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December 30, 2004

I am taking tomorrow off

I am taking tomorrow off from work, which means I probably won't be anywhere near a computer, which means that I have to send in my final post now. I'm not sure what to say, exactly, so I have compiled a short list of things that I have done this year. Don't worry, I'm not expecting you to be amused by this... it's tickled me enough for the both of us.

In 2004, I...

visited the Monarch grove in Pismo Beach
Stood next to a Rembrandt
Held a sea urchin
reflected
saw the Redwoods of Ben Lomond
Slept (barely) in a Haunted Hotel
Was an unconventional GoGo girl
and made my husband be The Donald
Swam in a swarm of thimble jellyfish
Saw a crocodile from 10’ away
Drank one gin & tonic too many
Decided that I do like that Sean Paul song
Saw the biggest. Ant. Ever.
Stood face to face with a polar bear
Wore pirate costumes
Learned to wear a watch
Shared an elevator with Nightcrawler
Found a real dummy, who looked like a friend
Met some incredible people who had the great misfortune of meeting me
Discovered that everyone needs a little punk in their life
Learned that a good Scream is all it takes sometimes
Drank Scooby Doo shots – it wasn’t this recipe, who knows what was in it?!
Made a little princess shine
Relaxed in Cancun
Taught myself to knit thanks to a little help from my friends
made you all crazy


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Posted by giddygirlie at 5:13 PM |

December 29, 2004

All morning I keep getting

All morning I keep getting these light breezes of stinky farts - it's so gross. Doubly so when they are coming from someone else.
 
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Posted by giddygirlie at 4:34 PM |

December 28, 2004

My Christmas was great, and

My Christmas was great, and I hope yours was too. I got a lot of really nice things, including a standing mixer so I will be baking again soon. Yay!

Even better than the things that were under the tree were the things that weren't. Last week I took a day off from work to go museum-hopping which I highly recommend doing. First, we went to the ScienCenter to see the BodyWorlds exhibit which is amazing. My school has a plastination lab, so I have seen some of these types of figures and such before and have worked with the plastic organs but it never ceases to amaze me. Never. Then we headed over to the UCLA Hammer Museum to see the "Undiscovered Country" exhibit in photo-realism in art. Wow. Randy just about fainted to see the Gerhard Richter piece that they had on display. This isn't the one that they had, but this gives you an idea at how incredibly skilled he is. In the second gallery is the personal collection of Armand Hammer [yes, we laughed at the name too] which was breathtaking. Ryan is a big fan of impressionist art, so I literally had to drag him through to make sure he'd get to see all of it, instead of just obssessing on one piece. I can now say that I have literally been 1" away from a Rembrandt. Wow.

Yesterday, Styro wasn't feeling well enough to be dragged around for my amusement, so I took Ryan instead. We decided that we should go do some of the "things" that are local to us that we never do. We looked up a ton of museums, which are mostly closed on Mondays, and came across a listing for the Movieland Wax Museum. I hadn't been there in like 15 years - it was actually very cool. We stopped at PoFolks for lunch first and they gave us a coupon for $3 off each admission to the wax museum - a pretty good deal!! While we ate, we played the table top
Peg Game, which seems simple but is quite complicated and VERY fun. It was addictive. We sat there, working the puzzle over and over... it was fun! The museum was pretty neat, much bigger than I remember. It was a really great way to waste a couple of hours before our reservation at Medieval Times. I had some freebie tickets that were slated to expire this week, so we cruised over to the castle for dinner and a show. Unfortunately, our knight lost the tournament (and his life) but we had a good time. I was pleasantly surprised that the food was actually good. It was a fun show, despite Drunky McDrinks-Too-Much who was dancing in front of me and obese left-handed eater guy who was sitting next to me. THAT is a good time, people.


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Posted by giddygirlie at 2:30 PM |

December 23, 2004

Merry Christmas everyone! I

Merry Christmas everyone! I will be offline for the next few days, spending the holidays with family & friends. Maybe if you're super lucky, I'll blog by cell phone (the wonders of technology!!) and keep you in the loop on the trouble that me and Styro are causing!


