Category: Random Crap

So I was at Target today to get some socks since I was out of clean socks and didn’t feel like doing laundry. I found some socks eventually and was going to the check out counter when I spotted the shampoo aisle and figured I might as well pick some up for when my current bottle runs out.

This didn’t used to be hard. I would just pick up a bottle of Suave and that would be it. Cheap and gets the job done. Recently, though, I began to think there must be a reason it’s so cheap. So I switched to the slightly pricier Garnier Fructis. Hair feels so much softer!
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Gather around, friends, and I shall tell you a story. It happened ten years ago yesterday, on March 26, 1997. I was in eighth grade.

I was in my fourth period class, shop class (or “tech ed” as it was also known as). The first half of the year that class period was art, now in to the second half it was tech ed. Much preferred art. Oh, well.

Anyway, as you can imagine if you know me personally, I got picked on a lot in middle school. I was an easy target. Lonely. Weird. Small. Frizzy hair. You name it. And my grades sucked, so it’s not like I was like the picked on, teacher’s pet, perfect student who’d go on to employ these people later on. I was past my seventh grade plummet and was down to mediocre at best academically. To this day, never quite climbed out of it.
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And now, with the Twelve Days of Christmas through as well as Epiphany, the 2006 Christmas season is over.

Well, it was fun, right? Good presents? Good food? Good times?

Aww. Time to take down the decorations. Always a disappointment. You get used to everything looking so pretty and festive, then you have to take it down and everything looks bland. Oh, well.

Glorious now behold Him arise
King and God and Sacrifice
Alleluia, Alleluia
Earth to heaven replies

O…
Star of wonder, Star of night
Star with royal beauty bright
Westward leading, still proceeding
Guide us to thy perfect light.

*takes down lights*

Okay, I can do this.

*takes deep breath*

Aaaaahhhhhh!!!! This is the worst pain ever!

*breathes frantically*

Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! OWWWWWWWW! Son of a bitch!

*takes another deep breath*

Yeeeeeeeeeooooooooowwwwwwwwch! Is this over yet?! I think I’m almost done.

*deep breath*

OWWWWWWWWWWW!!!

Wow, I did it. It’s over with. Oh, man.

…

What was that about?! What could have happened many months ago to have caused this?

Damn you, internet quizzes.

Yeah, remember a couple days ago when I was saying how awesome my fish are?

Well, Geist died. 🙁

She’s the 19-month-old platy, who was born in my tank. Sigh. Something seemed wrong with her for a while. A long while. But she seemed fine otherwise if not maybe a little sick. Now she’s dead.

Sigh. Well, I’ll just leave her in what I call the “funeral cup” for now. It’s a plastic red cup I put my dead fish in before I put them in their final resting place. I used to flush them like normal, but I stopped because since they have names and all, they deserve a better departure. So I bury them now. I’ll go outside tomorrow with a trowel blade and find a nice spot.

R.I.P. Geist

May 13, 2005 – December 8, 2006

🙁

Being put on hold has its perks. Assload of annoyances, but yes, perks as well.

My main task at work is ordering lab supplies. I call up the nice vendor and read off a bunch of catalog numbers my coworkers gave me.

One of my favorite vendors to call is Fisher Scientific. I call them at least once a week for something or other. Usually along the lines of “where the hell is my damn order, bitches?!” 😀
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