Saturday, December 05, 2009
Apparently it's been a while since I last updated my blog. I was not wholly aware of this, and I'd apologize, but I have a life now and have been busy.
One, it's Christmas/Holiday hours at work now. I work a lot. Two, I moved! Now I spend what little free time I have mostly unpacking boxes. Oh, except I need my desk put back in the house so I can decide what goes on the desk, what goes on the dresser, and what goes on the bookcases. Oh, and Three, I've been busy putting Christmas lights on my tree. I think it has enough, but now I need to put them in my living room windows (I got some awesome snowflakes and star lights for that). Also on the mantle, but that requires Dad putting it back.
Oh, and basically I don't have internet unless I am at the Parent's house (my other house?) because that is where my computer is living. Therefore, if you email me, don't expect a reply for like a week, because that is how often I seem to be even turning on my laptop.
So, moral of the story, when I have time/energy, I will take/post pictures and we will all be happy.
Sunday, November 22, 2009
So I went into the bathroom to start getting ready for bed, but then I thought, "There is no way I am sleeping tonight after having taken a 3 hour nap earlier today." So then I left the bathroom, took my Ambien, and saw some catalogs on the kitchen table. Picked them up, started shuffling through them... Weeeeiiird things started happening. I could swear that I heard the peoples in the pictures on the pages talking to the other peoples in the pictures on the page about their product that they were being the advertisement for, but I couldn't understand them. And then I tried to read the words next to one of the people, but it wasn't making any sense because I kept trying to listen to her and still read, and we all know that you can't read and listen at the same time and expect a great outcome! And then I turned my head to ask dad to read the words to me and the room kind of went for a woop-de-lOOp!, and thinking back on it, I think I was still so distracted from the recent ride I went for that the comprehending of the words just has not quite yet caught me up. And standing up, I feel like the world is in SLOOW motion, but my movements are really not. It's like WOAH! Hi, wall. Didn't realize you were so close *smack*. Woah! Mirror there, used to be further away. *smudge*
And now my words are all dancing on the screen, so I think that's a good time to call it quits and hope that some of this is legible.
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Last week, I worked approximately 50 hours (give or take a few), and therefore barely even turned my computer on. What does this mean to you? Well, for my fellow blogging buddies, it means that I have had 200+ blogs to catch up on at one point, and I'm going by folder in my google reader. So if you're blog isn't in one of the folders I've been "clearing out" and you've updated it, chances are I haven't read it. Sorry. I'll get to it. Eventually. And, for those of you who do not blog but still remain a part of my cult-like following, it means... well, probably not much since I've become an inherently bad blogger, anyway, and hardly ever update as it is.
Anyway, this post- this one Right Here that you are reading Right Now- is just a little something to tide you over and to let you all know that I'm ALIVE. (P.S. Kaiyo, Fefe, I will get to those pictures and maybe email them to you before Christmas. This is my life right now and computers do not take priority.)
1.What's your current obsession?
I've been watching a lot of Taiwanese Dramas online lately. And when I say lately, I mean when I'm not working or sleeping. So, really, mostly I've been working and sleeping. Oh, and challenging people to Mario Kart.
2.What's your zodiacal sign? Do you identify with it?
As there is no specification to WHICH zodiac exactly we are talking about here.... Allow me to refer you to Humorscope:
You will have an intellectual discussion with a potato, soon. You'll be so caught up in whether it was Descartes or Voltaire who first advocated empiricism, that it will fail to strike you as a bit odd that the potato knows much of anything about 17th-century French philosophers. In fact, it knows more about them than you do. Later, that will irritate you.
And it probably will irritate me, later, if I actually do have a conversation with a potato any time soon. Also, I know nothing about 17th-century French philosophers.
3.What are you wearing today?
I wore a black and white skirt and a blue-ish colored, short-sleeved sweater. And black shoes.
4.What's the last thing you purchased?
