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Good Afternoon, Kittens.   Busy day here at the office.  I am putting together a presentation for tomorrow.  It will be brilliant, I am sure.  I'm also participating in a 3-hour webinar on Energy Savings Performance Contracts (ESPCs).  Who has all the fun?  That would be me.   Not much of interest happened yesterday.  I went to the Whole Foods to buy food for dinner.  Once home, I went for a run.  I ran about 3.5 miles in 30 minutes.  Not too bad.  Then, I had a martini.  mmm.  Martinis.  They are so delicious.   Today is laundry day (yay?).  And, then, I will need to hit the hay a little earlier than usual.  The presentation starts at 8 in the morning.  And, it's off-site.  Ugh.    On the plus side, tomorrow is my Friday (yay!) and it's an 8-hour day (as opposed to our regular 9-hour days).  Good times, kittens.  Good times.   Have a great rest of your day! *smooches*

Good Morning, Kittens!   Yesterday was Quite. the. Day ... in that nothing really happened, but I'm going to make it seem that So Much is going on in my Fabulous Gay Life.    Lessee ... at work the clusterfuckery continues.  There was supposed to be a big meeting today, at which I was to give a short presentation; however, the Person In Charge never sent out a meeting invite or bothered to come up with an agenda or schedule a room.  Thus, no meeting.  At least my presentation is ready for whenever the meeting happens.   Also, as I was on my third (and Much More Polite) draft of the email I was writing to the Pottery Studio about how inconvenient it was to find the studio closed on Sunday, I got an email from the studio manager.  She apologized for our troubles and said they would make it up to the students who showed up on Sunday.    I went to the studio after work (my co-worker drove me there. yay!), and the studio is going to give us free clay.  Yay!  We *heart* free cl...

Good Evening, Kittens! What a weekend! So many mixed emotions. I feel like soup. Or something. I'm not even sure what that means. Anyway, Friday, after work, I went up to SCGB's apartment for a little dinner gathering. It was fun; the food was delicious (SCGB made a yummy white sangria. OMG. tasty!), but I was ubercranky. I don't know why, other than work is totally wearing my out. Still, many good laughs were had. And, I *tried* to be pleasant (but not very successfully). Then, I left the dinner party to go on a "date" with this guy who was in town for the SilverDocs Documentary Film Festival. When I met him, he was traaaaaaaaaaaaaaashed . And, srsly, no thank you. So I returned home and had a cocktail ... which was much more satisfying than spending any more time with him. Saturday morning, I slept in. When I woke up, I had a text from my friend, Min. 45 minutes after I got out of bed, Min came over for a visit. His father is in the hospital ... r...

Good Morning, Kittens!   Where have I been?  I love reading the blogs where everyone is all like "I am sooooo busy I don't have time to blog."  And, I really wish I could say that.  Except it would be a big fat hairy lie.  And I don't like to do that ...   Unless it involves my sexual escapades.  (haha.  kidding. all those stories are TOTALLY true)   ANYWAY, where have I been?  Right.  Here.  And why haven't I updated in ... um ... three (?) days?  Because nothing has happened.  Life has been dullsville.  I am tired of writing that I woke up and went to work and came home and had a martini and ate dinner and went to bed.  *sigh*  Such a snoozefest.   I think I need to start inventing something more interesting ... like, I dunno ... a textual affair with a 25-year-old Marine based in Arizona who is an aspiring model?  Except that wouldn't be made up.    *look something shiny changes subject*   My weekend is going to be chock full of fun and excite...

Good Morning, Kittens. Recently on Facebook, a few "friends" besmirched my good name by insinuating that I own too many pairs of shoes (Is that even possible?). Thus, in my defense, I present to you, my true friends, every pair of shoes I own: Let's start from the top left and work our way across, shall we? Top Row : SuperCute Converse Chucks, SuperCute Madras Tommy Hilfiger (which are beginning to wear out. so sad), black Lottos (with light blue trim), canvas and leather Calvin Kleins, black lace-up Clarks, brown lace-up Dockers, brown slip-on Eccos , very old never wear anymore Birkenstocks, Japanese Geta. ( Bold = current everyday work shoes) Middle Row (right to left): More Japanese Geta, brown Kenneth Cole Reaction (aka Pottery Shoes), brown Streetcars (I owned an identical pair and they were *sooooo* comfortable. When they wore out, I bought a new pair and ... um ... not so comfortable. WTF?), Ben Sherman boots, square-toed boots, black square-toed Kenneth Col...

Good Morning, Kittens! How much did you miss me whilst I was "working" in Denver? Did you read my post about all the excitement that happened there? Did you? Did you love it? I'm sure you did. SO, after all of that excitement, my weekend was rather dull. Friday, I did laundry. Oh, yeah. I can haz clean clothes. Later (after Baby Hana went to bed), Tomokito and I had drinks. yay. Drinks! Saturday, I did some cleaning. I went for a run. 3 miles (which after a week of not running was kinda exhausting). Then, I went to the Whole Foods and replenished my seriously depleted stocks. I made pasta salad (yum!) and, then, um, the Guy Who Looks Like the Cheating Cheater came over and we had mad mad mad mad mad butt secks. OMG. totes teh hot. Sunday, after You Know Who left, I went to the pottery studio. Here are some pix: Once home, I ironed my shirts for the week, and, then, Tomokito and I had Martini Time. Yay for Martini Time! And, that's about it. Have a ha...

