BLEH!
Currently
June 24, 2008 7:48 pm
Feeling: Confused
Craving: A break
Hearing: Frank sighing at me cause I’m not writing my paper
Last Movie: 27 Dresses
Last DVD: What Dreams May Come
Last on TV: How It’s Made
Reading: The Iliad by Homer, The Giver by Lowry, and Wicked by Gregory Maguire
Talking to: Frank
Plugging: Madness Letters
I don’t like this week. I have too much to do, and I didn’t get anything done over the weekend because we had a big religious convention all weekend and my parents were here for it, so even after the religious stuff was done, I was hanging with my parents. Because of this, I barely studied for my quiz that was on Monday, but hopefully I did okay on it; I think I did. I have a four page paper due Thursday, and I’m still iffy on my topic… and my midterm is on Friday.
Frank was telling me I should’ve just taken both my summer classes during the first summer session, but with just this one class’ assignments piling up on me, I wouldn’t want a second class to worry about too. If I had taken a second class, this weekend probably would’ve killed my grades.
I watched 27 Dresses this weekend and I LOVED it! Especially the ode’s to Elton John haha. It was an awesome movie, so I decided I need to catch up on the recent romantic comedies. Frank doesn’t like them, plus we’re both skint, so I haven’t seen many movies recently. I’ve like Katherine Heigl ever since I saw her in Wish Upon a Star, the old Disney movie, but my respect for James Marsden went up.
Since the end of this fiscal year is ending at the library (and everywhere else) this weekend, my boss told me I could come in and work a couple long days, so I’m going in on Saturday, and hopefully Sunday too, to work 6 hour days to make a little extra, but I’m not sure how many hours I’m going to get once I get my work-study paperwork in. Hopefully at least 14, because that’s not even enough for all my bills…. Bleh. I hate paying for everything with my credit card. It feels so immature, but the truth is I just don’t have the money and no one down here is hiring.
Speaking of that, Frank had a job interview scheduled for yesterday and they called him a half hour beforehand to say, nevermind because they filled the position. That’s super-lame if you ask me, but Frank says he bets the person they hired knew someone else who worked there. Most likely. Probably nepotism at it’s finest.
So I plugged the page I did because of the recent blog on Shaq’s rap about Kobe. As much as I hate Kobe and love the Suns, the rap’s kinda dumb. I didn’t listen to it that closely, but just the “Kobe, tell me how my ass tastes” is a tad ridiculous. I’m just gonna link it, cause I don’t particularly want it on my page haha.
Okay, Frank is nagging me about starting my paper, and I guess he’s right. I don’t want to be stuck with all four pages left to write by tomorrow night. OH, but I’m excited because of the Before You Know It software I plugged in an earlier post, I know 14 animals in Greek and I can write them and everything haha. silly me.
4 more days till my new phone – I CANNOT WAIT!
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8 Days Left
Currently
June 20, 2008 10:25 pm
Feeling: Annoyed
Craving: Watermelon
Hearing: Some sort of weird creaking noise
Last Movie: What Dreams May Come
Last DVD: What Dreams May Come
Last on TV: Weeds
Reading: The Iliad by Homer, The Giver by Lowry, and Wicked by Gregory Maguire
Talking to: No one
Plugging: Terrible Knucklehead
My LG phone has now put itself permanently into “CAR KIT” mode and I have tried numerous ways to try to get it out, to no avail.
I found a forum where other people are obviously having the same problem (although that isn’t my exact phone), but of course I still have no answer.
Basically with “CAR KIT,” I have no sound for text messages or when my phone boots up, but I can hear my phone ring and my alarm go off. BUT when I get or make phone calls, I can’t hear the other person and the other person can’t hear me. So I kinda just have a beeper right now. I can send messages and that’s it. GRRRR
And it looks as though the forum is saying that there is either moisture in my phone (which there isn’t) or there is something wrong with the charging port, which there is. Back in, like, December or even longer than that, I noticed my phone wasn’t holding as much of a charge, and when I went to a Verizon store they told me that the charger port had been ruined, kind of. The little metal bars, or whatever, in the port – some of them were bent up. So, I guess this is just my continual punishment for ruining that.
