so, as i was standing at the kitchen counter with one spoon digging into the peanut butter and with the other spoon digging into the hotfudge jar and then mixing them into total bliss on their way to my hips, thighs and ass, i was looking through the circulars that came in the mail today.
now, don't get me wrong. i love some good meat, but i don't know how i feel about the 3 day meat & seafood sale at albertsons. what does that mean?
then when flipping through to QFC, the top of their ad next to their logo it says "are you ready? Earthquakes, Eruptions, Tsunamis, Storms" right below it is a nice big photo fo some certified angus beef rib eye steaks and some Tim's Cascae potato chips. i guess they are trying to tell me is that when that tsunami hits in lake sammamish like i know it will, i will be sorry if i don't stock up on some meat and chips.
won't they be sorry when i go get my meat from albertson's 3 day meat sale instead?
safeway has them all beat though. they are currently having a million pound pork sale in case you are looking for a few thousand tons of pork.
i love it.
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
sizes are so screwed
so, ya know how they talk about how today's size 4 is really the old size 8 or something of that sort? its totally true and not only that, jeans that are suposed sized by waist measurement in inches are going along that same way of fake-ness.
back in my supermodel days i wore a size 8. sometimes i would fit into a size 6 but normally it was a size 8. that was back when i was 5'10" and 119 with no womanly attributes. now that i am only 5'9" and very much not 119 i consistently git in a 6 and occasionally a size 4. since i am a slave to numbers, i will always buy anything that says 4 in it. even if it is totally butt. i do not have this same approach with shoes. i will only buy a pair of shoes that doesn't fit if they are totally awesome.
so, how do i know that jeans are going down this same road of fakeness which i am more then happy to go down with them? yesterday i went shopping and tried on a pair of 7 jeans. i took a pair in a rediculous size because i feel that my jeans should be so damn tight that the pain that is inflicted due to wearing them offsets the pain in my feet from wearing shoes too small or with heels to high. anyway, the size that was rediculous fit reasonably well and if they stretched would be acceptable so i was able to go a size smaller to hit the desired pain threshold. these will be stand up jeans only since sitting will be an unavailable option - hense the ability to wear painful shoes at the same time.
Sunday, February 25, 2007
turbo nerd
yes, that is me and here i will tell you why.
so, i have'nt been very good about getting out and running. this is bad. couple that with the 930pm pizza hut pizzas, ice cream and chips, its all hanging out. its not pretty.
last weekend i managed to run two days in a row only to wind up breaking that streak when i took sirus to the er and then wound up sick on my own.
so, yesterday y i ran on the treadmill. nothing was on tv and usually i do'nt like watching movies out there but i put in lord of the rings, the fellowship of the ring because it was out there. i was totally getting into the movie, which was embarrassing enough, .but i was at the point when sam and frodo were leaving the shire and heading through the corn fields. mary and the hobbit that is now on lost jumped out, scared sam and frodo and i practically fell off the treadmill. it totally startled me. not cool.
so once i regained my composure i kept on running. now here is the really nerdish part. frodo got sgtabbed by one of those scary people and they were headed to riverdal where the elves live. liv tyler as an elf makes me want to be an elf, too. i never found her to be very interesting before but this time i was in total awe. when i told eric, he said i was already on my way since i had my elvish shoes. but then he corrected himself saying oh, that yeah, i only have shoes that were made by elves not for elves. i see myself being sucked into this D&D world of utter nerdom but the movie is really good. i don't know if it is because i am running and so there is a sence of urency although it does seem that i run towards the bad guys while they are running away from them. the best part about it tho is if you have ever seen Clerks 2. Randall gives a very good interpretation of the lord of the rings movies while trying to explain to elias (don't even get me started on mr pillow pants) and Marshall Flinkman from Alias, that starwars is much better. he is totally dead on and winds up making the hobbit lover, that is his character's name, throw up.
