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Saturday, October 11th, 2003
3:14 pm	best quote of last night this is as we were introduced to sable coate (hahaha) from ryan: "this is andrea, katy and adam. lesbian, lesbian, homo." today is party day!!! keg adventures are plentiful and that's just tapping it. but i have to go clean clean clean and do the dishes. let's make this place presentable people! peace. :) Current Mood: giddy Current Music: the sound of ppl out on the street talking (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, October 6th, 2003
10:27 pm	okay, i HAVE to update since it appears no one is going to update for me, i guess i will just break down and do it myself. so many great things have been going on and i have no idea where to start.. sons of bitches. so i'll start by saying that katy (!!!!!) is going to be here in 3 days! and what's even better is her visit conveniently falls right between her birthday and mine so we have a lot to celebrate. friday we're going to the orchard to get lost in the corn maze hehe, i can't wait! then extended happy hour with mr. adam o'dell, things don't get much better than that. adam o'dell is paul's man. he's a fucking stud, i love him to death. tonight we were just going to go to one store in the short north and instead that turned into walking around the park twice, then to the north market which was closed (boo!) and then all the way down high st. to 5th ave where we went to victorian's midnight cafe which is normally a very cool place. but there's this uhh mental health institution and once a week, some of the ppl who stay there are allowed to go there and "get their social on" (the waitress's words). it turned out not only to be the same night as this fantastic gathering, but the same HOUR. first of all, we had "the broken record." she told the wait staff at least 30 times that the cold water in the bathroom was broken. then she asked for every type of muffin possible and then she tried to play pool by putting the cueball in the triangle thing. um, i may be going straight to hell but the look on paul's face just sent me into hysterics. so that was an adventure, and then i got the yummiest cup of hot apple cider on earth. yay! alright, so last weekend was the gallery hop which we can't NOT miss now since we live in the middle of it. i got back from pittsburgh around 3pm and got beer for the boys and i. i left paul and adam as they were attempting to make caramel apples. this proved to be quite possibly the biggest mistake EVER as our kitchen swiftly turned into a caramel volcano. at any rate, we drank and drank until about 9pm and then hit the streets. i couldn't even tell you what galleries we went to but the point is that we actually made it to some of them. a couple times, we were derailed by bars but we were strong and didn't stay in them too long. met adam o'dell at havana around 10pm and then went to u-be-u where we spent the bulk of the night, crowded in a booth with randoms, chatting and drinking. we are four bowls of pretzel and goldfish mix as our dinner, it was very classy. red haired ryan showed up with his friend nick, from brisbane. umm.. completely adorable! super thick australian accent and a head of blond curly hair. he was drinking a cosmo b/c that's what they drink on sex and the city. i love him! ryan might be bringing him to the party on saturday, i can only hope. yes that's right columbus, i'm having a party on saturday. with katy and possibly nick here, it's a mult-state and international event! please join the festivities.. more alcohol and good times than you can shake a stick at. PLUS, the shade tent will be set up and herbie will be the bouncer so don't piss him off. more about herbie in a bit.. after u-be-u, as we were walking back to high st., i was trying to read the entertainment paper and walk at the same time which proved disastrous as i promptly fell down in the street. now here's what i don't remember. i guess there was some guy walking in the street with binoculars which i apparently thought were a camera.. and he made some comment about me falling and i said, "well get your camera ready, because i'm probably going to fall again!" and the poor guy just looked confused. when adam told me i did this, i was crying from laughter. oh what an ass i can be. :) next was union where we played darts and two games of pool, all of which i did horribly at but that's okay because so did everyone else. we saw our neighbor vinny there, he's so cute! hehe he had previously thought paul and i were a couple and he kept exclaiming, "i'm so glad you guys are queer!" nice. :) we tried to go to betty's but it was wicked crowded (hi katy, i'm using your crazy northeastern lingo) so we just