So, back to the title of my blog: Thank God I only have 8 more days until I get my new phone.
Anywho, I took a quiz for my class on Tuesday(?) and I realized Tuesday night that I had forgotten to answer one of the parts. The IDs said to answer 5/8 and I only answered 4. I got my quiz back today and I got a 90%. Totally lucky. I couldn’t believe it. Unfortunately, as it is a summer class, and therefore sped-up, I have another quiz Monday, a paper due Thursday and my midterm on Friday. BLEH.
My parent’s are here this weekend for a church thing. It’s good to see them again, but I just saw them haha. I kinda wish it could’ve been a couple weeks from now, just cause I really don’t know when the next time I’ll see them is. It may be as far away as Labor Day weekend when we go to Hatch for the Chile Festival.
Bleh. I have to get up early and I’m mad about my phone, so I’m off to bed.
καληνύχτα – aka Goodnite!
Raise your hand if you love Pushing Daisies!
Currently
June 17, 2008 1:55 pm
Feeling: My Kidney
Craving: Dessert mints
Hearing: B-52s – Rock Lobster
Last Movie: Big Fish
Last DVD: Rent
Last on TV: Home Improvement
Reading: The Iliad by Homer and Wicked by Gregory Maguire
Talking to: No one
Plugging: Scratch for the Soul
My hand is most definitely raised! Oh how I love this tv show! From the beautiful Lee Pace, to the amazing sets, to the brilliant idea, to the crime solving, to the hilarity…. I love everything – it’s just an amazing show. Frank said it’s the quintessential ME show… Not sure what he means by that haha… other than he thinks I’m a big weirdo.
I mean, c’mon!! If nothing else, watch the show for the Pie Maker!
I hope Frank doesn’t see this post, cause he’ll be just a tad jealous : P
Well anyway, when I was at work earlier I was convinced that when I got home I’d clean and start working on my first paper for my class on Homer and be productive in general. So far I’ve eaten lunch… and started this blog haha. Oh, that’s a lie, I did dishes too, but it’s not like there was much to do.
That’s something I do enjoy about our apartment – there’s no dishwasher. And you may be thinking, “why the hell would you like that?” Well let me tell you: We don’t have enough dishes to fill a dishwasher anyway, so if we were continually putting our dishes in the dishwasher, we would run out of dishes before we had to run it. Next, since we have a small dish drainer for the dishes to dry in, we have to put the clean dishes away more often. When I lived at my parents house, I would always just stack dishes until there was no more room left and I had to put them away. Now that amount of time is much smaller haha. I don’t know, it just makes me neater, which is always good. I need things like that.
So, money’s getting tight, especially after spending $120 on groceries due to the fact that I had to buy a lot of stuff since I had absolutely nothing other than snacks and soy milk at my apartment. I think we’re going grocery shopping again tonite… hello credit card.
I’m usually really good about paying most of my bill on my credit cards every month, plus I’m usually pretty good about not using it much, but now I don’t even have the money too. BLEH.
Well, with that said, I think I’m going to do my reading for class tomorrow… or nap. One of the two.
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Oh, life.
Currently
June 13, 2008 11:28 am
Feeling: Nauseated
Craving: Money and food
Hearing: Commercials
Last Movie: Godzilla
Last DVD: Rent
Last on TV: NewsRadio
Reading: The Iliad by Homer and Wicked by Gregory Maguire
Talking to: No one
Plugging: Adolwyn
Yay! I finally started reading Wicked again, but I realized when I started reading it again that it has been so long that I just have to reread all the stuff I read before. I want to read a lot of it today since I have another week of school again. Bleh. I like that my class is only almost 2 hours a day (and actually since my teacher is fifteen minutes late every day and gives us a ten minute break in between it’s really only an hour and twenty minutes), and having it from 9 to 11 is nice because I get it over with early, but five days a week in painful. I’ve got to live up the weekend I guess.
