I Can’t Say

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I certainly can’t say what I said there Saturday night at home with my. I guess you with the fact that I have a lot of work on my agenda and with that reduces computer crash that I had that meant that I needed to get what the geek on the phone called “mac hard drive recovery“, I have been all backed up. I’m not trying to say that I’m constipated, but I am trying to say that I’ve been extremely busy as of late. So if you’re sitting there wondering why I haven’t been writing is much as I could have, well, you should probably get a different kind of entertainment for yourself. You may want to consider cable as an example.

But cable sucks.

Yes. Cable really sucks. I remember there was a point in my life when I was getting cable with Cox, and I remember that I spent very little time in front of the television and a lot of time wondering exactly why I was paying almost $150 every month for a bunch of television that I couldn’t even watch. I also remember that I was having a lot of problems just getting it to work properly and that I really never watch my television anyway. That was back before LCD TVs when TVs were big and huge and heavy. I remember my boyfriend almost got a hernia trying to lift our old TV, and I also remember laughing at him because he was such a weak bastard. I also remember that you spend a lot of time on the couch watching television before the DVR was invented. All I can say is that I thank God for the DVR because before I had to watch all those crappy advertisements. I know that I did a lot of advertising work in my communications course, but I feel like at least that stuff was fun. Some of the commercials are absolutely hideous. I can only imagine how bad they are these days.

Going Home

So I think that I am probably going to be going home to Chicago this summer. I have managed to avoid doing so over the past couple of years as I just did not want to see my mother. I think when you’re over 35 and you are single and you don’t really have a lot of prospect of getting married, you really do not want to talk to your mother. Especially if she’s one of those classic naggy ones. And I can tell you that Meredith is definitely one of those. I know that my friends like her a lot, but I have honestly don’t have any idea why that is the case.

You should probably just lighten up and realize that I have a family that I love and that are probably going to be nagging me for the rest of my life. I guess it could always be worse: I could have no family and a crappy job and a rather dull car.

Well, at least I have Southern California. I am really glad Chicago and I parted ways. But I respect the fact that I’m going to have to reunite with it.

This is what my love/hate looks like:

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Enjoying It Medieval

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I should probably start off by saying that in the 1980s, I was barely born. So I never really had the opportunity to play things like Dungeons and Dragons or a lot of those weird role-playing games that all the older boys played. I don’t know that I would have done that, but I do not think that with my love of books and movies, and the fact that I had a very tomboy like existence, I probably would have enjoyed it. I do like the fact that some of the dice that my brother had when they used to play dungeons and dragons was pretty cool. I remember thinking that it seemed like a bag of jewels.

I guess I only bring up that old-school role-playing game because I started watching Game of Thrones lately. I honestly did not think that it would be one of the television shows that I would be excited about at all, but I do have to say that it is pretty amazing. I don’t know if it has a lot to do with the fact that I like the little princess and Knights of the round kind of stuff, or the fact that I maybe think that men need to be a lot more chivalrous these days ( hint, hint), but it’s just a damn great show.

Plus, I am really surprised by how raw this thing is. HBO is always one of those networks that I am very impressed with. I feel like they could do a series on Quaker oatmeal flavors and make it the most exciting cereal-based serial in the history of television. This thing has it all: battles, betrayal, violence, sex – and pretty freaky an all-out rough sex as well – and tons of weird mythological stuff. I never read the books, but a friend of mine recommended that I do so. I don’t know if I really want to do that though because they seem all very long and frankly I haven’t had a lot of time to do a lot of reading lately. Reading tends to be something that I do when I’m on the beach, and I certainly have not been on the beach for a couple of years now.

I guess that reminds me: some were supposed be coming soon and I really should think about getting a tan or something. I guess I am not going to get the best tan sitting inside watching television and eating popcorn. Nothing like a little logic to wake you up now and again.

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My Day From Hell

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Ok, so I just had one of those days that I honestly think I’m going to regret for a long time. Just one of those 24-hour period that you feel like nothing is really going right, and if you do not find shelter quickly, you’re probably going to run yourself into a wall or something. That is exactly the the kind of day that I had, and I think if it wasn’t my ability to meditate a little bit now and again (I really like the 8 minute style), I probably would have screamed at someone.

I think it started really poorly in the morning because I locked my keys into my car. I had to immediately call AAA, which of course sucked because whenever you call AAA and you are a woman and you lock your keys in your car, you are obviously going to get a lot of smirking from the tow truck guy. I didn’t probably get as much as I should have, and the guy was actually pretty nice. I appreciated the fact that he could have been a lot worse than he was. But he got my Car open in less than 30 min., and a course that was a good thing. I only am happy that I was only a little bit late for work.

