| Merry Freakin Christmas |
[Dec. 25th, 2005|04:07 pm] |
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| |  cheerful | ] |
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| | m83 | ] |
Hope everyone's holidays are goin well...i'm in Montana for a few days with the family. Merry Christmas and Chanukah everyone. I'm going out to celebrate the true spirit of the season by gettin toasted with my old High School Friends.
Paz |
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| la tele |
[Dec. 19th, 2005|07:45 pm] |
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| | amused | ] |
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| | nothing...i'm watching tv silly | ] |
I'm embarassed to say it, but I'm watching network television. I can't look away. This stupid show called Deal or no deal has me completely mesmorized. Does anyone remember the first time Who Wants to be a Millionaire was on? I felt the same way. It was so dramatic and i had to watch it. Now NBC has me under the goddamn prime time game show spell again....AAHH!!!!
Luckily, when you hate network tv and pop culture as much as i do, you actually can find some of the funniest moments of your life while watching TV...and tonight's fine NBC programming didn't disappoint.
I understand that you have to oversell everything, especially when you sell the same recycled crap day after day week after week year after year, like network tv does. It must be practically impossible to excite people about the same crap over and over again. But even this goes too far...
Watching a promo for some music awards show on NBC tonight, i actually heard the line "Nothing says the holidays like the Pussycat Dolls."
Crahley, Erin, and all my RainyDawg peeps I'm sure can appreciate the absolute maddening rage and uncontollable laughter i am feeling simultaneously right now. If you don't see the humor in that, then i guess you don't know me well enough...haha.
The more i think about it, the more I think this is one of the funniest things i've heard this year. Do they even read the scripts for these promos anymore? I mean really. wow. |
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| how the years go by.....literally |
[Dec. 13th, 2005|06:45 pm] |
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| |  exhausted | ] |
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| | Christmas Remixed | ] |
I was talking to an ex-gf and great friend of mine from Montana last night, and realized it had been a year since I'd seen her. Her, and all my other friends from Montana. My friend Chris called today too, and, yep, same story.
It's nuts.
Remember when a year seemed so long? It seems like i just saw all these people a few weeks ago. So much has changed in all of our lives in a year....totally nuts. Hopefully it'll be less than a year before I get back to Seattle...but i'm still such good friends with them all....at least it proves that real friendship lasts over time and distance...so that makes me feel good.
I'm going to bed...i'm beat. |
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| Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr |
[Dec. 6th, 2005|09:32 pm] |
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| | cold | ] |
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| | New Buffalo | ] |
Before I do anything else, I'd like to say congratulations to the bears. Congratulations bears, you figured it out. Somewhere along the line, us humans thought we were the smarter, more evolved race, but we were clearly wrong. Anyone who has the common sense to hibernate through this shit has got to be the dominant species. What the hell were we thinking? who was the human that decided we should continue working and going out in this crap instead of eating alot and snuggling up in a warm place for a few months?
In consideration of this, i say that each bear should be cuddling up with his teddy human in his respective cave this winter...that's the order of the planet.
That said, i think i'm actually getting used to this stuff...actually i think i have just acquired a permanant case of numb, so i can't feel it anymore. I also can't feel levi's racy insults anymore, so there is a plus. ha!
So how am i doing? I feel like i'm in a bit of a rut here after 3 months. Alot of the things i was looking forward to here haven't materialized yet, and i'm bored with most of the aspects of my life here right now. I've definately had nights where i was extremely unsettled and couldn't sleep, like last night. It's wierd to feel happy, sad angry, nervous, and guilty all at the same time. No wonder i couldn't sleep. I keep wanting to come to seattle, but my money keeps getting eaten up by other things, so it might be a while unfortunately. I miss everyone a ton, and i can't flippin' wait to have my presence graced with you all.
I promised myself i'd give it at least 6 months before deciding one way or the other, but despite thinking that maybe i was starting to feel more at home here, halfway through those 6 months i still have this desperation to go home to seattle. It gets worse when the huskies and the sonices and the seahawks are on....i acutally get homesick.
If I had to pick one song to describe my life right now, it'd be the cheers theme song. I never thought a tv theme song would have any meaning to me, but i never thought i'd live in the god-foresaken midwest either...haha.
