Four jobs I've had in my life
-Newspaper Delivery Girl
-Magazine Editor/Publisher
-English Teacher
-Computer Consultant
Four movies I can watch over and over
-Zoolander
-Fight Club
-Lord of the Rings
-My Neighbor Totoro
Four places I have lived
-Ypsilanti, Michigan, USA
-Bonn, Germany
-Tokyo, Japan
-Eugene, Oregon, USA
Four TV shows I love to watch
-Lost
-CSI
-Survivor
...I don't watch any more TV
Four places I have been on vacation
-Palm Beach, Florida
-Caye Caulker, Belize
-Okinawa/Hokkaido/Kyoto, Japan
-Banff, Canada
Four of my favourite dishes
-Aji nigiri from Toyoda Sushi, Seattle, WA
-My "Famous" Chicken Enchiladas
-Justin's Italian Sausage & Bechamel Sauce Lasagna
-Puttanesca from Beppe & Gianni's Trattoria, Eugene, OR
Four websites I visit daily
-Consumating.com
-Flickr.com
-Blogger.com
-Google.com
Four places I would rather be right now
-Taking in the breathtaking view from a mountaintop in Glacier National Park
-Hamming it up with the Llamas in Eugene, Oregon
-Trekking from temple to karaoke bar in Tokyo
-Someplace I have never seen before-- Greece or the Congo, etc...
Four bloggers I am tagging
-RacheMicah
-Meegan
-Titania
-Adrienne
Posted on February 28, 2006 @ 2:54 PM | 3 comments
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Eeek, I've been tagged!
By 
Rachel, at
6:41 PM, February 28, 2006
p.s. miiiiiiiiinge.
By Rachel, at
6:41 PM, February 28, 2006
Aaah, i totally forgot about CSI and Survivor!!! I wonder if I can go back and edit mine...
By Kinki, at
11:35 PM, February 28, 2006
-Had very enjoyable sushi @ Toyoda's on Saturday with Jeff, a long time blog reader who recently moved to Seattle and was in serious need of some good nigiri
-Was just emailed by Stele3, with whom I attended Waseda, regarding a screenplay she's writing about the experience
-With that in mind, I re-launched Schoolgirl Sophistry as a reference archive and will link to it here
Posted on February 27, 2006 @ 3:11 PM | 2 comments
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Thanks Kat !!!
Toyoda's is the freshest sushi/nigiri I've had in years. Highly recommend it to anyone living or visiting Seattle.
Great conversations and great evening !!!
You are AWESOME !!
Jeff
By , at
6:59 PM, February 27, 2006
I went to Waseda! I actually sang part of the Waseda song today at work (Waseda came up in conversation). The person I sang the song to said, "I don't know much about Waseda, I'm from Kansai."
And in other news, I filed taxes today. Due to my newly in-dependent status and a form from the UofO declaring tuition expenses, I did NOT end up owing, even though I had to file the income from my 'new' job as an independent business (due to contract terms). In fact, the gubment is paying me! Guess I'll be getting that new Speedlite for my camera in a few weeks after all...
Posted on February 25, 2006 @ 4:22 PM | 0 comments
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The photos I took at Alki Beach this weekend are up. Some fooling around with color, mostly just a lot of shots of the ocean, city, and mountains. Fun scenery to live in. :-) I realize now that some of them are a bit underexposed, but it's just too much damn work to fix them properly, so I think I'll leave it for now, having already spent a good hour on them today.
Posted on February 23, 2006 @ 10:56 PM | 0 comments
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I threw my credit card in the garbage.
Yep, tossed it. At least, I'm 99% certain but I won't know for sure until I call Subway to find out if the cashier kept it, as has been known to happen. Otherwise, I expect this is what happened: When he handed me my sub, my Subway card, and a stack full of (expired) promotional scratch-offs, I found myself with too few hands. So instead of filing my credit card into my wallet, as I thought I had done, I must have filed it into the rest of the stack of cards which, ultimately, I decided I didn't give a rat's ass about and threw away.