the poor kids. they are so sick! they have been coughing, snotting and fevering all weekend. today seamus cried and cried for no real reason. she didn't throw a tantrum, she just cried and cried is all. its so sad.
i am on vacation all this week. i have lots of stuff planned. taxes, hair, meetings (!), work (!!), and lots of drinking., i mean relaxing.
so, i have'nt been very good about getting out and running. this is bad. couple that with the 930pm pizza hut pizzas, ice cream and chips, its all hanging out. its not pretty.
last weekend i managed to run two days in a row only to wind up breaking that streak when i took sirus to the er and then wound up sick on my own.
so, yesterday y i ran on the treadmill. nothing was on tv and usually i do'nt like watching movies out there but i put in lord of the rings, the fellowship of the ring because it was out there. i was totally getting into the movie, which was embarrassing enough, .but i was at the point when sam and frodo were leaving the shire and heading through the corn fields. mary and the hobbit that is now on lost jumped out, scared sam and frodo and i practically fell off the treadmill. it totally startled me. not cool.
so once i regained my composure i kept on running. now here is the really nerdish part. frodo got sgtabbed by one of those scary people and they were headed to riverdal where the elves live. liv tyler as an elf makes me want to be an elf, too. i never found her to be very interesting before but this time i was in total awe. when i told eric, he said i was already on my way since i had my elvish shoes. but then he corrected himself saying oh, that yeah, i only have shoes that were made by elves not for elves. i see myself being sucked into this D&D world of utter nerdom but the movie is really good. i don't know if it is because i am running and so there is a sence of urency although it does seem that i run towards the bad guys while they are running away from them. the best part about it tho is if you have ever seen Clerks 2. Randall gives a very good interpretation of the lord of the rings movies while trying to explain to elias (don't even get me started on mr pillow pants) and Marshall Flinkman from Alias, that starwars is much better. he is totally dead on and winds up making the hobbit lover, that is his character's name, throw up.
the poor kids. they are so sick! they have been coughing, snotting and fevering all weekend. today seamus cried and cried for no real reason. she didn't throw a tantrum, she just cried and cried is all. its so sad.
i am on vacation all this week. i have lots of stuff planned. taxes, hair, meetings (!), work (!!), and lots of drinking., i mean relaxing.
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
drunk on a tuesday
so we no longer share cable. we are official cable subscribers. i do not know how i feel about that. i do know that we watched the original star wars in high def surround sound while putting down the margaritas. lots of them. i was not fooling around this time, i got the big bottle of the tequila, the BIG one. B-I-G tequilla.
what else has been going on? other then the major break down this weekend, the bike swap and the several hours of uninteruppted shopping in which the pre-pubescent kid at gamestop tried to have a total power trip when telling me all about how they are under contractual obligation to keep the ps3 boxes in the window when they indeed do not have any in stock. come on, don't give me an attitude. whatever.
what else has been going on? other then the major break down this weekend, the bike swap and the several hours of uninteruppted shopping in which the pre-pubescent kid at gamestop tried to have a total power trip when telling me all about how they are under contractual obligation to keep the ps3 boxes in the window when they indeed do not have any in stock. come on, don't give me an attitude. whatever.
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
beach nurse
so. i have quit my job and it has been announced. i am so excited about my new opportunity. i cannot say any more about it at this time.
what i can say is that this morning at 4am sirus woke up crying. this is nothing new except i went to him and he was just unconsolable. i picked him up even and he just cried and cried. i tried to give him a bottle and he pushed it away and cried, so we sat in his rocking chair and he started to settle down but then the real problem became apparant, he couldn't breathe. he was huffing and puffing and working really hard to breathe. i took him into our room and woke up eric. i called the doctor, talked to them and they asked to talk to sirus on the phone. i handed him the phone. he talked for a little bit, i took it back and the doctor said she wasn't done and she wanted to talk to him some more. i thought this was all very funny until they said to take him to the emergency room right away.
