Author Archives: Cindy

funny pics & other stuff

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I don’t know why it has been impossible for me to clean my apartment this week. Maybe it’s because I feel like I’m coming down with a cold. Or maybe I’m just lazy. But it’s bugging me, I have several loads of (clean, mind you) laundry that’s sitting on the floor waiting to be put away. Ah well, maybe this weekend.

Speaking of which, I’m very excited that Nate & I will be having Drunk Movie Night tomorrow. A couple of mediocre flicks & a bottle of Orange Stoli, what else does a girl need on a Friday night? I am soooooooo looking forward to that after the week that I’ve had.

And now, a few funny images which I am presenting for your general amusement….

First, this one seemed particularly appropriate since Scott & I had a conversation about cigarette butts on sidewalks the other day.

This is the kind of parent I hope to be someday: Better Than Time Out

I really hope this is a joke, or maybe this guy’s family really understood his weird sense of humor. I don’t know, I just have this funny feeling that someone’s going to hell for that….

And my personal favorite – he does what???

That is all. Goodnight, folks.

sunday night recap

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Friday night was fun. I met up with Scott & the guys at Shorty’s, which is a vaguely sketchy bar with the most disgusting Trainspotting-esque ladies room I’ve ever witnessed. (No seat, just a bowl. And it won’t flush. Lovely.) So we quickly left there (for which I was extremely grateful) and headed over to Kell’s, which seems to have become my favorite Irish bar in Seattle. After that we ended up at a gay dance club on First called Sonja’s or something like that, which was pretty cool. And kind of amusing to notice how all the guys seemed a little more tense in that environment. I guess it’s just ingrained in the heterosexual-male nature.

Anyway, Scott & I checked out apartments on Saturday, but didn’t find much that I was just absolutely head-over-heels for. I think the problem is that I am just not willing to live in a place without a washer & dryer. I’ve done the laundromat thing — or worse, the shared laundry facilities where you feel safe enough to leave your stuff alone and then your neighbors move it out of the washer so they can put their stuff in, and then you have to live with the knowledge that your neighbors have handled your underthings. And I’m just not willing to go through that again. Call me a spoiled brat if you must. But most of the places I saw on Saturday didn’t even have a dishwasher, which I think of as a pretty basic home appliance, and I am totaly unprepared to deal with that.

In any case, I have decided that if I move to Seattle, I either want to live in Queen Anne or Eastlake or something in that general area. I like the idea that I could have ample sources of entertainment (bars, restaurants, etc.) within walking distance. So today, I thought I’d check out the Sunday listings just to see if there was anything new, and there was, so I went back to check them out. (I’m starting to think of this as a fantasy that I like indulging. I haven’t actually committed to anything yet.) I found 4 places that I really, really like — and 2 of them I may actually be able to afford. One is in Queen Anne (and it has the required amenities), and the other is in the University District, on a street that’s only about 3 blocks from Dante’s, the bar with the cool devil matchbooks and the evil knock-you-on-your-butt shots. I don’t know if that type of thing should dictate where I live, unless I have aspirations of becoming an alcoholic (which I don’t), but it’s a cool idea. That one is not actually an apartment, it’s the upstairs of a house that’s basically been converted into a duplex-type setup.

So that’s about it for my weekend. Watched a couple of movies last night, “Bend It Like Beckham” and “The Hours”. I guess I had a chick flick moment at the video store, but I really liked both of them. Although I have to say, I don’t know why Nicole Kidman won the best actress Oscar for “The Hours”, because I honestly thought her character was the most boring of the 3 female leads. I thought both Meryl Streep & Julianne Moore were better. But hey, that’s just me.

Hope everyone had a good weekend.

my migratory existence

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Sorry it’s been a while since I’ve posted. I’ve been preoccupied with several things as of late, most of which I can’t really talk about (combination of fear of jinxing it, and the fact that certain people read this who don’t need to know this information). One of the smaller items that’s been on my mind is that I’m kicking around the idea of moving into Seattle. This is dependent on a few factors which may or may not come to fruition, but I think I like the idea. I’ve lived in the southern & eastern suburbs of the city and have yet to do the real urban living thing, so I think it’d be a cool change. Plus it would be nice for those of you who come to visit me here, so all the cool stuff to do would be within walking distance (or at least a very short cab ride away). And who knows, it might even be cheaper than where I’m living now — although it appears that I will have to sacrifice my washer & dryer, because I can’t seem to find any places within my price range that have that amenity.

So to that end, Scott has bravely volunteered to go apartment hunting with me tomorrow. And once again, this is why I always tell people to write my address in pencil. I’ve lived in this apartment for about 15 months now, which is the longest I’ve lived anywhere since the house I rented with Kris and Kristy/Megan/whoever-would-pay-1/3-the-rent back in college.

Anyway, tonight I’m off to meet up with Scott & some other Microsoft geek boys for a night on the town. Hmm. Should be interesting.