Good Afternoon, Kittens! Remember me? I used to blog. I am back from Denver (and taking the day off!), so I have time to update you on all my exciting adventures in the Mile High City! I'm sure some of you may have followed my fun-filled twitter/facebook status updates so you already know *everything* I did, but -just in case- here's the rest of the story ... It all started on Sunday night with a little pizza gathering at K-Factors. I was dreading my early morning SuperShuttle pick-up time (4AM! GAH!), when Mr. Doesn't Have a NickName Yet But Looks Sort of Like the Cheating Cheater called. He wanted to come over. I explained that (1) I had to get up early in the morning to leave and (2) there wouldn't be any Sexy Time. He said all he wanted to do was cuddle (oh, really?) and that he would drive me to the airport. SWEET! So, of course, I said yes. He came over. We talked. And had a *little* bit of "fun" before I had to go to bed. We got up around 4 ...

Good evening, Kittens! Tomorrow, I am heading to Denver! Yay for work trips! Yay for conferences! Yay for random hook-ups with guys I've met online meeting new friends! And speaking of meeting new friends, Saturday was the DC Pride Parade! YAY! And, OMG Kittens, prepare to be jealerz ... I met Polt ! YAY! Srsly, he is so awesome (and we only got to talk for a few minutes) I just wanted to give him big huggles. It's so cool to meet genuinely nice people. *sigh* ANYWAY, I totes forgot that it was the 12th, so no 12 of 12 post (even though I took a boatload of pix). Here are a few DC PrideParade photos: SCGB and I looking all cute (prior to totally melting in the heat/humidity) They were doing this acrobatic shit on a MOVING truck. Srsly. Crazy! I can haz Rainbow Beads FTW And, all of my Parade pix are here . After the parade (and meeting his Purpleness Polt*), Mike (Who Makes Cakes) and Ray and I, headed over to the Restaurant Formerly Known As Food Bar (But Now Call...

Good Morning, Kittens.   Yesterday, I did laundry.  Yay.  I can haz clean clothes.  Life is good.  Not much else is going on.  I am semi-busy preparing for my work trip to Denver next week.  I'll be there Monday through Thursday at the E2S2 Symposium.  Should be a networky good time.    Work might be slightly busy today because of that.  We'll see ... I am already in a battle with the printer which refuses to print out my document.  Or any document.  Or delete any documents in its memory.  GAH.  And, naturally, the document I am trying to print has been formatted in such a way that I can not save the god damn thing.  Why does everything have to be so complicated?   After work, I am going shopping for a swimsuit.  I have (foolishly?) agreed to appear in a bloggery swimsuit calendar, which is kinda funny if you think about it because (1) I don't like to swim, (2) I kind of hate bodies of water - oceans, lakes, rivers, (3) I don't own a decent swimsuit, and (4) I h...

Good Morning, Kittens!   As you may remember, I recently finished reading The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (not to be confused with the The Girl with the Pearl Earring , which I have not read ... but I have seen the movie ... and the two stories are nothing alike.  Trust me).  Well, ShallowGal had the ShallowGall to leave a comment on my post which said I should read the other ones.  And, I'm all like "There are more?  Why did no one tell me this?"  I hate getting sucked into a series without my knowledge* (Hello?  Does anyone remember the whole Harry Potter fiasco?  No one said that was going to be SEVEN FUCKING BOOKS and 8 FUCKING MOVIES and 47 Harry Potter scarves knitted for myself and some friends ... the final scarf is stuffed in the bottom of my knitting bag awaiting fringe and ends being woven in).   Anyway, ShallowGal told me it's a trilogy, so -last night- I used the Nook to purchase the rest of the series (and it BETTER only be those four books!). ...

Good morning, Kittens.   What a morning.  First, my bus was late.  Then, as I was coming down the escalator at Metro Center, I *juuuuuuuuuuuuust* missed a train.  "No worries," I thought, as I checked the signboard.  "There's another train in 3 minutes.  I will only be about 10 minutes late.  Hurrah."   Of course, as I waited for that train, three minutes grew to five, which stretched to seven, which became a garbled metro announcement about how McPherson Square station was CLOSED because of smoke in the station and that a shuttle service was being requested.   For those of you who are unfamiliar with DC Metro.  McPherson Square is one stop before Metro Center.  Gah.  I texted a co-worker to explain that I would be late and why.  And she texted back "Do you want me to come pick you up?"  Oh, yes pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeze!  On the way to work, we stopped by Starbucks.  Mmmm.  Apple Fritter.   Once at work, LINES at Security!  WTF?  Oh, right.  ...

