Filed under: obscure pop culture references, party star, work and play | Tags: awkward, drink drank drunkity drunk drunk, i hate goodbyes!, the office
…well, no one really. it would’ve gone to me if my boss hadn’t gotten me too drunk to drive home. who stays in the office past 5 p.m. on their LAST DAY?
this girl.
(at least i get to see maxie‘s pretty face one last time.)
Filed under: a few of my favorite things, celebrity worship | Tags: bulleted lists are cop-outs, chuck bass rocks my world, even my cat loves gossip girl, kristen bell
* i love chuck bass more and more every season.
* i hate vanessa more and more every season.
* i can’t believe they’re dating in real life. awkward.
* are dan and serena still dating in real life?
* they’re both really annoying, too.
* seriously, why are all the characters so annoying?
* when lil j’s storyline is my favorite, i know we have problems.
* wait, i still love blair.
* WHERE THE HELL IS BLAIR?!
* she’s hardly been in the past three episodes.
* she needs to be scheming instead of pining after chuck.
* but man! poor chuck! he’s always getting the short end of the stick!
* maybe it’s because he wears so much pink?
* (just a reminder: i’m not chuck bass.)
* THERE’s my girl! and she’s scheming again.
* “prostitutes are people too! …and they have a lot of disposable income.”
* i’m totally not cut out for live blogging and forgot i was doing it for the last 30 minutes of the episode.
* also, there’s really no graceful way to close out bullet points.
* so just gonna put it out there — gossip girl would be nothing without k-bell’s voice.
* xoxo.
Filed under: fear and loathing, perfectly impossible | Tags: pointless post, raccoons are the epitome of all evil in the world, shiny objects, washington dc
only another 9 days until my tenure in the d.c. area comes to a close. it seems unreal to be closing this chapter of my life, and i feel like lots of tears will be shed (and lots of tequila will be consumed) in the next couple days.
my brain is a whirlwindy mess of thoughts and i can’t really put together coherent thoughts and i’ve been nightmaring of raccoons as pets. i don’t know what kind of an omen that is, but i don’t like it.
look, flowers!
Filed under: bestest friends, family first, perfectly impossible, the cat's meow, work and play | Tags: d.c, home sweet home, rain rain go away, seattle girl, yes i'm obsessed with my cat
so, i hear you’re leaving?
yup, i’m headed out at the beginning of april.
wow, where are you going?
oh, i’m heading back to the seattle area.
well, we’ll miss you. aren’t you going to miss ____________?
don’t be stupid. i’ve lived here for three years — of course i’m going to miss everyone and everything here! i’m really excited to get back to the northwest though.
what will you do for work? is your company moving you back or are you just going to wing it?
actually, neither. i’ve found an awesome new opportunity through some college friends, and i can’t wait to start on a new adventure.
oh, ok. so where will you be living?
ummmmmmmmm, with my parents for a few weeks/months. should be… fun?
and are you bringing your cat?
is this a real question? of course i’m bringing my cat! we’re shipping my car and household goods, then bizzi and i are flying across the country together.
wait, you’re taking your cat on the plane? will she even FIT on the plane?
as always, the fat jokes are unnecessary. yes, she’ll fit on the plane — she’ll even fit in my carry-on bag, underneath the seat in front of me.
you’d better drug her. that’s a long flight.
thank you for your concern. i’m well aware of the flight times between seattle and d.c.
so, wow. seattle. doesn’t it rain a lot there?
it has its moments, which i’m dreading, but i’m just stoked to be near my family and other loved ones again.
no, but seriously. don’t you get super depressed when it’s grey and wet and rainy?
*nods sheepishly*
that’s gonna suck.
yup. but at least i’m moving in the spring, which generally leads to a beautiful, less rainy summer.
so, are you gonna miss __________________?
don’t be stupid. i’ve lived here for three years — of course i’m going to miss everyone and everything here! i’m really excited to get back to the northwest though.
/rinse annnnnnnnnnnnd repeat.
