1) I've just discovered that if you make a peanut butter and banana sandwich using a hoagie roll, you don't have to cut up the banana!!! It can remain intact; as phallic as God intended. It is glorious.
2) I uploaded a new photo set to flickr, despite Brett's strong objections. He thinks they're bad photos, and that I shouldn't let people see them. I think he's a douche. He might be right about them being bad, but I don't really care. I wanted to upload something new and didn't feel like taking the time to find one of my cameras to import, so there ya go.
3) I found this awesome wake up call thingy this morning, and aaalmost gave them B's phone number so he'd really be able to start his day off on a good note, but then I decided...maybe that's not the note he's going for at 6 am. Also, it's sponsored by both Walmart and Disney, which is a little creepy to me.
But back when the Transformers movie came out, I had special messages from Optimus Prime sent to both B's phone and mine. It was suh-weeeeet. I don't think Hannah Montana would be quiiite as enjoyable, though. But check out her rockin' microphone. *Bling!* She sure knows how to look badass. And not like a Disney slave. Her pants really say it all.
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Friday, July 25, 2008
Apparently, I really feel like blogging today.
Also, when I was typing in the url to start writing this post, I first wrote "blooger.com" which made me lols. Because I'm 30 years old and still think boogers are funny.
Anyway. The point of this post was to write that I've spent the last hour or so sitting in our living room watching Bones episodes and doing random crap in FB. Brett is in the basement playing some sort of video game. Probably FF[something or other; I think he has them all].
Sooo...I was about to start a new game of Word Twist, when my cellphone rang. With Brett's ring. I answered his call with a, "Nice, dude."
He acknowledged his laziness, and we continued our conversation for another seven minutes or so. During this time, we both agreed that we should get teriyaki takeout for dins, and also managed to select what we wanted from the menu, without ever actually making an effort to see each other face to face. Then I hung up with him so I could place the order, and once I was done, I shouted down the stairs, "TEN MINUTES!" And he shouted back, "K!"
You might attribute this horrible, lazy, anti-social behaviour to the fact that we've been married for eight years, but you'd be wrong. We've always been like this. We're both totally affectionate and romantic, and we're atrociously shameless with the PDA, but back before we were even married, yes, waaay back then, we spent HOURS ICQing each other from dorm rooms that were about twenty feet away from one another. Brett even proposed over ICQ:
*****
Brett 5/7/00 3:54 PM so do you think we'll get married?
Cat 5/7/00 3:54 PM nah. you forgot my candy.
Cat 5/7/00 3:55 PM ;)
Cat 5/7/00 3:55 PM i don't know, what do you think? i mean, 50%
of the choice IS up to you...
Brett 5/7/00 3:55 PM he heh.. right.. you're so loving.
Brett 5/7/00 3:55 PM well.. i know what i think.. but i don't know
what you think..
Cat 5/7/00 3:55 PM well why don't you tell me what YOU think...
Brett 5/7/00 3:56 PM i'd like to.. as soon as we feel like it.. i
don't know when that would be for you..
Cat 5/7/00 3:57 PM yay...me too. :) but i don't know how
soon...it's expensive, and time consuming...
Brett 5/7/00 3:57 PM it doesn't have to be expensive.. and as for
time, you have 6 months to work and do
whtaever.. who knows.. and it's not like
anyone would be planning alone..
Cat 5/7/00 3:58 PM yeah, okay, so maybe i could do some planning
while i'm not in school...but when would you
feel like getting married? do you know?
Brett 5/7/00 3:59 PM as soon as you want to.. i guess.. i'm so
accustomed to being wiht you.. i don't
remember life any other way.. and it seems a
rather natural transition.. i guess.. you
know..
Cat 5/7/00 4:01 PM it does...it does...so natural...but like,
when would you want to start telling people?
how long should we wait before we tell our
parents? do we need to get rings?
[Blah blah blah about money for awhile, and then...]
Brett 5/7/00 4:12 PM you're so cute.. damn.. ok.. well.. then can
we tell other people? do we even really want
to tell people? ooh, should i do that whole
"will you marry me?" thing? what about that?
Cat 5/7/00 4:14 PM what do you want to do? do YOU want to tell
other people? I'm fine with whoever; as long
as my parents don't find out until i feel like
i can show them that i'm trying to do things
sensibly... you can do the whole will you
marry me thing if you want to, but i'm pretty
sure i'll say yes, so it'd just be like...a
formality or something...what do you think?
Brett 5/7/00 4:16 PM i dont' like formalities.. hey, we could be
special and do it over icq.. wouldn't that be
trashy? um.. i think it's totally cool not to
tell your parents now.. we can not tell mine
too.. until later..
[Blah blah blah about who to tell, and when, and then...]
Cat 5/7/00 4:20 PM cool about [refers to edited text]...agreed about the
formalities, except let's NOT go the trashy
icq route...lets just say that it just kind of
happened gradually, with both of us just
talking about it more and more, 'cause that's
kind of how it happened. you can [refers to edited text] hey...so
um...does this mean you're my fiancee yet?
Brett 5/7/00 4:21 PM yes.. i am.. and you're mine.. ok..
[MORE blah blah blah about who to tell, and when, and then...]
Brett 5/7/00 5:06 PM dinnah, oh beautiful fiancee of mine?
Cat 5/7/00 5:59 PM fiancee....fiancee...fiancee...
Brett 5/7/00 6:00 PM heh heh ehh.. yes.. mmm.. i'm happy..
Cat 5/7/00 6:00 PM me too...i feel a little funny...because it's
new...but funny in a good way...cat jackson...
Brett 5/7/00 6:01 PM that sounds like hte name of some kind of funk
singer..
Cat 5/7/00 6:01 PM i likes it. i've been liking it in my head
for awhile now, actually...
*****
That's all I feel like sharing. And probably way MORE than anyone feels like reading. But weren't we sooo cute??? And at the time, Brett and I were 20 and 21 years old respectively. Which seems SO FRIGGIN YOUNG to me now! TOO young. But I felt totally grown up then, and pooh poohed anyone who said we were too young to get married. And apparently, I was right to do it! :)
Also, please don't allow the hideous length of this post to deter you from reading the other two posts I've written so far today. You should read alllll of my words! ALL OF THEM!!! ♥
Anyway. The point of this post was to write that I've spent the last hour or so sitting in our living room watching Bones episodes and doing random crap in FB. Brett is in the basement playing some sort of video game. Probably FF[something or other; I think he has them all].
Sooo...I was about to start a new game of Word Twist, when my cellphone rang. With Brett's ring. I answered his call with a, "Nice, dude."
He acknowledged his laziness, and we continued our conversation for another seven minutes or so. During this time, we both agreed that we should get teriyaki takeout for dins, and also managed to select what we wanted from the menu, without ever actually making an effort to see each other face to face. Then I hung up with him so I could place the order, and once I was done, I shouted down the stairs, "TEN MINUTES!" And he shouted back, "K!"
