i think i forgot a lot here.

Oh man,

I’m resorting to list-format again, but it’s been a week. A week! I’d be typing all day.

1 Monday and Tuesday were lots of cookie deliveries. I thought it would suck but I loved it. I got a tour of Sean’s work at the printing company. I saw photos of creepy dudes who hit on Adrianne. I went back to the catholic bowling alley, turned down an offer to bowl with the Boy Scouts of America, and worked it as far as getting the place donated to Team Boobylicious* as a fundraiser. I went up to Mike’s house near Myth, then down to Kaye and Lilypants’ house near The NASCAR Bar. I met Emily’s bunnies, found Jon in his secret enclave near Lake Como, and got lost in St Paul at least three times. I visited Micci and Catherine in the way-way-far-away, then set a land-speed record for driving back to Minneapolis in the snow. I visited Project Offstreets to see Melanie, where a kid insisted over and over and over that he knew me, and I’m pretty damn sure he didn’t. I stopped last at Mollie’s, where I had giggling flashbacks to that night I was up to no damn good in her entryway.

The cookie fundraiser was awesome, but I still never want to see another cookie in my life. For Valentine’s Day, let’s do candy instead.

2 Wednesday, as I mentioned, I was awakened by the po-po. I did my first live build at work, which was nerve-wracking. It went fantastically well until I got to the last client. It would be extremely unprofessional to express my rage about that situation here, so I won’t. I finally left work about 9pm.

3 Thursday I was up at 5:30 to be at aforementioned client site before their working hours. Never mind about the rest of that morning. By the time I got back to work, I was fine.

4 I should also mention that during those days, we got a ton of snow, which was awesome. Even snowmergency wasn’t bad. I’m really glad I have underground parking at work, though, so Chico has a chance to thaw out. He’s kind of elderly, after all.

5 Bertine and I signed up for a class next year. VB.NET, followed by ASP.NET. I guess they’re identical to the certification-exam prep. At this point in my career, do I need a certification? Hmm. Not likely! Anyway, I’m really excited. They’re 6-10pm Tuesday nights from January through June (OH MY GOD I might as well be married to MCTC), and two full Saturdays.

6 This means I have to take 6 months off Iaido, because that’s on the same night. Unfortunately, one doesn’t earn anywhere near as much as a samurai as one does as a web girl.

7 Thursday night:

I got a call from someone I haven’t heard from in almost 2 years. So awesome. And WOW, can things change.

Chris and I went to see Good Night and Good Luck, which was very good and also very timely. The commentary on TV’s role in society is immensely depressing.

I talked to Jay and still can’t get over the fact he’s moving to Seattle. But he’s totally a superstar, because not only is he going to work for Amazon(!!), but he’s written up in Wired News today.

8 Friday, I was Bertine’s date to her work party.

• I totally didn’t have to put out.
• We went to a bar with pulltabs beforehand, so we had to play pulltabs, because when are we going to be at a bar with pulltabs again?** We won a dollar.
• The owner of her company asked me three times where I worked, as if writing it down in his brain. I’m not sure what that was about.
• I met a couple people there who were pretty awesome, even if they were girls and I’m not good at liking many girls. Hahaha.
• We went to Herkimer after. Glen is awesome. I think it’s important to get to know people everywhere you go. Right? Right. It kind of made me miss Billy at Nye’s, though. Sad.

9 Saturday, I spent the day getting ready for my party. Kaye came over and we decorated and shopped. Kaye could totally sell her party-decorating services.

• My apartment was not meant to hold more than 20 people. So funny. There was some lap-sitting going on, both voluntary and involuntary.
• I’m a huge fan of stupid games, so everybody brought a gift and we played the dice game. We had the BEST presents. Bertine got a bag of potting soil. I got prune juice. Russ got a can of Lotrimin. Joe got a pack of Walgreens-brand Depends. Some girl I don’t know got a pack of razor blades, which Kaye and I really debated over getting. Other people got lightbulbs, a Bratz activity book, a turkey baster, Vanilla Sky on DVD, and many other valuable prizes.
• Several drinks were invented. The most notorious is known as Puckschlager. By the end of the night, people were handing me glasses and asking me to make them drinks. This is a REALLY BAD IDEA^TM. I can guarantee that all of them had prune juice in them.
• We played Truth or Dare like a bunch of kids, which is bad when some of us cannot turn down a dare, myself included.
• There’s a trail of glitter and tinsel from my door, down the stairs, and out the front of the building. I love that.
• I can’t believe I didn’t have another visit from my pals, the po-po.
• I had to make three trips down to the recycle bin Sunday morning. If that’s not the sign of a good party, I don’t know what is.
• See below for some of the publishable photos!!

10 Yesterday, it didn’t take me anywhere as long to clean up as I thought it would. My apartment is back in pre-party shape, except that Kaye’s balls are still hanging from the ceiling. In the afternoontime, my seester and I went to the mall to try to finish xmas shopping. I did an awesome job, because in addition to the remaining gifts, I finally got myself skates and snow boots. We’re totally going to walk across Lake Calhoun sometime soon.

11 Today I am tired, and have now been reminded of two conversations I don’t remember having on Saturday. Haha. I’m meeting Chris at Dragon Star in an hour because he has expressed his intention to make vegetarian wild rice soup tonight. Me? Not arguing with that plan at all.

12 PHOTO TIME!

cats, decorated
xmas chandelier
living room
ambience
…more ambience
food
drink
not a fan of parties
huge fan of parties
adventures in rubber cement (IT HURT.)
i guess my camera was drunk too?
more adventures in rubber cement
russ licking my… uh, never mind
we’re all about stupid dares
the drink known as puckschlager
another stupid dare
sometime around 3am
coat check attendants
downtown sky

OMGIT’SLEAVINGTIME!
Jenni

* You would not believe how many men are offended by the name ‘Team Boobylicious’. Women love it. And if you have any sense of what participating in the Breast Cancer 3day is like, you’ll know it’s totally appropriate.

** Next time I’m in Wisconsin, most likely.