December 2009
104 posts
Statement of Truth
forever-insatiable:
I realize my blog hasn’t been remotely interesting or exciting lately. Please forgive me.
Since I didn’t get any kind of holiday break this year, my blog is taking one.
I’ll be back soon, I promise.
And don’t hold this against me at the meet-up.
Likewise
It turns out
The Field Museum is actually pretty boring. Hopefully The Museum of Science and Industry will be more exciting on Sunday, especially since I’ll be driving from Milwaukee then and not just the Chicago suburbs (depending on how you look at it). Also, I really think one day a week museums should only be open to adults. I would have enjoyed today a lot more and actually would have read most of...
Off for a little intellectual fun today
I’m going to the Field Museum with a couple friends today. I don’t think I’ve been there in 10-15 years. It should be exciting, or we’ll want to kill a bunch of small children. It’s a toss up really.
Three hurt in two Amish buggy crashes →
This headline made me laugh.
Just so you know, it's birthday week.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-27) →
Peter Bjorn and John (2)
Ratatat (2)
Beirut (1)
Radiohead (1)
Sufjan Stevens (1)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
It's ok to be jealous
Zach is going to make me a lamp. It’s either going to be the coolest thing in the world or a complete disaster. I hope the coolest thing in the world because he’s sort ridiculously excited for the project. Oh, and he actually has no idea what he’s doing. awesome. I talked him out of the exploding volcano lamp and instead we are just also going to build a volcano, third grade...
“Hell hath no fury like a Kim rant”
– George
Dad: Oh, I didn't offer Kim a drink because she had a baby
Rob: She's holding a baby, she's not pregnant
Christmas in Chicago is my kind of Christmas
Back home for about a week. I sort of wish I could be both here and in Milwaukee simultaneously. Oh well.
Dinner
was I think a success. His family seems very nice. It got slightly awkward when his mom asked me if I had off work on Christmas Eve and I had to tell them I was unemployed. But apparently they already knew I was doing some freelance journalism stuff, so that saved the day slightly.
“isn’t he the cutest?”
malty:
Boy and I are in the obsessive stage. You know, the stage where one person can say or do anything and you think that it was the most amazing thing in the entire world. So then you tell your friends (or anyone who cares to listen) about the trivial information that you think is adorable and they stare at you because without your sane knowledge you rambled on for 10 minutes about the way...
Milwaukee Riverwalk District kills RiverSplash →
“After 20 years of providing free entertainment along the Milwaukee RiverWalk, the Milwaukee Riverwalk District will discontinue the three-day RiverSplash celebration held in early June.”
So reads a news release sent by the Riverwalk District today. It continues …
“Challenging economic times combined with increasing administrative and operative costs were factors in the...
“Several of my friends recently commented to me about how cute and personable you...”
– Advice from Mom
On legos and awkwardness
me: so last night we were talking about legos
Mike: nice
Mike: high five
me: and i've told zach how you love legos
me: because he loves them too nearly as much
Mike: i do, i hope i get some
Mike: ive been dropping hints
me: so he said something about you and legos...and his friend was like, well your brother should hang out with us then
Mike: they should be so lucky
me: ha
Mike: well
Mike: wait
Mike: me: im not sure
Mike: hmmm
Mike: well better find out
Mike: could be a deal breaker
me: maybe the first time so it's not awkward
Mike: no
me: wait, like i should be there or shouldnt?
Mike: it needs to be awkward
me: ok
Mike: cause its would only be awkward for them
Mike: if at all
Mike: i went to msoe kim
me: we sat around playing trivial pursuit and talking about legos...so i think everyone probably would be ok
Mike: nothing is awkward
me: hahaha
Mike: purposefully making situations awkward is like leveling the playing field
Mike: ...in my favor
me: haha
Mike: takes them out of their element
Meet the parents
I’m meeting the parents tonight. Seems like a big step so early, especially since as Mike put it, it’s not even on facebook yet. (what is our world coming to?). So now I can be nervous about it all day. That’s awesome.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-20) →
Cloud Cult (4)
Animal Collective (3)
Electric Light Orchestra (3)
John Denver (2)
Iron & Wine (2)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
awkwardsilence:
fack:
Single Foxes (Put A Wood...
Unemployment: Day 1
jss:
I was supposed to be on vacation today (and all this week), so the reality that I’m actually unemployed hasn’t quite set in.
I have a coffee meeting today with an old colleague to discuss some possible freelance opportunities. I’m looking forward to seeing her and catching up and to seize the day on some employment action.
But a coffee meeting and the lingering depression are the only...
That was a close one
I found myself almost cheering for the Packer’s last night. It was a little scary. Although I must say, Aaron Rogers is doing a lot to make me more tolerant of both the team and fans. I also witnessed some serious Aaron Rogers man crushes on display. At the very least it was entertaining.
Travel Retrospect
godsmokesparliaments:
Where have I been in 2009?
This year I drunkenly stumbled through Dublin and conned 20 Euro out of a bloke from Belfast. Found my namesake’s pub in Limerick (Stab City), kissed the Blarney Stone in Cork and met a hat maker in Galway that makes an annual pilgrimage to Irish Fest in Milwaukee.
