When I’m not at work it’s really hard for me to make time to sit down and journal. Not that I don’t spend any time at my computer, it’s just hard to make myself write.

Friday night I went to the gym, and it was empty. I love when it’s empty because I don’t have to wait for machines and I don’t have to see gross nasty sweaty people dripping on the same machine I’m about to use. Euuwww… Just that thought alone makes me never want to work out.

After the gym I didn’t do much of anything. I thought about making some calls and doing something fun, but then decided that I have been so tired and exhausted lately that I should stay home and watch TV, and do laundry.

Saturday I went to get my haircut and then spent some time hanging out with Xoch. We went to the mall and I bought a new outfit to wear out that night. I was wanting something different, something outside my normal look. I took me a while to find what I wanted. I had something in mind, because I wanted something specific and I wouldn’t know what it was until I saw it.I put it all together and I thought it looked pretty cute but I don’t think it was the right look for Rainbow.

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I went to dinner with M.Lo at Baby Acapulco’s and we had Deborah (who is friends with Norbert) as our waitress. Things were all weird in there and I couldn’t concentrate on M.Lo’s conversation because the wait staff was stressing me out. Some waited actually temporarily set a basket of used chips on our table while he served the table next to us some food. We got greeted and the whole, “Hi my name is _________ and I’ll be your server tonight” from two different people. The second one came about 10 minutes after Deborah had taken our order.

He came back later and apologized and was trying to joke around with us, and I was kind of rude funny to him. I said, “Oh don’t worry we got a good laugh out of it… even long after you left we were still laughing.” I was already annoyed by the bad service and the basket of used chips on my table. As Michelle said, “We’re at Baby A’s, it’s not like we went some place nice.”

I went home and bummed around for a while, then went to Rainbow and it was kind of off and odd. There were too many out of town weirdos there. I guess some of them were in town for Austin City Limits and some of them because they were evacuated because of hurricane Rita. I danced a lot and had an ok time, but something wasn’t right and I wasn’t feeling it. Mark and I ditched a little after midnight and went headed over to Oil Cans and Rain but the lines were stupid long, so we left and went to Fabric.

Not five minutes after walking out of Rainbow did we get stopped and asked questions by three different people:
1) Do you know where I can buy some cocaine?
2) Where is Foundation?
3) Do you know how to get to Fabric?

Stupid out of towners! Go home! Are people really still doing cocaine? Will it ever get old?

Fabric was playing some gold oldies music, but the crowd is just not my kind of people. Actually last night no crowd seemed interesting to me. The best thing about last night was that two people noticed that I have been working out. said I looked fabulous and that he could tell I had been working out. Mark noticed when he put his arm around me to dance and said that he could tell as well. Both were completely unsolicited! Yays!

Mark and I talked about how exhausted I have been lately and he suggested trying some protein drinks for after workouts. So today I bought some Ensure. Next up for this old man, Depends and dentures. Am I really getting this old?

No, but seriously, I bought some Ensure High Protein shakes in Wild Berry flavor. I pray they don’t taste like chalk. I hope they help, because I’m so over being this worn out.

My friend Lynn came over today and hung out. I made lunch and we watched a movie and caught up on stuff. I scanned a bunch of her photographs for her and they are awesome. She studied photography at some school in Italy. I wish I had her eye for photography.

Oh my GOD, so yesterday I was coming home from shopping and I came up the stairs at the other end of my building (because I didn’t want to walk across the hot parking lot to my end of the building) and when I got to the hallway I saw something (a small animal) running down the hallway. I couldn’t tell what it was, but it was tiny and it looked like it was hopping. I thought it might be a baby bunny or a tiny cat.

I chased after it, but I couldn’t find it. Later when I went out to Target I saw it again and I chased it and found it. It was a small mouse.

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I took that picture of it and I thought about catching it and taking it downstairs to let it go in the field, but it ran at me and it freaked me out. I didn’t really have anything to catch it with, and while it looked like it might be domesticated, I wasn’t entirely sure it was a disease ridden rodent. Getting rat rabies didn’t seem like a fun way to spend an evening. Hell, I don’t even know the difference between a mouse and a rat, it could have been a rat.

I tried to chase it down the stairs, but I think the stairs were too steep, so it wouldn’t go down them. So I just left him there and hoped he would be ok.

Anyway… when I left to go to the club I looked for it again, hiding behind a storm door where I last saw him. He was still there, but he was squashed (not by the door) and blood was everywhere. I think someone beat it to death with a broom or something.

I was traumatized and sick. Poor little mouse. So sad… I couldn’t think of anything else the entire drive downtown and my stomach was all upset and I felt bad for not catching him and setting him loose earlier.

What kind of ass would do that to an animal? I hate my neighbors. The only thing I will kill is spiders and even then I feel bad about it. If I can catch them and throw them outside I will. I wonder if it’s still there? I need to call the office tomorrow and make sure someone cleans it up. It’s just gross.

Ok, so now that I’m all sad and grossed out again, I’m going to go get ready to watch the premier of Desperate Housewives.

Feeling: sad
Hearing: George Strait - I’ve Come To Expect It From You

Posted by Tomithey on Sunday, September 25th, 2005 at 5:37 pm.