Weekend Re-do
This weekend was great – partly because it included today…
Friday night, Blondie and I went to a friends Halloween party. I played a pathetic game of beer pong, but it was okay because I somehow managed to convince my partner to drink all the beer, so really I just threw the ping-pong ball in the right direction a few times. The only one I actually made bounced off the competitor’s hand and into the cup.
Since Saturday was so yucky I spent most of it inside until a last-minute shopping spree to help my brother finish his costume. Saturday night, I met up with some friends at B&LH’s house. We watched a little bit of some special on the scariest movie scenes and the beginning of Hellraiser, and finally headed out around midnight. We headed down to L5P for Halloween and listened to a band named The Howlies at Star Bar and then the boys wanted to hit up The Porter for last call. Somewhere along the way we came across a discarded doll in the street and spent our time at The Porter using LH’s plastic knife to kill the baby over and over again.
We left when they kicked us out and then hit up the dance floor at Corner Tavern. They closed down at 3 and we thought the night was over, but lo and behold Star Bar decided to give us the extra hour so we went in there and danced until 4 (or 3 depending on how you look at it). The boys were pretty patient with us girls. By the time I got home it was 5. I’m pretty sure the last time I stayed out that late I was probably 19 or 20. I paid for it yesterday though with a complete lack of motivation to do anything productive. The only time I changed out of my pj’s was when I went to get the last week’s worth of mail, so…
Today I didn’t go to work. I felt like I needed to have a do-over for Sunday, so I spent the day running some errands including finally getting new tennis shoes. Then because it was such a pretty day I decided to take a nice afternoon run since I had some daylight; did some household chores and made spaghetti for dinner. Now I’m just waiting for Gossip Girl to come on. It’s been a nice day. I guess I’ll have to go back to the real world tomorrow…
If you hear me on NPR…
please don’t laugh if I sound stupid 
Tonight KW, EF and I spent another lovely evening with the ATL Collective. Tonight they covered Neil Young’s “Harvest” album and Red Heart the Ticker played a set at the end. It was a lot of fun, and best part – free pumpkin pie.
There was a girl from WABE-FM (I think) interviewing people about the Collective and the artists, etc and she talked to us for a while. She also recorded the show. I think my favorite part was that she was also taking pictures with a disposable camera. That was the pinnacle of public funding right there in front of my own eyes. Anyways, KW laughed through every one of her answers so we’ll see if we make it on the air. Or actually I probably won’t, so if you do hear me – let me know…
Gibberish
* You know the embarrassment you feel when you only realize you’re singing out loud because people are staring at you. Wait, yeah, me neither.
* I hate blue headlights. Are they suppose to be safer or something. They annoy me.
* I can get pretty chatty when I drink wine. This is why working for the CIA would have never worked out – I would be too easy to break. So much for dreams of the young.
* It’s pretty amusing to watch someone tear open and empty five or six K-cups into a regular coffee maker because the fancy machine is broken.
* Sometimes I really hate having to come up with titles for my blog entries, but they look pretty stupid without one.
* Last night I watched Mad Men right before book club and then got in my car and “Syndicated” by Richard Julian came on my iPod. Both involve space in some way. One had a story line about an American company going all over the world, and even to the moon. The other is a good song that goes in the opposite direction.
An Ironic Choice
Sometimes a song can make you happy. Sometimes this means you will play it on repeat a few (hundred) times before you move on. Sometimes it will make sense. Other times it won’t and you just can’t explain it.
Today that song is “Sad Eyes” by Josh Rouse. It’s not a particularly happy song, but it is beautiful…
My love/hate relationship with Pandora continues
So I love having Pandora as an option when I get tired of the music I have on my iTunes at work. I can even get past the advertising issues I had with them on Mother’s Day. But I’m starting to think Pandora has it out for me. Not in the mobster kind of way, but in the it never does what I want kind of way.
I get licensing issues, I’m all for protecting the rights of the artists, but it really annoys me that they won’t play a song I type in immediately because here is what will inevitably happen:
Someone suggests a song to me that I should hear. I go to Pandora, type it in and create a station. I listen to the station all day. Then I decide to go talk to C,MFFW for a minute. I forget to hit pause. I end up being gone for 15 minutes because that’s what happens when I go talk to C. I get back to my desk, and sure enough that 15 minutes out of 6 &%#@ hours of listening is when they decide to play the song.
I get it, I could just go to iTunes and fork over the $0.99 or $1.29 or whatever for the song, but I might not like it and well, I’m cheap when it comes to stuff like that.