Halloweenies

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Well, the spooks really do come out on Halloween. I went out with Scott and the boys last night, which was pretty interesting. First off, my costume was pretty rockin’, if I do say so myself. I don’t think the false eyelashes are too noticeable in that photo, but they were black & silver… tres dramatique. And the things you can’t see in that photo include: t-shirt that says “I Bite.” on the front, mini-skirt, belly chain, thigh highs (yep, the whole garter belt ensemble, which was not all that uncomfortable except that toward the end of the night, they kept falling down, which was annoying) and knee-high boots. Very fun. I ended up nixing the fangs because they didn’t stay on very well. I couldn’t really talk when I had them on, nevermind eat or drink anything, so that idea got scrapped pretty fast.

I took some pictures of the guys, but this pic of Scott with his friend Brian was the only picture that turned out at all. I think the bar must’ve been too dark, all the other pictures are just black. The funny thing to note about Scott in that particular photo is that he was actually sober at the time, but totally doesn’t look it.

Anyway, I found out the hard way that I’m apparently allergic to false eyelash adhesive. Woke up today & my eyes were swollen & puffy. They’re ok now, but still kind of achey. Probably won’t be doing that again, which sucks because they looked awesome.

I also noticed that this is the 2nd time in my life that I have consumed Jagermeister — technically Jager Bombs, which are Jager shots dropped in Red Bull — surprisingly yummy, kinda like cherry cough syrup with a carbonated kick. However, both times have ended with me crying at some point in the evening. I suppose that could just be a coincidence, but I’m typically a very happy drunk, so I think that possibly that particular beverage is just very, very bad for me.

Anyway, the most notable costumes I can think of from last night were a guy in a giant penis outfit (the balls started around his knees & reached down to his ankles), Roy sans Siegfried (complete with stuffed tiger attached to his back with a big bleeding gash in his neck), and various and sundry scantily clad women, which was a feat in itself because it was 29 degrees outside last night. My personal favorite was the guy who was static electricity — he had dryer sheets & socks stuck randomly to his clothes — but I think that was more because he & his friend (a sailor) were very nice & gave me directions back to Scott’s place when I got lost. (Long story…)

Hope everyone else had a fun Halloween too.

strange days indeed

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Things that happened today:
1. I got in a car accident. Very minor, one of those deals where everyone on the freeway slams on their brakes at once, and I did too, but I skidded & rear-ended the guy in front of me. No damage to his car (thank God, since it was my fault), but mine has a dent where his spare tire wheel bumped my hood. Oh well, could’ve been much worse.

2. I bought my fangs for Halloween. 🙂 I vant to dvink you blood….

3. I went to yoga & now I’m sore. Oh well, at least I did it.

4. I gave a Frito-Lay peanut butter & crackers thing to a homeless guy. I’m calling it my good deed for the day. My karma needs all the help it can get.

5. Shortly after said homeless person incident, I got a phone call which could potentially lead to something promising, but I’m not going to talk about for fear of jinxing it.

Thank god for Tylenol PM, otherwise I’d never get to sleep….

go me

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I decided last night that I was going to start working out again. I haven’t been to the gym since…. oh who am I kidding, the last time I went was probably late August or early September. The crazy thing is that I’ve actually lost weight during this time, which I can only assume means that I’ve lost muscle mass. I’m not exactly sure what brought on this sudden inspiration for fitness — I don’t know if it was the fact that I went shopping yesterday & I wasn’t happy with the way most of the clothes fit me, or if it was the fact that last night I ordered Domino’s and ate 1 piece of pizza and the entire thing of Cinna-stix (which, as far as I’m concerned, is the only reason to ever order Domino’s, because their pizza pretty much sucks).

In any case, I woke up early this morning to go to yoga. Ok, technically the class starts at 11:30, so I didn’t wake up that early, but it’s early for me on a Sunday. Anyway, I get myself all psyched up for this, and the class is actually something they call PiYo because it combines pilates & yoga, and I knew it was going to kick my butt, but I was ready for it. So I get there, and there’s no teacher. Eh???? The guy who taught the previous class stuck around and did a 45-minute stretching class for those of us who were looking forward to yoga, which was cool because it was very similar to yoga, but it wasn’t quite the butt-kicking experience I had in mind. I figured that as long as I was at the gym, I might as well make it worth my while, so I did 20 minutes on the elliptical cross-trainer before I left.

Oddly enough, I noticed mid-workout that I felt more energetic than I had felt for weeks, so obviously this is something that my body has been missing. So that’s it, I’m going to make a conscious effort to get my lazy butt back to the gym on a regular basis. There’s a yoga class tomorrow evening, which I’ll be attending — I figure that if I write about it here, then I have to do it or I’ll feel guilty. But the teacher had better show up this time, dammit.

Oh yeah, I also cleaned my entire apartment tonight. Laundry, vacuuming, windexing everything in sight, the whole shi-bang. Overall, I think it’s safe to say that I had an unusually productive weekend. Strange.