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November 28, 2005

Four Day Weekend, oh how

Four Day Weekend, oh how I love thee... and now Monday has come and... well, actually I am back at home. I feel like poo, and so I have taken my work tools (laptop, phone, organizer) and am working from my couch. Not exactly a 5th "free" day, but work is always better with a lap blanket and a cat sleeping on my feet.

Thanksgiving was nice -- too much was eaten, naps were taken, Scattergories was played, movies were watched. This year, we spent the day at my mom's house (we've been going up to Ryan's grandma's house for the past few years) and it was really nice -- but I think my mom liked it best of all. She always comments on how good it is to have the whole family in the house. We were there for something like 7 hours, but when we left Mom said "are you sure you have to leave so soon?" Luckily, I got to split the guilt with little sister who was hopping a plane to Tahoe for the rest of the weekend.

I hunkered down into several books, which was awesome because I haven't had much time for reading lately. I finished a craft exchange project this weekend too -- I will post pictures after it hits the mail -- and am really pleased with the outcome. I rearranged the living room, to prep for the Christmas Tree, dug out the decorations, got the porch prepped for lights and decor. We took a break to see Walk the Line, but it was sold out, so we saw Goblet of Fire again. Still awesome. I chased the cats around and bought some Christmas gifts. It was a very good weekend. Too bad about today - what a waste. If you need me, I'll be the lump on the couch.


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Posted by giddygirlie at 12:30 PM |

November 23, 2005

I hope that everyone has



I hope that everyone has a great Thanksgiving holiday full of too many pecan pies and glasses of wine. But most of all to Rob and Sheri Zombie who will, in fact, be eating a fully cooked turkey tomorrow.

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Posted by giddygirlie at 9:59 AM |

November 18, 2005

Baby Sister turned 20 on



Baby Sister turned 20 on Tuesday and I finally got around to posting the pictures.

Squid is good food.

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Posted by giddygirlie at 9:43 AM |

November 14, 2005

If you're in the San

If you're in the San Francisco Bay Area this weekend, you should make time for the Punk Rock Orchestra. They're playing a (rare) show at the Mezzanine in SF on Saturday, November 19th. If I didn't already have commitments, I would drive the 8 hours to see this. Seriously, they're THAT cool. [listen here]
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Posted by giddygirlie at 1:04 PM |

November 12, 2005

Ok, I surrender. Someone email

Ok, I surrender. Someone email me the application form, tell me where to send my money. I understand that dues are non-refundable, non-transferrable. If someone gets a sign-on bonus, let me know and I'll include you as a reference.
 
I am officially just like you now. I am a Harry Potter loving dork. I have read the books, twice each, have watched the first 3 movies on DVD. I am enfatuated with Hogwarts and owl post and Hermoine's crazy hair.
 
Here is my testimonial : I have, in hand*, my tickets to the midnight screening of "Goblet of Fire" on Thursday night.
 
 
*technically, they are in John's wallet, but it's the same thing, really.
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Posted by giddygirlie at 10:38 PM |

November 11, 2005

Why is it that when

Why is it that when I have a 10 page term paper due that I push it off 'til Friday night, send the boys away so that I can concentrate and end up blog-browsing and checking my instant messenger obssessively to see who has signed on that I could possibly want to converse with? So far, no takers. Seriously, if you're online, hit me up people!! I need some distraction and lewd conversation!
 
At the very least, I could use your scientific input -- c'mon, who's up for discussing amyloid-cascade hypotheses and apolioprotein E?
 
Humbug to you all.
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Posted by giddygirlie at 9:06 PM |

Dear Natalie Dee,Please gay marry



Dear Natalie Dee,

Please gay marry me. Please please please. You can bring your farty dog and duckboat and everything. I think I love you.

