My New TV

Isn't it beautiful? It will be here on the 27th, and maybe I will hug it and kiss it, and treat it as though it were my first born.

How can you say no to this face?

Especially when it calls you "Turkey-turk"?

Just an average night in Dupont

I only wish I could walk, muchless run, as well as these ladies do in heels.

Check this out...

See that? The Government says I have unlimited authority.

6.02 x 10^23!

HAPPY MOLE DAY!


Yes, I am a dork.

Yes, I realize I am a dork.

Yes, I am okay with a fact that I am a dork.

A big dork.

A VERY big dork.

Precious

And now there are two...Well, there were two before too, but now, there are two rings.

Congratulations Angela and Mike!

Fun fact

learned during the standard Sunday Night Phone Call...

My grandpa has been a parishioner at the same church, St. Anthony of Padua in Morris, IN, for 94 years.


It boggles my mind.

Congratulations!

So I am late to posting for this party... But Court and Tom (finally got engaged... I almost typed married, but that won't happen until next October-ish)!!!

I am so excited, and this was the hardest secret to keep...ever (maybe I told people I work with about it otherwise I may have imploded).

CONGRATULATIONS!

It's funny because his (I assume) name is weird

The name in question?

Wait for it...

Bruceedward Bargmeyer

Seriously.

Okay, maybe I am a dork, and maybe the name is actually Bruce Edward... but that is not how it shows up in our system.

Picture Pages

I proudly present, my new Couch! I shall call him Couchy McComfy:

Well, hello there...

So, my newest obsession is "The Office." Of course, I am rooting for Jim and Pam (but as we all know once they give into the sexual tension the show will go down hill). But, what this post is really about, webisodes. All about the accounting team, but they are a nice little diversion while waiting for the fall season to start (September 21, btw, against Grey's Anatomy, gah... decisions, decisions... maybe it is time for Tivo).

PS - SciFi is doing this twice a week for BSG... which means I might make it until October 6 when season 3 starts. But, it might be touch and go too.

AI?

Here is a failure to deliver notice that I received today:

Hi. This is the qmail-send program at XYZcompany.com.
I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses.
This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.
Your message bounced.

I'm not going to try again; this message has been in the queue too long.

I am not sure what to make of this... Did the programmer's have a sense of humor? Do they expect me to believe that this was not automatically generated? Are we all being duped and there really are little men running around in the computer?

I think I like the "Sorry it didn't work out." part the best.

Still no pro account.

So, I just uploaded more photos on flickr (see links to your right) of my trip. But, obviously, this does not cover all my Sweden pictures and I am still too cheap to get a pro account.

Here is one last picture for your pleasure:



And you thought drinks in DC were expensive. One drink here was 150 SKE, that is about $21. The second drink is only 145 SKE, as long as you use the same ice glass. Needless to say, we only stayed for one drink. Besides, is was -10 C in there (about 14 F) and that is a tinsy bit chilly.

Hej Hej

I forgot in my last post...

11. The Swedes love coffee (like the ice cream there are often coffee shops across the street from each other), but they are still one of the last bastions that Starbucks has not invaded (at least from what I could tell).

Big in Sweden

I'm baaa-ack...

Here are somethings I learned in Sweden:

1. Mullets on men and women are popular.

2. Man-pris are popular...VERY popular.

3. They cuff their jeans (like I do, except probably not because they don't have any shorts).

4. The Swedes like their ice cream. Just about every other shop sells some form of it.

5. They are a very quite people. No seriously, I heard a horn honked twice -- in two weeks; their children don't make noise. These are not the Vikings that I expected.

6. Frukost - is Swedish for breakfast, and is literally translated to fruit-cheese. Breakfast is usually deli meat, cheese, and fruit. If not that, then muesli with yogurt.

7. Jorgubbe (yourd-goob) is Swedish for strawberry.

8. Hej (hey) is Swedish for hello, but usually one would say "hej, hej." Hej då (hey-doa) is goodbye.

9. There are 96,000 lakes in Sweden and Stockholm is actually and archipelago.

10. The Swedish King is not actually Swedish. King Carl XVI Gustaf is the 7th in the House of Bernadotte line, which was basically appointed by Napoleon I.

PS - Please forgive any missing umlauts.

To piss Court off

I am not fixing the typing error in the previous post.

The management.

Is this better or worse than living in a cupboard under the staris?

This is Mary's bed.

I will add more pictures here since I am out of room on flickr until August. Maybe when i get home I will get a pro account so that I can upload all of the pictures.

I'm here all safe and sound

I am now in Linkoping (link-show-ping) after two days in Stockholm. Since it appears there is internet here, I will probably be able to update more often.. but, I guarantee nothing.

July 23, 2006 9:56 AM

So long, farewell, Auf wiedersehen, goodbye

All my bags are packed, I'm ready to go...I'm leavin' on a Jet Plane... but I do know when I will be back again... August 4th. Er, I mean August 2nd, I don't have to be back to work until August 4th.

