TITTWIS 40: We don't need no stinkin' paper bag!

Are there no 40s in the UK?

40s are malt liqour which has a higher alcohol content than regular beer. cheaper too. A 40 is usually only 2 or 3 bucks. Cheap, nasty drunk.

My son peed in his face this morning, it was great.

I've never had a 40 either. I tend to get wasted off a 1/2 of a regular beer anyway though.

The next time I changed him, he had a tiny baby boner, it was so cute. I wonder if that inhibits his peeing?

WTF??

It's technically a holiday here so some Americans might be at home I guess. G. doesn't get the day off, and I'm always here so it's a normal day for me.

I way overslept this morning after many long dreams about high school, old jobs, old friends. weird. am I going to die or something today? Was that my life's flashback?

How was the weekend for everybody? We spent most of it driving around looking at houses with G. asking, "would you want to live here? here?" I don't care a whole lot. I like porches, lots of windows and no carpet. But if you're buying that's all stuff that can be changed, right? Instead we made copious notes about the state of the neigborhood and any signs of gentrification. I also kept my eyes open for the closest schools and made note to look them up. (although I expect them all to be not good.)

Now, I have this house to clean. The kichen looks like the apocolypse hit and there isn't a clean dish in the house. The laundry is also toppling and refridgerator is bare. arrggh!I can only do so much in one day! I have to watch Tyra and Oprah!

look for bootleg DVDs. I'll keep my eyes open.

are you going to know the gender Pink or are you going to wait until delivery?

Hi, Pink.

How many month pregnant are you now, Pink?

Where have all the escapists gone?

Mmah back atcha, Pink.

I had a big important meeting with my "new" bosses yesterday and totally wowed 'em. So much so that they finally delivered the cheque I had invoiced them for OVER A MONTH AGO. I think I also impressed the one of the funders of the project who sat in on the meeting via speakerphone, and sort of effed everything up by saying that the people with the money have developed a different idea of what they want this project to be, so it's almost back to the drawing board, which, since I working on a deliverables-vs-payables system, means I need to maybe look for a loophole so's I can get paid for the work I've already done.

Pink, that policy sucks! It's your baby, it's your business.

Houses . .I'm not so picky. The things I like - hardwood floors, windows, decks and porches - are things you can add yourself so no biggie if it's not there. The housing market is rough in Austin these days so G. is more concerned with long-term investment and whether the house could be resold five or ten years down the line. whatevs. I'll just be glad to finally get to have my pink room!

Huk - surely you should get paid if you've done the work, it's not your fault the fucktards changed their minds!

Sam - Tell me about it! I really want to know to the point that I might have a private scan to determine the sex. I hate not knowing.
A pink room eh? Pray do tell! Of course, I totally approve. ;-)

I just want to have one room to paint and decorate all pink. Hopefully a baby girl could then make her home there. Or a boy, whatever.

There's so much regionalization going on on ILX I might just start an Austin thread all for myself instead of reviving a real bloggy-blog.

I can't believe that they won't tell you the sex of your child, Pink.

I cannot imagine living in Texas without central air, Sam. Otoh, whatever you pay out to install it will bring added value to the house.

Perhaps the freedom of having things how you want it is one of the few pluses with our medical systems.

Sam, my fingers are crossed for you and Chingy re-uniting soon.

I like chip shop fish and chips in principle, but the standards and styles do vary hugely. I've had plenty of appalling ones, and being too greasy is normal, but I've enjoyed plenty as well.

And Martin, I'm no Philadelphian, but I don't think the cheese in a cheesesteak sandwich is supposed to be "Philadelphia" (i.e. cream cheese). That would be kinda icky. Anyway, it's interesting how you say all that. Are there no health inspectors in Britain who would be required to drop in unannounced to places that serve food and do inspections? I know that's required Stateside and many media outlets (usually local TV stations) will regularly advertise the highest and lowest scores of the week. Down here in my neck of the woods, there are two TV stations that do this.

Okay, time for me to go to sleep.

Sam - I'm sorry to hear about Chingy, I hope he comes home soon!

our weather's been down the crapper for awhile - no winter coats at all this winter hardly. grass is always greener blah blah.

Michael's showing us all up with his glamourous holiday.

when I was studying abroad in the UK my food experience was sublime. we had a french cook at my college.

hi martin!

Hopefully his days of freedom were blissful.

Square peg feelings are factoring in strongly tonight....

square pegs was a great show!

I never got to see "Square Pegs". I wonder how I'll get to.

I've been off today (fully) but have been busy throughout the day, up until now. Hence my posting here. Right now I'm taking a breather, drinking water and watching Martha Stewart (better than most anything else that's on, I find). Mmm, cool, delicious water. Mmm, not being out in that sticky, humid air.

it's rather cool here, bout to take missy for a walk.

I love Missy!

