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i shouldn't have eaten so much cheese and fudge for dinner.

play it again pamie

my fictional hero is liz lemon. my non fiction hero is pamela ribon. pamela ribon is probably as close to a real life lemon as you're going to get... as far as i can tell. pamela wrote 'why girls are weird' and keeps a blog at pamie.com. she is also a derby girl. if you know me at all or have spent much time with me you probably have heard me talk about my secret desire to join the derby. i don't know that it will ever actually happen but i would love if it did. ::sigh:: anyway pam hasn't been keep up on the blog and it makes me cry. what can you do? as a side note, pam was my hero first... for like the last 5 years. i haven't decided yet if i love lemon b/c she reminds of pam or if i just happen to want to be like both of them independent from each other.

in other news, it's almost the weekend. i honestly don't know where the time goes these days. two days ago was our 6 month anniversary... 6 months since the store opened. how is it possible that much time has passed?! at the beginning of this month i had my 4 year anniversary with dave & buster's (ps i know it's depressing that my anniversaries are with work... what can you do?). in the grand scheme of the world 4 years isn't a long time. however, in the life of a 25 year old who has only been working since she was 18, it's a very long time.

today ann & i were talking about when my contract would be up for this location. it's up in early march, i believe. though i don't have any plans for leaving virginia any time soon. i like it here. still. ha. surprising, i know. maybe i'm getting old or something.

the other night we watched 'it.' still not as scary as everybody thinks it is. i didn't even have any nightmares. shoot, even 'bones' gives me nightmares! however, i didn't remember how ridiculously long that movie is! it's 187 minutes, which is over three hours and not 2 hours and 20 minutes (people aren't good at math at midnight, i guess).

sylvie goes to a new home on monday. PLEASE, PLEASE if you love me or animals at all, please, do not allow me to ever get another pet besides a gold fish. if i ever ask you 'should i purchase a ::insert animal type here:: ?' say to me 'good gracious elaina get a grip on reality and drop the animal for the love of all that is good in the world!' it may also be appropriate to slap me at that point depending on how determined i look. please.

i want to go to ca this weekend but that's not going to happen. i don't think i will be in ca until january. my plan is to be there after baby boy stone is born. for the holidays i will probably sit on my couch drinking eggnog and eating pizza. or maybe i'll go to florida. it's hard to say at this point.

one last note: guys are confusing. hmmm.

get your h1n1 on

so i decided i was feeling less chipper than usual on friday and so it would probably be a good idea to hole up in the apartment all weekend. BEST DECISION EVER. i watched the complete first season of 30 rock and about half of the second season. that's a good 14 hours of 30 rock from friday night to saturday night. i love 30 rock. i feel a weird association to lemon. and usually after watching 30 rock i start to do weird things. i think the show messes with my mind. for starters, last night (for the second time in the last few months) i attempted to dye my hair to match the color of lemon's. once again it was a fail but not as tragically as last time. last time we had pink, this time it's a nondescript brown color that you would assume just naturally grows out of my head. joseph said i shouldn't dye it darker and i believed him but then brianna said why does it matter what joseph says and now i'm all confused. i'm going to take a few days and then figure out what i'm going to do.

so saturday afternoon i decided i needed some pizza for my 30 rock marathon. so i log on to papajohns b/c they let you order online without speaking to a person. but i forgot that the last time i ordered online i was at work. anyway about 30 minutes pass and i get a phone call from work saying hey people just tried to deliver pizza here but we sent it back. long story short the pizza man yelled at me and said he was canceling my order and i said ok and figured out something else for food. what a weekend!

we went to new york a couple weeks back. we took a bus in the middle of the night. the bus dropped us off in chinatown a 6 AM. chinatown at 6 AM after spending all night on the back of a bus is not some where you want to be. needless to say, i threw up 3 times within the first few blocks of being there. other highlights:
being lost on the subway for hours
-jim falling asleep on a bench in central park like a hobo
-seeing kaley which includes the coining of 'shark rape' and having the world's most delicious cupcakes
-fao schwartz has a build your muppet program
-having a sniper riffle full of fun

i could really go for one of those cupcakes right now.

i miss jack in the box. i'm watching the news right now b/c i'm pretending i'm hanging out with nate (hanging out with nate like this is reallllly boring... all he does he talk about the news) anyway there was just a commercial for some other fast food burger place and it made remember the cheesey meaty boys. they were the boy band that pitched the ultimate cheeseburger. cheese meat cheese cheese meat and that's it, baby you know it's hot and juicy! i loved that burger b/c there aren't any vegetables on it. screw vegetables!

so yesterday i bought this chocolate with bacon in it. not delicious. it was like the world's crappiest bacon. if they had used normal bacon it would have been great but instead it was terrible and made my head hurt.

"coach says we're a second half team" is that a compliment? i'm not totally sure it is. i just heard that on the news. hmm.