I stopped at the shell station on my way home from work today, where I traded in an arm and a leg for a tank of gas. I decided to run in and get a bottle of water (spring has sprung here in sf!) and went to pay.
The guy working at the station, Selvin, looked familiar. And, I realized, he was from Cafe Cocomo. I remember meeting him about a year or so ago there, and we'd danced a few times, and he'd asked for my number, but, I wasn't interested, and finally he was contented to receive an email address from me. I ran into him other times at Cafe Cocomo and we would dance a time or two. He is much shorter than me (what? i'm shocked....) but very sweet, and quite a good leader. It wa just really funny to run into him today - in a neighborhood where neither one of us lives, just out of the lights and flash of the club, and in our normal, daily routine.
It really is a small world, afterall.
27 April 2006
it's always been my favorite ride at disney world
24 April 2006
even more interesting
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What, me?
I have to admit, I guess, that some of the tree hugging hippy-ness of San Francisco and the greater bay area has rubbed off on me a little bit.
I'm going to the Goldman Environmental Prize awards ceremony after work today. I went last year, and it is freaking awesome. Yay!
20 April 2006
sleepy
it's the last ten seven minutes of the workday, and I am falling asleep at my desk...struggling to keep with it. And the day is far from over. ack! oh well, i'll get my second wind long about 7:30 ish....!
18 April 2006
red letter day
it's been a gooood day.
will got a job today. and not just any "my-first-year-out-of-school-just-give-me-something-to-freaking-pay-the-bills" job.
but a gooood job. he officially starts work at the british consulate on monday.
i'm so proud!!!
16 April 2006
Elvis said it best
Don't you...step on my bluuuueee suede shoes.
Well, they're not really suede, but you get the point... 
08 April 2006
Birthdate meme
...from mathjedi.
The original meme was to look up your birthdate at Wikipedia (minus the date) and list two events which happened on said day in history, two folks who were born and one who died.
However, I couldn't just limit myself to those parameters...so I had to pick a couple more.
JULY 11
Events:
1346 Charles IV of Luxembourg elected emperor of the Holy Roman Emperor
1789 Jacques Necker dismissed as Finance Minister for France for sparking the storming of the Bastille
1848 The Waterloo railway station in London opens
1859 "A Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens is published
1940 WWII: Vichy France regime formally established
Births:
1274 Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland
1925 Nicolai Gedda, Swedish Tenor
1934 Giorgio Armani, Italian fashion designer
1959 Richie Sambora, American guitarist (Bon Jovi)
1975 Lil' Kim, Rapper
Deaths:
1688 Narai, king of Siam
1937 George Gershwin, American composer
1989 Sir Laurence Olivier, English actor
---Free slurpees at 7-11 (most locations!)---
06 April 2006
Tag, You're it!
Ok so the rules are, once you've been tagged, you have to write a blog with 6 weird facts/things/habits about yourself. At the end you need to pick 6 people to be tagged and list their names. Don't forget to leave a comment that says " you've been tagged" & tell them to read your blog.
AZ tagged me!
1. I do a great chicken impression. The Opera Chicken, we'll call her.
2. I don't speak much Spanish yet, but I CAN speak it with a Scots accent.
3. I used to play trombone in a jazz band.
4. I really love old people. They make me smile.
5. At work, my paperclips are obsessively divided and kept in separate containers: one for the small ones; one for the large ones; and a tin for the binder clips. I can't work if they are mixed in together.
6. I am in love with all things related to The Godfather.
TAGGING: Dennis, Sally, Jessica, Kenny O, Chris, and Sarah.
arse-kickers (as the brits might say . . . )
Seems that Ryan and I are notorious for getting strange boxes in the mail at our place. For example, Mom sent a vaccuum cleaner once (heavy!) and Ryan gets a beer-of-the-month case (Christmas present from his sister). Our building manager thinks we're nuts, I'm sure, as he's the one collecting the packages for us (and showing his ID for the beer each month).
Yesterday was no different.
Two boxes: one a small, outdoor George Foreman electric grill. (Said building manager: "You're mom didn't actually send you a grill in the mail did she?") and a bankers' box labeled "Katy's shoes" in black magic marker all over the place.
The grill was put immediately to use, for chicken fajitas and all the fixin's.
The box of shoes was opened with great curiosity. These were shoes I had not seen since the summer of 1999. They had been hiding, deep in the basement storeroom somewhere, ever since I left to study abroad and couldn't take them with me.
I had searched high and low for this particular box, but never found it. Until it arrived on my doorstep yesterday. The explanation? Dad has been cleaning out the storeroom, and now Mom is sending us our stuff. Alas, I am attempting to de-crap the house, but there is more stuff arriving from Mom, attempting to de-crap her house. LOL.
Anyways. Today I am wearing a pair of those shoes. Boots, rather, for which I have been looking for years!
It's a pair of royal blue doc martin boots I bought in London, the first time I ever voyaged to those fair, British isles. Our family went with Aunt Fran and her church choir on their tour of England and Scotland during the summer of 1998. Will and I sang with the choir; Mom and Dad were just along for the ride.
The boots are soooo comfy. :) I'll put a picture up, later.
03 April 2006
oh, sally d ...
I was talking to my mom earlier this afternoon, and she was stressing out because she couldn't find her rings. She wears her mother's wedding ring and an anniversary ring from my dad on her right hand. Lately, they have become really loose, and have a tendency to just fall off.
Well, she was cleaning out a lot of things today (files, boxes and such) and was - as of a few hours ago - going through them again, looking for any sign of the rings. She went through the trash and the bedclothes and anyplace else she could think of.
