I say 'Happy weekend everyone!'

Labels: Gir, Invader Zim

Cardinal! Poke her with the soft cushions! Confess! Confess! Confess!"

Since THL has decreed National Confess Something on Your Bl*g Week, I offer the following:

1- In kindergarten, I was a bit of a toy theif. No one suspected me because I was the good kid. I think the 'best' thing I nicked was a windup toy train. My mother never questioned that my toys were actually prizes for being a good or smart kid. Devious.

2- My French teacher for French 3 in high school gave us topics ahead of time for our French essay for the final. We were allowed to have our French / English dictionaries during the final. I was so panicked about writing on the fly in French that I wrote my essay out throughout the pages of my dictionary. I was not caught.

3- During my pre Unfriendly movie theatre days, I dated a wrestler from another high school who worked as an usher. During one of our after work makeout sessions he backed me against a wall that happened to have a fire alarm pull. Somehow in our fervor my vest got caught on the pull and triggered it. Luckily that whole month several kids had been doing that so the 10 house theatre wasn't immediately evacuated. We ducked into the nearest theatre and acted nonchalant. Our manager peeked in to see us just standing in back watching whatever movie was playing and didn't figure it was us. I was pretty freaked out though. Being a 'good gal' allows you to get away with so much but the actual thought of heat taking? Panic, I tell ya!

Labels: About Glitzy, Miami Lakes 10 Theatre, Thrill Seeking Glitzy

Your Linguistic Profile:

55% General American English

20% Yankee

15% Dixie

5% Upper Midwestern

0% Midwestern

* This is how my Sociolinguistics prof referred to himself since he picks up dialects with ease. I do as well

Unfriendly refers to this phenomenom as my being an accent whore.

Labels: Linguistics, Online Quizzes

These are from my friend FormerBlondie™'s rose garden.



This is from another area in her almost acre of land.

Labels: FormerBlondie™, Photos

Gah! It was decided last Friday that this Friday would be an IS Team Building event. What's our team building event? A picnic lunch and for 'those who care to participate', a softball game. How exactly is competing against people you work with 'team building'? If all sorts of folks from our different divisions were working together toward a common goal, ok. But the teams are basically comprised of folks who are under one boss versus folks who are under another boss. And apparently there is some strife between the bosses.

I didn't know that there was a one division of IS against another thing until recently and this was via talks with Coffee Gal. Frankly, I could care less. I'm all for an excuse to not work and get paid for it but I don't want to have witness the childish behavi...ahem...team building that will be prevalent on Friday

... I forget who told me that high school was just a microcosm of society. They weren't kidding.

Oh and 'somebody' is supposed to volunteer to organize a croquet game for the non-softball players. Croquet? Only if it's a la 'Heathers', will it be any fun.

Team. Building.

Bite. Me.

Labels: Rant, Work MI

Layout is the brain child of Unfriendly. All of the labor was also his.

From top left to right:

By Jay Long
Ochoby
Parsifal

Glitzy's movie poster pick - Addams Family Values - teaser poster
Dragon and Chinese Man (for lack of a better title) - gift to UF by his folks.
Unfriendly's movie poster pick - The Lion King

From bottom left to right

By Jay Long
Harlichat
Jaloux?
Rizzo

Watercolor Dragons - by Unfriendly's mom. This was her first ever attempt at watercoloring. She was so excited by it that she framed it and sent it up to us. I need to get a better close up of it.

We had about 160 original movie posters to chose from. Talk about tough. Why so many? Well, UF and I met at what is now the Miami Lakes 17 Cinemas. It was Wometco's Miami Lakes 10 way back when.

Labels: Crafty Projects, Miami Lakes 10 Theatre, Photos

Since Texas Biscuit is "worse than that, she's bread, Jim"* I present to you my flavor. (That's flavour for you non Americans)

Cor blimey, I taste like Tea. I am a subtle flavour, quiet and polite, gentle, almost ambient. My presence in crowds will often go unnoticed. Best not to spill me on your clothes though, I can leave a nasty stain. What Flavour Are You?

