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December 27, 2004

Flies.

I've now officially been a resident of the KC area for 6 months, today.

I still don't know where to get some decent queso.

I just want to thank everyone who made the first 6 months here possible, fun, and incredibly scary. 6 more months and years more to come hopefully.

However, I've failed to explore the majority of anything here. Anyone got any ideas on the things I should do to fill the next 6 months in KC ? Of course we've got the obvious, like going to Nelson-Atkins, and the not so obvious, like finding the perfect bacon and egg breakfast. What else is there? What am I really missing?

I need something to make me really fall in love with where I am, not another 30 screen or American Eagle. I might accept another Chipotle though.

Posted by Courtney at 11:48 PM | Comments (17)

December 26, 2004

Meh - The Jason Post

So, Christmas happened, I think.

After breakfast for lunch at Denny's with Jason, Keaton and I chilled here a bit and then went over to Jason's. We watched Boondock Saints and Black Hawk Down and I totally got pwned by Sonja and part of a stromboli.

We attempted to meet up with Ryan, Tricia and Scott to see The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, but due to apparently the snow storm of the week or something all the copies of it are snowed in at Cleveland and are nowhere near KC.

I even went to the new Dickinson theater down the street and walked inside and they were without it as well.

No Life Aquatic for Courtney :( If only I can talk people into going to see Meet the Fockers with me instead. It's not the movie I care about, it's the people. I thought about buying 7 tickets last night just to get everyone to stay at the AMC and watch The Aviator (which I also want to see, along with Beyond the Sea, Flight of the Phoenix, Sideways and Spanglish - so people, get to buying tickets).

Also new this weekend attentionwhore.org, along with courtneyporn.com, are now hosted by the marvelous Jason.

My mom saw my post linking the picture of Scott, Adam and Jason in their costumes the weekend of the Big 12 Tournament. I believe she thinks my friends are now crazy. She might be coming up this weekend. Maybe one of them can convince her otherwise.

Posted by Courtney at 02:41 PM | Comments (0)

December 21, 2004

SON OF AWESOME-O

To skip the recap, just go look at Adam's pictures here.

Anyways, the awesome things that did end up happening this weekend:

-See the Girls and Robert
-Hang out with the Girls and Robert
-Take the Girls and Robert out for Chipotle and talk about the worst things we've ever done
-Make out with one of The Girls, plus kiss the other two
-Dance around in my pajamas to The Clash *rocks the casbah rocks the casbah*
-Get totally shitfaced and hug everyone
-Shello Jots!
-Pass out and drool on Andrea
-Saw Closer with the Girls and Robert and cried twice then wanted to drink all night
-Make the almost perfect Tanqueray & Tonic
-Find a picture from the weekend and have no idea that it was taken or what was going on
-Have another awesome weekend where I feel that everything is perfect in life.

Jason, thank you so very much for having us, Adam for the presents, the Girls and Robert for coming all the way from Tahlequah, Andrea for not nershing and everyone else for putting up with my drunk ass!

Next time, I intend to just pass out there, in a corner, cuddling with the dog.

Posted by Courtney at 07:32 AM | Comments (3)

December 18, 2004

Liberation.

If anyone wants to know what we'll be doing tonight, maybe we should refer to last month's madness.

Party at Scott's 11/20/2004 - Friends, Games, and Gas Line Flags.

Awwwwwwwwww yeah.

Posted by Courtney at 12:15 PM | Comments (0)

December 17, 2004

AWESOME-O

The things I did since the last time I posted that were totally awesome:

-Froze my fucking ass off in 14 degree weather to spend 2 hours outside in the cold watching the meteor shower with Adam, JoLynn, Jason, and Keaton.
-Saw Blade 3 with Jason and Keaton
-Saw Oceans 12 with Keaton
-Sent my Fazed Xmas Gift Exchange Present to *swoon* the_big_wiggle
-Sat and chilled to some Sinatra
-Baked chocolate chip cookies

The things I did since the last time I posted that were not so awesome:

-

..wait, everything I do is awesome.

