Feb 27, 2006

what's YOUR perfect major?

courtesy of my sister "Nappy"
I scored as Sociology. I should have been a Sociology major! (but I did get my degree in anthropology!)

Sociology

100%

Anthropology

92%

Psychology

83%

Theater

75%

Philosophy

75%

Biology

58%

Linguistics

58%

Mathematics

58%

Journalism

50%

Engineering

50%

English

42%

Dance

42%

Art

33%

Chemistry

17%

What is your Perfect Major?
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Feb 23, 2006

my first guest star invitation...continued

Update: I should have mentioned that there had been some prior inappropriate email conversations between the two of us. However, I had made it very clear, multiple times, that I did not want to engage in this sort of behavior with him. He continues to cross my boundaries, yuck!

My response:
"I have to say I'm flattered that you would ask me to join in that kind of fun with you and I actually considered it for a second (only for the acupuncture though!) However, I don't think I would ever feel comfortable getting treatments from you if we were to do what you've suggested and I value you too much as an acupuncturist! I'm glad you two found each other, sounds like a great match."
His response:
"well, thanks for considering.......the offer is still open.........just think of how many acupuncture sessions you could get for only 10.00??"
He just won't quit! And I agree, I cannot believe he would commit any of this to writing! I think I'll be looking for a new female acupuncturist!!!

Feb 22, 2006

my first guest star invitation (oh my gawd y'all)

So I called my acupuncturist to get a recommendation on some fish oil supplements. Rather than call me, he sent me an email this morning. After he named a couple of products and added in the usual chit-chat he and I engage in (we have a friendly relationship) he launched into this interesting proposal, I just had to share. To clarify, "xxx" is the ex-wife of my acupuncturist's (former?) best friend and supervisor...whaaaaat?!?!?!
"you might find this funny, but [xxx] and I are boyfriend and girlfriend...funny, huh?? [xxx] is quite nasty, which is very fun....she loves to watch porn, and she loves toys. and yes she has a strap on, but no its not for me!! she really wants for us to get some nasty pictures of us having fun too. would you be interested in taking them?? if so, i'll give you free acupuncture for the rest of your life, or at least 10.00 treatments to cover the needles!! i'm serious. i think it would be hot if you were dressed up like a porn star and we watched a good porno and then you could take pics of [xxx] and i going for it.......and if it turned you on i'm sure you could join in....all up to you.....but i feel real comfortable with you and think it would be fun..........so, think about how much money you would save on acupuncture and how much fun it would be and email me soon.........and get some fish oil soon!!! it can make a big difference in mood as well"
I have to say, I am flattered that he invited to join in the "fun" but I don't think I could possibly get acupuncture treatments from him after witnessing him "going for it" with his new girlfriend. Eeeewwwww!!!

Feb 3, 2006

Oh My Stars...brand new sugar daddy post!

Extra, Extra, This Just In:

Hi, I'm xxx ... responding to your posting on Craig's List.

A little about me ... I'm looking for an intelligent woman who will give me pleasant thoughts to start the day ... and occasionally makes one glad that he is wearing pleated slacks.

Hopefully, you enjoy conversation about almost anything, have a ready smile, enjoy a good chuckle, and can grin (or moan) when appropriate.

Although I occasionally fall behind in keeping up with my favorite novelists, I am a voracious reader with an eclectic, curious mind. And, I am reasonably current with the news of the world. I've been told that I have a great sense of situational humor, with a contagious smile and laugh.

At a young 53, I have retained most of my 6' 3" height, have almost all of my medium brown hair - just a few gray hairs at the temples (distinguished without Grecian formula), and only occasionally have to resort to glasses to augment my brown eyes. I'm still asked if I played basketball - which I did ... until I learned that white guys can't jump!
Just thought you'd like to know that I found many parts of your posting to be most enticing, we seem to be on the same sensuality and sexuality pages ... yummy, would you love for me to bring some romance, passion, adventure, and excitement into your life?