Were our custodians at SEOmoz not so dilligent, I might have been able to pick my card out of the office trash yesterday morning when I realized it was missing (and subsequently held up the line at Trader Joe's)... buuuuut, the trash is taken out every night. Out to the dumpster in front of the building. I know, because I looked.
I even donned surgical gloves and made a valliant effort to pick through the trash and find it. But even though there was only a day's amoung of garbage in there neatly tied into bags it was too time consuming and my arms were just too short. I would have needed a stepping stool and some kind of prosthetic device to actually reach most of the things in there. It might have been easier had the dumpster been full and the most recent trash on top.
In any case, I have now, for the first time, lost a credit card. I feel stupid but it's not a big deal-- I'm amazed by how easy it is to replace it. And since I don't have any autopay accounts linked to it, I'm not really all that inconvenienced, aside from updating my iTunes and PayPal information when I get my new number.
It could have been much worse. It even was slightly worse-- on my way home I got a flat in my front bike tire and it's only the fifth time I've ridden it since I had the tires and tubes changed out. I DON'T want this to become a repeat problem. But luckily I work above a bike shop, and luckily I have a boyfriend and a mini-van, so that problem is now solved.
Posted on @ 10:22 AM | 2 comments
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That sounds like a day right out of my daily life. Only if it were me after you lost your card and popped your bike tire you would have accidentally flooded the house of the people you're petsitting for too. I've got notoriously bad luck with that kind of thing. :-\
It's good that you remained good natured about it. Losing a credit card really isnt that big of a deal since replacing it is so easy. But days where retarded shit happens are always better if you laugh at them than if you get an attitude problem.
By 
Titania, at
11:11 AM, February 23, 2006
Oh man, what a string of events! Once I dropped my whole wallet off my bike between UOB and my house, cancelled every card, got a new license, and 3 days later someone found it and called me - even the 4 bucks I had in there was still intact.
Moral? Now I have two licenses, he he he.
Was there a point to this comment? No.
Really, it's almost too much, though I think the award goes to the bear sculptures that sprayed paint out of tubes coming from their mouths or genitalia. I can't find the page for that one, (un)fortunately.
It was a busy, busy weekend with Justin's dad and his sweetie in town. We got some real art of our own-- attractive ceramics-- and toured about Seattle's galleries. Pictures from Alki & more should be up in a few days, though this week promises to be stupidly busy. We'll see. :)
Posted on February 21, 2006 @ 3:29 PM | 3 comments
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Wow...eh...I didn't know Jesus was a kitten?...I guess I don't get it.
Hey, if you have some free time in your busy schedule can you send me a cd with the pics from Banff on them? I know I keep asking but I wanna seeeee them!
love you much ;)
By , at
3:36 PM, February 21, 2006
^_^ I still don't have them. Been thinking about finishing editing the last few days worth of photos, but it takes hours and hours of time to size and edit them. I can send you the originals, but you won't be able to do much with them as they're 95MB Canon RAW format images.
By Kat, at
3:52 PM, February 21, 2006
They always say that owners take on some characteristics of their pets...or in this case, the pets take on characteristics of their owners.
Anyone wonder what Jesus' cat's name would be?
By G-Rob, at
7:41 PM, February 22, 2006
First, it was freakishly huge. Huge enough that apparently the chicken had trouble pushing it out and left sphincter marks around the widest part of it. Then, it cracked during the boil, which upset me because sometimes that makes for a watery egg. I guess it was too large for its shell. However, it was delicious and peeled perfectly. But when I took the shell off of it, I saw this [clickable]:
That is the "uncut" egg. The little cup where the air bubble is inside the shell is filled with yolk. Wtf? Had it leaked out of the center? No... I cut it in half to find a SECOND yolk!
Maybe that's why the egg was so stupidly large. It was supposed to be twins! Mmm, delicious unfertilized chicken foetus.
Posted on February 16, 2006 @ 8:08 PM | 4 comments
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umm, ew?
