{"id":548,"date":"2006-01-04T18:33:20","date_gmt":"2006-01-05T02:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/?p=548"},"modified":"2006-01-04T18:39:46","modified_gmt":"2006-01-05T02:39:46","slug":"ive-got-nothing-for-you-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/?p=548","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ve Got Nothing for You People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Home!<\/b><br \/>\nThe catt is playing with a dusty peanut.  Every once in a while he looks up from batting it across the floor and gives me a pitiful glance, like, &#8220;you won&#8217;t even play dusty peanut hockey with me?  you bitch?&#8221;  It can&#8217;t be helped.  I promised myself I would get back on the cheesebloghorse and also right now I am trying to keep myself from eating a lot of food and going to sleep.  We are going to the pool tonight to partake in water aerobics.  I fully expect said aerobics to kick my ass.  I have not had one lick of exercise since the last time we went to water aerobics, which was in September.  <\/p>\n<p><b>Work!<\/b><br \/>\nNow, I know everyone is a little bit incompetent at something.  I am aware of my own faults and incompetencies.  (They are many!  And various!)  Today was a remarkable day because I encountered nothing BUT incompetent people.  A steady stream of them.  And I&#8217;m sure some of them were having that day when all you encounter is bitchy people and I was one of that continuum.  Whatev.er.<\/p>\n<p>I will say only this: I was convinced that if I just had the time to do EVERYONE ELSE&#8217;S JOB, aside from me being more tired, everything would run a lot more smoothly.  <\/p>\n<p>The stupidest thing said to me today: &#8220;Are you <b>really<\/b> that big?  Already?&#8221; (no.  I am wearing a fake belly.  for practice. would you like to pat it for luck?)<\/p>\n<p>The second stupidest: &#8220;Wow, congratulations.  You should give up caffeine.  And carbs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hahahahaha!  Funny man!  Breathe deeply and close your eyes while I prepare to punch you in the genitals.<\/p>\n<p><b>Word!<\/b><br \/>\nDid you know that &#8220;mold&#8221; and &#8220;mould&#8221; are the same word?  They both mean &#8220;to shape&#8221; and they both mean &#8220;icky fuzzy stuff that grows on tea cups and pineapple if you&#8217;re a filthy 20-something living with roommates for the first time.&#8221;  I had NO idea until recently.  I assumed one spelling went with one meaning but it&#8217;s really just another U.S\/Britain thing. <\/p>\n<p><b>Itch!<\/b><br \/>\nHappy New Year!  Merry Christmas!  I got a red Swingline stapler for Christmas and the Office Space Extra Special Boxed Set.  Plus a new towel.  And, for 2006, my itching came back.  Let&#8217;s see, the last post about itching was&#8230;..<a href=\"http:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/?p=476\"> back in July.<\/a>  The itching went away!   I didn&#8217;t write about it because you don&#8217;t miss things like itching when they go away and so you don&#8217;t think about them anymore once they&#8217;re gone.  Until they come back and you are tearing your own chin apart with your ungroomed fingernails and you think, &#8220;Hmm, this feels vaguely familiar, this scene, but when was it last played?  And who was my leading man?&#8221;  So it&#8217;s back but the rest of me also itches a great deal so I am focusing on lubing up well with Citrus Body Butter from the Body Shop.<\/p>\n<p><b>News!<\/b><br \/>\nI had not noticed until this morning that the nefarious <a href=\"http:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/?p=419\"> paper-thrusters<\/a> took several weeks off during December.  I noticed this morning because they, like the itching, had not been missed but today had returned to all the corners I encounter on my way to work.  A tick in column &#8220;A for Awareness,&#8221; though;  one of my co-workers who reads the 24 Hours paper on her daily commute (and actually has read it <b>out loud<\/b> to me on occasion and saved &#8220;articles&#8221; for my perusal,) said today, &#8220;You know?  That 24 Hours paper is getting worse.  There&#8217;s NOTHING in there at all.&#8221;  Well praise be and pass the chips.<\/p>\n<p>OK.  Time to bounce around in the pool to dance music while the pro swimmers in their Speedos look on disparagingly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home! The catt is playing with a dusty peanut. 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