came back here and attempted to order pizza but it was so busy that no one was answering the phone so i got bored and passed out. :) all in all, i'd say the evening was a success. the weekend previous to this past weekend was atlanta! wheee! atlanta was such a blast. i went down there with melly, tim, sam, jake, tim's friend brian and his wife janet for two night of string cheese incident at the fox theatre - which is a BEAUTIFUL place. friday we went to eat at this caribbean restaurant and i had very spicy thai noodles w/ veggies (or as the waiter called it, "thigh nuddle" hehe). we had a few drinks and headed over to the show (which was across the street from our hotel - can't beat that). now i'm not entirely sure what happened but several sweetwater 420's and budweisers later, i was toast. had a great time though, dancing and singing with my fellow neo-hippies. they played "search" into "sittin on top of the world".. also got to hear "sirens", a SICK cover of stevie wonder's "superstition" and the encore was bob marley's "could you be loved." NICE! the energy was great.. solid show. afterwards we went back over to the hotel, pretty tired (the previous night we had gone to peter rowan/tony rice/ralph stanley in columbus) and fairly tipsy (or was that just me? hehe).. i guess we were waiting for the [extraordinarily slow] elevator w/ a group of ppl and i pushed thru the crowd and said "listen up people, stop pushing both buttons of the elevator! you're slowing down the whole process." (this is what tim tells me) and someone said "there's a sign right there that says you're supposed to push both buttons." and then i looked confused for a second and said "okay fair enough. carry on." tim told that story about 90 times that weekend.. and i still have no memory of this madness. saturday we walked downtown to atlanta underground and went to the "as seen on tv" store. i so want the fake outlet/wall safe and the gopher. someone get these for me! the plan was to find a place to eat and then shop some more but we found ourselves in frostbite, this bar that serves very strong frozen drinks. the bartender, who was fucking awesome, gave us free samples of everything. i ended up getting the high octane which was fruit juice, 190 proof grain alcohol and triple sec. yowza! she also gave us free shots of captain tequila (hehe i wish i was making that up) b/c it was tim's bday. one drink turned into two, as it often does - but in this case, two drinks can get you very fucked up - and it did. we were watching the ohio state game and being very loud but it was ok cause we were the only ones in there. we wanted food (hadn't eaten a thing all day) but frostbite didn't serve food.. problem right? nope! our kickass bartender let us order food from another bar. it was quite hilarious. i'd have to say though that the best part of the day was when this homeless guy wandered in.. received a free shot of vodka.. went on a 20 minute spiel to melly and i about how well he treats his women and then asked us to buy him a drink. and THEN he held melly's and jake's hand and made melissa hold my hand and started praying. at one point i looked up and caught tim's eye and he looked at me like "what the hell?!" so i mouthed "prayer circle." hehe. yeah, i'm going to hell for that one too but it was funny anyway. :) the seven of us took a cab to little five points after a few hours at frostbite and shopped around a bit. everything was very expensive so instead of browsing, i made brian put on a small man's wool coat and sing "fat man in a little coat." i don't think the ppl who worked there were very amused but i was. :) then it was off to the euclid yacht club (shadier than it sounds hehe) for yet more alcohol and dart-playing madness. had a GREAT time. then we realized it was getting close to show time so we went outside to get a cab and i saw a little blow up skeleton lying on the ground and he looked very lonely to tell you the truth, so i picked him up and took him with us. his name was herbie within about 2 minutes. herbie was the most popular person (real or fake) in atlanta that weekend. after the 2nd SCI show (which was fabulous, i finally got to hear mauna bowa live - rock!), we went upstairs.. okay first i have to say that i lost my sandals at the concert and had to walk across the street and up nine flights of steps barefoot b/c i didn't have the patience to wait for the elevator. at any rate, we put a grateful dead shirt on herbie and took him downstairs with us. he went to the pizza place with us and as we walked by this huge group of ppl, i said "everyone say hi to herbie!" and they all chorused, "hiiiii herbie!" the best part was they remembered him the rest of the night hehe. there was a huge