i got $50 worth of quarters this morning

pretty crazy, huh? it felt good, the weight of those quarters in my purse.
this post is all about non-sequitur.
i realized just now, when i was blowdrying my hair, that the two side-by-side decorations in our bathroom are both from new orleans (different trips). new orleans is also where liv tyler's character wanted to move to in the movie "lonesome jim"
this is me and tom watching lonesome jim at the denver airport. (that is my reaction to some jerky thing the main character did) we were there for 9 and a half hours.
bathroom wall....
notice:
~framed pic of tap dancers was painted by margaret slade kelley. i've been known to lie and say that i painted it. but not to people that know me well enough to know that my middle name is ruth and not slade. maggie o found this print in new orleans and got it for me (on our trip with kate and mike...can we do that again, pleaaaase?)
~barry manilow copa cabana 45. i got this at a white elephant party that evelina took me to in new o. the party was hosted by a midget. i brought handcuffs.

so, how was everyone's thanksgiving? ours was great...we had ten days in estes park colorado, visiting with tom's parents. we did lots of puzzles. we got an ipod shuffle for marcia for her birthday. we played airhockey. (i totally kicked tom's ass) we ate a lot. it was totally fun and i am totally glad to be back home! i missed you, sf! and i missed all my friends too!




p.s. tommy is HAWT!!!!!!

goin to colorado....

we'll be back on the 28th.
happy thanksgiving everyone!!!!

first cormac, now rebecca.....

30!

weekend rewind

happy monday beautiful people!

so friday's wedding dress shopping was much more pleasant that the previous friday. you can read my review of bella bridesmaids here
i dined solo at betelnut and thoroughly enjoyed my roti and pomegranate cocktail.


friday night we went to hear jon play at a cafe. he was wonderful, as usual. after his solo set, his band "definite articles" played and they were totally, completely awesome. they are my new favorite band (for today) and not cuz the singer is cute (tommy called me out on that one) heehee.





later we went to hear the hot plus at then independent with ryan, alicia, hawkeye and amanda. i liked the opening band, honeycut way better.(later i found out they're on quannum records...no wonder i loved them!)

saturday we hit the gym (we are so damn good), got massages, then got ready for jenni and seth's taco party slide show. they shared about 300 pics from the wedding. we had a blast, and thanks to some enhancement, i stayed up til 4:30! well, i mighta had a teensy nap somewhere in there.
sunday we recovered, and stayed in bed til 4pm. we didn't leave the house at all. it was truly outrageous. truly, truly, truly outrageous.
AND we got to hang out with rebecca g! she's back, y'all!

round 2

today, i have an appt at bella bridesmaid
....i have high(er) hopes of finding a wedding dress i like here. a bridesmaid's dress will be more my style, i think. simpler, more reasonably priced (maybe), flowier fabrics....i'm even leaning towards getting a green dress like this (fourth one over)
or maybe i just like how it looks on the model. hmmmm.
in other news, our friends eric and amy had their babuhs (twinkies!), tallulah moxie and jagger kahn heath. he will be a rock star, and she, a kick-ass singer/songwriter/piano-player. it has been written.

a quote for today

my yoga teacher read this at the end of class this morning. i'm not much for posting quotes, but it brought some tears up, which leads me to believe that they are words i should pay attention to.


"...have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer."
Rainer Maria Rilke, 1903
in Letters to a Young Poet

another gym installment...

(my treadmill-burned knee)


day number two at the gym. after 15 minutes of jogging on the treadmill, i attempt to step onto the sides to stop and drink some water.

yeah, not so much.

did i mention it's peak hours and the treadmills are in the front of five of six (today, full) rows of other cardio equipment?

i totally, totally bit it. alicia even had to pull the emergency "stop" string. i wanted to cry, because it *hurt* and i was embarassed, but i just laughed it off.

i am making good impressions everywhere i go.

in other news, i wrote my first yelp!

baby steps to the gym

today was day one at gold's gym. tommy joined and i have a week (STRONG!) pass.
it feels good, and also neighborhood-y because i saw matt-with-the-long-curly-hair from dudley's class, patricia jiron (who teaches yoga there) and alisa michelle (who teaches pilates there). the only bummer is for tommy....i guess the steam room isn't the most comfortable place for breeders. (we're straight! we mate! get used to it!)

ok, ok last post of the day

per dr. fishnet's orders....
10 things i'm grateful for:

1. yoga class
2. dreamfields low carb pasta (shut up)
3. my parents love
4. wine
5. i found tommy
6. therapy
7. long inseams
8. netflix
9. better babes
10. i get to live in sf

related to number 10....check out jenni's blog

edit

i feel better after eating eggs and taking a bath. and i realize a more accurate statement to replace "i'm feeling neglected by friends" would be "i feel unpopular"

eruption

possible reasons for past hour of crying:
1. wedding dress shopping was not at all fun like i thought
2. i am down to almost half the dose of the antidepressant i am on
3. i am feeling neglected by my friends and left out
4. i feel like i don't have a purpose in life

reasons that i should not be crying:
1. it's friday
2. it's beautiful out
3. i am in love with a wonderful man that i get to marry
4. i'm going to wash my hair right now

as i was putting away the laundry....

a bunny hopped in to say hello!!!

ANTMaggie