Friendster

So don't ask me why i bother with these things, but i have a profile on friendster, just like the rest of the world. Now what i would like to know, from those of you that have an account, do you often get strange messages from people like i do? I've had people in Turkey give me their phone number, talk about marriage and a bunch of other weird shit. I generally ignore and delete said messages. So i got another one today, it's not terribly bad, just cheesy and i'm sure he's sent the exact same message to many ladies out there. Here it is:

hey, my name is ------, and iam 28 years old , iam
egyptian but i live now in dubai, U.A.E for working.
when i added myself in this website i thought its
just a try to find my other half, but when i saw your
picture i realized that you are my other half, i dont
know why i felt that, maybe your magnificent
beauty or your charming smile, or your pretty eyes
that captured my heart, and maybe all of these
things together made me wish to know you more
and talk to you, if you agree, i know that distance
between us is a problem but believe me once we
get close in heart we can get close in body so
easy, its a mtter of time.......


Hey Moe, if you read this, do you think you can set me up with this guy when i come to visit you down there LOL.....i'm kidding of course :P

Four Brazilian??

So we're out drinking last night ... quel surprise and Tim starts to tell a blond joke to Melissa and myself. It went something like this:

A blonde was sitting on the train reading the newspaper.
The headline read, "12 Brazilian Soldiers Killed".
She shook her head at the sad news, then turned to
the stranger sitting next to her and asked,......
"Wow that is really sad, how many is a Brazilian?"

So i groan and give a slight chuckle as i've heard this before and Melissa stands there looking perplexed because as she put "I don't get it." Yes my friends Melissa is in fact blonde. She may blame this moment on the amount of alcohol she had consumed however i beg to differ :)

Living the High Life

So for the past few days i've been housesitting for my friend and her man. Whenever they go on vacation i'm the official cat/house sitter which i love. They have a hot tub, a pool an elliptical trainer, satellite and a lovely home....plus a really cool cat. He's quite large, but not fat, more muscular. He loves to be loved, is constantly sitting on me, sleeping in my bed and he's obsessed with water. I can't do dishes without him staring into the sink or have a bath without him dipping his paws in the water, he's truly a bizzare but charming character. Dawn was over the other night and he was head butting her and flopping around the couch without any grace at all, he's quite clumsy in fact and sees no problem with jumping all over the place and stretching up on a lamp shade. I'm terribly afraid the lamp will go crashing to the ground one of these days. I mentioned this last time to my friend and she just laughed because she knows he's such a clumsy kitty. I am here until sunday so i shall try to make the most of it, watching tv and lounging in the hot tub.

I've totally jumped out of the box as far as work is concerned. I work for a non profit agency and so we have fundraising events and other such things. At our staff meeting yesterday, they were looking for committee members for a week long event to celebrate our agency. My co-worker joined and then pointed out that she thought i should join too and laughed. I joked around about it and thought i was in the clear, till the end of the meeting when they said "so, we should put your name down?" I tried to weasle out of it by saying my contract would be up by then, but they wouldn't have it....so i yelled "fine" and explained my New Years Resolution to them. I told them this was hurdling the box and they laughed. In any event, i find committees like this to be daunting and too much pressure and i don't think this is anywhere near one of my strong points, but alas i am stepping out of my comfort zone and being a trooper. (I also stayed in all weekend last week, shocker i know)

I am also going with that same co-worker to a volunteer appreciation day at the jail. She works with women who are incarcerated and does release planning with them. I have not yet been to this particular institution and am very excited. We get a tour and get to talk to some of the women so it should be an eye opening experience for me. I've only been to one facility where we had a Christmas party for the women and that was years ago. I spilled pop on one of the ladies .... their one time to be out in the gym and enjoy themselves without being locked behind bars and i dump pop all over one of them LOL...only me!!

Casa Rosso

So my sister called tonight laughing about some commercial that reminded her of when we were in Amsterdam. The ad goes something like this from what i understood....a bunch of men are in a theatre and when the curtain goes up, a saxophone player is on the stage. They all start booing and getting angry. Outside there is a sign that read S _ X. The second letter is covered up by something, the men thought they were going to a SEX show but it turned out to be a SAX show.

