Nov 3rd, 2009 | Uncategorized | 7 Comments
I watch a lot of Law & Order, which is on either on TNT or sketchy channels that have ridiculous commercials because they’re so damn cheap. Some of them blow my mind. I wonder if the people who make them actually have marketing degrees, or work at a marketing agency, or if the owners of these companies just have their friends make up the commercials while they’re working on their Geocities page. ( Oh, sorry, I forgot Geocities is over. TOO SOON. I’m very insensitive.)
Anyway, I get it that some of you work or don’t like Christopher Meloni after Oz or whatever so you may not have seen these. Luckily, as usual, the YouTubes will help you fill the gap in your pop cultural knowledge. → continue reading
Nov 2nd, 2009 | St Louis, Uncategorized | 1 Comment
Friday night, Chris and I were lucky enough to go to the St Louis Symphony Orchestra as guests for their third Bloggers Night. This was my first time attending the symphony in St Louis, but not attending a symphony. I’d seen several during my time playing violin. However, I’ve been disengaged from any type of musical performance outside of karaoke at Double D’s since I graduated high school. I’m pretty sure if I picked up a violin right now, I’d sound no better than the Duggar orchestra, sawing out their rendition of “Amazing Grace”.
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Nov 1st, 2009 | bloggety stuff, Fun, life, St Louis | 3 Comments
I haven’t been posting nearly as much as I would like to, so I decided to participate in NaBloPoMo (National Blog Posting Month) for November, which means I’m committing to post every day of that month. I know, right? The world totes needs more banal documentation of my life. What can I say? I like to give back. Deadlines are good for me and I’m excited to maybe write something interesting in those 30 days.
Last night was Halloween, and I had a fun time at our friend John’s house. I dressed as slutty broccoli. I didn’t take the good camera because I didn’t want to keep track of it, but there were pictures, which I will post when I get them. There were some great costumes, as usual. My one friend was Teen Wolf (if Teen Wolf played basketball for DuBourg), his wife was our friend’s giant construction cell phone, Susan and Moose were Margaret Thatcher and Winston Churchill, complete with British foodstuffs like spotted dick. Rev Em was Bob from What About Bob? (with live goldfish around her neck) and Army Dan was Cousin Eddie circa Christmas Vaction. There was a Fabio, a Hulk Hogan, a SuBo, a Sally O’Malley, a priest, a cow with udders, an Evil Knieval, a Rosie the Riveter, and several more costumes I can’t remember since I partook in various vices over the course of the night. Rev Em’s family showed up; her dad was Balloon Boy, and she brought her visiting French cousin. Try explaining sexy broccoli to a Frenchie. This guy hadn’t even heard of Bruce Springsteen. Socialist. He was amazed that Halloween parties in America really are like on TV shows. We danced the night away like only drunk white people can do and I felt like crap today.
I’d also like to give the Iowa Hawkeyes a shoutout, as my lifetime devotion to their squad is finally paying off in the form of a 9-0 record peppered with heart attack-inducing comebacks. It’s been a great fall to be a Hawk.
Tomorrow I’ll be posting about my trip on Friday to the St Louis Symphony Orchestra. We had a blast!
Oct 30th, 2009 | life, St Louis, Uncategorized | 4 Comments
It has rained every day since I can remember. It’s far and away the wettest October here on record. Last night, it rained an inch in a half hour. This is not a great way to enjoy your new work-from-home situation. As it stands, I’m cooped up in here with a dog who doesn’t understand that me being home doesn’t mean we’re going to run in fields of gold every day until he’s tired, which means he looks at me and whines to go out every 20 minutes. Then he goes on the porch and realizes that its really fucking wet out there and kinda half-asses it like maybe if he just sticks his nose out and get it wet that he can get away with NOT getting his precious fur coat wet but still get a treat out of me. Every 20 minutes, no joke. I just BRIBED MY DOG, y’all, with a bone filled with peanut butter so he’d quit whining long enough for me to type this. I am a sucker. Also, he pooped inside this week while I was at my boss’s place and THEN ATE IT. → continue reading
Oct 21st, 2009 | Fun, life, St Louis | 4 Comments
Saturday, the sun finally made an appearance in St Louis. Good thing, because I was set to ride my bike in the infamous Tour de Moose, a pub crawl on bikes around the city. My great friend/old roommate Susan’s boyfriend is the Moose in question, and this was the fifth year of the Tour, an event he and his friends put on themselves.
