its not rocket science

washington

2010-10-19T07:12:00.001+09:00

i feel like the song and video do not go together AT ALL, but hot damn. i mean really now.

jb look a like

2010-06-30T11:20:00.001+09:00

so i ended up on lwlljb. which im really excited about, and laughed a lot!!

this is a fucking clothing comercial!

2010-06-26T09:06:00.003+09:00

how do i describe this life? how do i tell you about what it feels like? how every second is like flying. yes the posing and snobbery is sickening, but shit like that comes with every youth culture. and i wanna just scream "they're only bikes for fuck sake, get over it!" but then they're not just bikes. they're a freedom. its just you out there. yeah trying not do die down broadway during rush hour while still racing a co-worker on a fixie to prove that the added 1/2lb of gears isn't all that much weight (ps- it so is), weaving trough hundreds of cars doesn't really make you feel all that alone.

it pisses me off how many of us die out there, or are maimed. it was awesome when ian's settlement came through and he bought us all dinner, but worth three weeks in a wheel chair? and he was so fucking lucky. tyler got pulled under a street sweeper in seattle. he fucking died. he was in a bike lane.

its pretty much an annual event of mine to hit a patch of ice and slide face first into an intersection. and the fucked up thing? i lie there thinking "don't hit my bike, don't hit my bike." and then after that you have to give her a quick once over and get back on the ol' girl and get your ass to work.

this is the one girl who will treat me right if i do well by her. i know it.

yes the posing, the stupid ass tricks, its dumb, agreed. but the softness, the speed, the absolute singularity you feel on a bike... its intense. its love.

city and color

2010-06-10T15:06:00.000+09:00

nerd

2010-06-09T14:33:00.001+09:00

why yes i am nerdy enough to looooove this.

anyone but me season finale!

2010-06-08T17:53:00.001+09:00

ummm why wasnt my high school theatre class ever like this? nothing this dramatic ever happened, except for maybe the color gels catching on fire. that did happen.

lets all meet lexi bee

2010-06-08T10:05:00.003+09:00

im honestly having trouble deciding if i love this girl or hate her. she's so annoying shes kind of awesome. plus i believe shes in high school and lives in a place like iowa, so being that crazy is actually pretty great of her. i feel like she'll be way more interesting once she gets into coke.

downside: if you listen to old videos she sounds pretty normal...voice wise. its in her later videos she starts sounding like a helium tank sucker. not quite sure what happened.

sliimy

2010-06-07T11:20:00.001+09:00

happy birthday.

the gossip

2010-06-07T11:05:00.001+09:00

ladytron

2010-06-07T10:51:00.000+09:00

uh huh her

2010-06-07T10:46:00.001+09:00

school of seven bells

2010-06-07T10:38:00.001+09:00

pete lawrie

2010-06-07T09:50:00.000+09:00

Paperthin Music Video from Hettie Griffiths on Vimeo.

robyn

2010-06-04T16:52:00.001+09:00

ruby kato attwood

2010-06-04T09:16:00.000+09:00

ASTW Presents: Four In The Wild | Ruby Kato Attwood | Sparrow from A Story Told Well on Vimeo.

hannah epperson

2010-06-04T09:03:00.000+09:00

ASTW Presents: Four In The Wild | Hannah Epperson | We Will Host A Party from A Story Told Well on Vimeo.

rome romeo

2010-06-03T17:21:00.000+09:00

ROME ROMEO X TONGUE & TEETH from nomag on Vimeo.

thao nyguen

2010-06-03T17:20:00.001+09:00

THAO AND THE GET DOWN STAY DOWN :::: BAG OF HAMMERS from Philippe Tremblay-Berberi on Vimeo.

i met this girl ages ago. she shared her orange with me. i was smitten then, and im still smitten now.

kaki king

2010-06-03T17:09:00.000+09:00

Kaki King performs "The Betrayer" from Gothamist House on Vimeo.

Aliqua

2010-06-03T17:06:00.000+09:00

ASTW Presents: Aliqua | Regional Assembly Of Text | Hallelujah from A Story Told Well on Vimeo.

an horse

2010-06-03T17:05:00.000+09:00

An Horse - Camp Out from An Horse on Vimeo.

you want to camp out and i want to fuck around, in the dark.

sit back for some femnez

2010-05-31T14:11:00.003+09:00

i know kids, 30 whole minutes of your life?!?! but she talks about female masculinity AND lady gaga, how can you resist? i love me some feminist study. i love me some halberstam.

truth

2010-05-31T12:59:00.000+09:00

izikya

2010-05-17T11:13:00.007+09:00

well the last few days have been interesting. and eye opening. anyway! lets talk about something quite lovely in japan. the bar scene. so in japan bars are weird, its not really a lets get drunk and talk to strangers! it more lets sit at this table and get wasted face with the people i work with and not talk to any other parties. for me this concept is a little strange especially coming from a close knit scene where everyone knew like 20 other people and you HAD to just run up and say hi! plus im use to more blatant ways of making a fool of yourself, ie dancing and karaoke.

