so i’m sure that some, if not most of you know about or have heard the song my humps by the black eyed peas. now.. the song is.. well.. interesting… and not very deep. (in case you haven’t noticed) and when i first heard it on the radio.. i was actually surprised that they could play that on the radio. but that’s beside the point.
well… this has got to be the funniest remake… ever.
alanis morissette just went up a couple notches in my ‘favorite artist’ category. 
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well i’m back home now. the mini-vacation was super fun… and had some great.. and interesting… highlights.
first off… it was super fun to hang out with michele’s sister.. as well as meet her brother in law, and a good close friend from michele’s high school years. we were all pretty lazy … we didn’t do a whole lot.. played some music… ate…. watched movies… ate some more… etc. i even had the chance to meet up with one of my friends through youth encounter, and fellow nerd, dana… since she’s going to school just north of where i was.
oh, and the flight back was a very.. interesting.. one. first off.. i had my djembe with me… and on the way to norfolk… i hand checked the drum at the gate. and that worked out just fine. then on the flight back.. i was picking up a “gate check” tag… and the lady taking the boarding passes said “you won’t need one of those.. that will fit in the overhead storage” .. “really? uhh.. ok.” well.. it turns out that she lied. (she probably thought that it would ‘smoosh’… but it’s solid wood… so it’s not ‘smooshing’ anytime soon. the flight attendants also asked “does it smoosh”… “uhh.. i hope not. it’s a tree” there were also other musicians on the plane.. so that was kinda fun. one lady even knew that it was a djembe and not a “bongo” (which the attendants kept calling it). since the flight wasn’t full.. the flight attendants put the drum in it’s own seat and buckled it in… they were so excited about having a musical instrument on the plane.. they recommended the name “burt” for the drum.. and also mentioned the idea of doing a “conga line.” even the pilot got into the game and announced over the loud speaker that the ‘flight attendants are very musical.. so if anyone has any… musical instruments… they should play them’. but the best part was when one of the flight attendants approached me with the idea of playing the djembe while everyone de-planed. so i moved to the back row where “burt” was sitting… and the head attendant announced over the loud speaker before we landed that “we have a very special passenger… burt, the djembe drum… and tracy, who will be playing the djembe while we de-plane.”
so now i can check off the airplane for places i’ve performed…
anyways.. enough typing. here’s some pictures of my trip. i’ll work on getting the rest online and at picturequeen.com sometime later this week.
this was a forward that michele sent to me yesterday. these are actual student exam questions… and they’re hilarious. here’s my favorites:
ok. that’s all. i’m gonna go eat lunch now.
in celebration for surviving the “doing my taxes” experience i had for several hours yesterday… i got a new toy…
(that would be a samsung 800W, 5 disk DVD player/surround sound theatre system)
and there’s a funny story about this new toy. at around noon-thirty, i decided it would be a good time to start my day… showered… and headed out to best buy around 2ish to take a look at some dvd/home theater systems.. since mine has been on it’s way out for the past couple years… and lately has gotten exponentially more annoying with all it’s “problems.” i ended up buying an open box version of the above model. i get it home… take it out of the box.. there’s no speaker cables… no antenna… and i need AAA batteries. *sigh* ok. trip to radio shack down the street. i spend a good chunk of time cutting wires, striping the ends, and taping them to the walls/floors so people don’t trip on them. plug in the system and play some stuff from my computer. it sounds pretty darn nice.
so now it’s sometime around 6pm.. and i decide… “hey.. lets just try a cd on this thing to see how much better that sounds”
disk error: no disk
.. uhh.. yes there is. *tries another cd*
no disk.
ARRRGG! *tries a dvd*
no disk
YES THERE IS! actually there’s THREE disks you dumb inanimate object!
*calls samsung*
“what’s the problem”
(i explain the problem and detailed steps in which i took to come to my conclusion of “it’s broken”)
“hmm. that’s weird. when did you get it?”
“about three hours ago”
“yea.. i’d take it back”
“oh. btw. are these supposed to come with speaker cables?”
“yep”
“ok. thanks”
it’s now around 6:38pm. best buy is open until 7pm on sundays. i work full time, and wouldn’t be able to take it back to best buy till wednesday. that’s just not going to fly with me.
*tears down surround sound system in record time, puts everything in the box, RUNS to put the system in her car.. and white knuckles it to fox point*
*arrives at best buy at 6:58pm*
at this point i’m pretty much RUNNING with this 30-some-odd pound box… never mind the fact that it’s freezing rain and i’m the biggest clutz in the world.. i’m on a mission!
so basically i get a brand new one of the above model… and this time i can use this coupon that i had gotten in the mail.. so i get around $35 credit back to my credit card. w00t.
now i’m just sitting on my couch relaxing from setting up this surround sound system TWICE… but at least i have a working dvd player now. and that makes me happy.
(and now for something completely unrelated) nikkiana posted a link to this movie on youtube.. and it’s hilarious.. go watch.
that’s all. i’m gonna go use my new toy now.
milwaukee is a funny city. within the ‘greater milwaukee’ area (suburbs included) there’s around one and a half million people here in milwaukee. yet it feels like a small town the more and more i live here.
example 1: today, i decide, i’m gonna go to noodles & company for lunch. i order my food ‘to go’… i’m standing around reading the latest MKE… and i hear.. “tracy?” sure enough. i run into two friends, kristin and meghan on their lunch break.
example 2: yesterday, on my day off… i celebrated my ‘president’s day’ by doing laundry and running errands. i’m at wall-mart to pick up a gym bag, and i run into my friend cheryl that i hadn’t seen in forever.
and lastly… these above examples are not rare at all… things like this happen at least once or twice a week. it’s kinda scary. but all a reason why i love this little “big” town of milwaukee
random subject change: so all you people who wanted a mix cd and gave me your address.. they are on their way.
random fact of the day: it’s cheaper to send two cds to south africa than sending the same two cds to danmark. (by a whopping $0.20 )
random randomness:
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and i’m a youtube addict.
but seriously.. i know i can’t be alone. why do we need tv anymore? between youtube, myspace video and google video… you can find pretty much anything you would ever want on the internet. i even found a whole episode of ‘ellen’.. which i think everyone needs to watch. (it’s broken up into three parts: one, two and three) it really shows how much discrimination is still in the world.. but puts it in a funny way to think about. so go watch that.. i’m gonna go make some pizza. *waves*
my depth perception is WAAAY off today. i was drinking a shake this morning before work.. and hit the edge of the cup with my teeth not just once.. but THREE times in a row. then i was putting it in the sink.. and hit it against the side of the sink. i was pouring soda into a glass of ice here at work.. and dumped the soda ALL over my desk. i just was putting my headphones in my ears and punched myself in the face. AND IT’S NOT EVEN 10 AM.
i give up. i should remain seated to avoid hurting myself.
