factoid:

y'all know i'm very irritated by politics and especially this specific political race... but i also don't want my blog to become bogged down w/ politics... except for this great quote i recently put together. one part i heard from someone and the other i added myself - enjoy!

"liberals claim victory when they have caused someone to think, conservatives claim victory when they have caused someone to agree with them."

discuss...

discombobulation

the planets are discombobulated... can you feel it?

i know, myself, i feel them all messed up up there. you can feel it in your job, your personal life, your sleep, your emotions, your relationships, your everything... everything is just a smidgen off track. and i'm not the only one who feels it. just yesterday i talked to two other people who knew exactly what i was talking about before i even had the chance to explain myself.

so's i keep wondering when they'll get themselves back in line... one hour, one day, one week, oh god... i hope not another month.

anyone have any tips hints on aligning your planets? can you align your own planets and stars? i'm open to anything...

beethoven

i just started my 6TH beethoven symphony for the day! ode to joy *wink*

tom's beethoven order so far for today:

symphony #1

symphony #9

symphony #2

symphony #8

symphony #3

symphony #7 - currently listening to...

if i make it any farther i'll be sure to update this entry - stay tuned!!!

good morning...

good morning my dear, dear friends around the... well, i guess world? i wonder if i have a readership that out-spans the us. huh

so it's friday morning. friday, friday, friday. the last day of the work week, the eve of a weekend, a day for slowly coming down from the week's wonderful work mountain, the opportunity to bitch about how your week was worse than everyone elses.

i guess i can't really bitch though. my week was just another week. nothing to really boast about nor complain about, just another week.

so it's friday, i'm writing a performance appraisal today, how fun is that! i've already listened to beethoven's 1st symphony, i just started the 9th, i think i'll do the 2nd next... see how many of his works i can get through in one day!

it's a total ramble day though. nothing to say, nothing to be funny about, nothing to do. ooh! let's do a list of everything tom wants to do this weekend!

sleep

eat

go to the farmer's market

workout?

drink w/ friends

church

play with kitty

ooh! watch scarface!

wasn't that fun!? oh yeah... one more to add to the list:

finish blogging that damn vacation i took almost a month ago

sorry guys, it'll be out soon! i know you're all on the edge of your seats, but just hold on... it'll be out there soon... till then remember "everyone is someone else's weirdo" and i'm sure i'm most of yours *wink*

damn...

am I hungry! i've been eating all morning because of a food day here at work, and i ate a reasonable lunch, now the munching is on for the remains of the food day, and i'm STILL STARVING!

what's wrong with me?

i think i have worms...

last night...

oh fer fun! last night some of my girls and i went to alary's for some happy hour drinkage.

it started being just some beer and pizzas, then morphed into more beer and darts, then totally shifted into even more beers and semi-drunken golden tee.

oh fer fun when we walked in at 5 and didn't leave till after 10!!! and even better was when jess' parking garage wouldn't let us out, nic got out of the car and in a drunken' "i think i'm funny" type of way decided to force it up... cha right, keep trying. we eventually jumped the curb and snuck out where i'm sure cars are not intended to go...

and it's no wonder jess calls on her way home and says "dude... my car smells like burning... what should i do!?!?!"

wednesday morning: no hangover, not even that tired, but still wondering how i downed 7 beers, two pizzas, 1/2 a kit-kat, 1 1/2 twix, and almost a full pack o' cigs. gawd i need to go to the gym...

good morning!!!

what a fabulous morning! i went to bed early, woke up at a decent time, got my morning coffee, am working my ass off, and am actually feeling good about work and life in general today! how super cool is that???

oh, and some VERY important info from my village voice horoscope for this week:

Libra: You may think you need a teacher or genie or rescuer, but I say you don't. I say that what you need most is to realize that right now you are your own best teacher and genie and rescuer. In my astrological opinion, you should drop any fantasies you have that there's someone out there who will save you or give you what you lack or reveal the secrets that will fix everything. For the foreseeable future, you won't get what you need until you're prepared to provide it entirely by yourself.

catster

oh my GOD i'm a dork... my cat is now a member of catster...

check out gus' profile! oh and send him a message, or get your own cats on catster so they can become friends!!!

boredom

have you ever been so bored that you counted 1-100 in hex? i just did in our staff meeting.

i never thought i'd be that big of a nerd... but hindsight is always 20/20 and i realized today that being a nerd can be a ton of fun sometimes!

