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		<title>Notes from the other night</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The formatting on this is a little off. I don&#8217;t know why, but I can&#8217;t fix it. Lo siento mucho. I&#8217;m a talker. Especially once I get a little booze flowing through my blood. My friend (and soon to be once-again roomie) LA is also a talker. Talker + talker+being really good friends=ridiculous conversations that [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>The formatting on this is a little off. I don&#8217;t know why, but I can&#8217;t fix it. Lo siento mucho.</em></p>
<p>I&#8217;m a talker. Especially once I get a little booze flowing through my blood. My friend (and soon to be once-again roomie) LA is also a talker.</p>
<p>Talker + talker+being really good friends=ridiculous conversations that a third party often cannot comprehend.</p>
<p>So the other night I met up with my friends LA and AW, and AW got to witness once again how when we get started talking- hilarious, incomprehensible conversation can ensue.</p>
<p>I guess he was really lost on what we were discussing, but rather than interrupt, he decided to take notes on some of the random quotes and bits of conversation so that he could ask about them later.</p>
<p>Today I received an email with his &#8220;notes,&#8221; on our conversation. I&#8217;m not sure if this will be as amusing to you as it was to me, but I figured I&#8217;d share and try to justify these little notes of his.</p>
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<p><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><em><strong><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% #ffffff;">- She uses big words like&#8230;insatiable.</span></strong></em></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">That&#8217;s all LA. When I&#8217;m drinking, I&#8217;m lucky if I can even say insatiable. I&#8217;m not sure what this word was used to describe. Quite possibly it was my insatiable thirst for wine. Or my insatiable thirst for <a class="zem_slink" title="John Cusack" rel="imdb" href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000131/">John Cusack</a>. Or maybe it was LA&#8217;s insatiable thirst for using big words like insatiable. Either way, I&#8217;m curious&#8230; can other words besides &#8220;thirst&#8221; be used after the word insatiable? Because I&#8217;m pretty sure the only word I ever use after insatiable is &#8220;thirst.&#8221;</span></span></span></p>
<h3><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><em>- LA and CM talk about a lot of different stuff. </em></span></span></span></h3>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ummmm yes we do&#8230; great observation though&#8230;</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><em><strong><br />
- What is a doppelganger? </strong></em></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Somebody obviously hasn&#8217;t spent enough time on Facebook the last couple weeks!! OK, I&#8217;m not too sure either.  Apparently it means an actor/actress that you wish that you looked like. Or that you had a dream about. Or maybe someone that if you were gay, you would totally go for&#8230;. because I saw quite a few really pretty famous people as my friends profile pictures. I was going to put up Frida Kahlo as my doppelganger, because of the mustache and all&#8230;</span></span></span></p>
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<h3><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><em>- Who is Nora? </em></span></span></span></h3>
<p style="font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">So speaking of &#8220;doppelgangers,&#8221; I know I&#8217;ve  mentioned like 30 times the night LA and I  hung out with <a class="zem_slink" title="Joshua Radin" rel="homepage" href="http://www.joshuaradin.com/">Joshua Radin</a>&#8216;s band and I made out with the drummer&#8230; Well, it turns out they had been on tour with a certain Grammy winner in the past whom they desperately wanted to name drop.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Drummer boy: Oh my gosh.. wow, you look just like my friend Nora.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Me: ummm ok?</span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Drummer boy: NO really!!!  Hey “bassist!!” Doesn&#8217;t she look just like Nora.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Bassist boy: ummm&#8230; I guess so? A little?</span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Drummer boy: Yeah, you smile like her. <em>**nudge nudge</em> You know Nora right? My good friend <a class="zem_slink" title="Norah Jones" rel="homepage" href="http://www.norahjones.com/">Nora Jones</a>??</span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Me: ummm right.. (but make out with me lovah boy) </span></span></span></p>
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<h3><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><em><strong>- Why wouldn&#8217;t they up-play that shit and get with high up girls instead of downplay that shit and get with us?</strong></em></span></span></span></h3>
<p style="font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I&#8217;m not sure which one of us genius&#8217;s muttered this intelligent comment, but I&#8217;d put a million thousand bucks on the fact that it was me. In fact I distinctly remember repeating it at least  three times so AW could write it down. </span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It&#8217;s simple really, but I&#8217;ll put it into English for you</span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #000000;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Why wouldn&#8217;t they use their semi-level of faux-fame to get into nice bars where they could meet girls who would buy their starving artist-asses drinks, rather than hang out with 2 girls who took them to the dive-iest (Adairs) bar in Dallas, and needed all of our drinks bought for us? </span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><strong><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><em>- Whoa whoa&#8230;so this is the night you bled on ____&#8217;s bed right???</em></span></span></span></strong></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I&#8217;m not sure why this particular story was brought up&#8230; maybe we were discussing something similar that happened to one of us more recently but<em> I&#8217;m not sure if that even happened.</em> It is <a href="http://www.carissajaded.com/2009/11/tmi-thurday-a-bloody-confession/">actually a story that I have already shared with you</a>&#8230;</span></span></span></p>
