Fujiyama Mama

Well, it's been months since I updated, and what do I have for you?  Pictures of me in Vegas and northern Arizona, plus the fact that I'm sick with a cold of doom.  Seriously, it's like I never stopped blogging at all.

But first, hilarity. 

Oh, McCain, how you hurt me with your complete and total ignorance of the fact that the internet exists and people can very easily look back at what you said months and months ago.

And now, vacation!

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Here are drunk, exhausted fangirls in our sketchy hotel room right next to the arena.  The concert was great, as was the wine we had afterwards.

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Lauren and Danielle are made of awesome.  I was so, so glad I had Danielle to hang out with during the long wait for the meet and greet.  It was a weird experience because, really, all I had to say was, "Yeah, I really like your new album."  Like, there were girls there that were crying and in love with the guys in the band and that was just weird and I wasn't sure if I should comfort them or kick them in the ass and tell them to calm the hell down.

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And that would be me kind of uncomfortable with Panic at the Disco.  Really random, right?  But seriously, their new album is totally mellow and melodic and laid back, not at all like the demented carnival theme of their first album, and they put on a really good live show.  So you should go buy it.

This is Mad as Rabbits, my favorite song of theirs right now.

Then we went to Las Vegas, and I don't have any pictures of that until I get them from Nicole and Tanni because I didn't carry my camera around.  Instead I just drank a lot and won ten dollars at blackjack.

Then a cold snap hit the Southwest, which is why we're all wrapped up in the next few pictures.  Also, I'm from Tucson and am a total wuss when it comes to being cold.

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The Hoover dam is very cool and I think Tanni was excited to be able to use her new wrap that she got at this funky thrift shop in Vegas called The Attic.  We spent nearly an hour digging through everything there and I almost got a pair of vintage cat eye glasses, but then decided it would be too expensive to get my prescription put into them so I didn't.

Over the Edge: Death in Grand Canyon

So I'm reading this book called "Death in the Grand Canyon" right?  And apparently, people think of National Parks as amusement parks, like because there are rangers around they don't have to watch out for their own safety.  So they walk right up to the edge of the Canyon and they're not scared because they're in this mindset that everything's safe and no matter what they do, they'll be fine, like they're at Disneyland instead of in nature.  And then they fall over the edge and die.

Apparently, it's totally common for people to climb right over the guard rails and look through their viewfinders instead of where they're going so, you know, if you ever go the Grand Canyon, it's beautiful and you should totally enjoy it, but stay on the right side of the guard rails because it's a very, very long way down.

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Neither Nicole nor I got very close to the edge.  Our fear of falling and dying horribly was still intact, thank you very much.  Although, I was really, really out of my head on DayQuil because like I mentioned at the beginning of this post, I have a terrible cold and am dying from it.

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I think that's why I was so excited for Nicole to take a picture of me growling next to a dead tree.  It ended up being one of my favorite pictures of me, though, so whatever.  I'm still hopped up on DayQuil and I'm totally not sure if I'm making any sense or not.

I'll leave you with my other favorite song while I go find more cold medicine and get ready for work.

I hate being sick, and yet I've been sick for the past two weeks.  I don't know what's up with that.  I was sick, and then I got better, and now I just got sick again.  I wish the FDA hadn't banned Triaminicin.  I don't care if it gives people hemorrhagic strokes, I just want my cold meds!

My store is finally back together, only now I don't know where anything is.  It's confusing but I'll get used to it.  Um, that's about it.  And Chloraseptic tastes like ass.

I hate being sick, and yet I've been sick for the past two weeks.  I don't know what's up with that.  I was sick, and then I got better, and now I just got sick again.  I wish the FDA hadn't banned Triaminicin.  I don't care if it gives people hemorrhagic strokes, I just want my cold meds!

My store is finally back together, only now I don't know where anything is.  It's confusing but I'll get used to it.  Um, that's about it.  And Chloraseptic tastes like ass.

Worked yesterday on Thanksgiving.  It was actually kind of fun, and not as crazy as I thought it would be.  Also, I took pictures.

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Jordan posing oh-so-artfully at the pastry case.

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OK, so we were a little exhausted.

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Jessica and J-Dizzle snuggle and smile.

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"I hate this blender!"

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Cisco does not approve of this post.

Flashing Lights On Police Car

I love Court TV.  It almost makes me wish I had cable.  I could watch forensic shows and "World's Best Police Chases" for hours and hours every day.

I told my mom tonight that we should open a private detective agency.  I don't want to do the boring and/or dangerous work, I just want an office with a streetlight coming through slats in the blinds, my feet up on my desk, sipping from a flask and bantering with my possibly double-crossing clients.

I read a lot of Raymond Chandler.

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I'm hanging out at It's A Grind because they have free wireless.  I'm using the wifi to upload pictures of my San Diego trip and send them to Miriam way over in Germany.  I know I've posted San Diego pics before, but here's some more.

Me, Miriam, and Letizia

Dolly, the star of the show

I think he loved me, too

So Very German

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So there's a smattering of San Diego pictures.  There are more, which maybe I'll play with and upload one day.

Right now I'm eavesdropping on the (very loud, in my defense) cell phone conversation of the man at the table next to mine, telling whoever's on the end of the line that he never uses the word "fuck" because he's a sensitive person.  He's not sensitive enough to use an inside voice while on his cell phone in a coffee shop, but whatever.

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And this isn't a San Diego pic, obviously, but Halloween's coming up.  I've been so busy lately, I hope I have time to carve a few pumpkins.

non smoking

I have stopped smoking.  This is actually the first time I've really tried to quit smoking (in 15+ years), and it's going OK so far.  Of course, it's only been 48 hours, but still.  I have yet to rip anyone's head off, so I'm going to count that as a good thing.

I just keep reminding myself of the money I'll save, of the way my hair won't smell like smoke, of how I'll get sick less frequently and less severely.  Maybe this will be the winter when I don't get bronchitis even once--who knows?  I'm also looking forward to things people have told me about--things like taste buds and a sense of smell.  And maybe one day, I'll even have a healthy pair of pink lungs again.  Never completely pink, I know, but hopefully a lot better.