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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] |
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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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[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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[11 Aug 2009|02:53pm] |
my kitten baby turns one today. weird weird weird.
happy beee-day, daria. hope you like your wet cat foods.
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[10 Aug 2009|10:11am] |
i'm down one IUD, and up 40(!) condoms and 2 packs of plan b.
and it was all free thanks to the lovely state of oregon, who has a lot more faith in my sex life than i have.
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[03 Jul 2009|07:58pm] |
hey look! i don't post anymore. let's change that, shall we?
i've written a few things in the past few weeks, but made them all private because i felt that they were boring and dumb.
example: one post about how i like my job a lot and plan to buy a used car in the nearish future (but am in no real hurry) and one about exercise and being vegan again (slowly but surely) and trying to lose weight for real this time.
( updates, likely only interesting to me )
and now i'm sitting on the couch in my pajamas, in front of a fan, and contemplating what to watch until tom makes it home (on the bus, 'cause his car isn't working).
i can't quite believe it's july. tomorrow i get to work for five hours. it may be the first time in my life that i actually get paid timeandahalf to work on a holiday. we'll see.
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[16 Jun 2009|10:15pm] |
my rear bike tire keeps deflating, even though i recently had the tube replaced. it just magically deflates within a number of hours, but i couldn't find a hole in it when i checked today.
last time (when it also deflated magically), the guy at the bike shop said it was a weird rubbing thing that made tiny tiny holes all over the tube so there was no single, discernible hole.
ack ack ack. it was fine two days ago and now it won't stay inflated.
sorry guys, i'm super frustrated. i guess i'll call the bike shop tomorrow and see what they say. maybe i need a new rim? blah.
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[12 Jun 2009|08:52pm] |
yesterday i rearranged the living room.
today i rearranged the kitchen cabinets.
tomorrow i need to organize and put away the stuff all over my bedroom floor, because it's getting ridiculous.
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[10 Jun 2009|08:53pm] |
fucking weird.
in other news, i've been watching season 4 of weeds online while cleaning my room.
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[09 Jun 2009|12:59pm] |
an impromptu bike ride to the liquor store on 52nd & powell left me with a bottle of sloe gin and one of tequila. thanks, loretta lynn! also, margarita time. num.
any other drink recommendations that use these beautiful liquids?
edited at 4pm to add: plus one bottle of triple sec as well (i keep typing 'triple sex,' goddamn). margarita and sloe gin fizz party at my house tonight. plus alton brown's guacamole that won me friends at a party sophomore year. mmm. today i have biked 10 miles, and even though it's warm and kinda windy, it felt so goddamn gooood.
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[09 Jun 2009|07:51am] |
here i am, asking for some advice or even just a nudging in one direction over the other.
lately i've been thinking a lot (a lot) about buying some form of non-bicycle transportation because as much as i love riding my bike, there are times when it's just not practical. and as much as i love riding buses, the ones in portland are exxxpensive and not as convenient as i'd like.
i'll be moving in september, to who knows where (but still in portland), which may make bicycling to my job more or less difficult (i haven't done it from my current house yet, but it's about 4 miles from here on 82nd, which isn't very bike-friendly, and 5ish miles with other roads). i would likely be moving further north, which means it would be a longer commute (though perhaps still bikeable).
so, here are the two options i've been tossing over (and over and over) in my head. help me brainstorm this a bit more?
1. a 1990 to 1992ish manual transmission ford ranger. hopefully a short bed with a smaller engine, as they get the best gas mileage. i don't yet know how to drive a manual, but if tom helped me find one he could possibly teach me.
2. a scoooooter. i was looking at the buddy (125cc), which gets 90 mpg and goes about as fast as i'd need it to (60ish mph).
( pros & cons )
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[07 Jun 2009|02:59pm] |
this overcast weather makes me really apathetic.
case in point: today i had grand-ish plans of biking around and instead i made breakfast and have been looking at the internet on my couch since then. instead of biking, however, i should really work on cleaning my room since tomorrow i'm doing some job-related things, like filling out paperwork and peeing in cups and whatnot, but i've yet to do so. i got the job i interviewed for, which is both not surprising and yet was still somewhat daunting. i'll be working in the backroom of the clackamas target (the one off 82nd) starting in a week or so, which means that tomorrow i'll have to zip around town (in the zipcar i've got for the day—no pun intended) and find some red shirts and khaki-ish pants. i am excited because: 1) i found a job less than a month after graduating, and 2) because i do not have to sit at a desk and instead get to be on my feet and do regular heavyish lifting.
i am scatterbrained, my room is a mess (the sort of in-the-process-of-organizing mess), and i am unmotivated. fun times. to be fair, i stopped drinking caffeine cold turkey after a few months of heavy use and that is probably one of the culprits.
unrelated tidbit: some of my favorite fruits are blueberries, honeydew, plums, and mangoes.
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