WildFlower

No one wants to see THAT!

2008-10-27T01:14:08Z

So my dad, age 74, has a gall stone and has been in the hospital for three or four days. I went by to see him today with Bradley. I get to the lobby and call up to my step mom's cell phone.

She says they are waiting for us in the elevator lobby of the 5th floor.

So we go up in the elevator, accompanied by three total strangers who appear to be old as the Parthenon. One gentleman informs us he is the great grandfather of a one year old and a three year old. I would have believed a 10 and 13 year old as well.

...anyway...the fifth floor opens up and what are the 5 of us greeted by?

My father's naked ass crack.

Yay, hospital gowns.

We sit on the bench getting all the unnecessary details of the illness and hospital stay. Suffice to say you do NOT want to know about your fathers explosive bowel movements, even it if DOES mean he will indeed be living to embarass you further for an additional unspecified number of years.

Eventually, a surgeon assigned to asess whether he needs to have the stone surgically removed comes by the lobby and asks my dad to step into his room. My dad says, why can't we talk out here and the doc says, "I'd like to examine you and well..." I'm thinking, he's about to say "no one wants to see THAT!" but he doesn't...he says, I'm sure you'd like privacy for that. My dad complies. Even though he shares the room with 4 other patients, this seems vaguely reasonable. At least they have the bedsheet-curtains between them.

He'll be getting a drain inserted surgically, then staying a couple more days, then leaving for home with the drain still intact for I don't know how many days after that.

My dad hasn't shaved, or had a proper bath for days. His hair is a bush of silver thick bristles that only lay down because they are greasy. His cheeks are puffy, but he keeps laughing at my jokes and then wincing because it hurts to laugh. He was near tears with simultaneous pain and laughter for the whole hour i was there. He sent me off with step mom to buy me lunch - at Carl's Junior, cuz that's how we roll in our family.

Best laugh of the day was when he told me, " You should see the sign above my bed - No food or Drink." My response was, 'So don't feed the bears, huh?" He loved that. So we took a pic of him with the sign. He was still too tickled by the bear imagery, he couldn't growl for the picture.

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2008-08-04T07:13:06Z

The family of cats that we found on our doorstep relocated after we swiped a kitten. To our backyard. Now we are feeding all of them.

ComicCon 08 Part the Second

2008-07-30T07:14:15Z

Since Thursday was just check in and meet up with friends day, and Friday I spent all day locked up in panels with one of my favorite nerds on the planet and 500 of our fellow..well...geeky, smelly, costumed and uncostumed nerds, I had Saturday left to bring the boy (Age 8) to the Con. Lynette, my new girlfriend from New Zealand (she's married to one of my other favorite people, and now he says he's been replaced by her)

We took the car to our nearest trolley station, in Santee, and got on a trolley that took us right in front of the Convention Center, arriving at about 11:30 am. Trekked (pun intended) into the ConCenter immediately in search of food after getting Bradley his Child's Badge (very well executed method of identifying parents on badge and not the child's first name. Parent's cell phone on back of badge.)

Pretzel Dog and soft pretzels with cheese was the food we settled on. Lemonade.

And off we went to the Exhibit Halls. All of the halls were opened and filled with every kind of geekspasm inducing merchandise, advertising and personality you could imagine. Costumed Con goers and booth workers (usually hot chicks in skimpy costumes to draw in the sex starved yet vaguely oblivious fan boys who roamed in search of recently released comics, hard to find props and princess leia costumes. There were an amazing number of slave princess leias and poison ivy firls. There were superfriends, and costumed villains, monsters and robots, Princesses and Austrian yodelers (ummm WTF???).

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Bradley's mission, to wander in an increasingly chaotic fashion, driven only by the next shiny object or storm trooper costume that he spotted. Our mission (mine and Lynette's) was to have pictures of as many costumed characters as possible. At first we tried to get either one or both of us or Bradley in the pic, then we decided it would be fun to just crash other peoples photo ops and have pics of random geeks with costumed characters. Fun!