And we did last night. A few of Franks friends came over and so did Michelle, so we were up until after 2 am doing… various things. I woke up at 10:30 though when my sister texted me and was ready to get up… now I’m the only one up and I’m hungry, but I don’t know what to eat or anything. Boring.
So Big Fish just came on and I’ve never seen it. I remember I wanted to see it so bad when it first came out. And now my sunburn has turned into my lopsided tan. I also got some really big news the other day, and of course I can’t talk about it. I hate that! You get big news, but people don’t want to tell others until later.
Well, yeah. Work was good yesterday. My boss said there was four hours of work, but I kind of didn’t believe him until I got there. I’d much rather be busy at work than searching for things to do. That’s why I always loved doing the wall changes at Linens N Things, where everything had to be moved and re-tagged and stuff. It’s always tedious stuff, but I kind of like the tedious stuff haha.
I think I’m going to go eat now. I’m getting to hungry to keep waiting for Frank. And I can’t think of anything particularly good or interesting to blog about.
καληνύχτα – aka Goodnite!
Boring Night
Currently
June 13, 2008 11:47 pm
Feeling: Restricted and tired
Craving: Money
Hearing: Frank, Ben, and Michelle talking
Last Movie: Godzilla
Last DVD: Rent
Last on TV: Man vs. Wild
Reading: The Iliad by Homer and Wicked by Gregory Maguire
Talking to: Frank, Ben, and Michelle
Plugging: Scribble Scratch
Bleh. I have to work tomorrow. I’m glad I will have work again (especially since it’s only until the end of June), but I’m still not looking forward to it. It’s been really nice coming back from school and doing nothing for the rest of the day. I guess, since it’s only temporary work I will work Monday – Saturday. The thing that really sucks is that Frank and I walk to school together and now we’ll have to walk back separately. It’s a little thing, but still.
When I went to talk to my boss about that today I also grabbed Wicked and Son of a Witch from the library. Of course, I haven’t picked it up today, but I will. Instead Frank and I watched TV and took a three hour nap.
I’ve been playing around with Photoshop again. I go through phases with it. I saw a tutorial on smashing magazine about using the clouds filter. I’d like to see and use more tutorials like that because I’d really like to get better with graphic design.
I now have a profile on Library Thing and I’m excited for it. I’ll add some of my random books at some point, but I’m too tired to tonite.
I guess that’s all for today : P
καληνύχτα – aka Goodnite!
Sunburns Suck
Currently
June 12, 2008 1:28 pm
Feeling: Comfy
Craving: A good book
Hearing: The Braves-Cubs game and Frank being mad at the Braves
Last Movie: Hot Fuzz
Last DVD: Ed Wood
Last on TV: Hot Fuzz
Reading: The Iliad by Homer
Talking to: Frank
Plugging: Logical Harmony
Frank and I have been walking to school in the morning. It’s nice, but yesterday we walked from his house and it was super hot. I haven’t been sunburned in a long time, but after the 40 minute walk to class and the 40 minute walk back from class in a tank top, it happened. Yay for freaky tan lines. I thought it was going to hurt a lot today, but luckily it doesn’t. Now I’m just sitting here watching the Braves game with Frank even thought I don’t like baseball…
So I saw an article about Cherlize Theron saying that she was “slamming” other actors, when she said
“It comes across as this really sad need for approval. I’ve heard people make comments like, ‘You don’t really want to be in the tabloids but you need to be for your career.’ They believe it’s actually important. It’s not. It’s ugly.”
I don’t think that is “slamming” other famous people. It’s true! Wanting to be in the tabloids seems to me, like a quest for attention too, and personally I don’t think that bad attention is worth it. I guess I’m not someone who likes to be the center of attention anyway. I’d much rather be the best friend of the person in the limelight, but maybe that’s just me.
