Can We Keep It On One Thing For a Second?

So for anyone who happens to be living under a rock (and I'm sure its nice under there) the Winter Olympics are going on. Now i am not a huge fan of the winter games, I tend to like the summer Olympics better (and who doesn't). That being said there are a few events i like to watch: women's figure skating, hockey, bobsled even some curling (come on its shuffleboard on ice with brooms!).

With that being said, NBC couldn't possible be doing a worse job of fucking up the TV schedule with the Olympics. Last night i turn it on at 8 as i am working on my thesis because that's when the Women's figure skating is "supposed" to start. At 8 I see one girl, an hour later (and three different sports) I see another girl. Not till 10 did they finally switch to figure skating for 2 hours. In that 2 hours they wasted of me waiting I could have been watching American Idol (sneaky nbc, i know your game). Not only that in the 2 hours i spent waiting for figure skating i watched part of skiing, part of bobsled, part of Moguls (i think). But they didn't show enough of any of them for me to get interested.

I realize that with the Olympics going on in Canada and everybody wanting everything live, this is how they have to do it. But really i don't want to watch 3 bobsleds and then watch 2 skiers and then 2 figure skaters and have no idea if any of them won anything. Why not just tape the early people and then show them right before the later people go, then i can watch 3 full hours of bobsled and see who won. Or watch 3 full hours of figure skating but be able to put them in comparison to each other (because i won't have to remember a girls routine from 3 hours prior). Yes that means time delays and it won't be live. But then i won't waste 4 hours of time trying to catch 20 minutes worth of shit, which just makes me want to tune out entirely.

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Open Letter: I Neep Sleep

Dear Maintenance Workers:

I realize that you have work to do. I realize it is your job to be doing it and that you don't set your hours or where you are going. But for the fucking love of god, do you have to be doing this shit at 8 in the morning? I understand that you need to fix the stairwell, or a busted pipe, or a fallen power line. But which one of you geniuses thinks its a good idea to do this at 8 am? People sleep you know. Obviously you don't because you're a subhuman freak of nature. I'm not saying not to fix this shit, but could you at least wait till 10 am to start banging away at this shit like you're trying to warn me the Chinese are invading. Holy shit, i actually felt my brain rattle around in my head this morning you were banging so hard. I don't think waiting till 10 am is unreasonable (well it might be to my pothead neighbors who go to bed at 6. but they can STFU).

I know you don't make these decisions and that it is really your psychopathic boss that decides you need to be welding a stairwell at 8 am in a building full of overstressed college students. But really did anyone mention that it might be a bad idea. Also, whatever city overseer decided to turn the water off to my building 2 weeks ago at 9 a.m. is a sadistic bastard. Really you shut the water off for 30 minutes right when I'm covered with soap. You know how hard soap is to get off without water? You couldn't do that at, i dunno, 2 in the afternoon when the average person has already taken a shower. Not at 9 am when 3/4ths of the world is getting ready for work. I'm just saying.

Now kindly cease and desist waking me up and pissing me off before 10 am. I'm angry (and stressed) enough without you making my life worse.

Thank you,
Occupants of building 1112

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A Thank You and a Paying it Forward

So one of my Favorite Bloggers, Princess T, has passed on the Beautiful Blogger Award to me. I can't even begin to tell you how honored and flabbergasted i actually am. I basically use this blog to get all the random thoughts out of my head (and to avoid my pesky thesis) and i'm shocked that anyone would want to read it at all. I mean its not like there is some theme to this blog. Its mostly the story of the strange things that go on in my life. I can't imagine i'm all that interesting (if i was I would have a show on MTV by now).

But I'm very honored and per the rules of the award i have to now pass it on to bloggers i enjoy. So in no random order I am bequeathing the Beautiful Blogger award to:

• Eliza at Oh, Eliza!
• Ben at No Ordinary Rollercoaster
• Oats at The Freshest Oat
• Imerika at Refreshingly Honest
• Yankees Chick at Yankees Chick
• Mike at MasterDater

If you are not reading some of these blogs, well you should be. There more interesting than mine.