Thanks a lot Kat!
I was beginning to enjoy my scrambled eggs in the morning.
But now I think I will have to stay away from eggs for awhile.
By , at
11:21 PM, February 16, 2006
"And twiiiiiiins!?"
You supported the abortion of not one, but two chicken fetuses. Mmmm, delicious fetus...
By Rachel, at
1:17 PM, February 17, 2006
What what WHAT??!!one11
Kat had twins?!
... for breakfast.
By Louie, at
7:03 AM, February 21, 2006
I was so intrigued with the twin yolk egg I had to know more. So here you go.
Pay no attention to the part about how the two-yolk egg is unlucky.
This article puts the "fun" in "infundibulum."
http://www.abc.net.au/science/k2/moments/s409538.htm
By G-Rob, at
7:35 PM, February 22, 2006
In other "ball and chain" related news, I finally paid off the minimal lingering credit card balance that has been hanging around with some malaise since I stopped working for Micro this summer. This is because today was the first paycheck of a $12,000+ a year raise (per my hiring contract) from work. Hurray! I can finally say hello to increased loan payments, savings, mutual funds, and perhaps getting the Canon Speedlite I've been wanting...
Posted on February 15, 2006 @ 10:55 PM | 2 comments
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Holy shit. I don't make even close to $12,000 in a year - and that's your raise amount!
(If I did, I wouldn't have a credit card balance anymore either!)
Go you!
By Adrienne, at
11:25 AM, February 16, 2006
I made slightly more last year than HALF of your raise.
Between arranging my stuffies and arranging a sunflower in my hanging vase, Justin crowed about what a manly color it is. Good thing, too, because he is the manliest of men and he did pick up the paint himself. I'm just satisfied that we can no longer see the crappy paint job underneath it.
Hurrah for domesticity!
Note & Update: I wish we'd taken some before, during, and after pictures... esp. of little Rupert frolicking underneath the tarp on the bed, but we didn't. Here are a few pics of the room. Click to enlarge:
Posted on February 13, 2006 @ 6:28 PM | 5 comments
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pixx?
By Adrienne, at
7:11 PM, February 13, 2006
It's almost a grey. Grey-lavender. I like it. All those flowers, though-- that's what'll strip him of his manhood, right there. ;)
By inkandpen, at
11:35 AM, February 14, 2006
Aw, well now my first comment looks stupid!
That's very manly indeed! Looks nice.
By Adrienne, at
11:37 AM, February 14, 2006
ooo, wow! It looks like a totally different room! I like it :)
By , at
7:39 PM, February 14, 2006
"Manly" indeed. Very pretty color!
By Rachel, at
4:22 PM, February 15, 2006
"Hey, is your name Kat?"
He did look familiar. I walked over and apologized for not hearing him the first two times. He clearly remembered me from somewhere... but where?
As it turns out, he has a nearly photographic memory for names and faces. We worked together for the latter six months of my freshman year at the University of Oregon, which I spent as a consultant at the Computing Center beta-testing IP-Multicast software. He was in my department, and one of the suprisingly more socially functionl geeks there. I ended up leaving the CC and returning to be tech support for the less-specialized Microcomputing services for the rest of my college career (probably because the geeks at Micro were more socially functional). It surprises me to no end that he remembers me, partially because I'd like to think I've changed a bit since then and also because we knew each other for so short a time.
Nevertheless, it is strange that he's here in Seattle working across the street from me-- and that he happened to see (and recognize me) by chance. Funny, huh?
Posted on February 12, 2006 @ 12:08 PM | 0 comments
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Fiscally, their policy it makes sense, but something tells me it will be bad for PR. I know we're pissed, and I suspect many others are as well.
Posted on February 10, 2006 @ 7:20 PM | 1 comments
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What really got to me was that the first time I saw this rediculous policy in action was immediatly after I upgraded the account, precicely to let me watch more movies over winter break. Turned out, they didn't appreciate my extra cash enough to actually send more movies! That is, I could have "three at a time," but within a week the turnaround time was four days longer than it had been!
