Oh beautiful for spacious skies...

Hey, if you want to find out if you would pass the new U.S. citizenship test, click here.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21017895/

I got 88%!! I would not be deported! I did however, forget how long the President of the United States serves, thinking it was how long the current one is in...I am a genius.

I'm a punk rocker

Part I

So last night I went to this free concert in New York where the Teddybears were playing. I didn't know anything about them. I just thought, hey, it will be fun, hopefully. Or, it will suck, at that will be something to talk about too. It was at a really cool venue and once the screechy girl band before them stopped, it was really great.

So Teddybears comes out. And they are actually wearing teddy bear HEADS. As in the previous pictures are actually band members. And I have to say something about it was really cool. I really liked the fact that they were playing music and singing, with mean-looking bear heads.
So, yeah, go to their website to watch their video and see more giant bear heads. You won't be disappointed. It is: teddybearsrock.com

A few other things about the night:

1. I am not really good at ordering drinks at a bar, not being a seasoned bar-goer/alcoholic

2. Maybe, just maybe, I can dance okay, or at least enough to have a great time

3. There are some freaky, freaky looking people in New York

Part II

So we leave Hiro, and are STARVING from, you know dancing like maniacs, and there is the most fabulous place around the corner, crap, what's it called? Anyway, they serve these tiny cheeseburgers that are delicious. We decided it was time for another meal at 1:00. Apparently so had one of the cast from 30 Rock. I don't know his name. So we sat down at a table that had only one semi-hunky business guy sitting at it. His friend joined him, and after a few minutes, they decided to give us their hamburgers. (apparently we looked malnourished?) Ours weren't ready yet, and we protested that surely we would be fed soon, but they insisted. So we ate their burgers. Then we ended up talking to them for about an hour, during which conversation we realized that one of them was quite drunk, and could not follow our conversation. "Wait...so your IN the band? So you live in Utah?" The other guy was not so dense, and tried to assist his friend, but was not extremely successful. We gave them our burgers when they arrived, so it was a fairly even swap on the burgers. Then they ate all our fries, without really an invitation. Drunk guy offered to drive us home, (he had to drive to White Plains, I pray he and everyone else made it) but we declined and rode the subway. Too bad he didn't have that option.

"people ask me "lewis, why are you angry all the time?" and i say, so i can be prepared when stories like THIS come along!!!---Lewis Black-the Jon Stewart Show

Aero Smith Jared!!

One of the great reasons for traveling/living in the British Isles is the reappearance of the Absolut Vodka S&TC actor Smith Jared! I was just watching some crap TV in Dublin and all of the sudden, he appears on my screen, bare-chested and all, selling me Aero chocolate. Yes, I will partake!

now new new york can be like old amsterdam

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/23/nyregion/23streetfuture.html

gentlemen prefer blondes

Well, i don't know if they do. And do I really give a damn what they prefer anyway? Okay, well, maybe a little. But, anyway, people, I am blonde. Pictures are forthcoming...

embarrassed and intrigued

um...so last night i started watching beauty and the geek...and i couldn't stop. i watched the whole pre-season kick-off, and the hour-long season premier and i am really embarrassed right now.
i hate reality shows. but there was something i liked about it. what is wrong with me?

how much do they think I weigh anyway?

So I spent most of the day in my pajamas. Then my flight attendant uniform, which is about as attractive. Trying to decide what state to spend the next few days in. Not which mental state, but which state, geographically. My options being New York, Arizona, Washington, Utah and Texas. I also had a fleeting thought of going to Puerto Rico (yes, I know that isn't a state) and spending a few days there, but tragically, I don't really know anyone there.
But all of them have pros and cons, and people I love, not to mention some of the flights are full, and I would never get back to work. I realize this is not a conundrum most of you are faced with, and my life would be simpler if I was forced to stay in one place, or forced to plan ahead like regular people.

I decided on Utah. Or so I thought. I left at 3, only to come back by 9, because there was no room for me on the bloody plane. I almost got on the jumpseat, but it was weight restricted, so, back to NY. Now I get to get up at 4 to do it all over again. Oh joy.

What I really want right now is nutella. I don't think I have anything to put it on though. Would it be really gross if I just used my fingers? It is just so good...

London

Pics of my last London layover

St. Paul's Cathedral
The Apostle Pub
A church
Cool old building
St. Paul's Cathedral

I am Marianne Dashwood!

I took the quiz from D'Arcy's blog about "which Jane Austen character are you?" and yes, I wanted to be Elizabeth Bennet too, or actually in all honesty I really wanted to be Mark Darcy. Not in a cross dressing, creepy sort of way, just in a, I think that maybe my greatest faults are pride and vanity, same as his. But apparently the test did not agree, or did not have men's options. So here I am, the heroine of Sense and Sensibility. I can be quite happy with that. The best was the tie breaker at the end...which do I believe in more, the eternal nature of love, or my ability to learn languages? Um neither are very important to me...hmmm maybe a Jane Austen character is not right for me after all.

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i am a cook

okay, well, not just me. but, clara, mom and I made the BEST food tonight. Coconut Thai chicken. Mmmm... It was so good. Here is the recipe if you want it:

http://www.cdkitchen.com/recipes/recs/208/HealthyThaiChickenStirFry72738.shtml#reviews

what not to wear

passport bridget. and pants.

i forgot pants. again. so now i am going to go around bloody london in a brown dress, flip flops, and a ugly black sweater. my black purse does match my black sweater, if that makes anyone (maigen) feel better.

seriously. i spent extra long packing and packed so much for this trip, how did this happen again? at least i don't have to wear a sarong to dinner again...

Son of a.....!

%^&@&$!!! They have already taken away the nonstop flight away from Salt Lake to Newark!! Grrrrr!!!!! It's only September!

I'm going to London AGAIN tonight. Yipee.

pretty little mistakes

yesterday my friend let me borrow a book called pretty little mistakes. it's like a grown up version of the choose your own adventure books and was very interesting. i read several versions. in my favorite one i ended up traveling the world on a ship and falling in love with a man named joel who also worked on the ship and we were together for our whole lives. then when i died (you die in every ending), i was reincarnated, but in every life joel and i found each other. it was quite poetic and touching. some of the other endings were not so poetic. in one of them i became, quite literally a nude circus freak who wore a chicken head while i skated around to perform. in another one i had some sort of drunken lesbian experience, and most of them involved at least some things i would never do.

but it was quite interesting to be faced with different choices, some that i have already faced in the past, but would do differently now, some that i wouldn't, some choices that i never knew existed, and to see what my attitudes were and what the consequences could possibly be. obviously the book only showed some of the possibly consequences of choices, but still, once you make a decision or choice, life is never the same.

anyway, then i was pondering today about my upcoming 30th birthday (yikes!) and i was also thinking about how practically everyone i know is pregnant, and then i got to thinking, had i stayed with a certain boyfriend a good 3 years ago (wow), and gotten married like we had talked about, there is a good chance that i could be pregnant or have a baby right now. i have never really thought about it that way. weird. of course i would likely be the same a different person that i am now, and i don't really like that girl very much, so i am pretty happy about how things are going right now. but as i shop for baby clothes for everyone, it is a unique thought, i suppose that it really could have been me.