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<h3 style="margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><em><strong>-Carissa! I look at porn sites ALLLL the time! Are you kidding me?</strong></em></span></span></h3>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I think this one is pretty self explanatory. I think AW just wanted to write this note to put in his spank bank for later. </span></span></p>
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<h3 style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"><em><strong>-Let&#8217;s talk about love.</strong></em></span></h3>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">OK this one was all me. But before you write me off as some cheese-poof who likes to “talk about love” with her girlfriend&#8217;s on a Friday night over a bottle of wine- let me explain. I was trying to think of a story for this show I&#8217;m doing that has “love” theme. Since my experiences with “love” aren&#8217;t, for the most part, romantic&#8230; what we talked about next was all sorts of funny and also kind of sad.</span></span></p>
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<h3 style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"><em><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"><strong>-That&#8217;s what real rappers do, playa!!!</strong></span></em></span></h3>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Have I told you yet of my dreams of being a world-renowned rap-star? Well, I have them. I know it will never happen, but I even have a rap-star alter ego named Kimbernisha. You&#8217;ll have to meet her one day. Anyway, I told you yesterday how I went to see Four Day Weekend&#8217;s comedy show. I loved it all&#8230; except for the part where they rapped. Don&#8217;t get me wrong, they did a great job improvising rap, but there moves were a little lacking. Ever since I saw Timbaland last week, I&#8217;ve been spending much of my down-time trying to imitate the rapper&#8217;s groove, which I demonstrated to my friends before I made this comment.</span></span></p>
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<h3 style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;"><strong> </strong><strong><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"><em><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">-Rap just got me off! </span></em></span></strong></h3>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Yeah, I got really into that shiz!! I mean not literally, but I was really spent afterward. </span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">___</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">In other news, I want give a shout out to one of my favorite blogs who is ending his project soon. If you haven&#8217;t checked out the<a href="http://100girls100days.com/"> 100 girls-100days project</a>, I implore that you do so now. I&#8217;m really sad that it&#8217;s almost over. Start from the <a href="http://100girls100days.com/the-100-days/">beginning</a> and read your way through. That&#8217;s the way I do it. He may seem like kind of a dick at first, but overall, the dude seems really genuine and he&#8217;s extremely addicting. </span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Oh and tonight we have our Dallas happy hour!!! I&#8217;m so excited to meet some of my favorite bloggers in person!! WOOHOO!!<br />
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		<description><![CDATA[As the queen of crass LiLu puts it: ***Alright, folks, you know the rules. Join us all in humiliating the crap out of yourself every Thursday by sharing some completely tasteless, wholly unclassy, “how many readers can I estrange THIS week??” TMI story about your life. Or hell, about someone else’s! For countless more “Too [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div><strong>As the queen of crass <a href="http://www.livitluvit.com/">LiLu</a> puts it:</strong></div>
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<div><em>***Alright, folks, you know the rules. Join us all in humiliating the crap out of yourself every Thursday by sharing some completely tasteless, wholly unclassy, “how many readers can I estrange THIS week??” TMI story about your life. Or hell, about someone else’s!</em></div>
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<div><strong>For countless more “Too much information”  hilarity, make sure you check out <a href="http://www.livitluvit.com/category/tmi-thursday">LiLu’s archives</a>… You won’t be sorry!</strong><strong>If you are family, adult, or don’t want to know gross personal things about yours truly, please skip on to the next post.</strong></div>
<p>A couple weeks ago you may recall me telling you a story about my, ahem, &#8221; friend &#8220;that I shall call &#8220;<a href="http://www.carissajaded.com/2009/11/tmi-thurday-a-bloody-confession/">Cari</a>.&#8221; It seems that <a href="http://www.carissajaded.com/2009/10/tmi-thursday-a-fairy-tail-ending/">Cari</a> has a way of putting her way into interesting situations with guys. Today I will be sharing another one of Cari&#8217;s &#8220;hook -up&#8221; stories. This one is actually a little lamer than some, but still quite funny.</p>
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<p>Once upon a time, there was a girl named Cari.</p>
<p>There was about a 5 year period when Cari had a humongous, nearly embarrassing obsession with the popular boy band *<a class="zem_slink" title="*NSync" rel="homepage" href="http://www.nsync.com/">NSYNC</a>. If you asked her about it these days, she would probably deny it at first, but then she would spend 15 minutes telling you the details of how she got to meet them, and even got a kiss from Joey.</p>
<p>But I digress, that is a whole nother story.</p>
<p>One thing you should know about Cari, is that she, at least at the time, tended to fall for boys hard.  She doesn&#8217;t have a single &#8220;type,&#8221; per se, but she does seem to always fall for boys who are passionate. Whether they have passion for riding horses, Nascar, comedy, politics, sports, or music, it doesn&#8217;t really matter&#8230; as  long as it is  something. I guess you could say she falls with a passion, for boys who have passion. She falls even harder for those who love the same things she does.</p>
