[05 Jan 2010|09:04pm] aubkabob {Phone rings...} Me: Hello? Perky Girl: Hi!, is this Aubrey? Me: ... um, yes? Perky Girl: Hi! I was just calling about the room you put up on craigslist? Me: ... craigslist? Perky Girl: Yeah, we exchanged a few emails about a room you had available? Me: ... I haven't exchanged any emails, I never put anything on craigslist. Perky Girl: You didn't? Me: ...noooooo..... I'm sorry for the confusion! Perky Girl: Okay, um... bye! .... UNAMUSED. I text my brother: "Um, any reason I just got a call from a girl from craigslist that I supposedly exchanged emails with regarding being my roommate?" He calls back immediately, as I'm already trying to poke through craigslist (a site I've been to like three times ever, so I have ZERO idea how to navigate) to see if I can see a post that someone put up with my name and my number. I'm sorta freaking out, thinking someone is being vindictive towards me or somesuch. He gives me the brilliant idea to call Perky Girl back to get some additional information. I so very much hate the phone. I call her, she answers. Me: Hi, you just called about rooming? Her: Yes! Me: Hi, this is Aubrey, I'm just trying to get some additional information so that I can get to the bottom of this. You said we exchanged emails? Her: Yes, several emails, and then you said to just go ahead and call the number in the ad, 521.... Me: OOOOH.... I'll bet I know what happened. We just bought our Mom a cell phone, I'm wondering if whoever sent you to call the number either transposed numbers or thought that the number still belonged to the previous owner. Her: .... but YOU said... Me: That's the only thing that I assume could have happened. Her: *huffy*... so you are saying you DON'T have anything for rent? Me: No. Neither does my mom. ..... so. I call Mom and say, "So... you told someone to call me?" Apparently, her phone rang, she answered it, and the girl said "Is Aubrey there?" Mom told her "no, but you can contact her at...." The only thing I can think of, after filtering out any paranoid thoughts of some vindictive, angry person sitting at a computer in a dark room, cackling "HEE HEE HEE, THIS WILL SHOW HER!", is that there is some girl here in Vancouver named Aubrey who needs roommates who just so happened to either transpose or mistype a telephone number to magically get a woman who randomly also has a daughter named Aubrey.... No matter what happened.... no, sir, I don't like it. 3 comments|post comment

Posted using TxtLJ [04 Jan 2010|09:23am] aubkabob You know it's going to be a long day when the manager you're working with makes you want to drink heavily by 8 am. 1 comment|post comment

i ain't got no crystal ball [04 Jan 2010|11:06am] flash_indie [ mood | bouncy ] [ music | Sublime - Santeria | Powered by Last.fm ] Have a picture of me looking quite drunk on New Years Eve, featuring stealth!background!ellen. - I saw Avatar the other night. Despite it's flaws, I really enjoyed it. I found the 'villain' to be lacking in motivation and the racial issues to be, well, present, but the visual effects were kick ass and both Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldana were fabulous. I may or may not have written a few hundred words of fic, lol. I really wanted a scene where Neytiri came face to face with Jake's wheelchair and all his inabilities as a human being, and was disappointed when that scene didn't play out in the film after she saved him, so I wrote it myself, haha. Oh well, I might post it later, depending on when I get back from tai chi and then work. - Also, just so people know, I would read so much 'Community' gen if it existed. There's all this Jeff/Annie fic, which is nice, but gen! I want snark and group funtimes, because I seriously love everyone on this show. The best I've found so far is Five Times Abed Predicted the Future, which makes me ridiculously happy. If you're a fan of the show, you should totally read it. She captures Abed's voice perfectly. 5 comments|post comment

Huh [01 Jan 2010|03:07pm] pen_rhovan_nin [ mood | confused ] ( You are about to view content that may not be appropriate for minors. ) 2 comments|post comment

[01 Jan 2010|03:18pm] anotheropensoul I'm getting really anxious there are too many people lurking around my on my cozy spot under the window in the science fiction section in Borders and I can't get my business done. Also I'm trying really hard to look busy and smart, like I'm working on my lifes work of some sort, but this can't really happen well, while I'm listening to Bane, wearing dirty jeans and a hoody and eating like four Almond Snickers bars. This is not a serious commitment. This year I want to see the Northern Lights. Not from stupid Wisconsin, but from a more romantic, exotic place. I'm going to go buy an expensive coffee that I shouldn't be drinking and write people letters with my extra stamps. 1 comment|post comment

Already?? [31 Dec 2009|06:08pm] you_wanna_disco In New York at the moment, and I'm getting homesick! Its New Years Eve, and everyone has plans, but me! My sister is being a bore and doesn't want to go to Time Square. Its New Years in Time Square, how could you not want to go? How could you come to New York and not go and see the ball drop? And there's snow outside??! We went yesterday, and they were setting up. Ryan Seacrest was there. We got to see him pretty up close, like a person away close. I got some pictures of him, and of course of the city! I'll put them up soon, I'm just not in the mood to upload any. I miss my mommy, and my shnoogums. Yeah I'm sure you're thinking how could I be complaining, I'm in NY. But I get homesick very easily. Don't get me wrong, I love the city! Though during events and occasions like these, I want to be with my family. to be continued... post comment

