last week, i came across an awesome deal: brand new skechers skates, exactly my size, for $5.00 on ebay. i bought them envisioning how i'd skate joyously around the skate track at the huge park next to my apartment. when they arrived, i was happy to find out that they were, indeed, brand new and exactly my size--and hot pink wheels!

but it rained all week, and i have not been able to try them out until today, when i realized that i made one small oversight in my planning---i forgot to account for the fact that i have no sense of balance.

i was three feet from my starting point the first time i fell. i fell at least four times on the way to the park, two while in front of slowly moving cars, whose occupants were no doubt laughing hysteically at me. did i mention that i skate slower than i walk?

anyway, i never made it to the park, because i realized that i don't know how to stop or turn. and whenever i get scared, i leap (face first) into the nearest mound of grass or bush. this could pose some problems at the park, where people regularly ignore the "pick up after your dog" signs.

but i shall not give up--practice makes perfect! one day, i will skate smoothly and at a normal speed. and i will be able to stop at will. meanwhile, i'll just keep repeating that to myself.

hmmm.. i think i'll go have a beer.

i went to vegas last weekend, and had my palm read in the indoor mall at Aladdin. The man told me, without my mentioning it to him, that i love to travel, and i like to write. he made the following predictions:
-a great travel opportunity will come forth in the next year or two, that will cause my career to take off.
-my career will go strong until i'm about 35, at which point it will thin out due to some sort of conflict, maybe with a co-worker. I'll either change careers or take an extended vacation, have kids, etc.
-i will marry an extremely, extremely powerful man.
-i will marry twice
-i will probably outlive my first husband.
-around the age of 50, i will come into a position of immense power, probably more power than i want or need. around that same time (and this might be what causes me to gain power), something really bad will happen to me that will hurt me very much, like the death of someone close to me (my first husband?).
-both of my marriages will be strong relationships
-i will not have any major health problems
-i will probably live to be 80 or 85
-i will have kids
-i should pursue a career that involves traveling
-i am a very passionate person
-i will do well in business and in a career that uses my creativity
-i am a good leader of people
-i have good intuition
-he kept reiterating that i will be very, very powerful, not only because of fate, but becasue deep down inside, i thirst for power.

whew. pretty detailed reading...i'm not sure what to make of it. i certainly hope i will take a great trip within the next year or two, but it would suck to outlive my first husband and have something horrible happen to me when i'm 50. i never really thought i was a powermonger, but who knows? i guess i should make a mental note to buy my first husband a fat life insurance policy, muahahahaha.....

I received $70 worth of Lawry's certificates in the mail yesterday!!! Including the $20 certificate I got last week, that's $90.00! Oh, and amazing news--they have a special (until April) where you can get dinner for two for $75.00! This may seem like a lot to spend on dinner, but really, it's a pittance when you consider the amount of joy a really really really good meal brings into your life. Dinner for two includes a choice of entree (excluding the Jim Brady cut), spinning salad, dessert, coffee, and bottle of wine. That's like getting wine, coffee, and dessert for free! Do I seem overly enthusiastic? That's because I am!! Email me for the flyer if I haven't already accosted you with it. Come April: double Lawry's VIP points. So much for eating healthy.

today, as i was coming back from lunch (at 4:45, mind you), Richard Marx's "Right here waiting" started playing on the radio. When I parked, I sat for awhile with my feet on the dash, listening to the raindrops and watching them streak across my windshield. Slow jams and rain go so well together.

crappy law school for free, or $90,000+ of debt and a degree from a good school? what if i don't even want to be a lawyer, and end up having to be one to pay back my enormous debt?

what's worse, the more i look into it, the more it seems i'll have to be sitting around on my ass for the most of the summer, waiting for news from schools. this really blows, since i want to travel this summer.

decisions, decisions...

Coupon Shopping victory of the week: $44.19 worth of groceries for $17.33!!!!

i'm scaring myself with my obsessive-compulsive tendencies lately. example: i bought these groceries by looking through the sunday newspaper, cutting the coupons out, organizing them into a list of dry, frozen, refrigerated, and miscellaneous (to maxmize efficiency so i didn't need to walk back and forth between aisles), then bringing this list to the grocery market, where i checked each item off as i bought it.

that isn't abnormal.. the abnormal part is that i did all of this at 5:30 AM on a sunday morning. the newspaper arrives at 4:30.
then again, this IS a very productive way to deal with insomnia.

I was never like this before. i think it all started with the time i tried to clean my closet. now everything's clean. my room is fucking SPOTLESS. i even have a feather duster.

god help me.