so eric helped pack him up and i took him in. the first triage nurse was not very friendly and i almost expected him to send us home. we then saw another triage nurse who checked us in and she loved sirus, although she called him simus. next hing ya know we were back in a room. the first nurse we saw in the room was a nice guy names steve. kind of reminded me a little bit like a combination of some ppl i know. sirus got a nekkid weigh in then got his temperature taken in a way he hadn't ever had it done before. next came the breathing treatment. we started with me trying to do it but sirus is too wiggly and too strong. so the nurse took him, held him tight and held the little mask on the poor little guy. he cried and cried but after it was done he hugged me and started to doze off. but of course then i had to poke the bear. i changed the little guy's diaper. no more sleepy time. a few hours passed and steve's shift was over so he stopped in to say goodbye. new nurse josh came in. he was nice but seemed a little funny with sirus. we started another breathing treatment, but he did it a different way. he made a little tube that misted the stuff out right at sirus and josh held it up near sirus's face whle we distracted him with fun things to look at and play with. there was no crying this time. the steve guy wasn't being mean in his way he just maybe didn't know there might be an easier way.
so, sirus loved the stethescope. he played with it and put it against his chest and was having all kinds of fun. then he took it and wrapped it around his shoulders the way the doctors and nurses do. josh told him he looked just like a nurse now, "you look just like me!" but then there was an awkward pause because i ws thinking something but didn't want to say it, but then the nurse said it "well, i guess i wear a shirt when i come to work" that is when the nurse suggested that sirus could be a beach nurse. when i told eric this he said, ya mean, like a life guard.
then off to get some chest xrays. poor little guy did an awesome job! i put on the lead thing and sirus sat on a table and they put a little lead sheild over his little parts. i would have never thought of that. but that is why i'm not an xray person. tey took a front and a side and they showed them to me on the screen. so cute! he has all those ribs and a tiny collar bone! nurseman josh stopped in to say he was going home. sirus was walking around the room and i ws calling eric to give the scoop. then sirus pulled the emergency call alarm thing. the door flew open with people flying in, the intercom started talking to us and i just stood there while sirus was messing around under the table. oops.
finally the doctor came in, commented on sirus walking around then said he was fine, go home. huh? a new nurse came in to discharge us and i told her what the doctor said. i told her that i didn't really thing he was alright. she listened and said, that i was right that his lungs were raspy, something all the other nurses said too. so she went and got the doctor and told him what was up. sirus got an inhaler. when josh was his nurse he brought a funny little stars and stripes beenie baby bear for sirus. sirus loved it but i thot it was kind of weird because i thought it was mystery lost and found/ER comunal kid toy and i was suprised they would be doing that. sirus loved it so i was like whatever. when we were checking out i told the nurse that the bear wasn't ours and that the other nurse gave it to us. she said that a radio station donated hundreds of them so it was his too keep. i was quite releived. then we went home. 2 seconds in the car and he was passed out.
eric picked up the perscrption, the pharmacist told eric that sirus would have to take a deep breathe and hold it. yeah, you get a 1 yr old to do that. we have a thing to get it to work.
as a result of all of this combined with the terrible weather back east we have cancelled our trip.
and i am sick, too. not sure whats wrong with me but that white thing on my tonsil, my aching lower back and all of my organs feeling terrible are an indication that i totally deserved those donuts and ice cream today.
what i can say is that this morning at 4am sirus woke up crying. this is nothing new except i went to him and he was just unconsolable. i picked him up even and he just cried and cried. i tried to give him a bottle and he pushed it away and cried, so we sat in his rocking chair and he started to settle down but then the real problem became apparant, he couldn't breathe. he was huffing and puffing and working really hard to breathe. i took him into our room and woke up eric. i called the doctor, talked to them and they asked to talk to sirus on the phone. i handed him the phone. he talked for a little bit, i took it back and the doctor said she wasn't done and she wanted to talk to him some more. i thought this was all very funny until they said to take him to the emergency room right away.
