Stuff

A lot has happened since my last post. Turned 40, started my summer semester of school. Nothing exciting. Does anyone wonder why or how our society evolved into one where no one wants to get involved? Or people just don’t care about what is happening around them? The reason I ask this is because I live in a condo building with 92 units and it’s a bloody mess. Everything from our maintenance person won’t clean (even though it’s his job), to people that live here and their guests vandalizing the building, and major issues with plumbing. When our building has its annual election for board members, no one runs so the same lousy board that won’t do anything to fix things gets put in place again. Some would say to me why don’t you be a board member? I did that for 2 years and actively tried to make things better, but was shot down over and over again by the same lousy board members. This isn’t the only example I see almost daily where people don’t care or don’t want to get involved.

It happens when you go to the mall and the salespeople in the stores see you but won’t offer to help. They’re too busy with the conversation that all of them are having with each other. Management wonders why sales are down.  

What happened at the grocery store?

Until tonight, I have not been to the local grocery store in several months. I shop at Costco because of how cheap everything is. Well, I went to Jewel and wanted to buy Chris some ice cream. They were doing their normal buy one get one deal, but I only wanted one. So I was going to buy one half gallon of Edys since they were half price instead. I picked up the container of peanut butter cup and noticed it looked different. It was smaller!! The people at Edys not only raised the price of their ice cream, but they also made the quantity smaller for some flavors!! What a rip off!! I put it back and didn’t buy any. 

I did notice that Jewel is now selling real Italian gelato. Expensive but looked really good. 

What is it with drivers in the Chicago area?

I really need someone to explain to me why people driving in Chicago and the suburbs (mainly the suburbs) do the following:

1. When approaching an intersection that the light is green for them they hit their breaks
2. When they see a car stopped in the lane next to them they hit their breaks or stop

Idiot drivers are one of my biggest pet peeves and these are the behaviors I see the most while driving around. I don’t get it!? 

Something else I don’t understand is people that go to a mall and circle the parking lot until they find the closest possible space. Then they walk around the mall for HOURS. What was the point of looking for a close spot? To save steps for walking the mall? I was at Old Orchard on Tuesday afternoon for an Apple training session. When I came out, another driver followed me to my car and waited until I pulled out of my space. A car two spots away from me (further from the shops) pulled out first. The car waiting for me saw them pull out and STILL waited another minute for me to pull out, then took my spot. I don’t get it!!!

One Semester Done

Finished both of my final papers. The one for my cataloging class I thought I wouldn’t do too well. The graded copy came in the mail on Friday and I got a perfect score!!! Was I shocked!! 

I started on my first project during my 2 week break: stripping wallpaper and painting my second bedroom. Took 3 hours to strip a boarder. What a pain!! I pledge to never put up wallpaper again. 

I went with my friend Sonjia tonight to the Jenn Lancaster book talk and signing at the Barnes and Noble at Webster place. There were a whole lot of people there. Jenn said she was shocked at how many people were there. I’m gonna guess at least 100 women. All the copies of her new book Such a Pretty Fat were gone before she even came out, and most of the copies of her two previous books were too. In case you haven’t heard of Jenn, her blog is www.jennsylvania.com. She’s really funny. Sonjia had never heard of her, and while she was talking Sonjia said her life seemed a lot like mine. 

There is one thing I would like to know. Why are so many stupid people driving cars in Chicago? They see nothing wrong with stopping in the middle of the street on Fullerton. On the way to B&N there was a semi stopped in the left lane. On the way back to the highway there was a pickup stopped in the right lane. Why do people think it’s ok to stop traffic? 

Almost Done!

It’s Saturday night, 1:30AM (I guess it’s now Sunday morning), and it looks like I’m finally done with my final paper for LIS701. I started working on it around 12:30 PM at the Skokie Public Library. I stayed there until 3PM when I realized I was really hungry. I went to Corner Bakery for lunch and to continue working since they advertised they have free WiFi. I wasn’t able to use it. My Internet account couldn’t connect. No idea why. I did get some reading done. 

Came home around 4:30 and continued working. Had a discussion with my crazy upstairs neighbor when she started banging on the ceiling again. Anyone who’s heard my stories about her knows what I mean when I say she refused to admit she did it, and then spent an hour telling me what lousy neighbors we are. I really wish the housing market would come back so we could move!! 

Anyway, one last assignment to go for LIS703 and studying for the final. 

Homework – UGH!

I spent 4 hours at the library this afternoon doing homework. I still didn’t finish it! I have to go to the Dominican library to finish it since they are the only library with the complete set of books I need. Looks like I’ll be there all day tomorrow. After this week only one more week of classes, then a 2 week break (YEAH!) and the start of the summer semester. I’m looking forward to having all of my required classes completed by the end of the summer. Then the fun begins!