April 2011
while saying goodbye to guests @ my work event
guest: hi! so, you just had your baby this fall?
me: …baby? oh, no! you’re thinking of Megan.
guest: oh…ohhhh. i just didn’t recognize you. you normally don’t look this beautiful! you’re usually in blah work clothes- boring, scrubby pants.
me:…well, yes. thank you. early mornings at a high school are hard.
for the record, i do not wear “boring,...
“I have heard women complain about men holding doors for them, as if it is...”
– Tim Gunn (Gunn’s Golden Rules: Life’s Little Lessons for Making It Work)
can i get an amen?
“oh, don’t you worry about it! Just take yourself to In-N-Out for some...”
– My mother, when I told her I was too hungover to go to family mass. God bless her.
weekend at home.
i don’t think i’ve relaxed like this in a while. sat by the pool (albeit the “cooler” 70* weather), played scrabble and monopoly, drank fresh brewed coffee, chardonnay, champagne, merlot and mimosas by the gallon, walked to the park to play some catch (my shoulder is f’ed), ate prawn/tomato/feta bake (prepared by yours truly), crusty bread, bearclaws, roasted leg of...
““I’m a bad test taker”
You mean you’re stupid. Oh, you...”
– Daniel Tosh, Dose of Reality.
Cracks my shit up!
“Hello, I love you
Won’t you tell me your name?
Hello, I love you
Let me...”
– The Doors, Hello, I love you.
I grew up listening to The Doors. They were my parent’s generation and my mother adored Jim Morrison. I still have flashbacks to my family home, watching my mother cook, while jamming out to The Doors in the tv den. For Christmas this year, my brother bought my...
things.
i’ve joined the glasses club and am now four eyes…but look so much smarter.
it’s 77* in paris….54* here in portland. le sigh.
i’m craving mcdonald’s hasbrowns.
GP was incredible on glee last night.
boxing class has kicked my ass. next up, joining a yoga studio.
“…going directly from $10,000-a-day fashion shoots to the heroin shooting...”
– Thing of Beauty.
Depressing, to say the least. Not sure if I’m going to get through this one. 