beavers!!!

So a guest appearance by a Beaver on the CBS morning show recently ended in someone getting peed on! Check it out:


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I just couldn't resist talking about beavers and showing videos of them clearly unhappy they are on a sound stage in NYC.

great minds think alike

So every TH, T and I work out together which roughly equates to us sweating some and mostly gossiping. Occasionally the work out turns into a chattie chat over wine, or a walk with wine! I have no complaints here :)

BUT yesterday we walked out of the office, and looked at each other for the first time all day. We had exactly the same outfits on!!! From bottom to top: black boots, purple tights, black skirt, and a purple shirt. How funny is that shit? Apparently great minds think alike.



T, my sexy bitch of a twin. I like it. Good work.

PS, I'm unconsciously sending you signals as to what I'm wearing today....try to match it!!!

TV viewing up

So the Neilson TV ratings announced this year's results, which I participated in earlier in the year. All I know is they sent me money and I filled out surveys on my television viewing, which included 3 shows: NCIS, Grey's Anatomy and This Week with that sezy George S.

Perhaps I was an outlier for these results, because my television watching definitely hasn't increased. Since I moved to VA it has dynamically decreased--hazards of a new lifestyle, no cable, and an intolerance for commercials and the marketing industry.

Dear Neilson, please send me money again next year and I'll happily be that odd single girl who doesn't watch TV in fears it is sucking the little bit of brain cells she still has left (was a glue sniffer).

hi, how are you?

So when in Austin a last month on a epic trip, we spotted this mural on the Gauadadaluuuppee Drag (I don't speak Spanish---or English for that matter, so I will always say this wrong):



After a little research, it turns out that this is a historical and iconic mural. The artist passed away and the city of Austin has decided to keep it up. Rolling Stone mag even wrote it up! Turns out Kurt Cobain wrote this T-shirt during the 1992 MTV VMAs. We saw the building and all the t-shirt being sold by the street vendors (anyone want to stay with me in my 3 story house by an expensive restaurant? just wondering).

So.....hi, how are you?

I'm fine, thanks for asking....looking forward to a DC trip this weekend :)

she continues to amaze

The new Gaga Vid....a-mazing:

the only thing keeping me on the ledge

This picture was the only thing yesterday that was keeping me on the ledge....made me laugh and laugh. Then after 8 hours of filming I went for a long run to sweat off the entire day of green screens.

I wish I lived in London so I could walk by this:

hahahah

THIS made me laugh:

my new goals

I've got a couple new goals I'm working towards:

1. I'm growing my hair out to donate it for a wig. Perhaps I'll donate it to Locks of Love or another organization. I figure someday I'll need to wear a wig (although I was close 2 years ago) and I might as well pay it forward now. Plus it is a good incentive to keep myself healthy. I'm working towards 10 inches straight from tip to tip!
2. My winter project is going to include sewing some new outfits. Last winter I painted my apartment (no one tell my landlords), and this year I've decided to get creative with my fiber artist self.
   
3. I vow to make a pot 'o soup every week. I love soup in the fall/winter. This is already something I do pretty regularly, but I think I'm going to aim towards some new recipes. Yesterday I made this pork sausage, white bean, and white broth creation. It isn't half bad, partly because I'm still using the green peppers from my garden this summer! (plus that red crock potter is amazing!)
4. On the cooking note, I'm going to try to start perfecting my baking skillz, which leave much to be desired. I need to start working on my next career as a cake maker/decorator! Watch out for the cakes and bread forthcoming.
   
5. Read, read, read. Someone get me addicted to a new book series, please!
6. I'm going to start boxing more at the gym. I think this will be a good winter cardio to replace my random outdoor runs. After my first class last week with T & Katie, I've decided that every once and awhile I need to hook and jab out my frustrations (plus you know what that does for your back muscles?). Plus I love the idea of wrapping up your wrists and getting into the zone of a hard workout with music blaring.
   

a work weekend

So Friday night I hosted a teacher focus group till about 7 pm. Grrrr. But the good thing was it went really well, in the sense we got alot of good feedback. BUT not as well in the sense it gave me alot of work to get done before we begin filming on the green screen again first thing Monday morning.

