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This does not help!
Austin ranks number 6 in the country in percentage of Gays and Lesbians in the adult population.
San Francisco, Seattle, Boston, Portland, Tampa, Austin are the top six. I found this out after I read an article that said Austin had one of the country's largest percentages of single men and the comment section was a lot of women agreeing, but saying that the men were either gay or didn't want a relationship. Someone linked to a study by the U.S. Census and UCLA that breaks it down. (*.pdf)
Now, how am I supposed to reconcile the fact that I live in a city full of single gay men and I don't have a boyfriend?
Time to go eat my feelings!!
March 31 at 9:09 PM | Comments (2)
That's a lot of resumes!
I posted a job on Saturday and received 125 resumes before I deleted the posting. JEESH! Some were immediately disqualified, but it was tough to narrow it down to a list I could manage to shoot off to the other hiring managers. I have to go take a hot bath after all that work!
March 31 at 8:35 PM | Comments (0)
Good Monday!
How was your weekend? I have to tell you that those Sunday champagne brunches can be brutal. It is very strange to be drunk at 3 p.m. and hungover by 8! I hope you had a good weekend, I managed to cram a lot of things in and still get some relaxation in. What did you do?
March 31 at 7:56 AM | Comments (3)
Oh, give me a break
The TSA forced a woman to remove her nipple ring before boarding a plane. A.) That's retarded.
But, the lady got herself some Gloria Allred attorney action and released this statement:
"I wouldn't wish this experience upon anyone," Mandi Hamlin, 37, said at a news conference. "My experience with TSA was a nightmare I had to endure. No one deserves to be treated this way."Really? Nightmare? Worst thing that's ever happened to you? Someone come over and help me find my eyeballs...they rolled under the sofa.
March 28 at 7:11 AM | Comments (1)
If I could have anything in the world...
March 27 at 4:49 PM | Comments (7)
Texas is HOT!
The latest census report says that Texas is the fastest growing state in the union. Sixteen percent of people that moved last year moved to Texas. No shit, have you heard me complain about the tight housing market and traffic? Dallas, Austin, San Antonio and Fort Worth were among the top 10 fastest growing cities in the latest report.
Good: More diverse Texas and building the economy. Bad: People generally get on my nerves and now there's more of them.
March 27 at 7:46 AM | Comments (0)
Glad I'm not flying this week!
American canceled flights yesterday and have started canceling more today and now Delta joins in. Can you imagine Atlanta's airport today if Delta cancels a bunch of flights? Nightmare 3000!
March 27 at 7:39 AM | Comments (2)
Next time, I'll drive
I went out on a sales call today and the guy that drove had car trouble. As we were driving down the freeway, his electrical system shut down and we coasted to the emergency lane just before an on ramp. We had to dart across three lanes of highway traffic to get to the side of the road and walk about half a mile to a gas station.
He called a tow truck and I got an ice cream and a six pack of beer and called my assistant to come get me. When he arrived, I was leaning against a gas station building drinking a beer. If that ain't country, I'll kiss your ass.
March 26 at 11:05 PM | Comments (0)
I can't deal with this now..
Don't you hate it when you get a personal email that makes you sad, but you are so busy you can't be sad? You can't process the message, you can't work through an emotion because you're so busy? I got one of those. It was one of those emails that make you want to just take a good hour and let that emotion run through you. I can't I'm in meetings and giving presentations all day.
No time to be sad! It'll have to wait until I get home tonight. That means it'll be there in my mind all day.
So. Thanks for that.
March 26 at 12:59 PM | Comments (1)
Dumbass.
Pilot suspended after firing gun in cockpit
Hey, uhm, here's a little advice...don't handle a firearm while you are trying to fly a plane. There is one exception. Should someone come rushing at you with a bomb strapped around their chest and their hand on a trigger, you may fire at will. Otherwise, keep your sanctioned handgun in its case.