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Posted by giddygirlie at 10:43 AM |

December 22, 2004

Three names you go by:

Three names you go by:
  • Mia
  • Angela Mia
  • "excuse me, do you work here?"
Three screennames you have:
  • AnswerLadyMia
  • TheGiddyGirlie
  • No_Fun_Mia
Three things you like about yourself:
  • I'm not grossed out by dead bodies
  • I relate well to children and little ones like me
  • I get so happy that I actually dance a little and clap my hands
Three things you hate/dislike about yourself:
  • I tend to take on too many things, making life easier for everyone but me
  • I have a sharp tongue and hurt people when I don't mean to
  • I suck as a house keeper
Three parts of your heritage:
  • Scottish
  • Swedish
  • Spanish Gypsy
Three things that scare you:
  • suffocating
  • ghosts trying to kill me
  • Paris Hilton's lazy eye
Three of your everyday essentials:
  • food
  • water
  • oxygen
Three things you are wearing right now:
  • slinky black lingerie
  • naughty grin
  • ...wait, did you pay the $4.99 a minute to read this?!
Three of your favorite bands/artists (at the moment): Three of your favorite songs at present:
  • "Mommy" by the Slackers
  • "Rise Above" performed by Henry Rollins & Chuck D
  • "Grey Matter" by Oingo Boingo
Three things you want to try in the next 12 months:
  • host a fundraiser for the West Memphis Three, before they waste any more time in prison or are executed
  • extracting a tiny humanoid from betwixt my tender loins
  • master knitting!
Three things you want in a relationship (love is a given):
  • a penis
  • gratitude
  • abundant happiness
Two truths and a lie (random order):
  • I mailed your Christmas card
  • I want to steal your baby and eat her tiny little nose
  • I need new underwear, badly
Three physical things about the opposite (or same) sex that appeals to you:
  • ability to reach things off high shelves
  • strong facial features
  • facial hair
Three things you just can't do:
  • like cold weather
  • drink beer
  • watch reality TV
Three of your favorite hobbies:
  • embroidery
  • knitting
  • reading
Three things you want to do really badly right now:
  • take a nap
  • go to Cancun and get a great tan and a nasty hangover
  • buy a new diamond ring
Three careers you're considering:
  • nurse
  • doctor
  • welfare junkie
Three places you want to go on vacation:
  • Paris
  • Amsterdam
  • Japan
Three kids names:
  • Gwendolyn
  • Riley
  • Ginger
Three things you want to do before you die:
  • live a few more decades
  • see the pyramids
  • own a house
Three people who have to take this quiz, like it or not:
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Posted by giddygirlie at 2:07 PM |

December 20, 2004

As if being tired wasn't

As if being tired wasn't enough, I am also hungry for breakfast, my throat is dry, my gum infection is still in tact, my face is swollen, I have no make-up on, I spilled on my shirt and then... then she calls to say that she wants to swing by and show me her new Volvo.

*update 11:22am*
a small flicker of happiness... look at the card I just got. I want to squeeze him.


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Posted by giddygirlie at 9:57 AM |

December 17, 2004

sorry, Andre 3000, you were

sorry, Andre 3000, you were wrong.

Andre 3000 : what's cooler than cool?
mia : getting a jellyfish on your chair at work



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Posted by giddygirlie at 1:38 PM |

don't go out to Target

don't go out to Target at 10:30pm to pick up $7,000 worth of gift cards in your jammie pants and flip flops with your hair in a shaggy ponytail and your eye make-up smeared* unless you're absolutely sure that your company has paid your November credit card bill. Otherwise you'll have to sheepishly grin as you call the bank to find out how much money you do have left and the poor sales girl de-activates 18 of your gift cards and you hope to god that you have something** in your purse to give her as a thank you, since she was so patient and didn't call you out on being an idiot in your jammies buying half her salary in gift cards.
 