Up! on DVD, but I just remembered how today is Tuesday and I think another movie I want was released on DVD today. Hmm. Oh, well.
5.What do you think about the person who blog I took this from?
I don't know how to answer questions like these when I've never actually
met the person and I suspect they've read more of my writing (hello, Board) than I will ever have read of theirs. Umm.. Hi! You're awesome?
6.What's for dinner?
Mom made Hawaiian Chicken. And speaking of Hawaiian's, Kaiyo and Fefe, there's an episode of NCIS in which a character pronounces "Italian" the same way I do. So phbllllt!
7.What's your favorite decade?
This one.
8.What are your summer must haves?
Ice cream.
9.What would you love to do?
Go to Japan and Taiwan, and, actually, for the first time Ever I want to go to London, too, to see "Love Never Dies" or whatever it's called.
10. What's your favorite item from your wardrobe?
pajamas.
11.What's your dream job?
If I knew that, planning my future would be way a lot easier.
12.What's your favorite magazine?
National Geographic (shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh-ocking)
13.What's the biggest fashion faux pas?
I hear it's socks with sandals, but I don't really know.
14.Describe your style.
Awesome.
15.Favorite Beatle?
John Lennon was a Beetle, right?
16.What are your proud of?
I've finally started to cross things off my "Bucket List" (work at Disneyland, skydiving...)
Labels: meme/quiz
Wednesday, November 04, 2009
FYI, The (World?) Famous Trifecta reunites Friday for a weekend of AWESOME!!! So, like, I won't be around much. Not like that's anything new lately, but, you know, this time I at least have an excuse.
Labels: Trifecta
Sunday, November 01, 2009
So, like, we're almost done painting my house (and by "we" I mean Dad because he's AWESOME). What does this mean? It means Wednesday (hopefully!) I get carpet and pergo and vinyl and all that other kind of floor-stuff that people put in their houses. And THEN I think I get kitchen (and bathroom) cabinets, and THEN I get to move in! Hooray! So, moral of the story, soon I will post updated pictures and you will ALL BE AMAZED. So get a few nights good rest because pretty soon you will not be able to sleep EVER AGAIN because you will have the awesomeness of my house imprinted on the back of your eyelids.
Oh yeah. Happy belated Halloween, yo.
Labels: Housing
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Well, I guess when the business is slow, that is the best time to be training. But when you're standing around the store with nothing to do for TWO AND A HALF HOURS, that is a little bit ridiculous. I think all the associates, myself included, will be glad when we move back over to our own building.
Did I ever actually blog that I got a job? I don't remember! Well, in case a didn't (and if I did, here is a recap), I finally got a job. I started training last week and today I got to train on the cash register. Congratulations, self, I can now swipe everyone's credit cards (to complete the transaction- not steal them).
Also, as we were leaving the store tonight, doing all the closing stuff you know? We could hear this water dripping in the bathroom. Go in there, and, oh look. The sink faucet has been running for how long? Yea flooded bathroom! And THEN we found a teeny, tiny lizard that we were calling a gecko (not likely, in Utah), and named him Charlie. One of my co-workers caught him and was taking him home for her small daughter to have as a pet. He was a cute little bugger and I kind of wish I had gotten a picture of him, but I am not as awesome as Chillylint and I do not carry my camera(s) with me everywhere I go.
Labels: work
Monday, October 26, 2009
We took a nice little family outing to my house this afternoon once Dad got home from work, and now I keep sneezing. This time because of all the dry-wall texturing stuff that was in the air. Pictures to follow soon, hopefully tomorrow.
Also, happy belated birthday to my Grandpa!
Thursday, October 22, 2009
I've had a lot of Remember When moments this past week, and a lot of these moments I actually used the phrase "Remember When." This post documents a few of those times. Definitely not all of those times, because a great majority of the day my mind is thinking "I Remember When...."
