Listening: Whirl of thoughts crashing in my head

I'm mostly in a good mood as I contemplate chilling and this past weekend. I also feel some trepidation when I consider that I'll eventually have to get up from the computer.

My car's in the shop today. When I got the oil changed the guy at Midas gave me a laundry list of things that were wrong with the engine. They didn't sound like cheap or even easy things to fix. So now the trusty mechanic that my parents have gone to for years is looking it over. I hope it's not too painful. I can't really afford much of anything these days, let alone several hundred of dollars in car repairs, but I've been somewhat afraid of slowly poisoning myself with all of the leaks and whatnot it's got.

But in the meantime I'm in Long Beach and I have to figure out how to get to Fullerton. Not too hard, really but crossing county lines on mass transit is occasionally challenging. In this case dropping Web sites in favor of talking to a real person seems most helpful.

I've got one more chill Monday left and then I start having normal Mondays like every one else. So I hope it's a good one.

Tomorrow is my Molasses' birthday. He'll be 27. Old man. Tomorrow I'm thinking I'll take him out to dinner at either Lone Star or Claim Jumper. Lone Star has the World's Best Steaks (tm) but Claim Jumper will make more of a birthday fuss, which he likes. Well they're close together so I'm sure I can get him to pick without looking like I'm letting him pick. Hopefull I'll have recieved the gift certificate I bought him for a one hour massage ready to go.

His parents are flying in on Saturday in the late afternoon which is a bit of a key detail I had forgotten, cause I had invited people over on Sunday to his apartment, curtesy of Agent Orange (his roomate), so they could hang out and have a good time and wish him well.

As it turns out when sending out invitations on a Saturday for a party on Sunday, it is often best to emphasize the date often and loudly, especially if it is not the next day. And then, if you know the subject of the party might have to drive far away the night before you might want to consider when they might be getting back. As it stands I have to track everyone down and tell them not to show up until four-thirty or five. Hopefully the roomie won't be too mad at me for screwing this up so much. (To straighten it out I had to write to the boy's father!)

So now I'm kicking back waiting for the bus... So the new rage is:

NAME 4 BAD HABITS YOU HAVE:
* biting my nails, I don't really do it any more
* thinking far too much/long
* procrastinating
* going to extreme lengths to see my friends when I should try and make myself the one that is sought. Girly, I know, but I start feeling used if I'm the one that writes all the emails, makes the phone calls, waits and waits to hear when someone is available, drives all over creation and ends up with nothing to do when someone forgets or decides something else came up.

NAME 4 PEOPLE CURRENTLY ON YOUR BAD SIDE:
* me
* jh
* stupid waste of space (SWS, I need a better nick, but one that won't give it away)
* ummm, work supervisors? not too much, since I'm not *at* work but you know...

NAME 4 SCENTS YOU LOVE:
* gardenias on Saturday mornings in June wafting into my mom's dining room
* coffee houses
* baby powder
* fresh rain

NAME 4 THINGS YOU'D NEVER WEAR:
* anything that's been on a runway, cause likely it'll be ugly and not fit me
* tent dresses
* 70's stuff
* famous name brands - Calvin Klien, DKNY, really boring clothes that cost *WAY* too much

NAME 4 ANIMALS YOU LIKE:
* Wolves
* Cats (large and small)
* Rabbits (My sister's rabbit is big! but she still thinks she's a cat, but she doesn't make sneeze like a cat would)
* squirrels

NAME 4 TV SHOWS YOU LOVE:
* The West Wing
* Malcolm in the Middle
* Whose Line Is It Anyway
* uhhh AbFab? (don't watch much TV)

NAME 4 CELEBRITIES YOU DON'T LIKE:
* The dubya
* Whoever it is that keeps on putting those shite shows on Fox like boxing celebs and such so that I have to hear about them at work several days before and after....
* uhh Teedledummer
* err der... umm crap let's see...

NAME 4 DRINKS YOU REGULARLY DRINK:
* coffee
* Root Beer
* Pink Lemonade
* Kahlua

NAME 4 ICE CREAM FLAVORS YOU LOVE:
* Rocky Road
* rocky Road
* Rocky Road
* Home Made Vanilla

NAME 4 RANDOM FACTS ABOUT YOURSELF:
* When I was seven my dad told me I thought too much and that it would make me crazy.
* When i was eleven my mom told me I spent too much time reading and it would make me crazy.
* When I was 14 one of my aunts told me that I worked to hard at school and that boys wouldn't like that and if I didn't get boys to like me I'd end up old alone and crazy.
* I've always wondered if I was crazy but now I think it's just that the world is so full of stupid people who don't take the time to educate themselves, that of course very little makes any damned sense....

NAME 4 RANDOM FACTS ABOUT YOUR FAMILY:
* My mom is actually one of about ten kids, but was raised as an only child by her aunt.
* We're not really sure but we think that my dad's dad moved to the US to get out of the way of the Revolutionary war Mexico was having.
* My dad's family name was awarded to a family that helped in the Reconquista of Spain and recognizes them as someone who worked to get the holy religion of Rome to reign supreme in the area. At least I think it's the Reconquista, slightly confusing and no one is sure if that means we're related to some ancient royal line or to the swineheards and cooks and maids of same.
* Genetic defects have included nearsightedness, bad teeth, schizophrenia and depression.