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Nadia: engaged.
Jenny: engaged.
My sister Jen: ring shopping.
My boss: engaged.
Come on boys, where is MY ring?? To refresh your memory, here is the one I want:
It's Tiffany and costs less than $1,000. See? I have good taste, but am cheap. Perfection. Who wouldn't want me???
In all seriousness, it kind of surprises me how little this all effects me. Don't get me wrong, I am excited and happy and elated that everyone is getting married. I just mean I'm not eye-gougingly upset that I am no where near that point in my life. I used to dream about getting married right out of college (maybe it's my anti-feministic view on how women's lib has ruined my chances of staying home to do nothing). Now, I couldn't imagine it. Because now I kind of dream about dating a lot of random men. Artists and do-gooders and corporate types that I would grow quickly to despise. Maybe it all has something to do with the fact that I want to be a writer (I am a writer; I have to stop living in this what I want to be when I grow up mode). What's the fun of writing about the same person over and over? Eventually that same old story just becomes too old. I can't live off of one good plotline forever. The problem there is that I can't get involved with anyone I might actually like or be afraid to hurt because I know I probably would right now. And I am afraid that if anyone's ever crazy enough to want to marry me that I'll never be completely satisfied or end up cheating on him. One thing I don't want is a divorce. And I also don't want to end up like my parents, not my idea of happily ever after.
I will stop rambling now and wish everyone in my life a congratulations on your engagements. Love you all!
Two girls night outs in a row? What am I a female? Really, I spend entirely too much time with boys.
Friday night it was Starbucks with my girls. We talked about the weddings and such as always. I cried because I will be all alone and not married :( not really, but still. Jenny isn't kicking me out of her wedding for going to Europe this summer, but still might if I buy her anything even remotely shaped like a penis. We determined though that I defiantly should find a guy in Italy to marry. Mmmm. Speaking of yummy things, I had one of these at Starbucks:
It's a Marble Mocha Macchiato: dark chocolae, white chocolate, espresso, yumyumyum. It's a new special-type deally. I do love my chococoffee. It didn't really look like that though, not with the swirlyswirls on top. It was just in a regular ole grande paper cup. After the starbucks we headed over to Jedi's. Jenny got a breakfast sandwich thing and they put a pickle on it. Who in the world puts pickles on breakfast sammiches???
Saturday Jen P and I went to see the Joffrey's Romeo and Juliet. Tis quite a wonderful performance. There was one particular moment after Romeo helped his Juliet back up to the balcony and he hoisted himself down clinging onbut before dropping to the ground pulled himself up with the strength of his arms for a final goodnight kiss. Ahshakesperianballetlove. I've decided I need to find someone to fall instantly in love with. I've also decided I should have been a ballerina (tear).
Today I ignored the fact that I need to do homework and watched HGTV and MTV (there was a True Life documentary on competitive eating, my favorite sport. It showed Takeru Kobayashi, who is like the champion eater of the world. He apparently has some crazy stomach thing where his tummy is lower than its supposed to be so it can expand more or something which leads to why he can eat so much).
I might start scanning some of my old pics. Like old old. Who knows, perhaps I will some day get around to posting my entire collection. Watch for those coming soon.
OH! And quiz time:
Are You Afraid Of The Dark? Telling ghost stories
that scare the crap out of me is your goal in
life. Please stop, the clowns'll eat me...
What's Your 90's Nickelodeon Show?
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man did I love that show. And the quiz gaze me a taste for smores.
i got this fortune in a cookie in the union of u of i last time i was down there. i didn't think i still had it until it fell out of my coat pocket and matth picked it up at bw3s.
i concur.
my tummy is full, too much teriaki chicken wings.
i bought the dvd of rent. yay.
i started and finished reading Chuck Palahniuk's Survivor the other day in less than 24 hours. very good book. it starts on page 289 and is 1 page long. i am going to read james frey's a million little pieces next to see what all the fuss is about.
last night i watched 4 hours of american idol (2 taped hours from tuesday plus the new 2 hour episode) and then 2 hours of project runway (reuinion special plus project jay special) all in a row. oh, and then i watched oprah. That is what i call a good night.
ummm, i think that is all for now.
