Drowning in Life. And Stuff.

I had yesterday off work. I slept in, folded laundry, cuddled the PuppyKitten, played tennis with my friend, walked dogs, told my homance happy 25th birthday and generally reveled in having nothing to do.

I had yesterday off because starting today I have 10 solid days of work, 2 of which will be 10 hour days catering 2 different weddings.

After those 10 days is the ManBear’s birthday (a glorious friday off to sleep in and have lots of sex and drink and carouse and blowitup big) followed by another day of partying. Sunday will then be spent celebrating in a secret birthday style. Monday I get to work again. And Tuesday.

Tuesday I fly to Boston.

To meet up with Caitlin.

To drive to BlogHer.

To meet up with everyone.

Then days spent reveling and a flight home monday evening followed by work Tuesday morning.

I feel like I’ll need a vacation from my vacation!

But I am also so breathtakingly excited!

See you there?

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Here is a picture TO JAZZ IT UP ZATARANS STYLE

Ichabod is not amewsed wif your innernets ramblins! MOAR GRAVY!

Faren Makes Art

This little lambikins is Faren:

Faren makes Art

Faren makes really awesome art. She blogs a really awesome blog. And she is a really awesome person.

Shes also super sweet and made me this fantastic pear:

She calls me her Sweet [Prickly] Pear and that just too too cute.

You should check her out. Cause I love her. And you will too.

a post

I have been very busy lately.

I say this not as an excuse, but as an explanation.

I have a hundred things to talk about, to share; thousands of words to rush out to explain the wonderful things I’ve been doing – the things off my life list, the exploits of my hobo and his lady friend, the party with the guy in the dress, crafts. I want to explain how crappy work is being, and how good at the same time. I want to tell you about the thing my sister is doing, and the way the ManBear looks at me. I want to tell you how I feel fat and beautiful and tired and clever. I want to tell you how much I love my life, my man, my cat, my friends, the world.

Instead, for now, for this brief moment i have to breathe and collect, I’ll tell you about all the things I want to tell you about.

Life is really, really good.

On Friendship and the Internet

I need the ability to be anywhere I want whenever I want. Because it would make hugging the people I care about a lot easier.

Or they all just need to move to California.

I have never been good at making in-person friends. I have a few very good friends I keep as close as possible, but its hard for me to make new ones. I’m shy and awkward and ultra self-conscious in person. Besides Meghan and Jesse and Nate, my best friends are people I’ve met online – Beren and Leah for example.

Beren is my Soulie and Leah is my cross-country twin. Ive known them both at least 6 years and I love them dearly. Theres nothing I wouldnt do if they needed it. Ive only met Leah once (shes currently in Cincinnati) and Ive never met Beren (though I will in August – he lives in New York), and yet, again, there’s nothing I wouldnt do for them.

So when people I’ve met online that I like very much are hurting it hurts me too. I guess Im just better at being friends with people who cant see me being awkward, who dont see my dirty jeans and bitten nails, that Im covered in cat hair most days, that I humm the Star Wars theme to myself when I pee at work. Its easier to let myself be close to people who cant judge me as much I guess.

So, dearest online friends. I love you. Please know that. And that if you ask it, I will do almost anything for you that I can.

<3

My Life List

1. Own a dog
2. Have a child
3. Stay CAVITY FREE until I’m at least 50
4. Learn to swim the Butterfly (effectively)
5. See a Dodgers/Giants Baseball game in LA
6. Go to a World Series game
7. Visit at least 15 states (California doesn’t count)
8. Complete the 30 day Shred 3 months in a row
9. Get my drivers license
10. Plant a tree
11. Make my own outfit
12. Pay off my student loans and credit card / be debt free
13. Get a More Than Satisfactory rating on my Eval at work
14. Read 10 books in one month (that I havent read before)
15. Walk across the Golden Gate Bridge
16. See NYC as a tourist
17. See San Francisco as a tourist
18. Learn to ride a bike well (this includes hills)
19. Own good knives
20. Own my own domain name
21. Be a published author
22. Reach 100 Beers at Barclays in the beer club
23. Share a Zachary’s Pizza with Jesse
24. Stop biting my nails long enough to get a Manicure
25. Meet 100 98* online friends in person
26. Get a tattoo
27. Have Christmas dinner at my house
28. Reconnect with an old fried Done while writing this list
29. Speak in public about something I am an expert in
30. Swim with dolphins
31. Go deep sea fishing where my grandfather did
32. Ice skate in Canada
33. Be an extra in a film or tv show
34. Own a home
35. Visit 3 European countries
36. See all 7 Wonders of the World
37. Explore Golden Gate Park with my Mom for her birthday
38. Send my parents some where amazing for their wedding anniversary
39. See myself in the newspaper
40. Cook a whole chicken
41. Hold / Pet / Feed a penguin
42. See a giraffe in the wild
43. Surf in Australia
44. Make a font out of my own handwriting
45. Give $1,000 to Charity
46. Have sex 31 times in a month and enjoy it all
47. Get a caricature of myself and a loved one
48. Road trip cross-country (touching 5 states at least) with my dad
49. Brew my own beer (no matter how badly it turns out)
50. Get a professional massage

51. Taste 100 different kinds of Fancy Cheese
52. Go Wine Tasting in California
53. Self publish a Doodle Book (does not count towards getting published)
54. Own an Adult Camera
55. Take photobooth pictures with my sister on the same day every year for 20 years
56. Complete at least 5 roadtrip in “Road Trip USA”
57. See 20 live shows in a year (not only music)
58. Be involved in some way in my best friends wedding
59. Own a restaurant/pub

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I was inspired by Mighty Girl, Miss Grace and Super Jules who have been crossing things off their lists left and right. I’ve wanted to have a life list for a little over a year and it was finally time to write it.

So thats my list.

And now heres my life.

<3

*Miss Grace pointed that Blogher is coming in August and that I have also met NakedJen. I dont count Miss Grace as an Online Friend because I’ve hung out with her too much for it to make sense to. Or something.

updated 5.20.10 to include 51 – 59, crossed out completed.