The Do It Club!

The most memorial part of Do-It Club this week was Rebecca’s pants history. She decided to wear these horrible pants. They are so horrible that one of our friends tried to forbid her from ever wearing them and one year for my birthday, she asked me what I wanted and I told her, “All I desire is the privilege of throwing those terrible pants in a public trash can.” She said no because she didn’t have replacement pants. I told her that she had no incentive to get better pants because she was still wearing the pants. It is an endless and sad cycle. We are also trying to get her to retire the usage of “jorts” for “jean shorts.” That is a portmanteau the world can do without. 

So … Other than try to help Rebecca help herself in regards to pants, did we do? 

Elizabeth: GOT IT ALL DONE! She has become a coding machine! Girls can do it too! 

For Next Week: Do work for java script class, code academy, Coursera computer work and find a doctor. 

Rebecca: Didn’t get it done. Not even push-ups. She also did whatever the opposite of a mitzvah by coining the term, “jegging-orts” to mean “shorts one makes from old jeggings [another terrible portmanteau the world can do without]. 

For Next Week: Make an attempt to find suitable shorts or pants. Jegging shorts is the absolute last resort. 

Sahar: got it done!!

For Next Week: exercise three times, 18 pages a day of the Recognitions (our new book club book!), find a printer for business cards, and spend three hours working on a wedding  invitation. 

Hanae: Got everything done, going to a gallery shoes because she didn’t want to go! 

For Next Week: go to a gallery show, run twice, re-do translation test, send out resume to a place and get a Father’s Day present. 

Robin: No one knows whats going on here. 

For Next Week: paint toenails, buy new shampoo and deodorant, buy new headphones, clean the bathroom, read up to 150 of the Recognitions, floss at least 6 days and put roommate ad up on Craigslist. 

Lindsay: She couldn’t make it because she was too sun burned!

For Next Week: Buy plane tickets for her cousins wedding, get one finalized design file ready for our biznizz, and reach out to other production people.

Marissa: Got it done! Yay!

For Next Week: figure out how to build ibooks while in Cincinnati, pick a place(s) for birthday dinner with her padres, and complain to us airways about how much they suck. 

This week’s Do-It Club was one of those where I was afraid that it would only be me and Coco (who, in case you have forgotten, is a dog and not even a particularly smart one). I even IM-ed Marissa in San Francisco in panic! What if I have to do it alone! She said we could just do it together on speaker phone. But then Hanae and Rebecca showed up! I made us all egg creams (1/2 cup seltzer, 1/2 milk, and 2 table spoons chocolate sirup) and then we did it as a group. 

SO WHAT WAS DONE? AND WHAT WAS LEFT UNDONE? 

Sahar: I GOT DONE!!!

For Next Week: work more on IG, work on tumblaaaaaaaar, exercise three times, send an annoying invoice, and come up with five concepts for thank you cards. 

Rebecca: Got it done! 

For Next Week: jogging once, make a money chart,  do push ups in the morning once and get keys back from the super. 

Hanae: Got every done!!

For Next Week: run twice, send translation test, and see a gallery show. 

Marissa: Got it done! 

For Next Week: Reschedule Lloyd’s dental work now that he is insured, go to human doctor and get new prescriptions, schedule trip to Cincinnati and activate Comcast internet and get rid of crappy apartment internet

Elizabeth: She couldn’t make it and she didn’t quite get it all done, but she did make lentil soup! What a scrumptious treat!

For Next Week: get caught up on Codeacademy and Coursera Javascript stuff, do homework for real Javascript class and get photos off camera and phone and organize iPhoto library into events, so she’s actually motivated to take pictures again.

We have become a tight doing it machine! We have been accomplishing shit at record rate! 

Elizabeth: Got it done! Elizabeth accidentally booed someone at a work meeting, like we do here. I guess we are instilling bad habits in our members. Whoops!. Also someone at work thought she was one of the girls from the HBO show Girls. So much so that she waited to watch the credits to double check that it wasn’t Elizabeth! 