The things I have yet to do this weekend which will also be awesome:

-See the Girls +1
-Hang out with the Girls +1
-Take the Girls +1 out for dessert and talk about bunnies and menstruation
-Make out with one of The Girls
-Dance around in my pajamas to The Clash *rocks the casbah rocks the casbah*
-Get totally shitfaced and hug everyone
-Shello Jots!
-Maybe finally get to see my hero Andrea again (NERSHER!)
-Dinner at Cinzetti's Saturday at 7pm to witness Megan buying a drink
-Make the perfect Tanqueray & Tonic
-Buy Modest Mouse tickets Saturday
-Finally go get my freaking mail
-Wake up with Jason's dog Sonja in a compromising position
-Have another awesome weekend where I feel that everything is perfect in life.

Posted by Courtney at 07:31 PM | Comments (0)

December 13, 2004

foam wonder.

If anyone ever wants to know why I moved to Kansas City out of nowhere for seemingly no reason, I have an answer for you.

This is why I moved to Kansas City.

I hope Adam doesn't mind :)

Posted by Courtney at 12:47 PM | Comments (4)

December 10, 2004

Sleep.

So this whole past week I've broke myself from caffeine. My shift at worked changed about a month ago to starting 2 hours earlier, yet, I was still stuck on my "stay-up-on-irc-or-go-hang-at-scott's-until-2am" sleep schedule. I got sick of feeling dead every single day so I just up and cut the caffeine out completely. Aside from a minor mishap at Hooter's Tuesday when I forgot what I was doing when it came time for me to order my drink, I've been without every day this week.

Also, come 11:30, if I'm not already in bed asleep, I'm walking towards it. So far getting to sleep at a decent time has been easy as hell. I'm also hearing my alarm every morning again instead of Keaton and I both having to set one. Now if only I could figure out how to stop waking up at 2...and 2:30...and 3...and again at 4:10 (always 4:10, no matter what) and again at 5:30...and at 6...

There's word of a Megan, Emily and Amy invasion next weekend. Let's hope the weather holds out for it. I need my girls back.

Posted by Courtney at 07:43 AM | Comments (0)

December 09, 2004

Silence.

If I never said it before, thanks for the beer.

I really feel the urge to go to Dallas now. I happened to be passing through after Dave Williams passed and the day of his memorial and I wished I could have stopped. The Pantera machine shaped my mind when I first started to get into music promotion those 5 years ago. Their manager has always been my personal inspiration. But why did your brother have to watch you die? I wish I could explain how this upsets me so much, but, I just can't. I just wish I could be in Dallas for this.

Posted by Courtney at 12:44 PM | Comments (0)

December 08, 2004

tea lights

Give a Courtney a Sanyo 8200 camera phone and an open bar at Deer Creek and what do you get?

Really bad low res pictures of the water goblets, Keaton's amaretto sours, my empty gin and tonics and partially empty glass of champagne.


Posted by Courtney at 10:37 PM | Comments (0)

Past, Present and Past

So, after Movable Type encountered somewhere around 700 spam comments and since mt-blacklist always dies when I try to update I decided to go hardcore this weekend on spam comment removal. I went back through each post on this site individually and deleted all the spam comments mt-blacklist didn't delete (somewhere over 300) and lock each old post for comments. I spent a good 4 hours sitting here going through post by post, validating the real comments from the spam, and then locking the old entries for good. In the process, I got to read every one of my previous posts and all of the comments attached.

This version of the site has been around since June 28, 2003. The site was around before that, looking absolutely the same, had first used blogger during intial building but mainly used an asp CMS programmed by Greg. Coincidentally, the 28th of June was the day I had to be out of the house I shared with Greg, Travis and Keaton. It was the start of my life living with just Keaton. I have the previous db of posts on here, and it appears the earliest one on it is dated 8/12/2002.