so the most popular type of bar, or at least in my podunk town, is called an izikya. which is pretty traditional looking with wooden "booths" and separate rooms for more private parties. they serve small plates of food, which trick you into thinking youre not spending that much money. but you are, my god you are.

first venue. our usual place was PACKED and you have to have reservations because people sit at a table for hours. and there is no standing room, only tables. so the first place we went to was dead dead dead. and not very good food. we think the sushi was frozen and then thawed.

we finally got to the place i like. of course you can still smoke inside in japan so that kind of sucked because im always sick. the beer here is awful if you know anything about beer, but the glasses are huge! and seem endless. the photo below is what i saw a lot. and everyone was punished by non stop drunk texting. oh lord that was fun to reread in the morning. but everyone got their revenge on me by drunk texting me the next day. time drag is lame.

carnage over the cherry blossom flavoured ice cream. i ate some with chopsticks but not much because i was scared i was going to throw up any minute because everyone kept eating whole fish right in front of me.

these are those whole fish people eat like fries. theyre pregnant too. hence why i wanted to vomit in my mouth.

the food at our izikya is great and love how much fried food i eat there. mostly potatoes and yams. sometimes its a dreamy place. sometimes it pisses the shit out of me and all i want to do is punch ignorant people in the face.

especially men who feel like the only great thing you can do in this world is to have kids and that when i get older i want kids. fuck that. ill make my own fucking choices. young or old.

enemy number one in the izikyas are the squat toilets. thank god ive been practicing peeing standing up, because damn...

not myself tonight

2010-05-09T16:46:00.003+09:00

so i know this is long over due, but seriously japans copyright laws are assholes. its taken me forever to find a version of "not myself tonight" that will play in this god damn country. FINALLY found it thank god. i havent been reading anything on it because i knew i couldnt watch it.

first off i have never been a huge fan of christina aguilera, i was a more of a no doubt girl when christina came into the pop world. but i cant deny the girl has an amazing voice. and when i saw all the promo shots of this video knew i had to get down with it no matter what. so lets watch:

so first up i cant stand the product placement. i want to have lady gaga's babies but i still hate all the product placement in her videos. i dont like that this video isnt really anything we havent seen before. but im still in love with it. not going to lie. the blinged out s&m shit is fucking hot and i want anything with a rhinestone crotch. the sex jewelry is also gorgeous looking and i think somewhat covert to people who aren't as obsessed with sex as they should be.

so im going to say i love this video and song, but mostly because i love this type of shit right now. probably wont be buying the album, and definitely not an aguilera convert, but ill watch this video like 8 more times today.

i really like scrabble.

2010-05-01T20:00:00.001+09:00

fuck yeah sara quin. fuck yeah.

ps im in japan.

2010-04-28T10:44:00.004+09:00

when we first got here we still had some money so we went traveling. first on the list was kyoto. kind of in love with this city. where we live now is very small industrial and suburban. its actually really depressing for anyone raised in a city, or you know loves paved roads. call me selfish i guess. either way kyoto has a large and amazing college campus as well as insane amounts of cultural things. we stuck to the fancy part of town because it was somewhat better labeled, but we got lost a lot. the back streets had some of the cutest cafes and stores. it felt a lot like denver, but quite a bit bigger and more modern. its a city we'll hopefully be checking out a lot.

im really excited for august though because greg's parents will be taking us to tokyo and i am flipping shit about it. they want to do kyoto and nara too. i think ill just peace out and stay in tokyo for the week. oh sweet tokyo ill do anything to see you. ANYTHING!

youtube tuesday

2010-04-27T15:53:00.002+09:00

so the xx use to play on repeat at urban. it was one of the few cds we had that didnt make me want to blow my brains out by the end of the day. but i never knew how fucking hot they were. maybe i should pay more attention to the internet.

i mean come on! hot. fucking hot.

gentleman

2010-04-26T16:00:00.002+09:00

this is from the online comic "Lifelines" that i fell in love with recently. i feel like this moment is very true for me.

lucky strikes!

