Weekend at K-Dubs

When you wake up in the morning in a strange bed and double-check your reflection in your phone and realize you look like a cross between Basquiat and Gojira...

#medusa
#stinkybreath
#coldintheD
#bitchbetterhavemycoffee
#needpants
#filtersdontworkonaliens
#1stworldproblems
#thewalkingdead
#deflategate

Deep Freeze

Third day of below 0 temps. Hot water pipes are frozen, so I boiled water to clean the kitchen. Can't get the house temp above 65. The house is making weird popping noises. I think it's the foundation settling. This is like a zombie apocolypse where everything starts shutting down. 

Ran to the grocery store for coffee filters at 7am in -11 degrees (that's -21 C). 

Car wouldn't start in the store lot. Tried 3 times. Sounded like the alternator. Pulled out the tow truck card from my wallet, tried the car again while waiting forever for them, engine finally turned over. 

Got into an argument with an Indian Amurrkan guy in the Starbucks drive thru. Way too cold to get out and make him bleed. I'm from the hood, yo. But I'm cold, yo. 

Came home to a stream of water coming through the living room window I think from melting icicles outside...maybe because the sun was out? Moved the furniture away, stuck a bucket and newspaper underneath, walked back to the store, wanted caulk sealant but they only had rustoleum. While waiting for the leak to stop, ate rice, flipped through the channels, settled on some james brown documentary, slept on the couch all day, just woke up at 9:30pm with the my Afro ponytail on full display for any poor soul looking in, had a pee, flipped through more channels, found bill Murray singing to a shark (?), realized I'd missed TWD, screamed, debated on watching Talking Dead because they tell you who died. 

Okay, I had to let all that out somewhere. Maybe Japan is a good thing. Independence isn't always what's it's cracked up to be. I could suffer a head of household and labor pains if it meant never having to walk to a store in -21C again. Your reading all that is your good deed for the day. Or the week. You've just received like 300 karma points. And some of you need it!

Midseason Premiere

Nooooooooo! OMG @ TWD.

 #twd

2.1.15 Dailies

Here's an easy way to help the homeless community near you: Build a hygiene kit.

At your local dollar store, purchase some (or all) of the items listed below. 

The idea of hygiene kits started while passing out lunches at MLK Blvd. and 3rd Ave., where a lot of Detroit's homeless community can be found.  Several men asked me if I had any toilet tissue. You don't realize how important even something as basic as toilet tissue can be to someone without a home.

I went to several dollar stores for my purchases because I was looking for specific types of items. For instance, instead of buying a toothbrush and a toothpaste, I found the toothbrush/toothpaste travel kits.

You can keep the kits in your back seat for days when you find a homeless person at one of the entrance ramps. Helping someone stay clean is a really easy way to help them maintain their dignity.

Quick tip, you can use stickers to separate the men's from the women's kits.

1 roll toilet tissue

1 bar soap

1 minipack Facial tissue/Kleenex

Antibacterial wipes, spray or gel

1 toothbrush

1 toothpaste

1 bottle water (won't fit in gallon bag, but easy to carry)

1 comb

For Men, add...

2 razors

1 can shaving cream

1 men's deodorant

For Women, add...

1 pack maxi pads

1 bottle scented lotion

1 women's deodorant

Stuff I didn't Think About until After

Small mirror

Nail polish

Emergency 1st Aid kit (band aids, alcohol wipes, etc. Sort of a smaller version of this.)

Washcloth

Shampoo

http://miatrek.blogspot.com/2014/09/worthwhile.html

http://miatrek.blogspot.com/2014/06/on-kenkyo-and-hansei.html


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There's too much to watch on TV! I don't know where to turn. And I can't remember all the station numbers. lol

Okay, there's ...

* Puppy Bowl XI

* Zombie Bowl (TWD with Shane!)

