quidditchgrrl

We had a heat wave today!  Nearly 40* all day!  With sun!  *squee*

I got some weird looks running on the snowy/icy/slushy sidewalks downtown in my tank top and gloves.  But OH GOD did it feel good!

Did it again after work...and I'm paying for it.  Yeowch, you forget how much cushioning treadmills have and how unforgiving concrete can be.

Guess I'm only doing the aqua aerobics tomorrow, my vastus medialis are not thanking me right now.  Way to go, genetics. :-P

So how YOU doin'?

( Things I have done on my unexpected 4-day vacation: )

( Things I have not done on my unexpected 4-day vacation: )

Also, have been listening to Bright Shiny Morning, which is the third novel from the infamous James Frey.  I love stories that deal with the underbelly of life, people outside of the mainstream.  The book is a series of stories about various people in the LA area, interspersed with little historical "footnotes" about Los Angeles, switching from story to story, from a homeless drunk on Venice Beach who meets a young meth addict to a fabulously famous and rich power couple whose marriage is incredibly happy and totally platonic.  The narrator, Ben Foster, makes the story go - so very well-suited for screaming "FUCK FUCK FUCK" or calmly explaining the development of each of southern California's main aqueducts.

Tomorrow, I will attempt to sleep in, then clean house or go to the movies.  Then off to drink alcohol be eaten alive by bugs watch fireworks in Upper Arlington.  Can't think of a better way to celebrate civil disobedience than trying to escape the po-po by drinking wine from paper cups.  :-)

Hope you all have a great holiday weekend, or weekend, as the case may be.  *squishes*

*clears cobwebs and dusts*

Well, hello!  Of course, my life has been so exciting that I have nothing to talk about.

Working, working out, angsting, making a possibly life-changing discovery, cycling, angsting...you get the picture.

Speaking of, I did take some pictures recently.

For those of you going to New Orleans next week, you will find me somewhere along the way...here's what I look like.

If you are so inclined, post a picture of yourself in the comments here, if I haven't already met you in person (or even if I have).

Other stuff, other stuff...I got nothin'.

Warm fuzzies to:
zorb, on her upcoming job/location change
hermorrine, on her ongoing move and new job
strangerface, for good apartment-hunting vibes
teshara, so she can get some sleep
hula_hagrid and badonkatonks (gonna miss you at PR!)
thaliachaunacy (same for you, babe)

And to all the rest of you, too.  :)

Surfing Fark provides all the amusement one needs on a Saturday night.

Well, all the amusement a person not able to drink can have.

First, Ten verses never preached on.  If only the Sunday school teacher had mentioned these, I might have been a believer.  Or not.

Second, The top 15 strangest coincidences.  As someone who experiences a lot of deja vu and coincidence, this is kind of cool.  I believe in the attraction of people and fate.

Anyone else think that Time's Person of the Year is super-lame?  Way to cop out, Time-Warner.  We all know it should have been Stephen Colbert!  But he just mattered.

Today I got a Holiday card from someone I am most CERTAINLY not friends with, nor will I ever be friendly with again.  It was like looking at a scar - you see the mark, but it doesn't feel like it happened to you, really. 

Here are the Top 50 Singles of 2006.  I'd say 99% of them are puke-worthy.  Though I do dig Gnarls Barkley and I love me some JT.  Shut up.

Ahahaha!  That Laffy Taffy song is on the list!  Can anyone tell me what the hell they mean by that?  I love misogynistic rap music as much as the next 'ho (as my addiction for David Banner's "Play" shows), but even I couldn't make that out.

I had a massage Friday - painful!  Even my facial muscles were sore; how is that possible?!  But I'm not sore at all today.  I could get used to that.

I'm tired.

Hope you're having a good weekend!

You know those Take 5 bars?

Pretzels, caramel, peanuts, peanut butter and chocolate. It's pretty much the perfect food for days 18-21, eh? (Ladies, you know what I'm talkin' about.)

Wish I'd had these last week. Now they're just going to waste.

This, the first time I've been home for trick or treat night (they're usually on Thursdays, and I've closed on Thursdays since, oh, 1996), was spoiled by rain and my exhausted collapse into bed - I had intended to take a fifteen minute nap, but ended up sleeping for two hours. nerdork, I thought of you when I woke up.

My costume today consisted of wearing my Cedric Diggory quidditch shirt. I'm not creative and I hate holidays. Sue me. :P

But I wanna use this icon one more time...

Holy crap, man. I went bowling with folks from work yesterday, and I am SORE. I didn't realize that bowling was such a...sport!

People, my ASS is sore, not just my arm/wrist. Cripes.

I already work out three days a week and do cardio five days. :/ Pro bowlers must have some killer glutes.

