This Generation's Old Lady River

You know your are getting older when the Hollywood stars that grew up within your age bracket are moving on from their not-so-sensible pasts and making something of themselves (Please note that the comment "making something of themselves" is used VERY loosely considering the following company). 

Exhibit A: Nicole Richie (Quickest Turn-Around in a Year Award)

Although she is in a serious need for several cheeseburgers, she is in what seems like, a stable relationships with a rather normal Madden brother. Her child is plump and healthy, which I seriously expected otherwise. She hasn't gone out and driven backwards on the freeway or been caught with her drug of choice in quite a while. She is seemingly settled for the time being. Hats off to Miss Richie and her turn-around life in 1 year!

Exhibit B: Britney Spears (Most Improved Award)

It's true, she is still a train wreck by most standards, but far better than, say, one year ago. My point exactly. Homegirl is focus at hanging with her Papa and not not committing suicide in front of an audience otherwise known as her infant children. Nonetheless, she is not as crazy, seeing her kids, not creating horrific headlines, and getting along with K-Fed. Who would have thought that he would be the responsible parent in this situation? Not me for sure!

Exhibit C: Paris Hilton (Missing the Headlines in a Good Way Award)

She still sucks the most of this bunch, but where has she been? It has been so nice not seeing her beav, or lack there of, splashed about in my extremely reliable and sophisticated news source, Us Magazine. She too is in a relatively normal relationship with a Madden. Granted, I'm pretty sure she is just pulling a 7th grade "going out" situation where you REALLY want to be just like your best friend so you date your best friends boyfriends friend or brother. You follow? Anyway, I think she wants to be Nicole and will even date her clone boyfriend. Weird.

There you have it, an overview of my generation's stars. Aren't they just pinnacles of society? Models of perfection and what every little girl should desire to be? Classy ladies right? Hmmmm, not so much. They make me feel old and uneventful. Fine by me....I'll take my MA over their vajayjay photos being in every home in America any day! 

7 more weeks to go...

I had class on Wednesday, and it was hell. Correction, the classes were refreshing and fun, but the 9 hours straight without a break, was not as exhilarating. I am trying to make my schedule as simple as possible, but I am dying here. My job is demanding as all get up, my school requires far more work than feasibly possible in one week, I feel like I live in my car, and I miss my family, friends, Dave and cats. The only bright side of this, is that I have only 7 more weeks. That means only 7 more trips down to Olympia and only 7 more weeks of crazy juggling.

On a good note, after this 7 weeks, begins a summer of excitement and chaos. What more could I ask for? I get to go to 2 weddings one of which I get to wear a pretty dress and be Morgs right-hand-lady, spend a weekend with Miss Joan, hopefully go on that trip Dave and I have been planning for 2 years, see my Annie, turn 24, experience how hot an old apartment really can get on Queen Anne, start a new job, finish a second quarter towards my masters, see my kitties turn 2, and just enjoy the sun!

It is starting off rocky, but I have high hopes for this summer.

Side notes:

Morgs: Im glad your fridge is working, I told you it would be fine! Sorry about work, find comfort that I have yet to find a fault in you.

Mom: YEAH for your new kitties! I love when new members join our obsession...give Abner and Chloe a snuggle from their sis Tay!!!!

Sheri: Your vet is a dumb-dumb. Im actually quite pissed at them...I miss you.

Drum Roll Please...

I started this list on August 25, 2007. My dear EP posted about it and I find her ever so clever and I immediately became the girl we all hate, I copied her. Anyway, apparently my entire family is full of girls we hate, because they too copied. Thus, I now do not feel odd about sharing my 100 list. Here is goes in no particular order:

1. I have bitten my nails for as long as I can remember and I hate it. I have spent countless hours analyzing why I do this.

2. I have always thought I belongs to a different era like the 40's or something. I love the clothes and things were just more simple.

3. I bleed silver sage, the token color of Resto.

4. I think raspberries are the best fruit but I really dislike their seeds so I don't eat them often.

5. My Aunt is my best friend

6. I am terrified of scary movies and I don't understand the entertainment factor in them. I also hate heights and onions. These phobias developed in my late teens.

7. Dave makes me a better person

8. Randomly, Dave grabs me and he slow dances with me. I love this. We don't talk and it could be anywhere, in the street, in our bathroom, when we are running late.

9. I miss bacon daily

10. If I start a book I must finish it. 

11. I cry at every monument in my sister's life.

12. When I cry, people think it is because I am drunk, but really its because I love her too much. I can't imagine life without her.