You'll find that I am a romantic type -- wine, roses, and candlelight -- but very firm hand, very masculine, a deep voice, and something they call Presence. I'm looking for a woman who finds pleasure in exploring the full potential of her femininity, sensuality, and sexuality.

I have recently re-discovered how truly pleasureable extended foreplay can be for both a man and a woman, so I am into slightly kinky sexual pleasures -- but not hard-core.
You might call me a Gentleman DOM. If you are expecting a blue collar sadist, I'm not your guy because I am a well educated, well read professional worthy of respect . . . but if you enjoy submission and light to medium domination from one who has found that his creative and playful sexuality can provide extended foreplay and gourmet sex, to say nothing of eclectic passion and lust!!
Then, we probably ought to get together . . . I'm near Austin.
I'm tall, do you occasionally enjoy wearing heels and stockings when out with one of us taller guys?
Perhaps I mention that I very much enjoy having my ears tickled by the lace of stockings tops!
How high are your heels?
What color roses would you prefer?

Tell me more! Perhaps send pics to xxx@gmail.com
Take care . . . ciao!

Jan 17, 2006

HCRA

Please support this cause: http://www.hillcountryride.org/site/PageServer. I rode with my sister in 2004 and we've already started training for this year's ride on April 29, 2006.

Jan 3, 2006

hello strangers

So I haven't posted in nearly a month and I know you're all sitting on pins & needles just dying to hear from me. I've been wrapped up in my two other addictions: myspace & craigslist...sheesh I cannot get enough myspace right now and it's making me koo-koo. So...what's new you ask? Very little, which is a good thing! Working for the (wo)man, keeping my nose clean and loving my life. I hope I can remember this the next time I feel like a pile of dooky!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!

Dec 9, 2005

get weaned already

I went to a "Chick Schtick" comedy show Monday night and this one gal had a joke I found particularly funny. She said she's decided there is something creepy about a grown man drinking a glass of milk; that it would appear he hadn't been completely weaned off the teat. (tee hee hee, the mere mention of the word "teat" makes the joke funny!) I have to say I agree with her on that and what's more, it reminds me of one of my many pet peeves: people who refer to their parents as "Mom" or "Dad" in conversation rather than "my mom" or "my dad." It makes it sound like their mom or dad has suddenly also become my mom or dad. There is something that creeps me out about that and makes me want to scream "CUT THE APRON STRINGS for the love of god!" My last boyfriend (whose parents lived in another state) said "Mom called" and it turned out that he felt the need to call her back (even if we were still in my bed, sleeping late) and "Dad called" ...to tell him he was due for an oil change! Like I said, cut the damn apron strings!
I also feel the revulsion rising when people who refer to themselves in the third person, as in "Roxie sure is tired today!" or say "we" when they really mean "you." For example, "how are we doing today?" Ummm, I hope you know how you're doing today, I certainly don't...are you trying to ask me how I am doing today?
Is there a pill to relieve grumpiness???

***edit 1/05/06: I want to apologize to any men I may have offended who drink milk to relieve acid reflux or for any other medicinal type purposes; how insensitive of me!***

Dec 7, 2005

I'm so grumpy I can hardly stand to be around myself...


...and no, it's not PMS.

Right now my precious cat keeps walking over my hands as I try to type this which isn't helping. Here she is with her precious foot conveniently perched on the wrist cushion of my mouse pad.


















And here she is again after walking across the keyboard (and my hands) to sit on the other side of the monitor, staring at me lovingly.



I went to bed at 8:00 last night...ok that is normally my dinner time so something is seriously wrong. What's worse is I still woke up tired and grumpy after 9.5 hours of sleep!


