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[04 Jul 2009|06:20pm] |
saw cirque du soleil last night. it was pretty much the most amazing thing ever. the show on tour right now is kooza - you can check out the trailer and whatnot here. i think i spent a lot of the time exclaiming WHY WOULD YOU EVER DO THAT?! because really. who decides that it might be a good idea to stand on a chair that is balanced on a pole that is resting on the shoulders of two guys riding bikes on a tightrope? what inspired a person to strap themselves to a single stilt and have someone catapult them into the air so they can do some backflips?
if i had the money i would totally pay to see that shit again.
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[25 Jun 2009|09:59pm] |
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you guys, this may be the two johnny jump-ups talking but i am SO EXCITED to go up north tomorrow.
i's not just the drinks. i am excited. the drinks just make me EVEN MORE EXCITED.
also, i can't stop watching that taylor swift video i posted. i bake cookies at night. i do.
also, i can't believe michael jackson died. i stayed at work late because i was waiting to see if cnn would verify what tmz had posted - that he had actually died, not just gone into cardiac arrest. i was compulsively checking the wussy interweb on my blackberry all the way home until someone posted a link to a legitimate source on twitter. the rule of three has struck again. but while ed mcmahon was old, and farrah fawcett was sick, mj was a shock. crazy.
i don't know if i'm done packing for the weekend or not. i should probably go check on that.
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[23 Jun 2009|04:53pm] |
ooohhh, vacation time, how i love you.
i'm creating a ten-day vacation for myself. i will leave work on september 4th and not return until the 15th. thanks to weekends and labor day (which i am already paid for), i will only use five of my ten vacation days. harvest fest is september 10th through 13th.
i'll use one on august 14 for a weekend trip to wisconsin/iowa to see my grandparents and my mom, who will be there because my grandpa is turning 80(!).
I used 1 1/2 the weekend of the huber wedding.
the rest i figure i'll use on random fridays. yes.
in other not-at-all-awesome news, i talked to my mom last night. my uncle's cancer is back (after 11 years), but he hasn't actually told anyone yet. she heard the news from grandma. i think most of you have heard a little bit about his health woes. he's kind of a medical miracle. the top three causes of death in the U.S. are heart disease, cancer, and strokes. he's had all three, more than once. pneumonia is number eight, which he's had several times. nobody thinks he's going to make it through this... he's too weak for chemo, and we wouldn't be surprised if he turned down radiation.
so that sucks.
but uh, yeah, you know what doesn't suck? going to the lake this weekend. and seeing cirque du soleil next weekend. and going to a twins game the weekend after that.
and going home to sit semi-naked in my air-conditioned living room.
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| tuxedo junction |
[12 Jun 2009|09:39am] |
there's a guy who rides my bus (and train) in the morning. he looks like he's got some redneck in his blood. most days he'd dressed appropriately for whatever business-y job he has, albeit a little sloppily. usually khaki or black pleated (gross) pants, a button-up shirt, and a sweater vest. all wrinkly. needs a haircut. his work shoes are old-looking black sneakers. but whatever, he can wear what he wants and if his company is okay with it, whatever.
however. twice now he has been wearing - wait for it - a tuxedo. as if it were a suit. he wears it with the same ol' wrinkly shirt and black sneakers and i just want to ask him how on earth he or anyone else could mistake a tux for a regular black suit. i mean, really - long jacket, shiny non-suit shaped lapels, shiny stripe down the sides of the pant legs, and a freaking pocket square. seriously! i almost think he could maybe pull it off without the pocket square.
i'm a judger. i know this. but i'm just baffled. does the guy not have any friends who are nice enough to tell him he looks ridiculous? if any guy i know tried to go to his office job wearing a toxedo i'd laugh at him and tell him to go change. that's all i'm saying.
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[09 Jun 2009|10:11pm] |
this is the best thing you'll watch all day.
katherine and i are going to see power balladz tomorrow (because i got free tickets). i'm pretty super excited. i've heard it's excellent.
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[03 Jun 2009|10:59pm] |
go see a bronx tale.
it's a one-man show based on a true story. chazz palminteri really did witness a murder (or attempted murder. he doesn't say whether or not the guy in real life actually died) at age 9 while sitting on his stoop (in the bronx, natch). he thought they were fighting over a parking space. as far as i can tell, he didn't actually become friends with the shooter. you can read more about that here.
so, yeah. i enjoyed it. i was sitting next to a nice old lady and it was amusing to me at one point when he was telling a story about road head.
