i've been working such long hours this week, and unfortunately the light at the end of the tunnel is still about 2 weeks away. i worked 12 hours Wednesday and yesterday. then i took my laptop home with me last night and proceeded to work another 2 hours. WFT?
i refuse to stay here in the office all day today. i just can't do it. there is something seriously wrong with being here more than i have been at my own home this week.
although there's not much to look forward to outside. it looks like freaking Seattle out there. we broke a record today for 25 days of rain in the month of march - the most rainy days in the month since 1904. it is really depressing. and i'd rather be at home on the couch in this weather than sitting at my desk.
so i'm going to jam through some work so i can get to my couch. happy friday!
i still have a stamp on my hand that says "Over 21" and it won't come off. yes, i've showered, i've scrubbed, and i've scoured. i guess God wants everyone to know that i am a party girl.
new orleans kicked my ass. i lost my voice, i drank my body weight in alcohol, and i didn't eat anything that wasn't fried, sauteed, or made with pure butter & sugar. i managed to take 75 pictures on my trip, only about 1/3 of which are coherent. another 1/3 of them are of my friend's cleavage from friday night. those are beauties. tim is actually enjoying those. the other 1/3 of the pictures were taken in moments of alcohol-induced "clarity", in which i thought holding the camera 2 feet above my head and snapping pictures would produce art-like images. if crap is art, then i'm an artist.
i missed meeting MadEthel and i'm so sad. i was stuck at a 7-course sit down brunch, which i thought was going to be a come & go as you please affair. of course not, nothing for the wedding last weekend was casual - it was a classy affair. and a drunken classy affair, as everywhere you turned there was open bar and cocktails being shoved in your face.
here i am, showing up an hour late at cafe du monde to meet MadEthel. here are leslie's & my tongues after a hurricane at Pat O's. leslie has a freakishly long tongue and skinny tongue. i tried to make mine skinny - it didn't work. here is said cleavage. and here is one of 30 artistic shots. i think i should enter it in a contest. the Over 21 stamp isn't even from NOLA, it's from a concert i had to rally for on sunday night when i got home. thank goodness i have no plans this weekend. i need a while to recover.
so that's why i'm going ahead and setting my out-of-office reply for email!
just about 4 more hours of work, then it's home to do laundry, pack, and get ready for a whirlwind 40-hours in new orleans! i have a wedding, a massage, a brunch, a date with MadEthel, dinner at Emeril's, and a night on Bourbon Street planned. you don't think that's too much to cram into 40 hours, do you?
and i'm doing it all with my best friend leslie. les is getting married in 7 weeks, and we don't get to see each other a lot because she lives in Hotlanta. so this weekend is sort of a private bachelorette party trip. we'll be hitting the totties pretty hard. and yes, husband, i will probably smell like booze when i get home sunday morning.
have a great weekend everyone - and happy birthday tomorrow to Sarah!
... because i just don't have time to write. not that i don't think about it, because several times during the day i'll think of things and file them away under "blog material" but then i never get around to posting them. and now that i'm actually sitting here posting, i can't remember a thing i've stored away for the blog.
i'm working like crazy, or as my mom would say i'm "workin' like a dog!" no less than 10 hour days, but it's okay because they go by fast at least. and i moved into a new office and i have a killer view looking at the bay bridge and palm trees and water. it's spectacular. oh and by the way, what happened to our book club for retards, no offense to retards? looks like we pretty much handled that like everything else, including German Karaoke Wednesday and Half-Nekkid Thursday. we don't have much in the way of attention spans, do we?
um. what was i saying?
oh well, doesn't matter. tomorrow is wednesday and it's really my 'thursday' because friday i'm on PTO (that's 'Paid Time Off' for those of you not lucky enough to be in corporate america) and at 4am i'm heading to the big easy! girls trip! i cannot wait to have beignet at cafe du monde and a few shots on bourbon street. ethel, you in?
today i was checking out who's been checking out my blog lately, and i came acrossBlogShares, the blog stock market. somehow i'm on there, and somehow i'm worth $3300! did you guys know about this? totally fun. i've got $500 to invest in blogs also. who should i spend it on? i could spread it evenly amongst the bloggers i link to... or i could just put it all on Beebers and hope for the best!
UPDATE - okay i thought this seemed vaguely familiar. i see you guys all know about it. and kudos tinapopo, miss i'm-so-famous-i'm-in-the-the-washington-post. she's worth millions! almost.
on another sitemeter note, here are the funniest google and yahoo searches that have brought people to my blog. i think this is my favorite part about sitemeter!
nicole richie coke
tom katie break up
krispy treats
"laguna beach" "cooked for kristin" (this one came from someone in Me-hee-co)
"scarlett johannson's boobs"
"humongo penis"
snow bunnies
bra fittings austin, tx (huh? i've never had a bra fitting in austin, tx.)
