Birthday Greetings
Man, how could I almost forget to post this…
I miss you, lady! Next time I come home we gotta go get some sushi!
Come Home Safe!
It looks like the US short track team is heading out to Korea. I’m pretty concerned about them, in light of the death threats that have plagued Apolo’s fan sites (and I’m sure his official site as well). He’s not a popular guy out there, even beating out Osama Bin Laden in a poll for the most hated person in Korea. That’s pretty big stuff.
Ohno Threats May Lead to Action by FBI
Since everyone else is having an Apolo love fest, I thought I’d give you all a preview of my Marquette pics…
And since the rest of the team is heading out there, here’s a couple of my favorites of everyone else…
The whole team is in my thoughts during the world cups. I wish they didn’t have to go, but I’m sure they wouldn’t go if they weren’t sure of their safety…
So I’ll just say a little prayer for their safe return, til the day I can watch them skate again…
May the wind be always at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face.
May the rains fall softly upon your fields until we meet again.
May God hold you in the hollow of his hand.
-Gaelic Blessing
Technical Difficulties
Yano.
Needs.
To.
Learn.
To.
Read.
Directions.
Sorry for problems with the comments, everyone….I have our best technical support reps at yanowhatimean on it!
Which is me.
Yes.
I’m doomed.
Blog Don’t Fail Me Now
Hold your breath everyone, I’m going to upgrade my Moveable Type. Cross your fingers that I don’t bring this baby down!!!
If it does go down, remember, I love you.
Book Club, Anyone?
You know, I’m always looking for a good book to read when I travel or during my non-existent free time. (except when I’m in the middle of nowhere) I’ve always been a bookworm, and I love to talk about good books. We used to have a book club at the office, but it kind of fizzled out.
So I was wondering, are any of you interested in joining an online book club? I was thinking of having it in blog format, with each post being a book and a listing of books to talk/comment about on the side. There’s a lot of good books out there, and there’s a lot of people there with opinions, so I think it would be a lot of fun and a nice change of pace from our other activities.
I’m also looking for moderators for the book club, to post up books and keep the conversation going, so if you’re interested just email me.
So if this sounds like something that you’d like to do, let me hear ya! It’ll be open to everyone, not just readers of this site, but to anyone who loves books. I think it would be a lot of fun. If I get 5 or more people, I’ll start it up…
Mother Theresa’s Words
Thanks to the lovely Lea for sending this one over…
In the words of Mother Theresa, whose actions I had always admired and tried to emulate, but without much success. But she was old. I’m young. I still have time to get to that level. I’m trying, I really am. Kinda. Anyway, it’s about priorities, which I always have a problem figuring out…
Priorities
by Mother Theresa
by Mother Theresa
People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered;
Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind,
People may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives;
Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some false friends
and some true enemies;
Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building,someone could destroy overnight;
Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;
Give the world the best you’ve got anyway.
You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God;
It was never between you and them anyway.
This was written by Mother Theresa and is engraved on the wall of her
home for children in Calcutta.
I’m Just a Lonely Girl…
As you can tell by the 4 posts I’ve made in the last 5 hours, I’m really bored. I’m sitting here in a HUGE hotel room with nothing to do, but I can’t sleep. I always have problems sleeping on the road. I’m a bit homesick for my place in Long Beach and for Dave, and it doesn’t make it any better that I don’t really have too much interaction at the client I’m with right now, so for most of the day I’m just working by myself. It gets kind of lonely and makes me really restless. I feel like I’m starving for some sort of human interaction.
And for some reason there’s some weird sinking feeling in my stomach. There’s a lot of things going on in my life, some you know, some you don’t. And when you’re alone, you get a lot of time to think. I worry, I’m always worrying, anyone who knows me knows I constantly worry. I’m worried about my mom. I worry about being a good wife to Dave, affording a house next year, doing well at my client site, the US team going to South Korea, people I like not getting along, people not liking me for reason’s I can’t figure out, not being able to go home for Thanksgiving, losing my appetite, being away from the apartment all the time, being homesick for Chicago all the time, and more…there’s a lot of stuff. I don’t know why I let little things bother me and stress me out. I’m tired, and I’m worn out. There are a million things going through my mind right now. It’s even worse because I don’t have anyone to really interact with here.
