Oh, dang!

Guess it’s been kind of a while. Um, been busy (compared to usual life). While the weather has been nice I’ve been trying to get out and take walks/bike rides to soak up some sun, fight off some of that Seasonal Affective business. Got my old job with the Science Center back, I start on Monday!! (YAY!) I figure after everything I went through this fall, I can deal with whatever silly complaints I had before.

Took a trip to NJ last weekend. It’s weird that my parents are getting ready to sell their house. I’m realizing now that I’ve had a lot of “lasts” there that I didn’t realize were lasts at the time: last Thanksgiving, last Christmas Eve picture with Jill, last summer night on my swing…maybe it’s better that I didn’t know at the time. That way those occasions weren’t bittersweet. But I am secretly hoping for just one more time on that swing. I will swing for 24 hours straight if I get it. (Okay maybe not. As long as my legs/butt can handle it.) It was also sort of surreal going through things in my childhood bedroom and deciding what to keep and what to throw away. Letters are the craziest. I left a bunch behind for my mom to dispose of; I didn’t have the heart to actually put them in the trash can myself.

I know it’s been a long time since I was Metuchen-Amy, and that I’m much more comfortable being Baltimore-Amy now, but it’s still a little hard letting go. It still feels like losing something.

On a lighter note, knitting is AWESOME. After Valentine’s Day I will post a knitting/sewing retrospective. I think that I’m going to be doing a lot of knitting on lunch breaks, etc. during the work week, so I’m going to try to get more practice sewing on the weekends. I think a lot of my frustration/rough edges is just from lack of practice. And from being too hard on myself.

Looking forward to the KG show at Talking Head tomorrow night. Mandy times, yay! (Mandy, I am sure, will be updating her blog very soon! hint, hint) I’m hoping the other bands will be enjoyable…I need a new favorite band. I still like my old faves, but they don’t give that same exhilarated feeling they used to. I miss that. I need a band to make me all starry-eyed at shows and blow up my car stereo. I thought that would be Jukebox the Ghost, but I’m kind of over it; only 3-4 songs on that album had real staying-power for me. One of those is a remix.

For now I believe it is time for taco salad. I am trying to be more conscious about where my food comes from, so I’m making more things at home. Last night’s taco salad was a definite hit. Let’s see if it lives up to the hype today!

(Good thing I start work Monday: I obviously need to get out more! P )

And I said, “What about breakfast…”

Always blogging on an empty stomach. If anyone who wasn’t my friend ever read this blog, they’d probably think I weighed 400 pounds, the way I’m always talking about food. But once, again, I’m hungry. So I’ll make this short.

Last night was the KG/MC Lars/MC Frontalot show at the Ottobar. I gave my experimental cookies to old and new friends and they were a hit. (Some people even ate TWO!) KG played a really fun set, which was just the tiniest bit bitter-sweet since it’s the last time they’ll play in the area for a few months. Now I’m faced with a conundrum: do I start going to other local shows, knowing it probably won’t be as good or fun, or do I finish one of my ten half-finished hobbies instead? Or both? To be determined.

However, it was a night of unpleasant odors. There was a kid near me all through the KG set that smelled HORRIBLE. Like BO mixed with the crotch of a dead person. I am not exaggerating. AT ALL. Anyway, this Odiferous Ollie kept creeping closer and closer to me throughout the whole dance party, to the point where I couldn’t see Aaron and could hardly breathe (luckily that was pretty much the last song). I didn’t want to move because if I did I could no longer see Mandy-Pants. But I lived to tell the tale, that’s what matters.

Then it was a Mario Karty (yeah that’s right, I mashed up Kart and Party!) with Aaron and Marty! Oh the fun times. Our nerdiness even got a shoutout from some white rappers. I accidentally walked into the men’s room (AWKWARD) and then had my second dose of unpleasant odor happenings: someone in the bathroom had food poisoning or a tapeworm* or something. As soon as I entered the adjacent stall, I was wishing I had a WWI-issue gas mask. It was, in a word, brutal. And to make matters worse, I kept thinking I smelled whiffs of “Eau du Toilette” (a.k.a. poo) all evening, so I’m pretty sure it followed me out. UGH.

But I did get the chance to have some beers with Mandy and Greg, eat some rock-hard frozen chocolate bars, eat Chipotle, and laugh at the insane length of the white rappers’ sets and the large-and-in-charge female grinding the stair bannister and having fake orgasms. (Because at that point, really what could we do but laugh?) All in all, I call it an evening well-spent.

I’ve decided to make this the ultimate in lazy day-ery since the weather is crummy and I “partied like a rockstar” last night. This means almost everything I do today will be done from bed.** Yay! Embrace the inner slug!

 

*Tapeworms do not actually give you diarrhea.
**Obviously, if I decide to shower I will have to go to the bathroom for that.