* This particular version was taken from the lyrics of Star Trekkin'
Unfriendly tends to say this. At least I hear him in my head saying it.

Labels: Blog Spotlight, Online Quizzes

http://facepalm.blogspot.com/2005/06/i-loved-this-woman.html

Labels: Blog Spotlight, Comedy

So, I took a 'nap' after dinner last night. (read nap as, 'Glitzy just passed out') I woke up at midnight with the left side of my face buried into my pillow. I stumbled to the bathroom to brush my teeth, etcetera. When I looked in the mirror, I noticed that my left eye had a bag under it the size of New Jersey. I was so out of it that I walked out of the bathroom, and walked back in to look again.

"What the frell happened to my eye?? Unfriendly, look!"

By this point I had walked into our office. UF was happily killing beasties in WoW. He was a bit surprised at the size of my eye bag, too. It was as if my left eye decided to have a good long cry and did it without my right eye being any wiser.

So much for groggily getting ready for bed and passing out again. I looked up stuff online (what did we do before the Internet?) and put a cold compress on it and took some Benadryl. It was (and still is) itchy, but not red. The swelling has gone down significantly. There is a little red raised area by the outer corner of my eye so maybe something bit me. Dastardly Michigan bugs!
Either that or I'm allergic to my pillow.

Now I feel all out of it from the Benadryl.

Labels: Observations, Unfriendly

Different colored bell peppers taste different to me. I love red ones. Don't care much for the green ones. Unfriendly thinks I'm nuts. I think he's nuts.

Has anyone seen the Maxwell House commercial that uses the Madness song 'Our House'? I saw this the other night and was greatly disappointed. I haven't been able to find a link to the commercial online but I stumble across one, I'll share.

I have a canker sore on the inside of my upper lip. It's been annoying me to no end. I imagine it doesn't help that my tongue keeps seeking it out. I tend to accidentally bite the inside of my mouth while chewing. This is the usual cause. Not sure what caused this one. Of course, this is wreaking havoc in my little life because of my need to eat things like oranges and grapes. Ow. Owie, owie OW!

I won a cookbook at work yesterday. Now I can't say that I never win anything.

I saw a full episode of the new Dr. Who last night. I was entertained. I was far too young when I watched the earlier versions of the show on PBS with my older sister. Unfriendly got into this explanation which included info on the Daleks. I know I asked something about the background of the show. Can't remember exactly what. I think my eyes got a bit glazed over during that explanation. I'll probably ask something similar in a week and get an exasperated, "You weren't listening to me! You never listen to me!" in response.

E-mail is down at work. I feel lost and confused as a result.

"Hollaback Girl" has gotten on my last nerve. I like Gwen Stefani with No Doubt. I'm not too crazy about her as a solo artist. Come to think of it, the last ND album, Rock Steady, ended up getting on my nerves too.

That's all I have today. Sorry.

Labels: Music, Observations, Television, Unfriendly, Work MI

a neat blog.

Labels: Blog Spotlight

I took a walk to loosen up my hip from hell and just had the best fifteen minutes of my day. Nothing like taken in the smells of green and sounds of birds chirping while the sun goes down to sort of cement you in to this thing called life.

I made a point to walk around some of the 'islands' to see what folks do with their little 10' x 15' plot of yard. Some folks are just so creative with their plants. I really love the way passion flower vines smell and I think hostas are really neat but will have to work to make my little plot of land look good.

Some yards look like little greenhouses. One house had two kitties that were just hanging out in their abundantly green and flowery yard and looked quite surprised to see me peering in.

One of the neighbors in our island moved out about two months ago. I think the lawn guys put in a rose bush in their yard because I don't remember it being there before. As I got back to my townhouse, the smell of that rose bush filled the air and left me in such a happy mood.

Labels: Ann Arbor, Glitzy: Happy

I have the hiccups right now. I hate them. They really stress me out. I feel like it'll never, ever stop.

