Seriously Kashi...what the fuck?

So, a few weeks ago, I was wondering around the local food mart, looking for tatsy frozen dinners to enjoy, and this lovely green and white box caught my eye. It was one of those new-fangled Kashi meals, and let me tell you, it sure looked tasty. It boasted "Chicken marinated with lemon and rosemary, grilled then sliced. Served with baby Portobello mushrooms and sugar snap peas over our Kashi® 7 Whole Grains Pilaf, and topped with lemon rosemary sauce." I mean damn, I'm not made of stone here, who was I to resist? I likes chicken. I likes lemon rosemary sauce. So, needless to say, I popped that sweet-looking box into my basket, and ultimately into my freezer at home. As I stated before, it had been a few weeks since I bought that sucker, so when I opened the freezer this evening, you can imagine my glee at finding it again. "Oooooo!", I says, then I stuck it in the microwave, and waited for the goodness to be ready to eat. I should have known by the smell that I was going to be less than pleased. It kinda stunk like feet when it came out of the microwave, but it still looked good, so I decided to give it a try. Inedible. I mean, in-freakin'-edible. I think they ground up trolls with mustache clippings to make the sauce. And what was with all those crazy-ass mushrooms, man? I was prepared for some mushrooms, but not a plethora of them! I was promised "some", damnit! In. Edible. Period. I had to throw that shit out after 2 bites...now what am I to do about dinner? Fuck! Now I'm all hungry, pissed-off, and dinner-less (shakes fist!). Man, if you see that Kashi in the food mart, just walk on by. I know she's fine and all, and she says all the shit you want to hear, like "fresh", and "organic", but just smile and nod, then go back to good ole Lean Cuisine. Now that's a brand who knows how to keep me satisfied. Sure, it get's a little dull having the same ole, same ole all the time, but I tell you what, the grass ain't greener on the Kashi side. It;s actually significantly less green...and it smells like a foot. That Kashi is one nasty-ass bitch, I got to loose her number.

Shit I'm Thankful for

Hello, my many spendid pets. It's that time of year where we all take a moment and reflect on what we are thankful for. Not even Blogda is immune to this tradition, even though she is kind of an iconoclast. So, without further ado, here's my list of shit I am thankful for:

1.) My office lets people bring their dogs to work. It is physically impossible to be unhappy when there's puppies around you, it's a scientific fact. Look it up. Puppies are neat.

2.) The color Kelly Green (also known as Emerald Green). I look so kickass in this color, I have to ration out the times that I wear it so as not to blind my neighbors with my glory.

3.) The Family Guy. Every episode is full of at least 3 laugh-out-loud moments. It's rare these days for a show to be as consistently fantastic as TFG has been, so I salute you, creators of TFG. Huzzah to you, good people!

4.) Cookies. God damn, cookies are delicious. I fucking love cookies. Period. If you don't at least like cookies, you must hate yourself.

5.) My Dad's health. Yeah, I had to get all sentimental and shit at least once, right? But seriously, the Old Man almost died a few times in the last 2 years, so the fact that he is so healthy and strong today is nothing short of miraculous. I am truly thankful that my Pop is a tough old bastard.

6.) All my cool-ass work buddies. Now, it's easy to fall into a routine with your work buddies, and kinda of take for granted that they'll always be there to make you laugh and open your hard-to-open jars for you, but take it from me, they may not be around for ever! Enjoy them while you can, and maybe bring them a nice sandwich now and again. Nothing fancy, maybe just a nice turkey sandwich with a little Swiss cheese and a nice mustard. And maybe a pickle. And some chips. And a cookie. Yeah, a cookie would be a nice way to top that off. Shit. Now I want a sandwich.

The list goes on, I assure you, but I think this is a good start. Have a happy and joyous Thanksgiving, my friends, and maybe bring me a sandwich sometime.

