29 NOV 2002 - 3.22p
thanksgiving at brett's was great. i'll have pictures up tomorrow or the next day, or the next day. soon, though, i promise. i just don't have time right now. anyhow, the food gets five gold stars, for sure... really good. brett did a wonderful job. an A for effort goes to lacey for her pies... i'm sure they would have turned out well if your oven was better.

lacey mentioned that someone found her blog by searching for "tony meda"... someone found mine by searching for that, too. hmm.

i'm sure it's obviously by my previous entry that i was feeling a little down yesterday. it was great to spend thanksgiving with my friends... lots of laughing, conan and the snoop deville... lots of watching tv... a guy with weird eyebrows on lacey's list. it made me really happy to be there... then tony called and was a little upset regarding some miscommunication about what was going on that evening... i felt pretty bad about it, and it pretty much pushed me back into being down and dumpy. i went to his apartment and we sat around and then i felt better. a lot better. he's a good guy, that tony.

i have to get ready for work now. i'm not looking forward to it. i'm sure it will be a very long night.

28 NOV 2002 - 6.04p
my parents divorced before i can remember. since my mom's side of the family never did anything big on thanksgiving, laurie and i went with my dad to the huge o'malley family function. i remember the turkey was never very good and they used to make me drink milk, something my mom would never, ever do. my dad was a virtual stranger, the guy that picked me up on occasional weekends to play board games like uncle wiggly and mousetrap. i didn't like it when he would try to cut my turkey and pour milk for me.

i had a gazillion cousins on that side of the family. i never knew them very well, only seeing them on thanksgiving and christmas and the rare occasion in between. it was kind of like being a kid at a new school going to o'malley functions... i was shy, anyway, and there were a ton of kids i didn't know. i probably kept to myself for the most part, i can't really remember. all i know is that i hated it.

one year, i was probably 9 or 10, i decided i'd had enough. i remember laurie telling me that i had to get ready, and i didn't. i just didn't want to go. i faked sick and got to stay home with my mom, who was making a small dinner for herself and my grandparents. i ate with them, the people that really mattered. after that, i didn't go to another o'malley thanksgiving... laurie still went, but i liked things better with my mom and grandma and grandpa.

today i was supposed to go to my cousin's... she was having everybody over. but the more i thought about it, the more i didn't want to go... my mom went... but i decided to skip thanksgiving this year. my grandma is in the home. my grandpa has been dead for a month now. it just didn't seem right to take this holiday that had been quiet, and small, and intimate that i had spent for years with the people i was truly thankful for and turn it into something else. my mom's side of the family will be at my cousin's, which is totally okay... but her boyfriend's family (i hear they're pretty trashy) will also be there. i'd rather not spend this year with a bunch of people i hardly know, most of them probably apologizing for the loss of grandpa.

i am going to brett's for thanksgiving momentarily. i think i need to reinvent the holiday for myself... and this might be the start of it. i'll be with people i truly am so appreciative for and i guess that's what it's all about. not that i'm not appreciative of my family and my mom... it's just different this year.

i ride every year on thanksgiving. i'm usually the only person at the barn. today was no exception... newt was great, more motivated than he's been the last couple of weeks. i jumped him a little bit and when we were done, i cried. he was great, there was nothing to be upset about with him... it was just an i miss my grandpa type of cry.

28 NOV 2002 - 12.08p
happy thanksgiving.

last night was a good time. there was unfortunately no heavy metal karaoke due to some band playing the hi-fi. super lame, tony was all ready to sing and stuff... even wore a motley crue shirt (which he swears i will never, ever see him wear again). we headed over to the chamber/phantasy/whatever early upon learning of no karaoke.

it was a good time. i drank and smoked way, way too much. i got to see the girl my boyfriend blew off for me. i didn't really get a good look at her, just because i didn't want to... but lacey said she looked dopey. i trust lacey's judgement. and obviously i should trust tony's, as well, since he did blow her off for me. i saw two thirds of ed's band... tony had a long talk with matt. we learned that matt really likes radiohead and the cure. i saw doug twice, and wished him a happy birthday (??) both times. it was fun. ed is in west virginia, i guess.

slept at tony's. woke up in the middle of the night with severe eye pain. complained about it again when we woke up in the morning. i didn't want to get out of bed, due to my severe eye pain, but tony made me... something about having to leave to do family thanksgiving or whatever. lame. my eye pain is still in full effect.

there's a lot of stuff i'm leaving out.

