I Heart RW

I ended up having a really great weekend full of new and old friends...minus ALL the packing!

Friday night I made a new friend (only he does not know we are BFF...YET!) in the form of Rufus Wainwright. HOW did I not know how fabulous he is? He is just a presence, tells yummy stories just like Dar and as Hot Vot put it, "He is so gay he has flames coming out of his head!"

This song was a fav...MUST get CDs ASAP:

"Vibrate"

My phone's on vibrate for you

Electroclash is karioke too

I try to dance Britney Spears

I guess I'm getting on in years

My phone's on vibrate for you

God knows what all these new drugs do

I guess to have no more fears

But still I always end up in tears

My phone's on vibrate for you

But still I never ever feel from you

Pinocchio's now a boy

Who wants to turn back into a toy

So call me

Call me in the morning

Call me in the night

So call me

Call me anytime you like

My phone's on vibrate for you

For you

Saturday night was great. Ms. W's b-day was v fun, met the new and fabulous beau as well as saw another college friend not seen in AGES. After that S & I made our way over to Beacon for some beer pong (how regression---and how much a** did I kick?) and then to the BHP for last call. I was on crash mode by then and barely stayed awake for late night pizza.

Last night S & I went to a BBQ @ the Central Square crowd's house. They are SUCH a fun/chill group (considering I just met them on TH @ our place!)...so inviting and GREAT chef's. Mango salsa, guac., burgers w/ bleu, aioli and dandelion grass, Asian slaw and awesome potato salad. And then homemade cupcakes with SPRINKLES! Delish...I think I ate my body weight in CRAP this weekend...hello eaters remorse!

No...Unless You Think I look like Gabby Reese?

OY! Why do complete strangers always feel compelled to ask me:

a) If I work in the store I am shopping in? (Ok granted I COULD get a gold if shopping was ok'd by the IOC...but if I worked there, would I be carrying around a PURSE??)

b) Feel like it is OK to ask me dumb slightly rhetorical and/or personal questions?

The latter just happened to me as I made yet another jihad to the frikin U-Haul place. In their defense the help there is not being heavily recruited by Mensa. And maybe I AM wearing scrubby erring on the side of semi athletic clothes...grey vintage* T from my dad's Co., blue ancient Addidas shorts, Black Reefs, Navy Red Sox Cap...or at least maybe clothes I would wear to the gym.

As I am paying for my boxes (colossal waste of money, BUT much easier than haggling with the freaks in the back of the grocery store!) this exchange happened:

Guy: "Dijaevaplahvawlaball?"
Me: "Exsqueeze me?"
Guy: "Did you ever play volleyball"
Me: "Uh, no"
Guy: " Well you look like a volleyball player"

Interfesting...Volleyball...not a sport that initially comes to mind to describe anyone. Football player, yes; swimmer, yes; basketball player, definitely. (I have been asked that one before--I AM 5'11" for crap's sake!) but never volleyball...hmmm...

Anyway, I had time to ponder while at the grocery store and CVS** picking up my over priced pills. Let's put it this way, I spent $42.76 and the $2.76 was on $2.19 bag of tootsie pops (beach snick snacks for next weekend, yipee!! ) and a really cool little dish shaped like a martini that was 50 cents!!! FACISTS! So to get even I stole like 10 circulars and a pile of free weekly newspapers to pack with! HA! TAKE THAT CVS!

*and by vintage I mean OLD, ie circa 1990, not "cool" or "from Abercrombie/J Crew/Urban", which btw should be called SUBURBAN Outfitters as every teeny bopper and their MOTHER shops there in every major mall in America!

**Former AEM roommate refers to CVS as the "Cervix Vagina Shop"

ANYTHING Not to Have to Pack.. .

Right now I am sitting at roommate #1's computer in my MESS and 1/2 of an apartment as I am in the middle of packing (blech @ the word!) for my impending movin' on up. I kid you not, I have emptied almost every cabinet/cupboard/closet etc INTO the middle of their respective rooms and just kind of left everything there and moved on to "tornado" a another room!

What's really tough is that I am moving from a roughly 1500 SF (+ basement & deck/yard) 3 bedroom into a 700 SF (maybe less??) shoebox of a two bedroom. Sure it is LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION (5 blocks from work) but I just have SO much crap! Plus I need to separate what I am taking with and what is going into storage @ the 'rents (not to mention HOW I am going to get it all there...ugh!!) Thank goodness for WERS: http://www.wers.org/!

I have not even gone down into the basement yet, SHUDDER, that is going to be a feat. Plus I am sure it's like 700 degrees down there w/o AC:( Wish me luck! I've already decided I am SO rewarding myself with a trip to the new Coldstone's down the street and a mani/pedi for my impending night out of birthday debauchery with Ms. W.

Ps-this post was inspired by a new blog: http://http://www.anonymousmidwestgirl.blogspot.com/ I discovered today...heart it!

PPS--for some reason ctrl+shift+a will NOT work for my sorry self today, BAD BLOGGER!

Alone with my own thoughts

In a word: FRIGHTENING!

OK, OK I am a slacker...a lazy slacker. This AM, on the bus for the 1st time in like 6 weeks coming to work I had waaaaay too much time to think. For some reason I was too tired to read my copy of Bachelor Girls. (maybe b/c I have read it like 37 times? Note to self, google Wendy Wasserstien to see if she is up to something new!)

If I started a new blog, this would be the name: VIVACIOUS BOOTY! I love it esp b/c it is code for DRUNK A**! (KL calls herself "vivacious" in faux southern drawl when she gets tipsy)

And I don't know why I have never blogged about this, I see if EVERY freaking day...the Boston commuter girl summer uniform:

-Black Pants-CHECK
-Reefs-usually black, maybe a color, maybe J Crew or Eliza B Ribbon-CHECK on item 1!
-Tank sweater of varying color-CHECK, I was monochromatic today
-MAYBE a ribbon belt of some sort IF she works in a funkier office-NOT in this one!
-carrying an initialed LL Bean/Vera/Longchamp/Herve of varying degree/color-Loden/purple Herve

MAYBE it was b/c today I WAS that girl!

Random Thoughts:

• I really love the song "I'll Tumble for You" by Boy George
• I REALLY want a pair of Jack Rogers Sandals-in hot pink, pref. ON SALE end of season
• Why is summer over already? siiiiigh....I hate shopping right now...
• I have a headache from the clip I've had in my hair all day
• I really need to/should excommunicate BDL from my life..he is on probation as it is. Unless he wants to buy me the sandals? FAT chance!