ok, so i've been a woefully bad blogger lately. i know.
the holidays. the fall. the cold. the cold. the cold. the vacation while still having the cold. and still with the cold. so forgive me. i've been too busy reaching for kleenex to do much typing lately. my profuse apologies.
and rather than write one of my long, rambly tomes, i'm going to just write a quick blip on various issues that have caught my attention in my recent tylenol cold-induced haze.
1) the obvious: the inauguration
i realize i'm only about the 57th person that you've heard whine this week about the fact that bush is allowing over $40 million to be spent on his inauguration and accompanying festivities. i'll avoid pointing out the sheer disgustingness of this vulgarity given the world has just seen well over 200,000 people die in what was probably the worst natural disaster to ever befall the world. or that social security is crumbling before his very eyes. or, i dont know, there are troops riding around in iraq in tanks and humvees and neither the troops nor the vehicles have armor to protect them from the barrage of enemy fire they will, without doubt or question, see.
and i know that bush is having his corporate cronies donate all of the money and that none of it is actually taxpayer money. right. get it.
but have a soul, bush. tell your rich friends to donate their money to tsunami relief. or shovel a pile of $20 million towards armor for the troops. something. christ. this is disgusting.
all this administration had to do was take the cue from FDR, who, in his fourth inauguration in 1945, decided that he could not allow or tolerate excessive funds to be spent on his inauguration while a war was on (gee, sound familiar?), and so he allowed a mere $2000 be spent on his inauguration.
this administration should be ashamed. utterly ashamed of itself. (and anyone reading this blog with any consistency knows i'm usually a bit more gentle with these dipshits than this, but even i have had it. finally.)
2) the sublime: i love the 90's part deux
joy has returned to my life. i can once again spent night after night, weekend after weekend, immersed in vapid jaunts through my past with a bunch of c-list actors and comedians (special exemption from this nobody status goes out to michael ian black, mo rocca, and loni love).
happiness is a vh-1 retrospective.
i thought i was going to fall off my couch and die when loni love said after watching the video for chris isaac's 'wicked game,' she had to change her underwear. love her. come on, you know you did too.
3) the beautiful: hawaii here i come
if anyone has been to hawaii, give me some tips as to whether or not i should tack on an extra weekend and go to the other islands. i'll be there for my work conference in march and need to figure out what i'm doing. so far, i'm going to the conference. suggestions for things that might be remotely more interesting than that are most welcome.
4) the beautiful, part 2: henderson, tennessee here i come
found out today i have to spend a week at freed-hardemann university. suggestions for things that might be remotely more interesting for spending more time in henderson are not most welcome.
5) the find of the year: trader joes
this is the best grocery store around. period. and the fact that in ohio, unlike my previous home, pennsylvania, you can actually buy alcohol in grocery stores makes this truly the best grocery store in the area. except jungle jims. but i'm not driving all the way up there. do check out the charles shaw at trader joes for $3.39 a bottle (especially the shiraz, though the merlot is pretty tasty too) - with a 10% discount if you buy a case. not that i buy cases of wine. not me. surely.
and i'd tell you about the best. cookies. ever. that they have there, but then you all would do a mad rush on them, and there'd be none left for me. so no cookie tip here. sorry. me likes my cookies.
6) the best new sport: snow tubing
yes, the poconos is one of the best locations on the east coast for skiing. but that's so over. plus since my ass had only just recovered from my tumble down the stairs and my only other skiing adventures have proven injury-inducing, i wimped out.
but snow tubing is the best new sport, hands down. fun, terrifying, and giddiness-inducing all in one.
and if one more person in this area tells me you can now snow tube up at perfect north slopes, i'm going to smack them. (kidding. just kidding.)
7) the best new sport part two: running
yep, you read that right, folky folks. i'm a runner. i've taken up running. heh.
as in i spend about 85 minutes on the treadmill these days and about 8 minutes of that time is spent running. but it's 8 more minutes than i ran in the whole of last year. so i'm ahead of the game.
plus i have to get up my endurance. i'll be doing the flying pig HALF marathon in may. (not kidding. not kidding.)
and i'm only on running shoes pair #3. but that's ok. more stock for the shoe room.
8) the impossible, the ridiculous: quentin tarrantino
is it possible that there is a person alive who have never seen a quentin tarrantino movie? never? ever? none?
because i am the lamest of movie goers, and even i have seen quentin tarrantino movies. and i live under a rock. brad, what's your excuse?
9) the joy, the exhaltation: i was proposed to!
on my way to kaldi's, a man proposed to me! stopped me. proposed marriage. on the street.
he said he'd be good for me.
and he said he'd be my rabbit. whatever i wanted.
my rabbit? oy.
