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Tomorrow I am leaving for Martha's Vineyard. I get to be a counselor at Camp Jabberwocky for the first time since 2004, and I'm incredibly excited and nervous. But before taking my red-eye out there I have to accomplish a number of things. Paint the dark blue wall at my apartment in boulder white so I can get my deposit back (I have a feeling that is going to take about 3 coats of paint...); move some random things that I have left at the old apartment to my "new" (I say "new" sarcastically because I've been here for three months now, and am not yet completely unpacked) house; pack; work at my full time job; attend a going away dinner at red lobster for coworker who is leaving for optometry school; and return my mom's jeep. I have til 8pm to get all this done. I wish I had told myself not to procrastinate this long. for some reason though, I'm really not too stressed right now (i mean obviously, i'm writing an lj post instead of doing all these things i should be). i think it's because I'm just so relived about getting to take my one vacation for the summer. something else:
the one other girl I work with (besides my 40 something manager) told me today that she might be quitting soon. I'd be really sad if that happened. then I'd be stuck with guys that told inappropriate jokes all day and tend to go through more mood swings than any girl. while I do laugh at their jokes, and enjoy the guys as coworkers and as copeople (haha), it's nice having alison around to keep them in line so to speak. this year will be the most uneventful birthday ever. (well it might not top the one between fresh and sophomore year of high school when all my friends forgot it). carina will be the only person in mv who will know it's my birthday. kinda sad, but also nice to have a low key birthday. I just hope it doesn't top the fresh-sophomore birthday and that the important people acknowledge it. |
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A couple weeks ago my phone started crapping out on me. So tmobile said they'd send me a warranty replacement for only ten bucks. Well I got it yesterday, a nice new phone (the same model as i had), but today it started shutting off randomly. So now I must live without a cell phone for two days while tmobile sends me a razr that they are giving me for free (i must wait two days because when i asked them if they could give me any phones at the store, the lady replied, oh we don't have any phones here. what?? at the phone store??). how will i ever live for two days?? i did some bikram yoga today and sweated up a storm in the process. I felt really good afterward though. The heated room made it really easy to bend with my arthritis. so perhaps i'll keep it up. i'm watching a robin thicke special on mtv. i think that's my cue to try to fall asleep again. |
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my house in broomfield is incredibly hot. i'm sweating just typing this. ew gross! one of the selling points for moving here was that it had air conditioning, but i have not seen the benefits of that yet. where's my air conditioning emmy??! if you like history, you should read Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James Loewen. It's one of the most interesting books I've read in awhile, but then again, I love american history. I'm in the market for a workout slash running slash anything active buddy. |
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I found out some bittersweet news yesterday. Bittersweet because the news is great for the person it's about, and i'm happy about that, but it also brings back a lot of regrets and some sadness. but mostly i'm happy about the news. well, i will be in time.
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when my parents finally pulled the financial rug out from underneath me, it was a little heartbreaking, given that fact that i'm a spoiled little brat. no one here will or should have pity on me, but really, how does my dad expect me to pay for tuition in the fall? my credit is terrible thanks to a parent plus loan HE never pays on time (and some other factors that are my fault). argh, i'm so close to having an actual gpa, instead of the .7 i had at the end of freshman year. sorry, i'm just a spoiled girl asking for some sympathy. you really shouldn't give it to me. |
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i got a job at college optical on the hill. it seems like every spring (ok, just last spring, and i really didn't fuck it up, i just couldn't bend my fingers at all thanks to arthritis, so not my fault...) i'm presented with an awesome job, and then i somehow manage to fuck it up, so hopefully this one will go well. now all that needs to happen for my complete and utter bliss is for the school of liberal arts to erase all my grades from 2003-2005. |
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i saw a man rollerblading today and it made me want rollerblading to be cool again so i could do it. cinco de mayo and i'll be rid of tony and ryan. and i'll also have a big margarita in my hand. |
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i really don't like the fact that my dad's a dentist sometimes. makes me feel like a tooth snob. i don't have pretty teeth, but i try to take care of them and try to make others take care of theirs as well. cause really, they are the gateway to your body. and when people come into my dad's office with retainers that have mold on them or teeth that haven't been flossed in god knows how long, it just makes me think of how many disgusting germs they swallow in every mouthful of saliva. think about it next time you decide not to brush your teeth before bed. i may have used this cliche before but it's so true- you only have to floss the ones you want to keep. (of course, sometimes teeth end up dying from trauma and it couldn't have been helped, and you can't keep them, but keep flossing your other ones). the frustration of people not taking good care of their teeth is one reason why i could never do what my dad does. there are also plenty of other reasons as well- but that is another story. i'm proud of all my friends, they all seem to have nice teeth. they just like to make me upset every once in awhile and say they won't brush their teeth.