The Suns finally have a new coach. I’m a little scared. I know we need to work on defense, but I’m afraid other things will slip. My boyfriend and his roommate were saying we need to get rid of Diaw or Barbosa, but at least they stepped up in the finals against the Spurs. Our “top three” didn’t. Not that I want Nash, Stat, or Shaq to leave. Well, actually Shaq didn’t do what he was supposed to, so whatever. I guess my point is that for this all to work, with a new coach, everyone needs to freaking step up.
So, I was talking to a friend of mine yesterday and he was saying that he has applied to 8 or 9 places down here and no one has even called him back. After we talked about that I started getting scared that I’m never going to get a job down here, but I really need one. So I emailed my nice boss at the library to ask if theres a chance that I could work there this summer even though I said a month ago that I wasn’t going to. So I at least have a job until the end of June, but I need to go see him to figure out when I’m going to work. I really like not working though haha. It’s nice going to school and then coming home and just doing nothing, or cleaning. I’d make a good housewife haha.
After reading the Iliad today I really want to go to the library and get other books. I keep forgetting to take my library card with me to school, though and Frank doesn’t want to walk back over there today 
I want to read, but I want to finish reading Wicked!
So I also read today on AOL (I hate AOL, but it has a good news page) that the US life expectancy is behind 30 some other countries. Japan has the number 1 life expectancy with 83 years old. I’ve decided I’m blaming the fast food world, along with the lethargic life style. I know that’s my problem haha. Being overweight just causes SO many other health problems! From things like diabetes, and heart failure, to something I had to deal with this year. When I gained weight at the beginning of this year I noticed my feet were hurting, but not in a normal way – the top of my feet were hurting and I was literally limping. That’s when I had to stop wearing flip flops 24/7 and start wearing tennis shoes again.
So anyway, if you couldn’t tell I don’t have much in my own life to talk about today haha. I haven’t fixed my car yet. Frank is going to look underneath my car and see if something with the gear shift is loose, but we have to wait until I can call my dad and he can explain what frank should look for. Anyway, I finally need to go unpack my bags and clean my room, so I’m going to go do that.
καληνύχτα – aka Goodnite!
First Day Back
Currently
June 9, 2008 9:50pm
Feeling: Tired
Craving: tv and internet
Hearing: listening to Frank and Steve-o talk
Last Movie: Hot Fuzz
Last DVD: Ed Wood
Last on TV: Hot Fuzz
Reading: Wicked by Gregory Maguire
Talking to: Steve-o, Bethany, and Frank
Plugging: Big Pink Cookie
Well, I’m back. I’m in Tucson and school started today.
My weekend was awesome for the most part – at least the San Diego part. The wedding turned out really good. I helped make the centerpieces and decorate and then I helped make the food. It was a very disorganized wedding, but small and casual so it didn’t matter anyway. I took way too many pictures 
Well, we left yesterday morning and flew back to Phoenix on a much bumpier ride, but at least I didn’t get too much motion sickness. When we got there we went to my grandparents house. I had wanted to leave Phoenix around 3 pm or so, but since my grandpa decided there was something wrong with my starter he went to put in a new one. He told me at one point that I should take a shuttle since I would have to be down here today for my first class. Well, we decided it would be okay, and so around 6 I left. My car was good all through the drive, but when I got here and pulled into the gas station, I couldn’t get the gear shift out of drive so I called my dad and he told me to get my gas, and then I could still drive home. Well after I got my gas I couldn’t get my car started again. So I had to call a tow truck.
My dad was trying to help me on the phone, but when things like this happen, I can’t help but cry. He got frustrated with me crying and gave the phone to my mom who told me to call a tow truck. Thank God for Allstate’s free towing! Well, I told Frank I was broken down and he came to wait with me and the tow truck came about 45 minutes after I called. The guy was very nice, but told me that if my car was stuck in gear that he didn’t want to ruin my transmission by putting it on the flatbed… Frank mentioned something about “if it rolls wouldn’t it be okay?” but the guy said he didn’t want to take the chance so he’d call a wheel-lock tow truck.
