Baby Finances

I am so glad that I don't live in Iowa . People are crazy stupid. We met some awesome cops tonight outside of an ice cream shop in Central Square. Jess parked outside, in the middle of the sidewalk, and they just asked her to move the car out of the crosswalk - but they didn't care if she just parked in a no parking zone until after we finished eating. Then Scott makes some joke about punishing Jess and spanks her playfully. They then suggest that if Scott needs it - they have hand cuffs. Scott then goes all the way saying that Jess might use the baton on him - and the cops wouldn't want that back. It was hilarious. This week has been really long, good in some ways - but frustrating to get to the goodness.

It was an exhausting weekend. Apparently I'm allergic to planes - or at least me breaking out into hives all over my body was just a mild protest against getting up early in the morning.... yeah for Doctor Uncle who gave me steroids! Roid rage! (I'm sure the roid rage is why I got the speeding ticket last Thursday...) Rockband was awesome. I saw drunken relatives that I've never really seen get drunk before. It was highly amusing. It was really strange to see how old some of my cousins are; you forget that everyone else is growing up just the same as you. It made me feel a little weird about life. All I could think about on the walk to and from work is that maybe I'm focusing on all the wrong things in life. I know what should be important in my life - but it's hard for the things that shouldn't be important to seem important. I guess the urgent things are posing as important, it's damned hard to tell the difference sometimes. I just feel really emot...

You ever had so much built up tension and then little things go wrong and the world feels like it's going to implode? Yeah - that's how my day was. I'm amazingly angsty about this weekend - I have a lot of built up tension about going to this wedding. It's just a wedding. Nothing exciting. Not like I care that much about it. I'm going to see my family so it should be fun. So why am I so anxious about it? I should be excited for a day off. My month in numbers is pathetically small. Like ridiculous. It's a small percentage of a small number. I need to get it together and pull in some cash. Any suggestions for helping to close the deal? Anyone know a good ringer who needs their ego stroked and would be willing to help me out? Whatever, my numbers by the end of next month should look much better. It's just annoying that I haven't landed anything major yet. I am managing a large number of leads - and quoting a lot of stuff - it just hasn't...

I saw an article about the best places to live. Of course Cambridge wasn't on the list - but you could look up the stats for it. 29% of people who live here either walk or bike to work. Pretty amazing don't you think? When comparing it to the list of the other cities who made it in the top 100 - the average was only 3%. Pretty sad if you ask me. The average commute time was less, and the % of people who have a 45 minute commute was

1. Sky Diving 2. Bull Riding 3. Climb Pikes Peak 4. Attend the Olympics 5. Have portrait painted 6. Have private meeting with the president 7. Ride the Trans-Siberian across Russia 8. Drink Beer at Oktoberfest in Munich 9. Visit all 50 States 10. Go to Carnival in Rio 11. Learn to juggle 12. Go up in a hot-air balloon 13. Ski in the Alps 14. Eat a meal at a 4 star restaurant in Paris 15. Ride a camel 16. Go see a real dragon 17. Follow the Nile to see the pyramids 18. Climb the great pyramid of Egypt 19. Walk the great wall of china 20. Dive with Sharks 21. Safari 22. Start a business 23. Bungee jump 24. Fly a pl...

I never really fully unpacked from moving in. I kind of just threw stuff wherever there was a spot and never really figured out hot to utilize the space in my room well. I think it's high time that I pull it together at home. Why is it so much easier to pull it together at work than at home? I guess it just comes from years of a screwed up home life. I rather avoid stuff at home and pretend like it doesn't exist, but some how at work I don't do that - I don't set it aside - I run full steam ahead and actually get some where. I think this weekend will finally be filled with enough motivation to actually make some progress in that direction. I already did my laundry today after work. I even made a grocery list. I'm starting to get my life together again. It kind of fell apart a bit when I first moved here and basically just traveled for 5 months straight. I do miss the travel a bit - good thing I'm going to Indy next weekend for Jeff & Britler's w...

I live in a very densely populated city. More than 100,000 people live within 6.5 square miles. You would think that people would be conscientious of that and would not have band practice on the back deck. Excuse me, but you have neighbors, who I know you thought we liked your music the other night when we were eating out there - but in fact we really hated it and were just too polite to ask you to stop. We were definitely making snide comments to each other about it though. I thought that when Scott asked you to play Star Wars - that you would have gotten the hint that none of us are into your style of music. I know you're in a band - that's fine with me. I know you need to practice. Starting practice at 10pm on a Wednesday night with a super loud electric bass guitar along with your shitty acoustic playing - is just not cool. Why this week? Why all of a sudden you start having band practice? It's not like you are getting any better. The problem is not how well y...

I was walking to work - today like everyday. (Have I ever mentioned that I love walking to work? It's amazing. Anyone who can should try it.) I have to walk through a relatively busy part of Cambridge every morning called Central Square. It's a cute little area filled with small shops, pharmacies, liquor stores, book stores, restaurants, bars, coffee shops, etc. This morning I was walking along as usual, just as I went to turn off on the side street to get to work - I saw this young woman pushing a baby carriage. Nothing usual about that. The unusual part was that it had a cup holder - with a cigarette box and lighter in it. WTF woman? Your kid could not have been more than 8 months old. You smoke with him around? I really wanted to deck her right then and there. Then she proceeded to walk into cross traffic - and the cross walk light was no where near white (it was only about half way through the cycle) and cars were coming at her from both directions honking at he...

he is hot and has just started firing up a grill. Of course he turns around and starts talking to me. Me, being totally unprepared, just starts I came home from work the other day completely lost in my own world. Thinking about work stuff and how the hell I'm going to go about making money generally just not paying attention. I start to walk up the front steps and a really cute boy comes walking out of the fenced in front yard. OMGbabbling nothingness. Random bullshit babbling. Stupid fuckwit random semi-incoherent, that's right, semi incoherent shit. So embarrassing. Boy must think I'm an idiot; will probably never talk to me again unless it's a yes/no question. I really just wanted to scream at him - I swear I'm not stupid - I'm a smart girl! You make me dumb! I'm pretty sure he's also the one that plays the guitar all the time. It's really annoying and he's a bit in love with his own playing and loves this one song. I think I...

It's 8pm and like 90 degrees out. I hate this humidity. I thought it was supposed to rain or something and make it less horrible. Apparently not. My tomato plants are starting to get flowers!!!!!!! I'm so excited. My brain hurts from work. Literally hurts. I think it needs some juice. Or at least a pitcher for me to make juice. Maybe I should go buy one of those. . . It was a good 4th weekend, went to stay at a lake in upstate NY. We also went to a James Taylor concert. I had no idea who James Taylor was, nor do I really know now who he is. And most of the other songs I didn't know. When they said James Taylor - I was thinking of James Brown. Clearly not the same mix. It was okay - it's always an interesting an uncomfortable weekend when Jess's mom is around. Uncomfortable in the sense that you always feel like you are under a microscope being judged and typically found not to be good enough. If you ask to help out when she's folding towels, she...