ahopetrick

ahopetrick @ 2009-03-17T12:50:00

2009-03-17T17:50:52Z

for anybody that loved "rock of love" like zach and i did, you might appreciate this link to the new guys of the "daisy of love" spin off. so goooooooood. one is even named "tool box" which is quite fitting. i'd name them all "tool box" with number 1, 2, 3, etc. attached.

http://blog.vh1.com/2009-03-13/daisy-of-love-meet-the-cast/

ahopetrick @ 2009-01-26T15:50:00

2009-01-26T21:52:20Z

cutest dog i've ever seen. hands down.

uh, sweet?!?!?!

2008-06-14T20:03:51Z

http://www.verticalfarm.com/

"in my language"

2008-03-01T01:58:20Z

i found this video made by a woman with autism. she videotaped the first half with her engaging in "her language". she's unable to speak but later translates what she's doing with captions and a computer operated "voice", speaking as she types. a really cool video i suggest watching all the way through.

ahopetrick @ 2008-02-05T22:33:00

2008-02-06T04:36:03Z

barack obama is speaking at the civic center on thursday at 3:30. zach and i have RSVP'd though i don't know if that even matters.

anyone else want to join us???

**warning** i will cry. just saying.

http://ne.barackobama.com/omaha (rsvp site)

i have a feeling i'll be doing this all day...

2008-02-03T17:13:20Z

Frozen Grand Central from ImprovEverywhere on Vimeo.

ahopetrick @ 2008-01-27T21:42:00

2008-01-28T04:03:25Z

found my new addiction...america's best dance crew.

why do i always love the asians? they're always amazing.

i miss dancing. hate clubs, but miss the dancing. maybe i'll take up salsa again when i get to portland. my best friend nick is a dance instructor, i should hit him up.

there's a group of chicks though, fish n' chicks, that dress grunge with the flannel, baggy jeans and bandanas to counteract the sluts dancing on tv nowadays and they're fucking awesome. i'd totally do that. and then the asian group, kaba modern from CA, was craziness. oh, and the other asian group called jabberwockees was fucking SWEEEEEEEET. AHHHHHH!!!!! so excited. i'm now officially hooked.

KABA MODERN:

JABAWOOCKEEZ:

can't find the girl group yet...i'll work on it. but fast forward each one, past the interviews, they're boring. ha.

ahopetrick @ 2008-01-09T11:49:00

2008-01-09T17:54:19Z

so i'm taking a turn in my crafts department. i just painted a long barreled revolver on top of a box that shoots flowers. and i happen to like it. soooooo, with that said, my new boxes will only contain long barreled revolvers shooting happy things and/or brass knuckles with happy things padding the knuckles. i'm pretty pumped.

here's the first box:

so excited!!!!

ahopetrick @ 2007-12-15T14:46:00

2007-12-15T20:50:52Z

just watched "full metal jacket" for the first time. i knew it would become one of my new favorite movies.

if only this world was ran by women. from the beginning of time. i'm convinced it would be a world of gossip and sluts, but god dammit, we'd settle it with a slap fight. better than firearms.

neither men or women should be turned into killing machines.

ahopetrick @ 2007-12-15T09:49:00

2007-12-15T15:53:44Z

what happened to only an inch of snow? no matter. it's saturday.

which, zach apparently didn't know when he woke me up, asking why i was still sleeping. confused i roll over, look at him, and inform him it's saturday. poor kid squinted and rolled back over. haha. that's my darling. but now i'm up, and he's still sleeping. figures. i was indeed in the midst of a funny dream that starred myself and kurt vonnegut as the best of pals. i made him laugh. odd.

COOKIE PARTY NEXT SUNDAY! i keep forgetting to spread the word. come one come all. this is our christmas together. i'll remind you more later.

ahopetrick @ 2007-12-10T22:36:00

2007-12-11T04:38:23Z

snow day tomorrow.

i've made my decision.

ahopetrick @ 2007-12-05T19:02:00

2007-12-06T01:14:54Z

i don't pray when something bad happens. but i guess that's because i don't believe in anything and today would be a perfect example why. wasted breath.

