haikus !

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perpendicular
feelings of tea and coffee
leaves dirty dishes

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unfortunate drips
from your curls has me climbing
into flower pots

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july weekends are for:

this weekend and monday:

1. watching men in spandex and bike races
2. wine tasting in cedarburg
3. being tricked into visiting 24th and Wells
4. learning that jameson can cure a friend's ear ache
5. not giving out my number
6. adverting my friend from red and white, otherwise there will be talk of da bulls
7. mexican - irish - posh - blue collar - and dirty bars
8. having my first second date in 2 years
9. Illinois austin power parking
10. johnson bus night at the brewer game.

Things that made Wednesday

1. Going from drunk to hungover during sometime in my morning work activities
2. Sitting in the driver seat of my new car
3. My colorful high heel shoes
4. Listening to Holly Jolly Christmas on record in the middle of July*
5. Knowing I am going to have to learn 5 speed
6. M & M's at Paddy's
7. Learning that four advil will not cure lack of sleep, you need water, coffee, cola and 2 more advil
8. Walking up to Axel's jukebox and pressing 49-10 without looking up the artist and hearing my favorite song*
9. Being pleasantly surprised by old faces, not the wrinkly kind - the past kind
10. Having your face hurt from laughing



* still counts as wednesday (wee hours of the am)

Dreams be Dreams

It was one of those platonic "Before Sunset / After Sunset" * questioning that I just can't shake off. If you know you're in a dream, can you control your dream? For example - if there is a variable in your dream that you know only resides in your dream and you see it in your dream then you can understand that you are in a dream and can do whatever you want. If you know you are flying, do keep practice flying or stop and walk away. I'd keep on flying. If you know you've just done a really bad thing that will change your life forever do you wake up? Is there a recurring theme that occurs in your dream that you'll be able to recognize next time you're in that place?

I don't think I've ever been able to control variables while in a dream but I've been able to go to bed thinking about something or someone and have dreams around that subject. Sometimes it gets on the neurotic side when all you want to do is go back to your dream and live in your dream rather than reality. I'll admit I've done it because fantasy was much better than reality at the time. When reality hit it really sucked. I wouldn't recommend doing it again. At the current stage I haven't gone to bed controlling what I will think about and now I've ended up having dreams that I've gone mad with a chainsaw - (I was trying to save myself from evil) and I was rapping with Jay-Z ** a different night. Two completely different feelings and environments. So next time your in dream try to control it see what happens. Or try to think about what you WANT to dream about and see what happens them. Maybe I'll let the Boss*** put me to sleep and see if I can't get an all night concert!




* "Before Sunset" "After Sunset" movies to watch repeatedly. I have 2 guy friends that have seen it 5 times more than me. Names not to be released
**For those above 40, Jay-Z is a hip-hop artist
*** I'd rather not associate for those who don't know this reference.

Mellow Airflow

So this weekend i took off for St. Louis via the loud and obnoxious route. It all started with this man jaw woman. You know those people who you think are a woman and probably are but they're just a little rough around the face and wonder if they've even taken a lover. This woman that I hoped would have stayed in Chicago and/or gotten kicked off in Chicago sat right in front of me all the way to St. Louis. During this trip she managed to pull someone's hair, cry over her "lover", tell the bus driver all about this "lover", spill her soda up and down the bus, shove her ass right in Mr. via Portland face. At this moment I bonded with the soon-to-be-pro-boxer. Hunka-hunka, it was the jaw line that did me in and we wished we were sitting in the back of the bus. Too bad he was going to Denver and we said goodbye in St. Louis.

So I put on my party hat and my partner in crime for the weekend, a college friend, picked me up and we headed to bar that served miller lite in 24oz bottles. The thing with being in a new town is you can do whatever you please and not have to worry about seeing these people again. I should have, could have walked up to several guys but I'm too chicken to actually approach a man. so I didn't and I just took compliments for my hat and gave them a smile. So we left his friends to boobs and bud light and we headed to a trendy club that spins wicked tracks. very posh-posh.

