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2月9日 kut. kolor. karma.don't know what it is about a session with an AWESOME stylist that makes the world shift back onto its axis.
but it does.
thank gawd for the brandons of the world that are out there salvaging
egos and
hearts
one highlight at a time. 2月5日 ????You may be hesitant to take the initiative, dear Aries. Instead you would rather wait and see how things pan out before you make a major move. Your movements are hindered in some way, although you may not be completely sure why that is. It is best to go with your intuition and not question too much. Just know that you are better off taking the safe route instead of walking too far out on the skinny branch way at the top of the tree. 10月13日 prom nightgetting dolled for an 80s prom night party this evening. and am rethinking my recycling muse in the light of the lovelllllly fashions i just unearthed from the box that mom sent..... did i EVER really think these dresses were a good idea??? really? i did?! photos to follow. 9月21日 is this a compliment? survey says.....Too reiterate, you always seem to land on your feet. After the nukes hit it'll be you and a mess of cockroaches. The nice thing is you won't have to worry about the heart thing anymore. The other nice thing is that you come in first in all of these marathons you run. You can get rid of the time limit and then win one every week. After a year you'll be the first woman to win 52 consecutive Maritta's International Marathons. But I digress. You will kick ass at the architecture firm. They need people to get shit done and you get shit done.
8月11日 eat this stuff3月18日 shamrock marathon!CONGRATULATIONS to Tessie and DebY! 3:13 finish on the half-marathon today! a PR for both! woohoo and a green beer all around! 2月20日 HAPPY MARDI GRAS!hurricanes (the nonKatrina type), messy drunks, spicy food and the occasional spastic "throw me something mister!" are all a must TODAY! and guys.... just try negotiating a quick flash of the betties for some cheap costume jewelry --- today it might actually work! 2月6日 stretch goalmy little sis is training for a triathlon series. may/june/july with increasing distances in each one. i miss her. she lives too freakin far away. so to feel a bit closer to her, i am doing sympathy training. so this way i get to spend 1-2 hours "with" her every day. AND the next time i see her i wont be the aging OLDER sister. greedy girl i am. i know.
wish us luck. 12月27日 lootaliciousthis christmas was an absolutely fantabulous one. despite the small snafu --- totally the elves fault and NOT mine whatsoever despite my rep and habit of purchasing gifts/writing letters and never mailing them --- that meant that someone in my immediate family did NOT receive their secret santa present on time and EVERYONE in the clan was jumping my hiney about it.... despite THAT --- what a wonderful year. I got to work a mindless job at my roomies behest, earn som extra play money while getting to know her staff. I got to see my dad AND my uncle AND my sister and introduce the first two to the previously mentioned roomie. left them in her hands, as a matter of fact, while i was wined and dined by another "reason" this holiday was a great one. received cards and presents from people i was not expecting AND they were the good kind of not-expecting. saw some old friends. made some new ones. talked to everyone that was important to me. hugged most of them. made commitments to hug the rest --- and SOON. yada yada yada. THEN to top it off... the PRESENTS! really thoughtful and needed and loving and special. not a piece of crap or coal among the lot.
bring on 2007! if its any better than the end of 06 i just might spontaneously combust. 12月5日 happy holidazei have such great and random adventures with the roomie. even the smallest of things become events when we head out with a task on our mind. like yesterday when we declared it national put-up-the-tree day. [apparently our "santa stop here" sign in the front yard caused some rivalry with the families in the neighborhood. dude up the street has a freakin snowglobe on his front lawn. no. i am NOT kidding.]
to have cocktails. downtown. in lumberjack boots, ponytails and tree sap on our digits. who -- after requisite gab and cocktails with the girlies --- decided we should head off, grab dinner, take some small dogs hostage and return home for holiday decor-ating. so we did. and to our surprise we DID get our tree up! and were so proud and strutting around --- strutting as well as we could over several yummy glasses of octaned eggnog. roomie was so proud she shot picmail to her bestest friends in florida of our fabulous efforts. and then this morning was greeted with "are you using your topiary again?" topiary?! the tree was as long as the CAR! and we had to move all the living room furniture to fit it. bc despite me protests otherwise --- i do NOT have 12 foot ceilings at the front of my house! which lead me to the first lesson of the holiday season. perspective is everything. with perspective you can make small tasks into hilarious adventures. make virtual strangers into the best of friends. ginormous charlie brown trees into the forest in the corner of your living room OR a table top topiary. all a matter of perspective. happy holidaze. 12月3日 rattlers to rodentsi really havent made it far past my last post. rattler alerts.
ever have an event that for lack of a better waste of time you replay. replay. replay.
until the actuality of it becomes blurred and fuzzy. smeared.
you wish you could get off the mindless rotation. vomit. feel woozy and then be over it.
but instead... like the damn hamster you had in college that would run for hours... at all hours... but especially the ones were YOU were attempting to sleep... like HIM --- you can only take short breaks, without the relief of dizzy or pukedom, before continuing the destinationless running.
reptiles eat rodents. and they dont run on wheels. perhaps there is something to the snake thing after all.
