cripples. October 31, 2007

THIS is what i woke up to the other day:

no not the car. crutches. on the sidewalk. with no owner.

really, people of huntington? is this really how you want our fine road portrayed? and why are they outside of my house? as if i litter the street with large metal objects. was some poor kid with a broken leg abducted outside my house? was a miracle of sorts performed and the crutch-using owner was suddenly able to walk and cast down his crutches in triumph?

well they are gone now, but for a fleeting moment, my life made no sense.

a huntington halloween October 31, 2007

halloween represented in pictoral fashion (plus a few short sentences).

oh – and we had trick or treater’s!! my very first halloween being on the other side of the door (although for like the past 6 or 7 i think i have not been ringing doorbells…). i actually got to pass out candy! which was weird. and caused alot of ridiculous pre-candy handing out stress. what do you say when they come to the door? is it lame if i’m wearing a costume? do you hand out the candy, or do they pick? will i have enough? what if i only get 2 kids? what if we get 90?

should i put the pumpkin on the porch (where it could catch some unsuspecting kid’s cape on fire)? should they come to the front or side door (we live on the corner)? the front door is easily accessible, but has rickety stairs (lawsuit?) but the side door is harder to see if people are coming.

but i survived. here are some pictures.

the FIRST costume (this one didn’t work out)

the second costume

bewitching (notice my solution to the pumpkin issue.. put it on a chair! no one was harmed during the evening – success!)

state of shock – money honey October 30, 2007

would you love me, love me, love me??

click below only if you want this song to be in your head for the rest of the week. yaya yaya OH OH.

if i had no money honey…. oh its so catchy!!!

happy early halloween everyone!

horrible things and awesome things October 28, 2007

HORRIBLE THINGS

• randomfatkids.com – at least it doesn’t seem to be working anymore
• the fact that i can’t get the words “haterade” and “asstastic” out of my vocabulary
• stella’s new habit of drinking out of the toilet.

AWESOME THINGS

• giant ball! i want one for xmas!
• pumpkin pie!

pictures: halloween edition! October 28, 2007

in case you didn’t know, halloween / october / fall is my favorite holiday / month / season, so i’ve been in the autumn mood around the house! i think its time for a list.

HALLOWEENIE (i said weenie) THINGS I HAVE BEEN UP TO
1. decorating the apartment in a halloweenish setting.
2. making things with pumpkin in it – pumpkin cake, pumpkin seeds, pumpkin pie. mmm.
3. finding my way out of a corn maize maze*.
4. making jack’o'lanterns (inspiration).
5. making delicious ding dong spiders (inspiration).
6. hallowine mystery wine tasting tour.
7. living with a black cat.

PICTURES OF THESE THINGS (because pictures are more fun)
1-3 – no pictures. sorrry

4. nate’s masterpiece (pun intended) – how am i supposed to display this??

MY PG-13 pumpkin

5. DING DONG SPIDERS

number one is an alien. he is here to eat your brains.

number two is just evil.

7. obligatory halloween cat

*yes i know that corn maize maze is redundant. i also know that when going to places where puns are so easily made (CORNy puns, i might add), you should leave nate. but i didn’t follow either, so why start now?

apologize – onerepublic October 23, 2007

this song is here because i can’t get it out of my head. and because nate can’t stop listening to it either even though he hates it. here is onerepublic’s ‘apologize’ (featuring timbaland of course).

its too late t’pologize…. its toooooo lateeee.

where does the good go – tegan and sara October 16, 2007

this is an older one, but its still pretty great… this copy has a dumb interview first, so just skip to around 1 minute 20, unless you want to hear about their sad lives. jk. their lives aren’t sad. well THAT sad.

thats it!

ok, so consumerism isn’t helping the environment… October 15, 2007

…but am i allowed to want these??
you know that they would look awesome on my desk. if i ever get a job. that has a desk. but still. zoo animals + calendar = awesome.

save the environment! October 15, 2007

today is blog action day, so i am reminding you that shutting off your computer for a few hours will not be the end of the world. in fact – it will probably help the world.

A LIST OF THINGS I AM DOING TO HELP THE ENVIRONMENT

• not turning the heat on in our apartment yet. it is like zero degrees in here. i have five layers on right now. not even an exaggeration (leotard, tank top, long sleeve shirt, furry sweatshirt, coat).
• using those sweet re-usable shopping bags from wegman’s. which, by the way, can hold a ton more groceries than plastic bags.
• growing tomato plants.
• driving my dad’s hybrid because he stole my car.

A LIST OF THINGS I PROBABLY SHOULDN’T BE DOING

• driving 4 hours to albany to get my bike (to ride to and from s. campus… right) and then not taking it out of my car for 3 months. then driving it home again.
• living a million miles from campus. (negated by hybrid car-use)
• keep promising myself that i will buy those squiggly lightbulbs and then forgetting and buying the regular ones.

die alone – ingrid michaelson October 9, 2007

so here is yet another example of a song i fell in love with but can’t find a decent version on youtube. i will even go as far as saying i like her way better than kate nash (from last week’s post). i can actually find more than one song i like of hers. here is the cut-off live version of “die alone”:

you know ingrid michaelson from the old navy commercials with the sweaters (see below for the song i didnt want, but a good version) and from a bunch of grey’s anatomys:

she just has one of those voices that like melts or something. like the exact opposite of when i sing. which sounds like i’m putting 5 cats in a blender. on high.