| This video turned me on. |
[Jul. 4th, 2008|04:23 pm] |
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He is so hot.
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| July 8: Breaking Away! {Seattle} at Central Cinema |
[Jul. 2nd, 2008|04:54 pm] |
Bicycles, teen romance, and a movie, all to benefit RGBG, wheee!! |
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| posting work emails again |
[Jul. 2nd, 2008|05:36 pm] |
Steve: Adam: They may want to use our PA for the fireworks music. You may want to have some other patriot songs available on CD as well as general concert in the park kind of Rock pop etc.
Me: Lee Greenwood? [<-- joking, but kinda not at the same time.]
Steve: I guess so. I'm thinking just a couple things of the Lee Greenwood variety. Unfortunately, "Proud to be an American" will probably get requested by someone. I think John Mellencamp, Tom Petty, The Boss (Born in the USA), etc. Those guys are kind of all American without being laden with cheese like Lee Greenwood. Maybe some country like Rascal Flatts or Toby Keith, but no Dixie Chicks. Johnny Cash and Dwight Yokum are always American and cool at the same time. Journey and Bon Jovi make me think of American artists that are pretty popular these days. Cheryl Crow is an All American kind of artist. You can never go wrong with anything ever recorded by Willie Nelson even though he is somewhat of an outlaw.
King of the Road - Roger Miller
I want you back or ABC - Jackson Five
A little Current Pop -
Beyonce
maybe Justin Timberlake
or... any other mousecateer you can think of that hasn't been arrested this year.
I hope this helps. |
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| I fucking hate credit cards so fucking much |
[Jul. 1st, 2008|08:16 pm] |
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I am so fucking angry that I called the bloomingdale's credit card company trying to get my bill paid and then fucking missed yoga because I spent too long on the phone trying to get the stupid script-reading, apathetic-sounding, middle-eastern flavored textbook english speaking voice to remove my goddamn late fees that they threw at me for no goddamn reason. Wtf, they suspended my online payment service? What do they expect me to do, send a check through the mail that will probably get lost or get there a month later so they can tack on additional fucking late fees? Let me pay over the phone then. Oh thanks, there's an additional fee for making a phone payment too? Listen, I'm kind of pissed that I'm paying double what I should be paying in the first place. "Oh ok then I'll not charge you the fee after all". As if that's some huge favor youre doing for me? It's as if you people have some fee checklist you're checking off for every single goddamn transaction I make. Service fee, returned check fee, phone payment fee, paying on the first Tuesday of the month fee, talking on the phone with a cute female voice fee. We're gonna see just how many fees we can throw on there, but if you get TOO horribly upset we'll take one away, happy?? The next time I buy anything at any store EVER and they ask me if I'm interested in applying for their store credit card I will fucking say FUCKING NO. I suppose I do have this bullshit duty as a good American citizen to build up my credit and to have a STRONG CREDIT HISTORY! Cause otherwise, I'm fucked if I ever want to buy a house someday. Whatever, I'll just pay cash for everything, like drug dealers do. |
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| check out this little pousse-cafe i just made |
[Jul. 1st, 2008|10:42 am] |
its the pallini limoncello and raspicello.
the gravities are different enough that you get all the lemon before tasting the raspberry at all and it doesnt mix even when you tip it. |
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| this weekends wedding reception |
[Jun. 30th, 2008|09:13 am] |
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/dfwdavis/sets/72157605893116800/
also snagged 3 fun-size bottles of pallini limoncello, raspicello and peachello. they taste like candy.
