It's raining men, Amen!
2004-01-25 8:31 p.m.

This weekend was rather quiet. Rebecca called me on Friday night when I was dozing on the couch to an Attila the Hun documentary and coaxed me downtown with the promise of beer and happy hour appetizers. Later on we ended up at the Boiler Room singing karaoke. I think that's the thirty-something's answer to unresolved teenage angst. You can get drunk and pretend to be a rockstar and work out all that unfulfilled creative expression. I added two new songs to my crappy heart felt singing list: The Divinyls "I touch myself" and "It's raining men." I even had my own (gay?) personal go go dancer when I sang that one. He even hi-fived me when I left afterwards. It was like having a groupie. Rebecca also did an endearing reindition of "Manic Monday" I don't know why she doesn't sing more often.

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Out of iGigs.
2004-01-22 1:38 p.m.

It's official. My series one iPod is full. I never considered myself incredibly hip in the music scene. I like my retro eighties, goth, alternative and grunge but it's not unusual for me to listen to new age, classical or jazz. I've been known to scream my lungs out to Filter, croon along with Diana Krall and disco dance to "Everybody was kung fu fighting" one right after another. After uploading my two Cowboy Bebop soundtracks (cannot recommend enough!) I am out of space. I've tried to delete a song here or there. Like do I really need those three Tori Amos songs? She kind of annoys me. How many songs by Sting do I really need? How many times can I possibly listen to "It's Raining Men?" I think it's time for me to upgrade to a 30 or 40 gig iPod. I can't possibly fill that up, now can I?

Top Ten Most Recently Played (Don't laugh)
Eat You Alive - Limp Biskit
Love of Strings - Moby
Stolen Car - Sting
Uncertain Smile - The The
Saudade - Love and Rockets
I Just Wanna be Loved - AM Radio
Hands Clean - Alanis Morissette
Are You Happy Now - Michelle Branch
Inside Out - Vonray
I'll Fall with Your Knife - Peter Murphy

Memo to self : Stalk Ransom in order to get compilation CD.

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Happy Chinese New Year Super Happy Lucky Monkey!
2004-01-22 9:43 a.m.

Happy Chinese New Year. It is the Year of the Monkey. I just happened to be an earth monkey which means I fall out of trees a lot, which makes sense. If you don't believe, me go and read Monday's entry.

Monkey: Of all the animals of the Chinese zodiac, your are the most intelligent. Your pranks, finesse, and craftiness get you out of the most delicate situations without a scratch. Particularly at ease in public and at parties with beautiful people, you are charming, surprising, and entertaining with the faces you make, and your irresistible, funny stories. You can also laugh at yourself with astonishing lucidity. Your character is that of a "happy pessimist" and you adapt easily to any context - and not without a certain amount of cunning. Confronted by a muscle-bound adversary, you use servility and flattery to lead him by the nose. Your skillfulness in the art of manipulation has no equal and you easily play the actor to soothe those around you. Crocodile tears and shameless lies are part of your daily bread. If you are caught, you have the good grace to recognize the error of your ways and can make others forgive you. You jump from branch to branch, from problem to problem, with an incredible degree of fickleness that borders on childishness. It is difficult to keep you in one place; at the least sign of boredom, you swing to another tree. But behind your mimics and gestures hides an old monkey that the Chinese name The Wise One. Your fault: You want to be first at any price...

Which sign are you?

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Fever, Donation and Shredding.
2004-01-21 7:12 p.m.

There is nothing that cats like as much as a hot feverish body. I woke up in the middle of the night, soaking wet and running a fever. I had to peel one cat off my stomach and another one off my legs. I swear they made a velcro ripping sound when I pulled them away from me. I got the thermometer, making sure I didn't confuse it with the cat thermometer (don't ask) and was running a temp of 102. I started popping tylenol and obsessively took my temperature until it came down to my normal reptilian temp of 96.0. This is the weirdest cold/flu/sinus thing I've ever had. I'm actually starting to feel better now, much to the cats dismay.

In between bouts of restelss Tivo viewing I've continued to clean out my house. More things packaged for donation and lots of canned goods that need to go out due to the world not ending as we know it due to Y2K. (not my idea, I'm an idealist). There has also been a lot of shredding going on. Just call this place Enron 2. My parents gave me a shredder for Christmas and I've been putting it to good use to get rid of confidential papers that I don't need any more. With that said, I'm going to take a very very hot bath with clove bubble bath and go to bed early. Tally ho.

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Sniff, snort, ah-choo!
2004-01-20 5:54 p.m.

Called in sick again today. Tomorrow I have to seriously catch up on my work. Between holidays, blizzard and a cold I am so behind.

Today has been spent moping around the house wondering what the point of my life is (aside from testing out pepper spray on msyelf) and how best to leave my mark on the world without screwing everyone else up.

Between naps I'm trying to read up on my Buddhism in order to make sense of it all. I got the life is suffeirng bit down, it's the rest I'm having problems with.

Head colds make me maudlin. Luckily I'm feeling better and should be back to perky if not down right spunky by tomorrow.

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How not to cure a sinus infection.
2004-01-19 1:22 p.m.

I woke up this morning with a pounding headache and horrible sinus congestion. I called in sick and went back to bed for a few hours. I swallowed some migraine medication and took a bath. When I went to dry my hair my hairdryer conked out half way through. Dead. When I went to plug in my curling iron it broke into four pieces. Hmmmm. So I decided the best thing to do would be to go to Wal Mart to buy a new hair dryer, curling iron, cold medicine and some crest white strips. I may feel like crap but at least I'll have pretty hair and pearly white teeth.

I'm thinking "Hey, it's Monday, no one will be at Wal Mart" because frankly, Wal Mart scares the hell out of me. I forgot that it's a holiday so Wal Mart was full of people. Mostly surly single mothers with irrational children and very slooooow old people who were lost (probably for weeks). I purchase my loot then head over to Albertson's for some provisions.

As I'm trying to get back into my house I'm juggling two over full grocery bags, one which is ripping, and then I get the mace on my key chain somehow lodged between some keys and the door handle. Being sick and irrational, I jiggle and pull on the keys until I inadvertantly mace myself in the face.

Holy fucking shit.

I screamed the F word so loud that I'm sure my parents in Washington both heard me. If I was mugging myself I definitely would have stopped. Once I quit screaming and could see again, I carefully dislodged my keys and went inside. My eyes were watering, I was coughing and my nose was running uncontrollably. Funny thing is now my sinuses are clear. Go figure.

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