Willo O'Brien

Willo and Ali
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Ali threw a rockin party on Friday night in celebration of our favorite month: Rocktober!!

It was a costume party – dress up as your favorite rockstar (or really any rock/pop star and/or musician) and our peeps really rallied with costumes, which made it soooo fun!!

I had a long list of ideas for my costume, including Steve from Hot Hot Heat, Janet Weiss (kick ass drummer for Sleater-Kinney, Quasi, and now Steven Malkmus), Shakira or Madonna – either Cowboy Madonna, or Like A Virgin Madonna. As you can see from the above, I went as “Cowboy Madonna”, circa her 2000 “Music” album. Mostly because it was easy – I owned everything I wore. ha.

Ali is Pat Benatar, and we also had appearances by PJ Harvey, Bono (who later simply took off his sunglasses & became Johnny Cash), Slash, Meg & Jack White of the White Stripes, Karen O, Jem, Danzig, Barbara Mandrell, Fall Out Boy, Blondie/Debbie Harry, and more! SOOO FUN!!!

I have yet to upload my photos, of course, but others have & they’re awesome! You can check them all out on Flickr.

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Something happened lastnight that RARELY happens: I was in bed before midnight! Actually it was even 11pm. Weird!

Yesterday I was SOOO tired for some reason. And no, it wasn’t a hangover. I hadn’t even gone out Saturday night, and because of that got 8-9 hours of sleep, but I was still fighting heavy eye-lids all day. Finally around 6:30 I gave up & take a nap for an hour, which felt good, but I woke up still feeling tired & out of it. So instead of trying to work I gave in & decided to just chill. I watched some TiVo’d shows (LOST! wow, crazy beginning to the season) & then watched a movie. But I was so sleepy that I had to stop the movie early & go back to bed! I know some of you are used to going to bed early, but for me it never happens, so I’m blown away by this.

I should probably add, I have been fighting off a little cold of sorts this last week, so that might be it. But I’ve been feeling like it’s going away since the symptoms are pretty much gone now. The sore throat came & went last Wednesday and I had some snot Thurs-Fri, but it’s been pretty calm since then. As soon as I felt something come on I started taking double good care of myself by not drinking & going to bed as early as possible (which for me is about 12:30), and taking my Perfect Health vitamins (my version of Zicam or Airborne). I’ve felt like I kicked it before it even became anything.

Thankfully I’ve been really healthy this year, which I attribute to taking a good daily vitamin, exercising regularly, and eating whole fresh foods. I think I used to get colds/sick way more often, and this is actually the first small cold I’ve gotten in *over* a year, so I’m happy it’s been so short & sweet (knock on wood). Maybe the sleepy mcsleeperson stuff is my body just making double sure it’s never coming back.

Wow, Stub Hub called me this morning & apparently someone used my card to charge some Oakland/49ers tix – to the tune of $556!!!

Thankfully Stub Hub has a fraud dept & this charge came up as a red flag because of a wrong billing address or something. So after double checking with me that it was in fact a fraudulent charge, they called my bank & then my bank called me & we had to cancel my debit card. Doesn’t that suck!?

It’s scary cuz I didn’t lose it – somehow someone got my card #. Maybe from some online purchase or something, but I consider myself pretty web savvy, so it’s not like I filled out any “update your personal information” type of things (which was one of her questions for me). She said they had an odd email address, and I think she said billing address, too… but they had my name….. scary!

Anyway, I’m just glad it was caught now. Man, identity and credit card theft/fraud… definitely a scary thing. Keep an eye on your accounts, people!