Two funny encounters:

One was the Robin character who apparently thought I was lighter than i was when he unexpectely swept me off my feet. I'm 5'0" of muscle (ok...120 of muscle...30 of fat...I flatter myself) so he must have been surprised to feel 150 lbs of me come up off the ground and i felt like I was gonna go over with him but he steadied himself and as my son zoomed the camera on my still contorted face and limbs, he muttered through clenched teeth, "Take the picture...Take....the...picture." LOL. He put me down and when i looked at the picture and saw that i resembled the late Terry Schiavo, I asked for another. He passed on picking me up (duh) and knelt down next to me, prince-like and when the photo was done, kissed my hand and called me a beautiful lady.

The other was as I was accosting the very impressively costumed Mrs Lovett from Sweeney Todd ("These are the worst meat pies in London!"). A character I didn't immediately register nosed up into my personal space and said, "Do you know who I am?" I had to look at him and say...I don't think we've met. Then I laughed and said, you look familiar but I can't quite remember your characters name." He said look at my face." which was a white sack with ink blots on it..."Rorshock!" then this little exchange happened:

R: Do I frighten you.
Me: ummm.... you do now!
R: Have you done something bad for you to be afraid of me?
Me: Ummm no, do you want me to do something bad?
(laughter from standers-by)
R: stutters...thrown out of character..."Ummm...no i'm a good guy and I punish bad people...errr..."
Me: Oh ok. Just checking. Wasn't sure where this conversation was going is all.

We got our pics with lots of good characters, mostly Bradley did, but I go my picture with the cute Robin above and then two of the Monarch's Henchman.

We took a break for coffee and met up with my friend Dan Silver to bring him a cup as he waited for the BSG panel (lucky bastard, no panels for me on Saturday) and give him a late birthday present. I prompty spilled my giant iced coffee in front of him (so embarassing) and then we went back to the expo room where I'm pretty sure we spent an hour in the Pokemon booth while Lynette looked in the Marvel booth.

Decided we'd better eat something so we went to eat at the neaby Horton Plaza mall (by now I was confident how to got back and forth, too late to save me the embarassment I suffered on Thursday.)

Then we returned, and wandered a bit in the collectibles section where I drooled over some wood carved Tinkerbell figures. I've become quite fixated on the tiny, sexy, mischievous fairy. Hmmm... then we headed out.

Then the second best thing of the entire con weekend happened. Lynette pointed out William Katt, the former star of Greatest American Hero standing by a booth. He looked pretty damned good. When the show was on I think I was 14 and had a giant crush on the happless, accidental, alien-suit powered superhero. So I walked up to him and touched his arm timidly to interupt his conversation with one of the people working his booth.

"Excuse me, Mr Katt?"
"Yes...hello, sweetheart, what can I do for you?'
"I'm sorry to bother you Mr. Katt, but I loved your show. You rock!"
"Well, thank you very much."
"Are you signing today?"
"No, I'm sorry, not until tomorrow."
"oh...I cant' come tomorrow. (pouty face) Couldn't you please sign for me today? I love you!"
"Well, I really shouldn't...oh well since you're such a sweetheart, what's your name?"

While he signed the little mini GAH comic special, I said, you look great....you aren't much older than me though..and he protested he had to be ages older than me. I still love that guy.

We got to the trolley just in time to catch a departing car and I think I was the happiest geek on the planet...well one of the three happiest...

Edit: Thanks for ruining a beautiful memory, TV. lol.

And I did see Waltzy both Friday and Saturday. He actually introduced me to someone who said they were interested in a project I'm working on.

Comic Con Recap '08

2008-07-27T13:42:19Z

OH. MY. GOD.

SUCH A GOOD CON.

