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a whole freakin' archive of jabber Sunday, December 30, 2001... 4:41 PM well, happy holidays a little late... :-Dthings got a little nuts there for a bit. i literally had someplace to be almost every night of the week from december 1st until christmas day. don't get me wrong, it's nice to be loved and invited to all this stuff, but boy was i just a big ol' pile of goo by the time it was all over! some highlights of events since the last time i really had anything meaningful to say here: - my cousin Sara (she's the one on the photos page with me with the chocolate on our teeth) hosted her first-ever family dinner the saturday before christmas. it was a riot, and an absolute success. she asked us how the food was while we were eating, and we all agreed that it was fantastic. she said, in her usual Sara-goofiness voice, "oh, good. i've been waiting for someone to keel over because i've never made any of this stuff before." hee hee hee - i saw Lord of the Rings last sunday; this statement will be considered blasphemous for sure, but i wasn't all that impressed. i read "The Hobbit" in high school and never read the other books, so maybe that's part of the problem, but... i dunno. for me it was kind of like, "yes, it's pretty. yes, it's a nice story. but i've had enough of the long pan-ins of people crying." i don't think it's the greatest movie ever made. it entertained me for most of it, but i did find myself shifting in my seat towards the end to get rid of the numbbutt sensation i was experiencing. - i drove my parents around to their holiday parties on christmas eve, which was absolutely hysterical. 'nuff said about that. - christmas day was, well, a bummer for my family. my Uncle Mal passed away that morning, after having open-heart surgery last year and battling cancer. i'm thankful he's not in pain anymore, but... yeah. you know what i mean. outside of that, we enjoyed ourselves and had dinner up at the farm, which is always about good food, good wine and good laughs. - after returning to the city on wednesday, i had dinner with eva, which is always a blast. what i love about her--besides the fact that when she does my makeup, she makes me look stunning--is that she's a super-L.A. chick without any of the annoying parts of L.A. chicks. check out her store! - after the hecticness of the wake and the funeral for Mal in the Bronx, i've been just catching up with all my friends, spending hours on end just drinking coffee and other sundry beverages, catching up, and laughing ourselves silly. i've also been avoiding thinking about what the hell i'm going to do for new year's. why make a decision when there's still 31 hours or so left of 2001? well, that about sums it all up. i'm sure the next time i'll post will be in the palindrome of 2002, so happy new year to everyone!
Thursday, December 20, 2001... 12:36 AM random: i completely forgot to tell this one story from the party, the story where i caught on fire. yes, ladies and gents, i was actually on fire at the end of our party. what i seem to remember happening was someone was taking a picture of me and jerome, and jerome (while holding a cigarette) put his arm around me. the cigarette, unbeknownst to me, got really friendly with the super-feathered collar on my shirt. after a few seconds, i was like, "*sniff sniff* do you guys smell that?" and suddenly my shoulder became very warm. i looked down at the shirt, where smoke was starting to smolder and billow slightly, and realized what was going on. my shirt was on fire. i started beating my shoulder and screaming, "i'm on fire! i'm on fire!" a few people on the other side of the bar heard me and started yelling back, "yeah baby, you on fire! you on fire, baby!" and i was like, "NO! I'M... ON... FIIIIIIIRRRRRE! stop drop and roll! stop drop and roll!" as i was franctically pointing at and beating the smoldering shoulder. nate2 starting running towards me with a glass of water (is it any surprise that he comes from a family of firefighters?), but i had it out by the time he got there. luckily, the shirt burned sort of underneath, so you can't really see it, and it was salvaged. unluckily, i smelled like burning feathers until i left about 45 minutes later. oh, the perils of feathers, alcohol and cigarettes.
Monday, December 17, 2001... 8:53 AM wow, i actually had a less cumbersome commute that usual this morning. i took the new V train. it was weird, being on an almost empty train at 8:00am in the city. people were friendly, everyone had a seat... it was like an alternate universe or something. Bizarro World!in any case, i've followed Norbert's lead and put my pictures from our huge-ass holiday party from last Wednesday into a Yahoo! Photo Album. there was drama, mayhem and alcohol. and i was dressed up like a cyberpunk chick with feathers. whee! it was a blast. thanks to everyone who made it down! click here to check out the photos...
Saturday, December 15, 2001... 5:51 PM oh, i'm a sucker for certain Christmas music, i tell ya. the Charlie Brown christmas album, Dave Brubeck's and Harry Connick's christmas albums... oh yeah. and for some reason, "have yourself a merry little christmas" makes me cry. i'm not a cryer at all. i mean, OK, i get a little teary-eyed at certain movies (fine, i'll admit it, i all-out bawled at the end of "The Iron Giant"), but for the most part, not a big cryer. just something about that song. i dunno.still haven't gotten any shopping done, but i've made it halfway through party season. wahoo!
