Airing my Philthy Laundry

IT'S A GIRL! and other misc things that have happened in the past 34 hours

First and foremost let me make an announcement that is long overdue. For some while now, Philthy Laundry has been in negotiations with an amazing young lady who has just decided to join the Philthy team. She shall be known as "superfun" because that's what she is.
The reasons for adding another contributor to this blog are three fold:
1. Adding a female writer brings a whole new perspective on your blog reading experience.
2. Superfun lives a whirlwind of a life as a social worker in America's public school system, so you know she has some ridiculously entertaining stories to tell. Plus she does something with her life that actually matters and effects people...an occurrence far too rare these days.
3. I heard that adding a female blogger to my site will increase my sensitivity level, thus making me even more attractive to the ladies...since I'm currently wife-shopping (it's a long shopping trip) I figured this couldn't hurt.

So please sit back and enjoy upcoming posts from the gracious, beautiful, and overall wonderful person that is "superfun!"

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In other news:

-I've finally realized that Google has officially taken control of my life. The other day I sent an email with my Gmail account to a friend currently studying abroad in Italy. Within this email, I requested her to bring me home an Italian girl with dark curly hair. Now all the ads on my gmail account are about hair straightening, hair dye, and permanents. Creeepy!

-Today I almost backhanded a kid at the movie theatre, named Marcus (because that's what his mother was screaming) because he was being a complete 5 year old pest. The only thing that restrained me was that I saw his mother pushing his siblings around the movie theatre in a Target shopping cart, so I hit her instead...right in the ovary.

-And finally, last night something happened to me for the first time...I was hit on by a middle aged woman in a bar. Let's set the scene...I'm at this old mental hospital in Traverse City, MI which has been renovated into offices etc, and there is this awesome Italian restaurant there, which housed the bar I was sitting at for dinner. Sitting a stool away from me is this woman, I would say in her late 30s. Her food comes at the same time that I'm ordering, and after seeing how scrumptious it looked, I said to the bartender, "I'll have what she's having." Apparently this opened a door to conversation. I wasn't really in the mood to talk, but seeing as how one of my New Year's resolutions is to talk to more strangers while traveling...I obliged. We made awkward small talk throughout both of our meals. When it came out that I was from Chicago and traveling here on business, she made her move. "If you'll be in town this weekend," she said, "I'd be happy to be your tour guide, say Friday night." And she gave me a little wink. OMG...what do you do? So I just laughed it off and said I was probably leaving to go back to Chicago Friday night, but if not I'd let her know. Then I promptly paid my bill and left. The worst part about it, was that she was sporting a MIT (Mullet In Training) Cheers to New Year's Resolutions that bite you in the ass!

posted by philthy @ 10:41 PM