Posts Tagged: bar


10
May 10

file it under gggb

from the i am getting too old for this files:

i have been out with my pre-tween girls on more than one occasion when i clucked disapprovingly at what “teenage girls are wearing these days. it’s just disgraceful that their mothers allow that.” pictures from my high school years would reveal that i dressed like one of those tramps myself.

no matter how routine she knows it is, and despite her seemingly huge annoyance with it, any woman over 30 will always be secretly thrilled to be carded.

at 2 am there is nothing sadder than a drunk, over-botoxed, orange spray tanned, too skinny, bleached blond cougar in spandex with new tits on an old body alone at the bar for last call waiting for someone (anyone) to take her home for a mercy fuck. i am going to retire early from the singles’ scene before i can be described as doing even just one of those things (well, except for drunk).

from the that will ruin your day files:

upon sitting in the pedi chair for a relaxing treat after a long hard week, the tiny asian bitch looked at my gut and most likely trying to make conversation said, “you have baby?” i said, “no, apparently i gained some weight since i was here last, but thanks for noticing.” consequently,  she was quiet for the rest of the time which was nice because i always hate when they talk to me anyway.

while purchasing tickets for a movie, my mother asked for the senior discount. the vacuous 18 year old behind the counter then turned to me & asked if i would like the senior price too. at first i wanted to cry, but then i thought, “what the hell?” a discount is a discount.

from the hangover files:

i decided i must make a clean break from dirty martinis.

my liver can’t recover  like it used to. in college i could party as late as i wanted for as many nights as i wanted, pop 2 tylenols before bed & resume all of my daily activities. now if i want to binge drink for even one night, i need to plan for a week of recovery.

a friend remarked, “when people say they have to quit drinking, it makes me nervous.” i told her that’s why i never quit.

from the beauty files:

i decided i won’t  torture myself anymore to lose that last 5 (10) pounds because i realized there is no way you’re gonna get these perky 32DD’s (which are real AND spectacular) on a 5’0 frame without a little extra padding elsewhere.

my mom was never high maintenance (none of us have any idea how she raised me) but she did impart some valuable knowledge that has allowed me to preserve my glowing youth so successfully: 1. it is never too early to start using eye cream. 2. stay the fuck out of the sun especially when you are fair & have skin the thickness of filo dough.

it is not advisable to wear new fuck me heels in which you are unaccustomed to walking after a fresh pedi, because when you fall off them & twist your ankle, you will indubitably scratch up the fresh polish.

after a full day of personal maintenance, it occurred to me that i was all groomed up with no one to fuck.

i quit the gym, but it’s okay because i have some new behaviors in place: 1. i am going to jog to the fridge. 2. i will hide my remote & manually change the channels on the tv. and 3. i will put diet soda in my vodka.

from the lost poetry files:

roses are red.
violets are blue.
it’s been so long since i got laid,
that my legs i no longer shave.

from the irritable bowel syndrome files:

at dinner my pal thought her phone was vibrating, but she realized it was just her intestines.

after a long day or full evening of holding in my gas, i love when i am finally in my car alone and can let loose, but i am concerned my intense flatulence is obliterating the new car smell.

i often wonder what would happen if farts had a color and differed in color according to intensity of stank. kind of like the national state of emergency chart of color level for terrorist activity but for methane intensity. i think we would have no choice but to deem farting socially acceptable. except you might cross the street if you saw someone blow a dark green cloud knowing it was going to be especially foul.

the smaller the girl, the bigger the farts.

you ever think its safe to freely fart in an empty room at work and then someone walks in after you did? they have to know it’s you. no one else is in there.

you know your gas is intense, when you have to roll down the window.

you know you are in a solid relationship when you can lean to one side & lift a cheek and let it all out.

from the random musings files:

why is that i can instantly get most anything delivered to my house except for what i really need? vodka.

so, since i started writing, i can’t simply have conversations anymore or participate in any aspect of my life without wondering if its blogworthy and surreptitiously taking notes on my phone. to be fair, i tell people, “i am so using that in my blog.”

i tried to quit coffee but the withdrawal was so intense i didn’t want to live. plus i was tired and confused all the time. if i owned a drug company, i would develop a caffeine patch or a gum for those trying to quit or who just need a steady delivery system of caffeine to make it through the day. (hey merck, this is a freebie.)

being in bumper to bumper traffic has a domino effect: the guy in front of you moves up 2 millimeters, then you do, and down the line it goes. sometimes when sitting at a traffic light i will notice a space between me & another car that i can either ignore or move up few inches. i usually choose to move up because there is a delicious sense of power in knowing i just set off a major chain of cause & effect for all those poor slobs behind me. i am the traffic queen!

