Adios '07

1.What did you do in 2007 that you'd never done before? I went to the East Coast, NYC & Boston.

2. Did you keep your new year's resolutions, and will you make more for next year? I Don't make New Year's resolutions. I think they are BS, and you should be making resolutions everyday of your life so you are continually improving.

3. Did anyone close to you give birth? Yes, Ross & Allison had Russell in December.

4. Did anyone close to you die? Not close to me, but close to Jenny.

5. What countries did you visit? Canada, the only country I need to go to...

6. What would you like to have in 2008 that you lacked in 2007?A smaller ass.

7. What date(s) from 2007 will remain etched upon your memory, and why? Hm, weird question. None really...

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year? Wow, probably being recognized by my company as a Top Achiever.

9. What was your biggest failure? My numerous attempts to lose weight.

10. Did you suffer illness or injury? Nope. Healthy as a horse.

11. What was the best thing you bought? A Hybrid.

12. Whose behaviour merited celebration? My little sister Heather, even though my mom is a crazy bitch she put that aside and let her attend her wedding. She's got more patience than I'll ever have.

13. Whose behaviour made you appalled and depressed? Again, taking the award for the umpteenth time in a row... My mother.

14. Where did most of your money go? Alcohol, travel, car payments.

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about? Tori Amos at the Paramount, it was my first time seeing her live, and I MET HER!

16. What song will always remind you of 2007? Shit... I'll go with "Big Wheel".

17. Compared to this time last year, are you: happier or sadder? thinner or fatter? richer or poorer?
I think I'm happier... this time last year I was moving, and that was a pain in the ass. Thinner or fatter? I'm about the same, but shit is shifting around. And... I feel I'm richer. Friends, and my chosen family enrich my life more than money could.

18. What do you wish you'd done more of? Working out.

19. What do you wish you'd done less of? Eating, drinking, arguing.

20. How did you spend Christmas? Haha, Xmas Eve - At Lauren's playing Jenga and watching Elf. Xmas Day - Painting a house. Random, I know. Xmas Day Eve - on my couch with cramps, some sparkling apple cider and a pizza, surrounded by my dogs.

21. Best Concert of 2007? Tori Amos, Paramount.

22. Did you fall in love in 2007? I'm still in love. :)

23. How many one-night stands? Ick, none.

24. What was your favorite TV program? By far... Survivor.

25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year? I dont hate people but I strongly dislike a few.

26. What was the best book you read? Lovely Bones was good... Goodnight Nobody... I'm sure there are more.

27. What was your greatest musical discovery? Blue Scholars, Camille Bloom... OMG Pela. I'm addicted to Pela...

28. What did you want and get? I wanted to repaint our bedroom and I did. I really wanted and iPOD and got that too.

29. What did you want and not get? A new couch... soon.

30. What was your favorite film of this year? The Departed, Superbad, Knocked Up.

31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you? I turned 24, and we went to Vancouver, BC. Yay!!!

32.What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying? Camping more, a week undisturbed at the cabin, a raise. LOL

33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2007? Fleece, fleece and more fleece.

34. What kept you sane? Jenny, my dogs, my friends... mostly music. I can zone out when I'm losing it.

35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most? I don't know if I'd say I fancy her, but I'm addicted to Britney Spears and her chaos.

36. What political issue stirred you the most? OMG all the finger pointing going on in our current administration, and the faux "change" the next set of candidates are proposing. Its all about the warm & fuzzy bullshit.

37. Who did you miss? My dad's parents, I was being a lazy bastard about keeping in touch.

38. Who was the best new person you met? Kelly and Mark, by far. My not to forget Susan & Roger, Joann Mountain, my new co-workers. And re-meeting/connecting with Melissa :)

39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2007: You CAN choose your family.

40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year: "hey, we should break our wallets at every bar" Lost To the Lonesome - Pela

It's Britney, Bitch!

Thats right, bitches. I'm sitting here listening to Britney's new album, and I don't care who knows it. I FINALLY bought my iPOD! This is clearly not my hand, but I liked the picture, and it is an accurate representation considering I do in fact have Nelly Furtado on my iPOD, it is silver, and it's totally cute and small. The Nano is perfection. It's light-weight, it's got a full color display and plays videos, and it has a couple of your standard games already installed so I can occupy myself on the bus now! Not that I really needed any more accessories on my head, but now this thing is never coming off.

