Saturday
August 26, 2000: Some Filler, More Stuff

Okay, so now that I have some time to write properly, I should fill you guys in on some of the things I talked about in yesterday's entry.

Orange Shirt Guy: He's just this guy who started showing up at the Library on Wednesday. He caught my attention, first, by wearing this bright, neon orange shirt. Bright colors always catch my attention. Ooooh, pretty color... Actually, no, I lied..it's more like: Damn! That shirt is fucking bright. I'm freaking blinded over here, How can you wear something like that. Geezus! Where are my sunglasses! Oh, crap..I can't wear sunglasses because I already WEAR glasses...DAMN you! Noooooooooooo! :P It was construction-worker-orange, you gotta be brave to wear something like that. Wilson has an orange shirt like that too, and I always tease him about wearing it. So.

Secondly, I noticed him because Annie was having trouble with his request and asked for his card back a few times after he had already put it away. So I started to laugh at her and it was just amusing. I reminded myself to replace my barbell, and as I was leaving for the restroom, I heard him refer to me to Annie as "your friend." Hmm! When I came out, he was gone. But Annie did say that he asked her if she wanted him to "talk to me" about laughing at her. Hmm, hmm!

Anyways, he showed up again yesterday! He was wearing something different. I saw him as I was talking to Annie in the library. He was out near the elevators, looking at some free SW books. So I left and as I was leaving, the Librarian came in, so I said HI. So of course that caught his attention. He said hi to me and I said HI back. Then I picked up an old copy of the Bible, leather-bound, complete with zipper. I said: Oooh, look, a Bible! Then I laughed. He said that wouldn't interest him, so I'm like: I see. We then browsed for a few seconds, then I said g'bye and that maybe I'd see him in the library later.

So that's the story with that guy. After work on Friday, I went up to the library to wait out the last 30mins of Annie's shift. She told me of their interesting exchange and we laughed. But I tell ya, it's getting old..the "I'm the mean one" thing..just because I laughed at her that first time. :P Oh well......he's Our Little Friend. :)

Wilson was coming to get us around 5'ish. So she closed up the library, shooed Our Little Friend off, and we ended up following him out. Well, that's mainly because Annie didn't know where Wilson was picking us up at. So I yelled: What are you doing?! I'm sure he thinks I'm even "meaner" now..haw!

While I straightened things out with where we were supposed to be, he waited around the corner. We ended up walking together a little and it was just amusing. Nothing came of it, but it was just fun. So now I say, wait if we see him on MONDAY, then you know why he's really coming to the library all of a sudden. *heh*

We ate at the Red Pepper, this place which caught my eye since they claim to make those...personal pizzas, you know? Cuz ever since last year, when we went to Olympia to Ramblin' Jacks...MMmmmm...*drool* So Annie and I ordered pizzas and Wilson went for the lamb. The pizzas were smaller and not AS good as RJ's..and Wilson's lamb was ground....Ground?! Come on..everything tastes the same when it's ground! :P But it was an okay place and good since we were "trying something new today."

On the way out of the restaurant, I was jingling the keys in my pocket when I realized I had too many keys. OMG, I took the front desk girl's keys!!! I had taken them since I needed to get into someone's office. I don't have the inner office key, see? And I didn't want to put them down in the office, since I might forget and lock them inside. So that's why I stuck them in my pocket. I was examining them to see if they were house or car keys. I felt TERRIBLE.

So we rushed back to the building and of course, at 6pm, everyone was gone. My initial reaction to this is to cover how stupid I was by doing something even stupider. I decided to "plant" my keys. Yes, it'd still be my fault, but just..in a different way. *LOL* So I put them in my phonebook, it was believeable. Then we went to Wilson's room, where I asked B what I should do and she found me the girl's number. I checked my email to see if that girl pinpointed her key loss on me, but nope!

But I decided to get the keys back and drive them to her if she needed them. So Wilson was nice enough to drive us BACK to the building and I retrieved the keys and got home. I was practically unlocking my door when a strange woman came out of the next door apartment. It occurred to me that it was the new manager.