"fatty fatty two by four"
sexy Michael Vartan blog
i'm pretty much convinced that this last one was input by mr. michael vartan himself. so welcome, michael vartan! i love agent vaughn in alias - meow! but you probably won't be mentioned again on the blog in the future, so sorry.
i haven't posted in a week! i can't believe that. time has totally slipped away. this "new" job is totally requiring more hours than i was expecting!
this past weekend kicked off the not-ending-until-mid-june-travel-extravaganza i will be experiencing for the next several months. i'm literally traveling somewhere at least every other week. "somewhere" always being out of state, too - mostly to austin though, so that's okay.
so my first trip was home to austin this past weekend and i got to see my peanut of a niece! she's the cutest thing in the world! i cried 4 times on the plane home to CA thinking i wouldn't be able to hold her again until the end of april. boo.
i also had 2 wedding showers for my best friend getting married in May. oh, and all you matt mcconaughey lovers will be happy to know that we saw him at the Four Seasons while we were there for her menu tasting. he was by the pool with no shirt on. no pictures this time though, sorry. he was in town for austin's South-by-Southwest festival. good times.
okay that's all i got. here's a picture of the peanut. she has the most perfectly round little head!
i was about to title this "one of those days", but then i realized that i have titled too many posts with that exact same phrase.
i just thought it appropriate because as i sat here at my desk trying to figure out what to tackle next on my long list of to-do's, i yawned and a spittle of drool fell off my lip and onto my keyboard. what the eff?! seriously, i drooled on my keyboard. i am seriously questioning what type of person i am right now.
happy belated birthday to totempolezoe!! we love and miss you adam - hope you had an extra tall jack & coke and a stogey on the patio by the pool last night! unfortunately i think you were sanding cabinets instead. or make that "knocking out walls" instead, actually.
back to work - let's see if i can make it through the day without drooling anymore. shize.
not to be confused with Princess Sophia from "How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days."
my sister had her baby on wednesday! she was 5 pounds 15 ounces, and 18" long. i guess that's pretty tiny. staci only had to push for 20 minutes... lucky dog! we think she had the easiest delivery in the history of the world. baby is healthy and i've finally been sent some pictures, so i know what she looks like... her daddy!
does my sister not look amazing for just pushing that little peanut out?!
congratulations staci & TJ! i can't wait to come to texas next week and meet her!
so i had the funniest dream last night/this morning. it was so "movie" like, and it makes me chuckle to think about it now. i can't believe i'm sharing it with the rest of the world.
i was making out with Orlando Bloom in the sand on a beach, right along the edge where the water washes in, so we'd get wet every now and then - you know, totally adding to the sexiness of it all. he was on top of me... life was good. hee hee, this is so comical to think about.
so in the dream, i was still married to tim. and as i laid there on the beach in total bliss, my conscience interrupted the passionate romp. i started thinking, i can't do this. this isn't right, i'm married! what if it progresses to sex? which duh, it totally will. i can't have sex with someone else! well, maybe i can, i just won't tell tim. no, i have the worst guilt in the world, of course i would tell tim. would he forgive me? he'd have to! hello, this is Orlando Bloom, a once in a lifetime opportunity! unless Orlando really likes me, and decides he wants to marry me. would i leave tim for Orlando?
just as it got to this totally stressed-out part of the dream, where i was contemplating whether or not i would end my 1 1/2 year marriage to be with Orlando... tim stirred in the bed and i woke up. and i must admit, i was a little saddened by the fact that i woke up this ordinary person, and Orlando isn't after my heart... or my bod.
so it got me thinking about the Friends episode where they get to pick the celebrities they would have sex with, and it'd have to be okay with their partner. who would i use a Get-Out-Of-Jail-Free card on? my top 3 would be: 1) Josh Duhammel, 2) Michael Vartan, & 3) Owen Wilson.
and i think the only reason Orlando Bloom was in my dream was because i just watched Elizabethtown the other day - man, what a bomb of a movie. but hell, he is pretty hot! add him as #4 on my list. and i need a sexy-voiced singer on my list too, so add Dave Matthews too. and Ryan Adams... crap, my list is getting out of hand now.
i'm back! i'm back, and i'm so busy at work, and i'm tired, and i'm a smidge hungover...
and i'm sad because i'm not in austin right now. my sister is at the hospital, about 1 hour away from delivering the first grandchild in our family. my eyes keep filling with tears every time i think about it. i cannot believe i'm not there! i especially wanted to be there to see the terror and the pain, in hopes of deterring me from wanting to have a baby for a long time! i guess i'll be there in 8 days, so that is "good enough." i guess...
pictures from vail to come... it was fantastic! and leo was fine with the girls who took care of him. i sure did miss the little bugger though. popo, have fun on your cruise... and your dogs will be fine. at least someone is coming to stay at your house so they are on their own turf. they won't get out... and they'll be so incredibily happy to see you when you return - that's the best.
hopefully pictures of my niece will be here soon too! until then... happy thoughts sent to my sister as she starts to push.... yikes!
