so it is official...at least i have made it official. summer is over. i can't really say i am too broken up about that fact. big fan of fall. can't explain it, but always been a favorite of mine.
i am about to launch into one of my bigger birthday months. October is one of those times, bunch of valentines day babies. six people this month alone. i need to get cards etc, lined up and ready to go for everyone. and then all my weekends this month are taken. i don't know where my time has gone, but i am looking at the weekend before thanksgiving as the first one i have open.
um, hello...where did this burst of social activity come from? i can't explain it. just works out that way. not that i am complaining.
had a kinda weird thing go down this week. looking at some pictures from my holiday party last december. i was almost sad to see, so many friends and there are now 4 or 5 people that are not talking to each other. most of them have to do with one person. i felt like my family had broken apart, and in a sense it has. my friends are my just like my family and when things happen that keep them from all being together and getting along, it really sucks. i still have good realtionships with all these people, but it seems now, every time i make plans or want to get a group together i have to consider who is talking to who, etc.
bites ass.
i guess this is life. no one ever said it was perfect.
on a lighter note, i am totally, completely, unabashadly addicted to www.homestarrunner.com
thanks again to my good friend tom for creating hours of -non-working fun for myself and klas. we trade quotes via chat all day long. and yes, we are geeks.
Thursday, October 02, 2003
Tuesday, September 23, 2003
blogitty, blog, blog, blog
i'm pooped.
i have been playing a little hard the last few days. and i think it might be catching up to me. i am getting old.
gack.
so i am going to see damien rice in MPLS tomorrow night. i can't wait.
should be a great show. only $15. i remember when other bands i really like used to only charge $15 for a show.
good times.
that is really all i have today.
really short, but just not feeling too social.
i have been playing a little hard the last few days. and i think it might be catching up to me. i am getting old.
gack.
so i am going to see damien rice in MPLS tomorrow night. i can't wait.
should be a great show. only $15. i remember when other bands i really like used to only charge $15 for a show.
good times.
that is really all i have today.
really short, but just not feeling too social.
Friday, September 19, 2003
thanks tom for the time waster
check it out.
www.homestarrrunner.com
my dear friend tom, also known in some circles as my future sugar daddy or the "default", oops, that is me...sent me this link.
now thomas p is in graduate school preparing for a life of fuel cells and all sorts of engineering fun. so he sends this link to myself and a few other like-minded friends with the note of "something to do when you are bored at work"
now, i adore tom. he is brillant and works really hard at what he does. however, when i chatted him yesterday he had just gotten up. this was about, oh...11 am ish.
so i can't feel too bad for him.
so i check out this website.
i laughed so hard i almost peed myself.
now here is the kicker. checking out crazy flash sites at work is about as frowned upon as blogging at work...seems i have no problem with either.
but i have this loud, deep laugh. so the guys around me are fairly sure i am losing it as i am watching some of the shorts on the site.
yeah, not cool.
because me being me, can't just watch one and go back to work, oh nooooo...
i have to watch like 10 of them.
have i ever mentioned that addictive personality of mine?
but, check it out. good stuff. worth a laugh or two and will make the day move a little faster when the motivation is lacking.
so i met with this woman about job possibilitites in other cities.
it is a consulting company, so i would be back to that gig. which i have no problem with.
but as of today, the only place that she could move me within the next 6 months would be minneapolis.
now, i have nothing against MPLS. i always have a good time there. but i really wanted coastal and i have never been there and had the "cool city, i could live here vibe". of course, i currently live in des moines.
so there is all the perspective i really need. but if i am going to move, i want it to be somewhere i really want to be.
and winters are colder there than they are here.
so that is that.
www.homestarrrunner.com
my dear friend tom, also known in some circles as my future sugar daddy or the "default", oops, that is me...sent me this link.
now thomas p is in graduate school preparing for a life of fuel cells and all sorts of engineering fun. so he sends this link to myself and a few other like-minded friends with the note of "something to do when you are bored at work"
now, i adore tom. he is brillant and works really hard at what he does. however, when i chatted him yesterday he had just gotten up. this was about, oh...11 am ish.
so i can't feel too bad for him.
so i check out this website.
i laughed so hard i almost peed myself.
now here is the kicker. checking out crazy flash sites at work is about as frowned upon as blogging at work...seems i have no problem with either.
but i have this loud, deep laugh. so the guys around me are fairly sure i am losing it as i am watching some of the shorts on the site.
yeah, not cool.
because me being me, can't just watch one and go back to work, oh nooooo...
i have to watch like 10 of them.
have i ever mentioned that addictive personality of mine?
but, check it out. good stuff. worth a laugh or two and will make the day move a little faster when the motivation is lacking.
so i met with this woman about job possibilitites in other cities.
it is a consulting company, so i would be back to that gig. which i have no problem with.
but as of today, the only place that she could move me within the next 6 months would be minneapolis.
now, i have nothing against MPLS. i always have a good time there. but i really wanted coastal and i have never been there and had the "cool city, i could live here vibe". of course, i currently live in des moines.
so there is all the perspective i really need. but if i am going to move, i want it to be somewhere i really want to be.
and winters are colder there than they are here.
so that is that.