I am unsure of the internet sitution, but I will do what I can to keep you all updated.

Turkey is Swedish is... idiot?

I think I am sad. I mean I know to be a "turkey" is not the most favorable of descriptions, but for me it has always been a term of endearment.

Apparently, the Swedes like to spell it all out a little more clearly.

P.S.

I bought this today:

If you have a blog...

and want to write about things you wouldn't actually say to your parents? Don't give them your blog address. Because they will call to say they must be going deaf; they didn't hear any of that.

D'oh.

I think I should be ashamed (meme)

TV quiz

Go through the following list of TV programs, marking in bold any you've watched more than 3 episodes of, and italicizing any series you are sure you've watched every episode of. You can add up to three TV series not already listed to the list before passing it on.

24
7 Days
7th Heaven - I am going to blame she who shall not be named for this one
Absolutely Fabulous
Adam-12
Aeon Flux
ALF - who doesn't love this little alien?
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Alien Nation
Alias - I skipped at least one year, and wish I would have skipped the last.
Ally McBeal
American Gothic
American Idol/Pop Idol/Canadian Idol/Australian Idol/etc.
America's Next Top Model
Andromeda
Angel - loved Buffy, could never get into this show.
Arrested Development
Babylon 5
Babylon 5: Crusade
Battlestar Galactica (the old one)
Battlestar Galactica (the new one) - I Love you Apollo
Baywatch - Don't ask.
Beauty and the Beast - I remember this show, and I know I watched with my sister Barbie, and I am going to assume I saw them all.
Beavis & Butthead
Beverly Hills 90210 - Dylan + Brenda 4ever
Blackadder
Blake's 7
Bonanza - We (Elaine, Barbie and I) would watch this and then The Price is Right in the summer.
Bosom Buddies - Who doesn't love Tom Hanks and Peter Skalari (however that is spelled) in drag?
Boston Legal
Boy Meets World - It was part of the TGIF line up, it couldn't be helped.
Brisco County Jr
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Such a good show, shut up Courtney.
Bug Juice
Chappelle's Show
Charlie's Angels
Charmed - again, blame she who shall not be named
Cheers - If you haven't seen three episodes, you are unAmerican.
Cold Case
Columbo
Commander in Chief
Coupling(UK)
Cowboy Bebop
Crossing Jordan
CSI
CSI: Miami
CSI: NY
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Danny Phantom
Dark Angel - it gave us Jessica Alba, wait... is that good or bad?
Dark Skies
DaVinci’s Inquest
Dawson's Creek - Pacey + Joey, screw Dawson.
Dead Like Me
Deadwood
Degrassi: The Next Generation
Designing Women - Again I just assume I saw them all, because I know my Mom watched it.
Desperate Housewives
Dharma & Greg - Watched this in college because SarahKat's cousin or some such wrote for it.
Different Strokes - What you talkin' about?
Doctor Who
Dragnet
Due South - Who doesn't love a Mountie from America Jr?
Earth 2 - Seriously, I only watched because Antonio Sabato Jr was on it.
Emergency!
Entourage
ER
Everwood - Okay this one I can't blame on anyone else.
Everybody Loves Raymond
Facts of Life - You take the good,You take the bad, You take them both and there you have the facts of life.
Family Guy
Family Ties - Alex P. Keaton
Farscape
Father Ted
Fawlty Towers
Felicity - I gave up on this show about half way through it's run.
Firefly - I aim to misbehave.
First Wave
Forever Knight
Frasier
Friends - I skipped the whole season that they tried to make Joey and Rachel work as a couple. DUMB.
Futurama
Get Smart
Gilligan's Island - It was only supposed to be a three hour tour, so why all the clothes? Why did the Howell's still get to be all snooty? How did the professor invent so much?
Gilmore Girls - I think with all of the re-runs I have seen (thanks TBS) I have seen them all.
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
Grey's Anatomy - I heart George, he is my McDreamy.
Growing Pains - Kirk Cameron: teen hearthrob to crazy Catholic abstinence guy.
Gunsmoke
Hannah Montana
Happy Days- EHHHH!
Hercules The Legendary Journeys - I don't know why, don't ask.
Highlander
Hogan's Heroes
Home Improvement - See last comment.
Homicide: Life on the Street
House
I Dream of Jeannie - I loved the major.
I Love Lucy - Agian, you are unAmerican if you haven't seen three episodes.
Inuyasha
Invader Zim
Invasion
Hell's Kitchen
JAG
Jackass
Joey - not a good spin-off.
La Femme Nikita
LA Law
Laverne and Shirley
Little House on the Prairie - Nellie Olsen is the devil.
Lizzie McGuire
Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman - Really, Deam Cain, do I need to say more?
Lost - They better start answering some questions next season.
Lost in Space
Love, American Style
M*A*S*H - 4077
MacGyver - I carried duct tape around my pocket knife for years because of this show.
Malcolm in the Middle
Married... With Children
Medium
Melrose Place - Billy!
[MI:5]
Miami Vice
Midsomer Murders
Mission: Impossible
Monk
Monty Python's Flying Circus
Mork & Mindy - Nanu-nanu
Murphy Brown
My So-Called Life - Jared Leto when he was clean.
My Three Sons
My Two Dads - Does anyone else even remember this show? One of the Dads was the guy from Mad About You.
NCIS
Nip/Tuck
Now and Again
Numb3rs
One Tree Hill - At least I stopped watching it before Sarah and she who shall not be named
Oz
Perry Mason
Pokemon
Power Rangers - Go Go Power Rangers... it was high school and I was a dork.
Prison Break
Profiler
Project Runway
Punky Brewster - Her Chuck Taylor's were so cool.
Quantum Leap - Dumb name, good show.
Queer As Folk (US)
Queer as Folk (British)
Red Dwarf
ReGenesis
Remington Steele
Rescue Me
Road Rules
ROME
Roseanne
Roswell
Saved by the Bell - Zack Morrison was totally better than AC Slater (note: IMDB says that AC was short for Albert Clifford... sorry dude.)
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?
Scrubs
Seinfeld
Sex and the City
Six Feet Under
Smallville
So Weird
South Park - Respect my Author-itay
Space: Above & Beyond
Spongebob Squarepants
Star Trek
Star Trek: The Next Generation - Why I love Wil Wheaton
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Star Trek: Voyager
Stargate Atlantis
Stargate SG-1
Superman
Supernatural
Surface
Survivor the Spanish edition
Taxi
Teen Titans
That 70's Show
That's So Raven
The 4400
The Addams Family
The Andy Griffith Show
The A-Team
The Avengers
The Beverly Hillbillies
The Brady Bunch
The Closer
The Cosby Show - You know I love the Huxtables.
The Daily Show - I heart Jon Stewart.
The Dead Zone
The Dick Van Dyke Show
The Flintstones
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air - Who wants to sing the theme song with me?
The Golden Girls
The Honeymooners
The Jeffersons
The Jetsons
The L Word
The Love Boat
The Magnificent Seven
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
The Monkees
The Munsters
The O.C. - I swear I only really watched the first season.
The Office (UK)
The Pretender
The Prisoner
The Real World
The Shield
The Simpsons
The Six Million Dollar Man
The Sopranos
The Suite Life of Zack and Cody - It's on Saturday morning before Phil of the Future... wait I didn't say that... umm, I don't watch that show.
The Twilight Zone
The Waltons
The West Wing - Again, I am guessing with all of the marathons and repeats I have seen them all.
The Wonder Years - Kevin and Winnie.
The X-Files
Third Watch
Three's Company
Twin Peaks
Veronica Mars
Whose Line is it Anyway?
Will and Grace
Wings
Without a Trace
WKRP in Cincinnati
Wonderfalls
Young Indiana Jones - Three words: Sean Patrick Flanery.
Young Riders
Xena The Warrior Princess

