home again.
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today is star wars day. yipee.
spent most of yesterday unpacking. where the heck did i put all this stuff before i left? i have so much crap it's unreal. i purged more stuff (threw out every movie ticket stub i had, and i've been keeping them my whole life, letters from ex-es, toys, clothes) and show no signs of stopping. we're going to get two more bookcases since the two we have now are overloaded. we re-arranged the furniture and i really like the new set up. it's home improved. i started running out of space for trash around 9:30pm, so i made brownies for mark's d&d group. i'm so domestic.
although tim and are are still getting along ok (if you consider 'scared of him so i moved out really fast' ok), and he and mark didn't throw down when they were in the same room, it seems our friends are fighting the break-up war for us. well, his friends anyway; mine aren't involved. while we were moving, jon tried to convince mark that he and tim belong together and that i am just a playa who used them both. then joe sent an e-mail ("renee cheated on you with brian. just thought you'd want to know the entire truth before you take her back.") trying to get me in trouble for something mark already knew. (but please please don't tell him i smoked pot!!!) that amused me mostly because of the phrasing- 'entire truth', as though joe has access to my innermost secrets, and as if there was something i really didn't want mark to ever know i would have told joe or tim or any of those people. so to summarize, mark is a helpless victim that needs the guidance of his dear and loyal friends and i am nothing more than a shape-shifting succubus.
did i metntion the mess about getting out of the lease at stoney run? we've got to pay 3 months rent by october 31st. so it's 45+ hour weeks for me until then. at least i've got a vacation between now and then (saves me $15 on tolls and $20 on gas, plus another $25 or so on lunches). thankfully i have a credit card so i can still go see gwar.
i wonder if the hair dye will stay in my hair this time...
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so then there was the letter that joe's girlfriend sent to my company's human resources that implied that i stole money... i'm not sure how she can possibly be bitter that she was fired considering how many write-ups she has in her file, or how she could think she was wronged when the morning she was terminated she had forgotten to close the store on the computer when she closed the night before and she left the safe over $14. besides, she got a new, better paying job right away. must suck. maybe anyone would have taken her letter seriously if all the facts weren't against her, and maybe the parts that involved me would hold some water if they weren't an obvious personal attack. tim can fight his own battles and doesn't need his friend's girlfriend fucking things up. but now since i am *so afraid* that i moght lose my job, maybe i won't be able to give him the $$$ i owe to get out of our lease? thanks, meghan, you just saved me $1350.
we went to the rogue's den last evening. this is the best gaming store imaginable. there's a coffee bar and a 55 inch tv and two big rooms full of gaming tables and ren faire clothes & jewelry and comics and alien plush!!! the women's bathroom had two sets of couches and black toilets. i'm moving in.
vacation again starting next saturday. hooray!
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worked my last of 7 days straight yesterday, and it was a 12 hour shift. my dreams were of making artist card strips. i couldn't be more thankful for this rainy day off; sadly, i have to spend a good portion of it folding laundry. might take a drive to tim's to get my mail, might stop by target to check out their halloween stuff. i'm on vacation again as of saturday. we're trying to see if we can go the the ren faire. i'm working close to 50 hours these days to get the money for the lease, but i figure i deserve to do at least one special thing on vacation this year. (i was sick on both my other 2.) plus, this is like a real vaca-- at least 8 days in a row off work instead of 5 or 6. should be fun.
thankfully, there's been no more drama. waiting to see if tim called any of the apartments i saw in the paper on sunday. he should be getting in touch this afternoon. he said fable is awesome; can't wait to get an xbox and new ps2.
seeing gwar is questionable due to my work schedule; looks like i might be stuck at the mall till 7:30pm that day. sadness.
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so far, so good. the weekend was perfect. we went to rogue's den on saturday for a warhammer tournament, which mark won. his prize was an awesome frickin' sword and a gift certificate. i had a fabulous time flirting with all the boys. sunday, we saw shaun of the dead (which did not live up to the hype, but was funny), and went grocery shopping. we had tacos for dinner and watched the second disc of firefly. today i slept way late, but cleaned the bathroom and did some laundry. plus i started a new jigsaw puzzle and painted a zombie. tomorrow i plan to go see garden state and maybe do some more cleaning. wednesday we might go see pat in the pm. thursday is gaming day... saturday is the ren faire. i'm almost 100% sure i can't go to gwar.
i've been getting more headaches since i've been back here. it may not be coincidence that i've also started drinking caffeine again...
been reading more lately. still need to buy the new dark tower book, but it'll have to wait till november when i have $$$. bought a paperback richard laymon to hold me over.
