I am old

So, i now am officially an old fart...seriously....
I went to a wedding with ym colelge buddies this weekend and was totally slammed today...i had the worst hangover since college...here is how, at this wedding, i realized i am totally old.
1. One shot of tequila totalyl anialated me....in college i used to play "tequila pong"...last night i had one shot and i was trashed. I had the world's worst hangover this mornig - i really hought i was going to die on the drive home
2. I stayed up until 2 oclock a.m. last night...it was possibly the first time in over a year that i have stayed up this late...
3. I found myself looking at some girls dresses and commenting that htey were totally scandalous and trashy......
4. I choose to wear my 1/2 inch kitten heels versus the nicer looking 3 inch heels i own becuase my feet hurt...,nevermind that the shoes totalyl didnt match
So, Im off to take my geritol and go to bed....at 9 oclock pm...grrrr

religion and gigalos

2 thoughts of randomness today

1. As you may all know, we are in a recession (see previous blog). While discussing this with my dear and lovely husband while out to dinner the other night (see previous blog), he told me not to worry - he has a plan.....if he losses his job, he states he will just become a male gigalo....yes that is seriously his plan...yes, he is a charmer, isnt he?

2. Some of you crazy catholics probaly dont know this nor do you really give a shit, but when the bishop of the united states was elected for the episcopal church, several large parishes in the united states (mostly red states) decided to "leave" from the angligan community basically because theyare assholes...they had previously been pissed off because a gay clergy was elected to head the new hamshire diocese and when a female bishop to lead the entire united states was elected, well, they got even crankier.......well, now they have formed their "own" denomination call the orthodox anglican church......as a liberal episcopalian who supports gay clergy,as well as female clergy (as you may remember, it was my dream to be marreid by a lesbian female----we settled for father john becuase he was married to a female preist :) ), I would like to say to that denomination "good riddance, Im glad we got rid of the dead weight." Now, i know you are saying "that isnt very 'christian' of you thais"....whatever---its not very "christian" to say some one can not be a spiritual leader becuase of their gender or sexual preference....the catholics only let unmarried "straight" men become priests, and look how far that has got them! DOnt these orthodox anglican realize that our church was founded because that horn dog henry the 8th wanted a freakin' divorce so he could screw around?!
So, i wish the orthodox anglicans "good luck" with their new religion and i will continue to be a happy pagan/liberal episcopalian with the powerful females and the gay bishops....

PMS

Will someone give the stock market a fucking Midol?

in side my head

Ok, so I named this blog "random ramblings" for a reason and here they are for today.....

1. I must agree with husband and admit that Beyonce is freakin' hot in her new video "Put a Ring on It".....and I say that in the most heterosexual way......but she is hot...she has one of the nicest figures in music/hollywood and hse knows how to dress and show off her greatest asset, which is totally her ass...it is lucious....If she were to ring my door bell and ask to take marco away, i would totally let him go because she is totally hot.
2.
Why, when you are checking out at stores, do people never have their money/credit card out to pay...today i was at the express lane at the A and P..the checker was somewhat fast so the line was moving nicely...however, the TWO people in front of me totally slowed her down! The woman in front of me was just kind of standing there with a "DUH" look on her face and the cashier actually had to ask her to pay...then she took nearly a minute to rumage through her freakin' purse to look for her debit card....people, its not surprising that you have to PAY at a store....i dont understand...maybe this is the Jersey in me speaking, but its really annoying and wastes my time!! Move it along people!!!!
3. I am TOTALLY sick of people making snarky ( i love that word) comments that i dont cook....like i am a bad person and/or dont take care of marco....ok first off - look at marco and i---do we look like we are starving?!??! I think not. I take very good care of my husband, for all you old fashioned assholes out there (and he also takes good care of me) --I do his laundry, i clean the house, and I just got done making peanut butter cookies for him ( i do, incidently like to bake). Secondly, why the fuck does it bother people so much?!? So i havent cooked dinner since June 29th...(witht he exception of the ziti I made for work , the water i had to boil for my dogs when we had the water main break, and the pineapple souffle for thansgiving) .who is it bothering? I DONT LIKE TO COOK!!! I DREAD IT!!!! I dont even like to eat the food i do cook, so why would i do something i dont like and wont eat (and yes i realize that whole "not eating stuff I cook" thing is quirky, but i AM quirky)?! I dont think people realize but i do not sit on my butt all day at work ...i am on my feet lifting and moving people for 7 and half hours a day and ,at times, these people can puke/piss/poop on me...i certainly do NOT feel like going home to prepare a meal...not my thing. THIRDLY - for all you people who are like "ohhhhh---you would save so much money....blah blah blah blah"......why do you care whta i do with my money...there are many people I know who throw their money in the trash and people are afraid to say anything to them about their money management skills..... my mortgage is paid, my school loan is paid my car loan is paid, i have clothing, i dont have young children to feed/clothes, provide for, and my heat/electricity/water is still on....I make sure my niece is well-nourished and i feed/clothe/provide for her on a regular basis....yes i will admit, it does get slightly pricy, but hey - i dont smoke, i dont drink, i dont wear makeup, i dont use hair products, I dont get regular hair cuts or manicure or dye my hair, i dont carry a fancy purse OR wallet, i dont wear designer clothing and/or shoes---so, if eating out and not cooking is what i want to do, i am going to do it...its my vice. And sadly enough, we do have it down to a science....we can eat out most nights for under 20 bucks....we can eat under 10 bucks if its Paulo's (does any one know if their dining room is open yet?)
Now , I will be cooking for christmas eve, so my lovely pots and pans will get utilized...and i do bake every so often, so my oven doesnt feel lonely.......so if you are worried, dont be..I love you all anyway.....hehhe...sorry for that rant...wow, now i feel better!

4. I cant wait for it to snow...i cant believe i am even typing that...not a major snow, but a nice 2 inches, just to make everything look pretty! I love the holidays, and always have, and i feel like it would be so pretty and awesome if it snowed a little bit...a nice christmas snow!


ok, i am done....i am going to read my book before we head off for an early dinner (at the outback, in case you are wondering....)

pre-thanksgiving shopping

SO I think marco and I found a really great shopping trick....

I had rad somewhere that Kohls was having their midnight madness sale today...however it wasnt advertised...when you look at their website, there are adds for opening at 4am (!!!!!) on Friday, but made no mention that Kohls was open to midnight.

MArco and I went to KOhls to see what we could find and found out that ALL of the 4 am sales for Friday were actaully in effect for tonight after 6 oclock....o we were shopping in KOhls until abot 1030 this evening ---AND THE STORE WAS EMPTY!! It was fabulous!!!! I wonder how many other stores offer this?!

So no bloack friday for me (i was actaully thinking of stopping at Kohls BEFOE work on Friday!)



I hope every has a really nice thansgiving!!! This is one of my favorite holidays! There is so much to be thankful for this year!!

Nebraska...its actually a cool state

I have nothing to blog about.....i do not rubber stamp or do craft shit....my sarcasm has been somewhat dampened because i actaully enjoy my job and am somewhat happy in life (afraid to say that)....I am boring.
Marco says I should blog about him because he moved the poker table out of my dining room....after 2 months....or how i finally cleaned our room tonight (it was gross)....or how marco hung up a shower curtain for me.
yes my life is boring...busy, but boring....
I think that may be a good thing.


btw, check out chris's blog.....the drums have died a slow and painful death...so sad..

anyway, im babbling.

Although, I did want to comment on an interesting news story I caught...i may get myself in trouble for this, but i dont really fucking care.
So Nebraska passed a safe haven law, in which people could surrender their unwanted children to hospitals/police station if they are unable to care fo them with out a penalty.....many other states have this law...well, nebraska forgot to put an age limit on this law...so out of the 35 children surrendered, only SIX of them were under the age of 10!!!! People were flying form out of state (i.e. georgia, florida) to dump their unwanted teenagers!!!! How insane is that???!?!?!




....thats what I was thinking...and then i realized that this phenomena actually occured in my own family......marco and i are nebraska......talk amoungst yourselves.....

more eights

so my bro -in-law stole my list of 8s which i stole from my friend amy, whom I think stole it from her cousin....well chris decided it needed to be 8 lists of eight....so here are my last 4----keep in mind that chris made these last few up please (see the second and last category).

