Random Cougar Life
Title me.
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Seriously, I can’t think up titles at all.
Anyways, I am getting ready for Thanksgiving (on the 22nd this year). I got from the 21 to the 25 off! It is hooorah! But I don’t know if I can get enough time off to drive down to Houston for Christmas. I will have to figure it out.
Everything has been going good! It is awesome, (dave wasn’t mad at me after all, but he was bein mean and I told him and it is all better, yey!) I got to relax on my day off and chill.
We dog sat the upstairs neighbor’s dog, from Friday until today. He was ok, he kept trying to be the alpha dog and it was really irritating. He is a tiny little mop, maybe 5lbs. soaking wet, lol. But I don’t put up with that crap from dogs. I also brushed him out as best I could, Dianna is gonna take him to the groomer soon, but his belly was matted really bad. I couldn’t do anything about it since we don’t have shears, just scissors. But I brushed his head and back out really good. He pooped in the house like twice, it pissed me off because I gave him plenty of time to go outside. I took him out four times, a day and made sure after we walked that he had time to pee and poop, but he was a little snot. Anyways.
We have to clear out all our cabinets and hot water closet and bathroom cabinets too. I was excited that we had a pantry when we first moved in, but we don’t. It is the hot water heater, I didn’t open the door. d’oh. I would have preferred my own washer and dryer, but at least we don’t run out of hot water.
I think I left my sketch books somewhere in Lake Jackson/Houston. I don’t know. I can’t find them 
serious politics
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The right wing conservative Christian group believes some very disturbing things, most of which everyone generally knows and debates about regularly. But I would like to bring attention their inaccurate belief that all hormonal contraceptives are abortifacients. Here is the article that brought this to my attention.
Contraception: The Unspoken Campaign Issue
I have much to say on the matter, but currently am somewhat busy. I wanted to bring this article to your attention because I feel this is very important. Here is an excerpt.
“Presidential hopeful Senator Sam Brownback, like Romney, makes passes at the anti-contraception wing of the Republican party. “Life is worthy of respect and protection from the moment of conception,” he says. He beefed up his anti-contraception profile by co-sponsoring a bill to de-fund the nation’s largest contraception provider, Planned Parenthood, by excluding it from the Title X family planning program for the poor. Senator John McCain’s campaign officials boast that their candidate has “consistently voted against taxpayer funded contraception programs.”"
We are back!
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Dave and I are finally back home from our visit to our families. We stayed with Dave’s dad for a few days, and got to see Dave’s aunt who is in chemo for liver and colon cancer. She looked like she was doing well when we saw her. After visiting with Dave’s aunt we got to go see April, since Dave’s aunt lives in the north west side of Houston. I had fun hanging out with April, she even treated me, Dave, and Ben to dinner! She got me chocolates and candy and some spiffy stuff! I was pretty excited. Dave and Ben ate all the chocolates that I liked though, I only have the gross coconut and toffee chocolates left
I wish I coulda spent more time with my buds and stuff, but none of them except April were free. Susan pissed me off pretty bad, because I told her on Saturday that I’d be in Houston on Wednesday, Thursday, and maybe Friday night. And she never got ahold of me, I had to get ahold of her, and she was too busy with her other friends to come hang out and say “happy birthday”. And Friday it was her friend’s birthday so she was busy all night. Well fuck you too, I thought we were friends too. I had a goddamn birthday on Monday and you didn’t even send me a crappy e-card, but you spend all day with this other person on her birthday.
I am fucking tired of everyone ignoring! It really pisses me off! I’m not upset at Otis, because I know she has a full-time job and that was really short notice for her. But Susan and Leslie don’t work, or go to school, or anything! You’d think that people that are my friends could take the time out to at least stop by for five minutes and say hello when I’m in town! It is not like I live there anymore, I live five hours away!
Had to get that out of my system, sorry for the interruption.
That was Monday and on Tuesday we sealed Dave’s dad’s new fence for some monies and then chilled. It was actually pretty fun. I hadn’t done hard work in a long time and it felt good to break a sweat. That was about all we did on Tuesday I think.
