Thoughtdump

September 30th, 2005, by The Goddess

Subtitle: Better left unread

I’ve been walking around with what others might call a “sinus headache,” but I believe it’s because there are about 7,000 thoughts trapped inside my head with nowhere to go and, thus, it’s actually my brain that’s hurting.

Can’t recall the last time I wrote what I think to be a proper blog entry. Since I moved to WordPress and now that I cannot modify my f’in template because I don’t know how, I’ve lost interest in this page. And without my SiteMeter, I don’t know if anybody’s reading and I wonder why they even would. ;)

I have been keeping my journal in my car, but as I have been driving more carefully of late, it does me no good. The only time I’m in my car is when I’m commuting (damn gas prices — I’m spending well above $300/month to fuel my beloved Samantha, a tiny toy car for cripes’ sake).

And when I find time at home to write, well, I’m too lazy to drag my ass outside to get the book. It’s filled with half-assed entries and rants that were started with good intentions of solving whatever self-created drama I sought to immortalize. So, say it with me, “What’s the point?”

The thing is, when your life revolves around one thing (work, and admittedly, gratefully so), and when blogging about work might have gotten you into a spot of trouble in your previous life, you are understandably loath to share anything that might hint (even in the slightest) of things that puzzle or “challenge” you. But it also makes you wary of sharing things that entertain, please or maybe even intrigue you.

So what do you blog about, then, when you don’t have a goddamned thing going on that’s worth sharing? Do you really need to hear about my $275 speeding ticket, my $115 property tax fee (for the joy of vehicle ownership in Virginia), my now-$120/month insurance fees because of an accident that my insurance company claims was my fault despite the fact that Some Dumb Bitch was up MY ass when I was more than halfway backed out of a parking spot?

Oh, and today is the day I am to be given my four-month eviction notice from my apartment. My paycheck waved goodbye before it even got here, and the next one is already half-spent. Not to mention that I forgot to pay my phone bill (since July. whoops), so there went another $165.

Yet, if I look at where I was at this time last year (jobless), I wouldn’t trade this year’s mess for the world.

One day, I’m going to get over being scared of my own shadow — says She Who Used to be Fearless — and quit simply being grateful that things aren’t worse. I’m surrounded by success stories — it’s time I figured out how to become one of them.



Mailbag

September 28th, 2005, by The Goddess
Dear Ragweed,

Die.

Love,
Dawn

I hate September. My head is so full of sinus drippings that I cannot seem to find room to fit or form a thought amid the snarfalicious chaos and pressure. I feel like a cartoon character with a blank balloon above my head.

Not to mention my inability to wear makeup because my eyes are a-waterin’ something fierce. It’s like Halloween came early for me — sca-RY!

And you know what happens when I have nary a whisper of a proper blog entry — tunage!

And it’s groovy kinda shit, too. Like, be happy or at least lapse into a trance, right? ;)

Love in Traffic (John Creamer mix) — Satoshi Tomiie
“Chocolate (Club Silenciore mix)” — Kylie Minogue
“Don’t Make Me Want You” — Dublex Inc. f/Alice Russel
“One Word (Chris Cox club mix) — Kelly Osbourne



Because I love spreading good news

September 27th, 2005, by The Goddess

Giving me faith in great things happening to even greater people, I am so happy to report that Tiff and Tom just got engaged!

I was putting on my makeup this morning when she told me. And now I have to go put it on again ’cause I’ve cried it off. Happy tears are the best, I say. :)

Congratulations, friends!



In which Leadfoot gets a $275 ticket

September 25th, 2005, by The Goddess

Speeding ticket, kids, NOT lottery ticket.

I had JUST merged onto the highway and cut left across four lanes in one fell swoop. And I figured I’d go into the HOV lane because it was totally empty so that I could pass the herd in front of me. But as it’s difficult to pass people who are going 75 mph, I HAD to punch down the gas harder than they were, right?