Rug Burn

I did all that work on the floor just to cover it up? Am I dumb?

RIP Shants

How Budget

is DC? The answer? As if it is a surprise, is VERY.

So, yesterday I received a letter in the mail from DC. I didn't check the address, but I assumed it must be concerning the parking ticket I am fighting (stupid DC and "emergency parking the day after a holiday). Therefore, I was a little surprised and it was about my condo.

After a moment of panic (oh Lord, how much more money do they want from me now?), I read that it was actually a survey they wanted me to fill out. The survey was to track real estate or some such. So, being the good citizen that I am, I fill it out and put it in the envelope. One would think if they are asking people to send in a survey, they would include a pre-paid envelope, no? No, apparently not. Really DC, you can't print for the $0.39 to get this information that you claim to want/need? Awesome.

PS- And I am apparently becoming a penny-pinching crumudgeon of a spinster.

Awesome

So, I walked to work today, which isn't so unusal, seeing as that is what I do everyday I go to work. No, what made today special is that I did it with my fly down. Thanks, all 100 people I passed (and even talked to once I got into the office), I appreciate you not telling me to zip it up.

Awesome

(T-minus 15 days (or 9 working days) until Sweden - maybe they are more considerate over there about such things. Or, maybe they would just point and laugh at the dumb American- how do the Swedes view us?)

T minus

23 days to pickled herring. (Or 14 working days to real swedish fish.)

Things I learned while re-doing my floor

1) My Dad worked in the ketchup factory as a senior in high school and after he quit IU but before he went into the Army.

2) He wanted to be a chemistry teacher originally.

3) He quit going to IU because he didn't have the money to continue. This versus the story I was originally told; that college wasn't his "thing."

4) He joined the Army on Valentine's Day 1961.

5) While he had known of my mother since he was 12 (or so) he didn't ask her out until two weeks before he joined the Army. (Nothing like waiting until the last minute Dad.)

