monkey nonsense

so i was riding in my friend’s car yesterday and noticed that she had an ipod… the way the ipod connected to her car’s stereo system was through this “itrip” thinger. after she told me how it worked, i was thoroughly amused! it apparently broadcasts FM waves so that if you tune your radio to the station it’s set up for, you’re listening off your ipod!

i really really wanted her to drop me off at my house so i could pick up jasper and then tail her reaaaally closely on the road to see if i couldn’t pick up her ipod radio station.

i never knew there was such technology!! if i ever get an ipod, i’m going to get one of those itrips… and then broadcast MC Hammer- Can’t Touch This for all the cars near me!

http://www.whodamonkey.com/gallery/

i finally got around to updating my pictures. uploaded pictures taken from my cousin Jenny’s wedding in april (stolen from my sister), pictures taken from the hot 99.5 floats contest (stolen from erica and vicky and other people), and pictures from when psycho, changer banger, steph and chubacca were in town (stolen from psycho)

and of course, i did all this during work. because it’s just that busy

you ever see that cheese commercial that goes something like this:

Crickets chirping at night with the camera pointing up at a full moon. Following subtitles are shown:

For millions of years, man thought the moon was made of cheese.

In 1969, we finally made it to the moon and discovered it was solid rock.

We have not returned since.

Behold, the Power of Cheese.

HAHHAHA, that commercial cracked me up. it was the inspiration for my college apps “cheese essay” i loved those behold, the power of cheese commercials! man, i wish they were available online to download!!

google is awesome with it’s tribute to the moon landing 36 years ago… visit moon.google.com and zoom in alllll the way

description of behold the cheese commercial from a random webpage google returned, and moon.google.com link stolen from ron

MASCOUTAH, Illinois (AP) — It has been a hot, dry summer in this St. Louis suburb, but Rose Mary Cook knew there was no way she could have used $74,000 worth of water.

The city’s utility department claimed Cook used 10 million gallons of water last month, charging her $29,787 for water, $43,581 for sewer, plus $893 for municipal tax.

“Luckily, when I opened the bill, I was sitting down,” Cook said. “I could have filled every pool in southern Illinois and still not used that much water.”

Cook presented the bill to a public works employee at City Hall. Officials quickly determined the whopping fee was the result of a broken meter and issued a corrected bill for $32.66 — waiving Cook’s monthly water and sewer charges for her troubles.

“My daughter asked me if I was hoarding water during the drought,” Cook said. “I told her I would, but I don’t know where I would find 10 million gallon jugs.”

Copyright 2005 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

from: http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/07/14/hot.summer.ap/index.html

i like space related things even though i don’t like flying and am scared of heights.

it’s the one thing i’ve been interested in since i was a kid. was interested enough in high school to do thinkquest on the solar system and to do the space settlement contest senior year summer. seems a whole lot more interesting than IT

too bad i’m too dumb and too chicken to go into a space-related job.

i was all excited about discovery going back into space. there’s something amazing about something so large being able to go so high.

too bad it got postponed. hopefully they’ll be able to launch it within the launch window ending july 30th… and hopefully it’ll have a safe trip there and back.

yesterday was 7/11. free 7.11 ounce slurpee!

in honor of my friends in chapel hill NC, nashville TN, and cincinnati OH where there are apparently no 7-11s (what kind of cities are these?!!?), i went on a 7-11 run.

three 7-11s, about 5 miles apart, all on Route 7… i only managed 2 slurpees out of my run. the last 7-11’s slurpee machines were out of order. i had the AC blasting to keep the slurpees from melting so my car was freeeezing. each time i got out of my car, my glasses would steam up from the change in temperature! when i finally got home and walked into my apartment, i nearly dropped a slurpee b/c my hand tickled and i freaked out thinking it was a bug. (they seem to like to fly into the apartment building where there’s lights in the hallways. i had some bug land on my neck one time and i didn’t realize until i was in my apartment and tina asked me what was on my neck… ewwwwwwwww, i feel the need to shower right now again)

i think it was just the blood recirculating in my hand again

then i went and got a 3rd slurpee a hour later with julie and tina. hehehhe, i don’t think the 7-11 man recognized me.

so i think i’ve finally become old.

this year, i will have attended at least (i say at least because i hold out hope that someone else… *cough* sister *cough*… may get married in the next 6 months i don’t care if you elope and get married in vegas, i want a niece/nephew dagnabit!!!) 3 weddings- 2 cousins and a high school friend marrying a college friend. that probably doesn’t sound like a lot to the rest of you (which probably means you guys are even OLDER than me ) but it’s quite a lot for me. the last wedding i went before this year to i think i might’ve been a flower girl for… so yeah, that was quite some time ago.

another sign that i’m getting old: seems marriage/having kids (having kids?!?!?!) is a major topic of conversation with everyone. another common topic: the real estate market. wow… grown up conversation!

