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Monday, November 9th, 2009
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kahvi
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11:30a
And that's me
I've mentioned this before, but something got me thinking about it again. When I was in high school (in 1854), you had to give a note to your teacher if you were absent or late. You'd write it in a special book, and have it signed by a parent (or yourself if you were over 18). On one page of my book, the following entries can be found:
"I was late for Economics class on tuesday November 29th, because I overslept. It will never happen again."
The very next entry reads:
"I was late for Maths class on November 30th. I am sorry. I overslept."
And that's me.
current mood:  tired
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(2 comments | comment on this) Sunday, November 8th, 2009
buffalo_dorks
[ freedom_corrupt ]
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8:37a
Buffalo Animal Rights..... Monday 11/9 at 5pm
Hi everyone,
Please come help out tomorrow.
What: Anti-slaughterhouse demonstration
When: Monday, November 9, 5 p.m.
Where: City Hall, 714 Ridge Rd., Lackawanna
Please join local animal advocates to challenge the opening of a live-animal market and slaughterhouse within the city of Lackawanna.
A live-animal market and slaughterhouse does not fall under federally mandated guidelines established through the Humane Slaughter Act passed by Congress. This means animals may be fully conscious when their throats are cut. Animals then will be hung upside down by one leg and left to bleed out, kicking and screaming for up to an hour in most cases. Often, these poor animals suffer from injuries while dangling on these hoists.
Local activists need concerned citizens to join them to protest the building of such a facility in Lackawanna. Please help them pass out leaflets and hold signs, which will be provided. Just bring yourself and anyone you can recruit to join you. Contact Jeffery L. Termini at 716-380-7667 or humanehuman@roadrunner.com for further details or to RSVP...or just show up as I said I'd be bringing people.
Again:
What: Anti-slaughterhouse demonstration
When: Monday, November 9, 5 p.m.
Where: City Hall, 714 Ridge Rd., Lackawanna
Please cross-post this message and forward it to others who might be interested in standing up for animals killed for their flesh.
More information can be found at http://www.stopliveanimalmarkets.com/
Hope to see some of you there!
:)
**Edit** This is an informational post only for those who would be interested, not a call for debate. Thanks.
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(16 comments | comment on this) Saturday, November 7th, 2009
buffalo_dorks
[ _cherrystars_ ]
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9:26p
Computer help
I need some help choosing a computer.
Im getting a DELL because I can get a discount.
I want it mainly for surfing the internet, homework, storing pics and downloading music/making CD/DVDs. And I mean downloading ALOT of music and storing ALOT of pics.
Can someone point me in the right direction of which Dell model(Inspiron, Studio, Gaming, Studio XPS, XPS) would be right? And how much memory? I dont know all the terms they use, therefore 8GB could be 84759 songs or 5 songs. No clue!
Thanks so much!
current mood:  confused
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(7 comments | comment on this) Friday, November 6th, 2009
buffalo_dorks
[ violentwhispers ]
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1:34a
Hey guys!
I don't know how many of you saw this, but Extreme Makeover: Home Edition is coming to Buffalo!
http://www.davidhomesextreme.com has all the info on what they need and volunteer stuff too! :]
ETA: Here's an e-mail of the stuff they still need. Any help would be great!
Hello and thank you to all the Extreme Makeover fans in this group. David Homes still needs some last minute items for the upcoming Extreme Makeover Home Edition build starting on November 7th. First of all we see that there are various media friends in our group and we need your help in spreading the word! Not only are we building a house for a family but we have so many volunteers we are going to be doing numerous projects in the community! We are asking for your help in broadcasting out to your audiences about this group and about materials we still need.
Additionally, a lot of our friends in this group might have contacts with various local companies and we are asking for your help as well. The more materials we have the more volunteers we can use to show the nation that Buffalo is the city of good neighbors.
Here is a quick list of items we still looking for:
Scaffolding
Siding
Paint
Boom Truck (Cherry Picker)
Lumber (2 x 4) and (2x10)
Food service vendors to help feed our volunteers and our VIP's!
Please feel free to contact us via email in this group if you can help.
Thank you again,
Jeff
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(3 comments | comment on this) Thursday, November 5th, 2009
buffalo_dorks
[ ottter ]
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8:41p
Hey, if anybody wanted to get free starbucks or amazon.com gift cards, use this website SwagBucks which I've been using. You get points for googling things, collect them, and redeem for stuff like gift cards.
Click here to sign up
I get points if people sign up and they get points if they sign up with my referral link (hence me posting this). I've gotten $160 for amazon.com in just over a month. It isn't a scam and it's 'what you see is what you get'. I think they get money from advertisers and from webhits when people google.
