| The Bet, part 2. |
[May. 8th, 2008|09:11 am] |
"Can I just have one funnel cake... eating contest?" --Meatwad, The Diet
Katie and I have a bet going. Whoever loses the most weight between January 3, 2008 and May 16, 2008 will get treated to a massage or a facial at the spa.
I am almost certainly going to lose. At this point I would have to lose nearly a pound every day (while she does nothing) to catch her. She's doing well, I'm really proud of her. I was doing really well at the beginning, but I've hit this wall that I just keep bouncing off of--I've gotten to this particular weight about 3 or 4 times now and I just can't seem to get any lower. It's very frustrating.
Because we've been discussing our bet at supper club, Jen decided that she wants in on the second part of our bet (the bet is in two parts because Katie is going on a Mediterranean cruise and she intends to gain back a good portion of this weight in yummy european dining and wouldn't participate in the bet otherwise).
I wanted us to have some sort of plan where everyone would be motivated, even if they aren't in the lead--something to make you challenge yourself to keep losing weight; a reward that isn't reliant on your progress relative to the other two.
So here's what we're doing:
Every Wednesday morning* starting June 4th, we'll weigh ourselves and report our % of body weight lost to the group that night at Supper Club. Then we have to pay Bob (who has volunteered to play our banker) for our progress over the past week: if you lose weight, you put in a dollar; if you stay the same, you put in $3; if you gain, you put in $5. There are 30 Wednesdays from June 11 (first weigh-in) until December 31.
So if we're all really successful and lose weight every week, the winner will get about $60, and second place will get about $30--their money back. But let's face it, what are the odds that we'll all lose EVERY single week?
Same rules for this bet that Katie and I have been using: basically, there are no rules. You can do absolutely anything you want to lose the weight, it's your call. You can stop eating entirely, you can go on one of those crazy drugs in the locked case at Walgreens, you can go get some of that Smart Lipo they keep talking about on the radio. Heck, you can have your leg amputated if that's what YOU want to do. You are only required to report your progress accurately.
I made a chart. The $18 is just in there for show.
*Because Katie and I have become intimately familiar with a phenomenon we call "The Supper Club Bump"--the seemingly inevitable couple of pounds you'll see on the scale after our yummy cooking experiments. Katie and I have been weighing in on Fridays and the SCB definitely makes that suck a bit. |
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| IT'S OFFICE THURSDAY! |
[May. 8th, 2008|08:53 am] |
Only two more Office Thursdays to go this season. :(
HIGH FIVE!
How disappointing to have John Krasinski come running up to you yelling, "baby baby baby" and he's talking to your stomach...
Did you hear that John McCain announced his running mate on the Daily Show last night? Watch it here. (there's a reason this is going in the Office Thursday post) |
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| I owe my fun to Meredith Grey |
[May. 7th, 2008|09:04 pm] |
This weekend I went to the Tegan & Sara concert at the Pageant. Jen and I both discovered them when their song "Where Does the Good Go?" was featured on Grey's Anatomy in the first season.
You weren't really at the concert if you didn't take a picture with your phone, right? At least it seems this way from the tiny screens throughout the crowd.
Tegan on the left, Sara on the right:
It was a really good show. They sound just as good live as they do on their album. And because they're sisters they bicker between the songs.
Sara was going on (and on) about how she normally finds the cities they stay in scary ("America is SCARY! But St. Louis is nice.") when this beeping sound started...
Sara: Does anybody else hear that?
Tegan: I'm timing you. To see how long it takes you to realize you're not in the middle of a dream where you're a stand up comedian... If you want to do "intimate and interactive" every night, you need to buy us some chairs.
The opening band, An Horse, was pretty good, too. It's just the two of them, and as Kate & I discussed, we're not entirely sure if the girl has the chops yet on the guitar to be the only melody instrument (the guy plays drums). And all of their songs mostly sound the same after the intro--even comparing the super-duper sad song to the extra happy song.
Jen informed me that when the bouncer said to me, "that's a great shirt", what he really meant was, "nice rack." I don't think that's necessarily true when the shirt in question features Chip & Dale Rescue Rangers. It's a pretty unequivocally awesome shirt.