Making your way in the world today takes everything you got
Taking a break from all your worries sure would mean alot
Wouldn't you like to get away?
Sometimes you wanna go where everybody knows your name
And they're always glad you came
You wanna be where you can see, troubles are all the same
You wanna go where everybody knows your name. |
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| It's a Christmas Miracle |
[Dec. 5th, 2005|08:54 pm] |
My wireless finally works in my apt. and i have a christmas tree (thanks frank!)
Now if only i could get some furniture...ha! |
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| Why I love Brett |
[Nov. 29th, 2005|08:33 pm] |
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| | Killers - Mr. Brightside | ] |
WARNING: THIS IS AN OFFENSIVE BUT FUNNY POST
All three of the Financial Consultants I work for are Jewish, so every time they take me out to lunch, we have gone to a jewish deli. Three times, three different jewish delis. What's the plural of deli? delis? delies? dellies? deli? I don't know.
Anyway, the one we went to yesterday was the worst. for 9 bucks, I got a tiny ass half of a sandwhich without the spinach/tomatoe/onion i asked for, and a cup of "hearty vegetable" soup that was lacking on both hardiness and vegetables...seriously it was like broth with the occasional bump. I was complaining to brett about how much i hated the deli, and what a load of shit that was that i paid 9 clams for that crap, and he got real quiet on the phone for a second, and then said, " sounds like you got jewed."
I laughed so hard.
My apologies to dorian and any of my other jewish friends reading this, but it just had to be said. I am never going to that deli again. The other two are much better.
For those who asked, my new address. you may send christmas cards, money orders and mail order brides to the following:
625 W Madison Apt 1705
Chicago IL 60661
Is that a bad thing to put your address on your blog? eh. I can think of worse things. Like telling these jokes.
Q What do you tell a woman with two black eyes?
A Nothing, you already told her twice.
Q What do you get when you find a dead baby in a trash can?
A A Boner
Ok, so now that everyone, jewish and non jewish alike have been offended by this post, let me re-iterate that i love you all very much. :-) And to the friend who knows who they are,
"Shhh....i don't like talking during sex"
Oooh! I'm naughty. |
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| Happy Ho-ho-holidays |
[Nov. 27th, 2005|06:11 pm] |
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| | Zen | ] |
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| | Kings of Convenience - Surprise Ass | ] |
Hey everyone, hope your thanksgiving weekend was deluxe and epic.
I may have just had one of the top 5 weekends of my life...and what's funny is i can't even really pin down one reason or experience that made it so great. I spent the holiday in South bend with Brett and a bunch of faculty members from Notre Dame, and it was sooo much fun. The guy who hosted teaches greek history and language and such at ND, and was really interesting to talk to. We had a greek-themed dinner and they talked greek and he gave us 200-proof greek liquor, and some really great greek white whine...see the theme here? Greece? ok. good.
Friday a bunch of peeps were in town and I met up with them for shopping, dinner, etc. and then we had a little get together at my place. Saturday we hit the town and shopped for my apt. and got a bunch of random stuff, including some really bomb coffee cups, glasses, towels, and other stuff i can't believe i'm actually excited about.
Last night we had a little dinner party at my place, and made one hell of a dinner if i do say so myself. oh baby. i'm gettin hot just thinkin about it. Then we went and saw Rent, and basically me and brett cried the whole time....it's so good. and sad. we are such women.
Other than that, I'm ready for baseball season to start up again, which is scary cause i still have 5 more months...haha. But i do have free cable for life in my new place, cause one of the perks of chicago is that the cable companies are really lazy or understaffed or something, so they won't come turn off service if it's cancelled, cause they make more money using their people to set up new services. Free ESPN baby...just like all those years in college, except it's not dirty HFS ESPN. those bitches.
It has teased me a couple times with snow so far, but it always melts by the next morning. i thought i'd hate the snow more then ASUW board members, but i loved it. I'm getting used to the cold...and actually kinda like it, cause it reminds me of montana winters, which i haven't had for a long time. and i don't have to drive in it, which makes winter a million times better.
Anyway, that's my life right now. There's a ton more, but at the suggestion of kaeleen, i'm trying to keep from making this a running play by play of my life. Hope everyone else's time was wild.