2010-04-26T15:43:00.009+09:00

the boss man took us bowling last weekend. apparently bowling isnt all that popular in japan. or at least not in our town. on a friday night this place was dead. but i got some pretty pictures out of it anyways.

i got what the japanese call the "boobie prize" for being the worst player. which was awesome because all thing boob related is awesome. it was a pink kick ball and a box of doughnuts. who knew sucking at all things pysical could pay off so well? i guess ill be continuing my life long losing streak in order for more boobies!

youre slow to letting me go

2010-04-23T10:04:00.012+09:00

perhaps its all the gay clubs that made me really like this song, besides well that i know this feeling in my bones. but this has been my jam, and i dont know why i didnt think there was an acoustic version. but here's a side by side comparison of what was march's theme song. man now i just want to post t&s videos.

i loved the mixed version of this song. it would make me dance like a crazy person and apparently very badly. i could still feel the lyrics though, but damn in the acoustic version, its like a sucker punch. its actually a rather heart breaking song.

these ladies are pure loveliness. plus they play and tweet about scrabble so really what's not to like?

style

2010-04-22T16:11:00.015+09:00

im so completely imspired by fashion. here's some images that i have been obsorbing in order to dress to impress. i picked most them up from autostraddle, who knows where they got them from.

this looks like satorialst work, but i could be wrong...

ellen paige as pattie smith. cute!

this makes me want french cuffs bad

i love how absolutely relaxed their stlye is. this is from kimberly gillett so not a work ap. link.

hands down who i want be.

i feel like i need this

if i could be kate moennig i so would

quintessential me...one day

two in one day? insane!

2010-04-22T12:57:00.003+09:00

i felt like today needed an anthem. and this is totally it. man this show would be sick.

postcards

2010-04-22T08:22:00.005+09:00

this works for me. when i grow up i want to be kate cooper. now that i think about it we're probably the same age...

An Horse - Postcards from An Horse on Vimeo.

a whiskey and soda please

2010-04-21T09:12:00.007+09:00

there are very good reasons i miss my friends and my denver. besides the bars and how everyone wore glasses. here are some of my favourite conversations with my friends:

"Wait, wait! What are you wearing?!"
"a skirt..."
"Why?!"
"because i felt like being pretty. cant you just love the pretty me?"
"No. Go put some pants on, you're creeping the shit out of me."

"Sex to you is like shaking hands. You put a lot of effort into it but it's not like you're very exclusive."

"youve had one lesbian experience with one girl! it doesnt exactly make you the keynote speaker at the lezzie convention"
"You know you're a real ass sometimes."
"yeah yeah, get back to me once youve finger banged melissa in the library"

"woah! that was intense"
"That eye-fuck that just happened?"
"yeah. i dont think ive ever been eye-fucked!"
"Yes you have! How did we meet?"
"at a bar..."
"Yeah, after I eye-fucked the shit out of you."
"... can we always be friends?"

you tube tuesday

2010-04-20T12:24:00.001+09:00

well hello slow club. im glad youre now in my world.

most the time i miss sitting in living rooms with 30 kids watching live shows. i miss kids that move, all they do is move.i miss kids that think breathe and live their own art. i miss my community. i miss my wonder. i miss my friends.

you are

2010-04-19T15:26:00.001+09:00

never working again!!

2010-01-30T05:41:00.000+09:00

okay well thats not true...or really possible, but today is my last day at urban outfitters. my summer job that turned into three years of corporate slumming has finally come to an end. and i must say i am grateful, mostly for the fun-fetti cupcakes and chocolate cookies waiting for me! i also had a good laugh discovering that i was suppose to be at work at 9 and not 10.

im glad to be going though. this job is rather soul sucking and to be honest i just dont have the people skills for it.

"Could you get me another size?"
"for that dress that is hanging 7 feet from where you stand right now? come on!!"

"Do you work here?"
"not right now i dont"

"Can you help me?"
"sigh... i guess, whadda ya need?"

so tonight party time. saying goodbye to some awesome people. flip off the motherfuckers that made everyday here feel like high school.

ps- im so moving to japan. who wants to say goodbeye/ buy me a drink?!

who is this kid?

2010-01-20T06:31:00.001+09:00

im always behind on pop culture, but this is amazing. is no one else concerned that this little boy lives with usher? and usher really? youre living with a little white boy?

plus little white boy looks real familiar and disturbingly like a girl i dated a few years back.

update

2010-01-18T05:07:00.000+09:00

omg what the hell have i been doing?
well nothing and lots.
holidays past with out too much flair. did almost set the kitchen on fire on christmas. that was kind of awesome.
threw a couple dinner parties. you know your party is fancy when you have two pony kegs in the kitchen (left over from the wedding...).
my sister had her baby!!! lilliana elise! how sweet is that?!?!
im quitting my job, finally!
hilarious night.
yep.
including girl hitting on me, being rebuffed and then staring at me while making out with someone else. there are reasons i never dated many girls, cuz theyre fucking crazy. crazy.

"Hey, I've seen around."
"yeah... don't you come into urban a lot?"
"That wasn't me."
random girl quickly walks away.

seriously? all of them crazy.

greg finds the whole situation hilarious. sadly he isn't dealing with being ostracize by an entire community for marrying a man.