For Next Week:  find a regular doctor, spend six hours working on coding stuff, finish the Great Gatsby,  figure out what to do with lentils she bought (what a wonderful problem to have!!!) and laundry. 

Sahar: Got it done, despite watching five movies this weekend and becoming addicted to looking at fan art of the characters from the Avengers on tumblr! LOKI! STEVE RODGER’S BUTT! HAWKEYE’S BUTT TOO! 

For Next Week: read half of the Protestant Ethic and the Spirt of Capitalism, start a tumblr about the tumblrs I like, do all my annoying laundry, and exercise three times.

Hanae: Did everything, except take the translation test. Whoop. 

For Next Week: Take translation test, send expenses, run twice, and clean bed area. 

Molly: Yay! Molly came back! She has so much crap to do this week! 

For Next Week: Stay at school until it closes, Wednesday through Friday,i until she finishes her portfolio and finish grad school paper!. 

Rebecca: Rebecca was so late that we just assumed that she wasn’t coming. It turns out she left her bike at home and decided to walk to Do-It Club from Downtown Brooklyn and got lost (and scared) in Orthodox Williamsburg. At least she was wearing a modest outfit! 

For Next Week: running once and fill out paperwork for 403d.

Lindsay: She couldn’t make it person because she went to France. Excuses, excuses.

For Next Week: She is in France, so she’ll just be eating and looking at sculpture. 

Robin: Got it done! But couldn’t come in person since she had too much work to do for her job! SO MANY EXCUSES, guy! 

For Next Week: Go to the gym at least twice, floss at least three times, read 3/4 of Weber, pick up book from the library, clean the bathroom, and put her laundry away (it’s probably wrinkled by now, girl). 

Marissa: She still is in San Francisco obviously, she also couldn’t finish her do-its because she is still drinking from the mug she is supposed to paint. 

For Next Week: Coordinate with IKEA to get the actual furniture that should have been delivered instead of the (half) dresser that belongs to Marianne Rose, respond to Sahar’s friend pimping, have dinner with crazypants friend, get a new lampshade (maybe involving a bus adventure to Target?, pay weird medical bill, and investigate iBook Author software/update/expensing situation.

I really need to stop setting my kitchen on fire. Yesterday, I was conducting what can best be described as an “Angel food cake experiment.” At least it made the kitchen/living room smell more like a toasted marshmallow and less like a decaying mouse corpse (we trapped a mouse this weekend [we learned this the hard way]), so some might call me a hero. 

We also earned ourselves a Do-It Club excursion. So think about what you want to do. Suggestions included: Astoria beer garden, karaoke, brunch and rollerskating. 

So What the Crap Did We Do? 

Sahar: Didn’t get it done. I didn’t even get my Soda Stream cartridge replaced. We have been seltzerless for almost two weeks!

For Next Week: get the co2, finish self portrait, refrain from using my iPad whilst drifting off to sleep, exercise three times, look into Women and Minority Business Owner thing, and figure out my trip to the West Coast. 

Robin: “I don’ think I did anything.” That’s what she said. 

For Next Week: go to the gym twice, floss three times, email lady about ordering Old School Insteads (MENSTRUAL BLOOD RECEPTACLES), register for reunions, and buy ticket to Avodah event, and cut her bangs “with some scissors,” and send emails about roommate stuff. And do week three homework of that MIT nerd thing.

Hanae: Found the citronella! And got it done! 

For Next Week: pack shit in boxes and put them away, take translation proficiency test, and go on a run or two. 

Elizabeth: Didn’t do four hours of coding cuz she was doing something sad! We understand, Elizabeth. Don’t worry about it!

For Next Week: finish To Kill a Mockingbird, ride bike twice, four hours of coding, and write sister birthday/mother’s day card, and make eye doctor appointment. 