so eric helped pack him up and i took him in. the first triage nurse was not very friendly and i almost expected him to send us home. we then saw another triage nurse who checked us in and she loved sirus, although she called him simus. next hing ya know we were back in a room. the first nurse we saw in the room was a nice guy names steve. kind of reminded me a little bit like a combination of some ppl i know. sirus got a nekkid weigh in then got his temperature taken in a way he hadn't ever had it done before. next came the breathing treatment. we started with me trying to do it but sirus is too wiggly and too strong. so the nurse took him, held him tight and held the little mask on the poor little guy. he cried and cried but after it was done he hugged me and started to doze off. but of course then i had to poke the bear. i changed the little guy's diaper. no more sleepy time. a few hours passed and steve's shift was over so he stopped in to say goodbye. new nurse josh came in. he was nice but seemed a little funny with sirus. we started another breathing treatment, but he did it a different way. he made a little tube that misted the stuff out right at sirus and josh held it up near sirus's face whle we distracted him with fun things to look at and play with. there was no crying this time. the steve guy wasn't being mean in his way he just maybe didn't know there might be an easier way.
so, sirus loved the stethescope. he played with it and put it against his chest and was having all kinds of fun. then he took it and wrapped it around his shoulders the way the doctors and nurses do. josh told him he looked just like a nurse now, "you look just like me!" but then there was an awkward pause because i ws thinking something but didn't want to say it, but then the nurse said it "well, i guess i wear a shirt when i come to work" that is when the nurse suggested that sirus could be a beach nurse. when i told eric this he said, ya mean, like a life guard.
then off to get some chest xrays. poor little guy did an awesome job! i put on the lead thing and sirus sat on a table and they put a little lead sheild over his little parts. i would have never thought of that. but that is why i'm not an xray person. tey took a front and a side and they showed them to me on the screen. so cute! he has all those ribs and a tiny collar bone! nurseman josh stopped in to say he was going home. sirus was walking around the room and i ws calling eric to give the scoop. then sirus pulled the emergency call alarm thing. the door flew open with people flying in, the intercom started talking to us and i just stood there while sirus was messing around under the table. oops.
finally the doctor came in, commented on sirus walking around then said he was fine, go home. huh? a new nurse came in to discharge us and i told her what the doctor said. i told her that i didn't really thing he was alright. she listened and said, that i was right that his lungs were raspy, something all the other nurses said too. so she went and got the doctor and told him what was up. sirus got an inhaler. when josh was his nurse he brought a funny little stars and stripes beenie baby bear for sirus. sirus loved it but i thot it was kind of weird because i thought it was mystery lost and found/ER comunal kid toy and i was suprised they would be doing that. sirus loved it so i was like whatever. when we were checking out i told the nurse that the bear wasn't ours and that the other nurse gave it to us. she said that a radio station donated hundreds of them so it was his too keep. i was quite releived. then we went home. 2 seconds in the car and he was passed out.
eric picked up the perscrption, the pharmacist told eric that sirus would have to take a deep breathe and hold it. yeah, you get a 1 yr old to do that. we have a thing to get it to work.
as a result of all of this combined with the terrible weather back east we have cancelled our trip.
and i am sick, too. not sure whats wrong with me but that white thing on my tonsil, my aching lower back and all of my organs feeling terrible are an indication that i totally deserved those donuts and ice cream today.