Respect the office

So, I was pursuing ye olde CNN.com this afternoon, and a little article called “Things you should never do at work” caught my eye (cause I was at work, and I didn’t want to be doing something that I should never do, see?). I start reading that sucker, and the first 8 or so things where pretty conventional: don’t steal shit, don’t lie about shit, don’t play hooky, blah, blah, blah. Then, I get down to the last item, and it was fantastic! “Do NOT hit on your boss”. No foolin’? I thought I might get that raise if I gave up a little of the strange to my boss. What jackass is out there, right now, looking at his/her boss, thinking “I want to tap that, and I think it would be 100% appropriate for me to act on this impulse. I bet he/she would be receptive to this tact.” Seriously, do we actually need these basic-ass rules in this day and age? Do we need to be told not to dress in tube-tops and hooker boots? Or not to steal shit? Come on now people, this is the 21st century. Mama raised us right; we do NOT need this kind of elementary reminders. And if you do, I shake my finger at you, you laggard!

Nursing program, my Aunt Fanny!

So, I checked my junk email bin on Yahoo Mail this afternoon, and it was chocked-full of ads trying to get me to sign up for some nursing program. They obviously don’t know with whom they are messing. I would be such a piss-poor nurse, it’s retarded. Sure, I could be a nurse, I got the smarts and stuff, and I am an empathetic caregiver and all, but only with the very few people that I actually like. Everyone else can suck it. I hate people, in general. People are dumb. People are whiny. People are filthy and sticky and smelly…oh my! I have no time to put up with “people.” If you need me to fluff your pillows, wipes your drool-speckled chin and spoon-feed most excellent chicken soup (what’s made from a real chicken!), I better straight-up love your ass, otherwise, you’re screwed. And not in the sexy-goodtimes kinda way. Nursing program…(shakes head).

You had better bring the chivalry

Let's start this off by saying that on the whole, I'm a strong modern girl of the new millennium. I support myself, I can buy your ass some dinner, and I can open my own jars. But just because I CAN do all of that, doesn't mean you fellas are off the hook. I am a lady, and hence, I expect to be treated with a few dignities. I'm talking basic etiquette shit here. For instance: if you are waiting for the elevator, don't try to rush in the second the door opens. If you do that, then I can't get off the elevator, so you've done nothing but complicate matters by your hasty actions. Which is just rude. Seriously man, wait a few moments to let us elevator patrons of the damn car, then you can pick whatever standing spot you want, and you can easily press your floor button without all of our bodies in your way. See, everyone wins this way. Your way just results in me shoulder checking your dumbass on my way out while I say, rather loudly, "EXCUSE ME". And if you really piss me off, I'm throwin' elbows too. Big, messy elbows that rattle your teeth. And another thing, hold the damn door open as your walking through it. I am talking to you, door-slammers! How hard is it to just pause a moment and keep the door open for a lady? About as hard as a geriatric man's wang, that's how hard. Yeah...that was gross...sorry about that. I just get all worked up when I think about all those doo doo bags who clearly see me coming, laden with bags and laptops and beverages and the like, then oh so casually allow he door to slam shut right on my mug. My stars! What kind of person treats a lady in such a fashion? A sorry sack of hobo turds, that's who. An no one wants to hang out with a sorry sack of hobo turds, no matter what your mother might have told you. And you certainly ain't gonna get to see my cookie place behaving like that! Moral of the story, if you see me, you better recognize, and you better bring the chivalry.

So, I work/live in Dallas, right near Medical City hosiptal, which happens to be right next to a section of White Rock creek. Which is nice and pretty, so I enjoy it thoroughly. But dang, last Monday, it rained about 5 inches in a matter of hours, and that sucker flooded like balls! Seriously, like balls! A whole soccer field was underwater, as was the street I usually use to drive to and from the office. Most inconvientent, but rather fascinating at the same time, so I took pictures of it. And they are rad, so enjoy them as you would a balmy spring day.

Sometimes the most terrifying thing is one's own self...

Man oh man, something funny happened last night. So, I live in a house of cat extremes: I have one cat who is inordinately large, and one cat who is inordinately small. I call them "The Fat Man" and "Tiny" (their real names are Flea and Clementine, but real names are for squares).The Fat Man is a solid 20 pounds of pure fantastic-ness, while my little cat Tiny is 7 pounds of wicked adorable-ness, and she has the littlest cat feet ever. She's so cute and sweet, it's impossible to take her seriously when she's mad.It's like when a little kid gets all mad and starts acting tough. So, when she hisses at people, they pretty much giggle and point, then go about their business completely unaffected by the altercation. And when she gets super mad, she puffs-out her tail to tremendous proportions (she's a short-haired cat), and walks sideways like a crab...it's fucking awesome, but hardly intimidating.