I toured Churchill Downs and saw Meiko in a dive bar in Louisville. I drove to...
Couch, Packer's game (ugh) and mimosas: We're just...
Zach: Yeah it's a lazy day and I like that
Kim: It's how Sundays should be
Zach: Yeah but mine has a significant lack of mimosas
Kim: Hmm mine too
Zach: This situation should be remedied
Kim: Yeah but can you still get mimosas at 4 pm?
Zach: Probably somewhere
Zach: Or the liquor store has all the fixins
Kim: And that allows for optimal laziness
Zach: Agreed
“Not everyone can hold their booze like you can.”
– Katie.
Hey, everyone needs to be good at something.
Brittney Murphy is dead!?! →
Who next 2009, who next?!?!
Ugly sweater party recap
Last night I went to a party with my friend Natalie. I vaguely knew the host and I obviously knew her. I figured she probably knew some more people. Turns out, she didn’t. It was fairly awkward for at least the first two hours we were there. Talking to strangers is not my forte, and we hadn’t hung out with each other for a long time and had a lot of our own catching up to do. Luckily,...
Dear Miley,
You win. I give up. You are lucky that your horribly catchy pop song at least makes me think of something that makes me happy, otherwise this wouldn’t be over.
Love,
Kim
“It sounds like a Speak-n-Spell. I’m going to kill you. Spell cat.”
– Claire, on the way the EVP equipment on Ghost Adventures sounds
Tonight:
Classic Slice
Tasty salad
Ghost Adventures
Dogfishhead World Wide Stout
If we’re lucky, drunken Mad Libs
Yep, sounds like a perfect night to me
Bologna massacre →
themattsmith:
I was expecting something completely different when I clicked through to this Wiki article.
Color me a little disappointed.
Damn, I was really hoping for something of the Oscar Meyer variety.
“Milwaukee is not a destination market by price. I don’t care how cheap you make...”
– Republic chief executive officer Bryan Bedford. Republic bought Midwest Airlines, “Milwaukee’s hometown airline” recently.
Insulting your main demographic generally isn’t a good idea, Bryan. Read the story from the Milwuakee Business Journal here.
There need to be more male appropriate compliments
Rather, more compliments that can be reciprocated without sounding totally weird. Telling a guy his eyes are pretty too just seems awkward, but saying your shoes are nice isn’t really an equal compliment. Sure you don’t always have to return the compliment, but you don’t want to seem like an ungrateful jerk either.
Awkward family conversations part 4
Mike: que?!
Kim: am i awake?
M: yuh huh
K: good question
M: its like you've been given this incredible gift this winter
M: and you are just spitting in its face
K: haha
M: i mean the sun isn't even up
M: its cold
M: you have no place to be, presumably
M: i mean at least wait til 830
M: you better at least be in bed...
M: or is that too freaky to ask
M: eh don't tell me
K: hahaha
K: i didn't sleep here and i was too hungry to go back to bed if you must know
M: well that's everything i didn't want to know
K: hahahaha
Which would you pick?
Last night Zach and I were at the highburry and this guy who had been sitting up at the bar since before we got there comes up to our table and asks if he could ask us a question. The question: Would you rather know everything and be the crazy person in the village or know nothing and be one of the village “idiots.” Basically at the heart of it is, is ignorance really bliss? I went...
Maybe we should post all the December birthdays
wooliebear:
souplines:
gamesockson:
wooliebear:
Gamesockson and me, December 19.
I have two relatives in my immediate family who also have December birthdays. They’ve already happened, though.
me December 1st.
Happy belated birthday, Souplines!
Well since you asked…December 31.
New Englanders...
thedoctr:
rosasparks:
What is a bubblah? Otherwise known as a bubbler to unaccented New Englanders… It took me 2 months to figure that out when we first moved here.
??
Water fountain?
They say bubbler in Wisconsin too and I was pretty confused at first. Luckily, the water fountain in the hallway of my freshman year dorm was labeled as a bubbler. Otherwise, I’m not sure if I would...
“Um lady, you car runs on rain forests…how is the promoting conservation?”
– Katie, on the giant SUV with a “Conserve Tennessee” liscense plate
Warms you right up
At the place I get my hair cut they always offer you a drink. It’s usually beer and usually something classy like Hams. Tonight they offered me hot coaco with peppermint schnapps. The girl who made it doesn’t drink, so it was extra heavy on the schnapps. Since I’m convinced my heat might be broken, this was a nice little warm up.
For those keeping score at home
My left hand still really fucking hurts, but the swelling has gone down slightly. The bruise doesn’t look as bad as I thought it would. Probably you wouldn’t realize that was what it even was.
Hmm
It’s slightly warmer today but very chilly in here. I hope my heat is working. Bah. Figures.
What? At least I'm not doing crack
Me: man...two nights in a row of trivia...this is intense
Mike: your liver must hurt
Mike: i mean brain
Me: ha
Me: maybe i'll hit up 5th ward pub tomorrow
Me: run the whole circuit
Mike: wow
Me: not really
Me: : gotta get my fix....no more trivia until 2010!
Mike: yeah that 2 weeks will really kill ya
Mike: just watch jeopardy you junkie
Me: haha