Saturday, January 27, 2018

First trip to Vegas is always the best

The first time I did coke was in 1998, that is so long ago but I'm going to tell the story now. My best friend and I wen to Vegas because we had never been, we stayed of the strip, off the beaten path at a hotel that had been posh in the 50's and was fine for our purposes, a place to sleep and a pool if we wanted to get some sun. We walked the strip and checked out all the hotels and we ran into some dudes she word with, they had just one big ona random dollar slot machine when we randomly ran into them the first night we were there, they invited us up to their room and we all did bumps or lines...like one and I was back to normal. The night before i had gone on a date with a dude I worked with and had flirted with for months and I ended up getting no sleep and when I got home had to toss some clothes in a suitcase and run out the door to catch our flight. So with no sleep I was tired and this bit of coke made me feel normal. That's always what it has done for me. Yay, ready to go out and have some fun, isn't that the appeal? Anyway we went to their room and did some, so random but so good at the time. I was awake again. Down to the floor of their hotel and sitting at the bar, we were drinking and talking and the dudes we were with kept leaving and returning and our very smart bartender recognized what wa going on. I think we just left and went to our own hotel room eventually.It was just a wake up and have fun kind of night for me.Made up for the random sort of bad date sex I'd had the night before with my coworker who it turned out was not quite over his girlfriend. So that first trip to Vegas was worth something...I would take many more trips to Vegas but this is the only one where I did coke. It was no big deal and I lived to tell the story.

Friday, February 13, 2009

nuture your genius

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Sunday, February 8, 2009

25 random facts about my life in 2008

1. I woke up alone on New Year's day and that was awesome!
2. I got laid off my job 3 days before I was to go to Kauai for 10 days and that was a good thing.
3. I went to see Barack Obama at key areana the next day and that was an experience.
4. I laid in the sun for 10 days in Kauai and that was a good tan.
5. I traveled with my 90 year old grandmother and realized that I wasn't even half way through my life and that was a revelation.
6. I applied for unemployment benefits and that paid the rent.
7. I got a business license with the state of Washington and that really didn't need to happen.
8. I set up a website and that was easier than I thought.
9. I went to yoga 3-5 times a week through the end of May and I was sad when it just wasn't in my budget to continue.
10. I went to Maui with Heather on whim and that was so worth it.
11. I went to an astrologist who told me I was in a very special, creative, strong time of my life.
12. I went to a medium who had nothing to say when I asked about romance in my life.
13. I painted and set up an etsy site and it made me feel accomplished.
14. I went on some lame internet dates and that made me give up trying to find dates on the internet.
15. I packed up all my belonging into storage and it made me feel stressed out.
16. I hung out with my niece, Claire, and she made me so happy.
17. I moved to Walla Walla and lived with my sister and her husband and it was a good change, but I drank too much wine.
18. I worked at Long Shadows vintners for crush and I really enjoyed it.
19. I made a fool of myself at Thanksgiving and realized I was maybe a little depressed about the transient feeling of my life.
20. I talked to an ex boyfriend who reminded me that I can doing anything and that I am an amazing, beautiful woman.
21. I researched yoga instructor training programs, then thought maybe next year.
22. I realized snow on the roads annoyed me and maybe I shouldn't move to Eastern Washington.
23. I remembered I don't like Christmas and decided I want to go somewhere tropical for that Holiday.
24. I spent New Year's Eve nursing a cold, watching South Park on cable and it was the best!
25. I got through the entire year without having sex and that kinda sucked.