So, last night, I'm watching me some TV, as I am known to do, and I hear my little cat growling at something, then I hear some loud knocking sounds. I get's up, and wander over to the general area of the noise, and I see my little cat, all puffy-tailed and hissing, batting at her own reflection in the back door. And she was really going at it. Full on hitting and growling, like the reflection just talked smack about her Mama or something. Anyway, it was damn funny, and I enjoyed it thoroughly. Classic pet humor, realized in my living room, much to my delight.

Enough with the sucker punching!

Yeah, I hit myself in the face with my laptop this afternoon. No reason, it's not like I didn't listen to myself or something, and I certainly wasn't sassing myself, so I didn't deserve a beating, I just got karmicly unlucky I guess. See, I was trying to get out of this big-ass bean bag chair in this meeting room we have at work, and I wore a dress to work today, so getting out of said beanbag chair gracefully was *challenging*. I managed to keep my knees locked together, so no one got the pleasure of seeing my cookie place, but in an effort to stay chaste, I lost track of where my damned ole computer was. So, here I am, thinking I'm all kinds of fly cause I swung myself out of that beanbag chair in such a way that Jane Austen would have reveared and cannonized, then I cold-cocked myself in the left eye with my Think Pad. Fucking IBM and their "Think Pads", always trying to keep a sister down. Anyway, I got a red mark and a bruise, but it's cool. I'm gonna tell people I'm been prize fighting again, that way folks will think I'm tough, but mysterious.

I would like a slice of your finest cock...I mean CAKE!

Me and my pal Siler went to lunch at Cindy's deli last week, and boy howdy, it was tasty! Cindy's is a lovely little anachronism located right next to the Casket Store at 75 and Royal Lane (you've seen the Casket Store, don't act like you haven't...it's HUGE, how could you not have seen it...don't be embarrassed, I won't think you're weird for noticing it). Anyway, Cindy's is this big-ass NY Style Deli joint with maroon boths, fantastic pastel art and about a million old people, and they still have an actively populated smoking section, cause they old school. All of their waitresses are salty broads who make you feel uncomfortable, but you also kind of feel like you deserve it, so it's okay. If you feel like a samich or perhaps a nice breakfast item, Cindy's is your joint. Even if you want one of them weirdo samiches like "tongue" or "lox", Cindy's has got your freaky-ass covered. Plus, they have this great section of bakery-fresh goods. Bagels...check, danishes...check, cookies....check. Shit man, it's all there. Baklava...check. So, me and Siler is all done eating, so we goes to the front to pay the bill, right. See, the cashier is right next to the bakery display area, and this being Siler's first time, I wasn't surprised when she wondered off to check out the delicious wares. She's gone a few minutes, then she comes back over to me, all giggling and shit. The she say's "you got to check this out..." So I walks over there, and I see the cake displays, and I think "wow, those cakes look grand! I wish I had a whole cake, I'd eat the hell outta that cake...mmmmm...cake". Then Siler points to this one cake in particular, and I'm like, "okay, that's a nice carrot cake...what's so funny abo.....OH SNAP!" The cake looked to be decorated with a whole bunch of wangs...complete with balls. Cock Cake! It. Was. Awesome. So awesome, I took a picture of it with ye olde camera phone. Enjoy!

Look at this creepy cat

I'm having a bad day, so I went to a stock photography site and looked at pictures of cats to cheer me up. This one was escpecially funny.