Of course, there was effeminate-swank.com before this, which I wrote on from 6/2001 until 1/2004 with my friends from high school. Before that there was my lovely angelfire.com/ok2/ page which I kept as a blog type thing from mid 1999 until I got effeminate-swank. While it is no longer there, references and links to it remain so I'm not going to tell you the name I used on it. Then again, there's always my livejournal which I've had since 10/2000, but that's a completely different teen angst filled story. And before someone in the comments goes there, yes, I have a xanga account, but I don't post there and it's only to comment. Alas.

I've been attentionwhoring for over 2 years now and I didn't even know it. Attentionwhore.org really started around the time I moved to Tulsa and in with Bryan. I was making my own money, I was staying out all sorts of weird hours, and I finally got a job. For the first time I had friends who I could just hang out and drink and watch tv with and just be. It was a different time for all of us there; Eric had just started his divorce, Collen had just returned to Tulsa, Amie had just decided to come out with not wanting to be Rex, Bryan had really come out of his shell and with myself having just moved. We were an interesting bunch to say the lease, especially with a couple rum and cokes or bud light in us. That summer things were fun and simple.

Eventually I moved out of Bryans, and in with Keaton and Travis, and then we in turn moved in with Greg. And then one large party later I'm alone with Keaton. And such has it been. Going back through my posts amaze me at how different my life is. It's more than a little interesting to see a post from 2 years ago that I presumably wrote in the townhome next to my current residence without any knowledge at all that I would be here so close in the now, and it would be home.

The angsty song lyrics, the stories of friends getting married, the almighty FUCK YOU list, the death, the life, the everything. It's been 2 fucking very long years, and I'm in the same place just in a different location.

If that makes sense to anyone.

I'm not even sure if I'm really far off from where I was when I started keeping up this stuff in 99. The only thing different are the names. Luckily, one by one all the old names are popping back into my life. we'll see how that one worked out.

But anyways, from now on, commenting is only allowed on the posts detailed on the main page. Once a post has moved from the main page it is locked and this will indefinitely take care of the spam commenting problem. With as long as it takes me to update there should be no need to comment after that.

And now, time to reflect and hate the the fact that I broke down and had caffeine tonight and am still awake.

PS. Official birthday countdown now on the left side underneath the search.

Posted by Courtney at 12:51 AM | Comments (6)

December 04, 2004

Broken Cement

Dear crack in JoLynn's sidewalk,

I am very confused. What did I ever do to hurt you, because I'm sorry. What did I do to make you hate me and to make you so violent and abusive towards me?

I had already ran across you a couple times politely yesterday, why then did you feel the need to attack me as I was going home?

I was just trying to get back to my car so I could go home. Yet, the minute I stepped down near you, you felt the need to grab the heel of my shoe and knock me over. Did you have to do it in front of Jason and Scott as well?

I'm very thankful that you decided to degrade my knee without ripping my brand new, specially altered, comfortable as all hell Banana Republic jeans. If that would have happened I don't think I would ever be able to forgive you.

But why did you have to do it 2 nights before Keaton's company Christmas party? One of the two times this year I'm wearing a dress and will have my knees exposed to the world and you decide to mutilate me. You bitch.

Mark my words broken cement, there will be revenge, yes, there will be revenge and it will be mine.


Posted by Courtney at 08:01 PM | Comments (7)

December 03, 2004

vanity.

Is it bad that when I see a referral to my site from Tony's Kansas City that I spend 10 minutes trying to search all over the site to see where it came from?

Btw...97 days, and a few minutes.

/me goes back to checking refer links

Posted by Courtney at 11:38 PM | Comments (1)

December 01, 2004

100000000000000000

100 Days.

Ok, I just can't do the things I want with my precious little cavalier. I need an older car. Like...a 98 Honda.

Anyone have any suggestions on where to go? We're definitely looking at the under $9000 range here. It just has to get me 2 miles to work. That's all I ask of it.

Oh yeah, and who wants to cosign for a loan? hahahaha. God, I kill me.

Posted by Courtney at 12:27 AM | Comments (13)