When I Grow Up I Wanna Work in Advertising

When I grow up, I don't want to work in advertising.

Thursday

The title of my last post was the name of the song, the title of this post is the band that sang the song. Interesting. I am watching Romeo and Juliet right now, the Leo/Clare Danes one... Which sadly came out 10 years ago when I was a freshman in high school. Why do I recall such trivial facts? Because that was the same year that in English class we read the play, and had to rewrite it and reenact it. Huh? As an English assignment, we had to rewrite Shakespeare in a different time period. My sister and I happened to have English class together and rewrote the "do you bite your thumb at me?" scene as superheros. We spent several ours on the porch painting signs like the old batman TV show- POW!, WAM!, etc. We totally rocked that project. That was also the first soundtrack that I purchased before I actually saw the movie just because Bush was suppose to have a song on it (they didn't) but it was good nonetheless. And of course Leo DiCaprio looks adorable, who can deny that?

So, it's only Thursday and I have already worked 44 hours. That's so depressing. But I do have Friday off. I negotiated it off, since it's bring your dog to work day, but either way, I am not working. I'm drinking. He he, I got home tonight around 9:30 and have been drinking ever since... But I don't feel drunk, but typing is difficult, I'm blaming it on the computer and the fact that it's new to me.

Okay, so maybe a little drunk.

But after watching the "mask ball" in Romeo and Juilet, I remembered that I have to find a costume to wear to my department Halloween party. I want to have some thing good. Let me know if you have a good idea. And slutty pumpkin doesn't count.

Back to R + J, they just showed a topless Priest with an alter boy, if only they knew what would happen years later...

It's 4 AM But I'm Not Sleeping

Literally.

Argh!

Beer Mug Bruises, Biking & Baby Names

I'm really glad that I did the Lazyman because it got me to bike as a from of transportation again. Which is good because I still haven't fixed my car. And it's been over 2 months. The tabs on my car expired in June and I still haven't put the new ones since I haven't moved the car out of the driveway, I'm not really worried about it. But it's nice that for me to get to Uptown it's only about 4 miles and doesn't take that much longer than driving or a bus. So, I biked to Uptown last night to meet up with some friends from school. Kyle tried to get me to do the bike horn sound, thankfully I declined this time. After several rounds of drinks I had some difficulty finding my bike and for some reason declined Adam's offer to pick me up. Why is it that when I want to bike, he wants to pick me up? I stumbled my way to my bike and then the real challenge began. Drunken biking. It's f'ing hard! Mounting the bike was impossible, keep my flip-flops on was even harder. After a couple blocks I threw my shoes in my bag and biked barefoot. I passed a cop and was a little paranoid that he was going to pull me over. I'm not sure what the policy on drunken biking is. But the more I think about it, the less I remember about the actual trip and that is starting to scare me.

Naturally this day has been off to a slow start and I discovered that my hands were both hurting in the same place. It took me a minute to realize that my hands are sore from holding my beer mug. Ahhh, good times.

One of my co-workers is going to be a dad very soon so baby names have been a topic of discussion lately. I used to never think about names seriously, but for some reason I am starting to keep track of the names that I like... here are my names of the moment:
1. Arabella (heaven in Italian)
2. Hazel
3. Elliot- Ellie for short

I have always like the "Boy" style name for a girl, but I would want them to have a short "girl" version too. It's really the best of both worlds. The only problem, convincing Adam to like the names. Good thing I work in advertising and that babies aren't on the horizon for several years.

Iron Man completed!

I completed the final lag in my iron man adventure this morning. I have until Friday to finish but didn't want to run out of time and have to "pretend" finish. The much needed rain was keeping me up, so I said fuck it and caught the 5:45AM bus and went to the gym. I wanted to bike to work, but since it was raining, I knew that wouldn't be a pleasant option, so I biked the last 10 miles at the gym. I felt pretty good to know that I can push myself a little bit more than I thought I could, or ever really tried. I now I have a T-shirt, bag and water bottle as proof that I finished! Yippee.

While Erin and I haven't discussed which track we are going to ride in the St. Paul Classic, I am secretly (not so secret anymore) pulling for the 30 miles. I think it would be a good challenge to push ourselves a little but further.

I just heard that American Idol auditions are coming to Mpls in September and they will be held down the street from my office at the Target Center. I think there will be some AWESOME people watching involved with that and I will need to hit up the outdoor patio of the Hard Rock Cafe to unsure the best view of the singing frenzied masses.

Adam and I have been together for 4 years now, and not like the marriage question hasn't been asked before by anyone and everyone, it is definitely coming up a lot more. Some days I am all for it, and other days (like today) I want to wait several more years. I don't have any doubts about the boy in my life, just the other stuff. Since we aren't married, I feel like I still have a bit of "freedom" left in that I don't have to say where I am at all times or constantly be checking in. Of course, Adam would like to know, I still feel that it's my life and I can do what I want. I don't know if having the title of marriage involved will change my habits, but it feels like I will have to. Virtually, we're married in every way with the exception of the branding of a ring on our left fingers, so would anything really change? I think I am going through another selfish phase and want to be my number one priority. And the second thing is probably my job. I am working to eat better and work out regularly and I am learning tons at my job, but with Adam, I don't need to work as hard at. We have a good relationship and I guess I don't think that it needs my constant attention where as other aspects of my life do. So that makes me think that I should wait longer to be branded as a wife until I am ready to make marriage a top priority. But then that feels so old fashioned I don't even know where to begin.

Honestly, I'm pretty sure the biggest reason it hasn't happened is that we want to save up some money to do it right. But with student loans and my desire for grad school, it's going to be awhile. And while my mother doesn't read this- LAY OFF!