<p>Back in her sophomore year in college, Cari met a boy, who we will call Jack, with whom she shared a very special something. Something that should have sent off crazy alarms in Cari&#8217;s brain, but you know- sometimes she choose to ignore those blaring signs for the sake of a little attention.</p>
<p>Like many of the boys that Cari met, she met Jack at a local bar. She knew of Jack and his reputation of a ladies man, but didn&#8217;t know him personally, and certainly didn&#8217;t think he would give her the time of day.</p>
<p>This particular night was Cari&#8217;s lucky night. The bar started playing several *NSYNC songs, to which Cari had taken the time to memorize all of the dance moves to. She wasted no time jumping on the dance floor and showing off her moves, and her ability to perform them in a way that would give her favorite boys the justice they deserved. After only a few short beats, Cari was surprised to see that Jack had joined her on the floor, and he too knew all the moves perfectly.</p>
<p>&#8220;SWEEEEEEEETTTTT&#8221;</p>
<p>At the time, none of this struck Cari as in the least bit odd.</p>
<p>After they successfully pleased the crowd with several performances, Jack offered to buy Cari a drink and they were quickly engaged in a deep conversation about their favorite boy band. Cari casually mentioned that she had several tapes that she had compiled and edited of every single *NSYNC video and performance that they had ever made. Jack seemed very interested in Cari, and she was all too quick to invite him back to her place after the bar.</p>
<p>When they got to Cari&#8217;s bedroom, (where there was a wall size poster of the boys that she had stolen from outside McDonalds)  they quickly began kissing. After a while, Jack asked Cari if he could see the tapes, he said he wanted to see her fantastic editing job. She blushed and quickly jumped to get the tape. Afterall, this guy did seem very interested, and what would set the mood better than a little &#8220;God Must Have Spent a Little More Time on You?&#8221;</p>
<p>She popped the tape in and the kissing and petting commenced. After a few minutes he grabbed her hand and placed it on his buttocks.</p>
<p><em>Ooohhh Naugh-ty</em>, she thought, and rubbed his cheek awkwardly for a few seconds before she pulled her hand away&#8230;</p>
<p>They continued kissing and after a few more minutes he grabbed her hand and put it back  on his butt cheek, this time a little closer to the crevice. This time after a few quick rubs, as she attempted to pull her hand away, he grabbed it and placed it back on his cheek.</p>
<p>Cari was a little confused as to what he wanted her to do, so she tried her best to shut it out and just concentrate on &#8220;No Strings Attached&#8221; playing in the background, when suddenly he put his mouth to her ear and whispered loudly with his beer scented breath, &#8220;<em>PLAYYY WITTHHH MY BUTTTHOLLE</em>&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>Cari was quite taken aback, as no one had ever asked her to compete such a task before. She wasn&#8217;t quite sure if she had heard correctly.</p>
<p>&#8220;Whhaattt?&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;<em>PLAYYYY WITH MY BUTTHOLE</em>,&#8221; he said, unmistakenly this time.</p>
<p>It was at this point that Cari  noticed that during all of this fondling, Jack had shifted so that he could keep a steady eye on the television.</p>
<p>It wasn&#8217;t so much the asking to play with his butthole that bothered her, but more so the realization that Jack was way more interested in the boys of *NSYNC, than he would ever be in her.</p>
<p>At that point, Cari  quickly made up an excuse as to why she needed to get up early.. and Jack didn&#8217;t seem to be too bothered.</p>
<p>Just as he was about to walk out the door he got a sheepish look on his face.</p>
<p>&#8220;Do you think I could borrow that video for a few days?&#8221;</p>
<p>Cari obliged to get him to leave, and he promised to return it in a few days, and also that he would be calling her to go out soon.</p>
<p>Cari never saw that tape again.</p>
<p>Cari lived happily after after, and hopefully Jack finally came out of the closet so he could too.</p>
<p>Note: To Cari and all of her friends, Jack is, and will forever be known as simply &#8220;play with my butthole.&#8221;</p>
<p>The End.</p>
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		<title>TMI Thurday: A bloody confession.</title>
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<div><strong>If you are family, adult, or don&#8217;t want to know personal things about ahem.. &#8220;Cari.&#8221; please skip on to the next post.<br />
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<p>Remember when I told you that little fairy tale about my&#8230; uh&#8230; friend&#8230;uh&#8230;&#8221; Cari,&#8221; and the <a href="http://www.carissajaded.com/2009/10/tmi-thursday-a-fairy-tail-ending/">time that she thought a peen was a piece of feces</a>??</p>
<p>Well luckily for you, I have several more stories about Cari and her misfortunes up my sleeve.</p>
<p>I am not sure if I should actually be sharing this story, as the second leading character is a casual reader of this blog and is still a friend of Cari&#8217;s&#8230; and she has yet to confess this to him. If you are reading this (you know who you are) then I am going to go ahead and apologize on Cari&#8217;s behalf&#8230; and I really hope you&#8217;re not completely disgusted.</p>
<p>______________________________</p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Once upon a time</strong></span> there was a girl named <span style="color: #000000;">Cari</span>, who at one point in time was kinda-sorta-long-distance dating a friend of her&#8217;s named&#8230; let&#8217;s call him <span style="color: #000000;">Sam.</span></p>
<p>Cari and Sam were still friends, and this particular weekend Cari was going down to H-town to visit her friends for a fun-times reunion.</p>
<p>The first night when Cari got in town began as every night with Sam began- with a vow not to get so drunk that they would be miserable for the rest of the weekend. A vow that was immediately sealed with a &#8220;cheers&#8221; and a shot of whiskey. And in their usual fashion, that shot was followed by a MANY more beers, several more shots, some conversation about politics, and a few rounds of shooting each other with a BB gun.</p>