13. Dave is more than okay that I love and put my sister before him

14. I hate the word moist. It reminds me of the McDonalds moist towelettes. Gross

15. EP and her spawns are 3 of my most favorite people. I prefer her children's company to 99% of the worlds

16. I love traveling but I hate getting there

17. It terrifies me that I have the same temper as my dad. It is a daily struggle to control and tame it.

18. If I had a person 100 most beautiful persons list, my mom would be the first

19. I am obsessed with grooming. After I have successfully groomed myself, I move on to Dave and he obliges me

20. I will need serious therapy when my cats die.

21. Im incredibly self-conscious

22. I miss my dad

23. When I dream, they are always the same:

a) Im pregnant

b) a concrete ball is chasing me down a highway in the desert and I cant get off the road or beat it

c) I'm at my old house and I make my way into every room making sure that everything is still in place

24. I feel guilty voting for Obama...I feel like Hillary knows

25. Yellow is my favorite color, but it looks terrible on me

26. I am overly protective of my family

27. Out of all of my traveling, Seattle is my favorite place to be

28. My obsession with US Weekly and People magazine is borderline reportable

29. BBQ sauce plays a key role in all of my meals

30. My feelings get hurt really easily

31. I gossip more than I should

32. I sweat like 12 old men...especially when I drink coffee

33. I really don't like linoleum and formica

34. I won't take medicine and going to the doctor scares me

35. My eyes and I are constantly at battle. They always hurt.

36. I only drink water

37. I think being pregnant will be the most amazing thing ever

38. I might not have kids because I'm scared of the doctors and that it will hurt too much

39. I really don't want to get married, but I will if it means enough to Dave

40. J. Crew is my homebase. I feel like they design clothes specifically for me.

41. I can still do the splits

42. I hate doing laundry

43. Notting Hill is my favorite movie

44. Corn on the cob is my favorite, it reminds me of summer

45. I truly believe that money buys happiness. It is not the only component, but it is a very strong contender.

46. I procrastinate more than I should and I am not good at self-care.

47. I am frightened to be a therapist

48. I wish I had more time for hobbies, or maybe more time in general

49. I have 3 freckles in odd places:

a) On my right boob

b) on the bottom of my left foot

c) on the edge of my eyelid

50. I wish I was a chef

51. Old Hollywood fascinates me

52. Like Sheri, I love biographies

53. I look forward to grocery shopping

54. I am bothered by white walls

55. Reading the newspaper drives my crazy. Afterwards, my hands feel dirty like I just was handling money

56. I tuck my thumbs into my fists like my mom, grandpa, and great uncle.

57. I don't be live in ADD but Im pretty sure I have it.

58. Snow is the most beautiful thing to me

59. I have an ongoing list of my favorite baby names. Thus far, if I were to have three children, I would need at least 3 dozen animals to use up the rest of my names.

60. I am always game for ice cream, cheese, french fries or bacon.

61. I miss Mallory

62. I wish I had a domestic goat named Helen

63. Getting old scares me

64. Although I know I will love being pregnant, I have always felt like I can't have children.

65. When people talk about me behind my back, it truly hurts my feelings. Especially when I don't like them in the first place.

66. I hate T-Mobile

67. When people finish my sentences, I'm not bothered, I feel like we really know each other.

68. I'm opinionated, but not good at it

69. I heart 80's rock!

70. I can remember songs that were playing during monumental events in my life. When I hear them, it takes me back...

71. My mom and Annie gave my sister and I good skin, and they taught us to value and protect it at all costs.

72. French fries are in a separate food group for me that I could not live without.

73. I disagree with every word in the DSM

74. I love fruit snacks

75. Organized religion makes me nervous.

76. Through my education, I have found that my family is not as crazy as I thought. It's comforting

77. I can't wait to be an Auntie

78. Adults that do any of the following bug the hell out of me: watch cartoons, wear Winnie the Pooh clothing, talk baby talk, or talk down to children.

79. Baby talk in general is ridiculous and severely demeaning

80. There is a reason that I have had two boyfriends in my life and they are both Dave. Similarly, there is also a reason that that is the same name as my dad. I don't know what it is, and it makes my nervous to speculate.