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[02 Jun 2009|06:25pm] |
y'know, i have a very meager savings account. but it's times like this, when i suddenly find myself potentially needing the extra cash, that i'm thankful for even having a tiny amount of money stashed away.
hopefully i won't need any of it. but if i do... whew.
silly electricity.
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| electricity sparks inside of me |
[27 May 2009|07:41pm] |
remember all those times when i was all "yeah, we don't have to pay any utilities, it's awesome"? well, turns out i was wrong.
i guess what happened is, after the last tenant moved out, our landlord switched the electric bill over to her name. she did not change the address though, which is why it's so weird we never received a bill. not once. in a year. even if she had it set up to receive electronic notices, she would've gotten a bill and realized it needed to be switched over to us.
so our electric bill hasn't been paid in a year, and i got a disconnect notice in the mail today. actually, although it had our address in it plain as day, it had our landlord's name. obviously.
xcel had the right address the whole time, so why did we never get anything until today? i don't know. but i called them right away and fixed everything. the account is in our names now, and they're sending us a new bill with the start date of when we first moved in (april 15, 2008) and will break it down into months. then i can call them again and set up a payment plan so the total is spread out over the next several months and those amounts are added to our monthly bill itself.
so there that is. it's not bad, really. i had a good laugh over the ridiculousness of the situation. and it's not a terribly high amount considering how lax we've been with our electricity usage (i've always been pretty good about it, but darren tends to leave things on a lot. like his computer). it'll be easy to pay off. but now i don't get to brag about the awesome deal i'm getting.
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[20 May 2009|08:08pm] |
darren realized his friendship with tim was starting to affect him quite negatively. so yesterday, darren broke up with tim.
i am pleased.
edit: i guess it's not a real breakup. they're still friends just not... lovers?
i'm still pleased. less tim in my apartment is a good thing.
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[15 May 2009|09:30am] |
some random bits and pieces:
i wanted paula to win hell's kitchen, but danny is good too.
there was a guy at 46th street station yesterday morning wearing a tux like he thought it was a suit. the saddest part was the white shirt (with no tie) he had on under the jacket was wrinkly and obviously super cheap. it was an odd sight.
i really think we should stop at rafferty's at some point when we're up north next month.
i'm pretty pumped to go to the chatterbox tonight. we should play apples to apples.
i randomly decided in the shower last night that when i get married, i want kyle to be a bridesmaidman.
i hope josh and amanda's wedding is as epic as it seems like it's going to be. i'm looking forward to seeing everybody and partying it up at sweeney's afterward. i am also excited for my 4 1/2 day memorial day weekend.
we need to get darren's car fixed for the following reasons:
1. so we can go visit my parents, my grandparents, the baxter family "cabin," and possibly even tyler in north dakota.
2. so darren trusts his car enough to drive it to work every day so he can stop carpooling with tim, who is turning into a little bitch.
i think our next major purchase will be the car repair.
i wish people who call me at work would stop bitching at me about things i have no control over, i.e. when one of my coworkers doesn't return calls, or what the box office's automated answering things says (if people call the box office before they open there's not shit they can do. they get pissed because when the thing tells them to push zero to talk to a representative, they press zero and nothing happens. i'm sorry, but the only people who can do anything about that are the people who you want to talk to, who aren't here yet)
we're planting our garden this weekend. a tomato plant (which is going in a pot), cilantro, jalepeno, dill (mostly to keep bunnies away), parsley, green peppers, some onions... i think that's it. delicious.
people are graduating this weekend. i remember when i graduated. it was awesome and obviously a little bit scary. congratulations, friends.
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| what i made for dinner |
[12 May 2009|08:50pm] |
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Crispy Black Bean Tacos:
- 1 15 oz can of black beans, drained
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
- 5 tsp olive oil, divided
- 1 Tbsp lime juice
- 2 cups coleslaw mix
- 2 green onions, chopped
- 1/3 cup chopped cilantro
- 4 tortillas
- 1/3 cup crumbled feta cheese
- bottled hot sauce (I used green Tobasco)
Place beans and cumin in a small bowl, partially mash. Mix 2 teaspoons olive oil and 1 tablespoon lime juice in medium bowl; add coleslaw, onions, and cilantro and toss to coat. Season slaw with pepper to taste.
Heat 3 teaspoons olive oil in large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Add tortillas in a single layer (I just heated them one at a time with a smaller skillet). Spoon 1/4 of bean mixture onto half of each tortilla; cook 1 minute. Fold tacos in half. Cook until golden brown, about 1 minute per side. Fill tacos with feta and slaw mixture. I put the Tobasco in the tacos as well.
omg, so good. you should eat these.