6) He never actually proposed to my mom, they just talked about getting married and, while he was home on break, he gave her an engagement ring in December of 1963. And by talk I mean "wrote about it in letters." Because a) my mom doesn't like the phone (that's where I get it from), b) no internet, c) after basic training and then more training in MA he was stationed in Shemya, AK for a year d) even though you get 30 days of leave per year in the Army, before his third and final year my dad had only taken 15 days. Now you may think that means there are stacks of love letters or some such somewhere, but no. While my Dad is a packrat, my Mom is not (that is unless they are hidden somewhere, but I am pretty sure they are not, I probably would have found them looking for Christmas presents.

7) He got out of the army on February 13, 1964 and my parents were married June 20, 1964.

8) At the time my dad left the Army the GI Bill didn't vcover his tuition since he hadn't seen any "action." He was more involved in the Cold War and got out the year before we entered Vietnam. Later it would be amended to cover those who were in the service during the Cold War.

9) After getting back he rented the apartment that my parents would live in for the first few years of their marriage, and when my Mom showed the place to her Mom, my Dad caught Grandma testing for dust.

10) My dad worked in a glass factory for one day before he was hired at P&G.

Because I will not be paying for a flickr account

and yet I have exceed my monthly upload amount:



This is what I have put up to replace the ugle shade that was in the bathroom.



And these are the new curtains.

Portrait of a DORK

*You may recognize this picture as it was on my flickr page for about a day, but then I deleted it in a vain attempt to add more photos after going beyond my free monthly upload amount. It didn't work, but I decided I needed to preserve my dork status and re-post it here.

Riddle me this Interweb...

So, let's say you are working on putting coat two (of three) of polyurethane on your soon to be refinshed floor with your father...

And suddenly...

You hear the hippity hop sex from upstairs start-up, and apparnetly they are really in tune with each other this week - because the moaning? Which you usually only hear if you are in the bathroom? You can hear in the living room while you are working on the floors with your FATHER.

So, what is the appropriate respone in this situation?

A) Make a joke. Hey, that's what I would have done if it had been anybody else with me. But if I make a joke to my dad, then he will know that I know what sex is (shut up, I know I am 27 and have known about sex for the past 20 or so years, but still).

OR

B) Studiously ignore. Hoping he doesn't realize what it is; or that he can't even hear it, because he is losing his hearing and why call attnetion to sommething that may be a little weird to talk about. (I didn't even like watching parts of 16 Candles with my parents when I was younger.)

Personally? I choose B. But, now I wonder if he did hear it and we were both ignoring what was going on. Obviously this is over thinking the situation, but I wonder what others would have done in this situation.

PS - It must have been pre-party sex, becuase now it sounds like there are more people up there (usually Friday night is a big night for them, but they usually go out afterwards - Why do I need to know and share that?).

Buddies

Hey....

Floors, floors, floors

The floors have been sanded, and just in time for my dad to come up on Thursday for the staining! Now I just have to finish cleaning all the dust up. Which, by the way, is the biggest pain in the ass ever. But, I shall overcome.

Wanna see

Where I grew up?

I figured that most, if not all, of you would never see my home. So, here is a little bit of a picture tour:

(1) house; (2) side yard; (3) the back hill (the BEST sledding hill EVER); (4) The Ohio garden (the Indiana garden is bigger, although not as big as it used to be); (5) the other side of the house; (6) And, just because, a picture of my Grandpa's feed mill.

Walk Away

So, I think I might like the music of Kelly Clarkson. Should I be ashamed? Regardless, I have now included her album in my iTunes shopping cart.

I am conflicted.

Doing my part

I just realized, that I haven't purchased gas since April 17th, and I will not being buying more gas until, at the earliest, June 1.

I love living in the city.

I feel pretty, oh so...

So I just got the new clothes that I ordered from Old Navy and I want to wear them out. However, since some people (CoughCourtandTomCough) were late leaving a certain NY law school, I am unable to wear them out tonight. I have to wait until WEDNESDAY!

Wednesday, can you believe it?

Well, maybe you can since it isn't really all that far away. But, I am one of "those" people. If I buy something I want to wear it/use it/eat it as soon as I have said item in my hot little hands. So, instead of people seeing how cute I am in my new clothes, I am laying in bed in my new clothes blogging about it.

Okay, that is sad. I should delete this. But, as this is one of the more interesting things that has happened recently (I need a life), and I am avoiding my condo association meeting, I will leave it here to mark my new low (almost as low as my pants, which I didn't realize when I bought them were "ultra-low rise", d'oh).

One-Third

of the way through sanding! Woo Hoo!


Oh wait, crap. That's totally not true.

I am 1/3 of the way though the first course (out of two) of sanding. Which is really only approximately one-eighteenth of the way thorugh the total project (this depends on how many coats of stain and sealer I use). Hmmm, I wonder if I can get away with only sanding one time?

Man, why did I have to go and start thinking about this? I thought I was doing so well. :(

Step 1, day 1:



Step 2, day 2:


Step 2, day 3:

Wikipedia, I love you, but did I need to know this?

"(Vladimir) Putin is not circumcised and has said so himself."

