a day that will live on in infamy.

I woke up this morning and got ready for work - and just before I left, I went to feed my fish, Amaretto, and he was dead- belly up minus the sparkle in his eyes.

It is an end of an era today. Let me set the scene, picture this 6/9/07 (not only was it Michael J. Fox's birthday) it was Cory Lee's wedding day. She had a gloriously coffee themed reception and every table had a name. My table was entitled Amaretto. The centerpieces we vases with Beta Fish in them. I luckily won the centerpiece and therefore named my fish after our table. Sadly, Amaretto is now in the big fish bowl in the sky.

Has reality tv lost its spark for me?

I didn't watch the last season of Big Brother because I didn't even know it had started - I felt slighted... And now, my DVR didn't record the first episode of Survivor Gabon and I don't really feel any connection to it... What is happening to me?

However, I did watch all of Dancing with the Stars last night, which I normally DO NOT WATCH. Survivor is MY SHOW. I won the survivor pool last year at work, like it is my favorite show and I don't feel a connection to it this year.

it's definitely time to make the doughnuts

Yesterday on the way to the Corn Maze, we stopped at Dunkin Donuts in Concord to get coffee and donuts for the girls - THEY DIDN'T HAVE ANY DONUTS... Seriously? Seriously. So, we left mid order and went to another one - and THEY didn't have any donuts...

I don't understand if DONUT is in your name, isn't it a requirement to have EFFEN DONUTS?

When we pulled up to get our coffee I asked what time they make the donuts and she said they are made in the morning and that is ALL they have... Seriously?

Something wicked this way comes...

I had a horrible nightmare last night. It was like a bad Rob Zombie movie. I can't remember how it started but it ended up that there was this Mad Max kind of Fraternity and they would gang rape women and then remove their skin - some how I became the next victim.

The most vibrant part of this dream was that I was trying to escape this motley crue of scary fraternity brothers and we were on this rural road - but not rural enough that there weren't houses or anything - and this gaggle of scary dudes came up on me on foot as well as in some vehicles and every time I screamed for help to the people standing in their driveways, they would rev the engines of their vehicles to drown out my pleas for help... I was wearing a skirt and one of the guys removed my underwear. Another guy had many Prince Albert piercings and was completely exposed and another of the guys started removing his pants and exclaimed, "We have killed seven people today and had NO SEX!" and when he started to remove his pants he had growths and fungus and yuckiness all in his genital area.

I started to run away into the field and someone yelled to me, a woman who knew me well enough to yell, "Mary-Elizabeth Katherine Mills - what is going on?" and then a guy drove up to her on a motorcycle with flowers (like a date) and with that she totally became oblivious to the bedlam that was going on in front of her...

LUCKILY - my cell phone was ringing with a text and it woke me from my slumber. IT WAS FREAKY... I do remember at one point, I was on what was supposed to be KSC campus and there were some other girls that partied with this fraternity and one girl ended up standing with her feet in the toilet, swirling around and then fell and hit her head on the bath tub and died. WEIRD - Please tell me what all of this means?

ANY WHO...

At work, my friend Holly and I are Co-Chairs of the Social Committee - so we orchestrated a JEANS DAY for today because it is Lee National Denim Day - people need to pay $5 to wear jeans and the proceeds go to Breast Cancer research - we have raised approximately $900.00 - which I think is awesome.

What frosts my fanny is that there are people here today WEARING JEANS who did not pay! That is just lower than low and I hope they all rot in hell.

Eskimo words for snow

I was going to be all witty and try to make a great analogy for what I am going to blog about and relate it to the myriad of words Eskimos have for snow - so I went to Google and it pointed me in the direction of Wikipedia. I got all excited and started to read it and it says:
"It is a popular urban legend that the Inuit or Eskimo have an unusually large number of words for snow. In reality, the number of words depends on the definitions of Eskimo (there are a number of language) and snow, and on the method of counting numbers of words in languages that have quite different grammatical structures from English"

So, that totally ruins my plans for an awesome blog and almost made me forget what I was going to blog about... I digress.

Yesterday was a crazy day. I think most work days are just crazy. I am not sure what my damage is, but I have been feeling VERY overwhelmed this week, like I am carrying the weight of the world on my shoulders, unnecessarily for that matter. I am not sure what has brought this about, but it just happens. First I thought it was the weather yesterday and I was just down in the dumps, but them later on in the day I started feeling better - and jovial and back to my ole self... Then I decided I must just be hypoglycemic... I don't know where that came from, but it was definitely the way I could explain how I feel yucky all morning- almost EVERY MORNING- and it is a fine line between feeling hungry or nauseous. This is every morning... So, again I googled it:

Hypoglycemia is the medical term for a pathologic state produced by a lower than normal level of glucose (sugar) in the blood.

While there is some degree of variability among people, most will usually develop symptoms suggestive of hypoglycemia when blood glucose levels are lowered to the mid 50's. The first set of symptoms are called neuro-genic (or sympathetic) because they relate to the nervous system's response to hypoglycemia. Patients may experience any of the following;
nervousness,
sweating,
intense hunger,
trembling,
weakness,
palpitations, and
often have trouble speaking.

Okay - That rules me out - now back to my story...

So, after a crazy day, it ended out wonderful. I hung out with friends and had great company to lift my spirits. Yesterday ended wonderfully and today started beautifully as well and I hope my mood continues to stay even keel and prosper.

I guess now that I have learned that it is just an Urban legend about the Eskimo words for snow, I can't really relate it to my blog - I wanted to say that in Spanish there are many ways to say you love stuff - There is a word for loving things and there is a word for loving people - one of the words for loving a person is actually saying, "I want you" interestingly enough. What I am trying to say is how do you know the "strength" of the word to say you love someone? When do you know it is the right time to move from the meager liking of something to expressing that stronger word of love? Maybe I am too analytical and worrisome, but I don't know when it is appropriate.

So now that the world is all perfectly in alignment once again, maybe I should just pick an Eskimo word *(no matter what the dialect)* and use that to equate how I feel. People may not know what I mean, but I will, and I will not run the risk of saying it too early.

GRAMMAR POLICE

OMG- If I hear, "YOU WELCOME" one more time I may vomit. It is a contraction for "You are welcome" becoming "You're welcome". This can't be just a NH thing, right? In both Liberty offices I have worked in, in Dover and now here, I hear it DAILY.


AAAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHH!

I'm not ready for winter

My favorite seasons are seasons of transition. I love FALL and SPRING! I like when it isn't too warm and isn't too hot. I am not looking forward to the winter for many reasons

1. I am so not ready for commuting in snow storms and inclement weather
2. I am just not ready for snow. I hate shoveling, wearing a jacket, not wearing sandals
3. I love blustery fall days where a sweatshirt and a fleece vest is enough - but having to bundle up in a winter jacket, scarf, boots, hat, YUCK!
4. The days are getting shorter and darker and I feel the depression setting in
5. I dislike the holidays of this season, my family seems to cancel Thanksgiving and Christmas to spite themselves so I don't enjoy them, they are just another day for me.
6. When the days shorten, I don't see any sunlight and I am the type of person who needs sunshine to brighten my day.
7. I don't play any sports in the winter, I used to play volleyball and now I don't know of anything like that available. Although I bitched a lot about driving to Dover to play, I still did it.
8. I need new clothes and shoes and I just can't afford winter clothes right now.
9. I HATE WINTER

Does anyone have any pros for this approaching season?