Baby, It's Cold Outside

I am supposed to be in Pierre, SD right now. I flew all the way to Denver yesterday, only to turn around five hours later and fly back to L.A. because of the horrid weather. Complete waste of my time, but hey, I don't really want to be there right now anyway!

Viva Los Angeles. It may suck in many ways, but the coldest it has been in my 5.5 years of living here is like 45 degrees. It is currently 61 degrees. I'm actually a little chilly :)

No Way!

According to a shopping survey performed by the American Farm Bureau Federation, a traditional Thanksgiving meal for 10 people — including turkey, stuffing, cranberries and pumpkin pie — will average $36.78 across the nation.

Then why did it cost me $70?

Really? Semen?

Wow. I typed the word semen into my blog one time and now I have a semen following? Wow.

My Life...

Registered for winter and spring classes...here is what my academic life will look like in the coming months:

1/17-1/19 and 1/23-1/26: Strategic Management
Mondays 1/30-4/3: Advanced Seminar in Public Administration
Mondays 3/27-5/22: Nonprofit Management (I know that there is overlap...will deal w/later)
Tuesdays 3/28-5/23: Organization Theory

I have to take one big exam on December 17, but that one will be cake and then the comps on July 15. Even though I don't take comps until July, they are still letting me walk in June. Yay!

School + work + travelling = a very tired Jayme

Nov. 28-30: South Dakota
Dec. 9-11: San Simeon
Dec. 24-28: Lincoln
Jan. 20-24: Lincoln
Feb. 12-16: North and South Dakota
Mar. 5-18: New Zealand
Mar. 31-Apr. 2: Tahoe
Apr. 7-9: Austin
Apr. 28-May 1: D.C.
May 12-15: Seneca Falls
June 19-22: Denver
June 22-27: D.C.

I love my new ipod and want to put a million (or 7,500) songs in it and listen to it all the time.

I will I will I WILL go the gym this week!

I will finish one of my gigantic papers!

I will light cranberry and spice and pumpkin candles and play Christmas music until it actually feels like November in SoCal.

I will shut this damn thing off and go to class...

NAMASTE :)

Women are Evil

A woman and a man are involved in a car accident on a snowy, cold Monday
morning; it's a bad one. Both of their cars are totally demolished but
amazingly neither of them is hurt. God works in mysterious ways.
After they crawl out of their cars, the woman says, "So .... you're a
man.

That's interesting. I'm a woman. Wow, just look at our cars! There's
nothing left, but we're unhurt. This must be a sign from God that we should meet
and be friends and live together in peace for the rest of our days".
Flattered, the man replies, "Oh yes, I agree with you completely, this
must be a sign from God!"

The woman continues, "And look at this, here's another miracle. My car
is completely demolished but this bottle of wine didn't break. Surely God
wants us to drink this wine and celebrate our good fortune. "Then she hands
the bottle to the man.

The man nods his head in agreement, opens it and drinks half the bottle
andthen hands it back to the woman. The woman takes the bottle and
immediatelyputs the cap back on, and hands it back to the man.
The man asks, "Aren't you having any?" The woman replies, "No. I think
I'll just wait for the police...."

MORAL OF THE STORY:
Women are evil.
Don't mess with them.

More Ramblings

1) Prolly is not a word. The word is probably. Really, it is. Look it up.

2) Went to a house Saturday night that used to be a whorehouse a long long time ago. There were hooker ghosts there that made the lights flicker.

3) I will be done with my masters this summer. I get to walk in the ceremony on June 2.

4) Considering having a Christmas party...a real grown-up one with wine and candles.

5) Bilko, I miss you! Call me!

6) It is fun to get drunk and play Scrabble.

7) Thanksgiving Day Menu

Butternut Squash Soup

Homemade Honey Wheat Bread

Turkey Breast with Lemon Wine and Butter Sauce

Roasted Potatoes

Fresh Green Beans with Garlic and Butter

Cranberry Sauce

Sour Cream Apple Pie

Pumpkin Creme Brulee

Typing it up like that all centered made me feel fancy :)

Antici.............pation

T-minus 7 days until the opening of the movie I have been waiting for for the past nine years.

No day but today...