81. Like my dad, I love leftovers, but I hate leftover dessert.

82. Women who don't have women friends have women problems and I am not interested in being friends with them.

83. I love TV

84. I too feel like Hanky Panky is swanky. Something about one-size-fits-all suits me

85. Reading is my most favorite thing to do.

86. I enjoy my own company and like going to movies and dinner alone.

87. With a little coaxing, I will try almost anything

88. When cats purr and lick me, I feel like they are welcoming me as one of their own.

89. Spandex is my friend

90. I have kept a journal for years and years.

91. My drink of choice is a mojito

92. Manners are a must...for all ages, or I can't talk to you

93. When I wear a Free People top, I have the most fun

94. My favorite trip was my 21st birthday in New Orleans and I wish I could turn back time so Sheri could have been there.

95. The Beatles are my favorite

96. I lovely spicy foods

97. I only wear chapstick

98. I say fuck way too much

99. Dr. Phil and Dr. Laura make me incredibly angry. They are such poor representatives of my field.

100. I feel more connected to people who have a sister. They understand something that has no words to explain.

There it is. I have so enjoyed all of yours....

A Present in the Form of Voicemail

Miss Joan called me today and oh what a girl. Her voice just lit up my afternoon! She left 30 seconds of her current events on my voicemail and I ache with missing the Provosts'. The only reason the Eastside was bearable, was because of my favorite fam. So, cheers to the Provosts in CO, you are truly missed. And, a special shout out to Finny and my dear Miss Joan....call me often, I miss your voices and smiles.

XOXO

Tay

Euphoria with Da

Last night was one of those afternoon to nights that make me fall in love with Dave all over again. We can just be...does that make sense? 

I was home all day and was a good little girlfriend. I cleaned and finally put the stack of clothes away that he has not-so-subtly been telling me to do for the last week. P.S. I hate laundry:( After that his friend Bones came over for the afternoon. There is something to be said for spending the entire afternoon with your boyfriends friend and having a great time. I love his people! Bones is so surprising. He is an artist and LOVES to discuss art and museums. Dave will be interested and try his hardest to love it, but I feel like people either are in love with art, don't love it but appreciate it, or don't like it because they are too simpleminded to try and wrap their mind around it. Bones and I love it, and Dave appreciates it! Nonetheless, we talked about Rodin, Monet, and the museums I have been to in Europe. We then transitioned and talked about his family and the interesting-ness they have going on. We then took a walk up to TJ's for some dinner fixins, and again, what fun. Can I just say, I love that I love his friends! If they sucked and didn't like me, that would be a huge bummer. Anyway, Bones left to go out to lunch with this girl Da and I have set him up with and he is just about the cutest thing about it! I love playing matchmaker...

Da came home around 5:30 and we were debating whether or not we should go to a movie, we decided to just drive downtown and walk until we find something fun to do! We do this, Dave and I. We have a love affair with Seattle. No matter the weather we are there discovering new places or just walking around. I constantly feel like a tourist in my own city because everything feels new. When I moved back from CA, I felt like I needed to really start appreciating Seattle for what it was and take advantage of it's amazing-ness. 

So, we are walking downtown trying to find a place to eat, which seems possible except every Seattlite is trying to do the same.We go to three places and they either have a wicked line or they are not sounding delicious. We get a bit frustrated and just keep walking, and we end up at Boka. Now Boka is a place to seriously chow down. Their fries are beyond delicious. Everyone knows what I would do for a delicious basket of fries, and Boka does not disappoint. So we sit outside order some delicious drinks and just talk. We both didn't want anything heavy to eat because it is freakishly hot so we just order 2 caesar salads and some fries:) We sat there for three hours. Chatting, laughing, talking about our day, career goals, future school, everything. No topic went untouched. We hadn't had a conversation like that in a while. We must have needed a refresher course in each other! After more drinks and some of the best desserts I have ever had, we walked back to the car. As I was walking, all I could think about was how lucky I am to be with Dave. He is amazing. Amazing to me, my family, my friends, his friends, I mean how could I find someone like that? Even more, how great is it that I was able to find Dave so early. People go their entire lives looking for that person, and I just happened upon him at an 80's party. How does that happen? 

Dave makes me believe in fate. He brings out the best side of me. He makes me appreciate the people in my life and the beauty in my family and friends. Who knew someone could do that? I didn't. 

Our night continued. We went to a good friends house for a surprise birthday. We both knew no one, but we were there together. They didn't matter, we were in our own bubble anyway. We only stayed for a little bit and went home. Have I told you how much I love the word home? I love that the word means so many homes to me. Home is at my mom's, at Sheri's, and on Queen Anne. All of these places are home to me. Once I started thinking about how they are all home to me, I thought that it isn't the home, it is the people. My people are home to me. 

