Diana.Wille [11:27 AM]:
guess what
Jayne.Blocker [11:27 AM]:
what
Diana.Wille [11:27 AM]:
lexi bought A HOUSE
Diana.Wille [11:28 AM]:
in like, 2 days.
Jayne.Blocker [11:29 AM]:
whoa
Jayne.Blocker [11:29 AM]:
does she ever tell anyone anything?!
Diana.Wille [11:29 AM]:
i KNOW
Jayne.Blocker [11:29 AM]:
minus deorderant usage
The state of Minnesota just gave me a $339 renter’s refund! HOTT. It’s all the more cherished since I am afraid that next year I will no longer qualify…alas.
The government wants to build a bridge that’s like super duper crazy. I get it, but that kind of frightens me. Shouldn’t we, like, spend any extra money (of which there is none, but that’s another story) on making, um, other bridges safer? Eh?
Anyway.
All of my Speedos are destroyed. As I was telling Angela today, they have come apart at the elastic and now sag and swish all around me when I swim. It’s sad. I might not be able to swim again until I get to Middleton Cycle and Fitness or something. Swimsuits are not cheap!
I went to Jim Lupient Waterpark tonight. It definitely creeped people out, because I have no kids, but it was fun to be there. I hardly swam - too chilly for me (hey, I like it hot) - but it was just really nice to be there. Now it’s storyboard time.
I think this new method of updating (i.e., no quotes) suits me.
So. I’m alive. For all you lurkers out there.
Diana and I were painting closet doors in her basement on Wednesday night when her neighbor breezed by telling us that the 35W bridge at University collapsed. Dutiful perfectionists that we are, we finished the door we were on and then hustled upstairs to see what all the fuss was about.
DAMN.
By that point I had voicemail messages I couldn’t get to and text messages galore questioning my state of being. My apartment happens to be less than a mile from that bridge so I guess it freaked a bunch of people out. Lucky for me I ride my bike in the summer and haven’t been tutoring anyway, so no issue. But after updating my facebook status and getting ahold of my mom and Jeff, everyone seemed settled. There were some scary moments where we couldn’t get ahold of D’s dad, but it worked out thank God.
It wasn’t until Friday morning when we drove our usual route to the gym that happens to go above the bridge that I really realized what that WAS. I mean, I knew, but I didn’t. That’s the bridge we’d drive above and I’d complain about when they were ever going to get it done (exits from my area were blocked). Well holy shit. Guess it won’t be ‘done’ for awhile now, and I can damn well quit my complainin’. Holy smokes.
It’s just a really freaky and horrible thing, and as Diana and Jeff keep saying, “things like this don’t happen in Minnesota”. It’s naive but it’s true; I mean, we have winter. Hello.
The destruction and devastation are unimaginable, and I am so so so lucky that no one I know was involved. Thanks be to God. That all said, here’s to the people that were and their loved ones, and to the people that have been helping them out. It just blows the mind.
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I’ve been riding my bike to work every day just because the other two bridges by me are totally overloaded with detoured traffic. We’ll see when it all shakes out but for now I am very very happy to be slipping by traffic jams on my little bike. Yipes.
On Friday I had another review (we have them every three months, they’re informal lunch-y type things) and there was a lot of discussion on my irrational fears about getting fired. I can’t help it. I work somewhere that’s a Big Deal in Minneapolis and I’m surrounded by super duper talented folk everyday. It’s awesome but also frightening, and while I know it will make me better it’s still somewhat stressful. Aaah. The good thing is one of my buddies got promoted so I’m really excited about that. He will make a great SENIOR Dznr. The other good thing is I’m doing a good job. Phew.
Time for the Gymnastics and Life Analogy. So I liken my lucky spot at my job to being on the sucky D1 teams I had thought I could be on or being a student at MIT like I had considered (but thankfully wasn’t, because I don’t have $100000). I would have spent all of my time just grateful to be there, happy to be amongst such talented people but realizing that my piece in the puzzle, while there, was minimal. And you know what? It would have been awesome (being a benchwarmer on a DI team, anyway; the MIT thing may have been horrible). And so right now I’m just trying to do good work and learn some stuff so I can help out at least a bit. I think I’m getting somewhere.
