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Monday, July 18, 2005
5/2/2005In case you wanted to know, Linda’s going to bust it this month and try for 70,000. I just wanted to keep you all updated.
Okay - she got a new coat for an early mother’s day gift. It’s a short pant jacket, or trench coat (she described it both ways, take your pick), pink and the inside has “sunny little flowers”. It’s a large, because she doesn’t like things too tight, but wears things too tight when she’s gotten too fat.
That’s all for now.
5/3/2005She needs to start taking two allergy pills, one before bed and one in the daytime. She’s upset because her eyes are puffy but happy that they are better than they were this morning (she had me verify this). She hates puffiness. And she hates red. She’s also upset because her antibiotic isn’t breaking everything up sooner. I confirmed that I, too, get headaches when I have sinus problems, as does 90% of the population of the sinus-bearing world.
She went downstairs to get cake but didn’t eat it and she is proud of how good she’s being.
Her eyes are just hurting her so badly!
She likes my sign – or card – or whatever this is on my desk.
She doesn’t know where Matt is, where Mark is, where Wanda is.
Everything she likes in the Candelite catalog is over $100. She found one item that was $115. She advised that this must because she has expensive tastes.
She’s going to lunch soon because she’s taking an hour and doesn’t want to drive in rush-hour traffic. But she needs to go to the bathroom first. She’s taking an hour for lunch because she needs to go to Kohl’s and return a shirt she bough that is too big! She doesn’t even think it looks good on her. She didn’t try it on before she bought it. Oh well, lesson learned.
That is all for now.
She just got a surprise settlement payment of 3800 dollars. She sent a letter out and they paid her. She stopped Connie as she passed by to repeat this.
It’s a good thing, too, ‘cause she needs the money for this wedding. Those kids are drinkers, you know.
Her son’s fiance was taken to the emergency room last night, having trouble breathing, heart pounding, sweating, nauseous. It’s just a panic attack, isn’t it? All brides go through this. She just needs to chill.
She has to go back to the doctor so they can do this dye test on her – some kind of dye thing… which Ms. E thinks is silly ‘cause it’s just ANXIETY!
SHUH!
School’s a part of the anxiety. She graduates in May. Nick (her son) thinks it’s not wedding related it’s school related. She graduates in December and is trying to get everything done. Poor girl. No one’s ever done that before.
According to Ms. E, Lakeside is not an emergency-thing. Did you know this?
Oh and Nick was born at 2:57 in the afternoon.
5/4/2005She’s trying to get her flowers on her computer but they’re all blurry. After discussion I learned she is trying to get a picture of a bouquet on the background display on her computer and needed help understanding why a small photo, when stretched to the size necessary to fill your computer screen, would come out blurry.
She says it’s not real warm yet outside and that she’s kind of disappointed. She ate a chicken salad sandwich at Little Kings (you’ll start to see that this is a trend in the interesting life of Ms. E.)
I’ve been on the dialer for a large portion of the day so this is all I have for now. The adventure will have to continue at another time…
5/5/2005The Remarkable Ms. E just got off the dialer a few moments ago. She didn’t contact anyone but left a lot of messages.
Her allergies are really bothering her today. She took two pills yesterday, one before she went to bed, so she’s hoping that will do the trick. She really hopes the puffiness goes away. She thinks the monitor is hurting her eyes. Yesterday she went home and her eyes were bloodshot red and hurting her really badly. And they’re never like that at home.
Last night she sat outside with her husband in front of the chimnea (those butt-ugly Mexican chimney pot-looking things) and drank a few cocktails and then went inside and watched ‘Lost’ and ‘Revelations’ (which she calls ‘Revolutions’). She says ‘Revelations’ (‘Revolutions’) is a good show, but she didn’t see the end of it last night. She fell asleep!
She can’t believe I can stay up as late as I do. She’s an early bird.
She hates garlic. She makes fun of me when I eat garlic saying I stink. Her husband loves garlic. Did you know it’s good for your immune system?
She doesn’t eat Campbell’s soup because it has way too much sodium, but when she does she buys the Campbell’s select.
She told her husband tonight they are eating dinner together. They didn’t last night. They just drank. And ate cheese and crackers. She loves cheese but it doesn’t like her. It gives her constipation. She has a terrible digestive system. That’s why she eats a lot of fruits now. She knows she can’t eat broccoli or cauliflower anymore because the other night she was doubled over. Brussel sprouts are her favorite vegetable, but she can’t eat them either. None of the cabbages. That’s why she can’t eat sauerkraut, which stinks for her because she’s German. But just because she’s German doesn’t mean she eats German food. She doesn’t do ethnic food. She doesn’t like Indian.