8 Movies I Cannot Turn Off If They Are On TV
1. Forrest Gump
2. An American President
3. Knocked Up
4. Ferris Bueller
5. The Bird Cage
6. Father of the Bride
7. Anchorman
8. Wedding Crashers

8 People I consider "Tools"
1. Various relations whom i can not mention (but not the one other people in this family think is a tool---i think he is just funny)
2. My ex-ceo at my previous place of employment
3. George Bush
4. Dick Cheney
5. Sarah Palin
6. another person i can not mention in public without pissing off friends/husbands/relatives
7. Newt Gingrich
8. Donald Rumsfeld

8 Places I Want To Go But Have Never Been
1. Alaska
2. Glacier Nation Park (yes, i am still stuck on that stupid national park show)
3. Germany
4. US Virgin Islands
5. British Virgin Islands
6. Grand CAnyon
7. Las Vegas
8. Florida Keys

8 Reasons Why I Rule (this one is hard, chris)
1. I have a brain
2. I have a good job
3. I still sleep with a stuffed moose
4. I am a member of the rock band "bleeding Anus"
5. I am a secret reality show junky (ondemand rules)
6. I am a sarcastic asshole
7. I bought my first house at 26
8. I can speed read

hehehhe...ok people, i think im done with lists!
later gators!

blah

totally stealing amy's idea for blogging, as i have nothing to do and am not tired enough to go to bed yet---

8 TV Shows I Love to Watch:
1. Entourage
2. The Office
3. Big Love
4. True Blood (sad, i know)
5. Mad Men (such a fuckin awesome show)
6. Sex and the City
7. Reruns of MASH or THe Cosby Show
8. Any sort of travel shows

8 Favorite Restaurants:
1. Europa
2. LongHorn
3. Carrabas
4. Friendlys
5. KC Prime
6. Ruby Tuesdays
7. Paolo's
8. TJ Rockwells

8 Things that Happened Today:
1. I got mad because my alarm clock went off and i realized it was Monday
2. I worked my butt off at work becuase 2 OTs were out today and no one told me until 10:00
3. I bought a winter jacket
4. I went out to dinner with Marco ( I always do that though)
5. I talked to MAry on the phone ( i miss here and Joan)
6. I hi my funny bone REALLY REALLY hard that I almos puked
7. MArco and I decided we want to go to Glacier National Park in Alaska (see # 8above)
8. I ignored the dishes in my sink until tomorrow

8 Things I Look Forward To:
1. Turkey Day
2. Christmas
3. Going to Disney in dec. and Oct.
4. Going to LBI this summer!
5. Getting a hair cut (when i have time)
6. Taking over the world
7. Winning the lottery
8. Renovating my house to include more then 1 bathroom

ok, well Im still not tired, but there is a good show about national parks in alaska on Discovery HD. Later!

Ps - I wanted to write something else here, but i didnt...it would only mean something to aobut 3 of you readers and plus it feeds into things, so im not going to write it...marco and i laughed.

Happy Veteran's Day

So usually I am a sarcastic asshole in my blogs....is just who i am...and believe me i have plenty to be a sarcastic asshole about....however, I just read my friend Amy's blog, which typically is very thoughtful and introspective (with the exception of the trumpet teach stuff, which is just funny) and she posted a fitting tribute for Veterans Day and her grandfather, who incidentally, is one of the sweetest, cutest, nicest guys i have ever met (as is the rest of Amy's family).
It got me thinking of my grandfather Thompson and his service in the Navy. Now, my grandparents were slightly younger when the "War" started but my grandfather graduated high school and entered the navy in 1946, at the tail end of the war. He got 2 weeks leave soon after he entered the service and came back to Jersey City (the thompson/keegan homeland) to marry my grandmother, his high school sweetheart, after he gave her 3 weeks notice.
In the navy, my grandfather was a radio/radar man and was assigned to several ships, including the USS McKinley and the USS Iowa. Soon after, his naval position posted them in San Diego, where my grandmother rode to alone by bus, 3 months pregnant and "puking all across the United states" as she put it. (it was actually funny---we used to talk about US landmarks like the painted desert and she would be like "yeah i threw up there"....gotta love my grandmother)
During his service, his ship was sent to the atmoic bomb testing at Bikini island. He was present for 3 of the atomic bomb tests, two of which he was underneath the deck, However, he was on deck for one of the tests, where they were mearly told to "turn " their back and "close" their eyes to protect themself from the blast. My grandfather often recounted that he wound up with a second-degree sunburn through his clothing. He also used to recount how part of the ship he was on was "closed" for the remainder of his tour of duty because it was radio active....and then it remained radio active for many months after..
Later on in life, my grandfather became a sickly man at a young age and had chronic heart failure, which led to his early death in the late 1980's. It turned out that many of the servicemen present at the time of the testing(including my Aunt linda's dad, who was acatually send on the radio active "dummie" ships to see what happened to the experimental animals on them) had similar symptoms and ailments to my grandfather and it turned in to an agent orange/gulf war syndrome trend, whch the government pushed under the table, as they do so so well.
I always found it interesting that although his service in the navy had made him so ill for much of his life, he always spoke fondly and proudly of his time in the navy. He even saved a memorial booklet from that tour of duty (i have it---its cool). He was a really funny guy with a somewhat dry sense of humor. He would proudly wear his USS Iowa and USS McKinley ball caps and never missed an Army/ Navy game. He used to talk about ths Bikini Island testing and would always tell us the one thing he learned from that experience was that if an atomic bomb was dropped the only thing you could really do is bend over and kiss you ass good bye...and then he would laugh.....as he always did.
So, happy veterans day to all and thanks to BOTH of my grandfathers for their service....and thank you grandpa T for your sense of humor...its what i remember the most about him...

BLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH




and thats all i have to say about that.

DING DONG THE WITCH IS DEAD!!!



just wanted to give a shout out to my buddies in the swing state (s) - you rock!

good riddance

I would just like to post this for the NEW JERSEY gestapo:

You freakin' suck---perhaps you should spend less time STALKING people and looking for "personal connections" to try and "catch me in a lie" so you can suspend people and try working on patient care.....hmmm....4 patients sent to the hospital, or stalking people on the internet to see who their friends are...and then accuse people of lying.what problem would you deal with? the New jersey gestapo SERIOUSLY has earned their freakin' name. And YES, Mary IS my firend...WHOM I MET AT WORK....apprently I "lied" about this.....clearly this is more important to them then patients STABBING other patients (and im not breaking HIPAA because this event made it into the paper)...whatever

So, I have officialyl moved on from this job and now am working ata communtiy-based hospital in central new jersey. Although I will miss Mary and Joan and some other people, it is so refreshing to be ina place that I am allowed to do what I want to do on my personal time and quality patient treatment is valued....Its only been 2 days but this seems to be a good fit....so new jersey gestapo, please i really hope for patients sake, that you spend more time working on the major patinet violence going on....

modification

Ok, so i forgot a month---october is ALSO PHARMACIST APPRECIATION MONTH!!!! (so sorry chris)
Soooooo the new moral of the month is:
Dont punch your wife OR your pharmacist, especially in the boob

so many months

So i have noticed that there are so many "months" celebrated nowadays...when i was in school it was February was African American hisotry....and dental awareness month .....then there came women's hisotry month in march...then breast cancer awareness in october....then national OT month in April....so many months to keep track of!!!
I have noticed the pink ribbons around the trees, which is awesome, because breast cancer (as all cancers) SUCKS!! But i recently noticed that every OTHER tree in town is purple.....my lovely husband then informed me that it is also domestic violence/abuse prevention month (although I think possibly we should be preventing this, just like breast cancer, all year round)......so many months to keep track of!!! Last month I also saw GREEN ribbons up in watchung----environmental awareness month?!
so if you take anything away from the month of October, please remember: Dont punch your wife, especially in the boob.

The most wonderful time of the year....

CAN YOU BELIEVE ITS BEEN A YEAR?!?!?

Well blog readers (all 4 of you) I am off to Disney for my first anniversary tomorrow!!! I CANT WAIT!!!! Marco is making me leave my computer at home---not so sure how i feel about this, but maybe its a good thing to kind of just go away for awhile...so anyway, you wont be hearing from me for a week! I will be enjoying disney and getting away from the rat race for awile....i am very much looking forward to this, as this is our first big vacation since our honeymoon!

