HAPPY BIRTHDAY RO!!!

Happy Birthday Ro!!!

We're at Kris's apartment now.
Going out in a bit.
They're all playing Guitar Hero in the other room.
Figured I couldn't start slacking already after just posting.
So here's my post.

Happy Birthday Ro!!!

Simply Not Noteworthy

All this time, nothing's really been going on:

I'm on the 3rd book of the Ender's Game Series.
Ro and I played World of Warcraft last night.
Ro's been homeless the last week or so.
I found out Best Buy owed me money (never gave me a raise) so I have back pay coming.
Went to the Fair and had Fair Food.
Mom had neck surgery.
Yesterday I had $1200 cash in my pocket.
Still no word on when the Nintendo will come out. (thanks Scott Smith!)
Ro's Birthday is Saturday, and our anniversary on the 5th.
Lady at the bank thought I was married.

So yeah, nothing to post about. All is forgiven, right?

They're EVERYWHERE!! There's no stopping them!!!

No, I'm not talking about zombies... I'm talking about something far worse. They keep coming and coming and even after getting rid of each and every one of them, they come right back... completely undetered. They smell and they're unsightly. Actually they do sound a bit like zombies - but they're not, they're dirty dishes.

I HATE DOING DISHES!!!

True story: Sometimes in my apartment, I'll be hungry. And I think, I've got plenty food in the fridge, and enough time to cook a nice meal but then I'll have to do the dishes afterwards. After this realization I would often go next door to the Chinese Buffet instead. My food is better, but I don't have to do dishes there. Ro didnt' believe me when I told her this story, but its true and it used to happen a lot (back when I was still spending money). I need one of these.

Speaking of Ro, she does my dishes when she's over. I don't ask her too, and she'll often take over once I start - this is reason #142 why I love her. She's the greatest.

But yeah, dishes really are like zombies. I think that should be a chapter in the book... Zombie Dishes. I'll have to look into that. But for now something completely different... (or not)

It takes a village

Why is it that in movies, there's always this whole village of warriors that are killed and there's ONE survivor who must set things right. Just once I'd like to see the whole village be resilliant enough to survive and take on the bad guys. I'm thinking like a village of African Warriors who take on, lets say, Shanghi. Seriously, a movie where an entire village of warrior/assassians take out a major city? I'd see that.

A comic for Guitar Hero fans.



Its important to be able to tell the difference between one type of zombie and another. The only true zombie that we need to worry about is, of course, the viral one. The other "zombie" is the one that is caused by black voodoo magik (wikilink). Here's how you can tell you're dealing with the real deal zombie and not one of the braindead knock offs produced by the Haitian Zombie Powder? Easy:

• Voodoo zombies show emotion.
• Voodoo zombies exhibit some thought processes.
• Voodoo zombies feel pain.
• Voodoo zombies recognize their surroundings.
• Voodoo zombies can be controlled.

The Best Buy Shuffle

So management gets on us sometimes about being in "our zone" and not "socializing with other employees" and not "hitting on the customers" and other ridculous things like that. A few of us, ok the guy from the camera section and I, like to do a little dance to celebrate our rebellion every now and then. We have the "Out of our zone" Dance that we do quite often for example.

Today I had a very short day at work... only 4.5 hours. I went in at 9:15 and left at 12:45. To those of you who are good at math, may realize that didn't quite add up. I was having a bad math day. At almost 1 o'clock I had a manager try to tell me to do something when i told him that I was supposed to be off the clock and I didn't have to listen to him any more. I very hurriedly clocked out and did my "You can't make me do anything 'cause I'm off the clock" dance in front of him and taunted him all the while. He told me he was going to physically harm me outside. I said, "We'll see about that, NEXT time I'm on the clock."

So yeah, after making a big scene about working 15 minutes over and my production upon leaving, imagine my suprise with what came next. Ro was very excited/suprised to see me home so EARLY... excuse me, what? That's right, she said early. She said my schedule said I was supposed to be at work another 35 minutes. Ooops.

I think I need a "HA! I just left Best Buy an hour early" Dance. That manager really is going to beat me...

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Zombies posess no hand-eye or complex motor control. Ladders are beyond them, stairs can be a challenge. Balance Beams are straight out. So when you're running from the zombie, you may think to yourself - "Self, climbing that tree seems like a good idea. That zombie will never climb up here and get me." This is true, but that zombie is going to be much more patient than you when it turns to the waiting game.

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It was a good day.

I woke up at about 11 am, and had to run some errands today. So I went to UIS and picked up my books ($166) for my classes this semester. Then I got my parking pass renewed so I didn't have a repeat of last year. I also got my student ID (hey only a year late) and I dropped off my financial aid info. Only thing I have left to do is go online and cancel my UIS insurance seeing that The Buy has got me covered.

Then Ro came over, she's going to be here for THREE WHOLE DAYS!! (I'm excited.) Ro and I had a good time - she learned to swim today. She pretty much knew how to already, but now she knows she knows (it makes sense, trust me). Now we're working on diving, and we'll finish up on that lesson tomorrow afternoon (I work until 1:00).

Tonight we visited our friend Anna who was working at Target (Tar-shae). To polish it all off we went to my friend Sandra's house for about an hour. Ro was a trooper, expecially since she had to be at work before 5 am this morning, she's sound asleep right now of course. I love her.

Today was a good day.