the process of mariage is semi-retarded

I have never been one for pomp and circumstance. Anyone who knows me knows that. I do get a little anal on parties I host. I find myself sweating over the order of color on a fruit kabob. So I can understand why a few people have mentioned they expect me to become a Bridezilla.

So when I was first engaged, I hopped on the computer and the graphic designer in me came out. All the fun images I had n my little gourd got poured into digital format. Since then, the planning has come to a slow trickle. I have a photographer (someone I’ve worked with for years), I have a DJ (my iPod and 2 large outdoor speakers from a horse show friend) and I have a caterer (another associate I have worked with before). I know where I’ll get my tables and chairs, my Dad has built a beautiful arbor in the backyard... all is going well.

But then as i sit here and work on my laptop, the Style channel is airing its deluge of wedding shows durring the day.

I am going to be a Bridezilla? are you kidding me? These girls aren’t happy unless they pay $7000 or more on  a dress. and the meat is on the right of the plate instead of the back... turn the goddamn dish around sweetpants. I don’t get it... When did all this happen. When did the wedding become more about what color the pebbles in the vase are then the ceremony?

I’ll admit, I am really looking forward to the after party... the party AFTER the reception for the ’younger crowd’. I always look forward to a little BBQing in my backyard, blasting music and drinking a few guinness...

They more I tell people what I want, the more I get funny looks. Whats wrong with having my hair down and wavy instead of a stupid fancy pants updo?

oivey... whatever

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update-o-maximus
Current mood: sore

Wow-

Well, for those who care, I  haven't been very forthcoming on the blogs in about 5 months so here-goes.

I am currently on the biggest business push of my solo career. I would like to make it so that next year I no longer need to work at a horse show. By then, I can get an official biz lic, skip this DBA stuff and move on to adult-dom.

Last Saturday, I drove down to Thermal, CA to schmooze and chat with the big-whigs in the industry. It went well, I will be flying down again on Saturday, hopefully for the last time in the 8 week show. From then on hopefully I can just ship customers items down to them without making a special trip.

I am not doing well on the 'i need to lose weight to fit into a nice dress' train like i should be. been busy and i am letting that part of my life slide like usual.

Got a majo adjustment to my braces today. I think my mouth is going to fall out of my face. No amount of popsicles can fix that.

I lost my little karaoke contest again, I give up... Back to the shower for me.

Oh what else... I have an urge to start another painting. Maybe next week... There ismore but the Tylenol PM is kicking in...

Currently watching : Nip/Tuck - The Complete Fourth Season [HD DVD] Release date: 04 September, 2007

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Rediscovering bands I already liked...
Current mood: anxious

Ah, Wilton. I love coming out here and getting flashbacks to 1983... 5 channels on regular TV with the occasional fuzzy view of the Spanish Channel. Lame adult food (yogurt, grapes... christ, i need a steak!) is all there is around.

Thankfully, my Dad inadvertantly stepped into 2002 last year when he got DSL at the house. So without much for entertainment, done with my Counter Culture Magazine, and not being smart enuf to bring a book, I figure I will go on the good ole' You Tube and watch some music videos I have never seen, startiong with the last song to play on my iPod, Evolution by koRn. K, seriously.. go watch it if you don't understand the song.. better yet, look up the lyrics while you're at it.

A few others to check out in the mean time
B.Y.O.B. - System of a Down
Arials - ""
Bulls on Parade - Rage Against the Machine
Dance of the Manatee - Fair to Midland

is it cooincidence most of these are staements about our shitty society.... no.

Currently listening : Fables From a Mayfly: What I Tell You Three Times is True By Fair to Midland Release date: 12 June, 2007

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i'm not 'afraid' of the dentist
Current mood: uncomfortable

    As my mom has told me for about 6 years now... Ryan, you shouldn't be afraid of the dentist.

I'm not afraid... I'm realistic. I'm not 'afraid' per say... I just hate him. not personally of course. very nice he and his wife (partners in crime).

Think about it. When you go to the optometrist, do your eyes throb in pain when you get fitted for glasses? If you go to the doctor for medicine cause you're sick.. you get better, right? So what happens when you go to the dentist?

