Monthly Archive for February, 2007

this is the only time you’ll hear me say i want some shoes

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ashley
on February 26, 2007
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i am not a shoe person.  i have like, 4 pairs of shoes to my name — my chucks, a pair of green herringbone slip-ons i got for five bucks from old navy, a pair of kitten heel black shoes for funerals/weddings/interviews, and the new saucony tennis shoes i bought expressly for my trip to NYC to visit lorrie (and they failed me by giving me blisters the size of quarters on the bottom of my feet).  i might have more floating around the house, but not very many more, i’ll tell you that.

but here are some shoes i’ve recently found and i want:

of all things, i really like this shoe.  i like the stripes a lot, i like the frayed edges, and it looks super comfortable.  and it’s by keds.  keds.  KEDS.  i remember keds with the plain white tennis shoe with the little blue logo on the back.  if keds had this style back when i was in 7th grade, i would have totally rocked the hell out of it.  oh yeah.

these are part of the eleanor collection also at keds.  keds is really kicking ass these days with their cute shoes. they also have one that has owls all over that i want too:

so that’s all.  i want some new shoes for spring, and i want these.

this penny looks like a chipmunk’s been chewing on it

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ashley
on February 26, 2007
in life and work
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so i’m at taco bell last night during my lunch hour.  i’ve been craving chili cheese burritos since friday night.  marques and i briefly entertained the idea of a taco bell run at 2 am on saturday, but decided against it because it was cold and our bed was toasty warm.

so anyway, yeah, chili cheese burrito run.  i’ve got a new policy that if i’m going to order fast food, i have to actually go in the restaurant and order it instead of just going through the drive-thru if possible.  so i went into taco bell and ordered my 2 chili cheese burritos.  and i waited.  because west end taco bell is the slowest taco bell in the entire world.

so while i waited, a little old lady came up to the register.  she ordered a taco salad.  she paid for it, and when the cashier gave her back her change, the little old lady was like, “this penny is soiled!  i want a new penny!” and made a big fuss about how her penny was dirty and looked like a chipmunk had been gnawing on it.

and i’m like, seriously.  i hate people.  i especially hate customers of all retail stores.  i remember working customer service at circuit city and coming home from work in a hateful mood because people are so hateful.  amazon.com customers are actually pretty decent, and i chalk that up to because amazon.com is awesome.

and i don’t understand why people treat people who work at taco bell or walmart like lower-class citizens.  this old lady, as she passed by me to get some napkins, made a comment that sounded like, “i don’t see why she can’t do what i ask” and emphasized the she like “she who is below me” and it just annoys the crap out of me.

i am a really nice person, and i am overly polite to everyone who works everywhere (except for comcast, because they have the audacity to charge me over 100 dollars a month for my cable and internet and tivo and then not show up when they say they are going to.  comcast, you suck).

that was my rant about people who look down on taco bell workers.  i mean, lady, taco bell has the chili cheese burrito.  go look down on mcdonalds.

do not get between me and my generic tivo

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ashley
on February 23, 2007
in i am ridiculous, life and television
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so my comcast dvr up and bit the dust tuesday evening, prompting me to erupt in a volcanic rage because it didn’t record gilmore girls and this was the episode right after lorelai and christopher broke up and i bet there was lots of luke and lorelai kissing (i’ve been proven wrong on this by now, but on tuesday, that was the main anger, that i was missing the kissing).

so i went to comcast on wednesday and say, “hey comcast, i need a new dvr box” and they handed me one that looked exactly like my old one.  nice.  and i took it home and plugged in all the things and called comcast so they could activate it.

this was the first of many phone calls.  with the first lady i spoke with, i think she was about 3 steps away from being punched metaphorically through the phone.  i had five cables to plug into ten holes, and they were color-coded, but everytime i put them in the color-coded slots, my tv would be in black and white.  arrrrrrrrrgh.  and the lady is all like, “durrr, green cable?  i don’t know why you have a green cable” and i’m like, “because in july 2006, your cable guy came in and hooked up a green cable” and she’s like, “oh, we would never use green cables” and then my eyes went cross-eyed at that point.  comcast was driving me to drink.