Well I guess I’ll try again tomorrow…
Week One
It’s Friday and so far I have managed to stick to my no TV during the week and only 4 hours on the weekend. I’m actually a little surprised with myself. I’ve gotten a lot done and had some fun. Although I did not finish Catch 22 so I’m going to have to renew it again. I wonder how many times they let you do that…
Last Friday, EC convinced 12 of us to drive to Douglasville to have some authentic Tacos instead of going to Taqueria del Sol as usual. While it was fun and the food was okay, I don’t think I’ll make that trek again.
Saturday I spent a lot of time working on some stuff around the house and then went to KA’s place for a birthday extravaganza. It was her birthday and we were also celebrating 5 others. We played some corn hole and badminton and I learned I am really bad at corn hole.
Sunday I actually went to my Sunday school class because one of my friends was talking. I haven’t gone in probably over a year, so I don’t really know if I can call it “my” class anymore, but whatever. Other than that and church I didn’t really do much.
Monday after work I went to the annual august party for our industry. It was at the Ainsley Golf Club and the after party was at Whiskey Bar at the W Midtown. I hadn’t been to either place and they were both a lot of fun. The Whiskey Bar has an amazing Blueberry martini. I’m glad I don’t actually pay for my drinks at these things because I’m sure they were two super expensive bluberry martinis. I didn’t get home until about 2, so I was pretty tired Tuesday, but so were the other 5 people from my office that went to the party so it was a slow day at work.
Tuesday night I had small group so I just hung out with the girls and then went to bed as soon as I got home.
Wednesday night I went through a huge plastic tub of baby/kid clothes my mom kept and that I was too lazy to go through 3 years ago. By going through, I meant that I never actually even opened it again after the I opened it initially and decided that I didn’t want to deal with it. This is one of about three tubs/boxes in my attic that I just took when we cleaned out the house and never did anything with. I’ve just moved them from place to place, so I thought I’d actually see what was in there past the top layer. I cannot believe all of the stuff my mom kept – most of it is going to goodwill or went in the trash. So that’s one thing out of my attic.
Last night, I didn’t really feel like doing anything at home, so I went with KW, LH, and SW to see Yacht Rock at 10 High. We’ve seen them before but not there – I think I’ve only ever been there for improv on Wednesdays so it was interesting seeing a show there. It was a lot of fun, but I am tired today.
When I was driving to work this morning, I was thinking how long it has been since I stayed out until 2am period, let alone twice in one week and on a Monday and Thursday to boot. That’s crazy. Sum and I used to go out on Thursdays every week when we first moved here and we would stay out until 3 or sometimes even 4 when the bars stayed open that late. I don’t know how I ever made it to work on Fridays back then because I really didn’t want to come today.
Words cannot express…
How much I am digging Derek Webb’s new CD Stockholm Syndrome. You can get it here.
Because I’m on a budget I went for the simple $7.99 option, but I’m kind of wishing I had paid the extra $2 so I could get a copy of the clean version. I’d really be interested to see how many songs are actually on it and what he changed.
No bullets and other random events of the weekend…
Thursday night I went to see my friend Nathan play at Vinyl. Nathan puts on an awesome show. It was a great time, minus the diva moment** from the guy that played before him, but at least there’s always something interesting happening at his shows.
Friday I had dinner with my friend KA. It was a nice quiet night, and she may not know it but she told me something I definitely needed to hear.
Saturday I headed to East Atlanta for Corndogorama – here’s a picture with me and my friend JM, who happened to win the 2008 corn dog eating contest. Unfortunately she did not win again this year, but it was still pretty awesome to see her try.
Sunday after church I headed to my friend’s pool for a going away party for another friend. She’s moving to Chicago so we had to have one last Sunday Funday before she left. We grilled out, we swam and we played flip cup by the side of the pool. I finally made it home around 8:45 – which was the exact same time Mentally::Rehearsed called to see if I was going to Brick Store. It didn’t take much to get me to cave. She accomplished it just by asking twice and telling me she was right by my house so she could pick me up. Living in Dunwoody, it is a rare day that someone is actually by my house and/or willing to pick me up. I showered and got ready and then we left my house about 30 minutes later. I’m glad I went – it was good time and a nice end to the weekend.
Other events of the weekend – I watched a lot of the Disney channel; I got lost in my neighborhood for a few minutes when I went for a run; I did not finish Catch 22 for book club tonight; and I finally got the answer I was looking for, even though it wasn’t the one I wanted. That God, He just works in mysterious ways.
**The guy that played before Nathan got a little whinny that people in the back were talking so he got off the stage crossed the room and climbed up on the bar and stood up there until it got quiet enough for his liking and then he played his last song. I was actually enjoying his music up until this point, but that was just stupid and kind of annoying…