27 NOV 2002 - 12.20p
how do you spell relief? you know how i spell it? NOT HAVING TO GIVE OUR ADVERTISING PRESENTATION UNTIL FRIDAY!!! as in, next friday, december the 6th.

and best of all, lacey has agreed to help with the art. she rules, and i can't sing it strong enough.

i am really super excited about tonight. the flassk might be making an appearance. keep an eye out for it.

27 NOV 2002 - 8.51a
i have come to a conclusion about 24... it is a soap opera for boys. yep.

27 NOV 2002 - 8.32a
damn the snow. i fucking hate the snow. my life was going well until it started. fuck this shit.

actually, absolutely nothing is wrong with my life. i just really dislike the snow.

i'm super looking forward to getting through today. one little advertising class and newt and a few hours of work and then i get to have fun. wow.

my advertising project is going to shit. the stupid girl in my group was supposed to get her boyfriend's cousin to do our artwork (even though i suggested i could do it a month ago) because "he's not just someone that can draw good. he's like, a real artist." well, the "real artist" skipped town and now we have no one to do it. she called me yesterday, desperate and begging me to help. well, shit stupid airhead. gah. i have no idea what we're going to do. no, i retract that statement. i know exactly what we're going to do... julie and i are going to do all the work so the neurotic airhead can't fuck it up.

hmm... what else? i went to tony's last night after class to watch 24... yes, yes... i watched a tv show with a boy for the second time, watched a movie with the same boy over the weekend. it's obvious i like said boy. so, anyhow... i'm not really sure what the big deal about the show is. i was kind of sleepy/not really paying attention last night... but based on the two episodes that i've seen, i don't really feel the need to watch next week. i think that if i had stumbled upon the show myself, i probably wouldn't have made it through one epsiode let alone twenty-four of them! it's not horrible... but it's no trading spaces, either. that's it for me on television.

[playing again: sportsguitar - 'happy already']

26 NOV 2002 - 8.41a
last night was great. i love mr. quintron. i love miss pussycat. before they even came on, tony (in a bad mood) and i decided that the tony meda project could play with a puppet show... and everybody knows that lacey and i have had this dream of a puppet show for a really long time... sigh. i really want to make it happen now. i have been inspired (although we will not rip off mr. quintron and miss pussycat).

we didn't stay for stereo total. i really just wanted to see q and miss p... i have heard good things about stereo total, but it was getting late and i saw all i really came to see and tony (in a bad mood) had to be up early.

i hope tony is in a better mood today.

i think i forgot to talk about my advertising group yesterday. that crazy girl is insane. completely insane. she really wants to take charge of this thing, but all of her ideas suck so julie and i have done nothing but repeatedly shoot her ideas down and pretty much lay down how our project is going to be. she seemed near tears yesterday, but we really needed to get her down a notch. i don't think she's smart enough to be in college. and i don't think she has an original idea in her head... advertising is probably the perfect professsion for her.

my mom and i met at weia teia for lunch yesterday. it was so good. i haven't eaten there in forever... i know i had lunch there once or twice since our work christmas party... but that's it.

i'm tired, but i am awake.

