Nerdy Engineering Shirts!

YAAAAYYYYY!


"Structural Engineer: If I'm running from a building, you better try to keep up!"

I MUST HAVE ALL OF THEM! ALL OF THEM!!

Parental Units Invasion

So yesterday, my parent's finally came over to check out what I've done with my place and also just to come by for an old fashioned visit. It was very nice to hear their praise for my widdle apartment and I'm glad that they are proud of me, I always want to make them proud and make them feel like awesome parents because they are awesome. :-)

And it was so cute my Dad brought over pastries, as is the custom whenever you're coming over someone's place. I also bought some Madeleine's and some great pound cake so that we could nibble on something before I ordered real food. Plus I bought another armchair for my living room as to make a corner sofa-like area and it was definitely a success. My parents were very comfortable and we were all able to sit around and talk. In time though I'll buy the full sectional units and make a proper sectional sofa.

I'm in love with the Tylösand collection from IKEA. I already bought the one seat section that's my armchair and in time I'm going to make a corner sofa unit using another one of the one seat section and a chaise lounge. The awesome thing about this collection is that I can connect them however I want and the covers are removable, so if I end up wanted to change my mind it'll just require some maneuvering rather than a trip to the store again with wallet in hand.


I'm partial to the covers in Kungsvik sand. Very neutral, but very classy and easily made crazy with some colorful pillows.

Gloomy Day

I think I got used to the spring sun because now that it's cloudy out I'm all bummed out. :-P

Maybe I'll have more tea, that should do it.

From the mouth of kittehs...

Truer words have not been spoken.

Cali Update

Alright, May 7th - 11th.

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Eris' World Tour: Part III

Part I: Scotland...check...
Part II: London...check...
Part III: California!!

Yup, it's somewhat semi-official (at least in my head, now I'll see if my wallet will agree) that I'll be visiting people out in California April 30th-May 4th.

So any ETSer's in LA or Sacramento, it is your duty to kidnap me and show me cool places and make me try new foods and new drinks. [sarcasm]Twist my arm if you have too...[/sarcasm]*

Updates to follow...


*BBCode as always. :-)

Just Say NO to Work

Eesh...my brain just completely stopped working a little while ago. I'm just going to take a mental break and clean my desk, maybe even *gasp* wash the dishes.

That ever happen to you, you just don't want to do anymore work?

Munchkin Attack!

No....not that kind of Munchkin...this kind of Munchkin:


YAY!! I bought a couple boxes for my office today...mwahahahahaa! No one can resist there sweetness because they are so tiny.

New Dali Exhibition at MoMA

*squeeeeee*

The Museum of Modern Art in Midtown will be featuring a Salvador Dali exhibition displaying not only his works on the canvas, but also his dabbling with the silver screen. Everyone forgets that he was also a madman in film as well, so this will be a special treat for me. It'll be interesting to see how his methods and techniques will be transcribed in other media, particularly film. And hopefully, I'll be able to handle seeing one of the most horrible scenes ever filmed which he's responsible for (of course he would be responsible for that), the scene in Un Chien Andalou where something happens to an eye and that's all I'm going to go into details with, I'll let you fill in the blanks yourself. (Thankfully, it really happens to a goat's eye, but still it makes you scream "I HATE YOU DALI!!")

"This exhibition brings together more than 100 works by Salvador Dalí (1904·89) including major paintings, photographs, drawings, and films to explore the central role of cinema in his work as both an inspiration and an outlet for experimentation. Film was a passion for Dalí and cinematic vision became a model for his own work. The exhibition will display collaborations between Dalí and legendary filmmakers including Luis Buñuel, Walt Disney, Alfred Hitchcock, and the Marx Brothers alongside his paintings to show the way ideas, iconography, and pictorial strategies are shared and transformed across mediums. The exhibition will include some of the most provocative works of the early twentieth century including Un Chien Andalou, a film made with Buñuel, which features the almost unwatchable sequence of an eye being slit by a razor; L'Age d'Or, another collaboration with Buñuel and one of the landmarks of surrealist film; as well as such important paintings as The First Days of Spring and Illumined Pleasures. The exhibition will also consider Dalí as a consumer of popular culture, he loved the bizarre slapstick humor of Hollywood comedians, such as Harry Langdon, Charlie Chaplin, and Buster Keaton, and saw such mass entertainment as an antidote for what he perceived as the pretensions of high culture."

Possible Sighting?

Well on Friday I got a glimpse of my brave little egg, he was resting on top of the loft beckoning to me for help.

