started not going to class. 2 semesters and only 2 completed classes to show for it.  This semester is the first one I've not enrolled in and dropped most or all of my classes.  I know I should be in school, but at this point i dont know what i want and if i dont know that, then i cant seriously work at school. 

My mom is cutting my rent off. March will be paid but that is the last month she will pay for my rent unless i enroll in scool fulltime.  I understand that she supports me on the condition that i will go to school, so i was ready for this to happen, but it still kind of took me by surprise that she actually did it. I felt shitty for taking her money for rent and not going to school, but a fucked up little part of me saw it as monetary compensation for a shitty ass childhood. Awful, but thats how i felt. She still pays my car insurance, and now health insurance because i cant be on hers because im not a full time student.  I hate the healthcare system. I have no idea what that bullshit costs. Plus i never even go to the fucking doctor. 

I've been with Naser almost 3 years now. Yeah, It's been that long. We have a good enough relationship, He pisses me off sometimes, but for the most part its good. Thats how i plan to make sure i can pay the rent.  No, im not making him pay it, but he has been basically living with me since november. In the last couple of months i've made him pay for half of the groceries and then last month electricity and for april i'll ask him for half of the rent. I dont think he will say no, but somehow i'm afraid he wont want to.  He has an apartment with his cousin and one of his friends (its a two bedroom) that he still pays rent on. Eventhough he sleeps here, showers here, his clothes are here ... i dont even know if he goes over there more than once every two weeks. He only stays there once in a blue moon when Kay or Ashley comes into town and stays with me. 

Meh thats all i want to write right now.

I had been having some keyboard troubles... the space bar wouldnt work so i went and bought a new one finally. It was pimp. It was the only keyboard in Best Buy that wasnt wireless, but you could stop and play music from the keyboard and it had all kinds of cool buttons. And it matched my computer. Black. It worked for about three days. Then it stopped liking my computer and caused it to freeze and make a horrible beeping noise.
So i took one from my moms house. Im pretty sure its the first keyboard ever made and its an ugly beige color. sick.

Im 99% sure im getting another Uriniary tract infection as we speak. I really hope i dont have to go to the hospital tonight. That would really suck ass.

I just finished writing my first paper for this semester, in my Philosophy class. Its due tomorrow and i finished it before midnight. Go me.
I hope the professor doesn't spat it out covered in red ink with a huge question mark on it or something. That would really suck. Because i thought this through and put effort into it. I followed the formula ect. and arrived at (what i hope is) an original conclusion. I guess im just apprehensive because its been a while since i wrote an actual paper with MLA and all that shit.

El Diablo Rojo died today. (well i found him this morning) My loyal fishie for two years. Surprised he lived this long considering he lost his eye about 6 months ago.
Ashley and I gave him the one flush salute.... he swam (floated gracefully) into the wild white porcelain yonder.

Ill take this opportunity to say RIP to Livejournal as well.
its useless to me at this point.

so long.

Giuseppe Arcimboldo
16th century italian painter

some really awesome portraits....



http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v389/htimsronaele/winter.jpg

Winter

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v389/htimsronaele/vertumnus.jpg

Vertumnus

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v389/htimsronaele/spring.jpg

Spring

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v389/htimsronaele/flora.jpg

Flora

no one updates anymore
including this kid.

i saw a bumpersticker on a car today that i thought was quite eloquent and really summed up what i truly feel right now...


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v389/htimsronaele/fthepres.jpg

( i bet everyone has seen the ones with a W... this one is waaaay better.)

im sad to be an american.
yes i understand that i was lucky to be born into a life where i want for nothing... ill never know hunger or poverty and for that i should be greatful and i am. But this country should set a better example to the rest of the world. Camouflaging a war against a race/ethnicity/culture/religion as a crusade for human rights and domestic security is WRONG.

Let us use our great position and influence for better things. Things that HELP PEOPLE AND OUR WORLD ... so start at the bottom.
-the millions of starving children in Africa
-fixing the hole in the ozone
-preserving the rainforest
-alternative to fossil fuels
-curing aids cancer alzheimers

Vilifying relatively developed nations with elected leaders simply because their dogma is different and we want their oil is not a noble action.
You dont like their way of life and the leaders they elect?
maybe they dont like you.
but its their choice to make. not yours.
so fucking live with it and keep your nose in your own business.

in with the new.

OLD= smoking, procrastinating and working below my ability.

NEW= sober, managing my time and gettin shit DONE.

but i let the old go out with a bang. Party on Saturday night was freakin awesome. Some highlights...

1. Lita came! (nuf said)

2. Travis ( Ewald mostly but T-luv was quite an experience)

3. Frank! long time no see

4. Keg of Dos Equis and i made my $$ back pretty much

5. Titos

6. awesome people everywhere. i think everyone enjoyed themselves.

 

( PICTURES )

PARTY


SATURDAY JANUARY 14th


AROUND ... well nighttime


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LITA YOU HAD BETTER BE HERE. I HAVE PRESENTS FOR YOU.

I may have already left you a message on your phone but
If you read this and you are a cool kid...
MONDAY DECEMBER 26 2005
we should all do something if everyone is free.
Smash is free... and she is a hard one to pin down
and i am free
sometime between the hours of 11 and 4

so call/comment/send telepathically