Yesterday I spent 7 hours in the office revising scripts and finding new videos. And I only got 1 module done! Today I'm starting earlier to complete the 2nd module, in hopes of getting out of here in the daylight to go for a run. This means I might take these work days and apply it to a longer weekend next week (perhaps a DC visit?).

To get myself motivated this morning I made a fabulous cilantro denver egg scramble, and brought some pumpkin soup to tide me over all afternoon. And if you didn't think that was weird I also was listening to Christmas music this morning. Wish me luck!

I rarely have a soul in my eyes

So Rihanna has been promoting her new album quite alot lately. Her promotional tour includes finally going public and talking about her previous relationship with Chris Brown. For those who have been living under a rock since last March, there was a major incident where Mr. Brown beat her up. He was arrested and convicted, and Rihanna has remained very professional about that experience.

Don't misinterpret what I'm saying here....I don't have a problem with her coming forward to talk about Domestic Violence, and the seriousness of any form of violence. I actually applaud her for her countless bravery in standing up at his trail and being an advocate for women. BUT I think using it as a means of promoting your new album is different.

I'm not sure I like the idea of doing an interview about your experience with abuse and then after a commercial performing your new hit single! These two things could be considered more separate.

Rihanna has been quoted saying that Chris had "no soul in his eyes." Then she got up and said "buy my album".....(well not really but the implication was there).

forgetting something important

So I've been walking out of the house lately forgetting something important each day. What did I forget today, you ask???? Deodorant (must remember to apply at lunch, must remember). Good thing it was a shower day for me so I am refreshed and not having to layer the stank like I normally do.

Wednesday I believe I forgot to brush my teeth. Tuesday I forgot my coffee. Recently I forgot my phone. I'm slightly worried soon I'll start forgetting keys which will NOT be a good thing.

I may need a little down time (Is it thanksgiving yet?) to rest my brain. OR I may have to start tattooing myself, like in Memento, to remember the minor things in my life!

queen remixed

So those amazing immates are at it again, not MJ this time, but Queen!!! Makes me want to put their greatest hits on for a Thursday office jam mix. Check this out, you have to love the tut-toos:

grey's is still good

So GA went through a year or two of crappy writing and it is back....I've been thoroughly enjoying this season. The music is still great and there are this moments of classical instrumental pieces which I love. Case and point, check out this scene which gave me human bumps:

election day

1 year ago it was a mad mad day with BO and McCain.....remember that business???? I remember going for a run at 6 AM to my polling place :)

I voted today. I hope you did too.

Jimmy does bothered again

Jimmy did another "bothered" skit the other night which cracked me up:

I'll sponsor the Olympics

I heart Stephen Colbert. He is brilliant. Yesterday he announced that he is going to be sponsoring the USA Olympic speedskating team!!!! The previous sponsor pulled their endorsement, so Colbert Nation stepped up to raise some money. As Stephen said: "On their enormous, billboard thighs, it will say, "Colbert Nation" Crap I can't wait to watch how much he plays this up....

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bats are lose

So during the Spurs / Kings NBA game on Halloween night, there was a real bat that got into the stadium. It kept flying around during the game, and then the thing got some balls and flew closer to the court. This wasn't a good idea because of the forwards just swatted the shit of that bat. He was like BO with that fly....cat-like reflects!

Check out the video:



Happy Halloween!!!!

thank you for being a friend

I love Golden Girls just like the next person, but this would not have been the Tattoo I choose during the Austin trip.....

And this is some dude's arm!

