the amazing adventures of jen14221

candy haul

Will has discovered that he actually likes Trick or Treating.  People give him candy.  For free.

ummm, bacon

So last night I did not go out.  I worked late, then did my weekly $25 mani/pedi routine, ate dinner, and then went to the gym.  FOR AN HOUR.

Working out while you're watching the Biggest Loser is actually kind of awesome.

Of course, this morning I got a bagel (grilled with grease or butter or something) with bacon an cheese from the food truck outside 3550 Market Street.  That must have been equal to at least an hour of walking on the treadmill at 15% incline at a speed of 2.7 mph.

But it was good.

I am flying home on the 3:40 to Buffalo; I hope to be home by 6pm and I am so making Will go trick or treating this year.  The last two years he chickened out.

philadelphia is ugly, and i fit right in

So, did you hear the news?  Philadelphia is full of mean, un-stylish, un-attractive people. 

Which makes it such a perfect place for me to be today.

As an aside, I made it to the airport in record time this morning, leaving just a few minutes earlier than usual.  As I sped down Transit Road, I paused only slightly near the corner of Main Street where the car dealership there had a flashing neon sign encouraging me to "BE HAPPY".  Um, Dave Smith?  Screw you.

pooping on the potty.....

...is not happening.

Poor Will.  He now will ask to pee on the potty; he hasn't wet his pants in several days, but the poop only happens in the Pull Up.  Fuck me.

I am very melancholy, nothing to do with the potty training.  Just my foot fricking kills me, I so do not want to get on a plane in the morning, I am depressed, tired, etc.  I went to a halloween party last night, had a few laughs, but drank entirely too much which left me logy and feeling like crap this morning.  It's totally weather-related, I forget what they call it, but I am feeling like saying fuck it to everything.

Boo.

#1 zac efron fan

We're going to a Halloween party tonight.  Peter shot down my awesome costume idea, so here's what I came up with after an afternoon trip to Wal-Mart:

friday kid photo

The last few days have been tiring; getting used to a new job, flying US Air, and feeling sort of run-down.  How boring for you.

This is from a few weeks ago, when it was still warm. 

fondue and very expensive cheap red wine

Yo, LMNOP company is growing on me.  Sloooooowly.  I have to be here four days a week, not three like at ABCD company, but that may change in the future.  I kind of miss my special Thursday-work-from-home table at Panera Bread in East Amherst. 

WHITE LINES, VISION DREAMS OF PASSION

Nice laptop screen, don't you think?  It comes from being lazy and carrying it around the house by it's screen, which I recommend YOU DO NOT DO.  Yes, I know I am a total bonehead.  All of a sudden, we have gone from having four reasonably operable PCs in the Wutz-Lopes household, to one.  And it's Peter's slow-ass laptop.  The others?  Well, one belonged to ABCD company and I had to return it when I left, one is infected by some bad-ass virus, and one has white lines running through it.  I need to get myself to Best Buy pronto and get a new one, but I am holding out for a bit since we just had the electronic anniversary and the credit card bill this month is a large one.

AND WHAT ABOUT THE FONDUE AND WINE?

I met a co-worker last night, promised myself that I would eat and drink very lightly, and go to the gym afterwards.  Yeah, right.  We split the fondue-for-two, some creamy/dreamy cheese and french bread chuncks skewered on wooden skewers with salami or some other kind of processed meat product.  No matter, it was delicioso.  I also had two glasses of Smoking Loon merlot, which you can totally get on special at the wine shop for 7 bucks a bottle in Buffalo.  Apparently, when you are drinking with Georges Perrier, you pay $13/glass for the exact same wine.  Whine.  Anyway, add all that wine and cheese and bread and meat product together, throw in a throbbing left foot and a lazy cow named Jen14221, and I did not work out.  However, once again I did watch the Biggest Loser and score 1/2 a point for that.

your "using" to many apostrophe's and you're grammer literally sux

Can you tell what's wrong with this post title?

Read all about it in the November 2007 issue of Buffalo Spree.

Bitches.

cheater!

It seems that my boyfriend Vincent D'Onofrio is HAVING A BABY WITH ANOTHER WOMAN.

Bastard.

cultured

When I was working with ABCD company, I went out and ate and drank at night.  A LOT.  I have a friend from college who lives here in the city, and she made the transition to being ina new city so much easier, and we went out one night just about every week.  Then, I started to become friendly with all the other consultants on the project and they were all boozebags so on the other nights, I would hang out with them.  Add this up with the Embassy Suites manager's reception from 5:30 to 7:30 nightly, with free cocktails and snacky things, and you can probably figure out why my last assignment was so much fun, but not so nice for my brain cells and the size of my ass.

THINGS ARE DIFFERENT NOW

At LMNOP company, there are few fewer consultants (and they are nice but we are all working on different things which makes the sense of comradarie different) and I am sure that things will pick up, maybe a drink or a quick bite to eat after work or something in later days, but I'm feeling that this six months is my opportunity to really hit the gym, catch up on my reading, string some beads, and become more cultured.  I'm in Philadelphia, dammit, and there is a lot to do, and my nights are my own, and I am smack-dab in the city and I do not need to get a babysitter to watch the boy, because well, he's at home with his dad. 

So on Monday as you know I felt crappy, ate shit, stayed in, etc.  Last night I met College Friend and her husband for a margarita and a little dinner.  No gym, but I did watch the Biggest Loser.  That counts for something, right?    Tonight, my plans were to go to the Philadelphia Free Library for a book reading.  Bring on the culture.

IF THINE EYE OFFENDS THEE, PLUCK IT OUT AND CAST IT FROM THEE

So, this is what my eye looks like.  And it's spreading to the other one.  So, I will not be going to see Alice Sebold read from her new novel tonight.