you go through rental listings that all have the same boring, non-descript titles like 3 bedroom ranch or 3bd/2ba on cul-de-sac... it's like these people don't want their houses to be rented and are striving for mediocrity. anyone with half a brain knows you have to have a hook to get people to click on YOUR ad and be willing to pay you every month for the privelage of living in YOUR pos house that you don't want anymore but can't sell so have decided to rent in the meantime... you click through them, trying to remember which description goes with what picture in your head and you inevitably end up looking at the same one about 30 times because you can't keep them all straight. well, to combat this we decided to give them our own, slightly more colorful titles like big yard, crappy driveway or almost perfect dammit or pirate rope with loft. this actually didn't help that much, but made the process a lot more enjoyable.
I also found out this past week that, despite the tired factor, driving to work at 630 am is actually nice. the sky is a very pretty color and the air smells fresh in the morning. in fact, I think i am a morning person... i'm just never up to enjoy them. i do think that mid-mornings suck... but that's because I'm not a brunch person and prefer lazy afternoons.
easter was sunday. we had a potluck type dinner out at my sisters house. oddly enough, everyone was in a good mood and seemed to get along alright. in fact, in was a perfectly normal, non-dysfunctional family gathering. and that's kinda weird I guess. we did have fun with some of the gag gifts that my nephew just got for his birthday. the first was the always popular fart bag. the pouch had some sort of powder and liquid in it and you squeezed it to make the liquid break so the two would mix. then you throw the fart bag somewhere inconspicuous (like under a chair) and it is supposed to discreetly release a foul smell. well, I'll agree that it smelled foul, but the bag made a loud hissing sound while it filled up and then literally popped like a balloon... not too discreet. in fact, I heard the hissing under my chair and immediately ran away from it... its one of those instinctual things I guess.
we also all tried the fish tasting candy which turned out to be a surprising mix of mint and licorice... not bad at all. my younger brother volunteered to wash his hands with the 'blood' soap and his hands got stained pink. that was kind of funny but not in the way the prank manufacturers had intended. more than one masturbation joke was thrown around. the most promising gift was a pack of gum that shocked you when you tird to pull out a piece of gum but those masochistic kids spent so much time shocking themselves they'd drained the battery. ah well... what kind of quality can you expect from something labelled as cherry chew gum?? crazy japanese manufacturers....
jay also found our perfect house. its belongs to some guy that just got divorced and is moving out of state. it has a 2 person tub in the master bath!! which I'm hoping means I can actually swim laps in it, cuz that would be awsome!! anyway, it has lots of other great things too like a good location, big fenced yard and garage. we're excited so I hope we get it... we're stiill waiting to hear back right now though... we have amused ourselves in the meantime by googling the guys email address and online handle. we found him on dating sites (more recently) and online altenative lifestyles pages (less recently) looking for swinger couples.... guess that didn't work out. we decided it would be best not to mention this to him.
so this week rocks because I get to have two days off in addition to sunday off. so that's three days off!! huge improvement over having one day off last week. oh... and i got less than 50% of my quota at work for march... ha ha ha ha ha!!!! oops. its only so funny because its so bad.