25 NOV 2002 - 6.48p
i like the name margaret johansen. i agree that it does indeed have a ring, but so does my own name. but i guess lacey is right... if i'm going to get called by the wrong name, margaret johansen is probably it. take note.

also, more on the beastiality comment... i know now exactly where the person who invaded my fan's site may have reached this conclusion. prior to tony, most of my relationships discussed on my blog were about guys who were absolute pigs. not real pigs, and not cops... just swiney kind of guys, you know? i could easily see how this could be mistaken for beastiality.

tonight we're going to see quintron. i'm super excited about the miss pussycat's puppet show. rock!

25 NOV 2002 - 3.53p
wow, looks like something has happened to my only fan's blog. i like how in the links section, my blog has been retitled "Horses! Greek Mythology! Bestiality!" okay. the horses i can get. the greek mythology i can kind of get (minotaur tattoo)... but i would imagine that some random "hacker" would have to read pretty deeply into my site to find mention of this. i don't think i've remarked on my tattoo in a while. and of course, the beastiality fits me to a T. all i talk about is how i sleep with tigers. rawr!

24 NOV 2002 - 10.25p
i'm keeping my fingers crossed that my beloved paul cox sends me something good (porn?) for christmas. he has my name in a gift exchange we're doing. i am buying for msp. i'm looking forward to shopping for him. yay, gift exchanges.

who the hell is margaret johansen? (aside from me, of course...)

24 NOV 2002 - 11.15a
i'm sitting here eating wheat toast. it's good, but i'm thirsty and i would love nothing more than a glass of juice. we have no juice... not even orange (not that i'm ready to have it again or anything).

i hurt my back yesterday... something really stupid, tightening newt's girth while tacking up. i'm used to lower back pain. this is something completely different... very much an upper back thing, off to the left. and it's bad! however, not as bad as yesterday... i did end up riding after pulling/pinching whatever... and i laughed pretty hysterically the entire time because, oh, how it hurt! luckily newt was good, because i'm sure if he so much as sneezed, i probably would have tumbled right off as i was feeling slightly off balance.

went to tony's last night with my back pain and spread myself on the couch and we watched american movie while he sat on the floor so i could be comfortable. i enjoyed the film. and i even laughed. we went to bed and although tony was sleepy and i was wide awake, he told me a story when i asked for a story. and then i asked for another, and he told me another. they were good stories, too. i eventually slept and woke up this morning with my back pain. yay, i'm sitting sideways in my chair. this is the only way i can be comfy. i have to go to work soon... what a joke!

the week looks promising... short week at school, bar night on wednesday, thanksgiving. then lots and lots of work. i need the money... bills need to be paid, presents need to be bought. yay. holidays.

[now playing: sportsguitar - 'happy already']

23 NOV 2002 - 1.27p
tickets for gbv in indianapolis on new year's eve have been purchased. it's going to be dreamy.

last night was interesting. don and amy's house is super cool. had a good time, despite getting called the wrong name for pretty much the entire evening by more than one person (even tony!). but it's all good. i don't know those people, it's relatively easy to shrug off. and even the tony slip is easy to shrug.

we went to get my oil changed earlier. that was funny. i don't take care of my car. it has 172k+ miles on it so i really probably should be more careful with it. i'm glad tony went because i couldn't have done it by myself.

oh, i forgot to mention the dogs last night... at the party. one of them was wearing a who t-shirt. it was hilarious.

blah, blah, blah... i'm feeling pretty boring and incoherant right now.

22 NOV 2002 - 12.27p
tony rules. i got started a little late this morning and what could have been a bad day turned out to be okay... this is only based on the news tony emailed me first thing this morning. gbv is playing indianapolis on new year's eve!!! yay!!!

my bad luck NYE streak will be broken this year. tony will make sure of this. plus, i will wrap myself in bubble wrap and wear a helmet and NOT drive.

also, another plus... tickets are not a la flaming lips in chicago.

the weather is gross outside. i hate snow and wind and rain. very gross.

