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[09 Feb 2010|01:02pm] [ mood | stressed ] the ball, it is rolling. the next three or four weeks are going to be brutal, but we'll be okay. the landlord has been notified of the situation, and that we're leaving. i was worried she was going to charge us for vacating without giving proper notice, but she's not. she is keeping out entire deposit though, which i had already assumed (our bed kind of destroyed the bedroom floor). i have an appointment set up to check out a new place on monday, and have left messages with and sent emails to several other places. one is a delightful-looking place in crocus hill. it's a studio that's actually bigger than our current place, and i love crocus hill, so here's hoping i hear back from them soon. *edit: heard back. we're checking it out on saturday. darren has an interview tomorrow, so who knows! think good thoughts. and i've received several offers from friends offering to help us move. dear friends, you are awesome and i love you. don't wanna be forgotten.

[08 Feb 2010|04:30pm] well, darren lost his job. as did the other two guys he had the lunchtime beer with. fuck fuck fuckity fuck fuck. 2 putting time in.|don't wanna be forgotten.

[13 Jan 2010|03:49pm] i'm never drinking again. ... okay, this statement is false. but i'm definitely drinking less. ugh. don't wanna be forgotten.

[30 Dec 2009|07:01pm] houston, i have a nephew. tyler sent a fresh baby picture at 6:19 pm. jakson scott. edit: he's 7 pounds, 13.9 ounces, and 20.5 inches long. i was on the phone with tyler at about 8:30 and he got a text from kristi saying jackson was having trouble breathing. he's 3 weeks premature. hopefully it's nothing serious. i'll let my blog peeps know what's up as soon as i hear something. edit 2: well, apparently he's a-ok, or at least i'm going to assume so until i hear otherwise, considering tyler is posting all about it on facebook. awesome. 2 putting time in.|don't wanna be forgotten.

i have a cold [23 Dec 2009|10:05pm] [ mood | sick ] my face is going to fall off. snowmageddon 2009 is happening outside right now and i'm horrified at the idea that i might not be able to get out of town tomorrow. i just want to spend christmas with my family, is that too much to ask? darren has yet to experience christmas in the 'quot and he finally has christmas eve off this year. so... i really hope we can go tomorrow. if not though, i take solace in the fact that darren's family is in town and we can have christmas with them. new years as well. apparently we're going somewhere nice for that. sweet. aaahhCHOOO! also, i don't have to go back to work until january 4. be jealous. don't wanna be forgotten.

2009 year in review: a meme [14 Dec 2009|11:14am] it's that time of year again. the time when the same ol' meme shows up on blogs everywhere. mine is no exception. ( Read more... ) don't wanna be forgotten.

footbaaaaall [13 Dec 2009|01:49pm] i think i might be learning to enjoy football. even though i don't know anything about it, what with all the crazy-ass rules. seriously, have you ever looked at all those rules laid out in one place? no wonder an event with an hour's worth of actual play time takes like three hours total. but i'm watching the game with darren and we have delicious food to go with it, and he actually seem to enjoy explaining things to me whenever i'm all "what the fuck does that mean?" but really, it's mostly about the food. don't wanna be forgotten.

look here comes the jerk [01 Dec 2009|04:22pm] [ mood | blah ] ugh. i'm having one of those epic downswings that seem to hit me every so often. i think it's the season. i don't like winter. it's too cold and grey. i don't like that it's dark when i wake up and dark when i leave work. my fuse is shorter, everyone who calls me at work is a moron, and all i want to do is be a hermit. and of course my bad attitude is affecting the people around me- or, to be more accurate, the person i live with. poor darren. he keeps bringing people home to hang out and i hide in the bedroom and read. he has to listen to me bitch about nonsense. i've been snapping at him about stuff that doesn't really matter, and so i'm constantly apologizing for my behavior. raaar, i'm a jerk. sorry. 1 putting time in.|don't wanna be forgotten.

on holiday [27 Nov 2009|05:24pm] [ mood | lazy ] we spent thanksgiving at my aunt and uncle's in mipples. kyle, jenna, darren, and i rolled over there at about 4 and [uncle] stan's family got there right when we did. their house is ridiculously gorgeous and doesn't fit in with their neighbors'. it's tall and modern in a pretty traditional neighborhood. we drank beer from their kegerator and kyle, [aunt] teri, and i discussed the superiority of can-shaped cranberry sauce and how un-classy we are, especially compared to stan's sister and her husband and daughters. they're all "organic free-range turkey and completely homemade pies and violin lessons" while we're "canned cranberry sauce and olives in our beer." kyle agreed to be my brother-of-honor so long as he doesn't have to do any actual work. we ate too much, so when we got home we pulled out the sofa bed and watched it's always sunny in philadelphia on netflix. darren ran off to play loud music with some dudes and i fell asleep on the couch for a spell. i hauled my butt into bed around 3, slept until noon, and haven't left the house all day. don't wanna be forgotten.

rage [24 Nov 2009|09:11am] [ mood | bitter ] darren's car died again last night on his way home from work. we have free towing with our insurance but it was going to take the guy an hour to get to where darren was because he would've had to come from stillwater. luckily, darren was able to get it started again long enough to get home. but... driving it is too risky. so we're car-less again. it's gotta be the transmission. fml. don't wanna be forgotten.