So now... a weekend re-cap...with hiccups.

Friday - Unfriendly picked me up from work since he had forgotten my car at the detailing place. I got to pick up my car. Also picked up stuff for a new recipe - Feta Stuffed Chicken Burgers I ended up making them with some ground turkey I had at home.

Saturday - Unfriendly had an idea for a wall of art instead of just your usual picture(s) hanging up. He hung those up in the afternoon / evening. Someday I'll put a picture up. I've gotten so horribly lazy about moving pictures off of the camera and sorting them out.

I went to see Stevie Nicks and Don Henley with my work friend, Coffee Gal (She's the only female I know who drinks coffee with every single meal). It was a really great show. Though it seemed that the crowd was all for Stevie and just tolerated Don.

Don did a mix of Eagles and solo hits with a couple of obscure songs thrown in. Stevie made an appearance when he sang 'Hotel California' and stayed on for 'New York Minute' and 'The Last Worthless Evening'.

During Stevie's set, Don appeared for 'Gold Dust Woman', 'Stop Draggin' My Heart Around' and a cover of a Bonnie Rait song called 'Circle Dance'. The encore was 'Leather and Lace'

...and since it was Ms. Bees Knees birthday on Saturday and because she loves Stevie Nicks, I made sure to yell out 'In the name of Bees Knees' several times during her set.*

Coffee Gal and I had dinner prior to the show at La Shish in Auburn Hills and bonded over lamb and chicken. All and all, a great time.

Sunday - Slept in. The concert was an hour and 15 minutes away in a town called Clarkston at the DTE Energy Music Theatre. I didn't get to sleep 'til about 3 am so I woke up close to noon with an insane craving for pancakes. I whipped up some buckwheat pancakes and mixed in some chopped strawberries and pineapple.

While we were eating brunch, Unfriendly and I watched a movie a friend let him borrow. The movie? Redneck Zombies. It was pretty bad. Amusing. But lordy...BAD.

Then I napped for about an hour and dragged my butt to the gym. I made a Create a Meal for dinner. We watched a movie called The Tesseract while eating dinner and then watched the new Family Guy (gotta love Stewie). Unfriendly made some cookies before calling up his dad for Father's Day.

I love Unfriendly's family. His dad particularly always has good stories to tell.
"Guess how I spent my fathers day?"
Ok. I bit. "How did you spend your father's day"
"Shoveling shit!"

UF's folks have a new camper. Apparently they weren't using enough water to ahem wash stuff down in the toilet and things backed up. So, he took care of things in a bit of a non legal way. Never a dull moment with the Unfriendly clan.

And now, since I've blogged a bit, I'm gonna go buff my nails and take a much needed shower.

Oh, and no more hiccups. Unfriendly scared them out of me about 5 minutes ago.


*Oh Bees...I inadvertently did a nefarious thing. I made the 'mistake' of standing up and singing and dancing during the concert and pissed some drunk guy off. Mind you, there were big huge screens so you could see the stage from wherever you were. (We were about 30 rows back. You could see ok, but it wasn't the greatest.)He berated and insulted me throughout the whole song. But ya know what...I ignored him and kepts grooving and I didn't sit down until the end of the song that moved me to do my groove thang and then told the drunk jerk yelling at me to fuck off. See..the spirit of Bees Knees compelled me....

Labels: Blog Spotlight, Coffee Gal, Crafty Projects, Events, Glitzy: Crabby, Movies, Music

I have a bug bite or possible zit on my forehead in between my eyes. I've been referring to it as my bindi

I crack myself up.

Labels: Observations

I love this picture

Labels: Kitty Kids, Photos

Today has justbeen an odd day. Correction. Thursday was an odd day. It's technically Friday now.

CubeNeighborFromHell's rear cube neighbor is a really nice guy. He and I chat about Ali G, music and movies from time to time and he always shares his gourmet chocolate with me. From his demeanor and snippets I've heard from his past, I get the feeling that he indulged in lots of the ganja. He may still from what I've heard others hint. He also loves, loves, loves hot sauce. So, I'll refer to him as SauceyStoner.