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I said no, no, no

So I've been hanging out with my friend Hoss recently. Now he and I have had a very strange relationship in general but that has really no bearing on this post at all. Hoss can dress himself... well. If i didn't know better i'd think he was gay. That's how well he dresses himself. Men should take notes from him. That being said he has expensive tastes (his glasses are Burberry and he's getting new Prada ones).

Anyways hanging out with him is always hard on my fashion sense. I'm a t-shirt and jeans kind of girl. I'm simple and not overly styled. This isn't to say i can't put an outfit together or that i don't know what looks good on me, cause i do. I just prefer to keep it simple.

But recently I've lost weight so I had to go out and buy all new clothes. Well i'm almost the next size down... again (that would make me a 6). So a most of my pants are like falling off me, and its annoying but its not that bad. But Hoss keeps getting on me to buy a belt. I hate belts. I know they are functional but honestly i just don't like them. In fact i find sometimes they don't do all the well on keeping my pants up either. Plus I feel like they make my hips wider. So i keep telling him buying a belt is on my to-do list (along with solving world hunger and watching the Saw movies). Honestly, i'd rather just buy new pants than buy a belt. And yes, i realize that is silly.

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Baby Love

So babies are sort of a thing in my family. Women in my family tend to have a few of them. That being said my mother is due to have her 4th child next Friday.

Yes, you read that right my mother.

Yes, I am 25 years old, in the middle of graduate school and completely capable of having my own children.

Is your mind blown yet?

My mom just started young and i was her first born. Yes, UNC_Sis is turning 21 this year, but Lil' Miss Sis is turning 3, so its not that big of a thing for us. People always ask if its weird having siblings sooo much younger than me, or if its weird that my mom is pregnant when I'm so old (30 here i come). The answer is yes it is a little strange for me, but my mom really loves being a mom. So i would never deny her the right to have another kid (not that she'd listen anyways). Plus she's not like ancient- she's not even 45 yet. If it makes her happy- who am i to stand in the way of that. The kicker, Baby #4 is yet another girl.

Plus having little baby sisters is kinda awesome. They get so excited when you come home and you get to buy all sorts of clothes and toys for them. And little girls clothes are awesome. They are all frilly and girly and delicate. So yeah I kinda love being a big sister.

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Instincts- You have them for a reason

I was recently reminded by G-fab that my instincts on people are normally very good. This isn't to say that i don't get things wrong. But that more often then not i read people very well and know how to handle them.

So why do i often go against them?

I'm a thinker. I've been a thinker my whole life. I will analyze a situation to death. I will go through all possible scenarios- however unlikely they may be. In doing this i tend to overthink everything and instead of relying on what my gut tells me i rely on the possibility that my head (the rational part of me) is right. This is one of those things i have to stop, because my gut is normally right and the logical side of me refuses to hear that.

Recently i've had the nagging feeling that there is something going on behind the scenes with a friend and myself. What is actually going on I'm not really sure. But i get the feeling there is something not on the level about all of it- and i've been quashing this instinct because i want to trust people. The more i think about it- the more i think my instinct is right. Something about the whole situation feels like manipulation- but what i'm being manipulate for is anyones guess.

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Overly Protective?

So I have a tendency to be overly protective of people, especially my friends, and especially my friends that don't or won't stand up for themselves. I'm sort of like a momma bear in this sense. Recently, one of my friends (we have a love/hate relationship. We are either like Best Buddies or we hate each others guts) got screwed over by his longtime GF. I'm not going to go into the particulars because i promised i wouldn't. But let me just say that i think what she did was unforgivable and heaven help her if i ever run into her on the street cause i will beat her.

The thing is I think i am more outraged at this entire run of events than he is. I volunteered to shank about 5 people thats are caught up in this mess. Not only am i mad at her, i'm mad at about 4 mutual friends for this shit too (mostly cause they don't have my friends back- and they should).

The big problem is none of this is going to help my friend, and niether is anything i say. I am a paragon of reason. I am always the one my friends turn to for advice because i'm always going to tell them the truth. The thing about the truth is that even though people need to hear it- they aren't always ready to hear it. My friend is not ready to hear it and even if he was he is certinaly not ready to take steps to fix any of this mess. He still thinks some of this is salvagable- even though it means letting someone treat him badly, which makes me just want to smack him.

I guess its true that you can't save someone from themselves.

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