i couldn't stop listening to the radio. i grew tired of everyone claiming they knew somebody who knew somebody and so forth who thought about going to von maur last week. seriously. it's not your moment to be a part of something much bigger than yourself. remove yourself from it. i truly believe out of everyone that i know, there were some close calls, no doubt, but let's unite with a huge heavy sigh and a reflection on the people who actually know someone who's lying in the morgue or a hospital bed tonight, and let's show a group middle finger in the air to the "powers that be" or let's get vonnegut with it and just thumb our noses. but...it's.not.about.you.

bush was in town. sorry i missed that fucker.

my bus was 20 minutes late, though i couldn't be mad. cold, but not mad. my pins and needles can't compete with other emotions going on in omaha tonight. so i sat patiently.

i was yelled at by a homeless man, when i was the only one helping. no one else would talk to him and went as far as to turn their backs right in his face. he caught me on a bad day when i actually don't have millions of random nickels in my purse. i have no money. anywhere. i offered my bus pass, opened my purse to double check, and he yelled at me saying i was trying to "get a black man arrested for trying to rob a white girl". it was pleasant. i just stared at his tooth and tried to make him laugh. it was the least i could do. at least there was one little white girl who didn't notice he was an angry black man rather just a really cold man with no one paying him any attention. (zach, i still hold my plan to open up a building and just let anyone stay there because it's fucking cold. i still think allowing anyone to sleep outside with this weather inhumane. just thought i'd reiterate)

i'm in a crappy mood all around. didn't mean to offend anyone. but at the same time, i'm not in the mood to care.

ahopetrick @ 2007-12-01T15:47:00

2007-12-01T21:48:19Z

john mccain needs to just stop. now he's just looking sad. poor guy.

oh, and i got my acceptance letter today. boo-yah.

ahopetrick @ 2007-11-27T20:49:00

2007-11-28T02:50:50Z

i think it's necessary for me to join a kickboxing or boxing class.

i can't stop thinking about it and i have some frustrations i'm sure i could punch out.

who's with me?

ahopetrick @ 2007-11-27T19:22:00

2007-11-28T01:24:03Z

so zach showed me the website where a card is removed showing a little more of joker's new outfit? don't know if it's fully revealed yet, but i just saw the picture (in all it's glory) on dlisted.com. maybe i've missed the boat, but i'm sure some that are interested, and well, it's there.

enjoy?

good, bad, the ugly.

2007-11-08T03:36:12Z

nearly fought two grown men in the street tonight. i was walking to 16th and farnam after work and in a doorway there was a homeless man sitting nodding off. i walked past two guys walking the opposite direction and one suddenly kneeled down, eye level to the man, BARKING! incredibly loud. i jumped and immediately turned around and stepped in front of him (nearly pissing my pants realizing what i was doing) and all i could say was "REALLY?!? are you fucking serious??? get the fuck out of here asshole. be a man, please." he chuckled, called me a bitch and trotted off thoroughly pleased with himself. i find myself nearly shaking to death and turned to find the man still nodding off, not even phased. doesn't matter, i feel better about my instinct to step in. fuck those dudes.

also, i just read about the first katrina insurance case. insurance company is debating that they only would cover wind damage, not the rising waters, and since the house had water damage after the wind damage, there's nothing they won't cover anything. i don't know who could live with themselves working in something like that. needless to say, judge ruled in the couples favor though the amount to be granted hasn't been set yet. claim was $350,000.

Pat Robertson supports Guiliani. HAHAHAHAHA! the whole thing is dripping in irony.

portland was sweet. too much to even cover. just know that it rules and i will be moving there. no doubt.

nick is in town!!!!! we're going to the 9er tonight, he's never been. he wanted gay bars, but i wanted the 9er. but i do need to make a trip to a gay bar soon. my hagness is starting to fade.

my classes are done next week! YIPPEEEEE! and i'm passing all of them beautifully.

zach and i might get a dog soon. be jealous.

ahopetrick @ 2007-10-31T19:05:00

2007-11-01T01:05:54Z

so many A-DOR-A-BLE kids knocking on my door!!!!!!

can't handle the cuteness!!!!!

Maybe you should read this. There's a plan at the end.