Lindsay: Lindsay was busy working so she couldn’t make it in person, but she got it done too!

For Next Week: do all the crap on her EI to do list, learn the first five letters in the miliarty alphabet, and send all invoices and pay all bills, like a boss. 

Marissa: She is still in California obviously. She didn’t get it done because she was drinking from the mug she need to paint, so she couldn’t paint it (METAPHOR).

For Next Week: Do the mug thing, get the rest of her bed delivered and set up in her closet (like R. Kelly, coordinate IKEA delivery time, figure out how to escape-proof her work desk for Lloyd the rabbit, send her Grandma her mother’s day present, do some research on headboards, and get a hair cut.

This week everyone was late. It was 7:25pm and no one had shown up yet and I was in my room playing DrawSomething on my iPad and feeling like a friendless loser. It didn’t help that Catherine came home and quizzically shrieked, “HEY! I THOUGHT DO IT CLUB WAS TONIGHT.” I was like, “It is … but no one is here because I am ugly and I smell bad.” and she was like, “That is true. You are and you do.” Okay, a large part of this story is embellished, but whatever, if Mike Daisey has taught us anything … can’t we just make up truth if it makes everything sound cooler? 

Hanae, Robin and Rebecca showed up. All late. Some later than others. Let’s all try to be on time. 

So What Did Our Tardy-Asses Do This Week? 

Sahar: Got it all done! 

For Next Week:  start coding website for client, get corporate bank account, start ID website, exercise three times, buy seltzer Co2, and finish my book. 

Hanae: Didn’t get it done! 

For Next Week: keep looking for that plant, schedule eye exam, find card for mother’s day, and figure out how to get to Randall’s island for the Frieze Art Fair thing. 

Robin: Didn’t get it done. Boo. Sniff. Fart. 

For Next Week: go to the gym twice, floss three times, get mailer for film, do research about face cleansers so she can have alabaster skin like a greek statue, and two OkCupid. 

Rebecca: Hasn’t been here for a while. But she showed up! 

For Next Week: read 100 pages of Weber, cook a nice a meal where she sits down at the table with a glass of wine while listening to music, and go jogging twice. 

Lindsay: She didn’t get it done because she got inundated with work this week. She couldn’t even make it to Do-It Club in person this week. 

For Next Week: Purchase a mother day gift, look up minertery things to read, get her work work done, and look up the military alphabet thing, like when they say “Alpha, Johnny, Tango” etc. That last one might be the coolest do-it ever! 

Marissa: She got it done! Her one goal for the week was moving to San Francisco in one piece and she managed to do it! She is going to particpate remotely for the time being. 

For Next Week: set up PG&E, Un-set-up ConEd, make sure Time Warner is cancelled too, decorate and bake my mug for work, figure out what to do since none of her dishes survived the move, make a costume and go to the costume party on Saturday and don’t flake out an get landlords a gift and collect Lloyd’s poop for them.

Last night’s Do-It Club was bittersweet. Sweet because somehow all of us regular do-it clubbers managed to get it done. I don’t actually remember that happening before. It was super super bitter because lasts night was Marissa’s last Do-It Club with us. She is moving to San Francisco this weekend. She’ll be greatly missed. Sniff. Hopefully, she’ll start her own Do-It Club there. Since it is the bay area, probably everyone’s do-its will be like “getting my vaporizer’s filter replaced” or “checking out that new burrito place, dude.” 

So what did we do and what do we need to be doing?

Robin: Got it done!!! 

For Next Week: buy bus ticket to Philly, pay credit card bill, balance checkbooks (plural!), register for Reed reunions, go to the gym twice, and floss thrice. 

Sahar: Got it done!!! 

For Next Week: exercise three times, schedule hair appointment, start painting portrait, read half my book (or more!), and figure out what I am doing for my mom for Mother’s Day. 

Lindsay: Got it done!!! She got ordained. It takes less work than becoming a notary. And they say gay marriage is ruining the sanctity of marriage. 