I would just like to wish my hubby a happy anniversary and point out to everyone that my husband is possibly the most wonderful, patient, loving human being ever to walk the earth and I love him very much. The crap he puts up with is amazing and he is still a wonderful and caring person!! I cant believe we have been married a whole entire year!! Time flies when you are having fun!!!

ding ding the witch is dead

So the asshole is gone....Mr. wisdom tooth was extracted today....and I must say it went better then expected.
Of course I cried like a baby, but this smart dentist( may be i would live next door to him) offered me nitrious oxide!!!!! That shit is AWESOME!!!!! Why other dentists have jsut told me to stick it out is beyond me! It was like taking 3 xanaxs (xanai?) and feeling the effects immediatly...then waking up immediatly as soon as the O2 was put on!!!! I even got to pick which "flavor" I wanted ( ipicked rootbeer). Of course I loved this because I am a very olfactory-person.
so here is a shout out to our wonderful secretary Eileen at work who basicalyl booked this appointment for me....thanks for forcing me! now I can enjoy my vacation in witho ut htis bastard of a tooth bothering me!

dentists

so the asshole is rearing its ugly head again....By the name "assshole" I am of course talking about my left upper wisdom tooth--fucking bastard that he/she is...I was up a lot of last night with some pain so Marco convinced me it was time to call the dentist. I hate the dentist...i cry when i go there...
Now, most of you are saying "well no one likes the dentist."....you do not realize my deep seeded hatred of them. I dont understand why anyone would want to be a dentist...you might as well be the grime reaper as far as im concerned. I dont understand why people aspire to want to grow up and scare people....what kind of life is that? I honestly think that if i were looking to buy a house (in a much more upscale neighboorhood), and the neighboor was a dentist, i would not even look at the house...sad isnt it? On my list of hierarchy, I see dentists as basically one step up from animal abusers and one step below right wing republicans....SAD!!! I see dentists WORST then right-winged republicans....and if you know me, you understand the true meaning of it.
Now, Im sure my dentist is a nice man- he is soft spoken, talks to me nicely, and puts up with my copious amounts of crying and screaming when i do get a cleaning or get my cavities filled (if you think i am kidding, sadly, i am not). He nicely prescibes me xanax and will kindly suggest that I may want to "double" the dosage next time I come. According to his website, he has a nice family and kids and is very involved with coaching and the community.
Well, frankly this means jack shit to me...All I see is Conan the barbarian...or sweeney todd--for some reason whenever i think about going to the dentist, I think about the "evil barber of fleet street" and envision a scary-looking bloody Jonny Depp coming at me with those horrible picky things....Seriously, I know I have issuess!
I feel like dentistry is still really barbaric! To me, in like 50 years ,we will look back at this stuff like root canals and drillings and liken it to blood letting and lobotomies....we will go to museums and look at Mr. Sucky and fillings and it will be like visiting the war museum at Gettysburg and looking at the rudimentary amputation devices they used inthe civil war to hack off your limbs. Our future generation will go "what were they thinking?!"I dont understand why dentistry has to be so painful and uncomfortable when we have come so far in modern medicine.
Anyway, my rant is over....i actually have an appointment to get rid of this fucker from my mouth forever, although i will have to rely on the barbaric "modern" dentistry practices until something better comes along....

Furniture

So today I had a lovely day shopping with Courtney and her sister-in-law for furniture for courtney's new apartment.
I never ever noticed that buying furniture is like buying a new car....now , this may be becuase i actually d not OWN any nice furniture----all my furniture is Ikea/unclaimed frieght/ target/ or grandma special.
As soon as you enter the door, these people zoom in on you! We were in Bob's and this creepy guy whose name was "faustino" greeted us in the usual creepy used-car salesmen manner. WE manage to escape him by saying "we are just look". After 5 minutes, we wandered to the back of the store and foudn a sectional we liked. WE were mulling it over when courtney's sister in law asked " I wonder what color this comes in?" Out of NOWHERE "faustino" comes over and hands us the brochure! It was like Mr. Deed's butler! he jsut came out of a nowhere! then we wandered to the next sofa and he did the same thing!!!!
WIERD!! I guess when i finally buy real furniture, i will have to deal with this!

are you fUcKING KIdDING ME?

OK, so more from the Sarah Palin/Antichrist front.

This was part of an interview done in People magazine:

"She's a rock fan. She named her son Trig Paxton Van Palin because it sounds like the band Van Halen. Says friend Judy Patrick, a former city council member who has known Palin for 12 years, "How cool was that to have a kid named Van Palin?" "

Ladies and Gentleman, I am speechless

giving to a good cause

So my crazy B-I-L is doing several runs/races in the next few months and he has choosen to run in name of a charity.
he has choosen the Lance ARmstrong foundation which is an AWESOME charity that funds all sorts of cancer research. As of late I have been kind of bitter about how "all of a sudden", now that we have gotten HIV/AIDS, as well as other diseases under control, people and Hollywood have decided that "cancer" is an issue. Where they have been for the past several hundred years, is beyond me. However, The Lance Armstrong Foundation is a great foundation and Lance Armstrong has really brought the issues of cancer reserach and care to the fore front.

I very rarely play the "dead father" card (except when I want my niece to quit whining and utilizing her past as a crutch) because its not called for...however, i am using it now. My father died of cancer when i was 14 after 3 and half years of a horrible fight. 4 years later, a new drug to help fight his form of cancer was found. Perhaps it could have been found faster if more money was thrown into cancer research.

Please PLease PLease visit and donate to my brother-in-law's fund raiser.
Here is his personal website:
http://www.livestrong.org/grassroots2008/cmsocha?faf=1&e=1895234727

Thank you!
<3Thais

calling all ots

calling all OT friends and anyone else who happens to read my blog:
I am possibly looking for a new place of employment becuase the new jersey gestapo is out of control and i am sick of driving up to parsipanny everyday....if you have any ideas/suggestions or leads, pleae email me!

hmmm......

hmmm...

- pro-life
- Creationism-only in school
- anti sex education (see post below)
- Pro-gun
- Speaking in tongues

wow....

Sarah Palin = the AntiChrist

(at least in my brain)

blog going private

Just like the government, my first amendemnet rights are being infridged upon EVERY'WHERE.
so as of Monday, my blog is going private...please email me if you want to be included as being able to see my blog.
thank you.

PS-
i know im a fucking white bitch and i accepted what i am

hmmmm....

So the new vice presidential candidate's 17 year old daughter is pregnant. Part of Governor Palin's platform for running for office was instituting abstinence-only sex education...
hmmm.....clearly that is an effective way to educate our youth...it works so well...

isnt it ironic....dontcha think?

what is tomorrow?

Do you know what tomorrow is?
Yes, Hillary is speaking at the Democratic National Convention.
But there is a reason.....

Tomorrow marks the 88th anniversary of women getting the right to vote.

...just thought i would let you know!

olympics

Ok , I would just like to say that the chinese gymnasts are total fucking cheaters.......First off, there is NO WAY they are all 16 --i mean, i know gymnasts starve themselves and never go through puberty, but 2 of those girls look like they are down right infantile. According to the TV, they have valid passports...which is retarded becuase the passport is issued by the Chinese government which also incidentally controls all the sports programs as well. What a fantastic way to check age, you dumb olympic people!!!

Second off, i am willing to bet after the American girls won all individual all-around that the gynastics judges were totally kidnapped and tied up and whipped until they promised to give all the apparatus medals to the Chinese...lets face it, China doesnt have the greatest human rights record. How the hell can someone fall on their KNEES and get a bronze medal!?....frankly i think i could have done a better vault (ok, for all of you laughing at that mental picture, fuck you).

I know the above post sounds like i was kidnapped myself by George Bushie and brain washed with his foreing policies (g.w.b. foreign policy= there are no countries other then america)
, but come on people!!! you dont have to be a genious to figure this stuff out.

Anyway, so my sister-in-law left her piece of crap car outside my house...which i didnt mind for 2-3 days becuase she was having a medical emergency....now its starting to piss me off becuase i honestly htink she just doesnt want the car any more and is too lazy to dispose of it correctly.
I actually wanted to blow it up last night and frankly the only thing stopping me was that marco pointed out I would need an excelerant and I would be wasting 10 dollars worth of gas to blow the car up properly...at 4 dollars a gallon, it just wasnt worth it....so it will continue to sit in front of my poor neighbor's house with is windows wide open until I can convince my DH to let me have it towed..................grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

random ramblings at its best

Ok, so today i think i reached my peek of evilness towards children.

now, ok, I always say I hate children...this is not entirely true....i hate children whose parents have converted them into entire annoying pains in the asses.

Point in case: My miniture golf experience today
I would just like to highlight htis by saying that I am a bit competative when it comes to mini golf. You have to realize that at an early I was playing 36 - 52 holes of mini golf a day while on vacation. My father was sadly very passionate about this sport. We were taught the ins and outs and etiquette of mini golf at a young age.
In addition, my family kept score, even though i was 7 and my brother was 4 (at least in my earliest memories). Yes, of course my father and mother would beat us. However, this made us into better mini golf players and in the long run better people. By time my brother was 8 he was beating us in mini golf. I am sick of hearing these days about how schools and childrens programs dont keep score so everyone is a winner.
Well tough shit kiddos - life is all about keeping score . I feel like this nation is raising a gneration of pussies. Buck up people!
But I digress....
So this leads me to my story. Marco took me mini golfing today, which i enjoy. Well behind us were two children whose parents (grandparents?) paided to have them play golf....and OF COURSE they just let them hit the ball around and fool around and NOT play correctly. Honestly, i dont know what the freakin' point was !
Not only did this annoy me, but these children kept bumping into me and walking on our green while we were playing...and OF COURSE the parents were playing no attention...as a matter of fact the grandmother/mother was text messaging on her phone while her dumb children were annoying me.
So, what i did next, i am not proud of, but felt was neccesary. My glares and somewhat loud sarcastic remarks about how people these days need to teach their children respect were not working. In the animal (non-homosapien) world, a "warning" is usualyl given to tell other animals to "back up". Some animals swich their tails, some puff up their necks.....I decided it was time to give the "thais" warning.
As the one boy was encrouching into my personal space on the putting green, I non-chalantly tucked my club under my arm pit so it stuck out about 2 feet behind me. I then swung my body around, jsut narrowly missing the child's face with my club by about 6 inches. I DID NOT hit him...just mearly gave a "warning" that he was took quick.
And for all you tender hearted people (whose children are going to be eaten alive by society), i have to tell you it worked. Immediatly the father yelled for his son to back up and not stand to close...and i had a wonderful back 9 without a child riding my ass.
So to all you parents and all you people who are thinking of procreating, please please please teach your children manners and keep score....your children will thank you in the long run!

oh, and please teach them to play mini golf apprpriately.



