I figured I better get my entry for today taken care of before I have to take off here. Rumor is they are letting us leave early today. I got here sort of early so I'm planning on leaving anyway.

So.... I got most of the things accomplished last night which I had planned on. I went to the store and bought my makings for the things I plan to make tonight and I did my laundry. I do still need to go back to the store and pick up a couple of things. I'm making a spinach dip appetizer so I need some dipping bread. And I'm also making muffins for breakfast on Friday so I need some of those paper liners to make them in. All they had was foil and I think they turn out differently in paper but maybe thats just me. The store didn't have paper so now I need to go to the other store. The only thing is is that I hope I make it back to the store in time tonight after I get my hair done and before they close. Don't stores usually stay open a little later the night before Thanksgiving? Down home they do. I'm not sure if they do here or not. Well, worst case I think I can make the muffins without the liners and I pick up a box of crackers or something from a convenience store for the spinach dip. I would prefer not doing either one of these but if thats how it turns out, oh well. I keep thinking that I should have my hair completed by then but those highlights take a long time especially when they do a whole head which I'm getting done tonight because I haven't had a whole in months.

So they're letting us go here in a half hour which is good. I think I will have time to walk home, take care of everything I need to do there and then head off to get my hair done. You know I've been thinking about getting my ears pierced. Really. I want diamond earrings. How stupid is that? I just want to get my ears pierced so I can wear diamond earrings.

So I think that is what it will be... walk home, run errands, walk to the hair place. What else am I forgetting, there has to be something??

After hair tonight I'll probably try to finish up the apartment... Went to the bank today so I think I have enough money for my hair and all of the stuff I'm doing this weekend. Actually, I can't really think of much of anything I'll need to pay for this weekend but we might go out with my cousins so we shall see. It will be interesting to see everyone. I need this little vacation. I still have a half vacation day I need to take before the year is out, I guess I'll do that sometime in December. I don't have anything in particular planned but its one of those "use it or lose it" types of vacation plans here.

I've realized I'm just rambling and as I cannot think of anything else of much substance to tell you about I guess I will now say goodbye.

Well, just got back from getting my nails done during my lunch hour. I thought I was just going to get a fill but I guess they were in pretty bad shape so he yanked them all and started new. My nails were long though so he only had to put a tip on one. Anyway, that is much better. I got like a deep red color on them. They look pretty good. Tomorrow I have highlights, a hair cut and an eyebrow wax at Mario Tricoci. I'm so busy these days! Tonight I finally need to pick up my ingrediants for what I am planning to make for Thanksgiving and also do some laundry. I hope I can get all of this done. I'm running a little low on funds right now, I'll definitely need to go to the bank tomorrow.

So the big event last night was watching the series finale of Joe Millionaire on TV. I guess this one just wasn't as popular as the last one but nevertheless I caught every episode.

I've totally blown off Average Joe. That show sucks more than Joe Millionaire. How predictable that they now bring in the "good looking" guys. Gag - what a twist. Who spent hours coming up with this concept? I heard they shot two series of this show at the same time so this thing isn't going to end up just going away after this time around.

So what else ... had Subway for dinner last night and it looks like that is what is in store for dinner for me tonight as I went off and left the other half of my sub at home again. Thats fine with me, I didn't really eat lunch today because I went out for the nails and I get off early today because I worked the 7 am shift. So I guess I'll just have an early dinner/late lunch. We'll see how all of this fits in with everything else I need to do.

Still getting my plans together with my sister for Thanksgiving. We're also trying to share our "Christmas lists". I have no idea what I'm going to get her.

I don't know, maybe I need to get a snack or something because I'm a little hungry. Maybe Starbucks...

Yes, I am back! No, I am not going to give you an update on the last week and a half of my life. I guess we can start at the weekend but the weekend was very very low key for some reason.

Anyway, back to Wednesday, went out for drinks with my co-workers. I hadn't planned on staying very long but 5 margaritas into the night ... you know what I mean. It was a fun time. I walked home after and called all of these people on my cell phone that I hadn't talked to in a long time. I talked to my friend Jennifer in Texas for 20 minutes. Thats what cell phones will get you - drunk dials on walks home. I also called my friend Adrienne and left here a message but I haven't heard back from her yet. I would like to. Just sent her an email!

OK, well Thursday after work I went over to my sister's place because we wanted to stop by Trader Joe's which is a neat grocery store place that we had never been to before. We picked up a few food items and stuff like wine for Thanksgiving. Its a pretty cool place. After that we stopped by Quiznos to pick up some sandwiches for dinner and then went back to her apartment and hung out and watched Friends. It was pretty fun.

Sunday had pizza for brunch - yum!! ; ) And then even more hanging out.

