11 FEB 2003 - 3.27p
i might make a return to the online blog life this week. maybe. maybe.

07 FEB 2003 - 7.03p

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LACEY!!!!!!!!!!
i love you!

30 JAN 2003 - 6.15p
a brief break from my hiatus to announce the arrival of lucy! not really an arrival, but our offer was accepted today. she's a pretty mover and she has a really cool father and lots of famous brothers and sisters. we're very excited.

28 JAN 2003 - 3.27p
i am taking a blog hiatus. if you are looking for info on dave davis of the cleveland plain dealer, please feel free to email me.

27 JAN 2003 - 8.40p
check out david's dog's latest destruction. oh wow, my reaction to this was priceless. smart dog!!!

26 JAN 2003 - 11.50p
i went to see henry rollins do a spoken word thing tonight. i was unexpectedly invited and had to originally turn down the invitation. then when i was freed for the evening, i graciously accepted and honored my dear friend ed with my company. mr. rollins... i enjoyed him! he's looking good in his old age (40something!) and was ever so full of the wit. he can really tell a story, that hank.

we went and looked at the filly this morning. pretty sure we're going to buy her. still afraid of jinxing it... but it will probably be official in just a few short days. exciting!

supposedly tampa bay won paul cox's super bowl tonight. i wouldn't really know, though, since i hate football and i didn't watch it, even though i was supposed to for my advertising class (god bless the VCR!).

it's cold outside. and there's a lot of snow. i have class early tomorrow. i should go to bed.

26 JAN 2003 - 7.58a
HAPPY BIRTHDAY PAUL COX!!!!!!!!!!!!!

too early to be awake on sunday, but my lack of a recent update is kind of lame. the latest news... on friday, tony and i watched the most fucked up thing ever. it was some film he stole from his "girlfriend" (he meant his ex, but he called her that...) that was based on alice in wonderland. i think it was czech or swiss (i'm not sure) and it was called neco z alenky (or just "alice" in english). it was really fucked up. i will never be the same again.

yesterday we drove to pittsburgh to go to the church brew works. wow! that place was amazing. the building itself... so weird walking into it and sitting down eating and drinking and a church. the food was good, the beer was great... we had ice cream for dessert... i got cinnamon and it was so yummy. i'm so happy we went.

now we're getting ready to look at the filly. seems like a crappy morning to be driving.

23 JAN 2003 - 8.37a
i'm still wearing the clothes i was wearing last night. i did take them off to sleep... but i am a little chilled at the moment and the thought of taking them off to change them is not appealing. it's effing cold outside!!

i stayed at tony's last night after work... we watched some of american idol and then went to bed. i can't believe we watched that the last two nights... it was funny, though. i love simon.

today i was supposed to check out a house and some property with my mom. she went and looked at it yesterday and loved the house... she just wanted to make sure the property would be okay for barn building and pasture-izing, as there was no existing barn or fenced pasture. in typical o'malley fashion, she received a call last night saying that immediately after she looked at it yesterday, someone made an offer on it which the owners accepted. ha! we have some luck, huh? please keep fingers crossed, though... we're looking at a filly this weekend, and i'd hate for the shitty luck to continue with this one. she's probably everything i want.

david sent me this picture and i laughed and laughed. his dog did that. ha! star wars... too funny.

i received an email from kimya dawson of the moldy peaches. she's going to do one of her hand painted tote bags for me! i am so excited! she's going to paint a pink horse (newt) and a black and white spotted dog (phoebe) being friends... since we all know how much newt and phoebe hate each other in real life. i thought it would be a nice thing to get, since i very rarely see them being happy in the same place at the same time. kimya rules!

i have to type some stupid assignment for my copywriting class now. lame.

21 JAN 2003 - 8.39a
my boyfriend got his haircut last night. HOT.

i enjoyed the day off yesterday... i wish it had been a little warmer so i could've done more at the barn. but bah, january fucking sucks.

went to tony's to watch joe millionaire last night. we had fun, as always. i like how i can see this boy all the time and can still be excited about seeing him. even more amazing... i think he feels the same. this is a good, good thing.

we might have found the baby horse of our dreams (aside from being a filly!) but i'm not going to talk about it because i don't want to jinx it.

my allergies are bad this morning.

