part 1
David’s mom was in town this week. Unrelatedly, I had battled some sort of stomach fluishness. To tie these two together…I ate Ethiopian food, tamales, Thai food and South Indian food (not to be confused with the more popular northern Indian foods). My belly suffered but the food and the company were great.
part 2
My phone was fucked for 2 weeks. Couldn’t figure what the deal was. Sometimes it would ring, sometimes it wouldn’t. Futzing with it caused it to crash in some way. Crashing caused it to shut down. Shutting down reset it and it work. Moral? I should have just restarted it like a petulant computer. If I did not answer your call this week (Mark!) I apologize.
part 3
I discovered that the mini-documentary about how they made “Winged Migration” was infinitely more interesting than the actual movie. Especially when you find out that they shot the bird themselves for the hunting scenes.
part 4
I laid down a tad too much cash on the dogs today while at the pet store. I like to keep it in perspective, though…kids are infinitely more expensive and dogs are more appreciative. While I was out tonight Maddie got into the Snausages and ate 4.2 million pounds! David and I went out for sandwiches and pet shopping. I thought Ghengis was going to throw a tantrum when we left without him! We took him to the dog park when we got back and he cheered right up. Asshole.
part 5
We went to go see Consequences of Love tonight, but there was a shipping problem or something so they showed the Al Franken movie again. It was amusing but something is very clear to me. It does not matter what side you’re on, it does not matter if I agree with you or not. If you are in politics or political media in anyway you are an ass. Period. Both sides. Asses. I could not believe that with so many important issues that need to be discussed how often debates devolved into arguments over semantics and name calling. Screw you guys! Seriously, fuck you! How about instead of acting like a bunch of babies you get something done! Gloating, name calling, whining, picking apart sentance structure? USELESS! I’m sending this out to both sides! I’m standing here with my arms crossed, my foot tapping in disgust. Get your shit together or put the toys away and go home. I mean it about sendign this out to both sides, O’Reilly and Franken, you both should be ashamed of yourselves!
part 6
David and I rode out bikes over to the Riverview to see the aforementioned movie. It is approximately 8.7 billion miles uphill each way. No lie. I’m going to reward myself with an ice cream. Go me.
part ps
I know I shouldn’t, but I started crocheting again. I owe so many people so many gifts and my hand just does not want to work but I found this pattern and I figured I’d work on it slowly and maybe make soemthing for myself for once I’m doing it in variegated japanese wool. Wish me luck. (then it’s a beaded bag for a certain Canadian munchkin, baby blankets and slippers for Mary and a scarf for Evie’s buddy!).
Monthly Archives: April 2006
Mostly better
Went back to work yesterday and promptly came home after 2 hours. Still sick.
I spent the time at home being constructive. I cleaned out my ‘crap’ closet, organized my filing and cleared off the dining room table (aka the flat filing cabinet). I also put the christmas decorations away!
Having the dining room table cleared inspired me to get some photos printed so I hauled out the printer and ended up covering the dining room table in photos. I printed more photos than I have frames for, but that just means I will have to get creative with my photos.
I haven’t mentioned lately how much I LOVE my photo printer, but I do! and I love how easily iPhoto plays with the printer. It’s positively dreamy!
Back to work…
I am discovering that my job entails way way more detail than I realized. The system I have laid out seems so inherently logical but that’s because I made it. Poor Anna is trying to figure it all out and she only works 2 days a week. I’ll write something up for her before I go.
It also didn’t help that I was feeling very impatient today. The pms and the being sick and all that, it doesn’t make for good training.
Tonight David and I went out for tamales and then over to the Riverview cafe where we saw Al Franken carting his giant skull across the street to the MSPIFF opening festivities. He really does have a big skull! Anyway, we sat and listened to the open mic players for a bit then drove around town comparing houses.
And now, after the tamales and chai and driving, my belly is back to rolling a bit. Crap.
Rock on party people!
