New Shirt
Written on June 12, 2009 at 1:49 pm, by Mel
My sister and I disagree on nearly everything. I think maybe tacos and steak might be the only things we both think are awesome. She repeatedly harasses me about the way I dress and I look at her and just shake my head. I told her the other day I wanted to find a plaid shirt. I had a very specific shirt in mind - it has snaps instead of buttons, it’s long sleeved, and the sleeves can be rolled up then secured with a strap of fabric that attaches to a snap. She seemed to think this shirt sounded good. She has shirts that are a bit like this. The plaid and the snaps part at least.
I found that shirt today. I bought it at Guess. She is going to die when she sees it because it has little shimmery threads running through it and jeweled studded Guess logos on each side of the breast pockets - 4 in total. I just can’t wait. I know she will think that I found the worst possible version of that shirt. I think I will wash it today so I can make sure she sees me wearing it tomorrow.
Vegas
Written on June 9, 2009 at 10:02 pm, by Mel
We had a great time in Vegas. We drank a bit, we gambled a bit, we saw a Beatles show, we did lots of things. I had a hangover from hell on Sunday morning when we came home. It was fun though. I always love wax museums - that’s a picture of me and a fake Johnny Depp. I was more excited about Abe Lincoln but it wasn’t a very good picture of me.
Progress, slow but steady
Written on June 2, 2009 at 11:59 pm, by Mel
I don’t know how I can spend over an hour and get one small thing done. I think tonight I’ve changed my theme and fixed my widgets. Oh, I’ve managed to reorder my pages.
I’m going to come up with a better little tag line. “It’s my life, I do what I want” is not going to stay. I put it there because when I was fixing that section my sister and husband were making fun of day time talk shows with all the little 13 year old tramps who always just repeat, “It’s my life, I do what I want!” or some such tripe. It’s what came to mind so it’s what I stuck up there. I’m going to come up with something better. At least I hope so.
GrooGrux King
Written on June 2, 2009 at 3:03 pm, by Mel
Dave Matthews Band’s new album, Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King, is actually pretty good. Their past few albums haven’t been that great so I’m pleased that this new one is better. I hate that it may have taken something like the death of their horns guy to bring out something this good. That sucks. Anyway, I’m also enjoying that this week, Sirius radio’s Jam On station is the Dave Matthews Band station. Super Cool.
I’m taking this back
Written on June 2, 2009 at 1:29 am, by Mel
I’m going to take back this blog. I’ve been on another blog and I’m going to clean this place up and reclaim it….. that’s all for now.
Good grief, how long has it been…
Written on April 24, 2007 at 12:54 am, by Mel
After over a year of not posting a thing to this site and several months of not even looking at it I’m not sure what I’m even doing sitting here typing. All my video links are broken. My comments (I set them to not notify me months ago) are filled with spam. And I’m sure I haven’t a reader left. But what the heck, it’s my space. Might as well use it. I have every intention of making videos again. It’s just that the last year has been rather busy.
Clint and I moved from Seattle to Arkansas with 2 cats and a dog a little over a year ago. In February, Clint and I moved from Arkansas to Denver with 2 cats, a dog and a 1 year old baby. We’ve kind of had our hands full. At the end of last March our daughter Katie was born. She is the greatest kid in the entire world. Everyone kept telling me to enjoy her when she was little. I thought by “little” they meant “baby” which I defined as under 3 years old. I didn’t realize they meant “enjoy her while she’s 3 weeks old”. That sweet little phase where you can hold them in your arms and they will sleep passes in a matter of weeks and now I have this thing that runs around the house and eats real food and forcefully pushes me away when I try to hug her so she can go play. But sometimes she still likes to cuddle and comes to me for kisses. I can’t imagine the rejection when she’s 16. I also can’t imagine how much her clothes are going to cost considering how much I spend at Baby Gap and Macy’s already.
So here we are in Denver (actually a suburb of Denver called Parker). Our life now that we have a baby is completely different in some ways and in others it is exactly the same. It’s the same in that we seem to be the same people. Saturday night (after Katie’s bedtime) consists of opening a bottle of wine, reading the descriptions of the movies we have in from Netflix and then one of us shuffling them while the other one picks one at random. We do this because because we’re too indecisive to choose on our own. I still soak in the tub with a book, spend a good deal of time online and do a lot of laundry. Clint is still… well… Clint.
How is life different? Well, before Katie I never bought whole milk. I had never said to Clint “No, you don’t want to put *that* thermometer in your mouth.”, rarely made a grilled cheese sandwich and never watched the Teletubbies. I said “you’re okay” a lot less and I wish someone had told me to enjoy using the bathroom in private because 1 year olds are extremely interested in that particular process.
Shopping with a 1 year old is an experience unto itself. It’s kind of amusing when Clint is with us. People make a really big deal over her. We had to go the mall the past weekend. I say had to and I really mean it. I bought a shirt at Macy’s the weekend before and when I went to wash it I discovered that the sales lady had neglected to remove the anti-theft ink tag. So into Macy’s we went and after I got my tag removed we went over to the various make up and perfume counters because I wanted to buy some perfume. It was kind of a confusing scene because I made the mistake of asking a lady at one of the counters where a particular brand was sold. In my defense I’d only been into that Macy’s once before (we’ve only lived here 2 months) and I didn’t want to walk all over the place, I just wanted someone to tell me where I could find it. Well, she leads me over there but wants to tell me all about the Clinique specials and then about how I need a Macy’s card. I just bought a bunch of Clinique makeup, thank you very much, and I don’t need a freakin’ Macy’s card.