You might attribute this horrible, lazy, anti-social behaviour to the fact that we've been married for eight years, but you'd be wrong. We've always been like this. We're both totally affectionate and romantic, and we're atrociously shameless with the PDA, but back before we were even married, yes, waaay back then, we spent HOURS ICQing each other from dorm rooms that were about twenty feet away from one another. Brett even proposed over ICQ:
*****
Brett 5/7/00 3:54 PM so do you think we'll get married?
Cat 5/7/00 3:54 PM nah. you forgot my candy.
Cat 5/7/00 3:55 PM ;)
Cat 5/7/00 3:55 PM i don't know, what do you think? i mean, 50%
of the choice IS up to you...
Brett 5/7/00 3:55 PM he heh.. right.. you're so loving.
Brett 5/7/00 3:55 PM well.. i know what i think.. but i don't know
what you think..
Cat 5/7/00 3:55 PM well why don't you tell me what YOU think...
Brett 5/7/00 3:56 PM i'd like to.. as soon as we feel like it.. i
don't know when that would be for you..
Cat 5/7/00 3:57 PM yay...me too. :) but i don't know how
soon...it's expensive, and time consuming...
Brett 5/7/00 3:57 PM it doesn't have to be expensive.. and as for
time, you have 6 months to work and do
whtaever.. who knows.. and it's not like
anyone would be planning alone..
Cat 5/7/00 3:58 PM yeah, okay, so maybe i could do some planning
while i'm not in school...but when would you
feel like getting married? do you know?
Brett 5/7/00 3:59 PM as soon as you want to.. i guess.. i'm so
accustomed to being wiht you.. i don't
remember life any other way.. and it seems a
rather natural transition.. i guess.. you
know..
Cat 5/7/00 4:01 PM it does...it does...so natural...but like,
when would you want to start telling people?
how long should we wait before we tell our
parents? do we need to get rings?
[Blah blah blah about money for awhile, and then...]
Brett 5/7/00 4:12 PM you're so cute.. damn.. ok.. well.. then can
we tell other people? do we even really want
to tell people? ooh, should i do that whole
"will you marry me?" thing? what about that?
Cat 5/7/00 4:14 PM what do you want to do? do YOU want to tell
other people? I'm fine with whoever; as long
as my parents don't find out until i feel like
i can show them that i'm trying to do things
sensibly... you can do the whole will you
marry me thing if you want to, but i'm pretty
sure i'll say yes, so it'd just be like...a
formality or something...what do you think?
Brett 5/7/00 4:16 PM i dont' like formalities.. hey, we could be
special and do it over icq.. wouldn't that be
trashy? um.. i think it's totally cool not to
tell your parents now.. we can not tell mine
too.. until later..
[Blah blah blah about who to tell, and when, and then...]
Cat 5/7/00 4:20 PM cool about [refers to edited text]...agreed about the
formalities, except let's NOT go the trashy
icq route...lets just say that it just kind of
happened gradually, with both of us just
talking about it more and more, 'cause that's
kind of how it happened. you can [refers to edited text] hey...so
um...does this mean you're my fiancee yet?
Brett 5/7/00 4:21 PM yes.. i am.. and you're mine.. ok..
[MORE blah blah blah about who to tell, and when, and then...]
Brett 5/7/00 5:06 PM dinnah, oh beautiful fiancee of mine?
Cat 5/7/00 5:59 PM fiancee....fiancee...fiancee...
Brett 5/7/00 6:00 PM heh heh ehh.. yes.. mmm.. i'm happy..
Cat 5/7/00 6:00 PM me too...i feel a little funny...because it's
new...but funny in a good way...cat jackson...
Brett 5/7/00 6:01 PM that sounds like hte name of some kind of funk
singer..
Cat 5/7/00 6:01 PM i likes it. i've been liking it in my head
for awhile now, actually...
*****
That's all I feel like sharing. And probably way MORE than anyone feels like reading. But weren't we sooo cute??? And at the time, Brett and I were 20 and 21 years old respectively. Which seems SO FRIGGIN YOUNG to me now! TOO young. But I felt totally grown up then, and pooh poohed anyone who said we were too young to get married. And apparently, I was right to do it! :)
Also, please don't allow the hideous length of this post to deter you from reading the other two posts I've written so far today. You should read alllll of my words! ALL OF THEM!!! ♥
Whoa.
JUST after I posted my complaint about FB's removal of the import option, I noticed they'd added the option back in (under the new "settings" link, at the top of the mini feed), and they imported my faved YouTube video. FB FTW! :D
Bacon pie.
Brett is back! He came home last night, and then worked a half day today, and he's home again for the weekend. Yay! ♥
On his way home today, he stopped at Costco for groceries, Taco Bell for himself, and McDonald's for me. My energy has been reeeally dragging today, so I tried eating a big huge green salad with olives and tofu and basil and a nice homemade vinaigrette for brunch, thinking that the protein and veg would pep me up, but it did not. Proper nutrition = FAIL.
Then I tried drinking a bunch of water, thinking that maybe if I just shocked my system with sort of the inside equivalent of a cold shower, THAT would pep me up. Proper hydration = FAIL.
Moving around = FAIL.
Lying on the couch and watching two hours of Shear Genius = (obvious) FAIL.
By 1 pm, I was lying face-down on the couch with my eyes closed. So I decided to go in a different direction, and called Brett, who was running errands, and asked him to pick me up some McDonald's. I got: a diet coke (for caffeine), apple pies (for carbs, fat, and a nice healthy dose of hfcs), and a chicken sammie (because I figured, you know...I might as well just go all the way).
And you know what? I feel better. This high may end with a crashing low in a few hours, but for right now I feel pretty good. Here's the weird thing though - I ate my chicken sammie first, and it pretty much just tasted like mayonnaise and breading. No shocker there. But my diet coke and the one apple pie I've eaten so far (why do they come in twos??? So stupid) have both had, I swear to God, a subtle hint of bacon in their flavoring.
At first I was like, "well, maybe someone didn't clean off the fryer before they cooked the apple pie. But WTF? I'm pretty sure they just microwave that shit inside its paper box; I doubt it ever actually touches human hands until I'm shoving it into my fat face. But maybe they also microwave their bacon, and they had just done that when they decided to heat up my pie? Idfk. It's a mystery. But how the hell does my COKE taste like bacon??? How does that HAPPEN??? Anyone? Don't tell me if you know the answer, but you think I might not want to hear it. Wait, no...tell me. Wait, no don't.
And on a completely unrelated note: what do you think of teh new Faceboks? (OH! My stomach is starting to hurt. McDonald's, I'm looking at you!) It took me a few hours to get used to using the new layout, but now I love it. I think it's sooo much better. And anyone who is pissed that they didn't make it more customizable with different color choices and all that can kiss my ass. MySpace is fugly. If FB ever becomes as fugly as MySpace, I won't use it anymore. There are, however, some things that I do NOT care for:
1) I can't for the life of me figure out what happened to my ability to import data from other websites into my mini feed (you know - Flickr, Digg, YouTube, etc?). I know I have at least one Stumble and one faved YouTube vid that should've shown up, but they haven't and I can't find the options to add/delete/update my acct info. If they really did get rid of the import option, that's so fuxed. They're retarded if they think it won't be missed. At least by me. And I'm important, dammit!!! Does anyone know if they plan to add it back in, or if it's just in some weird place that I haven't found yet?