"So are you gay?"
i hold my hand up vertically and tip it back and forth
"It's an A or B answer."
"no, its not. its a C answer."

i dont know why that in my family i was the only one who agreed with my mother that sexuality is fluid. but its hard to practice that when in a culture, even in the gay one, that everything has to be so black and white, A or B. its hard enough trying to figure out who the fuck you are when even gay people don't believe in bi sexuality. its not "fence sitting" it not that simple or its very simple. its so human to categorize even when it seems we're all fighting from being put in a box. i just cant help who im attracted to. and i love the ambiguous questions people ask as they try to pin it down. mentioning being married puts people at ease, but, as my mom says "the dykie haircut", if off putting. gays feel that im tricking them or myself. there are reason ive only come out to very few people. first i feel like its pretty obvious, second no one believes in the C answer. well its my life. and its me. im not a supporter of the gay community, i am part of it.

so whats it about now? well i guess its about talking. sexuality is ambiguous and so personal, but im not going to let people feel that theyre freaks because theyre neither A or B. im tired of feeling like i have to adjust myself to swing certain ways at certain times in order for others to feel more comfortable.

these last couple of years have been about leaving an old life of pretend to figure out who i really am, but more than that its about coming to terms with who i am. so there you go.
i like girls
i like boys
im married to the greatest man in the world
im not straight (duh)

Listening to: Spekeasy Tiger (The Public)

Tracks: 1. I Was Born

3. Limbs

explode!

2009-10-22T06:11:00.000+09:00

i feel like im on craft overload. from pickles to pumpkins to baby blankets heres my project list that might never get done:

baby quilt with 6 large hand embroidered squares
stack of oneies to be embroidered
stack of birth cloths to be embroidered
1/3 completed crocheted baby blanket
0% completed baby sweater
piles of veggies to be pickled
bags of pumpkin innards needing to be seeded and roasted
knit cap to replace the 2 of gregs i lost
baby booties
lemons waiting to be.... i dont know...im thinking i try marmalade...
softies for the baby made from left over quilt fabric
too late for summer dress
apron
kitchen embroidered tea towels

plus for some reason i keep hosting dinner parties. i dont know whats wrong with me, but i feel like the holidays are just going to push the insanity into over drive!
i mean just thinking of all the cookies i need to bake makes me gasp. this might be my last holiday at home and i really want to make the best of it.

have i mentioned how much i love making things?

plus: new mini diana!!! i really dont need you but must have you!!!

i loved that bitch

2009-10-06T02:32:00.000+09:00

i think i might have just broken my co worker's heart when i told him our display artist might of thrown away the sound cable for the computer. how will he watch youtube during his breaks?!?!?!

i really do have a write up about seattle and how awesome and amazing it is and how greg and i are considering moving to the northwest because hot damn we loved it!!! but work computer is mean... maybe library computer will be nicer?

also my mom is putting my childhood dog to sleep. which is pretty awful. shes the best dog ever and totally won me over in becoming a dog person. Diamond is probably the most apathetic dog you will meet, rufio (my current dog) on the other hand would simply look at you and then move to another room to get further from your dry sobs. i honestly dont think i would have made it through high school without her constant attention to my feelings. plus we think Diamond might have gotten brain damage from chewing through so many electrical cords as a puppy. she also was the most bad ass dog on the block, not really a large dog she still thought she was ferocious enough to take on st. Bernards. dude, the bitch was crazy.

so Diamond i spill this forty for you, may you enjoy that big field in the sky. i'll always remember you as the runner awayer, the epileptic fit haver, the master escape artist, and the best fucking dog i have ever known. i love you girl.

this happens when all your friends are guys

2009-10-01T05:49:00.001+09:00

talking with best friend about girls:

him: "So I had to make out with her to just to make sure it wasn't my fault. You know, that I hadn't lost my touch."
me: oh no it wasnt you, she's a really bad kisser.
him: "Yeah, okay! Wait..."
me: oh yeah, ive totally had her.

ahhh, when worlds collide...

i really need to have more female friends.

too many neighborhoods

2009-09-24T14:18:00.001+09:00

"The lavender is very light and delicate, it's more like scented hot water." -magical tea shop guy
"isn't that what tea is?" -me thinking tea guy is a bitch.

sleepless

2009-09-23T00:31:00.000+09:00

Seattle so far:

Lenin and Bruce Lee?!? apparently thumbs up at any landmark is the theme of this trip...

on Dune (the old school movie)

2009-09-21T13:41:00.001+09:00

"Sting does have a very memorable-"
"COD PIECE!.... you werent going to say cod piece were you...?"
"I was going to say role, but I guess that works too."

photo shoot

2009-09-12T04:28:00.000+09:00

i know its been over a month but heres some pictures from my wedding. ill upload more at sometime... and maybe some from outside or something...

im like way lazy and these are on my work computer so really who knows how long they'll last.

i dont know if you know this but im like real classy.

planes and trains

2009-09-11T02:50:00.000+09:00

i know i know

i am a terrible blogger. but you really can't blame a person who doesn't have the Internet... or a computer. or a working tv, or mp3 player... or really any kind of recent technology...

anyway i'm taking a trip in a couple weeks and i was reviewing all the things i can't take on a plane. i found this list: HILARIOUS

who in there right mind thinks bringing a cattle prod onto a plane is going to be okay?

but if you scroll down just a little: THROWING STARS!

i want to meet those people trying to sneak throwing stars onto a plane. i mean what kind of damage are you really going to inflict? anyone familiar with Upright Citizen Brigade? probably not....

