Posts in category Cookie Love

Sekrit Boyfriend show #6,598

February 9, 2015 Written by Lisa

Okay, it was really show number 10 actually and to keep up with the real fans of said boyfriend, I’d have to be on my 10th THIS MONTH! (I kid you not, those people are crazeee!)

We saw him at Ram’s Head in Annapolis (the closest I’ve had the opportunity to see him) and it was a mid-afternoon “brunch” sort of show which completely and utterly befuddled dude.

To top it off, there were technical difficulties as they started the show which, in his half-asleep state, caught him off-guard.

He recovered (calling “Technical Difficulties” the opening band) and put on a great show. It was weird, though, because we were all seated and it’s hard to get the energy rocking and rolling when no one can dance.

Duty was supposed to go and found out that the Flyers/Caps game was on that same day so I let him off the hook to go (happily because he just jacks up my #sekritboyfriend love) and took my pal Christine. She’s officially joined the cult of Cookification now and we had a great time.

The meet-and-greet was before the show and Dave was seriously barely awake for it. I was the first one in line (how did that happen?) and got pics and a big ass hug. Christine got pics of the hug (YEY!) and some really nice shots of us together. Despite not being on his best game, he was nice and funny and as always entertaining. (He looks a little too thin to me – not sure what’s up with that. Also found out he is officially engaged and that makes my heart happy.)

I think all the hastagging of #sekritboyfriend I did on FB yesterday put my brain into boyfriend overdrive and I had all these dreams about kissing someone in a hotel room (neither Duty nor Dave) and when I woke up, it felt like I had been on an adventure. Dreams are nice like that, aren’t they?

So, had a wonderful time yesterday – his shows are always a highlight for me. That’s either good or bad, depending on if you’re doing glass half-empty or half-full, amirite?

Resistance is futile?

January 29, 2015 Written by Lisa

So, hi.

I’m reading this book called “The Miracle Morning” and it’s stirring up some serious resistance. I’m not even into the meat of it yet and already I’m all ‘oh, hell no!’ which often (but not always) means it’s the next step on my path. Dammit.

In the book, Hal Elrod talks about getting up one hour earlier and spending 10 minutes each on six things: meditation, affirmation, visualization, scribing, reading and exercise.

Not all that taxing, even for an avowed lazy-ass like yours truly.

And yet, the hyperbole around it all smacks me upside my head.

I. just. cannot. with. the. hyperbole.

This is THE thing that will turn your life around! Do this and EVERYTHING will change!

Feh to that, say I!

But this is how advertising works, amirite?

Anyway, back to miracles.

I keep hearing this small voice (possibly the mouse who lives in my house) saying “What if? What if you tried it even for one day or one week? How could things change?”

My Lisa-self wants to smack that mouse-voice and say SHUT UP! It won’t work and it’s all bullshit hype.

And still that voice persists.

As well documented on these here pages, inner discipline comes and goes (mostly the latter) and if I don’t love the process, the goal won’t matter.

(Except when I stood online for six hours in the hot August sun to meet sekrit boyfriend in 2008. The goal, she mattered hella big then!)

The blog post linked above breaks it down to 6 minutes instead of 60. Could I start there? What can’t I do for a minute at a time?

Stay tuned to find out! (ha! keeping you on the edge of yo’ seat!)

Still doggy-paddling my way upstream

April 22, 2012 Written by Lisa

Source: fanforum.com via Susana on Pinterest

Dear three readers,

I wish I had more exciting news to share. I wish I had *any* news to share. Alas, the truth is things are pretty damn quiet ’round these parts which is good, I suppose.

So, here’s a meme:

1) What did you want to be as a child when you grew up?
Well, at times I wanted to be a journalist or a lawyer. Then I took Intro to Psych in my senior year of high school and that was all she wrote. Being a therapist was my dream. Spending 30 years in the financial services arena? Merely a detour. I’m exactly where I want to be right now.

2) Can you bend forward and touch your toes with your legs straight?
I can! My Pilates instructor says I am quite the flexible chick. (Especially for having to deal with the chubs! And btw she didn’t add that part. I did.)

3) What is your most annoying habit?
Duty will tell you it’s scraping the fork along my teeth while eating. I will tell you that my low need for order has probably annoyed a large segment of those who’ve lived with me.

4) What habit would you change of your partners?
Uh, his wee bit o’nagging. Yeeesh. “Honey, can you JUST remember to put the dishes in the dishwasher when you’re done with them?” Hello? I’m 51. I know to do that. If I didn’t, I either forgot (encroaching old age) or I didn’t want to for some reason known only to the duck I tell all my secrets to. Jeez oh pete!

5) Horrors or Chick Flicks?
I can recite all the lines from “Bridget Jones’s Diary” so that should answer it for you, yes?

6) What is the most outrageous thing you have done in the back row of the movies?
Not one damn thing. I am most compliant and don’t (often) do outrageous things in places where I shouldn’t.