drum circle outside so melly and i chilled out there for a bit. i found a cowboy hat on the ground and it's now hanging up in my closet. :) we went to bed only at about 2am but seeing as how we'd been drinking since noon, it felt much later.. it was definitely bedtime. on the way home from atlanta, melissa bought herbie a cap gun for $4. he's just a skeleton trying to make it in the world today and he needs protection, goddamnit. alright, so much more has been going on than drinking but the drinking nights create all the fun stories so there you go. perhaps i'll update sometime again before november. maybe i'll leave livejournal open for the free-for-all posting like during the last party. hehe that was nothing short of disastrous, but fun to go back and read, right? yeah i'm talking to myself now. go listen to the black eyed peas. for borderling mainstream, they are the shit. and dude, stacy ferguson from kids fucking incorporated sings with them! shyeeah. Current Mood: bouncy Current Music: tori amos - sugar [trance mix] (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, September 29th, 2003
11:15 pm	mmhmmm "no weak heart shall prosper" (Comment on this)
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2003
9:33 pm	i'm alive. i live across the street from the coffee table now. i have no light fixtures in my room, the monitor on my computer is broken and we have no phone. but other than that, i'm ok. just gotta get off paul's computer now. i miss you sheeky! (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Sunday, August 17th, 2003
10:03 pm	it's a shade tent...in a brick house... with the potato oven okay so i know i haven't updated yet about the whitewater rafting trip from like a month ago but so many wonderful and hilarious and musically amazing things happened this past weekend that i need to update NOW. so here i go. ( you WISH you had been at the bash ) next up, it seems, is going home this weekend. friday, heading to the german american fest to drink beer and make fun of old men wearing leiderhosen.. saturday, kate's gig over at micky finn's. then the weekend after that is one day of hookahville and the next day off to pittsburgh for a [free] rusted root and jazz mandolin project show at hartwood amph. and somewhere along there... we'll move into our new place. at some point. :) if you have taken nothing away from this entry, take this piece of advice: shade tents are not made for living rooms. fish boats! Current Mood: grateful Current Music: paul yelling at bryan for asking dumb questions during a movie. :) (Comment on this)
Thursday, August 14th, 2003
11:24 am	out of office auto-reply [andrea] will be out of the office august 14-17. she will be in terra alta, west virginia with melissa, katy and friends (a distinguished law firm) to drink, party, rock out and generally dance her ass off. bye! (Comment on this)
Sunday, July 20th, 2003
10:03 pm	back left! a big thanks to laura for inviting me on what proved to be definitely one of the best weekends of the summer so far, and a very rewarding trip. more stories when i am coherent again. :) meanwhile...my hands are broken. thanks, laura, for taking me "fahtha nahth" :) Current Mood: sore Current Music: north mississippi allstars - lord have mercy (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, July 13th, 2003
11:14 pm	more way overdue updates first of alll... happy 23rd birthday melly! and now... on with the show... should you have met me today, you would have met the most boring person on the planet. i did absolutely nothing. the only thing i did that was remotely productive was do the dishes. other than that, i just watched tv and dozed off all day. but you know what? i so needed a day like today so i'm totally okay with it. friday, i went to ruby tuesday to see kate's band play, along with another band called spikedriver (i think) - they had a kickass banjo player. anyway, i sat with mama and papa piv and they were drunk and making me laugh. i also hung out a bit with katie's roommate erin, she's a funny gal. i got home around 1am.. watched panic room and i was somewhere between sobering up and passing out, when paul's friend scared the shit out of me. i actually answered the door w/ mace in my hand, ready to blind him. saturday, i slept in and did some odd things around the house. at nite, i went out with bryan, kristy and nicole to wall st. wore a green glowstick. :) we had fun, but i just wasn't in the dancing mood. got home around 1:30am or so.. some drama went down w/ paul's boy that made us laugh hysterically (and also double check the locks)... made macaroni and cheese around 3am and were just generally being goofy. i think i went to bed at 5am. yeah that sounds about right. god i'm boring