Peace
(of ass....hehe) |
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| Today's finest phrase |
[Nov. 22nd, 2005|06:44 pm] |
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| | turn on my ipod and see....first to play is THE STILLS!!!!!! | ] |
Straight off the Three Imaginary Girls site...exerpt from the interview or something for the new Cars Can Be Blue record...
"What is it about Batman? Because I'm not gay or anything, but I'd probably go back with him to the cave too."
HAHAHAHA. |
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| Holy crap it's been 2 months. |
[Nov. 20th, 2005|10:57 am] |
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| |  bouncy | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Postal Service....duh | ] |
I can't believe i've been in chicago for 2 months already, it honestly seems like i was in seattle last week....living in a decrepit nasty house and sucking down 2-3 Ave Coffee Concoctions per day.
I'm bummed i missed apple cup, and was even more bummed that those fuckers beat us, and raped our space needle. Don't worry, next year, we'll rape their cows....wait, no, city folks don't do that. Ok, my friends from Montana will come rape their cows. Stupid bitches.
So, did i mention that this place is cold? cause it is. yikes. I wore sweat pants under my suit one day last week just to keep warm...that's true Montana class right there. The train is a block away and i thought i was gonna die. I'm not just being a pussy, although i don't believe i was wearing a scarf/hat/glove combination that morning. Speaking of scarfs, i got a hot little number at H&M...word. 7 bucks word.
Ok so thanksgiving...spending it in Indiana, going to see Rent, the movie of course, and god only knows what else. Lots of train riding is a given. I don't think i'll make it back for New years unfortunately, but i should have a decent time here...i've made some awesome party friends, and i may have replaced Nick Koch with someone equally perverse and awesome...haha. Be forewarned, if Nick, myself, and my new friend James ever get together, the world may explode from Dead Baby Joke Awesomeness.
Anyway, back to being mature. To be fair, since i did a things i miss about seattle post, I'll do a things I don't miss about Seattle list too....ready set GO
traffic
ASUW bullshit
HFS bullshit
Dantes
WOW Bubble Tea
Mike Holmgren
C89.5 (cause it's worldwide biotches)
paying car insurance
stupid Pyuallap fair ads
60-second jewelry commercials on all stations at the same time
Smoosh
The Laroche people
Frat Row
Seeing my naked professors at the IMA
bike riders on the burke gillman
DJ Dubya No Name
Vern Fonk
the word Monorail
Tacoma....what, i said it.
Drawbridges
The Price of a ferry ride
Tullys "liquid bloody abortion" coffee
I do still miss it though.
And as always, an open invitation now that i'm in my place....come visit anytime. |
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| Moving Day |
[Nov. 13th, 2005|11:50 am] |
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| |  blank | ] |
| [ | music |
| | The Go! Team | ] |
I'm picking up all the furniture i bought, and moving it into my studio today. What a nightmare driving a uhaul....i need to be drunk to just make it through...ironic ain't it?
Random thought for the day:
I'm pretty sure "Rinse and Repeat" was a scam created by the shampoo companies to make us buy twice as much shampoo. |
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| Is Dog piss made of Gold? |
[Nov. 10th, 2005|08:10 pm] |
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| | chipper | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Mike Doughty - BUSTIN UP A STARBUCKS | ] |
Random thought...
why is it that were we to walk down the street and see someone peeing on a tree in the middle of the sidewalk, we'd freak out, but we don't turn a head to dogs doing it? Is dog piss not just as gross as man piss? Every night after work, everyone comes home to their dogs that have been inside all day, and takes them for a walk....Dog's pissing on everything for hours. I never stopped to think about it before today, but there is dog piss on everything....kinda gross. What sense does it make that we're so offended by people piss and not dog piss? |
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| Eat a Dick. |
[Nov. 8th, 2005|08:09 pm] |
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| |  annoyed | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Frou Frou | ] |
That's right, it's the return of my favorite phrase. What could prompt such a joyous homecoming of my dirty mouth? How bout an asshole.
Since i started my job in october, i was past the Citigroup corporate deadline for getting any sort of vacation for the year. No sick days, personal days, or vacation. But, they told me when they hired me if i felt like there was a day i needed before Jan 1st, just to let them know. So I did today. I asked to have December 23rd off since everyone else will take it off anyway, and because by far the most affordable ticket home was on that day. I didn't think anyone would blink twice. The first two people were fine with it and excited for me to get a day off. Then i hit the third guy.