Thurs - check in...wander con, meet up with friends for a beer., and laugh at them while they relate hotel room antics and take "candid" shots of unsuspecting women of all levels of hotness and or geekitude. Decide to try to go back to work for a short attempt to complete some tasks before my first official CON DAY OFF. Lose myself, and thusly my car, downtown because the downtown mall is disguised as nondescript city buidings to keep the look of downtown "non commercialized" and because of serious genetic material missing that keeps me from navigating even the simplest path from the convention center to the parking garage. Also, I think my already flawed directional system was thrown off by proximity to jamming equipment AKA, hot dude helping me find the mall and subsecquently my car. Abandon idea of looking intelligent and allow hot dude to call a cab to a transistional destination, and return later than planned to look for car successfully with less distraction walking next to me. Go back to work and try futilly to make up for the impromptu trip for about a half hour before giving up and going home.

Friday - wake up 0630, eat breakfast with out of town visitors who won't be attending the con that day. Get much needed coffee which I should have just applied to my blood system with an IV. Drive to mall. Park. Write down location of vehicle. Carefully note path to Convention as I walk there, realizing my navigational errors were were so devastingly stupid i'm certain the hot dude would believe I am a complete moron were he to discover how near we were to my car.

10:30 to 1pm, wander Con, find random goodies to buy, including a comic book about Zombie roadkill and a Bionicles "trade" detailing the genesis of said Legorific creatures, coveted by my 8 year old. 1pm meet up with friend for lunch, then line up for room 6b where I will spend the next 7 hours of my life. Half of which was spent in an outside portion of the Con Center in a ridiculously long line of geeks. We were part of the line that was eventually told to get out their hankies because we weren't getting into the Dark Knight panel even if we were to show them our collective boobies. Half the geeks in line left in tears...unable to see the beauty of the plan to put the Venture brothers panel and the MST3K 20th reunion panel in the same meeting room, even though they were seperated by the "xbox live" panel that was an hour long infomercial by 8 pretentiously self deprecating "horror short film" directors taking a stab at being "comedy short film" directors for xbox live content which was previewed and not half bad , and the Robot Chicken panel whose highlights were a jewish mother trying to pimp her 17 year old daughter to Seth Green and an actor who I immdiately spotted as an asshole DA from one of the Law And Order variants, coincidentally who I loved seeing gunned down in cold blood in an underground parking lot. (BTW, that happens in so many crime dramas I wonder if it EVER happens to real DA's in large cities).

Venture Brothers panel so far exceeded my expectations of hilarity I now want to get doubleteamed by Jackson Pollak and Dean Venture. Highlights include references to a cat fight between Dr. Girlfriend and Molatav Cocktease and Jackson Pollak devastating a con-goer in No. 24 garb by out doing his Ray Romano voice and his one liners and then cutting the poor guy to ribbons when he asks to get to finish his question: "OH EXCUSE ME. YOU KEEP GETTING INTERUPTED BY THE CREATOR OF THE SHOW!" The entire audience erupted in laughter as the poor guy slunk back to his seat. Well at least he got a t-shirt.

MST3K reunion unspeakably funny from the clip reel showing the funniest moments of the show, to the moderator who kept up with the panel, to Joel being there. Panel ad libbed barbs, answers to the moderators hilarious questions and 2 line skits spontaneously created by the panel. The panel will be included in the 20th answer DVD boxed set of 4 "never before seen episodes". I never stopped laughing and frequently wiped tears from the corners of my eyes and participated in not one, but two standing ovations. BUY THIS SET WHEN IT COMES OUT. Great one liner: "I'm a homemaker" spoken by one of the female stars and followed closely by the silence in the room when of the other female panel members states: I go around the country and talk to young people about Jesus."

Left 6B at 8:30 pm and if it weren't for the reentry ticket that allowed us to duck out during the Robot Chicken panel and get coffee and take a whizz I might have fainted from the non specific body oder accumulated in a room constantly filling and emptying by a population of people who, picked at random, only 50% might have been schooled in personal hygeine as children.