7) If you had the house childfree what is the first thing you and your partner would do?
The house is *always* childfree so I’ll answer it as if the question were what we’d do if the house were PET-FREE and to that I’d say SLEEP past 5:45am every day!

8) Have you ever lied to get a job?
No, I haven’t. There’s just no point in doing that – you end up in the wrong job and it makes you feel like crap so, no.

9) What one thing is on your list to do before you hit 30, 40, 50 or whatever significant birthday is next?
Gosh, that’s a hard one. Next significant birthday would be 60 (OH MY GOD!) and I’d like to have my own ‘very successful’ business going strong by then. Working on it now. :)

10) Classic or modern films and why?
Modern, probably. Every time I’ve gone back to watch what’s considered a “classic” film, it’s never lived up to the hype (for me). I know The Gal will disagree. Movies just don’t ‘move me’ the way they used to so I don’t even really know how to answer this. How about we just skip this Q altogether?

11) If you were a vampire who would be the first person you would bite?
Hmm, if I bite them, do they become my vampire lover forever? I wonder if I’d get sick of Cookie if I were with him forever. (hahahahh yeah, right.) I’d choose someone I’d want to hang out with for eternity to bite first so yeah, Cookie might do it for me. He’s got the pretty, he’s got the voice and he’s a genuinely nice person. Okay, that’s settled then.

Blah blah blah, General Blatherings, Memeage

This silver leaves me longing for gold

November 27, 2011 Written by Lisa

What else? An early Dave song parked here for reasons known only to my soul.

When writing your history,
I will always be a footnote
A distant memory
A warning sign of mistakes made
The kind that you learn from

This song is the best of me
Taking pills for solemn motive
A better side of me, an open mind
For mistakes made
The kind that you burn from

So take this small confession as my price to pay
I’ve never been the kind to let go
But before you up and walk away
I’m miserable without you, you know

This silver leaves me longing for gold
Second place has never carried me home
Second place has never carried me home

This song is so out of key
I’m trying harder just to even
These memories of you
A warning sign of regression
The kind you never learn from

This song is the melody
Meant to show you a little more than
A better history, an open sky
Of redemption
The kind you always burn from

So take this small confession as my price to pay
I’ve never been the kind to let go
But before you up and walk away
I’m miserable without you, you know
This silver leaves me burning for gold
Second place has never carried me home

Silver- Analog Heart

General Blatherings

Once upon a time …

November 21, 2011 Written by Lisa

… there was this girl, see? And this girl was pretty nice and somewhat normal. Then, along came a boy and this boy’s mere presence made this sweet girl do all manner of things not in her usual repertoire of tasks. Things such as walk a 5k, stand on line all day in the blazing sun just to catch a glimpse of said boy, stay up all night calling and texting so he could win a contest and lots more stuff. She even referred to him as her “sekrit boyfriend” – so sekrit, even HE doesn’t know it!

She had clearly gone ’round the bend.

So far ’round the bend that she paid some good cash money to see him up close and personal. (Her response? “I don’t toil away at that damn day job for nothing!”)

And so she did.

Up. Close. and kinda sorta personal.

After much waiting in the cold (minus a coat for which she will blame no one (cough) but herself because she’s old enough to know better (cough)), she got to meet and greet her beloved.

Who was a tad bit distracted and didn’t seem all that happy.

Who knows why.

She was, however, brazen enough to ask him to sign her cd cover as her sekrit BF. She said to him “Just don’t ask why.” and because he is a nice midwestern boy, he didn’t ask why. He’s fairly compliant like that.

She did tell him the story, though, of how her friend Kim reminded her on Facebook that her love for him isn’t such a “sekrit” and her reply? “No shit it’s not a secret!” He got a good laugh out of that.

Rest of M&G is sort of a blur but she does remember telling Andy and Kyle how much she loved them while saying a polite hello to Monty and Devin. Unhappy that she continues to look hideous in photos but is working on it.

Blah Blah more standing in the cold, no food, thankful for friends who keep blankets in their cars, three glasses of wine, Dave-trance, Cousin O’Love and Charlie O’Pal get to see the real fangirl roll on out, headbanging to Led Zep “Rock N Roll” and sweating. Fun!

She is able to join the after-show Meet and Greet and is glad she was paying attention when they said “the line starts here” because here was right where she was standing! First in line FTW!!

Dave much more relaxed, she gets massive hug and tells him (like he cares, but whateves) that she’s seen six shows and would follow him anywhere. (At least she didn’t mope to his face about how hard dating is because no one else is like him. Have you no shame, girl who did that??)

Home again, home again jiggidy jig. A fun time was had by all.

But especially this one girl who didn’t wear a coat and got a cold for her fangirly efforts.

(She says “It was so totally worth it.”)

The End.

(Until next show)

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