I told her I’ve never had German food and she said if I’ve had Polish sausage then I have. Evidentially Poland and Germany are the same country still.
She’s going with her sister to eat at U.P.
She called her husband earlier and he hasn’t called her back. Yesterday she called him and he didn’t have his phone with him. Did he do the same thing today? He usually calls her right back because he doesn’t know if it’s something important of if he just wants to chat.
5/7/2005 She had the neighbors over last night. Well, she didn’t have them over, they just came over. Sat out and lit the chiminea and had some cocktails. They actually ATE though – she had such a headache from not eating. Evidentially surviving on just booze alone doesn’t do it for her. She went to bed at ten, which is early, but not for her, and she had to advise that they started drinking around four.
She says what she really wants today is to get chewed out.
That is all for now.
She found an artichoke fountain in a catalog. She doesn’t like artichokes. She doesn’t like guacamole, either. You have to put garlic in it. It’s not that she hates garlic, she just doesn’t like the taste of it afterwards. In her mouth.
She waited for two minutes to be connected to voice mail and it says voice mail’s not set up. Geez.
I said ‘what’ when she mentioned the artichoke fountain, and then I agreed with not liking artichokes, that I sometimes will eat guacamole, and reiterated that, yes, she doesn’t like garlic.
She needs to buy a new lamp for her living room but she can’t find anything she likes. Everything she sees is ugly. ‘So much fake,’ she says.
I told her about the torrential downpour and how hard it started raining out of nowhere and she actually asked me if I wasn’t sure it had something to do with them cleaning the windows. I mean, seriously….
5/10/2005Not much going on in this department except the following:
She’s doing a lot of wedding planning, which will be the norm for the next few months. Whoopie! She’s planning a bridal shower. No, wait, she’s not planning it, just having it at her house.
She’s pissed about the new drops and has been pouting that she’s lost fourteen of her forty. She also rabidly complained about Matt getting 80 and her only getting 40. I cried I a silent tear for her. I suggest you each do the same.
Her husband is going to look for a boat tonight. “Him and this damn boat thing. As if we have time,” she says. She’s not going to go with him to pick it out; her son will go with instead. She still says it has to have a bathroom in it. “If it don’t, we don’t buy!”
Her soon-to-be daughter-in-law went over to their house last night with new glasses. She’s getting fun glasses. Like the ones I wear, evidentially.
She says it’s windy outside.
Oh, here’s an anecdote for you. When at the Gengi Japanese Steakhouse the chef looked at her, asked if she used hairspray in her hair and when she said yes he asked her to move away from the cooktop to keep her hair from going ablaze. She’s shocked that people recognize that she uses hairspray. She even acts offended because it’s so obvious. I guess she doesn’t think it is.
That’s it.
She doesn’t like the Locomotion - you know that dance song that came out in the sixties and was redone in the eighties just as crappy as the original. Well she likes to dance, but not that kind of dance. “Make a chain now - HA!” she laughs in disbelief.
Oh, and she was commenting on how great it was that it was going to be getting warm outside soon. I said that I thought she didn’t like the heat and she said, well, you know what I mean - not to lay around in.
5/16/2005Linda wanted to know how my performance went. Performance? Play? She doesn’t know what to call it.
She showed me a picture of their boat. She knows nothing of boats.
Aren’t you shocked she’s wearing white? Well, she is too. She had to this weekend, you know. They went to some “graduation party for some kid – Tim’s mom – I don’t know what it was….”
Her son and his fiancée took their engagement pictures yesterday. They took some in side and some outside so they’ll see what they get. They’re supposed to get them back on Wednesday.
Gee, wasn’t it cold on Saturday? Cold and windy? Linda thinks so. I told her I didn’t know, I was inside most of the day. She said, “Okay.”
5/19/2005Okay, so it’s an established fact that Ms. E is nuts. But she is also painfully nice. She left a Red Bull on my desk this morning ‘cause she knew I would be up late watching Star Wars last night. That’s pretty chill.
5/23/2005Let’s see - what is on the update list for this morning?
Seems Saturday was dead at work. They got April’s (her soon-to-be daughter-in-law) bra for the wedding and April tried on her dress and slip and good thing they did! The slip didn’t fit, she said, “It sucked her in like glue. Couldn’t bend, couldn’t do anything.”
They got the invitations designed - they’re going to have someone make them. It’s gonna be expensive, but holy moly!