<p>At some point in the night one of them got the bright idea to take half an ambien, stay up, and see what might happen.</p>
<p>The next few hours, as you can imagine, were a blur. Cari remembered watching some online comedy videos and&#8230;well, that&#8217;s about it.</p>
<p>____________________________</p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Oh yeah, so I guess I should probably tell you that, <em>literally</em>, the exact same thing that I <span style="color: #ff00ff;"> </span>wrote about in another</strong> <a href="http://www.carissajaded.com/2009/09/tmi-thursday-im-really-scared-of-toxic-shock/">TMI story</a><strong> happened to Cari on this particular trip down to Houston. </strong></span></p>
<p><em><strong>The short version:</strong> <strong><span style="color: #ff00ff;">On the trip down to Houston, &#8220;Cari&#8221; remembered mid-drive that she had left the same tampon in for way over 12 hours. Fearing toxic shock, she then proceeded on taking it out whilst driving, putting it in a paper bag she found in her car, and promptly forgot about the said tampon, and completely forgetting it ever happened until several weeks later.<br />
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<p><em>___________________________</em></p>
<p><em><br />
</em>The following morning Cari and Sam woke up feeling a little foggy headed, but all in all, they felt a lot better than they expected. They decided to continue with their weekend as planned, and head to Galveston for a relaxing day at the beach.  Somewhere along the drive Sam had to stop to fill up on gas and beer, and Cari took the opportunity to go to the restroom. She hadn&#8217;t thought about her period since the drive down, and was surprised to see that she had started back up a little. Luckily she had a tampon in her purse, so she quickly fixed the problem, no biggie.</p>
<p>It was a perfect day at the beach and everything went smoothly. After the beach, Sam and Cari checked into a hotel room and got ready to go have a nice dinner. Cari put on a dress and Sam put on a pair of khakis&#8230; the same khakis that he had been wearing the night before.</p>
<p>It wasn&#8217;t until they were in the car, well on their way to dinner that Cari noticed a peculiar stain above the knee on Sam&#8217;s pants.</p>
<p><span style="color: #ff00ff;"><strong>Cari: </strong></span><span style="color: #ff00ff;"><em>Dude, you look really nice&#8230; but what&#8217;s all over your pants?</em></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #0000ff;">Sam:</span></strong> <span style="color: #0000ff;"><em>What? Ewww I have no idea!!! What <strong>is</strong> that??</em></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #ff00ff;">Cari</span></strong>:<em> <span style="color: #ff00ff;">I dunno, but it looks disgusting!</span></em></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">And it did. It basically looked like a few smears of  nastiness up down his thigh. Imagine eating cheetos, then wiping your fingers down your legs&#8230; only instead of orange, this shiz was brown.</span><br />
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<p><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong><span style="color: #0000ff;">Sam:</span></strong> Did I get into a wrestling match with someone in the front yard or somethin? It kinda looks like blood.<br />
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<p><strong><span style="color: #ff00ff;">Cari:</span></strong> <span style="color: #ff00ff;">I have no idea&#8230; I don&#8217;t remember a single thing after taking the ambien! Maybe you spilled dip on it or something&#8230;<br />
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<p>At that moment Cari had a random brief flash from the night before&#8230; in his bed.. kissing&#8230;  maybe?</p>
<p>That really wasn&#8217;t the type of relationship that they had&#8230;  Cari didn&#8217;t want to ask what happened as to create an awkward situation, so she decided to brush those thoughts away and change the subject.</p>
<p>Neither the oogey stain or anything that may have happened the night before was brought up again&#8230; until they got back to his house the following day and started to unload their  stuff in his room.</p>
<p>As they were unloading their things, Cari noticed Sam stooped over the bed examining the sheet.</p>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong>Sam: </strong>Look! There it is! The same shit that is all over my pants!</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="color: #000000;">Cari went to see what he was looking at, and sure enough&#8230; there were a few brownish splotches on the sheet around the foot of his bed.</span><br />
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<p>It was at that point that Cari had a second flashback from her first night in town.</p>
<p>Yes&#8230; there was definitely kissing&#8230; And maybe a tiny bit more.</p>
<p>A feeling of dread washed over Cari&#8217;s body for the million and tenth time in her life.</p>
<p>For that&#8217;s when she knew exactly what those spots on his bed and on his pants were.</p>
<p>And she wasn&#8217;t about to admit that to Sam.</p>
<p><span style="color: #ff00ff;"><strong>Cari:</strong> Oh yeah&#8230; I&#8217;m sure that&#8217;s dip. Or you know what? I think we may have spilled a cup that had cigarette butts in it!</span></p>
<p>Cari then changed the subject, and didn&#8217;t bring up the stains for the rest of the trip&#8230; or ever.</p>
<p>And they all lived happily ever after.</p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Until now.</strong></span></p>
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		<title>And then it was November</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:29:37 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>I am in serious awe at the speed that this year has flown by. It feels like just yesterday I was getting tasered on the Fourth of July, and now it is officially the second day of November. If the Mayan&#8217;s are correct,we have approximately 3 years left before the shit starts to hit the fan. Which means I really have to get my ass in gear if I want to reach my goal of completing AFI&#8217;s 100 years 100 movies list. Though I<em> am</em> well on my way.</p>
<p>But back to more exciting things, like my past weekend.</p>