It all started when I took an impromptu mini-vacation to Happy Valley this past Thursday. I stayed with my Nicolay (previously Love Duck, because I LOVE her and all people used to be Ducks before they were Bunnies); you may recall that we were roommies 4 years ago. Sometimes we drove each other absolutely bonkers, but mostly we are BFFs. There was this one time when we went to the International Cinema on campus and bawled our eyes out. And then we got to my car and I thought I had lost the mail key (we watched that movie again on Saturday and still bawled our eyes out. Because we're cool like that). Then tehre was this other time* when I kept water in my trunk and you'd hear it rolling around when I'd stop or turn. "Ope. There goes (other roommate's) body rolling around in my trunk again. Bless her heart." And then there was this other time when we went on a double-date to see Zorro for one of her class assignments. Too bad she had seen Zorro a week before because she just Couldn't Wait. And too bad my "date" started to creep me out and I was practically in Nicolay's seat by the end of the movie.
I also got to see my Chilly over the weekend! We had fun "Remember When" times, too. We had lunch at P.F. Chang's and talked about the last time we ate at that P.F. Chang's and all the pictures she had taken of me that time. Man. Lots of memories for us at those P.F. Chang's places. We also Remembered When we took Dave with us to go watch people make out (this is the best and least-confusing phrasing I've come up with for this adventure) at Rock Canyon Park . You may remember me blogging about that one, but I'm not going to search through my archives to find the link. Sorry. And then we had fun times Remembering When about some of Chilly's best worst dates and how one of them used to be a Disneyland Dapper Dan. There was good laughing fun Friday afternoon, yet somehow I didn't make it to the quote board....
Other fun Remember When times from this past week include:
Lunch with J.J. and his beautiful Wife where we Remembered When they came to CA to visit me and we spent the day at Disneyland with his family.
Getting ice cream with Ali and we Remembered When we worked at the Bindery together and all the funny, awesome fun times we had there. Also we Remembered When we had weird co-workers that were very into themselves and made us laugh a little bit. Also we Remembered When Buddy and Drawly would crawl all over Ali after work when my sister picked us up.
And, finally, to conclude my Remember When Post, tonight I got to talk to my Kalier on the internets! I have not had much contact with my Kalier for 3, maybe 4 years. Oh, mans, did we have some fun times as roommates. Sometimes, we'd sneak out of the apartment and go get dinner together. One time, we broke in** to our own apartment after taking Yancy to campus for class (we had class to, but we didn't go because we couldn't find anywhere to park and we were both going to be late anyway) and hid out in my room for a couple of hours watching Princess Diaries.
Remember When is a fun game. If you haven't played it recently, you should! Meanwhile, I am looking forward to playing it with two of my BFF's from California in just 2 short weeks! THE TRIFECTA WILL SOON BE REUNITED!
*This was actually a reoccurring event.
**And by "broke in," I mean we quietly unlocked the door, relocked it, and snuck down the hall as quietly as we could before locking ourselves in my bedroom.
Labels: Friends
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Dear Beautiful Grandmother of mine,
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!
Thursday, October 08, 2009
So remember how I'm moving into my own* house?
Oh, wait, I didn't blog that? Oops, sorry. Well, I'm moving into my own house. See, the neighbors reached an age of OLD as DUST (which is saying a lot, after seeing the inside of the house) and ceased to be able to really take good care of themselves (and the house, apparently). This is sad, because they were pretty awesome neighbors and we may never again get another box of chocolate from them for Christmas, which I'll miss, but they are in a Better Place** now, and are being taken care of. Anyway, so I'm moving to their house. I'd try to explain to you why it is taking me so long to move, but.... sometimes words just fail, utterly, and, well, maybe after seeing the pictures, you'll understand why I've been living with my parents for more months than I had expected to be living with them after moving back from California.
(That is not mold. That is not even white carpet. Or grey. That is just a small portion of the dust that NEVER ENDS.)
*For different values of "my own," but the phrase works.
**If the phrase "better place" can ever apply to Vegas, which I have my doubts about, but there you have it.
Labels: Housing, moving
