last night i was just dozing off to sleep when J came into the bedroom, asking if i wanted to see Gatsby doing something funny.

apparently he'd decided that the pottery barn sack full of Princess's old clothes slated for goodwill was a nice-looking place to settle down for a long winter's nap. 

gato loco.

don't judge me

but i'm going to that dark place where people with bad taste in music go when they die.

i just bought these on amazon.com for about $.50 each:



i used to have them when i was a kid. in a fit of nostalgia, i couldn't resist.

i guess the question is, if i just willingly purchased two Yanni cds, what kind of music will i have to listen to in music hell? good music? will they play tupelo honey in my hell?

kara would say that you have to listen to RENT in music hell, and that i should be ashamed of myself for knowing all the words to the soundtrack. but i do, and i have tickets to it in march.

but you know what? i have tickets to see wilco in march, too, so they cancel each other out in terms of cool-points. and i have all of the nirvana albums and most of pearl jam except my vitalogy got lost in college, and i know the lyrics to dark side of the moon the entire way through from memory and i think jackson browne's late for the sky is one of the best albums ever along with led zeppelin II and i think beautiful loser is the best song bob seger ever recorded.

so no one can ever tell me i have bad taste in music. pffft. my dad brought me up right.

blogging is fun.

good night.

bar association event

that is the most boring title in the history of titles. anyhoo.

every year the tulsa county bar association young lawyers' division (or TCBA YLD for short, we heart acronyms in lawyerland) throws its annual mardi gras party on fat tuesday. this year, as in past years, we are hosting this fundraising event at the mayo hotel in downtown tulsa. it will begin at 6:30 p.m. on february 2 and will benefit Parkside Psychiatric Hospital’s Food Pantry Program.

if it sounds like i'm reading from a press release, that would be because i am. and i wrote it, because i have the dubious distinction of being this year's chairperson for the event.

Here's the rest of the press release:

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Five-star Creole and Cajun Chef Lanney Aund’re, formerly of Lake Charles, Louisiana, will be serving a buffet of traditional fare. There will also be a full cash bar with New Orleans-style drinks and live music. Tickets will be $18.00 per person, and table sponsorships are available. A $250 Green Level sponsorship comes with five tickets and recognition of your sponsorship in the Tulsa Business Journal and Bar Journal. A $500 Purple Level sponsorship comes with 10 tickets, recognition of your sponsorship, and a table reserved in your firm or organization’s name. A $1,000 Gold Level sponsorship comes with 20 tickets, recognition of your sponsorship, and two tables reserved in your firm or organization’s name.

Partygoers who bring a canned good with them to donate to Parkside’s Food Pantry will earn an entry into the drawing for door prizes.

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you don't have to be a lawyer to come. in fact, coming to see me should be sufficient motivation to buy an $18 ticket.

i have a nice shiny flier, too, but it's in .PDF format and i can't figure out how to upload non-.jpgs to blogger. i mean, i could, but i'm not going to. so there. if you want to see it, email me and maybe i'll send it to you.

so yeah, buy a ticket. if you know any lawyers or legal-ish people or people who like to talk about legal things when they're drunk, tell them to buy a ticket, too.

that is all.

speaking of oriental food...

.... which i was, like, two weeks ago, if you haven't been to thai siam over at 31st and sheridan, then you haven't lived. it's in that strip mall where the scary dollar movies used to be. ash and i used to go there on rent day. order the shrimp-tomato-pineapple fried rice. omg omg omg i have to go there right now bye.

friday night in the hiz-ouse

i just said "hiz-ouse" and horrified myself a little bit. i apologize for that.

seriously, though, it is friday night at 9:22 p.m. and i'm already in my pajamas, having taken down the christmas decorations after a dinner of *gasp* take-out chicken. now i'm eating the leftover cold fried okra and drinking - no, not bourbon and diet dr. pepper as in days of yore - but perrier. we're waiting for Princess to finish picking up the dominoes out of her floor so we can get her to bed and start the grown-up movie.

i don't know when my life got so dull, but i like it. there was a time when i would've just been waking up from a long winter's nap and calling my best friend Brooke to see what the plan for the night was as i jumped in the shower. but a friday night spent listening to old pearl jam albums while J teaches Princess how to play chess shockingly gives the bar scene a run for its money. tonight's choice is "Julien Donkey-Boy," the sixth film of the Dogme 95 Manifesto. who needs a club when you've got harmony korine? 

nothing's more bizarre.

phoenix

we are back from phoenix. we got back on wednesday evening and it's been crazy since then. the house was a mess and we had tons of laundry to do, we came home to no food in the house and the christmas decorations yet to be taken down.

it's good to be back at work, though. i'm glad it's a new year and totally ready to get back in the routine. the holidays are so chaotic that they drive me crazy.

while we were in arizona we took some time to drive up to the mountains and do a little hiking. we took these pictures at the white tank national monument

state park outside of phoenix.

the weather was a little chilly - but nowhere near as cold as it's been in our midwestern town, and it was wonderfully dry and sunny. it made me crave the springtime - which reminds me, i wonder if it's too late to plant tulip bulbs?

the last few summers i've really meant to get outside and start a garden but i haven't gotten around to it, either due to lack of yard space or abundance of other projects. this year, having recently put up our nice, tall cedar privacy fence and freshly painted the house, hopefully i will be less distracted by projects and able to put up a proper garden with lots of tomatoes and peppers and herbs. mmmmm, salssssaaaaaaa.