derby days

crap, the weekend's over and i still have a million things to do.....highlights include:

cinco de mayo fell flat when we all ended up too tired and cranky after work to actually go out. 15 margaritas at home and 10 rounds of intense 'egyptian rat screw' sufficed. bess, again, i'm sorry that the tequila inspired us to lock the neighbors' cat in your room with you when you passed out early. hahha, wait, man, that's a hard one, not sure i'm REAALLY sorry. stiiiiiill laughing.

saturday, hmmm what happened on saturday...oh right, only that i was the BIG WINNER at the derby. hell yeah!!! lara convinced bess and i to go out for beers at Barney's with a big group and bet on some horses..... i would like to thank #8 Barbaro (who i called barbacoa) for kicking some serious ASS on the track! tastelessly, i didn't realize my pure bred was winning at the end, so i was heckling my own horse until he passed the finish line. heh. IDIOT. my winnings weren't huge, but they paid for my lunch and a couple pitchers of beer. =)

Saturday night some coworkers and i had agreed to attend a benefit that my company supports. the cause was "Rythyms of Justice" -- for women's rights and all that healthy altruistic stuff -- so how could i say no? it was a salsa-themed party at the Ebell theatre, however, we never salsa'd. we were too busy drinking the gratis sangria and bidding on silent auction items (missy has her priorities straight). you will be saddned to know that i did not win the auction book, "laughing on the outside, crying on the inside." um, who donates that? i DID "win" four tickets and a picnic dinner to the hollywood bowl though!

the lawyer who invited us was totally bombed and kept spouting off depressing facts about abused women. he definitely had drunk wandering hands, which were highlighted when he would attack us periodically to get us all to dance -- but we were too busy guarding our silent auction items. ssssuper.

kevin (coworker) was all excited when he thought he had won his very own "in-home personal training session." however when he went to PAY, realized he had bid on THE WRONG ITEM....so now he has a free tennis lesson for 40 bucks. oh yeah and he has to provide the tennis court too. bahahahaha!

today was laundromat day... lucky me, as i rolled my cart up to retrieve my clothes from the washer, some crazy-haired old dude lost his grip on his crappy box of detergent and a million (no joke) flecks of white detergent flew ALL OVER my washer...the handle, door, hinges....everywhere. NOTHING was on the surrounding washers....JUST MINE. and the damn fool just tossed his crazy gray hair and kept walking - right past my baffled expression. WTF DUDE, YOU JUST SHIT ON MY WASHER!

i finally checked out the "Ashes & Snow" exhibit in the nomad museum by the Santa Monica pier. the photos were fantastic, but the videos were totally lame. took the mystique out of the pictures if you ask me. it was impressive and worth the 15 bucks...but i still think the structure of the exhibit was the most fascinating part. the "nomad museum" is made entirely of used railroad cars and white tarps. it's awesome.

for dinner tonight - bess, kevin and i truly followed the john candy diet. i'm almost embarrassed to say it, but perhaps i have a problem. after the exhibit, we definitely drove through In-N-Out for burgers AND shakes....THEN drove through McDonalds to get fries....and not just fries, but LARGE FRIES. i'm now around 200 pounds. or so i feel. i'm never doing that again. but it was such a BRILLIANT idea. i totally recommend it.

man i don't want to go to work tomorrow.