Halloween

Happy Halloween!

I forgot to post the picture of my beautiful pumpkin thats already rotted and totally melted and been thrown out...but at one point it looked beautiful.

Last night I went to the 17th street high heel race. It was awesome as always. From years of experience I have the perfect place to stand and watch...but if you think i'm gonna blog about that you are crazy.

The outfits were awesome though. My friend justin was supposed to go dress up, but bailed last minute :( its ok its not like i havent seen him in drag before. My favorite set of costumes were the elaborate board game group :)

Also jim just sent me this link and i'm tempted to buy this shirt...most of the points on the back are true http://www.drunkenbleachers.com/wicked_insoxicated.html

Californication Season 1

Last night was the season finale for californication. I'm still hooked. I know a bunch of guys out there are disappointed that there isnt nearly as much nudity in the season as the pilot implied, but the rest of the show is pretty good. Plus David Duchovny is awesome. (a little flash back for the winsor girls huh?) Also whoever plays his love interest is gorgeous.

Season two is "coming soon" so I guess shotime defines its own seasons. whatever. i just hope its soon.

Anyway its probably not too hard to catch up so whenever it starts again i recomend jumping in.

Awesome weekend!

Hey, remember that time the red sox won the world series??? yeah, I do too. and it was AWESOME. Yesterday I spent 10 hours in union pub watching the pats kick ass 52-7 and then in a tight game the red sox pulled through and held onto their lead. I admit, i got nervous. I made myself feel sick, but I guess that just made it extra exciting when they won and the entire bar was filled with sox fans. I cannot put into words how excited I am.

Sat night We got all dressed up, I was wonder woman. Eventually I'll post pictures, but pretty much I looked exactly like Wonder Woman.

Friday night was an awesome. I havent written up a "bad attempt" in a while, but thats because we havent gotten any awesome ones in a while since its been a while since we had girls night. Anyway, we were at madhatter and Tristan and I went to the ladies room, and we come back and Laura and Kaite are sitting on the bench and this old man (like 80) is standing hunched over them with his arms around both of them telling them how they shouldnt be a wallflower and pretty girls like our group should be getting the guys. He leaves and we all chat for a while. Then he walks over to the group of coeds next to us and tells them all about us...then comes back to us and tells us that he's been talking about us. awesome. Then he sits back down at the bar and I get a text about going to another bar and i flash it around my group, he sees this and practically runs over. "Is that the guy? are you going to meet up with the boys now?" Yeah i say. "oh, I guess you arent going to be wallflowers like me"...goes back to the bar, pays his tab, and leaves.

Impulse Buy

I am a sucker for register candy. So yesterday I bought The new Ice Breakers "Pacs", its like the listerine strips that desolve in your mouth, but inside the desolvable thing is a packet of sugar, like pixi stixs.

Well I tried one , didnt think it was too bad, and then politely offered my officemate one. As I'm reading him the directions "place on tounge and let desolve. its really cool!" he starts screaming that its stuck on the roof of his mouth and this was the most terrible thing i've ever done to him.

He then asked for more.

We decided to call the hotline on the packaging for nutritional information and questions to ask what the thing that melts in your mouth is made out of...make sure its not carcinogenic or anything.

1-800-468-1714

When we pressed the button to get nutritional information a recorded lady who sounds like she had been a smoker for 40 years says "for nutritional information please visit our website www.hersheys.com"....SERIOUSLY? why couldnt they just print that on the candy instead of sending us on a wild goose chase!

My officemate still has a layer of orange goo stuck to the roof of his mouth.

World Series

Did anyone else watch the game last night?

John Williams arranged and conducted the National Anthem. That was super cool, and I was beyond jealous that my dad got to see him live!

Then I got giddy. My boys that I've watched all season, my team that i've watched all my life, is in the world series. THE WORLD SERIES. I'm just excited they are there.

I realize we were there three years ago. And that was AMAZING, but this time is almost as exciting.

