Filed under: geek chic, journalicious, perfectly impossible | Tags: awesome, learn a lil bit more about me, more bloggy goodies, sloshed in seattle
… but i did make time to write on two of my college friends’ blogs last week.
Feel free to mozey on over to the homes of two of my favorite bloggers, Jeanna and Paolo, and read these totally awesome posts about ME!, which they both coincidentally posted on my 26th birthday (one of the best i’ve ever had, which I fully intend to update ya’ll about soon-ish):
also, make sure to peruse through their archives, particularly if you love reading crazy drunken stories (Je) or seeing some amazing photography (P).
Filed under: celebrity worship, my melody, party star | Tags: dance dance revolution, drink, drink drank drunkity drunk drunk, i heart britney spears, i'm a teenage girl at heart, teenybopper for life
booze, circus tricks, midgets and glitter — the girl knows how to win over a crowd.(although the alcohol consumption may have been self-inflicted.)
i’m not ashamed to say i am and always have been a die-hard britney spears fan, and i’m DEFINITELY not too proud to say i was at her show on Tuesday night (but no, I didn’t hear her say “Merry Christmas” — i was too busy singing/screaming/dancing along.). it was a raging good time and if you ever get a chance to see her perform — DO IT. you will not be disappointed. unless you’re there purely to hear live vocals — but let’s be honest. no one goes to a b. spears show to hear her pretty voice.
and no, the girl in that picture is not me — but i’d be lying if i said i didn’t plot to steal her awesomeness.
Filed under: a few of my favorite things, bestest friends, party star, sporty spice | Tags: alex ovechkin, drin, drink drank drunkity drunk drunk, hockey rocks my face off, washington capitals
i kinda heart hockey. it’s a relatively new discovery, but i totally rock the red whenever i can. I’ve found that this makes me really cool and starts lots of conversations (which is almost unfortunate, since I don’t really understand the rules other than puck goes in goal and, unlike soccer, you can check your opponents.) it also get me lots of free tickets — like tonight. i’m going to be sitting in the second row, center of the rink, and i’m TOTALLY STOKED!!!! i’m popping DR’s hockey cherry and i’m going to convert her into a hockey fan and we’re going to drink beer and it’s going to be TOTALLY AWESOME!!
Also, I was here*:
*and by here, i mean i missed the goal because i was too busy eating my hot dog and dropping my wallet 30 feet below the bleachers and i actually missed the whole thing. but the rest of the crowd enjoyed it quite a lot.
Filed under: a few of my favorite things, obscure pop culture references | Tags: andy samberg, justin timberlake, on a boat, SNL, tears of joy, the lonely island
no matter how bad a day proves to be, this SNL short makes me laugh so hard i cry. i know i’m a lil late since the “on a boat” video is the latest one circling the interwebz, but seriously — tears. streaming down my face. watch, but uh… wear headphones.
when one of your best friends scolds you for not blogging and threatens to delete you from her reader, you realize you’re in trouble.
my list of excuses (as always) is endless, but i’m gonna go with this one — work has been kicking my ass lately. not that i slack off on the job or anything (…insert guilty face here…) but all of my best ideas come during the office and then i forget to write them down. and if you know me at all, you know my short-term memory is literally five seconds long. and then i get home from work and the last thing i want to do is whip out my computer. and then when i think about it, i find that the problem is much, much bigger than having a job that keeps me busy. it’s that i hate my computer and i wish evil things would happen to it and i don’t even want to look at it unless i’m forced to.
and then i think, maybe i should just stop my whining and buy myself a Mac. i mean, technically, having a personal laptop would probably be smarter than using a company-owned one when writing a mildly anonymous blog and updating my twitter and facebook statuses.
and then i remember that i cancel out all the hours i work with all the hours i spend shopping or boozing and i have no money.
and that is the tale of why i’m a blog slacker.
(the short version is that i’m lazy, so you should just read my archives. i’ve provided several links for your convenience.)
Filed under: bestest friends, geek chic, party star, work and play | Tags: ball, blog, blog-ilicious, d.c., dance, denver, drink, inauguration, lazy, sloth, work
i showered today. and then i promptly put on the same sweats i’ve been wearing for three days and settled onto the couch for a hard day of work and inauguration watching.
while many of my friends and co-workers risked their lives to metro into the city for the event, i selected to stay in. by now, you’ve prolly figured out that i no likey the bitter cold.
however, i really hate working from home.
i know, “boo hoo hoo, i can work anywhere that has an internet connection; woe is me, i can stay in my jammies all day” — but seriously. i feel like a sloth. when i shut down my computer at 5, all i want to do is crawl back into bed and sleep until morning. when i finally pull myself off the couch to eat, i grab something carby and disgusting. and the working out i was bragging about last week? yeah… no. haven’t done it since. the fact that i bathed this morning (granted, it was maybe 33 seconds long) is pretty amazing.
i’m actually thoroughly looking forward to going back into the office tomorrow.
i’m even more looking forward to NOT going into the office on Thursday and flying to denver to see lyd and conebone for a long, much-needed weekend* away.