For Next Week: read up on presiding on funeral and weddings, start logo for foundation, draft of our planner, get teeth whitening gel, and get ready for her interview on Thursday. You can do it, girl! 

Hanae: Got it done!

For Next Week: get the plant that her gentleman so desperately needs, get dental floss, pay cable and electricity bills, fix more pictures for her mom, and get card for Mother’s Day. 

Marissa: Got it done, but it is her last time. Sniff! Also, she still can’t get the harness on the rabbit. Good luck with that, dude. 

For Next Week: move to San Francisco. 

Elizabeth Z: Got It Done!!!! 

For Next Week: spend four hours code academy, pick up library book, finish Steve Jobs because it is heavy, and figure out what she’s getting for her mom for mother’s day. 

Molly: Doesn’t normally come, but she needs to do some stuff. And she did stuff like a champion. 

For Next Week: Buy plane tickets to California, research airline credit cards, and make flashcards for her last college exam! I fucking love making flashcards. It makes me almost want to go back to school so I can practice rote memorization again. 

Let me explain the title. There is a certain point in the year where I decide to stop wearing pants because it is hot in our living room. We have these imitation CB2 lucite chairs because … that is how we roll. The problem is that my thighs get stuck to the chairs and it sort of hurts when I stand up. Basically, I spend most Do-It Clubs complaining about my butt either from doing too many squats or just getting it stuck in chairs (which is ironic since I am always saying I wish it were bigger). 

Enough about that … What did we do? 

Lindsay: Got it all done! 

For Next Week: send card to dude who helped with her website, update her awesome blog lindseeing,and get ordained.

Elizabeth Z: Got it all done! 

For Next Week: pick up dry-cleaning, mail her niece her birthday present, spend three hours working on code year, 

Marissa: Got it done! And boy does she have a lot for next week. 

For Next Week: schedule Fed Ex to pick up stuff and have everything packed and ready, assess checked baggage situation, take Lloyd to vet, take herself to the endocrinologist, coordinate the delivery of furniture to SF for Thursday, practice putting the harness on Lloyd.

Robin: Got it done! 

For Next Week: floss teeth three times, gym twice, hand wash sweaters, make a haircut appointment, and ask boss for days off. 

Sahar: Didn’t get it done because the book I’m reading is boring. 

For Next Week: send designs and wireframes to MEC, call lawyer, check out  code year, design a business card for Bridgid, come up with 15 ideas for themes, update Sahartifacts, and exercise three times. 

Hanae: Hasn’t been here for a while. Oh! Well! I’m just so filled with joy whenever she decides to show up!

For Next Week: find a gardening center to buy a citronella plant, straighten digital photos she got from her mom, and get crap for bridal shower. 

This week’s Do-It Club wasn’t noteworthy. Vanessa came for once, but I feel most weeks someone random shows up. Maybe I shouldn’t have waited two days to write this. Perhaps I am forgetting some amazing things that happened. I doubt it. 

Anywhooodle. This is what got did. 

Elizabeth Z: Got it done! Including having a written list of things to say to her friend who is sleeping with her roommate! I feel sorry for their third roommate. S/he probably feels pretty unfuckable right now. 

For Next Week:  Start learning French again, finish book she’s reading, talk to friend who’s dodging her calls, and take shit to dry cleaner.

Sahar: Got it done! Eat my dust! 

For Next Week: get 2/3 done with Custom of the Country, wireframes and sketches for MEC, do at least three things on business to do list, and exercise three times. 

Lindsay: Got a lot of stuff done, but not everything…whoops! 

For Next Week: sign up for personal training sessions, do 300 minutes of cardio, get pants hemmed, find person at penitentiary program to see if she can redesign their ugly diploma, and pick out a new book to read. 

Vanessa: She hasn’t been here and probably won’t be back until June. She is only here because she is on spring break. I miss her. 

