A pirate's life for me!

Zacky showed me this link. You enter in a website and it turns it into Pirate-speak. I enjoyed looking at my blog through pirate eyes.

(Don't judge- like anyone gets work done on a friday anyway?)

What are you looking for?!?

I had this email correspondence with Adam yesterday:

Me to Adam:

I was just looking up the search terms that have brought people to my blog. Most of them were "Falling Molly" etc. But I also got:

"Denise Bonner + Bonners Irish Pub"
"Where did the term pussyhands come from?"
and
"I am so fond of my brothers."

Thought you'd appreciate that.
Adam to Me:

Awesome


I think this should inspire it's own blog

Clooney Dad

Have you seen Syriana? I haaaaated it. I'm sure it was a good movie, but I found it really hard to watch for the following reason:


Particularly this scene:

Band/Song Thing

It might have been a year ago that I filled this thing out- but I just discovered I never posted it. In case you didn't see it before, the idea is that you pick a band, and then answer each question with a song title from that band. So.
I totally chose The Beach Boys. I can't begin to tell you how difficult it was to not have each and every answer relate to surfing or summer.

Pick a band/artist: The Beach Boys

Are you male or female?: Hey Little Tomboy

Describe yourself: I Love To Say Da-Da

Describe your current boyfriend/girlfriend situation: Long Promised Road

Describe your current location: In My Room


Describe where you want to be: Kokomo

Your best friends: California Girls

Your favorite color is: Ruby Baby

You know that: I Get Around

What’s the weather like?: Sunshine

If your life was a television show, what would it be called? God Only Knows

What is life to you?: Heroes and Villains

What is your dream job? The Man With All The Toys

What’s the worst feeling in the world? Summertime Blues

Your favorite means of transportation? Little Deuce Coupe

What is the best advice you have to give? Don't Worry Baby

If you could change your name, what would you change it to?: Caroline, No

What is your favorite food? Cool, Cool Water

One More Month!

Then I get a break.
This weekend was strange. Because I changed jobs and the current job is part time, money has become more of a concern than it's been since I was 23. Thus, when an extra shift opens up, I RARELY say "Eh. I don't feel like it." Even though said shifts are almost always on a weekend... So in addition to Saturday being both Carina and Carey's birthday (which I consciously didn't blog about, as I'm pretty sure both of them have read my blog and then chosen to never read it again) it was also Ben, my coworker's birthday. Thus, in addition to my Friday and Sunday shifts, I also picked up Saturday.
"It'll be good" I told myself. "You need to get work done, and this will sort of bind you to working instead of playing."
So I worked on Friday night. Came home, went to bed. Woke up at 5:30 on Saturday, went to work, gym, home. Did about 7 hours of reading and homework. Went to work again. Went home. Watched Top Hat. Slept. Woke up at 2am when Adam called and hung up on me. Slept. Woke up at 5am. Went to work. Came home. Did 7 hours of homework. Went to work.
Okay. We all get it. I'm BORING.
But here are a couple of things that happened in my weekend of responsibility.

1. One of my friends from high school called me. She had called me like 4 months ago, and I never called her back (because I'm not only busy- I'm totally self-involved.) So I had been thinking about her and knew that as soon as I had 30 minutes I should give her a call- and then she called me. Not even keeping score or upset that I'd disappeared. And I was able to have a really comfortable long talk with her. I ABSOLUTELY LOVE friendships like that- where there's no pressure or score keeping- but then even when a year has passed, it's still comfortable and fun to talk. So while I was sitting at home feeling sorry for myself for all of the school and work-work I had, it was the PERFECT pick-me-up.

2. We got a save-the-date card for a wedding in October. Not only do Danny and I LOVE the couple getting married, but I always feel like I can make anything happen with enough warning (and really hate missing out on anything.) So having 11 months heads up made. my. day. Weddings are important- and even though this one is close to us, it's nice to have it on my radar. Something about my anxiety issues, I'm sure.

3. Danny had never seen Top Hat, and I hadn't watched it since I was in 5th grade- but I remember loving it. So we're watching it- and Danny left the room during the seen where identities are confused- so even though it's a pretty straightforward plotline, I realized he had no idea what was happening at any point after that. And in case you were wondering, the scene where they're dancing to "Cheek to Cheek" and her dress is floating? Still totally makes me swoon.

(from 3:24 on is the best)
And also... I MIGHT have convinced danny that the character of "Horace" was played by Ronald Reagan.
But.
While I was watching the movie, I found it a little distracting when I realized that everyone in that movie is now dead. I'm pretty sure when I used to watch it when I was little no one was dead (though upon investigation, I discovered Fred Astaire died in 1987. So he was dead.) And I started thinking it was a little creepy... watching all these dead people when they were young and dancing.


k-that's it-bye!

A Post For Jenny

I like coats. Not as much as my friend Jenny, but I actually live in a climate where it makes sense for me to own a coat. Two years ago I bought a coat in February, and what was once a $250 item was sold to me for $49. I remembered this, so last year I bought another coat at the end of January/beginning of February. And what J.Crew originally tried to sell for $380, was mine for less than $100. I don't get to choose from ALL the coats when I wait till then- colors and sizes are limited at the end of the season. BUT, I'm starting to eye coats now. These are the ones that I'm hoping will still be around for a little Valentine's Day gift to myself:

My fault...

My friend Carina is in town, and as such I sort of dropped everything in my life for two days. I went to work last night... but other than that- I am now incredibly behind. How does this happen? How do two days set me back a week? This happened a couple of weeks ago when Danny and I went to Virginia- and I spent the next week struggling to keep my head above water. And now I have a lot more on my plate than I did then. Lesson learned: even though you have to take time to realign your priorities, and be where it's most important, you can't expect every other part of your life to take pause for you!
My other lesson that I'm WORKING ON is: you can still be nice to people when you're stressed.
Even when your team is getting slaughtered by the yankees.

In LESS Debbiedowner news:
The leaves just up and changed almost overnight. And I got an AMAZING duo of cds from Jenn that actually made me kind of laugh and swoon all at once.

This is the month that people use to post a blog every day, and I am definitely not capable of that- but I WILL try to take a step away from using this as my public birthday card space for five minutes.