what'd you guys do today?

[sway2sway]

I walked into a door. accidentally. I hit my head. It happened at Subway.

[ragmop]

i avoided my ever-expanding ex-girlfriend (who dumpster-dived at my old place in a desperate attempt to uncover evidence that i was somehow cheating on her--she obviously didn't hear or believe me when i confessed my prior sins to her and the life-changing impact that such behavior had upon me).

so, yeah, that's what i did today.

[sway2sway]

is she ever-expanding from
-the stress of the breakup
-all the nutritious food people throw away that ends up in dumpsters
-did you knock the woman up
or is it something all together different?

[sway2sway]

I hit my head because my feet are usually 6 inches off the ground, my head is buried below the ground and I'm all together in a different world. sounds contortionist...and why the hell would you lock one of the doors in the middle of the day? that's ridiculous.

[sauce.baby]

i went to the mall real quick to find some earrings and pants and ended up making an apointment for a new contact Rx and had to meander around the mall for 3hrs because i was too lazy to drive home and then drive back again.
but, i can see now :D

[tinkerlion]

i did dog stuff with liz and watched curious george. eric and i went and saw departed tonight. followed that up by going to the waffle house. yummy.


and sway, i've walked into a door before. was your sandwich good?

[sway2sway]

it was just a veggie sub, cheese, lettuce, jalapenos, olives, cucumbers, mayo and hot sauce.
(did you like curious george?


it's all life huh?

I talked to an old lady today. She was picking leaves because they're all beautiful colors now, she was going to press them to make bookmarks. She said people really seem to like them. She also writes a little comment or saying on the bookmark, sometimes a bible passage.

I tried to do the kind of abdominal exercises that target the lower abs, the ones that seem impossible to rectify completely after childbearing. On your back, hold your belly button down to the floor, legs straight up- perpendicular, and lift your bum up off the floor using the abs. I swear this looks retarded, if you looked really closely you might see my ass rise an inch off the floor, but oh the concentration. akin to Kegel's at the red lights, they tell you to do that. they really do.

I ate pizza. I ate my 2 vegetarian pieces. My daughter won't eat any of the toppings so I have to pick it off hers. So I put her pepperoni top,on top of my meat free bottom and just pretended the whole affair balanced out. My daughter also made carrot cake at grandma's house while I was at work. She so proudly had to carry our 1/2 in from the car, of course it fell on the stairs upside down. It was still delicious.

Now I'm too full to drink enough to get intoxicated in a timely fashion. I've quit smoking again for 3 days, that'll all be out the window again if I do have a drink. There are always consequences aren't there?

That's some of my day, oh yeah and I was taking pictures of my feet before 8 o' clock this morning. what's with that?
I'll keep y'all posted, something else is bound to happen. oohhh aahhh

[tinkerlion]

yes i liked curious george. i found myself getting very into it. very cute.

[ragmop]

is she ever-expanding from
-the stress of the breakup
-all the nutritious food people throw away that ends up in dumpsters
-did you knock the woman up
or is it something all together different?

all of the above: i impregnated her as she was devouring all the nutritious food she came across as she made her way through the dumpster . . .

[the duke]

I went to an induction day for my new summer job...lucky little me gets to pretend to have fun selling cheap-ass low quality clothing to unsuspecting little girls (and boys) while making them feel oh so special....fun fun fun

But if it means that I get to go to the US on exchange, then so be it :)

Now I'm going to have a nap before going to my more meaningful job helping people at a pharmacy...

[tinkerlion]

is there any particular area you are trying to exchange to?

[sway2sway]

all of the above: i impregnated her as she was devouring all the nutritious food she came across as she made her way through the dumpster . . .

hahahaha, that made me laugh aloud and it is five fucking o' clock in the morning (as it turned out I did absolutely nothing else last night, went to bed at 8:40 pm and now 'boing' it's 5:07 and my day starts).
I know a healthy girl that eats well and takes care of herself can be hot, right? I picture her foraging in the dumpster for carrots that have developed that white coating, 1/2 eaten danishes and sandwich crusts-all the while you are unzipping your pants behind her with a lecherous grin. Yup, you're in the dumpster too. Fast forward to next hour next week next month, you're doing it again and again, as the lil fetus grows plump on societal cast offs. Now that's hot too, I mean the expanding belly, although in certain instances societal cast offs may fit the bill. use your imaginations people....
Hmmm... should I go back to bed, or go look to get impregnanted in a smelly garbage bin, choices and consequences my friends.

ya bed.

