| What a great weekend this was! |
[07 Dec 2009|03:59pm] |
Saturday I drove across the mighty bridge all by myself for the first time. I've been ok doing it with somebody else in the car but couldn't bring myself to do it alone until now. To and from. YES!
I drove to Kelley's house to meet up with a few girlfriends to have them help me pick one of the potential wedding dresses I had received in the mail. They unanimously pick the one in that *color* that my klowny friends had already approved. That's great because I love this dress and now I have it on plenty good authority that the color isn't garish and the dress is indeed to die for.
As a bonus I got two more bridesmaids out of the deal. I'm the luckiest bride with the best bridesmaids ever: Kelley (who unfortunately can't make it to Thailand), Robin, Shannon and Lisa P.
Yesterday Spank and I went to Dickens Fair with a jolly posse and had ourselves a mighty fine time. Unfortunately I was struck down with a migraine when we got home at 6 pm but that can't spoil a fine weekend like this one.
Check out our furry Grinch (click through to full size to fully enjoy her holiday spirit):
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| Wolfi! |
[02 Dec 2009|03:38pm] |
Spank and his computer have been inseparable since he discovered Ableton. Every time I enter his room he yells "Listen to this killer bassline!" and "I just know this is what Peaches is using!" and of course: "SOLO!!!!"
He's been dressing kinda weird lately too:
Should I be worried?
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| Thanksgiving was all that and a bag of chips! |
[30 Nov 2009|03:02pm] |
I got off work at noon on Wednesday, cleaned the house and went to bed early. Nothing like starting a long weekend with a clean house.
Thursday Spank and I took a long walk at the Albany Bulb and tried to answer some important questions about our future marriage. I think we made good progress in some of the tricky decision-making we both aren't too keen to deal with.
Then we had a delicious dinner at Vav's house and went home for some one-on-one Spanksgiving.
We ended up having a wee bit too much fun and decided to skip a friend's pool party next day and stay in bed. Let's hear it for staying in bed!
On Saturday we drove up to yet another (truly amazing) mansion in Sonoma where the FKO's were partying all weekend. We only stayed one night but had the best of times. I had been to that place a couple of times but the beauty of it still takes my breath away:
It was warm and sunny and the wine country was glowing in gold and red fall colors. It was great to see everybody and get crazy but I didn't regret only staying one night. Holiday weekends are so few and we always seem to spend them going somewhere. We needed the at home time.
When we got back last night I tried on the potential wedding gown that had come in the mail. The cut is exactly what I wanted, a breathtakingly beautiful, slinky 1930's style evening gown but it's in a REAL color. Not black or red or grey or silver. A freakin' COLOR. So color-challenge goth me was in dire need of advice. Can I get away with this... color thing?! I called my trusty klowns who rushed over and decided that I can and should wear this color.
I'm still waiting for a few other gowns to come in so it's to early to call it the final decision but I have a feeling this one is it.
Then I trimmed the first Christmas tree I've had since I left my dad's house when I was 17. Thank you Spank!
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| So much FUN and so much Happy! |
[24 Nov 2009|03:45pm] |
I'm busy busy busy with just about the funnest busy EVER!
I'm planning our wedding! We are going to get married in Thailand! YES! Because it's where we want to be and we can save ourselves the hassle of doing a big wedding here. And we can have a wonderful vacation while we're at it. And and and - it's THAILAND!!
And lo and behold - our parents are coming - to THAILAND! And some of our best and funnest friends! And it will be so simple and easy yet so magic!
I'm totally excited. The flights are booked. Now I'm dress shopping for realz! Something that goes with bare feet. Ha!
I'm so so so excited and so very happy and totally crazy about my future husband!!!
As of 2/20/2010 I'm officially the luckiest lady in the world.
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| Looks like we're done with all that silly hassle! |
[11 Nov 2009|10:25am] |
Sometimes things fall into place and everything comes together and what seemed difficult and impossible one moment turns step by step into a dance, light and easy.
More to come...
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| Productive!!! |
[06 Nov 2009|11:24am] |
Today I'm productive.
