I miss Sealab 2021. I miss Hesh. Remember when Hesh was dressed up like a geisha? good times.
My brain is slow tonight. Can’t make the words work. It’s hot in here too. It’s always warmer inside than it is outside. I need a fan.
I got an invite to Montreal. I want to go and see the dinosaurs but I have to go before halloween. Halloween weekend I’ve special plans. I wonder if I could do it. hmmmmmm.
All depends on my NYC trip…someone needs to confirm or disconfirm the trip!
Ghengis has two more playdates! Saturday and Sunday. Crazy dog lady on the loose.
Also, I forgot to call my dad back. Sorry dad, it’s been one of those days.
Ghengis and Maddie went to the library today. David’s trying to culture them or something. They need it.
Yeah, I got nothing here. I was going to make cookies and did not. I mostly just talked to friends tonight.
and changed email apps
and installed a flash blocker.
Monthly Archives: September 2005
Playdate redux
Playdate went swimmingly. Ghengis got his ass kicked all over that yard (but not in a bad way! Just in a “wear him out and give me a break” way). Mary’s new dog is so sweet, or at least for the few seconds he wasn’t jumping all over my dog!
We’ll have to do this more often. We have the dog park and all but this also gives me the chance to just chill with people too.
Next time I am bringing beer.
OOOH! So I forgot to tell you about the freaky guy at the fair the other day! Just as we get in and we’re looking for the cheese curds we happen by the MPR booth. They’re giving away one of those Honda GoodEarthMobiles or whatever they’re called. David goes to sign up for the drawing and I wander away to study the map and look for cheese curds. A guy bounds up to me…
guy: blergghlyttterrrgllllgurg!!!!
me: what?
guy: blerrrrgghghgSTATION?!!!??
me: WHAT?
guy: are you promoting the station????
me: what?
guy: are you promoting the station here? is that why your hair is blue?
me: no…
guy: I figured with your hair and you’re standing outside the MPR booth you were working for the station
me: no…i…
guy: how many times have you been to the fair this year? do you just love the fair? do you know anyone from the station? I know this dj and he’s sure he knows me I’m in a band but we met and he was all ‘you’re right i don’t know you’ do you want a beer?
me: no…i…
guy: do you want 80 beers? I so glad to have met you here!!
me: no….i…nice to meet you
From here I’m desperate for David to finish filling out his form so I can have a gracious exit to this bizarre situation. Before my boyfriend shows up, we are visited by his girlfriend! What the hell. His demeanor changes, David shows up and I have my exit.
What. The. Hell.
Crazy people.
An army of 2…jackasses
The dogs playfight all the time and I watch them and I watch how their strategies change. Ghengis has always been a bit of a dirty fighter but Maddie is bigger and stronger. He never gives up, though, even when Maddie has him by the neck and he’s pinned to the floor and she holds him there forever. The second she lets up he’s bounding at her for more. Crazy dogs.
Maddie’s seperation anxiety is easing up but the bark monitor and the pheromones are still needed to keep her in the zone.
I need to get the dogs microchipped this week. There is no way to express the distress I feel in my gut watching those poor abandoned animals in New Orleans and the surrounding area. I look at my two members of the dork patrol and I know it would kill me to ever have to leave them behind in a situation like that. If it ever does happen, I have to think that having them microchipped will help a little in getting them back.
In other, boring, dog related news, Ghengis has a play date tonight. I am the queen of getting people at work to adopt dogs from Petfinder and tonight Ghengis gets to go meet Mary’s dog, Fletch. Excitement central. Some people make playdates with their kids, freaky dog ladies make play dates with their dogs.
I’m crazy. You knew that, though, didn’t you.
I’m in the mood for salmon. I’ll have to get some, grill it up.
Also, have a great idea for the last weekend in October! Exciting? Yes! but don’t tell David, it’s a secret.
cookies galore
So I spent the day doing lots of things I hated but also some fun things. woo. or something.
So the fair…we did the fair yesterday.
The plan was to go on Sunday, but i managed to get myself sick so I was ordered to stay in on Sunday and eat some healthy food and get better. Monday I got up and felt better and got ready and quietly poke poke poked David to get up and go to the fair! He was such a trooper! I know he was not so keen on going but he went anyway and made sure I had a wonderful time!
