Sometimes My Tries Are Outside The Lines

It's been one helluva fast weekend - not that it truly makes that big of a difference when you are currently unemployed, but still.....each weekend day is yet another day not worrying about putting on that suit and dancing like a puppet for "the man" just to get him to hire you, realizing months later that you are done with THIS contract too and are moving on.  The two things I have come to realize in the last few months are that I actually LIKE contracting and may faint if I find a job I actually want to stick with and that when you work in Human Resources, interviewing is a joke.  Come on, I know the answers they want to hear and could give them tailored especially for the position so of course, I have a few offers on the table right now, which makes life very confusing.  I had already agreed to a contract when I got wind that three other offers are going to be landing on my table within the week so of course I am confused.  Yes, I could have worse problems, right?  So there is this tug between taking what is right here and right now and getting some money versus waiting it out maybe two weeks longer for what is as close to perfect as I am going to get.  Money is less of an issue than sheer and utter depression and boredom but I guess I have until Tuesday to figure it all out, eh?  Oh did I mention that big drama cryptic post I made a little while ago was about my contract ending very shortly after it began?  Yeah, that was it but I guess I never did clarify here, just in emails with certain folks.

It's been an odd weekend; everyone I know has either been pissy or depressed in one form or another.  I swear I have envelopes made out with certain people's names on them, each containing a different pill.  All I need are stamps, people.... so don't make me buy them!  If I could, I would be throwing valium, klonopin and wellbutrin across the states to make everyone have a fucking coke and a smile, mang.  My husband is even mad at me because I ate his pie.  Yes, seriously.....I think it is the principal behind the thing but still, I think it's something else but am not prying today.  So here is my WW confession and best guess why my  husband has not talked to me all day all in one fell swoop:  The other night we ordered in Claim Jumper and I wanted Caramel Apple Cheese Pie.  My husband did not order any but I DID tell him that I got him a piece in case he had pie-envy when he saw mine.  He never ate it and last night at MIDNIGHT, mind you, I had such a fucking craving for that pie that I ate his since he had not touched it and I thought he may forget about it.  Okay, I should not have had that pie at midnight, period for the obvious WW reasons but also because while I MEANT to get up and go get him a new one first thing today, I totally forgot about it and now I've had the silent treatment and given it all day because of stupid pie....geez.

But yanno, I am almost done with Entourage, Season 2 and I had an epiphany....remember how we were talking about TV and movie characters that we would like to have nasty loooove with?  Ok, I have to say that if there were any characters that I would want to just be friends and hang out with, it would be the boys from Entourage; they amuse the hell outta me....especially Drama and Turtle.

Anyway I promised to make this little posty post about weekly statistics, so shall we????

1.) Song of the week:  This week I chose Unwritten by Natasha Bedingfield.  I think it is a strong statement to those of us who have had bad weeks food wise or emotionally.  Tomorrow is a new day, totally unwritten and ready to be refreshed and started anew.  You can download the song and listen here and read the lyrics here.

2.) Blog reply quote of the week:  This goes to Adena at Redheads Unite for her comment on my 24-esque post about characters that we'd like to "do".  Quote:  "I just can't swoon over Jesus".

3.) Best new blog find of the week:  Go check out Chase at Taste The World.  She amuses and enchants; I'd do her.

4.) Blogger of the week:  Now usually not just ONE person will get so much acclaim in this blog, but let's face it....this person deserves this honor.  I bestow this award upon my platonic boyfriend Karl over at 2HT because he came to my blog and discussed pubic cleanliness, which was probably the most amusing shit I have ever had on my blog.  He even topped my Oprah rant, which is the highest hitting post I've ever had!

5.) Summer TiVo Season Passes:  Several people have asked what my addicted to TiVo ass is recording now that it is summer....well I will tell you what we have so far and coming up:

• The 4400
• Dane Cook's Tourgasm
• Hell's Kitchen
• Tuesday Night Book Club
• Treasure Hunters*
• Big Brother All Stars (coming in July)
• Windfall*
• Entourage
• Lovespring International
• The Closer
• It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia (speaking of which, does anyone remember the show that was on before this last season about the eating disorder people?)
• Psych*
• Monk
• Impatiently waiting on Reno 911, BSG and Stargate Atlantis
• Saved*
• and of course the regulars like Jeopardy, The Simpsons, General Hospital (shuttup)

* new shows that may be deleted if they suck when I watch them!

6.) Last but not least, the top 10 searches leading to this blog in order from HIGHEST (thanks Karl) to lowest: (of course, I am not counting anyone searching for snackiepoo or Snackie, blah blah)

• shaved scrotum/pubes - 9
• various song lyric searches - 7
• Jann Arden - 6
• Emily's Big Adventure - 4
• Pink Bunny Foo Foo - 4
• World of Warcraft - 4
• World of Warcraft Obsessed Fatties - 3
• Sex In The Butt - 3
• Overeaters Anonymous - 3
• Pseudotumor Cerebi - 2

If anyone else can think of any good topics for the weekly "Sunday Stats" drop me a line and let me know.  Also, if there are blogs out there worthy of some reading, point them my way and don't forget what I said in my last post about the sidebar issue.

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Comments

[SJ]

I pissed my mate off by eating the last piece of cornbread this morning. It had sat untouched for THREE DAYS. Apparently, I was supposed to *know* he was saving it to eat with the last of the pintos for lunch. And my day just went downhill from there ...

Yeah, I'm one of the depressed ones this weekend. I'll take two valiums and a klonopin, if you're passing them out. ;>)

[Karl]

Liking the stats. Well organized. I haven't done a search stats post in a while. Let me know when 'yabbamango' makes the cut.