(kid tries to go on rampage at school by using throwing stars. just ends up more ridiculed and the shame of his ninja father)

comic gold!

best wedding ever

2009-08-07T03:50:00.000+09:00

so yeah the wedding thing was cool and ill talk more when i have pictures to show for it.

what i really want to discuss is that i am apparently now very allergic to NyQuil. right after the wedding i wasn't feeling well which was due to massive exhaustion took some NyQuil to help me sleep the cold off and ended up almost having heart failure. okay not heart failure but i was dizzy throwing up all over the place and couldn't feel my face. it was way sweet. so i will never being doing that again.

unfortunately now every time i think of the food from the wedding i get super nauseated and which is no good when i still have all that food left in my fridge.

shit.

highlights: people actually ate the dozen jars of pickles i made.
i sang "be are guest" from beauty and the beast.
i didn't drink the sediment at the bottom of the bottle of home brew i was carrying around all night.
people did karaoke
someone drew a penis dinosaur in my guestbook!

a completely marriage related post

2009-07-20T06:51:00.000+09:00

i think my favourite part about planning a wedding is my laziness. im just waaay too lazy to care. the only time that im snapped into a wedding frenzy is when i feel like greg has done nothing. then im all "guess what i did today, all the stuff you arent" but now he's all working hard putting together playlists and compiling all the karaoke booklets, he even rented and put down a deposit on the sound equipment! now its me being "well i ordered some candy because i thought it would look pretty on the tables...i forgot to look up stuff about the marriage licence"

leave it to me to prioritize candy.

i like all the little crafts that go into the wedding. i enjoyed trying to design my invites. i like digging through christmas ornament boxes looking for white lights to string in the trees. i like making wire frames for dozens of jars for candles. ive filled shot glasses with dirt and succulents as table decorations/gifts. shit im making 2 dozen pies from scratch for christ sake!

and i still dont have shoes.... or jewelery...or even a veil. i have some random tulle i like to bunch up around my head. ill probably just tie it in a knot and hot glue some sparkles on it and call it a party.

i think i feel most guilty about not being excited. apparently im suppose to be jumping up and down and bursting into fits of giggles/tears. when people ask how im doing i kind of shrug my shoulders and say i figure things are coming together.

its not that im not happy to be marrying greg. but greg and i knew we were going to get married after about a month of dating. this is more about health insurance and spousal visas rather than dreams coming true. we just cant imagine trying to find someone else who fits us so completely. greg besides keeping me laughing is so patient and forgiving when my high strung shenanigans get the better of me. i push greg into being more comfortable with who he is...mostly by doing cartwheels as we walk down the street and one time buying us a matching slytherin sweater sets.

maybe its because im not doing all the wedding stuff. we're not having a ceremony or any showers or bachelor parties. i dont have a florist or a baker or even a candle stick maker. there is no bridal party unless you count my friend since 7th grade who makes me breakfast sometimes and tells me he's not wearing a dress or matching socks. we hardly registered for anything, just some books and kindles. honestly we just want money or donations to Freedom to Marry.

what im really excited about is getting everyone we know together and hopefully somewhat inebriated. im also REALLY excited to eat! and hopefully some of our friends will camp out with us in my parents backyard and we can all spend a silly morning together cleaning everything up.

i like doing all the work, because all the work i planned is fun. so really i want to plan a party like this all the time, because the main goal for me is not the whole "death do us part" (dont get me wrong im all for together forever) but rather feeding my friends and getting them good and knackered. and i think thats their main goal too.

oh theres more

2009-07-19T10:05:00.000+09:00

While we were shooting this some guy in a jeep drove up and yelled "FAGS!" at us and then drove away very proud of himself. it was really kind of sad. but despite that we had loads of fun acting like the deewbs we are.

dont forget these are by Matt Novak, our amazing and super excited photographer.

a couple engagement shots

2009-07-17T12:20:00.000+09:00

Greg and I are sooo cute. Rufio's okay. We're one ridiculous family and whores for the camera!

why has no one mentioned this?!