Wednesday we woke up fairly early and drove up to visit my parents. They had just gotten back from a cruise in Alaska and had gotten me an’ Dave some souvenirs. They also got us a little bit of smoked salmon. We haven’t tried it yet, but I am excited. I love smoked salmon! They gave me my birthday gift also, a sappy card and some monies. And they had also bought me Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Red Rescue Team. The difference between it and the blue version is that it is on the GameBoy Advanced instead of the DS. But I think I like this version better so far. The controls on the DS version are a little weird and irritating. Anyways, they took us out to a movie and to eat, and I got to go to the dentist. My tooth started hurting like hell when I drank cold stuff on Saturday, totally out of the blue. I was worried it was a cavity, but it was apparently just torn tissue. So good news yey! It was a little stressful staying with my parents, since my mom is my mom. I got to visit with Jennifer and Megan though, which was pretty sweet. I had gotten a bottle of wine ’cause I thought we were going to be making fish tacos on Thursday, but it turns out my parents wanted me and Dave to pay for it all, so we didn’t. Wednesday night we watched The Rock and Jennifer fell asleep, so we took her home after it was over and went over to Megan’s to hang out. Megan and I had a glass of wine each and we watched most of Raiders of the Lost Ark, which had been retitled on the DVD release to Indian Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark for some reason. Anyways, we left around 0130 so she could get some sleep and go to work in the morning.
I woke up fairly early for us on Thursday, around 0930-ish. Dave woke up around 1300 though, lol. We went to Armand Bayou Nature Reserve and went on a trail walk. It was pretty fun. There were tons of Golden Orb Spiders. Tons! They were everywhere! It was pretty sweet, we even saw a deer. Afterwards we hung out with Jennifer again and ate at Applebee’s. Dave and I ordered poorly. I had the French onion soup and they brought it out and the bowl was filled to less than half way!! I was pretty irritated, but that Applebee’s isn’t very competent, I have found. After that we got some snack foods and went back to my parent’s and watched some movies and finished off the wine. We watched Die Hard 3 and I don’t remember what else. They all started blurring together for me. I got kinda tired a little early so I went up to bed around elevenish, but Dave and Jennifer were gabbing about comics and were pretty loud and my mom kept coming in to tell me alcohol is bad for your liver so I shouldn’t drink it, so I couldn’t really sleep. Dave did take Jennifer home eventually and we slept pretty good that night.
Friday morning we had to go back to Dave’s dad’s place ’cause Dave had to sign some stuff that day. I took a nap and played my Pearl game some. Dave’s dad and step mom got it for me for my birthday, it was so nice of them! I really like it too, it is really fun so far. I had lots of fun digging around the Underground last night also. Whee! Anyways, Dave and Ben and I all went out to eat with Freda and Jeff and we had a good time. We ate a newish Tex-Mex restaurant that had really spiffy food. I had a stuffed avacado, which I guess is really more Cal-Mex than Tex-Mex, but it was good either way! I also got to have a few Amaretto Sours, they were pretty good too. Afterwards we went back to my parent’s place and spent some time with them. But on the way there Dave got me some birthday gifts! He got me Leaf Green and the National Pokedex and he got himself Diamond. He said he is gonna get me more things too, I’m excited. Dave spoils me! Anyways, we went back to my parents and spent some time with them. I don’t really remember what we did, I was a little tired. Then me and Dave played our games and such until we got even more tired and fell asleep.
We took Franklin with us on our trip, and he really liked it at my parents’ place. Their cat, Kichou (my old kitty but she likes going outside and stuff so we didn’t take her) did really well with Franklin and Franklin seemed to really like having another cat around. We are (I am) thinking about getting another kitty if I get a job. I will hopefully be working at a local restaurant soon, it isn’t a job in Earth Science, but it is a job that pays money! I think I wanna take a little bit of a break, anyways, and work a job with no major responsibilities and just sort of exist for a season or two.
I forgot to take pictures with my dad’s camera, but we took some with our camera phones. If any of you know how to transfer the pictures from the phone to a computer please let me know, I want to show off my kitty! I know you can email it and stuff to yourself, but neither of us have the internet on our phones. Halps!
Hrm.
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So I am awake and it is before noon, though not by much, and there is actually something I can do today. I am unsure if it is worth it though. I filled out an application at a staffing agency a week ago, and can go in to interview today. However, the first time I had contact with them was to ask them what I needed to do now, and the lady didn’t let me finish my sentence, talked right over my questions and hung up. So I heard that Thursday, or maybe Today, or maybe even Tuesday were the time they did interviews, starting at one pm. Well ok, so I went at 2:30pm on Thursday down there, and oh hahahaha interviews are first come first serve. Gee it would have been nice to TELL ME that over the phone, its not like gas is 2.99$ or something, and I don’t have a job, or anything. That really upset me, it was very unprofessional and makes me wonder if I should interview with them or if I should find a different staffing agency. It would also have been nice if they had answered my questions over the phone, or, in point of fact, listened to any thing I had to say. Instead of saying their spiel as soon as I got to “Hello, I filled out an application online-” and then hanging up as soon as they were done. I mean, that sounds like they are going to take a huge percent of my paycheck and treat me like shit the entire time I work for them.