Monday, February 12, 2007
Saturday, February 10, 2007
new obsessions, addictions and sheer exhaution
dude, i can't even spell it. i am tired. really really tired. but what else is knew? i have a new additiction to ambien, ok maybe it is just a dependence. i don't care what it is, all i kinow is it knocks me out. it is supposedly non addictive and i guess its not really an addiction if when you stop taking it you don't go through withdrawl and i don't neeeeeed it, instead i just don't sleep. various doctors have been trying to get me to take it for quite a few years and i wouldn't do it. but now, hell yes, i will take it. every damn night. sleep!! glorious sleep!
today was a big day. seamus had a friend come over this morning which was fun. 2 minutes into the play date eric called to say he had double flatted on his bike and had only one tube. too bad. he rode 15 miles home with that flat.
when he got home i took off. i didn't really know what to do so 
i went to the running store to get some shoes for eric. they were on sale. we can all see why. the color is called sunray. they didn't have my size otherwise i would have wound up with some, too.
i went to the running store to get some shoes for eric. they were on sale. we can all see why. the color is called sunray. they didn't have my size otherwise i would have wound up with some, too. 
after the shoes i went looking for a handbag. i found many that i liked but 0 that i could justify 
spending so much on. why are they so expensive? the thing that gets me is that the ones at bananarepublic cost as much as the ones at the coach store. does anyone else remember back in the late '80s when bananarepublic sold t-shirts with animals and pictures of the earth on them? i looked on wikipedia and i wasn't just making all of that up. remember the old logo and catalog: 
spending so much on. why are they so expensive? the thing that gets me is that the ones at bananarepublic cost as much as the ones at the coach store. does anyone else remember back in the late '80s when bananarepublic sold t-shirts with animals and pictures of the earth on them? i looked on wikipedia and i wasn't just making all of that up. remember the old logo and catalog: 
i wound up with no handbag but i did get a bad arse pair of shoes (no heel even!) that resulted in the following conversation with eric when i showed them to him:
me - like my new shoes
him - yes, they are very elvish.
me - yes, i guess they do look elf-ish.
him - no, i said elvish as in made by elves not made for elves.
of course. what was i thinking. good lord it was a long day.
so then i tried to take a nap but it lasted like 2 minutes because sirus got up from his nap. i then started getting ready to take seamus to see the doodle bops. do you know what that is? poor sirus won't ever get to see the doodle bops live in concer because i will never go back.
more about that and seamus's bday some other time. the real reason i haven't shown anything from seamus's bday is that i erased all the cookies from the computer and can't figure out the passwords to flickr and hotmail so i can't access any of the photos i loaded....
things said today:
the gentle lovers were going by ti cyles today on my way back from u-village.
my eye socket is killing me. i think i've got a zit forming in it.
my sci-fi friends always liked dr who and i couldn't understand why
oh and yeah, i decided the ashton kutcher is really hot.
Monday, February 05, 2007
DOH!!! I've been tagged.
Lindsey tagged me. that means i have to tell you 5 things about me that you don't already know. i already used my super model card and then i answered those 45 questions, but here goes:
1) when i was little and would be laying in my room on my bed i would hear footsteps in my ears. i was convinced that these were from the people who wore blue and pink footie pajamas that lived under the big tree in the front yard. i think really maybe i was just hearing my heart beat but i don't know.
2) i have never gotten a speeding ticket. i haven't ever even been pulled over. i have been in my car when someone else was driving and they got pulled over and received a ticket but i never have.
3) one time i went to the mcdonald's drive through and got a sausage mcmuffin with egg and it was so damn tasty that i wanted another one. i was too embarrassed to go to the same mcdonalds drive through so i drove all the way accross town to the other mcdonalds and got another one.
4) i worked with jamie kern who was not only Miss Washington but also on the first season of big brother. also i went to jr high school with bryan chan who was on the first season of making the band and if i had a fan site, i would not any of these photos.
except maybe that one in the middle. ok, yeah maybe that last one, too because it is so freaking bad ass!5) i have 7 piercings. doh!
ok ok ok, now i tag jen, allie, liz, dug and xtiesue. ha since i don't think ya'll get your blog on, you should leave it in the comments.
Friday, February 02, 2007
sometimes i need a good cry
so sometimes i search for things on the internet and sometimes i find things that make me cry. today i decided to search for "man ballet" on google images and i cried and cried. it was just what i needed.
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