The above message brought to you by common sense. Get some, it's neat.
March 26 at 7:52 AM | Comments (0)
D'uh
A new study says drinking diet sodas can make you gain weight. Well, no shit.
What's better than seeing someone order a double cheeseburger, fries and a diet coke?
March 25 at 10:16 PM | Comments (0)
Networking Don'ts
Don't
How about don't hand me a business card and on the back you've written down the area bars where you can find "cougars."
How about you don't show up to a networking event stoned out of your mind and try to tell me what a great business model you have.
Do
Ask questions of those you meet and act interested before you ask for their business card.
Make a plan before you go. Don't forget to mingle!
March 25 at 8:34 PM | Comments (2)
That's some good drama, y'all
Are you watching Lipstick Jungle? It's good. I'm watching it on hulu.com. Here's a clip with the hotness of Kirby and wait the payoff at the end. DRAMA!
March 24 at 10:43 PM | Comments (1)
A beautiful parable
At Church Sunday, the minister told a story that so beautiful it brought me to tears. It is a good example of why people believe in God in the first place so I thought I would share it after the jump.
Continue reading "A beautiful parable"
March 24 at 7:36 AM | Comments (0)
Well, wasn't that nice?
What a great weekend! Was yours nice, too? friday night we had champagne at the Four Seasons and then made our way over to Apple Bar. Thankfully, I managed to get home by 1 or so. Saturday, I put furniture together with an incredibly sexy man. That night, there was a nice party to go to and once again, I managed too drink quite a bit of champagne. You know, in between flirting.
Easter Sunday was perfect. The Benediction was a full on New Orleans Jazz Quartert playing Scott Joplin's Pineapple Rag and instead of everying walking out of the sanctuary like they usually do, we all sat down and burst into applause at the end. Easter brunch at The Mansion followed...with more champagne.
March 24 at 7:28 AM | Comments (0)
Don't look at me, well...ok
I loved this missed connection...a straight guy sounds pissed that a gay dude kept checking him out even after he busted him. Then he says if he sees the gay dude again he will have sex with him.
Maybe that's why the guy didn't stop looking at you even though you were with your girlfriend...
March 22 at 8:49 PM | Comments (0)
My favorite headlines of the day...
From the ugh, that's the worst thing I've ever heard and that person will burn in hell department:
Man rapes 93 year old woman
From the drama fags gone bad department:
Theater employees poison, steal from boss
From the bad parenting department:
Fleeing shoplifter forgets son
March 21 at 6:53 PM | Comments (1)
I love starting the morning with a song!
In honor of Easter, today it is How Great Thou Art. Then sings my soul, my Savior God to Thee. How Great Thou Art! Indeed!
I think a lot about my grandma, Emma Sue, during Easter. I can still hear her singing out "He Lives!" in the church choir. I envy her serenity in life and how her Faith allowed her to shrug off hardship, injustice and sorrow. She stood tall and straight and encouraged me to find grace, forgiveness and peace. Lofty goals I fail to meet often.
No matter how far I stray from a path, my roots can bring me back from the brink.
Happy Easter everybody. Rejoice! For He is risen!
March 21 at 8:02 AM | Comments (0)
Why?
Why do I watch House Hunters on HGTV all the time? I see houses in cities around the country that I think "OH! I'd love to live in THAT house!" Ugh...and it pisses me off you can find an 1800 square foot house in Decatur just outside of Atlanta in that cute area for only $285k. I could so live in Decatur and commute to downtown Atlanta.
March 20 at 9:35 PM | Comments (3)
Closer to fine...
I don't know if you know this or not, but there's more than one answer pointing me in a crooked line. Sorry, can't help it, I got some Indigo Girls in my soul this morning. Enjoy along with me.
March 20 at 7:57 AM | Comments (1)
OMG, It happened again!