* Nonstop

* Law & Order Marathon

I need Liam Neeson to come over and shovel my snow. I'll bet he'd shovel the hell outta my snow. It would be completely obliterated lol.

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Wow. Even with all the lights off, the illumination from all the snow falling makes it look like all the lights are on.

MONDAY 

Robot scoffs at baby shower invite. News at 11. 

TUESDAY

They upgraded the restrooms and added those automatic flushers, and now the stupid toilet keeps splashing my butt with water before I can pull my skirt back down and run out. 

Get yours yet?

 

Never had a flu shot before. But they're doing them for free at my job, so what the heck. 

"Suuuure. I'd be happy to willingly subject myself to a mutant zombie viral injection into my bloodstream in hopes of catching the aforementioned virus thereby scaring away all of the less-scary  mutant viruses. "

On Promises

I made a promise to a friend last year. She had just given birth, and was struggling with cancer. I promised to watch after her daughter, and to help fight for a cure.

I've secretly been honoring the former promise, and, really minimally, the latter promise. But not committedly. Now I'm starting to get that nagging sense of responsibility, the way you do when you put off paying a bill. 

Instead of just donating money, I feel the need to get out and do something. To put everything I have into it. To make up for neglecting it before. 

Cut to this week, I'm prepping for the 2014 Against the Tide event, held in Massachusetts (her home town). It's a competitive 1 mile swim, and I have the opportunity to raise money from family and friends.

We'll see how it goes. I may wuss out. I'm not a great swimmer, but I could certainly use the workout regimen. I've been using the pool at the Y on Tuesdays & Thursday mornings. I thought swimming before work would give me energy, but it leaves me sorta tired.

ALVH is on. I now realize it needed a more sweet-ass title for people to take it seriously. To get past the whole, "OMG, what have they done to my favorite American history lesson??" To consider it a formidable opponent in the horror/fantasy movement.  It's so good.  Even now, I'm smiling at the plot's seamless transitions between gothic lore and true stuff.  So clever.

I'm in Toronto next week. I can't say "Toronto" unless I, in my mind, add the "t-o-r-o-n-t-o-TORONTOO!" the way Marc did.

I want a walk on role as a walker on TWD, dammit. I must've submitted my audition to AMC 20 times now.  My girlfriend and I are hooking up for "The Bachelor" auditions.  Long story.  Hey, neither of us are exactly "Bachelor-bait" (i.e., giant blondes with pedigrees)...  But we can laugh about sitting in a room with 300 other women one day.

Lots of other, more heavy things happening right now. Just not ready to be this open with them yet.

I am definitely headed to Japan permanently. My job's not very fun atm. That's the lighter of the heavy stuff. 

 

"Better Angels"

 

This is my most favorite, best episode of the entire series so far.

 

The "Shane vs Rick" alpha male showdown finally comes to a head. The "surprise" moment could've gone down a whole different way, but the storyline and the fans love Rick.  Truth be told, Shane would have been a much better leader.  He kept the group safe at all costs. I'll always be in the minority on that one.
 

From Shane's wiki page, "Shane better recognized the reality of the world after the zombie outbreak and was able to adapt to it in a more severe and arguably better way than other characters like Rick."

 

I miss Shane.



 

 

 

 

 

 

I Love T-Dog!

Best line ever!

 

"Walkers in my backyard?....mmm-mmph."

#tdogforpresident

Who needs a BBQ?

4th of July #thewalkingdead marathon is on AMC all weekend.

All seasons.

I'm Krazy Gluing my butt to this sofa for the rest of the weekend.

Ready for my Zombie Close Up

 

Michonne will be on Talking Dead after the mid-season premiere of The Walking Dead tonight.

 

In a related story, remember when I tried that calf-pump move at the weight machine and it left me limping like The Mummy for a week? Clearly, I forgot about it because I tried a thigh muscle wall/liftoff thing yesterday and cracked my damn back.

 

 

I give you "Exhibits A" and "B".

#upallnight