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[05 Aug 2010|06:59pm] |
01. i am back from the east coast.
02. today i turn(ed) twenty-three!
03. it is a sign that you are getting old when you schedule dentist appointments on your birthday because you took off of work and it's the best day to do it.
04. my hair is the longest it's been since 9th grade.
05. i also signed the lease for a house today. yep.
06. tomorrow i go back to work before having the weekend off (as usual). but it will be a busy weekend.
07. ivan turns twenty-three tomorrow. this morning i joked about being older than him. august 5th is the only day of the year when i'm a "year" older. hee.
08. over & out. time to go deposit money and pay bills. being an adult is fun!
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[26 Jul 2010|10:32pm] |
in other news:
01. i have an intense and awkward sunburn on my left knee from driving around yesterday.
02. my cat is shedding like it's going out of style.
03. ivan and i are leaving for maryland/the jersey shore in t-minus 36ish hours. i am currently packing.
04. it is hot here. i'm not really complaining, since i prefer it to the cold without question, but boy does it make packing more difficult.
05. i will agree with ange (ivan's sister) that big boi is indeed--and without a doubt--more attractive than andre 3000. i think i never realized this because i hadn't really seen pictures of him before. but i also hate(!) rating peoples' attractiveness, so there ends that thought. also, he kinda looks like kanye. not sure what that means to me.
06. music from the sorcerer's apprentice made me cry. what is the world coming to?
07. over & out.
08. i'm going to eat ice cream with a fork soon. maybe. probably.
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[26 Jul 2010|08:17pm] |
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i am really sick of feeling depressed and anxious.
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| t(h)ree t(h)ings. |
[19 Jul 2010|09:14pm] |
01. i think i found a place to live. one bedroom, one bathroom, laundry in the basement (shared with the attached studio--it's one house with two living spaces), 750 square feet, two floors, one 'large' backyard (i have yet to see it up close), and so on. i get to tour it on monday, if i like it, i get to put down part of a deposit then and i'd get the keys on my birthday--the big 23.
02. i just discovered that window cat doors exist. this will be indescribably important/awesome for both my and daria's sanity in the new place.
03. last night was my roommate's 26th birthday. he had a party here, starting at 11:30, and i decided to drink a brass monkey (40oz malt liquor + donald duck o.j.). i got pretty ridiculously drunk and was still(!) drunk this morning when i had to go to work. yikes. not an experience i recommend at all. plus i felt nauseous all day. i think i'm totally done with drinking (again). yup yup yup.
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[06 Jul 2010|09:10pm] |
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scratch that, i found the $42.60 -- not(!!!) from my paycheck -- and my loans will be paid off once my (four-in-two-days) pending payments go through. yesssss.
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[06 Jul 2010|07:31pm] |
these days i have been:
+ paying off the (almost) very last bits of my student loans with piggy bank change and cell phone rebates -- the latter two totaled $83.45 and leave me only $42.60 left to go. i vowed to finish paying it by my birthday (august 5th) and am pretty sure i'll be able to make that happen without issue.
+ trying to figure out how to make a few more dollaz a month.
+ eating little bits of meat here and there, for the first time in six years. this all started with the idea last week that i'd like to eat a real (all-beef) hot dog again in my life and maybe a philly cheese steak (at the very least). it was preceded by a month or so of dabbling in seafood, mostly shrimp.
+ enjoying the warm-to-hot sunny weather that has just begun to grace portland with its presence. and enjoying the resultant face-freckling.
+ looking for a new place to live.
+ not writing on livejournal, not really using facebook, not really talking to my reed friends. the first two are fine with me, but i should work on the last bit. a lot of the time i'm too introspective and asocial for my own good.
+ reading getting things done and trying to get my list of 'open loops' together in one place. i have yet to be successful, but i think about it a lot.
+ budgeting budgeting budgeting. i have the framework in place if not the willpower to spend as wisely as i should. the kinks should be worked out in time and i am not worried.
+ hanging out with my boyfriend. it was exactly a year and two days ago that i decided he was the one for me. it took five months to get the guts to contact him, but now we've been together since mid-december and i couldn't be more pleased.
yep.
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[19 Mar 2010|08:11pm] |
since i got home from work around 5, i've been cleaning my room and listening to the same six songs repeatedly, in the same order.
01. ke$ha – tik tok
02. plushgun – just impolite
03. the black eyed peas – imma be
04. led zeppelin – immigrant song
05. miley cyrus – party in the usa
06. passion pit – sleepyhead
lately i've been sick of most of the music on my ipod and apparently just want to hear super catchy top40 radio songs. so it goes.
life is good though. good good good good good.
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[05 Mar 2010|07:35pm] |
awesome update:
as of tuesday (3/2), i have a (sweet) new job as a receptionist at kartini clinic. i started working wednesday, and today was my third day o' training. it's been a ridiculous amount of fun, and i enjoy the company of every single person i've worked with so far. plus, it's a Real Adult Job with 40 hours a week, a regular schedule, downtime during the work day, benefits, a 401k, paid vacation, and so on. and the attire is business casual, with an emphasis on the 'casual' (jeans are fine to wear every day of the week).
i'm pretty happy right now. with lots of things, really. this is just the figurative icing on the cake. perhaps more like funfetti frosting, since i find most icing gross.
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[09 Feb 2010|03:49pm] |
mostly boring/adult things that make me happy anyway:
• inexpensive auto insurance that i just set up today to replace a (much more) expensive plan.
• setting up my new printer that i got as a (late) christmas gift.
• looking into oregon's food stamp (err.. card?) program since my hours have been drastically cut at work and my attempts to find a new job have not yet worked.