123456789abcdef101112131415
161718191a1b1c1d1e1f20212223
2425262728292a2b2c2d2e2f30
3132333435363738393a3b3c3d
3e3f404142434445464748494a
4b4c4d4e4f5051525354555657
58595a5b5c5d5e5f6061626364
65666768696a6b6c6d6e6f7071
72737475767778797a7b7c7d7e7f
808182838485868788898a8b8c
8d8e8f90919293949596979899
9a9b9c9d9e9fa1a2a3a4a5a6a7a
8a9aaabacadaeafb1b2b3b4b5b
6b7b8b9babbbcbdbebfc1c2c3c
4c5c6c7c8c9cacbcccdcecfd1d2d
3d4d5d6d7d8d9dadbdcdddedfd
e1e2e3e4e5e6e7e8e9eaebeced
eeeff1f2f3f4f5f6f7f8f9fafbfcfdfeff
100!

revelation

there are a lot of really crabby people in this world...

and crabby people suck.

case in point:
a gorgeous man gets in a fight w/ a loved one;
he complains to his friends and family and even figures out that it's not that bad of a situation;
he decides it's more fun to be crabby about it than to move on with life;
he's driving to work and his crabbiness jumps into high-gear when an 80/yr old lady realizes she needs to exit in 1/2 mile and accidentally cuts him off;
he's already crabby so he honks and gets all irritated about her and dramatically swerves into the next lane (though it's totally unnecessary, she was an entire carlengh in front of him);
in his drama-filled lane change he has an accident with an undercover cop;
the irate, gorgeous, crabby man gets verbally out of controll with the undercover cop so he arrests him for road rage;
the gorgeous man goes to jail;
he shares a cell with big-jeb, who proceeds to rape gorgeous, crabby man untill his liver is falling out of his ass;
the parametics come and as they're carting the man down the hallway his still connected liver falls off his chest on to the ground and the wheels of the guerny roll over it causing him excruciating pain and bleeding that causes him to leak every last ounce of his precious blood all over the pristine jail hallway;
he dies.

moral of the story... if you're crabby you're going to die.

don't be crabby, it's just not worth it.

canning!

so i came up with a new quote today when a friend emailed to say he hated his life:

"nothing is worth hating life for... except for maybe not having sex... but then i'd die, so i wouldn't have time to hate my life anyway."

goes hand-in-hand with my life phrase that i found written on the wall next to a urinal in a thai restaurant in minneapolis:

"the unpromiscuous life is not worth living."

*sigh*

what a weekend = )

fringe settled with nothing less than a bang - we sold an impressive 70 seats on friday afternoon and and an even more impressive 125 on sunday evening. and even more impressive, and sad, was that we had to turn away about 30-40 people on sunday evening too... to bad you can't do an extension.

as for the rest of the weekend - paradise. i went to bed no later than 10:30 on both friday and saturday. the rest of those days included the farmers market, my coffee shop multiple times, target an innumerable amount of times, lots of the olympics, 8 loads of laundry, a complete reorganization of my closet (yay!), and lots of good quality time relaxing and settling down after a crazy week.

amazingly so, the way this week is looking i'm afraid i may not get to bed any earlier than 10:30 all week and as for personal stuff at night... one word: cha! you know the planets are playing a trick on you when your weekends turn in to your only opportunity to go to bed early = )


Miss Biracial Upper Midwest final results!

saturday, 8/7 - 68

monday, 8/9 - 110

*sold out*

thursday, 8/12 - 85

friday, 8/13 - 70

sunday, 8/15 - 125

***WAY sold out!!!***

final total = 458

tom's trip part 1: the overview

for a description of tom's trip: the series click here

la la la... i sing my music too loud, i drive my car too fast, and i eat too many gummi bears. i'm on my way to omaha. and for one of the first times in a long time i'm excited for the trip - i'm going to san diego dammit!

steve is a bitch

lunch w/ my parents on thursday was fun - but i was ready to fly out of town. after getting done w/ that, steve was tired so he napped, i headed downtown for a little walk down memory lane (actually, i went to the adult bookstore, but that's a whole nother story). in my absence i guess drama broke out between steve and his ex... he called me and (yes) asked me if he could go on vacation alone. alls i could think of to say was "um... ok... but what the FUCK am i suppossed to do now!?!?!" he just said i don't know. he bought my plane ticket... he could eat it i decided.

family ties

so's i call my parents and give them the great news! i'll be seeing them again REAL soon! like in 20 minutes! dad asks what i want for dinner, comfort food you know. beer and brats - and stat! no more than 1 hour later mom and dad walk in the door, dad pops a beer open and thrusts it at me, i do the next logical thing... i go to the front porch and smoke. still bitching about steve.
i stayed w/ my parents for a few days. i was liberated! i had freedom! and i was no longer upset w/ steve... hell, he gave me a gift... an unexpected vacation that i was going to have a killer time on!

