long live the weekend...

yay it's friday! i'm so happy. hopefully the weather stays as gorgeous as it has been for most of the week. i love the fall.

here's my early morning friday random top ten.

1. 1 a. m. - beautiful creatures
2. walking in the shade - the colorifics
3. human thing - the be good tanyas
4. what ever happened? – the strokes
5. turnin' on the screw - queens of the stone age
6. i am a rock – hated
7. line up – elastica
8. intro/bongo song (mr. flash remix) - flosstradamus/zongamin
9. new radio – bikini kill
10. grow up and blow away – metric

happy friday everyone and hope you all have great weekends. if the weather stays like this, i will be out enjoying it with the goobster.

grouches of the world unite...

i was over at bad tempered zombie's site, and i can't believe i just found out that it was national grouch day!

so i have stolen her post idea and am posting some things that are currently making me grouchy.

1. the fact that the majority of people do not know how to drive in the rain in vancouver. slow down, leave extra space and use your lights. is that so hard? here are some more tips...

2. the fact that although i was actively recruited to apply for this job at work, they have decided to repost it to see who else it out there. and the fact that they didn't tell me until after the job was reposted.

3. roman polanski. jokes about roman polanski and young girls. praise about roman polanski. the fact that i had to take not one, but two books out of the library about roman polanski for a piece i'm writing.

and now, here's a classic from oscar the grouch.

sunny days...

what a beautiful fall weekend we had. i spent it outdoors with 'goober' and trying to solve a storage problem in my bedroom. i think i have decided that the cure will be buying a cheap wardrobe.



here's my better late than never friday random top ten. again, it's very random.

1. woman – wolfmother
2. black betty - nick cave & the bad seeds
3. red flags and long nights – she wants revenge
4. the arctic circle – final fantasy
5. it's all a swindle – ute lemper
6. my blue manhattan – ryan adams
7. burnout – green day
8. give me flowers while i'm living – the knitters
9. edge of seventeen – stevie nicks
10. them bones – alice in chains

hope everyone had a good weekend!

it's supposed to rain tomorrow which leads me to the question of the day... why does nobody in vancouver know how to drive in the rain?

bad to the bone...

i was going to post some gargoyles for allison but i thought instead i would post what i can only imagine 'goober' was thinking of all day.

1. when going for a walk, make sure you go so fast that your owner's arm nearly comes out of the socket. especially when owner is carrying a bag of poop.

2. alternatively, stop and start often so that your owner nearly slips and falls on the wet grass.

3. anything you find on the ground, make sure you put it in your mouth and pretend to chew on it. watch as owner works her way into a frenzy trying to get you to drop it. which you did about five feet back.

4. cry and insist on bringing a toy with you. then while walking, drop it and refuse to carry it.

5. look sad as owner drags you home. go make puppy dog eyes at her brother and get treats.

i got some dirty boots - yeah dirty boots...

happy turkey day everyone. or tofurkey if that be your thing.

no turkey for me today. 'goober' seems to have eaten something that has disagreed with him and hence, instead of going to the relatives for dinner, i will be staying home. i am sure he is ok, but i'd rather stay home than clean up later.

saturday i braved the lineups at the border and went down to seattle. i bought way wicked boots! for twenty bucks! i bought some other stuff but really, i am most excited about my boots.

i've already worn them around the house and feel pretty damn good about them.

added bonus... i'm annoyed with a friend of mine, who's been pretty selfish and mean lately. the boy she thinks is cute, i am convinced has a shoe/boot fetish. she would not ever wear any shoe that would would fall into a girlie shoe category. if she continues to be mean and selfish, i may just have to wear these shoes out next time we are all together!

this is cool store i used to go to all the time, but i haven't been for a few years. it's called gargoyles statuary. and well, the name pretty much sums out what it sells. i bought a gargoyle that holds business cards. now i have to get me some business cards!

here's my thanksgiving random top ten. i haven't played for so long! very very random this week.

1. get back - veruca salt
2. by and by - paul robeson
3. movement revolution - cranston foundation
4. capricorn - the go
5. friends of p. [album version] - the rentals
6. letsgetabitarockin - the 101ers
7. this charming man (manchester) - the smiths
8. are you gonna be my girl? - jet
9. rowboat - johnny cash
10. september - earth, wind & fire

question.. are there thanksgiving songs?

bad reputation...

as i sit and anxiously await the season opener of the mercer report, i will take a few moments to reflect on tonight's episode of 'the hour'.

first the good.

my girl, joan jett on the hour.

and now the bad.

am i the only one creeped out by the jokes about roman polanski? especially references about him and miley cyrus (aka 'hannah montana')? and does sly stallone really deserve to be tagged with polanski in a joke? am i really supposed to be laughing at this? and just because there's a "rant" about polanski afterward, does that make it ok?

and f.y.i. .. the correct phrase is joan jett is an inspiration, not was.