tens. a survey of tens.

TEN FAVORITES
01. show - colbert report
02. flower- calla or stargazer lily
03. color - blue-violet
04. sport- basketball or volleyball
05. mall- i don’t like malls.
06. music- currently clap your hands, akron/family, and pixies (always pixies)
07. food - today i was in the mood for mexican
09. day - friday
10. city - venice, nyc

TEN FACTS
01. birthplace- cedar rapids, iowa
02. hair color- brown
03. hair length - shorter
04. hair style - um, maintained.
05. eye color - brown
06. shoe size - 7.5
07. mood - antipicatory, anxious
08. smell - vanilla
09. available - nope and it feels good
10. lefty/righty - righty

TEN THINGS ABOUT YOUR LOVE LIFE
01. have you ever been in love - yes
02. do you believe in love - yes, very much
03. why did your last relationship fail - we’re working on it
04. have you ever broken someone's heart - yes
06. have you ever fallen for your best friend - no
07. have you ever loved someone but never told them - no
08. are you afraid of commitment - no
09. have you ever had a secret admirer - yes but i guess it wasn’t secret then, was it?
10. do you believe in love at first sight - attraction, yes. love, no.

TEN THINGS: THIS OR THAT
01. love or money - love
02. hard liquor or beer - beer
04. one night stands or relationships- relationships
05. television or internet - both are addictive.
06. pepsi or coke - pepsi
07. wild night out or romantic night in - romantic night (i’ve had my share of wild nights out, i’d prefer the other)
08. colored or black and white pictures - depends
09. phone or in person - in person always
10. AIM or MySpace- um, for instant convo IMing.

TEN HAVE YOU EVERS
01. have you ever been caught sneaking out - yes
02. have you ever skinny dipped - yes
03. have you ever done something you regret - sure
04. have you ever bungee jumped - not yet (i hope to)
06. have you ever finished an entire jaw breaker - yeah
07. have you ever wanted someone so badly it hurt? yes
08. have you ever been streaking - no
09. have you ever ran away - nope
10. have you ever caught your parents - that would’ve been amazing. not in a good way.


TEN EMOTIONS
01. are you missing someone right now - yes very much
02. are you happy - usually i feel good
03. are you talking to anyone right now - yes
04. are you bored - of this survey yes
05. are you German - no
06. are you Irish - no
07. are you French - no
08. are you Italian - no
09. are your parents still married - no
10. do you like someone right now - i more than like someone.

it was fat tuesday yesterday. i went to a mardi gras party at the deadwood. i dressed up. i entered a costume contest...and lost (again!). there was a $100 dollar prize that was upped to $200 at the last minute. man, that would've been wicked rad to win some cash. people kept telling me all night that i should win and that they'd hoot and holler for me on stage when the time came...but i think they were all too drunk to do anything once the actual costume contest came to be which was after midnight. super lame...but actually the super lamest thing was that the guy that won was just one of those people who wear the rental costume. last night it was a creepy clown outfit which was really just an oversized mask and clown pants. at least he got his rental money back...and then some.

arrrgh! actually i just wanted to put up a pic as an example of the lameness that the dude was wearing but i'm pretty sure i found the actual costume. and the last time the 'wood had a contest the non-creative rental won as well. not cool. anyway, here's the pic of the freaky clown.

freaky, yes, but deserving of a prize...i think not. oh well. i figure that we should just insist on a CREATIVE costume contest next year. that'd be special.

speaking of special, here's darcy and i in our costumes. darcy is in her super darcy crimefighter/server of cold beer costume and i wear my va-va-va voom dress with red plummage. the bottom part of the dress that you can't see is the neat part--it flares out in black and whiteness. darcy was in the contest too. we should've beat up that dumb clown.



i love this picture of darcy:























me, looking a wee bit nuts:

went to the grizzley bear/dirty projectors show at pica-gabe's last night with deadwood mitch. it was a pleasant evening. ate at masala. it was an early show so it was only around 9:30 when it was over so we went back to the deadwood and drank beers. darcy was supposed to come to the show but she was in hangoverland.

the show was really good overall. the dirty projectors were okay. but grizzley bear was really quite lovely. i would recommend that you see them live. mitch hadn't heard of them before but felt compelled to buy their yellow house album. excellente.

give, give, give 'til it hurts.

my relationships are important to me. of course they are. but, there are certain days when i acknowledge it moreso than usual and i feel, feel, feel exceptionally good-spirited in knowing what i know.

tomorrow i will begin the factory job...at 6 AM. ugh. i can't say that i'm too excited but it's work and it'll do. i highly doubt it'll be inspiring work but if i think of it in terms of its daily monetary value then i'm sure i can manage. twelve hour shifts. ugh!

i gots to save up for one of these chains, so i gots to do what i gots to do.

hey, it's february. yay february!

actually, feb hasn't really ever been that good to me (it's cold! brrrr!). plus, when i'm single it's a constant reminder that i am single. the barrage of red and pink in the form of roses, boxes of heart-shaped candies, shiny "i love you" balloons, hallmark cards, and all that silliness. it's the aisle i go to great lengths to avoid when i'm in a supermarket and it's all ridiculous because i don't even like valentine's day. even if i were with someone all that crap that i guess i'm supposed to like just doesn't mean that much to me. sure, i like flowers and would like to get some for a change but not the humdrumitty of red roses. i'd actually prefer a potted plant so that it could actually live longer than 3-4 days and not depress me once the petals started sloughing off and turning brown. a homemade card/drawing or a potted plant...yup, i'd probably get teary-eyed and definitely say, "awwwww"...moreso if it weren't valentine's day.



i think i'm actually more excited about groundhog's day each year. what a goofy celebration. i love it. it's basically a day where people poke at a groundhog which somehow equals a weather prediction. it's so stupid, it's great. poor little sleepy animal. i know i hate being awakened from a restful slumber but i can't imagine how it might feel to be awakened and held up in front of a crowd of thousands in the cold, televised, and shoved back into a cage wondering what the hell just happened.

the drawing is cute. the real life picture is rather frightening.

i will eat your brains!
and all your valentine's day candy!