god i love hotwire

my mom is an online freak. i mean, a real freak. she almost instantly got a crazed look in her eyes when she realized i had almost an entire week to go out on vacation, she jumps on line and finds me trips to everywhere from nyc to florida to toronto to vegas. i love my mom, but by this time i had already decided that my destination would be chicago/steamworks (which i tactfully chose not to tell her) and so the searching went from looking for destinations to looking for flights and hotels. cause of my financial situation i wanted to only spend the money in my pocket - driving seemed the best bet. a stay in the burbs on saturday night and then a couple nights downtown turned out to be a really good deal! the hotels were booked, i went out w/ my sister to the bars and oogled over her gorgeous boytoys, and i went to bed toasty warm ready to leave for my next big adventure!

on the road again

saturday morning, say good bye to the parents, saturday afternoon, say hello to chicago, illinois! there i was, a mere 3 days after driving to omaha, back on the road again. it was hellish thinking of a 7 hour trip ahead of me, but then i realized that this was the beginning of something exciting and new (communial sigh). i was off to see the wizard, or at least find the wizard in me. i was going to go on vacation, forget about the snags that started the trip, and live like i've never lived before: without apology, without accountability, without anyone to answer to, and without care... the world was mine, the road was mine, and chicago... well, that was going to be mine when i got done with it = )

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fringe update

whoo hoo for the theatre mojo fringers! and congrats on a sold out house!!!

last night's show was amazing. smooth running, tight dancing, and an audience that made all the difference in the world - this show could seriously go down as one of the top fringe shows for this year.

see the show! go to the website and review it! tell all your friends!

come see me do fog!

on a cig and a prayer...

all my friends, please forgive me in advance for my distance for the next week or so.

fringe is taking a TON of my evenings for the next 10 days.

work is crazy as i'm covering for 1/2 the team who are out on vacation or teaching for a week at at a time.

karma is nippin' me in the arse for leaving all these poor folks for a week while i went on vacation.

my only salvation is cig -n- coffee breaks and the almost constant prayers for my sanity (please god... just let me keep my sanity for just a few more days).

Miss Biracial upper Midwest

destined to be the 2004 fringe festival favorite, miss biracial upper midwest is a fantastic show about a beauty pagent in superior, wi, and all the wonderful cattiness and bitchiness that ensues. guaranteed to make you laugh at you and your own nationality, this is a MUST SEE!

not to mention that i'm crewing and know first-hand that this show kicks ass!

remaining shows:

monday, august 9th - 8:30pm

thursday, august 12th - 5:30pm

friday, august 13th - 4pm

sunday, august 15th - 7pm

all shows are at the red eye theatre, 15 west 14th street, minneapolis.

"ask me about miss biracial at the red eye!"

super yay!

sweet mary mother of jesus christ my super-duper friend, i just finished a huge project here at work!

i'm proud to say that the new "db2 advanced topics: visual explain" training will be available for all is associates to take as of this monday, august 9th!

freakin' yeah!

tom's trip: the series

in an attempt to blog my trip, i've decided to break it into four sections. this will not only categorize my trip for you, but will also allow me to continue my daily blog-rantings and randomly send out the trip posts throughout the next week = ) the series is as follows:

part 1: the overview - an overview the overall drama that made this the best vacation tom's ever taken

part 1 hilites: "steve is a bitch"; "family ties"; "god i love hotwire"; and "on the road again"

part 2: the shopping and food - a hilite of the shops and foodplaces i indulged in

part 2 hilites: "boystown"; "the magnificent mile"; "food, glorious food"; and "beatnix"

part 3: the moments i'll never forget (precious moments version) - a very hallmark, feel-good, make you sigh in contentment listing of the moments that really stick out in this trip as making it very special to me.

part 3 hilites: "the sun and moon and stars at night"; "stadiums of corn"; "fireworks across the skies"; and "ahhhhh"

part 4: the moments i'll never forget (the skank-a-dank-dank-dank version) - a no-holds-barred, skanky, slimy, oozey, goozey, melee of my most dark moments on the trip, guaranteed to bring blush to even the most perverted of my friends *evil grin*

part 4 hilites: it's all a surprise...

so there you go! let the adventures begin!!!

guess who's home!!!

yeah my friends, i'm home!

i had, quite possibly, the most fantastic vacation ever, who knew that it could have turned out so well.

but i'm at work, i have about 200 emails to go through, i have meetings all day long, and a project to wrap up. unfortunately i am not able to write much at all about the trip at this moment.

i promise to write a cubic ass-load of stuff when i get the first opportunity (maybe tonight?).

my hugs to everyone - it's good to be home. = )