<p>Halloween is my absolute favorite holiday, and this year was definitely no exception. LA and her roommate threw a party this year to celebrate both of their birthdays, and of course Halloween. After hosting the party last year, I had an idea as to how crazy things could get- but what ensued surpassed any of my expectations.</p>
<p>I now present you with the highlights.</p>
<p><em>**I am having an extremely difficult time writing anything today. My entire body is bruised, can&#8217;t feel my butt, I can&#8217;t turn my neck, and I&#8217;m missing skin on my elbows and thighs. Why you ask? Because this genius decided that stair-surfing on an ironing board would be an awesome idea! AND IT WAS!!! At least until LA and I rode together and experienced what will now be known as the Great Crash of 2009. I wish I had footage, because it was soooooo worth this pain.</em></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff6600;">Friday night, a group of us got together to start decorating the house and carve pumpkins. I didn&#8217;t actually carve any myself, (because the last time I tried I ended up with a bloody finger and a pumpkin that resembled Sloth from the Goonies) but I somehow ended up with the task of scraping the goo out of everyone else&#8217;s pumpkins. I<em> still</em> have orange underneath my nails.</span></p>
<div id="attachment_1253" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"><img class="size-medium wp-image-1253" title="halloween 004" src="http://www.carissajaded.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/halloween-0041-300x225.jpg" alt="Doobie-lantern" width="300" height="225" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Doobie-lantern??</p></div>
<div id="attachment_1255" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"><img class="size-medium wp-image-1255" title="halloween 002" src="http://www.carissajaded.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/halloween-002-300x225.jpg" alt="How old are we?" width="300" height="225" /><p class="wp-caption-text">How old are we?</p></div>
<div id="attachment_1256" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"><img class="size-medium wp-image-1256" title="halloween 005" src="http://www.carissajaded.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/halloween-005-300x225.jpg" alt="all in a row" width="300" height="225" /><p class="wp-caption-text">all in a row</p></div>
<p><span style="color: #ff6600;">Moving on to the party. Turns out there are some pretty crafty things you can do with food. Someone even tortilla chips in the shape of ghosts, cats and other scary creatures.</span></p>
<div id="attachment_1257" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"><img class="size-medium wp-image-1257" title="halloween 020" src="http://www.carissajaded.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/halloween-020-300x225.jpg" alt="chips, how crafty." width="300" height="225" /><p class="wp-caption-text">chips, how crafty.</p></div>
<div id="attachment_1260" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"><img class="size-medium wp-image-1260" title="halloween 021" src="http://www.carissajaded.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/halloween-021-300x225.jpg" alt="egg devils. I wouldn't have had the patience." width="300" height="225" /><p class="wp-caption-text">egg devils. I wouldn&#39;t have had the patience.</p></div>
<div id="attachment_1261" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"><img class="size-medium wp-image-1261" title="halloween 023" src="http://www.carissajaded.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/halloween-0231-300x225.jpg" alt="My awesome contribution. Whoever said I can't cook?" width="300" height="225" /><p class="wp-caption-text">My awesome contribution. Whoever said I can&#39;t cook?</p></div>
<p><span style="color: #ff6600;">Most importantly, you must see our costumes. Heed the warning above. </span></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff6600;"> </span></p>
<div id="attachment_1263" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"><img class="size-medium wp-image-1263" title="halloween 007" src="http://www.carissajaded.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/halloween-007-300x225.jpg" alt="GHOULS GONE WILD" width="300" height="225" /><p class="wp-caption-text">GHOULS GONE WILD</p></div>
<div id="attachment_1264" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"><img class="size-medium wp-image-1264" title="halloween 013" src="http://www.carissajaded.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/halloween-013-300x225.jpg" alt="LA and I close up. have I told you how much i love making this face?" width="300" height="225" /><p class="wp-caption-text">LA and I close up. have I told you how much i love making this face?</p></div>
<div id="attachment_1265" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 235px"><img class="size-medium wp-image-1265" title="halloween 018" src="http://www.carissajaded.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/halloween-018-225x300.jpg" alt="The most interesting man in the world." width="225" height="300" /><p class="wp-caption-text">The most interesting man in the world.</p></div>
<div id="attachment_1266" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 235px"><img class="size-medium wp-image-1266" title="halloween 027" src="http://www.carissajaded.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/halloween-027-225x300.jpg" alt="&quot;muff diver&quot; was the technical name of his costume." width="225" height="300" /><p class="wp-caption-text">&quot;muff diver&quot; was the technical name of his costume.</p></div>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1267" title="halloween 036" src="http://www.carissajaded.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/halloween-036-300x225.jpg" alt="halloween 036" width="300" height="225" /></p>
<div id="attachment_1268" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"><img class="size-medium wp-image-1268" title="halloween 042" src="http://www.carissajaded.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/halloween-042-300x225.jpg" alt="Eventually got tired of the signs. FAKE BOOBIES!!" width="300" height="225" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Eventually got tired of the signs. FAKE BOOBIES!!</p></div>
<div id="attachment_1278" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"><img class="size-medium wp-image-1278" title="halloween 075" src="http://www.carissajaded.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/halloween-075-300x225.jpg" alt="Nothin but teeth." width="300" height="225" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Nothin but teeth.</p></div>