This reminded her of Amsterdam as when we were there, we ventured with our tour group to the extra activity not on our itinerary. The live sex show at Casa Rosso. We were lead into what looked like a movie theater with bigger seats and beer, a stage at the front. From what i recall as this was 7 years ago, we proceeded to watch a few different acts if you will, with audience participation. They had a few guys go up and strap dildos onto their heads, trying to get it into that special spot on the woman onstage. She also put a banana in said area and the men proceeded to each take a bite out of it ... Oh my. Then they had Batman and Vicky Vail i think her name was have sex on a revolving platform. The last performance was a tall, dark handsome man dressed as a cop. A member of the audience went up and there were some handcuffs and a billy bat involved if i remember correctly.

Anyway i can't believe my sister went to see this, now she says she was peer pressured because everyone else was going including the tour guide....i just think she's a dirty pervert...hmm i guess that makes me one as well, whatever!

We of course went through the red light district, went on a bike tour which was lovely and i went with some of my fellow travellers into the Grasshopper Coffeshop (and a few other coffee shops which were less touristy) which too was a very interesting experience(sis did not partake in this one). We travelled on an all you can drink glass boat as our final excursion for the end of our journey through Europe. I would definately venture back to Amsterdam if the chance came upon me, it's just such a unique and laid back place. Oi!!

Plumber Mixes Beer and Water Pipes

I found this in the paper yesterday and it gave me a giggle. Too bad it didn't happen at my house :)

CLUMSY PUB PLUMBER MIXES BEER, WATER PIPES
Oslo, Norway
It almost seemed like a miracle to Haldis Gundersen when she turned on her kitchen faucet and found the water had turned to beer.

Two flights down, employees and customers at the Big Tower Bar were horrified when water poured out of the beer taps.

By an improbable feat of clumsy plumbing, someone at the bar in Kristiandsund, western Norway, had accidentally hooked the beer hoses to the water pipes for Gundersens' apartment. The local beer distributer helped bartenders reconnect the pipes by telephone instructions.

The Weekend

So i go to visit Jennifer for the end of my Birthday Celebrations. We spend Friday night in, watching her boyfriend and his friend play old sega games. It was quite funny. Skip ahead to Saturday, it was gorgeous outside, warm and sunny. We gather up a friend and mozy on down to this fantastic Indian restaurant that we all love. Yummm i ate so much food it was great. We straighten our friends hair, it's naturally very curly and quite coarse. When we finished Jennifer said it looked like she was wearing a weave. We had dinner plans with Sly and a few others so we met up with them, but after our glutonous lunch, Jennifer and I end up getting salad and feeling terribly bloated and full. We all go our separate ways however Jennifer and I round up Baron to have drinks with us at a pub down the street from her house. The pints begin flowing and at around midnight i decide i would like to go dancing at some bar i've never been to cause this DJ i enjoy is there. This is where the fun begins.

We get to our new location, Jennifer orders up some tequila shots and off we go. We decide to dance, and drink and try new shots. I have several pictures of Jennifer looking rather smashed and she takes it upon herself to tell me how she thinks it's ridiculous that these girls go up to the DJ and hang all over him. After a few more drinks, Jennifer has joined the DJ in his booth, mind you she was not hanging all over him but it was funny nonetheless. At closing time, we go outside and start to walk down some stairs towards a group of people, at which point one points at me and makes a reference to my "huge boobs." Then tells us it's ok he's gay he can say that. Jennifer then encourages him to touch my boobs which he does, and then tells the other 2 guys in the group that they should have a feel too, while the 2 girls of the group watch and laugh. It was hilarious and awful all at the same time.

A cabbie took us back to the apartment, Jennifer spoke German to him, and i took a picture of her still inside the cab yapping while i waited for her to finish. I woke up to Jennifer vomitting at some point....We managed to get tits up....but were we ashamed of ourselves in the morning....perhaps we should have been but we weren't.