BTW - I also BEAT THE PANTS out of Marco ---46 to 52....hehehhe

Ode toTarget (prounounced : Tar-jay)

I have been unusually cranky this past week because of the mass amount of losers who inhabit my life and make it a living hell.....however, i can not post about it in this blog because honestly the FCC, nj gestapo, or the Bush administration may take it down due to the excessive amounts of blasphemy and crude language....

so i have decided to blog about some thing that makes me happy, without a fail....

that would be the Target store.



My love affair with Target began when it the first one in the area opened in Menlo...due to the fact that menlo isnt around the corner, i did not get here as ofen as i would have liked. However, I did manage to spend 400 dollars there before i went to college.

then they opened in South Plainfield and my obsession began.



My mind can not even wrap around the large amounts of money I have spent at Target. I seriously can not leave that store with out dropping at LEAST 50 dollars. Now, grant it, i do a majority of my grocery shopping (stuff is about 20 percent cheaper there).

However, I notice that when I am at Target I feel the urge to buy stuff that I have never needed before. Case in point: We now own not ONE but TWO electronic weather gauge---do i really need two? did i even need the first one? the answer is "no"; Example #2: The dollar spot: Even though i dont need them , I now own 4 trays of fruit-shaped ice cude molds.....hmmmm....however, Target must have the worlds best marketing people because at the time of purchase both Marco and I felt we could not LIVE without both of these items.

I also would seriously plan out where i would live based on Target. I have told Marco seeral times taht I would remain a South Plainfield townie as long as Target was here.

It is also the only store on the planet where i have my own parking spot....ok, not really...marco and i had earlier claimed the spot.....we actually ge really irritated when other people park there---pathetic isnt it?

Sadly enough, when we are bored we often go "hey, want to go wander around Target?" We are like poor people who dont pay our energy bill----we go there to soak in the air conditioning, people-watch and kill time.

And to top off the magicalness of Target, OUR Target has a Starbucks right in it ---its like Shangri-la .

And I know I am not alone in my love....My best friend and my sister in law share my obsession...and im sure we are not alone...

sunday night blues

Does any one else get horrible sunday night blues?
I do....and i have them bad now!
I have had them my whole life since i can remember...its that "blah" feeling that you get about 7 oclock on sunday night when you realize that you have to go to work and your weekend is over.
Tonight it is especially bad, because work has really really really sucked latly. I am filled with dread for tomorrow's disaster, whatever it may be ( and lately, it REALLY could be anything). I feel like Im stuck in a rut at work.
Alas, usually monday mornings cure the Sunday night blues, so lets see what happens!

missing the old

So I have never ever liked change...as a matter of fact, i usually turn into a major bitch when change occurs....ok, i understand i am ALWAYS a major bitch, but lets just say it gets magnified.

So my non-descript hospital finally moved out of its dated facilities into a state-of-the-art facility 2 weeks ago. At first it was exciting, as all new things are....now i havent gotten lunch in 2 weeks, i dont feel safe and every meeting i go to has at least one person throwing a temper tantrum or fighting (and it has only been me once!)

I never thought i would miss the random weeds growing into my office window (office flora) or the rusty pipe leaking out of an open ceiling onto a bucket on my desk (it was my water feature---how many people have offices with a water feature !?)

I never thought I would miss passing random abandon building crumbling from abandonment

I never thought I would miss having to hold my breathe to go into a closet because there is asbestos in it (i know, like holding my breath is REALLY going to help)

I never thought I would miss bitching about the scorching heat (near 100 degrees in my old office in the summer AND winter)

I never thought I would miss having to lock the 2 different bathroom door becuase its a co-educational bathroom (very ali mcbeal of us..)

I never thought I would i miss the the old, but familiar smell of black mold

I never thought I would miss hitting pot holes the size of texas as i navigated the sprawling campus utilizing my own gas to get form place to place

I never thought I would miss getting drenched or snowed upon while traversing between complexes

I never thought I would miss working in a builiding which has a sketchy history and to which patients used to call "The Projects" , "The Snakepit" or "The Cages" when i first started to work there and where a staff member was actually killed (dont tell my mother that....it was a accident - things were much improved)

but alas, i do. I know that it is some how better we are in the newer place, but i am homesick for the old place. It had so much history, which is one of the things i loved the most about the non-descript hospital i work at.
oh well ,i guess time heals all wounds.

PS- nj gestapo, please dont arrest me for these comments.

yes two posts on 1 night

I have been meaning to repost this one for like 2 weeks since my friend A posted it on her website
as you may or maynot know, one of my only hobbies i truly enjoy is reading...now usuaully i am relegated to reading chicklit or trash becuase my brain needs a good rest...however, i was pleasantly surprised with the results of this!!! The survey says you are supposed to read at least 6 of these----well dont i feel learned!!!!!!! I have read 36 of them!!!!! I would just like to give a shout out to my high shcool english teachers who forced me to read these books and therefore made me educated!! thank you ms. timko, ms. ludovico-marchochi, and ms. pastula - you rock!

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your blog so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them ;-)"


1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings en
- JRR Tolkien 0 saw the movies - does that count?
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling - unlike everyone else int he world, i have no desire!
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7. wuthering hieghts - emily bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
.9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10. great expectations
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare -not the complete- but a lot
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy - i tried - did not succeed
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis -
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood 0 such a WIERD book
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen - i love jane austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
!62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
?72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert - one of the world's first feminist novels...written by a man!!
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte's Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom - i cried my eyes out!
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl - i think im the only one who hates this book
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo - read it in french---BLAH!!! i didnt really understand it but i did read it...and then saw the play 3 times!

my letters

Dear XM satellite radio programmers:
I am just writing this letter to inform you of the fact that Coldplay sucks. They are the worst band EVER. I do not think you are aware of this fact, as my XM radio has been over run with this crappy band's songs. Not only am I subjected to their crappiness on the alternate rock stations and pop stations, you hve now decided to provide me with "30 days of coldplay". Do I look like a Middle eastern that the Bush amdinistration put in Gitmo? Frankly ,I think waterboarding may be more pleasurable then 30 days of that whiny shit coldplay likes to call music. In addition, was it really neccesary to give them their OWN station (in the process of getting rid of the all Led Zepplin station) but UPOP as well. NOw I know that COldplay is the most popular band in Europe...however, unlike Europeans, i shave my armpits and dont wear speedos, so therefore I should not be tortured with this shitty music. If you felt so inclined to subject me to European music, why is there not "30 days of Led Zepplin" or "30 days of the beetles."
In conclusion I would like to please please please please, for the love of god and my sanity, STOP playing COldplay. They suck.
Sincerely,
Thais K. Migliaro
PS - Members of coldplay - was it neccesary for you to re-make "bittersweet Symphony?" It was "the Verve's" only good song....must you ruin everything???!!!???

Dear women with big boobs who wear shelf bras:
I am writing this letter to let you know that unless you are an A cup, you can not wear only a shelf bra in a tank top. No one wants to see your saggy mammary glands hanging down to your knees...you look stupid. Those tank tops were created for anorexic models who have no boobs. If you are a normal human being, gone through puberty and dont make yourself vomit every 5 minutes, you more then likely can not rely on utilizing a shelf bra in a tank top. I understand that wearing bras are uncomfortable...i myself dont like them either...but sometimes we need to make sacrfices.
thank you
sincerely,
thais K Migliaro
PS: To all those woman who wear thongs: You can not wear thongs with cotton pants.....Thongs, as you know, are designed to go up your butt to prevent "unsightly" panty lines...well, when you wear a thong and cotton pants, it looks like you ass is eating your pants...and that is even more unattractive then panty lines...just an FYI

Dear upper left wisdom tooth:
Fuck you - you are an asshole. Just you and your kind wait - evolution is a bitch.
sincerely,
thais K Migliaro

so i think that some people just dont know how to take me....

i say things that seem really really funny in my brain...and they seem funyn to me when i say them...usually they are laced with sarcasm and curses, but none-the-less i think i am funny.