Twice this week I have come home from work, changed clothes, sat down on the sofa and woke up at 9p.m.! ARGH. I'm still so tired I will crash at 11. Niice. That means my at home time after work is like 2 and a half hours. Ah...smell the free time I have on my hands.
I'm going to change the title of this blog to, "OMG I AM SO TIRED" (Shut up)
March 19 at 9:18 PM | Comments (1)
Why, of course
Sptizer's hooker was also featured in 7 full length videos in Girls Gone Wild. She spent an entire week on the GGW bus when she was 18. D'uh.
March 18 at 11:41 PM | Comments (0)
I love a good thunderstorm
We had some great spring storms roll through today. My only regret was that I was not at home with the windows open and fast asleep on the sofa. I think on days like that we should all get to stay home and do nothing.
Well, that's what I'm doing now so it turned out alright.
March 18 at 9:05 PM | Comments (0)
Shopping Hangover
March 17 at 9:56 PM | Comments (0)
Top o' the mornin' to you
And the rest of the day as well. Happy St. Patrick's Day.
Hope you had a weekend nearly as awesome as mine. JM and I jetted up to Dallas on a last minute trip and got suites at a beautiful hotel. We shopped like it was our job and had great meals and champagne. Exactly what the doctor ordered for me.
March 17 at 7:29 AM | Comments (2)
Ew. Ew. Ew. Ew.
Incest is still illegal, y'all. Brother jailed for sex with sister...and having four children. Two of which have disabilities...the other two? A lifetime of therapy. CNN video link. Words fail.
March 14 at 8:17 AM | Comments (2)
Austin weather is bipolar
In the East you get seasons, predictable for the most part. On the West Coast it's also predictable. Sunny days, cool nights. Here in Austin it is just bizarre. Today's high? 92. Then it drops to 55 at night and then 73 tomorrow. We've had days recently where it was 77 during the day and 34 at night.
Do you have any idea how hard it is to dress for this? When I leave the house it is winter and 36 degrees, but by lunch it's spring and 77. Two completely different wardrobes. ARGH.
March 14 at 7:09 AM | Comments (0)
Seriously?
It was on auto-play so I put in the extended entry.
March 13 at 9:27 PM | Comments (6)
That was no day off...
I was taking the day off, but wound up in the office by 8:30 and giving a presentation at 9. Then I was in meetings until 2 when I finally bolted to go get a mani/pedi and meet the washing machine repairman. (Still not fixed). Was settling in at 5:30 and my boss called with something we needed to get to the East Coast in the next 30 minutes.
I'm going to try again tomorrow. Wish me luck! Oh except I have to be on TV at noon, and I have a conference call at 1 and a meeting at 2:30. But, other than that I have the day off.
Mmmm, this bitterness taste good y'all.
March 13 at 6:57 PM | Comments (1)
I'm Yours
How about a little bit of some new Jason Mraz to round out your day. Love.
March 13 at 6:54 PM | Comments (1)
Bad idea
Lifehacker has this best decorated cubicle thing going on where people send in photos of how they have decorated their cubes. I don't care for this. What happens when these people get laid off and have the humiliating task of taking down all these decorations? HUMILIATION x a thousand!
March 13 at 6:48 PM | Comments (0)
The new five
Love it.
March 13 at 3:04 PM | Comments (0)
Crazy Fool Driver!
Some delivery van driver almost t-boned me today. I was about to turn left when I saw this jerk swerve around a car that was apparently turning right too slowly for him. He swung out into the opposing lane of traffic and came speeding up towards my rear. I didn't turn left because I was afraid he'd stay in that lane and hit me so I just looked in the rear view mirror and prepared for the hit.
The fool slammed on his brakes, narrowly missing me and then proceeded to honk and scream at me. For turning left? On a surface street where the posted limit is 30? OH HELL NO. I actually opened my door in the middle of the road and was stepping out to call 911 and he drove up on the sidewalk and went around me, cussing me the whole way.
