Vortexia's Secret

so earlier today my internet wasn't working. then at one point it would work long enough to bring up one webpage and then crap out. but as you can see if fixed it. so yay! i am internet dependent.

i got my list of stuff to do, with just two exceptions. one involves a trip to the mall, so i'm hoping i can convince mayhem to come with me tomorrow. walmart and the mall are two places where i find it hard to shop and still keep my sanity. the other involves a hardware store, and i would have gone today but i decided that my hella round about route was enough without adding in another backtrack to that store. so tomorrow's another day to finish off those chores.

although i woke up tired this morning because mayhem and i talked all night, i recovered really well. once i got up and started moving, i was back to my bouncing let's get going self. realizing that i got both things just put a smile on my face. i got some great quality time with mayhem last night, but i also am having a good day today. so yay!

ok, so anyway....

i start heading out for the bookstore, and before i even get down the street, a warning light starts flashing and beeping. i thought i recognized it being something with engine temperature, but i wasn't exactly sure what it was, especially since my car couldn't be overheating since i juuuuust started it. so i pulled onto a side street, put on my hazards, and checked the book. engine coolant is low. called mayhem and asked if it was at least safe to drive it to the auto store, and where the nearest one was... the last time we found it was at about midnight, and it was closed so it didn't make an impression on me. anyway, i drove in the general direction and spotted the store. got the coolant and asked the guy to fill it for me. i was planning on doing that no matter what, but it was just a nice bonus that the guy was cute.

i popped the hood and he opened the tank for the coolant. as he was opening the tank, he commented that one of his friends did that while the engine was still hot and got burned over 80% of his body. so being logical, i asked him why he was doing it if he knew it could burn him like that. he said, "well it's ok because i know this one is empty." ok, alright... but what if i were stupid and thought that the coolant was low when it was acually full and had driven over an hour before getting to the store? bam, you're beef jerky. so he has the looks, but not the brains.

as i was finally heading over to the bookstore (after getting lost), i found an auto store RIGHT by the bookstore. damnit! it wasn't too bad getting books this semester. and thank goodness for that! i also bought a book for personal reading because it sounded interesting and was pretty cheap used. so i figured why not? now this is something you may not know about me, but i am a burt's bees addict. if you have a stash, send it my way. but anyway, i left the textbook section and was met head on with a burts bees stand. thought i was in heaven! i had been needing to get more of the lipbalm, but didn't want to charge $2.50 at a store to get it (it would be the only thing i needed at a specialty store). they didn't have the regular lipbalm, but i decided to get the weather version and some of the sheer colored lip balm. sadly, i was disappointed with both purchases. the weather one was whitish because it has the titanium-dioxide (or whatever that is) stuff in it, and the colored one looked BRIGHT pink on my lips. sadly, i'm pretty sure that i can't return two used tubes of lipbalm to the store, so i guess i just donated $6 to the burts bees and bookstore's profits. damn.

at the grocery store, i was surprised by what you could find. you can get a showerhead for $4, a replacement for that little toilet paper springy tube thing, and draino... but not the enzymatic type, so that's why i have to visit a hardware store now.

do any of you remember in middle school/junior high when all the girls started shaving? but they would only shave up to the mid-thigh for some reason. then all of a sudden they realized that it wasn't logical once they reached high school, so they started shaving their whole leg. i never understood that, so i think i pretty much always shaved my entire leg.

i feel like a dancer (ballet-ish) today. i feel beautiful, strong, athletic, and graceful. i considered doing a little move in the store today, but decided that it might be a bad idea.

on the other end of a dancer spectrum... if i ever decided to become a stripper, i found the place where i'd probably work. while i was driving through a bad part of town lost, i came across a bar called "why not?". i figure i would be at rock bottom to decide to become a stripper despite having an advanced degree anyway, so i think the name would be fitting. as in... "what the hell, i have nothing else to lose, so why not become a stripper."

random thought of the moment: i wonder if there is a porno out yet named after krispy kremes. i'm sure they could do some pretty dirty things with a name like krispy kreme.