2) They have a nice little spot under my profile image for me to "write something about" myself, but it's text only. All I wanted to do was add hyperlinks to a few other sites that I go to (just like on my profiles for Flickr, Last.fm, etc), but I couldn't even use <a href="...>. Hell, I couldn't even use [url]!!! Facebook, that is G-H-E-T-T-O. Fuckin' weak. And if I let them display my urls FOR me, you know, in my "website" section? They display the whooole thing, http and all. Which is ugly, so I keep it hidden. Much like Hugo Simpson. But there will be no bucket of fish heads for my website section, because it doesn't deserve them. I will let it starve until it learns to be a pretty girl.
3) Ew...my diet bacon Coke is sweating a big wet ring onto my desk. I should really finish it. Or get a coaster. I'll just finish it. Anyway, like I was saying...
3) You used to be able to add all kinds of cute shit to the bottom of fb comments, like Free Gifts, Green Gifts, you know, the type of ghey shit someone like me would (and did) add to like, a good 25% of their comments. What can I say? I like adding a birthday cake image to the bottom of a "Happy Birthday!" comment. Or a picture of a bikini to the bottom of a comment that includes a story about a sunburn. Today I went to add a four-leafed clover to the bottom of a comment for someone in the middle of a job hunt, and found that my only option was to add one of FB's "Gifts." Lame. FB CHARGES for their gifts. I never use them. Unless the are the free sponsored gifts that pop up once in a blue moon. I want to add Free Gifts and Green Gifts to my comments, gd it!!! Bring them back!!! :/
That's really it, though. Oh, I also hate that my photo section is so prominently displayed, since I usually just use flickr. But that's all I can think of for now. Even with the shitty stuff that they still need to work on though, I still like the new layout better. So good job, FB staff! You're like, 99% there.
This post is longer than I intended it to be. But oh! FYI (if you're one of the people who was still wondering) - Mordechai is home safe. So is Star (she got out too, later). And Mordechai got out AGIAN last night, and came home again this morning. Bastards. Wanting to get out and enjoy the world. Can you IMAGINE??? How rude! (Aaron, I totally think of FH every time I say "How rude!")
But, IF you were one of the people still wondering if Mordechai had yet been found, you could always check my FB status. 'Cause I updated it as soon as I found him.
Or, if you're not my FB friend yet (I'm looking at you, old people and fb boycotters), you could check my feed on Iminta. I have to manually update my fb status there, which sucks (I'm looking at you, Aaron Newton), and the time stamp on MOST of the shit that shows up in my Iminta feed is waaay off (and the amount of time that it's off varies from site to site, which also sucks), but it DOES show my activity on each site in order, which is the most important thing. So like, my Last.fm playlist info might show up after my FB status update, when in fact it was played BEFORE, but FB status update #343 will always show up after FB status update #342, which is good. I really like Iminta, and I want it to be good, and I want it to be popular. I think FriendFeed is ugly and stupid. There ARE other lifestream blogging options out there, but honestly none that I like as much as Iminta. So far.
Okay, now this post is reeeally too long. Kudos to you if you get this far. I'm going to watch some Bones and maybe play some sort of FB game until Brett gets off the phone with his birthday twinnie and makes me do something productive. Cross your fingers for me that they talk for a few hours, k? :)
On his way home today, he stopped at Costco for groceries, Taco Bell for himself, and McDonald's for me. My energy has been reeeally dragging today, so I tried eating a big huge green salad with olives and tofu and basil and a nice homemade vinaigrette for brunch, thinking that the protein and veg would pep me up, but it did not. Proper nutrition = FAIL.
Then I tried drinking a bunch of water, thinking that maybe if I just shocked my system with sort of the inside equivalent of a cold shower, THAT would pep me up. Proper hydration = FAIL.
Moving around = FAIL.
Lying on the couch and watching two hours of Shear Genius = (obvious) FAIL.
By 1 pm, I was lying face-down on the couch with my eyes closed. So I decided to go in a different direction, and called Brett, who was running errands, and asked him to pick me up some McDonald's. I got: a diet coke (for caffeine), apple pies (for carbs, fat, and a nice healthy dose of hfcs), and a chicken sammie (because I figured, you know...I might as well just go all the way).
And you know what? I feel better. This high may end with a crashing low in a few hours, but for right now I feel pretty good. Here's the weird thing though - I ate my chicken sammie first, and it pretty much just tasted like mayonnaise and breading. No shocker there. But my diet coke and the one apple pie I've eaten so far (why do they come in twos??? So stupid) have both had, I swear to God, a subtle hint of bacon in their flavoring.
At first I was like, "well, maybe someone didn't clean off the fryer before they cooked the apple pie. But WTF? I'm pretty sure they just microwave that shit inside its paper box; I doubt it ever actually touches human hands until I'm shoving it into my fat face. But maybe they also microwave their bacon, and they had just done that when they decided to heat up my pie? Idfk. It's a mystery. But how the hell does my COKE taste like bacon??? How does that HAPPEN??? Anyone? Don't tell me if you know the answer, but you think I might not want to hear it. Wait, no...tell me. Wait, no don't.
And on a completely unrelated note: what do you think of teh new Faceboks? (OH! My stomach is starting to hurt. McDonald's, I'm looking at you!) It took me a few hours to get used to using the new layout, but now I love it. I think it's sooo much better. And anyone who is pissed that they didn't make it more customizable with different color choices and all that can kiss my ass. MySpace is fugly. If FB ever becomes as fugly as MySpace, I won't use it anymore. There are, however, some things that I do NOT care for:
1) I can't for the life of me figure out what happened to my ability to import data from other websites into my mini feed (you know - Flickr, Digg, YouTube, etc?). I know I have at least one Stumble and one faved YouTube vid that should've shown up, but they haven't and I can't find the options to add/delete/update my acct info. If they really did get rid of the import option, that's so fuxed. They're retarded if they think it won't be missed. At least by me. And I'm important, dammit!!! Does anyone know if they plan to add it back in, or if it's just in some weird place that I haven't found yet?
2) They have a nice little spot under my profile image for me to "write something about" myself, but it's text only. All I wanted to do was add hyperlinks to a few other sites that I go to (just like on my profiles for Flickr, Last.fm, etc), but I couldn't even use <a href="...>. Hell, I couldn't even use [url]!!! Facebook, that is G-H-E-T-T-O. Fuckin' weak. And if I let them display my urls FOR me, you know, in my "website" section? They display the whooole thing, http and all. Which is ugly, so I keep it hidden. Much like Hugo Simpson. But there will be no bucket of fish heads for my website section, because it doesn't deserve them. I will let it starve until it learns to be a pretty girl.
