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Aug. 8th, 2005 @ 09:32 pm F-ing exhausted
Current Mood: exhaustedexhausted
I'm exhausted, but I have all this crap to do, most of which involves folding laundry or getting shit together for the big Lake Michigan Cirle Tour. (Actually, all I have to do for the road trip is pack my clothes and whatnot, but still, I'm too tired to think about it right now.) I'm really looking forward to only working two more days this week, but the downer is that I have like 4 hours of meetings tomorrow at work, then an evening meeting Wednesday night right before we leave (early Thursday AM). It should be a fun-filled four days on the road, though, finding mayhem and random crap.

Wow, exhaustion+wine doesn't bode well for my concentration.

Played tennis with Paul tonight. I'm really ashamed of myself because I lost 3-6. I blame the Crimson Tide. I also blame my mother, who told me last weekend that guys don't like it when girls beat them, and perhaps I should consider that. I told her that I refuse to throw a match.

I had a little more to write, but I've had it for today. I'm done.
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Aug. 5th, 2005 @ 07:14 pm yahoo for the weekend!
Current Mood: calmcalm
Current Music: These Boots Are Made for Walkin'--stuck in my head all day!
It was a delightful half-day at work...got to leave at noon and went to Culver's with a few of the ladies from work, so that was good. Spent the afternoon going to the Y, then watching a DVD of the first season of Arrested Development. Then I got ready to go out tonight...I'm supposed to meet my bro in 45 minutes for dinner at Noodles. (I'm such a eating-out glutton today.) After dinner, we're going out with a group of his friends because it's Tamara's last night in town (yes, Lara, Hot Matt will probably be there). ;)

So I found out from Mandi today that she got her visa today, and she found out today she's leaving for Hungary on August 18th--less than two weeks away, and only 4 days after we get back from our Lake Michigan Circle Tour! I'd be lying if I said I wasn't a little envious. But I'm really excited for her--she's going to have a fabulous year.

I've met up with Mr. Paul a few times since my last entry--Tuesday night we went and had a few beers on the Union Terrace, which was fun. Then last night we went and played tennis, which was a lot of fun until I stepped on my ankle wrong in the second-to-last game and hurt my foot, ruining my ability to win the set 7-5. I had to settle for a 6-6 tie. :)

Wednesday night I went out swing dancing with a girl I knew from high school (not actually dancing with her, she just invited me). Probably the most entertaining part of the night was the variety of music they played. I really never thought I'd see people swing dancing to "Kiss" by Prince.

Well, it's just about time for me to go. Hope you have fabulous weekends!
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Jul. 31st, 2005 @ 09:04 pm It's F-ing hot!
Current Mood: deviousdevious
Current Music: Avenue Q Soundtrack-HILARIOUS! Thanks for recommending, Liz!
Ugh...so just as I was getting used to the weather being a NORMAL temperature (meaning: in the 70's), out of nowhere the heat hits me again, like a blind child swinging at a pinata. I was sitting in my apartment, minding my own business, when all of a sudden, I realized that it was superhot again. Apparently gone are the (three) days when I could have my patio door open rather than running the air conditioner. Yes, I realize that even last week it wasn't THAT cool, but you must keep in mind that I'm always cold, so I can handle warmer temps than most Wisconsinites.

I decided it was probably time for me to write again, since I haven't done so in awhile. So the update...work is going ok, but I have been incredibly bad about being motivated lately, and I realized today that this week I really need to buckle down, because this is really the last week where I have much time that's not going to be hectic (during the day and in the evenings)...plus I start school in about a month.

Sigh. I just turned my calendar, and the picture on it (my mom made a calendar for me of a bunch of pictures from SK) is one of four of the girls drinking and eating fried cheese. As a result, I'm so craving some fried cheese right now...mmm, with tatarska. (I also miss the cheap, delicious wine, but that's another story.) Those of you who have been there can probably understand (also, in a related ironic twist, I actually had to make ranch dressing from a packet today, because I didn't have any in the fridge...I found it funny), but for those of you who have not had the pleasure of going to Slovakia and enjoying fine dining there, their fried cheese comes in this piece about the size and shape of a hash brown, and is less greasy than fried cheese curds...and it's white cheese. And you eat it with ketchup or tatarska (kind of like tartar sauce, but not exactly). Mandi-when you go to SK next year (like for the retreat), you've got to have some vyprazany syr (I can remember how to say it...but the spelling may be wrong)--have one for me!