22 NOV 2002 - 12.25a
up late finishing graphs for a silly bio lab i nearly forgot to complete. this is not my idea of a good time. i am really not going to miss bio once the semester is over.

i registered for classes today. with any luck, next semester will be my last full time semester. the only requirements left to fulfill after spring are another writing across the curriculum and a capstone course... and i might be able to knock both of those out at once with an internship. if i'm not ready to graduate after that, i'll probably just need a few electives as filler classes. whew. am i any more prepared for a "real job" than i was however many years ago it was that i graduated high school? nope. probably less prepared. sad.

i just did some quick figuring... i am 24 credit hours from being eligible for graduation (not even counting what i'm taking next semester!)... and i need (after next semester) 10 more hours in upper level courses, a capstone, and a writing across curriculum... and those can totally overlap! i'm finishing kind of quick, considering i took three years off... and most of my credits from three semesters at findlay didn't transfer. pat on the back!

21 NOV 2002 - 3.08p
it has come to my attention that i never explained why i didn't make it to new philadelphia today to look at the baby horses...

well, i called and left a message for the seller yesterday morning... just reminding her of our plans, and giving her an approximate time so she'd know when to expect us. she called back right before i left for work. she wanted me to know she sold the buckskin colt (even though she'd been out of town since the weekend) to someone in illinois that had the video. apparently this person called the seller's cell phone, got a hold of her, and said she'd overnight a check for the colt.

now, i could've given a shit about the filly. she was nice, but not special. the colt was special. and of course, had i known there was anybody else remotely interested in the colt, i would've hauled my ass to new philly a lot sooner or overnighted a damn check first.

i'm very disappointed. it sucks, because i haven't been excited about one like "owen"... he could have very well been the next newt. but... i guess it just wasn't meant to be. there's a reason things like this happen. i'm not going to question it, as hard as it is.

21 NOV 2002 - 1.41p
last night marked my not so fond return to the chamber (well, the phantasy now, i guess)... wow. interesting. saw a few random people there... including the ex of lacey. what an effing dope that guy is. this is where i must emphasize how happy i am with her current choice of boy. well done, lacey. very, very well done. all her ex does is talk out his ass.

last night was fun... i got to hear tony sing some song at heavy metal karaoke. i have absolutely no idea what song it was, but i'm sure his rendition of it was fabulous (sounded good to me!)... the karaoke band guys were very complimentary of him.

i had fun making tony guess what gbv/pollard song was in my head. it took him 12 hours, but he finally got it. i laughed.

i'm starting to get hungry. and i have things to do. more later, perhaps.

20 NOV 2002 - 7.15a
tony was barely out the door when someone from his place of employment viewed this very website. i know it couldn't have been him.

not much is going on at the moment. i'm sleepy. yesterday was very busy... horses and dogs and more dogs! david brought winnie over for a final visit before driving back to minneapolis. then school, which rots. i'm ready to be done. then tony. he made me watch tv. we watched 24 and... well... i don't know. i watched it. i'm sure that's enough to impress him. it was no survivor, but then again, not many shows are.

school, horse, work, and tony on the agenda today... in that order. tomorrow joanne and i are going to look at the babies in new philadelphia.

19 NOV 2002 - 12.35a
i am not surprised that mr. paul cox has a thing for that girl in the apple computer commerical that "saved christmas" by plugging her dad's camera into her powerbook. but didn't you have an apple computer that you got rid of, paul? good luck with "janie." i hope she doesn't hold ditching your mac against you. i don't... i still love you. i saw the commercial for the first (and only) time the other night with tony, who upon seeing it remarked on what a dumb commercial it was. good tony.

i am officially claiming the right to buy lacey the complete idiot's guide to breastfeeding for christmas, especially since we all know how badly she wants babies. might be useful. however, i am slightly (and this is very slightly, in a funny way) offended that she would get the CIGT horseback riding for me. hmm. i mean, i know i'm not at the top of my sport right now... but i didn't think i was sucking quite that badly. i, unlike some unnamed people, know that horses can digest grass and that shoes are held on with nails. i do suggest to lacey that if anybody gets the CIGT horseback riding it be the unnamed person mentioned above.

i think i succeeded in pissing off the annoying girl from my advertising group today.

other than that, not much else to mention... we plan on going to see the baby horses on thursday. the colt is a definite must have... and we'll see about the filly. hmm... i should go to bed now.