oh and the band manager/one of the company owners was talking to the sax sub on friday at sullivan's and said "have you met adam? he's my favorite sound guy" craazy. |
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| "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist; half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it" |
[Jun. 29th, 2008|09:13 pm] |
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I've been re-reading some of my Poppy Z Brite books lately, I just finished Exquisite Corpse for the second time a few days ago and found myself again slightly disappointed. I keep reading mixed reviews for it; from people who hated it and thought it was gratuitously disgusting, and from those who absolutely loved it solely because it was disgusting. I was personally disappointed in the way it seemed to spiral from being a fantastically fast-paced and vivid story into becoming just a pointless mash of increasingly gory scenes. I also bought Chuck Palahniuk's Snuff the other day, but haven't had a chance to read it yet. Apparently Luke's nan was here the other day while I was out and Luke said she was looking at my books and he told her she could borrow one if she liked. I can't imagine her having much of an interest in the tale of a few guys waiting in line to bang a porn star hoping to break the record for consecutive fucking, but I can't find it so she must have it. Erm, enjoy, I guess. I've rekindled my love of books and wish I made just a little more money so I could splurge on them.
I only work the one job nowadays; I didn't want to start a new contract with Centerlink (I did data entry there) and I ended up turning down the other job I was offered just before I started my current job last year. Oh, funny thing about Centerlink. They underpaid $2 an hour and under the Fairness Agreement I was thankfully backpaid for all of it. Anyway. I'm tossing up between taking another night job (I work 5 days a week so it's all I could do) and taking leave from Uni for the rest of the year, or just sucking it up and being near poor whilst going through Uni. Given that Uni is just a personal thing for me, not for a career, it's just something I want to do, I'm just going to take my time with it. There's no rush and there's no use driving myself into debt to finish quicker. I say "driving myself into debt", but I suppose you can't really drive yourself into anything if you're already in it. I'd also like to take a formal qualification course in disability services at some point, but hey, we can't do everything, can we.
I wish we'd get a pay rise. Far less demanding jobs pay so much better.
I really want a Wii! I stayed over at a workmate's place the other night playing her new one and now I want one toooo! I can see already that I'm going to be broke as of pay day, because I'll go and buy one. I can't, I just can't afford it but I know I'll buy it because I'm so fucking impulsive, careless and dumb these days. I might transfer all of my money to mum's account and ask her to dispense it as needed to me, otherwise I'll end up with a Wii and no electricity to play it. Honestly, I'm THAT bad. I have got to cease this bullshit. But paying bills and doing groceries is not stimulating at all and I just want some new interesting shit so I have something to feel...interested in and happy about. I hate it when things start to feel stagnant.
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| Almost Home |
[Jun. 27th, 2008|06:10 pm] |
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ALMOST HOME!!!!
In hopefully less than a week I will be going home for R&R leave. (still too early for it but oh well.) I hope to consume a vast amount of sushi, visit high school friends and maybe play some DnD. I might go to an anime convention.
Also Afghanistan had more casualties this month than Iraq. not the news I want to hear.
Adios Amigos |
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| books meme |
[Jun. 26th, 2008|11:56 pm] |
Saw this somewhere... sorry, copied and pasted it earlier today and can't remember whose journal it came from! Oh well. Whatever.
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
I've also put a star next to the ones I had to read for school.
30/100 aint terrible. Though 13 of those were for school, and only two of the class-required books (To Kill a Mockingbird and Lolita) are books that I actually really, really liked. How 'bout you guys? |
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| What I Ate Today |
[Jun. 26th, 2008|09:44 pm] |
4 Apples - 260 Calories - 0g Protein - 52g Sugars
8 Tbs Peanut Butter - 760 Calories - 28g Protein - 12g Sugars
3 Slices Mrs. Baird's Whole Grain White Bread - 210 Calories - 7.5g Protein - 6g Sugars
16oz. Chocolate Milk - 480 Calories - 16g Protein - 62g Sugars
Klondike Bar - 240 Calories - 2g Protein - 20g Sugars
Sonic Popcorn Chicken (Large) - 560 Calories - 27g Protein - 2g Sugars
Sonic Vanilla Malt (Large) - 780 Calories - 11g Protein - 104g Sugars
Totals:
Calories: 3290
Protein: 91.5g
Sugar: 258g
I guess that's about right. I thought it would be more. I don't really want to know what the cholesterol level on that stuff is. |
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| Test successful |
[Jun. 26th, 2008|12:21 pm] |
So I just braved riding on the earo bars without the aid of a trainer and it was a success. No falling and I can hold a line still fairly well. I still wobble when getting my water bottle and it's a little weird getting upn out of the saddle for hills and what not up I did it. Turns still are a bit terrifying, but easy and safely I handled them. I did two laps around the lake and felt great. Can't wait for some longer group rides. I love the oh my god looks i get from people when they see the cast. Yea Yea yEAH.