Our Winter Festivus was quite enjoyable. We let the dogs open their gifts on the Solstice, and we exchanged a few little things over the course of the month. On Christmas, while everyone else was opening their mounds of gifts, hoping to be happy with what they got, Jenny and I spent our morning painting a client's house for $20/hr (each). So we each made $80. Not bad considering I was already getting paid for the holiday. Plans to go back this weekend, and on the 1st to make even more extra cash. I think I may tuck it away for my next hair appointment.

Speaking of, I don't know how I'm feeling about the blonde I put in. I think after the dark for so long the blonde isnt quite what I'm used to and I almost want to go back to the brown. We'll see. I think I'm going to give it at least another month before I go messing around with it.

Reasons to live downtown...

...Or at least experience downtown. As I walked from my bus stop today, two women were engaged in a conversation across the street. As they approached my corner, I could over hear what they were discussing.

Woman #1: "I did cocaine the whole time I was in prison."

Woman #2: "Wow, really? How'd you get it?"

Woman #1: "It wasn't that hard, it was everywhere. I did coke, meth, and I was popping pills, too."

Woman #2: "How'd you pay for it?"

Woman #1: "I'd have my grandmama put some money on the books for me, I'd buy somethin' and get some cash back, it was easy. They don't care, they almost want you to get addicted."

Jesus. This was not a conversation you should be having at full volume speaking voice on a street corner in downtown.

So, Jen and I are finally getting some solid, undisturbed sleep. Now that the girl upstairs has stopped fucking her nasty boyfriend at 12, 2 and 4am in the morning. It's sick when you can hear people having sex... the squeeking of the bed and occassional moaning, then they get up, pee and probably flush the rubber, slam some cabinets and then shuffle back to the bed. Nasty. I don't want to hear all that. It's like they are practically in our bedroom having sex it's so loud. And Im obviously am not down with hetero sex happening in my bedroom.

I'm a believer in Pip, Bitch.

I fuckin' LOVE Tori Amos. I'm still buzzed from the show. And the excitement from meeting her. *sigh* FANTASTIC.

Cruel

Heart Of Gold

Change Your Pack

Smells Like Teen Spirit

Bouncing off Clouds

I'm a Believer

Sculpture Park & more...

Jenny took me on a date to the Olympic Sculpture Park the other day.... lovely, cold, Seattle evening. :) We hadn't been, and even though I was crampy and bitchy, she took me out in public. That's love. We stayed until sunset, and then walked up to Cyclopse for some drinks and food. Jenny had the best Mahi Mahi tacos, and I got a green chili enchilada. The Thanksgiving holiday has turned us into compulsive eaters so we obviously ordered dessert. She had an underwhelming espresso creme brule, and I had a very fattening but tasty key lime tart. YUM.

We went shopping this weekend, and I decided to buy holiday-ish things, and have erected a pleseant artifical tree in our living room. Pictures of that to come...

PS. We heart the new digital camera.

Stuffed Turkey

No... not the actual turkey... ME. Oh My Goddess, we consumed so much food over the Thanksgiving holiday, it's rediculous. And for no good reason. It's MADNESS I tell you, madness. Just having a holiday dedicated to eating is awful. I have determined we consumed enough holiday food for the remainder of the year. So no "xmas" type meal for us. Maybe we'll make a salad bar at home.

We had not one but two dinners... one in W. Seattle with friends, and another the next night because Jenny felt we didn't have enough left overs. So, we went ahead and made a whole other meal. *belch*

And we STILL have left over food in our fridge. Nasty. Tasty, but nasty.

Just say no to greenbean casserole kids, it's bad news. Me + Jenny

Meal #1

Meal #2

Mrs. Potato Head

I've been overly productive today. I think I need to pace myself. This is basically the first break I've taken all day, aside from the 10 minutes I used to walk over to the cafeteria and get a salad. On the way back, I surprised myself and showed some restraint. I didn't go down stairs and join the circulation dept. in the Annual Potato Bake. It is one of the most beautiful, and fantastic events that happen here at work, and I had enough will power to walk away. I actually talked to my salad in the elevator "Keep going, just make it back to the desk and you can eat allllllll of this salad." Yum... belch. It was really good, and I know I would have felt like a blob of sour cream (ooooh sour cream...) had I eaten one of those hot, heavenly buttery baked potatos. Man, I'm pathetic.

But anyways, back to my over productivity. It was actually more like fixing a mistake that was part my fault, part someone else's fault, and could have been avoided if some other people weren't at fault too. Not to point fingers or anything. So I spent the better part of my day on and off the phone with New York, talking to agency reps trying to save my ass a $10k adjustment. In the end, I did. I salvaged the buy, and we got to keep our money (and some of our dignity) and the agency got what they paid for. Beers for everybody!! Oh, well, not yet I guess.