Sunday, June 29, 2003

The Company

I think it's fairly obvious that I haven't been around much in the past week. That's because I've been working really hard on this.

So if you haven't heard about Brown Couch Theatre Company, please stop by the website and check it out. We just started a big marketing campaign, and the more people that are in the know, the better.

And if you have heard about it, spread the word, come to the show in August (where I'll be singing, live and in person...), and drop me a line if you have any questions or want to get involved.

P.S. There's a fun new picture of me on the company page...it's basically me messing around with my digital camera at two in the morning, because I hated the headshot that was up there before. So I don't look as fancy as everyone else. At least now I look like myself.
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 Tuesday, June 24, 2003
The Game

I realized tonight that even though there seems to be far more stress in my life than is needed, and even though none of my shorts fit, and even though I seem to literally be pulling my hair out faster than it can grow, things don't always have to be so bad.

Because there are always those friends that will call you at 11pm and tell you to come to the bar and play Golden Tee. And you will play for hours. And your thumbs may hurt the next day, and you may have lost a great deal of money in the Golden Tee skins world, but you are forever immortalized as a Great Shot Winner. Not only that, but you are the first on the list of Great Shots for the Blue Horizon Course (which frighteningly enough features a number of lava pits...remind me never to go to Australia...), because your shot went into the hole after bouncing two times on the lava rocks and one time on the green, far cooler than any of the other "great shots" which just kind of ended up near the hole but didn't go in.

Yes, that's right, your initials are forever emblazoned on the Cody's Golden Tee. Above everyone else's.

Which makes you put everything in perspective. Maybe other things are just as important as Golden Tee. Maybe all the troubles you may have with your job can be solved as easily as making a 4 foot putt on a flat green. Maybe money can be earned as easily as a 3 shot par.

Maybe it all doesn't have to be so hard.
6/24/2003 02:09:00 AM link | talk

Sunday, June 22, 2003
The Weather

It's finally warm here. Not quite summer, but nice.

And I've learned something, too.

These shorts totally don't fit.
6/22/2003 11:13:00 PM link | talk

The Garage

The only thing worse that seeing a mouse while you're cleaning is seeing a dead mouse.

And the only thing worse than seeing a dead mouse...

is seeing part of a dead mouse.

Yeah. Ew.
6/22/2003 01:18:00 AM link | talk (2)

 Thursday, June 19, 2003
The Imposition

So here's what I don't like. I don't like it when people ask you to do things, and those things that they ask require you to beg other people to do favors for someone else.

Does that make sense? It totally does in my head.

Perhaps a dramatic interpretation will help:

[ring]
Me: Hello?
Person #1: Hey, will you call so and so and ask them to do this?
Me: Um. OK.
[click]

[ring]
Person #2: Hello?
Me: Hey...I need someone to do this for so and so...are you available?
Person #2: What's the pay?
Me: Um...I'll take you to dinner?
Person #2: We have dinner all the time.
Me: Um. Yeah. See, there's not really any pay.
Person #2: And by "not really any pay" you mean that I'm doing this for free.
Me: Um. Yeah. Would you?
Person #2: You owe me...
[click]

I shouldn't have to be in a position that requires me to start every sentence with a tentative "Um". That's just not cool.
6/19/2003 12:28:00 PM link | talk (1)
The Baking

We learned something very important this evening. I want you to go get a pencil so you can copy it down.

No, go ahead...I'll wait.

.........

Ok. When making a cake, it is very important that you don't use non dairy creamer instead of an egg. What you should do is go out and buy more eggs so that you actually have enough for the recipe. Otherwise you wind up with a very sweet sort of cracker-like thing. Not cake at all.

And icing doesn't help. So don't try.
6/19/2003 12:48:00 AM link | talk (1)

 Wednesday, June 18, 2003
The Ow

Just fired up the Crossbow for some rowing.

Sweet lord my abs are out of shape. And how am I supposed to get them in shape if the stupid scar on my belly button hurts whenever I do stuff?