today. what i really wanted to do though was update about comfest/pride weekend before i forget all the little details. ( so here you go! ) so wow, i think all the major things i had to update about are done. i already did the 4th of july weekend... so yeah! next weekend, i am going whitewater rafting with laura and cindy and a couple other girls. i'm very excited, but also a bit nervous and scared. i've always wanted to do it though so i'm mostly excited! yippy! oh, the other good thing is work. my 90-day mark hit a couple weeks ago and since then, rita (my sup) gave me a special report to do every day and also put me in charge of the genicare acq. so i'm a happy girl! the only sucky thing is that she's rearranging where we sit so that all the new ppl sit with ppl who have been there awhile in case they have questions. so the powerful trio (hehe) of kathy, jorge and me have been split up. kathy and i have discussed getting walkie talkies. ;-) but now i'll be right next to my ex-supervisor christina, who i LOVE so i can't complain. i still am in disbelief that i like my job so much. which is a big reason why i can't be homeless when our lease is up next month. so who is going to adopt me? :) okay, i'm out. peace, guiness and honey wheat pretzels in honor of melly's birthday. Current Mood: accomplished Current Music: the roots - the seed 2.0 (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Saturday, July 12th, 2003
6:28 pm	bonnaroo i forced myself to finish my bonnaroo entry, so here it is! you'll never know bonnaroo til you're at bonnaroo. but let me convey it the best i can, for posterity's sake. there is so much i never want to forget. ( the roo through the eyes of me ) man...and i still have to update about comfest weekend! will this never end? :) Current Mood: bored Current Music: robert randolph - i don't know what you came to do (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Friday, July 11th, 2003
12:58 am	bon anniversaire le sheeky! happy 21st birthday erin! may it be a drunken bonanza of epic proportions. banana man is dancing in your honor and the carton of friends is going to be partying wildly alllll day. :) Current Mood: celebratory Current Music: tv (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Sunday, July 6th, 2003
12:39 am	ppl talk funny when they're drunk holly: "hey, do you have jen's number on your head?" (she was trying to ask if i knew jen's number off the top of my head) then later... at mcdonald's in a drunken stupor, jen and i were playing the kiddie games on the mcdonald's placemat. we were trying to find words in the word search that weren't listed to find. nathan: well did you find "rub"? jen: did you find "your mama's a whore"? more tomorrow but i wanted to remember these. i love my friends. :) mood: chill music: rusted root - powderfinger (Comment on this)
Saturday, July 5th, 2003
9:04 am	facing it in my journal, i live in a reality where only good things happen. sure, sometimes i bitch about living with paul and other random bad things that i can get over in a week, but the truth is that i've been hurting lately. i had feelings for a girl who had feelings for me but there are too many complications to make it work right now. she makes me laugh, makes me cry, makes me dizzy, makes me think... but i have to put those things away because it isn't happening. don't get me wrong, i'm not a wreck right now.. but it does hurt. and then yesterday, we were supposed to have both sides of the family over for 4th of july to swim and cookout. i was all excited b/c i hadn't seen most of them since easter and some of them not since christmas. found out my grandpa wasn't coming b/c he fell down yesterday and he was sore so he just wanted to relax and stay home. but my grandma was supposed to come. we got a phone call sometime around 5:15pm from a state highway patrol officer, saying that she was on airport highway almost down to the airport and she was completely lost and disoriented. she's been testing for alzheimers and they said no, she doesn't have it. she tends to tell the same stories twice and sometimes even three or four times in a matter of a few hours. but nothing like this has ever happened before. we've lived here for 15 years and she only has to go down two streets (albeit long streets, it's abotu a 10-minute drive) and somehow she ended up way the fuck down airport hwy. so all the fun we were having just disintegrated. my aunt and uncle went to go get her... all i could think about was what a happy, optimistic person she used to be. she's so independent. she and my grandpa are 78 and 77 and they live in the same house they've lived in since my mom was 12. she likes to get out, do things, shop, garden and i know she's frustrated