[beee]

I'm not feeling depressed or iffy *grin* you can hang on to my pills for a while :) I am on an endorphin high.. far far nicer.
I hope the right job comes through, there is nothing worse then waiting around for it. I contracted for years and I can tell you that I am far far happier in a full time position. Good luck

[Leslee]

PLEASE send some pills my way. I've got the wellbutrin covered, but am fresh out of valium. LOL! Great stats post. I'd like to see your top 5 most popular outgoing links as well. Can you hook a sista up? :0)

I'd totally hang with the Entorage guys. I've loved Vinnie Chase since his days as Chase Hammond on Drive Me Crazy. Adrian, yum! Turtle and Drama were in true form on last night's season finale, wait till you see it, sister!

~Les

[Leslee]

Not season finale, season premiere! OOPS!

[Jenniy]

My brother always left tasty desserts in the house when we both lived at home. It used to drive my mom and I crazy b/c we'd want to eat it but didn't want to piss him off!

[Kyra]

Hmmm.... now in my house, I had behaved myself all week (ok, FOODwise anyway, I'm hopeless on all other fronts) and last weekend we made pizza. I stored 5 peices from then for this past weekend for BOTH of us.

However, I wasn't paying attention to Mr. Stuffomatic as he was chowing down on all of it. When I went for my "treat" on saturday, all I found was this tiny little peice left - we're talking TODDLER SIZED... and a husband acting all innocent, like the dogs had figured out the freezer and the microwave. LOL *rolling eyes*

Food is such a pain in the ass, in all respects, isn't it? I give up. I think I'll stop eating and solve all my problems. ;)

Yeah... Delusional? Who? me?

[Chase]

Holy cow, I almost tinkled with the sentence "my husband is even mad at me because I ate his pie." HAHAH! (And I didn't even take it in the wrong way...can you believe it?)

Thanks for the link love! And, uh...

Hey, baby...wanna do it?

(How's that for enchanting?)

[adena]

Well....I CAN'T swoon over Jesus!!

And, um...I'd totally eat any unclaimed "Claim Jumper" pie. Hello? It's CLAIM JUMPERS!! That place should be outlawed.

(But, it's a great place to go have drinks at lunchtime when you're pissed off because you've just been told your job is getting outsourced, and a bunch of your co-workers and yourself decide to go get plastered, then come back to work. Not that that's ever HAPPENED, or anything....)

[jessica]

Now see, in my house it's ME that gets pissed off because Chris is constantly eating my "healthy food" that he DOESN"T REALLY EVEN LIKE rather than going out and buying his own friggin' groceries. Not that I'm bitter or anything. So yeah, like Nancy said (in email) sometimes it really just IS about the pie.

You quoted my absolutel favorite song-of-the-moment that I blogged about last week... I love it. The lyrics are so poignant. "Live your life with arms wide open...today is where your book begins, the rest is still unwritten." Big fat huge puffy heart that song.

~jess

[Mr. Snackie]

Your husband still sounds like a dick.

[LauraBora from Bufadora]

How could you NOT eat a pie that hadn't been claimed in 24 hours? That's about as long as any really great treat in my house can last.

Three years ago I was living at home with my mother and brother. He had JUST passed the exam that would ensure his receipt of an electrician's license, doubling his pay. My sister and her husband brought over an ice cream cake that said, "Congratulations, Matt!"

Since he wasn't home yet, my sister, BIL and mother each had a slice and then put it in the freezer. I wasn't home either, so when I did get home and see that there was this AWESOME Carvel ice cream cake in the freezer I had myself a little piece. Then another. then I just left the vanilla part because I am a chocolate fiend.

My brother gets home and finds his celebratory ice cream cake reduced to "Ulations Matt" on just the vanilla part and all the random crunchies removed by a knife.

Yeah. Things weren't so rosy round those parts for a while.

I also have to say that I saw the video for "Unwritten" watching VH1 while jogging on the treadmill at the gym the other morning and between the gospel singers and the lyrics I was just WEEPING because I LOVE THE PREMISE OF THIS SONG!!! Maybe it's cuz I fancy myself a writer and no one else CAN say it for me!

You rock.

[LauraBora from Bufadora]

UGH, I meant SAW that there was ice cream cake. SAW!!!!!!!!

[Shaunta]

Oh Man. My husband does that, too. He buys something...ice cream or Little Debbies, or some other crap food...and then like two weeks later when the kids have eaten it he's all...where's my ice cream? He's an only child. I guess that's where that comes from. He's used to not having anyone to snag his pie if he leaves it unattended and uneaten for days at a time. Me? I have eight brothers and sisters. Any food...even carrots...left unsupervised for more than twenty minutes is fair game.

[alea]

Sorry I haven't been around that much lately... Seems like I've missed a lot while being away, I didn't even know you were looking for a job now. I'm back again though and looking forward to read what you're up to! Take care.

[Christina]

Ooh Claim Jumpers, love them. I was so good the last time I went in there. Just had some chicken tortilla soup and a salad, felt so proud since normally I'm bad and have some huge burger or something else as fatty and greasy.

I just love Entourage. I started watching it in the middle of the second season, then On demand had both seasons available so I caught up on the others that I hadn't seen.

[miacalcin]

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[about-bird]

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[John]

My mind is like a fog. Oh well. My life's been really dull today. Eh. Today was a total loss. I've more or less been doing nothing , but I guess it doesn't bother me.

[ann]

Help the homeless down the street and persuade them to look for work