Like Kevin Garnett, anything is possible

It is FRIDAY and it is WARM outside

YES. 

This of course means that I will be sneaking away from work early, because no doubt the weather will be awful very soon and I must take full advantage of this mid-50s wonderland. 

Looking at weather.com's 10 day forecast, I see they are claiming it will snow March 1 - 3, and then again on the 8th. G-D. I better get outside posthaste. (posthaste?)

I am currently drinking a gigantic Dunkin Donuts iced coffee and it is delicious.

G sent me an unexpected copy of The Lonely Island's Incredibad. It is much better quality than my pirated copy of Incredibad. Thanks G! And remember, this boat is real. 

Speaking of The Lonely Island, they are making an appearance at Faneuil Hall's Newbury Comics tonight. I will not be in attendance, not only because I feel incredibly uncomfortable in large crowds, but because if I saw Akiva in this outfit:

 I would probably maul him. 

By the way, what an awkward bulge those shorts are making. This reminds me of one of two episodes of Curb Your Enthusiasm I have ever seen: The one with the Pants Tent. 

Ahhhh it's almost March!!

this is a question?

on my facebook homepage, there is a "research poll" that asks:

The President says he can cut the deficit in half by the end of his first term?

• Disagree
  
• Agree

ummm what?

It's Nannerpuss!

Okay, I know Nannerpuss should probably be spelled Nannerpus but that looks gross to me. So yes, here is a picture of the Nannerpuss I put together for T this weekend. I know. No fishing wire on the tentacles, or googly eyes, and also, he has 10 arms. I tried, okay? For reference, the original. Note they spell it "Nanerpus." Gross. 

My morning started off with seeing a pantless homeless man in our building. I noticed it smelled really strange and I opened our front door to see if the maintenance people had taken away our garbage and what should assault my eyes but a homeless man pulling up his pants on the stairs. YIPPEE! S and I saw him again when we left. Very creepy. 

Then I dropped a whole bunch of bananas on the floor. Those should be nice and bruised when I want to eat them. 

Also the homeless man's strange stench has given me a headache. 

Today is going to be terrific. 

Good news everyone

According to Mr Phil Herald,

"Your mail account have been picked as a winner of a lump sum pay out of £891,934.00 pounds sterlings) in cash credited to file REF NO.REF:UKL/74- A0802742009. This is from total prize money of GBP 4,459,670.00shared among the FIVE (5) international winners in this category."

I did it! Yay! Friday the 13th is the best!

Space disc... is totally cancelled

The latest Garfield without Garfield is terrifying. Jon's teeth are especially disturbing. 

Friday friday friday friday friday friday yessssssssssssssssssssssssss

S and I had an epic cheese plate yesterday: a double creme goat (hers, not mine), a raw milk roquefort, Dubliner cheddar, and some Saint Andre triple creme with some Vermont apiary crystallized honey, sopressata, and almonds. Words can't express how much I love cheese. 

Was it just me or did you guys think leopard prints were going to die by now? Apparently not.

 

happy friday the 13th

to commemorate this day, I walked under a gigantic ladder twice. wait, what's supposed to happen to me now?

The Today Show

This woman just made an analogy to Matt Lauer comparing a uterus to a one bedroom condo. Would you put eight children in a one bedroom condo?

Jon Hamm's John Ham

A few things tonight:

1. Jon Hamm is great. Jon Hamm on 30 Rock is amazing.
   
2. LOST is back to excellence. YES.
3. Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations was just in Chicago, and it made me sad for the first time ever that I don't live there. Chicago friends, can we go to Hot Dougs and get foie gras hot dogs and fries made with rendered duck fat next time I'm in town? Pleeeeeeease?
4. I am very pathetically missing T, even though we saw each other this morning.
5. I feel like I have a duty to watch the end of the Celtics - Lakers game, even though neither S or T are here to enforce this duty.
   
6. Oreos do not mix well with red wine, contrary to popular belief.
   
7. There is such a thing as matte top coat, and I must find it. This black matte nail polish sort of buffs itself to a shine after a few days, and I find that unacceptable.
   