The drive back to my office was where I had my daydream of grabbing my tire iron and pulling him out of that van and beating his skull until it was just a soggy pink foamy mess on the road.
That's when I decided I have to take a day off of work and go to a spa. I'm tightly wound. But, seriously...that jerk? OMG if he had hit my car? With his wreckless driving? The call to my lawyer would have been delicious.
March 13 at 12:11 AM | Comments (5)
SXSW in Austin
SXSW is in full swing here in Austin. Musicians, filmakers and gaming geeks have descended on the city for the music, film and interactive festival. The swarm of adoring nerds have been gushing about meeting the founder of facebook and the screenburn arcade is the talk of the town. Helen Hunt was here to premier her new movie as was Neil Patrick Harris and many other folks.
Austin gets a lot of good press and 1/2 the people that come to the festival start looking at real estate so they can move here. For the locals it's basically just a couple of weeks of traffic nightmares and hard to get reservations.
March 12 at 8:30 AM | Comments (1)
Long day
Five and a half hours in a car with people you work with is a long time. There turns out to be, on average, less talk about work and more about our personal lives. Of the two women I traveled with, one was married and one was single. The talk about love and life partners was probably one of the best conversations I've had on the topic in a long time. It was interesting to talk to a 40 something single woman about being single and how much we had in common about our lives and being happy with being single, but still holding out hope of finding someone.
It was also nice to hear the married woman say that yes, being single is hard because you have to do everything yourself and don't have a partner to help navigate life and pay half the bills.
March 11 at 10:59 PM | Comments (0)
It's so early!
Q: Hey, C! What do you do for a living?
A: Go to meetings and read emails.
I'm off to Houston today. See ya later!
March 11 at 7:13 AM | Comments (0)
hulu.com
I'm not much of a TV watcher. But, since I got my beta login to hulu.com, I have been watching some great stuff. The video quality is amazing and I can get caught up on shows I didn't even know about and then catch them on TV later.
Clearly, it is the future. I know some of you are real TV fans so I have five invites to the beta site for hulu.com courtesy of hulu.com. You can watch TV online and give them feedback about the beta site. Leave a comment or shoot me an email if you want one.
Here's a clip from SNL that made me laugh. "I was in a listening contest this morning. I won first and second place. It's because I have really big eardrums." HA! Anyway, behold the embedding of SNL clips right into my blog:
March 10 at 8:31 AM | Comments (3)
How people got here
I love to round up the search terms that get people to this blog. It still puzzles me that amputee porn is near the top. Here are some of my favorites:
-how to talk with stupid people. (That's pretty much the theme of this blog)
-I don't think I can do this. (My motto?)
-perfect date nights. (Like I would know!)
-seersucker for fat people. (HA!)
-why do you suck so hard
-truman capote
-dating for the maladjusted
-dumbest person in the world
March 8 at 11:41 AM | Comments (0)
It was kind of like a date...
If you close your eyes and squint real hard you could pretend last night was a date. I did. Listen, at this point I am going to take what I get so just deal.
Continue reading "It was kind of like a date..."
March 8 at 8:21 AM | Comments (3)
A new office!
In my furniture shopping spree last weekend, I bought a new desk. JS came over and made me a keyboard drawer yesterday and it's awesome! My new desktop computer arrived yesterday so I'm busy setting up iTunes and installing crap today and trying to figure out how I'm going to set the office up now. This desk is hooge and I want to face the windows but there's all these wires!
I'm going to require some assistance, STAT.
I'm off to a few SXSW things today, but I'll be around later.
March 8 at 8:19 AM | Comments (2)
I have a bird problem
Well, to be more precise, I have a bird poop problem. My yard is apparently a bird sanctuary and it is getting on my nerves. If I don't pull the car into the garage it will be covered in bird poop. When I go out into my yard it's like an Alfred Hitchcock movie. There are grackles, crows and doves all over the place.
