The Blogtastic Blogfest That Is Getmeoutofthis.net!

What am I wanting to say again? I feel like I had a bunch of little stories… Oh yeah.

HEY GUYS I ATE A SALAD. But other than that, I bought salad dressing. For a long time, I wished I could find a dressing that tasted just like the Honey French they use on the Honey Bacon Club at Quiznos. It’s the sauce, more than anything else, that makes that sammich, and I wanted to be able to apply that to sandwiches I made at home, and thus never have to walk into a Quiznos again. Previous attempts to buy such dressings tasted terrible, and I kind of stopped trying. In any case, with this whole “salad” experiment, I ended up trying again and buying the Schnucks generic store brand California French dressing. It was PERFECT. Not only did it do just fine on the salad experiment, but I placed some on a sammich and it was everything I had ever wanted. Needless to say I will be buying this dressing for a long time to come. Blogs about groceries are fun, right? Maybe?

I got a weird package in the mail, and then I opened this package and it had a booster pack of Furoticon cards in it. I had completely forgotten about this thing: they were giving away free booster packs if you signed up for their new loyalty program (which in itself is insane that they have a loyalty program) so I’m like eh, why not? It wasn’t a real booster pack, perse. It was just a bunch of spare commons and uncommons from all the sets they had lying around, I guess, so they made these little packs and put them in leftover booster wrappers to maybe drum up more business. I can’t blame them, it was a good idea. I got some cards I didn’t have, and it made me look back at the website and remember how insane it is that this game exists and consider, for a brief insane moment, ordering more cards. It also reminded me that they still owe me a ridiculous novel with my fat pack I ordered from them a long time ago. They send me e-mails every so often promising me that it’s still coming. I’m not mad if I don’t get the dumb thing? But it’s going on a year. With everything else about this outfit being so professional, it’s just kind of surprising? But eh. The game has cards like this (SFW). And that’s a very common, very useful utility card. That’s like the Rampant Growth of Furoticon. Yeah.

I was at work, wearing a pony shirt because I am a small child. I am talking with my team, and a young girl in glasses, I want to say like 4th grade but I am a terrible judge of age, comes up to me and says, “I love your shirt.”
I blink, and go, “Wow, thank you!”
She goes, “I watch that show all the time!”
And I go, “Me too! It is an awesome show.”
Then I said goodbye and went back to work. But that simple little encounter just had me grinning. I dunno what it was about it. Maybe that little girls think I’m a cool lady. Or that, yeah, this show I like is a show that its intended audience ALSO likes, which is a good thing for the longevity of said show. Or maybe it’s because I hope the idea that I’m an adult and I like the show will do a little bit to help her feel comfortable enjoying whatever the hell she wants at any age. But I think it was just because if I was her age, I would have never had the guts to go up to some random adult and tell her how cool her shirt was. She wanted me to know I was wearing cool stuff enough to push past that. That girl was awesome, and I’m glad she said that to me. No matter what silly reasoning I want to create for it, that made my day, no joke. Kids are so awesome sometimes.

Also, the employment front is looking pretty good for me right now. They went out of their way to give me a fourth class to teach this semester, which will really help my finances and also be totally awesome. It’s a bit of a commute, but they are reimbursing me for travel, so that’s nice. Seriously, Three Rivers has been pretty completely awesome so far, and although tomorrow’s trip down there might get a little weird as I have to show all my paperwork, etc, I’m sure this next semester is going to rock. On top of all that, the sole employment opportunity at the University Press has opened, and I am so, SO applying for that. I am so qualified for this position it is INSANE, and I would love every second of doing that job. I am going to get in on that. We’ll see if Susan wants me for it or not, though. Either way, my employment future is looking fine, and that’s nice to know.

Alright, well, we’ll call that a blog. Meet me back here tomorrow. There might be more blog. Okay, will be more blog, let’s not lie. There will be.