Well, I started with a cleaning yesterday with my regular dentist. 'Gee' she says, 'you have a lot of bleeding back here, but your gums look fine.'  Well sweetpants, if you weren't raking that steel dagger accross my gum line and stabbing me with it I probably wouldn't bleed at all. Oh, and did I mention the Xrays? Do you know what Torai is? go look at my photos and check out the shot of my lower job. I have an extra row of bone in my lower job which is great when I want to store food for the winter, but awful when I need xrays. Those little paper plates cut into that sunovabich like nothing you can imagne.

Skip forward 45 minutes to the orthodontist. This particular office does not have seperate rooms.Instead, about 5 chairs are in one big room full of kids getting various procededures... and me. The dental assistant comes over to put in my spacers. Looking small and unimposing at about 1/4" a piece, she puts one on a metal spreader, shoves it in my mouth and tries to show this ring between my highly impacted molars. no go. Figured it was a bad sign when she reached over and grabbed a face shield, I can only assume, for when she drives it in and the metal thing stabbs me in the face and I shoot blood out at her eyeball.

By the end, the boss had to come over, no jokes, few smiles and a lot of force, tears streaming down the side of my face in pain but with 6 brand new turqouise rings set around my mouth for the next 7 days.

I'm not afraid of the dentist.... I hate him.

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Why I don't belong in the Stanford Mall... and other musings
Current mood: cheerful
Category: Fashion, Style, Shopping

So, I spent the evening yesterday dining at P.F. Changs. First, I would like to point out, of our three meal choices.. one was delicious, the other two may as well have come out of the Dragon House down the street from my house. So for all its fancy trappings and high priced meals... eh.

So I am learning how much easier it is to get work when I make my own trappings 'fancy.' I get myt hair done now.. nails.. all that shit. new clothes, and my favorite, my favorite rings which are both the equivalent of about 8karat diamonds and look pretty real. I came in last night looking nice with my Prada bag and my stupid ring and watched the manager come out of his office, walk over to us, introduce himself to me and give me his card 'to call directly for resrvations' next time we were in town. What a joke.

So i had some free time this afternoon, finishing early at the horse show so I thought I would go spend some money at the Stanford Mall. After heading into 4 stores who sold 'Small' and 'XSmall'... and NO that is not an exaggeration I gave up, I was obviously not the right type to be there. I laughe on the way out seeing the HUGE Bloomingdales which should have been my first sign, but as I walked out I passed Betsey Johnson. Not just the store.... I mean Betsey... yelling at her set up girls about not cinching the shirts up enough on the wondow models cause they looked fat.

I smiled, bought my rasberry mocha frappacino next door, and went to my car with soap from the Body Shop.

Currently listening : Fables From a Mayfly: What I Tell You Three Times is True By Fair to Midland Release date: 12 June, 2007

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i hate people... and my first of 3 long weeks
Current mood: anxious

So, as some of you know I spend a lot of my summer on the road, hobnobbing with the elite, and selling my soul for thier business. I sit on my ass for $225-250 a day, chatting with people who make 200,000 a year while i announce and keep track of riders entering my arena at horse shows. Business owners, sports stars, movie stars... I've met them all and the bottom line. The more important of a person I have met, the nicer they are. BUT thier minions are the biggest assholes. But I keep going and I laugh every day I am there.
Trainers who wouldn't have given me the time of day 2 years ago are my best friends right now. With my newly purchased 'fancy clothes' my hair done/styled and my gargantuan, exsquistily fake, diamond ring I now at least -look- like I belong in the upper eschelon.
So sitting at my gate, these are the things I see
1. Woman walking her dogs.. walks them over to a puppy enjoying a little chew bone, lets her big dog take it, and then walks off nonchalantly
2. Gate Rape = people have a specific order in which they are to go in the ring, gate rapers are the ones who force their way in front of the next rider so they don't have to wait around, making everyone else wait longer. And ONE trainer did it over and over and over.
3. A teenage girl, turning around to her mom and calling her a stupid bitch... and not being severly reprimanded.
Those are my favs, I will keep it updated, but that was my week.