Ugh. I think I need to file for unemployment.
Alarming
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Apparently the storm did more than ruin my self declared holiday of no-clothes. A tree outside of our apartment is now alarmingly leaning much more than it was yesterday. It may or may not fall over in the next storm we get. Its roots are under our apartment building, and most likely concentrated under our apartment. I wrote down on our move-in inventory that there was a root that could cause foundation problems, and I have renters insurance. Hopefully all will go well. I don’t believe it will fall onto our building, but its roots will cause us no end of trouble if it goes.
Our upstairs neighbor is calling the Landperson and hopefully some one will come out and trim it. It looks like it has never been properly trimmed before, so I feel that if it is lightened by proper limb removal this, combined with tethers, will solve the problem. Probably they will cut it down though
where i’ve been
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Dave and I finally have internet in our new place. we have been busy moving so I didn’t have time to blog about it. I probably won’t blog for some days to come, my grandfather passed away and we are flying down to Houston this saturday.
Drama
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So I flew back into Houston yesterday night and my parents picked me up at the airport. I stayed at my parents last night and for the very first time it truely felt like I was staying with them, and not living there. Even though all my things are there, they are no longer really mine. I don’t care if I can keep them when I move out or what happens to them now. This is a huge sort of epiphany for me, because as I’ve been flying between Dallas and Houston I’ve still felt that, up until the middle of December, that my parents was home. Yet at some point during the holidays being with David became more home than it had been before. And one of the exciting things that happened during the holidays was that David told me that he’d like it if we were to live together. This is very exciting for me! I am madly in love with him and I have been living with him (in case you’ve just tuned in or been oblivious) whenever I’m in Dallas.
And this is sort of why there is drama, not actually because I’ve been living with him. But because when I live with him he treats me unlike any relationship that I’ve been in before. He loves me, he tells me he loves me, and he actually treats me like a person. It is really a strange new experience for me. And because how well he treats me contrasts so drastically to how my parents treat me I can’t actually live with my parents anymore. It had been getting difficult to live with them, but now, after having spent the whole month with David I absolutely can’t live with them anymore. I had felt this way before, and I just bend over and lay down and let them push me down and don’t do anything. But I feel that I can’t do this anymore.
I’m over at April’s right now and we’re talking and such and so on. And my mom is going absoultely nuts, because I got my own tickets to Dallas for a job fair that my mom wanted me to go to anyways. She’s pissed off that I’m doing this on my own and its driving me nuts. She came home today and I finally got pissed that she almost never greets me with “Hi how was your day? What did you do?” but “Why didn’t you go to exercise with your dad. Your dad is upset with you! What are you doing we have to make a spread sheet of the jobs you’ve applied to and when you need to get back to them!” And screaming, as loud as possible. Because it is the only thing that I can comprehend. I can’t understand speech or reasoning. I have to be yelled at to obey. It drives me nuts, but now I am finally not taking it anymore. I’m going to go to this interview with Circuit City, so I can have spending money maybe. But the job is in Pasadena, and I want to live in Dallas, with Dave. I had been thinking of working there until I could transfer out, but after speaking with April and sitting down and actually discussing it. I think it will be more stress for me if I do this and try to transfer. We’ve been talking about options, because I don’t know if Dave’s apartments will actually let me live there for an extended period of time. So I’m going to apply at a few jobs either tonight or tomorrow that are always hiring in the Dallas area. And I’m gonna call Dave and figure out whether I should move in with Leslie down here and work temporarily at Circuit City, so that my parents can’t claim me on their insurance. Or if it is feasible for me to move up to Dallas.
Anyways, the thing that brought this serious contemplation about was that my parents are pissed off and wanted me to come home for the sole reason that they can yell at me, scream at me, and eventually hit me until the “problem” is “solved”. They say they want to talk it out like adults, but that never happens. Becuase this crap is always the things that happen whenever they get pissed off and I’m not there. They call me and demand I come back “home” because my mother is “having a fit” and she “needs” me. And as soon as I get there they accuse and scream and yell and do their best to make me feel like shit and inferior and like all my ideas are going to fail anyways.
Bleh, I’m going to eat crackers and jam and not go home tonight. And maybe some place with real malts is still open and I can have one.
