Friday, September 17, 2004
Animal Kingdom
I haven’t posted a quiz in a long time. But this is Kira’s fault, I didn’t do it first.
What is your animal personality? brought to you by Quizilla
Weekend Preview
Still really busy here at work. Only two more hours and I can kiss this place goodbye!
Regular Friday WW check in - down 2.2 lbs. That’s a total of 62.4 since I started. Pretty cool.
This weekend will be busy. Kazandra and Russian Drew are here this weekend. I think tonight I am headed to the Blue Lotus Lounge with Kazan. Then tomorrow, Kazan’s family is having a party. Day thing by the pool. And I have a really cute eyelet top I can wear. And then Drew wants to catch the De La Hoya fight somewhere and get some dinner. Then the Velvet Tongue show at Buster Daly’s. Sunday is football in the morning and then the 94/9 show and the after party. Which means I get to see good bands and will get to hang with some cool people.
Speaking of FM 94/9, I got free tickets to “Rent” from promotions at the RAOK yesterday. I took a look at where the tickets are and they are in the dress circle. Really good tickets. How awesome is that?
And I sucked it up and bought tix to the PJ Harvey show at Soma. I hate that place, but I am not missing out on PJ again. It would be a crime.
Ok, that’s it. Now that the blogrolls are back, I need to catch up on the blogosphere. Have a great weekend!
Thursday, September 16, 2004
Thoughts on a Thursday
I know, it’s been slow around here. But there’s reasons for that. I have been super busy at work because are moving offices this week. I have worked for the same company for seven and a half years and for seven of these years, we’ve occupied three floors of the big brick building you see when driving on the 163 onto the 8. Actually if you take the exit to 8 east from south 163 during business hours, I can see you drive by. My window faces the freeway. Over the last seven years, I have seen a bunch of car wrecks and other fun freeway activity. And I loved working in Mission Valley because it’s close to everything. But our new office is sweet. Our company bought 2 buildings in Kearny Mesa on Balboa Avenue. Which makes my commute really easy. Two miles away from Tierrasanta. It’s only 6 stoplights away. So that’s cool.
But try cleaning up seven years of your work life. Argh. I threw so much stuff away. Scary how much of a pack rat I am. But I fit all of my work life into 4 boxes. Now I just have to take 3 boxes of stuff home. Mostly holiday decorations. Our office really gets into the holidays. I am sure we’ll start decorating for Halloween on October 1st. Hopefully, I’ll be unpacked by then.
In other news…
Wednesday, September 15, 2004
Here I come to save the day!
Because I have nothing better to do and I saw this at Whitter’s, here’s a meme.
You’re a Coast Guard helicopter pilot who has rushed to the aid of a capsized boat with ten people aboard. You can use the aerial harness to pull them up one by one. The boat is sinking fast, though, and you know you won’t get to all of them in time. In which order do you pull them to safety?
1. President of the United States (just a president, not a specific one)
2. Kindergarten teacher with twenty years experience.
3. Young mother of three.
4. Grandfather of ten.
5. Police officer.
6. Eight-year-old child.
7. Rhodes Scholar.
8. Pregnant woman.
9. Doctor working on a cure for his own terminal cancer.
10. Your best friend.
So, in which order (ex. 7, 4, 10) would you pull them out? Why did you choose that order?
Monday, September 13, 2004
3 days of stuff
Busy weekend. Friday, I went to Kira’s and we had my famous Guiltless Fried Rice. Yummy. Her place is so cute. But I was tired from Thursday’s excesses, so it was an early night. I didn’t even talk to Travis all night. Then on Saturday, I had a meeting and then lunch with the managers in my department. That was alright. Typical Saturday errands and then it was off to the Gathering. Emily is back, so my sister and her boyfriend met me there for dinner and drinks.
Sunday was busy. First week of football. Oh yeah! I met Z and Rhiannon at CJ’s to watch the last bit of the morning games. It was packed in there because Second Wind’s satellite was down. Ali and her man were there, too. CJ’s is going to be the place for Sunday football. A pint of hefeweizen for $2.75? Oh yeah. Ali bailed after her Browns won but Z, Rhiannon, and I stayed until halftime of the afternoon games. Then home for a nap.
Friday, September 10, 2004
2 reasons why I am the happiest chick in the world today
Just got back from my WW meeting. I am so stoked. I did really lose weight while I was on vacation. 4.8 lbs. to be exact, for a total of 60.2. That’s totally awesome. I am really close to one of my milestone goals. I’d better get that tattoo drawing together because it looks like I’ll be getting it done within the next few weeks. Maybe when I get back from Vegas.
When I got back to my desk, I opened up the package that I received today. I thought it was the lunchbox I ordered from the Donut. But it wasn’t. No, even better. Mark, who lives in Virginia (who I know from my early days on the net and have never met in real life), sent me a whole bunch of stuff off my Amazon Wish List. And I’m not talking about little stuff, he got me all three seasons of Alias. And both Kill Bills. And Heathers. And best of the Pixies (the CD and DVD). And the best thing of all is the Cure’s Top CD. I can listen to Bird Mad Girl anytime I want! And that makes me really happy.
So here is my very public thank you. Mark, I can’t even begin to tell you how much I appreciate this stuff. But it isn’t just the stuff, I appreciate you. A gazillion cyber kisses to you. One of these days, you can collect on them in real life. 
Boys, Boys, Boys
Dude. Despite a severe lack of sleep on Wednesday night (work related, unfortunately), I still went out last night. Boytoy is officially sucked into the Black Hole that is the Lamp. He went on Wednesday and I called him last night to see if he wanted to do an encore. Of course he did. So we got there right around the same time and it was busy. But I found us a couple of seats at the bar and the night proceeded as a typical Lamp night should. Not a lot of people were singing so I got to sing a bunch. Cool. And then everyone started showing up - Tattoo Dude, Fake Canadian Matt, Russ and Mike (one of Russ’ best friends from high school who is really cool). I had a lot of interesting conversations with all the boys. Russ and Mike are playing rotisserie and they were talking about their teams. They were like, “You play fantasy? You should play with us!” Um, no I shouldn’t.
