WTHW (I shortened it.)

This is super late because I spent all of yesterday and today trying to figure out why I couldn’t get the internet to work on either of my laptops, work & personal. BTW, MY LAPTOP WORKS AGAIN!! It crashed in May and I just got it back last week, I’m so excited to not have to use my big bulky desktop with pink monitor (its broken and I’m too cheap to get a new one) my blogging experience is going to be so much better now! To figure out the internet I called Time Warner again, spent 30 minutes on the phone and then lost service. Then, today I figured out that all I had to do was restart the modem. Nice. At least it works now!

Ok enough rambling, on to the award! This week the What the hell award winner is……..my neighbor who smokes, yuck.

I’m allergic and get a horrible headache at the first scent of cigarette smoke, so I hate it. I do understand that people have the right to choose whether to smoke or not, so usually I just try to keep my distance from people who are. The smoking ban got passed in IL last January and I was sooooo happy, but there is nothing in WI and it seems that everyone in the MKE (Milwaukee, again I shortened it) smokes, its crazy. What really gets me is that lately the smell of cigarettes is so strong in my apartment and its making me sick. I think it is just someone next door smoking and the smell seeping out, or something in the ventilation but I hate it!!

Sorry to those of you who smoke and had to listen to me vent, but my blog is a no smoking zone : )

On a completely unrelated note I overheard someone at work on the phone yesterday and he said “No, Hawaii is a part of the United States.” Awesome.

I’m super excited because I’m working from home tomorrow (how awesome is my job?!) and going to Chicago to visit a friend from home. We’re planning on going to the Taste of Chicago and cooking out for the 4th, I can’t wait!

 

I’m ridiculous, I’ll admit it

Got mad at The Boy last week because we both had friends visiting this weekend and i knew we wouldn’t really talk while they were in town, and he wasn’t really making an effort before they got there.*

This is all a summary restated from my memory. I am not portraying this as direct quotes. (I say this for the benefit of the 1% of my readers who is The Boy and will bring up the fact that I quoted something wrong.)

On Thursday…

Me: “We won’t talk from the time our friends get to town until they leave on Sunday”

TB :”Don’t worry I will make time to talk to you.”

I was happy to have this reassurance, he is a nice guy, there is a reason I heart him. We spoke Friday before our friends got to town, said we would talk Saturday.

On Saturday…

Me: (via text) “When are we going to talk? Remember that you said you would make time to talk, texting doesn’t count BTW.”

TB: “We will.” Followed by other random conversation.

Fast forward to Saturday night when we in fact did not talk. I was so frustrated and he knew it, I even began a text message with “Listen up.” Yes, I was that girl. It was so frustrating because I knew exactly what was going to happen, but he told me otherwise so I went against all prior experience and looked forward to talking to him on Saturday only to be even more upset when it didn’t happen. We spoke on the phone today…after his friends left. Wow, its almost like I knew that would happen. He is now aware of this frustration.

If you made it to this point in the post, I apologize because you are now realizing that there was no point to it and I’m basically just whining. (Especially if you are The Boy. Hi!) But really, does this happen to anyone else, where you know how something will play out but still get upset by the end result? Its like getting mad when he gets out of the shower and drips water all over the apartment. I know its going to happen EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. but I still get mad. Instead of wasting the energy after the fact, I should just put towels all over the floor to prevent the frustration. (This doesn’t mean that you can continue to drip water all over the floor. I will still get mad.)

*Do we all appreciate the fact that The Boy is no longer my boyfriend, and that it is my fault -we are still talking, but things are dramatically different due to actions of mine that I will only refer to as The Incident and will only speak of in a hushed voice, yet I still require him to speak to me all the time and be concerned about my feelings as if he was my boyfriend. Maybe I think that I can trick him into just falling back into routine so that one day he is just surprised by the fact that we are two people not in a relationship, who are in fact in a relationship. I also love that I realize how ridiculous all of this is, but in the moment can’t help but being the crazy girlfriend who isn’t even a girlfriend and is just crazy.

$%!# you.

My boss showed this video today during a training event at work, I think it’s hilarious.

I hope you all have a great weekend!

Back to school

Not me, no way..The Boy turned in his application for business school this week, how exciting!! I’m so proud of him for doing this, he is really going to be great at it. Please say a prayer for him to get an acceptance letter soon, so he can get ready for the fall semester!

Bikini weather!

You know I love showing off my view from the 22nd floor…

Yes fellow bloggers, that is a big man in a tiny tiny speedo. He has been by the pool the last two days and I didn’t want to be selfish, so you get to see him too.

We made it to Thursday, woot! I’m super excited for this weekend because I’ll have company again! A friend from home is coming to visit and we’re going to see Dashboard Confessional at Summerfest on Saturday night. I’m sooooo excited! On a side note if anyone is coming to the MKE for summerfest and wants company, I’ll be here!

Wednesday

Happy What the hell?! Wednesday….

7:25pm…

Dear Time Warner Cable,

I appreciate you calling me today to make sure that I didn’t want my cable turned off. It’s kind of shitty that you didn’t correct my apartment number when I told you about the error a month ago, but hey at least you caught it today when someone else tried to get more cable for my apartment that wasn’t actually my apartment. Your representative was very nice on the phone and I was happy to talk to him rather than have my cable turned off.