Birthday Celebrations

So i turned the big 28 and have spent the better part of the week celebrating. On Saturday a bunch of us started off at my friend Dave's house where he made me do shots of vodka....eek. Then we headed downtown, to find out that the bar i wanted to go to was holding a private party for Juelz? Some rapper guy the homeless and at risk youth i volunteer with had told me about the night before. They were excited about his up coming concert. I still have no idea who he is. The owner of the bar is a friend of a friend so he let us in for some drinks as the VIP people had not arrived yet. Onward we moved to an Irish pub, sucked back a few pints and walked through the freezing cold to our next bar. It had a huge line-up....no thanks, so we trudged forward and passed this awful awful bar but decided to go in and pee and see what it was like. Now i must say, this bar is famous for having young young kids in it, and not somewhere i would normally ever hang out. That being said, it was packed with little ones and the bloody bartender actually carded me. I couldn't believe it, i laughed and handed it over. So i order a redbull and vodka and he pours two of them. I tell him i just want one and he said one was for him, he was taking the rest of my redbull as there is always some left over. I told him no he was not. He bought me a shot, an orgasm, and of course made some crude/funny remark. I let him have the remainder of my redbull after that. We ended the evening at yet another bar, but i had a good time.

On my actual birthday, i worked, went to dinner, the salon (got my bangs) and out again for drinks. This time we ended up at the Irish pub.....but left, too many youngins and went to the bar that hosted the party for Juelz. It was fun, we watched Karaoke, made fun of and tried to no avail to take pictures of a man with longer hair then me and the same bangs (perhaps they were not such a good idea). Our friends friend was there the owner so he fed us a few shots and the drinking began. Needless to say i was useless at work today. My boss started laughing at me, told me i smelled horrible like stale alcohol and made me eat breath mints and gum....I work with people on probation some of who have alcohol and drug problems....she said i would be their favorite worker because i would smell just like them and then she continued to laugh and laugh at me and make jokes. I ended up putting my feet up on my desk and turning the lights out. My coworker shut my door and told me to lay down on the floor. I didn't, but i was quite happy for the 1st time that most of my clients didn't show up, usually i'm complaining because they never show. I finally felt better around 3 and actually managed to get some work done. It did take me almost 4 hours to eat a bagel though.

This weekend I will be going up to Jennifer's neck of the woods for the ending of my special week. I told her we were to get tits up and be ashamed of ourselves in the morning....Kompai!!!

Oscars and Stepping out of the Box

Ah, the Oscars. I have been a longtime fan for years and years. I'm not sure how or why my obsession began, but once a year i will sit for hours on end and watch the Academy Awards. I've laughed (tonight when Jon Stewart made the crack about Bjork not being there because when she was putting her outfit on Cheney shot her. As well as the Cowboy montage), i've cried (Tom Hanks' speech for Philadelphia). I even attended an Oscar party last year with Dawn. Our old boss put on a party at her restaurant. When we arrived we had to get into a limo, then get out and on the other side was the "red carpet" along with an interviewer, microphone in hand, cameras and all that jazz. We had to dress up for the event and tell the interviewee "who" we were wearing. It had potential to be a good evening, however, it included lots of people, booze and a microphone. For those that know me, when i watch the Oscars, there's no funny business, i like to be able to hear the speeches and enjoy the show. Needless to say after Dawn and myself urged people to shut the hell up cause we couldn't hear a thing, we left in the middle of it, hit up Harvey's and then went to watch the remainder of the show at home.

As well i figured i should give an update on my New Year's Resolution: to step out of the box. In the past 2 months i have:

*Called that guy who gave me his number
*Went on a date with said guy .... you all know how that went ugh
*Took minutes at a staff meeting (might sound strange but i never had and i've heard people cut up others' minutes when they have been taken so i was nervous, but did it anyway)
*Bought a pair of beige pants (I always wear black)
*Had a supervision meeting at work (I had also never had one before, i always got out of them)
*Took some great advice from my boss regarding a client that i told her i hated....she told me he was trying to get under my skin and if i reacted in a mean/annoyed way with him, that's exactly the reaction he was trying to get from me....so i was sweet as pie and he turned out not to be so bad afterall
*I have a hair appointment on Wednesday and i'm debating about getting bangs....any thoughts on this one......i'm not so sure i have the balls to do it, help me decide :)

The Amazing Race 9

Ok, so i am a reality TV junkie. My favorite by far is the Amazing Race. I've watched every episode religiously from the beginning, enjoying every single one. I love to travel and that is most likely why i adore this show. It takes me to places that i may never have a chance to see, as well it gives me ideas for future trips.