Today I have tackled a couple of items I've been procrastinating:
- I redistributed the investments in my 401(k). When the economy crashed I pulled all the money out of all the funds and stuck it in a safe money market fund. I believe things are turning around so I went and diversified diversified diversified. Hope is here! I lost some dough when the markets crashed. I sure would like a slice of that recovery.
- I FINALLY made the first hesitant step toward obtaining double citizenship. I've been eligible for American citizenship for many years but in order to keep my German citizenship I have to jump through some loop-holes and that's a lot of extra work and expense on top of the work and expense of the American citizenship process... but in the end I think it's worth it and now that Bush is gone I don't have any excuses left.
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| Hungover |
[05 Nov 2009|09:29am] |
Girlsnight with Polly left me hungover. I guess we had two bottles of wine. I guess I drank more than she did. I guess I'm a lightweight. It's been a few years of being a lightweight. I should be used to it by now.
I barely remember how I got home. Spank picked me up and we listened to his new songs on the bay bridge. The fancy microphone really works for our voices. How did I get to bed?
Microphone? How do you spell the abbreviation Mice? Mic? Mike?
Well what the hell - it was a great time!
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| In Limbo |
[03 Nov 2009|02:43pm] |
Why haven't I posted what's going on in my life in so long? Because I don't really know. Everything's been in limbo for a few months now. Well, thankfully not everything: My health has been pretty stable except for the puffy eyes and some general fatigue, my relationship is happy ever after and my job and I won't part anytime soon either... the latter is a blessing and a curse.
There are some major decisions that have been teetering in the undecided ranger for a few months now - stuff that's going to influence our entire future: housing, finances, possibly every aspect of our lives and not all those decisions are up to us... and of course the outcome decides just about every plan we are trying to make even short-term: Get married when? Thailand this winter or not? Fix up the house or not? Worry about money or not? Make any plans at all for the next few months, years or not? And every day the possible outcome looks a bit different. The powers that be seem to hand us shiny presents one moment just to rip them out of our hands the next but then sure enough a new carrot is dangling in front of our noses just a day or two later. It's been an emotional rollercoaster ride, a real nail-biter.
It's annoying not to know. It's annoying to have to wait even for your own decision-making process to finish. And there's not much to report while you're not doing much but trying to figure out the future and wait for the forces you can't control to settle on something.
Looks like all deadlines are up by the end of the year. So only two more months of this and then I'll finally be able to make plans again and know what's up. I'm such a planner, it kills me not to be able to plan.
A few things are starting to fall into place: With Spank working for Burning Man a wedding in August, September or October is out so it will be April, May or June... not exactly narrowing it down... and that's really it. Everything else is unclear. Except that we will be happy no matter what.
And that's all I've got for now.
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| Puffy! |
[03 Nov 2009|11:21am] |
Lately I've been waking up with puffy eyes for no good reason. Not every day but many days. Sometimes the swelling goes down after a couple of hours, sometimes it stays all day, sometimes my eyes remain red and dry all day and I look like a stoner.
The fucked up part is that the swelling makes the wrinkles under my eyes look three times as deep and I literally look like I aged 15 years overnight. NOT SEXY AT ALL!!!
It's probably some kind of allergy but I can't figure it out. Grrrrr...
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| It's Fall, Fuckfaces! |
[21 Oct 2009|09:31am] |
IT'S DECORATIVE
GOURD SEASON, MOTHERFUCKERS.
BY COLIN NISSAN
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I don't know about you, but I can't wait to get my hands on some fucking gourds and arrange them in a horn-shaped basket on my dining room table. That shit is going to look so seasonal. I'm about to head up to the attic right now to find that wicker fucker, dust it off, and jam it with an insanely ornate assortment of shellacked vegetables. When my guests come over it's gonna be like, BLAMMO! Check out my shellacked decorative vegetables, assholes. Guess what season it is—fucking fall. There's a nip in the air and my house is full of mutant fucking squash.