20 JAN 2003 - 4.42p
i wish it was june instead of january.

the work thing last night was fun. not nearly as many people showed up as planned... but it was still a good time. just a bunch of women sitting around, drinking wine, and talking. the food that people brought was great... the chocolate chip thing i brought was a huge success, but there was so much food that there's a lot left over. no problem... i'm sure tony and i can easily finish it off.

i stayed over tony's last night... when i was driving home this morning, i drove past the spot where the grocery store was that my mom used to shop at when i was little. i guess i drive past it pretty much every day... i just really thought about it today. there's a really ghetto looking dollar store there now... lots of neon in the windows. i remember going to the grocery store... the clerks at the deli counter used to give us cool stuff at the beginning of the school year. pencils and erasers and stuff like that. i won a coloring contest one year... at easter. i got this HUGE blue stuffed bunny. do grocery stores still have coloring contests?

19 JAN 2003 - 2.26p
food thing has been made... i made the dessert/chocolate chip cookie dough-esque ball that steph's mom made for the timberlane party. it's chilling in the fridge now.

tony didn't get his haircut yesterday. apparently arriving five minutes late for a hair appointment is grounds for cancellation. he's going monday night now. HOT.

we didn't do much last night... we cuddled on the couch and watched trading spaces and some makeover show. i was happy to hear that tony likes me the way i am... it's a relief knowing that he doesn't think i need to wear super pointy shoes to be cool. he also said that our wedding is going to be like some star trek wedding they keep showing in some commercial on tlc... except without the star trek. we're going to have coolers of beer at all the tables at the reception.

in real wedding news, my really gross cousin dan got married in vegas this weekend. i never see him because he's old and has always lived in michigan... but when i do see him, he seems to be getting progressively grosser. anyway, he's probably having a reception eventually. when my mom told me, we made fun of him.

i have to go riding now!

19 JAN 2003 - 1.05p
if you're doing a search for "how to levatate without buying a book" and you come across my blog in the results, you will not find the answer to your inquiry. sorry.

tonight my boss is having a little get together at her house... i'm excited to be going, but i have to make some sort of food thing to bring over. i need to get on that.

18 JAN 2003 - 2.42p
that horse is a definite NO. we went and looked at him today... he is way too much work. i was under the impression he was much further along... he was definitely not worth a whole lot... even if we could've gotten him for next to nothing, we probably would've paid too much.

went to see jsbx last night with tony. ran into fifty million people that he knew... and jon spencer stood right next to me. the girls that hate me were there (hello to them! i'm sure they'll be reading this! sorry i haven't replied to your email yet... it's been a busy week). i told tony to go say hi to them but to pretend like i'd be really pissed if i knew he was talking to them. so he waited till i got a beer... and talked to them and in real life, it did not piss me off. but for entertainment purposes, i was fuming.

i have a headache and now i have to go to work. tony got a haircut today and i can't wait to see it. HOT.

16 JAN 2003 - 10.48p
why does my dog NOT eat the things that ARE meant to be eaten when she happily eats the things that are NOT meant to be eaten? if you know her, you'll understand. if you don't, you're missing out.

in other news, there is a possibility that if we like this horse on sunday, we might bring him "home" on monday for a little trial... he'll have to be out of the barn by the start of february, though. we have decided that if we buy him, we are going to name him clifford after the big red dog. he is a big red horse. it makes sense to us.

16 JAN 2003 - 2.20p
another busy day... i stayed over tony's last night... which was nice. i enjoyed using "my" key again. woke up when he called on my cell... went home shortly afterwards. rode newt, and now here i am. i have to finish some stupid assignments for my class at four.

my grandma is in a coma. she is in stable condition, but i guess my mom thinks she won't come out of the coma. they discharged her from the hospital today and sent her back to the nursing home. she has bedsores and my mom really didn't want her to go back to the home.

there has been a ton of drama lately with the buckskin colt that was sold out from under us. i don't feel like getting into it... but now, and this is NOT because of the buckskin problems, we are considering buying a slightly older horse that my friend robin has. we're going to look at him on sunday and i'm pretty excited.

i should do that work now... then shower and go to class.

