Just another day in paradise

Watch Kate drink Tea

It's raining - It's pouring

As I sit here - drinking my banana, pineapple, nectarine and blueberry smoothie - I really wish it would stop raining.  I am all dressed ready to ride my bike to the gym....this was not in the cards.  But I would rather have it rain now, then during the Tiknis BBQ tonight.  Seriously, it is pouring.  looks like I will be breaking out the umbrella instead of the bike.  Oh well - at least the chance for rain tomorrow AM is slim - so that Bridget and I can bike to the zoo. 

Sigh - still raining.

Last night was awesome.  i had no plans - and basically feel asleep soon after finishing dinner - today I feel sweet and ready to tackle the world.....but not ready to clean the house.  Wow - who would of thought that I would rather go to the gym than clean the house. 

For those of you who don't already know - my sister has a job....and promtly went out and leased a new car and got an apartment in Tampa.  She is very excited......just wait till she realized that she has 40+ years until she can retire.

Note to future generations

Saying "I went to Motley Crue last night and boy does my ass hurt" can be misconstrued by people. Dirty Birdies that they are.  Let's set the world straight - I wore 3" black go go boots and then walked on "crushed" gravel (they were more like mini boulder gravel) to get back to the car.  Motley Crue did not touch me in any physical manner.

Additionally, Krista and I really really really wanted our computers and cameras at the concert so that we could blog about all the great people watching - at first P said we were being catty - then he saw the corn-fed princess in the assless chaps and realized that people at the concert deserved to be talked about in a catty manner.  After that he came up with some of the best comments.

So because of the concert and because it is so rare that P and I actually get to see eachother without tons of people about, we stayed up till around 3:30.  Late for the person who works days - not late for the person who works nights.  But with 4 hours of sleep under my belt I made it through a whole day of work AND dinner with JB.  And there was no consumption of caffeine, refined sugars or alcohol!!!  I actually didn't feel that poorly.  This new way of eating rocks!

The end of the world as I know it.....

Ok that is a little dramatic...but it feels like it at times over the past 48 hours.  I am on day 2 of no wheat, no dairy, no caffeine, no red meat, no refined sugar and no alcohol.  As a result I have three lovely blemishes on my face and I am a bit knackered.  But I will make it through this!!  I am allowing myself one off day for July's Historical Society River pub crawl - but then back on the wagon for the rest of the month.

Yesterday went off without a hitch- today had hitches.  All I could think about was diet coke and a cheeseburger. I ate hummus instead - then I biked to go go.  4 miles there - 3 miles back (yeah.....I went a bit off course on the way there....my bad - my body's good though)  Tomorrow will be interesting since Mom and I have tix to the George Michael concert  -  very appropriate yes?  I am trying to set my nutritional monkey free.

I'm going to go eat some strawberries and try not to think about chocolate cake.

Seriously?

I have been trying to log in to Typepad all friggin weekend and I kept getting these error messages - I try today from work as a last ditch attempt and voila! I'm in.  Sigh.

Not me!

Taken form the myfoxchicago.com website

Dancer Injured After Reported Fall From Pride Parade Float

Last Edited: Sunday, 29 Jun 2008, 3:48 PM CDT

Created: Sunday, 29 Jun 2008, 3:48 PM CDT

Chicago, IL.  --  Emergency crews have responded to reports of at least two injuries from the Gay and Lesbian Pride Parade on the North Side Sunday afternoon, including a dancer that may have fallen off a float. Crews responded to a report of an injured person at Waveland Avenue and Halsted Street about 1:17 p.m., according to Fire Media Affairs Asst. Director Eve Rodriguez, who said the person was taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center.   Police say the woman may have fallen off a float and broken a leg. Witnesses said the parade may have temporarily halted after the woman, a member of a dance drill team, fell off the float. In a separate incident, crews were en route to a report of an unconscious person at Roscoe and Halsted streets about 2:30 p.m., Rodriguez said.

