Stream of Consciousness: Long Weekend Version

*The Ford Freestyle looks like the product of a drunken night between a minivan and a stationwagon.

*My bathwater was too hot and I'm now the color of a lobster. Melted butter...

*Sometimes when I talk to people, I feel like we're having two different conversations and I'm the only one that notices.

*I pruned my chat friends list. I've grown tired of looking down the list and realizing that I'd rather not talk to dirtywhores/self centered idiots with a misplaced sense of entitlement/liars/boys who hit girls (especially if it's me). If I'm not going to talk to them, I don't want their names marring my list of people I like.

*I presently don't think I can "handle" making a trip to Murray in the month of July. Maybe I'll go in August. Feel free to ask about this.

*I've been having recurring dreams about people I know. Don't feel free to ask me about this.

*Two weeks ago, I had a random realization (you know one of those "ah, i never thought about it like that" moments) about one of my friends, but I'll never say anything because it'd be unfair to share it. So I just wear my reminder and hope we'll grab a glass of pinot sometime at the thunderdome.

*I'm shopping around for a SUV. This has made me realize how much I loathe the idea of "3rd Row Seating* and "small sized SUVs." It's also made me realize that I'd much rather just get a Mustang and go crazy with it. Then, realizing this makes me realize that I'll never get a Mustang because it's "impractical" and that this is a sad commentary on my life. And then suddenly I feel a quarter-life crisis about to rear its ugly head... It also makes me kind of sad that right now I'm one of those people that's "into" shopping for a car.

*Now that I've graduated from college and gotten a job, people have started to bug me about getting married. I find this especially amusing as not only am I not presently seeing anyone, I don't want to date anyone. I don't even want a nice boy to take me out for dinner. I'll buy my own steak thankyouverymuch. This isn't a knee-jerk reaction to anything in particular that's happened to me in recent months, but I'm just tired of all the crap that goes along with the courting game. And I haven't been able to find someone who doesn't just piss me off all the time. If I want to be angry all the time, I'll go be a cabbie in Chicago. Besides, everyone I've met lately is either married or engaged. This is especially evident in the lunchroom when the kids my age are going through their meticulously packed (ala SO) lunches and I'm like "look, I have a cup of yogurt, some smashed cookies, and lunchmeat no bread." And it's not an Atkins thing, it's that I don't have my stuff together enough to find/buy bread. I think I'm the only person who graduated from college without a significant other/betrothed in tow. And I'm not complaining one bit. I'm so happy I have a MS and not a MRS. Besides, I'm at a stage in my life where I see marriage as the death rattle of all of my hopes and dreams. However, having said that...:

*When the cute British engineer stops and talks to me, I have this overwhelming urge to ask him to repeat certain words (like "jaguar") and then just giggle like a silly girl.

*Last week I realized that my predecessor is rather attractive for someone whose last name is the same as a muppet.

*FruitLoops is the only thing that can make me forget that it's soy milk they're swimming in and not cow milk.

*People who don't shut up when a conversation has already died need to be hit in the head with a big, obvious brick.

*Even though I'm "grown," I'm still that little girl who locks herself in her room and plays Nintendo while Mom and Dad argue downstairs. I still get that same mixture of sad and scared in the pit of my stomach and the game I play is still Ducktales. I can still beat Ducktales in less than 45 minutes. I suppose some things will never change.

*The gas station in Lincoln, Illinois is the best in the world because the people who run it are crazy. I've never seen gas station attendants have so much fun and mess with the customers. It's a bunch of middle aged women that will tease you to your face and give you a hard time. It's kind of like if someone of us got together and ran a gas station...and were all middle aged women.

*There's this show on after the St. Louis channel 4 Saturday night newscast called "Harrah's Lucky Break" which is American Idol ala St. Louis casino. This is the most unintentionally funny show I've seen in quite some time. It's pure comedic gold.

*Catching an afternoon matinee after work this week. Just need to pick a movie.

*I really should go to bed...