anyway, they said they were going to send a signal to the box and it should take about an hour to download all the information and my tv should be a-okay soon.  i, stupidly, took their word for it.

fast-forward about 5 hours, 2 phone calls, and 1 thirty-dollar credit later, where i shamed myself and my family:

jake from comcast:  hi, thanks for calling comcast, how can i help you?
me:  please fix my television.  please.  that’s all.  just make it work.
jake:  what’s wrong with your tv?
me:  there are no channels.  it just keeps saying “channel will be available shortly.”  it is 9:15 PM and it has been saying this for five hours.
jake:  blah blah blah sending signal blah blah
me:  jake, i don’t think you understand something.  i’ve already had to sacrifice watching gilmore girls which may have had luke and lorelai kissing all over the place, which may not be a very big deal to you, but it is to me because she and christopher finally broke up.  and in 45 minutes, “lost” comes on, and this is a very important episode too because abc promised it would answer 3 questions in this episode, and i don’t know if you watch lost –
jake:  i do!
me:  so you know all about how they never answer questions and this is a big deal, you’ve seen the promos with cindy the stewardess and the little kids?
jake:  yeah, isn’t that crazy?  last week’s show with desmond was so trippy.
me:  i know!  but you understand that it is now 9:20 and i need to have my television working by 10:00 pm so i can record this show for my boyfriend who loves it and i want him to come home tonight to a recording of lost.  i don’t care if all the other channels don’t work as long as channel 8 can be recorded.
jake:  (is silent because i think he realizes that i might be crazy)

comcast is coming to fix our cable tomorrow.  we got 40 minutes of lost recorded wednesday night, but missed the end.  stupid comcast.

valentine’s day is for lovers

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ashley
on February 14, 2007
in life, marques and tunes
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i couldn’t wait to celebrate valentine’s day this year with marques, so as soon as he got home last night, i gave him his presents.  i bought him lots of truffles (including fancy harry and david truffles) and a book about meteorology (he’s thinking about going back to school to get a degree in meteorology, and i wanted to let him know that i support him 100 percent in his decision because i think he can do anything).  then we went to speedway for a huge 32 ounce cup of fountain-drink pepsi, which has been forbidden for me since december.

and i made him a mix cd.  he made me one, too, but i don’t have it yet.  i think it will be ready for me today.  here are the tracks i put on it — they’re very weird.  i’ve already used up all my indie-girl-i’m-in-love songs on all the other cds i’ve made him.

1.  “cut your hair” by pavement (i put this on here because he went without cutting his hair for a long, long time, and i loved it, and then just this past week he cut it and it makes me sad because i can’t run my fingers through it anymore.)
2.  “lullaby” by the dixie chicks (i don’t really like the dixie chicks, but lorrie was playing this song before she moved to new york, and i remembered thinking that i thought it sounded really sweet.)
3.  “they don’t know” by ben gibbard (marques has got another thing coming if he thought he was going to a ben gibbard-free valentine’s day cd this year.  this is also a really sweet song!)
4.  “oh you are the roots that sleep beneath my feet and hold the earth in place” by bright eyes
5.   “strangers in the night” by cake
6.  “be still my heart” by the postal service
7.  “sleep tonight” by stars
8.  “crazy about you” by whiskeytown
9.  “i will” by jonathan coulton
10.  “california stars” by wilco and billy bragg
11.  “when the stars go blue” by ryan adams
12.  “gotta have you” by the weepies
13.  “let it be me” by rosie thomas
14.  “i’ll be your mirror” by clem snide
15.  “melt your heart” by jenny lewis and the watson twins
16.  “your song” by elton john (i. love. elton. john.  don’t make fun of me.  i love this song!)
17.  “the luckiest” by ben folds
18.  “with every light” by the smashing pumpkins
19.  “sweet thing” by van morrison (it’s kind of our song)

so i hope you all have a very nice valentine’s day.