I keep an Excel file open at work.
In it I list all the projects I am working on.
I then highlight the cells to color code them.
White are daily projects that have to be done right away.
Yellow are projects I have finished a draft of and are waiting for people to get back to me with changes and such.
Purple are long term projects (updating the website, etc.)
Blue are projects people have told me they want me to do but have yet to send me all the things I need to start them.
For the first time in like 6 months I have nothing in the white. I usually have about 15 things in the white. I still have 22 things in my agenda, but I can't work on any of them right now. Man, this feels good.
Seriously.
I am not your personal assistant.
I AM ONLY ONE PERSON.
I need to get out of here.
1) Yesterday a woman came in with 2 pages she handwrote and asked me to type it for her. Fine. She then said "I'll wait here while you do it." ... "You do have time right now, right?" Hell no. I have a list of 30 projects that has not gone down in months. Yeah you can wait, if you want to be standing there for two days. I'm not going to drop everything to do your work when 20 other people came in before you.
2) I get this guy who emails me to print up copies of his feature sheet. I looked at it and then looked up the property online and low and behold, the price is different. I so wanted to not change the price for him, as it's not my job to look after these things, but then he'd just yell at me. He also demands that I staple his brochures together and then berates me if I don't. I don't have time to do that stupid crap.
3) Woman leaves postcards she printed that she wants me to take to the bulk mail center for her. Not only does she not give back the bulk mail paperwork I gave her when I processed the labels for her so I have to reprocess them, but she then calls 10 minutes later while I am running around getting supplies for the office and says "they said you are out running errands, so I assume that means you're out taking mine." I seriously wanted to wait a week now to bring them, but I have six other orders that need to be taken.
Basically, my whole job right now is getting berated by agents who think I'm supposed to read their minds and remember everything they've ever told me in the past and who think that they are my only client.
In other news, the big boss is back in town and told me they are thinking of hiring someone part time to help out (mind you, they've been saying this since I started 1.5 years ago). Basically that person would do the template based stuff and my crap work while I got to concentrate on bigger projects so, as she put it "They don't need to know any bigger software, like Corel Draw." Corel Draw???? I want to tell them that they need to hire someone who I can train to replace me in 3 months, but I don't want to say anything about me quitting until I have an actual plan in place.
I am so worried though that anywhere I go will be more of the same. I am so stressed here. And then I get home and am so mentally exhausted and drained from putting up with this that I can't work on the things I really want to be working on, like my novel and websites and laundry.
In other news. On my way to MattyK's last night I stopped at McDonalds to buy milkshakes for Matt and Matt. The McDonalds is all of three blocks from Matt's house. After about a block the guy in front of me slams on his brakes, my backpack and laptop fly off the front seat knocking over and crushing the milkshakes all over the floor of my 3 month old car. MKs vanilla was in pristine condition. Matt and my chocolates were not. My floor ate well. The boys were nice and gave up watching car shows to help me clean. MK got to drink his damn vanilla shake then and Matt let me drink the remains of one of the chocolate ones and went without.
Yay! i am officially going to Vegas again! Booked my ticket last night (finally). Now, to request those days off of work... I've already spent wayway too much on the trip between airfare and the expensive tickets to Avenue Q, but it is so worth it! This will mark 3 years in a row of heading out there, and I don't even like to gamble. I do love the atmosphere and the food and the shows and the croissants. mmmm i miss those Paris croissants!
the trip is from March 16-March 20. i know you'll miss me. ans that is why you should come too!
hey y'all! i'm working hard to get my whole site shiny and new! I updated a bunch of pages today! yay! here's an update on my progress:
Pages Comleted:
About
Professional
Professional - Coursework
Photography
Links
Pages Yet to Be Completed:
Professional - Portfolio
Professional - Resume
Writing
Contact
Splash Page
blog home
search page
categories page
archives page
individual posts pages
post comments page
hopefully it wil all be updated soon!
I'm $97 poorer, but I now have the world.
I got my passport in the mail today. It only took a little over 2 weeks which is very good considering they said 6-8 and i was expecting and warned that it could be months. my picture doesn't look so mean when it has red wavy lines through it. The first thing I did was look up trips on expedia. I can fly one-way to Dublin tomorrow for $171. I considered it. I've never been out of the country before. Not even Canadia. but now i could go anywhere i wanted. if only I had the money. some day i hope to have the freedom to up and go on a whim wherever it is i want to be. some day i will.