Saturday will have to go in a separate post as it was completely different flavor and focus: Working the EXHIBIT HALL with and ADHD 8 year old and a camera.

1wildflower @ 2008-07-23T13:18:00

2008-07-23T20:29:06Z

Diablo Crossfit - Everytime you do CrossFit a sweat demon gets its wings.

CrossFit North Santa Cruz - need a pic of the back because it rocks. Wicked Skull logo.

Geekspasms of Joy!

2008-07-23T20:12:33Z

ComicCon starts today!

i'm going Friday and Saturday at a minimum. Lots of friends here to see for it. Visiting friends from NZ going as well as doing other touristy and crossfit (http://crossfit.com) things.

Also, I feel pretty.

And I like kissing.

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2008-07-14T02:31:00Z

Just walked Right into the sliding glass door. Some one cleaned it.

(Actually happened a few hours ago but I wanted to send something interesting from my text sent box to test.)

Hey, Strangers....

2008-07-14T02:09:03Z

I just popped in because I got an update notification from unimag's journal (lad's mom going through cancer treatments. My best wishes to her.) and thought I'd post a couple links:

1. CrossFit Games were last weekend, and I went to compete....http://crossfitgames.com is the link to the event site, and here are my photo albums. Http://picasaweb.google.com/laurar06/CrossFitGames and Http://picasaweb.google.com/laurar06/CrossFitGamesContinued I traveled by car with three folks I know from the internet CrossFit community, Julie from Scotland, Patrick from Texas and Chris from England. I place darn near last but this competition is the best of the best and to even be listed in the competitors was a thrill. At some point I will have vid of my workouts or at least one so I'll post here as well.

2. http://sfcop.blogspot.com - the real life, though disguised, adventures of an active duty San Francisco police officer. Just started a couple of weeks ago. Pop in and read the stories...they're legit street cop stories and good reads.

3. Also my CrossFit blog: http://crossfit.laurascorner.com is on place I still post at least as many times in a week as I workout. Some pics posted there as well.

4. Oh and adding this because its fucking hilarious: http://listoftheday.blogspot.com/2008/04/photobombers-of-day.html

Bullet list thingy

2008-02-27T06:21:59Z

Lunch with an old friend today. Girly talk, and giant plates of fajitas. Then icecream!
Working on a book publishing thingy. Partners with the author. Agreed on the 20 percent agent thingy. Mailed off a package today to Bleakhouse Books. *crossing fingers*
My office mate is laid off and I have the office to myself...I'm lonely.
New music interests: Celtic Punk/Irish Pub music. Faves: the pogues - hell's ditch, tuesday morning, a pair of brown eyes, the boys from county hell. Flogging Molly - Laura (duh), black friday rule, if I ever leave this world alive.
I'm 42. Thanks for the birthday wishes on the Ruckerl2k username. LOL. I need to update there too. ;P

Scathing Movie Review!

2008-02-27T06:09:36Z

Asked if I saw Jumper and my opinion, I replied:

I found it deeply unsatisfying...Firstly, Hayden Christenson continues his tradition of wooden performances and whining masquerading as emoting. Secondly, the ending is too abrupt. And I can't stand the thought of a sequel.

The execution of the main premise is thrilling because the characters go everywhere on the planet in shocking fashion, but the story goes almost nowhere.

Upsides: Samuel L Jackson and Jamie Bell. Jackson because he's as bad ass as ever,even though I had to cringe at the line he delivers twice: "Only God should have that power." And Jamie Bell because of his brilliant British delivery of smart comments. He should have played a much bigger part in the film.

Also the female lead is nothing better than a plot device and her presence adds nothing whatever to the film.

hah

1wildflower @ 2008-02-06T20:05:00

2008-02-07T04:06:58Z

I recieved a 100 dollar spot bonus in the form of an AmEx gift card directly from my 3rd level manager.

"You have no idea how much you just helped those all the way up at the top understand how this critical piece of software works."

