On the Eve of Lent

I'm not sure what to give up this year. Here's a list of past years' small sacrifices:

2005 - Shopping
2004 - Car Stereo
2003 - Pants

hmm... that's as far as I can remember. Now for an informal poll. Here are my top choices for this year:

• Sushi
• Chat
• Home Improvement (like getting a couch cover, new curtains, etc.)
• Driving

Please vote for the one you think would be most torturous. Keep in mind that for some, there will have to be exceptions, i.e. driving for work. Also feel free to add something if you think of it.
Happy Mardi Gras!

Happy Birthday Mommy!

Just for Funsies

I bought a couch! It's sorta gross; pink, from Goodwill, oldish. I'll take a picture later.
I'm going to borrow my coworker's staple-gun and re-upholster the crap out of it...if I can find some good cheap fabric and if couch-cover shopping fails tonight. Maybe I'll just find a bunch of mismatched cheap fabric and patchwork it together. It'll be like a quilt! Oh - so meaningful!
heh.
I'd start working on it tonight but, ladies figure skating! I have loved figure skating since I was a wee girl, but stopped watching men's sometime after Elvis Stoijko. Oh - I remember when figure skating fell for me...duh. It was the Oksana Baiul-Viktor Petrenko Live Incest Variety Exhibition Show in 1993/4 in which they performed a horribly misguided attempt-to-be-hip routine to Swing the Mood by Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers. (If you listen to that - prepare to be punished. revision: I just listened and you can't quite tell how awful it is, but there are hints)
Oh well, new developments such as revised scoring techniques seem to have done wonders for ice dancing, so I wonder how it'll fare with ladies (probably fine because they're always awesome anyway). We'll see tonight! I'm going to go stare and giggle at that ice dancing gallery I posted just now...

Disgusting

On Guantanamo Bay detainees:

The Bush administration contends that enemy combatants are not entitled to the usual rights of prisoners of war set out in the Geneva Conventions.

I guess I've known about this, but reading it for the first time in a sentence is still unbelievably shocking. DISGUSTING.

Gold!

In my very short stint as a photojournalist at a local newspaper I got to use a press pass once. Mr. Soul Patch himself was the grand marshall of the Seafair parade so I was assigned to grab a few shots of him and the Chinese drill team. Like a good little photographer, I didn't want to let me stunted zoom get between me and a sweet shot of the strapping young speed skater.
After taking a few super boring shots of the Olympian from far away, I thought, "I got a press pass! I don't see no bodyguards!" so I dashed into the middle of the street where Ohno was drifting by in some fancy red car and snapped a few pictures, crouching down beside the car and taking some upward-aimed shots at him. I thought about it a second, then turned the camera around...

As I ran out of the middle of the parade back to the sidelines, some lady gave me a high-five and another exclaimed, "You go girl!" in the most genuine manner I may have ever heard. I think there also may have been applause.
Too bad I made that face.




P.S. Happy V day!

I love it!

So my fed. funded non-profit office is housed in a church that leases its space to other non-profits as well.
Apparenltly down the hall, we'll have a new tenant.

HA!

I love it.

Yet another reason

I like this person's writing style, and cynicism.

Diamonds are for Never

So - I guess I've bought into the idea that diamonds are special. I can't help it. They're shiny and I like shiny things.
But I'm thinking maybe when it comes time for me to piss my money away on a shiny reflective rock for myself, I'll praise science, not oppression.

www.diamondscultured.com

Thanks, Monkey

Thanks to the Monkey, I am ending my short blogging hiatus.
Just in time to tell you about my sweet new KNIFE!
Okay okay, I know that it's totally trendy and sorta silly that I'm basically just trying to be like Rachel Ray (OMG, I didn't think she took pictures like that!), but I can't help it! I needed something all purpose that I could slice tomatoes, smash garlic, and cut meat with that has a good feel to it... I LOFE IT!
Another triumph for my adult-life is that it was also my first credit card purchase. HELLO DEBT! j/k. I totally already paid it off. Maybe I prematurely shot my wad, but I also just got a buttload of overtime from my conference in Portland, so I wanted to pay off my bill before I got a chance to spend all my new money on jeans and shoes.
And my last update for the day - My new pootie should be here around Tuesday. Thanks again Ma and Pa!