Apparently other people do not, because aside from a select few, people just look at me like i have lost my mind. I especially get this stare from OT students at work and people i do not know very well. I find it annoying...is it just that they are just too stupid to understand my humor? Or am i really just an unfunny asshole....hmmm....something to think about.

While you ar eall pondering that, I would just like to say that for hte next 3 weeks, i will have 2 teenagers resdiing with me...so take it easy on me

I dont think this is accurate---it should be much higher

YOU ARE 72% BITCHY

You Are 72% Bitchy

While you may not think of yourself as the ice queen, admit it, you're often in a bad mood. And it's those around you who often bear the brunt of your annoyance, even if they haven't done anything wrong!

http://www.blogthings.com/howbitchyareyouquiz/">How Bitchy Are You?

I heart new jersey

I am just writing this blog to re-declare my love of the great state of New Jersey!
I was reflecting upon this while journeying up the Parkway (the greatest roadway ever).

I love nj because of the massive shore migration that occurs every single summer on the weekends...no matter your class, creed, race, whatever, if you are a native jersian you have this internal biorythym that makes you want to migrate down the shore like a drone with the hoards to find your small patch of sand.....and, despite the crowds, expensive gas, dirty seagulls, freezing ocean, and fucking New Yorkers who cant drive ( GO TO YOUR OWN BEACHES!!) and have obnoxious accents (to be discussed in a later blog) , you still feel like you have your own piece of heaven.

I love new jersey because you can have a casual conversation at parties with fellow jerseyians, throw the word "FUCK" around casually and no one cares ---in fact, it is jsut considered part of normal speech

I love New Jersey because being from New Jersey makes rocking out to Bon Jovi on the radio just that much better....i cant imagine "living on a prayer" would get my heart racing as it does unless i was from new jersey...its like one of our anthems.....as a mater of fact, is there was a state anthem , im sure it would be "livin' on a prayer"

I love New Jersey because there is a diner on every corner...and the food is always good

I love New Jersey because I can always have an attitude all the time and no one thinks there is anything wrong with that...as a matter of fact, i didnt have an attitude, people would think there was something wrong

I love New Jersey becuase i can go to the city, the mountain or the beach all within 1 hour

I love New Jersey because pretty much 95 percent of the population can identify where they live based an exit number off the turnpike or parkway....for instance, if I would say to a fellow jersian "I live off of Exit 10 on the Turnpike or exit 127 off the Parkway", they would know exactly what Im talking about.

I love new jersey because the food. Within walking from my house, i can get italian, portguese, irish, "american", vietamese, indian, greek, and chinese. With 10 miles of my house I can pretty much get any type of food in the world.

who installs a baby changing station in a bathroon in a psychiatric hospital for the most severely mentally ill? Did the state have to pay for that in the construction? Would people actaully bring their young children there (even though its against policy?)...hmmm....

wild turkeys and oil in watchung

Have you ever had one of the mornings where you feel like you may have sampled some of the mushrooms from Alice in Wonderland? As a matter of fact, ironically, CNN had a piece on the spiritulaity of taking 'shrooms today....
So, anyway, i digress - I was in my daze and i had to sit for 25 minutes on the approach to the watchung circle...I was so irritated when i got up there! I have no idea what the hell they were doing, but i swear to god, it looked like they were drilling for oil! And i was so hostile and cranky and tired and out of it that i actaully got MAD that the borough of Watchung was not going to share the oil with me....and that i have to pay 4 dollars per gallon to fill my tank..yeah i was out of it....
And then i got to work and the largest freakin' turkey I have ever seenwalked in front of my car and looked right at me...i swear to god, he gave me the stink eye! And then he wouldnt move...i beeped my horn and he just sat there and looked at me....
grrr...
i need a vacation....or to work later hours :)

no jersey gestapo today

My wonderful SIL "tagged" me on her blog today for this cute questionaire (i love these things), so i dont have to worry about the NJ gestapo today!

Ten years ago: I was just finishing up my junior year of high school, About 70 pound skinnier, looking at colleges, I was working at the pharmacy, i was hanging with the blonde squad (somethings never change), dating roger and trying out to be SPHS Marching Band drum major....wow! times have changed!!!

Five things in today’s 'to do list':
1. Work (check)
2. Make dinner (UGG!)
3. Put away laundry (more ugg!)
4. Go to Target (WAHOO!!)
5. Sit on my ass (WAHOO!!)

Snacks I enjoy:
1. Twizzlers
2. Cookies (anything without nuts!)
3. Cake with yummy icing
4. Twizzlers
5. Strawberry shortcake

Things I would do if I was a millionaire:
1. Pay off my mortgage
2. Put a huge addition on my house (im never moving ever)
3. Buy a shore house
4. Pay for Big E's and Angie's college education
5. Drive cross country for 3 months
6. Go back to Hawaii (travel)
7. Buy more Disney timeshare points
8. Buy a hot, fast convertible car, a red tube top, trendy sunglasses, a Janis Joplin CD and drive around all day long with the top down
(yes i now there are more then 5 ansers here ---whatever, its my blog!)

Places I have lived:
Ok people, this is my "pathetic" catagory---i REALLY had to stretch it to make 5
1. Mahar Avenue, South Plainfield, NJ
2. Laurel Lane, South Plainfield, NJ
3. Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, PA
4. Plum Street, Elizabethtown, PA
5. Thomas Street, South Plainfield, NJ
(yes i am aware that i have lived basically within one square mile my entire life---i did go out of state for college!!!)


Im not tagging any one, becuase i only have 2 friends with blogs, and i was tagged by one of them already!! hehehhe...

random thoughts

so throughout the day, i tend to get these random "thoughts"...however, i either forget them or they dont have a "theme".....so here they are:

- What does the time keeping office at work smell like cat puke? I jsut dont understand...eery single time i go down there, it jsut stinks!! I have no idea how people work there!

- When are they bringing back flannel shirts? They have brought back "skinny jeans" and "bell bottoms" and those god-aweful shirts that make you look pregnant....why have they not borught bakc the "grunge" look from the mid-90s? I miss flannel...it was like wearing PJs and you were still stylish!

- Why is it people think they have the right to ask you when you are having a baby? Is my reproductivity any ones business? Its like the minute you are married (god forbid you arent married!!!!! hos does a piece of paper suddenly bring ona barage of questions?) people feel like they must ask you...it obnoxious and rude!!! I swear to god! What if i couldnt have children...or was trying and couldnt get pregnant.? Wouldnt they feel like assholes!! What if i just dont really want children? does that make me a horrid person? I just tell people "i hate chidren"....it usually shuts them up becuase its hard to have a response to that...hehehhehe...let poeple think i am a heartless bastard (because i am)!! I think next time some one asks, i am going to ask "oh, so when are you going through menopause?" Also, not everyone feel likes they want to repopulate the earth with offspring or that it is their god-given right to pop a kid out...whatever....people are ridiculous!


ok enough random ramblings!

GRrr

I am tired and I have to go to North Carolina tomorrow. I hate the south...people are ignorant and dumb and they are still fighting the war (which we freakin' won)....grrr...I was in the ER last night with my father in law til the wee hours of hte morning becuase Robert Wood Johnson is possibly the WORST hospital i have ever been to and i was afraid if we left him, we would come back and they would have amputated a leg or something by mistake--oh im sorry, that would have required one of the nurses to stop eating and come actually check on him....to top it off, todaya at work i had a patient walk off and got somewhat hostile all over a STUPID CIGARETTE!!!!!!!!!!!! Why they can not let my patients smoke is beyond me....and belive me i thnk smoking is a gross habit that can led to health problems...however, nicotine has been proven to calm schizophrenics...and when you have a 6'5" schizophrenic with a history of beating the crap out of people wanting a cigarette and he cant get one (even for 5 dollars a cigarette---outrageous!!), it doesnt make for the most pleasant situation..which our lawmakers or powers that be seem to give a flying shit about...meanwhile myself and my employees have to get cursed at and threaten....thats all i have to say about that--now the new jersey gestapo is really going to kill me because they want everone to thinking its a great idea....grrrr

maybe i dont have to be a cagefighter.....

ok, so maybe i dont have to start cagefighting for my frustration----i can just BOX on the Wii!!


