Saturday
Gave Steve his birthday scarf, he said he was “touched”.
Jacki and her Mom came in and said hi.
I made cheese lasagna for dinner.
My friend’s yahoo messenger was hacked and someone from Nigera was begging me for money

Sunday
A new guy started in cut fruit. He is from Peru.
The tornado sirens were going off outside.
My friend gave me a piece of dried chili mango and it was good.
Work kicked my butt.
I started knitting a baby bootie for my friend at work.
I had a dream about gingko leaves.

Thursday night my friend came and picked me up and we went to My Bar to watch a coworker do karaoke. He sang Salt and Pepper’s Push It. It was hilarious. After that we went to Buckeye Doughnuts to meet some other friends. I like that place, it is a nice little hang out. We ate a huge plate of cheesy fries and did some collaborative doodles and talked. Fun times! Then we went back and got my truck and I drove over to my friends house. We played on her computer for a bit then it was nearly 5am so I went home. She showed me Salad Fingers, craziest cartoon I have ever seen!
http://www.newgrounds.com/collection/saladfingers.html

Friday morning I got up and met a friend for coffee at Cup O Joe. She wanted me to take some pictures of her tattoos for her. It was nice to have morning coffee with a friend. We saw another person we knew there too. After that I went to Half Price Books where I found a Led Zepplin record for $2! I also bought a DVD The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. We saw a clip of it in film class long ago and I always wanted to see the whole thing. Haven’t had time to watch it yet.

Later I got a hold of another friend and met her at Whole World for dinner. I had Black bean sweet potato quesadillas and a pecan sandy. Yum! After that we went to some of the stores around that area then went to Zen Cha. I had Black Forest tea and she had Spring Berries so I got to check two more off the list. :P Then we went back to her house and she showed me her pictures from Costa Rica and we had some crazy deep discussions about life stuff.

I did so much stuff on my day off that I feel like I had several days off. That is probably a good thing. Back to choppin’ fruit this afternoon.

This week I have just been working and spinning yarn. I think I spin in the summer and knit in the winter. I also listen to death metal in winter and hip hop in summer while driving. My internet has been really flaky and making me angry all week so I finally called and after much plugging and unplugging they sent a tech guy out to fix it. It took him like two seconds and everything in internet land is well again. We have actually been close to caught up the past couple of days at work, that never happens in cut fruit, we are always so far behind. It is nice to leave and feel like something was accomplished rather than feeling guilty because there is so much more that needs to be done. But this is the slow part of the week, we will see what happens this weekend.

Today I went to a restaurant down the street and had falafel. There food is good but I feel weird going in there alone. Normally I will go anywhere I want but that place makes me feel strange. Then I went to Guitar Center and got a book called “Blues You Can Use”. It is a pretty good book so far. I am somewhat obsessed with Led Zeppelin. It was rainy today. I am still drinking smoothies everyday but stopped taking their pictures. I spun some yarn today too. Lazy day. I have a rash on my hand from working in cut fruit. Everyone seems to get these, it is from the acid in the fruits and veggies. Mine started the day I had to cut 20 pounds of tomatoes and has slowly worsened. Hopefully this day off helped it get better.

I cut my finger at work yesterday with a razor. It was stupid, I had my cut glove off because I was handling tape and gloves make that impossible. I guess I wasn’t paying attention. I didn’t tell anyone, it isn’t bad at all, don’t want the razors to get taken away. I am sure it will be healed in a couple of days.

Mom and I are going to take a mini vacation in May. It is going to be fun, I am excited. I hope they remember to schedule me off for it.

Took Mocha for a big walk today. Ate Chipotle for lunch. Spun some yarn. Went to a birthday party at a place down the street for a guy from work that I don’t really know but my friend was going. It was weird because there were a lot of people from work there but I didn’t really know any of them except the friend that invited me.

On Thursday I went to visit Jacki in Mount Vernon. We were going to do some pinhole stuff but we didn’t have all of the supplies we needed. We ate lunch at the Indian/Greek restaurant then went to a bunch of junk stores. We saw a lot of neat and weird stuff. When we got back to her house she taught me how to make tortillas! They were yummy and I got to bring some home. I am not feeling chatty today so this is the condensed version of the day.

Today is my last day in floral then I will be a real member of the cut fruit team.

I have been a busy girl.

