she's glorious!

we got our tree on monday. do you love it? i do!
merry christmas everyone.




ps-this is our new living room. i have more pictures of the house, but i feel weird about posting them. so if you want to see you can come over. or email me.

maturity?

my line of work is so mature.

i was walking in to work this morning. as i am walking by my office building i hear a loud clanging on the window. i look up and there is my boss...with his butt (clothed, thank god) pressed up to the window.

busy beaver

i have discovered my love of being busy. and work...what?

the past two weeks have been insane. between work, the house, the apartment, the holidays/christmas shopping, and my typical drinking schedule, i have been a very busy beaver. so busy, in fact, that i have not had the time to watch TV or do all of the other lazyboy things i like to do.

but the fact is...being busy is great. i mean, i know how it is to be busy. yes, i do work. and yes, i am accountable for many deadlines and projects. but the work business is not what i am talking about. it's moving, unpacking, wanting to make your space look good. wanting this, wanting that...making a stop at lowe's 5 times in 4 days. that sort of thing. putting up blinds. getting pissed, because your big fat fingers just can not hang on to a damn screw!

you know what else keeps me busy? when things go wrong. for instance, we put up our tree last night (my original goal was last thursday. sorry, too busy.) and the lights were broken. i tested them in the wall, but when i got them on the tree, one strand was half off. so we decided to walk down to eckerd. we get in there and pick up 200 lights and realize that we have $4 and a $5 commerce gift card between us. oops. we give the guy the gift card, "what is dat? oh, gifff carrrr? you ain't gotsa touch no keys, lemme dowaaat." it doesn't work. "oh we don'eeeeeven take commerce."

ok...so we have $4 ($3 in bills and the rest change).

"you shoull geda hundret and a fitty."
the clerk turned out to be bright after all.

so that prolonged the tree trimming by about 35 minutes. great. i am too busy for that.

anyway. you get the picture. and i am sure you are just as busy. now get back to work!

i said "books" not "boobs"

as always, people never cease to amaze me.

i was walking through the reading terminal market today, on my way home with my lunch. and to my surprise, i walked by the book shop/stand and noticed that the woman BEHIND THE COUNTER was breast feeding.

it was unreal.

that's it. people are crazy. i say it, like, every other day, i know. but it's true.

we're finally home owners!

i'm blogging from my empty apartment. i'm sitting in an empty bedroom with my laptop. emily is resting her eyes...on the comfortable hardwood.

we're a step closer to living in our new home. we made settlement on friday but the house is not 100% ready for us. the copnstruction team is still at the house doing the final touch-ups and painting. see, we made it much more difficult for them by picking a different color for every room. so it should all be done today.

we moved half of our stuff in yesterday with the help of 4 great friends: fran, ingrid, jeff and kathy. and, one of the new neighbors helped at the new house. today, when the painters are done, we'll be clear to go in the house and move in and unplack. of course, there are still a few punch list items they need to handle, but it's liveable. oh, and we still need pgw to come in and set up the gas service. so we have no heat.

anyway we're really excited. i'll post some pictures next week when we have time.
i hope i can get a free wireless connection at the new place...
otherwise, it will be a while because i have re-set up our comcast cable on the pc. woo.

crazy train lisa

we all know there are a lot of weird people out there.

but when you ride the train in the city, you have a whole new perspective on the world. especially when your stop is at the court house. you see lots of shady chacters, but also a lot of cops (thank you jesus). you also see some crazies. but it's often hard to tell who the crazies are.

so this brings me to one special crazy i have seen over the past month or so. let's call her lisa. i don't know why, but for some reason, she looks like a lisa. and i am not talking about pauly shore "lisa, lisa." i'm talking gawky but not ugly, looks like she might have braces, definitely wears glasses. today she was wearing an electric blue headband with fuzzy ear muffs connected to it. the more i think about i think she might look like the girl who plays "ugly betty" on tv. but i have never seen that show so i am not sure.