2 things you probably don't know about me (and if you do, you must be spying through my window right now).
1) I haven't had sheets on my bed or pillowcases on my pillows for 3 weeks. I took them off to wash. I washed them and left them in the dryer. They spent a week in the basement. I then brought them upstairs and they have spent the last 2 folded in a pile on my floor. maybe i will get around to it tomorrow.
2) i love playing spider solitaire, but not in the way you're supposed to. I play it on the easy, one suit setting. All the cards are the same spade suit. my objective is not to "win," but to lose, to get to a point where it is impossible to go on. My objective is to get to a point where you have less than 10 cards avaiable to play, and therefore the game won't let you deal. This is what it looks like when I "win":
i quit playing and don't even try the last set of cards if i have more than 10 left.
So, today someone forwarded me a press release that they would like me to write a cover letter for and send out to a subdivision. The press release was from the Village of Lombard and was written by their communications & marketing coordinator. This was a job that I had applied for and really had wanted. I got a call for an interview for it and the guy seemed like he was really excited about me, however, I had just accepted and started my RE/MAX job. I actually kind of wanted that job more, but didn't want to risk losing this one since it had taken me so long to get offered anything. Besides that, this job is full time and the Lombard job was part-time, but involved a lot more writing. Since this press release crossed my desk I've been thinking about whether I would have been happier at that job or would it have been just as bad or even worse. I would have had to take a second job anyways. Hopefully my next job search will go better.
In other news, I watched Back to the Future Part 3 on Tuesday. There were cowboys, but none of them were gay. :(
Rant of the Day: ASAP
I hate the term ASAP. This means "as soon as possible." However, most people don't use it to mean that, they use it to mean "right away." There is a big difference there. For example, many people at work tell me they need something back ASAP. To me, as soon as possible really is two days from now. However, they wouldn't stand for that. The more I see it, the more I hate that term.
Someone should take me here for valentines day:
White Castle!
not that i like white castle, but its just funny.
Or someone could just buy me flowers or something.
You're my funny valentine,
Sweet comic valentine,
You make me smile with my heart.
Your looks are laughable, un-photographable,
Yet, you're my favorite work of art.
Is your figure less than greek?
Is your mouth a little weak?
When you open it to speak, are you smart?
But, don't change a hair for me.
Not if you care for me.
Stay little valentine, stay!
Each day is valentine's day
So, I was watching Snow White the other day (the Faerie Tale Theatre version) and decided I really wanted to look like Snow White. So, I tried again with the black hair dye (this time permanent):
My boss today said "I love your hair, is it blue?" hehe, it does look blue in some lights. So, I can now check another color off my list. As Glen put it when I told him I was going black "You know what they say...Once you go black, you never go back." I'm not quite sure if I agree (I think I like red best) but it is fun for now!
Yesterday was the Chicago Auto Show. I had never been before. Once when I was a kid I was supposed to go with my friend Meagan because Mark Paul Gosselaar was going to be there. But then we found out that he cancelled so we didn't go. I had such a crush on Zack Morris and was very disappointed. I actually didn't have a bad time, and even though we were there for 6 hours it didn't feel like that long. This is the only pic I have so far (the rest were taken on rolls of film that will never be developed):
There is glen in a weird looking mobile.
I want a cool sporty car. I should have held out for one of them and not gotten the Saturn. Hehe, speaking of Saturn, one of the guys working at their info desk was the guy who sold me my car, he actually recognized me too (despite the black hair). I have decided I like this car best:
It's the concept car for the Dodge Challenger. It reminds me of some retro 70s throwback, and I am totally in love. I also still want a VW. In pink. Alas, Matt promised me that I would see a pink car. I told him that I'd sleep with him if I did. Well, we finally found one. It was in the car "museum" and was some little pink racing car with German or something words all over it. Pretty in Pink. I just had to hold up my end of the bargain (hehe, yeah right). I will post pics of it if I ever finish my rolls.
All for now.