I may even throw some multi-colored leaves into the mix, all haphazard like a crisp October breeze just blew through and fucked that shit up. Then I'm going to get to work on making a beautiful fucking gourd necklace for myself. People are going to be like, "Aren't those gourds straining your neck?" And I'm just going to thread another gourd onto my necklace without breaking their gaze and quietly reply, "It's fall, fuckfaces. You're either ready to reap this freaky-assed harvest or you're not."
Carving orange pumpkins sounds like a pretty fitting way to ring in the season. You know what else does? Performing a all-gourd reenactment of an episode of Different Strokes—specifically the one when Arnold and Dudley experience a disturbing brush with sexual molestation. Well, this shit just got real, didn't it? Felonies and gourds have one very important commonality: they're both extremely fucking real. Sorry if that's upsetting, but I'm not doing you any favors by shielding you from this anymore.
The next thing I'm going to do is carve one of the longer gourds into a perfect replica of the Mayflower as a shout-out to our Pilgrim forefathers. Then I'm going to do lines of blow off its hull with a hooker. Why? Because it's not summer, it's not winter, and it's not spring. Grab a calendar and pull your fucking heads out of your asses; it's fall, fuckers.
Have you ever been in an Italian deli with salamis hanging from their ceiling? Well then you're going to fucking love my house. Just look where you're walking or you'll get KO'd by the gauntlet of misshapen, zucchini-descendant bastards swinging from above. And when you do, you're going to hear a very loud, very stereotypical Italian laugh coming from me. Consider yourself warned.
For now, all I plan to do is to throw on a flannel shirt, some tattered overalls, and a floppy fucking hat and stand in the middle of a cornfield for a few days. The first crow that tries to land on me is going to get his avian ass bitch-slapped all the way back to summer.
Welcome to autumn, fuckheads!
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| I did it! |
[16 Oct 2009|01:51pm] |
I lost 10 lbs since Labor Day!
Yay me!
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| Like a Million Bucks |
[07 Oct 2009|10:34am] |
Lately I've been feeling amazing. And so I should because my lifestyle is healthier than ever. I eat extremely healthy, I work out like a maniac and it's paying off. I've lost weight, my energy level is up even though I don't always get enough sleep and I just feel really fucking excellent.
Now that the summer is over and camping/party season is winding down things will get even healthier because no parties means no cigarettes and a lot less intoxication.
Happy fall!
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| 6 lbs in 8 days and counting... |
[17 Sep 2009|12:44pm] |
Because I fucking can!
I was sickish for a long while in spring/early summer and couldn't work out so I put on about 6 lbs. Not the end of the world but it sure sucks when your pants don't fit anymore.
Somehow I just couldn't get rid of it even after I got better until last week when I got all pissed off and decided that enough is enough. Stepping it way up at the gymn, skipping dinner many nights, eating super healthy and now it's totally working. Lost those 6 lbs in 8 days and now I'm trying to lose 4 more to get to that perfect happy weight.
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| It's settled then! |
[28 Aug 2009|11:50am] |
We found the perfect spot for our wedding. I'm so excited. I knew this was the place since I first visited it but Spank needed an second (sunset) visit to fully grasp its magic. There was not doubt left. This is the place. It has everything we wanted and then some and to complete the perfection it was the cheapest place on our list.
Last night we enjoyed the sunset there and were surprised by fireworks. The way the colors reflected on the water was breathtaking. The city sparkled like a jewel in the distance. It was so romantic...
Now I can toss the list of 8 more places we were going to see and go back to drooling over dresses. :D
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| Soon Soon Soon... |
[20 Aug 2009|09:45am] |
Everybody is talking about Burning Man but I can't wait to drive the other way and go Loadie Boating on the Delta!
Looks like our little event is the new black. Even though we haven't advertised it to anybody at all we have almost doubled in size and have now two boats and an extremely sexy crew of 16. High clown content. No pirates at all this year.
Spank is cranking out some special pieces of klowny boat art and I can't wait to kick back on my floatie, a frosty Mojito in hand, toes in the warm water, Tipsy on the stereo. Did I mention we have an inflatable bar?
Life can be THAT good!
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