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Old Ladies Gone Wild

This week is Spring Break at my university. Wooooooooooo freakin' hooooooooooooo!

I am a non-traditional student as you might know (which really just means I'm a 39-year old working professional who also happens to attend university).  I have been on the 15-year plan.  And I WILL graduate this year if all goes well. 

Since I am a working adult, my spring break just means "yay, Tuesday night is free. I can use that time to [pay bills, clean the spare room, organize my sock drawer, catch up on trash TV]!"

This year, for Spring Break, I got what might be a kidney stone.  I am in a wee bit of pain and I'm on  my way to the doctor for a real diagnosis.  OMG, 39 rocks.  What's next?  The gout? 

So, while all the younguns are at Cabo, getting tequila'd, I am going to be home getting vicodin'd and, if I'm up for it, organizing my sock drawer.

Update:  I don't have a kidney stone at all for which I am sincerely grateful.  I did get some vicodin and muscle relaxers though, for what looks like sciatic pain, so this could be a fun spring break after all! 

32 Things About Me

Because you've either forgotten or you never knew in the first place, here are 32 very random things about me.  No blog is complete without a list of "things about me" list.  Narcissism is a virtue, I always say!

BORING VERSION:
1. Ambidextrous.
2. High-school drop out.
3. Mom to two grown kids (boy, 22; girl, 18).
4. Married twice.
5. Divorced once.
6. Happily living at the beach in southern California.
7. Born and raised in Fort Worth, Texas.
8. Love coffee.
9. Destined to be a crazy cat lady.
10. Currently have 3 cats: Pooka, Pi, and Paws.
11. Love to play video games.
12. Work for a video game company.
13. Play video games on- and off-the-clock.
14. Big nerd.
15. Studious slacker.
16. Very uncoordinated and clumsy.
17. Brown hair,  brown eyes.
18. Spoiled rotten.
19. Slightly depressed.
20. Suffer from Graves' Disease.
21. American Studies major (undergraduate).
22. Drive a Swedish car.
24. Francophile.
25. Anglophile.
26. Addicted to Altoids.
27. Favorite shoes: black Chuck Taylors.
28. Last hair color: purple-tinted black.
29. Favorite cake: red velvet cupcakes.
30. Favorite movie: varies according to day (today: Princess Bride).
31. Favorite activity: Sleeping.
32. Favorite person:My husband, Greg.

A much more exciting version may find it's way onto this here blog one day. In the meantime, you can use this to stalk me. 

Have a good weekend.

I know how Mary feels

I LOVE this illustrator, Steve Mack.  And I totally, totally need 11 cups of coffee
today.

Happy Tuesday.

Dear Monday

Hey Party Peeps!

   

I'm just sitting here eating Peeps, watching The Royal Tenenbaums and wishing you a fabulous day. I've never been a big fan of Easter but I do loves me some peeps.  For the record, in this author's opinion, any holiday that is celebrated with plastic grass is just absurd and needs to go away.  Thank the FSM for Peeps. 

I will be back after I recover from my Peeps-induced sugar coma.

Edited to add: It's an Easter miracle.  Shaun of the Dead is on.   This is the perfect way to spend Zombie Day afternoon!!

Housekeeping, Not My Specialty

My 3 loyal readers noticed that my blog broke.  It's no surprise that I broke it (me being a fucktard and all). I think I may have lost everything I had written.  I may be able to recover it but, you know, I'm a dumbass extraordinaire so it's probably not going to happen. 

I was never a big fan of WordPress (sorry!) so I decided to switch to TypePad.  So far, I am in the LUST and INFATUATION phase of the relationship. I still don't know where everything is but what I've discovered is just magnificent.  It is easy to use and it looks like I will have a million times more functionality than before.  However, I am a blogging 'tard.  I used to know lots of useful stuff, but then I got lazy and in the meantime everything got a lot more fancy and complicated.

I will be updating my blogroll, posting some pictures,and generally purdying up the place.  For now, I kind of like the template but eventually I would like to have my very own special one.

Anyhoots, there's the update.  Thanks for caring.  :) 

I can teach you how to be a dumbass, too

Embarrassing moments are one of my specialties.  Want proof?  How's this?

I met my friend for lunch at an Indian restaurant nearby. On my way back to the office, as I am singing - very loudly - along with a Nellie McKay song, I notice that my Blackberry had called someone at the office - one of the executives of the company, to be exact. 

Quickly, I grab the phone and hit 'end' to disconnect the call.

I had a total Seinfeld moment.  The exec is out of the country and it was possible, but highly unlikely, that I could get into his voicemail and delete the message before he heard it.  I tried 5 ways to break into his voicemail.  I even tried guessing his password. 

That would have been an awesome way to get fired, eh?

No luck.  He heard it.  I think he is taking a day off to recover.