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*yawn* another awesome wknd. mark had off yesterday, which was his birthday. we caught a matinee of the forgotten (which isn't the biggest jaw-dropper since sixth sense, but was ok) and had a late lunch/ early dinner at the olive garden. today we did the pennsylvania renaissance faire (i *finally* had steak on a stake). next year, i am bringing my credit card. today's journey was pretty cheap, tho, and eventful. i was truly shocked that it lived up to their boast that even if you're there all day you won't see everything they have. eventually, i put pix up from that, ozzfest, and smackdown (and yes, tim, i'll get you a copy of those photos as well). for now... *yawn*.
the rest of the week was pretty non-productive. my puzzle is difficult, but my table's not back together yet and i don't have my good lamp, so it's also a pain in the ass. garden state was visually wonderful, but overall mediocre. we went to pat's house wednesday night to watch farenheit 9/11. i think i would have preferred a straight-forward documentary, but i already don't like bush, so... i've been spending a decent amount of time on-line talking to pat this week; i'll miss him when i resume work monday. thrusday at the game's store was kinda a drag; mark's allergies were acting up so he didn't play. i was giddy because they were showing zombie on the tv. i clapped and jumped up and down at my favorite part. oh, and last night brian and i went to the exhumed films show, but left half way through the fog. we were way sleepy.
so i didn't call anyone that i should have (terri, jay, gina) or do house stuff (clean closets, laundry, decorate for halloween), but i had fun. yummy fun.
can't wait to go back to work. should have another vacation in february.
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today is my first day off in 10 days, since my vacation. how unfair is that?
the fear factory show was pretty good. they played before lamb of god, so it was a bit anti-climactic for me since their set was half of what is was when i saw them in july. the wait in line outside was suck-ass because of the rain. looks like gwar is a definite no because i am too much of a wussy to go alone. and exhumed films is tomorrow but i am exhausted and might see if brian wants to catch the phantoms game instead.
i finally decided to take off a night from work to play d&d. i start this coming tuesday. my character's a halfling rogue. i'm still trying to figure out a good nickname for her... but i am super excited about playing. i feel really positive about the group and the situation. hooray geekiness!
don't think i've spoken to pat since my vaca. still haven't called people i should call. halloween is almost here, and i cannot wait for it to be over...
laundry, character background, grooming. PS2.
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crappy halloween.
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ugck. thanksgiving. ugck. black friday. ugck. phlegm.
things have been good, overall. some sad, some stress. slayer was frickin' awesome. i've been working a whole bunch and feeling unproductive. i need chap stick and jack daniels. i need to call jay and terri. mark and i are super good. went to a phantoms game.
ugck.
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it's romantic comedy day. i watched love actually which was awesome good and now singles is on hbo. i am feeling pretty good. just wish there was more time. this holiday season has been surreal. work is nothing like i expected and the extra hours + travel time leaves me discombobulated. i don't know what to do with myself when i am off from work. my sleep patterns are all fucked up.
i had my first car accident last week. nothing major, but inconvenient for sure. just put the tree up, which i usually do on thanksgiving. started a new campaign for d&d. playing with jordan, who i first met when i was with ris.
commercial for the extended version of return of the king. JOY.
tim said to me on the last day that i moved stuff out of our apartment that he wondered why i don't mention him here. the assumption was that i don't want to upset mark by talking about him, and that has a lot to do with it. i've also become a tad more personal about my life. but for the record, i just wanted to put here that tim and i parted as friends, that i am sorry for the wrongs i committed against him, and that i do miss his friendship.
and in other sentimental news, it's been a decade (plus three weeks and a few days). i don't know how to believe it.
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i am drinking a whisker sour in memory of dimebag darrell. it's heavy on the jack daniels. super fucking sad. super sad.
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one more week...
decided to send my sister a Christmas present. we'll see how that turns out. (for those not 'in the know', our last meeting ended with her splitting my lip open with her purse while i was working at macy's.)
mark and i are well. he lost a painting contest today to a kid that cheated (had all his friends come vote for his crappy-ass model). i put up the tree but still haven't decorated it. Christmas is my next day off, so maybe i'll do it then...
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