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Tall Tales Taste Like Sour Grapes

I won't stop til I shove this band down everyones throat. Just read the lyrics along with the song.. they're awesome
open this like in a different window so you can play and read at the same time
http://www.myspace.com/fairtomidland

Tall tales taste like sour grapes
To much patience
No resistance
Within shouting distance you can hear a blind mans bluff
Dragging names through the mud insted of biting his tongue
The devils in the air and im spitting out prayers
While the rubber necks all get their fill

Tell me, tell me a story
Tell me not to worry
Or pick up the phone
So i'm turning, turning a deaf ear
So that I don't hear
him throwing stones

To much hog wash not enough hear say
always made the front page
He could use a fine tooth comb
to get a word from the wise
Would be a welcome surprise
Keep an ear to the ground so to drown out the sound
cause the dead air is what made me whole

Tell me, tell me a story
Tell me not to worry
Or pick up the phone
So im turning, turning a deaf ear
So that I don't hear
him throwing stones

These walls don't talk
Even when somebody knocks
These walls don't stand
For anyone else but themselves
These walls wont fall
Even when gravity's failing us all

Tell me, tell me a story
Tell me not to worry
Or pick up the phone
So i'm turning, turning a deaf ear
So that I don't hear
him throwing stones

HEY! HEY! HEY!

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Day 2
Current mood: pleased

Well, day 2 come and gone.

Tents arrived late, equip arrived late, tables arived at lunch-ish. Soon i will have a great photo of me sitting on a milk crate with an ice chest as a table and a box of sandwiches next to me. Yes folks, I'll be here all week.

So, I am kinda set up. Kinda. Christin is my hero, that poor girl may still be sitting in my booth cutting veggies. And Ted is the coolest shopping buddy...ever. So it is 9:45, I finished shopping at 8:45, chuck made me some pastas and I will be loading my truck with more crap tonight.

Tomorrow starts the first day of competition. Still a small day, but a day none the less with an actual menu and all.

christ...

Currently watching : Deadliest Catch Season 1: Episode 206: Man Overboard Release date: 01 December, 2006

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Day 1
Current mood: disappointed

So, day one complete, and I feel so far behind.

I guess I can't call it day one. I have been looking at recipies for 2 months for inspiration for something new to make, something to be fit into the schedule easily, something that wouldn't fill my grill or be too time consuming.

Current horse count is somewhere close to 400 horses. Last year was just over 300. What does this mean? Well, for every horse there are 2-3 people. Riders, trainers, owners, kids, grandparents, brothers, boyfriends... not to mention all the staff.

Original plan for today was to buld the tent. At least set it up. The tent company was scheduled to deliver and set up all the tenting for the property including my 20' x 40' consessions tent. Within this tent, my 3' xtra grill, its 100lb propane tank, my glass front display refrigerator, regular refrigerator, popcorn machine and 2 icechests were to be delivered this afternoon to be placed at the completion of the building of my tent. Therefore allowing me to set up the interior of the tent with its shelving etc to then go shopping and return with all the items to be put into the refrigerators, shelves, etc.

Of course, thats if any of that happened.

No tent, no equipment.

So tomorrow, I will be serving sandwiches out of my hat to the people working thier horses on set up day. I will be doing double duty tomorrow and my poor employees will be too.

So off to bed for me, tomorrow will be a long day and I will try to post up everyday. I may not be answering my phone this week as it will probably be sitting at the bottom of the tank of a portapotty on thursday after I have broken down and gone insane.

cheers!

Currently listening : A Beautiful Lie By 30 Seconds to Mars Release date: 30 August, 2005

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5232
Current mood: content

iI love our house.. still

I loved our place in midtown, even though it was a closet inside a postage stamp, I loved it. It had style, charm, rockin locale, excellent neighbors and a beautiful street. If it hadn't been for that 'tree problem' we might still be there.

While I am thankful of Autumn Woods for taking us on such short notice after our wonderful Victorian became a tree house, I couldn't stand the place. Gated communities suck, our 5'2 upstairs neighbors sounded like a herd of african elephants walking from room to room, vaccuumed at 1am every other day, not to mention, the scummy bastards all over the property.

So this is my next best thing til I can own my own place. 1400 sq ft of 60's architecture with a backyard, front yard. Sure, the same things occur, dishes are piled up, clothes are on the floor, but hey... thats life. Just saying, life is good, and there is much contentment :D

Currently listening : Fables From a Mayfly: What I Tell You Three Times Is True By Fair to Midland Release date: 12 June, 2007

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