So in case you havent guessed, we bought the Wii this evening....now, we had played it once before at PJ and Kari's house (now just PJ's house - long story)....and i thought it was cool ---way cooler then those other gaming systems (although i have a slight addiction to rock band - we played for over 4 hours last weekend- i know- sad...i even broke a drum stick...even sadder)....but marco was still torn between a PS3 (we already have a PS 2) or Wii....and i really thought the PS3 was going to win because it had a bluray player.

then we took a nice trip to Amy and mike's apartment----and proceeded to play Mariokart for 2 hours---which i TOTALLY sucked at, but it was so so so fun!!!!!! I sucked so badly at the game that i totally kind of freaked out when i got into my saturn to drive because i felt as if i might have forgotten to drive and would take a tumble off of rt 78...hehhe...fortunaly, i am better at driving the saturn then i was the mariokart.

So, needless to say, we bought the Wii tonight...unfortunatly Mariokart was sold out (apparently the Wii fit has caused a run on all things "Wii" around here)....however, i did discover what an awesome rush BOXING IS!! I totally Knocked out my opponent within the first round - plus got some hostilities out!

Oh, and on the brighter side, my kind BIL and SIL have made an emergency trip to their Target for us to pick us up Mariokart!! Wahoo!!!! This is good---maybe i have finally found a hobby (other then reading)...now i just need to learn how to turn the damned thing on by myself....hmmmm.....

my small excitment

OK, so my blog last night was a little evil...that is because i am evil....But sometimes i think maybe my job makes me evil---case in point - the OT meeting today....my poor boss!

Anyway, a little note of happiness...

I heard"I saw the sign" by Ace of Bass today on my radio...I was SO EXCITED!! I used to LOVE Ace of Base! They were best thing to come out of sweden (besides pretty people, and ABBA)...Its just one of those songs that you hear and it makes your blood tingle and the nostalgia runs over you---needless to say, I totally sang it on the top of my lungs...and then had the song in my head for the rest of the day, along with their "other" hit song "All that she wants is another baby..."

Ok, off to have dinner with some of my favorite people!!!

i hate cooking

I really really hate cooking....almost as much as i hate OT students....j/k (maybe not)....(Marco claims i can not say that....hmm...is there an "OT" gestapo as well as the "state of NJ" gestapo??)
Why cant i afford a personal chef? Life is so unfair...hmm...

So I tried to make dinner tonight....apparently you can not freeze pizza dough...who the hell knew? I didnt! I though I was a total genious because i was making 2 meals out of materials i bought for just one....Needless to say my pizza casserole was a bust...therefore McDonald's was to the rescue.
I would just like to say that I am very sad transfat is no longer used...i know, it will do my fat ass better not to be inhaling transfat...but McDonald's fries now suck! What the heck? Must "activists" take everything away? Its all those damned skinny, nutritionist types who want my clients to eat fish sticks and fat-free mayo ...they ruin everything - I digress- I mean, I know Im fat and I know its not good to inhale fatty mcdonald's fries, but I am a consenting adult and on the once a month occasion (i really dont eat Mcd;s that much) I feel like clogging my arteries i should be able to!!! If Im a fat ass, its by my own choice!! I am "PRO CHOICE" all around people!!! Meanwhile I have to eat sub-par french fries that have just as much fat and calories, but taste like shit!

OK, so my french fry rant is really just because I had a cranky day...as evidenced my hatred of OT students...I dont HATE all OT students - I just am FRUSTRATED by todays youth...i cant believe i just wrote that , considering I am only 26 1/2 (my kind husband jsut reminded me that i am more like 26 3/4....he is such a catch!) . But some of these kids have nerve!! Not all of them ---some of them are quite nice and professional....but this other group - they are a whiny becuase they have to do field work and neglect doing other stuff in order to "go on vacation"...what the crap!!!!!!! When I was an OT student, I would have licked the floor if my clinical supervisor told me to!! (Mary, you missed out in making me look like an ass)...

....and while I am ranting and raving, I would just like to say the world DID exist before text messaging came about...and no employer is ever going to employ you if all you do is text message....its very rude to check you text messages mid sentence as well...Grow up - your life does not revolve around text messaging.It makes me just want to take their prissy phone and throw them on the ground and stomp on them.....

.....and in my day I had to walk 10 miles in freezing rain without shoes just to get to school...hehehhehe....

Perhaps my hostilities towards this "generation" (which, although I am only like 6-8 years older, I feel totally alienated from - although my niece is pretty cool, despite her obsession with text messaging as well :) ) come from the fact that at the movies this weekend, a bunch of these "teeny boppers" were singing what I heard one of them call "OLDIES"....ok people, here are the songs they were singing ---"BARBIE GIRL" and "I WANT IT THAT WAY"....i totally remember when those songs came out....i felt like such an old woman!!!! Oldies, my ass.....oldies are song like "In the Still of the Night" and "Hound Dog"....not "Barbie Girl!!"

Ok, so re-reading this blog I am noticing that I am a little hostile. I think that maybe I am going to take kickboxing or something to get my hostilities out...or become a cage fighter...ultimate cage fighting...heheheheheh............

.....I know, I wouldn't last 2 minutes....but think of all the entertainment you could get!

I hate pollen!

So I was really enjoying the spring weather - the nice sunshine, the pretty trees and flowering trees, the sweet smell, sleeping with the window open, airing out my house..............

And then reality sunk in. My car is now covered in pollen and I am sneezing, coughing, have a sore throat and miserable with allergies.....the charisma of the season made me forget why i DONT sleep with the windows open....because i become a giant mucus bucket....sorry for the descriptive language. So, I am probaly the onlyperson in the gorgeous weather who has her air conditioner on..i know, im a loser.

i watched American Idol last night for the first time in ages and it got me thinking about songs.
Now we all know my favorite song is the "Thong song"....not because it has any special meaning but becuase it is catching and has a good beat. As as matter of fact, it is one of the stupidest songs ever written.
We all have "favorite" songs....However, it got me thinking about songs that have special meaning to me and have impacted my life...These are the songs that get you in the gut when you hear hem...They are not neccesarily my favorite songs (although some are), but whenever i hear them, they either bring back memories or i think they are just powerful songs....so, here is my list of "Thais's most meaningful/impactful songs"...Part 1 ----ill do this in 2-3 parts, because i havent come up with all of them yet!

Thais's most impactful/Meaningful songs
1. "Not Ready to Make Nice" - By the Dixie Chicks.
I was a fan of the Dixie Chicks WAY before the controversy and this song, although this song cemented my love for them. I actaully cried at the concert at MSG when they played this song. As a matter of fact, this song is not neccesarily my favorite Dixie songs - That would be "Cowboy Take me away." However, when ever this song plays, i feel my heart start to beat, my adrenaline start to go and suddenly i have this overwelming urge to go to a peace rally and burn my bra or something like that. To me, this song is like a musical defense of the First Amendment . In a time where my views were VERY UNPOPULAR (how people change their tune..hmmm), it was nice to hear that i was not the only one who thought the world had gone absolutly mad. In my liberal, somewhat convoluted mind, I could imagine this song being played during the American Revolution if country-rock-chick music had been popular back then. (yes i know - im being a bit histrionic)....Even if you dont like the Chicks, you have to admit they make great music! (note: close second "political" dixie song - "Truth #2")

2. "Icky Thump" - The White Stripe
Whereas #1 song makes me want to burn my bra, this song make me want to bang the hell out of a drum set and scream. If I were to describe this song, I would call it "primevil rock." It makes me want to dance around like an idiot when this song comes on the radio. It is rock at the rawest and roughist....and I still think Jack White is a genious. In 20 years when i look back and try to define to my great nieces and nephews (no grandkids for me) what was "rock" in 2008, "Icky Thump" would come to my mind....the 1960's and 1970s had the beatles, rolling stones and led zepplin....we have White Stripes and Icky Thump.

3. "Do What You Have To Do" - Sarah McLachlan
Yes, of course I love the requisite Sarah songs such as "angel" and "adia" and "I will remember you"....However, TRUE sarah fans recognize her greater body of work which includes songs such as the afore mentions. I remember listening to this song whenever i was going through a period in my life where i needed depressing angry-chick-esk music to pout to. Its a great break up song and is the song i play most often when feeling either sad or when Im really cranky and feelig like a matyr. Its a beautiful melody...Plus, SArah Mclachlan writes the most profound lyrics. The first line of this song is:
"What ravages of spirit
conjured this temptuous rage"
Who writes songs (lately) with words like "temptuous" in it...as i recall, America was recently obsessed with a song thats great lyrical poetry included the phrase "my humps, my humps , my lovely lady lumps".

Ok, Im done writing to my next blog-time for dessert and some sleep---I will continue my list next time!!!!

Reason #5654 why I should not have children

So on Friday I was sitting at a light in PLainfield, waiting very impatiently for it to turn green...In a back yard 2 houses away from where my car was, a boy around 6 was trying to ride his 2 wheel bike with training wheels...for some reason, depsite the training wheels, this child was having difficulty mastering the bike.....After some time, he proceeded to hit a curb and then take a slow-motion tumble off the bike....