3) Ew...my diet bacon Coke is sweating a big wet ring onto my desk. I should really finish it. Or get a coaster. I'll just finish it. Anyway, like I was saying...
3) You used to be able to add all kinds of cute shit to the bottom of fb comments, like Free Gifts, Green Gifts, you know, the type of ghey shit someone like me would (and did) add to like, a good 25% of their comments. What can I say? I like adding a birthday cake image to the bottom of a "Happy Birthday!" comment. Or a picture of a bikini to the bottom of a comment that includes a story about a sunburn. Today I went to add a four-leafed clover to the bottom of a comment for someone in the middle of a job hunt, and found that my only option was to add one of FB's "Gifts." Lame. FB CHARGES for their gifts. I never use them. Unless the are the free sponsored gifts that pop up once in a blue moon. I want to add Free Gifts and Green Gifts to my comments, gd it!!! Bring them back!!! :/
That's really it, though. Oh, I also hate that my photo section is so prominently displayed, since I usually just use flickr. But that's all I can think of for now. Even with the shitty stuff that they still need to work on though, I still like the new layout better. So good job, FB staff! You're like, 99% there.
This post is longer than I intended it to be. But oh! FYI (if you're one of the people who was still wondering) - Mordechai is home safe. So is Star (she got out too, later). And Mordechai got out AGIAN last night, and came home again this morning. Bastards. Wanting to get out and enjoy the world. Can you IMAGINE??? How rude! (Aaron, I totally think of FH every time I say "How rude!")
But, IF you were one of the people still wondering if Mordechai had yet been found, you could always check my FB status. 'Cause I updated it as soon as I found him.
Or, if you're not my FB friend yet (I'm looking at you, old people and fb boycotters), you could check my feed on Iminta. I have to manually update my fb status there, which sucks (I'm looking at you, Aaron Newton), and the time stamp on MOST of the shit that shows up in my Iminta feed is waaay off (and the amount of time that it's off varies from site to site, which also sucks), but it DOES show my activity on each site in order, which is the most important thing. So like, my Last.fm playlist info might show up after my FB status update, when in fact it was played BEFORE, but FB status update #343 will always show up after FB status update #342, which is good. I really like Iminta, and I want it to be good, and I want it to be popular. I think FriendFeed is ugly and stupid. There ARE other lifestream blogging options out there, but honestly none that I like as much as Iminta. So far.
Okay, now this post is reeeally too long. Kudos to you if you get this far. I'm going to watch some Bones and maybe play some sort of FB game until Brett gets off the phone with his birthday twinnie and makes me do something productive. Cross your fingers for me that they talk for a few hours, k? :)
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Luh-AME.
Facebook is down, and my cat is missing.
I switched over to the new fb layout yesterday, and it's awesome, exceeept that now it's down. I pulled up a erm...different fb account in a different browser, and it looks like the OLD fb is working fine. I'm thinking that deleting my cookies might allow me to regain access to the old fb on my real fb account, but I don't wanna. I don't ever want to go back. Plus I've already rearranged all my little boxes and shiz. Whinewhinewhine. I'll just wait it out; hopefully it'll be back up in a minute.
A little more concerning is the fact that Mordechai got out early this morning (around 4ish, I think, when I went to take in the trash bins), and I haven't seen or heard from him since. A black cat out before dawn and now at dusk is a little worrisome. Especially with all the half-asleep commuters probably driving through our neighborhood at those hours. Ugh. I don't want to think about it.
When I was little we owned a horse ranch, and we had a male cat who would escape out into the wilderness for sometimes days at a time. But he was an indoor/outdoor cat, and I don't know how many predators were around (out on the Olympic Peninsula). HERE, there are lots of cars, and lots of coyotes. Brett's parents live only about a mile and a half from here, and I think they've had two or three cats that they suspect were eaten by coyotes.
Guh...Mordechai, COME HOME!!! ♥
I switched over to the new fb layout yesterday, and it's awesome, exceeept that now it's down. I pulled up a erm...different fb account in a different browser, and it looks like the OLD fb is working fine. I'm thinking that deleting my cookies might allow me to regain access to the old fb on my real fb account, but I don't wanna. I don't ever want to go back. Plus I've already rearranged all my little boxes and shiz. Whinewhinewhine. I'll just wait it out; hopefully it'll be back up in a minute.
A little more concerning is the fact that Mordechai got out early this morning (around 4ish, I think, when I went to take in the trash bins), and I haven't seen or heard from him since. A black cat out before dawn and now at dusk is a little worrisome. Especially with all the half-asleep commuters probably driving through our neighborhood at those hours. Ugh. I don't want to think about it.
When I was little we owned a horse ranch, and we had a male cat who would escape out into the wilderness for sometimes days at a time. But he was an indoor/outdoor cat, and I don't know how many predators were around (out on the Olympic Peninsula). HERE, there are lots of cars, and lots of coyotes. Brett's parents live only about a mile and a half from here, and I think they've had two or three cats that they suspect were eaten by coyotes.
Guh...Mordechai, COME HOME!!! ♥
So...I'm thinking of making curry.
Maybe fruit salad. Maybe both? I don't know. Right now I'm eating a fudgesicle (or "fudgeicle," if you will), and feeling a little bit like I'd rather just keep busy all night, instead of trying to sleep. Brett's away on business until Thursday, and while that's definitely not long enough to make me feel lonely, I have a strong dislike of sleeping alone.
It's not that I'm scared; I just don't see the appeal in laying down next to...nothing. When I was single I sometimes stayed up for days at a time. Or had to fall asleep watching movies. Maybe I'll see if Hulu works on the Wii yet. We somehow have 0 s-video cables in the house right now, and that's the only way my old-ass laptop can connect to the tv, so...yeah. I guess I could just watch shit on the lappy itself. Or actually watch tv. Ew.
Right now I have my laptop running behind me (I spent the morning laying in bed using it to watch Angel and play Word Twist), and I'm on my iMac. I'm Mac in the front, and PC in the back. Ha. If the PC was in the front, and the Mac was in the back, it'd be like a perfect computer mullet. Too bad that if given the choice, I'd always rather face a Mac. :P
Speaking of mullets...I'm also wearing a tube top and a super high ponytail. And I'm barefoot. I might as well be drinking cheap beer and sporting a black eye that I SWEAR came from falling down the stairs. Hawttt.
Anyway. Are you on Last.fm? You should add me as a friend if you are. But you probably aren't. Or you don't use it. I don't know. I wish it were more popular than it is. Anyway, so I spent a good chunk of today listening to Katy Perry. Which you would know if you'd seen my last.fm profile. Or my iminta profile, I guess, but that's neither here nor there.
What I'd like to know is - what do YOU think of Katy Perry? If you've heard enough of her to formulate an opinion. I think a lot of her shit is reeeally crappy (check out her "similar artists" section for verification of her crappiness), but NPR thought she was good enough to bother mentioning, and I've liked her "I Kissed a Girl" song for awhile now, so I thought I'd check out more of what she has to offer. Most of it wasn't worth listening to more than once or twice, but I kind of like "Hot N Cold" and "UR So Gay."
