May 31, 2006 by j.

Kevin had a kickass BBQ on memorial day… cali-style. Tri-tip (SO yum!), margaritas, Dennison chili, and bulgogi. Ok so bulgogi’s not so much in the cali way, but it was really yum as well! Oh, also his mom’s famous cheesebread. It’s now wednesday afternoon and my stomach is just starting to feel normal again.

Have been really busy with work lately, got quite a few things coming up to prepare for. So in lieu of substance, I give you these links:

Freaky. And of course, he’s chinese:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/05/31/ap/health/mainD8HUP3280.shtml

Batwoman batting for the other team?
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-1611.html

When’s your next 1000-day birthday? Let’s party!
http://www3.sympatico.ca/scruss/1000days.html

For the men in the house (those that are pure of heart, do not click on this link or jesus will smite you!):
http://www.pointsincase.com/columns/nick/5-28-06.htm

How to survive when a robot attacks you:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.06/books.html

And finally, for all the jilted lovers of the world:
http://cracked.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=416

I love when people sign off by saying bitch. It’s bitchin’. Bitch out.

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May 28, 2006 by j.

TABOO ROCKS.

A collection of goofs uttered tonight:
Faucet - You twist it and wet stuff comes out!
Cuddle - I’M A BLANK HO!!!
Snore - This is really loud and I do it in bed!
See Saw - You put your butt on it! And someone else puts theirs on the other end!! You go up and down!!

Other gems..
This is a bird in the South Pacific….. A PTERYDACTYL!!
This is a hairy fruit…. A BAT!!
Dolly is a….. LLAMA!!!! <-- I take credit for this brain fart.
Harry does this to Diana...... HUMPS!!! LICKS!!! FARTS!!! (??)

Whee!! I also learned to play More than Words (Extreme) and Time of Your Life (Green Day) on the guitar tonight. Jack Bauer taught me. Now I must go soak my bleeding stumpy marshmallow fingers in some antiseptic. Owie.

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May 26, 2006 by j.

I know that’s not the lyric. I’m not staying up til 5 so I can use the actual line.

Saw davinci code today. Was ok, I think it would have sucked if I hadn’t read the book. Some things just got lost in translation. Saw it for free, which raises it two notches on my rate-o-movie meter.

Let’s say you own a plant. Are you the kind of person that saturates it with water, and then continually replenishes it to stay at the “fully watered” mark? Or are you the kind of person that doses a splash only when you see the leaves lying flat and wilted, just barely keeping the darn thing alive?

Let’s say your mom gave you a plant. Let’s say you let it die.
What kind of person are you now?

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May 25, 2006 by j.

jack bauer called me last night and wanted to know how to get in the entrance of my building. wa ha ha!!! FOILED AGAIN, SMITHERS!!

in other news, had yummy lemon and raspberry cupcakes tonight. thanks jen! yum yum!

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May 23, 2006 by j.

Argh I just drafted a really long post and then my browser self-destructed, so now I have to do it all over again. ARGH!

For starters, I’m going to stop complaining about lack of sleep. Who needs sleep anyway?! According to my dad, nobody in Japan sleeps and look how successful they turned out.

We introduced Gumpy to general tso’s chicken on friday. She liked it. She was amazed. We were amazed.

Friday night I had a girls night in with my girls, watched DVDs and snacked on yummy treats. I stuffed my face with a salami (hahaha). No really though - salted meats, goooood. I’m like George Costanza yo. Minus the shrinkage problem. I was pretty tired though and definitely dozed off a couple of times.. I woke up with a start mid-movie, with a distinct feeling that I was drooling out of the side of my mouth.. I wasn’t, but the shock of it had me wide wide awake, I may as well have punched myself in the head for all the sublety of my snorting start. In response to the chorus of “what’s wrong”s…….. my response - “a bug bit me!” (subtext: AM I DROOLING?!?!)  Ah, the lies! Oh don’t judge, it’s happenned to you before too.

