the internet is so good to us sometimes. see: nic cage as everyone

for example:


nic cage as han solo



nic cage as dexter

thank you, internet.

haha oh shit this is the absolute best use of this joke i've seen:

when the "feels like" temp is in the single digits at noon, it might be time to finally consider buying a winter jacket. so i did. this one:



now, let's hope it gets here before i freeze to death. sweatshirts and hoodies just aren't cutting it in this sort of bitter cold, especially in the pre-dawn hours. the weather people are saying that we're going to probably have snow on thursday, a few inches, and then snow or rain on friday. good times. didn't atlanta get the memo that this is the south? not only the south, but the deep south? what's this below freezing temperatures for days crap?

i'm not really complaining. i mean, i guess i am, but my heart's not in it. there are worse things that cold weather, hot weather being one of them. cold weather i can joke about, hot weather i want to kill people.

we're going to hire a third baker at work, part time. now the problem is FINDING one. basically someone in the same position as myself or heather, someone competent and yet in a position where they HAVE to take a job that pays them way less than they need to make. i can't imagine what kind of applicants we're going to get when it's only 8.50 an hour. when you're only working 3 or 4 hours a day, it hardly seems worth it to get out of bed. oh well, such is the life of an uneducated person in a recession, eh? things could be worse. all the bills get paid, we have food on the table, we're relatively happy. i refuse to let 2010 get me down already, damnit. 2009 sucked great big donkey dick for me, for the most part, i'm glad to be on to a clean slate.

i've fallen into that cycle of, the more weight i gain, the more depressed it makes me and therefore the more comfort foods, like cookies, or cheese, i want to shovel in my face. pants aren't fitting so fabulously. this has happened before, but i didn't feel like i had so little willpower to fight it. UGH. stupid winter. it's hard to convince yourself to not eat heavy fattening foods when you get to work before dawn and are greeted with this across the parking lot:

i have almost a full inch of thyme growth. insanity. there are at least 4 basil seedlings starting to come up. it's ridiculous how fascinated i am with this thing.

we're not doing a damned thing tonight. probably play a lot of left 4 dead 2, maybe watch some of the second season of the tudors. hopefully i can stay up late enough that i won't wake up at 4 or 5 am. i have to go back to work saturday, so it's not like i can let my sleep schedule get too tweaked, but it would be nice to wake up at least as the sun is coming up, and not hours beforehand.

tomorrow... i have no idea what tomorrow holds, the first day of the new year. it's so odd to have so few plans. the only thing i know is that i have to be somewhere saturday at 7am, other than that, no clue what i'll be doing. probably a lot of web surfing and time wasting. it's cold and dreary and wet and holy cow foggy here. like, can't see more than a tenth of a mile foggy, since before i left for work this morning. at least there was no sleet on my way in, that was reserved for yesterday day. it seems like it's been a lot colder and wetter than years past. this makes me wonder how january and february are going to be. if we keep up at this accelerated rate, we'll end up with an ice storm or a decent amount of snow at least once this season. now that i have to drive 15 miles to get to work i'm not so keen on dealing with that.

if i took a nap now, do you think i'd wake up again today, or do you think i'd just sleep for 12 hours and still wake up at 5am? 5am is not a super-fun time to be the only one awake in the house.

i have the intense desire to eat something savory and delicious and heavy. this normally wouldn't be a problem but i've been eating like a pig for a couple of weeks now and things aren't looking so fabulous. i'm afraid to try on the jeans i bought not that long ago, just based on the recent weight gain. i gave up pretty much every eating habit i have, other than not eating meat. there were sodas and fried foods and fast food and hfcs and cookies and cupcakes and donuts oh god the donuts... so yeah. i put on some holiday weight, on this, the first year i pretty much didn't celebrate the holidays. how annoying. at least i didn't have to be in some fancy dress and be all bloated with too-much-fake-sugar out in public. i've been able to wear my increasingly tightening sweat pants on a daily basis so as to allow me to live in denial about this issue for probably an extra week. but yeah, when the waist band of the comfy pants starts to get tight... *sigh* no more fun foods for me for a while. or should i be cliche and make it a new years resolution, allowing me to still eat more crap tonight? decisions, decisions...

i was done with work today at 10am. it's almost like i didn't even go in. very weird. tomorrow should hopefully be a repeat. in at 7, but why not, we're both (me and the other heather) up that early anyway, so might as well get done sooner. like 10am. that's a little absurd. we were gone before the front of house people even got there. god i hope we pull this off again tomorrow. i also hope that i no longer have this migraine (that woke me up around 4am today) by then. that would be super.

i bought myself an aerogarden (i wanted to be sure i got some stuff i liked this xmas, i know, it's awful, but whatever, I LOVE MY AEROGARDEN), and got it all set up and turned on the lights yesterday. i have significant growth on two of the three pods. i feel like i can literally watch it grow, which is so cool to me. i have it on my desk here near my computer, so i get to check it out all the time, and seriously, you can see that the thyme has grown since the last time you looked. so excited to have fresh basil during the winter, it's been the saddest part about winter, all of my herbs are dead. well, most of them. some will come back next year, like the chives, some have to be repurchased, like the dozen or so basil plants. but yay in the meantime i'll at least have one kind of basil. if i had read the offer a little bit better the night i ordered them, i would have seen that because the one i got steve's mom was a special deal, i only got 20 dollars off of mine, meaning that if i had grabbed another 2 or 3 to give out as gifts, they would have only been 20 bucks each. damn. i totally would have grabbed another one for myself, and one or two as gifts for the people i know that also crave cooking with fresh herbs year-round and would appreciate having them on hand.

anyway. i'm very happy with my purchase thus far. my job, now that it has slowed down and we each had a bunch of days off, no longer makes me want to kill people. it was actually fun today, even with a migraine. i went in for a few hours yesterday to prep for today, and i was completely alone, and that was so nice. not that i don't like working with the rest of the staff, because i do, but there was something so relaxing about having the entire kitchen to myself. i worked faster than normal because i was able to leave my area in a state of disarray while i was doing stuff in other areas. the best part is that i was mostly being completely clean, no sugar anywhere but in the bowls and on the counter, and i went to make the last thing of the day, hit the wrong speed on the mixer, and about a half a cup of powdered sugar went straight up out of the bowl, and then all down the front of me and around my feet. super awesome. heh. it happens. it was more amazing that i hadn't gotten any on the floor prior to that.

sorry. this is all terribly boring because i lead a terribly boring suburban life. i slept through half of christmas after gorging on cheese and bread and while watching lord of the rings. a far cry from the days of fetish parties. i don't think i'd even know how to blend in at the parties any more. i can't even blend in at a house party/social gathering any more. i don't know when i became this awkward, i was the world's biggest social butterfly for a long time in my life, way back in high school and for years afterward. all i know is, the awkwardness has made my life so boring i could scream. my life is currently good, yes, but now i have to work on making it better. that's all life is, isn't it? just moving from one goal to the next? like a giant to-do list, or maybe a flowchart. *this* leads to *this* which leads to *this*. unless the outcome was *that*, then you go over *there*.

holy crap you guys, more thyme came up.