So...UR So Gay. Here are the lyrics. I'll admit I call THINGS "ghey" or "ghay" all the time, but usually when I call people "gay" it's because they're, well...gay. And they call THEMSELVES gay, too. So reason 1 for me to hate this song - the guy she's singing about is, according to her, NOT ACTUALLY GAY. Reason 2? I actually PREFER IT when guys are literate, eco-conscious, fashionable, wear sunscreen, and have good taste in music. I think they're better that way, and I can't stand it when guys are all butched up and caveman-ish. And if they bother wearing makeup, well, good for them. You know, if it works. Reason 3 that I hate this song: it ends with her spitting out the word PENIS like some sort of retarded ten year old.
The ONLY reason I LIKE this song is because it's sooo catchy. I totally sang it over and over while I was washing dishes this afternoon. (Incidentally, Brett - what the hell did you eat that was hot pink??? I couldn't figure it out.) But judging from the lyrics and/or from listening to it on last.fm, what do YOU think of "UR So Gay?" Is it too awful for me to listen to? Should I just stick with the thousands of other catchy songs out there, or is it maybe actually hilarious and not meant to be taken as a serious affront to all men who are awesome and metrosexual? Do you like it? Do you hate it? Eh?
It's not that I'm scared; I just don't see the appeal in laying down next to...nothing. When I was single I sometimes stayed up for days at a time. Or had to fall asleep watching movies. Maybe I'll see if Hulu works on the Wii yet. We somehow have 0 s-video cables in the house right now, and that's the only way my old-ass laptop can connect to the tv, so...yeah. I guess I could just watch shit on the lappy itself. Or actually watch tv. Ew.
Right now I have my laptop running behind me (I spent the morning laying in bed using it to watch Angel and play Word Twist), and I'm on my iMac. I'm Mac in the front, and PC in the back. Ha. If the PC was in the front, and the Mac was in the back, it'd be like a perfect computer mullet. Too bad that if given the choice, I'd always rather face a Mac. :P
Speaking of mullets...I'm also wearing a tube top and a super high ponytail. And I'm barefoot. I might as well be drinking cheap beer and sporting a black eye that I SWEAR came from falling down the stairs. Hawttt.
Anyway. Are you on Last.fm? You should add me as a friend if you are. But you probably aren't. Or you don't use it. I don't know. I wish it were more popular than it is. Anyway, so I spent a good chunk of today listening to Katy Perry. Which you would know if you'd seen my last.fm profile. Or my iminta profile, I guess, but that's neither here nor there.
What I'd like to know is - what do YOU think of Katy Perry? If you've heard enough of her to formulate an opinion. I think a lot of her shit is reeeally crappy (check out her "similar artists" section for verification of her crappiness), but NPR thought she was good enough to bother mentioning, and I've liked her "I Kissed a Girl" song for awhile now, so I thought I'd check out more of what she has to offer. Most of it wasn't worth listening to more than once or twice, but I kind of like "Hot N Cold" and "UR So Gay."
So...UR So Gay. Here are the lyrics. I'll admit I call THINGS "ghey" or "ghay" all the time, but usually when I call people "gay" it's because they're, well...gay. And they call THEMSELVES gay, too. So reason 1 for me to hate this song - the guy she's singing about is, according to her, NOT ACTUALLY GAY. Reason 2? I actually PREFER IT when guys are literate, eco-conscious, fashionable, wear sunscreen, and have good taste in music. I think they're better that way, and I can't stand it when guys are all butched up and caveman-ish. And if they bother wearing makeup, well, good for them. You know, if it works. Reason 3 that I hate this song: it ends with her spitting out the word PENIS like some sort of retarded ten year old.
The ONLY reason I LIKE this song is because it's sooo catchy. I totally sang it over and over while I was washing dishes this afternoon. (Incidentally, Brett - what the hell did you eat that was hot pink??? I couldn't figure it out.) But judging from the lyrics and/or from listening to it on last.fm, what do YOU think of "UR So Gay?" Is it too awful for me to listen to? Should I just stick with the thousands of other catchy songs out there, or is it maybe actually hilarious and not meant to be taken as a serious affront to all men who are awesome and metrosexual? Do you like it? Do you hate it? Eh?
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Huh.
We recycle. So sometimes when I finish off a jar of something especially gloppy, I do this weird thing where I fill it with water and let it sit while I wash the dishes, in the hopes that most of the glop will loosen up without me having to glop up our scrub brush. About a month ago, I did this with a jar of peanut butter. There wasn't much peanut butter left in the jar; just those last little bits around the mouth of the jar, and in the corner place at the bottom.
We also don't pour our cooking oil down the drain. We pour it into clean used jars, and when they are full of oil, we throw them away. At some point, the above mentioned peanut butter jar filled with water made its way to the corner of the counter where we keep the oil jar, so that it looked like there were just two oil jars, and no jar full of soaking peanut butter water stuff.
I noticed the peanut butter jar while doing the dishes today. The peanut butter scraps had turned grey. I knew it was bad news, but I opened the jar anyway. APPARENTLY, if you leave a jar of peanut butter sitting on a sunny counter top for about a month in the summer, the resulting concoction smells just like blue cheese. JUST LIKE IT. It's amazing. Also amazing was how quickly the smell filled the whooole kitchen. And how long it lingered.
Another interesting fact: no matter how much I tried to tell myself to calm down and just imagine that it really WAS blue cheese I was smelling, I couldn't stop wanting to throw up.
And on a completely random and unrelated note: someone from Alabama just found my blog by searching for "I have a great rack." Which is awesome for them, because I DO have a great rack. Thanks.
We also don't pour our cooking oil down the drain. We pour it into clean used jars, and when they are full of oil, we throw them away. At some point, the above mentioned peanut butter jar filled with water made its way to the corner of the counter where we keep the oil jar, so that it looked like there were just two oil jars, and no jar full of soaking peanut butter water stuff.
I noticed the peanut butter jar while doing the dishes today. The peanut butter scraps had turned grey. I knew it was bad news, but I opened the jar anyway. APPARENTLY, if you leave a jar of peanut butter sitting on a sunny counter top for about a month in the summer, the resulting concoction smells just like blue cheese. JUST LIKE IT. It's amazing. Also amazing was how quickly the smell filled the whooole kitchen. And how long it lingered.
Another interesting fact: no matter how much I tried to tell myself to calm down and just imagine that it really WAS blue cheese I was smelling, I couldn't stop wanting to throw up.
And on a completely random and unrelated note: someone from Alabama just found my blog by searching for "I have a great rack." Which is awesome for them, because I DO have a great rack. Thanks.
Just a few quick notes...
because I'm SUPPOSED to be productive today. Sheesh. Imagine that.
