Posts tagged ‘good times’

July 29th, 2009

BlogHer 09: The one where I reconsider how to burn calories

by Tarable

I interrupt the lackadaisical posting schedule with a highlight from my time spent at a little gathering of female bloggers that recently occurred. Blame it on the estrogen for a post filled with sex toys. You’ve been warned.

There was some serious swag in the party bags this year. Not Sundance or Academy Award level, but the best stuff I’ve seen at a BlogHer conference yet.

Take the Room 704 party. Women patiently waited not just for the party to start, but for a brown bag full of goodies.

Cleaning supplies? Some of those.

Lip gloss? Some of that.

Vibrator from party sponsor Eden Fantasys?* Yup.

Getting the swag bag was an unexpected surprise since I was simply there for the free alcohol party. In the middle of one conversation, I heard women chanting my name and looked around to find the source of the noise.

Turns out my business card had been drawn from a fishbowl and I have won another sex toy.**

In case you’ve lost count, Mom and Dad, that’s two vibrators. Yes, BlogHer is a blogging conference. (Also? I have no idea what one would even do with such a massager.)

Talking to my roommate the next morning, I retold my tale and showed her my prize from the night before. She smiled and mentioned that she had reviewed that very vibrator on her blog a few weeks before.

What luck.***

I joked with her about missing that post but after waiting a minute, I asked her to tell me what she thought of this particular model.

Shaking her head, she started to laugh. “It didn’t do much for me,” she said.

She must have sensed my dejection because she added one last thing obviously designed to make me feel better.

“But I’m not as athletic as you…”

When your vibrator is more of a workout than anything else, doesn’t that defeat the purpose of even using one?****

*It bugs me that the company name isn’t spelled Fantasies. Is it because I used to be a seventh grade teacher? Or because I work for a company whose name is always misspelled?

** Does this count as drama Kevin and Elaine?

***Because this meant that I didn’t have to write a review.

****Don’t feel like you have to answer this question. Especially if you are my mother.

July 7th, 2009

Giving Boulder Love, Day 18: Blame it on the Beer

by Tarable

This is Day 18 of a 21-Day Salute ™. Obviously, this was not a consecutive 21-Day salute and obviously I have some issues when it comes to time management. Sorry cute innocent blog series–real life got busy there for a bit.

I’m in Boulder because of the beer. Not just because I love drinking it, but because my ex got a job brewing beer here. We moved from Houston so he could brew and that was six years ago. My life has changed in many ways since then but my love of Boulder beer has not.

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In all honesty, one of the many things that has kept me from posting here was a little event called Ignite Boulder. Along with my good friend Elaine*,  I was able to present about beer in Colorado to over seven hundred people at the Boulder Theater. For five minutes, we educated and entertained the crowd. It was awesome. I had so much fun preparing for the presentation (and I don’t mean the pints that were consumed for inspiration),  I thought it only best to share.

(You’ll have to imagine the audio for now. But we were funny, have no doubt.)

If you haven’t checked out an Ignite event in your area, I strongly suggest it. It’s a night of creativity, humor and education. And if you haven’t checked out any of the beer that Colorado produces, then you should definitely get on that.

igniteboulder2Photo courtesy of Stepan Mazurov

Whether you’re enjoying a pint of Avery, Mt. Sun or Boulder beer, it should taste even better since you’re supporting the local economy, drinking a beverage brewed with passion and keeping my ex off the streets. I’ll drink to all those things.

*Elaine was the genius behind the idea for our preso and you can read her take on local beer here. Also? Elaine was the impetus behind getting me out of my posting funk. She dropped the words “baited breath” in a blog comment…fully knowing that I would be worried and waiting for her to exhale. Are you happy now Elaine?

October 16th, 2008

What Vegas does to a man…

by Tarable

This is my friend Kevin and his wife Sara. Cute couple, right?

Kevin worked with me at Lijit for two weeks before his former job offered him A LOT of money to come back. I can totally understand his decision to return to that job and we have remained friends ever since.

When I was getting ready to go to Blog World in Vegas last month, Kevin emailed me, letting me know that he and Sara were going to be in Vegas at the same time. I told him that we should try to meet up, but as conferences go, Blog World was busy and didn’t leave me with much of an opportunity to see Kevin.

After I returned home from Vegas, Kevin sent me some pics from his trip. Turns out Kev had spent the months before going to Sin City growing a beard. Why, you ask? All so that he could shave and look like this while there:

While Kevin’s facial hair seems completely appropriate for the dregs of the Strip, I only hope that when we have dinner together on Sunday night, he does not look like this. Perhaps when it comes to authentic porn mustaches, what happens in Vegas should be shaved off in Vegas.

Just sayin’ Kevin.

August 26th, 2008

Words that Adam tried to pass off as real in a drunken game of Scrabble

by Tarable

He had a compelling argument for most of these…

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forplan

pornal

yeal

iou

revoters

54/366

… and he made winning easy.