Bastards.
I'm not pissed enough to deprive myself of video-store-free movies, though...
I've also been looking at a lot of modern art for another work project. I'm getting m dose of culture-- and more familiar with artists like Hermann Nitsch. Mmm, splatter painting!!
Posted on @ 5:37 PM | 0 comments
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But hey, I drive a mini van and I like to make sure others still have room to park. Annnnd the Outback that parked me in still had a good two feet behind them. Realistically, there was no way I could move my van. We were just contemplating walking when Rand suggested we check to see if the subaru had its parking brake on.
It did, because apparently the Moomy who had parked it was thoughtful enough to do that but not enough to check her spacing. But that didn't stop Matt from trying the passenger door-- to find it unlocked. He unset the parking brake, hopped in the driver's side and took it out of first (keep in mind, we WERE on a flat here, not a hill), and then they pushed it back two feet. I suggested they push it back a little farther so that it blocked the service driveway... I would have loved to see the look on her face when she came back to her car to see it sitting five feet from where it was, possibly ticketed as well... but Rand declined. We reset the brake and I drove off, first giving the car an obligatory nudge with my bumper.
Posted on February 09, 2006 @ 6:57 PM | 4 comments
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Evil!
By Chris P., at
11:54 PM, February 09, 2006
chuckle. Nicely done
By inkandpen, at
6:55 AM, February 10, 2006
That kicks ass. I applaud your friend Rand. I'd be tempted to do something far worse than simply do as you were suggesting, Numine.
Where I'm from, especially at this time of year, tehre are innumerable Detroit Red Wing flags all over car windows. If I had a dime for every flag I've snapped off of a car in a parking lot in the past year, I'd have enough for a Whopper Value Meal.
Each event is not a random act. They all deserved it somehow for either dinging my door in the parking with their huge fucking Ford Extragigantadition, for blocking me in like Fran, etc. It's just my good fortune that they all seem to have these flags.
If I were to put together a thesis on it (which this comment is turning out to be), I'd say Red Wings fans either have a vendetta against me or they're just shitty drivers.
By G-Rob, at
8:10 AM, February 10, 2006
Nice.
By Louie, at
5:11 PM, February 10, 2006
Then it gets progressively worse and worse.
And it ends so bad.
Every day, or if not every, almost.
Why?
Posted on February 07, 2006 @ 3:52 PM | 6 comments
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Sometimes things seem worse than they are. It'll pass. I love you, if that helps any. *hugs*
By Titania, at
4:18 PM, February 07, 2006
Hrm. I hope it isn't always so, but I appreciate that sometimes it is.
In any event, take care, deary.
If for no other reason than your personal amusement, a horoscope since you and I share the same birth sign.
For Libra,
Be a fool -- a holy fool, that is. Go forward without an agenda or an axe to grind. Be receptive, open and available for all the opportunities the universe works to supply for you. A new, expansive life awaits you.
By Cad, at
11:58 PM, February 07, 2006
Maybe it has to do with what kind/level of expectations you have for your day and what it will bring you. Without expectation one cannot be disappointed. Now although that's a difficult task being human, minimizing one's expectations as much as one can often minimizing one's suffering. How Buddhist of me to say.
By , at
3:07 PM, February 08, 2006
Lilith? Your IM name?
Days suck because of the gods. F.U., gods!
By , at
4:38 PM, February 08, 2006
ps: Have you ever looked into doing more modeling? $$$!
By , at
4:39 PM, February 08, 2006
I have also found this to be true. I chalk it up to being jaded about my shitty job, standing up for 8+ hours all day, both of which suck up my energy and ability to cope with things at the end of the day. I recently took a work day off and I felt grrreat in the evening, whereas I usually feel physically and mentally exhausted.
I'm sure perspective has something to do with it, but things sure do seem to suck in the evening.
