Project Dump

Counting my blessings

2005-05-25T14:47:00.000-07:00

I got a call today from someone in another work group. He was calling to tell me that he's going to be on Family Medical Leave for several months. His wife is quite ill. They have two children. One is only 8 months old...

I told him I would keep them in my thoughts and prayers. Not sure if that is PC or not, but he appreciated it.

Point me...in the direction of Albuquerque

2005-05-06T13:24:00.000-07:00

Forgive me readers, for I have sinned. It's been awhile since my last post but I had to write about the runaway bride, Jennifer Wilbanks.

As if planning a wedding that has 14 bridesmaids and 14 groomsmen isn't proof of insanity...she now states she wasn't trying to run away from her fiance or the wedding....she was trying to run away from herself??

But, gee, everytime she turned around herself was still there....so she had to keep running. All the way to Albuquerque...maybe she was watching reruns of the Partridge Family show where the girl was trying to get to Albuquerque on a Greyhound bus???

http://www.twin-music.com/lyrics_file/partridge/part/point.html

BTW, her fiance is the mayor of Crazytown....he still wants to marry her...

Hunky, Funky and Skunky

2005-02-17T19:34:00.000-08:00

The "designers tell all" episode was last night on Project Runway. All the designers, even the ones that were eliminated on the first few episodes show up to dish on everyone.

Some really good outtakes and they poke fun at Heidi Klum with her "You're either een, or you're out"

Robert looked f-i-n-e!! Vanessa was a total brat and is just toxic. Jay's outfit was hilarious.

Next week is the final three who are designing a line for Spring Fashion week in NY and my money is on Kara Saun with Jay as a possible upset and Wendy...well, if she wins it will be unreal.

Itty bitty exposure

2005-02-02T11:17:00.000-08:00

From msnbc.com:
Lara Flynn Boyle startled some passengers on a trans-Atlantic flight when she showed off her twin peaks. The ''Practice" star gave one of her more bizarre performances when she reportedly flashed her breasts at the crew aboard a British Airways plane and then tried to crawl into bed with a passenger she didn't know (In some planes, first-class seats convert into beds.), MSNBC.com reported. Boyle's shenanigans apparently didn't result in any formal complaints from her fellow travelers.

WOW....I didn't realize she even had any tatas to show??? Wonder what kind of medications she was mixing???

Brooding

2005-01-28T09:05:00.000-08:00

I've been quiet. I've been brooding. I've been having a mid-life crisis I think. Lots of introspection lately....not something I typically enjoy doing.

I'm homesick for my friends and family back east. I think I can make a trip in April. Maybe I have SAD (seasonal affective disorder). It's been raining a lot (big surprise...rain in Seattle in January).

I've been trying to blast myself out of this funk cause work is very busy....I think I'm sad cause when I try to imagine how I'll ever get back permanently to the east coast...it doesn't seem very viable...

Living in unstable times

2005-01-13T13:09:00.000-08:00

Wow...it's been a banner four weeks of natural disasters (earthquakes, tsunami, mudslides) Makes you wonder when we're going to get our big earthquake or tsunami we've been hearing about for years. Being in the Cascadia Subduction zone http://www.pnsn.org/NEWS/PRESS_RELEASES/2004Tsunami.html

The earth is going through a period of instability as is my work place. About 70 people were laid off this week from various depts in our larger org. They were basically automated out of a job. We don't typically experience layoffs here so it was a big shock to everyone and a wake up call to a lot of people.

Makes you think about how much you spend, could you get by on one income, medical benefits...and then of all the people that work so hard here. Who live to work instead of work to live. There are murmurs in the hallway regarding company loyalty, good performers being cut, no stability for employees anymore, having to keep increasing your skills so you are marketable and as indispensable as anyone can be.

It's been a sad 2005 indeed.

SNOW!!!!!

2005-01-09T18:17:00.000-08:00

We had an awesome day playing in an unexpected few inches of snow today. We made snow men, sledded, threw snowballs and now we're exhausted!!

We don't typically get much snow here...just in the mountains...so it's about an hour drive to decent snow.

It may get a little icy tonight...not sure about school for my girl tomorrow....

Sliding doors

2005-01-07T17:16:00.000-08:00

Remember that movie "Sliding Doors" with Gwyneth Paltrow. She misses the train and her life is very different than if she makes the train....

I was thinking today...about some of the people that have been in my life that I've truly met by happenstance. Things that have happened to me...how I ended up relocating. Moved temporarily for work and then met my husband and ended up on the west coast...

Unfortunate events

2005-01-07T10:53:00.000-08:00

A second grader in my daughter's class had an incident after getting off the school bus. Apparently, a man attempted to lure her into his car.

Now I'm not even going to get into the why was she walking home from school alone...at seven years old. She was smart enough to go straight home and tell her mom. She got a pretty good description of the car and perp. If her mom was home why wasn't she at the bus stop??

2nd bit of bad news
My contract worker had a death in the family. Her cousins 10 year old finally succumbed to leukemia. After a year long struggle. I was crying as she told me the whole story. Just so incredibly sad. The parents are just inconsolable. I can't imagine their pain.

It's been a very emotional time....tsunami, Iraq, so many young ones dying.