14 JAN 2003 - 10.54p
i would like to start this entry by thanking mr. steve brightman for lending liz phair's exile in guyville to my boyfriend for me to burn. i do have my own copy, but it has been too scratched to play properly, so i have not listened to this album in years. driving home from tony's tonight and listening to this was a treat.

class tonight was kind of lame. it looks like this one is going to actually require some work. shit, oh well. at least i have the class with paul "hunter" h. my teacher called me "monica." that is not my name. john from german made an appearance in the class tonight, but i have a feeling he will not be joining us after tonight. oh well.

i went right over to tony's after school. we took the pretty cobalt blue glass mixing bowl back to target. it was purchased over the weekend... and neither one of us noticed the big chip on the rim. so, back it went. i did some hanging out with the boyfriend. went for a walk. my hip was coming out of the socket or something painful. we watched 24 and i think i liked last week's better.

no new news to report on my grandma. thanks to everybody for thinking of her. my mom has been at the hospital with her almost around the clock. i hope she gets some sleep soon.

[now playing: liz phair - 'exile in guyville']

14 JAN 2003 - 10.30a
my family has really had it hard lately. between the death of my grandpa in october... then the scary birth of my sister's baby... followed by my uncle's emergency appendix removal... and my other uncle having a stroke a couple weeks ago... things have really not been easy.

and yesterday they only got worse. my grandma (the wife of the grandpa that passed) was hospitalized. she's been in a home for quite a few months now. my mom received a call from the home at 2a the other night... i guess grandma had a seizure. they took her to the hospital and she has an infection that has spread through her whole body. she is dying. my mom keeps telling her to "go find grandpa because he needs you." but it sounds like she's fighting. she keeps having seizures and isn't really doing the best.

in other news, i started school again yesterday. it was great... i'm happy to be back. i have two of my three MWF classes with cool julie and stupid julie is also in one of those. she got a C in advertising!! cool julie and i got a B+ and an A-... stupid julie thinks she has a career in advertising... ha ha ha ha ha.

i have my only class today with paul h. should be fun... i hope.

tonight is 24.

12 JAN 2003 - 10.36p
i wish this month was over already. i hate january. i hate being cold and i hate that i'm going to have to go to school tomorrow in the cold, shitty weather. lucky for me, all of my classes are in the same building so the only time i'll be outside is walking to and from my car.

i had a nice weekend. lots of time with the boyfriend and i still wanted more. we woke up too early today... sat around for a while, did some shopping, took a nap. it was a good way to spend a day off. i will see him tomorrow night for television ("joe millionaire" if you can believe it!)... and my tuesday/thursday school schedule will work out well with our tuesday/thursday tv schedule. i'm sick!

continued well wishes for lacey. tooth excavation rots. however, she seemed all too delighted to report that her wisdom teeth were unusually large... this is the type of thing a teeth lover should be rightfully proud of. way to go, lacey! now feel better!

i'm tired. i'm going to bed now... i want to be up and ready for school bright and early. gah!

11 JAN 2003 - 9.09a
i don't have a lot of time... i shouldn't be doing this. i have to be at work soon. but i figured i'd just make a teeny update. tony and i watched the good girl last night. hot damn, did it bring back memories! ha, just kidding. we're doing something tonight... i don't have to work tomorrow, so i'm definitely staying over and then we're going shopping.

well wishes to lacey and her teeth!

10 JAN 2003 - 8.28a
i don't really have time or motivation to update today. i'm leaving for work in a bit... for the time being, entertain yourself with the online diary of kimya dawson. she is in a band you might have heard of, the moldy peaches... and she's much cooler and far more entertaining than i am. so read it!