my cousin bobby is going to get married in august. his story is a bit different than my cousin jenny (who got married in april). he met his fiancee much later (though still not that late) than jenny (who met her husband in like wha.. grade school?? jk i think they met when she was graduating high school or something like that) and is “finally” getting married now that he’s almost 40. it seems my dad’s side of the family tends to marry late. i kind of dread family get togethers on my dad’s side because the aunts are always asking about any boyfriend, when i’m going to bring him to meet the family (ohhh that’d be scary) and when i’m getting married. there is something terribly wrong when i (the youngest of my generation… by like 3 years to my sister, and then 5 years to any other cousin) get asked these kinds of questions!!! to be fair… the aunts pretty much ask everybody and anybody when they’re getting married , but still….

my mom says i’m weird because i lack any ambition to do “single” things… like things you can only do when you’re not married- play the field (really! my mom is pushing for me to play the field. she keeps telling me stories of how she had many many boyfriends and how she ended up picking my dad out of them because he was the tallest… romantic eh?), travel, climb the corporate ladder (or at least be more career ambitious), be less responsible (i am quite irresponsible, but not the kind of irresponsible my mom thinks i should be. i am irresponsible because i forget to do something important, etc etc. she wants me to like… randomly decide to drop everything and circumnavigate the world or something)

she thinks i’m old for my age i think i’m yoooooung!!! i want to just sit at home and watch cartoons!

yesterday, i tried to pay off my credit card bill… let’s say it was for $1000 for the sake of making things simple

i made the online payment.
i checked my checking account balance, let’s say i had $500 in there. obviously not enough…
so i wanted to take $1000 from my savings account and move it to my checking account to cover the amount.
done… completed that request.

today, i was looking at my account. i requested to take $1000 from my CHECKING account and move it to my SAVINGS account! i reversed my request!!!

so tomorrow morning, i expect to overwithdraw TWICE (first $1000 for the credit card bill, then the $1000 i accidentally took out when i meant to deposit.

i am dumb

i’m not a good driver. particularly now after graduating from college and starting to work… i think i was a safer driver in high school than i am now. i got my first speeding ticket this year and nearly lost my license (despite my previously spotless driving record). i might even have some road rage issues.

BUT i think i try to obey all the traffic laws (besides speed limits though i’m working to obey those now)… i almost always signal lane changes and turns… even when it’s the middle of the night, i’m the only car on the road, and it’s a tiny tiny road and i’m turning onto a driveway or something like that… i SIGNAL.

so driving pet peeve #185101 would be people who do not signal their intent to change lanes. so annoying!! scratch that… not signaling lane changes would be pet peeve #185100… people who purposely speed up when you signal your intent to change into their lanes… that is driving pet peeve #185101!

anyways, this entry isn’t so much about my other 185101 driving pet peeves. no, this one is about #185102… and the related driving pet peeve that i will now number 185103…

#185102- making a right turn from any lane BUT the right lane
#185103- making a left turn from any lane BUT the left lane

please see the following (not that accurately drawn) illustration, which i wasted a good 30-45 minutes at work trying to draw :

on the bottom lefthand corner, we have what happened to me this morning on my way to work- pet peeve #185102. well within stopping distance of the light, the light turned yellow so i braked and came to a stop. the car behind me stopped as well. in my rearview, i see the car change lanes to the lane to my left. no problem, he probably just wanted to get out from behind me for when the light changes. and then suddenly, i see him make a RIGHT turn from my LEFT, nearly clipping my left front bumper. grrrrrrrr… you can’t wait freaking 1 minute for the light to turn green and then make a right??? (Note: i was NOT in a right turn only lane, the lane allows you to go straight or make a right. i was only in that lane because at the next light, i would be making a right turn. otherwise, i would’ve let him have his freaking right turn lane.) i don’t understand why someone would be so impatient to make such a drastic right turn… that was the 198791891st red light i got on my way to work, but you don’t see me going straight through the red light! and i was already 30 minutes late to work!! (i don’t start to do crazy stuff until i’m at least 45 minutes late! jk )

on the top righthand corner is an example of #185103. this hasn’t happened to me in awhile, but it was even scarier than what happened this morning. i was driving in the left lane of a divided “highway” (not like an interstate, but a pretty large road with a median). the speed limit was at least 55 mph. there was a car slightly in front of me in the right lane. we’re both approaching an intersection when the car in the right lane suddenly decides to make a left turn from his lane. ahhh!! i nearly ram the side of his car even though i’m braking as hard as i can. why do drivers drive so idiotically?!?! if you miss your turn, make a u-turn up ahead and come back! it’s better than being hit straight on!! (i’m pretty sure had i hit him, he’d be dead because back then, there really weren’t side impact airbags and i would’ve hit him on the driver’s side of the car at 55 mph)

ahhh! i hate cars

perhaps i shouldn’t be at work today

had to use the restroom today at around 11:15 this morning…

went into a stall and noticed that the seat was up! (an indication that no one has used the stall since last night, when the cleaning people came through) at 11:15! no one had used that bathroom stall! a quick check showed that there was one other stall with its seat up, the other 3 had been used already.

still…

at 11:15! where is everybody?! … on vacation of course!! why am i still here? … ’cause i’m dumb like that