And what do I do?
- Do I exclaim "Oh my! That poor child!"
- Do I look to see if he is ok/conscious?

no, not me....I burst out into uncontrolable laughter!!! It was the funniest thing I had seen all day!! I am so going to hell!! My window as wide open - Im surprised i didnt get shot!
And the even sadder thing is, as I replay it over and over in my head, I still find it hilarious!!!

support joe!

So I just got an email from my crazy friend Joe, whom I have known since I was like 11. Now, I say he is crazy because he is riding ACROSS THE UNITED STATES BY BIKE!!! I cant even cross Clinton Avenue without getting hit by a car on my bike! I think its a really cool thing , and I can imagine Joe will do quite fine with the riding.
He is riding to support the National Lung Association, because he suffers from asthma, as I also do (he and I frequently swapped inhalers in school - really safe, I know - but if you cant breathe, you cant breathe!!). Its a really good cause and it seems he needs to raise 5 grand by June!!! So here is the link:
www.seejoeride.com
If you are a "blog stalker" such as myself, you can also bookmark it and stalk him as he makes his trek!

Commuting

Wow! what a beautiful day!! I love days like this - it could be this tempurature all year round!
So, on my commute home today I was thinking about what I would write in my blog, since i have taken a short sabbatical from it recently (mostly becuase all of my posts would have the common theme of "ignorance or idiot - you decide" and I felt like i really didnt want to piss too many people off).
At the same time, I was getting REALLY frustrated with all the other dumb people on the roads.....so that is what my blog is going to be....


THAIS's RULES/OBSERVATIONS/THOUGHTS FOR/FROM COMMUTING
Ok, so for those of you who dont know, I communte approximatly 60 miles a day to and from work - its takes me about 50-60 minutes one way. I USUALLY stick to back roads, as living where I live all of the Major highways are parking lots during rush hours and they just wind up getting me more and more cranky then I already am! Being a commuter, I do what I would presume every other commuter does and try to race the clock to get home....a day when i make it home in record time is like a holiday to me. Also being a commuter makes me want to save every single ounce of gas I possibly can and avoid frequent braking and unneccesary stops/slow-downs.
1. IF YOU CANT NEGOTIATE A TRAFFIC CIRCLE, GET THE F--- OUT OF NEW JERSEY!!!! Im sorry all you non-jerseyians---ok, Inot really sorry....You do NOT stop in the middle of the circle to let people in.....a traffic circle is a traffic "free for all".....it is survival of the fitest so you have permission to drive as aggressively as possible when utilizing the circle. YOU NEVER STOP IN THE MIDDLE OF A TRAFFIC CIRCLE EVEN IF YOU ARE LOST!!! ITS A CIRCLE PEOPLE!!! YOU WILL PASS THE ROAD AGAIN IS YOU MISS IT!! I drive through the WAtchung circle 10 times per week and at least ONCE A week some idiot decides to yield and/or stop in the middle of the circle and alomost always causes an accident or near-accident.
2. DONT GET OFFENDED IF I BEEP MY HORN YOU, as you are probably doing something retarded.
3. YOU CAN GO MORE THEN 5 MPH ON EXIT RAMPS!!!!!! These people are the worst!! YOu get off of 287, where you were doing a cool 85 and the dude in front of you is scared that his Honda wont be able to hand the curve of the exit ramp and then proceededs to slam on his/her brakes and negotiate the ramp at 5 MPH. Listen people, I am not advocating you take an exit ramp at 50 miles per hour ( although my DH was able to take one in my passat at 55 mph once) nor does my ranting and raving apply to wet and/or snowy conditions....However, that being said, most cars these days are desiged to be able to negotiate turns at a decent rate of speed.
This concept also applies to making turns.....you dont have to come to a complete halt to turn your car...
4. GOD GAVE YOU BLINKERS FOR A REASON---enough said.
5. IT IS LEGAL TO TURN RIGHT ON RED IF NO ONE IS COMING!!!! Yes, I understand you have to stop and look both ways...but dont just sit there and wait for the green ---they made that rule for a freakin' reason! Also, please referred back to Rule/Idea #2
6. MIDDLE AGED, WHITE UPPER-CLASS BALDING MALES LOOK RETARDED IN CONVERTABLE SPORTS CARS. Ok so this is just an observation from my commute thorugh morris county....first of all, we know you just bought the car becuase you are going through a mid life crisis and you are compensating for something....but you look dumb. I mean, come on, no one is going to think you are actually 25 again just because you drive a 25 year olds car! Plus, you are going to sunburn your bald spot - white people burn!! That is just inevitable! Then you will look REALLY uncool and old! Also in this catgory is the fact that tube socks should NEVER be pull up to your knees, especially if you are wearing shorts. It just looks dumb.
7. GREEN MEANS "GO". Not a hard concept people...only it is!!! If you are the first person at a red light, it is your DUTY to pay attention and jump the light soon as it turns green, for the benefit of the people behind you (again, refer to rule #2). I dont understnd wht takes people so long to move their foot from the brake to the gas pedal...If it takes your central nervous system and axons that long to react, perhaps you should not be driving.
8. ALWAYS PLAY LOUD COUNTRY MUSIC WHILE DRIVING THROUGH THE GHETTO, and always play ghetto music while driving through yuppie land---AT TOP VOLUME....It is really fun to a) piss people off and b)see peoples reactions.
9. A BIKE IS NOT A CAR. I often encounter this on my commute through the Great Swamp, especilly when the weather is nice. Bikers drive in the car lanes as if they are cars and expect people not to run them over....ok, unless you can bike the speed limit, you should not be in the car lanes....and as an addendum to #6 white upper class, middle aged men (not that i dont love you all) should NOT WEAR SPANDEX - You 're not Lance Armstrong people!
10. THE SPEED LIMIT IS MERELY A SUGGESTION. It really is. Now, I'm not advocating you speed race....However, I feel the "code of the road" dictates you can drive 9 over the limit on back roads and 14 over the limit on the highway with out getting pulled over. And even worst then the people who drive way under the spped limit are the people who drive like 1-2 miles under---you just want to pull your eyelashes out!!!! In addition to this one, I would just like to address people who slow down when they see a cop who has already pulled over someone else----ok, unless you are driving 50mph over the speed limit, dropping bags of heroin out the window , the cop is NOT going to jump bck in his car and chase you!!! It is not neccesary to slow to crawl to drive past him!

OK, now that you all think Im psycho, I must tell you sometimes I think I am...sometimes i feel like cruella devil in 101 dalmations when she is driving her car all sorts of crzy looking for the puppies. However, I always wear my seatbelt and try not to get in to an accident...and i dont drive liek a maniac in bad weather!

I am going to close my blog with another thought---why is gas so freakin' expensive and why dont we have an alternate (and ethonol doesnt count becuase, as far as im concernred, that is a waste of time)that everyone can utilize? I mean, I am honestly starting to doubt we put a man on the moon over this (possibly been hanging out with my patients too much???hmm...). But seriously, if they can "allegedly" launch 3 men in a tin can through our atmosphere into the great beyond and land them thousands of miles away on a moving giant piece of space rock, why can we create a cost-effective alternative fuel source that everyone can afford? Its been almost 200 years since the first effective team engine was built---we havent perfected it yet???
Im no rocket scientist, engineer or even a greenie, but i just dont understand...All i know is $3.45 for a gallon of gas sucks big time!

PS- and for all you people whose answer is "move closer to work" I invite you to help me buy a home and pay the taxes for it in Morris County on a State salary.....because contrary to Corzine's belief, we are not robber-barrons as the public depicts us....and now the state gestapo is REALLY going to come to my house!