![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) lonecow must ride with me this weekend and we need to talk ragbrai trip. |
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| hahaha |
[Jun. 25th, 2008|01:50 pm] |
I randomly ran across one of the urbandictionary.com definitions of "chemistry". Know what it is?
The only natural science that can be broken down into the categories "making drugs" and "blowing stuff up". Unfortunately, chemistry isn't all fun and games, mostly because of chemistry teachers, who are always bitching about things like "significant figures" and "molality versus molarity".
Pure awesome. |
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| people who belong in the innermost circle of hell are being elected in massachusetts |
[Jun. 25th, 2008|01:26 pm] |
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[Jun. 24th, 2008|05:16 pm] |
anyone wanna ride the tandem tonight?
doesnt have to be with me either, you can come pick it up
i also have 2 other extra bikes (not including em's which i will start painting soon) that people can ride if they wanna do the tuesday night bike ride.
its ultra fun.
i hear reports that the group is reaching 50+ bikes. i havent been in a month since ive been 'sick.' i return tonight. |
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[Jun. 24th, 2008|03:03 pm] |
RIP
George Carlin
1937 - 2008
Mr. Jesus
Mr. Psychotic Fuckin' Hatreds
Mr. Conductor
Mr. Fuck you
I remember programming the living room television (the one with the vcr) to tape Shining Time Station on scratchy vhs tapes back in blahblah grade. I'm very glad I drove for hours and hours a few years ago to see him in a little rinky dink theatre in a small West Texas town. It was a good run, old man. |
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| June 28 {SEATTLE}: Ride Green Build Green Benefit Show |
[Jun. 24th, 2008|10:23 am] |
A few of you may've heard me talking about the tour I'm doing down the coast this summer (we leave a month from tomorrow!) with Ride Green Build Green.
We'll be riding bikes, promoting sustainability, and volunteering at affordable (and mostly green) housing sites as we ride from Seattle to San Francisco.
In the mean time, we're raising $$ for Habitat for Humanity East King County so they can build a LEEDS-certified home.
The benefit show:
June 28: Healthy Times Fun Club (11th & Pike, in a basement)
Awesome dreamy rock, be there or be lamer than thou.
<3!!
-N*
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| sleeping is fantastic. doing it is my favourite thing. |
[Jun. 23rd, 2008|09:20 pm] |
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Gosh, I have a serious lack of self control in every single facet of my life.
I need to stop thinking about the whys and hows and just accept that it's just who I am and who I always have been. It's me. I have no self control and will probably never have any.
I'm so tired. I worked way too much last week when I really should have been taking the time to recover from an insanely busy couple of months. I love sleep so much. Imagine having 12am to 12am the next day to sleep. A whole 24 hours, night. It'd be so good to wake up and not hear birds and see sunlight beginning to creep through the blinds. There's nothing better than waking up in pitch black dark, checking your clock and realizing that you still have another six or seven hours to continue to lay your ass in your warm bed and sleep.
I'm going to go to bed right now so I can at least have an extra hour or so of snuggle time.
Money, sex and sleep are all that I am worried about lately and I will take that to be a sign that all is OK. I used to think that they were all forms of therapy to me (and thus it would be cause for concern when all I'm doing is thinking of those things), but now I will accept that I'm just a greedy whorebag, end of.
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[Jun. 22nd, 2008|11:40 pm] |
The iliotibial band syndrome is back, and I still rode a lot today.
Currently icing, stretching and massaging. Gotta get rid of that so I can keep riding. |
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