[17 Nov 2009|11:19pm] [ music | some kind of german metal, aka D's WoW background music ] i declare today a success. work was nothing special, although i had a delicious dirty chai this morning courtesy of the dunn bros. upstairs. it basically made my morning. followed that up with some excellent lunchtime cardio at the y. after lunch, inspired by something i stumbled upon while reading cnn.com and some other ideas that came to me during my workout, i wrote a rough-but-detailed outline of our wedding ceremony. truth. reading through it made me cry and grin like a goober, so i figure that's a good sign. i realize we haven't even picked a date yet, but if i happen to have a lot of the work done ridiculously ahead of schedule the better. at least i think so. and! neil patrick harris joined twitter like yesterday. discovering this was the greatest thing that happened to me today. you think i'm kidding- i'm not. after work was the first rehearsal for eurydice. i'm excited to be working with such an excellent group. i've pretty much retired from theatre, unless it's with prospero theatre company (website coming soon). here's why: 1) hello, working with buddies. 2) rehearsals and performances are in st. paul (at least so far), where i live, as opposed to dirty minneapolis which, when you don't drive, is much less convenient than you might think. 3) it's easy to bum rides home after rehearsal because almost everyone else lives in st. paul too. not the case when i've worked with other local theatre companies. everything happens in mipples because everyone lives there, either in northeast or uptown. hipsters. 4) kate, unlike other directors i've worked with, understands that we all have day jobs (herself included) and would like to get a reasonable amount of sleep, so rehearsals aren't every weeknight until 11pm plus saturdays. thank god. in the past i find myself resenting the whole process because all i want to do is take an effing nap. anyway. the show is going to be excellent. come see it in february. finally, once i returned home, despite the fact that i discovered my apartment swarming with dudes (okay, only three, including my fiancee [i still think it's awesome every time i get to call him that]. besides, they're dudes i actually like), it was awesome. i tried a new recipe - white bean chicken chili - and it is delicious, and i'm currently working on my second vodka cranberry. after this i will shower and crash. tomorrow i'm going to take brenna to see grease for teh freez. i wouldn't have gone if she hadn't asked about it, but it should be fun even though it's effing grease. plus taylor hicks of american idol fame is playing the teen angel, so, you know. that'll be... cool... well. i should probably end this. 1 putting time in.|don't wanna be forgotten.

on a lighter note... [12 Nov 2009|04:46pm] between the hours of 3:00 and 4:45 pm today, these three things happened: 1. a woman called and asked "umm, do you have a ticket office?" no, of course not. why would a theatre have a ticket office? 2. a guy came in and inquired "is this a half-price ticket office?" does this look like any ticket office you've ever seen? 3. another woman called and asked "is the russian ballet nutcracker- is that pretty much ballet?" the word ballet is in the title. what do you think? i figure i get called from idiots all the time because the intelligent ones are smart enough to figure things out for themselves. don't wanna be forgotten.

[12 Nov 2009|02:35pm] [ mood | ranty ] let's talk about abortion for a minute. that's right. this is me reacting to nonsense on facebook and people using their status updates to broadcast their agenda. questions about "how would you feel if you were required to pay for other peoples' abortions?" and bad poems about a woman feeling guilty after just aborting her fetus, and endless copies of emails about pitts-stupak. ( Read more... ) 2 putting time in.|don't wanna be forgotten.

[08 Nov 2009|01:50pm] brenna and i drove to oskaloosa, iowa, and back yesterday. it was epic. and now all i want to do is sleep. don't wanna be forgotten.

[05 Nov 2009|03:01pm] when darren and i moved into our apartment, it came with a microwave. maybe that's standard- maybe it came with the apartment. or perhaps the previous tenant left hers behind because it was a piece of shit (and she left a lot of stuff behind. it's the reason i have a popcorn bowl, a muffin tin, and a broom). seriously- we moved in april of 2008 the only buttons that worked were the "minute +" button and the "stop" button. and sometimes defrost. so maybe we just got hosed and moved into the apartment with the crappy microwave, or maybe the girl who lived there before us didn't want to deal with moving it because it sucked. either way, it's completely dead now. i should probably email the landlords and ask about it. the thing is, microwaves are expensive. the cheapest ones are like $60 and according to reviews, they suck. decent ones hover around the $100 mark and up. yet one can purchase a decent dvd player for like 40 bucks. this seems wrong to me. 2 putting time in.|don't wanna be forgotten.