He looks at me and says, You wanna know what I think? I think for a new guy you're spending a little too much time thinking about not coming to work. I'd change that real fast if i were you.
What happened to a little civility? Giving me one day off in 3 months, so that I don't have to fly home Christmas Eve is not too much to ask i don't think. Maybe I'm just old fashioned that way ( to quote peter griffen)
My thanksgiving plans? going to see a couple friends with Brett in Michigan. Then, in the spirit of kicking them while their down, I find out that I have to work Friday, the day after Thanksgiving. I will seriously be the only person there. This is rediculous.
Just because i'm the newest person in the office, doesn't fucking mean my personal life is any less important than theirs.
But the silver lining in this cloud is that i've always wanted to volunteer at a shelter for thanksgiving, and instead of Michigan, Brett and I are gonna do that instead. So, the holidays will still be alright i guess. But seriously...what the fuck. What an asshole.
On a lighter note, I got an amazing dining set today (wow i'm such a woman) and hopefully an entertainment center. Put that together with my dishes, dressers, and bed, and i'm starting to get get my apt together. Anyone who wants to see what it looks like (sans the furniture) can go to
http://www.presidentialtowersapts.com/apts/index.php?floortype=1
and take the virtual tour on the left.
Well, off to run. Huzzah! |
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| I hear Erin in my head. |
[Nov. 3rd, 2005|06:40 pm] |
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| | calm | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Dance Music - Mountain Goats | ] |
After 3 weeks at Smith Barney, I finally got an email address today. 3 WEEKS. I literally heard Erin in my head when i saw it come up today saying "IT'S A CHRISTMAS MIRACLE!" hahaha.
You know that episode of seinfeld where Elaine freaks out because every day they have cake? Welcome to my office....not that i'm complaining about free catered lunch and cake and bagels and juice every day....but seriously. Every day has been someone's birthday the last 2 weeks. It's pretty amazing. I guess that's what happens when 100 people work in the office...This pretty much rules....but damn am i gonna get fat.
I'm fighting back against asshole drivers. It's kind of like road rage, but more like crosswalk rage. People here dont slow down and will speed around you while you're crossing, sometimes they come like half an inch from clipping me. So now, I've started fighting back. I walk as slow as possible across the street and make them sit there and wait. Or if they start, I just stop and glare at them and dare them to go. It's pretty rad, and i've pissed alot of people off...hehe.
Hope everyone's doin great :-) |
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| I miss seattle |
[Oct. 31st, 2005|07:42 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| |  (Dangerously) | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Guster - Happier | ] |
I miss traffic jams on 520, I miss buying pizza outside of the mariners game and then making myself eat it all so i feel like i saved money. I miss watching the huskies lose. I miss having better options then starbucks. I miss seeing there are 8 shows to choose from on Friday night, and then staying in and listening to music with Kaeleen instead. I miss Levi and Tim. I miss talking to people about why The End sucks, but why i'm so excited for Chris that he works there. I miss RainyDawg and, accordingly, about 200 people. I miss drunk Jesse. I miss secretly thinking how hot of a teacher Dorian is. I miss playing guess the siren on the way to Krispy Kremes. I miss driving drunk. I miss Nick. I miss being one of the people waiting for other people to come back to Seattle. I miss not understanding what people mean when they say how we're so lucky to live in a city as beautiful as Seattle. I miss Kathy Goertzen. |
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| Kiah Sighting |
[Oct. 30th, 2005|06:35 pm] |
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| | bouncy | ] |
| [ | music |
| | M83 - Teen Angst | ] |
I'm on the L train today, and I look up, and see Vendetta Red stickers stuck on the route map above the door.
Anyone else think Kiah's somewhere in this city? I have no doubt this is her handiwork.
:-) |
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| I am gonna die in this city |
[Oct. 30th, 2005|03:05 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| | hyper | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Bone Thugs (random I know) | ] |
Be forewarned. Chicago is not Seattle. Do not walk into a street and assume cars are gonna stop. Do not assume that a bright white walk sign means it's ok to cross the street. Do not assume that it's ok to walk across the entrance to a bank parking lot....
