Welcome to the Freak Show...

This is my very first post as a 27 year old! Holla. Ha. So I am done packing my cube for the big move on Friday. Now I just need to crank out some copy, and I will be good to go.

So...Pride Parade was awesome. It is soooo much fun being in it. Here is a pic at the NOW float...that is me in the white sunglasses:
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Going backwards in the weekend, Saturday I went to dinner with Jess my sister, T, and Arie (T's brother) and it was really fun. Even though we found plastic TWICE in our Bellini's. The food was great. I heart rustic Italian tapas. haha Then afterwards we headed over to Citizen for the Stacy and Steph birthday bash. Twas fun...just bad acoustics. My ears were ringing when I left.

Pics from dinner:
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So on to tv...Hell's Kitchen. Now, okay, what is up with the random menu that GR has? Beef Wellington? Do people actually eat that? I don't think I have ever been somewhere that has that on the menu. Glad Vinnie was sent home. He bugged. I still would love to see GR as a guest on Top Chef, which is on tonight. Along with my new summer favs Traveler and Hidden Palms. Cliff, I love you. He steals every scene. I wonder if "who killed Eddie Nolan" will become the phrase of the summer. You know like back in the day when Twin Peaks was on and everyone was wondering who killed Laura Palmer. Not like I am comparing the shows in any way!!

Alrighty, more later.

"Love you, love everything about you, thinking about being you for Halloween."

So guess what is in three days...MY BIRTHDAY! Age 27 will come with a new and improved HMF! (The person not the site). Although, I am looking into a redesign (I know, I just had one, but since I no longer talk to the person who updated it for me, I want to find someone who can do it and then keep making improvements along the way). Anywho, so yeeeeeeeah, this weekend is going to be crazy due to it being my b-day weekend and PRIDE! :) Make sure if ya'll go to the parade that you look out for the National Organization for Women float (which is a fire truck), because I will be riding on it in support of my fabulous gays! So Happy PRIDE everyone! I would make it rainbowy but I am too lazy.

We are moving up to the 12 floor at work. Packing is a beyotch. I am currently taking a break.

Party tomorrow night...e-mail me and I will let you know where!

Also, how amazing does Kerri Russell look after just having a baby like 3 minutes ago!

"Dwight, you ignorant slut!"

So the great news I heard today (regarding television of course), is that Sark is going to be on Heroes! This of course, is only good news if you watched Alias and know who Sark is. I hope that the character he plays (which, by the way is a villian!) has a British accent, because David Anders can really rock a British accent. Oh I can't wait until the fall!

Anyways, I think I need to rent Girl With a Pearl Earring sometime soon, since I am almost done with the book and am curious to see how the movie is since the book is told in first person.

Alrighty, back to work.

My lip gloss is cool...my lip gloss be poppin'

First of all:"You're afraid to commit. But you have no problem spending a chunk of time and energy devoting yourself to someone completely, if you can leave them and not have to deal with them later." This statement is from my ex-friend Josh's blog. After he says this he says he is a little hurt that his friend said this to him. Really Josh? Maybe you should think about all the feelings that you've hurt basically dumping your friends because you get sick of them or for other reaons unbeknownst to them. But to random friend of Josh who has not yet gotten the boot, I totally agree with you. /end rant

Anywho, so let's catch up. Um, tv, Hell's Kitchen, really Barbie, Boobs, and Bin (names made up by someone WAY wittier then me), you are all just jealous of Julia. Girl needs to win this thing. And speaking of cooking, I actually know one of the cheftestants on Top Chef! Dale! He is my old neighbor! From where I grew up!

Okay, I need to go because my computer or this site is having some sort of lag and it's driving annoying. So more updates soonly!

HMF7

I'm Not Scared and I'm Not Lonely...

So Paris is on house arrest. Okay, so not to get all preachy, but didn't Martha have to go to jail (for a whole lot longer for 23 days) and then go under house arrest and all because she was doing insider trading? And no, I am not saying that's right, but isn't, I don't know, DRUNK driving maybe a little bit of a worse offense? I mean maybe not, and maybe because I heart Martha, but maybe, just maybe, they could have sentenced Miss Hilton to house arrest instead of jail time and then we wouldn't have to read what she was up to every five seconds in the slam? Either way, both were confined to their billion dollar houses, so it can't be all that bad, right?

