Uncategorized 12:48 am
This isn’t a real post, I just had to archive this AWESOME thing that I found in the dark depths of the internetz…
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… oh it made me so happy…
Uncategorized 11:36 pm
Oh I was there!
It was amazing.
It was very cold.
and crowded.
And we had to walk for miles.
and nobody got much sleep.
So worth it. I cried and screamed and cried and cried and cried.
I was dressed so festively! Red coat and blue blankie FTW!
It was Very Cold!
Sometimes my view was like this..
Mostly my view was like this. I got to see what I came for though, so I didn’t care.
This is W leaving! He flew right over us.
So much crowd!
We were all so happy!
The trains were packed, of course. Everybody was super nice.
DC metro is much cleaner than New York’s. Less old school cred though.
I still have the metrocard. It’s my only souvenir. Got a pic of Obama and a 1.35$ still on it… I’m gonna keep it forever.
Pics provided by my friend (and our driver) Mike Keane. Thanks Mike!
Uncategorized 9:25 pm
Oh disaster my babies!
So I won’t be in DC tomorrow after all and I am VERY SAD. Well, I could be sadder, but I felt capital letters were warranted anyway. Anyhoo, it seems that something went HORRIBLY WRONG with our van rental, the one thing we didn’t think could go wrong. Like, the guy driving our bus s’had this reservation for Weeks now. Apparently it was one of those where the guy on the phone said something different than the guy at the desk and it was a big fat mess that I don’t actually know anything about because I wasn’t there. I was only responsible for blankets and snack foods- which I had all packed and ready, mind you. I was PREPARED.
ALAS!!! I was getting really excited too. Not my fault though. I mostly feel bad for our van driver, he is all sorts of sad.
But I still have the day off, so I’m gonna go with my original plan and stand to watch in Times Square. That way I still get a massive happy crowd, with the added bonus of that I can have an umbrella if it snows, it’s a only an hour commute from my house, and I can get WASTED DRUNK if I want to. See, if we went to DC we would all have to be sober and not carry anything that might get stopped by security and we would have had to do a lot more walking. So there. TOMORROW WILL BE AWESOME!!! No matter where I’m standing at noon.
Speaking of sober, if this post is rambly it is because I came home and had two shots of bourbon. Can you tell?
MMMMMMmmmmm…. Life is good.
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.. *EDIT*
Oh wait I may be going after all, there’s some alternate plan involving someone’s roomate’s car … Oh god the suspense is mad and did I mention I LOVE BOURBON!?! Well, I just did.
I am going to read this post and be embarassed later. My decision making skills are not up to par.
Uncategorized 12:50 am
Ahoy there!
So my big news of the week is that I Finally got Paid! That check from NYU that I been waitin’ on since november came at last, and all is well. Got my rents all paid, bought some much needed work pants, and best of all- I have a new winter coat. And just in time too, because the day after I got it, like, the Very Next Day, it got reallly really cold here. Temp has been hovering in the teens since Tuesday. Today it warmed up into the 20s and we got some real snow. It’s amazing how warm 29 degrees feels when you’ve been slogging through 17 degree weather for a few days.
Anyway, the coat is Beautiful. It is bright red. Like the red of mom’s peacoat I wore all the time in middle school. I was gonna get black, but they only had mediums in black and the small red one fit me much better. I took it as a sign from above that I should be wearing more red. Who am I to fight it? It’s from a store that has a lot of well-made stuff I like, and I usually can’t afford to shop there, but the economy’s so bad they’re desperate and everything is on mad sale. I walked in and had three people tell me all about their crazy sales, it was almost funny. I bought two velvet blazers while I was there too. One black (of course) and one in purple. I needed a new costume designer jacket- my old one is getting mighty worn out.
Anyway, enough of this boring talk of shopping. The real thing to talk about is that I will be standing out in the cold all day on Tuesday and I will be mighty glad of the new coat. Because I, my friends am going to DC.
Oh yes. That’s right. Me and some friends are piling into a minivan and roadtrippin’ it down. It’s madness. I can’t wait. We don’t have tickets or nuthin, we’re just gonna show up with the clothes on our backs and a song in our hearts. Doesn’t even matter if we never get close to the action. Our goal is just to be standing on the mall at 12:00 Tuesday, watching the Jumbotron with however many millions of other people as Barack Obama get sworn in. That’s it. And for that we will brave hours and hours of horrible traffic, crazy security lines, frigid East Coast cold, and the very real possibility we will be doing without full meals and/or proper toilets for 24 hours.
I don’t care. It will be worth it. I’m gonna scream like a banshee and cry like a baby. It will be wonderful.
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Oh yes, almost forgot. My Grad school interview/portfolio review for Tisch School of the Arts at NYU is on February 2nd at 10:20 am. Please please please wish me lots of luck and awesomeness! I really really want this.
Uncategorized 1:58 pm
Happy New Year! 2009 is gonna be a good one, I can feel it.
Big news in Minnick Land- I have put forth my grad school application. To Tisch School of the Arts, yes yes. I hit the ’submit’ button at 3 am on the morning of January 1st. Hooray for me!
