check your sugarcoat at the door


between friends
March 29, 2010, 10:47 pm
Filed under: frenz

A textversation early this afternoon…

Jamie: A bunch of conservatives just invited me to Easter service at Church blah blah, featuring the Jonas Brothers. I reminded them that this was the pastor who presided over Obama’s inauguration. They promptly got into an argument and left me alone.

CJ: So many reasons to love you.

Jamie: Like the fact that I’m two pints in?

CJ: PRECISELY.

Later…

CJ: I think we’re soulmates. You should try gay. It’s all the rage.

Jamie: Don’t think I haven’t thought about it. There would always be someone to borrow clothes and tampons from.



the last week has been one for the birds
March 29, 2010, 7:59 pm
Filed under: daily, movies, workplace

Assuming that birds can double their workload and survive, then absolutely totally all-encompassingly, this week is for them and not for me.

My head is but a tangle and that’s not just the hair. I find I need to check my notes often to remember that breathing comes first.

The work week from hell is scheduled to end tomorrow.

When come down at home, it’s routine and quiet. Blessed, blessed routine & quiet. And Nag Champa.

The weekend included Benihana action, little sister time, cousin + girlfriend sleepover, How to Train Your Dragon in 3D (Toothless! WANT!), Zombieland, pancakes, new glasses!, and drinking at work. Really, really.

I’ll be back.

-CJ



fun with words
March 19, 2010, 9:15 pm
Filed under: LGBT

I love the queer edition of Magnetic Poetry.

You can be sweet:

Or you can be dirty:

And we’re all a little of both, right?

-CJ



fed up & helpless
March 19, 2010, 6:21 pm
Filed under: daily, in the news, just sayin', kiddo

It’s finally time for the economy to be on the receiving end of my fist.

Between the increase of hours without the additional pay, loss of unemployment to cover the original 10% pay cut my department took, increased medical/dental/vision – I am depleated of optimism.

I want to be able to afford my kid’s insurance and daycare – neither of which is happening.

“We’re just not an industry that goes out to dinner and a movie anymore. We rent DVDs and eat frozen pizza.”

Greetings to every day of my life.

Sorry. I am in a FOUL mood this morning.

-CJ



I DEMAND OF THEE
March 18, 2010, 11:02 pm
Filed under: frenz

q: WHY DID I MISS THIS???

http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=108979028&blogId=529076869

a: “All the ShamWows in the world would not have been able to clean up the puddle you created.”

-CJ



excuse me while I collect myself from the floor
March 17, 2010, 4:57 pm
Filed under: comics



around the table
March 17, 2010, 4:48 pm
Filed under: frenz

Jamie and I have discovered our ability to conjugate absolutely anything into a verb. We’re speaking a whole other language.

“I don’t want to get human trafficked.”
“I added -amos and Spanished it.”
“I calendared my brother’s birthday weekend in Havasu.”

Rheanna overhears and says only, “You guys are geeks… verbs ‘n shit.”

-CJ



FLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEW
March 12, 2010, 11:12 pm
Filed under: academia, kiddo

Kiddo had to write a short story in three parts. For the middle: “We flyed a kite.”

As expected, her teacher corrected it with a strikethrough and wrote just above the word: flied.

FLIED.

FLIED, said the woman in charge of my first grader’s education. Flied. Fucking flied.

-CJ

ps, flied.



what do you think our chances are?
March 12, 2010, 5:38 pm
Filed under: kiddo

Dear Jill,
Thank you for your photo #0001119699 posted to the Jones Soda Gallery.
http://www.jonessoda.com/gallery/view.php?ID=1119699&

Here’s hoping.

-CJ



making up for lost time
March 11, 2010, 9:12 pm
Filed under: daily

8/26/08: It’s still prior to noon and I’ve chugged three Diet Cokes with the fervor of a deprived addict. This could be why my fingers are shaking and my mind is so hyperactive. I’ve not been feeling well. My forehead hurts to the touch from pressing my fists into it two days ago while I screamed muffled noises into a towel and made a sprawl of myself on the floor wearing hardly any clothes. It’s taking a white knuckled grip to keep it together at work. I was an hour late.

I DO NOT LIVE LIKE THIS ANYMORE.

I am seeing more and more of who I was by reviewing writing from the past few years.

I am so happy to be where I am.

-CJ




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