Tuesday, April 29, 2008

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!

Thursday, April 24, 2008

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!

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

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....

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

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!

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

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!

Monday, April 7, 2008

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!

Sunday, April 6, 2008

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!