Plus, I got to wear the last pair out of my shoe splurge! Where better than this concert full of hipsters to wear... the awesome Vans that were designed with me in mind--they had to be, they're just too perfect:
ARGYLE!! WITH PINK STITCHING!!
This was the only pair I bought last weekend that I wasn't able to wear to work.
THE TOUR OF SHOES:
Monday, I wore the Fuchsia Patent Leather Pumps. I couldn't possibly pass these shoes up. They were too sweet:
Tuesday was the stripey sandals.
As absolutely precious as they are, it was probably a bad idea to wear them on this day: that night we went to the Cardinals game, so we were doing a decent bit of walking. I got blisters. But that's okay, because the next day I wore... THE FISH SLIPPERS (which have a velvet lining that was very gentle on the blisters).
FISHIES! I LOVE FISHIES!!
And Thursday wrapped it up with the girliest pair--nothing says girly like eyelet lace.
Jen has discovered my shopping Achilles heel. If I'm trying to talk myself out of something, you just have to remind me how well they'll go with something I've already gotten. She got me to buy the jeans by reminding me that I could wear them with the fuchsia pumps, then she got me to buy the Vans by saying how cute they'd look with the new jeans.
Devil woman. :)
Sara: That is ridiculous.
Tegan: I can't hear you in my monitor, so I'm just going to assume you said, "That's hilarious." |
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| Disappointment |
[May. 6th, 2008|03:49 pm] |
Boston Katie said I'm a big disppointment because I haven't seen Iron Man yet.
"Come on! You're a huge dork about the super heroes. When we went to see X-Men, you and Patrick wouldn't shut the hell up."
At least I wasn't the one who kept flipping out my "claws". That was all Patrick. He kept throwing out his fists and making the "snik" noise. |
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| Does Anybody Know What Time the Next Water Show Is??? |
[May. 5th, 2008|10:31 am] |
Boston Katie sent me this picture on my cell:
That's her in there. I don't know why.
But it made me remember the greatest Snickers commercial of ALL TIME. Maybe only if you've worked at a theme park, but certainly most people have had idiots come up to them at work with stupid, stupid questions.
I actually had somebody ask me "What time is the 3:00 parade?" And I bit down the sarcasm and politely informed them that the parade would be passing by our location about 3:20.
And now, ladies and gentlemen, Barky the Dog:
ETA: I have since been informed that they were having a story time at their office. Take Your Kids, perhaps? |
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| If you were a real star, you'd put your face in it. |
[May. 1st, 2008|08:28 pm] |
This was a good Office. It was appropriately ridiculous.
I love the Dwight master org chart.
Floyd has a partner meeting with Peter Venkman. I love it.
"YOU USED GHOSTBUSTERS FOR EVIL!"
"DON'T YOU DEPRIVE THE GOOD PEOPLE OF CLEVELAND OF AN IKEA! YOU ARE VINDICTIVE, LIZ LEMON!"
Why did they have to write Jason Sudekis off of 30 Rock. I heart Floyd.
There's waaaaay too much good Thursday TV.
It was really only a matter of time before Sawyer made a Long Duc Dong reference, wasn't it?
The Korean word for helicopter is "helicopter"?
"Okaaaaay, dude. Crying at the smoke detector. Leaving now..."
I'm not surprised that guy is back. He must have just ate a bunch a livers again. |
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| It's Office Thursday! |
[May. 1st, 2008|01:10 pm] |
Phyllis REPREZNT the 314!! HOLLA!
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| The night's not over until everyone goes asses up. |
[Apr. 29th, 2008|10:32 am] |
Last night was my first experience with Bacana, an all-you-can-eat Brazillian restaurant in Chesterfield.
In the planning, I mentioned being horrified/intrigued by the prospect of spending an evening watching a group of guy gorge themselves on as much grilled meat as they could hold--which led Bob to coin the term "horritrigued".
My experience last night on the Horritrigued scale:
Intrigued | | Me | Horritrigued | | | | Horrified
Mostly it was just amazing food, albeit in ridiculous quantities.
Here's how it works: On each table (about 1 per 2 people) there are little coasters. On one side is a picture of a green cow and the word "Yes", on the other, just the back half of a red cow and the word "No." When you're ready to eat, you flip to Yes, and when you get to "Please, I can't handle any more meat" you flip it to No.