Last night after work I went to my friend’s house for tea. She made me 3 or 4 different kinds of tea, they were all yummy. She knows a lot about tea! She also made some noodles with peanut sauce that were really good! She gave me ginseng tea to take home. We watched a documentary about body modification then another one about freak shows. Her roommate caught a mouse in a live trap and it wouldn’t come out of the trap so I got it out. It was cute! I got to hold a really laid back pet gecko and a funny little white dog. What a fun night! I got home at 4:30am.

Yesterday I did some cleaning then went to Whole World for lunch. I had a yummy Cali burger. It was a burger made of beans with avocado and some other stuff on top. I think that is the best thing I have ever eaten there! I came back home and started doing laundry then my friends asked me to come and hang out. I had to wait for the laundry to finish then I met them at the Short North Tavern. I just got a coke and munched on the free peanuts. They ended up giving me the coke for free! Then we walked over to Goodale Park. There were so many doggies playing there I wished I had Mocha with me. We decided to check out the playground and I made a new little friend. He was a little guy who wanted someone to play on the slide with him. He kept telling me “wets swide” so I did, his Dad thought it was pretty amusing. I don’t think the kid new I was an adult since I was playing with him. I went over to the swings with my friends and the little dude ran over to get me so we could swide some more. :P That park is so pretty, there are blooming magnolia trees and daffodils and other little flowers everywhere. We even saw robins!

After that one of my friends and I went for coffee, the other two went home. I am really thinking I should not have had coffee because I cannot sleep and it is 5:40am. Hopefully I can go back to sleep in a little bit. When I got home from coffee I worked on some weaving. There is a scarf due today, it is close to done.

Have you guys seen the South Park about the internet? “there’s no internet to find out why there’s no internet”. That is one of the funniest episodes I have seen yet!

Today I took my truck in for a tune up. We are nearly at 60,000 miles. Poor baby truck. I knew there was something wrong with her because she wasn’t driving as well. Turns out we needed some new tires. So we got those too. I spent a lot of money on my truck today but she is worth it and drives much better now!

When I got home I took a nap. Later I was sitting on my couch and I saw somebody ride by on a unicycle! Mocha and I cleaned the cat pan and the bunny house then took the trash and recycling out and went for a little walk. He got to meet a little black pug but it was afraid of him. He is a little forward and has no fear so the pug was just like “whoa, who are you?”. It was cute. I finally put the cedar chest in the bedroom. I dusted my wardrobe where my tv sits and it was really gross. I am guessing it was a bad idea to sand inside the apartment but I really had no other choice when I was working on my Clementine table. I need to wash my dusting cloth before I can dust anything else, it was that bad. Ate the end of my lasagna for dinner. Yum!

That picture is not my bike but it is neat isn't it. Today’s bike ride was really hard! My legs are soooo out of shape! I can stand and walk all day but biking is hard. I just need to bike more and more and I will get it back. I am going to have to try to bike a little bit next winter or something, I am so disappointed in myself. Oh well, it happens. I also need to take some junk out of my backpack, that thing is heavy!

Today’s bike ride total 7.91 miles
Yearly bike ride total 9.97 miles

My dream house, the big 6 bedroom has been reduced to $75,000!
http://signature.ohio.remax.com/listings/ListingDetail_r4.aspx?LID=37628898#aTop

Keep on dropping baby, hopefully nobody buys it, my lease isn’t up until October. I am sure someone will snatch it up at that price though. Another will come along.

Yesterday I paid $3.45 for gas, that made me sad. I am going to ride my bike today, it is supposed to be warm.

For lunch at work today nothing looked good so I got a frozen lasagna dinner, horrible I know, all of that wasted packaging. It was decent for a microwave meal but it made me want to make real lasagna so after work I bought ingredients and as soon as I got home I started cooking. It has onion, garlic, oregano, basil, carrots, celery, broccoli, and cauliflower in it along with the usual ricotta, noodles, sauce, and mozzarella on top. I made a lot so I can have it for lunch this week. It is so yummy! I wanted to eat more but I will resist. Too bad I don’t have anyone to share this yummy food with. I just realized I call my meal at 5pm lunch. I guess I have two lunches and then dinner when I get home. I get so mixed up, I never know what day it is or what time it is, all I know is when I am supposed to be at work and when I am not. It is really amazing that I make it there when I am supposed to.

The bunny is happily grazing on all of the vegetable ends and stems that didn’t go into the lasagna. I think he is pretty happy right now. Poor guy’s cage needs cleaned though.

