Sprizee :: A simple girl replete with complications

This month being June I'm really into...

...Altrooist (seriously, go check it out!), cotton skirts and flip flops, striped navy and white t-shirts, picnics in the park, meeting friends for lunch, noisy house remodeling, being without electricity or running water, visiting downtown Seattle constantly, volunteering with NW Harvest, seeing lots of SIFF movies, being picky about the next place I work,and my new (old) vintage cherry red bicycle with a basket in the front, white walled tires and a chain guard so all those cottons skirts I've been wearing don't get caught in the gears while peddling away.

Life is what happens when you're making other plans.

I have this tendency to jot down random notes on random scraps of paper. Yesterday I found these. Today I found this. 

Me:  That much cheese as a main dish is not healthy.

Lunch Buddy: There's no meat.

Me: And that makes it healthy?

Lunch Buddy: Yeah.

Me: Chocolate Cake?

Lunch Buddy:  Healthy.  

Me: Twinkies?  

Lunch Buddy:  Healthy.

[pause]

Me: Works for me.

I still totally remember this conversation. Pretty sure I'm the only one that finds it funny.  Too bad. This isn't your blog. By the way, he no longer works here either. He left a few years back. That's how that works. Yay for the next thing. Seriously can't wait.

I also found a document titled Coping Strategies with the following items listed:

• Chocolate
• Running
• Mac N Cheese
• Chats with Misty 

That's a keeper, for sure.

Dreamy wild flower. Not noxious weed.

Totally besotted with this milk weed skirt. Can I have it? Pretty please? It's not even for sale. Which is really too bad because I would totally buy it. Except, no I wouldn't. Want to know why? Because last week I GOT LAID OFF after nearly 6 years of working there. It's a long story but basically RECESSION ON meant drastic cuts at my office.

So I've taken a vow not to buy a single thing until I secure a steady paycheck once again. I'll miss all my former coworkers, but honestly I can't say I'm sad to go. I'm actually really excited for the next thing. Plus, Seattle's having some amazing weather so now seems like a pretty rad time to be unemployeed. And also, can I have that skirt? No, seriously. Gimme.

Vancouver is for victors.

M is for Moda., originally uploaded by sprizee.

Last Saturday me along with 5 lovely friends headed up to Vancouver, BC to cheer on 4 other lovely friends as they competed in the Vancouver Half Marathon. But before that we ate. And after that we ate. And drank. And ate some more. And there was karaoke in there somewhere too. And shopping. And walking, lots of walking all over town. Ah, good times.

New Michael Sera documentary...or movie?

I can't tell if Paper Heart is just a movie made to look like a documentary or an actual documentary? Either way, it looks cute. Of course, like everything else on my blog these days TBTL is involved. I emailed them last week and suggested that perhaps TBTL is Mystery Solvers could solve this mystery for me. They just emailed me back saying they were "on it" and had already requested interviews. Now, I'm not sure if that means they were already on it before I piped up, or if they're on it because I piped up. Either way, rad.

P.S. Fun factoid: All of the music featured in the Paper Heart trailer was composed by Michael Cera and Charlyne Yi. How do I know this? Twitter, of course.

WWKD?

Snacks for TBTL!, originally uploaded by sprizee.

I was on TBTL again last night. This time representing my Kateness and opening up my shame-ber. What's a shame-ber? This. Mine happens to involve a tent, makeup and misrepresenting myself via Flickr. I'd remove the tag now, but I feel like that would make me more of lying liar then I already am. What's that? You don't know what the hell I'm talking about? Oh, right.

Portland was lovely. Lovelier than my office.

Me and my mama., originally uploaded by sprizee.

I went to Portland and it was awesome. I've been meaning to write a recap, mostly for myself. Places we got to and places we need to hit up next year. Like that place that serves fried chicken and waffles FOR BREAKFAST! But work's been keeping me busy. Oh, and then last week my company announced 20% pay cuts across the board. So, you know, that was fun. The Dude has taken to saying ROMF! Normally I'm not a fan of acronyms. But there's something catchy about this one. Recession on MFer, indeed.

I'm not going to lie to you. I love being right.

Remember a few weeks back when I couldn't stand to be around a certain someone at the office. Yeah, um, about that...he finally got fired today. He was suppose to be fired on Friday (also my birthday) but he called in sick that day. I was torn about this. Seeing him canned on my birthday would have been a pretty awesome present but not having to see him at all on my birthday was pretty great too. 

I know this may seem mean and negative, but let's face it, I'm glass half full until some doucher tries to talk me into drinking half a glass of some murky, questionable water filled with sand, grit and sediment. At that point, the point at which some one pushes me over the edge, IT IS ON. So I'm happy to have one less ridiculous obstacle in my way to being the happy, upbeat person I was meant to be. I mean, seriously, get out of my way. I'm trying to spread joy. MOVE IT. 

Anyways, I'm taking the rest of the week off. Headed to The Nines for a mini vacation with my mama in Portland. If you have any suggestions about places to check out, let me know. I'm excited!

Wincing the days away.

I'm not technically rich, but I do have a lot of shit that I don't need, and I refuse to share with others, and that feels pretty solid. - Maria Bamford

Do yourself a favor. Go buy Maria Bamford's How To Win. It is hilarious. I downloaded it and brought it with me to New Orleans and it made time fly by. Literally. (Actually the plane made time fly by literally.) That's just a figure of speech. Gosh!

Actually now that I think about it the first place I saw Maria was in The Comedians of Comedy documentary. Maybe go rent that too while you're at it. Sure Patton Oswalt can be a trainwreck of a radio guest and has poor taste in sitcoms but he's also a great standup comic. I attended a comedy show once where David Cross was dying a slow painful death right there on stage and the only thing that saved it was Patton taking the grenade out of Cross' hands, telling a joke and then handing it back. Actually Cross never came back from that. It was awful.

Note to self: Avoid future David Cross shows at all costs.

P.S. The Shins are playing the Showbox in Seattle next month. THE SHOWBOX! That's tiny crazy for a band as popular as The Shins. Tickets go on sale this Friday. Just say'n.

Taken on Monday outside that antique store I couldn't locate come Friday.

Last week I was in New Orleans on business. I want to go back.