11月3日 and i call her my BEST friend?!i got conned.
i got pressured.
i caved.
i ______________________.
result is the same.
humiliation. [shrug]
oh well, its done and its deez fault.
the picture i sent along. then me with my pusher. and one of amelia, just bc i think she's cute.
11月1日 happy halloween!EDITORS NOTE: Jerry Rodriguez, owner of a chain of restaurants that starts with G and ends in A and is also a town in Mexico rhyming with...well i guess guadalajara doesnt really rhyme with anything... woops! did i let the cat out of the bag on that one. my bad. anyhoo... jerry stages this contest, has tons of people show up and pay for cocktails and boogie down for the small chance that they could win $500 cash and 2 RT airline tix. THEN he gives 3rd and 2nd places (free tix to his company party --- LAME) to wolverine (awesome!) yoko and john (cool!) and then 1st to some poor attempt at cross dressing man who literally walked in the door as his name was announced. yeah... that wasnt rigged. bad jerry. bad bad jerry.
10月22日 chewing gum and walkingapparently i am blonde. and not the redhead i have so vehemently declared for years. bc if i were a redhead i could do basic tasks like chewing gum and walking. breathing without coaching. and i could ride a bike without trying to maim or dismember myself. which does not seem to be the case. last time i talked about bike riding, it was a nice little reflective ditty about life and moments. what i have failed to mention since then is that for no good reason while out on a subsequent ride, i hurled myself into oncoming traffic on a major road. a major road that warns MOTORISTS to be careful as lots of MOTORISTS have gotten themselves un-alived on the sweet curvy woodsy road. yeah. so brilliant non-redhead me decided to roll the dice on that one. i survived. scars on palm and elbow to prove it.
this week i apparently wanted to outdo myself. spent a grand day biking with my uberfabo sister. on trails. with sand and rocks and gullies. did that while on a ROAD bike and not a TRAIL bike and still managed to maintain uprightedness and peddle-ation without any self-injury.
i waited until i got back onto a FLAT surface. only then did i deem it necessary to hurl myself once again into oncoming traffic. over the handlebars, out of the foot straps and faceplant chin first into the asphalt. yeah. beauuuuuuuuuuuuty. i have a grand dermabrased forehead, shoulder, elbow and wrist, bruised thighs (handlebars?) 2 inch gash in my chin and two missing molars. molars? you might ask? well, of course --- since i was laughing like a mad hyena when i decided to take up "extreme frogger --- the bike years" and when sir pavement slammed my mouth shut via high velocity chin impact, my molars took the worst beating.
i look like the kid from mask and the dentist cannot see me until the 31st. so i am on a liquid diet. alcohol and soup. when i told god that i wanted to shed some of the junk in my trunk i should really have been more specific. 9月23日 today i hatethis is not a good day. today i hate the male species.
a subgroup that i categorically adore.
today i hate them. categorically.
my apologies to the chef. 8月10日 cave dwellingi hate horror movies. cannot watch them. actually lost a great guy over one. i TOLD him i could not watch them. he INSISTED that we go see the remake of texas chainsaw massacre. i totally and completely lost it. and that was with me only hearing most of the movie since i had my shirt pulled up over my head, my knees to my chest and both index fingers knuckle deep into my ear drums. and that was just for the previews. what a messed up storyline. a completely normal looking bunch of wackos hacking up unwitting houseguests. freak show. and wasnt it supposed to be based on reality? truth stranger than fiction.
 i will never go see yet another horror flick but especially not "the descent". just the previews make me jump. the scene where theres the flash and you see the icky pasty gooey manbat leering over the chicks shoulder. bllllllllleeeeahhhh. odd that theres the new release of batman along with this freakshow about manbats. one hero flying out of his cave and through the night to save the planet. and the other shrunken and hidden in a cave waiting to chow down on spelunkers. they both get the girl(s) in the end, but in totally different ways. batman has them over for dinner. manbat as dinner. minor detail that makes a large difference to the players involved.