2009-07-12T05:49:00.000+09:00

the only reason why i go to work is because my coworkers know where all the awesome stuff is on youtube:

holy shit this little girl is amazing!! and so are kittens!!!

ps- pies suck, if this doesnt work out we're doing "make your own sundae" at my wedding. im totally okay with that.

sort of kind of hate weddings

2009-07-03T01:23:00.000+09:00

who doesn't want to be hoisted into the air by scantly clad, extremely sweaty gay men? i swear i had a class with one of these guys. i also got sweat in my ear...

but yeah, pridefest was fun, as it is every year. if you happen to read this and are coming to the wedding please note that greg and i are asking for donations to Freedom To Marry and not blenders.

on this last leg to my wedding i'm kind of stressing out. not too much because i don't have vendors, but also because i don't have vendors. greg and i are still working on music and entertainment (which greg keeps telling me he has so much time to work on and still has done nothing). Also why does no one RSVP for shit anymore? why do they just show up and expect to be fed?

you know how many people have rsvped? 14. 14 out of 75. seriously wtf. i have to order food for you people, and if i don't know you're coming i'm not going to order you food. and ill turn you away! i swear. not really though. i'm kind of going invite crazy... mostly because i have tons of left over invites just waiting to go to someone! i'm just handing them out like fliers not really expecting anyone to show up. i'm like in this crazy panic mode. i flash back to middle school and remembering how incredibly unpopular i was so every time a birthday came around i just invited everyone hoping at least a fourth would show up. about 5th grade i stopped having birthday parties because they stressed me out too much.

for someone who rejects pretty much everyone i am surprisingly unable to handle rejection.

on a happier note, i do have a photographer. it worked out the one of my old co-workers does photography for a lot of promotional parties for denver local magazines like FM and Illiterate.

his name is matt novak by the way and you can see his stuff here.

he's the one that took these pictures of me:

and because greg refused to rent a photo booth matt says he'll recreate the idea and do something like this:

so it should be fun!!!

next time i feel like posting i'll tell you about the 14 pies i'm baking personally for the wedding.

because i looooove the stress.

thoughts on jackson

2009-06-27T02:24:00.000+09:00

sad

but also kind of relieved.

and maybe just a little disappointed

your face

2009-06-11T06:45:00.001+09:00

so i dont have internet which is why i havent updated this in awhile.

ill tell you a bit about the wedding planning.

so invitations. yes the blight of my world. i went craftzine.com and used all their stuff to make an invitation on adobe illustrator. did all the crap and then went to kinkos to find out that they didnt have the paper i needed, the colors were wrong and everything wasnt lining up. so fuck you diy. fuck. you.

quote:
after finding out that office depot didnt have the paper i wanted my mother turned to me:
"What is it you always say to me? Oh yeah, In your face!"
yeah my mother "in your faced" me. and it was sweet.

in the end we went to Micheal's where i found out that the magazine BRIDES puts out invitation sets you just print your information on. so you kids will be getting those. and i dont care if i sold out. because holy shit when my printing at kinkos was going to be $500 i almost cried. the invitation set cost $30. my stamps cost more than my invites.

to make up for our uncraftiness in the invites greg and i made wire frames for 25 mason jars to hang in the trees.

did i mention my photographer pulled out? did i? while she did.

i hate weddings

nerd fest

2009-05-29T06:52:00.000+09:00

so through most my adult life i have had this question about myself. this question that defines my very beingwhich i have always remained undecided about.

am i a stars wars nerd or a star trek nerd.

after last week its safe to say that i am indeed a trekkie. i mean after that experience in college when my roommate gave me my much beloved "KHAAAAAAAAAAN!" shirt i should have known. but after i saw the newest addition im pretty much in love with the campy nerd fest known as star trek.

discovering my newiest love greg downloaded ever single star trek movie for me and we have spent the last 6 days locked up eating popcorn and watching the unfolding drama that is the enterprise.

quote of the day:

after my manager belches very loudly:
me: oh thanks for blowing that in my face
her: "I also almost threw up in my mouth."
me: you are like the best person ever

witticisms

2009-05-10T02:37:00.000+09:00

Churh sign: WITHOUT MOTHERS THERE WOULD BE NO CHRIST CHILD. THANKS MOMS!
me: "without mothers there would also be no hitler, so what exactly are they trying to say?"

internet ad: I erased stretch marks by obeying this 1 rule!
me: "don't get knocked up?"

bitch at the faint show: "Lets all remember our personal space so we can have a good time!" said after standing right infront of me and then trying to push me away from her.
me: "lets all stop being fucking cunts so we don't get elbowed in the face" not really a witticisms, but it was a good show. later i did hit her in the face with my holga. why cant i just get along with girls?

ps- this whole small world thing is starting to get annoying. i think its time to shake the dirt off my roots and move out of denver.

seriously wasting time

2009-04-27T11:56:00.000+09:00

so yes the rumors are true. i certainly do breakdown into a fit of girlish giggles at the mere mention of ira glass. this man who most certainly is twice my age sets my heart a flutter. and all he does is talk brokenly and asks people prudent questions calmly and softly. and of course makes This American Life crack to me. pure snortable crack...for my ears.

last thursday was the semicast of this american life live and broadcasted to some 400 theatres across the u.s. which was pretty nifty if you are the biggest nerd around. which i am. sadly i did not understand the concept of semicast at the time of this conversation with greg:

"Oh wow, you got a new outfit."
"yeah, i wanted to look spiffy for ira" (apparently we're on first names)
"You do know that it's a live broadcast... not a live show?"
"WHA?! damn it!"

on another npr note i heard the best interview done by terri gross and russell brand where he actually said:

"...now I don't know if you've ever been on crack cocaine Terri..."

she politely let the question slide but filled my small head with a ceaseless desire to know. so terri, have you?

i'm a bit behind on the whole loving russell brand thing too. but i promise im making it up with unbridled devotion.

obviously this blog entry is so long because i should be doing something important. like writing a paper and putting together a presentation. well i had a few ideas and then i went to class last week where someone already got up there and presented a paper on art nouveau and contemporary comic books and i was like, "well fucking hell! what the fuck do i write about now?" and you know what i chose? Hill House. a stupid house in the middle of scotland done by this guy and, only in certain books, his wife. really i tried to write about the wife and interior spaces and the whole sexualization of domestic spaces blah blah blah, but theres really no scholarship on that (blatant lie to get out of researching). so mostly its like: "oh wow this house is neato!" "finding women in art is hard!" "here are some fancy pictures:)!!" i write really good papers.

this by the way is waldo's evil doopleganger (redundant) who in fact is not called renaldo like i thought, but odlaw which is waldo spelled backwards. oh you clever rapscalian!

so now when you see me in on my bike with my classic black and yellow knit cap do not yell "You're awesome Renaldo!" for that is wrong, but rather "If only I could be as trendy as you Odlaw!" which is the correct name of the fictional character i look exactly like.

sometimes im still surprised when ive hit yet another all time low.

ps- ira glass is super fiddgity and gangly. what the hell is there not to like?!

customer service

2009-04-11T02:27:00.000+09:00

irate customer doing a return:

"If you just looked at the name on the card this wouldn't of happened!" adds hand gestures and facial expressions pretending to look at a card.

in my head: "if you didn't teach your daughter to be such a selfish bitch this wouldn't of happened"

folks we can't stop your children from stealing your credit cards and making crazy purchases on them. thats your job, dont fucking yell at us for your bad parenting.

my crush

2009-04-04T13:31:00.000+09:00

this is drew danburry. he = amazing. he's most known for his facial hair and pink fanny pack, also his jump kicks. he's also way nice.

on a totally different topic:

"slow down, you'll hit a pedestrian!!"
"How will I hit a pedestrian?"
"you know they can pedest right infront of you!"
"Thats not how that word works."

ps- i'm going to be writing this blog how i wrote in my old one. few caps and punctuation. also when it comes to quotes anything i've said is going to be in lowercase.

now you know.

windy

2009-04-02T14:12:00.000+09:00

I noticed a man walking through the wind when his hat got blown off. Like a well rehearsed comic routine the hat skidded just past his grasp several times as he went to pick it up. After finally securing it back on his head he crossed the street, right when he reached the other side his hat is lifted from his head again and WAM totally gets run over by a car. It was pretty awesome.

dude, you do not want to be the girl of the wedding pair

2009-03-18T07:47:00.000+09:00

yeah I know, most flattering picture of me ever. I'm not really into this new DELL Greg got at all. In fact I kind of hate it.

anyway, I'm in "bed" with a nasty head cold. I quote bed simply because I'm actually situated on the futon in the living room. Its pretty awesome except I can hear the sweet laughter of children outside and I want to punch them in their faces.

I spent all weekend nursing Greg back to health only to be rewarded with the same cold he got from some 3rd grader.

As you can tell sickness makes me rather surly.

I also wanted to mention how I really like Jared's, yeah the "Galleria of Jewelry". After going to Zales to have my ring sized I was rather put off by the help when the employee told me that the 4 1/2 size I wanted was going to be too small. With no further explanation forth coming I simply said that it was the size of my finger so that’s what wanted for the size of my ring. Came back a week later to find my ring still didn't fit me. The employee sized the ring at 4 3/4. They said the best option would be to get those little balls placed on the inside of the ring so it wouldn't slide around. That would only set me back 60 bucks. I said no and walked out. Later I went to Jared's told them my problem and they set me up with a ring guard for free saying that the setting could warp if I try to go a size smaller. Granted it's not the classiest of solutions but now I can change the size of my ring pretty easily through out the day as my fingers swell of deflate. Jared's is annoying because they try to sell you a bunch of stuff while you're in there, but they're much more helpful in explaining things and were just nice in general. It was a pleasant surprise.

Did I also mention I went into David's Bridal? Yeah, that was a bad choice. If you've ever had the pleasure of running into me you might have noticed I'm not always gender specifically dressed. I work around the men's department at work all day which leaves me liking their styles a lot more than the short skirts and see through tops of the ladies. Either way I looked like a 12 year old boy playing dress up. I had to go into this little room take off all my clothes and then have someone open the door and slide the dress over my head. I really hope she noticed that I don't shave.