Thursday, February 5, 2009

25 random beauty facts about me

1. i stole grandma Teddy's red lipstick when i was in grade school and tried to deny it, probably with red lips
2. i hardly ever wear lipstick now because my lips are very dark naturally, the first time I had a facial the esthetician tried to "wipe" off my lipstick but I wasn't wearing any
3. i still use vaseline even though I've read petroleum products are suposedly bad for you
4. i started using eye cream when i turned 30, and have used it twice a day since...I always come back to Origins eyecreams when i try others
5. i don't like to use sun screen and don't usually use anything over 4 spf on my body
6. i don't like it when my face is tan so i use 15spf on my face
7. i like to use after sun lotion and sun tan lotion in the winter b/c the smell reminds me of the sun
8. i have colored my hair since i was 17
9. my first beauty products that i used faithfully were dove soap, sea breeze astringent, and oil of olay lotion, I think that was pretty much it till I hit mid 20's
10. i've never had acne, spots here and there but nothing horrible
11. i use coverup to cover the dark circles under my eyes everyday
12. i used to use white powder to look pale now I use nothing
13. when I was a little kid my teen age aunts used to put makeup on me and have me pose sexy in my bikini
14. i've used a sonicare toothbrush since 1996
15. i always wash my face with St Ives apricot scrub in the morning in the shower
16. i gave myself a manicure every week while in highschool and college
17. since i graduated from college i have had maybe 6 manicures
18. i always have a pedicure, I don't like to not have polish on my toe nails
19. i have chronic athletes foot and dry feet ever since college, should have been wearing flip flops in the communal showers
20. i'm addicted to lip balm
21. i use hand lotion religiously
22. i put lotion on my body every day
23. i prefer to shave every other day
24. i don't wear perfume much anymore
25. i nair my upper lip and to get rid of my monobrow and I shape my own eyebrows

Monster.com

So I reposted my resume and all I get is emails from insurance agents, so glad I'm not that desperate yet. I think I'd want to kill myself before I was an insurance agent...or be a barista again.

25 random memories about work

1. i was a nanny for 2 years in college
2. i worked one summer at the pool on campus handing out towels, saw a lot of naked ladies
3. i started working in retail after i graduated from college
4. i sold pens
5. i sold art supplies
6. i sold furniture
7. i've only had one job where i mostly just cruised the internet, it was borning
8. while working in soho, I helped Molly Ringwald buy a pillow and I look nothing like her
9. i've managed many people and written many reviews
10. i fired a woman who was stealing money
11. i've been a barista
12. people have paid for my art work
13. i worked at Pottery Barn and was pissed because we could only wear black and white (and kahaki which I don't wear)
14.awesome people are the reason i stayed at jobs i hated
15. i used to have panic attacks on Sunday nights while working at Starbucks
16. i smoked pot with my coworkers, but not at work
17. i've had a drink with coworkers and then gone back to work
18. i've never slept with any of my coworkers while we were working together
19. a coworker showed me his new penis piercing while at work in the back room
20. i have hired people within 15 minutes of meeting them
21. i always got every job i applied to, except in the last 2 years
22. i have never been fired but i have been laid off
23. i have worked with so many awesome people who i would work with again
24. i was told by an astrologist last year that i should try not to work for anyone but myself, unfortunately i'm looking a for a job

25 random memories about my exboyfriends

1. my first kiss took place leaning against a pooltable
2. my first boyfriend in College and I locked eyes while singing songs at a sorority raid.
3. he had gotten 2 highschool girlfriends pregnant. I took the morning after pill twice while we were together
4. one I met in astronomy class by copying his homework , he lost his virginity to me during a fire drill in his dorm
5. he had a mohawk and wore combat boots
6. he broke up with me to date a girl who had a mohawk
7. i have had 3 long distance relationships
8. one boyfriend inspired me to purchase "Blond on Blond" my first CD, he made very strong cocktails, smoked pot, mountain climbed, and became a lawyer
9. i dated a cook who wore overalls
10. i dated a guy who never drank alcohol
11. i've only posed nude for one man and he used them as inspiration for paintings
12. one wrote and recorded 2 songs about me
13. one taught me how to ride a motorcycle
14. one always wanted me to be "bigger" almost as bad as your boyfriend wanting you to lose weight
15. when I was 30 I was living with a 22 year old, who said he loved me because I loved him
16. the best first kiss i ever had made me feel like the world had changed, it felt like vertigo
17. he went to Russia with his mother 3 days later and my friends and i joked that when a man doesn't call "he's gone to Russia"
18. when he returned from Russia we met up and he saw me on the street and walked towards me with open arms for big hug, he told me when he was gone he could hear my voice in his dreams.
19. he told me he loved bigger girls, and i was at the fitest and thinest I'd ever been
20. i still suspect he's a player
21. a dated a guy who didn't know how to drive a car
22. when I broke up with one, I bet a friend I wouldn't sleep with him for a year, I owed her $100 within 6 months
23. i dated a guy who had contracted herpes from his ex wife, he didn't give it to me
24. i've dated 3 men with penises over 10" long, one could never get it in
25. i dated my highschool boyfriend again when we were 25