Tip: They also release codes every day for free points on their blog
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buffalo_dorks
[ fionnuala ]
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12:50p
Washing machine woes
I was wondering if anyone knows of a repeatable and inexpensive appliance repair man??? My washing machine is dead, well at least it doesn't spin anymore. I'm broke but i need my washer! I cloth diaper my baby and buying disposables is not only expensive, but really saddens me. That said i can't really wash the cloth diapers at a laundry mat, to many different detergents leaving residue can make the diapers ineffective as well as most laundry mats will not let you wash diapers (and again expensive!!!!!) and washing by hand is not happening, lol. The machine is a ~6 year old GE® 3.2 Cu. Ft. Super Plus Capacity Washer if that helps. Also do you think its worth fixing this or has it had a good life and i should let it go? Anyone giving away a working machine? Any help is welcome thanks!
current mood: worried
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taoangel
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9:50a
nightmare roomies?
So this morning I woke up from a nightmare which was a little non-traditional but I categorize as a nightmare because I woke up with my pulse racing, because the whole dream I was miserable and uncomfortable, and because it certainly wasn't a happy dream. Also because I could not lay down and go back to sleep without thinking about it. Maybe it should just be classified as a bad dream, since I didn't wake up in terror. I don't know.
Anyway, the dream now that I'm sitting here kind of sounds silly... though it was as miserable and totally uncomfortable as I imagine it would be if it really happened. In the dream my ex (Eric), his girlfriend, and Jackie (a friend who I'm no longer talking to but ran into recently) all lived with Josh and I for some horrible reason. I am not even entirely sure if the girl was Jackie or someone else but she was sort of a non-issue except that she was friends with Eric's girlfriend in the dream and therefore part of the collective problem. In the dream, Eric wouldn't talk to me but was purposely getting in the way when I was trying to do the dishes, which we had piles of, and no one was volunteering to do them. However as soon as I started trying to do them, Eric was getting in my way/ sort of trying to make it look like he was trying to do the dishes but really just basically blocking me from getting to the sink. At one point he actually pushed me out of the way. His girlfriend wouldn't talk to me really, and kept making bitchy asides about me to her friends. Meanwhile I am doing my crazy glowy pregnant woman thing where I am all crazy everytime someone pisses me off. I keep trying to confront them and flipping out. Also, trying to make her friends feel unwelcome and miserable, then feeling guilty about it and realize it's not their fault they're stuck in the middle of this.
Random bullshit roomies hating each other stuff just keeps going and going and I wake up.
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I would just like to point out, that though it's not something I think about MUCH when Eric comes up (which he has recently, in conversation with Josh Winkler) it does irritate me that he won't speak to me. We were getting along for awhile, when I would see him without his girlfriend. I would say for more then a year, we had gotten along and for 6-8 months we managed to see each other without it being really uncomfortable - I thought the fact that we were both dating other people made it better, we didn't really go out of our way to hang out but were friendly when we saw each other at Joe's or out at bars. Then, the first time I see him with his girly I'm excited to meet her (despite her red headness, though my hatred of red heads because of his was a running joke sort of our whole relationship, I ignore it) and the two of them both ignore me the whole time. AWKWARD! Then I talk to Joey D about it, he seems to think everything is hunky dory and there's no reason eric and I can't get along. I even texted him about a full literature review on adolescent ecstacy use in mice I was doing... blah blah, then the next time I see him he and his girl ignore me again.
So, I assume she hates ex girlfriends, or is the jealous type, or he just doesn't want to introduce us or something because Eric has never been good at confrontation or being honest about things except possibly when drunk. So whatever.
I mean, in general, whatever. But sometimes it does bother me.
I like having closure with people and being able to be in the same room as them and say Hi and hope they're well, and mean it. It's one thing if they live far away and they won't speak to you but it's awkward when you have a mutual best friend (Joey D).
Anyway, the reason I'm explaining all this is really in relation to my dream. I guess living with Eric and girl (if I was crazy I could go on facebook and look up her name but I don't really think her name matters in this case. It might be Cassie?) would be horrible, and my brain has been awesome at creating impossibly uncomfortable situations for me to dream about since pregnant.
I've had a few dreams with Eric in them since being pregnant, and one other (maybe more then one, but one I specifically remember) where he was my room mate and being mean to me. I was still pregnant and with Josh in all the dreams. There was always Eric trying to be mean/ get in my way.
I definitely have had trust issues with Josh that have sort of stemmed from my relationship with Eric. Towards the end of our "real" relationship, and throughout the couple years of drama Eric and I had my senses were totally tuned in for suspicious activity. Apparently I never turned it completely off because I would get way down Josh's throat about a lot of things in our relationship. Now, this of course had me catching him in lies a couple times, but they were not Eric scale lies by any means, and they were mostly accidental, Josh forgetting things and me being crazy lies.
Luckily, Josh tried really hard to be understanding that I was still kinda broken, but it frustrated him of course. Since I've been pregnant a lot of things have changed with this. I'm a lot more trusting of Josh. whether it's some hormonal thing, or just knowing that Josh is really with me in this. I mean, before I was pregnant we were already all wanting to be together forever, had worked a lot of trust stuff out blah blah blah. But we have somehow gotten even closer since then. Being family is really different then being boyfriend/girlfriend.