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[09 May 2009|12:09pm] |
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17 years today.
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| don't touch my pencil, you might have pig flu. |
[06 May 2009|10:28pm] |
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jeff horwich rocks my face off. watch this.
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| birthday weekend! |
[30 Apr 2009|09:43am] |
tomorrow: work, drinks, dinner with twinkle and our SOs.
saturday: saturday stuff, followed by cloud cult at first ave. more drinking.
sunday: nothing! sunday i'll probably sit on the couch all day while darren works. if you're interested in coming over to drink wine (out of my pretentious decanter) and kill zombies on the wii, you're totally invited. we can practice for the zombie apocalypse.
i leave you now with this amusing twitter exchange that still has me laughing.
trinalo: My head hurts. Nazi security guard is annoying. Can this day end? I want to go home and drink wine out of my pretentious decanter.
newcoventry: @trinalo When you say "pretentious decanter" do you mean box? :)
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| i quit the show |
[29 Apr 2009|11:42am] |
i gave it a lot of thought. i did. i initially decided that it would be worth it for the experience - an awesome show, getting to work with and know a lot of talented people - and i had resigned myself to being a little sleepy for about two months.
then i realized something.
i don't want to be sleepy for two months. rehearsals are in north minneapolis and i wouldn't get home until 1:00 in the morning. i don't want to have to go to rehearsals on weekends. i don't want to spend the majority of my precious summer stuck in some room (i already have to do that for work). i don't want to struggle to find time to eat. i don't want to go straight from work to rehearsal or a show. i remembered spending most of my time while working on other shows just waiting to finish for the night so i could go home.
so that hit me like a sock full of sand. and i emailed the director (who is out of the country until like... friday) to tell her i'm out. i feel guilty now, but there's a large part of me that is relieved.
i actually... don't think i want to do this anymore. theatre, that is. i'll always enjoy seeing it and who knows, maybe i'll miss doing it someday. all i know is right now, i don't miss it when i'm not doing it. not at all. i much prefer my free time.
that's a pretty huge realization for a wednesday morning. i need a drink.
it's lunch time. i'll go to the gym instead.
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[29 Apr 2009|10:24am] |
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darren gave me two early birthday presents! this awesome wine set and this wolverine t-shirt. the wine decanter makes me feel pretentious. i love it.
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| thank you for bein' a friend |
[26 Apr 2009|12:30am] |
subject line in honor of bea arthur.
today was my first free saturday in a month. and it was awesome.
slept until noon. always a good thing.
darren needs sandals so we headed off to midway. payless and foot locker are right next to each other so we figured he'd have plenty of options. wrong! payless has crappy men's sandals and foot locker has none at all. so he is still sandal-less. however, they still had two or three stacks of boxes that were left from the clearance they were having like 5 weeks ago. darren needed regular shoes at the time and he found some on clearance. i also found some and lusted after them, but didn't purchase them for money-saving purposes.
you know where this is going. they still had a pair of said shoes in my size and now they are mine. it was obviously meant to be.
we went to game stop afterwards and bought house of the dead: overkill for the wii.
then we went to the great clips on grand to take advantage of the haircut sale that's going on right now. got some delicious caramel coolers at the caribou next door, got our hairs cut, then came home and spent most of the afternoon killing zombies.
also, i'm crocheting a sweater. i've gotten that good. jealous? you should all look forward to homemade christmas presents this year. i anticipate finishing the sweater tomorrow.
looking forward to the ol' birthday on friday. after work i'm going to happy hour at rock bottom (you're all welcome to join. their HH deals are awesome). katherine is graduating so we're having a joint celebration. darren is meeting me downtown after work, then kyle and jenna are coming later and the four of us are going to dinner at the melting pot.
saturday i'm making darren go to first ave with me to see cloud cult.
sunday i gots no plans.
best birthday weekend evar! i'm excited.
okay. back to the sweater and my sweet, sweet doogie howser.
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[20 Apr 2009|03:55pm] |
carin emailed me this morning and asked me to stage manage bard fiction for the fringe.
i'm actually pretty excited about this one. plus i like doing shows better in summer because even though i'm out late, at least it's not usually super cold while i wait for the bus.
plus it's the fringe!
wee!
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[18 Apr 2009|05:47pm] |
oh my god, i bet this would be so much fun.
galileo is almost finished. we have our second-to-last show tonight! hooray for getting my weekends back.
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