They have guys coming around continuously with these giant sword skewers of grilled meat (and other stuff) and they cut off a strip for you. There are a BAJILLION different items brought around!
What I can remember (with the assitance of their website):
- Sirloin - They used to call this tenderloin, and Jen asked after it, and the hot assistant manager brought to us directly.
- Top Sirloin
- Garlic Steak - Lots of people raved, I found it kind of tough. I'm also not the biggest garlic fan, so I'm biased.
- Chicken Wings - I don't think chicken wings are worth the effort, so I declined this one.
- Chicken wrapped in Bacon - Despite the theory that anything wrapped in bacon is delicious, this was rubbery and slimy. It made me feel gross in my tummy.
- Sausage - the casing was kind of tough
- Brazillian Steak - Yummy, but Katie disliked--she got a tougher bit
- Spicy Pork & Salted Pork - I don't know if I had both of these, but I had some delicious pork.
- Salmon
- Shrimp - It still had the legs, which means it was not on Kim's plate.
- Beef Shoulder - tough and flavorless
- Lamb - this didn't have much flavor (my piece at least) but Bob & Jen said it was way overseasoned last time, so they thought it was great.
- Pineapple - OMG, best thing EVAR. Pineapple sprinkled with cinnamon. Yum-tastic. Katie is installing a pineapple spit at her condo.
- Bananas - Bob said they were plantaines, so I didn't get any, but Katie gave me a bite and it was delish.
- Filet Mignon
I think that's all of them. The website said something about "famous cheese bread", but I didn't see it. I'm still full. I think I'm going to be veggie for a couple of days. That was ridiculous.
BONUS: In addition to the food, there's a veritable buffet of eye candy roaming around the restaurant as well. Top honors to our waiter, Victor, and the assistant manager, mentions to the server who reminded me of the guy from the Dirty Dancing crap-quel and Y tu Mama Tambien and the manager (from Katie & Jen, not me personally). |
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| Just me? |
[Apr. 29th, 2008|10:29 am] |
Is it just me, or do "venus" and "pink pearl" sound more like vibrators than cell phones?
It just made me laugh when I heard the commercials that advocate buying one for your mom for mother's day.
So wrong. |
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| Look who's honoring me now! |
[Apr. 28th, 2008|04:36 pm] |
We did employee recognition at our team meeting today, and lo and behold, I got an award!
Check it out:
Oh yeah. I'm that awesome. They've invented a pretty pretty princess award just for me.
( Does this award come with fabulous prizes? )
Since I'm technically (by title) in an administrative position, I still get treats on Admin Pro Day, hence, ( MORE PRETTIES ) |
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| Glorious |
[Apr. 24th, 2008|02:58 pm] |
This is fantastic (in that traffic accident sort of way). ABC is coming out with a High School Musical reality show.
I saw the link on the main page of abc.com, and just couldn't resist a click. I think it's just a sort of American Idol rip-off, but with more dancing, maybe? Not the point, I won't watch it anyway, but I found this part of the application HIGH-larious:
"You will need to undergo medical and psychological testing and extensive background checks." Crazies need not apply, a'ight?
the application
the home page
Sorry, McKenna, you have to be 16. |
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| OFFICE THURSDAY |
[Apr. 24th, 2008|02:24 pm] |
This is my prediction for the season finale (May 15) of The Office:
Oh, it's happening.
Thus have I spake, thus shall it be done.
COME ON, JIM! You've been dating for a year! DO IT! |
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| TOO MUCH TV |
[Apr. 24th, 2008|12:50 pm] |
After the dearth of the writer's strike, it's nice to have my shows back, but tonight is just ridiculous:
The Office
30 Rock
My Name is Earl
Grey's Anatomy
Ugly Betty
LOST
God bless you, DVR. |
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| Fuck You and the IP Address You Rode in On. |
[Apr. 23rd, 2008|12:49 am] |
For several months now, one of my neighbors has been piggy-backing on my wireless connection. I hadn't protected the connection, because my laptop has always been a little squirrely about the wireless connection, and I just seemed to connect more reliably when the connection wasn't secured. And it was more than fast enough for me still, so I thought, what's the harm?