Filed under: a few of my favorite things, celebrity worship, my melody, obscure pop culture references | Tags: ashlee simpson is not that awful, guilty pleasure, on another tangent, what was i thinking, yes i'm obsessed with my cat
sometimes i think about starting a specialized blog. one that’s slightly more focused than my attention span, so you lovely readers will think that i’m an expert in some area or another. maybe.
but then i think about what i know. not cooking. not fashion. not photography. i don’t really know anything cool. in fact, i know the opposite of cool.
i know guilty pleasures.
case in point: my dear friend maxie posted a link to ashlee simpson today, and i went positively giddy. now, i know what you’re thinking, “ashlee simpson sucks.” and sure, she does a little. but she’s SO. CATCHY. in fact, i started listening to her this morning, and now i can’t get her outta my head (see what i did there?). i kinda love her. if that makes me wrong, i don’t wanna be right (and all those other cliches that justify my musical taste). did anyone else watch her reality show? i JUST DISCOVERED IT’S ONLINE!!! life equals made. (Update: it is in fact NOT online — it’s just a bunch of episode recaps. life equals sad — and also teaches me that i should research before i hit the publish button.)
anyway, i have a lot of secret shame. Uggs? own them, love them — back off! sleep with a teddy bear? Only when my cat’s ignoring me — shut up! guilty-pleasures-wise though, i think the majority of my shame comes from teen soaps and pop music. and that’s just really not interesting. sad, but not interesting.
i don’t really know what the point of this post was other than confessing my illicit love affair with ashlee simpson’s music. which, again, is sad, but not interesting.
Filed under: a few of my favorite things, bestest friends, family first, perfectly impossible, work and play | Tags: bittersweet, cherry blossoms, d.c, home sweet home, seattle girl
… and that is in the Northwest.
i moved to the d.c. area on a whim three years ago. ok, that’s a lie. i moved here for my job, but that sounds a lot more boring.
while i loved the change in pace, the rush of adventure i got from moving 3,000 miles from everything i knew and loved, it took me a solid year to get my feet on the ground and build a foundation here. if you read through some of my first posts, you’ll see that i was on a never-ending roller coaster. so much has changed since then. i’ve met so many wonderful, fantastic, amazingly awesome people who mean the world to me. but i was never meant to permanently live here.
so i’m doing something about it, and as the cherry blossoms bloom this april, i’ll be flying across the country on a one-way ticket home.
after emailing back and forth with another blogger yesterday, i realized that i don’t really share a lot about my life here. more or less, i share very high-level thoughts that don’t really matter in the grand scheme of things.
i don’t know that i’m ready to change that. but i do think enough people are reading now that i should at least ask — is there anything that i don’t talk about that you’d like me to? i’ve thought about joining formspring, but i don’t think my skin is thick enough for the anonymous, nasty comments… (seriously, some of the sweetest people get the rudest questions — and i am NOT that sweet, so i can only imagine.) also, ya know, not THAT many people are reading, and it would suck not to get any questions.
no one’s probably reading on a saturday, but if you are, hi. what do you want to know? i’m a little hungover and only wearing one sock, but other than that, i might be able to come up with some mildly sensical answers.
Filed under: a few of my favorite things | Tags: bye bye winter, flippy floppies, happy day, no more snow, sunshine
…i know we still have a few more weeks of winter and there are still snow piles everywhere i turn and it’s not quite warm enough, but i’m wearing flip flops today.
and that makes me happy.
(please to ignore the crappy cell-phone quality and horrible pedicure… instead, think sunshiney, flippy-floppy thoughts!)
Filed under: my melody | Tags: brand new, dance dance revolution, music, pop star, you should not spell your name with symbols
i’m in a music rut, and while i could listen to Brand New on repeat for hours (what? i’m emo-licious at heart), my CD player can’t and it’s starting to skip incessantly.
that’s where you come in — what should i be listening to? (and NO, even though i live for pop music, i do not care for kesha*, and NO, i will not add a stupid dollar sign to her name.)
*except secretly, when my roommate can’t see me listening to blah, blah, blah, and not so secretly, when i’m showing off my mad tik tok clock dance moves. (maxie, pithy and coffee, you know what i’m talkin’ bout — AND YOU LOVE IT.)
