Dang!

i know i've afore mentioned this but it's so not fair!!! (and yes, i'm stomping my feet right now) that beastie boys are playing a number of european festivals this summer. especially my favorite cities of Lisbon and Barcelona. why couldn't it have been LAST summer?

here's a quick ditty about their new album. so, is it going to be sick?

blah.

sorry for the stretch of quiet. there's just nothing good to report this month - i turned 29 (yuck), there's been no progress / responses to resumes when it comes to moving to CA (owch), i am getting weekly accupuncture treatments for ongoing allergies which are not necessarily working and not cheap... yadda yadda.

this past weekend i was a little cheered up because we had a heavy rain day, good for being lazy on saturday, and then gorgeous "flip flop weather" on sunday which was refreshing. knowing Spring in colorado, it will at least snow a few more times before we're in the clear, but i'm content with a couple warm weekends in between!

so here's a couple fun news stories of the weekend:

united way got free advertising on saturday night live over the weekend! yeee! it won't be on youtube for long but you can always go to snl.com.

yessss! finally silver spoons season 1 is on DVD. a true 80's classic! now i just need punky brewster to complete my collection. (kidding, i never watch dvd's of television. i prefer tvland)

and one for the "why didn't we think of this" file.
according to popcandy blog:
"Before the Internet, if three friends [or two roommates] wanted to take a road trip, they just hopped in a cruddy car [such as an '84 dodge minivan with a stickshift] and traveled where the wind [the alcohol, oh - i mean - the wind] took them. Now there are things like CashRoadTripUSA.com. The premise: Three friends want to travel across the country, but first they're selling ad space on every inch of their van. Ads cost $100 per square. The website just launched, so a lot of van space is still available. The gang is also offering the chance to wear company T-shirts during the journey. That can cost up to $7,500 a day, if you want a female to wear the shirt."

$7500 is more than our entire road trip (including the car) itself cost. but then again, we broke down in shasta. with a few thousand dollars, we probably could have bought a newer (like a VW!) van. but then again, after all my stickers were on the car, there wasn't much room for ad space.

stuff like this makes my day

ooooh. lauryn hill finally returns to recording! she's on one song of the very cool new joss stone album. this may actually be one of the few weeks of the year i get off my ass to drive to a record store, instead of just typing a password into itunes. yeah, it's a few bucks more, but itunes doesn't provide the same instant gratification as when you unwrap the plastic and pop a new CD into the car stereo for the ride home.

The New Yorker just launched a new web site with animated cartoons! i like the snail one.

this death by caffeine web site lets you fantasize about how many grande cups of starbucks coffee, or how many reeses peanut butter cups, you could eat before it would kill you. is that meant to actually warn you or just disturb you?

home, alas

wulp. i had a nice trip out to CA, had fun visiting molly & josh, but it sounds like moving to CA is not going to happen yet.


the only thing i'm actually mad at is my fortune cookies lately have been very misleading. : )

so i'm trying to tell myself something bigger & better must be around the bend.

'till then, here's a couple photos of favorite things on my trip - above, a sign on telegraph in berkeley (exactly!), molly's kitchen table, the puppies - siena & sadie, going for a ride to the dog park on friday.

R2

R2-D2 may be moving to a street corner near you soon! how fun. only 400 nation-wide, i wonder if i'll ever see one. also there will be star wars postage stamps on May 25. i think USPS finally has a marketing genius on staff.

(follow up: here's an interactive map of where you can find R2-D2 mailboxes)