I also built a totally perfect homepage for one of our clients on Friday so that makes me very very very geekily happy!!! Yeah!
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In other news…..um what else. We’ve had a really weird/rare weekend for us (’we’ being ‘Jeff and I’, sorry, I’m trying not to be a ‘we’-er but I can’t help it. Aah.). Weird in that we’ve gone out and spent money, ha. On Friday we hit up Angela (Hoover)’s surprise birthday party in MAPLE GROVE at DAVE & BUSTERS. I thought it would be horrible, especially since it’s up in the Middle of Nowhere IMVHO, but it ended up being really really fun. Dave was so happy that he surprised her, Angela was happy to see us, and Angela’s buddies were all nice. I played a little skee ball and watched everyone else go nuts. Pretty fun.
My freelance got put on a tiny hold so I’ve had a lot of time to read and eat jellybeans, pretty much one of my favorite things ever, while Jeff plays Zelda. He LOVES that game. On Saturday after dropping his car off (and not getting it back, and finding out they basically stole his car for the next few days because they never called us, those jerkfaces, but that’s another story) we went to Southdale for DOUBLE FEATURE SATURDAY. We saw Simpsons and The Bourne Ultimatum - woo! Simpsons was pretty good, Bourne Ultimatum was AWESOME and if you like those movies you should totally see it. I love when a sequel/whatever turns out to be g-reat. Had a nice lunch at CPK - that place never fails to disappoint. We also did some requisite Apple Store cruising (twice) and played with the iPhones. They are AMAZING! I didn’t think I’d love it so much but I do. Seriously those things are incredible.
Michael came and visited me at work on Weds and that was pretty cool! He was interviewing across the street. How cool would that be if he worked right there! Yeah!
OK that’s it. This is way too long. Hope everyone’s doing well and be careful out there. Happy (happy?) August!
…as the guy said to Jeff on the phone this morning. “WRONG NUMBER!” I’m tired of using the old format all the time since it hinders me from updating so here ya go - randomness.
First, some PERSONAL STATS (since I’m such a fan of PERSONAL STATS), mostly from my myriad of medical appointments and other technical scenarios as of late. I am very proud of (most of) these stats so bear with me.
Teeth: No cavities and that stupid wire is doing its stupid job.
Blood pressure: 108/66. I am very proud about this because it used to always be like 120/80 because I’m so stressy all the time. However I might have tricked the BP-taker because I spent 20 minutes before trying to relax, ha ha ha. 
Cholesterol: 170. Suckas!
Run a mile: in 7:47. But then I can’t run more that fast because I die (how will I ever do a 5k under 25??? I’m thinkin’ no :P).
My total bs ‘credit scores’ from those bs institutions that still matter even though it’s kind of bs: In order to not be a jerk, I’ll just say they’re very good, very good, and good.
WHAT? The ‘good’ one threw me because frankly I am a superstar (when it comes to certain things, mind you). Turns out they DON’T have like the only account I use on that one. Credit institutions are total BS! You have to pay them, in turn they don’t do their job right and YOU have to correct them. What a joke. Anyway I was happy about the other two and Jeff has stellar credit. So that was exciting!
Anyway stats time is over. So I totally bought a wedding dress off Craigslist. It was $125 and it fit me perfectly, even with my giant ribcage! It was amazing and obviously meant to be. I figure, if I decide I don’t want it I can always sell it on ebay. Rcady or my mom will teach me the way (not the Tao Way, still figuring that out, the ebay way. Rcady makes so much $ selling stuff on ebay it’s crazy). But it was pretty awesome. Gooooo Craigslist!
OK that’s it for now, it’s work time. Ci-zzzao.
ETA: Where the F did that smiley come from??? WTH???? Something is weird here.
