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[23 Sep 2009|10:14am] |
in other news, let's talk briefly about halloween.
first, here's an article from cracked.com: 13 real animals lifted directly out of your nightmares.
second... brainstorming halloween costumes. i'm gathering ideas both from the interweb and from my head.
hagrid and norbert the dragon
ron burgundy and veronica corningstone
sam and frodo
thing 1 and thing 2 from dr. seuss
dr. horrible and captain hammer or penny
ozzy and sharon osborne
yeah... that's all i got.
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[21 Sep 2009|09:44pm] |
my hobby of the day is coming up with the most awesome baby names that tyler and kristi should, but will never use.
neil patrick [harris; they could chose to exclude the third name] gardner
chuck norris gardner
patrick swayze gardner
michael jackson gardner
hugh jackman gardner
george clooney gardner
john stamos gardner
bob barker gardner
james bond gardner
steven colbert gardner
barack obama gardner
mohammed eugene gardner ("mohammed is the most common name on the planet! read a fucking book for once, jeez." and eugene is tyler's middle name)
richard gere gardner
bruce willis gardner
ben affleck gardner
justin timberlake gardner
little george clooney is due january 22.
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[15 Sep 2009|10:09am] |
darren finally got to go to court for his ticket. he has to go back on october 27 and we have a lot to accomplish before then.
they sent the revocation warnings/notices to his parents' house because that's the address on his license, even though they sent other mail to our apartment. they sent the notices prior to july, when his parents still lived there. which presumably means they got them and didn't tell darren. awesome.
so, in the next month and a half-ish, he needs to get find an insurance company that will actually provide coverage (and call those fucking fuckers at esurance and get our fucking money back so we can instead give the money to an insurance company that doesn't suck), send in proof of insurance to the state, take his license test again, make sure it has his correct address, and then go back to court and still pay a $500 fine.
at least we know now and we can move forward. having to spend a month freaking out about it was not cool.
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[12 Sep 2009|04:15pm] |
if i were to ever get a tattoo, it would be this. the tree of life.
in case you care.
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[08 Sep 2009|11:41pm] |
lamar the betta fish died sometime in the night. i got him during senior year of college, so we had a good run.
rest in peace, lamar. i'm sure you will, now that you're not constantly being tormented by the little orange demon cat.
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[30 Aug 2009|09:22pm] |
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well. i had some weekend. friday was a long strange night wherein things happened that i don't think i could ever accurately describe. it culminated in darren and i laying on the rug in the middle of our living room having a long conversation that lead to the discovery of the meaning of love. or so we thought at the time.
after not enough sleep, i got out of bed feeling, well, hungover, and headed to the fair with kate, her dad, and aaron. we did the usual fair stuff- looked at art and animals and butter heads, ate copious amounts of food, and walked a lot. my legs are a little sore today. i slept a lot last night and was just glad i didn't have a headache when i woke up this morning.
i spent the entire day exhausted, doing as little as possible. the idea of having to go to work tomorrow is depressing, but as soon as the week is out my vacation starts. it's actually going to be a stay-cation. sleeping in, hanging out, and bumming around the cities sounds like a nice way to spend some time.
i accidentally took a 15 - 20 minute nap at around 8:30 and i'm seriously considering going back to sleep.
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| FML update |
[26 Aug 2009|09:20am] |
so, esurance did cover us for awhile (the last 2-ish weeks), and darren discovered that the claim is still technically active, but they're going to cancel it for the reason i explained. however, we do in fact have proof that the car was insured the day of the citation. holla!
now we just need to get our money back from esurance and find someone else to give it to instead.
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| FML part IV |
[25 Aug 2009|02:43pm] |
back when darren got that ticket that ruined our vacation, did i mention that the car was uninsured? well, it was. darren went to e-surance that day to get, you know, car insurance, so he wouldn't get a fine.
today, TWO WEEKS LATER, he got a letter saying they won't insure his car because it has a salvage title (that is, before he owned the car it had been totaled in an accident, then somebody fixed it up and re-sold it).
best part: when he applied for the insurance he had to put $300 down. so... we need to figure out how to get that money back.
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[23 Aug 2009|09:45pm] |
dtv sucks.
tired of our tv cutting out whenever a car went by or when somebody sat in the wrong place, tonight we decided that there's no reason not to subscribe to basic cable. we still have to wait two weeks before the technician comes out to hook it all up, but then- magic will happen. just in time for new fall seasons.
yes, it will be glorious.
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[20 Aug 2009|11:36am] |
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happy birthday, darren. thank you for everything you do for me, and for us, and for the cats. thank you for working at a job you hate so we can pay the bills, and bringing me ginger ale when i'm sick, and remembering (sometimes) that WoW is not your girlfriend. thank you for buying me flowers for no reason and being a good cat-daddy. thank you for making me laugh all the time. thank you for impromptu dance parties in the living room, and cooking together, and our mutual love of neil patrick harris. thank you for being gross with me. thank you for your ability to understand my opinions even if we disagree. thank you for late night conversations and multiple marriage proposals and hugs that require me to stand on tiptoes. thank you for loving me and letting me love you in return.
