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Burger Night was awesome. The burgers were half off and excellent! I only spent $8 last night!!! I am meeting with my real estate agent to begin the process of buying a house. Buying is way cheaper than rent here. I can get a larger house for less than what I am paying now in rent. Anyway, I am baking cookies for my co-worker Tina’s housewarming party. They will be good. Speaking of good, I have taken over 600 calls at work this month. This is an astounding feat worthy of an enormous raise.

I have been on this soup and sandwich kick for the past few days.  It’s weird.  Last week I had this craving for hot sauce and put it on everything!  Strange.  It’s Burger Nite at The Gin Mill.  They have $1.50 drafts and burgers with fries for about $3. I am meeting some friends from work and The Champ.  Yes, he actually prefers to be called The Champ.  Have you noticed that I never come out and say the names of guys I date?  It’s like Sex and the City with Mr. Big, or Big.  What is his real fucking name??!!??

I know, I know, you have nothing to read since I am not posting. I have good news: The Norwegian is safe and bored as hell in Norway. I got a wake up call at 6:46 am this morning from him. He says there are no parties happening and work is very busy. This is a good thing. He will most likely realize that Norway sucks and America rules when it comes to partying. Of course I drank myself into a stupor at my happy hour party on Friday and while watching the Terps beat the shit out of Stanford on Saturday. That’s okay, I had that back-up liver in the fridge.

It has been one wacky week, and it is not over yet. The jig is up; I haven’t posted here on a regular basis. That is because my fellow co-worker is on vacation all this week. The new guy started this past Monday, so I have been training him and picking up the slack. I am very tired. My maintenance guy finally fixed my roof for the fourth time. That’s okay, I am buying a house soon. I just have to find one. So that’s what is happening here. I know, you missed me. I can tell. I have Krispy Kreme donuts to eat now.

I guess you have noticed that I have been busy. The Norwegian and I have been trying to spend as much time together as possible. We made no promises as to what would happen when he leaves. Basically, that means he wants to be friends. He flew back to Norway last night. And today can only get worse. It will be just me and the boss today at work. I will be taking about one million calls.

It was a simple request. I notified the Office Manager that my trash can and my colleague’s trash can was not emptied Friday. When I came to work Monday morning, it was filled. The Housekeeping Manager came to my cubicle with the Assistant Office Manager. He said that he was not saying I was incorrect, but that he checks every day on every floor for the trash. I told him I have never seen him before and that when I came into work on Monday, my trash bin was full. He then spoke to me for five minutes about it. I said I wasn’t hallucinating, that the trash was not emptied and neither was my colleague’s trash bin. I was calm, and he got even more pissed off. What is the deal? It is the responsibility of him and his workers to empty trash at our building. If they miss one, it is no big deal, but everyone at the company was told a month ago that there is a new company collecting our trash and if we have problems to email the Office Manager. So why do I feel so bad? Because I have a conscience and I am naturally inclined to feel remorse, even if I have done anything wrong. And you know, that really sucks.

I got my braces tightened again. This has been going on for soooo long. I would love to be able to bite into pizza instead of cutting it up. Now I just bite into everything from the side. Well, house hunting is a bitch. I can only afford crack houses now, unless I whore myself in front of some bars. I just looked at a house last night that was jacked up. I saw a drug deal take place in front of the house! To make matters worse, there is a house for sale four doors down going for $165K!! So basically, I could take the house and hope the crack goes away, or look to purchasing a house on an alley street. I am going to look at three more houses next Wednesday. Two of the three houses are near an excellent bar/restaurant. The other house is on an alley near where I already live. All of the houses are in my price range, which is a plus.

Friday wasn’t too exciting. I worked all day, by myself, holding down the fort. I ventured to the supermarket to pick up some things and cleaned my house. Very interesting stuff. Heather came to visit me on Saturday and we watched the first two boxing matches with some buddies before rolling to Fell’s Point Cafe. I was supposed to meet the Norwegian at Cat’s Eye pub, but parking was a bitch, so I was late. I picked him up at the boat and we caught up with Heather. It was a good night for drinking and flashing. Our bill was four dollars! On Sunday, the Norwegian was hung over so I let him sleep while I watched some cable. Then we picked up salmon, some wine, chips, and two movies. I made my ever-so-lovely salmon with mustard dill sauce, long grain wild rice, and steamed broccoli. Once again there was a snowstorm warning, so I could not pick up eggs to make chocolate chip cookies. This is the third time we have had a warning in the last 30 days, and I don’t know where all the eggs went, but they were gone. If I was going to be stuck in my house for a snowstorm, I would stock up on liquor, condoms and frozen pizzas, not eggs. This is why I hate Maryland and the reason why I have to move to California. And my roof is leaking.