It could have gone either way

2008-02-06T07:47:35Z

Yesterday, a program manager, which is just another way of saying a person who doesn't do anything on a project except create deadlines and ask annoying questions, called me a couple of times and started asking a lot of annoying questions about our payroll system processing. Specifically, how we transmit our payroll files to the vendor for processing, and the vendor support for a certain custom program that we have been running for around 12 years.

I answered in my best techie getting annoyed voice the same questions I answer everytime a new program manager comes along for the payroll rollercoaster ride.

at 6pm that night, I get two emails. One, I'm cc'd on by the above PM wherein she asks some more questions to the network engineers about the dedicated network line we have between our mainframe and that of our vendor and one from my 3rd level manager, asking me for "an overview of all the payroll processes and network interfaces" just for his information.

Lovely. I look forward to answering the second email in detail the next day.

When I arrive in the morning I am typing an email to the Colonel (affectionately known, as he was a colonel in the Marine Corps before coming to our company) when my second level manager comes in to break the news to me. This PM has gone to her manager, concerned about our process (concerns which took many shapes throughout the day) and he had gone to our brand fucking new CIO to tell him that I was running certain parts of our payroll process, not only personally (i'm not) but from my desktop (I'm not). He wants a report ASAP to explain that unaccepatble shit. Well, hell, I would, too.

My 2nd level manager, Dave, asks me for a one page diagram that shows how data moves around between the various endpoints and where that data is processed. I happen to have a very complicated diagram showing just that, but it's really complicated so after a couple of consultations with my first level manager and a coworker I boil it down to the basice, add some step by step explanations of the process, and some bullets about support responsibilities. Hand it in to 2nd level (Dave) and he emails it to 3rd level (Colonel).

Again, at 6pm I get an email from the Colonel: Terrific Job! Great work! He loves it. He's copied all the managers previously mentioned and then some. But not the CIO. My first level emails me privately: Nice work.

Then a little bit later the manager who got the CIO all fired up, emails me; SIMPLY DAZZLED he says. Extols the virtues of my concise, thorough, fast work and my format for including the systems, the process, the applications and responsibilites and copies his underlings to use my diagramming methods for there next architecture diagram.

LOL.

Could have gone either way. I could have come out a lot worse for wear. I wasted an entire day on it but somehow, it feels worth it.

Warning: May Contain Sarcasm

2008-01-19T21:10:35Z

The Best Parts of the Worst Amusement Park Ever

This is soooooo long...put it behind a cut.

If you do not have a child under the age of 10 there is no reason to visit LegoLand ™, located in beautiful Carlsbad, California. EVER. No, really. And even if you do, there is little incentive for a given parent to set foot in the park.

LegoLand is the single largest one-product advertisement disguised as entertainment, outside of Nickelodeon TV*. Even Disneyland, whose gift shops are strategically placed so you must pass through them with your Disney-Princess-greedy little 6 year old darling screaming that she NEEEEEDS the tiara and sparkle dress, has some semblance of being an entertainment venue FIRST and a merchandising monolith second. Not so with LegoLand. It doesn’t even pretend to sell anything other than Legos. 12 gift shops and guess what you can buy? Yeah, Legos. Duh. And some t-shirts and hats with pictures of Legos. Oh, and some key chains that look like Legos.

All of the roller coasters are so tame as to ensure that there are no 20-something, tattooed skater boys wandering the park in packs, secretly under the influence of Jack Daniels, i.e. Nothing to leer at. None of the sections are sponsored by a big name booze company a la Busch Gardens/Six Flags/Magic Mountain, which ensures that anyone walking around with a beer in their hand will be viewed as a bad parent, as all of the park inhabitants are parents of children whose average age is 4. Besides yawn-inducing roller coasters, the other form of so-called entertainment provided is evenly spaced opportunities to play with -- you guessed it -- Legos! These, interestingly enough, are the busiest locations in the park, as what kid can resist a nice Lego pit. Which leaves dozens of parents loitering anxiously hoping beyond logic that their child will get tired of assembling the maddeningly tiny blocks of plastic and beg to be taken to one of the spine tingling rides…oh, wait...yeah, there aren’t any.