I still have to put in my UW application, but that one requires printing and envelopes and postage and what-have-you, and that deadline is weeks away, so I am not nearly so stressed about it.
I have to take my christmas tree down this week and that makes me sad. I am however, excited to pack up that christmas box. You know, the box in the closet that when you bring it out, it’s Christmas. I will have one! And that makes me happy.
But I am doing none of that today, no sir. I am sick. Gots me a sore throat and a fever. Lucky I also got three days off, so I can sort of afford it. Bleah.
I was gonna run errands and work on my portfolio, but I think that’s gonna have to wait. Maybe tomorrow I won’t be so warm and achy.
My cat is on a new kind of food and it appears tht she has lost some weight. Hooray! Fat kitty..
Uncategorized 2:10 am
Well, my dears, it is nearly Christmas, and what have we here? I for one have an ADORABLE christmas tree! My very first tree, and it is covered in paper. Cranes and snowflakes, specifically. It is a ‘Frasier” fir tree, and slightly taller than yours truly. So, a real tree indeed.
We got some snow the other day, which was quick to turn to gross icy piles of dirty gunk, but them’s the beats. I’m hoping it will snow again and be pretty for Christmas, but I betcha anything it’s gonna rain instead. Seems the northwest and northeast have switched weather again this year. It’s madness.
I had a day off today, and I was gonna get all sorts of things done… I had a nice long list and everything. Guess what I did? NOTHING! I am so lazy.
Well, that’s not really true, I did update my resume so I can send my grad school app off before the week is out. I told myself that I wanted to have them done by Christmas, with the knowledge that I would likely be a week late and thus still in time for the Jan. first Deadline. Thus does my plot unfold.
But no errands were run, I never left the house, no phone calls made nor emails sent. I didn’t even do any baking. Although there’s still time for that, I suppose. If my roommates ever leave the kitchen.
I have a sad story about a cherry pie I made last week. I did it up from scratch- frozen cherries, homemade butter crust, the whole thing. I spiced it with cinnamon and a little nutmeg, and it baked up perfectly. So I put it on the stove to cool and was really excited about it. Then my roommate Dante came home and went to make some tea. And turned on the wrong burner. And BURNED MY PIE! I was so sad. She felt really terrible and made me some tea, but still, man. She Burned my Pie!
Turns out it was not as great a tragedy as it could have been though. I hadn’t used enough cornstarch in the filling, so the pie was runny anyway. Oh well. It still tasted really good. At least the parts of it that weren’t all burnt.
In other disappointing news, I still don’t have my check from NYU. Turns out payroll is eight weeks behind. This is a big fat problem in so many ways it is not even funny. It seems my only option now may be to call them first thing next week and demand an advance. Because if I don’t get that money before the first I am really pretty well SCREWED. Not cool.
We had our office party at my dayjob last Thursday, and I was certain this time would be uneventful as I had no plans to get smashed and planned to stick to that. I figured I’d have a glass or two of wine, maybe a shot of something if someone else was buying, then sober up and go home. Oh, the best-laid plans on mice and men..
So I was working the late shift that night, and as we are closing up, someone who will not be named brings out a bottle of rum, and proposes we each do a shot before we go over. Now, I am certainly not one to turn down free rum. Good rum, golden imported special puerto rican rum… Oh, we all know how I feel about rum.
So he pours out shots, (BIG shots, like doubles or triples), and we all fall to. But fate was not on my side, for as I am downing mine, someone makes me laugh. Horrors ensue! For I proceed to sputter, and a goodly portion of said delicious alcohol takes the scenic route through my sinus cavity and comes out my nose.
Oh. The. Pain. Now, I thought I’d be okay. Thought I could just walk it off and be all right. Oh no. For you see, the other side effect of any mind-altering substance taken (albeit accidentally) through the nose, other than the incredible pain of it… is that I was Drunk in no time flat. Off one shot. So embarrassing.
So I felt like crap and was already loopy by the time I arrived at the party. Thus I had no more drinks and did not stay long. Just long enough to show my face, eat some free food, say some hellos, get my picture taken (I looked great too, what a waste), and then I was on the subway home to my nice warm bed and my soft kitty and a cup of very soothing mint tea. Alas! That was this year’s Christmas party. I’m sorry kids! I know y’all were looking forward to seeing me get turned upside down..
I volunteered to work on Christmas eve because I thought it would be fun. I’m gonna bring cookies and maybe a pie. Baked goods shall be had by all.
I made fudge the other day and it is very tasty, however I think I put in too few marshmallows because it will not set no matter how long it lives in the freezer. But that’s okay, we’ve been melting it and putting hot fudge on our ice cream instead. Yummy!
Well now that I have made myself all hungry, perhaps it is time for a raid on the kitchen.
Uncategorized 2:59 am
aaaa wordpress redid their formats and I am confused and afraid…..
I guess it’s been enough time that I should post something before somebody mocks me.
I just threw out the last of the turkey carcass. Well, not really true, as I still have the wings and one of the legs saved. I suspect that Iso will be eating most of that, as I am not as fond of dark meat but she doesn’t seem to care. Iso loves turkey. And chicken, too. She’s pro-poultry.