So another 30 minutes or so, another tow truck shows up. The guy is not nearly as nice, but he gets in and sees that my car will roll, so he doesn’t get why he was called to do this. He calls the first tow truck guy who says that we told him we didn’t want him to ruin my transmission and asked for a different tow truck….. as if I know ANYTHING about tow trucks. I hate when people shift the blame to someone else, and I try not to, but I know I do occasionally. But that was just dumb.
I finally got home at around 10:30 and I went to bed around midnight or something, but after crying so much my eyes hurt so bad and I had a massive headache plus I had missed dinner due to the car mess. Because of that, I felt almost like I had a huge hangover this morning, but I went to class and all is well now.
My class was pretty good although the teacher was 15 minutes late, but whatever. We talked about the background of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey because that’s what the class is about, but I knew all of that stuff already. The only crappy thing is the books. One of the books costs about $60 and is back ordered, but we might have to buy it anyway. Then for The Odyssey and the Iliad we have to buy copies by a specific translator, so instead of borrowing the Iliad from the library for free, I had to go buy it for $11.
After all that, Frank and I ran errands and stuff. I found that my internet wasn’t working so I had to call and deal with that and I just figured out that it wasn’t the modem or the internet or anything – its the cable. So I get to do that tomorrow. AND I got to use my gas stove in my apartment YAY! I love gas stoves! Well, since we have to choose between tv or internet, I’d better get going.
καληνύχτα – aka Goodnite!
Weekend in San Diego
Currently
June 6, 2008 9:37pm
Feeling: Lame
Craving: caffeine
Hearing: my dad snoring and the tv on
Last Movie: Man of the Year
Last DVD: Ed Wood
Last on TV: Hot Fuzz
Reading: Wicked by Gregory Maguire
Talking to: nobody
Plugging: Seasonal Plume
So we got up at 5 am today so we could leave Phoenix for San Diego at 7:30, and even though it was really freaking early and made it necessary for me to take a nap around 10 am, it was SO much better to take a one hour flight than to drive 8 hours haha. It was also fun since I hadn’t been on a plane in at least 8 or 9 years.
We went to Benihana today and it was ridiculously yummy. I had never been there before, but I had been to one other teppanyaki (I’ve also had a yearning to go since the Benihana Christmas episode of The Office). I love how the chefs have to be such entertainers along with everything else. We went to really good Mexican place for dinner too and it ended up that we had Calimari for lunch and dinner, which I think I could do everyday for the rest of my life We met up with our family friend that is getting married tomorrow (that’s why we are here). I hope it all works out. Marriage is such a complicated thing. I guess more relationships in general.
Speaking of relationships, my sister was texting me again today to find out what her ex had been texting me about and it kind of ended up with the two of us in a texting fight (which is super lame if you ask me). She can have all the opinions she wants, but if I have one it’s a huge freaking deal. I tried to explain to her that I believe that how a person treats his friends is a big indicator of who he really is (aka “best friends” don’t move in on each other’s girlfriends). Sorry if this is confusing, but I feel bad putting up too many details. I just wish I wasn’t stuck in the middle. Because of it my sister thinks I hate her… but I guess that’s her opinion : P
But back to my trip, my parents and I walked around the beach for a while today, and I decided that as much as I would hate living in California, I could DEFINITELY get a summer house here haha. It was so nice out and I feel that if I lived here, especially if I were rich and could afford a house really close to the beach, I’d get so much more exercise!! Just walking on the beach was so nice, and at the time I really wished I had a bathing suit so I could enjoy it more…..
… then I went to Target and tried on bathing suits and decided it is the most horrible way to torture a woman. Even when I was at my thinnest, shopping for swim suits was the worst thing ever! No matter how skinny you are, they just point out your flaws (real or imagined). So after embarrassing myself in front of myself, I bought a swim suit I wasn’t happy with (but that would work) and we got back to the hotel and didn’t even go down to the pool. So the torture was all in vain…. Well, maybe if I allow the thoughts of those horrible bathing suits to energize and motivate me to get the gym, it will have been worthwhile.