Blog I know I have been ignoring you, and for that I am sorry

UPDATE: 9:44 PM - I just found out - While in Sweden, I will be living above a bar. This should be awesome. I feel hilarity will surely ensue.

I don't even have a good excuse, it's not like I have been too busy... oh wait maybe that is my excuse, there has been little to blog about. Except for now; there are mutiple projects in the works! So be excited, as you can tel by use of the exclamation point, I am.

First up: Fraking* Sweden**!




Many of you already know this, but for anyone who just happens to push "next blog," be jealous - for two whole weeks I will be in Sweden. That's right, SWEDEN - land of Ikea, home of the Göta Canal (yeah, I didn't know it was a big deal either), and defender of lingonberries and pickled herring for breakfast and Surströmming at the end of summer (why, why would they put that in their mouths?"

Oh man, I just realized, I might get to go to a real smorgasbord! Rock! Even if I am afarid to "start with the cold fish" plates first as Lonely Planet suggests.

Anyway, I will be staying with my sister Elaine and her family in Linköping (I believe pronounced Lin-co-ping), you can see on the map below it is southwest of Stockholm.



Again, according to Lonely Planet, Linkoping is known for its medieval cathedral and "the bloodbath of Linköping." Hmm, sounds fun?

So, if you want any souvenirs or would like to make a donation you know where to find me.





* If you are already familiar with this word...please, be my friend.

** I love you CIA World Factbook.

This ain't no McKeldin Mall

So, today, as you all know, was Free Cone Day at Ben and Jerry's. This is a glorious day of the year, where we can pick our favorite flavors for free! So, with Lent over, and the free scoop planned into my damn diet, I headed on over to the BJs in the Old Post Office Pavilion. The line was long, but briskly moving, so our wait was short. I quickly got my scoop of Strawberry-Kiwi Sorbet (28 carbs, 0 protein, 0 fat, and 110 calories per half cup) in a sugar cone that I would not be eating and waited for the rest of my party. I took a couple of licks, decided sorbet was pretty good (no Chubby Hubby, but really what is?) and then we were on our way back to the office. Not 5 licks later... the ENTIRE scoop of ice cream fell off of the cone and onto the sidewalk (the same sidewalk I saw Pacey). There were mere dribbles of sorbet left on the cone. I didn’t even have the chance to pack any into the cone with the few licks that I had taken. I stared longingly at the cone and at the scoop on the ground. But since I am an adult now and not just a college student, I did not pick any off of the ground to eat (not that the suggestion wasn't made by others in the group with me).

I don't know how I feel about this whole "adult" thing.

Oh also, do I have to count the scoop on the diet? Seriously, I had like 10 licks.

Sweatshop

You might think this was going to be a witty post about the gym; either that or some entreaty to not buy products from Wal-Mart or Kathie Lee or some such... but then you obviously don't know me or my blog.

No this is about my working conditions for the past 3 hours.

As you know I work for the Federal Government, in a very nice, very large, Federal Government building. Sadly though, my floor has no windows. We do have some skylights, but those are only around the edges of the floor, not really close to where anyone sits.

Often time the service center that I work for is referred to as "sweatshop" because we do the most actions or any of the 4 service centers in my division.

Today, this was especially true, but not because of the work. Today it is because we had no lights. NO LIGHTS.

No lights + No windows = I am writing this entry by the glow of my computer screen.

Sweatshop. I wonder, would the union approve of these conditions?

There's a snake in my boots!

So, seriously? I had the weirdest dream ever last night. It began fairly normally, I was on in a tour group hunting rattlesnakes. Okay, so maybe it didn't even begin normally, but that is how all of these stories start out. I am not really sure why we were looking for rattlesnakes, but that is what we were doing.

Anyway, I was in a tour group and we were looking for rattlesnakes and we were riding on one of those little kid trains (the kind that you see at theme parks - you know the ones that each car is only big enough to fit one kid, but they don't have any sort of top to them) through the desert, but without any sort of track. For some reason I was the only one being bitten. Nothing bad was happening to me, but I really didn't appreciate them biting me.

At this point I want to mention that I knew the entire time it was a dream; and I was thinking "Man, what a strange dream this is." And yet, I did not wake up.

So, we return to the farm/zoo where we apparently began our tour. We (no one else in my dream had a face, and I didn't get any impressions on who the other people were) decided, again for reasons beyond me, that the rattle snakes were attracted to blood. Therefore, we got a bag of blood (imagine the kind of bags the Red Cross uses when you donate blood) and started spreading it around the farm/zoo to attract the rattle snakes. This served two purposes, 1) to attract them so we could see them and 2) keep them from biting us. The only other impression I got at this point is that the snakes would hurt the other animals that were there. But, then I convinced myself they would be fine since they were high enough off of the ground (some were in like rabbit coops).

That was pretty much the end of my dream. If anyone would like to interpret it for me, please feel free. But, I already know I am crazy.


PS - The title is from Toy Story. In the dream I was wearing shorts and flip-flops. Definitely not appropriate snake hunting attire.