We went home and watched a movies with Justin and his new non-girlfriend. It was nice and relaxing. Comforting and easy. Effortless and delicious. Fun and perfect. I'm delirious after days like this. Falling in love with someone over and over again is exhausting but perfectly euphoric. 

Thanks Da for a lovely day of nothing and everything. You are home to me.

Once Upon A Friend

I met up with a face from the past tonight. Our past has been rocky, glorious, mean, and victorious. She has been that person that you identify with a certain time in your life. I think of my time in middle/high school, and I think of her. Although there are things that are still sad for me, I was greatly surprised and happy to find that after time and changes we still know each other. Oh, Dani Jo...

She's having a baby girl. Berlyn. She was kicking all through dinner. Strange. I remember she and I talking when we were 13 about having kids together and living near each other. I just find it so surreal that neither of those will ever happen and we were so sure that it would. 

She is kind and fun. Interested in my life and not judgmental and overtly opinionative like I remember. She is realistic about her situation and relationships. I enjoyed her...and I hadn't in years. 

We are getting together next weekend for Memorial Day weekend. How strange things fall into place as they do. Curious. 

All in a Days Work

It started like any other day but ended up with a few generous glasses of the oh-so-yummy Airfield chardonnay. I went to work today only to be welcomed with smiles from my manager. She looked sheepishly at me and told me that DeMonty (vice-president of Restoration Hardware) asked me to go out to dinner with him and the other big-shots tomorrow night. I was so excited. I have met with him before and he is so inspiring. Just when you are tried of your job, he swoops in and makes you fall in love with it all over again. I can't wait for my new found love for RH!! As I floated away from my store manager, I quickly got even more pumped up because this occasion calls for a cute new top! Double yippee:) 

So, this weekend we have our Fred Hutch weekend where our clients can donate $20 to cancer research and they get a 20% off coupon. Needless to say, out money hungary, creepy, U. Village mothers love another excuse to spend inappropriate amounts of their husbands income. But, I have gotten extremely excited and into our pre-ordering process. Our goal for pre-orders was 85,000, but today I tallied op the total and we have hit 107,000!!!! I can't believe it! We have all worked so hard and I am so impressed with those who have been on top of it. Although there is one down side of this whole charity, here we have women with obscene amounts of cash and not one of them has offered to donate more. In fact, I have been asked more times than I can count if I can't increase the amount of discounts. WTF??? I am appalled at some of these people. You jerks!!!!  I hope your life is free of cancer...whatever

Moving on, then I came home to find out that it is The Hills season finale! I know most you just rolled your eyes, but I know each of you has a rolling of the eyes worthy show. It is embarrassing and horrid and you may be a worse person for watching it, but like a train wreck, you can't stop. I admit it, The Hill is my crack. Hello, my name is Taylor and I'm an addict...

As I settle into my favorite pair of Morgan's yoga pants, I open my bottle of wine and check the line up (my normal routine of email/internet check-ins).  As I opened up my home-page, people.com, I saw a picture of Shiloh Pitt, and although I think her parents are shaddy as all get up, home-girl is cuter than ever. WOW!!! Adorable. I then checked my grades to see if they were posted, and found out that I got a 3.7. Now this is not GREAT, but it's great. I wanted better but I guess there is only room for improvements and it is only my first semester in grad-school. I should probably chill the F out and worry about something more worthy of worry, like maybe that my uber-important dinner tomorrow is at Tia Lou's in BellTown. YUCK...UGH....GROSSY:( This place is so nasty for these main reasons, you be the judge:

A) The one time I was there, I got kicked out after about 10 minutes because my gay guy friend wouldn't stop dancing on the tables with all of the ladies. Boo.

B) There is a stripper pole in the middle of the place. What a tantalizing conversation piece while I am eating with my VP. Need I say more?

C) Lastly, Morgan went there for some lame holiday like Halloween or New Years, and witnessed some nice girlfriends shooting each other up with either a very large insulin shot or heroin. I would like to think it was not the latter but I fear that my first point is confirmation that the heroin was the unidentified substance.

And there you have it. Why would anyone want to go there for dinner? I am not sure of this selection, but I will be bringing an ample supply of Purel and avoid the facilities at all costs. 

