I am a mom, entrepreneur, occasional blogger, and creator. I recently launched Here Comes the Apocalypse, a self-paced disaster preparedness system with a dark sense of humor. My team and I make up Artsy Geek, a top-ranked Bay Area branding and digital agency.
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We stopped on by Urban Ore last weekend in West Berkeley.
I’ve had a bee in my bonnet for awhile now to make coasters out of our stack of lotto tickets. How cute would that be?
I was looking for some used tiles to paste them on before coating them in epoxy. No luck, but we did find this awesome scene. That poor brontosaurus. Continue Reading
Today was Christy’s b-day. Tamaras is on Sun. but she was celebrating it today. All last night Christy was telling peope “Tomorrow’s my b-day, get me a present.” She was just kidding but after awhile it got anoying. Actually, after the first time she did it it was annoying. I guess she and Tamara made an agreement that if Christy brough Tamara something Tamara would do the same. Poor Tamara. She’s stuck having Christy around. I’ve learned from a couple people that Christy has to hang around with different people on different days ’cause noone wants her around. That didn’t make sense did it? Oh well I need to find someone to like. All the time I’ve been chasing around liking people I don’t know to well, and I feel self-conscious around. Why don’t I look in front of my nose and like someone I have something in common with? Why can’t I like someone who might actually like me? Continue Reading
Somehow we managed to write the best Craigslist ad ever. Or maybe it’s just the time of year. Joey says that people move a lot in November because of Mercury being in retrograde or something.
Regardless, we have had an overwhelming response to our ad. I’ve filled the available room twice and never had this experience. Every other time there was a clear winner — the lesser of the evils. This time, I love everyone. I want to live with everyone. They are all so intriguing and so chill.
Living in the SF Bay. So many cool people. Most of the time it’s a blessing but today it’s a curse. Continue Reading
What a day! Because so much happened, I’ll start at the beginning and work my way through the day.
A°: ran a mile without stopping! When I told Mrs. A about it she said “Great” entusiastically. Then I almost started to cry, what a mood swing! Then Christy was asking about how hard it was for her to run the mile, sarcastically. She didn’t even do it! It really pissed me off! While I was testing for around the world Mike H commented on what a lousy shot I made which I did. He is so sweet! I made a corner shot, and the basket went Whoosh!
Advisement: nothing
1°: nothing
2°: Emily was absent and I forgot my flute. I’m going to to try out for the Berry sax. I hope I make it!
3°: Erica was absent. Nothing much happened.
4°: Natalie dumped Billy. He was really upset. I felt so bad for him. Natalie says that the reason she’s dumped him was because whenever the phone rings and her mom answers she gets really nervous because she’s not allowed to have a boyfriend. She’s so sweet! Continue Reading
I carved a fantastic cocktail glass (GLOAT!) in a pumpkin the day before Halloween. That was a Sunday. I put it on a shelf in my kitchen, and could not wait to display it at our Lushes in Love Cocktail Lounge Salon that coming Friday. Could not wait.
Friday came. My house guest and great friend Jen E. called me while I was out running errands. “The pumpkin is rotted!” she proclaimed. “And there are flies everywhere!!”
“But it’s for tonight!! OH NO!” I was perplexed. I hate flies, but I loved my pumpkin.
“It has to go outside.” She was not going to budge. I growled into the phone for a little bit and then finally agreed.
Thank god I did. It’s five days later and we’re still battling the flies everywhere.
GROSS. No wonder people normally keep them outside. Continue Reading
Today was my second day with what might be my period. Mom say sometimes the vagina gives discharge for the hell of it. Would it do it for two days in a row? When I got home from school I noticed some more and I put on a pantyliner. I swear it feels like there’s a cow between your legs. For some reason I hope its my period. But if it’s not, OK well.
Nothing happening. Block is still my favorite class, because in it I have guy friends and it’s fun to know them.
In Francais I conversed with Mike H. again. He told me to go back to my seat. (again) Emily, I don’t like him! I for one don’t think we’d make a cute couple, like Emily says we would. Sure I’d go out with him if he asked, but for now I don’t like him! The funny part is whenever I see him with Becki or Alyssia, I get insanely jealous like with any other guys in the world. Guess who played basketball w/ us today. Scott! He’s so sweet. At the dance I saw him standing alone, while the other people in the cliche danced. My heart went out to him. I wanted to ask him to dance but I’m gutless. I see him like that alot. A little bit seperate from the rest of the cliche. He must feel horrible.
Last night I had the strangest dream. First Ana took Jeff M’s pencil and sharpened it wrong. Then Andrew C, Andy, Scott and Mike played basketball with it (don’t ask me how) and lost their game. Andrew, who was looking at a list pasted on a door called me over to him. Hoping he might ask me out, I wheeled over to him (for some reason I was in a wheel chair) and asked what he wanted. He started to yell at me, that since I sharpened the pencil wrong (which I didn’t, Ana did). I made him lose their game. Then Alyssia started stabbing me with a piece of clay. Continue Reading
My old friend Jeremy got a bee in his bonnet to have a talk show. At first I was super jealous. After all, it was just over a year ago when I went through a disastrous dry run holding my own live talk show. I had to put off my dreams of producing my own talk show. Who was I to object to Jeremy following his?
Especially when he invited Will and I to be guests for Cocktail Corner with the Lushes in Love.
His set was amazing. His guests were amazing — hilarious and educational. And at the end, the whole audience shared a round of Oakland, by the Goodtime Washboard Three. Continue Reading
Tonight before ice skating I looked in my underwear and it was full of pus. Later I told Emily. She said that I will probably discontinue our friendship because I’m more advanced. I can really sympathize with her. She was really upset.
When I told Mom about it (just now) she showed me where her pantyliners are and asked me questions, like “is it red?” No, it was clear. gross, huh? She said “sometimes the vagina gives discharge for no reason. By the time I got out of there I was sweating gallons.
Onto a different subject… All today people were talking about how some guy liked me with the last name that began with “M”. I could win an emmy for that acting job since Emily told me after band that it was Jeff M. I had to pretend through to the end of lunch til I guessed it. Jeff knew that some guy liked me and wanted to know who. He kept denying it was him, without ever being accused! It was obvious Alexis (who started it) was right. She said all through our surprise presentation in block yesterday, Jeff was watching me. Great!
Anyway, he kept calling the guy who liked me a girl and it was so funny! He was calling himself a girl. It was hilarious.
Finally he found out it was him, and denied it (for the hundreth time!). Today was a tres bien day. a tout a l’heure! Continue Reading
Last Friday I held a cocktail party. It went pretty well.
It seems I neglected to replace the soap in the soap dish.
It was so small you could hardly use it!! Dammit. I’m sorry, guests.
p.s. Incidentally, this is not the first post I’ve mentioned my soap dish in. Whaddya think? More posts about benign shit like soap dishes? Continue Reading