OR YOU WILL DIE.
In Seattle, if the first follicle of your toenail touches the road, traffic comes to a screeching halt for pedestrians. Here, As you walk across the street, cars turn in front of you and behind you, or no joke, right into you. They have decided that it's those dumb walker's jobs to get out of the way. In Seattle, i got used to strolling pleasantly along my favorite crosswalk, if the light turns green, that's fine, cause everyone will wait. Here, you run. You run like you just found out your IPOD doesn't have one Menomena song on it. You run like you're about to miss your flight out of the denver airport...if you don't know, that place is like children of the corn. Taxi's honk and drive up to just short of breaking your knees with their strong american ford bumpers.
Can't we all just get along?
And, when the world runs out of natural resources, I'm here to tell you that it is the fault of the finance industry. I have never seen so much paper pushed through an office in my life. In the age of digital storage and viewing, somebody forgot to tell them. Everything has to be a hard copy, and everything needs to be copied in triplicate at least, even if you only need one copy. Then everything else goes in the garbage. There are no recycling bins. I would be willing to bet the one office i work in goes through at least a ton of paper each month easy. At least half of that is instantly destined for the garbage. And the clincher....All the food in the office is paid for. We have Free lunch catered every day, there's a starbucks machine, etc. And every plate and cup is made out of styrofoam! These people are so fuckin' unconscious of pollution and consumption it makes me sick. But i do still take their money. Once I have been there longer, i'm gonna sit down and talk with the Vice President and see what i can work out. Maybe bring a little Seattle to Chicago. Or at least a little environmental sanity. |
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| Apartment Apartment |
[Oct. 27th, 2005|06:34 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| | chipper | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Ian McFeron (Thanks Kaeleen) | ] |
Well it's smaller than i wanted to get, but I'm actually really excited...barring some big change, I'm moving into a loft in the presidential towers downtown chicago. It's a couple blocks from the Sears Tower, if that puts it into perspective...for the 3 of my friends who know much about chicago at all...haha.
Unfortunately, it's also alot more expensive then i wanted to pay for rent, but it's really nice, and almost right next to the train station. I'm really excited to have a loft actually...and to live downtown for a bit. You all better start making plans to visit. :-) |
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| New Beginnings |
[Oct. 26th, 2005|09:30 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| | hopeful | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Fruit Bats | ] |
Wow.
So...uh...yeah....i live in chicago now.
First of all, for everyone who made it to my party the night before i left, thank you so much, it was so much fun.
I'm really tired, so i'm gonna give you the short version.
Highlights of my life in chicago so far have included going to the USC vs. Notre Dame game in South Bend, and sitting a few rows behind home plate at Wrigley Field. I still don't know very many people here, so i haven't gone out too much, but i've gone out a few times. I've also hit up a couple fund raisers with Brett, spent time down at Notre Dame, and gone to a Northwestern game, which i'll admit, I didn't even really know Northwestern was a school.
I spent the first month here interviewing and applying for jobs, and basically being in awe of the city, of how beautiful and disgusting it can be at the same time. I got sick of doing nothing for alot of days while i was job hunting, so I took a job with Smith Barney as a Registered Associate, basically assisting a team of 3 Financial Consultants that manage over a half billion dollars in assets, which is, clearly, more than I have in my checking account. The job is about 30 miles out of the city which is about a 45 minute train ride each way. I wasn't to thrilled initially, but it's growing on me. I really like the 3 people i work for, and it's a cush job that alot of other people in the office are jealous that i got. yay!
I've had seroius bouts of desire for seattle though the last couple weeks, and have even begun dreaming of different people and places in seattle at night. I actually came close to just saying screw it i'm going home once. All in all, I'm pretty sure still that i made the right choice, though alot of things aren't what i thought they'd be. Career-wise, I can't say i'm glad I'm here now so much, but i do know I'll be glad i did this in a few years.
I'm hoping to come to seattle for new years eve, but i'm a bit poor...so we'll see. but, you know, save a hat and noise maker for me.
More later, but for now, I miss everyone, but baseball is on, then i'm going to bed, cause i gotta be up at 5. |
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