2007-10-21T20:33:05Z

i've grown increasingly embarrassed and disgusted with western extravagant spending. i saw 15 minutes of the "fabulous life of:" and it's nauseating. homes bigger than the taj mahal, etc. literally...bigger. they said it. homes just for their personal zamboni. RI-DIC-U-LOUS. sometimes i'm really fantasizing about the idea of living uni-bomber style w/ zach and karma and whomever would like to help create our own little compound of wilderness and awesomeness. we'd have unlimited amount of smores, old sytle, and jack daniels, with record players, ipods, and campfires. i'd become vegan because frankly, i will not watch or kill my food. i'm really plotting the idea for the future, we should start saving now so we can buy land and lay the foundation for absolute unpretentious living. please, someone join in. we all are talented, have pretty good things to say, and know there's life outside of tanning booths and jet liners. this isn't hippy bullshit, just a real disgust and understanding why everyone hates us. i hate us. in us, i mean the american stereotype. i wish the narrow margin wouldn't represent the little people. icky. also scares me, though it's obvious and will be obvious forever, that the comparable few people that run this world are completely out of touch with the rest of the world. it reminds me of the roided jocks i went to school with but only they run everything. say a word and you're getting a swirly in the girl's bathroom. frightening.

also, i told zach that you can really see what's wrong with western culture based on the fringe japanese and chinese trend mags. they take the american obsession at the time and magnify it. anyone seen the tanning epidemic over there? scary ass shit. we should be embarrassed. anime hair cuts=cool, leather like skin at age 16 for the sake of fashion=not cool.

maybe it's because i haven't taken my medicine lately, but people are irritating me. no one here, so to speak, but t.v. i get done with 15 minutes of VH1 and i'm sitting with my head cocked saying "really? this is what i need to entertain me? i have a new salaman rushdie book laying in the bathroom and i'm really watching this?"

this is what i want. a compound with my hubby, my kitty, and my pals, doing what we do best whatever it may be, singing lame campfire songs, starting book clubs where we never end up talking about the book itself, i go back home, reupholster old furniture into modern eclectic pieces of furniture i can resell to rich snobs in a small town antique shop, who won't probably appreciate it anyway, but i still appreciate the business. zach will write history books on whatever he wants, and maybe us girls can start a little bed n' breakfast. as long as i get to design all the rooms. :D when we all start having children they'll will be the happiest children, unaware of materialistic and unrealistic ideals and be completely full of sunshine, music, and really good things. they can run barefoot and have mudfights whenever, because we will be doing the same thing. who says life can't be one huge camping trip with your friends? you don't need privatized education and credit cards and what not if you choose not to be a part of that culture. we survived millions of years without it. we'll take the good modern amenities along with the good old ways of life and mesh them into a brilliant town of all things awesome.

laugh if you want, but i'm working on this plan.

HA! hellooooo omaha.

2007-09-04T03:19:52Z

ahopetrick @ 2007-08-28T15:47:00

2007-08-28T20:49:06Z

LYNDEN: we did work in the same office. krista kept calling me lynden this morning. ha. and i'm pretty convinced that chris guy is in love with you. just thought i'd let you know. :D

i'm even more sick than i was yesterday. they sent me home from work. BLAAAAAAH! worst timing ever.

but zach is a good caregiver.

ahopetrick @ 2007-08-27T19:31:00

2007-08-28T00:35:23Z

zach and i have decided we're growing increasingly disgusted and tired of our neighborhood. such a shame too. i like this place. when this lease is up i'm pretty sure we're leaving. never fails, i step outside, one of my creepy male neighbors is waiting outside for me to talk small talk. zach pulled up from work last night to pick me up to see our drunk neighbor upstairs talking about the "black whatever kids" up the street. he's a loser.

i'm getting sick. which is no fun. stayed home today because of a killer migraine. worked out a bit this evening since i haven't been able to the past couple days. still looking for a workout partner. *cough SAUSHA cough*.

i start school next week. WOO!!! i'm actually excited because they're all design classes. but, it's still school. blech.

as you all know, alberto is gone. and that was a good thing to wake up to.

ahopetrick @ 2007-08-22T20:19:00

2007-08-23T01:19:43Z

go to google.com

click images

type in "ron mueck"

enjoy.

and yes, those really are sculptures.

ahopetrick @ 2007-08-13T18:25:00

2007-08-13T23:26:58Z

anybody available @ 9:15am on thursday?

barack obama is speaking on policy issues in council bluffs, and i would LOVE LOVE LOVE to go. i would love other people to join if possible. let me know.

I posted this on myspace too

2007-08-13T20:50:35Z

CORRECTION

2007-08-04T15:31:38Z

the barack obama BBQ is NOT at 3 tonight, it's at 6. please come if you feel so obliged. let me know as well.