Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

I went to listen to one of my old favorite CDs today, it was GONE. I lent it to someone who I can't remember, and now it's gone forever. Then I proceeded to go through my CD and DVD collection to ascertain what else was missing. I realized that a good chunk of my most enjoyed possessions were missing. Had I been robbed??? NO. I've been NICE. "How have I been nice?" do you ask??? Well when I particulary enjoy something such as a book or CD or DVD i'll recommend said item to a person, and often times lend it to them. For some reason, such people seem to think that the word "LEND" implies that i'm GIVING said item to them. There's a reason it's called LENDING folks, because I'd like my shit back.

So do me a favor.

Look on in your closet. Is one of my t-shirts in it? Look on your bookshelf. Is one of thebooks/CDs/DVDs that I lent you there? If you answered "yes" to any of the above questions, GIVE IT BACK!!!

In the future i'm going to start asking for collateral.
"Can I borrow this DVD?"
"Sure, if I can borrow your cell phone, or YOUR SOUL."

happy birthday TO ME!

My 23rd birthday was a definately a good one. It came in three parts not entirely because I'm a brat and wanted three birthday parties, but because I'm a heathen child of divorce (thanks mom and dad :) and I have friends who live out of town. Part one consisted of dinner with Mom and Pat at Friday's, which was lovely, followed by an appearance from J&E for our usual Wednesday night LOST viewing.

Part II was on Thursday night. I had dinner with Dad, Shell, and Pat. That was also very nice. I have to add that because it was my birthday, at my dinners I have allowed myself to indulge on the "no-no's" of my diet. I had plenty of alcohol, sugar, onions, peppers and ICE CREAM (not all at once of course).

Part III convened on Saturday with Van, Jason, and Elaine driving out to the far reaches of the Earth (a.k.a. Delaware) to go out to dinner with me. We went to bag of nails and had a delicious dinner, lots of vodka sours, and a rousing game of 20 questions, haha! Then we went back to my house and watched "13 going on 30" which I thorougly enjoyed (1) because I was sauced and (2) because I've got a HUGE friend crush on Jennifer Garner.

Overall I had a great birthay, Thanks everybody!!!!

Sad

Aunt Rita lost her battle with leukemia yesterday night. Her funeral is this weekend. I miss her already.

roby might have a jobby

So I shouldn't say anything because I might not get it... but I might have a job soon. I interviewed with an organization called Road of Life today. It's a non-profit that basically designed a health curriculum for 4th graders with the aim of teaching them cancer preventing habits, i.e. not smoking, nutrition, exercise. The job is thru Americorps so I won't be getting paid much at all, but WHO CARES!! The org. is awesome and if I get the job *fingers crossed* I would actually be doing something worthwhile with my time. My interview went really well (I think) and I might have scared the guy because I was so excited about the job. Ha! Anyways, I won't know until next Monday if I get the job or not. If I don't get it, I might be slightly destroyed (for a day at least). LET'S HOPE FOR THE BEST!

sick sad world

I hate posting sad blogs, but that just kind of the way it's shaping up today. A lot of things are going on. Things that aren't too wonderful I'm afraid...
First, South Dakota's abortion ban. Word on the street is that it won't make it to the Supreme Court, let's hope so.
Jason and Elaine had to put their cat Mavi down. They are both really upset about it, he was like their child.

My aunt is dying. The doctors said that there isn't anything more they can do for her. My brother and I went up on Saturday to say goodbye to her. It was terrible. A lot of my family was there with us which was good, but didn't make it any easier. She was put in hospice today so now we just wait. My mom is teetering on the edge of tears from moment to moment and I absolutely hate it. I'm just trying to do whatever I can for her. We are just feeling kind of blah.

I remain a jobless bibliophile. I've been completely engrossed in this young adult book, and this lovely piece of twisted experimental prose has had me reading non-stop for two days.