I heart Josh, Manny, Eric, Jon, Javier, Hideki, Daisuke, Johnathan, Curt, Kyle, Mike, Doug, Tek, Alex, Eric, Mike, Julio (sometimes), Dustin, Yooouk, Coco, J.D., Jacoby, Bobby, Manny, and Big Papi

13 to 1...Nice start boys, keep it up.

Sleepy Wednesday

I think I wake up entirely too early. My new rule is that if I wake up and the sun isnt up I'm gonna go back to bed. I dont care if that gets me to work late, i'll just stay late. Its un natural to wake up so early! the sun is here for a reason! That means I'm setting my alarm clock for no earlier than 7:28am.

According to the navy website here is the sunrise information for arlington va tomorrow morning:

Begin civil twilight 7:00 a.m.
Sunrise 7:28 a.m.
Sun transit 12:52 p.m.
Sunset 6:17 p.m.
End civil twilight 6:44 p.m.

Also tonight is Game 1 of the WORLD SERIES...If you know me at all you know i'm beyond excited. So if you need me tonight you can be sure to find me infront of a TV.

Lyrics

I wrote this a long time ago and never posted it, so here it is.

The other day my officemate came in all excited that he's discovered the best rock song ever lyric wise. You see he was at the black crows show in bmore the night before since his uncle is in the band (he says he'll take me next time if i bring lots of friends to his next show--which i didnt do) and they did a cover of the fleetwood mac song "oh well". This song makes me laugh b/c it definately sums up in two versus the essence of guys. so here it is:

I cant help about the shape Im in
I cant sing, I aint pretty and my legs are thin
But dont ask me what I think of you
I might not give the answer that you want me to

Oh well

Now, when I talked to God I knew hed understand
He said, stick by my side and Ill be your guiding hand
But dont ask me what I think of you
I might not give the answer that you want me to

Oh well

Its a girl!

Charlotte had a baby girl this weekend! She is absolutely beautiful, I went to visit her on sunday and she is the sweetest little baby I have ever met! Lila Noel! With a pretty name like that you can already tell she's beautiful :) Oh, she was also the newest baby I've gone to visit since i was much younger going to visit cousins and stuff. Congratulations Charlotte and Levi :)

This weekend was also Diana's fourth annual wine and cheese party. It was lots of fun as usual. i have pictures i'll post later :)

Also...GO SOX!

baseball

I fell asleep last night to the red sox beating the Indians. Unfortunately I fell asleep before the end, and when I woke up my internet was down...so i had to drive in suspense to work to find out. that was a stressful drive. Looks like I have another stressfull night on sat and sunday. I really just want beckett to pitch in any remaining game...do you think he'd be up for that? I think a stud like him would totally do it.

Parking ticket

This morning I was walking to my car and found a four leaf clover, i was thinking this is going to be a good day.

I got to my car and found a parking ticket on the windshield.

Expired meter, 8:26AM

Well thats all true...but the thing is that the meter says 2 hour parking 9:30 am to 6pm so to the best of my knowledge I wasnt required to have any coins in my meter for an hour after I got the ticket.

You can bet i'm contesting that one.

dangerous dogs?

So you know how they have a sex offenders registry where you can find a list of all the sex offenders in your neighborhood? well it turns out there is also a dangerous dog registry.

I'm wondering what qualifies as a dangerous dog. Is it a dog that has killed someone before? Maybe just wounded or disfigured someone? Dont they put those dogs to sleep?

Does any state besides Virginia have this?

The good news is that there doesn't appear to be any dangerous dogs in my neighborhood.

Update: After writting this blog I watched the sarah silverman show and she had a skit where she licked a dog's butt to see what the big deal was and why they are always doing that, and someone saw her and turned her in. So she had to go door to door in her neighborhood declaring that sexually she was a threat to thier dogs. If only they had a sex predator for dogs registry....

Weekendness

This weekend was a lot of fun.

Starting with a great redsox game/ viewing party friday night (lets not talk about the sat night game).