I've been lurking around, doing more via email lately. I had a talk with Honeybunch about LIFE SO HARD, and glory be, he's taking action! It's amazing what you can goad a person into when you invoke the "I married my father" salvo. (My dad isn't the most responsible or common-sensical person on earth, let's just say.)

madlori and rachet, you all made me wibbly several times this weekend! It's so nice to know people who are such good friends to each other. :)

Hope you all are having a good week so far (Monday's over, so things have to be looking up, eh?)!

*crawls out from hidey-hole* Hey! Did I miss anything in fandom this week?! 8-|

I've been listening and burning tons of new stuff to my PC this week. I've gotten (from the library, natch):

Eyes Open, Snow Patrol
On The Jungle Floor, Van Hunt (Anyone else a fan? He's kind of awesome, in an old-school Prince kind of way.)
Songs From Black Mountain, Live
Chocolate and Cheese, Ween
Surprise, Paul Simon
How We Operate, Gomez

Those are the ones I'll burn wholesale. The rest (like Under the Iron Sea and Are You Nervous?) I'll have to screen for the non-sucky tracks.

Comfest is this weekend, and it's raining. *makes grumpy face* I'm oooooold. If it's raining, I don't want to be outside.

NIN and Bauhaus next week! And I am NOT staying late at work that day. Not.

I'm bored. I had all of my errands finished, plus ALL of my grocery shopping (meaning I hit KMart, Kroger, Wild Oats AND Dollar General), and had lunch before 1:00 today. o.O I wanted to go and see Brick, but I have to pick up Honeybunch at 5:30.

Maybe I should go and clean something. I was reading a terrible story today, and one of the police officers remarked at how clean and neat the house was. I thought, "if I was murdered, they'd think I was a lonely cat lady who never cleaned anything!" So, I must conquer the dust 'round here and get into the habit of cleaning. Getting new carpet right after Lumos, too.

My life, a thrill-a-minute.

/mind-numbing inanity

Meh. Randomosity.

1. I might get to sleep in tomorrow! We're going into month 4 of sharing my car, and god-DAMN is it inconvenient. The car is still not fixed yet, who knows why (as Honeybunch ponied up $750 to buy a transmission, and both tranny and car are with the mechanic). But Honeybunch will be working in the office tomorrow, so I might drop him off at work, leaving me free to be home more than 3 hours in a day. \o/

2. Ooh, they just showed headshots of Ahmadnejad and Dubya side-by-side on TDS, and they look alike! Creeeeepy. Squinty, shifty eyes on both of them.

3. ( TMI Girly Stuff. )

4. Lost. Well. All I can say is that I hope they have their plot together. Eko is awesome.

5. Back in Black! W00t! I <3 Lewis. And Billy Connolly! I love The Daily Show!

6. Mount of Olives chai tea makes the best ice tea ever. :-9

7. I've gained 6 pounds. :O Not cool. Must bike 20 miles every weekend, work out 3x/week and quit eating! Bought some Dexatrim Max today. It doesn't work. :(

8. I want to hug the whole world. *hug*

9. I'm finding it very hard to get off the PC at 11pm and watch TDS and TCR on the couch. Last night was torture - so much with the gay! I was dying to cruise the threads, but resisted. Lo, I am Xena!

10. When A Stranger Calls = the lamest movie ever. Gah.

11. Scottish accent = teh sex. Jon agrees. :>

I am watching CSPAN & the White House Correspondent's Dinner. Observations:

Valerie Plame is BEAUTIFUL. Femme fatale, indeed.

OMG, Anna DeVere Smith and the dude from Radio & TV Museum?! Odd couple...

Ben Rothlisberger? Ookay. HOLY SHIT! Ludacris! *ROFL* Maybe he and O'Reilly will duke it out in person tonight.

They just showed Stephen and his wife (who is thin and good-looking, darn it). He looks a little nervous, but he can still get that eyebrow up!

This is better than the Academy Awards, because I recognize more people and I hiss less at the people I don't like. More A listers here, too, and fewer handlers.

Stephen will take the stage at 10:25pm. Then TV Funhouse at 11:30pm. AAAAND, 60 Minutes interview tomorrow night. All Stephen all weekend long!

/geek

Ah, the soothing beat of randomness:

Canned pink grapefruit is yummy, especially when eaten with chopsticks.

Three-day-old vegetable fried rice is decidedly not.

I am glad to see Sam Bee back on TDS. She takes eye-rolling to new heights of silliness.

Wow. The Sentinel is going to rock. Kiefer! <3

Ooh-hoo-hoo! Don't screw with Thomas Dolby!

For the record, I think Moses is a cute name. As is Apple. Just so that's on the record. In case you were wondering where I stand on the issue.

Also, how hard is it to call upstairs and ask someone the proper answer to a question? Because when the library gives you incorrect information, we all look like asshats. *sporks*

I am the only person in the entire world who does not give a flying poo about the Arctic Monkeys. Don't know, don't care. Killers wannabes

Natasha Bedingfield, go home to England, for all our sakes. You're no Robbie Williams.

'Night, all.