Anywho, so yes, Hidden Palms was on last night, and its sort of going in the way of sinister mini-series rather than Dawson's Creek, considering Dead?Eddie has gotten in contact with Johnny by way of the Information Superhighway from the beyond, so who knows. I think Liza is behind the whole thing. Oh, and I also watched Top Chef: Battle of the 4 Star All Stars, and really, shut up Marcel and Ilan. Thanks. Season One team, I love you all. Especially Stephen. And every time he talked about food being sexy, I fell in love even more. His lobster dish not only looked absolutely beautiful on the plate, it sounded delicious. I bet he's a good kisser....ahhh what? Oh, I'm sorry. And I love Cliff (Zach from the OC) on Hidden Palms.

Right. Back on track. Tonight is The Starter Wife and a NOW meeting. Probably getting dinner with Britta afterwards. Was not feeling sushi before, but could totally go for it. Or Thai. Or Minnies, since we will be so close to that anyways. Or even Unlce Julio's. Although I am having Mexican at SamFest 07, as my dad likes to refer to his birthday party.

The cast of Oceans 13, minus Brad P. are in town. I'm not going to the premier or anything. I don't even think I have seen Oceans 12. And, I think I may start watching Buffy. After I finish Twin Peaks and Weeds. And of course read the 47 books that are piling up in my apartment.

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Hey Now, You're a Rockstar

So let's see. You would think that I would have plenty other things to talk about other than tv since this is the summer, but alas, you were wrong. My summer line up? Well, thank you for asking. Hell's Kitchen, Hidden Palms (which I will get to in a moment), Traveler, and The Starter Wife. Oh and ocassionally The Real World Vegas Reunion. Because why not. Anyways, yes, Hidden Palms, by the same writer who brought us Dawson and his Creek, only this show is set around swimming pools and not some lame creek. Oh and the Joey Potter character's name is Liza, and she wears Hazmat suits and does experiments in her garage while staring whistfully at the Dawson-esque character (complete with a cheating mother and creative side) while he wants to get into the pants of the Jen-character, Greta, who likes to dance around gold courses and cry. Yes, it is THAT good. I suggest you all watch.

So yeah, keep your calendars marked for the following fun, fabulous, and feminist events:
-June 23: Dyke March
-June 24: PRIDE
-July 26: Chocolate for Choice, which I am planning so pleeeease come!
-July (date tbd): Women's Health Fair at UIC

Alrighty kids, well that's it for now! The scrapbook is finally done! My dad's birthday party is this weekend, and I am very excited for it as well as my new dress and shoes.

Um, I wish I was more exciting and had pictures. But I don't.

Bye!

So Rich. So Pretty.

First of all, if you haven't listned to Mickey Avalon or The Gossip you should. I love them both at the moment. MA is going to be a Lolla. I may get a one day ticket just to go for that because usually large music festivals during the summer are not my thing, but aside from him, Juliet and the Licks will be at Lolla too. I am way more interested in the smaller bands then the headliners.

Right, so okay, today at lunch, a co-worker of mine was complaining that he was going to a bachelor party, where there was going to be no stripper, because the guy's wife nixed the idea saying she would not become his wife if strippers are involved. He (co-worker) was pissed because now the party is going to be boring. Now, I totally understand if girl-fiance doesn't want boy-fiance to have strippers, but apparently she is having one at hers, so the guys were complaining its not fair. And I suppose it isn't. I went to a bachelorette party with male strippers. They were gross. But anyways, my point is, why do men love strippers so much? And why is it a right of passage for a guy to have them at his bachelor party? This led me to ask another co-worker at lunch, what men do with these strippers, asking if they actually have sex with them. One said no, the other said sometimes, which, really? Sometimes guys have sex with strippers? Wouldn't that make the stripper a prostitute? I mean does she get paid to sleep with them? Or is of her own free will? And then I was like well, if I knew my future husband wanted to have sex with someone else before we got married, then we shouldn't be getting married.

Anyways, my question, after all this convoluted typing is, do some men actually sleep with strippers on the night of their bach party just because it's their last night of "freedom?" That is just wrong on so many levels. Like the bar is lifted that night? That is seriously, the dumbest thing I have ever heard. Bachelor parties mystify me. Someone needs to write a tell-all book about bachelor parties. From low-key to scandalous. I would read it. And really, if a guy wants to be with a stripper so bad, then he probably should go and marry one. Seriously, I am not knocking strippers, but can't non-stripping women just do a little show for their man if it's that big of a deal for them? Carmen Electra has some great DVDs. Or can't they just go to the strip club together? Oy. I am starting to sounds like a loon.

Going to Minnies tomorrow for a shower! Can't wait for minnie sandwiches involving Brie! And scrapbook needs to be finished this weekend. It's really taking over my life.


Kisses!