1) Brett and I stayed at our friend Peter's house in B'ham last Saturday. We had a good time. We went on a walk at sunset, and I took a few pictures. Take a look. Feel free to comment, if you have a Flickr account. If you don't have a Flickr account...you should have a Flickr account. It's cheap as free. Unless you go pro, like me. Then it's aaalmost cheap as free.
2) I don't remember if I've mentioned this already, but I also finished uploading my photos from Seaside. And did you know that every month I usually upload a couple of random photos into a set just titled "[Month] [YY]" as well? There are a couple in there for July.
3) Shannon & Kim's birthdays are tomorrow!!! Should that be Shannon's and Kim's, since they're two separate events? Anyhoo. Happy birthday, girlies!!!
So...every year B and I go to at least one night of Shakespeare in the Park as put on by Wooden O/Seattle Shakespeare Co. This year we're only going to Midsummer Night's Dream, because we don't know anyone performing in Romeo & Juliet, and that play is...um...
So SHANNON is awesome, because she realized that since we prefer our SITP in Lynndale Park, we'd want to see either the 07/16 or 07/17 showing. And since 07/16 is her BIRTHDAY, and SITP is FREE and in a PARK, she decided to have her birthday party be a picnic dinner in the park before/during the play. So tomorrow we'll be seeing Jon perform in Midsummer Night's Dream at Shannon's Midsummer Night's Birthday. I'm bringing chocolate cupcakes, if you want to come. I think I'm bringing about two dozen (depending on how many I eat the night before), so I'm sure there'll be enough for the like, two local people who actually read this f'ing blog.
4) Last night we finally bought our tickets to our friend Dan's* LAST play in Seattle: Adventures in Mating. We're going this Friday. If you want to go too, get your tickets nownownow!!! They're almost sold out. I'm not sure what this play will be like, but the idea is that it's some sort of strange, choose your own adventure dealy. Read about it here.
* I chose to link to Dan's TPS page after realizing that his blog appears to have been mostly abandoned. What a nerd. What a nerd for NOT BLOGGING.
1) Brett and I stayed at our friend Peter's house in B'ham last Saturday. We had a good time. We went on a walk at sunset, and I took a few pictures. Take a look. Feel free to comment, if you have a Flickr account. If you don't have a Flickr account...you should have a Flickr account. It's cheap as free. Unless you go pro, like me. Then it's aaalmost cheap as free.
2) I don't remember if I've mentioned this already, but I also finished uploading my photos from Seaside. And did you know that every month I usually upload a couple of random photos into a set just titled "[Month] [YY]" as well? There are a couple in there for July.
3) Shannon & Kim's birthdays are tomorrow!!! Should that be Shannon's and Kim's, since they're two separate events? Anyhoo. Happy birthday, girlies!!!
So...every year B and I go to at least one night of Shakespeare in the Park as put on by Wooden O/Seattle Shakespeare Co. This year we're only going to Midsummer Night's Dream, because we don't know anyone performing in Romeo & Juliet, and that play is...um...
So SHANNON is awesome, because she realized that since we prefer our SITP in Lynndale Park, we'd want to see either the 07/16 or 07/17 showing. And since 07/16 is her BIRTHDAY, and SITP is FREE and in a PARK, she decided to have her birthday party be a picnic dinner in the park before/during the play. So tomorrow we'll be seeing Jon perform in Midsummer Night's Dream at Shannon's Midsummer Night's Birthday. I'm bringing chocolate cupcakes, if you want to come. I think I'm bringing about two dozen (depending on how many I eat the night before), so I'm sure there'll be enough for the like, two local people who actually read this f'ing blog.
4) Last night we finally bought our tickets to our friend Dan's* LAST play in Seattle: Adventures in Mating. We're going this Friday. If you want to go too, get your tickets nownownow!!! They're almost sold out. I'm not sure what this play will be like, but the idea is that it's some sort of strange, choose your own adventure dealy. Read about it here.
* I chose to link to Dan's TPS page after realizing that his blog appears to have been mostly abandoned. What a nerd. What a nerd for NOT BLOGGING.
Tuesday, July 08, 2008
What the boo???
Okay, I was abooout to go into iphoto and choose some pics to upload, but then I saw on StatCounter that someone found my blog by googling "I hate being a Gemini."
WHAAA??? WHO HATES BEING A GEMINI??? Geminis are AWESOME!!! In case you didn't know, the top five astrological signs are as follows:
1. Gemini
2. Virgo & Cancer (it's a tie)
4. Aries
5. Sagittarius
I can't believe there are actually self-hating Geminis out there. I thought we were all totally in love with ourselves. But maybe that's just me.
Either way, if there's anything that visitor should be hatin' on, maybe it should be the fact that they accessed my site using I friggin E on a machine running Windows XP. Barfaroni. Maybe whatever it is in your life that has FOR SOME REASON made you hate being blessed with the BEST ASTROLOGICAL SIGN EVER can be fixed with a few simple upgrades to your machine. Or maybe you just need to get the hell out of Michigan. I'm just sayin.
WHAAA??? WHO HATES BEING A GEMINI??? Geminis are AWESOME!!! In case you didn't know, the top five astrological signs are as follows:
1. Gemini
2. Virgo & Cancer (it's a tie)
4. Aries
5. Sagittarius
I can't believe there are actually self-hating Geminis out there. I thought we were all totally in love with ourselves. But maybe that's just me.
Either way, if there's anything that visitor should be hatin' on, maybe it should be the fact that they accessed my site using I friggin E on a machine running Windows XP. Barfaroni. Maybe whatever it is in your life that has FOR SOME REASON made you hate being blessed with the BEST ASTROLOGICAL SIGN EVER can be fixed with a few simple upgrades to your machine. Or maybe you just need to get the hell out of Michigan. I'm just sayin.
Holy rocket fuel, Batman!
Once I finally choke down the last of tonight's curry, my hope is that I'll have created my own built-in jet-pack. So strong will be the force of my ass flames. I wonder if I could get all the way to Brett's mom's house tomorrow on ass power alone. Hmmm...and if THAT works, maybe I'll test out carrying Brett with me when we go to Portland next month. And if I could eat enough curry to fly us to Phoenix in October, we wouldn't have to pay for plane tickets, which would be sweeeeet. But I'll need to remember to wear a skirt. Because pants + curry jet pack ass = fashion disaster. :/
It's not that it's BAD curry; it's actually really, really good. Brett made it, and he has mad curry skillz. He was just a little..."heavy handed" with the spicy bits this time. And by "a little," I mean my lips burn so badly that I can't comfortably press them together. And I haven't taken a bite in about five minutes. I'd say it's about six stars, on a scale of one to five. But it's good though. Hellsa good.
Oh God...my esophagus burns. Jesus. But it's such a good burn. Like a shot of tequila when you just really need a shot of tequila. If you know what I mean. Besides, my step dad told me that in the love family they used chilis to get rid of intestinal parasites. So if I have any parasites today, I bet I won't tomorrow!!! :D
Speaking of "the family," we found someone to do our yard work for us. Guess who? Guess whoooo??? My brother All's friend Smooth. Out of all the virtue names I've ever heard, Smooth's is the best by faaar. It's really "Smoothness," but I guess he just goes by Smooth. Like Sharing goes by Share. Fuckin' awesome.