In the month of May when all leaves open,
I see when I walk how well all things
lean on each other, how the bees work,
the fish make their living the first day.
Monarchs fly high; then I understand
I love you with what in me is unfinished.
I love you with what in me is still
changing, what has no head or arms
or legs, what has not found its body.
And why shouldn’t the miraculous,
caught on this earth, visit
the old man alone in his hut?
And why shouldn’t Gabriel, who loves honey,
be fed with our own radishes and walnuts?
And lovers, tough ones, how many there are
whose holy bodies are not yet born.
Along the roads, I see so many places
I would like us to spend the night.
(Robert Bly, In the Month of May)
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[15 Aug 2009|06:32pm] |
spending our three day weekend being lazy at home rather than hanging out with my family... meh.
on the upside, i did discover that sufjan stevens will be in minneapolis on september 27th. tickets went on sale at noon today and i was ready and rarin' to buy mine the second the clock struck 12. and i did. sadly, mr. mike miller was not so lucky. he hopped online about 20 minutes later and tickets were already sold out. so i guess i'm seeing this show solo.
i don't really have anything interesting to write about. i was just getting tired of my angry dmv posts just sitting there. darren's going to have to deal with that in the coming week. hopefully sooner than later, because his birthday is on thursday, and who wants to feel hateful on their birthday?
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| FML part III |
[13 Aug 2009|11:11pm] |
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it turns out the fines that got mysteriously reinstated were in fact the ones from winter of 2007.
so, darren paid his fines and went to court after he got pulled over for driving someone else's uninsured car. december 2007. and all was well.
july 2009, the dmv does something-or-other with their "system," and said fines magically reappear and his license is suspended.
we're going down to the dmv tomorrow and... it's going to be hard to not totally flip out. because this is bullshit.
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| FML part II |
[13 Aug 2009|01:11pm] |
darren called the dmv. this entire thing is their stupid fault but of course, being the dmv, why would they ever take the blame?
they got a new system, or re-set their system recently and all of the fines darren paid over a year ago magically came back, which resulted in not just a suspended license, but a revoked one. so he has to pay the fines again AND re-take his drivers test.
there's no way this can all be done by tomorrow, obviously.
we bought insurance for the car today and we'll take car of everything else as soon as we can.
the trip is off. we're getting drunk at home this weekend, in case anyone is interested in stopping by...
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[13 Aug 2009|09:18am] |
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a wrench has been thrown into the gears of my weekend. a big stupid wrench that would've been nice to know about whenever it happened.
sometime in the winter of 2007, darren got pulled over driving a friend's car. the car was uninsured, so they had to get insurance and darren has to go to court and whatever. issue resolved.
oh, until sometime last summer, when he got a letter in the mail saying he had to pay some fine -
wait. the two incidents were completely unrelated, i just remembered. he got a letter in the mail saying he had to pay a fine. his car had been sitting dead in his parents' driveway for months, but a douchebag farmington cop happened to drive by and notice that the tabs expired. so the letter said basically "pay this fine for expired tabs or we'll suspend your license."
so darren got new tabs and we went to the dakota county government building, which is where the letter said to go, to pay the fine. i faxed the receipt to the dmv, which is what they instructed us to do, with a letter explaining that the fine ad been paid and darren's license should not be suspended.
fast forward a year. specifically 2:00 this morning. darren had gone out to farmington to see some friends and lo, he got pulled over. because his car was registered to a driver with a suspended license. WHAT?! of course, the cop didn't know when this had happened.
so basically, darren has to go to the dmv today to figure out what the fuck happened, why he was never informed, and try to get it fixed. today. if this doesn't get resolved, we're not going to be able to go to wisconsin tomorrow to see family i haven't seen in approximately three years. for my grandpa's birthday.
and it kind of breaks my heart. like, a lot.
i was walking to the bus stop this morning and felt something in my shoe. it was a penny, and when i shook it out of my shoe it landed heads up. i'm going to pretend that was a sign. a good one.
:(
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| mememe |
[07 Aug 2009|02:26pm] |
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yay for a way to pass the last few minutes of work. ( Read more... )
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| baby on board |
[07 Aug 2009|11:07am] |
i may or may not have told you about darren's hairy friend justin. well, last night i found myself at the lucky foxx with darren, justin, brenna, her old roommate sarah, and eventually steve and scancy.
now, here's the thing about justin. he dates crazy girls. all the time. he's okay with that. he always meets them on the interweb. so, he's dating this girl tatiana, who is, of course, crazy.
last night i overheard darren saying something about justin being in a predicament, and i inquired. justin said, basically, "so, i knew my crazy girlfriend was crazy. i don't mind crazy. i like crazy. so then we decide to live together, and we sign a one year lease, and after that i learn that she's actually psychotic. and i want to break up with her, but we have this lease... and now she's pregnant."
and i LAUGHED AND LAUGHED. which is probably the wrong reaction.
as it turns out, justin wants kids and is actually looking forward to being a dad (which i never would have guessed), but, you know, he can't stand his girlfriend. that is quite a pickle indeed.