2010 [01 Jan 2010|08:32am] flash_indie [ mood | happy ] A Happy New Years to all. I hope your end of '09 was fabulous, and that your '10 is even better. I am quite hungover, and posting this before heading into work (triple time! i love the important public holidays). Fingers crossed the centre I work in will be totally dead. I doubt it, but, hey, it would be awesome if it was. A song to hail in the new year - Josh Pyke - The New Year's Song'. Not a newbie, but a goodie. Also, I should have the first mixtape of the new year finished in a day or so, the subject, rather ironically, is all the songs I loved from last year. Anyway, I hope you are all having a wonderful new year, no matter what you're doing or where you are. :) 13 comments|post comment

[30 Dec 2009|03:37pm] black616 thx gal8028 i got your card :) post comment

Too Weird to Live...But Much to Rare to Die<3 [29 Dec 2009|12:13am] fakexpearls [ music | Avenged Sevenfold ] I kind of feel like I  just lost a friend, the funny thing is I never knew him. Sandy and I were talking on IM and she asked questioned if I listened to Avenged Sevenfold. Of course I do - they are my favorite band even after this Jonas craze started. I'm a metal girl through and through. Well, she told me, the drummer died. Today hasn't been marvelous but that kind of...really sucked. I'm so sad right now. Avenged has been that band for me - they are like the band. We all have that one band that was a gateway, that once we find lead us to so many other things and you stick by them forever. They made sense in my head, you know? Their style and everything embodies my lifestyle I feel like. Every time these guys come, I'm there. I have my back saved for this huge piece I want done (a tattoo) that is their artwork. I just want to wrap up the other four guys and all the A7X fans in one huge hug (and all the Orange Country Hardcore bands that run in a pack that all metal fans seems to love). I could tell you guys so many useless facts about Jimmy aka The Rev that you don't care about. You probably don't know who A7X is - that's cool. Metal's not for everyone and I get that but this dude was phenomenal... I'm shaking as I type this and I feel silly and so sad. I looked down and my hands were shaking. (Music has such a huge impact on our lives, you know?) My mom even knew who he was when I turned and told her he died. If that's a clue how big of deal this is for me, like Momma knew who this guy was. He could play the double bass like no other. He wrote "A Little Piece of Heaven" on the piano and played it for the band twice - one handed for each part because he didn't know how else. He was a silly guy. He was over 6 feet tall. He could scream crazy-good sitting down. His real name was James Sullivan. He was 28. I think I have preached to everyone I have ever met about this band and their talent and just... I'm really sad you guys. This so fucking sucks. Like - okay so I don't know if this is any comparison but to me it is - when Dimebag Darrell of Pantera died and metal lost a legend. I feel like that just happened. This generation of metal lost a great talent. So - not that you have to or anything, but there's this song by Avenged - it's called Bat Country and there's this part (other than the whole song) but at about 3:15 that the drumming is epic:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9UdiLRxu5k or the the beginning of Beast and the Harlot until about....the one minute mark: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bDg7n-chhU Too Weird to Live...But Much to Rare to Die (that's a line from Bat Country as well as the book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - which they got me into becuase of the song, and I found my favorite author and book). You were a rare breed, Jimmy. You were fucking insane and alive and loving every minute of it. I will miss your crazy drumming, insane smile and antics. Rest in peace, dude. Avenged Sevenfold for life. - Sabrina post comment

[25 Dec 2009|01:54pm] black616 Merry christmas!! :D post comment

[25 Dec 2009|07:23pm] flash_indie [ mood | exhausted ] Merry Christmas, everyone! Hope you all had/will have an awesome day. Mine's currently coming to a close, and it's the first Christmas I can remember where we haven't had epic family drama, so I count it as a win. 9 comments|post comment

[24 Dec 2009|11:11am] aubkabob Merry Christmas Eve! I really need to get out of my pajamas and get dressed, as I have to leave for work in 20 minutes or less. Instead, I shall compose this post whilst inhaling the last of my grape nuts. I went to bed with the knowledge that I am out of coffee at the house. Being addicted to caffeine as I am, if I would wait until I get to work at noon to make a pot, I would already be dealing with a horrible and debilitating caffeine headache. As I lay in bed this morning, I remembered that I had picked up a tiny single pot package from the canned food warehouse type place! Wooooey hoooo! I went into the kitchen and realized I have ZERO idea where I put it. After going through everything in the kitchen, I finally found it. I literally lifted it over my head and yelled "YESSSSSSSSS!!!!..." (Picture the stance in your mind, if you will, of He-Man and his sword, and a loud statement of "By the power of Greyskull... IIII HAVE THE POOOOOWAAAAH.") I started to cheerfully make a pot of coffee: put in the filter, poured in the water, cut open the package of coffee. As I pour the little shiny package into the filter, one word on the package stood out to me... ... ....Decaffeinated. ..... WHYYYYYYYYYYY?!??!? I'M MELLLLTING, MELLLLLTING! Well, poop. I then discovered that I had two tea bag like thingies left of my Folgers instant, so I cut those open and tossed the meager crystals on top. I don't know why I'm sulky about being the closing manager on Christmas Eve. I certainly don't have plans - the only family in the area is my mother and brother, and I live with one and will be visiting the other tomorrow. Maybe it's just the principle of the thing. It's also only a teensy six hour shift, not nine or ten like I usually work. 13 comments|post comment

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