I was never in the family, so I never got a virtue name. Every once in awhile someone asks me what I think my virtue name would've been, and I usually say something like "Creativity" or "Wisdom." But after hearing Smooth's name, I've decided that my virtue name will be Dope Ass Mother Fucker. Damf, for short. Not really a "virtue," but neither is "All" and everybody still loves him.
Maybe I'll make Damf my new nickname. When we were at the coast last week, Sam got pepper sprayed (he didn't do anything wrong, it's a long story), so I nicknamed him Pepper Spray. Which then rapidly became Pepper, Sgt Pepper, and then (after Maria decided that "Sgt Pepper" gave him too much authority and not enough emasculation), Brett came up with Paprika. So Sam's new forevs nickname is Paprika.
Then Brett kept correcting people, and he was dubbed Inspector Corrector. Somehow Sarah became Ceviche Sarah, but I forget why. I wanted a nickname too, and tried really hard to get people to call me Awesome Opossum, but they weren't havin' it. Maybe Damf, though. Call me Damf!!! :D Or Cat. Cat is fine, too. And I guess some people call me Kitty, and that's okay too. Just not anything that sucks.
Aaanyway, so Smooth is coming over tomorrow and the next day with a buddy to work on our yarrrd. I doubt it will look beautiful when they're done, but I'm sure it will look markedly better. Which will be nice. I hate being home while people are doing work here, so while they do their thang I'm gonna go to Brett's parents' house to hang out with his mom, Alison, and little ♥Esmond♥. I'll try to take a bunch of photos. I also have some photos from Seaside that I should upload soon. Hmmm. Maybe I'll work on that now...
It's not that it's BAD curry; it's actually really, really good. Brett made it, and he has mad curry skillz. He was just a little..."heavy handed" with the spicy bits this time. And by "a little," I mean my lips burn so badly that I can't comfortably press them together. And I haven't taken a bite in about five minutes. I'd say it's about six stars, on a scale of one to five. But it's good though. Hellsa good.
Oh God...my esophagus burns. Jesus. But it's such a good burn. Like a shot of tequila when you just really need a shot of tequila. If you know what I mean. Besides, my step dad told me that in the love family they used chilis to get rid of intestinal parasites. So if I have any parasites today, I bet I won't tomorrow!!! :D
Speaking of "the family," we found someone to do our yard work for us. Guess who? Guess whoooo??? My brother All's friend Smooth. Out of all the virtue names I've ever heard, Smooth's is the best by faaar. It's really "Smoothness," but I guess he just goes by Smooth. Like Sharing goes by Share. Fuckin' awesome.
I was never in the family, so I never got a virtue name. Every once in awhile someone asks me what I think my virtue name would've been, and I usually say something like "Creativity" or "Wisdom." But after hearing Smooth's name, I've decided that my virtue name will be Dope Ass Mother Fucker. Damf, for short. Not really a "virtue," but neither is "All" and everybody still loves him.
Maybe I'll make Damf my new nickname. When we were at the coast last week, Sam got pepper sprayed (he didn't do anything wrong, it's a long story), so I nicknamed him Pepper Spray. Which then rapidly became Pepper, Sgt Pepper, and then (after Maria decided that "Sgt Pepper" gave him too much authority and not enough emasculation), Brett came up with Paprika. So Sam's new forevs nickname is Paprika.
Then Brett kept correcting people, and he was dubbed Inspector Corrector. Somehow Sarah became Ceviche Sarah, but I forget why. I wanted a nickname too, and tried really hard to get people to call me Awesome Opossum, but they weren't havin' it. Maybe Damf, though. Call me Damf!!! :D Or Cat. Cat is fine, too. And I guess some people call me Kitty, and that's okay too. Just not anything that sucks.
Aaanyway, so Smooth is coming over tomorrow and the next day with a buddy to work on our yarrrd. I doubt it will look beautiful when they're done, but I'm sure it will look markedly better. Which will be nice. I hate being home while people are doing work here, so while they do their thang I'm gonna go to Brett's parents' house to hang out with his mom, Alison, and little ♥Esmond♥. I'll try to take a bunch of photos. I also have some photos from Seaside that I should upload soon. Hmmm. Maybe I'll work on that now...
Saturday, July 05, 2008
By the Sea
We're still at the coast - we're planning to leave early tomorrow morning in the hopes of beating most of the tourist traffic out of town, but we'll see. It's been a reeeally nice trip. Brett and I managed to workout on the beach every day until today, which makes me feel a little bit better about the 50,000 tons of junk food and meat we've eaten since our arrival. Yesterday I swear to God I bet I literally ate like, 3 lbs of BBQed pork. And a cup of gwak. And about 7 lbs of other random crap. And a whole "small" orange Fanta at the movies. But I would've called it a large. After I ordered it and the guy started filling my cup, I was like, "That's a SMALL???" And he was like, "I know, right! Aren't you glad you didn't go for the medium?" And I was like, "YES." But Sam got a large. Blah. HFCS FTW!!!
The REASON we were at the movies though, was because we saw...WALL-E!!! It was ***sooo goooood***. I loveloveloved it. It was defs preachy, but I agreed with all of the things it was preaching about, so therefore it was awesome. And the animation was muy excelente. And Sam is friends with one of the guys who did the lighting, which was also really, really good. The textures were amazing too. You should definitely see it. DEFINITELY. AWESOME. DEFINITELY AWESOME.
I've taken some pics (and a little bit of low res video! we'll see if it turns out.), but I'll upload most of them from home. Right now I have to go help mom, Maria, and Chris put together a puzzle. Because they need all the help they can get. But for now, here's a photo from Brett's iPhone: on our way home from the beach yesterday, we played in the tide pools a little bit, and I tried to get this starfish to come off its rock so I could throw it back in the ocean, but it wasn't haaavin it.
The REASON we were at the movies though, was because we saw...WALL-E!!! It was ***sooo goooood***. I loveloveloved it. It was defs preachy, but I agreed with all of the things it was preaching about, so therefore it was awesome. And the animation was muy excelente. And Sam is friends with one of the guys who did the lighting, which was also really, really good. The textures were amazing too. You should definitely see it. DEFINITELY. AWESOME. DEFINITELY AWESOME.
I've taken some pics (and a little bit of low res video! we'll see if it turns out.), but I'll upload most of them from home. Right now I have to go help mom, Maria, and Chris put together a puzzle. Because they need all the help they can get. But for now, here's a photo from Brett's iPhone: on our way home from the beach yesterday, we played in the tide pools a little bit, and I tried to get this starfish to come off its rock so I could throw it back in the ocean, but it wasn't haaavin it.
Wednesday, July 02, 2008
I should be updating my ipod, but...