Even given the above disincentives, you may still end up in the Snoriest Place on Earth. Perhaps you might want to go one time with your child so he doesn’t grow up resentful and emotionally crippled or perhaps the trip seems inevitable, because of because of, oh, I don’t know, say a school field trip.\ In the latter case, you may still be able to get out of it. In a classroom of 30 children, only 7 suckers, I mean chaperones are required. It’s easier to get out of than jury duty. I, however ,was not crafty enough.

There were some things that were almost pleasant, or at least made it so that I did not become extremely crabby during my 7 hour stay in the amusement park that contains approximately 47 minutes of amusement.

1. No crowds – the place is a ghost town. And rightly so, I mean, really this is the biggest yawn on the planet, I doubt there are any return visitors beyond the local school children who are automatically blessed with a yearly field trip to balance out the zoo, museums and the Institute for Creations Science (Private Christian Schools only). However, due to the aforementioned Lego play locations, much of the benefit gained in short ride lines, is lost in the amount of time it takes you to wheedle, beg and threaten your child to get in line for the intended ride before the park closes. If your child doesn’t like Legos, he or she can play in a giant sand pit looking for ‘fossils’, or run endlessly through some randomly timed and very fascinating water spouts, thus ensuring it takes you no less than 40 minutes to walk from one ride to the other.

2. It has a good “sports” café (sponsored oddly enough not by Legos but by Upper Deck, maker of sports and other trading cards. Lego influence was minimal. The burger didn’t taste like it was packaged upwards of 7 hours ago, which surprised me, as I was eating lunch close to most of the patrons’ naptimes (for those of you without children, that’s around 2pm) and the only thing that looked like a Lego in the place were the little sugar packet caddies on the table.

3. The Technic Test Track Ride. This is the only ride in the park that actually feels like a roller coaster. The initial drop is maybe 30 feet and it’s the only thrill, but if you’ve been watching your child race his homegrown Lego cars for 2 hours, baby, you don’t complain when he wants to ride this thing five or six times in a row.

4. MiniLand – if you ever do have to go to LegoLand, i.e. you can’t sucker anyone else into escorting your little darling, you should spend approximately 2/3 of your visit in this really impressive land of miniature American and International Landmarks. Historical events such as a riot, a jazz funeral and peace rally are depicted in Legos. A presidential motorcade and a little dog chasing a hot dog vendor to get a snack encompass the range of Americana. Las Vegas, San Francisco, Washington DC and Philadelphia figure prominently but the really amazing model is of New York City. The Guggenheim Museum, Central Park as well as scale models of the Empire State Building and Grand Central Station are reproduced in painstaking detail. Down to the guy taking a crap in the bathroom of Grand Central and guy carrying a banana (wtf???).

5. Ok, the Legos. Or rather the really cool Lego statues of Batman, Darth Vader and other characters beloved by both kids and 20-something-tattoed-skaterboys. I can imagine a world in which there is a Lego attraction much like Madame Toussaud’s Wax Museum. With statues of Bill Gates, Jennifer Flowers and Carrot Top.

6. Creative Photo Ops – #4 & #5 above provided some very amusing photo settings. The first time I went I took a zillion pictures of MiniLand. This time, aside from the obligatory “look how cute my kid is” shots, I only took pictures of the above characters and some of the locations in MiniLand that I found particularly amusing.

7. My kid is awesome. Providing the ideas for many of the photo ops in #6 and surprising me by not lying down on the floor of every lego shop crying and begging me to pleeeeeeeese buy him the 300.00 model of the Millennium Falcon, which I most assuredly would have spent 60 years assembling. It would be that long before I realize the same kid had swallowed 50 of the 8000 blocks, experimenting with the wonders of the human digestive tract. As any mother of a seven year old knows, the game “What would happen if I ate this” reappears about now. You mothers of 3 year olds, you think you’re safe, but you’re not.

