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August 28, 2004
Bugs Bugs Bugs...Minor Set Back
Well I had a minor set back tonight. I was doing pretty good all week, but tonight was just no good. Let's see...It started with me going shopping when I got done with a nice lunch with my two new friends from work at the Shady Grove. We sat outside talking and drinking and eating chile cheese fries...which seemed like a good idea then...Well I left them and went in search of two used/scratch and dent appliance stores for a washer and dryer. Basically, I found nothing that was a good deal (after calling my cost consultant A.K.A Seymen, numerous times). The one thing I did get was a bad stomache ache from the chile cheese fries (as you can tell the whole diet, going to the gym thing hasn't started yet either)...
Anyway, I went home slightly dejected. Then went out again after talking some more with Seymen. I went to best buy and then checked out the funiture warehouse. Let me tell you about the furniture warehouse. They have a sign out front: "Our building may be ugly, but our prices are Beautiful". Well...That was a flat out lie. THe building was ugly...I'll give 'em that...but the prices were NOT beautiful...
So I went home and got into bed to finish this book that I've been trying read every night (but can't seem to manage past 10:30pm before passing out in exhaustion). Anyway, I had about 1 chapter to go when I realized I was starving...So I went to go make myself dinner. I was pretty sick of lasanga since I've been eating it for lunch and dinner since Tuesday. So I decided to make some AuGratin potatoes...Oppps...Can't. I forgot to buy butter. So I'll make the lipton noodles packages...Opps. Can't. No butter. So I'll make a salad...Opppss...WON'T...There's some weird dead bugs in the lettuce. OK... I settle on Frozen Peas (which I defrosted...I'm not THAT desperate) and Texas toast.
As I was cooking away, I got a phone call. I thought it was Seymen, but it turned out to be the Austin Fire Department. I was kind of tired and I didn't have my glasses on, so sometimes I find it harder to focus on thinking (don't ask...It's just me)..Oh yeah, and my DSL has ruined my phone. I can't here anything because it gets really really quiet...So I answered. I wasn't really paying that much attention, and for a second I thought I was getting in trouble for something...but no. They just wanted to tell me about some free benefit concert and asked for money. Not really paying attention, I signed up for the Bronze level of contribution. $35. They are sending me two tickets to this benefit concert somewhere in Austin, and all I have to do is send them a check. About 5 minutes after I said, yes, I realized I had committed to giving them money. And all I could think about is that I didn't want these tickets...I don't have anyone to go with...So I checked out of the conversation and just tried to respond nicely etc. FInally, the guy finished talking and I was transferred to someone else who was going to verify my info. The whole time thinking, I'm just going to ignore the tickets and ignore the contribution and not respond...THen the dude goes: "Thank you so much for your support. God Bless you and your family ma'am."... So now I just feel guilty. I have to give them the money.
OK, so then I decide to go out on the porch. I'm out there, and what do I see? A HUGEEEEEEEEEE and I mean HUGEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE bug thing. I had no idea what it was. It was on my poarch table, rubbing it's little legs together staring at me. I froze and stared at it for like 3 minutes, and quickly went inside, locked the door and refused to ever go outside at night again. Then I called my dad and asked him if it would be bad if I moved back home. In his special dad way, he convinced me to stick it out, at least until it's light out when the bugs are gone...and convinced me that I'd be fine, and that yes I should go grocery shopping tomorrow...And no I shouldn't wait until Sunday, even though that was my master plan for the weekend. That I do need to eat dinner, and no I couldn't move home, and no one was going to move to Texas to kill bugs for me.
So...It was a minor set back...But I'm OK now. And I'm intent on doing this little stint here in Texas. I tried to be brave and overcome my fear before I let it sink too deep in. (Even though, even now I can still see that bug's face and little hands rubbing together thinking about when to jump on me and attack)...So I took a walk to the mailbox, and then walked to the Laundry center and realized that laundry is only $0.75 for wash and $0.75 for dry. So I've decided to not buy a washer/dryer. I'm going to buy a couch tomorrow instead. And save up for these dishes that I really want. (I have a mismatched set that I got on sale, and they are so cute that I want to the entire set.) <a href="http://www.pfaltzgraff.com/cgi-bin/sgin0107.exe?CODIV=0107&FNM=07&UID=2004082722302362&T1=16703800">These are my dishes</a>. I'm just missing a coffee mug and a dinner plate. I'm hoping to get the missing cup, plate, another 16 piece set, the tea kettle and the salt and pepper shakers, for Christmas. I've already placed my order with the Turkish Santa ;-)
Anyway...Now I'm just sitting around reading my 2nd book of the night...but I'm pretty pumped right now because Heidi and Nate told me that they are going to come over for dinner tomorrow night. They will be my first guests since I've been in the apartment! And it's just my luck because I have 3 dinner plates. Just enough for us! :-) And I'm sitting here trying to think of something really good to make for dinner, to impress them so they come back again ;-)hehehe
Ok. I'm going back to the book. I just wanted to get the story on here before I forgot and before it lost all it's effect...
Posted by beth at August 28, 2004 01:25 AM