my top ten happy days of 2007
April 12 - the day I re-connected with my old friend Jenny Grogan from high school. We hadn’t seen each other in 16 years and we met up in NY and had a blast. We just picked up right where we had left off!
July 7 - the day my mom helped me fix up my condo (actually it was several days that week). We painted, re-arranged furniture and had a good old time!
Aug. 7 - the night of the the Old Town School’s World’s Largest Music Lesson, held in Welles Park in Chicago. 1337 people all playing “This Land is Your Land” at once! We got into the Guinness Book of World Records!
August 11 - the night Amy Ray sang “I Will Survive” at Michigan, and shook her very fine booty
Sept. 8 - Lakewood/Balmoral Rummage Sale. I had a blast with all my friends and raked in $200!
Sept. 28 - the first night of the Children’s Music Network conference in Albany, meeting a whole bunch of people from around the country that love making music for children!
Sept. 29 - the night I had the most delicious fried chicken dinner with Cat at Hattie’s in Saratoga Springs
Dec. 1 - the night I sang at the Old Town School’s 50th Anniversary concert at the Auditorium Theater
Dec. 10 - the day I found out my cholesterol went down 8 points from last year.
Dec. 14 - the day I found out officially that my job is going to change for the better in 2008, and I’m going to be able to focus on what I’m passionate about.
12 things that annoy the crap out of me
1. co-workers that walk too briskly around the office. Also, co-workers that print out all their emails that you then have to weed through to find the one thing that you printed.
2. really bad midwestern accents….not south-side or Chicago-suburb old lady, Walnut-room-visiting accents…those are cute, but I’m talkin’ really whiny trixie new-mom, new money accents….the kind of mom’s that over-program their children
3. the color scheme at Jewel
4. trying to park between SUVs in Lincoln Park
5. when Hank (my cat) chews on my head in the morning
6. drug stores…..all drug stores…cvs, walgreens, osco, I hate them all. I can’t figure out the way they are organized. I can never find anything quickly. Blinding lights, narrow aisles.
7. toddlers speaking on answering machine outgoing messages
8. people talking too loudly on their cell phone or just too loudly in general
9. ordering a sandwich (usually a bagel) that you ask to be cut in half, and they forget to cut it in half a minute after you tell them. (I can’t tell you how many times this has happened to me at numerous establishments)
10. the intersection of damen/fullerton/elston aves.
11. Mass phone texts
12. Generation Y-ers ….you know, the ones that always expect to be praised for everything? the ones that don’t want to pay their dues? the ones that don’t even know how good they have it? the ones that take things for granted. the ones that make stupid comments at meetings that somehow turn the topic into “look how great I am”
that is all.
The world according to Miranda
Rule number 26 to live by:
“Don’t interact with the cray cray on the el. Especially when he’s singing. To his Discman®.”
Seriously, a sage of our times.
Call me fickle
But I just came across my NEW favorite site ever.
I have no idea why, but I love oversized everyday objects. It just cracks me up. And wow, did I just hit the mother load.
Life feeling incomplete without a giant pickle? Your cup now overfloweth.
Regular-sized ice cream cones just too real and edible for you? Start the next influenza outbreak by sharing a gargantuan neopolitan piece of plastic with your friends.
And honestly, I don’t even know what to say about these other than I am hugely jealous.
How useless and fun are these items?! God, the novelty couldn’t possibly wear off. And there’s more where that came from.
It not even real.
My new favorite site ever
And with Christmas just around the corner! I can’t decide if Boutros Boutros-Kitty is a Pink Passion or a Silver Fox. I guess he’s technically a geriatric, so maybe a Silver Fox…emphasis on the Fox! Meeow!
