the tundrah blog

i just wrote a big long post and blogger ate it. boo!!!!

we'll try this again. here's the brief:

I. Music Industry People Suck
A. I am trying really hard
B. they are not cooperating
C. I am going to miss my deadline
a. everyone is getting pissed at me

II. Liz Creates Mess, Now Has to Clean Up
A. I finally manage to get current design firm on chopping block
B. Now I have to find new design options
a. I am lazy, which makes this task difficult

III. My butt
A. Apparently, people look at it, and feel the need to make comments
B. I'm not so sure how I feel about that
a. I think it makes me uncomfortable
C. I will now wear Mumus in public

IV. Skee Lo
A. circa 1995 eRon gives me a mix CD with all kinds of random music including Skee Lo's masterpiece "I Wish"
B. A few months back, I rediscover this treasure
C. Make it my mission to get this forgotten genius worldwide recognition once again
D. After battles and depostions, "I Wish" is now included in Smith's 03/04 snowboard movie.
E. Victory Dance!

I wish I was little bit taller,
I wish I was a baller,
I wish I had a girl who looked good
I would call her
I wish I had a rabbit in a hat with a bat
and a six four Impala

Hey, I wish I had my way
'Cause everyday would be a Friday
You could even speed on the highway
I would play ghetto games
Name my kids ghetto names
Little Mookie, big Al, Lorraine....

sorry rabbit. i'm a thief. this made me laugh though, so i'm stealing and personalizing. i'm getting good at that these days thanks to the glorious World Wide Web. anyways, on to the list:
(i left a few, but am personalizing all that apply)

LIZ'S ALPHABET OF FAULTS!
Check out my worst traits! And you thought you were lame!

A is for Anal
B is for Bossy
C is for Catty
D is for Demanding
E is for Envious
F is for Frantic
G is for Guilty
H is for Hysterical
I is for Impulsive
J is for Jaded
K is for Krabby
L is for Lonesome
M is for Manic
N is for Negative
O is for Obsessive (Compulsive)
P is for Pissy
Q is for Quick-tempered
R is for Reclusive
S is for Snobby
T is for Testy
U is for Unforgiving
V is for Virginal
W is for Whoring
X is for nothing
Y is for Yucky
Z is for Z

hi blog. it's tuesday. and i'm sure i have a lot to do. there's probably all kinds of papers and spreadsheets and invoices i could be dealing with. but, i'd rather not.

what i'd rather do is go home and curl up in my bed even though i have no particular reason to be tired. i'd rather jump in the car and drive north and go sit by the lake all day and read books. i'd rather get on a plane and fly home to be with my friends and family and go surfing and eat dinner at Vigiluccis or Calypso and have a too-strong G&T at the Saloon. i'd rather hole up in my studio/shed and actually paint or draw for a change.

but alas. none of those things are going to happen it seems. well except that maybe, id rather go to Costa Rica for a week and not do anything besides sit on the beach, eat, read books and surf. that one's at least in the works.

i'd also rather not think about surrendering my dog this weekend. that was not cool, but it just kinda happened. really fast. i was/am supposed to go back there and take her bed and other things and i just cant bring myself to do it. i feel like a huge stinking asshole for that one. thanks Dad and Dianne. i really appreciate it.

fun fun.
.l

quick post, then work to do.

last night was siiiccckkk! i had so much fun. we unfortunately got stuck in gnarly traffic (by Boise standards) caused by some crazy 4 car pile up. so, we got there late and missed what was going to be our official tour. which wasn't necessarily bad since it cut back on the sales talk. so, when we got there we got to head straight upstairs to the "Cowboy Club"/skybox. they fed and boozed us while we watched the first 2 acts. then Snoop came on, and we suddenly weren't so good at listening to the sales pitch anymore. we headed down to our seats about halfway through his set. we had a great view, not super-close, but nice. Snoop has the mad steeze goin. all the acts had these films playing while they were on stage--they were surprisingly low-quality, and basically consisted of commercials and little self-promo films... i'm still digesting that whole scenario, will write more on it later. anyways, 50 cent was rad, Jay Z was rad, but a little long... overall it was awesome, i'm exhausted right now. Ben was a trooper and gamely drove us home through the wee hours of the nite. it was good stuff.

more later.

whew.

how do ya'll like the change? a little different, i'm still workin' out the bugs.

got inspired yesterday while building the new PYTees blog. (that's Pretty Young Thing in Micheal jackson-speak.) figured i'd put up a space for the separated sisters to go to town. werd.

work sucks in a big way right now, mad drama going' down. i hate drama at work.

anyways, more tomorrow, i gots to get the hizzell outta here.