<3

mia

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Posted by giddygirlie at 10:08 AM |

November 9, 2005

I just went into the

I just went into the bathroom at work (the stinky two seater) and someone had sprayed cinnamon air freshener, and I actually thought "mmm... Christmas".
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Posted by giddygirlie at 4:51 PM |

there is a new security

there is a new security officer at work, who is probably mid to late 20's and this morning, the other officers were walking him around, introducing him to some people that he'd be working with a lot -- namely the people in my department.
 
security officer : and here's Mia and A__, and S__, you'll work with them a lot
A__ : hi, nice to meet you
mia : welcome
S__ : nice to meet you, I'm sure we'll be working together soon
new guy : great. this is awesome. I love meeting hot chicks in the morning.
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Posted by giddygirlie at 1:27 PM |

November 8, 2005

If you haven't already, get

If you haven't already, get right on over and wish Will well (heh, that's like a ryhme or something!). He's having surgery -- it's not a nose job -- and needs your moral support.

I've volunteered the snow cones, if anyone wants to add to that, be my guest!

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Posted by giddygirlie at 12:45 PM |

November 6, 2005

Do you ever take a

Do you ever take a step back to marvel at the wonder of it all?

The fact that at 1:30am on Saturday night you can instantly answer a stony inquiry about whether or not dimples are a dominant or recessive gene (dominant), instantly check the world's pulse (hey France : ease up on the riots already), pay a parking ticket ($35 for parking in an empty carport for 5 minutes because there were no "guest" spots left), and order yourself some plastic bananas on eBay (true story).

Dear Internet,

I love you.

xoxo,
GiddyG


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Posted by giddygirlie at 1:36 AM |

November 4, 2005

Seeing this picture now makes

Seeing this picture now makes me laugh. Ryan swears that I wore this shirt to school every single day, but that's not true. What did happen is that I took like 800 million pictures the day that I wore it, so there are so many images in existence of me with this shirt.
The reason that it makes me laugh is because I had gone to the concert the night before (VooDoo Glow Skulls) with some friends and while we were there, I noticed Ryan, Kevin, and Trevor. They hung out with us through the show and then Trevor disappeared, leaving Ryan and Kevin without a ride home. They asked me and so I gave them a ride home.
The whole way, they couldn't decide on the best way to go home, who should be dropped off first. In the end, Ryan conceded and volunteered to go home first, and so it was. That night, I stayed in the car talking to Kevin for hours (long past curfew) and the whole drive home I kept thinking about Ryan. I wrote about it in my diary, about how I was disappointed that Ryan went home first, but I guess he wasn't interested in me.
I dated Kevin for more than 2 years, and after he and I broke up, I started seeing Ryan. Aside from the drama and controversy of dating another guy in the same group of friends, it was quite romantic. I found out then that the night of the VooDoo Glow Skulls concert that both Ryan and Kevin wanted to ask me out, but neither had the guts, so Trevor cooked the scheme to ditch them and let one of them ask me for a ride home. As it was, they both asked, and someone had to go home first. Ryan went first, out of loyalty to his friend. I had no idea about any of this -- or that Ryan had harbored a secret crush for the 2 years that Kevin and I were together. He'd murder me if I told you how tooth-achingly cute our early relationship was, how romantic and sweet and fulfilling and wonderful. But I can tell you this : it's almost been 9 years, and it still isn't enough.
"...and I love him dear, and I've loved him hundreds of thousands of years" - Belly ("Stay")
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Posted by giddygirlie at 3:34 PM |

These are both funny/sad in

These are both funny/sad in their own way. Please hold me and say you'll still love me, even when I am lame.


  1. Kelly Clarkson's song "Break Away" just came on Yahoo Launch Cast and even though I did not mark it as a favorite, I did not skip it either. I decline to comment on whether or not I know the lyrics.