Oh...and in other interesting news, I had a date last week with a guy who's a grad student at the UW. We played tennis in the suffocating heat (I beat him 3 games to 1). I think it went well. But then he was going out of town for the rest of the week...to Oshkosh, of all places. Anyway, he said he would "definitely call me" when he got back to town. So we'll see.

Well, I just finished drinking my glass of wine (cranberry, made by my dad...yes, the Hahn Ranch has branched out into winemaking now, for those of you who didn't know). So it's time to finish this thing. I'm out!
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Jul. 25th, 2005 @ 10:40 pm Indeed.
Your Porn Star Name is: Karen Kung-fu Grip


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Jul. 13th, 2005 @ 11:04 pm Asymmetrical Bangs...
So this is the picture of my new haircut. Still not a fan...but I told Emily I'd put it up.
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Jul. 13th, 2005 @ 09:00 pm God, what have I done?
Current Mood: sickashamed
Current Music: Sex and the City Theme song
God, what have I done? These were the words echoing through my head as I hurried down State Street, post-haircut. 4 words: I HAVE ASYMMETRICAL BANGS. And it was done on purpose! It looked horrid...I spent the whole afternoon hiding out in my office, hoping that nobody saw me (combination of the bad haircut, coffee I spilled on myself this morning, dress that was too short because I think it shrunk in the wash, and blisters that I got on my feet after trying to walk too fast after getting the haircut). Left work early, because I felt that my situation was intolerable (and I had to work tonight anyway).

I came home and the first thing I did was take off the coffee-stained, hair-covered short dress. The second thing I did was washed my hair and attempted to style it so that it didn't look like crap. The good news: it doesn't look like crap. The bad news: I still have asymmetrical bangs. I'm trying to figure out how to make them look like they were purposefully cut that way, rather than having it look like I fell on a scissors.

At least I was able to make it look tolerable enough that I didn't feel completely riduculous at my meeting tonight.
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Jul. 13th, 2005 @ 09:05 am Another Day, Another Dollar
Current Mood: blankblank
Current Music: conga song by Gloria Estefan I don't know the name of
Good morning, good morning. I need some more coffee.

The remainder of my weekend was pretty good...all of my good intentions to clean my apartment slipped away as I thought of better things to do, i.e. watch movies, go to the Y, do anything but clean, etc. Went to the Art Fair On The Square downtown on Sunday, but I realized that sort of thing isn't as much fun when you go by yourself.

Last night Jacob and I went to see the Bewitched movie. We were pretty excited, because we used to watch the tv show all the time when we were kids (I remember it being on every morning at 7:30 when we were eating breakfast). It was ok. Jacob said he was disappointed, but I said I wasn't really because I didn't have that high of expectations in the first place. My thought: it's a renter.

After the movie, we went out to eat. We ended up going to Happy Wok, which was completely empty because it was 8:45 on a Tuesday night. We decided to sit in the huge round booth (just because we could). Then the song Wonderful Tonight came on. Jacob says, "We're sitting in a deserted Happy Wok in the big circle booth and listening to Wonderful Tonight...how bizarre is this?" I was like, "Yeah, it's pretty odd." Then we agreed that although it was strange, it was oddly indicative of how our lives go.

I'm out, I've gotta get to work.
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Jul. 9th, 2005 @ 11:49 am Yay! It's the weekend!
Current Mood: relaxedrelaxed
So last night I went to Summerfest in Milwaukee. It was a good time--I hadn't been to Summerfest since I was in high school (unless you count going to Germanfest on the Summerfest grounds). For those of you not from Wisconsin, Summerfest is this 10-day music festival, with like 8 stages. It's supposedly the world's largest music festival, but I still find it hard to believe that Milwaukee has the world's largest music festival. (When Summerfest isn't on, they have other "fests" on the grounds--Germanfest, Festa Italiana, Frenchiefest, Festa de Latinos, Asian/Pacific Islander Fest, Supercaucasian Fest, etc...I've only been to the German and Italian ones, so I made up the other names.) I went with a girl I knew in college who just moved to Mad about a month ago, and a girl who's one of her coworkers. We ended up seeing Marc Broussard and Ingram Hill. Both pretty good shows--I preferred Marc Broussard.

Quote of the night (from Nicole): "When the guitar player gets all into his solo, it looks like he's coming." (Of course, that ruined me for every guitar solo that went on after that.)

