Archive for October, 2008

Eavesdropping at Hometown Buffet

The Day Events
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Hometown buffet is…an interesting place. Whenever I go there, I feel like “whoa..these people…where did they all come from?” You can take that as it is.

Anyhow, I’m a notorious eavesdropper…

Teenaged boy: You know, you’ve got to admit…as much as we make fun of this place, it has some pretty good food.

Teenaged girl: Wait, what?

Teenaged boy: We make fun of this place, but it has a lot of good food.

Teenaged girl: Mit? Mit?

Teenaged boy: What?

Teenaged girl: <pointing out what she is talking about> Mit?

Teenaged boy: …no, that’s M.I.T. It’s a college!

and also,

Little kid 1: <at the dessert bar> aaaah brownies! My favorite!

Little kid 2: Look! They have rice crispies!

Little kid 1: I love this place! I love everything here! And it’s free!

Spiders…another note.

uhh...random!
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I decided a long time ago that my future husband must be able to kill spiders for me. I cannot have another arachnophobiac in the house.

Will you kill spiders for me?

Discovering Pandora

The Day Events
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I have a friend who swears by this, I think, so I thought I would try it out. The concept is interesting, and I’m always feeling like I hear enough music I really like, because I feel like…I’m picky? I’m actually not picky, it’s just rare that I hear a song that just makes me go crazy for it. Stuff that, when I hear it, I just want to melt to the floor, hit repeat, and roll around.

So, I put only two artists in my station, No Doubt, and Utada. Two artist I think that I actually listen to almost everything they have. Mind you, the only Utada song they have is from her one American album which was really different to her Japanese stuff.

This is what was recommended…a Vanessa Carlton song. And I do like Vanessa Carlton. I hadn’t heard of this song, and it was pleasing, but it wasn’t like…OMG! So I clicked on why they chose this song…

Wow. I’m glad I was so easy to figure out. Repetitive melodic phrasing?! @_@. So far, the radio has been playing songs from the early 2000s also. I guess I’m just living in the past.

Perhaps I should throw in Wicked Dickie and see what pops out. Throw them off a little bit?

I love my dad

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The Day Events
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He kills huge spiders for me. Spiders that are this ____________ wide and ______________________ long and just the torso is this _________ big and round.

I was walking up to our gate from the backyard, and from the corner of my eye, I saw something black fall down from the ledge on the wall to my left and it disappeared behind the gate. So I thought…um….was that a slowly falling leaf? I shrugged it off and I stuck my hand through one of the holes in the gate to lift up the latch, and slowly opened the gate a crack, to find a HUGE black spider!!!

It was probably a black widow but I didn’t have time to ask her.

In accordance with acceptible reactions to spiders, I freaked out, yelled, ran my hands all over my body and gave myself the heebie jeebies.

And then I ran to my daddy.“eeeeEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeee”

My mom gave him a paper towel and in bewilderment, I said, “This isn’t the kind of spider you can just smoosh with a hand and paper!”

By the time I showed him the monster, the spider had crawled too high for my daddy, so he used a broom and smacked it. The monstrosity fell down and its last sight was the shadow of my dad’s sandal.

The end.

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