I like to sing the opening song when I'm drunk: thank you for being a friend!!!

walken cracks me up

That Christopher Walken just cracks me up....case and point, Wedding Crashers.

a good weekend for MN

SOooo it was a GREAT weekend for all my MN-related teams. The UMN came back to beat my second favorite time, MSU on Saturday afternoon. Sorry Ma, Pa and Terri, who made the trip to Minney for the game. Sorry we had to win!!! We have to take anything we can :) Hope you enjoyed the new stadium through. I think I got a drunken yell from my little goat in MI!!! Sorry girl, us rodent gophers are scappy :)

And yesterday the Vikings were in Green Bay with Favre returning home, and to both D and my surprise, they played pretty decent. It is always great to upset those damn cheddar heads. Defense almost gave us a heart attack in the second half but we hung on to our lead for a big W!!! Favre did pretty well all game despite the boos :) Who ever would have thought that the Viks would be having such a good year!!!

Today did a good chewy

I wonder if he can make the noise like my Brian can (thank B for all the good chewy laughs lately):

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the new vid

Finally, Jay and A released their new video:


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this might be taking it too far

This Twillight stuff might be getting a little overboard....now you can get a little Rob in your crotch!!! Look at the strategically placed mouth:


AND they just announced that they will be showing the first movie for selected audiences right before the release of the new New Moon movie. Way to milk it for all it is worth!

AND that Vit Water I used to be addicted to is now part of it all too:

mcdreamy can juggle

In the current day (at about 4:50):



And in something really funny from the 80s:

enough for nightmares

This will continue to haunt me for the rest of the day:

we were on a boat...

a mother f-ing boat!!!!

I forgot to add this to the epic post that was the Austin trip.....if only I could get it out of my head!!!! Damn you Helga and your iPhone that can play any song related to being on a boat....

student section shirt drama

So you may not have heard about this yet, but Penn State has taken some heat recently for their new student section t-shirts. The shirts are trying to promote a stadium full of the same color, clearly for team unity purposes. BUT the shirt design has all kind of groups pissed off:

What do you see? (this is like a bad Waldo game) Well I spy a cross and suggestions of white supremacy!!!! I knew it. Those damn Nittany Lions are religious freaks and probably wear white hoods with their "white out" t-shirts. Clan meetings and bible studies are happening places in Happy Valley. Joe P and his oxygen tank probably leads them :)

Hopefully other schools, like MSU, will learn from this and just have "green outs" instead!

music of the moment

Still loving this song (even if some people think they are posers):

a post austin reflection

So last weekend I spent a couple days in Austin Texasssss with two good friends. It was a girls weekend away with goals of cowboys, booze and bbq. We had a great time and made lifelong memories....

Here are a couple pictures of what sezy bitches we are:



The weather was amazing on Saturday and Sunday so naturally we had to get ourselves out to do a little urban CANHOOING!!!! And for those that don't know, that is like canoeing for normal people, but for Helga and I we tend to rename everything. This started back in Seattle with Ev and Sneaky Pete. If there is a city and there is water, we will eventually find boats just so I can continually yell "STROKE, stroke, stroke" OR Helga can chant "we're on a boat, we're on a mother f-ing boat!"



This is a great picture because I look like the unibomber (f-ing ball of death in the sky trying to kill me), and Helga is soooo BUSTY!!! We saw turtles, lots of floating trash, and a bridge of squeaking bats (see below), but unfortunately we did not see any beavers.

Friday night we ended up at Midnight Rodeo, which was definitely an experience. This is an old barn whose rodeo ring was converted into a dance floor with a gigantic disco ball above it. There was a really good live band for most of the night, and then at about midnight it was like someone snapped their fingers and the place turned into a ghetto nightclub. I swear, I've never seen anything like this. The cowboys and cowgirls that were two steppin did not miss a beat to start grinding on each other!!!! It was like one, two, step, and now I'm dirty dancing! I liked it. It was really really entertaining.

Throughout the weekend Helga and I ended up dancing on railroad tracks at multiple times. It all started after the midnight rodeo and continued when we were hiking the next day. This dancing on railroad tracks might become a normal thing now, next time, we'll be in MN and have to stop just to do a little butt dance.