Will just got off the phone with her, and she now thinks that they fell in the toilet when she was cleaning it, and were subsequently flushed.
I know she's upset about it, because, for example, her mom's wedding ring..that's just irreplaceable. It's not the monetary value of the piece of jewelry, but the sentimental and heirloom value.
herbs
I went to cook dinner, and was looking forward to some yummy cilantro and lime chicken...but alas.
I had bought italian parsley, instead.
oh well.
I had some nice italian parsley and lime chicken. Not quite the same, but still tasted pretty good.
30 March 2006
...go the spoils
Tuesday, I had a massage;
Wednesday, I had time off of work handed to me on a platter. And, what did I do? Used my gift certificate to Nordstrom Spa to get a pedicure;
Dang. A girl could get used to this.
Today is back to reality. In early at work. Allergist appointment. And rehearsal. Not *quite* the same as getting an aromatheraputic foot massage. But, my allergist does give me lots of free samples!
heeeeheheee!
26 March 2006
day
well, actually now it is night time, if you want to get technical about it.
do you ever notice how dependent we've become on our electronic devices? for real...i turned my phone off today. for about 4 hours. just plain off. i was having lunch and spending time w/DGS and decided I could turn my phone off.
And wouldn't you know, as soon as I turn it back it, it was like the world had come to an end in those four hours. I hadn't barely talked to anyone in a week (busy, sick, etc), and I had 4 messages. Wha? It just made me chuckle. Mostly people leaving messages "mock" freaking out...like "OMG, your phone is OFF?!? It's the end of the world!!"
um...not.
Anyways . . . lunch was nice today...and I'm glad it happened. DGS and I were both a little out of it, but it was totally worth it. We met about halfway between our respective points of origin and hung out at Black Bear talking, eating and playing hangman. I know that my weekends are getting more complicated with rehearsals and all, and I want to make the most of the times we do have.
People say that in a relationship there has to be give and take; a sort of "meeting in the middle," if you will. And if that middle happens to be at a Black Bear Diner in Suisun City...so be it :)
(they have good food, btw!)
time for bed....
25 March 2006
ack
On Thursday, I had to take the company visa to buy some supplies for our use in our new temporary space. I went over lunch to safeway to use the card. When I returned back to the office, I put the card back in it's envelope and place that back in the file and gave the file to my boss for her to lock away into her file cabinet.
Fast forward to this evening. I went to the movies with my sibling, and we had to pay parking at one of those automated machines. I go to pull out my debit card, and lo and behold, what should I find?
The company Visa card. They are both of the same bank, and look very similar.
Which means...MY card is (hopefully) locked up at our new digs at work.
*sigh* just a testament to how stressed and out of it I've been this week, I think.
randomly sweet
shamelessly stolen from DGS
Instructions: Do a Google Image search of the following and post the first pic that comes up....
1. Your age on your next birthday
2. Your favorite color
(one of them, anyways)
3. Your middle name:
(ellen)
4. Your bad habit:
(not putting laundry away)
5. The last meal you ate:
(Kielbasa sandwhich at Tommy's Joint)
6. Your favorite fruit or vegetable:
7. Your favorite animal:
When I heard about these animals in 4th grade, I fell in love with them.
8. The town you live in:
9. Name of your pet:
The last pet I had was a fire-bellied newt named Fig.
10. Your first name:
11. Your last name: 
24 March 2006
friday
I'm glad it's Friday.
I'm kinda sick, though, and laid up in bed. And yet, I'm not in the mood to be bed ridden. In fact, I'm a little restless, but yet I know my body needs rest. I have been go go go go for so long, that I need a break.
Will and Ryan are going out to a concert tonight, so I'll have the place to myself. This is a rare occurance, and I usually like down time alone. But, I kinda wish I was going out to do something with people.
Rehearsal tomorrow has been cancelled, and all I have to do is a voice lesson in the morning, and also spend some time looking over other music.
What it boils down to is that it is rainy and dark outside and I am feeling lonely tonight. Not sure why...I am not usually a lonely person. Probably 'cause I don't feel too hot.
oh well. I'll go fill out some myspace surveys. lol.
23 March 2006
Random acts of Balloon Animals
So, I'm in Starbucks, and there is this guy there making balloon animals. Just a regular, office-working guy, who happens to be a clown on the weekends (he and his wife are also magicians).
I was tired, having a rough week, and I'm having coffee with my friend N. Dude asks me what I would like. And I requested a giraffe!
(I even labeled him for our move tomorrow...)
22 March 2006
perspective
I just talked to my mom and found out that someone I grew up with as a child just committed suicide.
It's an odd feeling...hard to process. I cannot count JT as a particularly close friend as of recent times...in fact, I had not seen nor spoken to him (or really anyone in his family) in several years. Which is why my feelings are somewhat...juxtaposed. He died at age 26 - my same age - and was a regular guy: he had a myspace account, college degree, and a passion for the outdoors, just like his father. My memories of JT are of a happy boy, aged 8ish, covered in frosting and sitting at our kitchen counter making candyhouses. I remember watching him grow up, even when he got to be "too cool" for our families' Christmas traditions during those intermediate teenaged years. It's hard to reconcile the boy with his death.
I remember his two younger sisters, and how they looked up to him...their badass, older brother, who would take care of them during school.
I also found out that JT's mom died last year. From alzheimers. She wasn't very old - but I had no idea that this had happened.
Please pray for John, Ashley and Katy as they mourn the passing of a son and big brother. Especially for John; he has outlived both his wife and his first-born son. I can't even imagine.
It makes my stresses seem awfully paltry, in comparason.