By Rachel, at
4:52 PM, February 08, 2006
Grow up, you fucking babies. Images of your prophet have been "published" for hundreds, if not thousands of years by non-Muslim sources. You must have been pissed off about *these* for a special reason, and I'm guessing it was the content. Well then, did you UNDERSTAND the comics? See you no irony, no hypocricy in your response? Stop acting like CHILDREN and get a goddamn grip! Oh, and by all means, DO issue a challenge in your newspapers for the "best comic depicting the Holocaust." I guarantee that if, IF there is a negative response it will be unparralleled by the extreme idiocy you are exhibiting. You say you can't afford the negative publicity those caricatures gave you? You say they were sacrilege? Take a look in the mirror.
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Since then, I've ridden it almost every day. But until now I hadn't ever changed out the mountain bike tires on this forty-pound sucker for road tires. Today, after huffing up a ten-block hill in first gear, I decided that it was time. So, after work, I went down to Performance Bicycle and got me some sweet-ass tires and a new set of head/tail lamps installed.
And ya know what's awesome? They only charged me for the parts and nothing for the labor, when tire/tube installs were clearly listed as $10 on the service board. Yeop. I chatted with the bike guys for about an hour and they made sure my old-skool ride was set to go in top shape.
The best thing, however, is that they've offered me secure parking in their shop. We don't really have the space in our office for a bike and I refuse to leave it outside in front of the theater where our usual crowds of meth-heads and vagrants will have access to it. So, hooray for being a girl and getting free labor and secure bike parking. Boobies rule!
Posted on February 06, 2006 @ 8:34 PM | 7 comments
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i don't think it was because of your boobies. no offense. the rest of you maybe.
By , at
10:13 PM, February 06, 2006
Please choose a handle. I've stated numerous times that anonymous comments are rude and will be deleted.
By Kat, at
8:38 AM, February 07, 2006
Two things...
I think the person with the original "Anonymous" handle is correct. Since your first visist, the guys in the bike shop have invested heavily in BOD body spray with the hopes that you'll park your bike at their pad some day, if you catch my drift. Just my opinion as a guy.
And secondly, I'd suggest maybe tweaking the settings of your blog to ONLY allow Blogger member to comment on your blog. I know my blog has that setting through Blogger. It would both rid your blog of the dreaded Anonymous commenter AND free up the time it takes you to tell everyone they are a jackanape for posting Anonymously. My 2 cents.
By G-Rob, at
8:58 AM, February 07, 2006
G-Rob: I'm sure they've considered it, though they were nicely only chatty and polite-- not come-on-ish at all.
As for the comments, I've also considered that. However, a large number of my friends and readers are not blogger users and maintain their sites with WordPress and other utilities. It seems silly to force them to sign up for blogger to comment on my site. Besides, there will always be trolls under the bridge no matter what I do.
By Kat, at
10:18 AM, February 07, 2006
Have you ever noticed that when someone prefaces a statement with "no offence," they really mean, "I'm covering my ass because what I'm about to say will offend you"?
By , at
10:19 AM, February 07, 2006
I've noticed on my blog, that people who comment anonymously ALWAYS have something rude to say. I don't allow it at all - if people give a fake email address (like one guy posting offensive comments using anon@anon.com), I would just delete them.
It was TOTALLY YOUR TITS. Not so much that the bikeshopdudes want to TOUCH your tits, but that you have them. People seem to feel inclined to be nicer to women even if they don't want in to their pants. And yes, anon, even women who don't have DD's.
By Adrienne, at
2:32 PM, February 07, 2006
You're assuming two things: that the bike guys are hetero, and that they're attracted to women with your look/body type. I don't find that either of these are reasonable or fair assumptions to make. Perhaps consider that your boobies may have had nothing to do with the kindness they showed you.
By , at
3:02 PM, February 08, 2006
- My new Woolrich slippers are love;
- I have found an awesome new way to waste time online, Consumating.com. You should all sign up now;
- I plan on biking to work tomorrow, the first time since I moved from Eugene and biked to campus almost every day for four years. (Yeah, it's a bit hillier here.)