And as a bonus I’ll suggest some improvements that would make LegoLand more pleasant for adults who have to escort the kiddies through brick heaven:

1. Don’t charge adults who are accompanied by a child. They are not going to enjoy themselves, so charging them is like charging juries to sit for their civic duty. Adults without kids should be charged double, though.

2. If beer is available in the park, it should be prominently advertised. I’d pay the same amount I paid for a cup of really sweet 7-11 style “mocha cappuccino” – approximately 14.00.

3. Put in a skate ramp.

4. Add at least one roller coaster with a loop.

5. Add a mini whore house to mini Vegas

*I will grant that the TV shows on Nickelodeon do keep Bradley entertained and he prefers the shows for tweens over the ones geared toward his age group. iCarly and Drake and Josh are his favorites.

No wonder I'm cranky.

2008-01-08T07:33:40Z

What I didnt' get for Christmas:

1. A Flask. See MEME below. Good for Birthday Parties, Company sponsored events and Alcohol Free wedding receptions.

2. A boomerang. I don't know why I want one, but Beyonce got one for her nephew, so I want one, too.

3. Tea lites. See...I know I don't SEEM like the tea lite type, while I was evacuated from the town of Ramona for 5 days, I was a vagabond, depending on the kindess of friends. 5 different homes, of friends who are all guys. However, they are all married and their wives all had tastefully decorated their homes. Tea lite displays prominently mocked my non-feminine side. I have no tea lites. The tea lites mocked me. Damned girly little candles.

4. A machete. I know, it's hard to conceal but if you have one mounted on the gun rack of your red Hyunday Elantra, who's gonna try to steal it?

5. A Karaoke Machine. Anyone who's seen that red Hyndai Elantra zipping up Highway 67 with the ridiculous lady singing Dirty Old Town by the Pogues and My Wish by Rascall Flatts will probably thank GOD this one did not show up under my tree this year.

Anyway...what is it...350 something shopping days til....

I prefer to think of it as 'apprentice'.

2008-01-08T07:24:21Z

Ganked from Dan Silver - TIANNIT #63 Go looky.

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2007-12-30T20:08:24Z

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2007-12-30T20:07:47Z

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2007-12-28T05:19:34Z

...so much for regular updates!

I hope everyone had a good Christmas. I had a pretty pleasant one. Got some good stuff.

Hubby bought (mostly paid for it anyway) me that espresso maker the ascaso dream that had gone on sale and the only one left was display so the Starbucks manager let me buy it for her emplyee shopping discount plus an extra 20% discount for a used model. Sweet! He also got me one of those sampler packs of Kirkland coffee from Costco.

He got from me and my mom: warm shirts, and about 100 dollars in gift cards. He seemed happy.

We got Bradley (7), tons of stuff including a travel case for his Nintendo DS, 2 games for it, about 10 Hot Wheels cars, a bunch of superhero action figures. His dad bought him the spiderman web shooting gear from costco which was really neat but we used up all the web cans already. LOL. Good luck finding the refills.

My friend, Dan, and I sent eachother gifts - we've been texting friends for about 5 months and so it was fun to pick out things based on his interests and have him get them and say "The gift box rules!" haha. He sent me music, 2 CD's (Death by Stereo, Neurosis) and a DVD of live performances by ISIS - Clearing the Eye, which totally rocks. I gave him mostly toys (Battlestar Galactica model toy, some Batman Hotwheels, a skin for his XBox 360 with Halo 3 theme, the really pretty Starbux shot glass set, some silly party cups and plate with Spiderman on it...you know a bunch of kid stuff. Plus cookies!

Gotta run. I'll post pics in a little bit.

