Month: March 2006

[Last Night, Typed in on my SideKick]:
I’m at the Filene’s in Leominster, waiting for the other blogger chicks on North Central Mass to meet me. I’m not entirely sure how this will work because I’ve never done this before, but it beats doing the dishes and laundry!

I got here a little too early and realized there are two doors on the side we said we’d meet. Uh oh. So I went for the one I thought Christine meant but that means I’m standing here in the Junior section. I am so conspicuous it hurts.

I wandered to the other door but you have to pass through the cosmetics section and I was terrified they were going to take one look at me and wrestle me to the ground so they can give me a makeover.

[Today]:
What fun! North Central MA blogging chix rule! Thanks to Christine, Robin and Butterstar for getting together over an Orange Julius! As an update for them – I got stuck standing outside in the wind and cold for 20 minutes waiting for the dog to poop after I got back. Again, I ask, I have a dog why?

I was just sitting here at my desk, thinking to myself “Wow, it really smells like someone stepped in dog crap.”

So I do the obligatory shoe-check, even though I should have smelled it long before now. So I just immediately assume someone sitting in a cube near me stepped in it during a lunchtime walk.

But just now, I realized that the smell is coming from my trash can, and it’s from the part of my lunch that I didn’t finish. There is just no way to put a good spin on this. (But it didn’t taste like dog crap!)

Is today the Ides of March? You know, when they say “Beware the Ides of March”? I don’t know why I think it’s the 15th. I don’t even know what the hell it means, but I have the 15th stuck in my head.

So if it is (let’s assume), what exactly am I bewaring of?

[Update: Oh, hey, I was right, the Ides of March is March 15th. In some other months the Ides is the 13th. And “Beware the Ides of March” isn’t for me, it was said to Julius Caesar and made famous by Shakespeare. So I guess I have one less thing to stress about today.]

I HATE THAT. And the stupid web interface for T-Mobile doesn’t show the content of the message if it was sent in HTML format, meaning the only way to see it is to click “reply” and then it displays all the HTML codes. Really wonderful.

Quote of the day:
– “I got an ice cream headache trying to do the math.” – Steve Donovan, WXLO

Here are the key points for today’s meeting.

• We weren’t able to find a beard at the dollar store. I know you find that hard to imagine, but I guess there just wasn’t enough room what with all the candles and knick-knacks and whathaveyou. We tried iParty but I’m not paying 8 bucks for my kid to pretend he’s not himself at school. So we’ll just have to leave this experiment on hold for now.
• Interestingly, we ate dinner at my sister’s house last night and we watched Howl’s Moving Castle. One of the characters, Markl, is a young boy who wears a beard when he goes out in the town, and nobody sees past his disguise. We loved this movie, and now that we’ve seen this one and Spirited Away I have put the rest of Hayao Miyazaki’s movies in my Amazon “to buy” basket.
• On the way to work I got to wondering…if I got rear-ended by a cement mixer and all the cement came pouring out on my car, and as I got out it got all over me, my hair, etc., how long would I have before my hair and clothes because encased in cement?
• It’s “Deal or No Deal” night at my house. Jen and Steve (WXLO) interviewed Howie Mandell this morning, and I was thrilled when Steve asked the question I would have asked…Howie did memorize the names of the 26 girls, but they hold the same number case EACH time, so it’s easier to remember them all. I guess I hadn’t paid close enough attention to know that they are always in the same spot. Prior to today, I had hoped that he was just making up names on the fly, because that would be really funny. And now I have to pay closer attention because he has OCD and one of his things is that he doesn’t shake hands with anyone. Interesting problem for a game show host!
• I did go to the Leominster Filene’s yesterday after getting my hair done and picked up a few things from the 80% off rack. Our store is not having a total clearance the way some of the others are. They are selling off the brands they won’t carry as Macy’s, but there is still a lot of regularly priced merchandise available. But I can say I got 2 pair of Lee jeans for six bucks each! Score! (I should go back and get more, eh?)