For Next Week: Give her unit plan on Oscar Woa to her principal and do her goddamn taxes, finish grading, and yoga twice. 

Rebecca: Didn’t get anything done? I am not sure how that is even possible, but Rebecca has ways of shocking you even when you think you’ve seen it all. 

For next Week: go to yoga twice, be to book four of Custom of the Country, go back to Target and get more gym bottoms and jog once. 

Marissa: Got it done! W00t! 

For Next Week: teach Lloyd (who if you do not remember is a rabbit) to use water bottle thingy (thing that hamsters drink but  bigger), bring him to work, purge things from the apartment with sister, and find people to take the furniture I’m not buying and figure out what stuff she is buying for new apartment. 

This week’s Do It Club didn’t have much doing it. Most of us were off doing other things: Robin and Rebecca had tickets to the Magnetic Fields, Marissa is in San Francisco dipping her toe into her new life, and disappointingly, Jenny ditched us to go to a … Poetry Slam (talk about adding insult to injury).

But we had a special, secret guest! Mike who used to live here and is beloved among the Do It Clubbers made an appearance! He has moved back to Brooklyn from Austin! We were so happy to have him around and hopefully, he’ll be a permanent fixture here soon.

So What Did We Do This Week?

Rebecca: She didn’t make it in person because she was listening to Stephin Merrit sing sad songs, but guess what, motherfuckers? She got it done!!! 

For Next Week:  read half of Custom of the Country, cancel the part of Netflix with DVDs and go to yoga once.

Sahar: I got it done!!!

For Next Week: I decided to be very ambitious for some reason. I am going to write a creative brief and brainstorm 30 company names, put new illustrations on my portfolio website, read a third of Custom of the Country, start working on MEC’s website, exercise three times, and … um … file my taxes.

Elizabeth Z: Got it done! And now she knows for a fact that she is going to Paris and Iceland in October! Elizabeth? Can we come?

For Next Week: make sure she booked hostel in Iceland, get recommendations for  hostel in Paris, figure out a present for niece, log shit into Mint.com, help out friend who is sleeping with her roommate come to her damn senses.

Lindsay: Hasn’t been here for a while! She is also on an insane cleanse. I wanted to go on a cleanse after I came back from Florida because I ate things like … fried cheese. She is just doing it to detoxify.

For Next Week: apply to five jobs, not cheat on cleanse, positive mantra chant everyday in the mirror, difficult and important talk with dudefriend.

After a long absence, Rebecca finally rejoined us. There is a chance that she was doing it alone in her apartment, but I think that she was probably watching Murder She Wrote on Netflix and tweeting about it. Anyway, she returned and I may or may not have accused her of trying to poop in my living room. I am such a gracious and elegant hostess.

So what did we do? Other than listen to several live versions of “Glycerine” by Bush (I tots saw them at Cynthia Woods-Mitchell Pavilion in 1997 with my mom and sister! Veruca Salt opened!).

Marissa: Got it done
Next Week: She won’t be here next week since she’ll be off preparing for her new life in San Francisco, so for two weeks from now, she’ll look for an apartment, figure out if she wants to use moving company or sell shit (to me and Catherine!) and get things to prepare Lloyd (who is her pet rabbit) for his cross-country move.

Sahar: Got it done!
For Next Week: finish one of the three books I am half way through so I can move on with my life, finish poster for thing, start planning Marissa’s going away party (sniff), and start sketching and come up with concept for my portrait project.

Robin: Booooooo!
For Next Week: floss three times, get glasses adjusted, cancel Jackson’s gym membership (let him get fat!), and work out twice!

Rebecca: “Haven’t done anything ever” her words.
For Next Week: get taxes done, get rid of couch, go jogging once, put down rugs, and start Custom of the Country (our book club book!).

Jenny: Didn’t Finish and was like an hour late since she went home between work and Do-It Club and fell asleep.
For Next Week: Finish Catching Fire, yoga twice and soccer once.