I got my iPod!!!
omg, I’m in love with it. It’s all white, and silver-y and just oh so pretty. I have 160 songs on it at the moment, which only brings me up to about 1 gb. 14 gb left to fill! That’s a whole lot of songs. I have to start ripping my CDs. Such fun. New toys rock.
I think I need to get myself to a movie theater immediately to watch Pirates of the Caribbean — if only to understand what the heck everyone else is raving about! I feel so out of the loop. Humph.
So I did it. I went and made myself a wallpaper site — I’ve named it A Drop in the Ocean and it’s located here. Please visit! 🙂
A TV meme-thing that I stole from Cat and Nicola…
Name every show you watch, and favorite character on each.
Alias – Sydney
The Practice – Eugene
Everwood – Ephram and Colin (DON’T make me choose! I can’t!)
BtVS – Buffy
Gilmore Girls – Lane
Smallville – Lana
Dawson’s Creek – Jen
Friends – Chandler
Sex and the City – Charlotte
American Dreams – Meg
Doing that survey made me realize just how much I miss new TV. Rerun season is awful for TV junkies like me. But I won’t have to wait too much longer — I am eagerly waiting the August 5th premiere of O.C. on FOX. I mean, Mischa Barton! And Adam Brody! Whee.
In other news of my weekend, I went and read spoilers for Everwood. I KNOW! Gah. I am so disappointed in myself. I can’t believe I did that — it’s one of the few shows I don’t spoil myself for because it’s just that good, you know?
WARNING: DO NOT READ IF YOU WANT TO REMAIN UNSPOILED FOR EVERWOOD —
I’ve only been at work for about an hour and already I’ve had 3(!)… incidents. First, I arrive at work and check my voicemail — there’s a message from a potential client which I accidentally delete instead of save. So now this person is expecting a phone call from me but I don’t have her phone number because I didn’t write it down. So I obviously can’t call her back. Doh! Then, at around 9:30, I decide that I’m going to go get coffee downstairs at Starbucks. I get into the elevator, it’s going down and then it just stops. Agghhh! I had no idea where I was because the light that says what floor you’re on isn’t functioning. Maybe I was between floors, who knows. Then the elevator door starts making a weird buzzing noise like it’s trying to open but is stuck. I was only in the elevator for a few minutes but I was already starting to panic. I was about to press the emergency button when the door finally stopped making noise and the elevator finished going down. I pretty much ran out of there as quickly as I could. I got my coffee with no injuries but I’m forced to take the elevator back upstairs. I don’t want to but I don’t want to climb up the stairs even more. 9 floors, no way. Laziness always wins, lol. Anyway, I get to my office and guess what? I locked myself out. No one but security has keys to my office so I have to go up 2 floors and fill out all this paperwork just to be let back inside. GAH. I’m finally back here and now I’m so traumatized by the first hour of my day that I think I should just go home. I mean, they can’t expect me to be productive now, right? 😉 Hee. I wish.
Yay for new layouts! I love Harry Potter but the previous layout depressed me a little. It was just getting too dark and depressing. I was craving something simpler and brighter so… ta-da! The drawing I used is of my college alma mater, UC Berkeley. I scanned the picture from my graduation announcements, lol. I was getting a little nostalgic the other day as I was looking through old pictures and college memorabilia so I thought I could pay homage to that time in my life with my new layout. Anyway, I know the layout won’t mean anything to anyone else but I hope you all like it anyway. 🙂
I’ve also taken the “Art” section of the site out, which used to house all my wallpapers. I’m not sure what I want to do with them. I’ll still update here in my blog when I’ve made a new one but I don’t like having them here anymore. Maybe I’ll create some sort of wallpaper archive. Err… maybe. I don’t know.
I also want to plug my former hostee Cindy — she has her own domain now so please visit!
omg, will you take a look at the cover for the Dawson’s Creek Series Finale DVD? Isn’t that horrible?!? I mean, Jen and Pacey’s heads don’t even match their bodies, blech. Gah, I can’t believe someone actually got paid for that.
I went to see Charlie’s Angel: Full Throttle earlier — good, mindless entertainment. I’m still not over the shock of seeing Demi Moore in a bikini. I want to look like that when I’m 40 and have 3 kids! So jealous. If that movie did anything for me, it served as motivation to get my lazy butt to the gym. I have a couple of skirts that are getting a bit snug. Not good. Anyway, a question for anyone who has seen the movie — what the heck was the point of Crispin Glover’s character (Thin Man)?
And now for the Friday Five:
Do you remember your first best friend? Who was it?
I have such a bad memory but I *think* the first person I called my “best friend” was a girl named Jola. We met in first grade.
Are you still in touch with this person?
No. We were in school together until 8th grade, but we grew apart after 5th or 6th grade, I believe. Our personalities just went in completely different directions as we got older.
