June 21, 2009

• called the parents to wish them a happy anniversary and to tell dad happy father’s day
• dropped bro off again
• went back to the hotel and took a long-ass nap
• drove to the mission beach/bay area because it was super close the hotel and I’m familiar with the area and I had 2 hours to kill and just wanted to find a coffee shop near the beach and read
• could not find parking
• literally drove around for an hour and a half, trying to find parking
• could. not. find. parking.
• gave up! but it was nice driving around with the windows down anyway
• picked up bro
• got inn and out burger for dinner

• went over to justin’s and introduced the bro to jean-claude van damme via bloodsport
• if you expect me to be his punching bag, you can forget about our deal!

June 20, 2009

• dropped the bro off at soccer camp
• headed to justin and brandi’s new place and helped them move in

• picked up the bro six hours later
• headed to Escondido to stone brewery where brandi works to try to catch Justin and brandi’s mom and dad to say hello before they went to their dinner plans
• missed the correct exit because of construction plus california interstate craziness and ended up on our way to san bernadino
• turned around and caught the parents in the parking lot!
• went in the brewery (gor-gus) and had a delightful beer, compliments of Justin
• went back to san diego to hang for a bit
• picked up some frozen pizza on the way back to the hotel since we had a room with a kitchenette, including an oven
• only the broiler worked, though, so we broiled the top half and the pan-fried the bottom

• picked Justin up and went back to escondido to meet brandi and her friends for a late showing of the hangover
• the best line of the movie is: “i keep forgetting about the fucking tiger!”
• i also must confess that i laughed a lot – like a lot a lot – at the movie, despite the usual guy-bonding-movie inclusions of the “weak” friend with a controlling, unbelievably bitchy girlfriend, the only other female roles being that of a sex worker with a heart of gold (sigh) and the wedding-obsessed future bride and bridesmaids back home, the “oh I hate being domestically bound to my wife and child” guy, obvious objectification (though not as much as I expected), ageism, and geez oh man, the racial stereotyping
• yes, despite all that, i laughed and laughed

June 19, 2009

• flew to san diego with the bro
• our flight had a really hyper joke-telling flight attendant who described himself as "lyle lovett's brotha from anotha motha" (accurate) who, though hilarious the first time round, would probably get unbearable the next and subsequent times -- i really bet his co-workers hate him
• it was my first flight on southwest though, and it was deeeelightful
• got the rental car, checked into the hotel, and then drove to san marcos to see justin and brandi for a wee bit!
• watched a couple strangers with candy episodes with chips and queso
• it's like the years haven't passed
• ah, the motherland
  

June 18, 2009

• packed for san diego!
  

• heard a woman at savers say TOTALLY nonchalantly: "he was never the same after the murdering happened" and then sigh
  
• i will also unhyperbolically note that old navy has the most boring summer "line" in the history of clothing which consists of about thirty variations on the same shitty tank-top/t-shirt in -- get this -- different colors
• how inspired
  
• i normally wouldn't care enough to comment about a mass-produced clothing company, but it really pisses me off when things that have the possibility of being cool/refreshing/stimulating or whatever (most often books, movies, music, art, and in this case, fashion) are so blatantly half-assed and awful
  

June 17, 2009

• rockies game with betsy where we saw pat the bat and the funky bunch and sat in front of "fan-of-the-opposing-team-who-states-the-fucking-obvious-and-gives-unwelcome-and-wholly-fucking-enraging-play-by-play-commentary-the-entire-goddamn-game" guy
• i HATE that guy

• came home to find THE BIGGEST MOTHS I'VE EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE next the front door
• THEIR FACES LOOK LIKE ALIENS
• carl accidentally killed the biggest one
• we anticipate moth-like acts of vengeance soon and are preparing as such with flamethrowers and the like, etc.
  

June 16, 2009

• dinner with carmody!
• then met katie at the library where i finally FINALLY started on the thesis stuff, jesus christ
  

June 15, 2009

• worked. early. mmmphfffphg.
• got crazy annoyed by other job's demands
• met carl at the bluebird for isis, sans earplugs
• ouch, my ears!
• WHAT!?
• worked on other job's demands after the show at like 1:00 a.m.
  
• other cluster-fucky things happened preventing sleep
  
• so late, omg
• so annoyed, omg
• thank goodness for isis, otherwise the day would have sucked like the debull, y'all

June 14, 2009

• lazed about!
• finished reading my book
  
• x-files viewing with carl whilst munching on a favorite dinner -- 99 cent french bread boule from whole foods with hummus and bolthouse farms chai tea
  

June 13, 2009

• i didn't have to work, which was a miracle, A MIRACLE!
• spent the time I would have been working sleeping
• did a.m. yoga with rodney yee, who loves similes

• raked and cleaned up the front yard, which was in quite a state after the multiple apocalypse hailstorms callously torpedoed leaves down from the huge tree in the front
• for shame, callous hailstorms!
• had a phone-date with amanda!
• went to serious texas bbq with carl and his parents!
• delicious!
  
• talked yoga and literature with his dad
• came home and rested for a bit
• went to the gym
• came home and did abs yoga with rodney yee, who still loves similes

• watched a really good x-files episode

• sleeeeeeeep
  

June 12, 2009

Right after my morning work shift I went to the Egg and One with Betsy, where both the hazelnut coffee and the company were delightful, as always. We also checked and discussed JR Smith's tweets.