8. So love pathetic, it's sad.
   
9. Glen "Big Baby" Davis has a spectacular nickname.
   

Useless things

Someone's Facebook status just spoiled Lost for me. Damn you, Facebook. Although the spoiler DID seem pretty intriguing...

I'm hungry but it's too cold to go outside for food, since I did not pack a lunch today. Thus, my lunch has been composed of what's in my food drawer: lots of tea, a CLIF bar, a Campbell's Soup at Hand (Tomato), some yogurt covered raisins, and raw almonds. Worst lunch ever. Also, I ran out of gummi bears yesterday. Fuck. I was going to take a picture of the lunch, but then I was too hungry to pause. 

Wait, I mean I ran out of the gummi bears I brought to the office, not the five pound bag I bought a few weeks ago, although I'm not sure I would put it past myself to do that. 

BBW is leeeeeeeeeeeeaving Boston for warmer (and whiter) pastures out west. Sigh. Jealous. But: new reason to visit Colorado (aka: no longer just a white myth?). Hopefully, BBW can get to the South End soon and we can avoid holding a DPC meeting by eating disgusting amounts of NYPizza. 

I've noticed that I have a bunch of stuff that seems to have hung around for an inordinate amount of time. I mean, not things I need like a Social Security card or a birth certificate, but stupid things I should have lost years ago--  

1. I have a Hello Kitty pencil from 1987. NINETEEN EIGHTY SEVEN. I was three when I got that pencil. I still have it. It's sitting on my bedside table. I no longer use it because I am afraid of sharpening it into oblivion. 
2. I have a mechanical pencil from 8th grade that is clear with black rubber grips, and takes 0.5 sized lead (this is important, 0.7 lead is too smudgy) and I have taken every test since 8th grade with it. No, seriously, including the ACTs, SATs, SATIIs, and the MCAT. 
3. I have a Gap gray ribbed cardigan from 2001 (when I used to work at the Gap) that I don't even really like, yet still have, even though I have almost no qualms about donating or throwing away my clothes. Sometimes I put it on, and then think, NO, and then put it back in my closet. 

What led me to oversharing and telling you this (so that now you think i am a crazy bag lady type person) is that the chapstick I keep in my desk at work has finally run out (which I think marks the first time I have ever completely used up a tube of chapstick). This ChapStick brand lip moisturizer has been in various coat pockets and drawers since 2003. The weird part is, I don't even really like this chapstick. It's weirdly vanilla scented and kind of waxy tasting... why have I been toting this around for 6 years? Anyways. Goodbye ChapStick, I won't really miss you, but I bet I will buy a chapstick that I love and then use it for a week and then lose it forever. 

In a story on counterfeit bills, the Boston Globe uses all of these phrases: 

• identified the dough as faux
• expose spurious lucre
• phony money
  
• adulterated funny money
  
• hinky dollars
  
• crooked currency
  
• fishy $50s
  
• cooked up crazy cash 
  
• homegrown greenbacks 
  
• money-mongers 
  
• dicey dollars
  
• illegitimate loot
  
• penalties for counterfeiting can be stiffer than a crisp $100 bill
  
• when the C in C-note stands for counterfeit, once is more than enough
  

I can't decide if I find this amusing or awful.... mmm both. 

I am feeling very homesick today, and not for friends or Schaumburg or family, but for Chinese food, which is the worst kind of homesickness. I've always associated all of my warm childhood memories with food; I suppose this explains my fat girl mindset. Okay. Let's do some googling (or as Carrie from Sex and the City would say: "Later that day, I logged on to google-dot-com...") and see what kind of recipes I can come up with to make tonight.

oops

our electricity usage graph between 12/19 and 1/21. no one was even home from 12/23 - 12/30. we suck. 

monday monday monday means:

1. general public's tenderness: featured in weird science and clueless, both of which i watched this weekend  
   
   


2. my stomach hurts from the obscene amount of soda & popcorn I had at the movies with S on Sunday. We saw Revolutionary Road, got depressed, and snuck into Bride Wars, which also depressed us, but in a different way. 
   
3. I've been obsessed with fruit and candy recently. For those of you who say fruit IS nature's candy, I say shut up.
4. February: one step closer to summer.