Ubiquitous

PACEY WITTER WAS HERE!

Now as you may know, I don't usually go all fangirl obsessive over things. Sure I like the occasional star, but do I seek them out? Memorize their shooting schedules? No. I do not. At least I do not admit to it.

However, I will admit to checking up on former TV/Movie crushes. Check to see that they are still working and have not, in fact, fallen off the face of the Earth. Recently one of my check-ups brought me to Joshua Jackson aka Pacey Witter aka Dawson's side-kick.

I am not really sure why I was looking him up. Maybe to check to see how he was doing compared to his more critically acclaimed co-stars. Maybe to check to see how that Mighty Ducks IV was doing I do not know. Although, I am happy to announce that MDIV is no longer on his IMDB page.

But this post isn't really about what Pacey Witter is up to nowadays... no it is about that fact that I SAW him LIVE and IN PERSON right outside my work. That is right, he was mere feet from me. And it was at that point that I became the fangirl. I don't think I will get any more work done all day. I feel he was working on this movie. But, as you can tell by the link, I have no idea what part he was playing. Hopefully, it's enough to pay his bills.





But, I did think he would be taller in real life. Oh well.




Oh, just incase you were wondering, had it been Jake Gyllenhaal, I wouldn't be here writing this. I would be groveling at his feet.


UPDATE: 03/21/06 2:29 PM
Hmmm, maybe it wasn't for the movie "Bobby," maybe it is for this movie.

Overheard in the Bathroom

Young girl to Mom (they are sharing a stall): Oh Lord mom, what did you do?!

Bosom Buddies

Tonight I probably had the first real bra fitting in my life (the one at age 12-ish does not count). And I am confused? surprised? shocked? to report that I am nowhere close to the 40D that I thought I was. Okay so I knew I was slightly larger than a 40D, but truely I didn't think I was... prepare yourself... a 38 Freaking DDD. Victoria's Secret doesn't even make that size.

Seriously where did these things come from?

Masochist

n. (1) One who shows a willingness or tendency to subject oneself to unpleasant or trying experiences. (2) What Turk is during Lent, sadly without the pleasure usually associated.

To keep me honest here is my list:
1. No candy; excludes gum and mints (LifeSavers, BreathSavers, TicTacs, or chocolate calcium chews).
2. No dessert.
3. No Whole Foods vegan blueberry muffins.
4. Eat out only once per week.
5. Go to the Stations of the Cross on Fridays.

Of course, none of these things apply to Sundays.

Internets? We have a problem.

So, in trying to keep my New Year's Resolution I was going to work on a new post this past weekend... Give you all a little taste of 21 Jump Street! However, I was FOILED I tell you, FOILED (and it wasn't aluminum my friends, nor First, Outter, Inner, Last). I lost my steno notebook full of my notes. So, until I either find the notebook, or I receive more '80s cheese from Netflix, do not expect a themed update (not that you were expecting one, since I have been oh so faithful to my mission statement). And, as a warning, the '80s cheese is waaaaayyy down in the Netflix queue.

Snow!

The weatherpersons were finally right!

Under da sea

So I took my hair out of its ponytail this afternoon and started combing it out with my fingers. I quickly decided this job needed more than just my fingers (too much product this morning) and I looked in my desk drawer to get out the comb I usually keep in there. After a quick perusal I did not see it anywhere... but I did see a fork.

For all of 3 seconds I contemplated using it, but then I saw some food schmack on it and decided I didn't want the hassle.

Court made me do it.

So I too saw this over at dooce and various other blogs, but I wasn't going to inflict it on anyone. That is until Courtney MADE me do it.

Four jobs I've had

1. Paramount's Kings Island - Rides associate and supervisor. I worked on such rides as Kenton's Cove Keel-Boat Canal, The Beast, Outer Limits Flight of Fear, The Viking Ship, The carousel, Monster, The Scrambler, Adventure Express, and The Racer.
2. Newport Aquarium - Intern. That means I got to feed the sharks, stingrays and clean out the penguin habitat.
3. Ford's Theater - Intern. There are two main jobs at Ford's Theater, stand in front of 400 people and talk about Lincoln's Assassination and the history of the theater (only one wall is original) or sit across the street at The Petersen House, the House where Lincoln died (none of it is real, no not even the wall paper you are now touching, dork).
4. US EPA - Contract Specialist - It is every bit as exciting as it sounds.

Four movies I can watch over and over

1. Love Actually
2. Bend it Like Beckham
3. 16 Candles
4. Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Four places I have lived

1. Age 0 - 18 my parent's house in Cincinnati
2. Age 18 - 19 6144 Denton Hall, University of Maryland
3. Age 20 - 21 Somerset Hall, University of Maryland, where I first met Abi, the weird girl who used to sit at the desk at Denton. Abi of course led me to the House of BJ's and Courtney. (see how I worked an extra one in?)
4. Present - Condo on Scott Circle, NW Washington, DC.