Do you have a current close friend?
There are 4 people in my life that I consider to be my closest friends — best friends Carmen and Robyn, my cousin Riz, and my boyfriend Rob.
How did you become friends with this person?
Carmen, Robyn and I met in first grade. We’ve been friends ever since. I still can’t get over the fact that I’ve known these girls for around 17 years. But I feel so lucky to have friends who have seen me through some of the best and worst times of my life. My cousin is family so there was no avoiding that relationship, lol. Riz’s family lived with us for awhile and we were forced (hey, I’m an only child — I’m not used to sharing! ;)) to share a room. It sounds cliche but I feel like she’s the closest thing I have to a real sister. And finally, I met Rob officially when I was a freshman in college but I knew who he was prior to that because we went to high school together (he’s a year older).
Is there a friend from your past that you wish you were still in contact with? Why?
I’d love to find out how the girls from my ballet class are doing. I trained and practiced with the same group of girls from age 6 to about 14, which was when I quit professional training. I’m just curious to see if anyone actually pursued a dance career. There are also a few people from high school that I think about sometimes. But I think I’m just a nosy person. 🙂
Had a horrible, horrible day at work.
My boss was in town today and she just has this really unique way of stressing me the fuck out. GAH.
Normally she works out of our Los Angeles office so it’s just us minions here in San Francisco working on the projects she gives us. (Advertising does have some perks — we have access to really great pictures and it’s completely normal for anyone to be playing with PhotoShop throughout the day. yay.) Anyway, today is one of my boss’s designated days here in the Bay Area and she spent most of it dropping work in my inbox tray and then emailing me 5 minutes later asking if it was done yet. Ugh. First of all, it takes much longer than 5 minutes to do research, compile the findings into some sort of presentation, and then print and bind the darn thing. I mean, the printing alone can take 5 minutes! Crazy woman. Then, of course, she kept coming over to my desk over and over to check on the progress of the presentation, which is so annoying. Not to mention extremely distracting. I mean, I *know* there’s a deadline and I *know* I need to finish it as soon as possible — so there’s really no need to hover over my desk the whole damn time. AND all the while she kept giving me OTHER projects to work on that all needed to be finished at the same time because you know, I’m SuperHuman. She made me want to scream and cry all at the same time.
Or you know, maybe I’m just being dramatic because it’s that time of the month. Yes yes yes, too much info. Too bad for you. Humph.
I’ve had a pretty uneventful weekend.
I’m not complaining though — I’ve been able to relax and catch up on some much-needed sleep. I love sleep. Let’s see, I spent the entire 4th of July inside my apartment. No joke. I didn’t even go out to watch fireworks. To make up for our laziness, my boyfriend and I paraded around our apartment wearing T-shirts with the good old US flag imprinted on them. Good stuff. I watched a lot of Real World: Paris though. This cast annoys me so. much. They have a great opportunity in their hands — they get to write for Frommer’s travel guide — yet they act so ungrateful when they have actual responsibilities. I mean, I would gladly live in Paris and write about the attractions, restaurants and shopping that I experienced while I was there. They’re so lucky to have a great job handed to them and they don’t even act like they appreciate it. Ugh. That bugs me.
Anyway, today I actually ventured into the outside world. Rob and I went to go see Legally Blonde 2, which was a really cheesy and corny movie but lots of fun. I didn’t like it as much as the first one — but I think that’s mostly because the first one was new and fresh while this one really felt like a sequel. Oh, but Luke Wilson looked really hot — yes, he did. 😛
My roommate’s mom is visiting for the weekend and she is totally spoiling us all. She’s been cooking all our meals and helping us clean the apartment. It’s really cute how parents get when they know you can take care of yourself — all of a sudden they want to be the ones to do everything for you, like they still want to be needed. It’s completely adorable. My dad acts the same way when I go home to visit him — we’ll go shopping and he’ll insist on buying me stuff even though he knows I make my own money now and can afford to buy things I need. It’s such a sweet gesture though and who am I to refuse? 😉
I’ve also just started watching Trading Spaces — you know, that show on TLC where people trade houses for 2 days and they redecorate a designated room with the help of professional designers. Well, my roommate Jimmy is addicted to this show and he watches it every time it’s on, which is like 99% of the day so by default, I’ve been watching it as well. I never realized just how interesting it is — sometimes it gives me ideas but most of the time, the things they do to the rooms seriously terrify me. There was one little boy’s room where the designer hung a trellice from the ceiling and attached Japanese lanterns to it — ugh! And another time, there was a guest room in which the designer was going for a garden theme and proceeded to install astroturf to the floor and surrounded the bed with a white picket fence. I kid you not. It was awful. I would be surprised if the owners didn’t immediately switch everything back to the original setup. Hee.
