Boo (aka Boo Nigel Flufferton III)

I brought Boo to the vet for his yearly visit. My vet is super British and has pictures on the walls of him in various halloween costumes with his dog. He always calls him the mystery cat because we really have no idea how old he is. He peed in the carrier on the way to the vet. Nothing like getting pee on your coat and shelling out $240.00. He always has to get blood drawn to check his thyroid and make sure his medicine doesn't need to be adjusted.

My mom called when I was trying to get him in the tub to clean him up. He was having none of that but knowing him he would go straight for my bed smelling like pee. I sure do a lot for this cat but I love my little hobo kitty. Even if he doesn't go after the mice.

Doing my civic duty

With November 4th not too far off the ads for Question 1, 2, and 3 are everywhere! I actually have an opinion about all of them and I’ll tell you right now how I’m voting.

First, here are the actual questions on the Massachusetts ballot for 2008:

1. State Personal Income Tax
2. Possession of Marijuana
3. Dog Racing

State Personal Income Tax:

This proposed law would reduce the state personal income tax rate to 2.65% for all categories of taxable income for the tax year beginning on or after January 1, 2009, and would eliminate the tax for all tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2010.

Reducing and then eliminating the state income tax makes no sense to me. Our public services would suffer drastically. Police, fire, schools, roadway maintenance would all suffer as they rely on this money. The state of Massachusetts would lose more than 12 billion dollars. I’d like to know how you can make up for a 12 billion dollar deficit.

Possession of Marijuana:

This proposed law would replace the criminal penalties for possession of one ounce or less of marijuana with a new system of civil penalties, to be enforced by issuing citations, and would exclude information regarding this civil offense from the state's criminal record information system. Offenders age 18 or older would be subject to forfeiture of the marijuana plus a civil penalty of $100. Offenders under the age of 18 would be subject to the same forfeiture and, if they complete a drug awareness program within one year of the offense, the same $100 penalty.

My basic thinking regarding this is I’d rather have room in jails for people who really need to be there. I also don’t see how you can view smoking pot any worse than drinking. So I say if you have one legal they should both be legal or both be illegal (I like my beer and don’t like cough syrup so please let’s not do that). This proposed law is not making pot legal it is decriminalizing it if it’s under a certain amount. If you’re under 18 they fine you and send you to a program about the dangers of substance abuse and make you do community service. I don’t think this proposed law will turn everyone into Cheech and Chong.

Dog Racing:

This proposed law would prohibit any dog racing or racing meeting in Massachusetts where any form of betting or wagering on the speed or ability of dogs occurs.

I just don’t believe in racing animals period. It seems the opponents to Question 3’s main argument is that people will lose jobs. Everyday I read the metro and there’s an ad with sad people saying “don’t take our jobs”. Can we put that next to a picture of a sad dog saying “don’t take my life or injure me for money!”

So there are my thoughts. You probably don’t care if you’re not voting in Massachusetts but I actually do care about these issues and well what better place to pimp out your opinion than on the interenets.

Mouse hunt 2008

If you want to know what my life has been like for the past few months please rent Mouse Hunt. My roommate and I have been in an all out war. Holes were plugged up, stoves were pulled out, traps were laid down and I thought we had won. But oh no, these mice are sneaky bastards and moved their hideout from behind the stove to the back of our couch. While checking the hole in my couch for furry friends I came to the conclusion that this was beyond anything we could do. We needed a professional.

I wasn't quite sure what the exterminator would do. Does he lay down traps? Does he lure them out with a flute and skip down the street with a trail of mice behind him? I had no clue.

Our exterminator discovered the source of entry into our house. He also discovered that our counters are not attached to anything and can be pulled out. This house continues to get more ghetto everyday. Behind the counter is a secret pipe that leads to nowhere. Really this does not surprise me. You win house.

So with the pipe plugged up and our ugly pink counters back in place I think we may have won this battle finally. But if the mice do come back can they at least take pity on me and work in my factory making delicious cheese?