With Excellent Cow Leather

Now, I'm not a very fancy gal, but I like me some sparkly shoes every now and then. And come on, who doesn't. Communists...that's who. Anyway, to me, when one is looking to buy some snazzy, sparkly shoes, nothing quite compares to those beaded, flea market flats you can get for 10-20 bucks. Dang, they're purdy! And they come in almost every color of the rainbow, which is gear, fab and all that. Cause I like to mix it up a bit: black shirt, blue jeans, RED beaded-flea-market-shoes! Pow! It's like style just kicked you in the gooch, and you liked it. So here's the deal, I have been looking for a pair of these suckers in bright, grass green, cause I lika-the-green, and green-lika-me. Not sea green, not olive green...GRASS green. Problem is, flea markets don't think this is a very marketable color, so I haven't ever seen it on the shelf. But, since I'm a smart lady, I decided to cruise on up to the information super highway, and see if I can find me some shiny green shoes. Guess what? I can't find that shit anywhere. What the fuck, man? I can find a face cream made out of snail "leavings", but no green shoes? Lame. The one good thing about my search was getting to read all the rad headlines from vendors in third world countries, like "Made with excellent cow leather". Made me want to buy a pair even though they didn't come in any color but baby blue (a weak, paltry shade if there ever was one). But seriously, they are made of EXCELLENT cow leather...imagine the quality! I bet those shoes are so fine they would make Sinatra look like a hobo.

You know what's inappropriate to wear to work? Tube tops.

Now, don't get me wrong, I enjoy a casual work place enviornment as much as the next gal, but I draw the line at anything that requires the wearer to go braless. Shut-up guys, I know you like a little swingy-swingy during the day, but this isn't about what you want, it's about what "I" want.

Let me break some things down for you good people: the gals that wear tube tops at work, don't look good in them. Buxoum blonde goddess-types ain't your coworkers, unless you happen to work at a strip club or Hooters. You're coworkers are the skinny, mousy-types who have a face like a foot, and that's who's gonna show up on Tuesday morning, rockin'it in the tube (this principal also applies to those tanktops that have the super skinny straps as well as micro mini skirts). Another truth about tube tops, women that wear them are wearing them because they want sex. Now. With whatever will have them. Which is fine, if you at "da club". I, however, do not work at "da club", so I don't need to know who's hot for it. I'd just like to assume that all my coworkers are sexless drones so I don't have to think about any of them bumpin' uglies. If I do think about a coworker gettin' down, it's a super hot dude, and I think about him gettin' down with your truly, but that's for my private time. The last thing I want to imagine is some dried-up old hag who's ovaries have long since shriveled up like raisins, bouncin' around during my status meetings hoping to get a little of the sweet-sweet over lunch. Gross. Moral of the story, for Godsake, will you cover yourself!

I am the conferece call MASTA!

So far, I have successfully used the words "masturbatory" and "vaginal canal" in conference calls this year. Praise me, for I am great.

The "vaginal canal" one was delighful, because it was said in a room full of dudes, and they freaked the shit out when I said it. But, it's not like I just whipped "vaginal canal" out of nowhere or anything, our clients are Always and Tampax, and we are doing a teaching module for tampon insertion with an animation house in town, and they didn't have the anatomy of the lady parts correct. They had this crazy, tubelookin' thing they called the vagina, and that ain't right. The vagina isn't some massive, gaping tunnel, man! It's a muscular structure...look it up on the inter-web, you'll see I'm right. How they hell do you think tampons stay up there, magic? I assure yu, they do not.

Anyway, "masturbatory" was even more great, because it truly did come out of nowhere. That was said back when I was in DC, and my whole team was on a conference call with these dingleberries in NYC who work for some hot-shot ad agency up there. And man, they were wearing my ass out with all there "suggestions" for our work. They'd say shit, and we'd be like "yeah, we tried that, and it didn't work visually, but thanks for suggesting it", and these guys would not relent with their bullshit "ideas". Over and over and over again with these bad, lame suggestions, and they were just not hearing us when we said "no". So finally, I spoke up and said "you know, we CAN do that for you guys, but frankly, it would be purely masturbatory at this point". Jaws dropped. It rocked. And guess what? Those turd-burgelers backed the shit off.

Blogda rules, end of story.

P.S. I hope Walter reads this, he get's so uncomfortable when women talk about anything crass or dirty. Tee-hee!