Tonight I found out.
Some jackass hijacked my router and secured it. Locking me out. Jackass.
So I called Bob, my friendly neighborhood computer guy, and he walked me through resetting the router to knock out the lock (which only I can do, since I am in the same physical location as the router) and how to set up my own lock.
So I hope you're proud of yourself, dude. You had a good thing going--free wi-fi at your fingertips--but you had to go and fuck it up. So now you are officially SOL.
Jackass. |
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| BASEBALL |
[Apr. 18th, 2008|04:22 pm] |
I'm getting ready for my second Cardinals game of the season. YAY!
And it is fricking pouring rain. BOO!
But the game on Tuesday (first of the season) was GREAT. We stomped on the Brewers.
Katie and I sat in the front row of the upper deck, right behind home plate, so we had a great view of the whole field. Only problem? It was Jackie Robinson night, so all the Cardinals were wearing 42 and no name on their jerseys. Which wouldn't have been as big a challenge last year, but our lineup is very different this year.
"Nice hit... number 42!"
Katie: "How am I supposed to figure out who I'm cheering for?"
Kim: "You could just look at the scoreboard. That CF next to Rick Ankiel does not mean that he's playing for Cystic Fibrosis."
See a little bit of Rick in action here.
Only one of the Brewers decided to wear the 42 jersey: Prince Fielder. And he acted like a huge jackass all night long. If you're going to wear a classy guy's number, you should act like a classy guy, not throw your bat like a little bitch every time you strike out.
Also, what happened to Josh, the swarthy bat boy? Has he been replaced? |
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| MOTHERFUCKING EARTHQUAKE! |
[Apr. 18th, 2008|08:40 am] |
So I've learned a little something about myself lately--my body won't let me sleep for more than 6 hours in a row. I can go BACK to sleep, but I seem to wake up after about 6 hours and need to rearrange, or change the number of blankets, etc. So if I go to be at a reasonable hour (10:30) I end up awake at an unreasonable one (4:30).
I woke up last night at 4:30 with an unshakable belief that I had forgotten to lock the front door. Half way to the door, I hear a loud thumping from the apartment upstairs, and my windchime--which has never made a sound, because it's indoors and not in front of a vent--started to ring.
It's FUN living near a fault line. :)
Jen, see what happens when you don't call me to talk about The Office? Freaking Armageddon. |
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| Overly Excited |
[Apr. 17th, 2008|11:13 am] |
Caroline: Hey, Kim? What day is it?
Kim: IT'S OFFICE THURSDAY!
Jen: Gosh, he looks so college-y like he could have been one of our friends. Damn us for not having gone to Brown. |
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| Worth the Wait |
[Apr. 13th, 2008|10:29 pm] |
Finally did my taxes today. Between my actual refunds and the stimulus rebate, I'm going to pocket about $1200 this year...
How shall I stimulate the economy?
I'm tempted to just put it all in savings, since my emergency fund is only about half of what it should be, but what's the fun in that?
I just learned this year (when I was deducting the sales tax on my Mini) that you can actually deduct the sales tax from everything you bought all year long if you kept your receipts. Does anybody actually do that? Is it ever worth the effort? That's a LOT of receipts to total up.
I don't want to hear anything from anybody about how I could have had the money months ago. I am not interested. I'm done on time and that's all that matters.
The gov' never sent me a real estate tax statement this year. What's that about? And I know that I never got it, because although I may take my sweet time opening my mail, I never throw anything away without opening and reading it (unless it's clearly junk mail). I just had to extrapolate from my mortgage company's escrow statement.
That might have been the most grown-up sentence ever on this blog.
ASIDE: It is insane that the livejournal spell check doesn't know the word "blog". But then, it also doesn't know livejournal as one word. |
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| Quizzes |
[Apr. 13th, 2008|12:08 am] |
I took this one mainly for the tag on the main page: "C'mon... let us compare your personality to a famous person's shoes. We really want to." Well, if you REALLY want to:
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| Flickr Meme |
[Apr. 12th, 2008|11:35 pm] |
1. Go to www.flickr.com
2. Type in your answer to the question in the "search" box
3. Use only the first page
4. Copy the html and paste for the answer.
( CLICK IT! ) |
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