and went to see pretty Mandi
That's all.
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Monday, October 26, 2009
the golden age
Incidentally, in the time that my computer was busted and I abandoned my blog, I turned 26 on Sept. 26, which made it My Golden Birthday. That was a month ago today, but I would just like to say I have really nice friends and family who took care of me as I entered a new year with only one parent at the party. Rachael and I went to NYC to try to see HAIR, but didn't, and stayed at a sick hotel that looked like The Hatch from the top floor
and went to see pretty Mandi
That's all.
and went to see pretty Mandi
That's all.
Sunday, October 25, 2009
:(
I am so sick of people getting diagnosed with cancer.
At least Andrew Lloyd Webber's isn't pancreatic and isn't stage 4.
:(
At least Andrew Lloyd Webber's isn't pancreatic and isn't stage 4.
:(
Saturday, October 24, 2009
UNDEFEATED
York had a Small Dogs Expo with a costume contest. There were four awards: Most Original, Scariest, Prettiest, and Funniest.
Gigl was dressed as the Hamburglar/Hamgiggler and won Scariest, and Holly recycled the turkey costume and won Funniest.
Moral of the story: I am the pug pagaent mom queen of Halloween.
Gigl was dressed as the Hamburglar/Hamgiggler and won Scariest, and Holly recycled the turkey costume and won Funniest.
Moral of the story: I am the pug pagaent mom queen of Halloween.
Saturday, October 17, 2009
all these things
that I've found in cleaning out Grey Gardens or in grosso York.
Softballs that my dad kept from some of his best games. He didn't realize at the time that he was saving one for Jeff, Jenny, and me to hold onto.
baby Beatle!
this is what people eat for dinner in York
This is one of the three thousand boxes of my dad's writings that I have organized (and will later turn into the most awesome book(s) ever), on computer paper that is folded in half. I think I know now where I got my hypergraphic tendencies. The irony is that he pulled out his horoscope for something regarding a sermon and he was the sign of Cancer.
From the envelope from the last Valentine card my dad gave me. It's actually from the second to last Valentine's he was alive, but the last one in his real handwriting. I love.
Softballs that my dad kept from some of his best games. He didn't realize at the time that he was saving one for Jeff, Jenny, and me to hold onto.
baby Beatle!
this is what people eat for dinner in York
This is one of the three thousand boxes of my dad's writings that I have organized (and will later turn into the most awesome book(s) ever), on computer paper that is folded in half. I think I know now where I got my hypergraphic tendencies. The irony is that he pulled out his horoscope for something regarding a sermon and he was the sign of Cancer.
From the envelope from the last Valentine card my dad gave me. It's actually from the second to last Valentine's he was alive, but the last one in his real handwriting. I love.
Friday, October 2, 2009
my life according to the killers
Describe yourself:
NEON TIGER
How do you feel:
HUMAN
Describe where you currently live:
SAM'S TOWN
If you could go anywhere, where would you go?
A DUSTLAND FAIRYTALE
Your favorite form of transportation
SANTA'S BIG SLEIGH
Your best friend?
ANDY, YOU'RE A STAR
You and your best friends are:
SPACEMAN
What's the weather like:
THIS RIVER IS WILD
Favorite time of day:
MIDNIGHT SHOW
If your life was a TV show, what would it be called:
GLAMOROUS INDIE ROCK N ROLL
What is life to you:
BLING!
Your relationship:
BONES
Your fear:
READ MY MIND
What is the best advice you have to give:
LEAVE THE BOURBON ON THE SHELF
Thought for the Day:
SMILE LIKE YOU MEAN IT
How I would like to die:
ON TOP
My soul's present condition:
LOSING TOUCH
My motto:
I CAN'T STAY
NEON TIGER
How do you feel:
HUMAN
Describe where you currently live:
SAM'S TOWN
If you could go anywhere, where would you go?
A DUSTLAND FAIRYTALE
Your favorite form of transportation
SANTA'S BIG SLEIGH
Your best friend?
ANDY, YOU'RE A STAR
You and your best friends are:
SPACEMAN
What's the weather like:
THIS RIVER IS WILD
Favorite time of day:
MIDNIGHT SHOW
If your life was a TV show, what would it be called:
GLAMOROUS INDIE ROCK N ROLL
What is life to you:
BLING!
Your relationship:
BONES
Your fear:
READ MY MIND
What is the best advice you have to give:
LEAVE THE BOURBON ON THE SHELF
Thought for the Day:
SMILE LIKE YOU MEAN IT
How I would like to die:
ON TOP
My soul's present condition:
LOSING TOUCH
My motto:
I CAN'T STAY
sunshine adventures
1. Sunshine Cleaning: Booooring. I love Emily Blunt and Amy Adams but not when I'm asleep.
C+
2. Adventureland: So nice, I watched it twice. I want Santa to bring me the DVD.
A+
3. Mysteries of Pittsburgh: Misleadingly boring from the previews & hype. Can Sienna Miller play anything but a sassy, party-girl muse? And if that is the typecast she hangs her hat on, she should at least do it well. I love her TopShop stuff, she should stick to the clothes. Take a lesson from the Olsens, lady friend.