some commercials are so intentionally cheesy i can not imagine that the advertiser even thinks they are good. i figure that the production budget was so low, they advertiser just didn’t give a shit as long as the product was on tv.

i think we need to buy products on infommercials that will “save us so much time” because we wasted all that time watching said infommercials. they are just sooooo fucking long.

why was it when we were in high school (last century) the kids in the band & drama club were usually considered to be giant dorks, but as adults, musicians & actors are some of the most revered people in our society? same is true for the computer nerds whom we now worship when they fix our technology.

there is one good week for women in a month and that is the week immediately after the last day of her period when all of her jeans fit. the rest of the month she is either getting it or has it.

there are now studies extolling the virtues of eating chocolate, taking naps, drinking wine, having orgasms every day, laughing, and limiting hard core exercise. it can’t be long until we find out being a bitch is good for you too.

i think the reason bad weather is so infuriating is that there is no one specific on which to lay blame. you can bitch all you want, but you can’t do shit to change it. weather is the one thing we as humans will never be able to control & that simultaneously freaks us out & pisses us off.

i spent mother’s day with my mom & sister at my friend’s house with her boyfriend’s family for an hour before she came home. when she finally  walked in, i told her i was about to text her: “10 more minutes and this becomes a blog post.”

i am all about having a sense of humor and i really don’t understand how someone can lack one. when i run into a humorless person, it immediately becomes my personal challenge to make them laugh and walk away with a smile. i have a warped need for approval.

from the parenting files:

your child’s entire sex education & knowledge of profanity occurs not from your well thought out talks, but from riding that damn bus back & forth to school every day. that is what happens when you put fifth graders & first graders on the bus together. sound travels up from “the back.”

a woman is always most fertile right after losing that last bit of baby weight.

i don’t know why that no matter what my kids ask me to do, my first response is always to want to say no.

i hate hosting playdates, going to birthday parties, and basically anything  that requires dealing with other peoples’ children but does not involve booze at the same time.

happy hour used to mean going drinking after work with friends. now it’s that one hour after the kids finally go to bed when i think about drinking but fall asleep before i find the vodka bottle.

god, my kids are perfect, brilliant, well -behaved angels…i have never loved them so much as when they’re sleeping.

my friend had to get off the phone with me the other day because, as she put it “she had to bathe the bitches.” see, we all agree that we adore our children, but we are kinda over the mommy thing.

sometimes i overhear my 9 year old  & her friends complaining about me or saying i am mean after i get annoyed with them for asking me for something every 10 minutes and i think “why, you little ungrateful bitches.” then i think, good, i don’t want these fucking princesses to come back here anyway. what happened to the good old days when you were afraid of your friend’s parents and avoided them as much as possible?

from the files of i wish i said this:

i heard a comedian remark that marriage was like the stockholme syndrome. having been there & done that, i must say this is brilliantly true.

from the fashion police files:

i have noticed that generally, most heavy, slovenly dressed, unattractive women, carry the most expensive designer purses. it must be because you don’t have to be thin to wear a purse or even look in the mirror to try it on.

why is it that thin women have more modesty than the big girls? it seems the fatter the woman, the tighter the pants & shorter the top.

men revere summer as a time when women run around half naked to beat the heat. i dread it as the time of year when my retinas are burned by being forced against my will to see far more exposed bodily hair & flab than i could ever have imagined existed. some people need not to dress seasonally appropriately.

from the break-up files:

i realized it’s not the boyfriend i miss so much, it’s the 24/7 texting i have a hard time living without.

i won’t exactly be out on the street after my divorce, but my lifestyle will change significantly. it’s kind of a “riches to rags to story.”

in the process of leasing a new car a few months ago, i discovered going to car dealerships is far better than going to singles’ bars.

when i think about dating again, i refer to that old addage about many fish in the sea, but then a friend said, “same ones keep getting thrown back in the pond.” so i decided to buy the club pack of AAA’s.

from the working girl files:

if he is cute, it’s flirting. if he’s not, it’s sexual harassment.

now that i’m working again (for pay), i am one lazy bitch on my day off  – no more guilt about napping immediately after the school bus leaves.

from the sex files:

a woman scorned will undoubtedly make at least 1 of these 3 revelations immediately after the break-up: 1. he had a tiny penis. 2. she faked ALL the orgasms. 3. he was terrible in bed.

how we know when it’s really over as summed up by a fellow gggb: “my vagina is dry for him.”

i have a vibrator that is so good, that i don’t scream, “oh god.” i scream, “i don’t need a
man.”

women try to rationalize sleeping with a married man by saying, “if it’s not me, it will be someone else.” while that may indeed be true,  i say, let it be someone else, girl.

men have turned online dating sights into a free prostitution ring. keep that in mind, ladies.

once in awhile i get lonely & think i need a man in my life, but then i get some fresh batteries and in 60 seconds, i am over it.

masturbation, by it’s very definition, is a solo act. so let’s agree that i won’t bother to pretend to jerk you off and you don’t have to hold the vibrator.

in case you were wondering: it is possible to burn out the motor on a vibrator.

faking orgasms is like eating potato chips: you can’t stop at just one.

