offie

06:37 pm: Hiya!
Wow it's been a pretty long time since I have logged into LJ. 

Hi everyone! :)

11:15 am: I forgot to add
Two weeks ago, we went and saw One Night of Queen with Gary Mullen performing as Freddie Mercury. It was an awesome show, granted I have never been and will never be to an actual Queen concert with the actual Freddie Mercury.  If it comes to your town, I highly recommend you go see it. 

01:17 pm: May I use your bathroom?
So I did the dumbest or most resourceful thing last night. I really needed to use the bathroom and everytime I walked to the front of the shop, where Steve's parents live and the bathroom is located, someone would be in the bathroom. Well, I needed to go, it was 11:30 p.m. and Steve was already in bed, I got in my car and drove to a gas station to use the restroom. Steve had suggested I go to the truck stop since it was closer; I decided not to, since it was a truck stop and girls by themselves at 11:30 pm at a truck stop did not sound like a very good idea. Ended up going to the BP where at least there was a woman working the counter. I felt somewhat relieved, though I am always on the edge. I bought a lottery ticket with my last dollar, at least so I would not feel like I had just used them for their bathroom. By the time I returned, the bathroom in the shop was open.

Had a nice dinner. Made a pasta in a box meal for Steve. I need to remember never again to buy a pasta in a box meal that requires you to bake your pasta instead of cook it. The pasta tasted like gum. It was horrible. We ended up throwing out the meal. I still ate my cauliflower with spaghetti sauce and cheese. It was good.

Tonight I am making bean burritos. Though, it might be less stress if I were to just buy the tortillas. I need to save my tortilla making practice for a day where I have nothing else to do. To this day, my tortillas still resemble sandals.

I am making my best effort to write at least once a day.

Two days in a row! Woo!

03:37 pm: mmmmm....cheese
Taking Thattoon's advice, I decided I will lower my meat intake. As it is, meat is really expensive. It's not a good idea to prepare dishes that require the handling raw meat, before the meal is complete, in an area approximately 75 feet away from a sink.

So, I have begun my mission to make less meat dishes and more cheese and veggie type dishes.

Last night, I made 7-cheese(Monterey Jack, Mozzarella, mild cheddar, feta, colby, asadero, queso quesadilla)grilled cheese sandwiches, with sauteed baby portabella mushrooms, olives, and green peppers. I also cheated and added cream cheese. They were really tasty. I ate this concoction with sliced pears.

I think tonight I will be having garlic bread and steamed Cauliflower topped with spaghetti sauce and cheese. I know it does not sound appetizing to some, but I love it.

Wednesday's menu calls for homemade flour tortillas and refried beans with cheese, along with a homemade salsa. mmmmm.....

I just keep making myself hungry. I need to stop thinking of my food ideas.

My plan, with my change in eating habits, is to enjoy non-meat dishes again, save money and hopefully get to the point where I eat healthier.

01:22 pm: As I am walking across the street today, a man looks at me and says, "You're Indian, right?"

I give him a puzzled look, wondering if he meant Native American or Indian (which I am neither), and answer, "No!"

Oh well.

10:50 am:

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adamjury is stalking you because he has nothing better to do with his time. He is also stalking the rest of your friends list!

02:24 pm: The Gizm
After lots of searching and going through stupid financing applications, which of course lower your credit score because of enquiries. I finally acquired a car.

The last place I went to was the dealership where I bought my last car and wouldn't you know it, I got the same car salesman. I didn't ask for him mind you.

I ended up with a 2001 Chevy/Geo Prizm. After a quick call to Thattoon (thanks man), who researched the car for me as fast as he could before the dealers could figure out what I was doing. We figured it didn't have the big problems most of the other cars tend to have. I was mostly avoiding cars that needed costly repair on items like engine and transmission.

I received a discount because I had done business with them before. They paid the sales tax, my down payment and such. So all I had was my crappy trade in, which really should not have been traded because it needs lots of costly repairs, they took it nevertheless. I was glad to be rid of it. 1991 Honda Accord, needed new tires, speedometer broke, air condition/heater didn't work, driver side window needed to be fixed because it was off the track and was a pain to roll up and down when it did get back on track. Back window was duct taped(because of some idiot that broken in to steal my cd player), water was leaking into the trunk (can we say mold problem), brakes needed replacing, 206,000 miles, and the final problem that really worried me was when I was going down the road my car would suddenly turn off. Not fun when driving on the highway and you end up coasting.

At least, that nightmare is gone. I also made sure to get a 48 month/50,000 mile warranty with as many of the fixin's i could get.

It all stayed within my budget, so I am good.

Now it's time to figure out what is wrong with the car. Not really looking forward to that.

Not a bad present for myself on my birfday! :)

12:02 pm: Offie's Mexican Food Gaming Night Extravaganza
I am so excited over my Gaming night / Mexican Food Extravaganza, just need Toon to send me email addresses of the local people to invite.

I have made out a menu of:

Tortilla Chips and Salsa(store kind)
Chile Rellenos (Cheese filled kind)
Red and Green Enchiladas (chicken and/or cheese filled)
Quesadillas
Rolled Tacos (chicken or potato)
Refried beans
Rice
homemade salsa for all the other stuff
and some guacamole, though I think Toon and I are the only ones that will be noshing on it.
I hope I have not forgotten anything.

Everything is homemade unless specified. The tortillas will be store bought since I have not mastered the art of tortilla rolling that does not look like a sandal.