<div id="attachment_1277" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"><img class="size-medium wp-image-1277" title="halloween 026" src="http://www.carissajaded.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/halloween-026-300x225.jpg" alt="Bill and sookie" width="300" height="225" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Bill and sookie</p></div>
<div id="attachment_1269" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"><img class="size-medium wp-image-1269" title="halloween 068" src="http://www.carissajaded.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/halloween-068-300x225.jpg" alt="???" width="300" height="225" /><p class="wp-caption-text">???</p></div>
<div id="attachment_1270" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"><img class="size-medium wp-image-1270" title="halloween 070" src="http://www.carissajaded.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/halloween-070-300x225.jpg" alt="Kiss" width="300" height="225" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Kiss</p></div>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1271" title="halloween 058" src="http://www.carissajaded.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/halloween-058-300x225.jpg" alt="halloween 058" width="300" height="225" /><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1272" title="halloween 035" src="http://www.carissajaded.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/halloween-035-300x225.jpg" alt="halloween 035" width="300" height="225" /></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff6600;"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1273" title="halloween 040" src="http://www.carissajaded.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/halloween-040-300x225.jpg" alt="halloween 040" width="300" height="225" />Overall? Definite success.<br />
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:38:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carissa Jade</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ok. Take two. I spent all morning writing a post that just disappeared to&#8230; I have no fucking clue where. Forgive me if this is grammatically retarded and completely un-pc, but I don&#8217;t feel like trying as hard this time around. I actually started about 7 different posts that were potentially for today, but for [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ok. Take two.</p>
<p>I spent all morning writing a post that just disappeared to&#8230; I have no fucking clue where. Forgive me if this is grammatically retarded and completely un-pc, but I don&#8217;t feel like trying as hard this time around.</p>
<p>I actually started about 7 different posts that were potentially for today, but for one reason or another just never finished them.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m blaming it on the fact that I was just mega-slammed with work, and I  got a last minute call from Channel 6  News to be interviewed about my unnatural ability to do a hand stand against the wall for 8 hours at a time.</p>
<p>Ha.</p>
<p>Truth is, for the second time this week, I broke my &#8220;not drinking for almost a week&#8221; pact.  I only had a few much-needed cocktails, but I still feel like a big fat sack of guilty ass. Though I have no idea what that would actually look like.</p>
<p>The good news is that I kept my other pact to myself. I vowed that I would be completely committed to this little blog for the entire month of October&#8230; Meaning that, come rain or shine and no matter how boring the shit I threw at you was, I made a commitment that I would post every single weekday. Just to see if I could.</p>
<p>And check out that calendar on the side-bar over there&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;&gt;</p>
<p>OH YEAH, BLOG! I Kellllly-Ripppppppad your ass!!!</p>
<p>And while this may not seem like a big deal to a lot of you, I have something inside of me that makes me  just want quit something as soon as I hear the word &#8220;commit.&#8221;</p>
<p>But alas, maybe these times they are a changin&#8217;.</p>
<p>So now I will continue with my visual presentation to the shit-storm that is my life&#8230; If you missed it, you can check out more visuals from last Friday&#8217;s post <a href="http://www.carissajaded.com/2009/10/efff-my-life-a-visual-presentation/">here</a>.</p>
<p><span style="color: #ff00ff;"><strong><br />
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<p><span style="color: #ff00ff;"><strong>Remember how I was just telling you about how <a href="http://www.carissajaded.com/2009/10/scarred-for-life/">I hate spiders</a>?</strong></span></p>
<div id="attachment_1241" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"><img class="size-medium wp-image-1241" title="spider" src="http://www.carissajaded.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/spider1-300x224.jpg" alt="I killed that mutha." width="300" height="224" /><p class="wp-caption-text">I killed that mutha.</p></div>
<p>Well a certain little bugger  was sent from Satan himself to terrorize me this morning. Sure he was just a little thing, but nevertheless, he did his job well. At first I thought I was imagining things, (possibly experiencing the first signs of food poisoning that I&#8217;m sure to get after eating raw chicken last night) but after seeing a shadow repeatedly float across my computer screen, I knew he was there. I swear though, he was fucking with me on purpose. He used his nearly invisible web to cascade down from the ceiling, probably trying to get close enough to have a taste of my blood, and then as soon as I would notice him and attempt to take a swap, he would completely disappear!. I finally got him though. I would take a picture and show you, but there&#8217;s not a lot left.</p>
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<p><span style="color: #ff00ff;"><strong>Not only do I murder helpless creatures, but I steal shit too.</strong></span></p>
<div id="attachment_1242" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"><img class="size-medium wp-image-1242" title="oopsie" src="http://www.carissajaded.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/oopsie1-300x300.jpg" alt="Does this count as littering?" width="300" height="300" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Does this count as littering?</p></div>
