A Dizzy In The Lizzy
(11/15/2002; 11:21am) - I love my Admin tool...
In Steph's words:
"Everybody else sucks so much hard core donkey dick and
balls it is insane!!! At least we are not one of them, we are US! Oh yeah
baby, and to be honest not only are we a cute upper east side couple, we are
the best couple. All fun, no bullshit. Word. UNNNHHHH!"
Holy shit, she really is the female version of me. Beautiful.
No Spending month, Day 3:
last night during my bike ride:
$0.80 for a Coke on St Marks
$1.00 for an iced tea at Chelsea Piers
$.075 for a Snickers bar at the West Side Heliport
Starting at Carl Shurtz park on the East river, 84th St, I rode down along the rivertill the park ended, then down Sutton Place til it ended, then down 2nd Ave to the Lower East side, along the water at the fish markets, South Street Seapot, Battery Park, along the lower West Side, up the water along the west side highway to 57th St, turned east, visited My Clit on 57th & 6th, under the park, up 5th Ave to 84th St, back home. Took 2 hours or so. Ate aforementioned steak. A damn fine night.
Spent $0.25 on a banana this morning. PB&J and a fluffernutter for lunch again. Plus today was payday. Doing well. This weekend I have a full plate of parties/club events to go to. All free. Beautiful. May go to the Gay Expo at the Javits center on sunday with a bunch of crack-out sleepless coworkers of Steph's from the Roxy. Yay!
(11/14/2002; 01:41pm) - Benny visits the poor side of the tracks, day 2. Shaping up well:
An addendum to yesterday's spending: $2.35 for candy, a present for my GF, and $0.35 for a banana.
Breakfast: milk & cereal, $0
Lunch: PB&J & fluffernutter, $0 (This WILL get old. Soon.)
Dinner: huge steak that's been sitting in the back of my freezer. essentially $0, it was cheep anyway, a bottom round steak that requires marinating to be edible. Swimming in a pool of Wochestershire & BBQ sauce in my fridge as I type this.
Evening activity: Bike ride/gym. $0
This has been the first week I can remember in which I took money out of the ATM on Tuesday and still have most of it on Thursday. I wonder if I can make it thru this weekend without taking out more money, that would make me happy. Possibly going to a shindig Friday night, cover=$10. BYOB. Nice.
(11/13/2002; 04:55pm) - Day One of No Spending Month:
-last night:
$15 on beer and nachos (I had to buy this as I went out with my brothers and I couldn't stick them with my end of the tab)
$12 on groceries: Wonder Bread, creamy generic peanut butter, Gallon of OJ
-this morning:
$0.25 for a banana. rest of breakfast consisted of a grapefuit and an egg on toast, all of which I had already bought
-lunch:
$0 (made a PB&J and a fluffernutter)
-tonight:
approx $8 (I am going to have to go to the store tonight to buy TP and shower spray stuff at the request of my roomie.)
I can eat a can of tuna for dinner
This is sad, but neccessary.
I am resigning myself to the neccessity of my New Years trip to Vail. It's gotta happen. The rest of my snowboarding this winter can be in Central Park, but I HAVE to go on this trip, even if it breaks my bank.
1-Off TShirts may actually make me a couple of bucks. Or not. Depends on how cool Andrew & I are....
(11/12/2002; 05:47pm) - Jesus Fuckmonkey Christ
Work was crazy today.
Icing on the cake was realizing that my salaried job with health benefits will NOT support my decidedly non-decadent lifestyle. I have less money right now in my bank account than at any time during the course of my employment. I'm spending more than I'm earning. Future holds fewer movies, drinks, dinners at restaurants, snowboarding (*sniff*), even lunch. I'm going to pack a sandwich or two for lunch for the next month. Hello fluffernutters & PB&Js. What the hell? This bites.
And work was crazy. I routinely work through my lunch hour, scarfing down a sandwich or something else overpriced in 5 minutes or less. And I'm leaving work late AGAIN (like I ever leave early).
My supposed work day:
-Arrive at 9
-Lunch from 12-1
-Leave at 5:30
7&1/2 hrs
My work day in real time:
-arrive between 9:30 and 9:45 (technically late)
-eat lunch from 1-1:05
-leave at 5:45 or 6
That's 8 or 8&1/2 hours when I'm getting paid for 7&1/2. Where's the justice?
I can't wait for March, that'll be a year working here. I'll ask for a raise.
Maybe NEXT winter I can go friggin snowboarding. Grr
(11/11/2002; 12:05am) -
Went to a house party/rave in Astoria very close to HQ. Had a great time; it was very professional for a privately thrown party. I guess charging $10-$15 at the door helps cover the cost of professional lights & good DJs.
Stayed well after all my friends had gone home, danced till 7:30 in the AM. Got the call from my girl who was getting off of work a little bit later; she was equally as energized at that early hour and we met at Exit along with a couple of her coworkers, in addition to her godbrother who's the manager at the Roxy. Danced amongst the gay man-meat till about noon, at which point I was fading. Went up to her apt and re-energized, then down to her mom's palce to pick up her dog. Walked uptown again. Broke out some more fun, spent the entirity of Sunday afternoon/evening off our asses, watching TV, walking around the UES, went to a restaurant and caused some trouble... Fell asleep during the Sopranos. Oops, I misse Ralphie getting decapitated. All in all a great weekend....
Benny out
(11/11/2002; 05:07pm) - My blog is hot.
So, with all due (dis)respect to Mandy WallCandy, I posted my blog to IsMyBlogHotOrNot.com. Because I'm a dork. And I have to write this in my blog:
http://blog.hotornot.com/r/?eid=NEGY&key=YPCL
don't ask why.
By the way, the blog entry below has a Sopranos spoiler in it. I'm just telling you this because the site-op got all bent out of shape when he read my previous entry from this morning and found that TONY KILLED RALPHIE AND DECAPITATED HIM WITH THE HELP OF HEROIN GUY!!!! Oh, hey, now there's a Sopranos spoiler in THIS entry... oh well...
(11/05/2002; 10:47am) - War is fucking stupid.
No, really. This shit is getting out of hand.
(11/04/2002; 04:54pm) - Not-So-Deep-Thoughts for the day:
+Some things are worth the wait.
+Some negative circumstances in your life can help you appreciate the positive things
+It's all relative; don't get so wrapped up in yourself that you can't see the big picture
+I still hate our President and the charged political atmosphere he has created
+Love is still more important to me than just about anything else
+Sometimes it's better to keep your mouth shut. Offhand comments, even in jest, can hurt people.
(10/29/2002; 02:05pm) - Minutae? Forget about it. Look at the big picture.
Tits. Somehow I just erased a whole Dizzy entry before I could upload it.
The gist was as follows:
I am going to spend the next couple of minutes reflecting on the positive aspects of my life over a cup of hot chocolate.
That's it.
(10/25/2002; 04:41pm) - soothe me
Another day passes, slowly, in the cold.
with only a few hours' sleep, I have been tossed about today like a bouy.
up up
down down
Hot chocolate with little fake marshmallows in it keeps me going
warms me
Fresh memories made last night distract me
in a good way
the new tastes and smells of a new woman
the soft tingles of young love brush against the back of my neck, make me squirm down cozier into my sweater
I can only imagine how comfortable it would be in my cold, dark bedroom, red heat lamp throwing it's warm glow over the place, me snuggled down into my comforter
Instead I will damn the torpedoes, as it were, and venture out into the coming winter to meet some friends
why sleep now, when sleep can be caught in crooks and nannies this weekend?
Laze the mornings away, that's what October's for.
I keep picking petals off the daisies, and with each one I say,
"she loves me"