Today at work was our annual Division Holiday Luncheon. And when I say luncheon I mean bbq catered by Poke-E-Jo's. And with a name like that you know it's going to be choice. Now, I don't eat meat and I didn't even like bbq when I did eat meat so I opted to stay back and cover the phones while everyone else went to chow down. Several well-meaning co-workers kept saying "We can bring you a plate? You can eat the potato salad! How about some cole slaw? Don't you like beans?" Ugh, by the end of I just wanted to scream. But I guess I can't really complain, I have a cushy state job and they shut down the office at 3:30 due to "inclement weather" and my boss just called to tell me it's not opening until 10:00 tomorrow morning.
I really should be less grumpy.

Nov 23, 2005

wbw



After checking out Mama Duck's WBW,
I decided to post these gems of me & my sister:
1) Disneyworld circa 1987, don't I have a nice poodle perm?
2) The two of us pretending we actually liked each other
And just for fun, enjoy the 80s Montage:

1) Camping & drinking games, ah the good ol' days
2) My junior yearbook photo
3) Me washing my first car: a 1981 Toyota Celica

Nov 22, 2005

my future husband; part deux

If I could go back in time I would trade places with Nicole Kidman on the set of this movie: To Die For. Hello hot young badboy deliciousness...
*le sigh*

two things...

...thanks to my dear sister. You may notice I have once again stolen some of her answers:

Two Names You Go By
1. Onion Booty
2. Nutcase

Two Parts of Your Heritage
1. German
2. Native American

Two Things That Scare You
1. Sleeping with the windows open (hello Richard Ramirez)
2. Men in creepy costumes (think santa claus, clowns and mimes)

Two of Your Everyday Essentials
1. Happy Pills
2. Coffee/Shower/Chapstick - it's a triple tie

Two Things You Are Wearing Right Now
1. Trusty wifebeater
2. My favorite
Hot Topic skull socks

Two of Your Favorite Bands or Musical Artists (at the moment)
1. The Killers
2. Interpol

Two Things You Want in a Relationship (other than Real Love)
1. Spirituality
2. Safety

Two Truths
1. Change is the only constant in this life
2. Relationships are hard work

Two Physical Things that Appeal to You
1. Hands
2. Eyes

Two of Your Favorite Hobbies
1. My pets
2. B&W photography

Two Things You Want Really Badly
1. Feet that don't hurt
2. Pretty skin

Two Places You Want to go on Vacation
1. Tahiti
2. New Zealand

Two Things You Want to Do Before You Die
1. Have a successful relationship
2. Find a fulfilling career

Two Ways that you are stereotypically a Chick
1. I love nail polish, glitter, makeup, clothes & shoes
2. I cry at really goofy sh*t, like Mastercard commercials

Two Things You Normally Wouldn't Admit
1. I am very fragile and not nearly as "together" as people seem to think.
2. I want to be taken care of but I am uncomfortable receiving.

Two Things You Are Thinking About Now
1. I am grateful for my cushy state job.
2. I am so excited to have a four day weekend.

Two Stores You Shop At
1. Target
2. Old Navy (bleh)

Two people I haven't talked to in a while
1. Patricia P.
2. Jules M.

Two bloggers who may now dislike you for passing this on to them
Ruthie

Nov 18, 2005

Nov 16, 2005

where have you been?

This is kinda fun: create your own visited states map

Here's where I've been!

what's up with that?

Obviously I was a bit on the bizzz-izzzidy side this past week but here are some random thoughts that have been plaguing me; a.k.a. what's up with that?
1) Cheezy men wearing big gold wedding bands with channel set diamonds. I'm telling you, I see one almost every day in my building! People, this is not Long Island.
2) Ugg boots. I hate them, and they're MF expensive!
3) Enormous aviator glasses, do you really want to channel Tom Cruise circa Top Gun?
4) The return of the mullet and rattail? I kid you not, this past Sunday night I saw a "cool" guy sporting an honest-to-gosh-golly rattail, replete with bleached blond tip. If you are not familiar with the rattail, then clicky: dear god, are you for real?
5) worse still, the return of fur
6) the reappearance of bad 80s fashion; granted I love-love-love the 80s but the crap that is showing up on teenagers is scary. C'mon kids, legwarmers? Well I did hear that J-Lo was recreating scenes from Flashdance for one of her videos...
More later...

