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Posts from December, 2007

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Posted by Val on December 31st, 2007 at 1:53 pm | Permalink | No Comments » |

In the last month of 2007, I completed eight more things, bringing the grand total for the year to 55 and surpassing my goal of doing half! I had wanted to try and shove a few more things in, but I have felt pretty sick over the last couple of weeks, so I didn’t get to everything I had planned. Still, I’m pretty happy with the fact that I actually completed my goal this month!!!

Here’s my December:

~~4. Pick a hair color and stick with it~~
I’ve been a blonde the whole year…and haven’t even dyed it since early August!

~~25. See Second City~~
Unless something goes terribly wrong (knockonwood) I’ll be going tonight!

~~28. See at least 3 plays~~
I saw Good Boys and True this month and two plays last month!!!

~~30. See plenty of Opera~~
I saw Doctor Atomic one and a half times this month and with that I officially saw a whole lof of opera (though not nearly as much as I could have seen)

~~38. Watch The Science of Sleep (looks interesting)~~
I rented it yesterday and watched it last night. I’m not sure yet what I think about it. Honestly, I have no idea what happened and have no idea how it ended but I still thought it was interesting and amazing. But don’t ask me to tell you the plot because I don’t know what happened.

~~59. Learn google analytics~~
Eh, I learned it enough this year so I am officially crossing it off the list.

~~85. Bake once a month~~
This month I baked a buche de Noel and it was damn purdy.

~~90. Make a ginger bread house~~

I never said it had to be a good gingerbread house.

Stay tuned for the year-end recap and my new plan for 2008…

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someone took me seriously

Posted by Val on December 30th, 2007 at 2:55 pm | Permalink | 1 Comment » |

1. I can’t believe that Alina kept the “Master” on my name that we added into her database as a joke.

My invite to her wedding was delivered to “Master Valerie Bromann”

2. I am also dissapointed that there are only two choices…

what if I want to accept with regret (because I want to marry Joe) or deline with pleasure (because I want to marry Joe)?

3. Earlier this week the receptionist at work called me and said “Jennifer Reeger is here to see you.” My first thought was that she must have dialed wrong because I have never had any one there to see me and I had no appointments or anything. Then I thought about it for a while and it took me entirely too long to realize that “Jennifer Reeger” was “Jenny Johnson” who has been one of my BFFs since third grade. I am never going to get used to her new name. Her and Adam were in the area so they came to say “hi.” :-) It was great seeing them too since its been forever and a day since we’ve gotten together!

4. Friday night I was sick so I spent the night watching “Alice Sweet Alice” which was an AMAZINGLY GOOD movie and New Years Evil which wasn’t quite so amazing.

5. Last night I went out for Julie’s birthday. I was getting ready and was all set to drive to the bar when Julie called and said that Dave could come pick me up. Score! That meant I could actually drink for once! And I didn’t have to find parking! We headed out to The Central where we chatted, watch the game (I really don’t know which one) and drank and stuff. I had a Tom Collins, a sunset martini, and a tequila sunrise. Then we headed out to Red Ivy for a bit where I had another Tom Collins. Then we called it a night and when I got home I threw up two Tom Collinses, a sunset martini, and a tequila sunrise. :-( At least I didn’t puke in Dave’s car. I then proceeded to pass out and fall asleep still wearing all my clothes and with the lights on. I am really not a good drunkard.

Anyways, Happy Birthday Julie!

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present company excluded

Posted by Val on December 27th, 2007 at 12:58 am | Permalink | 1 Comment » |

one.

Goodbye Ghetto Garmin!

Hello, Garmin Garmin!!!!

A cookie goes to anyone who can guess what the very first thing I did was when setting it up ;-)

two.

Since I didn’t go to work today, I went to see MattyK at his work so we could finish setting up my four-o-wunk for work. I brought him some coffee and leftover cake and he was afraid of it because he doesn’t like mushrooms. I had to explain to him that my cake did not really contain mushrooms.

I gave him his present and he was pleasantly surprised that I picked out a tie that was not garishly bright pink and opted for one that I felt looked like something he would wear but with a touch of pink to it. It was mostly gray with little diagonal stripes of light pink, dark pink, and white. He actually at least told me that he liked it and would actually wear it. I hope he will :-)

three.

I met up with MikeyB et. al. at Lou Malnoti’s even though I’d already eaten. Scotty came!!! I greeted him by jumping on him and hanging off of him for a while. Julie has a picture. MattyK did not wear his pink tie. Joe has learned that Alina is always right. David Duchovney is apparently the porn equivalent of the crypt keeper or something like that.