Saturday evening went out to Lauriol Plaza for Harry’s birthday dinner, totally yum and fun. Cuban pork with plantains, mmmm. Here is a money shot of the birthday boy being serenaded by friends and waitstaff at FULL VOLUME.

Tell a group of asians to sing and there’s only one setting: loud. Happy birthday hairbear! After dinner, the gang went drinking and I went home to catch a catnap, so that we could HOOKAH all night long baby. Hell yeah. Went to sleep roughly when the sun was just starting to light the sky. Zzz…

I have my doggy with me for a few days while my parents galavant around the countryside. She’s adorable, but the biggest little chickenshit ever. My roommate always calls out SOPHIE!!!!!!!!! when she sees her, which sends poor Soph running for her life with her ears back and eyes wide with terror. I found her the first night flat on her stomach, hiding underneath the coffee table. Ah, she is warming up to it though. Or I hope so at least - having friends over tonight to watch the season finale of American Idol and House, and I don’t need to be busting out the doggy difibrillator.

Here is a picture of my angel.

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May 18, 2006 by j.

Sleep eludes me still, but for different reasons now. Getting worked, at work. Today had an all-day working session for a new team that I’m on… all Type A personalities with shrieking senses of humor. We went out to dinner too, M&S Grill. I had scallops with a side of fries (not pregnant). The hysterical shrieking is awesome and hilarious, but not so much at 8am prior to the coffee marathon. I would like to preface the next statements by saying that I love my new team. I’m about to talk about one member… but I’m fairly certain she will never find my blog in this lifetime so is probably fairly safe. So this chick… I’ve never met anyone like her. She lives in new york city but hates it. She says she has no friends. She’s never eaten chinese food before. We went out to dinner and she could hardly find anything on the menu to her liking - she told us that she abides by her three food groups: fried chicken, pizza, and burgers - she eventually ordered the meatloaf but only picked at the mashed potatoes on the side. She also told us that she had only tried broccoli for the first time in her life recently … ? … really? Do people live like this? I shall call her… Gumpy. Got another all-day working session tomorrow. And then it’s SLEEP on the menu for the weekend!!!!!!!!!!

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May 15, 2006 by j.

Ahhh, this was a very good day!

To be honest, I should have been working more but I really did not do too much.. got up butt early to help Kristin get her movers situated and then, still unshowered and in sweats at 8:30am, made an executive decision to work from home for the day. Kristin and Steve bought me a breakfast burrito and I love them to pieces already - then I got jealous of all the stuff being moved around so I decided to clean out my kitchen cabinets :-)  Had lunch with Kevin.  Did some more work.  Drew a map of the neighborhood for Kristin with my new markers.  Took a nap at 6pm.  Woke up, ate leftover pad thai, and had some friends over to watch the season finale of Grey’s Anatomy.  Bit of a boring day but I haven’t had one of those in a really long time.  Which makes it the absolute perfect day.

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May 15, 2006 by j.

i need sleep :(  my sleep cycle continues to be wackety-wack-wack and it’s starting to wear on my ability to remember words.

My new roommate Kristin moves in in the morning!!  So excited. Well, it kind of shot the do-nothing gaps in my weekend because I was cleaning, straightening, putting things up, taking things down… A gigantic thank you to Kevin for helping me with that stuff, Martha Stewart I am definitely not. Plus I am terrified of poking holes in a wall that I paid so much money for. And my Kevin…. well he’s quite the poker. Tee hee.

Last night went to a friend’s birthday at Dragonfly, which turned into wandering around AdMo from bar to bar, losing members of the party at each stop we made.. don’t you love nights like that? We could be sitting somewhere actually having a conversation.. or dancing.. or eating.. or perhaps, celebrating a birthday. But instead, we’re wandering as a disjointed pack, looking for the coolest place to be seen. Omg. Am I getting old??? Eventually we became the lost ones ourselves. Gave up looking and went to total dive TomTom where we danced til our feet gave out. I haven’t partied in a place like that in years, where the crowd gyrates as a single unit butt to nut, to old school hip hop, hands in the air and everyone’s your best friend.  Kevin and Harry (hair-bear) had the admirable task of protecting three asian women (one whose legs are a mile long and was wearing a skirt that could have doubled as a headband) (no, not me, I gots stumpy hobbit legs), a duty that hairbear abandoned immediately in favor of trying to pick up girls himself who were standing on the outskirts of the crowd… incidentally, every girl he chose was a bigger fob than the last. God’s justice.