Well, now that’s the fun part. I was just about to pass four cars when — oh, now this is priceless — a Maryland state trooper WALKED INTO MY LANE AND WAVED ME OVER TO THE LEFT SHOULDER. Yes, walked out in front of me. On the interstate. Where I was clocked at 86 mph.

Well, 86 AFTER I slammed on the brake.

*sigh*

This was at the beginning of a 250-mile round-trip rendezvous to see my family for lunch.

I’m hardly mad about it — I’ve had this coming for YEARS. When folks at work bid goodnight and say, “Drive carefully — stay away from the crazies,” I have to remind them, “I AM one of those crazies.”

But it sucks now that I have to watch my speed and live with assholes tailgating me because I’m now only going 10 miles above the speed limit and not, well, 36. On a good day.

I admit, I was lost in thought, as I am apt to do behind the wheel. I was chilling to Portishead (right-click, save as. You know the drill) and just kind of dreaming out the window when I saw the state trooper staring me down and waving me to the shoulder.

Going from 86 (plus) to zero within 10 feet was quite an accomplishment — even though my brakes are only a year old, they sound tragic … hence why I don’t use them altogether that often. ;)

But here’s the catch. The patrol car? Was on the OTHER SIDE of the highway. I was going north; the car was pointed south. He had to HOP THE FUCKING CONCRETE DIVIDER to come after my ass.

I handed over my license (that doesn’t have the correct address) and my registration (which doesn’t have the correct license plate) and hoped for the best. And wonderfully, even though I have been pulled over MANY times, I hadn’t actually yet gotten a ticket (till today), so no points on the license. w00t!

Better yet — and I totally thank my new black push-up bra and low-cut camisole that is miraculously the same shade of green as my eyes — he lessened my fee a bit. The only other shining highlight to the humiliation was that he wasn’t one of those jagoffs who likes to ask you if you knew how fast you were going.

Because, and the answer is obvious and say it with me:

Not. Fast. Enough!!!!



Friday Five

September 24th, 2005, by The Goddess

So what if it’s Saturday?

  • Do you have a dream you will always strive to achieve until your dying day?
  • Inner peace, outer beauty and everlasting happiness. The day I give up is the day I might as well drive myself to the crematory.

  • Do you believe in fate or free will, or something else?
  • When I was 16, I was convinced I was a transcendentalist. I was also a big dork and read a lot of Whitman and Thoreau. I also didn’t have any friends and believed everything I read in books. ;)

    Overall, my “simple” answer is that I believe in limited or guided free will, in that we are certainly *able* to make our own decisions, but that our intuition is too strong to be ignored.

    I also believe in divine intervention and karma impacting our course — free will wasn’t given to us without consequence.

    I believe some things will never be resolved yet we need to close the door anyway, and if it has already been closed, then we waste precious spiritual energy trying to prop it open.

  • Marilyn Monroe. Conspiracy or tragic accident?
  • Duh, conspiracy. The government always wins. Always. And it doesn’t miss a trick. Big Brother is keeping thousands upon thousands out of the unemployment line with the sole purpose of monitoring the rest of us.

    *removes tin foil hat now*

  • Favourite childhood sweets/candy?
  • Seasonally, it was Cadbury eggs. Those and whatever Reese’s product was out for the holidays — peanut butter pumpkins, peanut butter Christmas trees, peanut butter Easter eggs.

    Hell, I just bought two peanut butter pumpkins at Tar-zhay last night. Happiness in a purple wrapper. …

  • Favourite cocktail (alcoholic or virgin) and its ingredients?
  • Caramel Appletini — introduced to me during my last visit to Pittsburgh at the Quaker Steak in Robinson.

    Ingredients — funny you should ask, ’cause I totally copied the menu description onto my receipt while I was there:

    Three Olives apple vodka
    Butterscotch schnapps
    Splash of cranberry
    Iced martini glass, drizzled with caramel

    I had the female equivalent of a hard-on after having that. *rolls tongue back into mouth*