New Years Eve Update From The Tower Of T!

While all my lovely lady friends who are in town are on mimosas and shopping in Soho, I'm trapped up in the Tower of T, watching the clock tick.  This is not a total loss because the news is filled with 2010 lists. And lists, are my all time fav.

Lets get started.

NYT - top 110 things New Yorkers talked about in 2010.  Here are the top ten:

1. Bedbugs.
2. Pee-wee Herman’s comeback.
3. Larry King’s farewell.
4. The best campaign slogan of 2010: “I am not a witch.”
5. Ricky Martin comes out.
6. Steven Slater wigs out.
7. Four Loko, R.I.P.
8. Justin Bieber gets a new haircut.
9. There is no justice: Mondo loses to Gretchen on “Project Runway.”
10. Well, maybe there is: Bristol Palin finally is ousted on “Dancing With the Stars.”

Bedbugs for me were 2008 (scare at 918 Lorimer followed by negative Harvard Lab test results. phew).  The rest I didn't talk about except for Four Loko and even that rarely crossed my lips except occasionally when I would scream at Chris and tell him not to drink it (it makes his voice really high).


Thanks Jezebel, for the top 10 biggest celebrity stories of 2010:

1. Lindsay Lohan cried in court, went to jail, and then to rehab.

2. Wyclef Jean and Sean Penn battled over who had done what in Haiti following the devastating earthquake. Wyclef wanted to be president… but then withdrew from the race.

3. Michael Douglas was diagnosed with throat cancer, and became the subject of a Star magazine death watch. He currently seems to be doing quite well

4. In an audio tape, Mel Gibson ranted to his ladyfriend: "You look like a fucking pig in heat, and if you get raped by a pack of niggers, it will be your fault." He also called Winona Ryder an oven-dodger. So: Racist, aniti-semitic, abusive asshole. Got it.

5. Charlie Sheen was either drunk and naked or coked up and pantsless. Either way, there was an "escort" involved.

6. Taylor Swift released her album, which included a song called "Dear John." It seemed to be about her relationship with John "The Player" Mayer, with lyrics like: It was wrong/Don't you think nineteen's too young/To be played…

7. Prince William and Kate Middleton got engaged; copy-cat rings suddenly materialized.

8. Shiloh Jolie-Pitt started dressing like a tomboy, got a haircut and all hell broke loose. Even GLAAD weighed in. (Angelina, on the defensive, had to explain that Shiloh "begged" to have her hair cut short.)

9. Sandra Bullock's husband was revealed to be a liar, a cheater and a possible Nazi enthusiast.

10.  Last, but not least: Sandra Bullock bounced back with a secret baby. Yes, the woman who played a white lady who brought a black youth into her home became a white lady who brought a black youth into her home. All's well that ends well!

Lets see here, I guess I relate mostly to the Shiloh story because I too thought I was a boy basically  until I went through puberty.  So I get that confusion.  Annnnnnd.  Charlie Sheen will always be a beacon in the dark, dark night.

I hate Taylor Swift.

Moving onward and upward!

MTV gave us the top ten songs.  Spoiler alert: I am SO SATISFIED with the number one pick:

10. Lady Gaga "Telephone"

9.  Eminem "Love The Way You Lie"

8. Jay Z "On To The Next One"

7. Drake "Fancy"

6. Robyn "Dancing On My Own"

5. Cee Lo Green "F--- You"

4. Rick Ross "BMF"

3. Kanye West "Power"

2. Kanye West "Runaway"

1. USHER 'OMG'

I'm sure many of you are disappointed that Party In The USA isn't on there, but cant imagine any other song being number one.  This song makes me freak out.  And its really fun to dance to because its like three songs in one: drum circle, trance and R&B classic.  Also, come on - first song based around an abrev, beautiful.

I need to get out of here.  See you tonight, 2011.

TODAY IS MICHAEL MCDONALD'S BIRTHDAY!!!!

Pour one out for the siberian tiger of soft rock.

New Phenomenon: Pop-Up Shops!!!

Liz had a Pop-Up Craft Store

Rosie had a Pop-Up Bakery

This year if you didn't give gifts that were homemade by your friends and purchased at their pop-up store, it was a big fat Christmas fail.  Thanks for the creativity guys!

Mondays Inspiration

Wub

January is Plan Appreciation Month.

RIP CHRISTMAS COUNTDOWN TO NEW YEARS LETS DO THIS!!!

New Xmas Eve Tradition

Chris and I went to the Museum of Natural History today and surprisingly, it wasn't a CF!  All the kids were busy sitting in Santa's lap.

Neither of us had ever been, so calling it a revelation would be an understatement...

This is Chris communing with some form of Plains mammal.  They look like they are begging him for food.

The Blue Whale was an obvious highlight.  Did you know their hearts are the size of Volkswagen Beetles and some of their arteries are so big, a human can swim up them?!?! 

Also, please note my new camera's indoor setting.  It was like night time in there, and I didn't even use a flash!