<p>Ok, so I don&#8217;t so much steal, (I&#8217;m not that tough) but I do accidentally take things quite often. I blame it on my severe case of untreated ADD. I&#8217;ll be focused and right in the middle of doing something&#8230;.</p>
<p>I should totally go get fake eyelashes for tonight. Oooh, there&#8217;s a Target across the street.</p>
<p>Which is what happened at the bank a few days ago when I ended up driving away with that little thingie that they send you your money in. I have no clue what to call it, but if you don&#8217;t know what I&#8217;m talking about look at the picture above, ya dumbass.</p>
<p>Oh I&#8217;m feeling a little frisky this morning. Must have been all that sugar. Does anyone know how to make pumpkin dip? I really want some for the party tomorrow. I have a feeling that it is something like pumpkin pie, but I don&#8217;t know how to make that either.</p>
<p>Damn, see&#8230; happened again.</p>
<p>So anyways, I drove away with the thingie. I would have just taken it bac k, but I&#8217;ve already had to do that once this month, and I didn&#8217;t want to go to the <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">embarrassment</span> trouble. Hence the reason that I bowling balled that container right out of my car when I realized I had it. Always get rid of the evidence&#8230;. And then take a picture and blog about it&#8230; is what I always say.</p>
<p>Really, this is a philosophy of mine. (not the blog part) Chunk it out of the car.</p>
<p>Once, my college roommate accused me of taking her Outcast CD.  I denied and denied, because I don&#8217;t listen to Outcast.</p>
<p>About a year later I was going through my cd&#8217;s and came across that Outcast CD. I have no idea how it got there, but I sure enough chunked that shiz out the window in a moment of panic. And now, I&#8217;m blogging about it. (If you&#8217;re reading this&#8230; I AM REALLY SORRY!!!)</p>
<p><span style="color: #ff00ff;"><strong>Have I already told you that I want to take wine behind the schoolyard and get it pregnant?</strong></span></p>
<p><a href="http://Icollectthings."><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1243" title="corks" src="http://www.carissajaded.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/corks1-300x224.jpg" alt="corks" width="300" height="224" /></a>I&#8217;m pretty sure that I have.</p>
<p>My roommates and I have started collecting the wine corks and empty  bottles to use to make artsy things. They have even gone to the trouble of ordering glass cutters and candles and decorative rocks and such. Don&#8217;t worry, I&#8217;ll post pictures of our projects for you. Just as soon as we feel we have saved enough material to really get started.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t hold your breath.</p>
<p><span style="color: #ff00ff;"><strong>Have you met my roommate Jake?</strong></span></p>
<div id="attachment_1244" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 235px"><img class="size-medium wp-image-1244" title="whyidrink" src="http://www.carissajaded.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/whyidrink1-225x300.jpg" alt="Just your average night at my house." width="225" height="300" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Just your average night at my house.</p></div>
<p>For the most part I get along with all my roommates. Jake and I just have a&#8230;. special kind of friendship. Ok, I won&#8217;t beat around the bush. He is the only person in the world that has the ability to make me want to stab myself repeatedly in the eye. And I&#8217;m pretty sure he is committed to making me do so. He has the ability to speak my name at a volume that makes animals do crazy things like jump of cliffs and bite the hands off of small children. Oh the torture! Forget waterboarding, just send Jake. You&#8217;ll get all the answers you want.</p>
<p>Another example of his Jakiness? Last night, for no apparent reason, Jake decided it would be funny to reach his hand down the back of his pants and chase me around the house threatening to wipe butt juice on me. Luckily, I possess the only weapon that works on Jake (and most gay guys)&#8230; a vajayjay. Oh yes. Two can play this game. The chase lasted for about fifteen minutes and ended with Jake locking himself in the bathroom. I win.</p>
<p>On a side note, this pretty much works with anything when dealing with Jake. As long as I have the ability to drop my pants, I win!</p>
<p><span style="color: #ff00ff;"><strong>I know you think otherwise, but I&#8217;m not perfect.</strong></span></p>
<div id="attachment_1245" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"><img class="size-medium wp-image-1245" title="saggy" src="http://www.carissajaded.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/saggy1-300x225.jpg" alt="Note to self: wear a bra." width="300" height="225" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Note to self: wear a bra.</p></div>
<p>I know I&#8217;ve mentioned that my Halloween costume this year consists of a pair of saggy boobs that i ordered off the internet. Well last night, my other roommate Denny, ( who usually doesn&#8217;t give me trouble) asked me why I was wearing them a few days early.</p>
<p>FML.</p>
<p><span style="color: #ff6600;"><strong>HAPPY HALLOWEINER!</strong></span></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have told you before that technology hates me. Like, bad.  I pick up a phone, and it loses service. I sit in front of a computer, and it completely quits working. Since I&#8217;ve been at my current job, (for a year and a half) I&#8217;ve gone through 3 computers. 3 computers. One which was [...]]]></description>
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<p>I have told you before that technology hates me. Like, bad.  I pick up a phone, and it loses service. I sit in front of a computer, and it completely quits working. Since I&#8217;ve been at my current job, (for a year and a half) I&#8217;ve gone through 3 computers.</p>
<p>3 computers. One which was brand new.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m sure my bosses think I&#8217;m on porn sites all day contracting computer AIDS, purposely sabotaging my computers so I have an excuse not to work. In actuality, I have NO FREAKING IDEA how or why these computers keep breaking on me. I treat them well. I run anti-virus programs regularly, and I&#8217;m very careful about what sites I go to. The only reasonable explanation that I can think of, is that I have been possessed by a frequency demon. I&#8217;m not sure it is actually a frequency demon. It may be a computer demon or a technology demon, but I personally think frequency demon has a better ring to it.</p>