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24
Nov 09

one of these things is not like the other…

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remember that skanky biker bar that i told you about over the summer, that my really cute pal likes to drag me to? well, she dragged me there again this past weekend. see, she just got sprung from the joint (her divorce became final last thursday & i am not the least bit jealous…), so we went out to celebrate and i made the mistake of telling her 2 things: 1. that i would drive and 2. that i would take her anywhere she wanted to go. of course we ended up at mcskanker’s bar. we haven’t been there since i last drunkenly flirted with that fat biker (see visual at bottom of teddy bear post) and it seems things have changed a bit…

when we first walked in, the new bouncer was said fat biker. so yah, that was a tad awkward. in fact, none of the usual bouncers were there (including the one she used to drag me to visit), but it still looked to be the usual sub-par crowd of deadbeats & axe murderers. we sidled up to the bar and then trolled for the one good looking dude there. see, we have this standing contest to amuse ourselves which involves seeing who can find the only attractive man (read: has all of his teeth) in the bar we might even consider talking to first. it’s silly, but passes the time until we are drunk enough to pounce on the empty dance floor and shake our little white boo-tays without inhibition. upon scanning the crowd for our contest, it appeared that the patronage of said establishment had, umm,  changed. we saw lots of what we thought were men with their girlfriends, but they weren’t men. and, the actual men there seemed a wee bit more interested in each other rather than us. we both had this realization at the exact same time and said, “umm. i think this place turned into a gay bar, not that there’s anything wrong with that.

at this point, when faced with this situation,  it is then customary for women to discuss the following:

  1. any “experimenting” we may have done in college.
  2. if we would ever consider such a thing now.
  3. if we ever would kiss each other.

i never have taken a trip on that particular wild side and i don’t think i ever will, but nonetheless here are my criteria if i were ever to consider it:

  1. i would have to be all kinds of plastered.
  2. no below the waist action for either participant.
  3. she would have to be supermodel hot, and, since, i am not a supermodel, i am not sure how i would bag a woman of that caliber anyway, so it really is a moot point.

turns out it’s very disconcerting being the lone heteros in a gay bar until the BAC is sufficiently raised. i wondered if  this is how gay people feel all the time out in the straight world: completely out of place & needing a stiff drink. at first, we hoped vehemently that no one would hit on us at the bar and then, when they didn’t, we wondered why isn’t anyone hitting on us at the bar? is no one into lipstick lesbians anymore (because clearly that is the kind i would be)? and then we wondered, hey since those guys over there are really awesome dancers, would they mind if we cut in & danced with them?

it probably goes without saying that the big dance hits of the evening were, “crazy bitch” and “i kissed a girl.”  these songs were met with great cheers from the crowd and jovial shoulder bumping. part of the celebration that night was a big lesbian birthday party which we were fine with until it was apparent she did not bring enough cake for everyone. and that my friends, is where my liberality draws the line: dessert discrimination. we also saw a bunch of swingers doing their thing on the dance floor which was interesting. i have never witnessed the casual partner swap lifestyle in person & it was certainly intriguing. i am sure if i could have gotten another couple to overlook The Troll that was my husband, swinging may have saved my doomed marriage or at least my dead sex life, which honestly, i just may have settled for…

so all in all it was fun being out with the newly freed slave girl, as it always is, it was an enlightening experience, an unexpectedly refreshing change of pace, and most importantly, an amusing blog post. next week we’re hitting the bar from animal house

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13
Jul 09

one bad apple


well, after 4 torturous days that felt like 14, i am back online. my stoooopid macbook arbitrarily had a hissy fit & decided that it no longer recognized safari which is the mac browser. that’s like your own white blood cells attacking the red ones. needless to say, i was beyond irate and even more so that i couldn’t get an appointment with the pompous nerds at the “genius bar” until today. hey mac, you just can’t go getting people all addicted to their technology and then take it away. even heroin addicts get methadone to ease withdrawal symptoms. it’s just plain reckless. i have never felt so helpless & disconnected from the world as i have in these ever-long 4 days.