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[06 Aug 2009|11:16am] |
dear tiny fetus growing in kristi's uterus,
hold on tight! i want my parents to be grandparents because i think it's funny. also, tyler and kristi really, really want you and another miscarriage would probably kill tyler.
also, be a girl. please?
love,
auntie katrina
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[03 Aug 2009|07:16pm] |
dude. my commute home got totally fucked up because some dumbass decided to drive around the barrier arm at a train crossing. i mean, dude, sucks you;re in the hospital but it was your own damn fault.
so, because of captain stupid, the light rail was running from downtown mipples to franklin avenue station, and from ft. snelling station to the mall, but nowhere in between, where my stop happens to be. when train service is interrupted they substitute busses, but alas, it was rush hour. the operator of the train i had got on informed us that the line waiting for route 55 busses was really long. so i hopped off the train at metrodome station, crossed the tracks, and got on the first bus i saw that would get me into st. paul. it was a 3.
the problem with the 3 is that it takes a good hour to get from minneapolis to st. paul, and then it would've taken at least twenty minutes (including wait time) to get from downtown to my apartment. so i got off the 3 at the first u of mn stop, and got on the 50 that was right behind it. fifteen minutes later i got off at university and snelling, waited about thirty seconds, and got on the southbound 84 which got me to snelling and randolph ten minutes before the bus i take home every day got there.
so despite the insanely roundabout method i took, i got home at exactly the same time i do every day.
this is why i'm so awesome.
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[02 Aug 2009|05:40pm] |
sunday is always the day where my domestic side takes over. i rarely have plans on a sunday, so i use the time to clean. i can usually talk darren into cleaning the litter box (when it's his turn) and helping with laundry, and he claimed bathroom cleaning responsibilities a long time ago (i cleaned the toilet one day and he actually seemed a little offended because that's his job!), but i kind of take everything else upon myself. because i'm better at it. darren's a spot-cleaner at best. me? i sweep under the rug. i mean literally, i lift up the edges and sweep out any rogue dirt underneath. i move the couch and sweep the spot where it usually sits. i'm a friggin' machine.
i also cook. weekday lunches are so much easier when i just make a big batch of something-or-other on sunday and we just eat on it until it's gone. today it's jambalaya - the same stuff, kate, that we made with erika in our hot pots freshman year. delicious. it's awesome to be able to just throw a portion into some tupperware and take it to work. then i don't get sucked into the temptation that is lunch buying options in downtown minneapolis. because you know i would totally eat chipotle and myburger every day.
but sometimes my domestic afternoons get a little out of control. like, i made lunch/dinner for darren's "lunch" break (his weird work hours make for strange mealtimes), whipped up a big ol' batch of jambalaya, and now i reeeeally want to make peanut butter cookies. but i'm not going to because all that stove usin' has caused our apartment to reach a balmy 82 degrees. pshhhh.
on the up side, it looks like it's going to rain. our newly re-potted tomato plant will love that, despite the fact that i watered it this morning. our jalepeno has sprouted it's second pepper and there are flowers now where more peppers will soon appear, and the green pepper plants got ridiculously tall seemingly overnight and look like they're about to bust out a bounty of green goodness.
and! AND! sweet corn is in season RIGHT NOW. we gobbled down a bunch yesterday and it was so good i nearly wept like dan aubin cried over his salmon that one time.
i love food. i should've been a restaurant critic.
anyway. i got a three day weekend coming up in t-minus 12 days. we're going to the magical land of bagley, wisconsin. i walked through town via google street view earlier today and got freakishly excited for the trip. mom booked hotel rooms for me and darren and kyle and jenna so we don't have to figure out where to sleep. none of the grandparents have the space. so! not only do i get to see my family and show darren the root of my roots, we get to retire to our hotel with it's pool and hot tub and cable tv.
and we can go for food and drinks at the bagley hotel.
and my grandpa can turn 80.
mmm, vacation. it's so close i can taste it. it tastes like root beer barrels.
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[28 Jul 2009|09:21am] |
darren's car is mostly fixed, although there is one more repair we're going to have them do after darren gets paid next week. we didn't want to throw down the extra hundred bucks right away, especially if it was something darren could do himself. tyler, car mechanic extraordinaire, does not recommend doing it ourselves. so there that is.
but the car runs! yay. so we can take out mini road trip to wisconsin in a couple weeks, and we can do whatever we end up doing for our vacation in september (if we end up not being able to afford harvest fest, we'll probably just go camping in brainerd), we can drive to the grocery store again, and darren can stop riding to work with tim.
hoo-ray.
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