The Amazing Race #9 began last night. Of course they had teams of two made up of...the old couple, the African American couple, the young hot girls, the young hot guys, the token gay couple...you get my drift. So without further ado let me introduce you to the teams:

Lake and Michelle are from the South. He thinks he's the shit but fucks up majorly in the first leg of the race which made me giggle. He needs to learn to read clues better, though i hope he doesn't as i'm not a fan.

Ray and Yolanda are the African American couple from Chicago. They are quite athletic and apparently the Brazilian men were really into Yolanda, cat calling and such. For some reason Lake who i introduced above only refers to this couple as "the black couple." Eg. he tells his wife to run faster or the black lady will catch up, type of thing. Ugh.

Danielle and Dani are childhood friends from New York with nice tans and big boobs. The other teams refer to them as "the pinks" as they like to wear matching pink
outfits.

Eric and Jeremy are the young pretty boys, who will surely hit on Danielle and Dani at some point. They both love to live leisurely lives, doing the least amount of work possible. One is a bartender and they enjoy playing volleyball and hanging out at the beach.

John and Scott are the token gay team who have been friends for over 25 years. They don't seem to really get anywhere in the first leg of the race, John takes control as Scott sort of wanders around trying to suggest things, but nothing every really comes of it.

Lisa and Joni are sisters. The gay team refers to them as "the frosties" though they refer to themselves as "the glamazons." When they thought there were in last place and then found out they were not while completing a task, one yelled out "i peed my pants" and they became extremely loud and boisterous.

David and Lori are self proclaimed nerds from Kansas. She often tells him to "give me a kiss" and they giggle and have their own secret handshake. (Lori reminds me of Jennifer)

Fran and Barry are the older couple from Colorado. In the first leg of the race they embarassed themselves by walking past the clue box about 30 times, eventually finding it "right in front" of them. They are quite athletic and were one of the only teams to attempt putting together a motorcycle.

Joseph and Monica are dating and are known as either "Mojo" or "Ken and Barbie" by the other teams. There's a funny moment in the airport where she looks like she's about to cry because they didn't on the first flight and he says with a disgusted look "you're not going to cry are you?" She says no and somehow surpresses the tears.

Wanda and Desiree are the mother-daughter team. Wanda is fluent in Spanish which helped out on the first leg of the race. She also seems to be a bit high strung and Deriree seems to be the one calming her down.

Last but not least, my favorite of this season....BJ and Tyler. They hail from San Fran and are these hippy guys with cool shades and funky orange pants. They look like they know how to have fun, and seem quite laid back. They both speak several languages including Spanish and Japanese. I am going for these guys!!!!

Now in season's past, there have been some memorable contenders in the show. Do you remember....

Mirna and Charla from Season #5. They were cousins. Charla was a little person and Mirna loved to hug Phil at the pitstop mat. The other teams that disliked them called them Mirna and Shmirna. I remember one episode where Mirna was carrying an animal carcus but it was too heavy for her so Charla took over. Charla as i mentioned is a little person (ie a midget) and she hauled that carcas over her shoulder for miles.

Jonathan and Victoria...enough said, they were on Dr. Phil cause he was such an asshole.

From Season #8, who could forget "team Florida" as they were referred to. The team was made up of a widow and her 3 annoying children. They yapped about the bible and God and being great Christians...and then were rude to and lied to other teams and wondered why noone liked them. The one daughter always wore spandex short shorts and cried a lot. Ughh.

Lastly, the two friends from a season i do not recall (Drew and Kevin i think). They were big guys and the most hilarious duo i have ever had the pleasure of watching. They referred to one another in ways one would not normally talk to a friend. I recall an episode while one was repelling the other was trying to motivate him by yelling "swing you fat bastard, swing." As well one had to ride a camel in the desert while the other one led the way, needless to say the camel would not get up which lead to more name calling.(this is where Jennifer and I get our relentless name calling from, we too now call one another such names)