Happy Thanksgiving.

I know that its a bit past Thanksgiving, but I've been kind of busy. Though I thought it time to give you a little recap of my Thanksgiving day.
To start with I worked really late on Wednesday, so I didn't get home until after midnight. There was no way I was going to make it all the way downtown by 10:40 to make the earlier train, so I set out to make the 12:40 train. I was super tried so I didn't really get out of bed at anytime that could be considered early. I did however have more than enough time get downtown to the train. Then it all went downhill from there. First I had to find a bunch of paper work for my brothers truck, which was surely somewhere where it would be easy to find, if only I could remember where that place was. After finally finding it, I set off to starbucks. I didn't have time to make the coffee me myself, so I needed to dip into starbucks. Plus it was hella cold and snowy, so there was no way I was going without some coffee.
I decided upon walking to starbucks that it was too cold so I would just take a cab to the train station. When I went to pay for my drink, I realized that I in fact didn't have my debit card. This is really a big enough deal on its own, but on top of the fact that I never have any cash, and needed to have cash to get on the train, I was kind of freaking out.
I thought to myself maybe I can get cash from the ATM with my visa, then quickly realized that I in fact couldn't because if I have a pin number for it I certainly don't have a clue what it is. Which is probably a good thing. After freaking out a bit I call my friend B who I lives downtown and told her I needed to borrow ten bucks. Of course her being my friend was down with that. So I took a cab to her apartment and got ten dollars, which of course she decided would be twenty.
Then I had about 15 min to get to the train from b's apartment, which was about a two mile walk. SO I pretty much ran all the way there. Looking at my watch about every 3o seconds. Then when I finally made it I couldn't figure out which train it was because none of them said anything. Which is always lovely. I kept walking and realized it was on track number one, so I ran over there. The doors where closed and there was a man knocking on the door. We still had one min. one min I tell you, but the train pulled away right in front of our face. Which sucked not just because it happened but because there wasn't another train for two more hours. I didn't even have that much time to be at my mom's house either because I had to work at 4:30 on Friday.
My dad then had to come pick me up at the end of the blue line. I did go as far west as possible, but still felt bad because he had to drive all the way out to pick me up. Oh well the rest of the day was much better.

MISSING: dust pan, Blue

My dust pan has seem to have gone missing. I know I didn't really want to sweep the floor when I knew where my dust pan was, but thats just not the point. I feel like now that I can't find it, I really need to sweep my floor. I know I had it a few weeks ago when I was trying to finish the window thing. But I can't for the life of me figure out where its run off too.
Please return my dust pan to, its rightful owner. I really do miss it. If you have run away I'm sorry that I've taken you for granted. I didn't mean to. In case anyone has seen it, its blue and looks well rather like a dust pan. I'm full of grief over my loss, so please please if you see it anywhere return it to me.

Bar Tab

I went out on Friday night with some people I work(ed) with. I decided to go downtown so that travel would be more even, so I text B for some inexpensive bar downtown. She gave me a list of them so I picked the dive bar. It was a really good time, but for some reason beer wasn't good enough for me, so I switched to Vodka Cranberry. This is never a good plan. I just end up drinking it far to fast, which is about what happened. Another joined us after we'd been there for awhile, so of course the Vodka thought that he needed to do a shot, and of course if he needed to do a shot then we all needed to do a shot. Too bad Vodka girl did not need a shot at all. There were only four of us, and I know I only bought four shots, plus whatever I was drinking. Whatever I was drinking was apparently a lot since my personal tab was 87 dollars. I just about had a heart attack. I guess I won't be going out anytime soon. I was pretty wasted. I think I'm still a little hungover. Well not really I'm just tired. There was puking of course, but at least I was outside before I puked. I'm really rather amused by the whole thing. I have it pretty together at work, so for me to be completely wasted like that (with them, not people who normally hang out with me) it must have been pretty funny. Oh well I till the next 87 dollar bar tab.

Going crazy

I'm sure many of you are reading this thinking well it couldn't have been a very long trip. This is seriously annoying though, and I'm sure very few people will understand, but such is life. Those of you who know me understand that I have some wicked eczema issues during the winter, or when it gets cold since I guess its not really winter yet (even though we are now playing Christmas music at work I'm sure that will be going crazy part two). Anyways I have eczema on my upper lip and in between my upper lip and my nose (whatever the hell that is called). The eczema on my arms doesn't really bother me. When it gets to my legs I only have problems when I don't take care of it. On my lip its the most annoying thing in the world. Not only does it hurt, and it feels all crazy too. It takes for ever for it to go away, and currently it just getting worse instead of going away. It doesn't look bad yet. Its wicked annoying.
On the plus side I did get my boots today. Now I have to decided if I'm going to keep them or not.

I want my boots.

Ok I ordered these boots online last week Thursday, and last time I ordered boots from the same place they arrived like the next day. I want my boots and they haven't even shipped them yet. I need new shoes as you can only wear the same ones for so long before they fall apart. Well if you me and your on your damn feet all day. I just want my boots, so I can decide if I want to keep them or not. I'm not even sure I like them yet. I just need new boots. Ok that was a lot of whining in a very short space.

Morons

It is not very often that you will find me writing about anything political, not because I don't care, I do, but I generally try to avoid the fighting that it will cause. But Seriously I think the politicians that attempt to run the state of IL are the biggest morons in the world.
They don't even make any sense. Ok the question at hand is the CTA. Not that this is actually the only problem they have because they seem to have many, but this is the one that directly affects me, and seems to be the most absurd. They have been working on fixing mass transit for a year, but still say they need more time. Of course this shouldn't be a big surprise because they have been in overtime session for six months. I really don't understand how this is even close to remotely acceptable. I don't know anyone else who would still have a job right now, if after six months they still couldn't get their shit together. Well I guess I work with some, but I'm sure even they are not this stupid.
I understand that a lot of people don't really care, because they don't need public transportation to get to work. It would be nice if that were me but its not. Trust me I'm annoyed that it takes me 45 min now to go the 6 miles I live away from work. I can't even imagine what its going to be like on Monday with all the service cuts, much less in Jan when they cut the service to the bus I take to work all the time. I however DO have other options, but what people all over the state, and clearly downstate don't understand, is there are many people who with the cuts won't have other options. They won't have a way to get to work, or to school. Maybe they should just save the salaries of legislators for the state of IL and give those to mass transit. I'm super irritated and might have to go on for days with this one.