She's a nice lady, giggly and cool. We talked for about half an hour. And hey, she was cool about Lar and I living together and just going out. So I told her about the Old People from a few weeks ago. And blahblahblah, we just talked a lot. I told her that we'd check in with her to sign a new lease on Saturday. She told me she'd let me know when the repairman was coming to our apartment. Okay.

So I called the number and talked to the girl..I apologized, but not too much and asked her if she wanted her keys back. Thankfully they were just her work keys. I just need to make sure that I let her in on Monday...which shouldn't be a problem, since I always get to work before her. :P *WHEW* Talk about a load off!

Lar and I hung out and since I hadn't been sleeping so well, we took a nap. Then we went to get movies at Wherehouse and to QFC. It was a fun night. We even camped in the livingroom, something we used to do a lot but haven't, so it was nice.

Ooh, and I also got paid yesterday. Direct deposit, baby! I can't believe it though. I'll only be working here until the 15th, that is just one more timesheet away. I've gotten paid now, three times, but I swear..where does the money go? I really feel that I've just been wasting my time, sometimes. :P

But today was pretty coo. Sleeping outside wasn't all that great, cuz the floor is hard. *duh* Plus it was freezing cuz the windows were open. So then Lar wanted to go down to Oregon and look at this car, but the guy wasn't home. I briefly cleaned the spare room, blahblahblah. Then I checked for matinees, and there was the X-Men at 1.20 and Chicken Run at 1.50. We both wanted to see these movies again. Which one though?

After a split-second deliberation, I went for X-Men. How could I choose clay over Hugh Jackman? *ROWRRRRRRR* Now there's a nice piece of meat! Yum Yum Yum Yum...*slap* Um, right.....Where was I..

So we got ready and dashed out. We got there in-time, just previews. And it was good, this time I didn't have to leave to use the restroom. :P Yum Yummy Yummy...ahh....Okay.

We go to home and then stop off at the managers'. The hubby was home, so we met him and they invited us inside and it was coo. They are nice. Then I realized that I lost my thumb ring! That made me so sad! We were doing the paperwork for the lease but had to stop because they weren't sure if we could sign on for 2yrs or what. Oh well. But they have been 'brainwashed' cuz we explained that we wanted 2yrs cuz 1) we will be staying on for a 2nd year anyways, and 2) the owner would jack up the rent next year when we renewed. They said that she wouldn't raise the rent..but I DON'T THINK SO. And that she put sooooo much work into improving the #9 apartment and isn't asking for high rent, blahblahblah. Cuz you know that if Darryl were around he'd tell it like it IS, yeah! Other than that, they are totally cool.

Lar and I ended up backtracking all the way back to the theatre. I was looking for my ring in the restroom since I was messing with my hair and it probably slipped off that way. Didn't find it, though I did find 3 silver press-on nails..*shudder* I talked to the theatre people and left my name and number. Awwwww.

I checked the shower at home since I have 'lost' it in my body puff. I lost hope when I saw there was no ring there. But then I pulled the shower curtain aside and my RING WAS DER! WEEEEEEEEEE. I tell you, I've lost it about a dozen times since I found it 2 years ago!

Since I didn't sleep-in that much this morning, I took an evening nap. Woke up around 7pm and we went out for dinner. We had decided on Claim Jumper but there were about 70ppl standing outside waiting. So we went to RR instead and had Mini Me as our waiter..GEEZUS, he looked just like MM but only taller, maybe over 5ft or something. How weird!

Lar and I got home and watched Powerpuff Girls and then played MarioKart. SNL was pretty funny, but I'm looking forward to next weekend's with Joshua Jackson and N'Sync. YAH! :P But I guess that's all from here. Tomorrow I'm going out with B to see "Get It On." WOO HOO. Maybe do some cleaning..hopefully won't lose my ring...Bye!

Three days in a row...damn! I'm a rockstar!

PS: YAH, Jim made it into College Jeopardy! Watch out for him in November, but of course I'll remind you again when it actually IS November. :D