I didn't give in to the Bud light but I gave into the cardinals. I figured it best to root root root for the home team if I didn't care about either team. They'll be playing the Brewers anyway and we all will be crossing our fingers praying, making sacrifices just to see them win...eh... maybe not. Later that night we reconnected with his friends that would rather be hanging out with a stripper and the other going to a gay club. Yeah, we were that cool. I took confidence in white wine and Mr. Jack Daniel who saw me through the night.

A good book to read when you have to kill time: "I Dream of Microwaves" the line that made me read the book: "Good. News. I am through with big dicks and henceforth thinking constanlty of you." I thought of some people and sighed, tough luck for them. The author lives in Madison. Go read it on a ride back from somewhere.

Rock On

This is Joe from Fuzee jaming at summerfest.

katie's joke of the day

what's irish and stays out all night?

you got a preddy skirt

Why is it when you're feeling really great about yourself and you've got one of those you know your going to be happy if you wear me outfits that all the missing tooth - sleezy- douche bags compliment you? Tell me - why is it? Why can't any of the clean shaving nice suit guys getting off their accounting jobs stop for a sec? Are they all married off? They can't be because I'm still single! I took a shower I don't smell. I don't think I intimidate anybody. I know I look good. The 50 year old man at the Nomad chased me out of the bar with the "you've got great tits" line. My friend's male friend couldn't believe I wasn't taken. I'm choosing to be single. Do I like it? Sometimes. Well then it is my choice to wear the preddy skirt and get spoken to by crusty men. Hopefully, one day someone with a nice smile will stop and say hello.

the martini lounge

one band, couple handful of friends, 3 beers, 1 martini and leaving work early. And... my shirt stayed on thanks for a goth girl. Thank god the safety pin my the sparkles in my shirt! Nothing beats this on a Thursday afternoon... till you have to go to work Friday morning

need a kleenex

Howie Day - "ghost"


lately i’ve been thinking
lately i’ve been dreaming with you
i’m so resitant to this type of thinking
oh, now it’s shining through
i was alone for the last time
before my night’s vacation with you
alive from the first
now i’m denied by the ghost of you

you take yourself a photograph and laugh at me
please

i know there’s little use in crying
it’s more wide awake and dying then i’m used to
i thought we’d walk these streets together
now i’m hoping that i’ll never have to meet you
step aside from all this anger
and somewhere in between i can feel you
ask me should we try again
i’m thinking no
y’know, it’s not what i believe in
it’s not what i believe in

you take yourself a photograph and laugh at me
please
you make yourself a photograph and laugh at me
please

no i, wanna taste you, love
no i...no i
no i, just wanna taste you, love

standing in your shoes
i turn and now
you’re standing bare in my doorway
i only wish that i had been prepared
i’m gonna have to go along with your way
just take the plastic camera out
it’s the pants you borrowed in the driveway
alive from the first
now i’m denied by the ghost of you

make yourself a photgraph and laugh at me
please
you make yourself a photograph and laugh at me
please

no i, wanna taste of love
no i...

i was alive from the first
now i’m denied by the ghost of you

here chicky chicky

Ever wonder where the best place to meet people? I have the answer, for men. This place happens for 10 days. Everyone is partying listening to music and drinking, even the underagers. Summerfest is the best place for guys to find gals. As my married co-pilot and I people watched. There were flocks of hair, boobs, short skirts and tight shirts. They'd hug and delve into their girly gushing. If I were a guy I'd think it was pretty cute. They are just waiting for a muscle bound lad to walze right into their circle. It's the type of thing that make them bat their eyes and grin. Guys, just tuck away 5 bucks in your pocket so your ready to get them a drink and maybe the other thing behind your pocket might come out to play. You don't even have to care if their 21, just make sure their legal.

Sorry girls, summerfest might be no help to finding the love of your life. Guys are greasy, but if you're my "swingen" friend and happen to be at a Violent Femmes concert and find that tatooed rock star man, then this may be just the right place.

cheers,


gina

Meat in the Market

If only finding the perfect guy was as simple as going to the deli and ordering up.

My Italian Job

So Gina needs a car after returning back from OZ and finding her poor Saturn coupe is not running ( due to not changing oil - how does that happen when I'm not even in the states to drive it. Hmmmmm.) Lets UPGRADE my set of wheels. What do you think I would like best in, not get in a car accident and finally have power locks? I was thinking Jeep Wrangler but after my save the earth make over I went back looking. This week my love of the week is a Mini Cooper!