They took the boat out this weekend. “Well, that didn’t go well.” Tim and Nick changed the water pump thing and didn’t do it right; it seems they tightened something too much. Well first they got it out in the water, and didn’t do that right and spun and hit some rocks. The river had debris all over the place. Then they heard sirens blaring! Seems the pump overheated, so they turned off the engine and floated back in. They weren’t that far out into the river. It seems they only went about “EHN! UHN!” which I’m guessing is measurement of distance or direction. Not sure.
She was so scared. Terrified.
Then they pulled the boat out and forgot to pull the motor up and scraped it along the pavement as they drove. Brilliant.
She went out this weekend and tried to find a swimsuit. But had no luck. When I asked why she laughed and said, “Look at me!” She settled on wearing her old swimsuit and a pair of shorts and a tank top. She said it’s “only a river”, she doesn’t have to be a “fashion plate.”
Well she wants us all to know that it’s nice outside right now. “EEETSA NAAAAAAHSSSE!”
6/4/2005Well she went to the dermatologist and she got two prescriptions - one is a pill (“for internal”), the other is topical. Evidentially the problem is coming from perfume, so she can lay her clothes down and spray them, but under no circumstances is she to put perfume on her body*.
AND - she has “resigned” herself to thirty minutes three times a week to treadmill. Seems she put on her fat jeans yesterday and they did not fit. So she is not happy**. Yesterday was a day of working out and cleaning……
Pronunciations:*baah-daah**happaih
She says her right arm feels like she hit her “crazy bone, you know, on my elbow” and she hasn’t. But you know, that tingling feeling that you get? “But…. It’s just me.”
She’s surprised at how few people are working today. She can only work the first two this month ‘cause of all the wedding stuff. That’s all I can report at this time, because the rest of the conversation was taken up with her monitor as she trailed off and mumbled to herself.
6/6/2005Ms. E has a really bad headache today. She got it at 8pm last night - she thought it was just from being out on the river and in the sun, but it’s still not gone.
She’s complaining that people aren’t in a good mood this morning. She’s trying to…(odd gesture)….keep things upbeat even though she has a headache.
She thinks this boat thing of her husband’s is going to be ‘a costly adventure’. Seems something else is wrong on the boat and needs fixing yet again.
6/8/2005She asked me if I had a good day yesterday and I think it was only then that I realized that my good day at work had to have been connected to her absence. She then, after pausing and realizing I wasn’t going to ask, felt the need to tell me that she, too, had a good day. That she got fitted for her dress and her hairpiece? And that April had a good day as well - that is, until her mother called. According to Ms. E she just stayed out of that one.
Yeah, as if she could.
6/13/2005It’s windy, but nice outside.
This weekend she went to the Old Market and it was PACKED. They went to that Taste of Omaha thing. Good bands. She walked all over though - all the way to Rick’s Boatyard - but she wore the WRONG shoes!
(mind you, all of this was stated to my back after I explained to her that I was busy trying to read something)
3:26 PM
Tuesday, November 23, 2004
my 15 year old cat left home on Saturday. she hasn't been back since. her food has remained untouched. she hasn't been seen. she's old and it's cold.
8:49 PM
Wednesday, September 29, 2004
hello friends,
i'm not posting much here anymore. i've been living a full, happy life in LJ, a place i've been for about a year now, but am just now revealing my new address to a select few.
like many of you, i've found too many unwanted eyes have found my Blogspot, and on LJ i can guard entries from internet stalkers by protecting sensitive posts. an ingenious function if i do say so myself.
so, you swanky people, if you'd like to start visiting my LJ and you don't already have the address, please post a comment here and i'll privately send you the address. oh, and you might want to include your email just in case (i'm so bad at saving those things).
and if you don't have an LJ journal yourself, i would highly recommend it. it's free, there are many more options, and you can establish communities and friendships as well. what a wonderful little place.
i'll still try to post here every once in awhile for those of you unwilling to follow to my new address.
ciao.
edit: please post a comment saying you want me send you the address. ;)
9:51 PM
Wednesday, September 08, 2004
Dear Seattle,
Thank you. For being so welcoming, for being so accepting, for offering wonderful weather to greet my visit. Thank you for your wonderful community, for your incredible, much-needed conference, and for the marvelous organizations to support it all. Thank you for your salmon, your booze, and your amazing sushi. But most of all, thank you for your ambassador, her company, and her amazing hospitality.
It was wonderful.
-deev.
7:05 PM
Tuesday, August 24, 2004
beautiful, no?
8:00 PM
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