slingin hash and makin eggs

Monday, January 29, 2007

all things go

i gotta say, traveling with tom is pretty much aces.

(3 cheers for autodesk!)

he has to go to chicago for business in two weeks, and i am going too. i've never been to chicago.

(shit, note to self, ask for time off for trip. that i already have tickets for. oops)

we're going to drive to iowa too, to hang with his grandparents (whom i've never met)

tom is in healdsburg for a few days for work, and i went up with him yesterday and stayed last night. the plan was to have lunch yesterday then drive back, but when i saw the sweet-suite we were in, i HAD to stay. (holy supa deep soaking tub)
he has two more nights in the beautiful hotel healdsburg....wish i was there too. will post pics on flickr soon......

i've had some ideas lately about the wedding.
like, i want to walk down the aisle with my dad AND my mom. maybe to an instrumental version of sufjan steven's 'chicago' (speakofthedevil). that song was playing in the car when tom drove me to bart the day after* we met.....i later downloaded and listened to it on repeat for weeks....chills and daydreams.

(can you simultaneously play all those parts, jon?) (i jest)

also,
WHATAMIGONNADOWITHMYLIFE?

and,
leo is rad. he is just so big. he stands on his hind legs and is whisker level with the counter. now if i can only teach him to do the dishes.....


*we are naughty

Friday, January 26, 2007

in hiding...

jay dropped off leo this morning.....
he* is still hiding under the bed :(
i want him to come out and keep me company!

today i can barely sit on the freakin toilet, i'm so sore. (much less, get back up!)
super hard gym reps class + yoga + dudleys class= barely movable maggie.

* leo, not jay (at least, i don't think jay is hiding under the bed.....i better check)

AND

congratulations to TPL's new Donor Relations Manager, miss andrea torres!!!!!!!
YAY DREA!

Thursday, January 25, 2007

MF continued....

"i want to make the world a smaller place, one person at a time"

i like that. i love talking to strangers (well, ones that i think won't hurt me or ask for money) and making friends, and seeing people i know on the streets, and i love leaving notes for cormac on his motorcycle when i see it.....

m. franti was in yoga again. we said hi. after class he said, see you maggie.

siiigghhhh....it can never be, michael....i'm in love with another man. he may not do yoga or have an album, but he is for certain, the one for me.

tomorrow.......kitty!

Wednesday, January 24, 2007

bugger

i see that axis is holding auditions in february.
i may or may not be too chicken to go.

Tuesday, January 23, 2007

do YOU talk to black people?

three things happened so far today....

1. michael franti was next to me in yoga! i was too shy to say "i love you" this time. (this is NOT in reference to the post title. heh)

2. i had some blood work done last week, aaaannnnddd, this morning i found out that i have a .........lazy-ass thyroid! this is fantastic because perhaps i can blame all my depression, weight-gain, etc on THAT! great, eh?

3. i was at the gas station across from the end up, and this (kinda cute, but definitely street-y) dude walked up and asked me something....i didn't really hear him and didn't want to be bothered, so i just shook my head and said "no". then he replied "why don't you talk to black people?" then walked away. i realized he had asked me if i talked to black people!
hahaha! it just cracks me up for so many reasons!

Sunday, January 21, 2007

booze, depression and leo

i want to (semi)publicly announce that i am making a change with my relationship to the sauce. i'm cutting waaay back and it feels good. i'm doing as much as i can to deal with my depression,
or as tom would say 'our depression'........

from arrested development:
Buster
: (about Lucille 2) And her nausea's gotten really bad, too. It's really been difficult on us. It's definitely taking its toll.
Michael
: Well, you know, you're free to go, pal. It's not like you made a commitment to this woman.
Buster: Well, I didn't make a commitment ... I did refer to it as our nausea. But you know, that's when we were going at it really hot and heavy.
Michael
: Well, now it's my nausea.

it's kinda like being on a diet, and going to a* (expensive) dr. for diet pills, but still insisting on eating french fries every day.

honestly, giving up cigarettes wasn't too hard....i just switched my 'treat' from cigs to booze. this change might be a challenge, but i'm up for it. i'm serious about feeling better, damnit. plus, i might lose a few pounds, which ain't so bad either!

*should i use the indefinite article ** "an" because it indicates "expensive", or is there a special parenthesis clause? hmmmmm

** the definite articles are*** a great band

*** "is"? or "are"? i like math better.

post, part II:

this friday tom and i start our three month gig of being foster parents to jenni's-friend-jay's cat, leo!!




Friday, January 19, 2007

AIDS/lifecycle

support noel on his ride!

even if you can't contribute, check out what he wrote on his page......
http://www.aidslifecycle.org/4274

go noelie!

(he will be mad that i posted this pic......again. hehheh)


Sunday, January 07, 2007

weekend


friday tom and i got to spend some time with my old coworkers from CHS (poor tommy was the only guy there for the majority of the evening) (trooper!) then met up with drea for some drinks and butt-wiggling.


saturday, drea, alysia, anjali and i headed up to calistoga (or sonoma? sebastapol? who knows) or somewhere up north there for a little woodsie retreat, courtesy of the go game. we stayed in a super cute hippied out guest house, ate yummy dinner, boiled in the hot tub and drank lots of wine. drea and anj went to osmosis spa (looked like an awesome place) today, but alysia and i came home. i was greeted by ttug, who was beginning phase one of the great apartment overhaul of 2006. (shit, 2007). we've been working hard, and now i'm ready to sit back and enjoy the first episode of "you're the one that i want". i'm psyched!

p.s. i got to hang out in the warm, warm sun buck-ass naked up in calistoga/sebastapol/bodega/sonoma, and everyone knows this is one of my favorite things. hooray!!