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One from the original Italian Job


I test drove one today. yum yum vroom vroom. It felt like like it was my very own. Now can anybody teach me stick - seriously?

Hot town, summer in the city

Hot summer night + 4 hot mamas= a excellent night on Brady Street.

First stop: The Nomad: Where the guys are guys and the women drink beer too. Except for me because I know I can get a cheap g+t (gin and tonic) I've renamed my drink to a "gina tonic". If you say it real fast your server won't even know the difference.

Second Stop: Vucciria's: We're not in Milwaukee anymore. Who can resist martini night? Not us. Usually I'm a bit razzled after a cosmo but this greeno didn't have me in. We bounced to the beat of Dj Soto and when our eyes couldn't take any more light changes we headed across the street

Third Stop: The Garage: A sardine can of posh people. Time for a Spotted Cow, why? easy to order and fast to serve, no need for this busy bartender to make a drink I want one now! (Later on I get a Hacker Phsoer where they have to take the time to pour it right and top it with a lemon, note: this drink is very had to dance with). I ran into my brilliant co-worker we all had a good time talking it up.

Last stop: my bed: no heels allowed - one water served on ice - fan on high.

Whores on the Hill

There is this excellent book I just finished reading it's called, "Whores on the Hill". It is based in Milwaukee, late eighties at the last all girls school. The book is filled with car rides to the east side, dancing at Metropolis, movies at the Oriental and trips to Kopps. The story revolves around 3 out of control girls who take pride in being tagged the whores on the hill. Whether it's making out with boys, sneaking out of the house, having your first boyfriend or cutting class we've all been there. It will make you wish you could go back and cut your skirt and grab that one guy you've lust over and smack a big wet one on him. Well maybe for some.

It's TOTO!

TOTO came and rescued me from a drowning in a well. I mean we fought the wicked witch of the west and gave the tin man a heart. We sort us - this is my pup pup Lexie also known as the urinator because everytime someone new pets her she tend to piddle on them. Very cute, I know. She also thinks she is a cat and perches on the couch. She sleeps a lot and just is cute for 24 hours. Unless she is in a car, this is when she foams at the mouth and maybe puke if you don't put her on stable ground. Her and I wait for her sister to come home from her adventures roaming the neighborhood looking for the food. Lexie has some good stories but won't tell all of them to me: )

My Horoscope

So it seems my horoscope have been pretty accurate the past couple weeks. Here's mine today.

Capricorn:
"It's super-tempting to do something that feels good in the moment, but consider the consequences of what will happen later, not to mention how you'll feel following your actions. If you know you'll feel lousy or filled with regret at not stopping yourself, why do it? So refuse to jump into this snake pit. Treat yourself with the respect you deserve. Aren't you worth the best care around?"


What would feel good right now is revenge but I'm frankly not in the mood for all that jazz. Now I will gather my dignity and do what is right for me. currently: walking out the door to the sunshine. future: walking out the door to the sunshine : )

TOP Movies

I'm going to start recommending Movies, Books and other sorts.

Today is: one of my all time favorite movies.


L' Homme du train ( Man on a Train)

>> A small french film. Two strangers meet. Each has a completely different lifestyle and they wonder what would have happened if maybe their life was like this person they just befriended.

working with the breeze

It's 3:00. I'm sitting in my apt the windows open and doing freelance work. Ya I might rather be sitting by the lake reading or running through the sprinklers downtown. This is my ideal work situation: working from my powerbook with the wind flowing in.

I'm thinking about getting a vespa. what color do you think I'll look best with?

Good People

I think Jack Johnson's lastest album lyrics suck. Sorry Jack, but you can't write a good song with the lyrics of "staple it together". He has excellent instramental parts but the lyrics are not as stunning as the previous albums. Jack, we need more songs like cocoon and symbol in my driveway. There's meaning there. I can sing this to someone while I am shampooing my hair. I might tell my co-worker to Staple it Together but who signs to their co-workers? Take that back I did it today - (laughing at myself)

I've been recomended Ben Lee and Alexi Murdoch. They are like 17% Jack Johnson and the rest themselves.
Songs to listen to : Ben Lee : Gamble Everything for Love and Alexi Murdoch: Song for You.