Wow. My nicknames really do suck.

Anway, SS apparently felt he had been complaining way too much. He was mentioning this to both CNfH and me. SS told me to kick him if I heard him complaining.

"I never hear you complain though"
"Yeah," he agreed. "CNfH over here gets the lions share. Anyway, I'm turning over a new leaf. I'm gonna be a ray of sunshine from here on in. "

I had stepped away from my cube for a bit and when I came back, he had apparently been complaining. He announced that I had to kick him now and proceeded to bend forward in front of me.

"But I don't have my steel toe boots on today."

Weird.

And poor Unfriendly... We switched out automobiles today so that he could take my car in to get it detailed. The place is right across from where he works. He got caught up in work and forgot about my car. I got to pick him up and he gets to take me to work bright and early.

Labels: CNfH, Unfriendly, Work MI

This is what I got when I entered spelling #1 for my color.

You are

But when I entered the alternate spelling (with an 'e') I got this

You are

Labels: Online Quizzes

Original link to story here

Magician David Blaine should try his sleight-of-hand at making a certain piece of legal paperwork in Minneapolis disappear.

"David Blaine has been using my godly powers to perform his magic. This is a labor dispute in accordance with Minn Statute 179.06 for past/future commission compensation," states a one-page lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court by Christopher Roller.

Is Roller for real about this? The Burnsville man did not immediately want to answer my question about whether he was a magician, too. "Give me a second here. How'd you find out so quick?" he asked. While he collects his thoughts, we'll go back to the lawsuit.

"www.mytrumanshow.com explains my life and journey to godliness. I believe Dave Blaine has been using my godly powers to perform his magic. We've all seen clips of UFO videos. They dance around the sky at the speed of thought. So we know that godly powers can co-exist on Earth. I believe magicians have also been granted godly powers by me somehow, but they have been keeping it a secret and keep the credits from me."

"I want back-pay compensation -- 10 percent past/future career earnings. Estimating 10 percent of past career earnings of over $2,000,000," the lawsuit states.

When he collected himself, Roller said he actually paid "like $250" to file this document.

What about the gossip that a similar lawsuit had been filed against magician David Copperfield? "Yeah, he was trying to talk me out of it."

David Copperfield called you? "Yes," Roller said.

Are these suits an attempt to get celebrity magicians to call Roller?

More laughter but no reply.

Are you a magician?

"I am the guy responsible for his [could mean Blaine or Copperfield] powers," Roller answered.

Finally, he admitted that he does not perform as a magician anywhere. "I am a programmer and a writer. I have my own Internet software I sell -- objectforce.com."

And Roller's relationship to God would be ... "I am deity, a messenger of god."

Roller said he would not go "to federal court just to pull somebody's leg."

So, he's a programmer? and a writer? Guess my ticket to the funny farm or actually becoming a preternatural being should be coming up eventually!

Labels: Article Link, Programming

So, I'm grooving to Common Rotation on Friday. Sometime between 11:30 and 12:30 I hear Cube Neighbor from Hell ask me something. He sits to my left. My left ear faces the path between our cubes. I didn't really hear him because I had my right headphone in but not my left one. I tend to do this when I don't want to tune out 100%.

"What'd ya say?"

"Oh, I didn't realize you had your headphones in," he said and proceeded to tell me about how he wanted to make sure that the music coming out of them wasn't too loud. He had a review of some kind earlier that week with our bosses and he was told he was behaving unprofessionally.

I actually hadn't been paying attention to him at all for the past month and a half. The last time he did anything that stayed on my radar was on this day.

"Well, after your project ended I noticed that you were jamming out to your music but I haven't payed attention since then," I told him.

"I feel like I can't even laugh after that meeting."

Um. Ok.