This made me want to own a fur...WHOOPS!

Twins!

A+ for the great efforts to make the place really feel like a menagerie.  I felt like an 8 year old discovering kangaroos for the first time!

Look who got all tuckered out from learning!  NAP TIME!!

Next year its mandatory for all New York Christmas orphans to do this. 

The NYT Is A Seriously Ridiculous Publication With Over-Indulged Employees

But I still love it.

“Cats actually have good body proportions for clothing, and they’re adorably photogenic."

Update From The Torture Tower

Some notes:
- The Lakers are everyone's favorite team
- David Duchovony is somewhat of a company-wide hero
- People are still upset about the demise of Tavern on the Green

2010 Just Won't Quit

So at this point I feel like someone has been playing a bad joke on me in regard to 2010.  There are only two and a half weeks left and trials and tribulations just keep coming.  2011 - you couldnt arrive sooner, dark days in the meantime.

The newest load of bullshit in my life is my third roommate (who I've only seen twice in four months) just gave her notice.  This means that when we fill her room, it will be the THIRD person to live there in ONE YEAR.  This background information is important.

NEW YORK FRIENDS- I need a new (girl) roommate.  Someone who is the following:

1. Not an alcoholic that will try to burn down my apartment
2. Not someone who will allow their foreign boyfriend to stay in her room for three months without paying rent
3. Not a total weirdo that will sleep at the house three times in four months and have loud pornographic sex when she does decide to drop by
4. Clean - this doesnt just mean tidy, this means someone who will take initiative when necessary, ie, bigger jobs
5. Not a recluse
6. Some who will have a SHRED of interest in the apartment, my roommate and myself

BASICALLY SOMEONE NORMAL.

If you know someone who fits this bill and is in need of a home by February 1st, please contact me with their information.  I really want to find someone who will be an active member of my household and not some freak who is going to pass through and weird me out in the night. 

Some Inspiration for Tuesday December 7th

Back To Work Tomorrow

Thank you, Little Hobbies, for getting me through a tough time.

Please Read

 This amazing Zombie article in the NYT:

“Every zombie war is a war of attrition. It’s always a numbers game. And it’s more repetitive than complex. In other words, zombie killing is philosophically similar to reading and deleting 400 work e-mails on a Monday morning or filling out paperwork that only generates more paperwork, or following Twitter gossip out of obligation, or performing tedious tasks in which the only true risk is being consumed by the avalanche. The principle downside to any zombie attack is that the zombies will never stop coming; the principle downside to life is that you will be never be finished with whatever it is you do.”

My new office job is so close I can taste it.........

Up Up Up!!!

new camera + new desk job = MORE BLOG POSTS!!!

Guess The Young Professionals

Wish List

Camera

A fabulous hair cut

Running shoes

Clogs of the world

AHHHH! Money.  Where are you??!?!

Happy Birthday JuliE!!!!

                 
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Do you know Julie? Shes perfect. Happy birthday, Mew!

Fantasy Job Of The Week

MEAT WRAPPERS NEEDED (BENSONHURST)

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MUST HAVE EXPERIENCE.

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I can't believe how weird things are getting.

These Four Plants

These four plants (and two more who are unpictured) are like trick candles.  I pour over these plants.  I move them around the house to the sun spots.  I google them so I am sure I am properly helping them.  I pick away their dead parts.  I rotate them, gaze at them, all but talk to them.  And yet they are hell bent on thinning, drooping and drying out.  Visitors give me the same advice that I already knew, that I already googled but nothing helps them.

The two on the ends are obsessed with eachother and if they are side by side, will grow and lean in the other's direction. So I separated them, and now this.  Second from the left is half the size that it used to be and the megalith in the middle doesn't seem to have any roots.  Its literally fallen out of its pot, soil and all, in one large mass and I have put it back in - maybe its plastic.

home-ownership is: Putting up shelves that don't fall down.  Keeping a clean fridge.  Mopping and Spot cleaning.  Rearranging furniture.  Junk drawers. And plant whispering.

Happy Birthday Pace!

                 
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Tonight We Contact The Dead

This costume was amazing until it was violently torn off of me on the dance floor.  It lasted a total five hours, but I loved it dearly.  RIP Ouija Board.

More Halloween

Can We Do This Tonight?

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Birthday Suit

Happy Birthday Ann!!!!

                 
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FYI - blingee has some GREAT new cat graphics.

Some Fan Mail

This just in! Subject header in the email, 'This is you...'

Woodland Creatures

Captain Planet!

Pam outside her building where all the magic happens.  Look at our little bookworm!!

Monday. Eating Salad. Resuming job search.

Halloween. How am I going to do this?

I want to be Kali, Goddess of Destruction (fitting, right??!) for Halloween.  But how am I going to make this costume?  Where will I find all those shrunken heads?

"I've been growing the beard huge and am going tomorrow to buy some local clothes tomorrow so I can look like a jihadi for children."

Mir.  I miss you.  And until you come back, there will be a big, cheesesteak-sized hole in my heart.