But alas, was gone after I got out of a VIP meeting with the boss and friends. Who knows where he'll be next, it's up to the whim of his captor.

Jeez, this is probably one of the cutest and most fun courtships I've been in. I just can't get over the details of everything that went into this and how elaborate this is turning out to be...he he he. It makes going into work a surprise and perhaps someday one of us will pony up and ask the other out (it'll probably have to be me, I'm just used to this being the case).

Al Qeggda

CC has taken my little wind up egg as hostage. I normally don't negotiate with egg terrorists, but I may have to make an exception...


(I'm really impressed by the detail that went into this...jeez...)

Erin-Go-Bragh

"May your pockets be heavy and your heart be light,
May good luck pursue you each morning and night."


That quote is made even better if you read it as a true Irish(wo)man would: in a full, thick Irish brogue with an equally full and thick glass of Guinness!



Happy St. Patrick's Day! And remember, an Irishman is never too drunk if he can still hold onto a blade of grass and not fall off the earth!

Cuteness Overload!!

The little one on top just sends me in a tail spin! AHHH!! I want a kitteh!

St. Patrick's Day Parade

"But, wait, isn't St. Patrick's Day next Monday??"

Yes, I was just as confused as you are when I first heard that the St. Patrick's Day parade for New Haven was being held on March 9th. But thankfully from hanging out with people on Friday night I was able to find out about what others were doing for that day.

We ended up all meeting outside of Richter's right around the beginning of the parade and by "meeting" I mean dodging already obnoxiously drunk people and staking claim to a small portion of the fluid filled sidewalk. But as bad as that description sounds, I actually had a great time.

It was nice to take in the sights and sounds of the parade, with the colorful flags and the massive thumps of the bass drums, but to take these in along with a nice beer or a swig of your flask, now THAT's a parade my friend...yay for public drinking!

Now I know that makes me sound horrible and very luscious, but everything in moderation, right? In this case, it was nice to kick back in a way and have a beer among friends and instead of doing this around a bar, take this social activity and enjoy it outside along with the pomp and circumstance of a parade. It was actually very nice, apart from people that took that socializing bit a little too far and were already fighting or staggering around by the start of the parade.

So here are some shots taken from my little cellphone camera that don't really do much justice to the scale of the people there (yup, they had helicopters circling around measuring up the amounts of people), but you at least get an idea.










Once we were finished watching the parade some of us decided to grab some real food and real drink over at the only non-crowded place in the middle of downtown, The Omni.

Normally you'd think "well, it's the hotel bar right in the middle of downtown, right in the middle of everything really, why would you even think of going there, wouldn't it be completely overrun by people??" Well, follow the logic with me as to why it was no overrun by people:

1. First off, outsiders to New Haven simply don't know that this place exists.
2. Even if they do know it exists, they simply write it off as being too expensive since it's The Omni Hotel's bar and grill.
3. Because it is in such an auspicious location, people don't want to deal with dress codes or adhere to any type of good behavior on the St. Patrick's Day parade and would rather grab a sandwich at subway.



Hence, we were able to glide up the elevator and have a nice meal and a nice beverage 20 stories above the chaos and not have to pay too much extra for it. Yay for logic being my friend...well at times at least.

The Crimson Tide of Flirting

I'm totally forgoing my St. Patrick's Day recap because this has been bugging me a lot. The flirting tide has shifted completely (and if you know me, you know who I'm talking about.) Now it's completely changed, it's now a professional/casual relationship which I have to admit is probably the best thing for both of us. You don't poop where you eat, as they say.

I have to admit though, I miss all the disgusting flirting and the constant attention being paid to me. It was so fun and almost like living out a dream in a way.

But I still really like him and we still blush and stutter when we're around each other. You can't turn off chemistry.

Oh well...c'est la vie...

Friday Night Recap

After staying at work a little later than expected, thanks to my wonderful skills of emasculating people via technical letters and my boss requesting my skills for another a-hole, I met a friend over at Hot Tomatoes in New Haven.

Now normally if you are a girl you need to shoot up a road flare in order to order some drinks. Unlike every other bar on the free planet, this bar favors the guy boozers and all you have to do is pretty much look like you're half way finished with your drink and a bartender will come swooping in to give you another drink. But I think they're starting to change their bias bartending ways a bit because it wasn't as agonizing of a wait as it normally had been in the past.

Then, with the help of the rain, we decided to stay close and hop across the street to The Owl Shoppe and check out some of their fine Scotch. And with the kind tutelage of Laura Anne, I'm beginning to grow into a mini-enthusiast of all things Scotch and wine, hence I was asked to order for everyone. :-) 'Twas a happy night indeed.