oh you have got to be fucking kidding me. [27 Oct 2009|01:34pm] since darren was told his license would be valid again as of 6:00 this morning, he decided to drive himself to court this afternoon. he appointment was scheduled at 1:30. he called me at 1:29 to say he had been pulled over. is he going to get in trouble (again) for driving with a suspended license? i do not know. he shouldn't, but he probably will, because that's the way things seem to be going. at least the car is insured. fuck you dmv, fuck you farmington police, and fuck you, universe. kindly shoot me now. EDIT: darren was speeding when he got pulled over so he got a ticket for that, and his tabs were expired (we had no idea!), so he got a ticket for that as well. those two tickets plus the fine he received in court today total just under $500 and we have until the end of november to pay them all off. so he'll work overtime and we'll live like paupers, but it'll be okay. the cop didn't write him up today for driving without his license. he was able to find out what was going on and told darren he understood the situation and just wanted him to get to court and get it all sorted out. thank god. also! as you probably recall for as much as i've blogged about it, darren had court today for driving with a suspended license (not his fault because he didn't know) and driving without insurance (totally his fault for not renewing insurance the second his car was running again). the judge (or whoever he saw today) told him that he could choose one to be left off his record. obviously he chose the license thing. yay for a cleaner record? yes. so in the end, it's better than i/we expected. whew. don't wanna be forgotten.

virus'd. [26 Oct 2009|10:52am] darren passed his exam so he's licensed again. pip! i mean, he still has to go to court tomorrow but he passed his test and american family sent all our insurance information to the state on wednesday, so as of 6 am tomorrow, he can drive his car again. assuming it starts tonight after he jumps it, because the battery is dead. and he'll probably still have to pay a fine, but since he got insurance and his license, it won't be as big. excellent. in other news, my laptop, remus, is sick. i was watching house on the intertubes last night when suddenly i was getting pop-ups from security software that i don't actually have. then everything started running all slow, so i closed out of the internet, turned off wireless, and started running a system scan. then darren got home and i handed it over to him because he has the knowledge that i do not. then- blue screen. but it exited the blue screen and restarted itself, but of course once it was up again the pop-ups kept happening. so he's going to acquire a windows disk (i ordered the computer direct from the manufacturer and it came with vista installed, but no vista disk) and reinstall it. he says he can install something other than vista, which i would prefer, but keeps talking about knowing someone who probably has a vista disk. so. whatever, i just want my lappy back. fortunately the few important documents i had, i also have saved in my email. smrt. 1 putting time in.|don't wanna be forgotten.

the human body is disgusting [21 Oct 2009|10:13am] i'm not dying. i'm just a bruisey weirdo. which is what i was hoping. although i did lean that i'm more squeamish than i thought. i've never had blood drawn from my arm before - the only other time i've had a blood test they only needed a little bit, so they just did the finger stab. and dude. i don't think i could ever give blood. the needle going in wasn't too bad, but the longer it was in the more it hurt. and i'm pretty sure it was only there for maybe 15 seconds. then i watched them transfer my blood from the syringe into a vial and totally got all dizzy and my hands were clammy. i had to look away again. weird. but i'm not dying. so that's awesome. i do have a pus pocket on my tonsil though. how gross is that?! it doesn't hurt though, and the doctor wasn't concerned. i guess they usually just drain themselves. ew. ew, ew. no more icky posts now, i promise. don't wanna be forgotten.

another fml update [19 Oct 2009|04:52pm] unrelated to my apparent illness, remember that business with darren's car? of course you do. well, insurance acquired. we went down to american family on randolph and actually bundled renter's insurance with the car insurance, and it ended up costing less that the car insurance would've alone. and they're sending in all the necessary information to the dmv, so darren just needs to take (and pass) the written exam. and go to court again next week. then we'll see what they decide. it'll be nice to finally get this all taken care of. don't wanna be forgotten.

[19 Oct 2009|11:21am] we need to invest in a humidifier, stat. it's reached the time of year where i wake up every morning with a sore throat. today it doesn't seem to be going away. i called in sick to work (for the first time ever at this job) so the obvious solution for today would be to go back to bed. my head hurts. my throat hurts. and i've got that weird feeling like i'm hungry and know i should eat but there's something about eating that just doesn't seem like a good idea. i'll probably do it anyway. i could go for some ginger ale. edit: eating is a good thing. but i have a swollen tonsil- the left one. the only one that ever swells. there's no spots, but if they appear and i end up with strep i'm gonna choke a bitch. good thing i'm going to the doctor tomorrow. originally it was just for the bruising (said bruise has just gotten uglier, by the way), but dude. at least at this point i can safely say i definitely don't have swine flu. don't wanna be forgotten.

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