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Oct 16th, 2009 | Food, Garden | 3 Comments
This nasty weather keeps me checking the 10-day forecast to see when the first frost will be so I can rescue what tomatoes are still on the vine. It’s also kept me from cleaning out the dead plants, digging up the last of our carrots, and getting some cuttings to take indoors. Stupid cloudy cold rain bullshit.
Our expanded gardening was a success on many fronts. I think, had I been at home over the summer like previous summers, we probably would have had even more success. As it was, was took on a more laissez-faire approach to the garden. We could have thinned, pruned, and weeded more. As the outdoor growing season (for us) comes to a close, here’s a little recap and look forward to next year (Yes, I’m already planning for next year. I like to geek out with a seed catalog). I would have taken pictures but it’s cold outside, kids, and I’m still in my sweatpants. → continue reading
Oct 14th, 2009 | life, work | 1 Comment
Greetings from my couch! On a Thursday! At 1:34 PM! Goren and Eames send their regards. Benson and Stabler, too.
Monday started my new work situation. Technically, it started Tuesday, because Monday was my new boss’s birthday, and when you are your own boss, you don’t work on your birthday. Tuesday and Wednesday, I spent a good portion of the day with my new boss, working with her on learning all the new skills that come along with a new job. → continue reading
Oct 9th, 2009 | Uncategorized | 5 Comments
I was totally going to write this snarky, ranty letter to my now FORMER place of employment as a farewell. Then I realized that the only people who work there who are savvy enough to actually know what a blog is, that I have one, and how to findit are probably the people I liked or at least didn’t have a problem with, so I decided to refrain. Fuck it, I’m FREE, y’all.
So I’ll just use my last Friday working for the Dunder Mifflin of universities to invite all of you in the St Louis area to a little meetup. I’ve been wanting to organize another once since our BlogHer one in July, and the other day on Twitter, I spur-of-the moment planned one for next week. It will be this Wednesday (October 14th) at the Atomic Cowboy, where Nuclear Comedy (now, with a pirate twist) will be at 8. We’ll meet before at 7 for drinks and chatting. If you don’t want to watch stand-up at 8, Atomic Cowboy has a few different areas, so you can keep hanging out without feeling as though you are interrupting jokes. A few of my favorite Twitter/blogging types have already confirmed. Who? You’ll just have to wait to find out. It will be laid-back and friendly (at least on my end), and you don’t have to wear a nametag if you don’t want to. Come hang out!
Have a good weekend, my friends. I know I will. Chris and I are celebrating our 4th anniversary and me getting the fuck out of Dodge, tonight at Niche. First day of my new professional life begins Monday with me, my laptop, and (fingers crossed!) a Maury paternity test.
Oct 6th, 2009 | education, Food, life | 1 Comment
Wheeeeee! It’s my last week of work at my current job, which means it is the last week I will be in this building on Tuesdays from 7 or 8AM to 9:30PM. That is such a nice feeling. I think I will be less of a misanthropic eye-roller in class when I’m not spending the previous 12 hours in the same building. However, I will still be very annoyed when Lady Who Talks Too Damn Much (LWTTDM if you aren’t familiar with my Tuesday night tweets) gets going on God knows what.
The mad bummer right now is that our internet at home just flat-out quit working this weekend. Of course, Chris had to spend a ton of time on the phone with people in India who refused to believe that our connection just quit working and the Chris hadn’t hatched a nefarious plan to siphon their time and energy into fixing his own grievous errors. A dude came out yesterday and said it’s not the outside connection so it must be the modem. Joy. Our normal neighbors-from-whom-we-steal-internet when ours goes down apparently learned about passwords (none of them being “password”. I tried) and the faint open connection only works with Chris’s computer from one couch. This does not bode well for my productivity on various projects/posts I hoped to get off the ground ASAP.
Don’t forget to donate to DonorsChoose projects in your area. Every little bit counts! My grandma Marilyn sent me a check in the mail to donate to Donors Choose because she didn’t know how to do it online. Then she went to Branson. True story.
Also, check out The Novice Foodie later this afternoon. I’m talking about Monarch and why it’s the best place to spend your money for a fancy dinner. I was fortunate enough to dine at the Chef’s Table there on Friday, which I will be (hopefully) blogging about tomorrow or Thursday. If you live in St Louis, GO THERE. You will not regret it.
More posts to come this week which may or may not involve the following things: Hoarders, food, my anniversary, terrible movie trailers, a goodbye to my job, and a garden update. Ooh! Thrilling!