Later on that day, I was getting my stuff together to go home he asked me the 'Is-my-music-too-loud-' question again. I gave him a look which I hope fully expressed the "Are you on crack?" sentiment I was feeling. "You sit closest to me and I want to make sure I'm not bothering you"

"You think I snitched on you, don't you [insert CNfH's real name here]?"

"Oh no! No."

Yeah. I'm sure he thinks I did.

As I left the building on Friday, I was just laughing out loud to myself at the ludicrousness that is my cube neighbor.

"Fear me CNfH! Fear me!" I thought to myself and laughed maniacally.

Labels: CNfH, Work MI

The most pleasant surprise from MotorCityBuffyCon ended up being Common Rotation's performance on Saturday. They so impressed me I ended up buying three of their cds.
I have a longer post to come which has set lists and highlights.

The 'bad guy' Warren on BtVS is part of the (sometimes) duo that is Common Rotation. His real name is Adam Busch.

For now, why don't y'all give a little listen to some tracks from The Clearchannel EP. You can also check out some fan downloaded songs at the Union Maid.

My current favorites are:
Belfast / Party People (This version is prefaced by How To Lose) (not sure why the song has two different titles yet.
Sit Down
Fortunate
Don't Let's Start (TMBG cover)

Labels: BtVS, Music, Nerdy, Whedonish

The right side of my head above the top of my ear going down to my neck has been hurting for almost 2 days now. It's not constant but it comes in waves and it has been making me nauseous. I can't tell if it's sinus related or an actual migraine. Either way, I am cranky as hell and tired.

Labels: Glitzy: Crabby, Unhealthy Glitzy

One of the newer cube neighbors sits in front of me. He is Eastern European.

Most everytime he sneezes, it is followed by him saying, "Ouch".

The first time I heard that, I called him out on it.

"Did you just say, 'Ouch' after you sneezed?"

He denied it.

I just heard it again. Hysterical!

Ouch!

Stolen from Emma

5 THINGS YOU ARE WEARING
1. glasses
2. black sweat pants with red and white 'racing stripes'
3. titanium and diamond ring
4. cat fur. lots of cat fur.
5. garnet earrings

5 THINGS YOU CAN SEE
1. A McFarlane replica of the Violator
2. Unfriendly and his new flute
3. Glass of beer (Dogfish Head's Au Courant)
4. My messy closet
5. Bottle of rubbing alcohol

5 THINGS YOU ARE DOING RIGHT NOW
1. Drinking and typing
2. Trying not to lean forward (straight spine! straight spine!)
3. Helping Unfriendly try to figure out what motherboard he installed on my PC
4. Sweating (uck!)
5. Surfing other web pages

5 THINGS YOU ATE IN THE LAST 24 HOURS
1. Kashi maple oatmeal
2. A Sweet Dreams Luna Bar
3. Orange cream Yoplait Whips Yogurt
4. Tomatoes and mozarella with a little bit of olive oil and oregano because I am OUT of basil and I keep forgetting it whenever I walk into a grocery store
5. Raspberry pecan crusted orange roughy filet

5 THINGS YOU DID SO FAR TODAY
1. Went to work
2. Went to physical therapy (more on that eventually)
3. Blog surfed
4. Made dinner
5. Installed a new video card

5 THINGS YOU CAN HEAR RIGHT NOW
1. Unfriendly practicing his scales
2. The pc fans
3. Pumpkin caterwauling
4. Pooky running in to 'talk' with Unfriendly about his flute playing
5. The clackety clack of me typing

5 COLORS YOU CAN SEE
1. white
2. bright yellow
3. red
4. black
5. teal

5 THOUGHTS IN YOUR HEAD
1. I'm sleepy. I should go to bed
2. Unfriendly's flute playing has gotten better
3. Damn. This beer is good
4. It's so freaking hot upstairs (which is where the pcs are)
5. I'm sleepy. I should go to bed

3 FRIENDS(ummm....okay)
Unfriendly
(Former)Blondie™
Guy Smiley

Labels: Memes