Just typed a whole entry then accidentally closed the window. Damn! Anyhow, spent a lovely weekend in the outer banks of North Carolina near Bodie Island Light on the Hatteras National Seashore. Anne and I went with a bunch of people from work and it was tons of fun!
First, I had lots of yummy food. I had Mahi-mahi the first night, which was fabulous. It had mango salsa and was blackened. Lup lup. I got it cleared up that Mahi-mahi is a Dolphin FISH, not actual Dolphin (Oak had me semi-convinced over our cruise that it was dolphin, though we know he was just doing this to make Pete mad.. I was still a little confused on the topic). The second night I had Lousiana pork and shrimp, which was also spicy and very good. Yummy yummy!
Last night we went to a club that one of the guys’ friends’ bands was playing at (totally apostrosized that wrong, oh well). They were quite the unbelievable talent – everything from Gloria Gaynor to Sublime! Possibly even more amusing was watching the interesting people. This one sketchy guy with a mullet kept trying to hit on chicks for the first 3/4 of the night, then finally found one and was making out with her in the middle of the dance floor for the remainder of the evening. Can we say scary? haha. It was highly entertaining!
Other than that, we had a lot of fun at the beach. I even managed to get a little bit of a tan! Yay. Overall a fruitful trip! 
In other news, I got a seriously large TV (27″) that now adorns our living room. It’s very hot, though we need to get cable TV because there is no reception around here! (All we get is the WB !! not that there is anything wrong with that, of course… lol).
Work is going fine, not too highly stressful or anything like that yet. This week a lot of my co-workers are going on vacation! I get Friday off, yahoo! Love this country! muah ha ha.
I just found some computer geek humor (sort of – well it was amusing to me!). This is the address of Apple Computer:
Apple Computers
1 Infinite Loop
Cupertino, CA 95014
Now Apple has this trendy “non-geek” reputation they are trying to maintain, but they go ahead and name their corporate head quarters road “Infinite Loop.” Don’t you think it should be “User Friendly Lane” or “i-pod Avenue”? Indeed.
An only SLIGHTLY tilted “How much do you love RPI?” quiz. I got a 36% but how can you really answer “yes” to “RPI has great weather all year long!” or “The roads are so beautifully paved with no pot holes!”
Come on now. They should have at least mentioned the cool movies at UPAC – and how they only fill up when “Lord of the Rings” or “Matrix” is being played.
My mom and I went to a real live auction this morning in rainy Wyoming. We stood outside for awhile and observed the farmers bidding on broken televisions, questionable lawnmowers, far overused couches, etc. I especially liked checking out their John Deere hats, mullets, and mud-covered boots.
The auctioneer was hilarious. Everything was “priced to go!” not for one dollah? Half dollah! Oh do I hear one dollah now? I tried to do impressions of him – “one dollar bidabidabidabidahighbida do I hear two bidabidabidahighbida” The best part was when this TV came up that had a sign on it that said, “works, but sound doesn’t work.” The auctioneer actually had the nerve to say, “Well gee that would be great for a deaf person!” Hopefully there were no lip-reading deaf people there.
Not that we didn’t get into the hot bidding action. Once they got to the “good” stuff that was packed up in a tractor trailer, we were sure to keep our biddin’ number ready. The first steal was a beveled edge mirror I won, probably like 12 inches by 36 inches – for two dollars!
Then my mom went on to win a daybed frame for about $5, some shelves for $5.. then another mirror came up. This one was HUGE (3 feet by 4 feet, AT LEAST) and just as cool with etching on the corners. I was thinking, yes that would go just lovely over the fireplace! I won that sucker for FIVE DOLLARS! I think that redneck ebay is even better than garage sales and SA Boutique!
The biggest purchase of the day was my mom’s bid on a desk for fifteen dollars. It is pretty impressive though, heavy with drawers and dovetailed joints. Hot stuff.
Not to mention the “lot” boxes. This is basically a mystery box, they will hold up one or two things in it and be like, “PRICED TO GO!” and start at five dollars. Except nobody ever pays over one dollar. We got two of them, one had a whole bunch of pots and tupperware in it. The tupperware was even brand new. So impressive.
Gee I need to get a truck in NC so I can stock up on cheap-o furniture! hahaha. Maybe not, but I can get smaller furniture that way! Awesome! hehe.
Eve 6′s new CD came prematurely available by mp3. I am listening to it now. I have to listen to stuff a few times before I decide if I like it or not, and I like most music a lot more after I know the lyrics. Silly me. I do really like the single, “Think Twice.” Hopefully I’ll start hearing that baby on the radio soon. Well I didn’t have to wait until after my birthday after all!
It is summer, and only about 50 degrees here in NY. What is up with that? How about some sun already?
Moving dusty stuff around makes me very sneezy. Achoo!
There are way to many forms, contact peoples, and whatnot in the moving process. It is more of an undertaking than I thought! haha
Note to self: It takes 1 hour to dissassemble Barbie’s Dream House. That means it takes at least 5 hours to figure out how to put back together, when you do decide to do so one day. Yikes.
When we were in our transfer in Atlanta, I swore I saw the guy from Joe Millionaire. Of course, it was in passing, and nobody else seemed too impressed, so it may not have been him.
Then, in Galleria Mall in Buffalo yesterday, my mom saw Jim Kelly, former Buffalo Bills quarterback (you know, back from when the Bills went to the Super Bowl 4 times in a row.. and lost every time).
Two famous people sightings in 3 days is just para-normal, especially when you live nowhere near New York or Los Angeles.
I apologize for my slight hiatus. Between graduation and everything else, I haven’t really felt much for typing on here, I suppose.
This week Oak and I took a trippie-poo to North Carolina to find an apartment. It is quite lovely, (pictures of the model of my apartment here, sorry I didn’t make them all fancy on the web). I must say how dorky it is that the name of the complex and the city it resides in phonetically match mine and Oak’s first names. It was like we were meant to live there.
Oak had lots of fun making fun of the bright green Ford Focus that we had as a rental car. He said it was ultra-ghetto, though I was still impressed, the Focus did have a CD player, which my Escort lacks. Anyhow, I appreciate Oak’s contribution to helping me keep my sanity during this extremely intensive search process. We also had lots of fun, touring the local malls, eating exotic cuisine, and taking pictures at Duke Gardens. Flower pictures are so fun!
I promise to try to write more soon. For now I am tired and must go to sleep, I suppose.