Just stopping by momentarily. I promise to get back to writing sometime soon, not sure when though. I just need to take a break from this. Its not like I'm into it all that much like some people, but I need a break nonetheless. Thinking of starting a second blog with drama and controversy but we shall see ... ; )

Just wanted to let everyone know that I'm still around. I had a horrible day yesterday and I'm not really sure I want to talk about it so I won't get into it now. I'm doing better today but probably not in the mood to be all cheerful and write much. So I just wanted to stop by and say hello. I hope everyone has a great weekend and I hope I do too!

- Melissa

Here I am again. Going to try to go over the "ever so exciting" events of the past two days. Anyway, last night I walked home from work and stopped by the grocery store. Ended up picking up some yummy Tyson Chicken Chunks and cottege cheese for dinner - I'm such a creative cook.

So I ate my dinner and pretty much did nothing all evening. Checked out the X-Files reruns on SciFi again and mostly just flipped around the channels. I was so not tired when it was time for bed and kept avoiding going to bed. I sort of just roamed around the apartment looking for something to do. I don't know what I was looking for because I don't really have anything "to do" in the apartment. I guess I could always clean my closet but then that would be a little too productive for Melissa.

So it seems like the guy my sister has been dating will be coming with us for Thanksgiving.

So here I am at work today. I have my online shift between 12-4 which is in another few minutes. I'm still trying to learn about the Macintosh. I really have a lot to learn. There are so many things I can't figure out at this point and I'm busy bothering the Mac people about it. Well, I have to learn somehow and I guess thats the only way its going to happen. I just hope I don't become too overwhelmed with all of this.

So (do I start every paragraph with 'so'?), the big topic of conversation today is the Paris Hilton sex tape. Thats all they were talking about on the radio this morning. I hear its pretty bad. And then they were talking about how Larry Flynt supposedly had topless pictures of Jessica Lynch which he was going to publish and now is not. That is horrible! After all that girl went thru to have to potentially go thru that as well. Not sure why she would have behaved that way but whatever. I hope that stuff doesn't come out. I was watching her interview with Diane Sawyer last night and it was pretty interesting but at this time she seems to be a little overexposed (no pun intended).

Anyway, thats really about all I can think of for now. Probably go home and have some leftovers for dinner and then watch my traditional Wednesday night TV shows of Ed and The West Wing.

OK, enough rambling for now. I think I'm done.

One more thing... Lets remember all of our veterans today and everyone who is currently serving in the military.

My dad is Vietnam veteran and my grandfather is a veteran of WWII.

Thank you.

- Melissa

Here I am back again. Thought I would go ahead and make my entry for today. Trying to avoid eating lunch because I totally pigged out last night. I've determined that my "triggers" are boredom and loneliness, probably more boredom. Ha-ha! Like I've been thinking about this so much. Actually, I have thought about it. I think I need a hobby of some sort to break up the evenings a bit.

And then my little email faux pas of yesterday. Well, I talked to the person I accidentally sent the email to back and forth on email several times yesterday. It doesn't seem like he's mad but I guess I don't know. And, at this point, I don't really care.

Oh, here is one random thought. My sister might bring the guy she has been seeing to our Thanksgiving this year. That will be interesting. I'm not sure she's certain what she wants to do yet. She's mentioned it to him and he seems interested but ... I don't know. I think she might be nervous about him meeting the whole fam at once and I definitely do not blame her. I mean, they haven't been seeing eachother all that long. But they have been friends for a while so... Well, I don't know. Thanksgiving Friday is our traditional pizza dinner the day after Thanksgiving. My dad who is an awesome cook - especially with pizza - always makes pizzas the day after Thanksgiving.

Thats about it for now. Its been pretty slow this morning. I'm on an email shift this afternoon so that will be good.

I made a major internet faux pas earlier today. I was writing my sister a message about a certain person and instead of mailing it to her I sent it to that person. As I was thinking of that person when I was looking in my email address book. Anyway, I didn't really say anything bad but this person could have easily misconstrued what I said. I've apologized to him and I've heard back from him but have no indication if he's mad or not. Oh well, not a whole lot I can do about it now. Anyway, I promised to stay away from drama in my journal so thats about as far as I'm going with this. I just had to say something because it was bugging me and I guess ultimately that is what journals are for.

Once again I put off everything that I should have been doing last night in favor of doing nothing. Are you seeing a pattern developing here? I watched Friends and then I planned to work on th apartment between that and ER. Well, I just hung and did nothing. Oh well, I get off work early tonight because I worked the early shift and I have all day tomorrow to work on the apartment so I think I should have everything together in time for the party. I also really need to do some laundry tonight. I must work that in because I am running out of clothes!!