[sway2sway]

on to PLAN B...get my lazy ass outta bed a drink a whack of coffee, wile away time just like this, go to the gym-run some miles (aka jog at a leisurely pace while sweating copiously and taking an abundance of water breaks). After that I have a few different options for the day...back to those damn choices and cosequences. Whatever...it's Saturday and I ain't working today, that's for certain.
And you m'friends do what today?

[sway2sway]

Ragmop, I meant to ask you, but got carried away as usual- Is this a fresh/recent ex girlfriend, or from a while back? I remember you talking about the infedility issue and the big impact it had on your life....of all the nerve huh?

[ragmop]

sway, you are the shit. i love your posts. i too created this image in my mind of me getting after it in the dumpster. but you, madam, are creative with a capital "C". ever think about writing? it suits your creativity.

but in response, the dumpster girl was from over a year ago. i ended it last fall. but, all's well that ends horrible. she's found another target of her obsession. hopefully she is happy. and my comment about ever-expanding was shallow and cruel. i realize it has its source in my animosity towards her. i guess i haven't completely forgiven her. as with every woman i choose to become intimate with, she was fully informed about my past transgressions well before we became intimate.

i will say she is the first woman to whom i regret confiding. she betrayed my trust to almost everybody she could possible imagine. not that i run or hide from the truth, but i just don't think the world needed to hear about my worst faults, only.

oh well, live and learn, right?

[sway2sway]

yeah live and learn. or live a lot, learn little. or live little, learn a lot. or live this even though you learned that. the 1st one is the best choice though, I try not to preach though cause I have trouble following my own advice.

enough of the ex...free your mind baby, but if you don't mind I'm going to hang on to the dumpster sex scenario. I quite like it, it makes me giggle. I've thought of it a few times, plugging in different dumpster foods that she'd be munching on, maybe you, various positions, various spectators. hahaha too funny, remember the choose your own adventure books?

I'd love to write a book, I just got my used laptop a few weeks ago, so I can start writing all snuggled in my bed, slothlike. I'm just having trouble figuring out how to format such a thing,structure, parameters(not my strongest skills), how to develop an actual story. I think I need to run away from home and travel the country for inspiration. (yeah right).

[tinkerlion]

mayhaps you should start with short stories sway. get a feel for what method works best for you (like trying to have an outline or just going stream of conciousness and then going back and cleaning it all up.) but then again i'm not a writer.

as for my day i get to clean house (with images of dumpster sex pooping into my head at random times i'm sure,) for a while before we have guests. i'm getting my hair cut tonight!

[lietuvaite]

yesterday - taught absolute value equations to off the wall thirteen year olds (was it a full moon yesterday? i swear it must have been), stayed after school to prep for what i did today, came home at 7:00 just exhausted to find my cat scratching, bug-eyed, and on edge. i ate dinner, went to the pet store for flea meds, and had to clean the house like a mad women. fell into bed by 10:00.

today - taught lithuanian school (grammar, history, lit). now i'm not going to do much of anything!!!!! okay, maybe i'll try to fix my ipod again, so i can at least listen to my newly purchased music (beck and matthew mcavene), but only after i take a nice long nap.

tink, did you like the departed? i want to see it.

[tinkerlion]

i did like it. everyone in it did a great job, even people that i'm not really a fan of (like which ever baldwin was in it.) it was a little long, so i doubt i'll watch it again, but there were several shocks and surprises at the end that kept it interesting.

[sway2sway]

I just saw a commercial for it this morning, that was the first I'd heard of it (not much of a tv watcher). Boy does that have all the illumieres(my fancy star word) in it. I've kind of got a thing for Mark Wahlberg, since I saw him in I love Huckabee's, i love that movie. And Jack Nicholson, I love anything he does, that's one old geezer I'd still sleep with. No clue what it's about, so that's why I'm only talking bout the stars.
But I'll just wait for the dvd like always.

[sway2sway]

footnote 9am-present
20 minutes on the infernal cross trainer, 3 mile jog, 10 minute rowing machine.
leftover pizza for lunch.
already drinking the pineapple lemonade vodka concoction, bought a pack of smokes.
the master of live and learn
right?

[lietuvaite]

i quit smoking about about a month ago too (again). it sucks

[tinkerlion]

it's been three months for us. did you know it only takes 4 days for the nicotene to leave your system? after that you're just fighting yourself.