I think it's kind of like how people say relationships change once you get married. Though marriage doesn't matter to me that much, the survival of my genes does. ;). Josh is awesome, he's gonna be an awesome dad, and he's so important.
I still make him miserable about other things, but not usually distrust things. I mean, I still jokingly get jealous about girl stuff, but it actually is a joke for the most part. I don't actually know when that happened. I think it's a change in both of our mind sets about our relationship.
It's not that we want to stay together for the baby or something, though of course both of us would probably rather nothing happens to break us up eventually even more now that there's a kid involved. It's more like there's this concrete, ever lasting thing, that was created by us, together. It's something (someone!!!) physical coming from us loving each other. It's kind of ineffable. I can't explain how cool it is to be family. To be really family. I've felt that way with some friends, and even Nick W my ex boyfriend long after we broke up, but never REALLY felt that way with a boyfriend. It's pretty awesome.
Anyway, I'm off topic. Anyway the point of this is I think Eric does represent some kind of obstacle or something in my dreams... and might even be translated almost literally, that it does bother me I can't be friends with Eric. Because I'm open to being his friend, and forgive him as a human being knowing all human beings do crazy and sometimes terrible things. I guess it's a situation out of control to me, which bothers me a lot. Since I've been pregnant, I've felt out of control of a lot of things. Specifically my body, and other things related to my pregnancy symptoms... and get one very mundane thing that makes me feel out of control: THE DISHES!
So, it's funny, the dishes thing, because I've had dishes in a couple of my "Pregnancy nightmare dreams" which I will now coin them. The dishes definitely represent something out of control. BECAUSE: my sense of smell is CRAZY now. I can smell everything. SPECIFICALLY: yucky things. Sometimes good things smell better, and it does interesting things to food taste, but bad smells affect me quite a bit. When the dishes get to a certain point I basically can't wash them anymore without the gag reflex in full affect. This is a problem because Josh is way busier then me and sometimes it takes him days to do them. Also, fyi: there are tons of dishes inthe kitchen right now, so it's on the mind. Now that it's colder out it's not AS bad because the smells from the dishes don't travel as well and things don't get as yucky as fast, but when it was hot out I could smell the dishes in the whole downstairs of the apartment if they even sat over night. Josh has been a saint in this regard, and very uncomplaining about doing the dishes.
Anyway, more to make the situation out of control.
Now that I THINK of it. Jackie being there is another out of control thing. Last time I saw her was at Dave Lundquist's Halloween party, which I was so glad to make it too!! She was there and it was the first time I saw her in years. It was like seeing a ghost though. She looked exactly the same. I mean, I didn't look at her too close but it was jarring seeing the Jackie walk, the Jackie skirt, the Jackie with clove (or something) in hand. It was awkward. Devil John and I had a long conversation about her the one day, up way too late at night. He said I should "open myself to the possibility of her coming back into my life" and so I sort of put it out there in the universe that I forgave her for what happened, and what I was mad at her for, and let bygones be bygones. I even began to sort of understand her frustration and anger at me. I was clearly in some state of insanity over Eric and my view of everything was distorted because of the fucked up dysfunctional world I was living in. There were other people who were quite unhappy with me towards the end of that relationship who seemed to be content with me later in life, so it was not only her.
Of course, when I saw her at the party I did not talk to her or really smile at her or anything. I waved to her! Which is more then we've done in years. I mean, I don't know if I can imagine us really being friends since I don't really know her as a person anymore. But, I don't harbor ill will to her anymore, and it would be nice if I could have a conversation with her at parties.
It's sort of ironic that out of all the drama of those days, Cait and I somehow became good friends to a point where, Cait has even talked to me about the Eric thing before and been understanding! How odd the world is. I gues it makes sense to a degree. I think Cait has had more experience with losing and regaining friends then Jackie or Eric necessarily have. Any way, I don't really know what to do about Jackie or if there's anything to be done but it's an element out of control.
I think the thing is, a lot of time when you're going through a period of spiritual evolution it really makes you think about negative energy/ kharma/ bad stuff you've had in the past, and wish you could clean yourself of all of it. And I am definitely doing that. I'm taking care of my body better then I had in a long time, with eatin healthy and not drinking or anything, going to sleep semi-regularly. I'm surrounding myself with people who really care and spending less time with bar friends. I'm reading more, and have a LOT more time to spend to myself then when I was in school.
I think evolution and growth does really make one want closure, want to let go of negative things that have happened, not only to help yourself grow more but just because it's the "right" way of things.
Hence the dream...
So, it does make sense upon reflection, which is more then I can say about some of my pregnancy nightmares!!
Oh, by the way
She's a girl! :)
current mood:  contemplative
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(4 comments | comment on this) Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
buffalo_dorks
[ evilaphrodesia ]
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7:15p
Lay-away
Hello dorks!
My friend and I are going shopping tomorrow (trying to get the holiday shopping done early) and I'm wondering which stores are doing lay-away. I know that Sears and K-Mart both do, but was wondering if any other stores are doing it too.
Thanks!
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