LaTENESS bLOWs

Ok, so then I was ready to work because I was afraid that my boss was going to give me another verbal about being late and of course I ended up tripping over my new Marc Jacobs pumps. Good shoes, really awful wearability. I was carrying my briefcase and of course my laptop was in it. The same laptop that had a bunch of really important files I needed and a presentation I was going to give to a client later on in the day. So once the laptop to the ground, I knew that there was going to be a lot of trouble because when I powered it up again, there was a clicking sound. I did a search on the Internet to see what it was, and find out after a lot of looking that it is probably likely to be hard drive failure. I don’t know for sure, because I’m not really a computer person, but I had a feeling that this hard drive is toast.

So not only did my boss write me up, instead of just giving me a verbal, but my computer dies. I honestly wanted to tell my boss that I had really bad cramps so that I could go home, but he made me stick it out. He’s a bastard, to say the least.

Well, I certainly am glad that they had Ben and Jerry ice cream on sale at Ralph’s. I think these are the kind of days that are made for extremely fattening ice cream.

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Party Like It’s 2001

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Yes, I like 2001. As in 2001, the movie, as opposed to the year. I think so much about the film that is absolutely astounding and obviously it’s one of Stanley’s all around best. Obviously, if you don’t think so, you are clearly wrong.

But recently I was thinking about the job I left in 2001, the year. It was pretty turbulent times for me and my boyfriend overall and I was having a tough go of it. We ended up breaking up after he slept with a couple of people who will probably remain nameless for the rest of their lives. As in, they may in fact be buried in the desert somewhere. I could be joking about this, but I might not be.

At the time, I predicted Internet was still a brand-new thing I was thinking to myself, “self, shouldn’t you be getting a 14 K modem by this point”. Obviously, I did. But the thing that I find that was really funny about then and is absolutely not now is the fact that nobody talks about search engines anymore. I mean, back in those days are used to be 100, and now there is only Google. I even went to Google, hilariously enough, looking to find a better search engine, and I ended up with something called Go Duck Go. Yes. This is the kind of elite branding we are seeing these days in the Internet space. It is clear that the Internet is dead at this point because we just don’t give a shit anymore. Like not at all. We go to the site that we love, and really don’t do very much else. I remember when Microsoft had a reasonable search engine, that is probably also the 10 years ago.

Long Time

I guess one of the most trying parts about the thinking about 2001 is that it is 11 years ago. That’s a long time, even for somebody who is not a dog. I just do not know what happened to my 20s, I can tell you that I spent a lot of time wasting a lot of time. Sure, I did a lot of stuff at college that I probably and not very proud of, but really who hasn’t done stuff like that.Times were tough and we really just got over the whole Y2K explosion, which turned out to be a huge waste of time.

But I think back now but all things that I missed out because I was young and stupid and lacked wisdom, and I do have to say that I am a little bit regretful. But, then I think about this.

I do have to say, I need you anything but love that man. Probably one of the coolest gentlemen in the 20th century. You could even call him a motherfucking gentleman. I think he’d like that.

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About Time For This.

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So I’ve decided the little things that are going on in my life right now, I should probably start trying to take some of it down for posterity. I know that if I don’t do this I will probably kick myself in the future because this is one of those times when there’s a lot of things happening and I don’t really want to forget that. I’m not saying that things are going extremely well, because of course they are not, but I will say that this is going to be some kind of therapy for me overall.

Really, I think it will be a chance for me to relax for once and really talk about things that matter to me in my life. Things like film, comics, television, and those other popular forms of media that just probably are going to die soon. Yes, that’s right. I’m talking about complete and utter death. Things like Facebook and LinkedIn are clearly taking over here, so I figured that the old-school blog is exactly where I want to be. Much like Germans, I only want to be at least 5 to 10 years behind fashion. 20 if possible.

Expression Rocks

I know that I’m going to be rocking is like it is 2001, but better late than never. I thought some pretty cool domain name and a feeling that something is probably going to happen with this thing. I’m not saying that I am going to be famous and end up hanging out with rock stars doing copious amounts of drugs off random pieces of genitalia, but I am saying that the vibe is strange in the room.

And I intend to capitalize. Big time. This is definitely not going to be the last year for me. That I promise, and I will fight until his whole thing is done.

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