(50/JayZ/Snoop minus 24 hours!!!!!)

this is cool. i like hipster-abelia.

this weekend was good. i am freakin' exhausted (again!) today for some reason. did my garden tour deal on Saturday eve, which was cool. and went on a planting frenzy that morning. my front yard is coming along and it's looking nice finally. it was actually overcast for most of the day on Sat., halleluyah. so i was outside all day and didn't get beat by the sun like i usually do. yesterday i did get beat by the sun as i was at the lake all day. we almost didn't get to ride because of an ailing boat, but a special reconnasaince (sp?) trip was made, gas and fuel additives were bought, the engine roared to life, and i got to wake it up. it was fun. i don't have many friends up here, but the ones i have i really do. i like my friend Andy, cause he's a truly nice and good person. and we like the same things. and he's really mellow. in my book mellow is good. high strung, bad. that's best left to me.

speaking of high-strung, the dog proved herself once again yesterday by acting like a total idiot. she not only swam out to the middle of the lake, following me out in the boat, (where she surely would have drowned if we hadn't pulled her in, since she'd already been swimming and running off-shore for at least an hour), she then proceeded to try to beat up the other dogs at the beach. after that stunt she was fired and retired to the hot car. at least she was so tired/sore from the ordeal that she either couldn't or didn't want to escape from the backyard last night. amazing.

i'm in my usual Monday-denial-of-work-obligations mode. paired with the Friday afternoon mind-already-left-for-the-weekend-mode, that ensures three solid days of work. sweet. my main task today is to decipher a mess of a fax that is supposed to be an example of a request for a liscensing agreement for a song we want to use for our commercial. it's a mess of scribbles and sharpie marks -- i think she was trying to conceal the previous company's info, but instead it just looks like a big puke of i don't know what...... fun fun.

happy mundaye.
xoxo

i'm eating quiche. i've never been the hugest quiche fan, until being converted by the evil bakery next door. they charge 5 bucks a pop and make the most heavenly and perfect little package of egg and pastry and accesorizing food stuffs that you could imagine. this one seems to even have eggplant in it. go figure. i'm a sucker for good pastry crust.....

anyways, so if you haven't noticed already, i'm a big, big dork. that fact is being again validified this weekend by my act of volunteering as a ticket person for the Hailey Garden Tour. i get to hang out with old ladies and look at other peoples yards. yippee! in the last year or two, i've had this growing obsession for gardening. i think i've said this here before, but i think it's in my blood.... so i'm just living up to the standards set before me.....

whatevs. obviously dont have much to say today. hopefully will be laking it on Sunday and gardening tomorrow. am glad cause i'm getting a relationship ironed out. it was one that formed when i first got here, then quickly spiraled out of control, then got weird and awkward. now it's getting back to normal and it feels better. why can't i just be a normal girl and have girl friends? i always gravitate towards boys, be it friends, more-than-friends, whatever. i just think i'd avoid heartache and awkwardness.... but then again i am horrified of being a **girl's nite out!!!** kinda girl. uck.

i think i'm this bizarre combination of girly and kinda-tough. i love fashion magazines, but i hate wearing makeup. i like being in the dirt, but i'm horrified when it gets in my house. i like boy-sports, but i dont like looking like a boy when i'm doing said sport. i have two cats, but they are roll-in-the-dirt, wasp-eating cats. they rock.

this may be the randomest, ramblingest post ever, but one more thing. on the cats. again, they rock. why they rock, i will explain. there's the little cat and the big cat. little cat weighs 3 lbs, big cat, probably about 9. they stalk each other simultaneously. which often results in this air-borne feline battle. they run at each other, launch in the air, and body-slam each other, then usually crash to the ground in 12 pounds of black furry wrestling match. it rocks. i could watch for hours on end.

speaking of i will finish this post of all meaningless posts.
happy weekend.
xoxo.

as promised, me hard at work........



thanks eRon!

heh.

speaking of other blogs i admire, here's a great one. and the best part is, it's been going on for a while, doesn't seem to be blockbuster-related. funny stuff.