I sucker-punched myself last week

Yeah, you read that right…I sucker-punched myself, right below my right tittie. Ever see those exercise bands with handles on them? You know, great for travel…you can stuff’em in a suitcase, then whip’em out for a nice resistance workout in your hotel room (or, if you freaky, they have many more creative uses). Anyway, I have a set of these bad boys, and I took them with me on a business trip to Chicago last week. The cool thing about these bands of mine is that they have this ball-like attachment (see pic below) you can use to anchor the bands to a door. What you do is, close the ball part on the other side of the door, then lock the door, and use the bands for such exercises as chest presses, triceps pull-downs, etc. They whole set-up is pretty grand, providing your door has a good lock. Okay, so the stage has been set: hotel room in Chicago, exercise bands, Bogda and a door (the front door). So, Bogda shuts the ball attachment on the other side of the door, then flips the safety lock (also known as a "Grizzly"swing-type Door Guard, pictured above) shut, and proceeds to do some thoroughly righteous lat rows. Bogda loves her some lat rows, because Bogda has a strong, Polish back. So, after a few reps, something horrid happened. Completely out of nowhere, the door FLIES OPEN! The ball thing comes flyin’ at me at about 50 mile per hour and sucker-punches me square in the upper chest-lower-tittie region. It hurt. A lot. I have a bruise. A big one. And after it happened, I grabbed my chest and just rocked back and forth going “aaaahhhhh…….eeeeesssshhhhh” over and over again. But then I was okay. I wish someone had been in the room with me, that whole exchange had to have been really damn funny to watch. I’m a walking slap-stick comedy show over here! Which is why you love me.

Old and Busted

Well, tomorrow is July 26th, which is my birthday, and this year, I'm turning 30...which is quite a milestone for us ladies. By now, I should have gotten married, birthed a baby or two and have set up house someplace. And I should have a few pairs of Mom jeans to round it all out.

Yeah, so none of that has happened, and I'm okay with it...well, most of it. I sure the fuck don't need any kids, the whole idea is repugnent to me to be honest with you. Nothing that big needs to be coming out of my cookie place, and I certainly have no desire to be strapped into a huge mortgage, so Dream House Bogda isn't out of the box either. But, I really thought I would be married by now, or at least be with the guy who I want to be married to. And, for a long time, I thought I had found that dude, but after 6 and a half years of dating, he passed on the opportunity to take me off the market, so I'm no where close to finding Mr. Right. And damned if that ain't depressing. I mean, I'm pretty rad. I'm smart, funny, cute, and I can make chicken soup from a chicken, what more do you fuckers want from me? Other than gigantic, football-sized jugs, cause that ain't gonna happen.

So, all in all, Bogda is less than super-chuffed about this upcoming event. In less than 7 hours, the flower of my youth will be cruely plucked, and I will go from new hottness to old and busted. Which blows. I need to get laid.

Random Greatness

My pal Miker hipped me to these funny cat pics, enjoy!

My meeting skillz are dope

So, I'm in a meeting this afternoon with the head of Project Management, an Associate Creative Director, 2 Designers, an Information Architect, and a Writer, and I volunteer to plug my laptop into the big screen so we can all look at the same document together. I'm cool like that, see? So, I plugs my laptop in, and we go through the first file, which is a 6 page PDF of designs for a website we are working on. Everything goes swimmingly, no issues. The work was good, the comments were minimal. So, we move onto the next file, which is a JPG. I opens it up, and the design looks great. We make some comments, then the designer leans over to me and says "there should be one more page". Now, I'm new to the world of PCs, so I assume that the arrow at the bottom of the player means that I can advance to the next page in the file. Silly me. Apparently, Windows Picture and Fax Viewer just cycles through all the pictures you have in your "My Pictures" folder. So, that being said, the very next picture in my "My Pictures Folder" was this:







Needless to say, hilarity ensued, and I laughed nervously, then turned red. Good times.

Eulogy for my friend Howard

When I was 12, our dog Fuzzy acted like he was some crabby old man, so we decided to get him a puppy to perk him up a bit. Pop found an ad in the paper for black standard schnauzer puppies, and we thought we'd go check'em out. So, we dragged our asses out to BFE, saw the puppies, and promptly left with my favorite one, the little male with floppy ears. We named him Howard, and he was my dog.