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We didn't get very far on the float because of the injury - luckily it wasn't on our float, though I could see it easily happening with the way they rock as you go down the street.  There were a few moments when I thought I might get a close up with the ground - we all know how balanced I can be.  We did sit a very very very very very very very very very long time.....and then it started to rain....and the people who were running the Time Out Chicago float - called it a day since out music system wouldn't have worked in the wetness.  The parade eventually continued - but without The Jane's.  All in all we danced about 2.5 hours straight - not to shabby.  Pictures to follow.

My Life on the S list (or am I a bigger bitch than Rizzo?....you know, from Grease)

It has been a busy few weeks - but then I aways say that don't I?  Jesus I am whinny bitch.  But as I told my mother the other day - I wouldn't change a thing.  I am in a good place with work, I have great friends, I am loved and love back...now if I could only fit into a size 6 jeans... :)

I had to call and retract an offer of employment last week because someone didn't pass their drug test.  Now maybe I have worked for "The Man" way too long - but I was absolutely floored that they didn't pass - I mean you know that chances are good that you will need to take this test and if you do participate in stuff that makes it likely you won't pass - then DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.  I mean friggin GNC sells stuff to fix the problem and if you can afford to smoke it or snort it - then you can afford to buy the stuff that clears your system.  I mean seriously - this wasn't a fresh faced straight off the bong college student either.  You know, if you want to smoke then smoke - that doesn't bother me at all - hell, smoke em if you got em- what bothers me is that if you are looking for a job adn still dabbling that you don't take the responsability to do something to ensure that you don't test non-negative (sigh - in our sue happy world, that is what it is called....non-negative - people are offended if they test positive.)  And lesson to all those reading - not partaking in a smoking activity - but still sitting in a room where others are smoking still gets it into your system.  The best part of this story - was that the individual, when told that his offer of employment was no longer on the table was "Well, my bad I guess"   Speaking of all this - I am thinking of going to see Steve Miller Band next weekend - I heart them so much and haven't seen them since I was at UCSB.

Tomorrow I am getting up and looking for a path to the bike path that will lead me to the Chicago Bontic Gardens - then I am going to trade in ol' trusty cable box for a new one - this one has seemed to have given up the good fight - and is keeping time slower and slower.  Now it is almost 30 minutes behind the time on the other cable box.  Poor Wubba - it has given me 6 good years of cable connection.

Goldie the Goldfish seems to be adapting well to her vacation home.  I am an equal opportunity pet sitter!!  Before Ms. Heidi left on vacation she let me know that if the fish went to the big toilet in the sky not to worry - she was getting a whole new classroom of kindergardeners in the fall and they wouldn't know the difference.  I would know Goldie!!!  I would know!

If it makes me happy.....can it really be that bad?

I have 8 episodes of "You Are What You Eat" on Tivo - I've have convinced Girl Metro and Loverly Lisa that we need to watch them en mass and drink a mimosa everytime she says "vitamins" (pronounced in that delightfully odd British vita-mins way) Vita-mins, vita-mins vita-mins!!!!!!!!  I

So about a month or so ago my father started a blog - and he is thinking that he is going to stop it.  I think he is having that moment that all blog owners have where you feel that you are posting into a black hole and that no one reads or gives a tweet.  Personally, I want him to continue the blog because I enjoy reading it.....but I guess that is selfish of me - but then again I can be an uber selfish person at times.

This weekend finds me working the Taste of Randolph.....again.....It is a different type of street fair - a lot more seen and be seen participants - seriously tons more boob jobs, high heels and tiny dogs or men wearing Structure shirts with the first few buttons undone (though just as drunk as the patrons of all the other street fairs) but I am making more money than sitting at home would (seriously, someone needs to start paying me to do that - sitting at home that is) and now I have cash to cover most of the tickets I bought for all the shows I am seeing this summer/fall.  Between this weekend and working Lollapalooza  for two days the only guilt I will feel is that the money made should be spent on lowering credit card debt or invested wisely - but i will try really really hard not to think of this while at NKOTB, Madonna, Neil Diamond, George Michael, Poison or Motley Crue (a Cinderella//Warrant combo was in there too - but Tom K blew his vocal cord so that's been scrapped - boo hiss)

Ok - off to get dressed for another 9 hours of selling beer to really appreciative people.

I really don't have much to say today - I had a lot to say earlier this week.