Wygant party #2

Eldon's work party for the holidays always happens after the holidays. Hey, that's cool, as his CEO put it, it's an excuse to drink at the end of January.

I had been meaning to do it for a while, so I went down to Lenea's salon and got my hair done again. Unfortunately, she was trying out a new color line, and it had a lot more blue/purple reds in it than coppery firey ones that I like. My hair came out MUCH darker and I was kinda unhappy about it. :(


Other than that though, I was feeling like I looked pretty good (contrary to what some may think, that's not a normal occurance for me) so I hammed it up a bit.


I got to meet one of the ladies that Eldon works with and her husband who have a pair of Weimaraners! We talked ad nauseum about our dogs and exchanged pictures and stories. They are so cute together.


This is one of my favorite pictures of the night, it's very sweet.

Finger food!

Every time someone goes to Marrakesh I try to weasel my way in, because the food is just fantastic. This time was no exception.

Good food,

good company,

and yes.. lots of wine!


Which leads to fun pictures.

Greek Cuisina..

First time I was ever invited there, and it was really fun. Eldon's friend Bruce was in town and I'd heard so much about him yet never met him.

Everyone had their party faces on,
and Geoff even did the "Numa Numa" dance for everyone.


Random drunken silliness ensued.

Tolkien Fest

I can't remember how I managed to get a Saturday off, but somehow I managed it. This enabled me to go to the Tolkien festival at the Kennedy School and show support for Ariel and Dirk who were competing in the costume contest.


They won of course,

but I was a little weary... the Wraith was very cool!


Geoff was afraid of the Cracks of Doom Chocolate Lava Cake

Epoxies... not just a type of glue...

I was still on the road to recovery, but Kevin called and begged Josh and I to go out to the Hawthorne with him and Steff to see this band called the Epoxies.

He finally convinced us, but saying the magic words... "I'll buy."

Somehow, a conversation got started about circumcision. I have no idea. So Kevin and Josh became dubbed, "The Foreskin Brothers."

Steff arrived, with a hearty nipple twist for Josh.

The show was good. One of the bands even had a song that said something about Myspace being the place to get laid. I was pretty amused.

It was my first time in a smoky bar since I got out of the hospital. I did really well with braving the temptation and not smoking.

But, for some reason I spent the entire night getting blown up by text messages.

Snow continues....

So the snow days continued for a few more days, and it was fun to play in. Eldon came home from his business trip early and decided to come over and play in the snow with me. Oh, did I mention we're friends again? Long story. ;)

He got quite a kick out of Wesley's snowball catching abilities.

Snow days!

I woke up still feeling sick but there was no way I could miss any more school. I got up and looked outside, and the world was covered in snow. I think Eldon said it best when he said, "It's the universe taking care of you." So I got to go back to sleep for a while.

When I woke up, it was absolutely imperative that Wesley get to play in the snow. He spent the first two years of his life in New York, and he loves the snow almost as much as he loves to swim.

I got to tease Josh about being Norweigan and freezing his ass off. So that was bonus too.





Snow days are the best.

Toilet Tirade!

When I was a little girl, I desperately wanted to be potty trained. Very early. In fact, I chose the exact day it was going to happen. Unfortunately I don't have the photo, but there is one in existance of me at a very young age, standing in the hallway of my house with my diaper about 3 feet in front of me. I had taken it off, and screamed, "NO!" as loud as I could. My father, grabs the camera first, snaps the picture, laughs hysterically, and says, "I think it's time to potty train her."

The reason for said desperation about p0tty training, was my fascination for flushing the toilet. If I was wandering around the house, you could bet you could find me standing beside the toilet flushing the toilet.. over and over again.


So the other day I go to the movies. After consuming the 55 gallon drum of soda in a two hour span, an emptying of my pea-sized bladder is a must. Unfortunately. I'm not a huge fan of using public fascilities, but when you gotta go, you gotta go.


I walk in along the rows of stalls and peek into the first one.....


Then the next one...


and a third....


(Ok, so maybe it wasn't that bad.. ) But i finally found one I could use, that didn't have something sticking out of it, floating in it, or the seat wasn't completely covered in wet.
I came out of the bathroom and immediately just went off. "What the FUCK is wrong with people?! How fucking hard is it to flush the damn toilet? I would have to make a conscious effort to NOT flush the toilet when I finish with the bathroom. People are so disgusting. First off, how do you, as a woman.. who sits down to urinate.. manage to piss ALL OVER the seat?! How can you miss a target that is bigger than your whole ass!?

AND SECOND: Are we so starved for attention in this life that we have to leave our excrement behind for the next poor sucker to appreciate it?!

When did we become animals?! Hell even most animals disguise, bury, eat or relocate theirs!

I just don't get it. It's not hard.. when you finish in the public restroom.. FLUSH the FUCKING TOILET!


To further illustrate my disgust for humans, we walked out of the theater and in the parking lot laying on the ground, was a used, discarded DIAPER!!! WTF?!

and you wonder why I like dogs better than people.