in conclusion to my rant- brush your teeth TWICE A DAY, floss ONCE A DAY, and gargle with listerine. your make out partners will thank you. so will your future husband/wife when you have real teeth when you are 75. |
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Survey: Many U.S. high school students bored in classhttp://www.cnn.com/2007/EDUCATION/02/28/students.survey.reut/index.html
Study: Vanity on the rise among college students http://www.cnn.com/2007/EDUCATION/02/27/self.centered.students.ap/index.html
no shit sherlock. |
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So watching the oscars- not my favorite thing to do- especially with my parents who insist on drinking most nights these days. But I've seen two awesome commercials during the oscars. A commercial with jason schwartzman and wes anderson and another commercial for the iphone. well the iphone one wasn't so much awesome as it was a little exciting.
yeah, that's all i've got.... |
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Preston James Kiefer (my nephew), is one of the cutest babies. Granted my point of view may be skewed by the fact that he is my nephew, but I think you all would agree. And the fact that he never fusses or cries makes him even cuter. |
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Disappointment. Don't feel bad for me though. If it's possible to have a good week of disappointment, i did. If you're single, it's hard not to have a disappointing Valentine's Day week- at least for a girl. All the girls getting flowers and your roommate's supposedly terrible boyfriend making her white chocolate covered strawberries just kind of made me a little sad. But i think it's cause I love flowers and absolutely love white chocolate covered strawberries. And the disappointment of valentine's day was that I had to take a calc exam at 5:30pm, and not only that, but walk all the way across campus in the snow to get there to find out my prof would be 30 mins late only then to discover that i'd be one of five people who'd have to wait another 30 mins to get a test because they ran out. so I was there til 7:30, on Valentines taking a calc test. But I trudged my way through the snow to coors in time to catch the end of the first half of the KU v CU basketball game. And Emmy gave me a strawberry and some of her wine. Tonight I'm going to Kansas City to see my new nephew. But it is unlikely that i'll be able to hold him for the first time. Another disappointment. He was admitted to the hospital last night and has tubes and wires coming all out of him. Poor thing, my sister said he's not very happy. I have to run to find out what my calc test score is, i'm scared. Maybe this won't be the week of disappointment...probably not though. |
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Sometimes it's nice to think that for a night getting a little tipsy will make everything better. But in the back of my head i know that tomorrow morning I'll wake up with a little headache and things will still be as bad as they were before.
I wanna meet someone who treats me well. someone who feels the same way i feel about them. I don't think that's too much to ask. getting a little tipsy makes me think that's possible. tomorrow, just like every other normal day I know it won't be possible. it's a skewed version of reality versus the the real reality. tonight has reminded me why I gave up alcohol for new year's- so as not to keep on getting false hope and torture myself every time I drink. |
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New York- I don't think I could survive there. I honestly don't know how megan did it. If i had gone to college out there by myself I feel like I would have cryed myself to sleep every night because I would have felt so lost. Megan is good at showing people the side of new york I wouldn't have seen if I had gone out there with my family, as a tourist. The trip should have been a lot longer, but the lack of sleep made it feel like a week.