7) Short pants with ankle boots, BOO! Think Ashlee Simpson, yuck...

Nov 10, 2005

more about boys

Some of you may remember back in August I had a post about some of my dating foibles. Well here is the latest installment in the exciting drama that is my life. On Saturday my ex-boyfriend (a.k.a. Great Disappointment; Winter '04) called to wish me a happy birthday. Ok people, I have not spoken to this man since the day I dumped his ass in early April. Please note: this is a man who relies on his dad to remind him when it is time to change his oil yet he can somehow remember my birthday eight months after we broke up? Now that is just weird. Even weirder is the fact that one of my best friends ran into him at a crafts show that afternoon and yet another one of my best friends ran into him at a restaurant two nights later. What is with the sudden resurfacing of the GDW'04???
And the plot thickens. I found out that one of the guys I was dating in the early part of summer is going to be moving in with a friend of mine who LIVES ON MY STREET. *sigh* That guy was nice but he was confoundingly flaky. I actually liked that guy and I really wish he wasn't going to be living a block away.
And the the coup de grace: the guy who said "We will make a great boyfriend-girlfriend couple one day" traded his 2005 Nissan Titan for some crack. His number was on my caller id three times yesterday; apparently he does not understand that Do Not Contact Me Ever means Even If You Lose Your Truck To A Crack Rock.

I am truly surrounded by winners. Or is that wieners?

Nov 8, 2005

Way Back Wednesday


Do I really need words? I think this one speaks for itself...

meme - five things...

(some I stole from my sister)

5 Things

15 years ago - I moved out on my own
11 years ago - I got my first dog
9 years ago - I bought a house
4 years ago - I made a major career change
Now - I'm learning to be happy as a worker among workers

Five yummy things:
1) triple cream cheeses
2) really strong coffee
3) coconut cream _____
4) boy smell
5) chocolate _____ (so cliche)

Five songs I know by heart:
1) Little Red Corvette
2) Damn, I Wish I Was Your Lover
3) Private Dancer
4) ?
5) ? (I guess my memory for lyrics sucks?)

Five things I would do with a lot of money:
1) Buy a house with a master bathroom
2) Give to several charities
3) Get laser stuff done
4) Take a long trip somewhere
5) Pay off all my family members' debt

Five places I would to escape to:
1) Tahiti
2) New Zealand
3) Iceland
4) Austrailia
5) Nepal

Five things I would never wear:
1) tapered pants
2) vests of any sort
3) white linen pants
4) culottes
5) a mullet

Five favorite TV shows:
1) CSI Miami
2) NCIS
3) Sex & the City
4) Hunter
5) Queer Eye

Five things I enjoy doing:
1) having doggie luvin' time in the morning
2) drinking coffee leisurely
3) board games/crosswords
4) eating
5) riding my bike

Five Favorite toys:
1) computer
2) bike
3) cell phone
4) dvd player
5) we'll just call him Mr. Purple

Five people who get this meme:
Ruthie

on the road again...

Crap.

According to my sister we are going to do the Hill Country Ride for AIDS again next year...if you're not familiar with the event then take a look: HCRA. Also, please check out my sister's explanation of what went down in 2004 (plus a great pic of Lou Diamond Phillips!): queen of napville's executive decision.
As much as I want to get off my lazy ass and do this thing; that lazy part of me is dreading all the hard work, flat tires, and sore buttcheeks that go into training for an event like this. The pay off is totally worth it though, I have never experienced anything quite so powerful.

Wish us luck, we will need it!

Nov 6, 2005

PoP Up art extravaganza Nov 16, 6pm - 9pm


Dearest Blogger Friends-

Please join about 30 artists for a group show of mixed media art work. I would love to see a bunch of friendly faces at this show! It is at the Dougherty Arts Center; 1100 Barton Springs Road; Austin, TX.

Hope to see you there!