Project Runway

2005-01-06T11:13:00.000-08:00

Last night on Project Runway, the designers had to come up with an outfit and new look for Sarah who is described as an "up and coming rock star" It's whittled down to three options. Austin's outfit was described as "Austin seems to hit the mark with an old, broken Victorian doll" image...What he proceeds to make is a ridiculous sexy bo peep costume that seemed WAY off from his original idea....Austin what were ewe thinking??? All she needed was a sheperds hook and couple of lamb chops....plah...

Jay's outfit was really cool...he actually won the judges vote. But alas our rocker went with Kevin's get up.

http://www.bravotv.com/Project_Runway/Episode_4/The_Challenge.shtml

Reality TV with Royalty

2005-01-03T17:25:00.000-08:00

I've managed to stay away from most reality TV. The Don, Survivor, Bachelor/ette....I've pretty much stayed out of the fracas....but last night I came across two shows. One good and one heinous.

Heinous
Love is in the Heir...That princess who is not a princess of anywhere (descended in some manner from Persian royalty...whatever) she needs to SHUT UP. She can't sing, she can't act, she can't pick a "personal assistant" She's a train wreck.

Good
Bravo's Project Runway. A few queens trump a wanna be princess any day!! Add a few neurotics, a Brit and a himbo and you've got a great show a la The Apprentice with weekly eliminations as a band of 12 clothing designer hopefuls widdle down through competitions. I watched the first three episodes in one night. Wednesday night at 10pm I'll be seeing who gets ousted next!!!

Heidi Klum, the hostess, has her own signature "you're fired" a much weaker Auf Weidersehn

Guys and Dolls

2005-01-02T21:08:00.000-08:00

I used to think it was nice when a guy held the door open and let a woman walk through first.....
Now I realize they probably just want to get a good look at your butt as you sashay through the door....

You know how most guys have a name for their little friend....I know it has a head, but it doesn't need a name...it already has a body part name for crying out loud. Why do they think their friend needs a special name, like you won't know what they're referring to if they say my penis??

I was out for dinner with some of my gal pals the other night and one of them was talking about how she met her husband when they were 18 and she's never been with another guy. I think she's about 33 now. I was flabbergasted....I can't imagine marrying my very first boyfriend/lover....

Scary dumb people

2005-01-02T21:04:00.000-08:00

You know that email that goes around with all those questions so you can get to know your email friends better?

There's a question like this:
If you could have lunch with anyone, alive or dead, who would it be?

Now maybe that's not the best grammatically constructed sentence ever, but one of my friends actually responded this way...

If you could have lunch with anyone, alive or dead, who would it be?
Ewwwwww, I know I don't want to have lunch with anyone dead. I guess I want to have lunch with Kathy.
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Okay, is she the mayor of stupid town or what???

Give that man a sandwich!!!

2005-01-02T20:40:00.000-08:00

I watched Before Sunrise and Before Sunset last night with Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke. Both of them are much thinner than in the first film (done 10 years apart). Ethan Hawke looked gaunt, tired and unhealthy. What the heck did Uma do to him?? He was born in 1970...not sure why he looks so spent. Julie Delpy, on the other hand, looked thinner, but had aged much better.

In Before Sunrise, he was kind of greasy and playful. In Before Sunset, he was in a much different frame of mind and he looked like he had a rough 10 years.

Both films were enjoyable. LOTS of dialog. It got a bit tiring to keep up with the speed of their conversation.

The OC is getting really cheeseball

2004-12-30T22:10:00.000-08:00

Man, is the OC getting cheesy. It's really lost it's edge. Seth is still funny, but the previews for next week have Marissa saying...."Yeah, I'm crazy. I'm the daughter of a crook and a slut." Sounds like something out of Dynasty or Dallas.

Oh well, I guess I save myself an hour.

Tsunami

2004-12-29T15:48:00.000-08:00

What is there really to say....the Red Cross has a website set up for donations. There are links from many of the news websites as well.

I have a friend in Chennai, India that I'm worried about. Although I think there is little chance that she was down on the beach when the tsunami hit.

Reminds me of 9.11 when someone's last minute decision to stay home from work...or they went in late or called in sick...In Phuket someone skips going to their usual beach front cafe or left a day early or had a hotel room on the second floor...made a big difference in their lives. Are these decisions random? Are these folks lucky? Is their some divine intervention?? Some plan for all this?

Even with a tsunami warning system like they have in Hawaii, would many people have heeded the warning? Would international tourists have realized what was happening??

Merry #@$@% Christmas??

2004-12-21T15:16:00.000-08:00

Mess hall hit by an explosion in northern Iraq....twenty something people killed....that's probably 20 something people who are barely 20 something years old. Really makes me sad and angry for their families.

Sure puts into perspective what's important to you around the holidays...not Santa, presents, bargains and cookies...but being able to be with your family and friends.

I was going to start my blog with less important posts but when I saw that news, it just seem ridiculous in comparison.

Welcome to Project Dump -

2004-12-21T14:56:00.000-08:00

Welcome to the ramble about my ideas and life....the good/bad things that I've learned. I'm new to this blogging experience so excuse me if it takes me a bit to get the hang of things. I'm hoping to provide some words of wisdom to random passers by and dump ideas, rants and happy thoughts here.