b/c she can't anymore. now we're to a point where she can't even drive to her daughter's house anymore. anyway, they went to pick her up and i was a mess. all i could think about was her at the state highway patrol office, crying and lost and i wanted to do something so bad but they wouldn't let me go help pick her up... my mom and i were both feeling the need to do anything so we started dinner.. we cooked up a fucking storm. so my grandma ended up coming back over for a little while b/c she didn't want to upset my grandpa.. she just sat on the couch and was crying. we all came in to the living room, gave her hugs and chatted.. we made her laugh on a number of occasions but everytime there was a silence, her eyes would fill with tears and she would say, "i just don't know what happened" and it broke my heart. i hate sickness and death and getting older... i mean yeah, duh.. who LIKES it.. but i hate it to extreme levels and to the point where i can almost repress it with feelings of numbness. but i wasn't able to do that yesterday. i don't know if i'm growing up or if somewhere along the line, i developed this ability to deal with it like a normal person. i don't know. we were playing this stupid game last night around 9pm called "catch phrase" and we had to alter the rules b/c we couldn't find any AAA batteries to go in the timer/buzzer. so my uncle was giving clues and my mom and my cousin were trying to guess the word and my uncle's clue was, "this makes pat happy when tom's away" and my mom shouts out, "TV!" just as time ran out so my uncle said "no.." and my mom was like, "well what was it?" and my uncle goes, "vibrator" and i think we all just sat there in shock for a minute (there are some thoughts, no matter how old you get, that you don't want to entertain) and then howling laughter ensued. when it died down a little, my mom goes, "that's where those AAA batteries went!" and we all just lost it again. it was a good release, it was a good moment. it made me feel like myself again for a short period of time. but i went to bed worried and sad. and i woke up the same way... maybe a little less but the ache in my chest is still there. today is reserved for the one and only jennifer bruning, better known to you as sobzee. my oldest and best friend, and i think it will be a good thing. i need some good things. (Comment on this)
Friday, July 4th, 2003
10:40 am	pics! this kid posted pics of last nite on his website. in them, you can see the necklace liz bought while we were walking around. ( pictures of my best friend ) and now it's 1000 degrees out so i'm going to go get a blazing sunburn. happy 4th to my brothas and sistas! mood: happy music: north miss. allstars ::: freedom highway (1 Comment |Comment on this)
2:20 am	y'ello? yeah so tonite there was a [free] rusted root show in detroit and i almost didn't go but i did and i was hanging out by myself like a loser, waiting for laura and her friend and i saw larry the t-shirt man and we chatted it up and then the white van dropped off rusted root and [jim donovan] came up and hugged me and then took off to get some food, and about 10 minutes later, [liz berlin] came up and hugged me and asked me if i wanted to walk around w/ her. did i want to walk around w/ her? ddddrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. so i shopped with liz for an hour (eat it!) and it was amazing and hilarious... she is [hands down] one of the funniest ppl to shop with. so after that, a brief hug and she went backstage to get ready for the show which turned out to be [phenonmenal]....i should add that by that time, laura and her friend were there so we made our way up as close as we could to dance and sing. then liz [dedicated] a song to me. she said: "this goes out to my buddy andrea, it's her 30th rusted root show!" and laura, her friend (whose name i can't remember) and i screamed and this drunkass near us says to me, are you andrea? and i say yes, and he starts pointing at me and screaming, "it's andrea!" so yeah, good times. after the show, i was chillin at the merch tent w/ larry and i saw liz so i just moseyed on backstage like i belonged back there (see how tight security was?) and i talked w/ her for a little bit but then i had to go leave to meet holly and i said i had to leave and liz said, "awww don't go!" and i was all... ummm i love you? :) so yeah, whatever, it was fun. and i wasn't hyperactive or anything (for a change)...it was just good stuff. laura and i decided that the weekend of august 29-31 will be a drunken pittsburgh bonanza. rusted root is playing a free show on the 31st, a sunday... so we think a bunch of ppl should go down early and rock out and then go to the [free] show. can't beat that. btw, rusted root played a 4 song encore.. animals love touch (MG) powderfinger laugh as the sun send me on my way we also got a GREAT "food and creative love" which is imperative. that show should become a standard, instead of SMOMW, but who am i to talk about these things? paaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayce. mood: sleepy/amused music: galactic ::: tiger roll (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Thursday, July 3rd, 2003