When she finally gets me over to the right counter she must have given the perfume sales ladies some secret sign because they started in on me about a damn Macy’s card. I handed them a ziplock bag from my purse with a little sample of perfume and said “I want to buy this perfume, do you have it?” What should have been a simple transaction somehow did not go that simply. But I did end up getting out of there with my perfume, a free bag and no Macy’s card.
But that wasn’t the story. The story is that while I was waiting to buy my perfume this woman who was shopping (or an employee acting as a shopper to butter people up to try and get them to apply for Macy’s cards) turns to me and says “Is that your husband and little girl out there? I look “out there” (which is just outside the store) and I see Clint doing this sort of gallop and his pants are starting to slide down and his glasses and askew on his face (those of you who know Clint know he’s geeky enough without anything extra). He has Katie up on his shoulders. She was having a bad hair day so I had put her hair into these sort of pigtails. But her hair isn’t long enough for real pigtails so it was really just the front of her hair pulled into pigtails and it was just a poof of hair.. and they were very lopsided. As he is galloping around the mall outside of Macy’s she is swaying wildly from side to side and laughing hysterically. They looked like a couple of fools. I wasn’t sure if I should laugh or run. But I said “yes, they are mine.” Luckily, the lady said “Oh, she is just the cutest little girl.” Which then turned into this horrible chain reaction of every sales lady and female customer in a 20 foot radius chiming in with “oooh.. she’s adorable” and “you’re so lucky to have a husband that’s so good with her.” I felt a strange mixture of pride and extreme embarrassment. I was just glad to get my perfume and get out of there. Macy’s is scary.
So now I’ve put something up on my blog. I’d like to put something spectacular up, and maybe I will. But now I feel like I’ve taken a step in reclaiming it. My next step will be to get the video links fixed. Unfortunately I am unable to fix that myself - it’s a problem with the server they’re on so I must rely on Clint for that and he mumbled when I mentioned it. I’m not sure what the use is in being married to a geek if they can’t fix things like that for you. Actually, that’s unfair. He fixed the comments in the gallery. Yes, I’m limited in what I can fix.
We made it
Written on December 20, 2005 at 12:13 am, by Mel
As of now, we have moved to Arkansas. I am here, Clint is here, my dog is here, my cats are here, and our cars are here. All that’s left is for the truck to show up. But as for things we have to oversea, arrange, negotiate, etc…. we’re done. Yeah!
Tomorrow we fly
Written on December 19, 2005 at 2:07 am, by Mel
I packed my bags last night, pre-flight. Zero hours, 9am. And I’m gonna be high…iiiiighhhhh as a kite by then.
Acutally, I packed my bags tonight while on the phone. Our flight leaves at 9:30am and I will not be high as a kite. But I love Elton John…. so why not.
All’s that left of this move is for me to blow dry my hair, sleep, and get on a plane. There’s freezing rain and ice predicted for tonight - hopefully this won’t interfere with our plans.
I am so ready for this move to be behind us. Our cars arrived in Arkansas today, our truck should be there around Thursday - this is only a prediction, and I should be there tomorrow.
Almost there.
Boredom Sets In
Written on December 18, 2005 at 3:27 am, by Mel
We’ve been in our apartment for 2 1/2 days now with no furniture, no tv, and no pots and pans. No cars either. We’ve entertained ourselves fairly well. On Friday we walked to my old job to pick up my paycheck and then to the bank. Today we went to see a movie - Good Night and Good Luck - which was pretty enjoyable. It was the fourth movie I’ve watched so far. I’m getting a little tired of watching movies. We’ve played two games of Scrabble and one game of chess. I’m ready to be in Arkansas. I’m going to go google strange things now to see if I can provide a couple of hours of entertainment that way.
I’m bored.
5 for 5 (Yeah, we’re shooting video of this)
Written on December 16, 2005 at 12:07 am, by Mel
I swear that when I get to Arkansas and settled down (and when the mac arrives safely) there will be a new video on this site documenting this move (or documenting something moderately interesting)
But good news here. We are 5 for 5. The truck is loaded and gone. I have to say that if you live in this area and you need to move, it would be well worth your money to hire the movers we got. Central Washington Transfer sent out two people and they were absolutely amazing. I won’t say what they charged us, but let me just say that it was way under what one would expect for almost 4 hours of hard work. Kara (I’m probably spelling her name wrong) and Dan (Clint and I think that was his name) are currently personal hero’s of mine. Clint and I have never been so pleased with a service. They packed 13 feet long, 8 feet wide, and 10 feet high of our crap, and I’ll weigh in with my final analysis once we unpack - but let me tell you - those boxes aren’t shifting during transit.
Seriously, I can’t praise them enough.
So here we are - we’re halfway through our first rum and cokes and halfway through a game of scrabble (which I currently have 3 A’s and little else to use in my next word) and an air mattress already inflated. We’re happy. Only one thing left to check off our list - as long as we can get ourselves to Arkansas this move will be a complete success.
5 for 5.