• breakfast at jam on hawthorne (el paso scramble + hashbrowns + english muffin + arnold palmer).
• buying the cats some awesome & healthy cat foooods in a large (12 lb!), economical bag.
• scheduling appointments for yearly cat exams and eye exams (because i am so sick sick sick of wearing glasses).
• hanging out with the boyfriend (+ family) and the tomfriend.
• buying new hub caps for my car because at the moment i only have two and want to stop feeling like a hobo.
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[02 Jan 2010|02:33am] |
i'm a silly girl with ambition. here's hoping it pays off.
third time's a charm, right?
happy 2010. that's weird to type.
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[27 Dec 2009|09:10pm] |
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just about every single day i wish it was springslashsummer. i'm ready for sunny walks and bike rides, berry picking and roof-sitting, tubing on rivers and freckles.
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[06 Dec 2009|01:24pm] |
I JUST BOUGHT A CAR OMG. 2003 red toyota echo with 38,000 miles(!).
now we're going to drive to washington and visit tom's family. yep.
i'm all smiles.
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[20 Nov 2009|03:35pm] |
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i miss reedies and sunshine in very big ways.
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[12 Nov 2009|08:12pm] |
i am boring.
these days i go to work for about 8andahalf hours most days, run around like a crazy person (we are terribly, horribly understaffed), and then come home and sit on the couch because i am physically exhausted. i started thinking of handmade christmas gifts around a month ago, but haven't started working on anything yet. i keep having split days off, and i'm half sure i'll never do anything productive ever again.
on a positive note, i work 10 to 6:30 on black friday instead of sometime in the crazyearly morning. at least i'll get enough sleep.
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[23 Oct 2009|12:11am] |
a band i always forget that i adore: pedro the lion.
i'm recovering from a terrible cold/semi-flu and today was my third day home sick from work. i'm going back tomorrow morning (8am) and i actually miss it, which is astounding. being sick kept me from drinking caffeine for about four straight days, but then tonight i got some cream soda and had consumed half the bottle before realizing it had some in it. so now i'm physically tired and could probably fall asleep, but my brain is incredibly active and i'm spending my time making sadtohappytransition playlists for my sister recovering from a shitty-scenario breakup and planning what to do with my post-work tomorrow. just thought the world should know.
life is pretty good in general. i'm still basically floating in a confused sort of limbo where i keep waiting for the 'weekends' without realizing that there's no fall/winter/spring/summer break coming, and that This Is Life until i figure out what i want to do with my time. i need to start working on real things, hobbies even, in my spare time. my circular knitting skills are sub-par, and my desire to only give homemade gifts this year is basically a pipe dream until i get my mind and body in gear.
in other news, i solved this puzzle this morning in a relatively short period of time once i stopped trying to remember how to construct the logic game diagrams we used in first grade and just thought about it for a bit.
the end.
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[11 Oct 2009|07:12pm] |
yesterday i saw janet weiss from sleater-kinney in the grocery store. i did a triple take.
i think i've determined for sure that october is my favorite month of the year. as i get older i feel like i figure more of these things out in a very natural way. it's nice.
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[01 Oct 2009|03:09pm] |
hello IUD, back again so soon? yep, i caved after a month and a half.
so now i'm curled up on the couch, since i decided not to go to work because i was feeling so iffy after having it put in. i can't argue with no pregnancy scares and no periods, i s'pose.
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[25 Sep 2009|11:29am] |
fleas are stupid. one of them got fresh and bit me on the boob, which means war.
we now have a washer and dryer, which will be useful.
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| i yam exhausted. |
[27 Aug 2009|07:59pm] |
spent work today battling intense waves of nausea that i believe to be the signs of my uterus awakening after a three year hibernation period (no pun intended). i forgot how debilitating it can be.
in other news, i (un)officially have a new place to live in less than a week, and two roommates to share it with, bringing the cost of rent to a whopping $265 per month. crazy. we sign the lease on tuesday at noon.
i am so excited to leave this place. it's not quite a shit hole, but it's got some pretty unappealing aspects, like no heat in the winter (unless you want to pay out the ass to only heat the back of the couch and risk dying at the same time), mini ants out the wazoo, and some sort of plumbing issues (we've had to have the roto rooter crew out here twice in a year). that's not to mention the fact that our inside front doorknob handle fell off (which we've yet to have fixed) about two weeks ago.
in the new place, we will be paying less than our already pretty cheap rent to live in more space (1100 square feet) with counter space(!), a second floor(!), and oneandahalf bathrooms (two toilets!). it's got new carpet, which is kinda lame given that we thought it would have wood floors, but kinda awesome for preventing cold winter feet and for ease of cleaning (i'd choose a vacuum over a broom any day, especially when it comes to cat hair). basically, i'm excited. it's not the Best House Ever or anything, but it is time for a new start, and i am pretty darn excited about this one. especially given that our third roommate will be one of tom's coworkers who is a mutual friend and will be fun to hang out with if and when tom isn't home (or even when he is).
no one really cares about this blabbering but me, but that's okay. i've realized that i've been significantly less grumpy since having my IUD removed. it could be a coincidence, but i doubt it. i used to spend my days off sitting around the house being depressed, and not seeing the good in many things, but given that i turned the potential situation of not having a washer/dryer in the house into a good thing says a lot. (then we got home and i made sure the posting said there was a washer/dryer inside, which it did, it's likely that they haven't put them in OR there are just hook ups. but before i could check that, and after freaking out a bit, i realized that, though sucky, having to go to a laundromat would mean twoish hours of solid reading every couple of weeks).
blab blab. now back to reading the fellowship of the ring, because i don't want to feel like shit (again) at work tomorrow and am taking tonight eaaasy peasy.
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