After dinner some folks headed home and some headed to a bar and Dave, Julie and I could not find the bar no matter how hard we looked for it. Eventually we found it, but Julie gave up and left. Once we got there MK, Scotty, and Karen left. That meant I spent a torturous rest of the night sipping on my bailey’s and coffee with Mike and Dave. I say torturous because…

Mike told Dave about how I slept with him in Vegas but that I wouldn’t cuddle with him.

They both kept trying to get me to order all of the guys in the group in terms of who I want to sleep with the most.

Dave kept singing the song Crazy Bitch about me

They figured out their plans for sleeping with women at Joe and Alina’s wedding…

They did at least come up with the brilliant plan to kidnap Alina right before the wedding and send me down the aisle in a thick veil so Joe wouldn’t know it was me until too late…brilliant. :-)

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he doesn’t want another dog licking his penis (or a bromann family christmas)

Posted by Val on December 25th, 2007 at 8:35 pm | Permalink | 1 Comment » |

I hope all y’all had a very Merry Christmas/Hanukkah/Goat Day/Whatever it is you celebrate this time of year.

As Bromann Family tradition dictates, we went to see a movie this afternoon: Sweeney Todd. It was an enjoyable movie, good, but not fantastic. It also felt entirely too long when it started at 11 and we weren’t going to open presents until after the movie. I also didn’t like the ending even though it was appropriate but sometimes you just want everything to be happy and smiley and it’s so completely not.

So once the movie was over we headed back home. Jen and Dale brought their pug Sampson. Surprisingly our dog Luke was well behaved and didn’t try to kill him, except he spent the whole night trying to lick Sampson’s private areas.

Then we opened presents. My mom was thrilled with the postcards and CD I got her of the Bellagio fountains and my dad liked the presents I got for him at Pottery Barn Kids and my sisters liked their books and kitchen gadgets (hand blender for Nat, tomato press for Jen) and my dog completely ignored the stuffed sushi I got him because he was too busy licking dog penis.

Presents I got included a couple of Lonely Planet guides, some Martha Stewart kitchenware (because it comes in my shade of blue), and a kickass Illini sweatshirt.

Oddest gift goes to this one that Jen gave me:

Best gift will surely be blogged about tomorrow once I get a chance to start using it.

Then my aunt came by and we ate dinner of roast beast, mashed potatoes, green beans and bacon, rolls, macaroni, and salad. Sorry, I did not take pictures. Then we ate my buche. Then that was about it.

Two hours later and my aunt is still downstairs, but I came back up to my room to play with my toys and talk to Joshua who’s in Korea right now where it is morning. He is not eating bugs. :-(

I hope everyone had a wonderful day! Merry Christmas everyone!

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merry christmas to all

Posted by Val on December 24th, 2007 at 10:37 pm | Permalink | 1 Comment » |

When I was younger my dad used to tell me that Santa doesn’t like milk, that he really likes Pepsi. This year he told me that Santa’s on a diet and likes diet rootbeer.

Today we went to my mom’s family’s house for a Jewish/Polish smorgasbord of pierogis and bagels. Basically that meant me and my sisters sat in the kitchen all night talking to each other.

My cousin works for Borders and they were having a contest for selling the most gift certificates. The amount on the card though didn’t matter, just how many were sold. So I ended up getting from one aunt five $5 Borders gift certificates. Brilliant.

Now I am watching Saw III which is way to disturbing to actually watch and tracking Santa on NORAD.

I was getting antsy to see Santa, so I emailed NORAD. They responded rather quickly!

Hood’s reaction: 9 and 12? what is this, the sears repair man estimate?

Scott’s reaction: I think they think yo’ure about 8 years old

Tomorrow I open presents which I am too excited about because Christmas turns me into a five year old and my family goes way too all out on presents. :-)

I hope you all have a wonderful holiday!!!

Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!!!

Update, 11:17pm

Update, 8:30am, Tuesday
Santa ate my cookies and drank my root beer!

Hood didn’t agree with my choice of diet root beer:

me: my sister says that you are the one who lies and that you are probably jewish
Hood: the PROOF that you’re the jewish one is this idea that santa would go on a diet
Hood: every american knows that santa is supposed to be fat
Hood: in fact, you’re probably muslim

but Santa drank it all!

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