Evolving Elaine

2005-12-14T20:18:00.000-08:00

Today while making Christmas cookies I got my sleeve caught in the mixer.
And Jason brought a pie pan into the Toyota service department when we took the car in to get it's 30,000 mile tune-up. Don't ask me why he felt it was important to make sure the mechanics didn't see it in the car...

So I am currently unemployed. I was fired from the stationery store and it was the first time I've been fired. The boss was a bitch anyway and I don't think she liked me. I think she was just waiting for me to make a mistake so she could do it. Oh well. Her business sucked anyway. I doubt the store will last over a year. Plus I figured out how to print my own stationery and envelopes, so I can start my own business!! Ha ha! That's my new hobby now-making notecards. I decided not to work until this coming winter quarter at OSU, so I'm enjoying my time off from working. Actually, I'm bored out of my mind and I can't wait to get back to doing something!

Today a police man yelled at me. I cried. Jason and I came back to our car from working out at the gym and there was a cop by the meters writing tickets. I swear our meter had JUST gone to zero and he yelled at us. He said, "Do you think I won't write you a ticket cause you're back at your car?!!?!" He was a mean ol bastard and let me tell you, I have NEVER been disrespectful to a cop, but dammit I wanted to soooo bad right then. Why are people so mean?? I mean he was such an ass and it's not like we were robbing a store or something, we just were a couple seconds late to the meter!! JERK!!!!!

After weeks of working out and doing Weight Watchers, I have lost about 10 pounds, or the equivalent of two Mavis. As per his last vet visit, he weighed 5 pounds. Unfortunately, the little stinker has taken more of a liking to me, causing Jason to become very jealous. What more could a girl ask for than to have two boys fighting over her affections? In fact, every night there are two of them in my bed! One sleeping on top of me, the other by my side (I won't say which does which :)).

Other than that, nothing is really new. Jas and I are going to Jersey in a week or so for Christmas and this Saturday is my mom's family Christmas party in Dayton. We'll see how Jason does with the relatives... That will be my next blog entry...

2005-11-13T20:08:00.000-08:00

Mavi gets in for a close one!

2005-11-13T20:07:00.000-08:00

Mavi likes to clear out some space among the photos.

So I promised I would post some pictures of Maverick, and here they are, courtesy of Lauren VanArsdale! Thanks Lauren :) A lot has happened since I last posted. I registered for classes at OSU recently. I'll be taking biology and organic chemistry and I'm going to see if I can work in a lab or at a hospital. Also, my former roommate Ali was back home in Cleveland, visiting from San Diego. So I drove up and visited her for a day. We had a lot of fun catching up and we did a lot of shopping. It was great to see her. I hadn't seen her in months.

However, the big news is that Jas and I finally booked our wedding (again!). It's now set for September 2 at Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. No turning back now!! We're super excited. If you want to check out our wedding website, it's www.theknot.com/ourwedding/ElainePaulus&JasonOglesbay . Also, the website for the hotel is www.mandalaybay.com if you want to check out pics of the chapel.

Finally, Jas and I went over to our friends Ann and Adam's house for a pre-Thanksgiving dinner get-together with friends from Ohio University. It was great, and I got pretty drunk. They had this great wine there, called Riesling which I had never tried. Supposedly it's a dessert wine, but hell, I'll drink it with anything from now on! We had a great time catching up with friends we hadn't seen in awhile. Ann and Adam live in German village and they have such a cool house. I was so jealous cause they had all this cool furniture and cookware. It made our apartment look sooo shabby!! The party was a great idea because we all got to see our friend Zach before he leaves for Malaysia on a Fulbright scholarship in a couple weeks. Hopefully we'll get a chance to see him again before he leaves for the year.

