Hometown: The Roch, MI (aka. The Crotch, aka. Crotchscratcher, aka. Crotchmolester, aka. Rochester)
Currently Living: Clawson, MI
Height: 5'8
Weight: Ha ha, yeah right
Favorite Color: Blue (preferably navy)
Profession: Researcher
Favorite Nickname: Trick, Sloan
Favorite Drinks:Vodka Tonic, Guinness, Diet Dr. Pepper, Dirty Martinis, red wine
Favorite TV Show: Friends, Sex & The City, Project Runway, The Amazing Race, Iron Chef America
Least Favorite TV Show: A Baby Story, I Love Lucy, Martha Stewart, Everybody Loves Raymond, every hour long drama
Favorite Books: The History of Love, Beloved, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Fight Club, A Prayer for Owen Meany, The of Being, SurUnbearable Lightness vivor, Empire Falls, The Corrections, The Bell Jar
Favorite Movies: Little Miss Sunshine, Anchorman, The 40 Year Old Virgin, Wordplay, American Beauty, Life is Beautiful, Amelie, Breakfast Club, Singin In The Rain, Sixteen Candles, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Sleeping Beauty, Dancer in the Dark, Duets, The Virgin Suicides, The Manchurian Candidate (1962), Austin Powers I, II & III, My Best Friends Wedding, Moulin Rouge, Tommy Boy, Billy Madison, The Shining, Gone With The Wind, Bridget Jones' Diary, Chicago, Love Actually
Guilty Pleasure Movies: Xanadu, Dirty Dancing, Overboard, Groundhog Day, Steel Magnolias, 10 Things I Hate About You, Bond movies, Footloose, Clue, Murder By Death, High Spirits, A Cinderella Story
What I Do Too Much: Check email, crossword puzzles, complain about my job to friends and family,
Obsessions: sushi, Indian food, ranch dressing, toenail polish, song lyrics, hands, awards shows, symmetry, avocados, maps, dreams, This American Life, the display in my car that tracks my MPG
Pet Peeves: loud eaters, slurping, gulping, arrogance, snoring, bad grammar, repetition, late mergers, ripping cardboard, the word "chunky", intolerance, couples in a restaurant sitting on the same side of a booth, pop-up ads, privacy manager, men that drive without shirts on, being foolish, unfairly jumping to conclusions, being made fun of, cat-calling, people who type too hard
Greatest Fear: crossing bridges
Relaxing Activites: late night drives to sing by myself, headstands, hot baths,
Wish I Was: Ansel Adams, Jenifer Aniston, in love, living alone
Prized Possessions: ring from my grandparents, flower pot of my Grandma's, electric blanket (temporarily broken), tongue scraper, my bed
Craziest Thing Ever Done: getting a tattoo, strip Jenga
Things I Eventually Want To Do: skydive, buy a guitar, learn how to play the aforementioned guitar, take flying lessons, travel to France, write a novel, learn how to play the harp, tap dancing lessons, run a marathon
Friday, August 13, 2004 You do or ya don't or ya will or won't 'cha....
An interesting last couple days. And yes! I know I'm a slacker! I'm sorry! I've been busy! I have actually been working! In the middle of the night! It's hard to write blogs! When you're working! But it's not hard to use exclamation points! Because it makes me seem more sorry!
Yesterday, Amy and I went to go see the final reveal of the Extreme Home Makeover House. And although we ended up standing there for close to 4 hours, it was definitely worth it. Albeit, slightly anti-climatic.
First of all, the house is goregeous. If you head over to the City of Oak Park's website, you can get the daily photos of the progress on the house.
So the younger son is autistic and blind, and the parents are deaf. So they originally brought the son in first with two of his teachers so that he could see the house and get a little accustomed to it, since it is a whole new set of surroundings for him. The director instructed us not to cheer, because it could freak him out, considering that he couldn't see the couple hundred people who were there. Also, the family wouldn't be able to hear us cheering, so they instructed us on the sign language signs for cheers and applause.
When the family finally came, they were totally crying to see their house, and all the designers lost it. Every time I watch the show, I wonder if the designers are really crying, and I'm here to tell ya: sobfest. The look on the other son's face when they went into the house was priceless too. It'll be sure to be a great episode, and it was damn cool to see it all happen. Except for the fact that everything was incredibly slow slow slow. Reality is not so much quite reality. They definitely take their sweet ass time setting everything up for the final reveal. The limo was parked down the street for like a half an hour before they would even let the family come see their house!!
In other news, training walks are going well. Another 8.5 miles under my belt yesterday. And remember a couple weeks ago when I mentioned that I thought there was some kind of parrot on the loose in my neighborhood? Well, it turns out, THERE REALLY IS! Kelly and saw it yesterday. It looks a little bit like this. We were a little surprised to have someone/thing saying "Hello" to us from the tree, and then laughing and barking at us as we walked away. Go figure.
In other other news, Wednesday night was a comedy of errors for me at work. Anything that could go wrong did -- the doctor cancelling because his wife's flight was delayed, the equipment breaking, the subject showing up at the wrong hospital. Fortunately today is much better and some of the more serious problems have been resolved while I wasn't here. Perfect.
Sorry, no more other other other news to report. I don't have a whole lot kickin' this weekend. Going to a wedding on Saturday night -- I don't know the bride, groom, or the person I'm going with. Who doesn't love a wedding crasher?? TGIF!!