Some of my friends and I got a little hungry though and decided to go check out this Vietnamese restaurant off of Whitney that we've been dying to walk into for the longest time, Pot-au-Pho. It is THE only authentic Vietnamese restaurant in New Haven and probably the only one in this weird county that is not Fairfield County. And even with the kitchens closing, they still served us their noodle goodness, so they get all the accolades I can give. Thanks so much you guys!

Mmmmmmm....pho-goodness...

Spring Forward?

No one's here at work yet!

I think people must have forgot about Daylight Savings starting early. Either that or they're still recuperating from the St. Patrick's Day parade yesterday.

A Manageably Social Weekend

So yes, I had my day of nothing, it was just spread out between Saturday and Sunday, but a sufficient amount of nothing was had by me, indeed. Plus I had a great Friday night out with friends, a Saturday night spend with the family and a Sunday spent drinking out in a freezing public watching bundled up ice queens and small dancing children.

Pics or it didn't happen, I know...I have to figure out how to get them from my cellphone onto the internets, so give me a little while.

I Miss Doing Nothing

I need a weekend where I do absolutely nothing. It's been a while since I've had one of these and now I see what the real benefits are to having at least one weekend of nothing to do.

With my new job, I have to get up every morning at 6. For 3 1/2 years the earliest I usually woke up was 7 and really when I got comfortable with how much time I really needed, 7:30. So because of that hour to hour and a half earlier wake up time, I've lost time after work when I caught up with friends, organized my upcoming bills, cleaned and just sat and did nothing because I now go to bed earlier. I actually get tired around 9:30 at night!! This is unheard of for me. I used to be the constant night owl, the radical insomniac, the night person that can stay up until 2AM and still wake up for work the next day. But even with all that, I love my new job. I wouldn't trade it for the world. I'm very happy here and I hope to stay here as long as I can.

So most nights, sadly, I come home, chat with friends to catch up, make some visits to local friends, make plans to visit out of state friends and then I'm tired already. Time for bed!! I used to get in a good portion of [adult swim] before I went to bed and I used to have more time to do things like get my plans, personal and financial, ready for the upcoming months.

So with this realization, I plan on doing nothing this weekend!!! (Except maybe Friday night...) So yes, Saturday and Sunday are going to be filled with me staying in and cleaning, watching TV, reading and, weather permitting, taking a walk around my neighborhood.

Commence mental repair time - T Minus 2 days...

Impromptu Hair Clip

I'm such a nerd, but I needed a hair clip and this was the closest hair clipping device I could think of at the time.

Impromptu Art Expo at the Javits

So after my time spent in up in the Bronx, I left Gert in his safe and more importantly free parking space and took the subway down to visit my friend in the Upper West Side. After catching up and meeting some of her friends we decided to head over to Popover Cafe which we've been too once before and is always an awesome place (once you get seated of course, that's the hard part).

Then, on a whim, they invited me down to the Javits Center to catch the last days of the Art Expo that had been going on. I can only say to that "HOLY ART EXPLOSION BATMAN!!" Oh my jeebus!! I think I've had my art fill for the whole year and celebrity fill as well, of all people to bump into I almost slammed into Jane Seymour, thankfully a collision with Ms. Seymour was averted and I got to say "hi" instead.

I think that's what I love the most about coming into the city. No matter who I'm visiting, there's always something going on and on a whim you can just walk around a find some new place to go or new thing to see. And even if it turns out bad, you still have a great story to share.

Painting Party in the Bronx

Laura Anne invited some of us over to enjoy some fine stinky cheese and glorious wine so that we might help free her from the pumpkin/pink that encased her bedroom. The previous tenant didn't understand the concept of "accent walls" and I leave you to take the journey with me based on that phrase.

I think the quote of the weekend that best encompasses my painting skills can best be summed up by my opening question (paraphrasing at best since it's been a couple days):

"OK, so what do you trust me with doing first?"

So I let the pro's go at it and took care of the stuff to better help them out: edging around the door, cleaning brushes, changing rollers and general moral support as well as musical support.

And thanks to modern chemical technology, not only did the paint not need priming, but it had a low VOC which meant we didn't need to pull out the respirators while we painted. So it took the better portion of the day on Saturday to complete and Laura Anne was able to sleep in that same room that night. I <3 science!!

Busy Right from the Start

I would be blogging about my awesome weekend, but this will be a quick dispatch since I'm insanely busy at work and was too tired at home to even think about blogging.

Blogging will commence tonight...my energy willing.