*not that my weekends here have been bad lately — just really busy. having an awesome surprise guest, meeting up with an awesome not-surprise guest, helping DR move, eating lots of pizza, battling the tourists to get to the bloggerational ball in adam’s morgan where i met many fabulous d.c. bloggers who know how to drink and dance** — i’m ready for a relaxing weekend.
**sorry guys, there’s no way i can link to everyone. i spent the better half of yesterday updating my google reader to include everyone i met — there’s no way i could add links to this post without forgetting someone. i’d rather people didn’t find out what a jerk i am just yet… it was fantastic to meet such truly funny and fun people. Thanks for a great time!
Filed under: a few of my favorite things, celebrity worship, fear and loathing, perfectly impossible | Tags: chuck bass rocks my world, Gossip Girl, it's no one tree hill, tv fanatic, tv shows, twilight is the new gossip girl
… but am i the only one who’s pretty much over Gossip Girl?
don’t get me wrong — i’ll still watch it. but something is definitely off.
Filed under: bestest friends, family first, fear and loathing | Tags: bellingham, flip flops, flooding, river, seattle, severe weather, snoqualmie falls, snoqualmie valley, washington state, whatcom county
In case you haven’t figured it out, I seriously hate rain — but reading about the Washington state floods is making me sick to my stomach. This video shows the devastation that my hometown has suffered in the past 48 hours. Is it weird that I feel guilty for not being home right now? To all my Valley Rats, Seattleites, Bellinghamsters and Ferndaliens, please be safe and stay dry.
picture stolen from my friend erika, who risked her life to play stormwatcher with her family yesterday. and to think i’m the one who majored in journalism.
Filed under: a few of my favorite things, bestest friends, perfectly impossible, sporty spice, work and play | Tags: awesome, chocolate, cupcakes, deliciousn, fudge, gym, lemon, raspberry, rockstar, sugar
last night, i got a facebook comment from denver married friend: “You better stop bragging about all your gym going…remember…i could still kick your ass.” well that left me feeling kinda like an asshole. not because of the bragging (my consistent gym-going this past 9 months is probably my biggest accomplishment in about 20-some odd years), but because all i’ve been doing for the past week is talking about cupcakey deliciousness with pithy.
you see, my dear friend pithy will be starting grad school tomorrow at the prestigious Georgetown University (make sure to go give her a written pat on the back). while i’m extremely excited for her, i’m more excited that this will lead to even more motivation toward her dedication to bringing in yummy goodies to the office because two days a week, she’ll be mere blocks away from the notoriously tasty and popular…. georgetown cupcake!
since making this discovery, we’ve been going on and on about the variety of cupcakes we’ll be trying — chocolate banana, lemon berry, lava judge… i’ve even picked my birthday cupcake of choice from their list of monthly selections (April 3, white choc raz, thankyouverymuch). i’ve never even tried their cupcakes, but something tells me i’ll be eating them weekly until pithy graduates.
…and long story short, i’m over the asshole-ness feeling i was feeling, and i will continue bragging about my awesomely rockstar gym-going-ness via facebook and twitter. it’s not bragging if i’m still fluffy.
Filed under: a few of my favorite things, geek chic, perfectly impossible | Tags: 2008 resolution fail, 2009 resolution, 30 rock, another new obsession, brothers and sisters, Gossip Girl, how i met your mother, one tree hill, paint picasso, red headed step child, the hills, the office, tv fanatic, veronica mars
since my 2008 resolution was an overwhelming FAIL (let’s just say, i’m not meant to be rich), i decided not to do resolutions this year — just basic to-better-myself-is-to-happy-myself goals. (i have no idea what that meant). the goals include write more, eat less, yoddi yoddi yodda.
instead, in the past six days, when i’m not writing less and eating more, all i’ve done is morph into this*:
i apparently don’t like drawing extremities. also, i have red hair again — but that’s the only resemblance to my real life. (although TV-framed glasses would be AWESOME.)
so i now resolve that as soon as i finish the 5th season of “one tree hill” on dvd, i’ll be back to my ass-kicking self. except of course on monday nights. and unless of course amazon delivers my “how i met your mother” and “30 rock” sets by then.
*possibly part of a new weekly series as requested by Crazy Eyes.
