Posts Tagged ‘happy-making

10
Mar
10

“Untitled, 2010″ †

After yesterday’s word-heavy post, I give you pictures of my daughter

doing creative and happy-making things.

I won’t brag that she’s reading everything in sight, at least a couple books a day, and sounding out (or guessing, when all else fails) at store signs and product packaging. No one wants to hear me do that.

When I ask her what she wants to do when she grows up, she always answers with something like “Drive a car!” or “Wear pink shoes!”

When I rephrase, she says she wants to work where I work. Then I cry and she skips off to color a picture of the neighbors’ dog.

We made this birdhouse when her class was studying pets and care thereof. It doesn’t really apply to the theme, but isn’t gluing and painting and hanging stuff fun!?

Some finished product. I’m going to hold onto a stack of these, just in case she ends up being crazy famous. Or, as this next picture suggests, famously crazy.

16
Feb
10

Monday night’s all right.

The BFF and I saw Roy Wood Jr at CU tonight. He didn’t do a prank call during the show, since he apparently has been sued for that before, but I found this on YouTube, with lots of other hilarious/inappropriate videos that I won’t post here because my grandma might be reading.

10
Jan
10

Winners!

This morning, I chose three winners of what I’m calling The D.B. Grady Give-a-thon. These winners will be notified via email at the time this post is published, but just for fun, I will of course be announcing them here. There would have been more winners, but I couldn’t bear to part with my copy (autographed and smelling of hookers and Taco Bell [*swoon*]; I drew a Napoleon Dynamite-like picture of Grady as a centaur inside the front cover and sleep with it under my pillow).

I’m going to take a second here to be serious: Grady is eating newspaper and sleeping in alleys. He has a very small child and a wife who is probably tired of him spending the utility money on scratch-off lotto tickets and mouthwash to drink. If you didn’t win, please purchase a copy. If you live in the same house as a winner (you know who you are), read the book after your significant other collapses in exhaustion. You may need the help of a shoe horn and/or vice grips, but it will be worth it.

OK, the process. I used the numbers from the entry comments (excluding mine and Grady’s) and entered them into a random integer generator, told it to choose three (randomly, of course), thereby choosing three commenters as winners. See?

Winning Numbers

6, 2 and 9

Haley J., Casey, and SpaceMonkeyX have each won a copy of Red Planet Noir and will now have to compete for Most Badass AdrienneCrezo.com Reader Ever. Congratulations!

If, for whatever reason, these three people can’t be bothered to accept the free prize they entered to win, I will replace them with other random winners as necessary.

17
Dec
09

Fru-zirra!

Today, I wrote formulas for warming masks and detailed lab reports from my desk, just like any other Thursday. Except today, I was in my pajamas, and I couldn’t hear in my left ear or make noise when I tried to talk. And I ate ice cream for lunch and got poker chips in the mail. And even though it sounds like a bizarre dream, I actually just have a monster of a cold and was politely asked not to spend eight hours coughing at my desk, which apparently annoys the hell out of my coworkers. Who knew?! I could’ve had tons of free days if I had only known. What a wasted life I’ve led!

Instead of actually taking the day off, though, I just worked from home, which is an advantage not many jobs in our company have. It was awesome, except for the 9:30 hissy fit over pajama pants Malia staged in honor of my presence. All that aside, I could totally do my job from home every day.

Other cool things that happened:

I watched Jeopardy! and would have won if I had been a contestant.

I got a reviewer’s copy of Red Planet Noir and a note from D. B. Grady, telling me to get my ass to work.

I can now hear things on the left side of the room.

I read almost every single post on this blog, which is one of my new favorites.

And that’s it. How much fun am I? Please, cancel the stripper. I’m going to bed now.

21
Nov
09

Headed for the Big D

… and I do mean Dallas, and I don’t listen to country music so I’ll probably get maimed in a honky-tonk parking lot by a herd of angry [whoever sings that]’s fans. I’m hoping my friends at least try to save me, but I know Texans. I’ll understand if we don’t make it back, guys.

With any luck, they’ll let me go to the Justin Nozuka concert tonight first. I know, I know. You don’t know who he is. Yeah, I know.

He’s two degrees of separation from Kevin Bacon*, if that means anything at all.

* or three, depending on how you count. I don’t really know how that game works. Whatever.




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