a summation of the trip: no sleep on plane; arrived at 6am new york time; walked a lot; discovered my new favorite store H&M; went into an all condom store; stood in line for cupcakes; ate cupcakes on subway; had a beer and pizza for only $5; saw all glass apple store; had breakfast/lunch in front of tiffany's; was unimpressed by the damn tree; ate dinner with megan; then flew home. It may not sound like so much fun, but I had a great time. |
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I'm sitting at my dad's office, waiting for him to finish checking teeth. It makes me wonder what kind of mom would schedule a tooth cleaning appointment for the day after halloween?? yes they will certainly need to be cleaned after all that candy, but she should at least wait til they've eaten all their candy. I bet the mom will now go home and tell them they can't eat their candy cause they just got their teeth clean. what a horrible parent. halloween was good. I was walking out of my house last night, and as I opened the door, two adorable girls in tigger costumes were walking up to my place. They said trick or treat, and I thought, "fuck." we of course being irresponsible college kids had forgotten to buy trick or treat candy, and I had to apologized profusely to the tiggers. They were really cute about it, they said it was okay, and they went off to the house next to us, which had less of a chance of having candy. So after this my roommate ryan went to the grocery store to get candy. we unfortunately did not have another trick or treater all night. |
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i dont have anything witty, interesting, or worthwhile to say but it's been too long since i've typed anything in here. last night i went to the death cab show. what made me happy was that they only played a few songs from their new album. not that i dont like their new album, but that the people that were there that thought that Plans was their first album, could only stand there and sway to the other songs, while i could sing along to them. and i had forgotten that mates of state would be there until i got there, and i really enjoyed their show. For the first show in my life i didnt have the x's on my hand either. I hand the super cool green 21+ band on my wrist. i felt pretty awesome. haha. now i must go put together a chest of drawers. |
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I went to a wedding last night at the gatehouse. it was the first time i was ever a guest at a wedding there, instead of working at one. It was kind of cool though, because a lot of the people that were guests were people that I had worked there with (since the two people getting married used to work there as well..). But going to this wedding made me realize that this couple had just lost all of there friends because they had been dating each other and only focusing on each other, and it was really kind of sad. The bride only had one friend there and the groom only had two friends. the rest of the guests were just family, family friends, or work friends, but not real friends. so, moral of the wedding is don't ever give up your friends for your boyfriend/girlfriend. cause you want to have some fun at your wedding, right? yesterday I also got to see carina when we went up to a bar-b-q in greeley. if you haven't seen her yet, she has some awesome stories about south africa. i missed her. kind of like the desert misses the rain. if i wasn't such a terrible friend, i would like to think that maybe she missed me too...but alas, i don't think i can compare to zebras and jack-ass penguins. |
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drinking three nights in a row is pretty much killing me right now. no headache, but my whole body kind of hurts. i think a week or two off is in order. that's the most drinking i've ever done. but it was in good spirit- for the amazingness of some boys who graduated, and in four years! i'd give my kidney to be able to graduate in four years. danny boy, i was totally serious about the dr. pepper. i'll buy a box and we'll get some dr. pepper loving people together and drink some nice cold dr. peppers on a summer night. It'll be like heaven. oh, and i don't really know if you all care, but i might have rhuematoid arthritis or lupus or some other autoimmune disease. which if i do have it, will thankfully answer my question of why I haven't been able to fully bend my fingers in almost a year. But if i do have something like that, i'll prolly be on pain killers my whole life and in some kind of pain my whole life as well. I've been really worried about it, so if you are a religious person, keep me in your prayers. I might even have to trade in the manual for an automatic because my knees and wrists are starting to kill me every day. haha, somehow i think my priorities are bent out of shape, since that's what i worry about the most. i don't want to have to give up my tdi. thank you to everyone who hung around me last night. it was really nice to see all of you again. I've been quite the shut-in lately. |
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Yesterday I signed the lease for the duplex that I'll be living in come august with emmy, tony spease, and apparently ryan prentice (i didn't find that out until yesterday..). I'm pretty excited about it. i'll get to live in boulder again, yes! this time i'll get my own room, yes!
i got a job at NIST, about three weeks ago, but i have yet to start.
and i'm sad and disappointed that i missed the MLR show last night due to my bad birth date.
hmmm that's about all i've got to say. |
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About a week ago I listed my sidekick on ebay. my year with tmobile is almost up, and i switched over to cingular. why cingular you ask?? well i really have no idea, cause i'm only getting 450 anytime mins for the same price as when i got 1000 anytime mins with tmobile. But i never even came close to using 1000, i don't think i ever went past 500. so i think it's best not to waste those extra mins, so that some poor child can use them. I think my real motive for going to cingular was that when i had it a year ago, my dad paid for my cell phone bill, since the rest of the family has cingular. so i'm praying that maybe he'll pay for it now.... but anyway, back to the sidekick. I listed it on ebay, thinking that i'd probably only get about 50-60 bucks for it, so i was genuinely happy when i looked at it two days ago and saw that the bidding was up to $66, with one day left. Neato! I thought. So when I looked at the auction last night after it had ended, I was fucking shocked out of my mind when I saw what it had actually gone for. $212!! I paid $250 for the thing because I got some extra rebates and stuff, so man, i feel good. But i'm a novice and i don't know how to use paypal or anything like that. if anyone has experience, will you help me?? |
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