(thanks to the rabbit of course.)

ummm. yeah. wednesday morning. i'm really slothy this week. still recovering from the parents visit. i fell asleep in my office yesterday--on my lunch break, more-or-less. of course it got captured on camera and blackmail material is floating about. i should at least get a copy so you all can see it.... sheesh.

- dog - driving me nuts still. except for when she watches the cats playing and body slamming each other, then starts whining cause she wants to get in the action. then they run away from her. hah.
- lawn - progressing nicely, might go get some lawn enhancing products this weekend
- social life - uhh, yeah. the planned highlight of the upcoming weekend is the Hailey Garden Tour. Woo Hoo!!! look out! i'm agonna be tearin' shit up. i also called Pete last night, left a message, then was totally dead asleep when he called like a half hour later. i also am totally up to date on the maniacal events on "Last Comic Standing." Go Dat Phan Go!!!

*sigh*
don't hate me because i'm unstoppable.

xoxo.

i was thinking recently that i wish this could be like the rabbit blog. not really *like* the rabbit blog, but funny and random and totally not a list of "i did this today..." but i'm not really that creative. i can't make up stories about pillows and houseplants fighting. i wish i could, but i can't.

what i can do is talk about new lawnmowers and dog hair and white trash neighbors and sunglasses. and guilt. i am good at guilt. i hate my dog most of the time--5 guilt points. i left the sprinklers on all day today in hopes of reviving my lawn--3 guilt points. haven't been sticking to my low-carbs, lotsa water diet--2 guilt points. i didn't call my grandmother on her birthday but managed to 4 days late--2 guilt points. i really should be working right now--0.5 guilt points. heh. i'm sure i can dredge up some more, or we could move on to stress! yeah!

uh, no.

xoxo.

hmmm.

so i just recalled yesterday that a while back, i claimed that i was going to be listing here... then i made a list and haven't done it since. here's my list for today, nothing exciting or creative, but i'm always doing and re-doing this list in my head.....

my favorite ten music albums of ever.
1. hole-live through this
2. neutral milk hotel-in the aeroplane over the sea
3. the pixies-doolittle
4. modest mouse-lonesome crowded west
5. pavement-watery, domestic (probably the best EP ever made, and i mean EVER)
6. radiohead-the bends
7. weezer-weezer
8. the shins-oh, inverted world
9. sleater-kinney-dig me out
10. built to spill-perfect from now on (which is mysteriously missing from my cd's, along with my BTS live!! grrr)

***I (heart) TO ROCK!!!!!!***

feel free to point out those i've forgotten....... i know there are some. thats the fun part of limiting yourself is rearranging and bumping...

other than that nada mucho happening. the parents get in to town today which i'm definitely looking forward to. will be fixing stuff and hanging out and such. one thing that i guess was/is weird kinda happened last night...

i have a friend who is a sales rep for our company. we probably see each other every 4-6 weeks or so, and while we're not super-close, i always have a great time with him and i know he likes hangin' with me. he's probably not anyone i could spend loads of time with, cause he's an absolute wild hair, but i enjoy going along for the ride in the time i do spend with him. so, last night we were hanging at a bar. all of a sudden, i find myself in this serious conversation with him about his coke habit. it was really upsetting to me that someone i like so much, or really even know for that matter, has that kind of problem. i didnt really know what to say other than that i was concerned about him and that he shouldnt do that to himself. i just get weirded out by that stuff, cause i've never ever really dealt with anyone who has had substance issues. i get really scared by the whole prospect, probably especially since i've been a drug virgin my entire life. i am just not so good at these things.......