I think I'll do this instead. I'm running a load of laundry right now, so I'm still kiiind of being productive. I feel a little weird right now. A little out of the loop on things. I'm not a big fan of most tv, so I only watch maaaybe a couple of hours a week. I watch stuff from Netflix, and I poke around on youtube, but that's pretty much it. Since I don't work, it's easy to get away with not watching tv, because there aren't a lot of people around me every day being all like, "Oh my gaaawd, did you SEE last night's 'So You Think You Can Dance???' Did you SEEEEE IT??? OH MY GAAAWD!!!" But at the same time, there's no one around to inform me of "important" things I need to know. Like that there's a new Pixar movie out.
Well...Brett works, so he SHOULD be capable of informing me of these things, but we don't usually hit much on pop culture in our conversations. We mostly just blab about our own lives/thoughts, or "preach to the choir" about things like trade laws, global politics, health/nutrition, the arts, whatevs. We're pretty boring.
Sometimes I manage to stay in the loop via friends, intarwebs, or podcasts (which I guess count as intarwebs?) but lately I haven't been listening to podcasts much, and apparently, at least when it comes to WALL-E, my friends and the intarwebs have FAILED me. I *did* see the free WALL-E gift on fb awhile ago, but I was like, "Wtf is that thing? It looks like that thing from Short Circuit."
Then Shannon mentioned that she was going to see something called WALL-E with her mom, but I just figured it was some dumb movie that I hadn't heard of because it was probably dumb. Or...you know. Not my cuppa tea. Same dif.
Then when we were hanging out with Tony and Nicolle tonight, THEY were talking about it, and I was like, "What the fuck are you TALKING ABOUT?" And Tony mentioned that it was the new Pixar movie that's out right now. And Brett was all like, "Yeah. It looks kind of sad. And WALL-E looks like the robot from Short Circuit." Or something like that.
So then I felt sad. And out of the loop. And a little left behind, which is sometimes how I feel these days. Isolated. It's funny; I don't have kids, so I can't make that standard SAHM complaint of needing "adult" time because I'm tired of dealing with children all day, but since I'm ALONE all day, I also sort of feel like I need "adult" time. I still want to have kids, and I still want to be at home with them, but maybe my kids will like...go to summer camp. And have two years of preschool (both Brett and I did, and we turned out great!), and spend a few weeks with the grandparents every now and then, while the Mr and I wonder off to...the Netherlands or something. You know...where ever.
I also think I want to maybe take a class or two next fall. Since I've never taken a photography class (or even finished reading the manual for my camera), I'm thinking of taking a beginning photography class at Shoreline. Continuing Ed, obviously. Not like, an actual class. But maybe an actual class would be fun too...and then I'd have a student id card, and theatre tickets/technology/etc would be cheaper. I'm assuming that taking a fer reals class would cost significantly more, but maybe it would pay for itself in student discounts! :D
Can you even TAKE classes for credit at a community college if you already have a BA? I can't imagine that they'd turn me away just because I already have a degree, but I CAN imagine that they'd turn me down once they learn that I'm not actually intending to graduate from any sort of "program." Because kids who don't graduate fux up their statistics. But there's something very satisfying to me about being graded on things. Plus, it'd be a lot more work, and a lot more contact with other people. Ah...♥people♥.
Then maybe by the end of fall quarter, I'll either be pregs and start finding like, baby groups to join or something (you know...baby water aerobics, baby massage, baby buggy workouts, baby monster truck driving...), or I'll find a temp job for awhile. Or if NEITHER thing happens, maybe I'll just take more classes. Or join some sort of free meetup group or something. But nothing too weird or sad. Because despite my current feelings of isolation, I'm still oddly elitist, so not just anyone will do. Go figs!
Eek...k, it's really late, and I'm getting up at 7am tomorrow to pack/leave for Seaside. Maybe I'll write from the coast, and maybe I won't. Maybe I won't!!! I guess we'll have to see.
Latrz!
Well...Brett works, so he SHOULD be capable of informing me of these things, but we don't usually hit much on pop culture in our conversations. We mostly just blab about our own lives/thoughts, or "preach to the choir" about things like trade laws, global politics, health/nutrition, the arts, whatevs. We're pretty boring.
Sometimes I manage to stay in the loop via friends, intarwebs, or podcasts (which I guess count as intarwebs?) but lately I haven't been listening to podcasts much, and apparently, at least when it comes to WALL-E, my friends and the intarwebs have FAILED me. I *did* see the free WALL-E gift on fb awhile ago, but I was like, "Wtf is that thing? It looks like that thing from Short Circuit."
Then Shannon mentioned that she was going to see something called WALL-E with her mom, but I just figured it was some dumb movie that I hadn't heard of because it was probably dumb. Or...you know. Not my cuppa tea. Same dif.
Then when we were hanging out with Tony and Nicolle tonight, THEY were talking about it, and I was like, "What the fuck are you TALKING ABOUT?" And Tony mentioned that it was the new Pixar movie that's out right now. And Brett was all like, "Yeah. It looks kind of sad. And WALL-E looks like the robot from Short Circuit." Or something like that.
So then I felt sad. And out of the loop. And a little left behind, which is sometimes how I feel these days. Isolated. It's funny; I don't have kids, so I can't make that standard SAHM complaint of needing "adult" time because I'm tired of dealing with children all day, but since I'm ALONE all day, I also sort of feel like I need "adult" time. I still want to have kids, and I still want to be at home with them, but maybe my kids will like...go to summer camp. And have two years of preschool (both Brett and I did, and we turned out great!), and spend a few weeks with the grandparents every now and then, while the Mr and I wonder off to...the Netherlands or something. You know...where ever.
I also think I want to maybe take a class or two next fall. Since I've never taken a photography class (or even finished reading the manual for my camera), I'm thinking of taking a beginning photography class at Shoreline. Continuing Ed, obviously. Not like, an actual class. But maybe an actual class would be fun too...and then I'd have a student id card, and theatre tickets/technology/etc would be cheaper. I'm assuming that taking a fer reals class would cost significantly more, but maybe it would pay for itself in student discounts! :D
Can you even TAKE classes for credit at a community college if you already have a BA? I can't imagine that they'd turn me away just because I already have a degree, but I CAN imagine that they'd turn me down once they learn that I'm not actually intending to graduate from any sort of "program." Because kids who don't graduate fux up their statistics. But there's something very satisfying to me about being graded on things. Plus, it'd be a lot more work, and a lot more contact with other people. Ah...♥people♥.
Then maybe by the end of fall quarter, I'll either be pregs and start finding like, baby groups to join or something (you know...baby water aerobics, baby massage, baby buggy workouts, baby monster truck driving...), or I'll find a temp job for awhile. Or if NEITHER thing happens, maybe I'll just take more classes. Or join some sort of free meetup group or something. But nothing too weird or sad. Because despite my current feelings of isolation, I'm still oddly elitist, so not just anyone will do. Go figs!
Eek...k, it's really late, and I'm getting up at 7am tomorrow to pack/leave for Seaside. Maybe I'll write from the coast, and maybe I won't. Maybe I won't!!! I guess we'll have to see.
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