Hodown's Journal

09/23/2008 17:56 #45775

Friend Probation

I created friend probation in the early 90's as a punishment for Paul who frequently was naughty (and not in the good way). So when he chose to be bad, I'd put him on friend probation. This would consist of a variety of ways that I could torture him (not talking to him the entire way back from Toronto while pouting, not cooking for him when he was hungry, making him snuggle, etc..) until he'd beg for forgiveness and I'd allow him back into my good graces.

The 90s ended and somewhere along the way Paul realized I wasn't actually the boss and he turned the tables on me. Now I'm on friend probation. Since Paul is the one person in the world who knows every dirty secret (and some of the are quite dirty) I now have to beg for his forgiveness to get back in his good graces.

Now I present to you my case as to why I shouldn't be on friend probation:

Missing Image ;(

Let's end the madness. Seriously Paul, seriously..

tinypliny - 09/24/08 07:42
Man... one of my friends does this friend probation silent treatment thing a lot. I hate it. :/

09/23/2008 09:32 #45768

Banana Bread

Last night I decided to bake. I'd never made homemade banana bread before and decided to finally put the bananas in my freezer to good use.

I looked up a couple of recipes and didn't like any of them, so I took bits and pieces from each and improvised. I added bran, flax, and used whole wheat flour. Everything was organic. After 55 minutes in the oven I added honey and brown sugar.

Behold what i created:

I'm not gonna lie. I'm kinda a baking genius (only when it comes to banana bread). And yes it tastes as good as it looks. After eating a piece I packed the rest up and brought it into the office. So far I'm a pretty popular gal this morning..

Update: The bread was a smashing success!! It's all gone!

libertad - 12/09/08 15:29
I'm thinking of making this or something like it for my clients for the holidays. Is there a recipe to this or is there a place I can find recipes that are all organic?

tinypliny - 09/23/08 16:14
HEY!! WHERE is the recipe? Hmmm?

09/22/2008 13:21 #45757

My new obsession

Mad Men. The writing and character development is so amazing. And visually it's stunning. It helps that it also includes my one true love Manhattan.

Also included:

sex (often in the form of tawdry affairs)

alcohol (either straight up in highball glasses or charming cocktails that my grandparents drank)

smoking (it's gross, but I kinda love it after a drink or sex). So yeah it's awesome.

That being said it also includes my newest girl crush.
She's everything I want to be:

tinypliny - 09/22/08 20:30
She looks like my friend at Roswell. A lot. Too much, in fact.

heidi - 09/22/08 18:41
Oh, I forgot to add that the show is actually good. Great character development as well as excellent design.

heidi - 09/22/08 18:39
Yeah, she's gorgeous. Is it possible to have a real life bra like that??

hodown - 09/22/08 17:12
See not even you Mr. Jason can resist the lure of hot Joan (her name on the show).

It's on AMC (who knew?)but you can get season 1 through netflix and season 2 through itunes. Not sure about HD. I'm kinda a luddite when it comes to TVs.

Re: Scientology. I don't want to even know. It'll make me sad. My guess is either The lead male (Don Hamm or something) or his wife January/Betty..

jason - 09/22/08 17:08
Hmm. You know what, I'm warming up to Miss Redhead here. She is a pretty girl. She isn't a scientologist, but another cast member is! I'm not telling which one.

Oh, and what channel is the show on? Is it on in HD?

hodown - 09/22/08 16:54
I totally understand not her not being your type- but I'm still totally in love with her.

However the seediness- YES!

I agree re: things being the same. I mean to a certain extend the sexism was more blantent then. It's more understated now- but it's still there. And for the record I'm all for it if it helps me get ahead aka sleeping my way to the top..

jason - 09/22/08 16:15
Hmm, interesting show. I really couldn't care less about the design aspect of it, or for the design aspect of much of anything else really. I also don't particularly care for this redhead you've posted for us, just not my type. She's probably a Scientologist anyway.

However, the dirty seediness of it sounds exciting. Booze, cigarettes and affairs? Count me in! I wish these meddling government pussies would let me smoke at the desk and mind their own beeswax. A guy's got to relieve some stress!

Interesting how the series creator apparently wrote about the "difference" between that time and now. Depending on who you ask, America is 110% the same. One similarity I do notice, a guy can easily get away with being a womanizer if he's got the right bank account and connections.

matthew - 09/22/08 15:24
I've never seen the show before, but I did see her last night on the Emmys in an amazing emerald dress and thought "who IS that?".

matthew - 09/22/08 15:21
she is so pretty.

james - 09/22/08 14:47
Me too.

jim - 09/22/08 14:21
I keep meaning to check this out, I hear nothing but good things.

09/19/2008 11:58 #45729

Maybe it's time for AA?

It's not yet noon and people in my office are making happy hour plans.

Of course I agreed to go. I figure now that I'm single and in my cougar years I should be on the prowl.

tinypliny - 09/19/08 20:00
What is a cougar year? Like if you are 30, its 75 in cougar years?

paul - 09/19/08 13:59
You are in not in your cougar years, lol. Jesus, how old do you think we are.

jason - 09/19/08 13:23
Sheeit, I thought about what I want to drink today WELL before noon.

09/18/2008 12:05 #45724

Penthouse

I'm posting this picture because it may be the one and only time there is ever a picture that invloves a penthouse and myself together in the same place.

hodown - 09/18/08 21:44
I totally agree the penthouse was less than i expected. it was kinda just a large apartment with great views- not as fancy as youd think. to top it off it was a dude apartment and had like NO furniture..

tinypliny - 09/18/08 20:53
And you look awesome BTW. :)

wolf whistle wolf whistle*

tinypliny - 09/18/08 20:48
Yeah, I agree with (e:metalpeter), you could as well have been standing in your own house! We want more solid evidence, missy!

metalpeter - 09/18/08 20:25
I have never been in Penthouse or in a penthouse. What I read somewhere is that they don't have to be huge and fancy all the time they just have to be the top floor of a building. Hope it was a great time. If you didn't tell us it was a penthouse there would be no way to tell from this picture.

hodown - 09/18/08 17:21
PS Why does every post I ever make contain a typo?

hodown - 09/18/08 17:21
You know I thought about that after I posted this. It was more Penthouse the apartment and less Penthouse the nudie magazine. Everyone kept their clothes on despite the amount of wine and rum we consumed (FYI- don't mis the two it's gross).

matthew - 09/18/08 17:13
Like penthouse the nudie mag?