That's pretty much what I feel like doing. Gah.
13 July 2011
09 July 2011
Ahhh, Vacation...
It's pretty nice that my birthday always coincides with a trip of some sort. Can't argue with this view:
06 July 2011
Posting from my phone!!!!
Check it out! I can now blog from anywhere! Does this mean I actually will? Only time will tell!
Here I am in all my pre-bed glory, with no makeup and bad lighting, appropriately amazed by the wonders of technology:
28 June 2011
Obviously we're not very good bloggers...
...Otherwise we'd actually blog about some stuff. What a sad existence this little blog has.
Exciting things in the near future for Garrett and Lauren:
Dropkick Murphy's show (Garrett only)
Wedding in Tri Cities
LOON LAKE!
Washington DC (Lauren only)
Wedding in Seattle
Perhaps someday we'll be better about actually posting about these things that we do, but for now:
see more Memebase and check out our Troll Face lols!
Exciting things in the near future for Garrett and Lauren:
Dropkick Murphy's show (Garrett only)
Wedding in Tri Cities
LOON LAKE!
Washington DC (Lauren only)
Wedding in Seattle
Perhaps someday we'll be better about actually posting about these things that we do, but for now:
see more Memebase and check out our Troll Face lols!
12 May 2011
05 April 2011
Oh boy, a post about abortion!
I consider myself to be both Pro Life and Pro Choice. I'm Pro Life because I would probably never choose to get an abortion myself and I wish that no woman ever needed one. I'm a stable person in a stable relationship with a great family/support system and money to pay for a baby should I wind up pregnant tomorrow. Oh and, small detail, I want to have kids. However, I'm Pro Choice because I don't think it's my, or anyone else's right to tell another woman what she should or shouldn't do with her body. Just because I am an extremely fortunate person doesn't mean everyone else is. Every woman has their own personal, private, and real reasons for wanting or needing and abortion, and they are entitled to them.(I suppose you have to view women as more than just a walking incubator who deserves a say in what happens to her body for this to fly.)
It's unfortunate that my way of thinking about this subject seems to be falling out of favor in the political world. No, actually it's appalling. If the multiple pending pieces of legislation out there are any indication, then politicians, (mostly republican ones,) are convinced that women are too stupid and viscous to deserve free agency over their own bodies. Have a look:
Abortion Bill Rundown
Most of those bills will likely be challenged in court, but I can't even be sure anymore if that will stop them. And what will happen when access to safe, legal abortion is removed? Well it sure won't be an end to abortions. The major issue all of these bills miss is that the only way to reduce abortions is to reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies. That means birth control, contraceptives, and accurate (read: non-Jesus-y) medical information. For everyone. Now.
Why can't people focus on removing the need to make such a huge choice, rather than taking that choice away?
Support Planned Parenthood
It's unfortunate that my way of thinking about this subject seems to be falling out of favor in the political world. No, actually it's appalling. If the multiple pending pieces of legislation out there are any indication, then politicians, (mostly republican ones,) are convinced that women are too stupid and viscous to deserve free agency over their own bodies. Have a look:
Abortion Bill Rundown
Most of those bills will likely be challenged in court, but I can't even be sure anymore if that will stop them. And what will happen when access to safe, legal abortion is removed? Well it sure won't be an end to abortions. The major issue all of these bills miss is that the only way to reduce abortions is to reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies. That means birth control, contraceptives, and accurate (read: non-Jesus-y) medical information. For everyone. Now.
Why can't people focus on removing the need to make such a huge choice, rather than taking that choice away?
Support Planned Parenthood
30 March 2011
Somebody has a case of the SADs...
My roommates, (aka my parents... Yeah, I am a winner,) just went on vacation for two whole weeks. They're in Hawaii getting tan and enjoying the heck out it, I'm sure. I am envisioning them in a shiny montage of sun drenched memorable moments set to a Beach Boys song as we speak... And here I am at home in the rain. Wah wah wahhhh.
Their departure for sunnier climes has really made me feel the toll of our typical rainy, cold, nasty-as-all-get-out winter/spring here in the Seattle area. Normally I don't mind. I truly love Seattle. I love the rain, I love the cold, and I love the appreciation I feel for sunny days when we finally get them. While most people I know spend October-June bemoaning the weather, I get excited about sitting inside reading during rain storms and getting to wear my winter coats again. There is a reason the Pacific Northwest is so darn gorgeous in the sun: The rain. It's SCIENCE!! (Consult a science book, -Ecology?- you'll see, it's true. SCIENCE!!)
This year though, has been rough. We've had weeks of near-constant rain/drizzle/overcast and I am just plain worn out on it. Enough, Washington. You're done. I want to go outside. I want to wear impractical shoes and tank tops without a sweater or jacket over them. I want to not be the color of printer paper anymore. I want to eat dinner on my deck.
I am sure part of my problem is that I spent half of February in Africa. Hot, sunny, dry Africa. It's funny, while I was in Mali it was so hot that I would dream about being back home in the cold. Now that I am home again, my body misses all the warm air, flip flops, and sleeping on rooftops to stay cool at night. Combine that with watching my parents jet off to a tropical paradise and you've got a recipe for the SADs.
To sum up this post about nothing, (isn't that what all blogging is?) I leave you with a cartoon by the ever hilarious The Oatmeal: ** Edit, I can't put it in here because I not blog-smart. So here is the link!
http://theoatmeal.com/blog/seattle_weather
Look at everything he has because The Oatmeal is mirth and happiness wrapped up in fuzzy bunny hugs and awesome.