Funny...But Not

Can you imagine working for a company that has a little more than 500 employees and has the following statistics:

29 have been accused of spousal abuse
7 have been arrested for fraud
19 have been accused of writing bad checks
117 have directly or indirectly bankrupted at least 2 businesses
3 have done time for assault
71 cannot get a credit card due to bad credit
14 have been arrested on drug-related charges
8 have been arrested for shoplifting
21 are currently defendants in lawsuits
84 have been arrested for drunk driving in the last year

Can you guess which organization this is? Give up yet?

It's the 535 members of the United States Congress. The same group of idiots that crank out hundreds of new laws each year designed to keep the rest of us in line.

Ramblings

1) The movie trailers for Chicken Little freak me out because chickens aren't supposed to have teeth.

2) Welcome back Miss Margo!

3) I leave spam comments up because it feels good to have comments.

4) I get to go to North AND South Dakota this winter...yippeee!

5) Instead of pumpkin pie on Thanksgiving, I will be making pumpkin creme brulee. I am very excited about this prospect. I still haven't decided if I will attempt butternut squash soup.

6) I love having my cute cousins-in-law and their parents living in San Diego...it is so nice to be able to drive down and visit family for the first time in seven years. And cute little Hannah won all kinds of awards at her horse show. She is the best little hunter-jumper ever!

7) I really should be working right now :)

So, What Did You Learn in School Today?

This looks like something my brother would have done.

Princess of Power

See Ryan? It's She-ra!

Now I am having flashbacks to childhood. And I think that He-man might be gay.

Found in this week's wedding announcements

Chrisman earned a Bachelor of Science degree in animal science from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a Master of Agriculture degree in beef industry leadership from Colorado State University. He is self-employed with bovine semen sales, an A.I. technician and animal evaluator with Chrisman Cattle Services and American Breeder Services Global.


Hee hee. Bovine semen sales.

We Are Totally Gangsters

These were the coolest Halloween costumes ever. Dyl got them from a shoot that he is doing on John Dillinger (a gangster from the 30s). Totally authentic. I heart this picture!

Avoiding Work...

10 firsts:
first boyfriend/girlfriend: Chad Proctor? Kind of eeew, but he was cool in 3rd grade!
first best friend: Amber Krivda or Robbyn Burns
first screen name: oehmster...still is
first kiss: Chad Proctor
first piercings: earlobes
first crush: Brandon from the Goonies
first music: Belinda Carslile and Paula Abdul...got both tapes for Christmas 1989
first car: 1990 White Ford Escort. It didn't last long.
first stuffed animal: I don't remember a stuffed animal, but I had a polka-dotted blanket names Spotty

9 lasts:
last cigarette: About 5 seconds ago
last massage: good question! Dylan?
last movie seen: elizabethtown
last phone call: Dyl
last cd played: Rent Soundtrack
last bubble bath: Sunday
last time you cried: Don't remember
last kiss: this morning before work
last date: I guess Saturday was kind of a double date...got dressed up in 30s costumes and went out on the town

8 have you evers:
have you ever dated one of your best friends: not really
have you ever skinny dipped: so much
have you ever kissed somebody and regretted it: kissing isn't worth regret
have you ever fallen in love: absolutely
have you ever been depressed: definitely
have you ever woken up and not known where you were: only every work trip I take where I wake up in another Marriott

7 of the last places you've been to:
1 Dallas, TX
2 Washington, D.C.
3 Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
4 Lincoln, NE
5 Seattle, WA
6 Jackson Hole, WY
7 Kansas City, MO

6 things you've done today:
1 Found out that I probably won't get a raise this year
2 Homework for Public Policy class
3 Ate leftover Mexican Mostacolli (yummy)
4 Decided on Christmas present for Dyl
5 Paid bills
6 Looked at pictures of cute kittens that live in Todd's backyard

5 favorite things in NO order:
1 pedicures
2 martinis
3 fleece blankets
4 Dylan
5 rain

4 people you can tell [almost] anything to:
1 Dylan
2 OC
3 Coworker #1
4 Nik

3 wishes
1 finish masters degree by summer
2 that the credit card would pay itself off
3 a promotion

2 things you want to do before you die:
1 travel the world
2 have babies and see their babies

1 thing you regret:
1 who needs regret?