Category Archives: Humdrum

Final SWAGG giveaway. WAHOO!

By nopasanada | Published: January 3, 2011

This is a sponsored post by SWAGG and The b-Link

Last sponsored post. Swearsies. I’ll be back to my regularly scheduled, story telling, hangover complaining self in a few. And boy o’ boy do I have some fun in store for you all.

The holidays are over. This I know and it is only now that I have started to listen to the Glee Cast Holiday Station on Pandora. Because after the holidays are over it’s easy to find the time to be excited about them. Am I right or am I right? So the holidays are over and now you are like me and you have a bazillion gift cards in your grubby little hands. And my oh my, you are a happy person because now you can buy what you really want instead of giving a pained smile to your Aunt Tilly for the ugly sweater from Walmart. Life is good. Right?

This is the last chance for the SWAGG gift card where you will get $50 from SWAGG for doing your own shopping which is my favorite kind of shopping. I’m not an entirely awful person to get gifts for it’s just that I already have a running list of things I need and want and so if I’m ever asked what I would like for Christmas/Birthday/Arbor Day it’s usually a gift card. I am so THAT person. Should I apologize? Also I often wonder where others stand: Gift cards or no gift cards. What say you?

This last contest goes until Wednesday morning at 7 AM and then that’s over and done with. G’luck!

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What happened to the baby?

By nopasanada | Published: December 17, 2010

“We’ve had bad luck with our kids – they’ve all grown up.” ~Christopher Morley

This:

Is now a real life person (seen here but decidedly less blurry in the flesh and is cute but way cuter when I’m not playing around with the ShakeItPhoto app) who charms the pants off of passersby and throws his cars to the floor only to look back at you with that cute little face and say “Where did the cars go?” with a shrug for dramatic purposes. And I’m all, “Where did the baby go?!” and look at his mother who says, “there there, Feather.”

And I am totally going to be that mom who clutches a hanky while waving by to her babies. Her babies who aren’t really babies but are actually 18 and headed off to college yet there I will be wailing buckets wondering where the time went, possibly humming ‘Sunrise, Sunset’ while my kid rolls her eyes and runs away. You know, THAT mom.

By the way, you still have time to enter the SWAGG giveaway. Did I mention that with each download of the app, SWAGG will give $1 to Stand Up To Cancer?

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Learning how to Dougie

By nopasanada | Published: December 13, 2010

“There are short-cuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them.” ~Vicki Baum

My very favorite thing to do while at an event with a dance floor is the Cupid Shuffle. Seriously, nothing makes me happier than a floor full of people. It’s like my private flash mob. Earlier this year I caught the Dougie bug and since then Cali Swag District has been my go to, dance in the car music. Complete with shoulder popping and hip moving at a redlight. Oh yes, I am that woman. I found these videos via The Root yesterday and for the past 24 hours I’ve been teaching myself how to Dougie. I figure if Wolf Blitzer can do it with as much rythym as Janet Jackson’s nation then I can to. Next time I’m out remind me to do a little swagger. I promise not to disappoint.

Barbara Walters Dougies.

Wolf Blitzer does it, too.

The official video by Cali Swag District

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Oh HI HI HI

By nopasanada | Published: October 7, 2010

“This coffee falls into your stomach, and straightway there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move like the battalions of the Grand Army of the battlefield, and the battle takes place. Things remembered arrive at full gallop, ensuing to the wind. The light cavalry of comparisons deliver a magnificent deploying charge, the artillery of logic hurry up with their train and ammunition, the shafts of with start up like sharpshooters. Similes arise, the paper is covered with ink; for the struggle commences and is concluded with torrents of black water, just as a battle with powder.” ~Honore de Balzac, “The Pleasures and Pains of Coffee”

A few months ago I was having some serious issues and upon mentioning this to Susan she gave me some helpful suggestions. One of which was that if she ends up awake at 3:30 AM and doesn’t get back to sleep within 20 minutes she just gets up for the day because 3:30 AM is so close to 5 AM, so why the hell not be up before the sun? And chickens.

Then I hung up and told her that perhaps she should stop with the all that chardonnay because it’s not only hurting her liver but also her brain. Because 3:30 AM is inappropriate for almost anything. Unless you’re 19 and you have a 20 page paper on Adam Smith and widgets and shit due the next morning and really? Who cares about widgets? Fucking capitalism.

Fast forward to this morning when I was WIDE awake at 3 AM. 3 AM 3 AM 3 AM! I was up and at ‘em at 4 AM. Then I cleaned my microwave, the top of the stove and all the cat’s dishes and made a cup of coffee. And since I was already at it, I baked a motherfucking pie. Ok, I didn’t do that last part but OMFG, I’ve had four cups of coffee. Four. Four. Four. SO HIIIII. And Good Morning, you lovely people. How’d you sleep? Are your eyelids permanently open? Have you managed to stop blinking? Because I’m pretty sure I have.

Also HI! Oh and a story:

My dad really loves three things: the Chicago Bears (I don’t get it either), his kids (there are four of us) and golf. He really cannot stand one thing: the Giants. Oh, he loathes the Giants. Actually he loathes the entire Manning family and once told me that if the mom played football, he’d hate her too.

This past Sunday da Bears played the Giants. It’s only week four but so far my Giants totally suck. So that’s been enjoyable. My father and I do some trash talking on Sunday and then we both go on with our day. And then the Giants managed to beat the ever-loving shit out of two of their three Quarterbacks. There’s nothing quite as sexy as a good sack. Then the Giants won. Yay.

The following morning one of my father’s awful, depraved children who also cannot fathom liking the Bears, taped this up to his front door:

Kids are assholes. The end.

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Housekeeping and Happiness

By nopasanada | Published: September 28, 2010

“Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place. But there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.” ~E.L. Konigsburg

First a bit of housekeeping; the winner of a *signed* copy of Half Baked by Ms. Alexa Stevenson is lucky number 10: Amber Please email me your address at NoPasaNadablog@gmail.com so I can get your prize to you.

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Now to the happiness.

You all, I had the most glorious weekend. It needs to be written about over at Poliogue but it was awesome and inspiring and I totally geeked out when the political director of ABC news came to give me a hug. I ended up leaving the inaugural AMP Summit with a giant smile on my face and projects under my belt. Because of Julie and Joanne I feel ready to do something great. It’s a feeling I haven’t had in quite some time. Though I’ve been saying it here a lot; I can feel that something good is coming. And this past weekend The Good fell into my lap. It jump started and renewed my belief that I do, in fact, have something to offer. You know what I’m talking about, right? When you feel kind of ‘blah’ about things. And nothing seems to go well and you feel like a failure. That’s how I’ve been feeling about many o’ things but I feel better and ready to take on the world. Or as Joanne said, we have a conspiracy and we’re about to build an empire. I cannot wait to share with you more about AMP or about our plans but for now I have work and fundraisers and midterms to think about and clothing to purchase because my ass has expanded. Those are my priorities.