Cute on the hanger, absolutely ridiculous on me. Though the dress was a size 2 it still slipped from my chest. There was so much beading that my arms we being cut up from the friction and I got a rash from the silly fabric.

Halfway home I realized I left my bandanna in the fitting room and had to go back for it only to find a real girl in the same room. Not making eye contact she handed the awkward pubescent boy back the filthy shred of cloth that was for some reason in her room.

It was pretty shitty.

Rain Man

2009-02-26T06:16:00.000+09:00

Somewhere Out There

One of the more recent This American Life episodes is linked above. And I like it a lot. I am not a brave person, I am just terribly stubborn and I feel marriage is going to be really hard, but incredibly silly. And fuck do I enjoy silly.

also:

During my whole life after every new experience I have learned that I am just about average at any sort of talent (or below average, but let's look at the glass half full...or at least 1/3). Dancing= average, Piano= average, Printmaking= average, Writing=average; I do excel at nerdy book reading though...

Anyway I have finally found my true calling! I think that the toy art boom is running on its last leg, but of course this means that spin off toy sales are through the roof/ power walking down the block.

Blind Box toys are series of vinyl toys designed by some or several artists and distributed by, let's face it people, KidRobot. They are packaged in opaque bags and put in unlabeled boxes. You pretty much by a shit ton of the same toy hoping to collect one of each figure in the series. My weakness in Nathan Jurevicius' Scary Girl collection and just recently these little guys:

Cute, huh? And just a little disturbing, especially when I move them around the apartment so Greg thinks they're plotting to kill him (favorite place so far: in the medicine cabinet, nothing says you're going to die better than one of these little guys holding your razor).

But, I'm getting off track. I've gotten really good at shaking and feeling blind boxes that I have a 1 in 3 odds of getting exactly the toy I want. No really, I did all the math. My popularity has gotten to the point where people have me pick their blind boxes for them.

When I told Greg about my amazing abilities he said:

"You're like the Rain Man of stupid shit."

You hear that people, I'm like the Rain Man!

Kitten Fails, Soup Wins!

2009-02-19T01:14:00.000+09:00

I love this video.

Anyway. I feel like I'm cheating on my other blog by posting in this one, but I feel it is pointless to post in the other one. So I'm just going through a little transition trouble.

I love where I work. Though not really considered a real job, where else can you forget to bring your can opener for your soup and still with a little ingenuity enjoy that soup before your lunch break is up?

I had given in that my soup would never get out of it's blasted can. I just sat and sadly stared at the cold metal knowing that just inside was a warm delicious lunch waiting to be born. I had asked around already if anyone had a can opener, because its just the kind of place that someone would. The display artist took over, because he usually solves most my problems at work. In the end he hammered a hunting knife (which he carries on his person at all times) through the lid to give the giant wire cutters enough leverage to get around the can. After all the cursing and cutting the lid was a ragged mess, but it no longer imprisoned my sweet delicious glory of minestrone.

"there are metal shavings in my soup"
"Naw, those are just pepper flakes."

youtube tuesdays

2009-02-04T01:34:00.000+09:00

engagement

2009-02-03T01:49:00.000+09:00

The life of a bride (I prefer the term "partner") to be is rather strange. I work in a mall and as I walk to my store at the very end of the mall I am confronted with glorified billboards showing me enormous pictures of insane looking rings and pictures of insane faced girls from Hyde Park.

Go check out biggerwow.com and throw up. Women and weddings are suppose to be synonymous as apparently the only day a woman will have complete control over in their whole lives. This site is chock full of helpful tips to get your boyfriend to propose. There is even a helpful "Panic" button that closes the site instantly if your boyfriend happens to come into the room. My favourite though is an email template you fill out remind your boyfriend just how long you have been dating and isn't it about time you make some real commitments?

I can't help but wonder if the rate of divorce is on the rise not because of this disastrously lack of morals that the right keeps spouting about but the fact that it is a commercialized monster whose sole purpose is to make money. That after creating this fantasy day the actual relationship doesn't hold up to all the promises. It's more than just a day and a ring and a perfect dress but two people making a promise.

I should probably mention my engagement moment. It was cliché to say the least be on Christmas night and the fact that I completely knew what was going on. But it was lame and fell short from anything crazy romantic that these moments are "suppose" to be. We were tired from family hopping with the puppy in tow and I just wanted to get the day over. At the bottom of my stocking was a box with a blue string in it. I knew what it was for but I played dumb. And Greg rambled something about us getting married I said yes. And there you go.

But that ribbon is special to me. Greg lost an ebay bid for a ring for me and then scoured the town looking for a toy ring from a quarter machine not finding one ended up a Michael’s looking for some replacement. He found the ribbons, looked around and cut a length and pocketed it.

Yeah that’s right kids, my engagement ring is stolen property. Living on the edge.

Our first picture together.