Once again, the teenyboppers were compelled to bust out the thing that's currently plaguing our society, and that's the use of cell phones in place of lighters. Ugh--what's wrong with these kids? At one point, Ingram Hill started playing Comfortably Numb (by Pink Floyd, for those of you who may not know). The kiddies flashed the cell phones. I was compelled to say, "Is this that song that Korn sings?" (As some of you may recall, I was at a Maroon 5 concert in the Twin Cities in April, and the band started playing part of The Wall, and this 13-year-old teenybopper in front of us leaned over and said to her friend, "Is this that song that Korn sings?" I just about died. Ugh, the youth of America--what are kids coming to these days?)

Anyway, got home about 1:30 in the morning--I'm getting too old for this. Now I have to figure out what I'm going to do today. Right now I'm sitting here with a headache, which I had when I went to bed last night (see: I'm getting too old for this). Fortunately, my ears weren't ringing when I got up this morning, which is what I remember from the last time I went to Summerfest. I'm trying to decide what I feel like doing today, and I have no idea. My options: go to an art fair on the square, go hang out at a park somewhere, go to the Y, do pilates here, rent some movies, go to a movie, stay home and clean my apartment, go grocery shopping. Sounds like a thrilling day.

Have a good one! PS-Do you know what I think you should do? I think you should leave a comment for me, if for no other reason than I would find it entertaining. :)
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Jul. 5th, 2005 @ 10:19 pm another 4th of July, come and gone
Current Mood: sleepysleepy
Current Music: Diana Krall, The Girl in the Other Room
First of all, I'd like to give a big "You're fabulous!" to all of my good friends who have told me lately that if they were guys they'd date me, or something like it. I like having people around who appreciate me!

It was a good weekend. Had a gulas cookout at the Hahn Ranch, which was attended by friends near and far (mostly far, because even the people who used to live in Philly don't live there anymore). Everybody said it was really good, so either they were lying or it really was. Let's hope it was the second option. Other highlights:
-Lara brought a new humungous "Husky Hitter" plastic bat. It broke within probably 15 minutes of serious play. Serious...heh.
-Emily brought her new boyfriend, who probably had the worst time in the world, because he was allergic to our two dogs and cat, and also bore the brunt of our "1800's House," meaning that he ran out of water halfway through his shower.
-The Bro and I tried to teach everyone our new card game, "Stagecoach Robber." It didn't go over as well as it had at the Irish Pub on Thursday night.

Also went to the parade in Philly...another stellar one. As Jacob said, "Every year I come back, it gets more bizarre than the last one." There were a few floats that just left us going, "What the hell was that?" The Girl Scouts walked by, and in between figuring out which flags were from the troops I used to be in, I waved my hard lemonade at them (because drinking has become a prerequisite to watching the parade) and said, "I used to be in troop 249! Look what you can become, little girls!" I feel like such a hypocrite (or maybe it should be "I feel so old and like such a boozehound) when I see things like the Girl Scouts, high school band, girls' softball, etc. and I applaud with a drink in my hand.

Quote of the day: "M&M's melt in your mouth...and in parades."
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Jun. 30th, 2005 @ 09:32 am if it's his loss, why do I feel like the a-hole?
Current Mood: discontentdiscontent
Current Music: Only Happy When it Rains
So this morning I was getting my coffee in the break room, and The Matchmaker came in (looking rather uncomfortable, I might add). She said, "I'm out of the matchmaking business." I said, "Oh?" and kind of laughed. Then she was like, "I talked to Non-Jared yesterday. He's not going to call you." I was like, "Yeah, I had pretty much figured it out."

It is at this juncture that I have to say that I feel way dumber being told that he's not going to call me than I did when I had just sort of assumed it. I do feel like an a-hole. But my only choice when I was talking to Matchmaker was to just kind of try to laugh it off and say, "Well, such is life." (By the end of our short conversation, I think I had said, "such is life" about 4 times.) Then she said something about how she thought he should have called me and told me he wasn't going to call me, but she didn't get it and didn't know, and I said, "Well, guys are stupid, which I think you know," and she was like, "Yes, I do know that!"

Sigh. It's only 9:00 and I already feel like my day is kind of ruined. Not because I'm upset that he's not going to call me (since I had already assumed that on my own and was completely over it), but because I feel stupid and ridiculous. I'm not sure why I feel stupid and ridiculous (because I had to be told that he isn't going to call? because I continue to look like a dating-failure to all of the people at my office, and the world in general?).

I could go into a whole tirade about guys and life and how pathetic I am at this point, but I will pass.

Hope you all have very happy and pleasant 4th of July Weekends.
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