Forget everything you ever learned about driving!

I live just outside Boston. Everyday I drive through the city, I frequently drive into the city. Now, honestly when I lived in CT I thought that people from MA were horrible drivers. But, then I moved here and realized this is the only way you'll survive.

Here are a few driving rules that I've tossed out since moving to MA.

Stay two-three car lengths behind the car in front of you.
Now I guarantee if you do this you will get cut off by at least two cars. Therefore it is absolutely necessary to drive as close as you possibly can to the bumper in front of you without actually hitting it. Even if you have half a car lengths space, someone will cut you off.

Always use your blinkers to indicate a lane change. Also put the blinker on before you even check to make sure you can switch lanes.
The only way this is ideal is if you never want to get into the next lane...ever. If you put your blinker on, the person in the next lane will purposely speed up so you can't get in front of them. I recommend never using your blinker when changing lanes.

When making a left turn pull out just a little so you can see, and then wait until traffic clears.
If you do this, you'll sit and wait for the rest of your life. I fully believe that if I followed this rule I would still be sitting at an intersection right now. I recommend following the MA standard, which is slowly pull out until you are blocking traffic from going on the left, and when the traffic on the right clears pull out. If traffic on the right doesn't clear follow the same rules for blocking traffic on the left.

ate shit

Maybe if I type the story here I won't have to tell it again.

There is a distinct possibility that I broke my tailbone :(

I fell down onto concrete last night. Right onto mytailbone. I was walking into the building, opened the door, Mabel wentrunning in, pulled me, I jumped into the building slipped b/c my flipflop was wet and it was concrete. Fell up and then down right onto mytailbone. I'm in a little bit of pain right now. Actually, I a lot. I'm debating going to the doctor. But of course I haven't gone today. I probably won't... unless Scott makes me.

soylent green is people

What I love about old movies is how they depict life in the future. I watched Soylent Green last night. I've gotta tell you, if 2022 is anything like it is in this movie we're in for a few changes. Apparently you'll be able to rent an apartment and have a girl in there waiting for you. She comes with the apartment. Everyone will be dressed as they were in the 1970's. The one thing that won't be different is we'll be using old TV sets, the picture won't be better at all - no where near the quality we have now.

In other news, I lost my debit card. Again. I do this like once a year. It must be somewhere in my apartment, but I can't find it. I last used it to order a gift for my dad for fathers' day. It's gone now. I have to order a new one. I suck.

autistic

Mabel has to be autistic. She's seriously an anomaly. She does all this stuff that I don't understand. She walks next to walls - this she has to do, she'll pull on her leash until you let her right up next to the wall.

Last night we had chinese food. I was cleaning it up (we had to eat on the couch and use the footstool as a table b/c of painting). I came back from putting the dishes in the washer, only to find that she had picked up the chinese food box with the rice in it, had the box on the couch with her nose in it. Personally I think this is amazing, since the dog I grew up with would've had it knocked all over the floor, but not my dog, she just picked it up and moved it so she could eat on the couch.

Radiated Food

Have you ever eaten anything in the microwave - unless you have a pacemaker I'm guessing you do frequently. Well here's the deal, I like my food cooked in an oven much better than I like it in the microwave. There's something very unnatural about the microwave...

So last night Scott picked up some frozen pizza (we can't cook b/c we're painting the apartment and furniture is everywhere!). I turned on the oven before he got home so we could throw them in and paint while they were cooking. He got home and handed me the pizza, and it says microwavable on the front cover, he said it would be quicker, and I told him I already heated the oven, so he checked the box for oven instructions only to find that there aren't any.

The box implicitly states that you are not to put this pizza or any of the paper apparatus with it in the oven. Now personally this freaks me out. What is wrong with this food that you can't put it in the oven. It doesn't say you shouldn't, it specifically says not to. Apparently this food needs microwaves to be edible. And the worst part is, I ate it - there was nothing else in the house. Let me just tell you, if something is only microwavable, and there is no other way to make it, it's probably not good. Case in point - Easy Mac.

Damn Ts'ai Lun... and other rants

Ts'ai Lun was the inventor of paper. I currently believe that paper is the most evil creation ever. Of course I had to copy a binder 6 times. Paper cuts, yeah I have those. There is something about paper, everyone needs to see something on paper, in writing, etc. I realize it serves a good purpose, but I think it's just getting taken overboard. And then I see the paper package that says that 30% of it is recycled. To me I think 30% is nothing, and then I start thinking about all the trees that are being killed just so we can have a notebook. My heart breaks for every tree being chopped down now.... I am the Native American in those old commericals about waste.

Rant #2 (which is completely random)
Why do girls wear halter tops, or tube tops and then wear regular bras? Do they not know how tacky that is? It's one thing if your bra shows, but wearing something without straps and then having your bra straps sticking out is awful. This among other things that girls do pisses me off - and yes I am a girl, but at least I'm not a whore. I also don't attempt to squeeze my ass into paints that are two sizes too small and then walk around with a too small top on.

Hicks

Ok, so I know I'm pretty much a hick, or at least I was for most of my life. I've also realized I'm not a city girl. I like having a back yard and being able to go outside. And I'm not talking a 15x15 block. Well, here's yet another story of my confusion b/c I'm a hick.

Last night I got home and used the bathroom, the toilet started making a lot of noise when I flushed it, so I took the cover off to look in the tank to make sure I wasn't going to have to shut the water off. It was fine, but I forgot to put the cover right back on b/c I had to go tend to my dog chasing my rabbits (sounds like a normal story till I mention that right?). Scott came home and asked what was wrong with the toilet, I told him, he flushed it, and the fresh water that came out was brown. Then we checked the faucet, also brown water.

Apparently this happened b/c the city shut down the water on our street b/c of some construction. However, I've never seen this happen, so I get concerned. Scott starts telling me this is totally normal, and then gets surprised b/c I've never seen it happen. And then I tell him I had a well growing up, if our water was brown there was something to be concerned about. I miss wells. I miss knowing my water is clean. I was afraid to shower this morning :(

old and ok

Why is there this crazy need to make everything new and improved? For example, I like Doritoes, but I had some of the improved ones, and you know what? I don't like them. They taste like cool ranch mixed with regular doritoes. Nothing wrong with cool ranch, but I'm not eating that am I? Some things are just better left alone.

Stop messing with things I like.

boredom

I'm serving almost no purpose at work. I heard once that the more you watch tv the more your brain essentially melts - does the internet count for that too???

sickly

I left work today at 11:30. The woman (Karen) who I'm going to be covering for, who is currently training me, is 8 1/2 mo preggers and didn't want me to be around when I'm sick. Normally I would argue, except I don't want to be responsible for getting her sick.

The only thing I can figure out that's wrong with me is b/c of my BC. I had to go off of it b/c of my insurance switch, now I'm waiting to start it up again, but it's been, hmmm 6 weeks with no period, and when I was on the pill I had break through bleeding. Hormones are stupid.

I might try an IUD, or the sponge, or the patch. But there isn't much out there that can really help me. And my doc makes me feel so much better by saying, well it could take up to a year for you to get back to a normal cycle.