Instead of going down to the pool, my parents both passed out around 9. So here I sit, in this hotel room with crappy (and too few) outlets, writing my blog and watching Hot Fuzz. I love this movie!! My dad got sucked into watching Man of the Year earlier and we stayed for two hours in our hotel room watching it haha. It was good, but not 2-hours-out-of-our-vacation-good. But now Hot Fuzz is on, which I have only seen once, but I love!! My ex-brother-in-law told me about it, and since I’ve never seen Shaun of the Dead, I had no idea what to expect, but it’s amazing.
Well, since tomorrow is the wedding and I have to help my parents cook all day and I’ve been up since 5 am, I’m going to go ahead and go to bed! Hope everyone’s having a good start of the weekend!
καληνύχτα – aka Goodnite!
Last Day at Home
Currently
June 5, 2008 3:37pm
Feeling: Super sleepy
Craving: a nap
Hearing: my uncle cutting tile
Last Movie: Ed Wood
Last DVD: Ed Wood
Last on TV: Hidden Potential on HGTV
Reading: Wicked by Gregory Maguire
Talking to: nobody
Plugging: The Un-Shy Introvert
So, as a classics major, I had two classes this semester with Dr. David Soren. I took his Roman Archeology class and his Art in Cinema class, and that’s where we watched this video clip: Slaughter on 10th Avenue.
Dr. Soren really loves Vera-Ellen – the girl dancer, while I love Gene Kelly! Ever since I saw Gene Kelly in Xanadu, I’ve loved him Anyway, I’m not a dancer so when I first watched the clip I thought it was interesting, but weird. As time goes on though, I find myself looking this clip up on You Tube. I really love it!
I’m leaving for Phoenix tonight, and then in the morning it is off to San Diego for a friend’s wedding. I’m really excited for it! And then when I get back to Phoenix on Sunday, it will be off to Tucson where I get to see my beautiful boyfriend again yay! I’ve loved seeing my parents, and friends, and my sister even though she hates me, but being home with the extra family – I’m definitely glad to be done with that!! So I packed up my car, and now I just have, basically, my computer to pack up and my library books to take back, and I’ll be done.
I put in an application at a hotel yesterday and I’m hoping they’ll call me soon!! I really need a job. I’m also hoping Frank gets a job soon because if he doesn’t, he’ll probably go back to his parents house in July when he’s done with summer school. It will be so lonely if that happens! So I’m just hoping for jobs for both of us!
I went to lunch with my sister’s ex today. I knew him in high school and then they were dating for a year and a half, but she broke up with him. Both him, and I are very sad about that. While I’ve been home we’ve gone to lunch and analyzed the situation. It’s a weird freaking situation, and after our first lunch I felt pretty productive, but today I felt helpless and so did he so it was kind of sad. I really like the guy and I want him to be willing to wait for my sister, but on the other hand, he shouldn’t have to and I’m going to be sad if he does wait around to no avail. Psssh, sisters. and relationships. I feel bad not knowing what to tell him. Oh well, I guess.
Today or in the next few days, I think I’m going to add my checklist of things I want to get done this summer. I’m excited to get to read, and do silly arts and crafts projects, and silly “challenges” on the Sims 2. I want to learn how to knit again and I really want to make a scrapbook, but I don’t really have the money to do too much of one, plus I don’t know what or who I would make it for, so I probably shouldn’t start on it. The only “scrapbooks” I’ve done were as graduation presents for my 4 best friends during our senior year. They were kind of scrapbooks, but they were also planners for their first year of college. I’m not sure if any of them actually used them, but I don’t think I actually want to know, because I have a feeling that one of them may have thrown it away (not maliciously, just because she likes to keep things uncluttered). The next time I make a scrapbook it will be much better, though.
Alright, I’m going to start on my summer checklist since I’ll have to finish packing soon.
καληνύχτα – aka Goodnite!