As I sit here with my chardonnay, my stupid show's 

count-down, and reading up on my fam's fun blogs, I hope they all had a glorious day! Cheers to my favorite 3...

Hmmmm

I don't know what it is, but I am perpetually locking my keys in my car. To add insult to injury, I lock them in while my car is still running. I know!!! What's unfortunate, is that this is the second time this month. I feel like I call Dave all the time to bail me out.  Furthermore, my car kind of gets the brunt-end of the deal all the time. Let's review shall we:

1) Car gets stolen for drug deal

2) Car gets transmission transplant

3) Odd lights are on at all times

4) Gets left on by me with car doors locked...several times

5) Has a lot of junk in it's trunk

I feel like there are several other issues with my car, but I cannot remember the endless amount of funk that my car has. Weird...

A Present From London

Before we moved to London, we had several going away parties and such and my Annie gave me a large visa card to spend on necessities...awwww, she does spoil me so. Anyway, since the London plan didn't exactly pan-out, so to speak, when I returned, she told me to spend it on something I love. I thought really hard wabout it and I had a few contenders. But, when all was said and done, I just couldn't forget this!

It's called the Beaded Venetian. I love this mirror and I bought it yesterday!  It 36X48 and 64 lbs, so it's also a beast. Picture this if you will, my friend Summer and I carpooled yesterday morning, and she has the tiniest old-school ford escort hatchback that is hot pink, I kid you not. So, when a client returned this mirror in the afternoon and I proclaimed my love for the mirror and paid for it, I forgot to inform Summer that we would be hauling this beast home in the back of the world smallest car. Again, stretch your mind around this, two girls lifting this size mirror up 3 flights of stairs and thru 3 doors. Can you say "PIVOT, PIVOT?" I almost peed my pants. 

Nonetheless is it beautiful and the boys cannot get over seeing their reflections as they walk by. Will gets puffy-tail and looks like Halloween cat when he see himself. It's probably mean, but Dave and I encourage him to walk by because it is SO entertaining!

So, Thank you Annie for making me get something I really want. I love, Love, LOVE this mirror and can't wait until your bum knee heals and you can see my beaded venetian in all it glory! Another reason why I got deported for a reason.!

May-Day, May-Day!!!!!!

I have always had high hopes for the first day of May. I feel like it is the most fresh day of the year. It is the beginning of summer, and ask anyone in Washington, there is nothing that compares to a WA summer. Truly. I can't imagine any other place to be when the weather is warm and luxurious. In Seattle every sunny day is used to the fullest. Every Seattle-ite is beaming and soaking up every ounce of light and not taking one moment for granted. Seattle summers remind me of lakes, boats, Sea-Fair, Bumbershoot, my fan, and drive-in movies. I just love this time of year! 

When we were little, my mom used to wake Morgan and I up early to deliver flowers to the neighborhood for May Day. It was so much fun to cut rhodies and tulips and knock the door and scurry home. Sadly, my day was not full of this fun. At work I had to really be a manager today...I hate that! There was this guy who is perpetually late, asking to get off early, creepy, yet always asking for more hours. ARGH!!!! He is such a combination of contradictions that I want to scream, but I don't. Today he was on codeine during work. That's right, the drug that people are addicted to and we later see them on an episode of A&E's Intervention. I was appalled when he told me he was "kinda high." I looked at him with the most outrageous look of WTF!!!!????!!!! Why would anyone in their right mind tell their acting boss that they are "kinda high"????? Some people are just too moronic for their own good. 

Then, I had another guy who has been working there for about 3 months ask me the most ridiculous question EVER???? He confused a bedroom collection with a sheet set so when a client asked him if we had the sheet set he said no. WTF?????? It's in front of your face you big dummy!!! I mean really, how hard can it be to learn sheets and especially when you are around them 24/7 for 3 months. I was at a loss for words. Those kind of questions do not deserve an answer from me. Maybe someone else has patience with dumb-dumbs, but I sure don't. 

I'm ranting and I am trying not to. When I came home the sun was shining, I had a cute cat in my lap and some ice cream. It was a lovely treat for a day of chaos. But if you think it ends there, you are mistaken. Fluffy's teeth are hurting him and Will has taken refuge in the springs of my mattress. Yup. That's right. We have an interesting dynamic, my cats and I, Fluffy doesn't want me to play dentist with him and Will wants to play hide-and-seek. Again, ARGH!!!!!

I'm going for a May Day walk.....Thinking you Mom on this flower and sun filled day!