Sticks and Stones, Transient Man, Sticks and Stones

Last night, as I was pulling out of the parking lot from work, I notice a scruffy, slightly scary looking man pulling a suitcase with a case of beer on top down the middle of the street. My window was cracked because it was so nice outside. I stopped at the sidewalk to look both ways and started turning onto the street and the man was right next to me practically and he was just staring and smiling at me. I'm turning; he's staring and smiling. I give a little smile and start to speed away. I hear him yell, "Bye, Hooker!" Now picture the "bye" long and drawn out, real creepy like, and the "hooker" quick and with emphasis. It was real weird.

I texted my co-worker who was right behind me and told him what the weird man in the middle of the street said and he texted back: "That's what you get for wearing demure earth-toned skirts." Which is what I had on...Hilarious response.

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What Have I Become?

An early night at work has me home surfing the net long before my usual bedtime. I stumbled upon the site, GatoIsland.com. Gato is Spanish for cat, everyone, and let me tell you, this is an island I'd like to be stranded on. Fun pictures of cats, galore, like this one:

I mean, come on, who wouldn't want to look at this picture or a picture of, say, a cat in a funny sweater while sitting on the beach of Gato Island eating bananas? But I digress. Yes, I know what this looks like. I know what I've become. At some point I turned into a person who likes looking at cute animal pictures on the Internet. A deer and a dog napping? Love it. A giraffe licking a squirrel?

Bookmarked.

Perhaps owning my own animal has brought this out of me. I love Napoleon despite him being kind of a jerk cat. Boy do I love that little jerk. I bought him this on the Internet:
I thought maybe my cat needed some outdoor time, since one of Napoleon's jerky-isms is his non-stop meowing at the front door when I'm trying to work during the day and thus not paying attention to him.

Phew...glad I got that off my chest. Now that my love of cute animal pictures is out there, I can get over the social stigma attached to people like me. So take your gloomy clouds elsewhere. Nothing but kittens and rainbows for me.

P.S. Mom and Dad. The wine country trip post to come. I have to find my camera battery charger so I can post with pictures.

Weekend in LA

Saturday Night: We hit up the Griffith Park Observatory for an awesome journey through space.



We looked through a giant telescope pointed at Saturn and were able to see the rings. The layout up on the hill also provided great night views of the city.

Then it was onto some food from Masa in Echo Park. (I had the most delicious Caprese Panini with prosciutto. Mmmm Mmmm...)

The night ended with fresh baked chocolate chip cookies and a viewing of Alien.

Sunday:

Ray and I hit up IHOP for The Mayor's breakfast. You know, from Horton Hears a Who. It includes: Green Eggs (scrambled eggs with spinach), ham and a fun tower of pancakes with bosenberry syrup bright purple and blue in color and rainbow colored chocolate chips.

After that, it was onto Century City (a great outdoor mall) for some browsing of the Container Store and then to see Horton Hears a Who. It was cute, but not quite a classic. There was one hilarious random character who cracked Ray and I up...but he wasn't on very much.

No celebrity sightings to report.

Next weekend: LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art)

Stumble Upon

Ray introduced me to this web application called stumble upon...you check boxes of things that interest you and then hit a button labeled, "Stumble" and it takes you to a website you might be interested in...I don't know what this says about me, but two of my websites were:

This picture:



and...

http://www.bushflash.com/14.html

I guess this application knew I was counting the days until Bush is out of office...

A little Friday night...well Saturday am (4am to be exact) Survey

Four jobs I have had in my life:
1. Lifeguard at the City of Leslie community pool.
2. Waitress at The Filling Station, Orange CA
3. Head Lab Assistant for the AVID help desk at Chapman University
4. Editor of GMC car commercials for the web

Four movies I would watch over and over (or have watched over and over)
1. Amelie
2. Good Will Hunting
3. 40 Year Old Virgin
4. Casablanca

Four TV shows that I watch:
1. The Office
2. Pushing Daisies
3. 30 Rock
4. America's Next Top Model (A total guilty pleasure that I enjoy watching with Heather)

Places I've been
1. Myrtle Beach, SC
2. Europe (England, France, Spain, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Liechtenstein)
3. Vancouver
4. One crazy night in Amarillo Texas

Four people who email [or call] me regularly:
1. Ray Ray
2. Heather
3. My Dad
4. My Mom

Four of my favorite foods:
1. Anything at Alcove
2. Sweet Potato Fries!
3. Tuna & Veggies
4. Fancy cheeses (Brie, goat cheese...) and fancy meats on fancy crackers

Four places I would like to be right now:
1. At the movies with friends
2. On a road trip with Ray
3. Backpacking in Eastern Europe
4. Hiking in Griffith Park

Four things I am looking forward to this year:
1. Reaching my 100th day of non-union work and getting into the Editing Union (Hello health insurance and overtime pay!)
2. Mamitas the feature
3. Maybe visiting Michigan when the weather isn't miserable
4. Ladies Wine Club tomorrow night. It's South American wine night in honor of Bianca's Brazilian-ness.

Four people who should/will [respond] post FOUR THINGS ABOUT THEM:
1. Matt Damon, because I love him and would love to know what he would have to say for himself.
2. Heather because she is mentioned in my blog...however, she doesn't have a blog of her own nor does she read mine.
3. Laura, because she's the only other person I know who reads this thing, besides maybe Anne, who already did this survey.
4. Napoleon, because he needs something constructive to do besides hunt my feet as I walk around the house.

16 Minute Update

My Final Cut Pro is telling me 16 minutes left until my quicktime is done. So, until that finishes and I start my DVD burning...I might as well update this blog.

Yes, it's almost 5 am here...but see I spent all day in technical editing hell on this silly side-project I got myself into and then had to go to my night job...without getting the silly side-project done...hence why I'm still up.

What's new, you ask? Celebrities? Well, for Ray's birthday we went bowling and a few lanes away was Jerry Cantrell from the band Alice in Chains. He came to our lane to steal a ball, but my friend Heather (note: not knowing who he is) said, no way man (note: come to think of it, even if she would have known him, I bet she would have still said no way jose).
That's about it on the celebrity tip. Oh wait! Or is it...
I work with a celebrity. My fellow assistant editor on the night shift is known on the internet as Hollywood Steve. He said to me one of our first few nights working together, after I saw how many myspace friends requests he had in his email inbox, "I'm kind of famous on the interweb." I soon found out, he is. He was in this internet sensation webisode series called Yacht Rock (YouTube it...it's hilarious) and in a Starburst commercial (YouTube it: Starburst Tashi). I'm a fan. He's also from Michigan and went to MSU. It's a small world out there people.

Moving on-
Things I'm hoping happen in the near future:
1.) Horseback riding in Griffith Park (pretty inexpensive for 2 hours of riding).
2.) A weekend trip to a wine festival with friends.

That's about all the energy I can muster for dreaming about the future. Sad.

Checking back in with the project...Oh good.
Less than a minute to go on the quicktime...go, Final Cut, go! 98%...99%...blue line almost to the end...5 Seconds...COMPLETION!

FIREWORKS explode ***
in my mind-
I need sleep.

Over and out!