i'm out for manana..... until next week.
xoxo

so, this has to be quick, as there are a million other things that i should be doing right now, but i just cant resist.....

everyone knows i'm not a huge tv watcher. at age 27, i actually just bought my first tv only a month or so ago. but, i do, for some reason have a horrifying attraction to reality tv. even though it's not exactly "real" i find myself uncontrollably drawn to it. i've seen bits and pieces of most reality shows, but haven't really been hooked on any one in particular until lately.

first, and i think i mentioned this before, is Boarding House. there's nothing amazing or exceptionally creative about it, i'd just say it's more of a manipulated documentary of those people lives than anything. i love watching it though, probably because i have this weird love for looking into other people's lives and figuring out how they think and act and so on. i'm a closet voyuer.

but, Boarding House isn't the reason i'm posting. that reason, in all it's stunning brilliance, is For Love or Money, now known as For Love or Money Part 2!!!!

it was on last night, the 2 hour season "finale." This is probably only the third time I've seen the show, and I was pottering around the house making dinner, watering the lawn, doing dishes, etc. I figured I wouldn't need to sit and watch the whole 2 hours as it would just be agonizing and drawn out, so I just popped in here and there to see what was happening. By the time the final half hour rolled around, I was done pottering and ready to watch the goods. What went down was absolutley spectacular. I won't waste time explaining the whole premise, but basically it was down to 2 girls, whom the dim, dashing and stereotypically handsome bachelor had to choose between. Whomever he picked, then had to decide between him or a million bucks. So much to my delight, the girl who would have chosen him over the money got canned, and the girl he chose, ended up taking the money instead of him. Then, after I cackle merrily over her fitting choice of greed, they then take her back to the mansion and give her a new proposition. Now, she has 15 dudes, that are trying to get to her for a million bucks. AND the best part of it all,she has to convince whoever it is she chooses to choose her over the money, so she can get 2 million bucks!!! If they don't choose her, she gets NOTHING!!!! Ah hahahahah!!! the glorious greed and gluttony of it all!!!

If you're gonna wallow, you better do it right. Now that's good tv if you ask me. Keep yr eyes peeled for the rabbit blog, she'll have to have a Salon article on this one.....

so. it was a 4 day weekend. usually i am really stoked to have that much time off. and i guess i was/am, but damn, it was a loooong weekend.

mainly because of the dog scenario. just to put it briefly, here's the carnage that occurred over the last four days.....
- multiple escapes out the living room window
- terrorization of my herb garden
- chewing 2ft in diameter hole through the bathroom door
- spending of 165$ on professional dog crate
- escape from $165 dog crate
- chaining of dog crate gate shu to contain dog

all in all, it was a great time. i really am desperately looking for a home for this dog, because i am not a good owner for her. she needs another body with her 24/7, and i just am ot going to make that happen. am at a loss....

in other news, other than that, the weekend was good. went to a rodeo on Friday, made me pine for my cowboy friends. watched fireworks and pined for my past 4ths sloshing and basking with the girls at the beach. went wakeboarding on saturday and pined for my boyfriend. lots of pining going on.

for some reason i'm exhausted, i wonder why......

ugh. struggling.

money stuff, work stuff, dealing with new animal madness. sheesh. i'm having one of those slumps where it all hits at once. i also totally forgot about this home insurance bill--they sent it like 2 months before it was due, so of course it got buried, then i remembered about it on the drove home, now it like 6+ weeks late. shit. i really freak on paying my bills late like that... i hope i don't get screwed on that one.

i miss home. we went surfing a lot when i was home and i'm missing it in a huge way. probably even more so am wanting just to be at the beach. i did go on a cool hike today at lunch with the dog. its similar in the way that i can just be outside and zone out, but something about the water is definitely addictive.... i think i'm also missing the support system i have at home. people always there to help. here i'm definitely on my own. not that i dont have friends, but definitely dont have anyone i'd be comfortable calling to rescue me in times of crisis. well, i lie. Jen is good like that, but she's about it.

speaking of, she just called, so we're gonna have some bbq time. the girls and the dogs. sweet.

good nite.