 
*Ryan calls this look "beat up from the street up" or "beat up from the feet up"
** thankfully 2 passes to the movies were in my wallet and made for a handy thank you
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Posted by giddygirlie at 12:59 PM |

December 16, 2004

Last night in a moment

Last night in a moment of weakness, I reached for the corporate stash of pain relievers and popped a few. About 20 minutes later, my roaring headache was backing down and the shoulders were loosening... ahh. I met my dinner group at Morton's the Steakhouse to get them situated and figured that I must be pretty flustered to be so red in the face and a little sweaty at the hairline. No matter, once I get them seated and cozy, I can duck out and go home... ahh.
 
In the car I noticed that my eyelid kept twitching... potassium depletion, right? Make a mental note to eat a banana and drive home. By the time I reached my house (20 minutes later) I realized what I had done. My shoulder muscles were twitching involuntarily, my hands were shaking, my heart was racing, my pits were sweating... oh god. I took Excedrin, didn't I?
 
From the girl that can drink Jolt Cola before bed and slurp a pot of tea like no one's business and with no real side effects (save the loverly yellowed teeth) comes freaks-out-when-she-has-caffeine-pills-or-any-phony-adrenaline-type-crap girl. Oy. I was jittering on the couch like a speed freak until 11:30pm last night (about 8 hours later). It was stupid. Then, I finally stopped shaking... the crack has left the building!! And then I crashed... and I slept like a freaking log.
 
There were moments last night that I honestly didn't think that I was going to make it. I thought that my poor little heart would just burst and blood would spray across the room, a la Kill Bill. I sat there, twitching and ticking like a mad woman thinking to myself why in the world would people do this to themselves on purpose?! I thought of the ladies of the past, Mother's Little Helper, the crack heads on the streets, the kids huffing canned whipped cream... oh god! I can barely handle a little Excedrin, what would happen to me if I shot heroin? I'd die instantly, that's what. I'd be that girl that you hear about that tried it once and died.
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Posted by giddygirlie at 10:22 AM |

December 15, 2004

My grey feline is named

My grey feline is named Ruckus. My orange and white furry pal is Monkey. The clothes make the man and the name defines the cat, to be sure.
 
My niece Molly (4 years old) was over this weekend and she asked if she could play with Circus Monkey. Sure, why not?
 
So her mom tried to tell her, "sweetie, his name is Ruckus not Circus" and Molly says back "Mom, his name is Circus... Ruckus doesn't even make sense!"
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Posted by giddygirlie at 12:35 PM |

December 10, 2004

I am clocking out for

I am clocking out for a long weekend.
 
Saturday - clean the house, bake, finish holiday goodies, mail holiday cards
Sunday - squeeze Molly until she explodes from love
Monday - take Molly Dear to Disneyland
Tuesday - recover from Monday
 
Somewhere in the process, I am sure to lose my mind, so I am warning you now.
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Posted by giddygirlie at 1:12 PM |

December 9, 2004

I got off the hook

I got off the hook with $15 worth of antibiotics for today. But the doctor is chomping at the bit to fix my other tooth with an old crappy filling in it. Why? $1,200, that's why!
 
I spelled it out clearly to his assistant, when she set the appointment for next week to check the status of the swelling in my gums and to "go ahead and take care of tooth 13" : Do you have $1,200 in your pocket for a tooth that isn't bothering you... especially 2 weeks away from Christmas?
 
yeah, I didn't think so.
 
 
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Posted by giddygirlie at 7:31 PM |

... is money for my

... is money for my teeth.
 
holy shit on a stick. i have some sort of creepy little bump on my gums above the tooth that i just had capped and root canaled (the million dollar tooth). i was going to ignore it, but a quick google search has convinced me to see the dentist today, so that i don't DIE OF AN INFECTION THAT GOES STRAIGHT TO YOUR STUPID BRAIN. oy.
 
i am fully prepared for him to ask me to mortgage my christmas tree and have another root canal today. but it's my own fault for having some good fortune smiling at me lately... you know what they say : it'll always cost $40 more than you have in your bank account.
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Posted by giddygirlie at 12:48 PM |

December 8, 2004

...so yesterday we had our

...so yesterday we had our Secret Santa gift exchange at work. Every year, we each fill out a little paper with some things we want : things we collect, movies we want, CDs we want, etc. so that our Secret Santa knows what to buy for us.
 