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2007-12-19T22:38:57Z

I want to brush my teeth so badly. Ha. Normally, i have a brush with me but not today.

1wildflower @ 2007-11-24T00:21:00

2007-11-24T08:24:13Z

Cat just walked across my keyboard and erased my sex entry.

Fuck.

haha.

MIA??

2007-11-24T08:00:15Z

It seems I have fallen out of the habit of blogging my daily life. My little bursts of sarcastic humor...my insecurities, anxieties and my cravings.

The main reason is I have been kind of blogging them to individuals via text messages and email, and then not needing to vent to the wider audience. I think about blogging often, but don't seem to have the energy or incentive to actually type the words here, having already let the steam out to my tiny immediate audience.

I read my friends page a couple of times a week. I'm SURE I'm missing major events, birthdays, and lots of funny, intelligent writing.

I feel a little guilty. I'm sure no one is losing sleep over my absence but still I feel like I'm being a bit irresponsible.

I have a friend in New Zealand who emails me approximately 25 times a day, and he is an utter doll. I have another friend in San Francisco, with whom I exchange maybe the same number of cell phone texts a day -- random, impromptu and often ridiculously frivolous messages. Both of them have become such a permanent part of my existence, much the way livejournal did a few years ago.

This little core group here at 1wildflower seems to be the folk I miss the most. I'm going to make an effort to write here at least once a week. It's christmas...I guess I am a bit emotional about personal ties at this time of the year.

I will write a proper update soon but just wanted to let you all know I think about you all, check on you and consider you permanent parts of my existence.

Killswitch Engage - My Last Serenade

2007-11-01T20:35:11Z

Ok, I totally love this song and this video.

My friend Dan told me to look for this song on youtube. He knows me all too well.

1wildflower @ 2007-10-16T14:02:00

2007-10-16T21:04:29Z

Oooh....looky what I made: Http://danielbsilver.com

Editing to add, I'm helping Mr. err... Officer Silver get his book published. We thought a nice artsy site to put his creative yet not so crazy side out there for publishers to look at when we submit proposals.

The background pic was taken by his friend Brett, who has a an absolutely fantastic flickr site with pictures of his friends and social activities up in San Francisco. Dan figures in a few of those pics.

Dan's been in at least 3 punk/rock bands, written the songs, performed the music and vocals and you can download two demo albums (one directly from danielbsilver.com and on linked to another friend's site). He gave me some of his poetry to post but I've only got two up.

He also created a tribute site for one of his slain fellow officers, whose birthday just passed and the anniversary of his death is approaching. Please take a look at that site, which is linked as well.

Miss you guys. Been busy with the above. Still around. :)

if you have any books you want published, see me after you see Dan's book in Barnes and Noble...hopefully within the year!

Banquet

2007-10-03T06:24:22Z

Ok, I really like this....I wrote it. And every time I read it I still love it. What do you think?

Banquet

I'm hungry for you.

I could dine for days
on dishes of your
tasty thoughts
and sip deep red wine
from your cup of
pleasure, and its warmth
would make me forget
my wisest manners.

I'd recline at your pleasant
table and sample desserts
of your sweet words
and slather savory sauces
of your biting humor and
tempting sensuality
over meaty ponderings.

I'd linger over trays
of appetizing morsels of
your wit arranged
just so they do not seem
arranged at all
and after I had had my fill,
I'd lick my fingers
even though it's rude.

Because I know you like it.

Confession

2007-09-22T16:22:05Z

Well, I've gone and done it.

I've cheated.

i'm really sorry, honey. But it just happened. I didn't plan it and I feel bad.

I was browsing the web and wanted to see what a Peet's coffee takeout cup looked like (to see what kind of coffee and on-line friend was drinking at his desk) and there was this link.

I clicked it. Then I clicked another one. And before I knew it I had signed up for Peetscoffee.com login so I could send my friend an "e-cup"....

It won't happen again. I promise.