of course, you know a nasty rant directed at steve jobs, was brewing deep in the bowels of my left hemisphere. i considered writing him a letter, but a friend of mine told me no one would give a shit & i realized that was probably true. my pal said, “blog it out, baby.” so i am. let’s begin. shall we?

first of all, i am the marketing wet dream demographic for apple: a loyal pc user who finally got sick of the constant crashing & burning of my pc, who was ready to switch over to the alternate mac lifestyle, and who could actually afford their damn overpriced mac. their trendy commercials with the cute guy & hipster music finally got to me. i was finally convinced that the superstylin’ mac was the answer to my technological prayers. so, one day i was so po’ed at the ETB (ex to be) & i decided that was it, i need my own laptop, i am going to go spend way too much money on a mac. i stormed out of the house and straight to the mall.

i walked into the apple store & angels sang. i had never seen anything like it. it’s clean minimalist design was like walking through the gates of heaven. beautiful displays of macs, mac books, a clever rainbow of ipods, & sparkling iphones with endless “apps.” it was gorgeous. a sing-song voice in my head purred, ” you belong here. ” a voice which i would later identify as satan’s, because that can only be who turned it all around for apple. and not only did the staff wear color coded t-shirts, but the service was magnanimous. so helpful. finally, computer geeks who treated me with respect and they didn’t even work on commission. the salesnerd actually could have cared less if i bought anything. and i bought their speil about how the mac was finally “friendly” to pc users & compatible with pc programs. “seamless integration.” so it seemed. if the extensive table area devoted to “mac school” didn’t tip me off to the world of trouble i was about to sign on for, then the gd “genius bar” should have. instead of thinking, “is it a problem that there is a need for a free service area devoted exclusively to helping you fix glitches?,” i thought, “how nice, a free service area devoted exclusively to helping you fix glitches” mistake number 1. but i was oblivious. i had fallen in love at first sight and there was no stopping me.

and people can’t buy these macs fast enough. they have absolutely mainstreamed. the store is crowded with masses of sheep no matter what time of day or night you go. if you say,”hey, i will come back later when its not busy. when is that?” the answer is “never.” even if you elect to wait, they will tell you there is no guarantee you will be served that day. on the weekend, there is a line out the door with an actual rope akin to those at disney rides during high season. it is the new dmv. and the suckiest part is, those f*n techno-nerds are immune to womanly charms. cleavage & batting eyelashes will get you no where with them. that is generally my go-to schtick with male service people. fans, my natural wit & charm only go so far on their own.

what follows is the horrifying aftermath of my formerly proud purchase. once home, i took my spanky brandy new mac notebook home & gingerly unpacked it. i inhaled its new computer smell & imagined how my life would immediately change & my laptop & i would live happily ever after. oh sure, i liked the styling of the sites & the fresh applications so much that i was willing to overlook that learning a whole new vernacular wasn’t as easy as promised. i imagined instead how i would edit photos, make home movies, build websites, become a graphic designer, & finally evolve into the self-sufficient techno-geek i secretly longed to be. like any new love, it started out dreamily, but then things between us quickly got rocky. after a month, there were issues & i was searching mac self-help sites for ways to fix glitches on my own. extensive, endless articles on numerous sites. i had no patience to read even 1 of these lengthy articles. forget reading all of those nerd threads & posts. this was clearly not a good sign. and i hardly had time to learn all the new mac apps, much less use them. one day my email & internet access became spotty and the next, the unthinkable happened: 2 days before my year long warranty expired, the hard drive crashed & burned & i lost everything. i called it the “great hard drive crash of ’08,” and although the dorks hidden in the secret mac store back room replaced it, when i asked about all the stuff that was lost, they asked if i had been backing up the hard drive. NO! that’s why i asked, asshole. turns out that unless i had an extra grand laying around for them to “send it out” & only attempt to retrieve my info, no dice. for 1000 smackers, i wasn’t even guaranteed any info could be retrieved. so, i decided to rebuild my itunes library (they are generous enough to resend all of your itune store purchases, but you are warned only this once), take new pix of my kids, & resolved to back up my hard drive forevermore (which i still haven’t done because, apparently, i still haven’t learned my lesson). even though i made the warranty period by 2 days (thank goodness for small things), the damage was done. i had fallen out of love and now i was stuck with an overpriced crappy piece of hardware. get this too – when i asked the dweeb why the hard drive would crash like that he said, “it could be from being moved around too much.” from being moved around too much. it’s a gd laptop. movement is in inherent in the design. otherwise it would be a tower & non-portable. OMG! i was fallng out of love quickly.