Four TV shows I love

1. Gilmore Girls
2. Daily Show*
3. Conan O'Brien**
4. Buffy the Vampire Slayer***

Four places I've vacationed

1. Santiago, Chile - Visiting Jamon. It was awesome, except for the whole falling out of the tepee and hurting my ankle part.
2. Lueven, Belgium - Visiting Rachel - I brought home 11 pounds of chocolate.
3. Various Locations, Belize - Okay technically it was a class... but it so wasn't.
4. Louisville, OH - Visiting my sister and making her lots of food.

Four of my favorite dishes

1. Ma Po Tofu - the recipe from Cooking Light
2. Red Beans and Rice - my dad's recipe
3. Cincinnati Chili - preferably Skyline
4. Armond's Pizza

Four sites I visit daily

1. Dooce
2. Wikipedia
3. Tomato Nation
4. WWdN: IN Exile

Four places I would rather be right now

1. In my bed
2. Cincinnati
3. On vacation
4. My parent's house (is that like saying Cincinnati twice? I don't care)

Four people I am tagging (I am double tagging people since a) Court already tagged them, and b) I don't have any other friends)

1. Angela
2. Sarah
3. Abi
4. Christina (hmm... I am not sure if she reads my blog, but I read her blog... I will have to send her an e-mail, same with Abi)

* I love it I just can't watch it due to the lack of cable
** I love it, I just don't stay up that late anymore
*** I loved it, but it is no longer on anymore

A little peek into how Turk's mind works

So I was reading Tomato Nation today and they mentioned Brad Renfro.

Stay with me this may take awhile.

So they mention BR and basically what a douche he is (former child actor with a drug problem fishcakes). This immediately sparks a memory of when I saw him in the Cincinnati airport and I recognized him and tried to figure out what he would be doing in Cincinnati.

But, then as I was reading, and after I looked him up on imdb, I realized that it wasn't BR that I saw at the airport. It was someone else. But who was it? Seriously, I could clearly picture him in the airport. Smoking evern though obviously it was a "No Smoking" area. Talking to some random person he was with. Him possibly noticing my inappropriate, slightly creepy staring. Shorter than I expected, chubbier than the movies he was in... I recognized him then, could give you his name...but my memory now of this? Failing me in every way.

This is when I wished my brain could just be hooked up to Google (or in this case Google Images) so that the internet would just tell me the answer. Sadly, this is not yet a possibility (but that may be for the best right now actually).

Instead I turned to imdb. I tried to remember what I saw my unknown child actor in...I thought it had Jodie Foster in. But no, I was wrong. Nothing on her resume sparked recognition.

Good Lord, who was HE? If this took much longer I was going to go crazy and start asking people...becuase they would be able to read my mind and tell who I was thinking of even though I could give them very few clues.

GAH! Who was it? (whiney)

Then, the little light came on above my head. Wasn't his name Eddie? So, hoping that something, anything would turn up, I typed E-d-d-i-e into the imdb search function.

EUREKA!

Low and behold, it totally worked, the answer? Edward Furlong. I am amazed that worked. And why did it work? Becuase other dorks like myself typed E-d-d-i-e into the search and ended up choosing his name from the list of returns. Either that or the internet is starting to read our minds.

I still have no idea why he was in the Cincinnati airport.


Unless... google do know why he was there?...maybe he's related to this guy.

Whole Foods' Bitch

Yup, that's me.

Honest Tea only $0.99? I'll take three (I am not as crazy as Court, plus I purchased more than one variety).

Black bean and cheese burrito? Don't mind if I do.

Vegan blueberry muffin? Gets me every. single. time. (They are like crack to me. Or, at least how I expect the addictive qualities of Crack to effect people; the muffin never sits around for more than a half hour before I eat it.)

Odwalla bar? Well, only if they are on sale...which they have been the past few weeks...

Free samples? Is it wrong for me to have more than one? How about 5?

Results? Spending $10 more than I should have for food I don't really need.

Secrets...

So I don't feel like doing my actual work and this idea/thought struck me as funny this morning. Although it may make you all feel differently about me I am going to tell it anyway.

So, as you may or may not know, during the week, when I am making food for myself I have decided not eat meat or at least very little meat. This means that I am eating a lot of beans (thanks Dad!) and I am therefore gassy.

As you may also know I walk to work every morning. I often listen to my iPod. I have special earphones, to help block out the noise... this is important... and this often makes me forget that even if I can't hear things, other people can.

This is where the previous two paragraphs converge. Normally, before farting I make sure no one else is around. Usually they are silent, but I still don't want to leave the odor lingering for others. This morning, apparently I forgot that just because I couldn't hear myself farting didn't mean that those around me couldn't hear it, because I definitely farted in front of various other people walking to work.

The great thing about the headphones though is that even if they said anything, I did not hear them and I kept walking.

The HORROR!

So, my internet at home may be going away.

Generally, when at home and using the internet I am using one of two wireless networks that are not password protected and have a fairly strong signal. These two networks are named macbase and linksys.