- I *finally* saw The Chronic (what?) Cles of Narnia this weekend and, well, I'm a bit embarrassed to say that it made me reminisce perhaps a little too much about World of Warcraft. What can I say? My Tauren is almost level 20. For the horde!
Posted on February 05, 2006 @ 8:13 PM | 10 comments
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why do you use the 'word' "EVAR" (sic). no one really pronounces it like that.
By , at
9:21 PM, February 05, 2006
As I can't find an instance of "evar" on the top level of this page, I'm not sure exactly to which useage you're referring.
"Evar," in general, is the ultimate emphasis of the word "ever," used in leet (internet) speak. I use it generally in a sarcastic capacity, as in "the best/worst (something) EVAR!" Making fun of leet speak seems to facilitate regular use just as much as taking it seriously, unfortunately. See the Wikipedia article on Leet for a reference to "evar."
Also, you may not know anyone who pronounces it like that. But my homies are people who spend all day on TEH INTARWEB, and some of them, myself included, in proper context, do.
By Kat, at
9:34 PM, February 05, 2006
I'm with Kat on this one. Although, we may not be hip anymore-- some of my students named their in-class team "The Coolest Team Ever" the other day, and I thought to myself "don't they mean, EVAR?" but they didn't. They just meant that they were the coolest team that had ever been, not a touch of irony. And this is a class of nerds! I was speachless.
By inkandpen, at
7:00 AM, February 06, 2006
Also, can't you tell me, what is this "TEH INTARWEB" you speak of? Surely you must have mistyped. Don't you mean "The Internet" or "The World Wide Web?"
Jeeeeeezus.
I just stopped by to tell you thanks: I got on that consumating thing, and now I've been at work for like 2 hours and haven't done a damn thing but search for people and answer pointless questions.
By Adrienne, at
7:54 AM, February 06, 2006
Numine, dahling, you should really stop playing with the English language like that. Language is a concrete entity that should only be used when following the prescribed rules of grammar and syntax.
53r1o51y, \/\/h41 k1nd 0f g33k r u?
And b/c I love you friend but I also know that you are free to make your own decisions, please consider wearing your helmet when you bike. / endfriendlyplea
By Rachel, at
8:12 AM, February 06, 2006
d00d, I totally am wearing my helmet. I'm in tha big city now. :-O It's proportionately scarier biking these streets, though I avoid traffic for 75-85% of my ride in. Stupid hills. D-:
By Kat, at
10:20 AM, February 06, 2006
*breathes a sigh of relief*
big city or not, you should always wear your helmet when biking. cars don't see you, balances get lost, shit happens, even if it hasn't happened yet and even if you are very physically coordinated.
ok, I'm not your mom, but I am an advocate for basic safety for all of my friends cuz I love you guys and stuff and I want you around for a long time. oh and I'm also not a cat! ;)
By Rachel, at
5:30 PM, February 06, 2006
dude, can it, Adrienne. i spend plenty of time on el interneto and have never heard "evar". that link you sent was fascinating, kat, btw.
By , at
6:35 PM, February 06, 2006
Re: the "EVAR" thing, I think there's another facet to this whole thing that has not been mentioned yet. When I hear "Worst _____ ever." I think of the fat comic book guy from the Simpsons. He says it very deliberately, almost to the point of requiring it to be written or said "Worst ... _____ ... ever."
Perhaps that what the youngsters on the "Coolest Team Ever" were going for?
This was the worst comment ever. My apologies.
By G-Rob, at
8:52 AM, February 07, 2006
I gotta doubt how much time "Anon" spends online, having never heard "Evar"!
Also, usually people who spend any measureable amount of time using the Internet (in the way that people who are familiar with leet use the internet) have chosen a handle by now!
And I think the term is spelled "d00d".