Sat night was Paul and Amy's housewarming party. They have an awesome apt like a block from nolans area so we walked down to adams morgan after.

The most fun part of the weekend however was sunday we went apple picking. There were a surprising amount of apples left on the trees. I then made a very yummy apple pie with the pickings :)

And as far as fantasy football games go, i'm down 4 points in my game, but I still have Plaxico Burress and Amani Toomer tonight, so hopefully I"ll be ok...If i win today I become first place in my league...my league that previously made fun of the girl playing with them and tried to get me to make lame trades with them.

In Rainbows

So I "bought" the new Radiohead CD "in rainbows". As many of you know Radiohead tried something new with this one...they released it themselves with no label simply through thier website...but here is the weird part---they let you pick your price, and anything goes.

Well I decided about 2 weeks before it came out that I was going to pay 5 bucks. Thats reasonable right? I mean i was mainly just supporting the method of distribution so that in the future more bands can do that too.

So I logged onto thier site and added it to my cart. How much do you want to pay? IN EUROS. so i googled conversion and figured if i paid 4 euros that was about what I wanted to pay, updated my order, and added it to the cart. Then i go to check out and it takes forever. finally i get to the checkout screen to enter my information and they have decided for me that I'm paying NOTHING. fine, i'm not complaining. I tried to be good and pay, but they just wont let me. oh well.

The CD is pretty good though. really interesting as usual, and very good for certain moods.

Airlines suck

So I finally booked all my upcoming flights around the country...boston, LA, and New Orleans and I've come to the conclusion that airlines enjoy screwing you in any way possible.

I waited an extra day to book my LA flight and the price went up 100 dollars, also the days i need to fly are of course the most expensive days possible.

To new orleans i had options, fly direct and pay a little too much, or pay still too much but transfer a million and two times. I chose to fly direct.

I just got my usair esaver email and checked out the rates and they have a "special" from Boston to Rhode Island for $89? Did they mean "special" as in the way you describe the kid who eats glue? I can get from DC to Boston for less! I actually didnt even know they had flights from boston to rhode island...why wouldnt you just drive? its an hour drive max between the airports.

airlines suck

Across the Universe

Last night we went to see Across the universe since the commercials and trailers had looked promising, plus anyone knows how much i love the Beatles, so how could this movie be bad? Answer: It cant. Its awesome. Go see it.

The actors and actresses all have amazing voices especially the main characters Jude and Lucy. Also all the scenes were beautifully shot and it was just fun to watch this whole thing. The one thing I should warn you is that it is actually a musical, like should be on Broadway musical. Some people evidently weren't prepared for this.

There were also great cameos which surprised me, including Bono! he was great.

So basically I cant wait till it comes out on dvd so I can buy it :)

Monday thats really a tuesday

Well there sure was a lot of sports this weekend. Redsox won all three of thier games and the yankees lost 3 of the 4 games they played. I couldnt be happier. Infact As of sunday night all FOUR boston teams had won thier games this weekend. Sometimes its great to be from boston :)

Also for my fourth time this season I won my game of fantasy football...four out of 5 games isnt too bad. I still have to find a way to beat my co worker who has won 5 for 5....I'm playing him this week so that should be interesting. Wish me luck.

Anyway I think i need a break from sports because I seriously cant sit through another game of anything for a little while.

Finally Friday

The date auction last night was pretty amusing. Jen and skins tickets went for 250 to some random dude, Katie and a private taping of Pardon the Interuption went for 250 to her boyfriend, and Laura and hoyas tickets went for 110 to Paul.

Mcfaddens wasnt exactly the best setting though and they were less than accommodating. But i think overall they raised something like 2000 dollars for So Others May Eat. so thats good.

Tonight its all about nolans 15 bucks all you can drink.

Thats really all i can process on this tired friday morning. wish me luck making it through the day.