12:11 am	quotes ben harper fucking rocks: I need to sleep but I'm too tired I need to come down but I'm too wired When the sun comes up I miss the moon Cause I know tomorrow is gonna come too soon She only wants to be wanted But time crumbles blue roses to dust Now I long to feel the touch from your lust [ben harper ::: touch from your lust] (loooooooooove the first two lines, i wrote them like 50 times today on scratch paper at work while i was trying not to fall asleep -- i've been listening to this song for days) okay and then there's: I listen to a whisper, Slowly drift away. Silence is the loudest, Parting word you never say. I put your world Into my reins Now a voiceless sympathy Is all that remains. Amen omen, will I see your face again? Amen omen, can I find the place within To live my life without you? [ben harper ::: amen omen] ---------- i'm in toledo now; i drove home after work. i have tentative plans to go to the (free) rusted root show tomorrow w/ laura and some other cats.. i'm hoping melly will decide to go because at least i know her well. crazy last minute stuff. i'm very tired, i can't seem to catch up on my sleep...EVER. so since i'm home with no plans, that's what i'm gonna do. massive updates coming: bonnaroo and crazy comfest weekend. also a review of one of the top 5 shows i've ever been to in my life, ben harper @ tower city amphitheatre, 6/29. holy fucking geeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeez. mood: sleepy music: g. love & special sauce - steppin stone (Comment on this)
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2003
12:36 am	"we play this song everytime kate breaks a string.....which is like everytime we play" -mack "andrea loves katie" "katie loves andrea" :) wassup kaaaay peeeee :) Current Mood: drunk Current Music: ben harper - touch from your lust (Comment on this)
Tuesday, June 24th, 2003
10:19 pm	drunk so much shit is going down and i haven't had time to finish my bonnaroo entry so i feel unfinished. however i must say that the NORTH MISSISSIPPI ALLSTARS are one of the best live shows i've seen in my life. they blew my fucking brains out. i'm such a fan now! NMAS, yah! this weekend, melissa, katy and i are going to see ben harper and jack johnson for free. BEAT THAT! i'm still bummed he's gonna be here in columbus tomorrow and i'm not going to be there. bennnnnnnnnn! maybe i'll stand outside promo west and just try to hear the show. :) my brakes broke. $380 later.... saturday paul and i are cooking out.. stop by! and then if you miss that, we're having after hours so stop by for that! the more the merrier. this weekend is gonna be nuts. shhhhhhhhama will i ever do a real update? nope. ;-) mwah Current Mood: drunk Current Music: allman bros - soulshine (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Thursday, June 19th, 2003
10:38 pm	yahooooooooooooooooo katy is going to be here next weekend. YAY! (p.s. i am currently working on a big bonnaroo update in a text file.. i've been working on it forever and i'm still only halfway thru saturday.. wahh) more later.. i'm off to read. (katy's coming!!) Current Mood: ecstatic Current Music: north mississippi allstars - leavin (Comment on this)
Tuesday, June 17th, 2003
10:27 pm	the roo had such a fucking amazing wonderful time. i have so many stories and i have to update soon, lest i forget such small details like the random bursting into janis joplin's "mercedes benz" by a group of us walking back from the allman brothers... BUT i am exhausted beyond measure and i need to catch up on sleep. but i'm back, sun-kissed (more like sun-fucked but that's kinda graphic) and tired and probably dirty for life.... but all of that is eclipsed by the incredible time i had this weekend. stories up the ass, hopefully tomorrow! for now, here are the two best reactions i have heard to my sunburnt face: "andrea, you need to learn how to blend your makeup" -karen "so was this music festival on mercury or venus?" -shawn Current Mood: exhausted Current Music: ben harper - by my side (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Sunday, June 8th, 2003
11:02 pm	if you tell me there's no heaven for dogs, you're fucking dead R.I.P. hershey oct. 13, 1986 - june 7, 2003 i miss you stinky. Current Mood: sad (3 Comments |Comment on this)