I'm really excited about the holidays this year because I don't have a shitty ass stressful seasonal job for once! But mostly because that means that I get more of a chance to spend time with friends and family. My best friend Robyn is coming home from Boston for Thanksgiving!!! I haven't seen her in months either and I am so excited to see her. Only a couple more weeks. Robyn, you can do it, girl! Shit on Boston! Give 'em hell! You DESERVE to be happy!!!!!

2005-10-31T21:48:00.000-08:00

So on Saturday, Jason and I got a kitten! We got him from Cat Welfare off of Indianola Ave. www.catwelfareohio.com is the link, and if you're interested in getting a cat I highly recommend them. We got a 14 week old american shorthair tan-colored (buff) male kitten there, and we named him Maverick. All adopted kitties come with all of their vaccinations and are spayed or neutered. Since he's a kitten, he can't be neutered yet, but in February the shelter is going to do it for free.

Maverick is an amazing little guy!! He is well behaved and is potty trained--definitely a plus. I'll need to get a photo of him to post on the blog. But for the meantime I'll put up a photo of a kitten that looks like him.

2005-10-31T18:55:00.000-08:00

This is what Maverick looks like. Isn't he adorable??

2005-10-24T22:53:00.000-07:00

Ok, ok so I know that I haven't posted anything yet. I guess I've just been worried that nothing interesting has happened to me in the past weeks or so. But damnit, this is MY blog, and I get to write what I want. So here's what's been going on in Elaine's world lately. I finally quit The Great Indoors!!! I have never been happier. I've realized that sometimes you just have to quit things, even if you can't stand the thought of it and feel like a loser for doing so. Forcing yourself to do something that is making you miserable is TOTALLY not worth it. So now I have a job at a stationery store in Upper Arlington on Lane Ave. near campus. It's just down the street from where Jason and I live. The hours are great: only open 10-6 most days and closed on Sundays! It's a lot less stressful and I don't have to stand all day, plus a 40% discount beats a 10% discount any day. I got the job through one of Jason's friends in his program, Amanda. She works there when she's not in class and she's pretty cool. Jas and I went out with her and a few other people from his program to a wine bar Friday night, called the Burgundy Room in the Short North. We had a great time. I got to meet all the people in his program, and got quite drunk. One of his classmates, John, his wife is a pediatrician at Children's Hospital, so I got to talk to her about med school and such. FYI, I am currently thinking about going to med school in the next year or so, I am trying to glean as much info as I can. The plan as of now is to take biology and organic chem this year to meet the prereqs and to apply at the end of the year. Its a serious thought, but who knows. I just know I don't want to spend my life in a cubicle on a computer designing crap that doesn't matter. I want to be out there helping people in some way and doing something that I can look back on and feel like I made a difference. Anyway, as I was sitting in the Burgundy Room, absolutely tipsy, I realized that I was surrounded by 3 medical doctors and 5 biochemistry PhD students. It blew my mind. Actually, what blew my mind was the fact that we were all having a great time and no one was a pompous asshole.

Last weekend, my Aunt Ann, and my cousins Kory and Kristi came into town. Kory was running the Columbus marathon (yea Kory!), something I could never do. I've never been to a marathon before. It was amazing watching all those men and women competing together. The muscle tone on those people is incredible. The only problem was there was this awful banjo band playing music right by where we were standing. I guess they have different bands play throughout the race, and we got the hillbilly band! So Kristi brought her two sons, and they were 6 and 3 and absolutely adorable. My Aunt Ann is from Las Vegas, so we talked with her about our wedding. She got really excited and she's been calling me about all the places she's checked out for us on the strip since she got back home. She has some connections with an event planner or two on the strip. She dragged her husband Mike all over the strip and crashed some weddings to get info for us, and she seemed to like the Mandalay Bay the best. So it's looking like we're going to get married there. Don't worry, we'll keep you posted and we'll send out invites as soon as we get a site booked. Well, that's it for now. Next, we might get a kitten. I've been bugging Jason about it for the past week. We'll see...

2005-10-10T20:31:00.000-07:00

This is me.