Ringtones and Date auctions

Tonight I am going to the dc kickball date auction at mcfaddens. I'm not looking, but I figured i'd go support Jen and Laura who are both up for auction. Plus if someone nasty is bidding on them I guess I should counter bid.

Also, because I can I have been messing around with my ring tones. I use to have Led's Kashmire as my ringtone, but thats not an option anymore. SO for now I have Pink Floyd's wish you were here for the people i wish were here...so only a few people get that ring, and everyone else gets hanson's mmmbop b/c it made me laugh. I think i'll probably be forced to change that soon.

Tom Brady is a stud and my new goal is to be giselle

Tom Brady is a stud. Seriously...could you imagine being him right now? At age 30 3 superbowl rings decorating his hand, a star quarterback, dating giselle, has bridget moynahan as his baby's mama. Unfortunately he's a yankees fan though, lets just ignore that fact. Basically Every girl in this country wants to be with him and every guy wants to be him. Tell me thats not true. Basically I think they should make a commercial with him and some cute cuddly teddy bears promoting world peace and probably all the wars in the world will end instantaneously. he has THAT kind of power.

I think if i could be anyone right now I'd want to be Gisselle. Besides being a hot victoria's secret super model she is the ex girlfriend of leonardo dicaprio and curent girlfriend of tom brady. Life probably doesnt get any better than that.

Anyone else excited for the sox game tonight!

job fair summary

I'm back from the job fair nursing my shot wound. it hurts a lot. but i'm done complaining...instead:

This is all the free cool stuff I got from the job fair today when i decided to walk around with my co worker.

-Airtran T shirt
-Intel Key Chain
-BP Stress Ball
-Lockheed Martin Binoculars
-Shampoo from Unilever
-tylenol go tabs
-book lamp

and free lunch from UMD with some awesome cake.

Oh and after talking to my co worker it turns out she was a cheerleader at umd, but now she is the coach...so i jokingly told her she could coach me cuse i'd be awesome. i'd be such a good cheerleader though :)

Might be a late night tonight...might not...your input please

Ok so I'm at work today...in a suit. I am working at the UMD job fair today which I love doing so thats cool. Its kinda fun to be the intimidating one behind the table. Dont worry, I fully realize that i'm not intimidating AT ALL and thats probably why they keep having me work at the job fair.

Its funny because right out of college i turned down a job to be a "booth babe" and just travel to things like this all the time. Looking back that might have been a lot of fun. Oh well, I've made it known that I like working at these so I think they will continue to ask me to come to them hopefully. So if you are at UMD today and want a job come find me :)

Tonight I'm trying to decide if i'm gonna make it a late night at santa fe. Eric is playing there tonight and I kinda said i'd go...then i found out they dont go on till 11 at night...its a tuesday and i'm old. we'll see. gotta go to the dr and get a shot first...so any of my old gw friends i'll be around campus later today if you want to get dinner or something--not that i dont drive through every day...so never mind, i guess today isnt special.

Pam Beesley and Me...why we are alike #532

In honor of the new season of the office.

As most of you have found out the office pretty much is true to life in most offices. My officemate jim and I decided a while back that we were like Pam and Jim (minus the sexual tension).

While watching season 3 on dvd the other night I found out yet another reason I'm like pam. We both dislike sports that have to do with a disc. We find this out when Jim is giving bad advice to andy about trying to hit on pam. Its pretty fun to watch, but i was forced to have a catch the other weekend and i was so incredibly bad.

First i wouldnt let us play anywhere people would watch me so after driving around we found a sketchy empty park except for a little kid flying a kite. Then we started tossing the frisbee back and forth...although it would be more like the frisbee would be tossed directly to me, i'd catch it, then while trying to throw it directly back i'd inadvertantly throw it to the farthest corner of the park. No matter how hard i tried the stupid disc always went a minimum of 50degrees to the right of where i was aiming.

Second, it hurts. I walked away with two broken nails, a bruised palm, a bruised arm, and probably a few other bruises on my body.

thats probably it for me playing frisbee in 2007....or ever ;)