String theory
David and I have been trying the different mexican places on Lake st. Last night David brought me a burrito con barbacoa sin cebollas! It was damned tasty, if a bit salty.
Later, we headed over to the lake for a walk. I need to remember to bring my camera. We pondered the ducks, the flowering trees, the bird and fish bones.
I curled up and read Lovecraft and considered how television and media are making us cynical. I’d never read Lovecraft before, I’m reading a collection of short stories and they’re good, but not nearly as scary as I’d hoped.
Later I did dream I was trapped on an island and people we could not see were hunting us, so I guess they do work.
Or maybe it wasn’t the book, maybe it was the burrito! At 2 am I woke up with a terrible rolling and pain in the belly. blergh. I have a theory that when you eat something truly evil it is evil on multiple dimensions and can send out quantum threads and strings and grab previous meals and pull them out of the digested dimensions.
At 2am I lost (in reverse order of being eaten) the evil burrito, french fries and chicken fingers, a large americano, ice cream with chocolate and cookies, lambchop asparagus and cherry cobbler, the #5 mcdonald’s breakfast, another americano, a handful of chips, swedish pancakes and coffee, and a cheeseburger and fries.
Everything I ate this weekend ripped from the cosmos and run in reverse through my system.
I truly wanted to die.
Instead I slept late and did the one thing that really brings me comfort. I got out my mom’s china teapot, made up copious amounts of Earl Grey Tea, put on my velvet fat pants and my goofy white tiger cub t-shirt and curled up on the sofa with the dogs.
I’m cranky and I don’t feel good. Leave me alone.
And a good rising to you sir
Happy Happy with the Easter and all!
Since my dad had to fly his poptycopters saving lives today (he flies MediVac helicopters) we did Easter at his place last Sunday which meant I got to spend Easter at my mom’s today.
Absolutely perfect perfect day for a drive. We bundled the jerkasses into the car and started off. First order of business was to get coffee, THEN it was off to the high holy easter sunday breakfast picked up from the McDonalds drive thru! Sausage egg mcmuffins, hash browns, orange juice! McDeath!
Easter dinner at my mom’s was lovely seared lambchops, asparagus, bread, tzatziki and cherry cobbler.
After simple holy day chillin’ with my mom and the dogs we headed down to David’s sister’s place to spend some time with his family since his mom is in town for a week or so.
The dogs had a great big crazy day. Got to go to my mom’s, they tried to eat her cats (not that they would have succeeded, her cats are mean!) then at Julie’s Ghengis ran his little ass off in the back yard. Maddie tried to beat up Mia, the sweetest little rottweiler in the world. Mia, being so sweet, just rolled on her back for Maddie. Ghengis even snuck under the fence into the neighbor’s yard and I had to lure him back with cookies.
Now they are major passed out and I’m exhausted.
Happy easter, party people!
another short recap
Sorry, these have to be short, stupid wrist
* My sister actually has a freaky scary infection in a nerve in her gum. She’s freaked out, the doctor is freaked out, I’m freaked out. Please send good thoughts her way, it is much worse than I realized.
* Am I morally obligated to not use my hand much at home so I can get the most out of it at work? On one hand (snork) it is just work and I do have vacation and sick time if I need it. On the other, non-bump affected hand, they are paying me and so i should give them what they paid for. I don’t know. I had to leave an hour early yesterday because my hand hurt, later in the evening I made flat bread which made it hurt worse and in the process I thought maybe I should not have made the flat bread because it wasn’t fair to compromise my work hours. Opinions?
* I discovered that $13 is a LOT of money for a dozen condoms. Walgreens will never see another condom related dollar from (unless I am too lazy to go to Target)
* Speaking of Target, I desperately need to go there and buy an electric can opener. I feel like a number one atard because I cannot operate the can opener anymore.
* The weather is LOVELY. LOVELY LOVELY LOVELY. The sun is bright, the dogs are happy, everything feels hopeful.
* Wearing a padded wrist brace in warm weather is a bad and stinky idea. bad and stinky.
Be good to yourselves, party people.