Tuesday, December 11, 2001... 1:50 PM Hoooooooo, what a weekend!Actually, it was a series of events that started last wednesday and continued on to the point of exhaustion where I am only now recovering on this lovely sunny Tuesday afternoon. Last wednesday was a little party with some people from The Onion, which was a lot of fun... Thursday was massage-and-pamper night for me (I'm a princess, I admit it) and then to see my cousin on the Upper East Side, and then I topped it off with a late-late-night walk with my pal Marvin, who I haven't seen in forEVER... Friday night was the Christmas party of the company that I'm working for right now, which required me to drink and be oh-so-merry from about 6:00pm until the wee wee wee hours of the morning on Saturday, and after I caught a few z's and then met up with my mom and a few of her friends to give them a tour of NYC. I pretty much stood around for most of the day with an insane hangover (weak stomach, weak head, weak knees), not letting my cup of coffee ever out of my hands, saying things like, "Um, yeah, so... this is like... the tree here. Um, *yawn*, whaddya wanna see next?" After that, I flew home to catch a too-short nap before heading over to Jerome's for the Amazing Andy's birthday party, where I could barely stomach the scent of the alcohol and ended up sitting in the corner smoking cigarettes with Nate2 (who is so freakin' cool, he flew to London just to see Ani Difranco once! I bow down), Libby, Kohsuke, and of course, the DebPun. Sunday was spent trying to find my bed in my disaster of an apartment, grocery shopping, and a few other random occurences that tripped me out a little... Monday was full-on recovery-mode and being thankful that no scandalous pictures of me made it onto my friend Norbert's website update... And the line-up for this week? More insanity! Whee! Tonight is my cut-and-bleach with Will, then a pedicure and manicure if the nail place is still open. Which is all in preparation, of course, for the Big Holiday Partay that me and the girls are hosting down at the Keltic tomorrow night... I even bought party clothes for it... I'm not revealing any details, other than to say that there are feathers and shiny silver pants involved... hee hee hee... Thursday night is another (smaller) company party... Friday and Saturday I've purposely left open so as to have my choice of holiday get-downs... Sunday and Monday will certainly be recovery days... Next Tuesday, my old agency invited me back for their big holiday shindig, and these people are advertising people, so that'll be another all-nighter... then I'm done with most parties until I go upstate on the 22nd, which will start a whole new round of get-togethers, but those I can handle... it's upstate NY, fer cryin' out loud... Don't ask me when my shopping is getting done...
Monday, December 03, 2001... 7:32 PM wow, what a cool personality test i took!my all-time favorite is TheSpark.com (i'm an Artist, what are you?), but the one at Colorgenics was pretty interesting... this is what it said about me: "You are constantly hoping that your good fellowship and attitude and your "love for your fellow man (or women)" will give you peace of mind .... You need people- You need people around you to care for you and to show you that they care. It is this hope that keeps you going...The hope that makes you the type of person that indeed you are. Your own need for approval seemingly makes you always ready to help others... and in exchange you seek love, warmth and understanding...You will always listen to others and you are open to new ideas which hopefully will prove fruitful and interesting. Now there are many things in life that you require as being essential to your well-being ... but try as you may - something always seems to be getting in your way .... a word of advice .... "keep trying" and you may be pleasantly surprised to see just how matters turn out - . All the problems that you have been experiencing of late seem to have become a part of your life and there is little that can be done to change the situation. Your emotions run high. But even though you feel as if at times you are about to burst... this situation will pass. Try to release your pent-up emotions by participating in some extra physical activities ... like running.. swimming, whatever.There must be some favourite past time, not necessarily strenuous, that can help you to relax. You are on tenderhooks and appear to be extremely nervous and upset. You are bored and you feel that life has far more to offer than this present day mundane existence. The way that you feel indicates that you have the need for a responsive and understanding relationship. You are prepared to follow up any opportunity which may present itself. However, you are very choosy and you refuse to be swept off your feet unless integrity can proved to be 100% genuine. Therefore you are holding back ... keeping your emotions in check because before you let down your guard you have to be sure.. You are too trusting.. and you have no desire to be hurt again. You are responsive to conditions around you - but forever under control. Being afraid that you may be prevented from achieving your hopes and dreams is making you anxious and nervous.. As a dreamer your ideas can at times move into the realm of fantasy and you could be following that so called illusive dream..."
Saturday, December 01, 2001... 3:59 PM one of the most useful sites ever for us NYC folks:the Straphanger's Interactive Subway Map. you put in the address you gotta go to in any of the 5 boroughs and it shows you a map of the closest subway stops. how cool is that?!?
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