Even if you are not into Bjork you should really check out this video, it is beautiful!
http://media.ghostrobot.net/7020_wanderlust.html

The photo has nothing to do with the post, I just like it.

Today I made a huge batch of guacamole then I made a huge batch of pico de gallo. When I went to put that out there were only 6 containers of guac left so I made another huge batch! I can’t believe all of that sold but the store is crazy on Sundays so I don’t know why I am surprised.

After work I went to see a band that my friend told me about, Times New Viking at Café Bourbon Street. They were really cool, their drummer is really good, he sings too. If you want to hear them they are on myspace, their page is super loud, you will probably want to turn it way down as soon as you click on it. http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=8726360

Before I went to the show I went to Meijer to get ear plugs and I saw an ex-coworker. We were both in the bakery looking for something sugary to eat. :P I like running into people I know, that must mean I really live here and am getting settled in. It is so hard being in a new place sometimes.

My horoscope said this is the beginning of a very social time for me. Oh man I hope that is true!

I am excited because we are supposed to get canning supplies this summer at work. They are trying to find someone who sells natural pectin too so that is cool.

I stayed at work a little late yesterday because the opener was feeling sick yesterday and I wanted to make his morning a little better. So I worked for nearly 9 hours cutting stuff then I come home and want to make guacamole. As I am cutting the avocado I cut my hand. It was so stupid! It isn’t a bad cut but just ridiculous! I wear a cut glove at work but still, you would think I would know how to handle a knife by now. :P

I finished a scarf for another birthday on my produce team and I really like it. I think the person I am giving it to will wear it so I get to see it.

Yesterday I had to turn down an invitation to go out. That is the second time in two or three weeks. Why did I turn it down? Because I am so far behind on weaving and I need to get this stuff done! As of now I am caught up but there is another birthday project due on Sunday. I knew if I didn’t finish what I was working on there was no way I could get the next thing done so I stayed up late and got that finished. The funny thing is the only person who knows about these deadlines is me and they don’t really matter all that much. I am so weird!

It was nice out yesterday and I wanted to ride my bike to work but the weather said it would rain so I didn’t then it never rained. Today is the same way, it looks like it could rain any second so I am not going to chance it.

I used baking soda in place of deodorant yesterday and it worked fine so I am using that from now on.

Today I took my name off of the credit card and insurance junk mail lists, you should too! https://www.optoutprescreen.com/?rf=t

This morning I did some more carpet cleaning with the new machine. I really hate cleaning the carpet but it has to get done. I also moved some furniture around. I threw out the plants I let die on my plant rack and put that in the living room. Now my record player, receiver, speakers and some other stuff are on that rack. I am going to put the cedar chest in the bedroom when the carpet dries and store my sweaters in it. I also got a second coat of paint on the sewing table and put it where it is going to stay with the sewing machine on it. That is a start. I can’t believe how much I have done and my place still looks like a pig sty. I also made whole wheat pizza dough with Italian seasoning in the bread maker then made a yummy cheese pizza. I made hummus too. I don’t have a food processor or anything so I just mashed it with a fork until it was creamy. That took awhile. I saw a food processor today online that you hand crank, I want one of those. My extremely neglected cymbidium orchid has a new growth so it got to stay. I can’t believe that thing is alive and I really can’t believe it is growing, those things must be impossible to kill!

This afternoon I decided I should take the bike out and see if it needs any work and how my legs are doing after the long winter. I put Mocha in my back pack and we rode around the block. When we were almost at Rita’s, the custard place, Mocha hopped out of the backpack! We were almost stopped but that was a big jump. I think he had to potty because that is what he did as soon as he landed. I don’t think the back pack is going to work, I need to get a basket or something for him to sit in. I would like to find one that is like a little cage or something so I don’t have to worry about him jumping out. We rode 2.06 miles. Not bad for the first ride of the year. I had vanilla custard in a waffle cone. I tried to share it with Mo but he didn’t want any. He got a pet from a very enthusiastic little girl. He loves people. On the way back in he got to see his little doggie friend Sassy who is a rat terrier and got a pet from her Mom. Sassy dog makes Mocha look big and that is funny. He is all worn out now and he didn’t even have to peddle. :P

I found this cool website today about people who have a little urban yard but live off of the food they grow in it. http://www.pathtofreedom.com/

Bike Miles this year 2.06

Look at this video, it was on the No Impact Man blog, it is about recycling, it is really short.