-happy customer

10:30pm…

Time Warner Cable-

Listen up you dirty skank, thanks so much for turning off my cable and internet. It was great fun to speak to your representatives on the phone for 30+ minutes this evening when I should have been creatively folding and pinning hemming my pants for tomorrow. I especially liked that my phone doesn’t get service so I got disconnected 10 minutes into the first call. Awesome. I am going to blog about your crappy service and stupid employees so that all of my readers boycott you and you lose a significant portion 6 of your customers. I should cut you.

-angry, tired, frustrated customer who now has to wear really long pants to work tomorrow

I am not a steamstress

I don’t know if that is even the right word, but who cares because I’m not one. Remember how I don’t have any dress pants for work..well I bought some today thinking Oh no big deal, I can hem them myself. Fast forward to 10:15pm when I realize that I haven’t done anything to get clothes for tomorrow…I don’t actually need to sew them I can just pin them up. 10 minutes after that..$!%# I DON’T KNOW HOW TO SEW!

You would think that I’d be more motivated to figure out my clothes situation since I the pants I wore today were missing a button and I had to wear a sweater to cover it, but no. This is ridiculous. I do not know how to sew so I am putting a few stitches to hold them until I can take them to be done professionally. Whatever, if people are looking at the hem of my pants they’ll be close enough for me to kick them in the face and then I guarantee you they’re distracted from my poor stitching. For real, who would be like Wow, she doesn’t know how to sew for shit. I hope she’s not uncomfortable with me kneeling at her feet. *Gets kicked in the face* OWW she kicked me in the face. Wow, those stitches are really bad, the thread doesn’t even match.

Don’t worry, I’ll let you know if there are any hem gawkers tomorrow.

So this weekend was super fun! We walked to the lake and went paddle boating, watched a movie, and went to dinner (I was too tired/lazy to even try making food.) I’ll admit that I was a little emotional/crabby just because I don’t know what’s going on at all. He’s here and I want so bad for everything to be normal, but I know that its not and thats hard.

Ugh, I have to “hem” my other pant leg and go to bed, it’s going to be a long day tomorrow. Happy Tuesday!

Where’s the fast forward button?

The Boy..who is still The Boy, but is not My Boy, but is still one of my best friends and favorite people…is coming up to visit on Saturday. I’m have really been looking forward to it because it will be a chance to do all the things we wanted to do the last time he was here but didn’t get to because we were too busy fighting. We have lots planned..I’m going to attempt and then fail to make dinner so we’ll actually probably order a pizza make an awesome dinner, we’ll go out downtown, explore by the lake and paddle boat, and probably eat lots of food.

So I’m really excited for the visit, but lately he has been acting weird on the phone. Today he finally told me that its because he feels like I’m acting like nothing happened between us and everything is just great and normal. The truth is I know exactly what went down. I know that he doesn’t trust me, love me, or want to be with me anymore…I just wish that he did. When I act mopey (sp?) and upset he gets frustrated because it was my fault in the first place & because I’m being all negative and no fun, but when I act happy he gets frustrated because I act like nothing is happening. Believe me I have my horrible moments when all I do is think about how I screwed everything up, but I don’t really see that as being helpful so instead I’m trying to be happy and someone that he will want to talk to so we can rebuild whatever is left of our relationship friendship.

I really just don’t know what I’m supposed to and I want this to be fixed now. I know that’s not actually possible and its going to take a lot of time, but I hate just sitting around and waiting for things to change. UGH.

Tomorrow is casual Friday, I guess I can look forward to that.

I heart these things…

Some things I love about my apartment…

My rolling laundry basket, such a life saver - no more carrying a heavy hamper!

My microwave that I just bought Monday..yes, I lived here for TWO WEEKS with no microwave, it was horrible.

Method aroma sticks - sweet water. The best air freshener EVER..I can actually smell it, but its not too strong and it looks pretty too!

And probably the best…that this is my view every evening

I love that I don’t even have any furniture, but I’m excited about an air freshener and laundry basket, haha. What are some of the things that you love about your house or apartment?

We made it halfway through the week & tomorrow is Thursday, which is ALWAYS the best day of the week!

On a side note..I just broke 3,000 hits, thanks to all of my loyal readers and those of you who find me by searching for creepy things, you’re weird but I appreciate it!!

What the hell?! Wednesday, edition 2735

I can’t believe that I haven’t used this one before…

Flava Flav

not only him, but also anyone who isn’t completely disgusted or repulsed by him, and maybe even more..the people who gave him a TV show. For real. He is creepy and horrible and just..what the hell? worthy.

There should also be an honorable mention this week for me for two reasons…

1. when getting ready for my job I never thought about the fact that I own ONE GOOD PAIR of dress pants - I own a couple others, but they are all too short or too tall and all too tight

2. I’m worried about my clothes getting too tight and looking out of shape when the boy gets here this weekend and I’m eating chips and cheese dip straight from the jar.