While a little slow I have used both of them and they have rarely let me down.

That is until last night.

macbase is now PASSWORD protected.

linksys worked for me when I got home, but then stopped (which is when I tried to switch to macbase and was denied), but did not work later in the evening.

I may have to break down and actually get my own internet. If anyone wants to do some research for me and see what is available besides Comcast (expensive punks), that would be awesome. Because I really don't want to pay $60+ a month.

I can't dance... at all.

Sniff.

So he no longer looked like Willard (i.e. Farmboy Hot) and he was confused for that guy in "While You Were Sleeping," but let us all take a moment of silence.

Funny and Gross

You have been warned.

We will start with the funny.

So I met up with Trish today to get new phones (woo hoo! I have a new phone... but you may have to call me so that I can get your number back). We stopped at her house first and she had found some of my old stuff. Including these:



Those are earrings I actually wore... man it really was the '80s wasn't it? I think the ones in the upper right corner are actually for Barbie's but you put them on your own earrings too. I was soooo cool. Do I seem like a hearts and teddy bears kind of girl to you? I do not remember my parents letting me smoke the crack, but apparently they did.

Now the GROSS... Court, you may not want to look at these.



My foot:



I was trimming my nails last night, and I looked down (apparently I don't often check the bottom of my feet) and saw this. The picture isn't that good, but can you see how the heel looks like the side of a fish, all scaly? I immediately put on lotion and have vowed to myself that I will continue to put it on day and night. I am used to my feet being disgusting, but this is too much for even me. Some people suggest I go to a medi-spa, but I truly think they would turn me away for being too disgustin.g.

Now for the grossest thing EVER... other find from the stuff Trish gave me:



Can you tell what that is?

That is correct it is a tooth. When I found this I immediately thought of Courtney and her dream (nightmare) of all of her teeth falling out. I know it is mine. I remember keeping it. I do not remember why I kept it or when I lost it. But rest assured I have thrown it away now.

New Baby!

Lanie (Elaine) had her baby in the wee small hours this morning. Her name is Mary Kathrine (not sure how they are spelling that) Kathryn and she is a little over 6 lbs. and 19 inches.

As far as I know, this will be the last baby in my family for a little bit, since, at this time, no one else has announced anything.

Thank God.

Rock the Vote! or I'm so vain.

So this post has two purposes: 1) Allow me to post on Friday the 13th and 2) Get your opinion.

So, I knew I would go gray early if my mom's genes had anything to say about it. And since I have been finding gray hairs since I was 7, I knew it was inevitable. You would think I would know how early I would really start going gray by watching my sisters. But, you would be wrong. None of them have hair as dark as mine (Carol's hair blonde and blended in for a long time) and some of them have been known to dye (I'm looking at you Barbie). Therefore I feel they are poor benchmarks to use.

This is all important, because here is where you fit in... Lately I have been finding more and more gray hairs (all over, so no cool graying pattern for me), my question is two fold 1) Do I dye it or go gray naturally? 2) If yes, when do I start? Please explain your choices when you respond.

Too Far Curves, Too Damn Far

So, as you may know, at Curves they often take songs and re-record them to be at a rate of at least 140 beats per minute. They have done this to many songs. But tonight, they just went too far. TOO FAR I say!

It wasn't actually the whole song either, it was cut into the middle of their version of "Everybody Salsa".... I am not sure if that makes it better or worse.

Happy Birthday Angela!

Okay so it is a little late, but really I just wanted to show off the cake Court and I made.

Am I dumped in '06?

Do I stink?

Do I talk too much?

Am I annoying?

What have I done to offend you?

Do you not love me?

Why, oh why haven't there been any emails yesterday or today?

The little G-mail talk/notifier in my taskbar is taunting me. The little talk bubble is just sitting there with no red "M"/Envelope. Do I check g-mail anyway, hoping that the notifier just hasn't check for e-mail in the last 45 second? Yes, yes I do. Is there anything there from anybody? No, no there is not. Not even spam or a bill.

Nobody loves me.

Everybondy hates me.

Think I'll go and eat worms.

Long ones.

Short ones.

Fat ones.

Thin ones.

See how they wriggle and squirm.

Poor Compy

So, I had to take my computer to the Genius Bar at the Apple store on Saturday. I was pretty sure that I would have to but I spent a good half-hour on the Apple Care line to make sure that this would be necessary. Apparently my CD/CD-RW/DVD/DVD-R drive doesn't want to work anymore and they have to replace it. Total: $399.

Extended Warranty that was purchased when I bought the computer: $369

Cost to me to fix my drive problem: $0.

Thank God I bought that warranty, I would be so pissed right now otherwise. It is kind of like in The Game of Life (did I ever tell you how my HS friends and I brought this to a dance one time? We were so cool), always buy the insurance.

Anyway, I will be at least a couple of more days without a computer at home (so I can't put those Cash CDs on my iPod yet, or make copies for other people who want them). Apple said it would be up to 10 business days before I could have the computicon back.