He did all the cool puppy things: he cocked his head to the side when he was confused, he barked at his own reflection, he fell over for no good reason, and he tormented Fuzzy like it was his job. Howard used to do this thing where he would run up under Fuzzy (also a schnauzer), grab his beard, and then take off running like hell. Half the time, Howard just pulled out Fuzz's beard, but the other half, Fuzz actually got hauled along for the journey. This game was short-lived, Fuzzy's beard got chewed/pulled off, so he had a saucy moustache for about 6 months, which was hilarious. Dogs+moustaches=awesome, it's a mathematical fact.

As Howard grew up, he was my constant companion. Howard became a stunningly beautiful dog who was a true gentleman and an emapthetic soul. Sometimes, he would walk over to me, put his head in my lap, then look up at me and wag his tail, that would just kill me.

Unfortunately, Howard died this past Friday, and I miss my friend desperately.

Gird your loins

Every once in a while, something special finds its way into your life. Sometimes that could be a stray kitten or a great new job, but once in a blue moon, that "something special" will fuck you up for life. Something that is the stuff of nightmares. That type of "something special" wandered into my life courtesy of my pal Wilksey.

Wilksey calls me one day to say that she sent me something neat in the mail, and to keep my eyes open for it. Then she giggled in a way that made me uncomfortable. She sent it to my office, because it was to be a "good luck in your new job" type gifty. So, I waits, and I waits, then I waits some more. Finally, I get this big-ass brown box in the mail. So, I scamper back to my cube, box under my arm, and I start cutting open that bad boy. And let me tell you, this sucker is packaged well. I was begining to think she had sent me a Ming Vase or something equally as exotic and or breakable. Finally, I get to the lastlayer of packing material, and this fantastic sight greets me:





Behold...CLOWN! Don't act like this didn't freak you out...you know it did.

P.S. Wilksey said the lady that sold her this crazy thing suggested she hang it in a baby's room. What kind of fucked-up parent would do that to a sweet, little baby? That's the kind of shit that makes your baby a ward of the state.

Why does this always happen to me?

For some reason, the past few sets of neighbors I have had, feel the need to construct a bar out of their garage, which, as we all know, is where the cars go. Don't get me wrong, I'm a social-type gal, but I do not want drunk fuckers puking/pissing/buggin' me when I am trying to get some shut-eye. And furthermore, garages are gross. They have oil stains, bad smells and about a million spiders...they are not for socializing. And certainly not for entertaining your guests at 3:00 am on a Tuesday.

The first time this became a problem was when 4 college-looking boys moved in next door. They never closed their garage door, so it didn't take me long to see that they had actually built a bar in the garage. And not a nice one either...a real crappy, built from wood stolen from the Wal-Mart build site down the road type bar. The ambiance was completed with plastic palm trees and some lawn chairs. Which is fine, to each his own, right? The line got crossed when they messed with my peaceful, quite bedtime. Breaking up an impromptu golf game in the parking lot at 3:16 am on a Tuesday is not peaceful. Not in the least. So, after putting up with Delta House and their shenanigans, my patience paid off and the frat boys were booted-out after only 3 months. And man oh man, they must have jacked that place up...there was this huge steam cleaning van parked outside of that apartment for 3 days. "Good riddance to bad rubbish" I thought (yes, I have the internal dialogue of a crabby old man).

That thought lasted about 2 weeks, then the new folks moved in. At first, they were an elusive bunch, but I knew they were in there, because they always play their TV at volume level 11. But, I've only ever seen the lady who lives there, and she's a crusty-lookin'fake blond with grand fake tits and beef jerky for a face (sounds hot, right?). These lovely folks lulled me into a false sense of security for a few days before opening their garage to reveal a bigger, better-financed garage bar, complete with 3 neon beer signs. What the fuck, man? I think they even have astro turf in there too for some reason. And, to be fair, they really haven't been disruptive...yet.

But once bitten, twice shy, right? And seriously, I just don't understand why all my neighbors need a mother freakin' bar next to the room that I sleep in. That's where I sleep for crap's sake! I love sleeping...don't try to fuck me out of some sleep, garage-bar neighbors! Don't make me cut you, garage-bar neighbors! I'll pull a razor outta my titties and I'LL CUT YOU!