this is concerning and REALLY FUNNY

So I'm blogger challenged and cannot figure out how to add a video to this blog. Here's the link: http://www.apostoliclive.com/play.php?vid=492 Seriously, you have to watch this video. It is too funny!!!

From the mouth of a babe...

Brandi Carlile - The Story

I am totally in love with this song and her voice LISTEN HERE. I can't remember what car commercial this song is featured in but everytime I hear it no matter what I'm doing I stop and listen. You know how someone can have such a captivating voice or a song has the right ingredients that something in you goes, "wow". I get a little bit of that with this song. Listen, you'll know what I mean. Speaking of this, anyone that has Sundance channel this month they're doing a special on Sigur Ros with tons of footage on how they made their recently released album and their latest tour and lots of cool interviews. Another perk to having far too many cable tv channels.

I heart Dart

I heart Dart - my new favorite tee shirt.

Today I did something I have been planning on and talking about doing since April, I rode the Dart to work. One of those really important belts in Eric’s car needs replaced so he took my car today to work and I took the Dart.

When I first showed up to the Park Lane station in the heat of the morning and with no sunglasses to block the glare of the sun off the screen of the machine that prints the pass, I realized Dart only takes cash. Who do they think they are? Even Coke machines and newspaper stands take credit cards! So I had to get back in the car, drive across the street, get cash out of the ATM, buy something so I could get change, U-turn in crazy traffic, re-park, go through the glaring screen pass process again and then run up 2 flights of stairs to catch the train about to depart.

The train was packed! There was absolutely nowhere to sit and hardly a 1 foot space for me to stand in the middle of an aisle. The Dart is popular these days. Now I know why. It’s greatness. In the time it usually takes me to get half way to work I was at work and I didn’t even have to check my rear-view mirrors to make sure the car behind saw I was stopping because of a wreck or deal with idiot drivers who don’t realize that cutting in front of you in rush hour does them no good.

From now on I am riding the Dart everywhere I go, or at least the stations it goes to. One of the best things about the Dart too is that my company will pay for my monthly pass which makes times like these with gas prices as they are even more beneficial. I would say that I’m being green but really, I’m being lazy and cheap and I’m not ashamed one bit.

ebay, my love

I too am addicted to ebay. I love it. I want to be on “my ebay” checking my selling items all day long. When I get to work in the morning the first thing I do is check my messages then my current bids and the anticipation of the drive to work makes 75 heading South all the more bearable knowing that when I click that green button on my computer and log-in a pleasant surprise is waiting. This morning that surprise was another item sold. A pair of Big Star jeans I bought from Buffalo Exchange for $19 sold for $38 plus shipping. It’s a beautiful thing.

The items I’m selling are clothes I never wear so every penny I make is all profit in my opinion. A few weeks ago I had made the mistake of bidding on a pair of Lululemon hot pink and green yoga pants and ended up winning them. I was so bummed when I tried them on to find they didn’t fit. Thinking I would be stuck with a pair of florescent pink pants of no use besides waving down aircrafts, I put them back on ebay. Four days and a couple of “watching” eyes later, they sold! $95!

Now every time I look in my closet I start to question whether I really want the things I look at. That black shirt, do I reeeeally want it? How much could I get for it? How would I advertise it? It’s like there’s an ebay voice inside my head all the time now. Eric’s side of the closet is next, although I don’t think as many guys shop on ebay as women.

So far I’ve made, not include the shipping charges, a whopping $216! And I still have 16 more items going. I think this feeling I have is what most gamblers and stock brokers have before they turn into maniacs.

John Edwards

Freakin' Democrats. This is my really obnoxious and poignant Bill O'Reilly opinion that I'm about to state, is it me or do all Democratic presidents or presidential hopefuls have affairs or what!? They're great for our economy but damn they are sluts.

Introducing Super Target

I finally put my items on ebay and now the wait begins. I didn't realize it would take 2 hours to add only 10 items. I had thoughts of abandoning ship about 4 times. I think I put some good stuff up though so hopefully some fish will bite.

Not that anyone is eagerly anticipating or even remotely interested, but here are finally some pictures of our new kitty, Super Target. He looks very Japanese. This may explain his kung fu fighting techniques and his love for raw fish. Look at these pictures, isn't he cute!?

Recipes

Does anyone know of a website where you can enter the ingredients you have and it tells you different recipes? Surely I'm not the first person to think of doing this, right? If no ones created a website like this they need to! I'm getting good at cooking about 4-6 different entrees but I really want to branch out and try some new recipes. I usually buy the same ingredients when I go grocery shopping because I know how to make it all. My master piece is, aside from breakfast, lemon pesto chicken. And man it's good. But you can only eat that twice a week and then you get bored.

If you have some great recipes that are somewhat on a beginner to intermediate level PLEASE let me know.

Drinking on the Job

I'm sure I should feel guiltier about the fact that I am drinking a beer, listening to BRMC and writing a blog at work, but the truth is I don't. Gosh I hope no one I work with reads this. A new company "rule" is on Friday afternoons the fridge is stocked full of beer and we're encouraged to help ourselves. If you ride the train to work then you are really encouraged to heeeeelp yourseeeeelf. I need to change my yoga schedule so I can fully enjoy this new rule. I'm hoping my beer wears off for the 5pm class. Tipsy yoga is not fun. And I'm a light-weight so one beer will be enough for me.

Secret Machines are playing House of Blues tonight and before I was able to buy tickets for Eric and I it sold out. Then today at noon I got a call from Eric saying that BRMC is playing an unannounced acoustic show at Club Dada tonight. I scurried and got us two tickets right away. Last time they came through Dallas they did the exact same BS, only played an unannounced show. The few that were lucky enough to be in the know were the only ones who appreciated that. Fingers crossed that the show tonight is the same way and it's not packed.

Beer and BRMC equals a good Friday at work. Cheers.