[now playing: inxs - 'kick']

17 NOV 2002 - 3.42p
i survived the tony meda project.

however, i am completely exhausted. i started feeling tired as soon as we got to the grog. just felt kind of icky, in general. at first i was blaming it on tommy's (even though my french onion soup was an A+), but i really think it was tiredness catching up wtih me. sitting for a few minutes helped a lot... drinking also helped. lisa, the really cool new girl from work, was there with the guy she's seeing... "the mountainman." kind of funny, especially since i barely know her. i love her, though... too cool.

so, yeah. i survived. it was entertaining, yes. and it was also very shiny. i'm not really sure what else to say. i didn't hate it, it was not even on the same level as the halloween costume that i hated. a hundred times better than that. it was great compared to the costume.

another lovely weekend with tony. blah, blah, blah.

i have been sitting around here for a couple of hours, since i got home. i was going to go riding, etc. but sitting was just really appealing. the tiredness from last night never completely went away despite sleeping soundly for many hours and laying in bed for a couple of hours before actually getting up. exhausted! i should eat something, maybe i'll perk up a bit.

16 NOV 2002 - 5.51p
apparently i was wrong about spoon... they did indeed play on carson daly last night. whew. unfortunately, it was the same dumb song they played on conan. super lame.

so, tony's show is tonight. no idea what to expect. had a rather sleepless night last night and am feeling kind of shitty right now. blah. i want a nap in my own, comfortable bed more than anything. i am not going to get one. super lame.

15 NOV 2002 - 4.43p
shit, i think spoon might have been on last night. bah!

No, it's tonight that Spoon is on. If I can make it through this stupid Jay-Z interview (if any hip-hop star's fame can be attributed to a stroke of dumb luck, it's his) without changing the channel and forgetting to come back, I'll probably enjoy it. But really, tonight is all about Maggie Gyllenhaal. -Paul

15 NOV 2002 - 4.26p
newt was not crippled today. in fact, i had quite a good ride on him. i was happy. i talked to robin regarding the buckskin weanling prospect (and his half sister, a yearling) and she's excited to see the tape. i want to name him "owen" (melvin really has GOT to go!), but joanne is against it for some reason dealing with my father. huh. oh well. i guess i shouldn't be naming him until i have him... but i feel really good about this one.

weather sucks. it's supposed to get cold again. brrr. i badly need an oil change, and tony has offered to do a really boyfriendly type thing and take my car for the change. i hate nothing more than having an oil change done, because 99.9% of the time, i'm sure they're trying to rip me off... "miss o'malley, you need a new air filter... and your transmission fluid needs to be flushed... and... and... and..." gah.

spoon is on that carson daly show tonight!! watch it!

15 NOV 2002 - 10.14a
i'm sitting here watching a fire on the news. i guess some crazy magnesium is burning at a trucking company in walton hills. i just learned that magnesium burns so hot that it can burn under water. so, why are they trying to put the fire out? it's not working. it looks pretty bad.

i think we may have found a horse!! the buckskin coats n tails colt is CUTE. although he is a bit younger than we wanted, he is very, very cute. his name is melvin... we'll change that for sure. the woman that owns him is out of town until wednesday, so we'll probably go see him next weekend. cool.

phoebe and winnie had a great time yesterday. it was almost as though they had known each other forever. they both play the same way (although winnie runs in a lot more circles than phoebe). it was good to visit with david, too. i'll try to get some of the pictures of the dogs up a little later.

newt was good yesterday... and of course, now that that's been said, he'll be crippled today.

yay, friday. tonight i have to work... with the new girl, which should be cool. i met her on sunday and she seems really nice... she's probably 35-40 years old... and i guess she likes going to shows and stuff. she asked me if i was at wilco, because she was there, too. i thought that was cool. anyhow, after work tonight, i have plans with tony. saturday and sunday, i have not only newt to worry about, but truman and manassas, as well (steph is going to canada for the weekend). and saturday night is the tony thing at the grog shop. yay, weekend.

fire's still going.