I suppose it's time for a recap of my wonderful, thrilling life! I know you were waiting on the edge of your seat in anticipation. And I'd hate to disappoint. So here is a random list of everythingedness:
1. After watching the trailer for Brokeback to the Future (see earlier post), I decided that I really wanted to see Back to the Future (I also want to see Brokeback Mountain still too). I had actually never seen B2TF before. I'd seen bits and pieces here and there, but never the full together movie. So, I told MattyK (since I had earlier seen the DVD of it on a shelf at his place) that I was coming over to watch it. He said OK. I said when? He said now? I said um, are you sure? He said yes. I said you realize 24 is on in 10 minutes. He said d'oh. Hehe, so we watched it at 9 instead. It was very good. Matt said he'll help me fix up a Delorean some day.
2. Tuesday was Matt's birthday (happy birthday!), so I went to bw3 with him and other Matt. Jen was supposed to joining too, but we were done before she got out of work. They have a great drink called Melonade that tastes like a green apple jolly rancher. The teriyaki wings are delicious too. Yummyyummy.
3. Wednesday I watched Back to the Future part 2. I thought the first was a lot better than the second, but they were both still entertaining. Matt says he can't make my Delorean fly. Loser.
4. Random work stupidity. Blahblah, I'm really starting to hate my job. I can't wait to quit for the summer (hopefully I will find something that I like more and that pays better). There is one woman who called me the other day and I couldn't understand anything she was saying. I could hear her fine and could understand every word she was saying, just together the words didn't seem to make any sort of coherent sense. And then, when I'd pause to try to figure out what in the hell she'd be asking me, she started saying "hello? hello?" as if I had hung up. Umm, there is also this realtor who I am always mad at for yelling at me for screwing things up (like when I don't call to tell her I emailed her, when I emailed her at the very end of the day when I was out the door). Turns out though it's not her, it's her assistant. When her other assistant came by the other day she kept apologizing for her. I also had a lot of people this week who expected me to drop everything to do their huge projects right away. They also keep telling me that they are going to find ways to spread out the work and give others more to do, but then keep giving more and more responsibilities to me. I am so behind, overworked, underpaid...
5. In better work news someone gave me a $25 Best Buy gift certificate yesterday for Christmas (she'd been sick since December.) She was really sweet and made my day at work. What should I buy???
6. In another weird work moment, yesterday I ran into my old dance teacher. She apparently does atrium landscaping now and was there to talk with one of the owners about our crappy looking atriums. I walked by and she looked like her and then I heard her talk and she had a British accent so I was pretty sure it was her and she did recognize me too. It was weird as I probably haven't seen her since I was a sophomore in high school.
7. I've never been so happy to see a check cashed in my life. I checked my account online and the passport checks have been cashed. At least I know my application must be moving along.
8. Last night Glen was in town so we went out to bw3s again. Moi, MattyK, Glenifer (aka Glen and Jen), and Brandana (Brandon, everyone needs a nickname!). Jen flipped over the wetnaps and we played Memory with the sayings on them and when Matt went to the bathroom we put an ice cube on his chair and stuffed the pockets of his jacket with wetnaps. He didn't find them until he got home. Earlier, before leaving I was at Matt's and foraged through his closet and put on all the weird stuff I found:
Before leaving, his younger brother Chris came in and sang me a song on his guitar. It had lines like "If I had Val in my life, I'd have everything," and "I value her opinion because she's Val." Awwww, its my new favorite song and was really cute. Hehe, I love it even though it was slightly pedophilic.
So, that is all I have. I'm guessing no one will read this because I know I don't tend to read long posts because I'm lazy. Ohwell.
WTF? Why does MY food never have holy images in it?
Jesus Pancake
I could be rich!
So, who won the best bowl game of the year??? Who knows, they're puppies, they don't know how to actually play football. Of course, it would have been nice to give some sort of score, or perhaps put them on teams. With little uniforms.
Oh yeah, there was real football too, which interrupted my commercials.