I had planned to take a long nap in the afternoon since I'd had to get up ass early for work and was going to have to be alert and awake to pick up Carl from the airport at 11 that evening, but the 3 cups of hazelnut I had prevented it. Ah well! I have no idea what I did post-Egg and One.

When I got into my car to go get Carl, a few moths flew out, but one moth stayed in, and I could not get that stupid asshole moth to leave my vehicle, which was a problem after an extended daydream of watching myself driving innocently down I-25, then the moth in the car startling me by flying near my face, and then me crashing to my death. There were explosions and everything!

Then it left and I retrieved Carl.

Carl liked his room smiley face emoticon.

June 11, 2009

I went to Walmart at 2:30 in the afternoon, where there were TEN THOUSAND troll people there. Why? How? Whyhow were there so many people at Walmart at 2:30 on a Thursday afternoon? Amanda's explanation after I texted her my frusrated query about it:

"It's sort of Dawn of the Dead related. They are just drawn there for no reason! 'Must buy pork products.'"

I accepted the truth, and continued discount shopping.

I had gone to Walmart to buy decor and hardware for an office set-up surprise for Carl while he was busy being all adulty on a business-related trip to San Francisco. He's been working so much, a lot of the time from his home office, that he hadn't gotten a chance to fully unpack and organize his work area. So I did it! Mostly because I like organizing and decorating other people's shit.

Before:





After:

June 10, 2009

• oh, gosh, i don't remember, since i'm writing this days later
• OH, GOSH
• i definitely worked, but who gives a flying fuck about that
• not me
  

...

• after doing some camera phone and facebook investigation, i hereby apparently did the following things --
  
• made fish and garlic edamame with walnuts for myself for dinner
  

• caught the little dog chillaxing all cool while shooting some b-ball outside of the school
• i mean, on the table
  

• also got to talk to Kate AND Matt AND Justin, and my heart was bursting with cheesy happiness
  

june 9, 2009

• worked an effing shitload
• but it was all worth it for the season haikus one of my 7-year-old students wrote and gave to me SO CUTE (all sic):

HAIKUS By: "M"

rivers are runing,
flowers are finly here,
animals are coming

As light as the sky
the ocean is calming down
up down cold and hot

leves are fallin down,
red, yelow every war you look,
fall is here at last

cold under 32
snow flakes faling every day
coco nice and hot

June 8, 2009

• missed carl
• did lots of activity -- several long charlotte walks, gym, two yoga sessions
• perhaps am filling the carl void with activity
• booked flights for me and my brother to san diego where i'm chaperoning him while he attends a soccer camp AND I GET TO SEE JUSTIN AND BRANDI!!!

June 7, 2009

• took carl to the airport
  
• his flight was delayed so we sat in the arrivals area and watched people greet each other and played guessing games such as "who in the vicinity is most likely to be going commando?"
• came back to fort collins
• survived the apocalypse
  

• baked baked goods for super awesome grill and game night with the super awesome grad school people
  

• was almost shamed in pictionary but staged a minor comeback! THUMB!
  

June 6, 2009

• had garlic eggplant at young's, zomg yum
• shopped with carl for this grown-up business trip
• good god there are a lot of douchey clothes in men's departments
• WHY IS THIS ACCEPTABLE:

June 5, 2009

• the day of two short but powerful inside jokes

"Cave Wrangler."

"Is that the moon?" "I hope so."

June 4, 2009

• took the little dog for a rain walk

• watched clueless and 10 things i hate about you with betsy and it was awesome
  

June 3, 2009

• among other things, baked "healthy" banana nut muffins using the fighter robot muffin wrappers carl picked out
  

June 2, 2009

• attempt to ride bike to work every day this week was thwarted by the rain and effing 7:00 a.m. coldness
• i wouldn't have let my efforts be QUITE so thwarted if i didn't have to dress semi-professionally
• so, drove to work and arrived semi-professional-looking
  
• and don't worry, i didn't sleep through my first session, as feared!
  
• then i worked
• and man, did it go by slowly
• came home and napped a good nap
• woke up from nap NOT feeling nap-delusional!
• kept reading about the air france flight even though i know better
  
• for dinner-making week, carl and i made ravioli skillet, which tasted better than the picture makes it look:
  

• and a hearty meal it was
• went to the parentals and picked up mum to go to the gym
• taught mum how to use the elliptical since she was scared of it before
  
• great success!
  

June 1, 2009

• went grocery shopping and couldn't find any goddamn red lentils for the lentil and veggie tostadas i planned on making for the beginning of dinner-making week
• got black beans instead
• BLACK BEANS RULE, RED LENTILS CAN SUCK IT, SUCK IT RED LENTILS, SUCK IT
  
• after getting home, cleaned out the fridge
• i'd go into details about that, but i'm not too keen on being a vomit-inducer these days
• did some copywriting for copywriting job
• probably did some other shit
• oh! rode my bike to work to see how long it takes so i know when to leave my house
  
• it takes less than 15 minutes, w00t
• i disobeyed traffic laws, but eh, what's the fun of riding a bike when you're not zooming across lanes and such?
• yes, i was that asshole
  
• took the dog for a long walk
• saw neverending story clouds on the long walk!
• got in before the nothing got me
• run, atreyu! run!
• made the black bean and veggie tostadas

• ate
• watched the x-files episode "space" which even out-cheesed and out-corned the "ghost in the machine episode" which should have been IMPOSSIBLE
• tossed and turned all night long because i thought i was going to oversleep and miss my first tutoring session at 8:00 a.m.
• DID I!?!? tune in to tomorrow's list and find out! zomg lol!