I drew G's name. He's such an awesome guy that I was really looking forward to being his Secret Santa and giving him something cool... something unique... something very Mia. On his form, he wrote that he collects beta video tapes and dinosaur fossils and listed a couple of weirdo CDs that I couldn't find anywhere. So I turn instead to the collectibles. I scour eBay looking for just the right thing and I order one of each. For the beta, I got him Trading Places with Eddie Murphy & Dan Akroyd, because damn that's a funny movie. For the fossil, I found a fossilized dinosaur poo. Oh, I thought it was so funny and so clever and ha ha ha ha...
 
Now we're all eating lunch together and everyone is opening their presents. G goes first, so I am really excited. I have made a tiny clay dinasaur and a tiny clay toilet on the top of the box with a description of the dinosaur and what he ate...inside is the poo. So everyone is laughing at the clay things "you made that?" etc., etc. and he opens the box and realizes what it is... ha ha ha... passes around the table, everyone laughs... ha ha ha...
 
After lunch, I am still a little tickled that he liked it and that he thought it was funny that I bought it on eBay, etc. and then he tells me that he was only joking in his Secret Santa letter... he doesn't collect fossils or beta tapes. He just thought that would be funny to put some geeky collectibles on there. I was immediately crushed. I totally felt like the guy that I just met, but have been making out with at Disneyland all day gave me a bad phone number. I almost cried.
 
To his defense, he isn't a malicious guy and he would probably cry too if he knew he hurt my feelings. There were 20:1 odds that I would be his Secret Santa and since everyone else in the group only buys gift certificates, he probably thought he was safe. No one would go out of their way to get him a gift card to Bones n' Things or T.J. BetaMaxx, so seeing the CDs, they would get him a Tower certificate and he'd be in the clear. And then along comes me with a big ol' box of dinosaur poo. *sigh*
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Posted by giddygirlie at 9:09 AM |

December 6, 2004

You know it's Sunday when

You know it's Sunday when you reach for your jeans, crumpled on the floor and give 'em a good shake to make sure that Saturday's underwear fall out before you put them on.
 
Lesson learned from Jenn, who reached up her pant leg to scratch an itch in 5th period English class in 11th grade and she pulled out yesterday's underwear - the ones with the itchy tag.
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Posted by giddygirlie at 12:30 PM |

December 3, 2004

I don't have much in

I don't have much in the way of exciting news... so here is Lame Post Du Jour, in bullet format :
 
  • i [heart] ia, who has come back to the intraweb
  • i [heart] styro, who is coming to LA soon-ish and I get to sit next to her and stare at her like a 12 year old girl : in total awe
  • i [heart] ben, who will be in SoCal soon and i [heart] Miss Bliss for the heads-up and coffee invite
  • i [heart] jules, who has inspired me NOT to postpone my orientation meeting at the RMDC next week
  • i [heart] disneyland, especially when i get to take my 4 year old niece
  • i [heart] decorating for Christmas
  • i [heart] wrapping presents
  • i [heart] making Christmas cards (to be mailed soon)
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Posted by giddygirlie at 2:32 PM |

December 1, 2004

why does your mother in

why does your mother in law happen to call on the day your phone service is disconnected? Can I parlay the "no phone" angle into a sympathy plea from the rental office? Maybe grant me an extension or "get out of rent free" card? No, probably not.
 
In any case the service is back on now (thank you). But the filling in my tooth is wiggling loose, which means that I am on my way to more $1,500 dentist bills.
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Posted by giddygirlie at 11:01 AM |