I can't really shoot them or poison them, so I'm at a loss. How do I get them to leave me alone? It is too time consuming to run out into my yard every couple of hours and shoo them away. Any ideas?
March 6 at 1:19 PM | Comments (7)
Helen Keller
I remember when I first read about Helen Keller when I was in grade school. Talk about inspiring, her story had an impact on me and I consider her a hero for her work to change perceptions about the disabled.
A rare photo was found of her as a child with her teacher, Annie Sullivan.
March 5 at 9:57 PM | Comments (1)
See you Friday Night, Tim
This is what I'll be staring at Friday night
I'm going to a fundraiser where Tim McGraw will perform after our dinner. I hope his wife isn't there, I don't want her to ruin my chances.
March 5 at 8:23 AM | Comments (0)
Hillary Wins
Last night I was busy with election coverage stuff. Senator Clinton won Texas, Ohio and Rhode Island last night. I was pleased for her. It was a great night and I spent it hanging out with the former state comptroller and candidate for governor. Her campaign slogans have always been "One Tough Grandma" and I think she's awesome. She gave a speech one time and said she believed in "government in the sunshine." That's when I decided I liked her.
But, being at the office until after midnight is exhausting. I think I'll take Thursday off or something.
March 5 at 8:01 AM | Comments (1)
Specifically for FG
This cute kitten video is specifically for Freakgirl. That cat is so adorable I want to carry it around all day inside my mouth.
March 4 at 8:22 AM | Comments (2)
I'm mad at these pilots
Have you seen this video of a plane trying to land in Hurricane force winds? The news says the wing touched the runway and they called the pilots heroes for aborting the landing and then getting the plane on the ground safely.
NO WAY. These pilots are assholes. You do not try to land a plane in hurricane force crosswinds! That is wreckless endangerment as far as I'm concerned. I had a similar experience one time landing in NYC and as the plane nearly flipped over right above the runway I was immediately convinced it was my last moment on earth.
You don't take people's lives in your hands because you "think you can make it."
I'm SO MAD at them.
March 4 at 7:52 AM | Comments (5)
VOTE
It's a nice day here in Texas and there is zero excuse for you to not go vote. Oh, and go all the way down the ballot, too. Don't just stop after you vote for president.
(So nervous. Come on Texas, don't let me down.)
March 4 at 7:43 AM | Comments (0)
What do we think of this rug?
I think this rug may be the perfect addition for the dining room and the new black dining room table with six black leather parsons chairs. Your thoughts?
Oh, the dining table is after the jump...
Continue reading "What do we think of this rug?"
March 3 at 6:55 PM | Comments (2)
Weekends Are Made For Livin'
This weekend was fantastic.I shopped like it was my job and finally got a dining room table, a new dresser, a desk and two leather chairs for the living room. Saturday night a group of us went out to Apple Bar and the amount of Red Bull and Vodkas I drank are a personal record. It was a little out of control.
This group of people were dancing badly and we, admittedly, did make a little fun of them. One of the girls in the group came over and said to me, "Y'all are not nice people." I replied by pulling open my shirt to show her my nipple, licked my finger and rubbed it. She gasped and stormed off. I also fended off some crazy straight boy that told me I should leave the bar or I was going to get killed and then he told me and JM that he was going to kill us. He changed his mind, though, and tried to stick his credit card down my shirt and wanted us to take him home and sex him. Ugh, drunk, mentally unstable closet cases are exhausting.
Sunday brunch was fun and now we are gearing up for the big elections on Tuesday.
Hope your weekend was great!
March 3 at 6:53 AM | Comments (8)
Being a judge
So I was a judge at the Miss Teen Austin and Miss Austin pageant on Friday night. You'll get a glimpse of the hot personal trainer that was a judge with me. I loved the Shania Twain opening number and the whole "very Texan-ness" of it all. There were some screaming people in the audience!
So, what did you do Friday night? Me? I just helped make some girl's dreams come true. You know...the usual.