09 JAN 2003 - 9.55a
after work last night, i stopped over at tony's. he was supposed to be in bed at 10:30 so he could be up super early to work... and i didn't think an hour of quality time was enough... so i pretty much left him no option other than to let me stay.

i probably would've just left when he left for work (at some insane hour of the morning) so i could return home and sleep for a few more hours in my own bed... but he offered a key so i could leave at my leisure and lock his door behind me. i slept for a few more hours after he kissed me goodbye... and i spent those few hours sleeping on HIS side of the bed, which is for sure more comfortable than the other side is. i mean, his bed is nothing to cheer about... but his side (unbeknownst to me until this morning) just kind of sucked me into a comfortable position when i fight for the same comfort on the other side (my side, i guess).

but it's all good. he can have the good side because i am nice and i know it is more important that he have a good sleep (with all of his back problems) than i.

08 JAN 2003 - 3.47p
instead of going to chicago later this month for gbv, tony and i have decided to do a day in pittsburgh instead. i am not really sure what we're going to do there, aside from eat and drink here. the place looks super cool and i'm excited.

i worked the newt in the indoor arena today (duh) and when the snow started sliding off the roof, i decided i'd be better off hacking him outdoors. most horses do not understand that the noise on the roof is NOT the roof caving in. they are often frightened. newt is a little bothered by it, but doesn't freak out. i rode around outside, anyway, because it was warm in the sunshine and felt good to be out. we hacked through the snow around the property... it was fun. there's something about walking him throught snow that feels like i'm riding him in a cloud. queer, i know, but it's cool. i hate snow, except for this.

07 JAN 2003 - 11.11p
HAPPY 5TH BIRTHDAY, PHOEBE!!!!!!!!
my baby dog is five! unreal. she had a lovely birthday... lots of cookies and a squirrel on the wire this morning. what more could a dog want?

work sucked, but oh well... i guess the extra money will pay for something and paying for things is good, right? i would've loved the day off and i could've done important things like buy my school books and my parking pass... but i guess that can wait until thursday.

tonight was 24 night at tony's. we all know that i'm not a big fan of the tv... but tonight's episode was definitely the best one i've seen so far. for the first time, i am actually (sort of) looking forward to it next week, for reasons other than merely spending time with my boyfriend (although i'm looking forward to that, as well). at some point during the evening, tony and i started talking about star wars (i have never seen any of those movies, and i really have negative interest in watching them). he said that if i watched the three old star wars movies, i would be allowed to wear his sacred gbv t-shirt to the gbv show of my choice. i have written very little about my attempts to get him to let me wear the shirt to a gbv show. i know how he is about the shirt... and i honestly thought that me bugging him about the shirt would always, always, always be a dead end. not so! i just have to sit through those movies. gah. painful. but he did mention something about making out during the movies... and that's cool. so i am going to do it. and i will get to wear the shirt. weeee!

i don't really have anything else to report, i guess.

06 JAN 2003 - 11.13p
i forgot to mention that we are not going to chicago this month for gbv, as far as i know. we do plan on going to see gbv in columbus in february. i have this goal of seeing them ten times this year... and of course, that means tony will be seeing them ten times, as well. we are so good for each other.

06 JAN 2003 - 10.43p
weather sucks. so does having to work tomorrow when i had the whole, beautiful day off ahead of me. a day that i could have spent having lunch with friends (for real lunch, not the slang "lunch"... that term is so four months ago!)... and shopping... and now i have to work, the whole goddamn day. woo.

i had a great ride on newt today. i did go shopping for a little while and came home very empty handed. tony and i went to see his cousin's son play hockey... that was funny. i was amused, at least. hockey parents are really loud... maybe i'm just used to horse shows or something... but damn, it was almost scary. we went back to tony's apartment and hung out after the game... i watched tony make his lunch for work and then we watched tv. i am a tv watcher. funny!

[now playing: wilco - 'yankee hotel foxtrot demos']

05 JAN 2003 - 12.56p
i forgot to add that tonight is my work christmas dinner party. once again, it will be held at weia teia and i will probably be forced to drink too much wine and silly photographs will follow as a result. oh, i love my job. i'm surprised how early the party is this year... i think the first year i worked there, they had the party in march. last year i know it was late january.