[now playing: pavement - 'wowee zowee']

13 NOV 2002 - 12.27p
one of the best nights of my life was when lacey and i slept over tony's... in his bed, and he slept between us. i tried to push them both out of bed.

i talked to david while waiting for a parking spot. he wasn't even to madison yet. looooooong drive. insane! he should be arriving in cleveland tonight, right around the time i get off work. since his dog, winnie, is along for the vacation, we won't be able to do much... but tomorrow winnie and phoebe will get to play. i'm sure i'll take a ton of pictures, but i expect them to be just one big black and white blur. i'm sure they will get along famously, and as if they've known each other forever. dogs are good.

[now playing: guided by voices - 'alien lanes']

13 NOV 2002 - 12.48a
tonight tony and i went to see the soundtrack of our lives. i have no idea who opened, but i did not like them. the soundtrack of our lives, however, were decent. i agree with tony, i can understand what the hype is about... but for every song i actually enjoyed, there was one that i found quite lame. but going into a show not having any idea what to expect, it wasn't so bad as it could have been... and for six bucks, i am most certainly not complaining.

i found this really humorous while attempting to search for some info on the band earlier today... at amazon.com, this came up:
Customers who wear clothes also shop for:
Clean Underwear from Amazon's Gap Store

clean underwear? good god, i should hope so!

[now playing: wilco - 'yankee hotel foxtrot']

12 NOV 2002 - 11.44a
seventy-five dollars... that's how much a flaming lips ticket is for new year's eve at the metro in chicago.

i don't think we're going, although it would be fun (dancing animals! battle royale!), but expensive.

i know i vowed to stay in this year... new year's eves are getting progressively worse for me. i was hoping to break the streak this year... thinking that maybe it was david (sorry, "dave") that was bringing the bad luck to me.

i still haven't gone riding yet. gah. i should go soon. unmotivated.

12 NOV 2002 - 12.03a
i don't think one coat of oil is enough for the saddle. it needs more. it needs to be so well oiled that it makes the butt of my jeans all oily. gross... i'm not serious.

i had the best day today, and i wasn't even the one who went to the dentist! went to see most of the process of lacey's 13th tattoo. it really is stunning. i forgot my camera like a goon, so i don't have any pictures... but i promise i will have some soon. it's too hot not to have pictures! it was fun hanging out, even if most of the hanging out was done in chairs, while ezra worked on her arm. i am now looking forward to my new tattoo. it will be the little guided by voices circle/arrow thing since tony is too chicken to get it himself. i'm going to have it tattooed on my foot.

next to the barn, lunged newt. exciting. then to tony's. it was really, really good... especially since i spilled a little piece of shocking information to him and he was merely shocked and not shocked and horrified, as i expected. tony rules.

i had the least amount of hits on the site today (yesterday, i guess) that i have ever had on a monday. it's probably because tony had his dentist appointment today... and then he ended up going home. without his fifty hits a day, my site would be nothing. (aside: i am fully aware that if you hate/dislike me, my site is nothing... but if that's the case, why are you reading? however, tony does not hate/dislike me by any means, therefore his fifty hits a day actually count.)

by the way... i wasn't serious about the gbv tattoo. i am not stealing tony's thunder.

10 NOV 2002 - 10.56p
i am exhausted. i had a great weekend, though. and it's so nice that i can SLEEP IN tomorrow! hopefully i'll actually sleep.

i braved the storms tonight to go riding... and i even returned home in one piece. no destruction to me.

bedtime!