D
4. The Jane Austen Book Club: I Love Emily Blunt & Maggie Grace (especially MG with dark hair). Seemed like a better movie than a book, and Jenny confirmed this (which is ironic considering the topic).
B
C+
2. Adventureland: So nice, I watched it twice. I want Santa to bring me the DVD.
A+
3. Mysteries of Pittsburgh: Misleadingly boring from the previews & hype. Can Sienna Miller play anything but a sassy, party-girl muse? And if that is the typecast she hangs her hat on, she should at least do it well. I love her TopShop stuff, she should stick to the clothes. Take a lesson from the Olsens, lady friend.
D
4. The Jane Austen Book Club: I Love Emily Blunt & Maggie Grace (especially MG with dark hair). Seemed like a better movie than a book, and Jenny confirmed this (which is ironic considering the topic).
B
Sunday, August 2, 2009
ring king
I've never been way into jewelry unless it's permanentally implanted, but I am when it is yellow and/or has a little meaning to it. So the other night my mom gave me this ring:
The topaz/gold glory belonged to my great-grandfather and my dad used to like to wear it on dress-up occassions. And now it belongs to me, and I will wear it for all occasions. I do love me some men's jewelry.
The topaz/gold glory belonged to my great-grandfather and my dad used to like to wear it on dress-up occassions. And now it belongs to me, and I will wear it for all occasions. I do love me some men's jewelry.
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
ear candy
There has been a lack of good live music in my life for the past few months, but luckily that has been recently remedied by two of the best performances of my life.
1. BOB WEIR = late hours of crazy awesomeness at All Good in West Virginia that ended way too soon.
2. THE WAILERS = minutes of awesomeness at People's Fest in Wilmington that lightning managed to make even better, but also caused to end way waaaaay too soon.
1. BOB WEIR = late hours of crazy awesomeness at All Good in West Virginia that ended way too soon.
2. THE WAILERS = minutes of awesomeness at People's Fest in Wilmington that lightning managed to make even better, but also caused to end way waaaaay too soon.
Sunday, July 19, 2009
seamstress patch
Some girls scout fairies descended upon my PicnicPack and gave me patches that I didn't earn, but do deserve. In another life, they belonged to my mama.
blockbustation
Blockbuster offered this deal where you get unlimited movies (2 at a time) for a week, and I have been trying to be on top of getting my $$$'s worth. And the lucky ducks who got to come home with me so far have been:
1. Wendy & Lucy
I loved it inside out upside down. A girl with bad luck who is on the road and loves her dog, it felt very familiar.
A+
2. Confessions of a Shopaholic
Felt just like the Devil Wears Prada. I liked the idea of really addressing shopping addicts (which it seemed to do at the beginning), but then it got too slapstick at the end. There was a bride in fur in NYC, which I love. But there was also a moment involving the line, "The bidder on the phone was you?" Which I did not love.
C+
3. He's Just Not That Into You
I never saw a preview for this movie, but I did see the commercials, which are mini-previews. And the movie was just a way longer version of the commercial. It felt like Love, Actually in the structure of the plot and a way watered down SATC overall. I like Ginnifer Goodwin but her character was pathetic. Drew Barrymore's part was small, but she was the techno-savvy faghag, and she had a line that said, "People don't meet each other organically anymore." I think that can be true, but I'm glad it's not the case in my life.
C
4. The Education of Charlie Barlett
So boring, everyone mumbled. Fred Durst should not direct anymore. I lasted about 40 minutes before I took it out and watched.....
F
5. The Office Season 4
Makes my heart soar.
A+
1. Wendy & Lucy
I loved it inside out upside down. A girl with bad luck who is on the road and loves her dog, it felt very familiar.
A+
2. Confessions of a Shopaholic
Felt just like the Devil Wears Prada. I liked the idea of really addressing shopping addicts (which it seemed to do at the beginning), but then it got too slapstick at the end. There was a bride in fur in NYC, which I love. But there was also a moment involving the line, "The bidder on the phone was you?" Which I did not love.
C+
3. He's Just Not That Into You
I never saw a preview for this movie, but I did see the commercials, which are mini-previews. And the movie was just a way longer version of the commercial. It felt like Love, Actually in the structure of the plot and a way watered down SATC overall. I like Ginnifer Goodwin but her character was pathetic. Drew Barrymore's part was small, but she was the techno-savvy faghag, and she had a line that said, "People don't meet each other organically anymore." I think that can be true, but I'm glad it's not the case in my life.
C
4. The Education of Charlie Barlett
So boring, everyone mumbled. Fred Durst should not direct anymore. I lasted about 40 minutes before I took it out and watched.....
F
5. The Office Season 4
Makes my heart soar.
A+
my thoughts
1. I wish I could play the violin.
2. It annoys me that people are saying Bruno won't be funny because I think the general public is jealous of Sasha's crazy great humor skills, which are impeccable in my not humble opinion.
