midge 06:28 PM 04.27.02
we went to a local deli style sandwitch place called jimmy v's for lunch. we've eaten there one before and it was really good. i ordered a meatless lasagna and after a few bites noticed a brown lump with legs and antennae, is that a fucking cockroach?!?!?!. indeed it was. i thought i was going to cry and puke all at the same time. husband went and complained and they asked if i wanted something else, which i didn't, and we left. it was the grossest thing ever. i just hope i didn't eat any of it's little friends before i found that one. there were many little pieces of mushroom that looked suspect. ugh, i still feel ill just thinking about it.
midge 07:18 PM 04.26.02
moisha i love you but your last two emails have been blank without words or attachments or anything... i'm confused.
midge 07:16 PM 04.26.02
we went to the mall today and there were freaks i used to work with at wal-mart crawling all over the place. i had forgotten it was friday and how scary that place is on weekends. we didn't buy anything but we hit the book store on the way home and i looked at french and japanese language books, again, bought nothing, but we did go to kroeger next to the book store to get juice and soda and i almost crapped myself when i saw a big sign by the deli that said SUSHI. i scuttled over and found a plentiful bounty of pre-packaged sushi and stuff to make it with. i bought a spicy roll combo with 3 shrimp, 3 salmon and three spicy tuna rolls to have for lunch at work tonight. i wore the old pants husband mutilated for me with bleach and scissors, i like them. i also like how he goes crazy and chases me around calling me hot pants and pinching my butt. though i think i'll wash them in super hot water a few times to shrink them up a bit more since they still sag a bit. i haven't slept much today because i always go back to sleeping at night on my days off, then get all fucked up and can't sleep in the day before work, but it doesn't matter, i can nap at work. i'm now down to reading reader's digest and knitting to pass the time at work because i can't afford to buy more books and the library here sucks ass. i think if i had a laptop i'd be happiest of all, but they're too expensive and this job is disposable. 15 more shifts and it's in the trash.
midge 09:13 PM 04.25.02
we went to the zoo today. it wasn't as puny or depressing as i'd expected, the animals were kept in fenced pens with wooden huts and rocks and bamboo growing all around them, they seemed pretty happy and loungy and were neat to look at. my favorite was the red panda and the russian tortoise butt that looked like a rock in the corner... okay maybe not the tortoise. there was a distorting mirror, and we rode the minitrain around the joint. on the way out we bought an inflatable elephant and flattened pennies in the amazing souvenir penny squisher, the likes of which i've never seen. i have a tiger and a red panda squished penny and put them in husband's takin' care of business elvis coin purse he got at graceland many years ago, for safe keeping. we were talking crazy about going to graceland to see the sites and i was all excited because i wanted to get re-married at the viva memphis theme chapel but i looked it up and it's like a 10.5 hour drive which is not cool. we had 7 layer dip again for dinner and i'm sorry because husband is already gassing me to death with his explosive bottom. i love him but green onions do frightening things in his bowels.
midge 10:28 AM 04.25.02
i made sushi icons for windows and some of them look like this. the whole set will be available for download on my sushi page that's half done right now, but i had to put them on my desktop and show them here because i like them so much.
midge 10:22 AM 04.25.02
we made seven layer nacho dip for a late late night dinner, it was so good... though i think i cheated and put 8 or 9 layers (refried beans, guacamole, sour cream, cheese, lettuce, tomatoe, black olives & green onions... how many is that?) i'll still call it 7 layer dip because i'm a jerk. when we were at target yesterday i took my blood pressure on the sitting down machiney thingy that pinches arms, and it was pretty low as usual, but my pulse was 61, while it used to be in the 90's, but who knows why, this stuff's a mystery to me. husband's was all kind of high and i worried about him like i always do... when we get to canada i will have to kick his ass to go get a physical so he can get patched up and stop worrying me so much. i decided i will put bamboo roll down blinds in our new appartment because we hate curtains and plastic ones just aren't as stylish. i think of things like this even though we're nowhere near the place yet... it's just so exciting... we're going to live in a place that has cabinets, carpet and things that aren't decades old! here is a giant picture of me taken yesterday in front of my car. i can't tell much difference in my body shape but husband insists i'm shrinking, i can't really tell, but whatever, capri pants are awesome.
sometimes being on mailing lists is funny business.
midge 06:24 PM 04.24.02
while running around we went to the discount bread store and spent $.53 on a loaf of wonderbread we fed to the ducks and geese that hang out by the river near our house. there were regular ducks, canadian geese (my countrymen), and big brown geese with orange bills i call barney geese (no idea why). i went to a park back home once and went up close to give one some bread, it was hiding in the bushes, and it got all pissed off, hissed at me and chased me away. i think it was probably protecting it's nest or something, but still... i'm scared of those, so when 6 or 7 of them surrounded us today, i was all scared they'd try to bite my toes and i scuttled away the closer they came.
midge 01:45 PM 04.24.02
my brain likes to explode and make me sick on my days off. i've had a migraine since last night and it's tapered off a bit but i don't feel good by any means. i tried my hand at crochet last night, there's a new shrimp in the family (not mine mind you) and i wanted to make a blanket for her, but it was taking too long and pretty hard so i gave up, re-packaged the supplies and back to wal-mart they go. there's a rogue tamagotchi that keeps going off and beeping but i haven't touched the thing in months and i'm not even sure where it is, hopefully it dies soon and shuts up. for the first time since we were issued credit cards, husband and i now have a combined credit card debt of 0$. now we're working on saving for the trip and tying up a few things... garage sales and things will soon follow. how exciting... we're leaving so soon!
midge 10:01 PM 04.22.02
i ate too much puddin' and now i have a tummy ache. work is boring, i've been reading death on the installment plan by louis-ferdinand celine, plucking my eyebrows and filing my nails. it's been really rainy and grey lately and it reminds me of bc, can't wait to go back. i've been a bit on edge with the money situation, not in a freaky panicky way, but it weighs on me, gives me headaches if i think about it too much. my constitution can't handle crisis. i rode my excercise bike for 30 minutes yesterday then had an asthma attack and feltlike shit for 30 more. it was awful. primatine mist inhalers feel like breathing sulfuric acid, they work but with extreme prejuicice. i don't think i've had much to say, isn't this earth day? bush gave a speech... i didn't catch it but wasn't he reccomending we plow through alaska for oil last month? very earthy indeed.