10 NOV 2002 - 10.11a
this has been the weekend of tony. i worked on friday night, then went to his house afterwards fully intending on making our way to kent for lacey's little soiree. however, several glasses of wine at work + an extremely full day = very tired naked o'malley. i got to tony's and crashed soon after.

i left in the late morning and came home for a minute or two before leaving again for the barn. riding was good... newt feels about 80-85%. i came home and the tape from the michigan natural iron filly was here... she's definitely VERY nice... however, there are the two other prospects (one of which being a buckskin colt!) i'd like to look at before making any decsision. i just don't know, i'm not getting the feeling that i HAVE to buy the michigan filly... she's great, but in no way terribly outstandingly exceptional. i need something special in order to fill the shoes of the newt.

tony and i then went for a nice afternoon drive... through the park, then to the barn where he met newt. tony said newt was big. newt said tony was little. tony didn't touch newt. then back in the car for more fall driving... then back home for a few minutes to grab a jacket... then to tony's... then to cliff and vicki's... then to pat's in the flats for 84 nash.

84 nash was decent when we saw them open for gbv last month. they didn't make a super huge impression on me then, but they were acceptable, sure. last night they made even less of an impression on me... there was really probably nothing wrong with them if you like loud bands that do a lot of pointing. i'm not into the whole pointing thing. and there's probably nothing wrong with them if you're very small (under 5' tall, approximately 50 pounds) and have black hair and glasses. there were a whole herd of these girls at the show.

stayed at tony's again last night (i know his coworkers will be reading this. he FORCED me to stay... honest!). and now i'm sitting here, trying to pass the time before work. i don't intend on doing anything at work today.

NO SCHOOL TOMORROW!!! this so rules. what rules even more is that my wed/fri labs were cancelled... so i don't have a class earlier than 11 all week. rock!

08 NOV 2002 - 4.24p
brigid sent me this link today. oh, i laughed.

08 NOV 2002 - 12.58p
weeeeeee! it's friday! i'm really happy about that. i work tonight, then i have plans with tony... not sure what our plans are exactly, but that probably doesn't really matter. details shmetails.

david alerted me to the official dave kendall website. mr. kendall ruled on 120 minutes... all the fools that attempted to follow in his footsteps failed miserably, which is probably why the show just got suckier and suckier.

i have to go riding soon. i trotted the newt a bit yesterday, although we really only should have been walking, and he felt good. yay, newt. boo, senseless vet bills!

in other boring news, we should be getting a video of the natural iron filly in michigan soon. if she doesn't work out, then we're going to investigate a supposed buckskin coats n tails colt somewhere in ohio.

[now playing: spoon - 'soft effects' ep]

07 NOV 2002 - 2.31p
so, i'm just sitting here eating my soup when it occurs to me what shirt tony is wearing at work today.

[now playing: sunny day real estate - 'how it feels to be something on']

07 NOV 2002 - 9.29a
tony has just informed me that the trachtenbergs will now be on conan in january... on the 3rd, to be more specific. the kid on drums will probably be grown by then! spoon on conan was good... they played one of my not so favorite songs... i think there were a few other better choices... but it's the single, so whatever.

i had quite the full day yesterday... school, horse, work, tony. i got to see pictures of tony's former dog. he definitely looked cool. i dig dogs, and he just looked like the kind of dog i would've dug. it was very nice to see tony, though i am afraid my visit may have kept him up slightly past bedtime. i am a bad influence... but i hear he made it into work on time this morning.

it's taking me forever to write this entry. so i'm just going to stop. too much multi-tasking!

06 NOV 2002 - 8.10a
the whole trachtenberg family deal (see link below) was supposed to be on conan last night, but due to election coverage, i fell asleep because conan never came on. gah! lucky for me, tony will tape the repeat of conan and i will be happy to see the trachtenbergs on tape.

spoon is on conan tonight! don't forget.

oh, and the breeders were on buffy last night. it sucked... i watched just long enough to see them (for about half a second) and then moved away from the television. i have never seen that show before (duh) and no wonder... it's horrible!