The Best
I'd say the best is a toss up between two for best. Bud Light's "Magic Fridge," where a man puts his fridge full of beer on a rotating wall so that his guests don't drink it all. Unfortunately for him, the wall turns around into a neighboring apartment where a bunch of stoner types worship the "magic fridge" that comes to them with free beer. Ameriquest also had a great one where two doctors are standing over a patient laying in bed. A bug is flying around them so one of them uses a defibrillator to zap it. As he stands over the man and dead bug with defibrillators in his hands he proclaims, "Well, that killed him"... just as the man's wife and daughter step into the room. Hehe. They also had a good one later where a lady is on a dark plane and has to get up to go to the bathroom so she tries creeping around the other sleeping passengers. As she does so, the plane has turbulence causing her to fall on the lap of one of the men, pull down his eye mask so it gags up his mouth, leaving her in a very compromising position as the lights of the plane come on for all to see.
The one that made me cry (seriously)
There was a Budweiser one with a little pony who'd trying to pull the sleigh thing, but its really heavy. But then he starts moving it and it's all happy. Then they cut to the back of it where the big horses are pushing it for him. It was sweet and made me cry.
Dumb
OK, so there was this commercial for Pizza Hut where Jessica Simpson comes out trying to be all sexy and is like pizzamolesting this 12-year-old boy. It was very disturbing because he was way too young.
Disappointing
Pepsi. Now, I'm a Coke girl anyways, but Pepsi was pretty disappointing this year. I really liked last years where they had PDiddy (or whatever the hell he goes by) late to an awards show and hitch a ride on a diet Pepsi truck causing a new sensation. This years were crap.
Dumb Product
Gillette Fusion. 5 Blades? I think that's a little too much. Won't by the fifth blade it be taking off a layer of skin? (And their commercial wasn't exciting at all.)
Honorable Mention
Sprint had one where this guy says his phone comes with "crime deterrent" and then starts throwing it at the other guy to hurt him. It wasn't spectacular, but funny.
A robot and a monster fall in love and have a Hummer baby.
One commercial started as a commercial for Fabio cologne, which at first you're all what the fuck? Then think, it's got to be a joke. Then are very relieved that it is. But I don't remember what that one was for, so it's obviously not too effective.
Oh, and they had commercials for this new unscripted TV show Sons & Daughters that actually looked kind of funny. "No offense, mom, but I'd rather kill myself then be in a relationship where sex isn't the number one thing."
Me: I have my whole wedding planned out, all I need is the guy.
Mom: You already have the guy.
Me: Blank Stare
Mom: He's taking you to Europe.
Me: No, that's my friend Joe. He's not taking me and he has a girlfriend.
(yeah, my mom thinks if there is a guy involved in anything, I am obviously dating him)
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As the HAWT guy on Project Runway is talking about how he came out of the closet...
Me: DAMN!
Dad: He's a designer, what did you expect?
Me: There's always hope.
Dad: There's never hope.
Thanks to one of Sid's friends, I was reminded that this weekend is the most important, thrilling, exciting, bowl games of the year. That's right, it's time for the PUPPY BOWL!!!!
It's a dog eat dog world as 14 of the meanest (cutest?) puppies battle it out to see who reigns supreme. Watch as time outs are called to clean up "accidents" and don't forget the awesome angles of the water dish cam.
so on the radio this morning E&K were talking about how Kirsten Dunst was apparently mistaken for a hooker and approached outside of a hotel by an old man who wanted to lick whipped cream off of her. They then asked people to call in if they had ever been mistaken for a hooker or a sripper. They then threw in "Eh, we'll take it if you've ever been mistaken for Kirsten Dunst."
I so was going to call in, but chickened out.
I once was at a really nice restaurant and this man at another table kept staring at me the whole night. I was getting really self-consious that he just thought I had bad table manners or something. He kept staring and then whispering to his wife and such. Later, the pastry chef there was walking around and talking to him (I think he was a regular because they seemed chummy) and then she came over to my table and said "Sorry to bother you but that man swears that you are the girl from Spiderman." hehe. I have also been told a few times by people that I look like her (most recently one of Nadia's friends on New Years). Anyways, here's a side-by-side comparison if you're really interested (it was the best I could do right now for matching pics):
yay! I applied for my passport today! Watch out Alina! I will soon be all alone with JoeJoe in a foreign land! But don't worry too much, I'll dump him at the first sign of a hot accent.
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