Unless you've been living in a closet, you know that tomorrow is Superbowl Sunday. And, if you're anything like me, you generally couldn't care less. But this year is different. This year I'm going to my first-- and probably my last and only-- Superbowl Party. Why? I daresay I like cheering for the underdog. The Seattle Seahawks, cursed with a losing streak going back years before my family relocated to the Pacific Northwest, are playing tomorrow in Detroit. Football? Meh. Beer? Meh. I just want to see the look on my "boss's" face when his team wins (or loses).
Justin's whipping up a batch of his famous habenero salsa and some guac and tomorrow we're off will Rand and Matt (the SEOmoz crew) to Rand's mom's house to watch the game and glut ourselves on excess calories.
Wee-ha!
Posted on February 04, 2006 @ 8:51 PM | 2 comments
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Yeah pro football just doesn't really scratch any itches for me either. But I am down with the excuse to make good food, drink beer, and yell and the televison for no good reason.
My last memory of the Seahawks was performing in their half-time show with the UO Marching Band. The Seahawk fans were awful; they booed us while we performed and threw stuff AT THE BAND even when UW had owned us in football the day previous and the Seahawks had invited to perform in their half-time show in the first place. Yeeehaawks.
At least some of the commercials on Superbowl Sunday are entertaining and attempt to market to a wider audience instead of the beer-drinking males.
By Rachel, at
10:43 AM, February 05, 2006
Yeah, football parties are fun because there are lotsa people and gooooood food!!
Too bad we lost though...
By , at
7:39 PM, February 05, 2006
It leaks a little oil like many old cars and has a few scratches and dents, but not many. In fact, it drives almost perfectly, aside from poor gast mileage. Yet it also has its own peculiar ticks on top of all the normal ones. Take, for example, the time the turn signal came disattached when I was using it to merge onto the freeway. Yep, haven't fixed that yet since I figured out another way to work it. Or the fact that the passenger side door can only be opened from the inside.
I love my van, and I will call it Fran, because I shan't take for granted that the gets me from point a to point b in one piece. Or that I now have the additional responsibilities of a car parent: Seattle tabs and driver's insurance. Somehow it just isn't as exciting owning a car as I thought it would be when I was seventeen.
Posted on February 01, 2006 @ 11:35 PM | 6 comments
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What kind of car did you have before?
Since my first car, which I chose myself, I have had two 'no other choice' family donations (alright, one I had to pay for, but I could have gotten no car even close to that good for the amount my mom charged me). These cars - they may not be the perfect car for us, but they DO get us from point A to B, they DO definitely deserve names, and they WILL someday make the purchasing of the cars we really want even more sweet. Congrats on the car!
By Adrienne, at
5:31 AM, February 02, 2006
Be good to Fran. She got me through senior year of highschool when everyone else had BMWs. She can be testy, and parking her sucks but you can take 6 of your friends wherever you want to go! Plus, who doesn't want a red car with black racing stripes! ;-) I know you've had her a while, but congrats on becoming her official mother. Give her a kiss for me and tell her I didn't mean it when I traded her in for dad's car. The transmission issues scared me.
By Titania, at
9:34 AM, February 02, 2006
Rollout! Oh yeah... point A to point B, that's all that really matters.
By , at
9:42 AM, February 02, 2006
Adrienne: I've never had a car before... I never needed one. The thing is, I'm hesitant even to take this one and wonder if I've made the right decision. Justin and I are now a 2-car household without a dire need for two cars. This makes me feel environmentally guilty, on top of it being an added expense that I don't *really* need.
tit: (lolz) Well, the "transmission" issue was really a wiring issue and since dad fixed it this summer, it hasn't happened once. :-) And I got through senior year of high school just fine without *any* car when everyone else had BMWs. ;-P [Yes, this was even before Justin had his mazda.]
By Kat, at
10:11 AM, February 02, 2006
By Kat, at
5:12 PM, February 02, 2006
being a car owner does not oblige you drive said car anymore than you have to. you can still walk and bike to work and use Fran when you need her. congrats!
By Rachel, at
4:45 PM, February 03, 2006