[lietuvaite]

yeah, i did know that. i've quit for three or four years at a time, only to return to it (been smoking about 15 years now; can i be that old?). i think i've finally learned that i can't even have one, b/c that eventually leads me back to full time smoking, so maybe this time i'll quit for good. the biggest fight for me is the psycological one- i want one after a good dinner, with coffee, in my car, and especially when i'm bored. three months is great! i hope to be there soon.

[tinkerlion]

i was an occasional smoker, but eric smoked for 14 years. the key for him was to have a beer each day when he got home from work and keep up with his morning coffee etc. it made it easier to try to keep things as normal from day to day. he ended up eating icebreaker mints when he wanted a ciggie. he said with the wintergreen ones it was kinda like smoking in that when he inhaled it was a different feel. i don't think i explained it well, but i think a smoker would understand.:rolleyes: i guess it helped that i was really pushing for it. he promised he would call me before he bought a pack. he called one day on his way home from work when i was closing the store. i cheated and pulled the crying card on him. i was so disappointed. but it worked and i am so proud of him.

good luck to everyone who is trying. there's a website that if you put in your quit time and some other info it will tell you how much money you've saved. kinda cool.

[sway2sway]

it's been three months for us. did you know it only takes 4 days for the nicotene to leave your system? after that you're just fighting yourself.

fuck do I know that! just about every struggle in my life is me fighting myself. my life could be a lot easier if I let it, but unfortunately that just seems to boring for me. I was in the gifted class in school, we were taught to create challenges for ourselves in the event there were none.
I just haven't been able to break the link between drinking etcetera partying and smoking. It is my downfall every time and I guess I don't want to quit bad enough because I continue to step up to the triggers every time.

[tinkerlion]

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[tinkerlion]

I just haven't been able to break the link between drinking etcetera partying and smoking. It is my downfall every time and I guess I don't want to quit bad enough because I continue to step up to the triggers every time.

that was a big issue here as well. i think my desire to see eric quit was the tipping point this time. i told him that if he didn't quit this time i didn't think he ever would. i don't know why, but i couldn't take us starting back up. it nice to be able to go to bars now and enjoy ourselves.


speaking of a drink, i think i need a glass of wine...

[sway2sway]

I went to the river this afternoon. A few weeks ago I mentioned that I'm weak for getting screwed up on a sunny Sunday. Well, fuck me, wouldn't ya know it, it holds true for a Saturday too. I'll post a few pictures when I get the camera. I even skipped a few rocks once I actually listened to instructions (I'd rather fail miserably, than be told what to do, not always, but pretty reliably if it is the Mr. is the one giving the instructions)- skipping rocks is not like throwing a frisbee. I also found an old rusty microwave there and brought it home. "Aww, c'mon, please can I take it home, i can put it out with the garbage, there's room, think of the fishies, we can't leave it here." The reply,"aww, shit, allright Shalan." my artful power of persuasion, nagging, witholding of conjugal relations- and I would, taking garbage home from the river makes me feel like a valuable steward of mama earth.
holy fuckerama huh?
it'll all make sense when you see my stoned picture, that be a picture of me basking in the sunlight with stones on my face. just wait, hold your breath, unbunch your panties, whatever it takes, just hold on babies.

[lietuvaite]

there's a website that if you put in your quit time and some other info it will tell you how much money you've saved. kinda cool.

i've been putting money that i would have spent on smokes in a glass piggy bank on my dresser. it adds up quickly and i like that i am visibly reminded of how expensive it is to smoke. i plan on spoiling myself at the one year mark.

keep telling eric you're proud of him. it helps when i hear it from my husband.

[tinkerlion]

i tell eric all the time how proud i am of him. he's saved $427.70.


i'll try to wait paitently sway. at least i don't have to worry about the panties in a bunch, i wear a thong. tmi?

[lietuvaite]

I just haven't been able to break the link between drinking etcetera partying and smoking. .

i have one sip of alcohol and want a cigarette. that is actually the worst craving and has always been involved in my downfall.

[lietuvaite]

I'd rather fail miserably, than be told what to do

i can be like that too. i'll wait patiently too.

[tinkerlion]

now i'm playing the waiting game. waiting for my friends to get here for dinner and general socializing. i'm going to meet my best friend from high school's daughter for the first time. my friend is also the one who will be cutting my hair. she's almost finished cosmetology school (but finished all her hair cutting hours!)