<p>But I digress.</p>
<p>I will state for the record now, I am in no way responsible for my current state of, yet again, being without a work computer.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll start from the beginning. (Imagine the following told to you in a ghost story voice. It&#8217;s not the most exciting story ever&#8230; but I think that will help.)</p>
<p>Last Friday was a normal day at work. It was rainy, and I was planning on leaving early to head to Austin to see my little sister.</p>
<p>As usual, my bosses left (even earlier) to go either hunting, golfing, or fishing&#8230; I forget which- on this dark and foreboding day. As usual, I cleared my internet history and shut my lap top down before I headed out.</p>
<p>*Side note- I actually have two work computers. My desktop has Vista, and the marketing software I use, naturally does not work on Vista. Therefore, my bosses begrudgingly had to get me a second computer to use for marketing purposes. A computer which I need in order to get anything done.</p>
<p>Monday morning I came back into work. It was still raining, and I was in a particularly foul mood. The bosses were going to be out until Wednesday, but regardless, since I had left early on Friday, I had plenty of work to do. The early morning was business as usual. I updated the blog, checked my email, and caught up on my friend&#8217;s weekends via facebook. Around 10:00 am I turned around to start up my laptop and get started on some mailings.</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">DUN DUN DUN&#8230;.</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">The laptop&#8230;. was gone.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">At this point I actually didn&#8217;t think much of it, and I was a teensy bit excited that I DID have an excuse not to spend the rest of my day swamped with the monotonous task of sending out mailings. The bosses have taken the laptop with them on their hunting trips before, (as my screen saver slide-show of dead deer proved) and I figured that they had taken it again to showcase their killings. Plus, the case was gone- so I was confident that they had packed it up, because the case was nowhere near the actual computer. So I spent the next two days outwardly cursing my bosses for leaving me bored and with nothing to do, but inwardly thanking the heavens that I had extra time to do as I pleased. By late Tuesday though, I was as bored as I have ever been on a 13 hour road trip with my parents. I was racing to answer the phone. Giving insurance quotes never seemed so fun.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">First thing Wednesday morning when the bosses returned I popped right in their office to ask for the laptop.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Boss: <em>Distracted that I&#8217;d come in</em> <em>without knocking </em> &#8220;Ummm&#8230; OK.. we&#8217;ll get it for you.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">I returned to my desk and about 5 minutes later I was called back into their office.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Boss: &#8220;Did you say something about the laptop?&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Me: &#8220;Umm yeah&#8230; I need it back, so I can&#8230; do some work.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Boss: &#8220;Well where is it?&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Me: &#8220;Uh&#8230; umm&#8230; you&#8230; have it?&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Boss: &#8220;Noooooooo&#8230;..&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">By this time, everyone in the office (all 6 of them) were up and in the bosses office, eager to know what we were discussing. I explained how I thought that they had taken the computer to put their pictures of bloody deer on, and they acted surprised at the prospect that I would think they would do such a thing. There was no sign of foul-play. No broken windows. Nothing else was missing. We looked in every drawer, under every desk, and in every corner of our tiny office. They asked me about five times if I was sure I didn&#8217;t accidentally take it.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Oh sure, I packed a laptop and carried it out without realizing it.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Did I? I seriously started questioning my sanity. I clearly remember leaving the office and driving straight to Ft. Worth to meet up with my friend LA, and we headed to Austin as soon as I got there. But what if I had a crazy drunk ambien moment and drove back to Dallas, stole the computer, and drove back to Austin without even remembering it?</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Ok, even I am not that crazy.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">The bosses called the cops and talked in length to the owner of the building. They all concluded that, besides the cleaning ladies who the building-owner fully trusts, there is no way that anyone could have gotten into our office without a key.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Its been nearly a week now and there are no new leads. Oh sure, there have been the daily jokes&#8230; &#8220;So Carissa, if you just bring the laptop back- no charges will be made.&#8221; Or the ever so clever, &#8220;So, hows that laptop treatin you? You sure were smart in stealing your own work computer to have an excuse not to work.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">I&#8217;m over this shit. Even if they decide to get me a new computer, it will take me at least a week to get everything set up again&#8230; that is if my software is even compatible. </span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">So I&#8217;ve decided to take matters in my own hands. Seriously, I&#8217;m thinking of coming to work tomorrow donning a trenchcoat and very large pipe. I WILL get to the bottom of this. </span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">In other words&#8230; To whoever is out there, typing away on my work laptop. I hope you are enjoying yourself right now. Because in the very near future (*shaking fist) &#8220;I&#8217;M GONNA GET YOU!!!!!<br />
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