We got there and our first mission was cheese curds. We had to find them!! I took it upon myself to make sure that he had a good time at the fair. About twenty minutes into it he grabbed my hand and told me to stop being so tense and to relax.
So I did. And we found the fried pickles! Amazing. I miss fried pickles. I’ve only had them a couple times, they’re so weird and good. I’m going to start making them at home (and serving them with something more interesting than ranch dressing). My other mission was getting a pronto pup, not a corn dog, oh no! A pronto pup is 42.3 times better than a corn dog (bet you didn’t even know there was a difference. well, there is!).
So! We ended up eating fried pickles, a pronto pup (me, not him), cheese curds, beer, fries smothered with cheese, jalepe�os, sour cream and hot sauce, cotton candy, orange soda, veggie fajita (him, not me) and a giant bucket of cookies! Blergh!
Labor day was the last day for the fair so most of the animals had already gone home or to the slaughter or whatever they do with them. The goats were still there so I got to play with some goats and a baby goat sucked on my finger. I lvoed it so much I totally wanted to bring it home and let it play with my dogs.
We hit the midway, played a few games, I got to shoot a crossbow! Shooting a crossbow, kind of exciting. We went in the fun house, and on the ferris wheel and on the twisty coaster thing and we went down the giant slide. They even let us go down together on the slide!
We sat for a while and listened to the whitest band in America play the grandstand. ladies and gentlemen, I am proud to present to you, the absolute whitest band in america. Let’s hear it for Switchfoot!!! Whoever the fuck they are.
Then a man sneered at my cookies!! This old guy, total classic nothern minnesota old guy with his non-ironic trucker cap advertising “B.P.O.E LOCAL 149” and his plaid shirt walked buy me, saw my bucket of cookies, looked at me and David, looked at the cookies and sneered. Who sneers at cookies? He was so close to me and stared at my cookies for so long I almost impulsively offered some up to him. How can you go to the fair and never see the buckets of cookies? The bucket of cookies is not so rare? everyone gets them! They’re a fair tradition! Look, buddy, you don’t like the cookies, that’s fine, you don’t have to but why SNEER at the cookies! What did the cookies ever do to you??
Sigh.
Blue hair was definitely a hit, many people came up to tell me they liked the blue hair. Cool. There was a booth at the fair that was airbrushing cool colors onto people’s hair. The guy operating the Sky Ride had his hair in two giant blue spikes with silver stars stenciled on. We loved each other. Also, I had David take a picture of me on the Sky Ride (the one with the little buckety cars that go across the fairground high above on a cable) and the look on my face is one of swallowed fear. I’ll get over my fear of heights soon.
Also got to watch the fireworks. so nice.
Did I mention how much David rocks? Not only did he go to the fair with me but he went and did all kinds of things to make sure I had a wonderful time. Ot was the most perfect date day I have had in a while. I can’t thank him enough for the fun.
Now I’m off to eat more of the cookies (you didn’t think we’d eat a whole bucket in one night, did you?) and relax my little head.
Goodnight people
Sometimes
Sometimes you eat too much weird stuff on saturday and one of those things might be a steamed pork bun from the vietnamese place and sometimes you ake up on sunday with a sick belly.
And your boyfriend makes you stay home from the fair and drink juice and eat healthy things and all you want to do is go to the fair!!!
oh well.
Sometimes you sit here on labor day and wait for your boyfriend to get ready so you can indulge in the State Fair!!!!
HURRY UP CHOLOBOLO!!!
We sat and watched ‘Oldboy’ last night. I liked it a lot but David was not so keen on it. (holy crap, the dog is laying in the sun, passed out on his side. Next to him he has lined up his squeaky shoe, his chewy fist, his rawhide roll and the last nubbin from his orange nylabone. God I wish my camera was not next to him! I need this picture). Anyway, Oldboy was disturbing and probably more stylized than it needed to be but I liked the story and the mystery and all that.
Also, it made me want t eat mandu in the worst way.
Okay, i’m hungry and bored. FAIR TIME