05 JAN 2003 - 11.43a
only one more week with nothing to do. i'm going to do some internet research right now on how to teach a horse to ground drive. i have this brilliant idea, as my horse is battling his winter pissies (which has earned him the nickname of "pissbucket"), that i am going to teach newt how to drive. no, no... i don't mean he's going to be getting behind the wheel anytime soon... rather, i will be the one driving him. i don't have a cart or a carriage or a sleigh or anything like that, and i highly doubt i will ever hitch him to anything. i'm more or less just talking groundwork here, something different to do this winter that doesn't require me fighting with him while on his back.

if i can't find the info i need on driving, then i am going to spend the money i would've spent on long lines on clothes, i think. so, i'll go shopping.

it's been a rather uneventful weekend. on friday night, i went to tony's... he was watching the ohio state football game, therefore i was watching the ohio state football game. i'm sure nobody will be surprised to hear that i fell asleep. then i woke up, and really tried my hardest to stay awake for the trachtenburg family slideshow players on conan. i know i was awake, although very sleepy, for most of conan... but i must have drifted off, just prior to the slideshow players... tony (who had also fallen asleep) woke me up just moments before the trachtenburgs completed their song, "look at me". gah!

saturday also proved to be somewhat of a snoozer. the 'get a life' dvds that my mom bought for "me" came... so i hung out with her and watched such classic episodes as "zoo animals on wheels" and the one with the handsome boy modeling school. then i went riding, and that's when i decided to teach newt how to drive. then back to tony's... he got a new dvd player which actually plays the sifl and olly discs... we went shopping for candy but didn't buy any, came back and ordered a pizza, made a very pathetic attempt to drink, watched sifl and olly... and then i fell asleep. he woke me up to watch beck backed by the flaming lips on 'austin city limits' on pbs. the show was good (and i'm looking forward to spoon next week!) and i managed to stay awake. afterwards, we went to bed... talked about gbv a lot before going to sleep (isn't that what every couple talks about in bed?).

i'm going to research long lining/ground driving now.

03 JAN 2003 - 10.36a
there's only just over another week of vacation left. that really stinks... i'm not looking forward to having to go back to school.

i went to tony's last night for a bit. we listened to the mr. rogers cd that i got him for christmas... it was pretty funny, but really disturbing at the same time. we laughed extremely hard at it. i have a good boyfriend.

i miss cigarettes.

02 JAN 2003 - 10.53a
soooo... my new year's eve. tony and i drove to indianapolis to see one of our favorite bands, guided by voices (duh). actually, tony did all of the driving. which was fine with me... i don't like doing long drives. it was fun being the passenger, though. tony did this thing where he timed the mileage thing on his car with the clock... they both changed at almost exactly the same time. this might not sound exciting, but trust me... it was. it rained almost the whole way there.

indianapolis is weird, if you've never been there before. they have no big body of water (and we all know that cities with big bodies of water nearby are far superior to cities without) and the city just kind of creeps up on you out of nowhere. it's all rural, then BOOM! there's a city.

our hotel was smack in the middle of the city... and it was really pretty decent, even though we didn't spend all that much time there. after getting there and looking endlessly for the missing remote, we called our parents (tony called his... so i figured it would be a good idea to call mine.) and then we showered and walked around the area. i posed for a touristy picture with the baby jesus. then i took a picture of tony in front of some statue/monument type deal. there were horses and carriages and giant toy soldiers. it was pretty cool, even if the city really doesn't have a whole lot going on. we found a place to eat, so we ate, then we headed to the area the show was in...

after the original bar we were supposed to go to looked like a not so good idea, we backtracked a bit and went to a different bar. there were other gbv fans there... and things were fine, except for my beer tasting a bit like soap. we headed to the show next and after being searched (and the lady doing the searching taking a picture accidentally on tony's camera) we were in the door... i would expect noisemakers and silly hats at a new year's show... but supposedly noisemakers (and silly hats, for that matter) would disturb the band, so we were treated to animal noses. seriously... i took a dog nose and a dolphin nose. yeah, they ring in the new year with animal noses in indianapolis. fuck that shit.