anyway. i have seen lisa several times on the train. and every time i see her she is crying. it's so strange. she'll cry and then she'll calm down and then someone will sit down, she will stare at them intensely and then start crying again. the first time i saw her i thought, "should i ask if she's okay? why is no one staring at her?" and then she stopped and was fine. the next time the same thing happened. all tears, no smiling.

thoughts about lisa's problems run wild through my mind when i see her: she's been abused. she is scared of the train. she forgot her lunch again. she is in serious pain. she has gas. she's scared of black people (she stares at black people very intensely). but today i realized: she is flat out crazy.

she stares at people for attention and then starts crying. she contorts her face as to make tears. then she gets worked up to real tears and stares harder. is she looking for sympathy? then when the person moves, she gets herself together, smiles and looks at her reflection in the mirror and smiles. then a new person gets on the train and it all starts over again.

she is crazy. she is testing others' emotions by exploding in to tears. or is it some kind of sick social experiment? momma always told us not to talk to strangers...do we do that when we're fully grown.

either way you put it, it's totally messed up.
so with that i say happy holidays, lisa.

dish washer!

i know it's time to wrap it up at work every night when i hear those two sweet words: dish washer!

every night the ladies in the office call out for the dish washer. and if you have a glass on your desk, you best throw it in.
i think emily should start this rule at our house. that way, i won't just let my dirty dishes pile up on the counter.

better go put my glass in. or i might get the hose again. boo hoo.

donna martin graduates!

most of us remember that grlorious episode...

donna martin got drunk at the prom and they weren't going to let her graduate. so her friends rallied outside of the courthouse and they set her free.

but poor, poor donna. she's had some rough times lately. see, daddy died and she's gotta sell everything!

http://www.estatesaleshop.com/

that's what a television high school diploma will do for you.
what am i talking about? she has more than i could ever dream of.
again, sad fatty.

keep your fingers crossed.

we're making settlement on our house this friday at noon!

so cue up the kool and the gang, cuz there's a party going on right here. a celebration to last througout the year. bring your good times and your laughter too cuz we gon' celebrate and party with you.

come on!

i digress. i have a story behind that song. my friend and i went to confirmation classes in the 8th grade at night after school. it was horrible. they made us feel really guilty for not know specific prayers and stuff. and our teacher was a lawyer, so we were interrogated about our faith. on a weekly basis. so i can remember my mom picking us up one cold winter's night (in oprah. r.i.p. baby boo!) and that song was on the radio. cheryl and i went nuts, because we were 14 and thought we were really funny. we blast the radio and put the windows down. we needed to celebrate because the class was over.

there was a problem. my window went down and it wasn't even tryng to go back up. oops.
i will forever remember that song for that moment.

come on!

you know things are bad when...

you fart outside the bathroom and the person indside the bathroom has to close the door.

oops.

the nerd list!

i found this questionnaire of sorts on adam's blog (http://rationalleftist.blogspot.com/) and thought i would like to answer the questions, since i am a big nerd and spent $40 on a ton of books the other day. i am also a nerd because i drug my wife to the tenacious d concert the other night. anyway, here we go...

(1 ) One book that changed your life: Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer (I read this when I was laid off the first time and it made me realize that things weren't so bad. Of course, when I got a new job I wanted more. And I still do--greedy bastard.)

2) One book that you'd read more than once: I have read a few more than once...a Moveable Feast and The Sun Also Rises by Hemingway are two.

3 ) One book you'd want on a deserted island: The Dictionery. That way I could use lots of words no one knew when I was rescued and act like I came in to contact with a more intelligent life form on that island.

4) One book that made you laugh: Barrel Fever by David Sedaris

5) One book that made you cry: Narnia, because I would seriously never read that shit.

6) One book you wish you'd written: The Karma Sutra. Hayyyy...Anyway, I have an amazing book idea in the works...I just need a few more volunteers with old photos and a good photographer. I know that photographer, I just need to get the balls to ask him for his help.

7) One book you wish had never been written: Anything fantasy related. See #5.

8) One book you're currently reading: Superstud by Paul Feig (just ordered)

9) One book you've been meaning to read: The Bible. Sorry, Christ.