I ordered the b1ur DVD last week in a fit of nostaligia and got it today. there were 3 or 4 "newer" videos on there which I'd never seen, including the one for On Your Own. I think Dam0n A1barn was trying to channel 1992-era Beastie B0ys in that one. Oh, the horror.

and they're supposedly playing a secret show today and the best info I gets puts it at a big venue that will also be hard to get into so I'm all "eh, forget it." however G. says we will go and try when he gets off work.

What's wrong with me that I won't stand around for 3 or 4 hours to try and see my favorite band in the universe? What happened to the me that drove to Detroit in one 18-hr shot to see them?

She's grew old and lazy, that's what.

Miss Misery, as hard as I try, I cannot picture you being a Blur fan. I know you came of age during the Second British Invasion and all and you would have had to have had some teenaged interest in some of the British pop stars of that time, but I find it more likely that you'd fall in the vein of the "female rock & roller"/"rapper" sides of things even back then. Hey, this is something to work on, sure.

Huck, are you off on holiday?

Could someone please invent a time machine so I can either travel back to the early '80s and live the life of a teenager then, or travel back to when I was 18 years old and knock some sense into me so that I could have actually taken advantage of those younger years? Please? Anyone?

but I find it more likely that you'd fall in the vein of the "female rock & roller"/"rapper" sides of things even back then.

well I was/am! Joan Jett was the first music I ever got into, and I started listening to rap over 20 years ago. But I was also raised on the Beatles, into duran duran in elementary school and had an anglophile phase in college. hugely into b1ur in my early 20s. cute. I only recently started listening to them again without cracking up at dam0n's horrible fake cockney accent. Nowadays I mostly listen to just rap and country. such good bedfellows.

last night we were unable to get into the secret beast1e show. They were only letting in people with SXSW badges (the $600 ones), not even wristbands and forget just flat cover. Even all the badge people didn't get in, the line was unbelievable. So we sat on the grass behind the ampitheater with all the other rejects and listened. It was only a 20 minute set. We got to watch the bats fly out while they played. It was fun.

Later that night we tried to go to a party that mixmaster mike was playing at b/c we thought they(beasties) might show up and b/c, well, MMM is amazing. DENIED! I have gotten into plenty of sxsw private parties but these people just weren't havin' dumb townies like us. As we dejectedly headed back to our car we ran into two members of my most awesome favorite TX band who just got signed to a SKATEBOARDING label (tres cool) and they were going in TO WORK AS BUSSERS! They tried to sneak us in saying we were also supposed to work but we couldn't even get in as dishwashers!

me & g. = teh loserz

My lil' bro's on his way into town and we're going to hit up some hip-hop showcases and probably some rollerderby action. yay!

thanks for letting me blog TITWIS! hugglez!

I am exhausted but somewhat thrilled after four days on the Nile. Tomorrow: Alexandria.

Sounds like the times have been hot in Austin! I would adore being there at the moment but so many things have come up that I had no choice but to stay down here, even though I was off school all last week and I took off work last Thurs - Fri. (They didn't give us St. Patrick's Day off. Though I think they'll give us Battle Of Flowers day.)

San, I figured you for a rap & country girl. :) Everyone needs to have their specialty. (I almost typed "speciality" -- like, dude, I am SO not British.) Me, I'm in a huge Heaven 17 phase at the mo. LOVELOVELOVE them. And the big band stuff my dad was into.

But anyway. Rantage over. I need to get back to reading the paper.

have been bed-ridden sick for the past two days but have finally stumbled out. arrggh.

maybe one of these days we should start a new thread.

And Mark, there is no such thing as rain without lightning here (er, I partially exaggerate). Actually, what really stopped me was the fact that it was about midnight when I saw this happening and, well, it'd been crazy to step out in the literal middle of the night to soak up the precipitation.

I wish there were enough Texans in this thing to warrant an active thread series comparable to some of the other regional thread series here, or even enough Texans with the motivation to keep such a series up.

Thanks dee, I'm feeling much better now. Now back to normal job-search and house-fixing stress. arrghh!

We're trying to get at least three rooms completely finished - tile layed, grouted, sealed - before moving in furniture this weekend.

We are still only about halfway done with renovations though. I have become the home-fixin' queen. Painting, check. ripping up carpet and tiles, check. Mortaring down slate, check. sealing and grouting said stone, check. Add installing baseboards tonight.

yes, a new resume!

Michael, do you have a collection of your Egypt photos online? have you posted a summary and I missed it? i would love an exotic vacation but I'm beginning to feel I'll never have one.

But I do have an interview on Friday (phear!) and I do have house. Which is looking rather nice.

In bad bummer news, my mom has Hepatitis C. They suspect she was given contimated blood when she was in the hospital for her ruptured stomach a year ago. This is on top of her lupus and rhuematoid arthritis. *sigh*

I'm sorry to hear about your Mom, Sam. It cannot be said that she has great luck, medically speaking.

Break a proverbial leg on the job front and post a photo of your pink knitting room.