Grrr.
6/18/2003 10:29:00 AM link | talk

Tuesday, June 17, 2003
The Transience

So it's Sunday evening. We'd worked all day, went to dinner, and we're just sitting around my living room doing nothing. And then someone says "Let's go to Six Flags!"

At 6:30 pm. Six Flags closes at 9 pm. Six Flags is an hour away.

But we went anyway. The girl with the brilliant idea and the heavy driving foot paid for us. And we proceeded to run around the park for an hour and a half, riding roller coaster after roller coaster, because there were hardly any lines at that hour. We were surrounded by some of the trashiest people I've ever seen (and don't forget, I've been to Ohio...). We probably rode as many rides as we would have if we'd gotten there earlier and there had been lots of lines. We played up until they closed the park and then had our pictures taken for proof.



Then we went to the Wendy's Oasis. And had frosties. Mmmm.

So. You never can tell about me. I may just up and head to Six Flags at the drop of a hat.

It's part of my transient nature.
6/17/2003 03:50:00 PM link | talk (1)

 Wednesday, June 11, 2003
The Victory

LIJ's computer has been having some problems lately. He finally got it fixed, but it refuses to log onto the internet. This makes it difficult for him to play his new Star Wars game (which is apparently a big deal, because it's not out yet, but he's part of the beta test group, which is incredibly exciting, I suppose).

Yesterday, he asked if he could install it on my computer until our new wireless modems arrived. He said he'd pay any price.

And today...he did.

Let me show you what the basement looked like before:



And his room:



Here's what this woman thought:



I know. It's hard to look at. But after an evening of cleaning, and using my new vacuum, it looks like this:









I've even been teaching him how to hang things up in his closet and to put clean clothes in his dresser drawers (which were, since Thanksgiving, empty).

LIJ will now be playing Star Wars on my computer, but it will be totally worth it.

Yes, friends...I've conquered my Everest.
6/11/2003 11:51:00 PM link | talk (3)
The Morning

Spent the last hour playing with my new Crossbow.

It comes with a handy poster, showing you how to do all of the (over 65!) exercises. As I was looking at the rowing option, I was confused with the instructions. It says to place your feet on the crossbar. That seemed strange to me, since there's a footplate, and I didn't really see any other reason to have a footplate except for rowing (well, ok, and maybe leg presses). I looked closer at the picture, and my answer was clear.

"Ha ha ha ha, I have a footplate and you don't, ha ha ha ha!"

Yes. I was mocking the people in the poster.

(addendum: I suppose I should explain why I was motivated to exercise today...last night as I was in bed, I rolled over. I heard a ripping sound. The sound of my boxers ripping in half. Come on, Micky. Lay off the pizza.)
6/11/2003 10:47:00 AM link | talk

The Wedding

So instead of a play by play of the weekend (because we've done that before...) I'm just going to give you a list of things that I learned. I've decided to call this list:

10 Things I Learned in Ohio

1. I will never be going back to Ohio again. Seriously, it's not even worthy of statehood.

2. If there is any place that mullets thrive in the wild, it's truly Mount Vernon. I saw more mullets, sleeveless Hanes T-shirts and bad teeth than I've seen the rest of my life. Which includes a few stints in rural Missouri and a tour of the Southern states.

3. If I'm ever in a situation where there are some people from my college and some other people who don't know the college people, I will not allow my college friends to alienate the other friends. If my friends can't be friends with other friends, then there's something wrong.

4. Cars always choose to break down when you're on the road.

5. It is not smart to attempt to eat an entire medium pizza by yourself. (And why is it medium, when there's no small? What is it medium in comparison to? It's like fries. If I want a small fries, then give me a small fries. If they are your smallest size available, aren't they small? Let's call a spade a spade, people.) If you are going to attempt this anyway, do not also ask for an order of breadsticks, no matter how good they are.

6. Ten minute weddings are good things.

7. Flip flops are still the most annoying and inappropriate shoe ever created. Worse than Birkenstocks. Worse than Tevas. Worse that Burberry Tevas. Stop wearing them. You're not at the beach. You're at a wedding. Come on.