  2. Someone's car was stolen from the work parking lot yesterday. We have 24/7/365 security guards, but apparently they didn't take any action. Here is our security line-up : 2 young, cocky guys who are probably 19 and love to brag to you (as you walk by in the morning) about how fast their cars are or how badly hung over they are. 1 guy with seriously bad lazy eyes. The kind Will would go gay for. He has coke-bottle glasses and each eye goes the complete opposite direction of the other. He has to jerk his head in small twitches to track you walking past. 1 guy is about 65 and is an ex-cop and wears a cowboy hat and a whistle. 1 guy is about 100 and literally is deaf. He can't hear anything, and shuffle steps when he walks. 1 guy is bright-eyed and looks like he's all hopped up on tweak, but is in a constant state of confusion because he only speaks like 7 words of english and no one here has been able to figure out what the hell other language he's speaking.

When I told Ryan about the car theft, and we giggled about the competence of the security crew, this is what he said : sounds like they're operating on the security principle of "you wouldn't hit a guy with glasses, would ya?"


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Posted by giddygirlie at 3:18 PM |

November 3, 2005

i just went through and

i just went through and scanned a buttload more of my old pictures to post to Flickr (and trash the originals that are hoarding valuable closet space) and man... we took a LOT of pictures back then. back before he was gay and before she went off to college, before they broke up and before we were tattooed, when they smoked and she drank and before he was religious and after he went on his bender and drove across the country cursing the latvian jews. ah, those were the days. before education and marriage and jobs and responsibilities and 30 lbs and cars that didn't backfire and kids and mortgages and titles and Masters Degrees and full blown schizophrenia...

the pictures probably won't be as much fun to review as they are for me... but there are a few that you really shouldn't miss



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Posted by giddygirlie at 9:51 PM |

November 2, 2005

Do you ever look at

Do you ever look at a website or blog that has come highly recommended by someone and just kind of went eh?

This is my life story :
Everyone Else : isn't she pretty? she's so popular! and a cheerleader!!
Me : eh. her face is kinda funky, actually. she's just good with make-up
EE : wuh?
Me : the big hair is a distraction. see her first thing in the morning in a pony tail and I'll bet she's downright ugly
EE : oh no, she's... well, now that you mention it...
EE [alternate reaction] : what? you're stupid. I hate you. You smell like boogers.

So there are a few famous and not-so-famous sites that people have steered me toward, on high recommendations, that I have read and... eh. "He's sooooo funny" eh. not really, he's kind of conceited. He's writing it to make you think it's funny -- but it's not. "She's sooooo clever!" eh. Pretentious does not mean clever. She's using intimidation to make you think she's smart. "The most famous blog of all time!" eh, wake me when it's over.

People think I am so strange, because I just can NOT fall in love with a site, just because everyone else does. I've finally gone through my routine and edited the list of blogs-to-check, because I realized that so many of them I read just out of habit. I scroll, I hope, I click away disappointed. And by the same token, I fully understand if you feel the same way about me. My site isn't clever or funny and there are rarely naked pictures. For the record, I do not check blogrolls for my name (that's so 2002) and only look briefly at my referral logs so I can find out how the fetishists are finding me (and welcome gents!). I am not offended if you take me off your list, never add me, don't respond to my emails or comments. Because, like you, I get bored easily.


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Posted by giddygirlie at 5:05 PM |

November 1, 2005

One of the funniest parts

One of the funniest parts of Saturday night was the drive over to the party. I was driving and John and Rosey were in the backseat in their full pirate garb. The Captain had already had a little grog, so he was tipsy and so when this truck pulled up next to us and pointed out the pirates, I was waiting for a fight to ensue (John has been known to snap some thumbs). Boy was I wrong. Instead, there was a Pirate Joke-Off.

Truck Guy : hey, Capn! Where did you eat lunch today?
Capn John : Arrrrrrby's!!!
T.G. : did you see the Pirates of the Caribbean movie?
C. J. : no, it was rated Rrrrrrr
T.G. : how much did you pay to get your ears pierced?
C. J. : a bucaneer!
T.G. : what size beer do you want?
C. J. : larrrrrrrrrge!


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Posted by giddygirlie at 10:31 AM |