"This shit is bananas"

Life is weird. I'm no closer to knowing what I want to do with the rest of my life then I did when I was eight years old. Sucky.

Anyways. I'm pretty much over all drama. Don't want to be a part of it anymore. It's not fun. I don't get a kick out of it. I like when life is normal and laid back and I don't have to worry about who did what to who when where and how.

One day I'm going to post the list that Stephanie and I made "You know you work at BJ'S when..."

I've pretty much figured out that the next couple of weeks I'm going to be broke 'cause I wasn't planning on getting sick and having to spend money on prescriptions and gas to get the prescription.

I've also pretty much figured out that I'm not liking this whole being responsible and paying bills on time. The adult responsibility of paying bills on time just doesn't measure up to the whole spending my hard earned money any way I see fit. The thrill just isn't the same.

Here's a recent conversation from this past Sunday with Jim:

J: What's today's date?
K: The 25th...(realization dawns) today's our anniversary.
J: Oh...happy anniversary.
K: Yeah you too.
And back to reading the newspaper we went.

Congratulations to little Sean Schaefer becoming an FLS. About damn time!

Glad I haven't pissed anyone off by walking by them. Then again, I never really cared in the first place.

Off to babysit the sick godson before work.

Later.

Since you've been gone...

Mozelle Bunzol, originally uploaded by toriandme.

Here are some of the things you've missed since you've been gone the past 4 years...

-your daughter moving to Virginia for 9 months and then moving back

-taking Cheyenne, Frisky, and Stripes to Lollipop Farm

-adopting Abby and Frasier from Scottsville Veterinary Hospital

-your granddaughter starting school

-Martha Stewart going to jail for insider trading

-Michael Jackson being acquitted of kidnapping and sexual molestation

-the tsunami and hurricane katrina that killed thousands

-the election of a moron for our country ...again

-the repossession of all of the Bunzol's cars..dad first, George second, me third

-the birth of Jim's nephew Evan

-the many fights and make-ups of your son and daughter's significant others

-three job interviews that I applied for that I didn't get

-the friends I've made and the friend's I've lost

-the start of the new tv show "Desperate Housewives" ...you would have loved it

There is so much more that you have missed that it would be impossible to list it all. Just now that George, Dad, Chandler and I all miss you very much. Your friends from church always come up to me at work and tell me how much your still touching their lives even though you've been gone for so long. Everyone here on earth still loves and misses you.

Bye, Mommy

7/24/49-9/19/05

One Day...

• I will go through all of the pictures of my mom's sitting in the corner and put them in new photo albums because the old ones are falling apart
• I will get up at 8am and clean the house from top to bottom
• I will have saved enough money to go buy everything I want from Lane Bryant
• I will stop being so insecure about everything and just accept life as it comes
• I will go back to school and make my life better so I can leave the evil that is my job
• I will get married and have lots of kids
  
• I will find a man who wants to get married and have lots of kids
• I will have friends that I can trust
• I will not see the other side as being greener
• I will not forget to take my medication
• I will send my novel out to a publisher and not cry when it comes back "rejected"
• I will lose enough weight...not so that someone will love me but so that I can love myself
• I will stop being so hard on myself
• I will take a trip around the world...just me and my trusty camera
• I will not cry because friends have hurt me
• I will see my mother and grandparents again
• the thought of my mother will not reduce me to uncontrollable crying but to uncontrollable smiles
• I will live where there is no snow, tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes or morons who run the country
• I will once again look forward to getting older

But today is not one of those days

You Know You're From Chicago When...