we all have our eccentricities. the little things that make us unique. odd. non-average. the little things that we do that make others scratch their head and shrug. or maybe not if its a little thing that we dont share with anyone. not twisted as the texas inbreds. or deliverance. or the mad deviance of dahmer. or manbats. those things are an seperate kind of issue. but little things we do when no one else is looking. the batman side of our bruce wayne.
an intimate friend of mine just revealed one of those little things to me about himself. a quirk. but ---- i totally admit it, i was shocked ---- after the initial shockNawe moment, i loved it. the telling of something so weird to another person and either having the confidence to (1) not care about their reaction or (2) know they will accept you to your core. to be stripped down and raw in front of someone and for them to not flinch. to be willing to bring our darker side to light.
and not to wax to philosophical about two inconsequential celluloid events... but perhaps thats what separates our batmen from our menbat moments/sides/choices... the willingness to occasionally bring them to light. step out of the cave of our little weird selves and share some of those things with another person. our intimate friends. the little bit of air we shed on the darker side of ourselves keeps the freaky at bay.
6月4日 sam ewing promisedfor every woman who makes a fool out of some man there's another who makes a man out of some fool.
i dont know anything about sams creditionals to say that he was right.... or dead wrong.... but i can only hope that that he was an optimist and that he was on the right track.... 5月16日 duke dudes need csiin a midnight middazed discussion the other night about csi --- we pondered whether the huge amount of information the show gives about available tech/science that investigators can use to solve crimes is fact or fiction. and if fact, then whether it helps or hinders criminal activity. are we making deviant behavior more deviant or circumventing some action being plotted by some would-be jailbird? then i watch the bumbling involved in the duke guys' case. and before that in the Malvo and Muhammed sniper attacks. and non-fitting gloves equating to aquittals. and i realize... criminals dont watch csi. they watch scarface and reruns of the sopranos.
i realized that in the same thought that i cracked up over this video.
happy tuesday everyone! 5月1日 blondity merit badgesfunny story...took a trip to hatteras this past weekend. we were supposed to leave at 1ish on thursday bc of work schedules. well, my boss says "dont come in---take the whole day" so then i am just waiting on luanne to get off work and thinking i have 4 hours to get ready thursday morning--- i procrastinate and go out with john on wednesday night instead of responsibly prepping and packing. then luanne calls on thursday morning at 8 [freaking] 30 PANIC! so i have to pack, shop, drycleaners, poochify in 30 minutes. and i get it done. small details aside....for instance, luanne says, "can you pick up stuff for the jello shots?" "sure" i run to store, in and out in 16 minutes with salad stuff, mixers, jambalaya ingredients...and stuff for jello shots. i squeal in to her driveway on two wheels, race into the house with the grocery bags, we start to frantically consolidate the foodstuffs into her cooler. i hold up two things of kool-aid and annouce "tropical and grape!" she looks confused. i shake the canisters in emphasis..."YOU KNOW---for jello shots!" and then it dawns on me. JELLLLLLLO shots. 4月19日 more fun with poultrymy freewheeling sister has morphed.
she has become the bride to end all brides.
some would say bridezilla. but they would be wrong.
although the term is funny.
sister is very detail oriented. very visual. you can see it in her home decor.
her tastes are not traditional, but they are specific. she has always marched to her own drum rythm and i expected no different from her vow ceremony. i thought hilltops of zimbabwe after swinging vine to vine to the sounds of tahitian drummers.... i thought outdoor. i thought unique. i thought... untraditional. i forgot to remember my sister traditionally does not do what is expected by the traditional populi.
and so---i got surprised.
she is having a traditional wedding. hugely unexpected. and therefore very traditionally amelia. BIG gown. REAL church. LOTSA flowers. SIX attendants. ringbearers (twins carrying teddybears...but i digress). and very specific requests. like this one:
to which, i of course being the very supportive and understanding big sister, responded by emailing "I FOUND MY SHOES!" and sent her this:
 These look perfect for doing the chicken dance...also another southern tradition, and if she thinks she's ducking [or chickening---yuck yuck] outta that one...
I love weddings. Wonder if i am still invited?
DISCLAIMER: i will not actually be wearing these shoes to the wedding, or anywhere for that matter. This was just another way to stress out my hyperventilating, law student , baby sister while she's six weeks out from her nuptials. Isnt that what MOHs are for anyways? No? huh...who knew. |
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