Awesome New Year’s Eve Party!!!!
Will be better about posting. Currently in the process of furniture hunting
Author: nainadg
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Holiday Parties
Work holiday party turned out to be really fun. We went to Michael Deanshttp://www.michaeldeans.com/
T’is the Season
J and I had our holiday day yesterday, which was well timed because of our fight saturday night. It was a good way to make up. We had fun, pretending we have money and ogling things for our very bare apartment.
Dining room wishlist-
http://www.pier1.com
http://www.sears.com
http://http://www.bakersracks.com/cart/shopper.cfm/action=view/key=OD001
J and I also got ourselves christmas presents. Yes we are lame! I am in love with his new hoodie he got at REI
http://www.burton.com/Burton/gear/products.asp?productID=134&shortMaterialNumber=B5440102
I got a sweater at GAP.
http://www.gap.com/asp/Product.asp?wdid=203070&wpid=266643
We are extremely predictable!
There is a christmas dinner for people at work and J is coming with me, so I hope it goes well.
Doggy Love
So we got the dog and the apartment.
Apartment: Move in day is today but I am at work and J is puppy sitting. That means we won’t have all our stuff in the new apt till Sunday. I don’t really mind.
Things bought for camp out in apt:Full size air mattress
Things we need for real life in apartment: List will be coming shortly. I will probably discuss them , mostly with myself in detail.
Puppy: Layla Blue, Australian Cattle dog mixed with who knows what. Total babe ! Total Bitch. She is really sweet, unless its early morning and ready to tear and bite and be obnoxious in general. She loves her monkey and her crate ( we got lucky).
We got Layla through www.petfinder.org and http://www.animalprotectionsociety.org(local).
If anybody is looking for a dog, I would highly recommend these sites.
Pet toy I am absolutely in love with -The Kong
http://www.kongcompany.com/default2.asp
Relationship: J and I only talk to each other about dogs and apartment. I am a little bothered, but I guess this is what is called an adult relationship. I can’t wait till we have dealt with immediate need and move on to discussing other stuff. Also, all this stress is making us snappy so I really hope we get through this phase soon.
Rolling
So we’ve signed the lease and have our keys, but I guess we still can’t move in till wed, because they are going to do some touch up work in the apt.
We are also supposed to get a puppy tomorrow. Since J and I super lame, we ‘ve already picked out names for a dog we don’t yet have-
Male- Louie
Female- Layla
We are dog hungry! Ha, that makes us sound barbaric:)
Its J’s b’day tomorrow, so other than the dog, I got him
a beanie from old navy :http://www.oldnavy.com/asp/Product.asp?wdid=10050&wpid=264094
and a book titled
Memoirs of a Primate-http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000062UJ0/qid=1102712075/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-1818978-2785562?v=glance&s=books
Looking forward to some big changes and big parties this weekend, especially since work has been a drag.
Welcom new tribe member!
Changes Ho!
http://www.trinitypropertiesapartments.com/Durham%20Anderson%20Dreamweaver.htm
New Apartment Layout. Will be moving in 12/15. Will also be getting dog then. Crazy changes, I tell you. Aparmtent has everything on our wishlist:
2 bedrooms
pet friendly
washer and dryer
budget friendly
good neigborhood
Must start packing soon.
Watched Dogtown and Z boys again last night. Such a bad ass movie. Made me want to relive my rockstar fantasy again. J says he is completely grown out of wanting to be a rock star. Now he just wants to be responsible and stable.
Lesson to self Be careful what you ask for.
I am definitely not ready for stability and yuppie coupledom yet, but I have to accept reality for what it is. I am super yuppie with a boring life.
Will get out of it…I promise
Family Christmas
Two new acquisitions for the week
Julia Alavarez – Something to Declare
Ann Patchett – The Patron Saint of Liars
ANTM Update: I can’t believe they eliminated Norelle. The girl left a lot to be desired in the brains department, but I thought she photgraphed well and was genuinely nice and naive unlike Miss Eva and the rest. Can’t wait for next week.
Early Christmas in Richmond
Additional Christmas present- Leather Jacket….purr!
On a quest to be a waitress. Idea spurned by J, back to being broke.
Thanksgiving Week
Okay so, the housing situation is under a major renovation. Big changes ahead….I have an impeding sense of gloom. Yeah yeah yeah…change is supposed to be good but I’m still a little nervous about this overhaul. Anyway more on that later, when things actually start to happen
So Imade a thanksgiving feast for J and me this thanksgiving. This is the first thanksgiving where i actually made a turkey roast and everything. A lot of things came from the box but, J isn’t overly fussy and traditional is so boring anyway. Here is my
Thanksgiving Day Feast
Roast Turkey Breast
http://www.mccormick.com/recipedetail.cfm?id=446 *****
Sausage Stuffed Mushrooms
http://appetizer.allrecipes.com/az/SsgStffdMshrms.asp **
Mashed Potatoes *****
(box)
Dirty Rice **
(box)
Gravy *****
homemade
This is what I’ve been the last couple of days:
Lady Lazarus
I have done it again.
One year in every ten
I manage it—–
A sort of walking miracle,
y skin Bright as a Nazi lampshade,
My right foot
A paperweight,
My featureless, fine
Jew linen.
Peel off the napkin
O my enemy.
Do I terrify?——-
The nose, the eye pits, the full set of teeth?
The sour breath
Will vanish in a day.
Soon, soon the flesh
The grave cave ate will be
At home on me
And I a smiling woman.
I am only thirty.
And like the cat I have nine times to die
This is Number Three.
What a trash
To annihilate each decade
What a million filaments.
The Peanut-crunching crowd
Shoves in to see
Them unwrap me hand and foot ——
The big strip tease.
Gentleman , ladies
These are my hands
My knees.
I may be skin and bone,
Nevertheless, I am the same, identical woman.
The first time it happened I was ten.
It was an accident.
The second time I meant
To last it out and not come back at all.
I rocked shut
As a seashell.
They had to call and call
And pick the worms off me like sticky pearls.
Dying
Is an art, like everything else.
I do it exceptionally well.
I do it so it feels like hell.
I do it so it feels real.
I guess you could say I’ve a call.
It’s easy enough to do it in a cell.
It’s easy enough to do it and stay put.
It’s the theatrical
Comeback in broad day
To the same place, the same face, the same brute
Amused shout:
‘A miracle!’
That knocks me out.
There is a charge
For the eyeing my scars, there is a charge
For the hearing of my heart—
It really goes.
And there is a charge, a very large charge
For a word or a touch
Or a bit of blood
Or a piece of my hair on my clothes.
So, so, Herr Doktor.
So, Herr Enemy.
I am your opus,
I am your valuable,
The pure gold baby
That melts to a shriek.
I turn and burn.
Do not think I underestimate your great concern.
Ash, ash—
You poke and stir.
Flesh, bone, there is nothing there—-
A cake of soap,
A wedding ring,
A gold filling.
Herr God, Herr Lucifer
Beware
Beware.
Out of the ash
I rise with my red hair
And I eat men like air.
—————-Sylvia Plath
Polar Express
So…All the reviewers were right , Polar Express sucks. Even being stoned out of my mind couldn’t help the movie. Tom Hanks was everywhere , which was creepy. It was one long monologue of him talking to himself basically.
The animation was stiff and robotic and the character’s eyes stared back at you just a little longer that it needed to, giving the impression, they were out to get me.
Cheesy Music! Cheesier story line! But worth watching if you are going to have a whole theater to yourself with two of your good friends , while completely fried.
I bet the ride is going to be way cool though! That is if they can convince the amusement parks the movie was a hit.
Orange You Grape 