3. Today was our first open house and 9 couples went through, one of whom was supposedly very interested. 2 other couples went through last week. I don't think I have ever wanted anything as much as I want this house sold and to be done with York. The day this house sells will most likely trump my wedding day.
4. The Office is my favorite show ever besides Lost.
5. Today I went to the dog park and there was 1 other fugly pug, 3 jugs (jack russell/pug), 5 bugs (beagle/pugs, which I thought were called puggles but whatever), and a bulldog. I don't know why people get these imitation pugs when obviously all they want is a Gigl of their own.
2. It annoys me that people are saying Bruno won't be funny because I think the general public is jealous of Sasha's crazy great humor skills, which are impeccable in my not humble opinion.
3. Today was our first open house and 9 couples went through, one of whom was supposedly very interested. 2 other couples went through last week. I don't think I have ever wanted anything as much as I want this house sold and to be done with York. The day this house sells will most likely trump my wedding day.
4. The Office is my favorite show ever besides Lost.
5. Today I went to the dog park and there was 1 other fugly pug, 3 jugs (jack russell/pug), 5 bugs (beagle/pugs, which I thought were called puggles but whatever), and a bulldog. I don't know why people get these imitation pugs when obviously all they want is a Gigl of their own.
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Friday, June 26, 2009
on the road again
Highlights from the June travels:
New York
the biggest piece of pizza ever for only $2!
of all the upper west side's millions of statues, this was the best.
Wescher's Currywurst! This is where I worked in New York, but I left the city before the restaurant actually opened, so this was the first time I got to see the baby all grown up.
Colorado
This day Jeff led a group of about 60 volunteers to work on trailbuilding and nature maintainence.
cheyenne my parrot friend
this river is wild
teva games
Mass.
Father's Day morning on West Beach :(
the Bali Hai=my favorite Chineses in the world
the view from Marissa's deck
FIZZMAN
thanks to mapquest + the george washington bridge
New York
the biggest piece of pizza ever for only $2!
of all the upper west side's millions of statues, this was the best.
Wescher's Currywurst! This is where I worked in New York, but I left the city before the restaurant actually opened, so this was the first time I got to see the baby all grown up.
Colorado
This day Jeff led a group of about 60 volunteers to work on trailbuilding and nature maintainence.
cheyenne my parrot friend
this river is wild
teva games
Mass.
Father's Day morning on West Beach :(
the Bali Hai=my favorite Chineses in the world
the view from Marissa's deck
FIZZMAN
thanks to mapquest + the george washington bridge
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
the mermaid chair
I just read The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd. A+
Favorite quotes
You can't stop your heart from loving, really--it's like standing out there in the ocean, yelling at the waves to stop.
*
When a person was in need of a cataclysmic change, of a whole new center of personality, for instance, his or her psyche would induce an infatuation, an erotic attachment, an intense falling in love. He knew this. Every analyst knew it. Falling in love was the oldest, most ruthless catalyst on earth.
*
We stood there staring at each other. I wondered if I would've fallen in love with him if he'd been a shoe salesman in Atlanta. It was a bizarre thought, but it seemed somehow the most sensible thought of my life. I doubted I would have, and it was disillusioning to me in the sense of stripping away the last remaining illusions. My falling in love with him had every thing to do with his monkness, his loyalty to what lay deep within him, the self-containment of his solitude, that desire to be transformed. What I'd loved in him most was my own aliveness, his ability to give me back to myself. It felt cruel and astonishing to realize that our relationship had never belonged out therein the world, in a real world where you wash socks and slice onions. It belonged in the shadowed linings of the soul. I had come to the irreducible thing, just as I had with my father, and there was nothing to do but accept, to learn to accept, to lie every night and accept.
*
You brought me deeper into life--how could I regret that?
Favorite quotes
You can't stop your heart from loving, really--it's like standing out there in the ocean, yelling at the waves to stop.
*
When a person was in need of a cataclysmic change, of a whole new center of personality, for instance, his or her psyche would induce an infatuation, an erotic attachment, an intense falling in love. He knew this. Every analyst knew it. Falling in love was the oldest, most ruthless catalyst on earth.
*
We stood there staring at each other. I wondered if I would've fallen in love with him if he'd been a shoe salesman in Atlanta. It was a bizarre thought, but it seemed somehow the most sensible thought of my life. I doubted I would have, and it was disillusioning to me in the sense of stripping away the last remaining illusions. My falling in love with him had every thing to do with his monkness, his loyalty to what lay deep within him, the self-containment of his solitude, that desire to be transformed. What I'd loved in him most was my own aliveness, his ability to give me back to myself. It felt cruel and astonishing to realize that our relationship had never belonged out therein the world, in a real world where you wash socks and slice onions. It belonged in the shadowed linings of the soul. I had come to the irreducible thing, just as I had with my father, and there was nothing to do but accept, to learn to accept, to lie every night and accept.
*
You brought me deeper into life--how could I regret that?
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