Tuesday, September 16, 2003
it's official, my family is insane
i spent the weekend with the family, minus one of my sisters who could not make it.
it was block party time on daisy street.
allow me to explain.
once a year, the block that my parents live on throw a "block party". as our house is located in the middle of the block, the majority of the party action takes place on our drive way.
my parents and a core group of neighbors have been doing this for something like 17 years.
as the kids of the neighborhood have gotten older, the craziness seems to mulitply.
so they get a keg of beer and we still end up making a $150 alcohol run so i can make margarita's, long islands, tom collins and of course, red-headed sluts. That is of course the shot, not my $19.99 two day course...
then my mother turns on the rap cd's and the dancing starts.
i am not making this up. friends of kids on the block come with them and are in shock and awe for a good twenty mintues watching my mother's rendention of "back that ass up" while my father oogles her. and she knows the words.
and they say the american family is dead.
hah.
come on down to daisy street and we can prove otherwise.
as my neighbor said, and this is one of the kids i used to babysit, with tom collins in hand, "how many people do you know that would bring friends home to drink with their parents on the drive way?"
this steven, is a good point.
not many.
it was also my brothers triumphant return from basic training. he gets a few weeks off before shiping off to germany in preparation for iraq.
looks good. kid is a solid as they come. his waist is smaller than mine, which is not that impressive of a stat, but still. they beat some respect into him, which i think he needed and my father got almost teary-eyed telling us all about how proud of him he is, etc. patrick is one of those kids that everyone deemed a "troublemaker" so completing something like this and doing well is sorta like a big "i told you so". he will do great. i have total confidence in him. i can honestly say i am none too excitied about the iraq thing, but this is the choice he made. i just hope our beloved president pulls his head out of his ass before patrick ships out.
not too likely, but worth throwing it out there.
also spent some time with my sister courtney while i was there. hung out in the big city of KC and well, the end result was very similar to a night in Des Moines, had a few beers, got hit on by creepy 50 year olds and a midget or two and that was a wrap.
had a great time with the girls though. as long as we continue to make ourselves laugh, we will never have a bad time. plus the bartenders at the last bar we went to, loved us. we were highly entertaining enough for them to buy a few shots and a drink or two. always a good way to end a night.
and so wraps the big weekend at home.
clear your calendars for this time next year, the planning sessions for the next party are already scheduled. i will keep you posted as to when.
it was block party time on daisy street.
allow me to explain.
once a year, the block that my parents live on throw a "block party". as our house is located in the middle of the block, the majority of the party action takes place on our drive way.
my parents and a core group of neighbors have been doing this for something like 17 years.
as the kids of the neighborhood have gotten older, the craziness seems to mulitply.
so they get a keg of beer and we still end up making a $150 alcohol run so i can make margarita's, long islands, tom collins and of course, red-headed sluts. That is of course the shot, not my $19.99 two day course...
then my mother turns on the rap cd's and the dancing starts.
i am not making this up. friends of kids on the block come with them and are in shock and awe for a good twenty mintues watching my mother's rendention of "back that ass up" while my father oogles her. and she knows the words.
and they say the american family is dead.
hah.
come on down to daisy street and we can prove otherwise.
as my neighbor said, and this is one of the kids i used to babysit, with tom collins in hand, "how many people do you know that would bring friends home to drink with their parents on the drive way?"
this steven, is a good point.
not many.
it was also my brothers triumphant return from basic training. he gets a few weeks off before shiping off to germany in preparation for iraq.
looks good. kid is a solid as they come. his waist is smaller than mine, which is not that impressive of a stat, but still. they beat some respect into him, which i think he needed and my father got almost teary-eyed telling us all about how proud of him he is, etc. patrick is one of those kids that everyone deemed a "troublemaker" so completing something like this and doing well is sorta like a big "i told you so". he will do great. i have total confidence in him. i can honestly say i am none too excitied about the iraq thing, but this is the choice he made. i just hope our beloved president pulls his head out of his ass before patrick ships out.
not too likely, but worth throwing it out there.
also spent some time with my sister courtney while i was there. hung out in the big city of KC and well, the end result was very similar to a night in Des Moines, had a few beers, got hit on by creepy 50 year olds and a midget or two and that was a wrap.
had a great time with the girls though. as long as we continue to make ourselves laugh, we will never have a bad time. plus the bartenders at the last bar we went to, loved us. we were highly entertaining enough for them to buy a few shots and a drink or two. always a good way to end a night.
and so wraps the big weekend at home.
clear your calendars for this time next year, the planning sessions for the next party are already scheduled. i will keep you posted as to when.
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