December 2009
2 posts
Best of 2009 Blog Challenge - Day 2 - Best...
I had never been the guest of honor at a surprise party before this year. The weekend before my birthday, an innocent night out with a couple of girlfriends turned out to be, in reality, a decadent feast at one of my favorite Italian places, with about 20 of my favorite people and a long table laden with delicious food and free flowing wine. What a blast! I’ll never forget the moment of...
Best of Blog Challenge - Day 1 - Best Trip in 2009
I was so close to not even going. Some personal conflicts, a new job, and post-holiday budget consciousness were all telling me to stay home. But I went.
Mexico in February was full of dazzling sunlight, chatty older Canadians, and old friends I hadn’t seen in years who flew down for my friends’ wedding. I saw my first blue whales on the water taxi ride to Yelapa one day. It was like...
March 2009
1 post
Irony of the day
This afternoon, my co-worker Andrea went out to the coffee cart in the lobby of our building to get some hot water, to find the guy who works the cart FAST ASLEEP, with his head cradled on his arms. He was out cold.
How does this happen when you’re working a job where you are literally surrounded by gallons and gallons of coffee?
February 2009
2 posts
Hypocrisy 2.0
I realize that satirical newspaper columnists are at a loss for material these days, what with W out of office (say thank you, Jesus!), a democratic Senate, and Sarah Palin safely in Alaska dressing moose and burning books and outlawing condoms. I am sure it’s hard to come up with new things to make fun of, given the circumstances, but Mark Morford’s little diatribe in the Chronicle...
Mini Malkovitch - The Saga Continues
It’s about time for an update on my favorite socially awkward Buddhist know-it-all. He’s been providing plenty of material over the past few weeks.
Here are the greatest hits:
Nudity Near-miss
Picture, if you will, an incident wherein a very sweaty girl enters the dressing room at Yoga Tree after class. Said dressing room has curtains instead of a door. The sweaty girl is poised...
January 2009
2 posts
May, December
I’ve noticed a trend lately in my circle of friends. Those of us who are dating have all been out recently with someone at least a few years our junior. Based on our experiences, I thought I would throw you younger guys a bone, and let you in on some things that you don’t want to do when you’re trying to score with a woman in her mid-thirties.
1. Don’t say: “I’m into older women.” For one,...
Auld Lang Lessons Learned
Every time I go to a New Year’s Eve party, I come away with some helpful lessons that help guide me in the year (and years) to come.
Some of the lessons I have learned in days of auld lang syne:
- If there is an ice storm during the New Year’s Eve party, don’t let your drunk-ass sister walk next to you on the way home, because she will grab onto you when she slips and take you...
December 2008
5 posts
Shopping for Two
My nephew is currently prepping for birth- he’s going to make his appearance in March - and I am doing everything I can to make sure he is properly clothed for his foray into this world. Back when I was just plain Angie, instead of Aunt Angie, I never realized how many awesome baby clothes were out there waiting for me to buy them. I mean sure, I’d see them, but it wasn’t the...
Making the Yuletide Gay
I always know that it’s Christmas when the house at the bottom of my street puts up their life-size abominable snowman, complete with an inflatable Santa Claus who is doing something to the snowman that…let’s just say it’s something that I really don’t think Santa would ever do. It’s definitely not a tableau for the whole family, but it’s come to make me...
R.I.P. Cardboard Box Boy
Kim is having her annual holiday party tonight, complete with powdered sugar donut Christmas tree and hot crab dip. It’s going to be great to see all my old co-workers from PeoplePC, and it’s going to be great not going home with Cardboard Box Boy (a.k.a. my official single girl low).
CBB was a combination of several bad decisions I made at last year’s party, inlcuding, but not...
Mini-Malkovitch
I recently met a guy who looks exactly like a miniature version of John Malkovitch. He’s a *serious* Buddhist, and he likes to make proclamations.
Here are some of the proclamations he has made so far:
1. One year is too long for me to have gone without being in a relationship. (it probably goes without saying that I didn’t solicit his opinion on this matter.) 2. It’s more...
Christmas Song Moratorium List
Before you start calling me Scrooge, let me defend myself by saying that I like Christmas, and I even like Christmas music. But after 30-odd years on this planet, there are a few Christmas songs that I loathe. And I mean, fingernails on the chalkboard, will walk out of a store if they start playing loathe. If there is a hell, and if I go there, these five songs will be the holiday soundtrack.
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