Everyone gets to bring their own drinks, so I don't have to worry about not getting the right stuff, though I could always buy a bottle of tequila and limes and margarita mix. hmmm.....

Taking the next two days off from work, so I can clean my apartment and start cooking the night before.

My first entertaining party at my own place, woo! hehe.

I hope I can get the place completely cleaned tonight and tomorrow.

Woo!

09:57 am: I hate Money!!!!
Money is so stressful. I hate money.

My car is driving me insane. If I had money, I could either get mine fixed or get a new one. It has come down to the point where at every stop sign my car stalls out and then I have to start it up again. It happened to me already twice where I am driving down the road and I can't give it anymore gas because it has stopped. I have been driving the back roads because of this. It is so annoying because I cannot afford anything. At least I have mechanics that I can trust. But finding specific car parts for a 1991 Honda Accord is hard. Especially when you are looking for cheap parts. blah.

I hate money issues and cars. blah.

02:38 pm: Boredom
I am so bored. It's so slow here at the office. My boss is on his honeymoon, so all the excitement of doing something new at the last minute is not here.

Man, really need to get this place cleaned up before he gets back. I am getting a raise finally, just need him to submit the paper work to our fiscal department. I am not worried though because the raise is retroactive to my anniversary date, which was in January. So all the money I could be spending frivolously, ok maybe like 100 dollars worth, is just collecting itself until he gives the ok, and then I can get paid.

Made no sense did it?

ok here is what I said:

Job. Great. Raise. Yes. Raise applied? Not Yet. Boss in Honeymoon. Raise applied after Boss says yes. Difference of raise that should have been applied in January will get paid. In Need of money. Not really. Extra money. Nice! Understand Now? No. The End.

02:54 pm: Parents....
I know I have a lot of backstory to cover, it will come in time... I apologize for the inconvenience.

So my Mom keeps calling Thattoon's mom and just having these great conversations with her about me. Apparently my mom has this huge trip already planned out for me without my prior consent or knowledge.

My biggest question is, who is going to fund this so called trip.

I was given an ultimatum, either I go visit them in Arizona, or they come visit me in Ohio. Augh.....

It's really, really frustrating when you are not being directly spoken to by your parents, but more from other people's parents.

It's funny, last time I talked with my parents it was one night when they called me at 12:30 a.m. Mind you, they had already spoken with Toon's mom at 12:00 a.m. and she had made them aware of what time it was. So me being pissed off because they woke me up at midnight had justification. Most of the conversation went like this:


me: Don't you guys know when to call at a decent hour?

Parents: why are you mad? Come on, you always get mad... don't get mad... (teasing of me getting mad ensues)

me: *grumbles* *arghs* *repeatedly hitting myself over the head with the palm of my hand*

Parents: Now who do you want to talk to, your mom, brothers, sister

me: no one....I am very tired and want to go back to sleep

Parents: here talk with your sister......



I think that went on for about 5 minutes, Steve had woken up and was trying to hold my hand to stop me hitting myself repeatedly over the head. Well ok I wasn't doing it hard, just needed something to do before I exploded and chewed them out for calling me at those hours.

I don't know, I feel like I am the one with the problems. It just annoys me how much they feel that if they can get me back to Arizona, I can help fix their problems. Like for some reason, I am the one thing that is the solution to all of their problems. I don't know where they get this idea. It's just very, very silly.

My mom sends me emails telling me that my dad is slowly killing himself, but that he's happy and he even smiles now, but he still lacks the one thing that will truly make him happy, which is me coming back to Arizona and being with them.

I really am sick of their false promises, all the yelling and screaming. I am sick of it. I am still treated like a child by them. I am 22 mind you. I have worked too hard to go back to that.

I have my own job, my own place, getting myself through college, my own car, my own bills, my own problems, and I don't believe that having someone that I can't have in my life will fix anything. People just become to dependent on stuff like that and that is what my parents have become, very dependent on the idea that I can make a difference in their lives. I know I need to talk with them so they can know how I actually feel. Though sometimes it seems that they pretend to listen and don't know what I am saying. The whole "nod and smile" event. The harder I try to explain the more frustrated I become and the less they listen.

Right now, I am just letting everything out. I apologize for this rant sounding like nothing. I have just been out of journaling so long, that I want to say everything and anything all at once.

Oh well.

This was very therapeutic though. Even though it didn't make much sense. hehe. Sorry. :D

02:23 pm: I just realized I am having online journal overload. I feel like just writing everything at once but I can't. So much to talk about and so little time. hehe.

01:06 pm: Weekend Update!
I had an awesome weekend. Went to the Funny Bone Comedy Club down in Newport, KY. It was great. First time Steve (new boyfriend) and I went to a comedy club in our lives. It was great! Though I did have to pick him up in Indiana since his truck's brakes were broken (more on this in a bit). Got to the club, had to wait in line for about 30 minutes in order to get in. The people in front of us let about 10 more people get in line with them. It was really annoying. Got to see Tom Yohn. We had no clue who he was, but he was pretty funny. It was a great time. Don't really want to go into much detail as of yet. Got back to my place, got Steve hooked to Cowboy Bebop, so watched that and then we just crashed.

More to come..... Stay Tuned!

05:04 pm: Arrival
Hi!

I have just entered into the world of livejournal.

All I have to say is "I love you guys and I have missed all you bulldrekkers!"

:D