Umm, it’s about 3am now — where DOES the time GO?!? I suppose it’s time for bed. 🙂
I talked to one of my best friends on the phone tonight for the first time in such a long time. It felt so good to gossip and catch up with her cause it’s been *so* long since we’ve done that. I’m really horrible at keeping in touch and going to colleges in different parts of the state didn’t help. But it makes me so happy to know that in our case, growing up doesn’t mean growing apart. I may not know what goes on in her daily life but I know the big things, the important things. And that means a lot to me.
I used to think it was weird that I would still call Carmen my “best friend” when the reality was that we would only see each other maybe twice a year when I would visit Southern CA or that we only talked on birthdays and holidays. I thought that maybe I was just being nostalgic because we were so close back in high school and because of my painfully shy nature I didn’t have too many close friends in college or maybe I was just kidding myself and I didn’t want to believe that we weren’t each other’s best friends anymore. I was so confused about her place in my life and vice versa that I forgot that she really does know me best. We’ve known each other since we were like 6 and she’s been witness to and even shared some of my best and worst moments — and that’s something I won’t be able to share with anyone else. Even though we don’t see each other often, when we do, it’s so easy to get back in the groove of talking and laughing and enjoying one another’s company.
Hmm. I just realized that I rarely talk about anything personal on my blog — I hope I didn’t bore anyone to tears with my rambling. I had some thoughts in my head and I just really needed to write them down. My apologies if anything above makes absolutely no sense. Since graduating from college, I have pretty much forgotten all rules of proper grammer. I’m sure I put those damn commas in the wrong places and I make use of the fabulous run-on sentence far too much. I’m also heavily medicated at the moment (yes, I’m sick for what’s like the 10th time this year) so I’m sitting in front of the computer in a bit of a haze. Anyway. Time for bed.
Holy moly — I can’t believe it’s already July! Where did the year go?!?
Why is it that when I actually sit down at my computer to blog, I can’t think of a single thing to blog about? But when I’m sitting on the train or out and about, blog ideas pop into my head and I think “You must remember this!” And of course, I don’t. Sucks to be me. Or maybe it sucks to be you because you’re reading my mindless drivel. Hee. 😉
Anyway, I have a new shopping addiction: buying make-up. Specifically MAC makeup. Gah. It’s so girly and crazy and damn expensive but it’s just so much fun. I love experimenting with the eyeshadow colors and I’m such a sucker for lip gloss. Someone seriously needs to take away my credit card because it’s just way too easy for me to stop by a nearby department store during lunch to buy more. It’s a sickness, I tell you.
Hmm… I just realized that tomorrow is pay day. I *must* resist all temptation to go spending all my money immediately. I mean, I need groceries! Apparently, I also need priorities.
For even more randomness, This or That Tuesday:
1. Lemonade or Ice Cold Beer? Lemonade. I don’t drink alcohol — it makes me giggly and silly and just, ugh.
2. Swimming pool or beach? Beach. I love the whole feeling of going to the beach — getting sand all over your stuff, lying on a beach towel getting some sun and hanging out with lots of people.
3. Long weekends here & there, or a 2-week vacation? 2-week vacation. It gives you the chance to relax and explore, which isn’t something you can really do with just a few days.
4. Destination: Acapulco or Hawaii? Hawaii. I am in love with Hawaii.
5. Destination: Mountains or Beach? Beach.
6. Hotel/motel/B&B or camping? Hotel. I need running water. This girl doesn’t do “roughing it.” 😛
7. Carefully planned vacation, or play it by ear? Carefully planned vacation. I’m not much of a risk-taker when it comes to vacations. I need to plan everything in advance and make sure I get good deals and such.
8. Sneakers or sandals? Sandals
9. Air-conditioning or fans? Air conditioning
10. Concerts in the park or baseball games? Concerts in the park. I’m sorry to say that baseball can just get way too long for me to sit through.
Oh! A question — I was wondering if anyone knows of any sites like Angelfire where you can upload videos with huge file sizes (like 8mb)? I’m trying to alleviate some of the bandwidth strain here at e-l.net. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
omg, everyone should see my apartment right now. It’s a disaster area. Seriously. My new roommate had to move out of his old apartment by July 1 so we have boxes and boxes and boxes of his stuff everywhere. It’s insane. In da membrane. Insane in da Brain! lol. Does anyone else remember that Cypress Hill song?
Anyway, I finally saw Finding Nemo. 🙂 That is the cutest movie. Ever. I am so going to head over to the Disney Store to buy myself a Nemo stuffed toy to add to my collection. Because I am 6. Hee.
I am craving McDonald’s breakfast food right now. I know it’s not *good* by any stretch of the imagination but there is just something about the sausage mcmuffin and hash browns that is so yummy. Oh, and pancakes. Mmmm.