Sunday morning we had to go to church....which for us was attending the Hippie Church at Taco Xpress so that we could hear some live gospel music for sinners. This is where all the crazy hippies who don't shave their armpits go to sober up and eat tacos. We fit in perfectly! The 7 person band was a-maz-ing with a violin, tube, mandolin, and an accordion (I need more accordions in my life). They sang good gospel music while we drank margaritas and ate tacos (and actually the entire weekend was focused around taco eating).

The highlight of this morning (besides the crazy hippies dancing) was the guy with a dread rat tail......I'm thinking of growing a rat tail as well and perhaps braiding it or making it into a dreadlock. It is sort of like the more PC way of doing a mullet (business in the front and parrrty in the back). Check it out and the band in front:



Now I know you've heard that everything is bigger and badder in Texasss, and we definitely experienced that first hand. I was immediately reminded of this because of all the BIG ass trucks. A number of them attempted to kill our little rental car. Then we went shopping and the fruit was all insanely HUGE. The grapes, and I'm not kidding, were about 1 1/2 inches wide. As Helga said, you eat 4 of those and it is like eating an apple. Also while shopping, we ran into some funky lemons, which resulted in this picture:



Sunday afternoon we took a picnic up a mountain of death (which turned out to be about a 30 stair hike) to overlook the river and all of Austin. The picture above of all three of us was from the bluff we hiked to. It was great to relax, have some wine and cheese, and watch the sun set. The good Lord was present through the clouds that afternoon, and if we are using this theory of thought, he was peeing on us all day on Monday because it was rained!



Chris Hansen, that sezy news reporter from Dateline's to Catch a Predator, kept coming in to all the weekend conversations. Remember when that guy used to trap sexual predators, bring them into a house, and then lift his leg to talk to them. I always thought this was super weird and somehow in TX, people lift their legs like this all the time. It is like this odd form of lunging. We saw it in Peter Pan statues and of course we did it too:



AND if you have no idea what I'm talking about, watch this sketch from Studio 60, specifically at the end when he crotch shots the guy he is talking to:



We had to experience everything that was uniquely Austin, which includes the millions of bats that live under a bridge. At dusk every evening the bats starting flying out of their bridge home and it is one freaky experience. They are so squeaky and just keep coming and flying away. It was an early Halloween adventure:



Other highlights of the trip:

1. I ate a cactus....actually I had slices of cactus in a taco, a cactus fruit, and a cactus fruit flavored margaritas.
2. We attended anything -fest related, including Cocktoberfest (where there were signs that said "free drinks for dicks").
3. Constant and nagging reminders of how amazing DQ's Pumpkin Blizzard is...
4. Being surrounded by 11 Fiesta pitchers in our studio B & B....why is the world does someone visiting Austin need 11 pitchers in one small apartment???? I can't even make that many batches of margaritas in 3 days! Even the damn butter knifes had pitches on the handles.
   
5. The television shows in Texasssss are very exciting. For example, for about 1 hour we watched a cowboy ride his horse in figure 8's without speaking, then he loaded it in his truck. It was gripping!
   
6. Rocky Horror Show is an excellent show to watch after an night of drinking and for the morning after. LET'S DO THE TIMEWARP!!!
7. For those who don't know I have a problem pronouncing things (I'm really good at foreign languages too), and this continued throughout the trip as things blended between spanish and english. Our landlord was ceclia, sherry, susan....feck, I still don't know her name.
   
8. I got a new parasol, which Sarah called a sassfas or something root beer flavored or something like black licorice.
9. I got a toe disease from a dog that ate a rat.
10. Helga was attacked by fire ants which results in her freaking out and stripping off all her clothes. This was secretly entertaining to watch, especially when she kept itching her foot in bed.
11. Pedicures and Ethiopian food makes for great rainy final day activities!
    

THANKS for the amazing trip!!!!

a little dry humping

Well after a weekend of some pelvic thrusts, this one made me laugh out loud! This one is for Helga and T......T this is a good two handed one:



Another news report and just another dry humping....this needs to happen more in the world.

I like it.