Anyway now that my oven works again I have been crazy into making pies. I made like 5 of them for Thanksgiving. I knew that was a lot but punkin pie is my very favorite breakfast in all the world so I figured better too many than too few. Well, there were only 15-20 people actually made it to dinner that night instead of the 25-30 I was hoping for, so some of my guests got sent home with whole pies. Because I am just that awesome. I treats the orphans right!
The fact that all three of said guests happen to be boys I like is entirely coincidental.
I also disposed of much of the turkey in a similar fashion. I made a 22-pound turkey, guys! That is a giant bird! I felt pretty burly hefting that thing around, let me tell you. Turned out great though. And thanks to mom’s genius foil trick, the whole thing got cooked through, but the breast was still deliciously moist and not too dry. Also, I make a good gravy. The cranberry sauce got the most compliments though, which makes me smile becasue it is also the thing that takes the least actual effort. Just boil the suckers and add the proper spices. Makes my kitchen look like a crime scene though. Red spatters everywhere!
But now all that is over and the dishes are one load away from being done. I don’t ahve a dishwasher and I had to work all day for three days straight afterward… bleh and I hate dishes. Oh well.
I got the kitchen clean enough to make a cherry pie all for myself on monday. I ate that whole thing all by my lonesome, yumm! Just finished the last piece for breakfast this morning. Next up, apple! Whoooooo!!!
Uhhh… not much else going on with me other than that I have officially started on my grad school application. Deadline is Jan. 1st. I wanna have it submitted by Christmas though. Seems like a good goal to me.
Also I have decided that although there are few things in this world I enjoy more than singing- I don’t really like to Karoke all that much. I don’t really have a good explanation as to why just yet though. That may require some uncomfortable self-examination.
Uncategorized 12:46 am
Hellloooo everybodeeee!
I have weathered the storm of crazy work! Do you know what I am going to do tomorrow? That’s right, folks. I am going to SLEEP IN! I will Not get out of bed before 11. And I shall fry myself some lovely bacon for my breakfast! YAAAAYYYY!
My weeks of painting are over until they hire me again in January, and my kids’ show went up tonight. Hooray for the kids! They did so good! Once again they pull it together just in time, and they looked great if I do say so myself. I make miracles, yes I do. I was working for half of what I usually get paid on account of ‘cuz their budgets got slashed, but I am a softie and I took the job anyway. I threw the thing together in three days, because I couldn’t afford to take much time off my other jobs. But they arranged it that any of the budget I didn’t spend would go straight to me- so I costumed the whole show with under 50 bucks. I didn’t think I could do it, but I got lucky and somebody’s mom had just donated a bunch of fabric. Tablecloths and such, plus an awful lot of very shiny polyester gauze that someone had used to decorate the house for a sweet 16 party. Hooray for parental donations! So I built the show with that, and I also did an awful lot of recycling from previous shows. Now the rest of that there budget goes straight into my check… and will pretty much make up for the money I lost for the time I DID take off my dayjob. Everything evens out in the end! Yaaayyyy!
I don’t actually get a full day off until Thanksgiving, but that’s okay. Other than striking on Tuesday, (easy) this week is nothing but the Bodies. And there ain’t nothing like a month of real physical labor to make my cheeseball dayjob seem like the cakewalk that it really is.
I’ve got big plans to clean my house, see a show and/or the new Bond movie, and make ready for my awesome Orphan’s Thanksgiving. I really really hope they fix my oven before then. That would really really suck not to have. I’ve got a plan B, but it’ll be really inconvenient and involves me carting a fully-cooked 20 pound turkey on the subway across the park.. The dudes have come to my house twice already, and both times they tell me they need a part that isn’t in stock yet. Stupid stupid.
I just want to cook 6 punkin pies and a turkey in my own kitchen this week! Why is that so hard?!! Wahhhh!
But I am very happy to not be working like a crazy madwoman. And I will be even happier once I start getting those checks in the mail. My hollow bank account cries out to me.. WaMu’s totally got me pegged as a delinquent. Damn.
I would really really like it if this were to be the last time I was ever this short on cash dollars. It may be too much to ask. But I think I’m gonna make that my new grown-up goal. I just gotta make it past this week. And I will. I always do..
I wrote four pages of story while sitting backstage today. That is awesome, especially since I haven’t written anything for like a month. I am totally gonna type it up as soon as I finish this post. My life is sweet! Be you aware, my K&K peeps!
Also, quote of the day:
“Who thought having two boyfriends was a good idea?“
*cue cheesy grin*
…………….no no, is not from my life, more’s the pity. But I can share the grin anyway, right?
Uncategorized 11:29 pm
I don’t have much to say today. I’m tired. Here’s a pic of me getting drunk with my friend Cherish.
I don’t know when this was taken though. Probably last spring sometime… Man PAPEDOTHW is hard to do without no cameras. I oughtta get bonus points. Also I wish I’d had Kelly’s genius GoggleEarth idea…
Uncategorized 8:19 pm
O man was I happy to wake up this morning. You know, except for the actual getting out of bed part… But man was I happy.
These are everywhere here.