I think I have almost everything done here at work that I needed to do. I'm updated on all of my cases and I'm wrapping up two other projects which I should be able to turn in before we leave today so its looking pretty good. Can't think of much else to tell you on that end.

Back again. And as usual, not a heck of a lot to talk about. Walked home last night and ended up taking a different route so I walked past the new Jewel on State Street and ended up stopping by to pick up a few things - cleaning items mostly to get ready for this weekend. Then I had to lug it all home. Oh well, so much cheaper over there than the Treasure Island and small grocery stores in my neighborhood.

So I watched the CMA's last night. Alan Jackson and Jimmy Buffett opened the show and that was pretty cool and then they won their award. I watched that on and off sort of flipping back and forth between that, Ed and The West Wing. A typical Wednesday evening for Melissa! And tonight will be a typical Thursday evening - Friends and ER. I am going to promise myself to work on the apartment between those two shows as those are the only ones I pay attention to on Thursdays.

Back again for another entry and I really have nothing much to write about. Last night I went home and stopped at the store for makings for taco salad which I love and never get to eat!

We had a fairly bad storm last night. I didn't even know it was supposed to rain and I started hearing thunder and then flashes of lightening and it was really weird because the lightening was so close. It was like up in the air between the apartment and the river which made is super close. Pretty freaky. And then it started pouring about as hard as I've ever seen it. It was a roar of water and as you looked out it was coming down in sheets and standing on the roads instantly. It seemed like someone turned on one of those power hoses or something, pretty nuts.

That was pretty much it for last night. I woke up this morning and it was totally freezing. That rain coming thru must have done something to the weather here. I think it fall officially fell or something. It was like 70+ degrees yesterday and then the rain came thru and must have blown every bit of humidity out of here because this morning I woke up and it was like 34 degrees. How weird is that? I froze on my way to work. I wore a sweater and a jacket. I'm just not ready for the winter coat yet. Last night was the first time since I don't know when that I considered turning on the heat but I decided against it. Hopefully we'll be able to hold off on that a little while longer. I like my low electric bills!!

I'm going to try to take off a bit early here today. Probably between 4:30-4:45 because I did get in here a little earlier. My shift is over at 4pm.

Well I think that is about it. Having my yummy leftover taco salad for dinner tonight.

Day 2 back from vacation and let me tell you, I am less than motivated! There are so many little projects I should be working on and I just cannot do it right now. My mind is like spinning or something and I'm not even thinking about work. I wish I could go home. I'm sure it will be better this afternoon when I have something real to work on. We shall see.

Trying to think of anything interesting I can tell you here. Went home last night and basically just hung out and did nothing. I did watch Joe Millionaire and Average Joe. I don't know about either one of those shows. I have been watching Joe Millionaire since the beginning. The guy is a complete dufus but whatever. I actually did think that of all the girls that Linda girl was the best one. She seemed the most normal. And then, of course, last night the other girls intimidated her into leaving because they were jealous there was something there with her and the guy. There really might have been. Too bad. I don't think he'll end up with any of these chicks because they definitely seem more interested in the money than in the first one. I don't see any of these European girls moving to Texas. I mean, come on! Average Joe was alright, kind of boring I guess. I was surprised at the guys she cut. There aren't that many decent looking guys on that show and a few that she did cut were some of the better looking ones. Well, whatever. Reality TV has to go out of fashion sometime I suppose. Right? I wonder what will be next.

So other than that I pretty much just hung out and surfed the web and stuff. I did sort of pick up the apartment a little bit. I really need to get on that because we're having that party this weekend. I need to get some cleaning fluids and stuff. I can't remember what I have already. Maybe I'll go pick some up after work and try to get started. I really need to get the bathroom done. We need someone to come work on the sink before this weekend, there's something weird going on with it.

And so now here I am just typing away. Don't have much more to tell you right now.

One big thing that happened yesterday was Ozzie Guillen was hired as the new manager for the White Sox. Not really sure what I think about that yet. I guess we'll see what happens. Anyone has to be better than the last one I think!

OK thats about it for now.

Well I'm back finally - or unfortunately - however you want to look at it. Sort of glad to be back home but not happy to be back to work. I don't mind work so much but vacation is just so nice. Its good to be away. Oh well, the holidays and more time off will be here before we know it and then I'll get to be away again! ; )

Saturday 11/01 was my mom's birthday so that was another good reason to be in Sullivan. Once again didn't do much of anything. Played with my cat who has turned ultra-annoying in the last year or so. She's still sweet though. Visited with my dog ; )

So now I'm back at work just typing up my thoughts here between actual work. It was a great vacation, great to get away. Just wish it could be longer, you know? I suppose its the same with any vacation. So thats about it for now.