[now playing: the afghan whigs - 'uptown avondale' ep... it's dirty]

05 NOV 2002 - 1.21p
made it to the vet and back without any major incident. traffic was good on the drive, and the weather was perfect for hauling... not windy at all.

there's nothing wrong with newt. doc seems to agree that it's likely in the foot, perhaps a slow brewing abcess (gross). but he did say there could be a chance he just took a bad step and wrenched his leg a bit. he was remarkably sound today, just minor lameness on the right fore. doc said to get on and walk for the next three days, then trotting after that for a few, then back to regular work. weeee.

i guess that's all for now. just wanted my fanclub to know we made it home safe and sound.

04 NOV 2002 - 10.37p
rolling wraps. to horse people and those of you who are lucky enough to have known me well for a while, you know what this means... time to load him up and ship him out. unfortunately, not a horse show... we're going to the vet. a sudden, very severe mystery lameness has developed into almost nothing. i don't care. i'm taking the damn horse to the vet and i'm not bringing him home until doc finds something wrong with him. i'll wait all day if i have to.

tony read out tonight. lacey and i went and we liked it, for sure. tony's good. i got to meet steve and kelly and sci-fi steve. all were cool. tony stopped in for a bit when he dropped me off. he tried to get phoebe to switch places with him. i could tell she was thinking about it. i'm sure she could figure out how to drive the car... and get to tony's apartment. she probably could even get up in the morning, and go to his job and do his work. no offense, tony... but my dog is smart.

i'm going to resume rolling wraps and being smitten now.

[now playing: the afghan whigs - 'black love']

03 NOV 2002 - 10.05a
i will be leaving to go shopping soon. i need a black sweater, and steph called last night and asked if i would like to go with her. yay, shopping.

yesterday was tough... mainly because i hardly slept the night before and had several things to do (newt, work, hang out with tony). i managed to get through the day... then tony and i went grocery shopping at night. we went back to his apartment and watched more of the pavement dvd (we watched the documentary part... it was pretty good!) and i got to hear about how i told him steve malkmus is hot five hundred times the other night (that sounds like something i'd do, so i can't deny it) and how i tried to push him out of his own bed not once, but twice!!! wow. i have never done that before. i'm still trying to figure it out... maybe i was asleep on the wrong side of the bed? maybe i thought he was the dog? i have no idea. either way, i'm sure anybody else who has ever shared a bed with me will only have lovely things to say about what a nice person i am to sleep with.

i need some juice. and then i need to shop! yay, black sweater.

02 NOV 2002 - 2.02p
so... went to see jackass last night. i loved it. i laughed and laughed. yay. then we went to the party... tony's costume frightened me. lots of pictures were taken, and i'm sure in the few of me and tony, i probably look really frightened.

but, i had a good time. i'm tired today. don't want to go to work... but i must. don't feel like writing. yawn.

01 NOV 2002 - 12.25p
supposedly i am going to have a great november. i had a good time last night... until i had vicious hiccups for about an hour. that sucked.

the trachtenburg family slideshow players were the best thing ever. i am looking forward to their conan appearance. as well as spoon's conan appearance the following night. too much television!

i really could go for some pad thai right now. i'm hungry. and that is what i want, but it is not what i will have.

tonight is that party that tony's friend is having. i drank a lot last night and as of right now, i'm not entirely convinced i can do a repeat performance again tonight. i guess that could totally change as the day goes on, though. apparently one of his friends is hoping i "let loose." i'm really not sure what that means. but that's okay. i'm sure i will have a good time. we're going to see jackass beforehand, which should be good, too.

01 NOV 2002 - 12.51a
this halloween is dedicated to the following:
1. being drunk.
2. having your feet hurt so bad you can't even walk.
3. the nuge!
4. they might be giants.
5. the giant scratch on my ass/back... three months old, and still rocking!
6. THE NUGE!
7. PUERTO RICO!!!!!!!!!!!