Their departure for sunnier climes has really made me feel the toll of our typical rainy, cold, nasty-as-all-get-out winter/spring here in the Seattle area. Normally I don't mind. I truly love Seattle. I love the rain, I love the cold, and I love the appreciation I feel for sunny days when we finally get them. While most people I know spend October-June bemoaning the weather, I get excited about sitting inside reading during rain storms and getting to wear my winter coats again. There is a reason the Pacific Northwest is so darn gorgeous in the sun: The rain. It's SCIENCE!! (Consult a science book, -Ecology?- you'll see, it's true. SCIENCE!!)
This year though, has been rough. We've had weeks of near-constant rain/drizzle/overcast and I am just plain worn out on it. Enough, Washington. You're done. I want to go outside. I want to wear impractical shoes and tank tops without a sweater or jacket over them. I want to not be the color of printer paper anymore. I want to eat dinner on my deck.
I am sure part of my problem is that I spent half of February in Africa. Hot, sunny, dry Africa. It's funny, while I was in Mali it was so hot that I would dream about being back home in the cold. Now that I am home again, my body misses all the warm air, flip flops, and sleeping on rooftops to stay cool at night. Combine that with watching my parents jet off to a tropical paradise and you've got a recipe for the SADs.
To sum up this post about nothing, (isn't that what all blogging is?) I leave you with a cartoon by the ever hilarious The Oatmeal: ** Edit, I can't put it in here because I not blog-smart. So here is the link!
http://theoatmeal.com/blog/seattle_weather
Look at everything he has because The Oatmeal is mirth and happiness wrapped up in fuzzy bunny hugs and awesome.
09 January 2011
Holy Shit!
Look at my trademark negativity immediately below, and it's safe to say I didn't see this coming:
Hoped it would, but still, I was staring in disbelief at the television owned by my friends with cable pretty much the whole time. Disbelief was pretty rad.
Hoped it would, but still, I was staring in disbelief at the television owned by my friends with cable pretty much the whole time. Disbelief was pretty rad.
04 January 2011
7-9 Ain't So Bad
The 2010 Seattle Seahawks, finishing the season at 7-9, are now the only team with a losing record ever to make the NFL playoffs (nice job, guys).
Predictably, all the brilliant minds in football commentary (i.e. New York-based reporters who are pissed that their 10-6 Giants are out of the playoffs) have been up in arms about this since it became a reasonably likely possibility, calling for changes in the playoff structure so teams with better records automatically play at home in the playoffs, or even changing things to deny any losing team a playoff shot altogether. Some even said that the commissioner should step in right now and boot a 7-9 Seahawks team from the postseason.
This got me thinking: What's the worst team that could make the playoffs? Theoretically, of course. The NFL's 32 teams are broken into two conferences of four divisions, each with four teams. Each team plays six games within its division (each other team twice), and ten games against teams outside its division (under a formula I could describe, albeit in 1,200 or so words I don't feel like typing).
So theoretically, if all four teams in a division lost all ten of their non-division games, and all four went 3-3 in their six division games, they would all finish at 3-13, and one would have to be "crowned" the champion by some sort of tiebreaker. Of course, this could only happen if the teams in this imaginary shitty division put eighth-graders out there every week or something.*
Point being, the Seahawks' 7-9 is far from the worst that could happen under the current system. If it's taken this long for a single 7-9 team to make it (the current format goes back to 2002, and the NFL used a similar one before that), who cares if it's an "injustice" of some sort?
Seattle fans get to pay playoff ticket prices to watch their team get the shit kicked out of them one more time, while the Saints get the next-best thing to a first-round bye.
* And that would be child abuse
Predictably, all the brilliant minds in football commentary (i.e. New York-based reporters who are pissed that their 10-6 Giants are out of the playoffs) have been up in arms about this since it became a reasonably likely possibility, calling for changes in the playoff structure so teams with better records automatically play at home in the playoffs, or even changing things to deny any losing team a playoff shot altogether. Some even said that the commissioner should step in right now and boot a 7-9 Seahawks team from the postseason.
This got me thinking: What's the worst team that could make the playoffs? Theoretically, of course. The NFL's 32 teams are broken into two conferences of four divisions, each with four teams. Each team plays six games within its division (each other team twice), and ten games against teams outside its division (under a formula I could describe, albeit in 1,200 or so words I don't feel like typing).
So theoretically, if all four teams in a division lost all ten of their non-division games, and all four went 3-3 in their six division games, they would all finish at 3-13, and one would have to be "crowned" the champion by some sort of tiebreaker. Of course, this could only happen if the teams in this imaginary shitty division put eighth-graders out there every week or something.*
Point being, the Seahawks' 7-9 is far from the worst that could happen under the current system. If it's taken this long for a single 7-9 team to make it (the current format goes back to 2002, and the NFL used a similar one before that), who cares if it's an "injustice" of some sort?
Seattle fans get to pay playoff ticket prices to watch their team get the shit kicked out of them one more time, while the Saints get the next-best thing to a first-round bye.
* And that would be child abuse
01 January 2011
If Alabama Wasn't Lame Enough Already...
This guy ran in a touchdown a few minutes ago to put Alabama up 7-0 in the tastefully named Capital One Bowl:
So of course I go and notice the most insignificant detail I can find. Alabama is one of those "big" football programs, with "tradition" and "money" and all that shit. But they can't manage to use the same font for their helmet and jersey numbers.
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