the venue was insane... it was like an actual nice theater and stuff... no smoking (gah!) and ushers everywhere. beer was only in cans, and they had big pieces of plastic tarp taped to all the floor. i laughed and said it was just like being at grandma's house.

the first band sucked. i have no idea who they were, and i think i first smoked (outside) during them. then back inside, and the black keys were quickly on stage. tony met some people while i was out smoking... a couple that had driven from connecticut. we then realized that there were probably more people from out of state than there were indiana at this show. not a huge shock, really, but funny just the same.

the black keys were fine. i didn't hate them, but it's not really my thing... so whatever. i went out to smoke again, and this time tony came with me. somehow, we started talking to this guy who was a big gbv freak as well. oddly enough, he had also gone to kent and lived in lakewood (a la tony) but was now residing in indy. they had a lot to talk about... i chatted briefly with some guy from michigan who was also at the yo la show last new year's... i told him how my car got broken into. tony and derek/craig (the gbv freak) were talking old records and t-shirts... when some girl came over asking for a light. derek/craig gave her a light and then the girl said that this was her 12th show and that she'd been onstage for like every gbv show she'd been to... i started laughing on tony's shoulder and said, "oh, she's one of those girls." then the girl said that "my valuable hunting knife" was her favorite gbv album... more laughter ensued, and i was not able to stifle it. she didn't smoke very much of her cigarette before going back inside.

so, we made friends with this derek/craig fellow and met his girlfriend (that he let wear his who t-shirt). they were both totally cool. we hung out with them inside and waited for gbv to come on. yay, making friends. derek/craig and i began smoking our cigarettes "on the DL" inside. i smoked the rest of my pack, and was never caught.

the show was very good. i love that band, and i loved nothing more than seeing them on new year's eve. wowee, what fun! they played all the usuals... the last song we heard in 2002 was... um... shoot, 'hardcore ufos', i think? the first song of the new year was 'twilight campfire.' a totally poor choice, but i think they were just playing down their setlist, regardless of what time it was.

bob was funny... mentioned greg dulli again. it kills me when he does that. there was NO mention of kim deal this time, though. but i think he just said something about cincinnati sucking and how people shouldn't want to go there because greg dulli lives there (even though we all know dulli is on the west coast now).

so, during the show we met a lot more people. tony made a great friend who i'm sure he'll remember fondly. he had a lot to say about the way gbv used to be or something. some guy was all humping on me (it really was not grinding on me, but moreso humping) during the last song ('baba o'riley'... good thing you weren't there, lacey) and then when i pushed him off, he grabbed vicki and was jumping around with her (oh yeah, cliff and vicki showed up at some point, too).

we walked back to the hotel and pretty much crashed. i took a picture of tony looking like a cadaver. we went for a walk. then we slept. we didn't sleep much. woke up, got stuff at starbucks... showered, all that kind of stuff. blah, blah. drove home...

there was a lot of ice the whole way home. the trees looked pretty, but i guess the roads were a little slick. we stopped at denny's for some breakfast and there were ants on our table. the breakfast was not very happening.

more driving. a stop or two. i didn't get out of the car. almost to cleveland, and i decide to talk about tree farming. tony laughed and i felt good about making him laugh. instead of taking me right home, we went to tony's apartment and napped together, which was very nice... then he took me home.

it was a good holiday. i lived, and no tragedies happened. i had a really wonderful time and can't wait to do it again next year. i forgot that new year's eve can actually be fun. weeee! many thanks to tony.

02 JAN 2003 -12.50a
happy new year! just wanted everybody to know that we made it to indianapolis without any problems... and made it home today just as smoothly. my new year's curse has been lifted. tony and i had a wonderful time and are most likely going to see gbv in chicago in a few weeks because we are big nerds. the end. goodnight. more tomorrow.