NYC

So, I had to go to NYC today for my MOTEC meetings....Since I am a true Jersey surbubanite at heart, most days I really HATE the city - it smells, it's dirty as HELL , there are too many people , and I ALWAYS miss my train in and out (today i actaully got the train in but sat on the traacks for 15 minutes and then i missed my train home by like 1 minutes---grrr).
However, despite my transportation woes of the day, I did not find myself hating the city today--very peculiar. Some random very large, somewhat scary-looking African American guy stuck his hand out and held up the entire, very crowded A train for me (which was great because i was late) and then gave me a polite "your welcome" and did NOT proceed to either a) stare at me inappropriatly or b) talk to me...hmm!!!! And today, I realized one of the greatest pleasures of NYC----People watching!!!!
Where have I been?! This is one of Marco and his sister Merry's favorite past times and I am starting to kind of get into it. Today it hit me that NYC is a haven for observation of every kind of homo sapiens that walks this earth. I also realized that you can wear ANYTHING in the city and no one really gives a crap...I could have walked around on the subway in my underwear (scary, i know - i dont even want to think about it myself!) and everyone would keep on going, listening to their ipods and heading to whereever people in Manhattan go...
Let me also tell you that there are WAY TOO MANY people wearing skinny jeans (and whoever brought those back into style should be SHOT - unless you are a size two or four, they DONT LOOK NICE) who should not be...and I am sorry, men should NOT wear skinny jeans, especially those cut to accentuate the groin area. Who the hell wants to look at punky, "trendy" guy's junk? And to make matters worst, most of these guys in "skinny" jeans were wearing the jean in ugly colors such as washed out black and stone washed!! AGG!!! The 80's is a decade that should NOT be brought back! What's next? Chartruese scrunchies and fanny packs? AHHHH!
So on to my next topic, and this is open for comment discussion. For the past few months, I have been wanting to do something very wierd - I want ot put a pink stripe in my hair....I have NO IDEA why - I just think it looks bad ass. Now, I know I am NOT "bad ass" ( there isa big difference between being "bad ass" and an "asshole") but for some reason I think this is so cool!!!!! I am thinking that I am regressing back to adolescence...I did not go through the "I am going to dye my hair ugly colors i.e. blue, pink, purple with KoolAid" phase that most of my peers went through at age 11-13, which also coincided with the "grunge" phase of the 1990's...The "grungiest" I ever got was wearing my flannel from Abercrombie and Fitch to school...it wasnt my thing.
One of my favorite authors, Meg Cabot, has a pink streak and it looks awesome (her blog is hilarious, btw). Now, I thought I was insane, until my fairly sane-minded SIL stated she was also contemplating it! How would I even go about this? Would I look stupid at work? (ok, maybe not considering my place of employment) Hmmm......I dont know...maybe its just a phase of me trying to be bad ass, when i know that Im really not....

The crabs are back!

Last night, as I am just about to fall asleep, my DH turns to me and goes in a VERY excited tone "I am SO EXCITED? Tomorrow the crabs are back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
I almost fell out of the bed.
For all of you sickos, get your mind out of the gutter.
He was referring to one of our favorite shows - "Deadliest Catch"
For some reason, we both love this show. I dont know why I like this show. I personally am very afraid of boats and sinking and this show chronicles both of them. Some of the wide lense shots even make me seasick just WATCHING them....However, I am addicted!!! I even have a favorite boat - The NorthWest!! Sad, Sad, I know....
So I somehow got on a SPAM list so my blog was down! I think I have finally rectified this situation.
I really cant blog much about some of hte recent events of my life, as to not offend people (why i care, I dont know....oh i guess i do - remember, I am working on being "nice?") Lets just say this past weekend was a freakin' bitch!!!
Catch you later gators!

Whew!

I just got my "Reunion" news for Etown. I am sad to say that my notes did not make it in...probably because i forgot to send them in....i am so bad with stuff like that! I am jealous of people who are organized with those "clerical" things...Its hard enough for me to remember to pay my bills - Thank god for Marco! As 1950's housewiish as that sounds, i must admit I hate dealing with my finances ! Well, as of Friday I will be a happy home owner and be so poor that i wont have any finances to even deal with! ha!

Work today was slightly obnoxious. So, I dont know that I can talk about "work" here because the State of New Jersey gestapo ( in my imagination the state of ne wjersey employee gestapo are made up of our scary personnel staff dressed in blackk leather jackets with guns with Governor Corzine limping behind them as the ring leader...but I digress) may show up at my house and fire me and/or arrest me under some obscure Patriot Act law that allows them to, so I will talk about it in "general terms."......Two words: Retarded employees---talk amoungst yourselves....

So, for all of "stalkers" who didnt get to read about me in the reunion notes because Im a slacker, here are my own reunion notes:

Where do you live? i live in New Jersey (none of that PA shit any more), South Plainfield and as of Friday will officially hold the title of "Townie"...For most of my life, except for my short time in "that other state" [PA] I have lived with in one square mile....You gotta dream big, people!

Spouses: Marco and I got married on October 6th, 2008 and he has not killed me and/or been commited to the local psych unit as of yet (although I am apparently an evil influence on him), so I would say that is a moral victory!! hehehe....j/k - i am very happy!

My fondest Etown Memory: Sooo many....Hershey Park, Dell day, My car breaking down on 78 twice, in Hamburg and juts about everywhere else, Swimming in Lake Placida while wasted out of my mind during Senior Week (damned dead nazi shots!!! You cant drink ANYTHiNG with JAEGER in it with out acting retarded) , drinking and swimming in my baby pool for 2 years on Dell Day, Swimming with Amy and Alisa under the Beer pong table...while drunk.....hmmm...there is a wierd pattern of swimming and drinking here...Wow, I was kinda a lush in college - now I cant even handle a small glass of red wine!!!!!

What I would do if I could go back to 2003: NOT USE MY CREDIT CARDS EVER!!!!!! They are the root of all that is evil...hmm, not graduate and stay in college FOREVER?

So its time for Thais's "NERD TIME":

I did, in fact finish the fluff book and have now moved onto another chick lit book called "Kind of Married"....I am finidng its a bit more serious then I thought...however, it is set in NJ so of course I will finish it! Anyony have any suggestions for new reading materials???? does any one even read my blog? who knows!

Tomorrow night I am going out with work people to celebrate many milestones - Mary's 25th anniversary (despite her 22 years of separation/divorce), Craig's bachelor party (he isnt even going out with us because of wedding obligations), and OF COURSE - our successful move to the new hospital!!!!!!! (which of course, we havent moved.....it was postponed....AGAIN). All in all, going to be a wonderful celebration!!! hehehehhehehe

thank you Mary and Stefanie for commenting - it made my pathetic day!!!

I will leave you all some of my political adgend, jsut becuase i feel likebeing an ass tonights....so all you republicans and conservatives (i love you any way!!) can CLICK OFF now so i do not offend you.................

I took this picture down in north carolina while attending my sister-in-laws graduation and i just found it on my hard drive--It says "bush F-cked America (can i say f-ck on my blog?!) -it was on my desktop for awhile...i figured i should post it, so maybe when the New Jersey gestapo comes to arrest me for blogging about my job, they will actually have TWO reasons to arrest me under the Patriot Act....plus i have listened to way too much CNN today.....hehehhe...later gators!

wow! I am a dork!

so I told my DH that i got a blog and he responded with a groan.....i was a little miffed and then my loving dear hubby of 6 months told me he thought it was a bad idea because my assholey-ness may come out and he thinks that only him and my boss Mary (isnt she lucky?) are aware of my full bithchiness/assholey ness.....
so anyway, if i come off as an asshole, im sorry.....but not really because as i mentioned previously - this is my blog!!! However, I did make a resolution to be nicer in the month of April...its day 7 and its not going so well!! I have tried though....kind of, sort of...whatever, I mean well!
Anyway, I would like to take this chance to talk about my new band....yes i am a member of a band and we are awesome...i play drums, marco guitar and chris, my bro-in-law, is the singer...
...and if you havent already guessed, i am totally talkin about "rock band", my new favorite thing in the world....i am sorry to say that i spent my entire Saturday night playing this blasted game...and yes, i am fully aware that I am a loser...
To continue with my loserness, I would just like to say that I am totally addicted to the "John Adams" miniseries on HBO---possibly some of the best TV I have seen in a long time. It is historically accurate in pretty much every detail, which is AWESOME and sometimes hard to find with historical film!!! If you havent seen it, check it out! Even my DH, who tends to find history a bit boring, is totally engrossed. Its ON DEMAND, so check it out!

BOOKS: Since I dont have cute kids and/or cute crafts/hobbies to post about, I am going to post about the books I am currently reading. Currently, I am reading two books. I am reading JOhn ADAMS by David McCullough, which the miniseries is based on (wow, I am jsut reading this blog and realizing I am a total nerd). It is really really intersting, although a bit dry at times, as most straight history is. However, I am increasing my basis of useless knowledge by millions of brain cells and it makes me happy for some reason. The second book I am currently reading is what I would call "chick fluff"---its not trashy (not too trashy) but is an easy read. Its called "Shoe Addicts Anonymous"...its pretty cute!
That is for now! I should be done with the shoe book by thursday!

later gators!

I have a blog

Its 11 pm on Sunday night - WAY past my bed time. I am waiting for the dryer to buzz and I have decided to FINALLY sign up for my blog. Im not sure what the hell I am going to post on my blog---I do not have children (well, i have furry children and i will most likely post cute pictures of them) , I do not have pretty crafts or hobbies to post about (i read - Im boring) and I am not actively campaigning or running for any office or post (although i will periodically utilize this space to shamelessly push my liberal views---and if you dont agree, i dont really give a shit because its my blog---so ha ha). My spelling sucks and sometimes I type too fast and for get letters, words, phrases etc etc.....deal with it!
Anyway, welcome to my blog and enjoy my randomness!