You say "Wanna go with?" when you mean "Do you want to come with me?" You know what Kennedy, Dan Ryan, Eisenhower, Edens, and Bishop Ford, have in common and curse one of them daily. You know what "the Hillside strangler is." You can name three or four extra taxes nobody else pays. You know the difference between Richard J Daley and Richard M Daley. You can use two or three Daleyisms in context. You can imitate the Mayor's whine. You say Chicawgo and not Chicaago. You think going to a Bears game in single digit temperatures with a wind off the lake (and freezing rain) is fun. Da is a proper definite article. You expect corruption in local politics. You go to the Dells in the summer to get away from the other 20 thousand that followed you. You've been caught speeding in Wisconsin because you had Illinois plates. You guard your shoveled parking space with an old chair and unusable broom. You know why they call it "the Windy City." You know dead people who voted. You understand the Democratic machine and don't fight against it. You've never ever considered the idea of hiring non-union laborers. You've never been to Springfield. You know a good gyros joint. You know what Giordanos, Lou Malnati's, and Gino's have in common. You know when the last time the Cubs won a pennant. You know exactly how many cars are "legally" allowed to turn left after the light turns red. You don't know which ethnic "fest" to choose on any given Summer weekend. Your idea of relaxing and getting away from it all is Ravinia (with 10,000 others who have the same idea). You can recite many of "The Blues Brothers" lines and know where they filmed certain scenes. You consider paying someone to watch your car at a sporting event as just another "city tax." The "Living Room" is called the "front room" You don't pronounce the "s" at the end of Illinois. You become irate at people who do You measure distance in minutes (especially "from the city"). And you swear everything is pretty much 15 minutes away You refer to anything South of I-80 as "Southern Illinois" You refer to Lake Michigan as "The Lake" You refer to Chicago as "The City" "The Super Bowl" refers to one specific game in a series of 35 played in January of 1986 You have two favorite football teams: The Bears, and anyone who beats the Packers! You buy "The Trib" You think 35 degrees is great weather to wash your car! You know what goes on a Chicago Style Hot Dog You know what Chicago Style Pizza REALLY is You understand what "lake-effect" means You know the difference between Amtrak and Metra, and know which station they end up at. You have ridden the "L" You can distinguish between the following area codes: 847,630,773,708, 312, & 815 You respond to the question "Where are you from" with a side" example:"WEST SIDE", "SOUTH SIDE" or "NORTHSIDE." You know what the phone number is to Empire Carpet! You wear gym shoes, not sneakers. Your favorite melody to hum is "Bang,Bang,Bang-Skeet,Skeet,Skeet!!!!" You faithfully attended Lil Louis parties at The Bismarck. You GOT to have spaghetti at your barbecue. You are STILL a Bulls fan........ You think kicking it outside of White Castles parking lot, (79th and Stony Island) is the "Freak Nik" You go to Harold`s and order 4 pc wing, mild sauce, salt and pepper. You have a picture of Harold Washington in your kitchen, living room, family room or basement. You have ever waited in line at Home of the Hoagy on 111th for 30-45 minutes for a steak samich wit cheese You have ever been to the Tiki Room lounge in Hyde Park You have Y made a special trip downtown because you had a craving for Garrett's caramel and cheese popcorn. What!!! We don`t get a Fifty? Oh yeah.... You drink at bars called "Bud on Tap" or "Milwaukee's Best" -- no names, just beer signs out front. It's January and you see someone's kitchen chair in the street, and you know that if you're a responsible citizen and bring it back to the sidewalk you will be shot on sight You live two miles from work and it takes you two hours to drive there You don't flinch when you pay the fifth toll of your 45-minute car ride on the highway When you read a big story in the paper about mob ties in the city government, your first reaction is "So, tell me something I don't know." You know Lincoln Towing is Satan incarnate. You've paid $105 for towing, $30 for more than one "street cleaning" ticket, $58 for a city vehicle sticker, and $70 for a license plate sticker -- and chalk it all up to "neighborhood taxes." You pluralize grocery stores and retail chains: "I'm going to Jewels"; "I bought it at Targets"; "I couldn't find parking at Wal-Marts" You've taken the Red Line past the point where all white people get off and all black people get on -- or vice versa. You've cursed at a cyclist, pedestrian, or in-line skater on the lakefront path. You know the significance of State and Madison. You wonder if the fries will taste the same at Sammy Sosa's Restaurant. You don't miss Planet Hollywood. You're not ashamed of wearing a big fur Russian hat, or a headsock with one hole in it, in public from November through March. You actually get these jokes and pass them on to other friends from Chicago.

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