man walks into a room

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ashley
on February 12, 2007
in apartment, family, life and marques
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so apparently, rachel let me know that chili cheese burritos were still alive and thriving in ohio and kentucky.  i think she’s just saying that because she secretly wants me to move to her city and have pillow fights with her.  she’s all the time trying to get me to move away from here, citing such dangerous things like the chemical plants near my house in dunbar.  i guess she doesn’t know about the solid sheet of ice that currently covers the entire parking lot at work.  she’s always looking out for me.

right now, my awesome boyfriend is cleaning our apartment.  this is a good thing, as our apartment is hella gross lately.  i don’t know what it is, but i just have the worst time ever cleaning.  and i feel bad because i WANT to keep the apartment clean, but everytime i start to clean, i just get overwhelmed with this feeling of depression and then i turn the television on to degrassi to help reduce the feeling.

and valentine’s day is coming soon.  this is my first real valentine’s day with marques, although we sort of celebrated it last year, too, with mix cds.  i don’t have anything special planned because we both have to work that night, but i think i’m going to make us a good, tasty dinner (whole-wheat penne with shrimp and pesto sauce, my favorite dinner ever) and i bought him a stupid present that he’s going to roll his eyes at.

i’m also leaving for new york this weekend to visit lorrie, which is exciting.  i can’t wait to touch her with my belly.  she hates that.

gnome is where the heart is

Published
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ashley
on February 12, 2007
in apartment, cooking, i am ridiculous, life and marques
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quick!  things that are awesome:

  • chili cheese burritos are back at taco bell!  this makes me happy to no end.  i feel bad that i am happy about a food item because it is like, hello, token fat girl, happy about food, but i love chili cheese burritos and i was sad when they removed them from their menu like, 8 years ago.
  • although i am sort of on a diet, i have eaten 4 of these since i realized they have returned.
  • the funny thing is that they used to be called “chilitos”, which is apparently some sort of mexican slang for “small penis”.  i’m sort of sad taco bell didn’t keep that name just for the hilarity.  this is why i’m not a business person.
  • this girl at work told me about the mini-ymca, which solves my gym problem.  i want to join a gym, which is a big commitment for me as i don’t think i’ve done any sort of exercising since like, dare camp in 6th grade.  but i don’t want to pay like, 45 dollars a month for the ymca because, well, that’s a huge chunk of change out of my budget that could be used toward buying books.  but there’s a little ymca that charges 20.  and i will join it.
  • i bought new sheets yesterday at target.  they were on clearance.  my friend jasmine will hate me once she sees them (to be fair, i looked for a set for her, but they didn’t have one in queen).  they’re gnome sheets.  so even when i’m sleeping, i’ve never far from gnome.
  • did you just groan at that?  yeah, me too.  i’m so funny.

things that bothered me about “the messengers”

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ashley
on February 4, 2007
in friends, i am ridiculous, life, marques and television
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so last night, tina and jasmine came down to visit me (which was awesome!).  we were going to go see dreamgirls (seriously, jasmine and i have made plans to do this every weekend since it came out and it’s just never happened) but when we got to the theater, apparently every person in huntington decided they wanted to go to the movies, too.

so we were so late that the only movie left for us to see (without missing the first 20 minutes of anything else) was “the messengers”

which is a scary movie.

and i don’t like scary movies.  i remember the time when tina, jasmine, lorrie and i all went to go see “the ring” when it came out.  we were all super scared during it (lorrie covered her eyes through the whole end part).

but i always have fun watching scary movies with jasmine and tina and lorrie, so it wasn’t TOO bad of an idea.

first off, the movie sucked.  that’s not surprising.  it didn’t look like a cinematic masterpiece to begin with.  so here are the things that bothered me about the movie (and yes, there are more than likely spoilers, so if you really want to be surprised by the totally predictable ending, don’t continue on.)

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