another few months went by & i tried to make this doomed relationship work. i really did. and we got along the mac & i. my trust was being rebuilt. then one day i completely lost email access. after another trip back to the geniuses, i learned that after they get you hooked on your pretentious dot mac email address, and you officially change over from being a pc user to a mac user, they neglect to tell you that it cost 100 bux a year to “rent” that space on their server they so happily gave you when you bought the mac. my year had run out. ok, fine i shelled out their ransom because i didn’t feel like finding a new email home or having to update all of my contacts. oh, AND also, all of my saved emails that i needed for my divorce were being held hostage on their server until i paid them their blackmail money. ok, so another major let-down, but we got back on track yet again. what choice did i have?

once again, mac & i lived in harmony for the most part. oh there were issues, but nothing i couldn’t handle. then the gd dvd drive stopped reading discs. the drive would swallow the cd until i forced it out. of course, i had refrained earlier from paying for the $99 extended warranty after the great crash, because, well because, i like to gamble in the extended warranty/service plan arena, & mostly i am an idiot. i let it be & i decided i would deal with the dvd drive later knowing i would have no choice but to throw a lot of money at it at some point. then the face plate also cracked for no apparent reason and was immune to any kind of glue to repair it. what an all around piece of shit! i officially hated the mac now.

a few more months went by & then after i posted my blog on july 9th, the internet blacked out. everything else worked on the laptop except of course anything that required the use of the internet which, by the way, is EVERYTHING. there was nothing wrong with the wireless connection in my house. i am no schmuck – i had already checked that out thoroughly becasue that’s always the first question they ask you, “well, did you plug it in?” yes, bitch, i did.

so after i checked in for my appointment with the concierge today, whom, by the way is the hot chick nerd, which makes her the fucking snot-ass homecoming queen of the apple store, the trekkie fixed it today. he fixed it, not by fixing safari, but by installing a new browser. he still has no idea why safari stopped working. he only knew he had 137 people after me to process. furthermore, the cheapest option, his exact words, for replacing the “optical reader” (that’s nerd speak for dvd drive) would be $300.00 & involved “sending it out” for a week. know why? because i decided not to buy the 99 dollar warranty several months ago. i opted to hold off on that fabulous offer. aaaaauuuuggggggghhhhh. it seems the only answer to fixing the mac involves endlessly spending more money. everything is an add-on with these fuckers. apparently nothing is included with a 2000k laptop other than a fancy light up apple on the front. so now, i am stuck in a dead end relationship with this obnoxious piece of caca. it will be easier to get out of my marriage than to get a new laptop. i don’t have that kind of funding anymore.

there is a reason apple never dominated the pc market. its not the bill gates conspiracy theory apple likes to sell us. it’s because their products suck ass. even the first day i had my ipod it froze & i couldn’t use it for the 5 hour plane trip for which it was specifically purchased. the airport had an ipod kiosk & the dude’s answer was to let the battery run down & try again. oh really, einstein? stellar advice i never would have figured out on my own due to the fact that i couldn’t do anything other than exactly that BECAUSE IT WAS FROZEN. so not only was i up shit’s creek without my music paddle, but i was out 200.00 clams. yes, the damn ipod eventually worked but randomly freezes whenever it feels like it. like for example, when i want to use it. plus apple likes to come out with a new version of the overpriced gadget you just bought a week ago which is really irritating. oh they will let you upgrade, but you are now inconvenienced again. why not just tell people to buy it next week? jerks. and they just can’t get you hooked in enough. integrate everything. make it all wireless. let your mac talk to your pc. let your iphone talk to them & to your email. let your iphone own your soul so when it craps out you are a shell of a human who forgot that you actually used your own brain independently at one time.

sitting there today waiting for my laptop to be fixed, i watched an endless stream of people with laptops, giant towers, ipods, itouches, & iphones wait in line for a visit with the “geniuses.” it finally occurred to me way too late, if the apple products were so damn good, then in theory, the genius bar should be empty. if the stuff is so easy to use, why the need for “mac school?” it’s supposed to be a seamless transition for us pc users to mac use. all a colossal bunch of bullshit. other than the lack of worry about computer viruses, macs are no better than pcs. just a more flashy operating platform with snob appeal & a huge advertising budget. i am less pissed with mac for packaging a piece of shit as a gold bar, than i am with myself for the fact that i considered myself so savvy, but fell for their brilliant marketing campaign. kudos, mac! i could have gotten another sucky pc and paid half as much for the same amount of inconvenience. and to think i had also actually contemplated getting an iphone. no freakin’ way now, boys.

so, from the bottom of my heart, fuck you apple. you’re just plain rotten.

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