[lietuvaite]

i tell eric all the time how proud i am of him. he's saved $427.70.

that's great. is he saving up for anything fun?

[tinkerlion]

we've been enjoying going out a little more. we're big movie fans, so we've seen more lately than we have in a long time. we probably should be saving, but it's hard. ipod's were gifts to us to do it though (well mine was part birthday as well.)

[lietuvaite]

are you making dinner for your friends? we haven't had anyone over in a while and i miss it. i guess just too busy lately. that's great that you keep in touch w/friends from highschool. i still do too, but it's rather sporadically. have fun.

[tinkerlion]

we're going to do bbq chicken on the grill.

we actually got back in touch through mspace. as much as i bitch about that site at times, it has it's uses. i actually found 3 friends this week and 1 person found me.

[lietuvaite]

Mmmmm, bbq chicken sounds good. i love my mom's recipe

[tinkerlion]

funny thing is i taught amanda (the friend coming over tonight) my family's recipe to make it. apparently she still uses it and her husband loves it. we'll be doing it differently tonight, but it's still yummy.

[sauce.baby]

i learned today that i can function on 3hrs of sleep. tho it is not fun at all.
i went out to see my friends, amadan, play last night. got caught up in the post-show chit-chat and by the time i got home and into bed, it was 3hrs before i had to wake up to get ready for my 6hr shift at work. then while i was getting ready, i realized i still needed to go grocery shopping after work. i'm sure everyone at the stores thought i was either stuck-up, retarded, stoned or hungover as i was so tired i forgot to take my sunglasses off every time i went into a store.
c'est la vie, eh?

[sway2sway]

that's nasty Sauce. I used to hate working night shifts at the hospital, 7 to 7 It was like dawn of the dead for me, I'm a bitch without sleep

[japhy]

sway are you a nurse? That's what I want to be when I grow up....again(this is round number 2 for me....back in school). Saturday mornings I've been volunteering at my neighborhood hospital in the Oncology/Trauma/Surgery Recovery unit. Since I don't have any medical skills, beyond basic life support, they have me filling patients ice waters, visiting with them etc. But it's really cool, because each shift I walk away with a small glimpse into patients lives and during the week I can't help but to think of them and of each story in each room and whether they got to go home, will they get to eat more than just crushed ice, will anyone come to visit?

[lietuvaite]

sauce, that sucks. i usually feel better with no sleep than minimal sleep

[sway2sway]

Japhy, crazy as it is, yes I am. I got my degree in 2001. I worked on the pediatric ward for about a year till the man downsized it. Then I worked on the surgical unit and surgical daycare for another year. Then before I went on mat leave I worked in the ER, as a med/surg nurse- cause you know they are always full up with the non emergency people that have no where else to go. After my year of leave was up, I was scheming and crafting for ways not to go back. I've never had a love affair with the hospital. My sister is a nurse too and I can remember her at 5 years old saying that was what she wanted to be when she grew up. For me it was just one of the few practical decisions I actually made in my early 20's. (ask me a simple 'yes no' question and look what I do). So I started working in home care, I liked parts of that, but parts not. I'd say it's comprised about 60/40 dressing changes, to palliative visits. I don't like palliative work, I can't take it, I'm a poor little emotional sponge. From that I got into case management, which I guess is about the best fit yet. I get to go see 80,90,100 year old people in their own homes where they feel comfortable enough to tell me stories, show me their stuff, it's cool- as opposed to the hospital where it feels like no one is themself because the power has been taken from them when they strip and put on the hospital gown. And I coordinate various services to assist them to stay in their home and sometimes I facilitate the move to the nursing home. dum dum dum, that was an ominous drum roll.

[sway2sway]

I went to school where I live, how dandy is that? It was one of the first few years where our community college had just got university status for a few programs. I could take the whole damn 4 years here, which was good cause I started just before my son turned one. I wouldn't have commuted 2 hours each way for it, as I said it wasn't my dream, Probably just would have got a degree in english or psych or sociology, who knows what I would have done with that? maybe english teacher.

I've never done cpr. I have zipped more than a few people into bodybags, hopefully that doesn't speak to my proficiency. I may someday go back to school, but not in the near future and not for nursing.
I actually don't miss the other age groups too much. I kind of like the old buggers, I actually, in some ways, am a lot more of their mindset and understand them better.

There is definately a shortage of nurses, which has trickled down to every area, including nursing teachers. As well, as you said, class sizes have not yet been anted up enough to offset the increasing retirement rate.
good luck.