Jade's Babblings

When trash day is Monday and you are worried that you'll forget if you don't put it outside on the porch away from where the dog can get at it, don't do it. I say this because even when you think you are safe because you live on a busy street and it's not exactly the country, you are in fact very much not safe. Because soon you will hear creepy rustling noises coming from outside your door and your dog will start growling menacingly and freaking you out. And then you slowly approach the door and then flip on the light and whip up the blinds all in one frantic movement. And what do you see out on that porch in the middle of the night? The biggest racoon I have ever seen in my life !! The thing was huge. I'm not even kidding you. It could have eaten me . I managed to scare it off by tapping on the window and begging it to leave. It looked at me with its big brown eyes and probably heard the pleading in my tone and finally meandered off down my stairs. After which I fl...

I'm going to go buy a villa in Tuscany and become a writer. I've decided just now. The lovebirds can come too and they can have an outdoor aviary that's huge for them to fly around in. Pixel and Amelie can have a big fenced in yard to run around in and Gunther can have his own bird room. I'll write outside in the sun all day and have a writing desk inside for bad days. With my inspirational gourd birdhouse from Aunt Mary hanging over the desk. Maybe it won't exactly be Tuscany, but you know the more I live on my own and learn that I can pretty much just depend on myself, the more I want to try a new type of life. As different as possible. I don't want to fall into a rut in my life and fall back on old habits. So I'm moving. Okay, not really. But it's nice to sit back and dream. "What are four walls, anyway? They are what they contain. The house protects the dreamer. Unthinkably good things can happen, even late in the game. It's such a surprise...

It's 10:30 a.m. Today is Friday which rocks. It's jeans day at work, but I like to call it "chucks day" since I can regularly be seen skipping (just a bit) down the work hallways in my nice comfy chucks. The girls and I have started a tradition of going out for lunch on Fridays. It's probably a dumb thing to do with my budget but I just cut back on stuff on the weekend then. Besides, it's worth it to get out of here for an hour and just go spend time together outside of work. That way we aren't at each other's throats. Though that situation is about to get a bit better. For three of us anyway... They found a spare one-person cubicle down the hallway and they are sticking two of us in there and the other three will stay here in the slightly larger cube. J and I volunteered to go but everyone thought it would be more fair if we drew names. So it's actually going to be T and I who go. . . Which is fine. So I've got lunch to look forward to in...

This was easily the worst on call weekend I have ever had. I have had difficult cases before that take you a couple hours to work out and such but this was ridiculous. It started Friday night on my way home from the 501st event. A quick side note on that - it was a lot of fun and I'm really glad I went. Bagpipe music is a lot of fun and I always love doing the 501st events that are smaller and only involve a few of us. It was me, Jason, Justin, Chris and John (not my John, another one). I took photos all night and talked with some firefighters and EMTs a little bit. The firefighters seemed ticked off about having their pics taken, but then later they cornered me and asked why I didn't take more pictures.... ? Also, the guy running it must have thought there was no way that there would ever be women in the 501st because he would never look at me directly and he kept talking to the guys and asking questions even if I was standing right in front of him. I hate that. Made me wish I...

This is where Joe, Paul, Sarah, Sadie and I went for dinner last night. It was kind of random. Paul called me to tell me that Joe had asked the sole if Ericka was working last night. I'm pretty sure he did it as a joke to annoy me cuz Sarah and I just LOVE watching everyone flirt with Ericka. . . lol. But I kind of thought, "Eh, why not?" I haven't seen her in about three years, haven't talked to her in two. The last time we spoke was through text messages and it was right after I left Ray. I felt like everyone was taking "his side", which was hard not to do I'll grant you that, and I kind of withdrew from everyone. I love going to the Sole to see Ericka. It's always a good time. This noisy restaurant in the middle of Worcester. . . Maybe I should explain who Ericka is. She's in my reference entry, but you people are lazy so you probably haven't read it. Ericka is my big sister. Our families were close enough that had my parents died wh...

I promised I'd get to the top 50 book quotes someday. Here they are. I'm sure I'm going to forget some and kick myself later, but I have so very many quotes collected in journals and such that there's not much I can do to avoid that anyway. Enjoy. (The top 50 movie quotes are linked over on the left-hand side of my blog.) 1. "The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies." -- Fahrenheit 451 2. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough. --The Notebook High Fidelity was such a good book that it gets a few quotes on the countdown. 3. All relationships need the kind of violent shove that a crush brings. 4. I know what's wrong with Laura. What's wrong with Laura is that I'll never see her for the 1st, 2nd, or 3rd time again. 5. It seems to me t...

I've got a hunger twisting my stomach into knots that my tongue was tied off my brain's repeating "if you've got an impulse let it out" but they never make it past my mouth. baa bah, this is the sound of settling baa bah, baa bah our youth is fleeting old age is just around the bend and i can't wait to go gray and i'll sit and wonder of every love that could've been if i'd only thought of something charming to say. baa bah, this is the sound of settling baa bah, baa bah i've got a hunger twisting my stomach into knots. I had a rough night last night. I was on-call for J again. I got a LOT of overtime. I basically worked from 8 a.m. to midnight on cases. I got four phone calls. They started coming in before I was even home. I wanted to drive out to Spencer to return Elizabethtown to Big Video but I had to turn around and head right home instead. All the cases were annoying and terrible complicated. It was very frustrating. ...

Is it just me or is that song WAY overplayed on the radio lately? I love it and all but this is why people get sick of generic radio music. Every station plays the same songs over and over until something that was well-written and lovely becomes annoying. I watched Elizabethtown last night. It was interesting. Not as cute as I was hoping for. The best parts were probably them on the phone at the beginning because you can totally watch it and remember having all night fascinating conversations like that with people. They could have taken a much different turn with that movie. I really think that the trailers made it look like they were going to be on the phone through the whole thing and that they should have stuck with that idea. It would have made the movie more intense and interesting if the characters did not meet up again until later. The one thing that's good is that I do like more typical love stories like that. At least they have a chance in hell of actually happening in re...

I've had my palm pilot for about three years now. It had every number I've ever needed, a ton of lists of things I need to do or buy, my entire schedule for the next year, so on and so forth. When I moved out of John's I couldn't find my charger right away. Well, silly me, I forgot that one of the warnings about it is if you let the battery run all the way down it will reset itself. I found the charger yesterday and plugged it in and fired up the palm pilot. It came up with the settings, which confused me.... I fixed the settings back to the right time and such and then started scrolling through my categories. Nothing. it's all gone. Every phone number I've ever gotten for work, home, whatever; it's all gone. My schedule is gone. My list of all the dvds, cds, and books that I want is gone. Every password I had ever saved on there is gone. I am so pissed, but what can I do? I have to start over now. Ah, what a great metaphor for my life. I spent my first w...