I’m counting the seconds until the weekend. It can’t come soon enough!
Rod Rocks!
Now give me mah sugah!
Word Association
Haven’t done this one before…
- Plan B:: Plan A
- Seattle:: Yuki
- The lady wore:: Red
- Upsetting:: Stomach
- Tampon:: String
- Celebrity:: Skin
- Baja:: Chalupa
- 64:: Nintendo
- RGB:: Color
- Milkshake::Song
Sidebar Update
This is a great book, and so different from most other books I’ve read. The book is narrarated by Susie, a young girl who, as we find out in the first chapter, has been brutally murdered. She narrarates from Heaven, looking down below at the world she has left. She watches over the lives of the people she has left behind - the father who will not stop until he finds Susie’s murderer, her sister who closes herself from any emotion, the boy who loved Susie, and even her murderer. Susie knows who her murderer is, as does the reader, but the people in her life have no idea, and Susie has no way of telling them. She’s up in her heaven, staying the same as the people left behind her grieve and move on and grow old, but never forgetting her in an unending search for closure.
The story is beautifully written, and it’s haunting watching the lives of the people Susie knew each deal in their own way with their grief. Sebold pulls no punches, walking us through the horrific way that Susie dies, and how everyone grieves in their own way. I couldn’t read this book fast enough, it’s definitely something I would recommend!
“My milk shake brings all the boys to the yard, And they’re like, it’s better than yours, Damn right its better than yours, I can teach you, but I have to charge!” How could you not love this song? It hardly makes any sense, but it’s got a hot beat. *shakes her ass* Finally, I’ve found out what it is that brings all those boys to my yard every day. It’s my milkshake, baby! Shake, shake shake it like a polaroid picture. I know, wrong song. Those Neptunes know how to work magic, baby!
Here’s what a Milkshake is, if you’re looking…
I rented Mulholland Drive several months ago, but only got about halfway since the DVD was scratched up. So last week I finally rented it again. And in a way, I think I was better off with just watching half the movie because at the end of the movie, only one thought rang through my head - ‘What the fuck was that?’ I was confused. Two-thirds of the way through the movie, it completely changes and you’re questioning everything you had seen previous to that. I admit, though, I liked the movie. Only David Lynch can have me love something as disjointed, quirky and trippy as this, but then again, I watched all of the ‘Twin Peaks’ episodes and bought the sound track. Yes, I can even play the song on the piano. Anyway, once I searched the internet a bit for some enlightenment and to answer the questions that raged in my head, everything made almost perfect sense. Not. But at least it answered some questions. And Naomi Watts had an excellent performance, which is even better once you realize what’s going on. And yes, Dave appreciated the lesbian scenes. As a matter of fact, those were the only scenes he watched during the movie.
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I may have mentioned this comic before, but it’s FINALLY out in stores. I think it’s selling like hotcakes, so make sure to get a copy. Aspen #1 is Michael Turner’s last Fathom arc before Talent Caldwell takes the helm. Hopefully there will be some answers about Aspen’s past. There’s also some great sketch previews of upcoming Aspen MLT books Ekos and Soulfire, as well as interviews. I already have a couple copies of #1 from the Chicago convention (and #2) so I’m really anticipating Aspen #3. The rest of the Aspen books will be out within the next few months, so buy them!
Oh heavenly chocolatey cream filled rolls of cakey sweetness, I love you so!
I’ve been trying to get my picture galleries reformatted because since the bog blog change, the galleries look like crap. So within the next couple weeks, you’ll see some fun changes in the picture gallery. Hopefully.
Aaron - Even Uppity Negroes need love, too.
Luna - Didn’t know that this girl was as ghetto as she was til I read her blog!
Pat - Comic book geeks unite! Pat rocks!
Rosie - Co-Coordinator of the worst PSA dance scene ever! But we had lots of fun not working on it!
Stephani - She’s good at helping me out with drunk people!