This morning I tried to take my family to Todai for mother’s day, which was the biggest mistake ever. A family-eats-out holiday + all you can eat chinese/japanese buffet means that the asians come out of the woodwork in droves to feast. The wait was two hours long. We ate at Sakoontra (thai) instead, where the crispy fried shrimp was super yums and our waitress did that super cool thing where she pressed her hands together while excusing herself. Namaste, beeyatch!

It’s 3am, I just finished reruns of Mad About You and Murphy Brown, and now Fresh Prince is playing. Time to try sleeping.

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May 9, 2006 by j.

Wow.  I just read the post I left at 3am.  Really really sorry guys….  It’s a wonder I didn’t put myself to sleep, blathering on like that.

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May 9, 2006 by j.

My sleep cycle is WACK. I’m just eating cereal (vanilla almond Special K) and drinking diet coke with lime, waiting for the urge to lose consciousness to hit me any moment now. No doubt, it will strike while I’m driving to work in a few hours. grrrrrrrr….

So I will to tell you about my weekend, maybe that will put me to sleep. Friday we celebrated cinco de mayo as the mexicans did.. by smoking hookah and shotgunning beast beers. Well, I didn’t shotgun, but it was fun to watch. From a safe distance from the spray zone. Will try to put up pictures of it. There was an ominous burp at the end of it (EEK!) Incidentally, did you know that cinco de mayo celebrates Mexican victory over France?? Mexico beat France? Wot?? Is there anyone who hasn’t yet? After getting Kevin good and drunk… had a very late night hehehehehe

Saturday we watched an early showing of MI3, which was so cool and fun that you forget there’s no real plot. Eh plot. It’s a really fun action movie with some real nailbiting scenes, go see go see. Afterwards we did another BBQ at Harry’s and ate and played xbox, I could have done that forever, but we were double booked and had to hustle downtown for the birthday of Kevin’s coworkers - we had to double back halfway when he realized he didn’t have his wallet and it would be in poor form to have the birthday girls pay for our dinners and drinks… made us really super late. By the time dinner ended around 11pm, I was close to being in a coma (having only slept for 3 hours for two nights prior to this) and had to head home early and leaving Kevin to drink himself into oblivion with beautiful women. You know you’re tired when A big thank you to Neal for picking me up, I owe ya one!

Sunday morning, visited with my folks and my dog, we did the obligatory asian thing and visited a) a sushi shop, and b) Costco. Which I quite enjoyed, actually. Bought myself some books and gum, and my parents bought about a thousand pounds of chicken meat. Had dinner at Famous Dave’s, really good ribs! We were that table that makes people regret leaving their homes.. over dinner, we taught each other how to do the super-duper-loud palm clap, whistle with your fingers, and told jokes about poop which had us screaming with laughter - which led us to retell the joke, and so on in a vicious cycle. The table next to us was a stick-up-the-butt pair of old white ladies that were soooo hating us - but hey, you want to hit a rib joint at 9pm, WHAT DID YOU EXPECT. When the pimps in the crib ma, drop it like it’s hot. S’all I’m sayin.

Am watching Conan right now - he’s in Finland bothering the natives, and right now a “native” dude is singing one of their traditional tribal songs… sounds a lot like the old tribal songs of the mountain people in Taiwan. Interesting, no? Now Conan is chasing reindeer while holding big antlers to his forehead. They are runninig away, honking like geese.

Oh, so I’m getting a new roommate, she is filipina and just about the cutest thing I’ve ever seen in my life, if I could smush her and carry her around in my pocket I would. So cute!!  I can’t wait until she moves in.

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