8. Don't waste time packing toiletries if you're just going to forget them. You're going to need that time when you have to stop at a Kroeger to buy everything new.

9. Ohio is in the Eastern time zone. This is an hour later than the Central time zone. You should plan accordingly and leave an extra hour in advance so you don't show up at the rehearsal dinner an hour after it started.

10. 16 hours in the car is only made better by the purchase of the new Jewel cd. Buy it. Love it.
6/11/2003 12:43:00 AM link | talk (726)

 Sunday, June 08, 2003
The Crossbow: Part II

It's finished. That's right. I had to force myself to work on it for the last four hours, but it's finally put together.

I feel healthier already.

P.S. I'll post about the weekend tomorrow. This was just too much for me tonight.
6/08/2003 10:54:00 PM link | talk

Friday, June 06, 2003
The Time

So I'm supposed to be leaving in approximately 53 minutes. Have I packed? Have I done any ironing aside from putting all my wrinkly things in the bathroom with the shower on high? Have I even gotten dressed after my shower?

No.

I did manage to watch two episodes of Friends last night, though.

UPDATE: And three more episodes this morning, which is why I'm still here at almost 11:00. Sigh.
6/06/2003 09:14:00 AM link | talk

Thursday, June 05, 2003
The Apathy

I should so be doing a wardrobe inventory right now. I'm going to a wedding in Ohio tomorrow, and I need two fairly nice outfits and one really nice outfit. We're going to be lucky if I have anything clean at all.

I did some laundry earlier, but it's going to need ironing, and I just don't feel like taking it out of the dryer. Or doing more laundry. Or ironing. Or packing. So apathetic am I that I don't even feel like going shopping for new pants, which would certainly be an easier option than trying to match my existing pants with my existing suit jacket.

I also need some wrapping paper (for obvious reasons). And some road snacks. And maybe directions to Ohio, beyond the obvious "Drive East".

And I need to pay all my bills before I go, because half of them are overdue.

But all I want to do is sit on the couch and watch tapes of Friends. All night long.
6/05/2003 09:13:00 PM link | talk (2)

 Wednesday, June 04, 2003
The Clap

Sometimes the ex and I get carried away with clapping.

Let me explain. If a fun song comes on the radio, we'll start clapping to it. Then we mix up the rhythm. I'll clap on the offbeats, and she'll clap double time. And we keep mixing it up until we are laughing to hard and have to stop.

No, really, it's fun.

We don't really care that when we're doing it in the car, people can totally see us. We'll never see those people again, right?

Except yesterday, we were having a particularly rousing clap with Beyonce's Work It Out and we heard a horn honk. We were sitting in traffic, and there was no where we could go, so we didn't even look. A few seconds later this jackbag honked again. So we turned around to see what loser would be honking in traffic...

...and we saw someone we know. Not like a friend, but some guy from college who, although I'm sure he is perfectly nice, never really got along with anyone that we knew. And I'm sure he's very nice now, but still, he's that dude from college that was all into his own thing, and out of all the people in the city, why is it that he was the one who was witness to the clapping?

We probably won't see him again, but still, it was a little unnerving. Even when the next song came on, we were so flustered that we forgot to clap...

Don't worry. We won't let this stop us. It was just a momentary setback. So if you see two people in a red pick up with Missouri plates, clapping like there's no tomorrow, give us a honk and wave.
6/04/2003 03:39:00 PM link | talk (1)

 Sunday, June 01, 2003
The Angst

I had a post all written about my celebrity sighting today at Target (the bald dude from Surprise by Design on the Discovery Channel...I know, not that exciting for most, but I'm kinda boring, and it made my day. Remember, I well up when talking about my vacuum...) and stupid Blogger ate it.

So you miss out.

6/01/2003 10:33:00 PM link | talk

The Vacuum

My new vacuum is so beautiful, it makes me want to cry.

So beautiful, that I've brought several people downstairs from the very large party upstairs to show them how wonderful it is.

So good.
6/01/2003 02:51:00 AM link | talk (4)