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Entries from January 2009

You wanna piece of me?

January 30, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Remember in the West Wing episode titled “Disaster Relief” where Josh makes his cab pull over, he gets out, and screams, “Hey! You wanna piece of me?” at the Capitol building?

“Hey! You wanna piece of me? I’m right here. I’m standing right here. Come on! Come on…”

That’s how I felt feel today. I just thought you should know.

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GiveASh*tometer

January 30, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Dear Friday.

You suck.

Love, Mollytics.

giveashitometer

Thanks to SW for the email.

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Snuggie: the WTF Blanket

January 29, 2009 · 3 Comments

Thank you, LL, for drawing my attention to this genius. It’s amazing. Just kidding, it’s just okay. Just kidding, it’s super warm.  Just kidding, it’s dorky. Just kidding, dorky is in. Just kidding, I lied. Just kidding, I never lie. Just kidding, that’s a lie.

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Diet Coke wishes Mollytics a Happy Birthday

January 28, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Worth noting, I think, that even my beloved Diet Coke wished me a happy birthday today:

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29 and feelin’ fine

January 28, 2009 · 1 Comment

That’s a lie. I feel more than fine…

  • I’m 29!
  • It (finally) snowed in DC!
  • I had fantastic, mojito-filled pre-birthday happy hour(s) last night at Circa (thanks to CA) and learned things that I never knew I didn’t know!
  • We have a pro-choice president!
  • TF is still (and will always be) older than me!
  • CK greated me today with, “shit happy bday bitch!” (amazing.)
  • KPD brought the house down with one of the funniest cards ever.
  • I got a free “Happy bou day” coffee from Caribo.

These are just a few of the myriad reasons why I’m happy today… and it’s only 10:45 a.m.!

That said, when I read Lucy Actually’s birthday blog post for me, I lost it. Recapping our greatest hits from our 2.5 year friendship? Amazing birthday gift. Here’s one of my favorites:

5. Molly’s 27th bday. The crew (me, CK, DW) were all still in tact at the old job and decided it would be awesome to decorate  molly’s cube with Beyonce pictures. There are few things in life that Molly dislikes more than Beyonce – maybe Pepsi products and Pittsburgh. Anywho, we had an awesome time covering wallpapering her cube with photographs, including inside desk drawers and under her keyboard. Seeing her reaction when she walked in was priceless.

She hit the nail on the head, that one. You can see some pictures of my cube here.

I know it’s self indulgent, but this blog is self-indulgent so I reserve the right to bask in the glow of birthday sunbeams and gold-dipped wishes. And if that was a candy, I would eat it.

(I’ll be back to the same-ole grouch I always was after today, I’m sure.)

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Wake-Up Call: It’s my birthday (edition)

January 28, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Today’s Wake-Up Call:

  • Even though he is “alive and well,” Wikipedia accidentally listed Sen. Robert Byrd’s (D-WV) “death date” as 1/20/09 for “about four minutes” on 1/20 (The Daily Mail).
  • NBC chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell appears to be “secretly a gay icon,” because she’s just “so sassy” (“Daily Intel“).
  • Before Gillibrand’s swearing-in yesterday, VP Biden “greeted her nieces and nephews with high fives and ‘hey, man’ and ‘hi, cuz’” — “eliciting puzzled looks from the under-10 set” (New York Times).
  • Conan O’Brien, on Blagojevich comparing himself to Nelson Mandela: “Which may be a stretch, but at least he got the prison part right” (“Late Night”).
  • “Two. … It’s pretty bad! … Two-and-a-half, three because I have two beautiful daughters, and I love them to death. And I love my wife. Five. … Try four” — Blagojevich, asked how his life ranks on a scale of 1-10 (“On the Record”).

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High-Five Inauguration

January 24, 2009 · 1 Comment

Yep – this is pretty much what my Inauguration Week was like:

more about “HIGH-FIVE INAUGURATION! from Almost T…“, posted with vodpod


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I’m so tired…

January 23, 2009 · Leave a Comment

..pillow.., originally uploaded by tschokskott.

… I haven’t slept a wink.

This weekend I’ll organize my inauguration-related photos, type some blog posts, and practice sleeping again.

It should be lovely.

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Brownies for Obama

January 22, 2009 · Leave a Comment

I still haven’t even begun to recuperate after Inauguration madness. I went to my final party last night (Obama Staff Ball, baby) and my feet have officially given up on me. My steady diet of crap-alcohol-crap-carb-wine-beer-beer-crap-alcohol is finally catching up with me, and I crave a crunchy green salad like nobody’s business.

I’m looking forward to recapping it all here for you to read (sure do hope you’re interested, Internets), and I’m also looking forward to going through my goodie bags. Through my travels, and mooching off the travels of others, I’ve accumulated a nice patriotic bounty that I can’t wait to dive into. Last night, I chose to feed my late-night hunger with a brownie, and it reminded me that I’d read about it earlier in the Washingtonian blog, Best Bites:

They’ve been baking 24 hours a day for two weeks. They’ve gone through 1,050 dozen eggs, 1,200 pounds of flour, and an incalculable amount of sugar. All of this in preparation for an inauguration giveaway of 20,000 brownies.

Real-estate executive, lawyer, and philanthropist Connie Milstein founded Connie’s Bakery in Mount Kisco, New York, four years ago to help low- and no-income New Yorkers get job training and earn a living wage. Each year, four people down on their luck are given the opportunity to spend a year as apprentices under Simeon Manber, former assistant pastry chef at Mario Batali’s flagship New York restaurant, Babbo. All profits from the bakery go to local charities.

The bakery has given many people a new beginning, and now it’s contributing to a different kind of new beginning. Milstein, who has contributed money to various Democrats over the years, decided to honor the incoming President by shutting down the bakery for two weeks and devoting all of her attention to baking brownies for the inaugural masses.

You can read the rest of the post here, but I grabbed the picture to show you how cute they looked.

thousands and thousands of brownies

thousands and thousands of brownies

Now you know I love a good non-profit when I see it, so I had to share.

And you know what? It was delicious, hope-filled, and inspiring. Just like my inauguration weekend.

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Bush Twins: Playing House in the White House

January 22, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Jenna and Barbara Bush wrote a letter to Sasha and Malia Obama that was published in the January 20 edition of the Wall Street Journal. Personal politics aside, the open letter to was really kind of sweet. Here is one of my favorite parts:

This Christmas, with the enchanting smell of the holidays encompassing her halls, we will again be saying our good-byes to the White House. Sasha and Malia, it is your turn now to fill the White House with laughter.

And finally, although it’s an honor and full of so many extraordinary opportunities, it isn’t always easy being a member of the club you are about to join. Our dad, like yours, is a man of great integrity and love; a man who always put us first. We still see him now as we did when we were seven: as our loving daddy. Our Dad, who read to us nightly, taught us how to score tedious baseball games. He is our father, not the sketch in a paper or part of a skit on TV. Many people will think they know him, but they have no idea how he felt the day you were born, the pride he felt on your first day of school, or how much you both love being his daughters. So here is our most important piece of advice: remember who your dad really is.

Yep. Pretty sure I teared up. What do you think about it?

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