Good morning, kittens.   Lessee ... not much to report.  My life is falling into a boring little rut punctuated by an occasional party and random sex.  Unfortunately, last night was not punctuated.   After a SuperFun day of work (mostly spent researching sample SOWs and exploring the inner working of our plumbing system with some water auditors), I had a relaxing evening on the sofa.   I made a tequila gimlet (3 oz tequila, juice of half a lemon, lime juice and honey, shaken over ice) to drink while I cooked dinner: pan-fried tofu with zucchini, corn, and cashews served over rice with quinoa.  After dinner, I spent the evening chatting with friends online.   Then, my weekend "date" for the past two weekends (I really should come up with a nickname for him, since it seems he might become some sort of regular thing ... unless I totally pissed him off last night) hit me up and wanted me to Metro over to his place.   I said no ... the time was 9:30.  He lives somewher...

Good morning, kittens.   What a crazyfun weekend.  Friday evening, SCGB and Tomokito came down to my place and we had cupcakes (which I had purchased from Hello Cupcake in Dupont Circle during my *cough* two hour *cough* lunch break) and champagne.  Yum.   Then, Saturday morning, I got up early and went to the Silver Spring Farmer's Market with SCGB.  I bought several plants: sweet basil, habenero chili, and lemon verbena.  I spent the rest of the day blobbing on the sofa.  A little knitting.  A little reading.  A little putting the plants in the ground.  I made two types of infused vodka - green tea and brown tea.  The great thing about infused tea vodkas is they are done really quickly.  Srsly.  The brown tea vodka was done in about 4 hours.  Green tea took about 12 hours.  Later that evening, I had a "date" (with the same guy as last week, the one who reminds me the Cheating Cheater).  He brought a bottle of champagne, so we drank that and shared the last cupcake....

Good Afternoon, Kittens!   This morning, I was superbusy and, thus, unable to type up my regular fun-filled dose of frivolity.  apologies.  Things have calmed down considerable (yay!), so ... on with the show.   Yesterday, I had plans to meet my friend, CJ, for margaritas.  And, after the Afternoon of Clusterfuckery, I totes needed a couple of glasses of tequila-laden liquid sunshine.  I was on the Red Line -which was- SuperPacked (like sardines.  srsly!) with one of my co-workers.  The train arrived at Dupont, and I disembarked.   As I was winding my way throught the crowd, I heard "This train is now out of service."    "Ha ha," I laughed to myself, thinking of my unfortunate co-worker.  So, I texted her to see if she wanted to come have a margarita (or two) with us.  She did.  Yay.  It was fun.  She left a little early.  CJ and I ate and caught up.  Fun times.   All I did when I got home was blob on the sofa.  I should have washed the dishes in the sink....

Good Morning, Kittens.   The phones at work are fully operational again.  Hurrah.  So, I've been catching up on my phone calls all morning. Such. Fun.   Last night, I did laundry.  Two loads!  I know.  And, then I made dinner - pasta with mushrooms and spinach.  I popped open a bottle of cava.   Then, SCGB texted.  I was planning on helping him mow the lawn last night, but he decided to postpone the mowing until today. Instead, I took the bottle of cava upstairs and we drank it in his beautifully staged apartment.   Yes, SCGB's Sister has decided to put the place up for sale.  *sigh*  While I hope it sells quickly and for a good price (in which "good price" = "more than I paid for mine"), I will be sad when SCGB has to move out.  *sniff* ... Unless, of course, the new buyer is also SuperCute and Gay (and single and hot for me).  But, as SCGB wisely stated last night, "the gayz don't want to live out here" (except for me ... and maybe SCG...

Good Morning, Kittens!   Yesterday, at work, our phones went down, which meant I could make no outgoing calls.  Hurrah.  This was not good since I need to make about 8 BILLION outgoing calls.  Oh, well.  [and the phones aren't working today either]   Once I got home from work, I relaxed for a bit and, then, went for a short run.  There was an exciting accident at the intersection near my apartment.  A bus hit a car.  Or a car hit a bus.  I didn't see it, but I did witness the trafficky aftermath.  I don't think anyone was seriously injured.  My run was good.    For dinner, I made thai pesto pasta and salad.  At 9 PM, I went up to K-Factor's place for beer and dessert (peanut butter cupcakes and mint chocolate brownies = yum).   Before bed, I finally broke down and turned on the air-conditioning.  Yay.  Of course, my floor was covered this morning with this weird black stuff that my a/c spews out.  Gross.  I will sweep it up when I get home, I guess.  At least ...

Good Morning, Kittens. What a weekend, full of fun and learning experiences. For example, I learned that (1) I really should keep my mouth shut in certain situations and (2) I am a total whore ;-) So, the ComboBirthday Party on Friday was awesome. The chili-infused vodka was a Big Hit. Yay. The ex-BFF didn't show up. Yay. And I can't say I'm surprised. Apparently his dislike of me overpowers his desire to spend time with mutual friends on their birthday. Whatever. Luuuuzer. And, there was a small incident with SCGB's on-again-off-again BF. He said something insulting to SCGB and thought it was very clever. So, I said something similar (and insulting, but FUNNEH) to/about him a few minutes later. He got pissed off and left the party. Pretty thin-skinned for a lawyer. Oh, well. After we left the party, SCGB, Tomokito, Eric from Baltimore and I spent some time eating yummy cheese and boozing it up in my apartment. FUN! Saturday morning, Tomokito and I went to s...