Slow work day = random blogger post

It's a very slow work day and the sky is looking pretty doomsday like. I need to be busy or I get extremely bored. This is why I could not be unemployed or have a job where I sat there and did nothing all day everyday. I do go through really busy spurts where I’m working late and forget to eat until way past lunch but this week is not one of those weeks.

What did people with desk jobs do before the internet? I think this might explain why people use to smoke in offices. I would too if was bored and had no internet plus I would probably want to die an early death hence the smoking. Luckily I live in 2008 and can go on blogs, stupid gossip sites and Wikipedia all day.

I also need to stop checking my e-mail obsessively to see if a certain guy has sent me a message. Self control, I need to have it. I’m waiting not so patiently and it’s driving me insane! If I was busy with work I wouldn’t be thinking about it so much.

In happier news, Melissa has decided to stay in Boston and not move back to Florida. If I could do a flip I totally would. I won’t lie, when she told me she was moving back home to Florida I cried. I cried a lot. She is my best friend and although we’ve only known each other for two years it feels like she’s been around forever and quite frankly I would be very bored and lonely if she left. I have other friends and I would manage but it was sad thinking she wouldn’t be around. Apparently she has decided the same. She called me on the phone last night and told me she would miss Boston, miss her friends here, and got upset thinking about all of us going on with out her. I think the jist of her words were:

“I mean I LOVE you and I LOVE my street and I LOVE this city and I LOVE Jesse and Darryl and I can’t live away from all of you and I don’t want you going to a coat check and then posting on facebook how awesome that coat check was!”

Really, we don’t have that much fun in the coat check line.

Bad movie marathon

I've watched all 3 Final Destination movies this weekend. I'm not quite sure how this happened?

There are a few things that happen in every movie.

1. There is always one person who doesn't believe that death is after them. They start yelling at death and being all "come and get me death! I control my own destiny!" Yea I wouldn't piss off death my friend.

2. The character who has the vision always teams up with a member of the opposite sex to help them figure out what's going on. They don't really know the other person very well having death stalk them brings them closer together. How romantic.

3. Old people don't have visions of death. You have to be around high school age.

4. Don't go near cars because they always seem to kill someone.

Finally, a good date!

Shockingly I actually had a really good date last night! I'm posting about it for proof that I am not the pickiest girl on the planet and I can meet someone I actually like. It's also nice going on a date with someone who actually has a job and doesn't think he's Bob Dylan.

We had dinner and drinks and then met up with Sarah and Kevin and a few other people for karaoke at Do Re Mi. When we got there we didn't know where they were and an employee saw us looking through the windows on the doors and said "are you guys looking for a group of white people? They're in room 7." Maybe I'm hanging out with one of the asian groups? How does he know? I mean he was right about the room but still.

We had some pretty amazing song choices. I sang Wannabe with Sarah, we had some Bon Jovi, Journey, Johnny Cash, old school rap, songs from musicals for no good reason.

So I guess we'll see what happens. I'm hoping for a date #2

Long weekend recovery time

I've come to the conclusion that I have to work. If I didn't work I would sleep all day. I had Monday off due to the holiday and the long weekend completely messed up my sleep schedule. I stayed up too late, slept in AND took naps. I watched some bad daytime tv. Did you know that Steve the bodyguard from Jerry Springer has his own talk show?! How did that happen. It's Springer version 2.0.

The only thing that makes me feel better about my lazy times this weekend is that I did get out and run which is healthy and I hope balanced out the beer consumption.

I finally got to play Rock Band II. Sarah let me create my own character, Bitch McKnives. Everyone decided I have the best character name. You wouldn't want to mess with anyone names Bitch McKnives. Sarah and Paul went all out with the decorations and I think Paul had a fabulous birthday full of beer, Rock Band, and ice cream cake.

I was so busy chatting and playing that I forgot to take pictures! I need to start taking more pictures again. I use to take pictures every where I went. I think I'm bored with my camera and want a new one.