live every week like it's shark week

sarijw @ 2011-08-01T20:21:00

2011-08-02T01:21:26Z

Carry on.

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sarijw @ 2011-06-06T18:05:00

2011-06-06T23:04:36Z

This heat is killing me.

I don't know what my problem is this year. Normally heat doesn't bother me too much, but DUDE. It is way too early for 100* temps, 110* heat indices and 90% humidity. UNCOOL. Literally.

I just feel so sluggish this year. I want the cool, brisk days back. Come on, fall!

In other news, no real other news. I had summer hours today (left at 1:15,) went to lunch with a friend and then parked myself in front of the fan. And I'm wearing a skirt. I won't go into details.

"It was a fly-by fruiting!"

2011-06-05T21:47:50Z

Hidey-ho there, livejournalrinos.

Long time no postey. Haven't been around LJ much, except to read the various things that pop up in my inbox. As always, when I visit LJ-land, I consider getting more involved, but the truth is my life just isn't that interesting. And honestly, I've gotten kind of sick of myself lately, so I've pulled back from most social media.

A break has been nice, but I might tip toe back in now and again.

Because I am uncreative.

2011-03-15T00:15:07Z

If you'd like to, comment with:

One thing that you know about me.

And one thing you don't, but want to.

Two more days!

2011-02-22T11:24:45Z

Two days from now, I will be driving myself to the airport. After a long, annoying day of traveling, I will be arriving in California for three glorious days of The Boy, fish tacos and, hopefully, sunburns.

Don't tell him. It's a surprise.

sarijw @ 2011-02-03T11:29:00

2011-02-03T17:29:34Z

Took a mental health day. I feel much, much better for it. I was not in a good place before I left for work this morning, so it was sort of a last minute decision, but one that was wise. I plan on spending a large part of today cleaning, and tonight is Bones and Grey's Anatomy! Good day, if you ask me.

I've spent my day making leis.

2011-01-24T01:29:57Z

I don't mind at all.

I don't know why I don't post more.

2010-12-13T02:36:07Z

I spend a LOT of time here. I'm constantly reading a few specific comms and I check my flist daily.

Nothing to say, I guess. Is that good, or bad?

No matter. I'm happy enough.

In keeping with my posting to LJ once a month habit...

2010-12-01T22:16:56Z

If LJ actually worked decently on my phone, I'd probably post more because most days I'm just too lazy to turn on my laptop and make a long post about ANYthing. I'm usually on a computer ALL day for eight hours a day. Consequently, I logged into my email for the first time in about a month today. Especially since I have push email on my phone, I never log in anymore. OH WELL.

A bulleted list, since I'm still lazy:

Work has been super crazy. In that it's year end, we're all waiting to get laid off, and I pretty much hit the ground running every morning until I walk out the door at (hopefully) 4:30.

I'm in talks to get a new job, but the hiring board of the company is being a collection of douchebags, so it's taking for freaking ever. Like... two months? Some of the board are hesitant about hiring an American (Canadian company,) even though I'm more than willing to relocate and obtain permanent residency.

Speaking of my cell phone and douchebags, my cell phone is also a douchebag. I don't know what happened to it, but it's missing half the letters I type, it's super freezy and it basically needs to be lit on fire. So I'm saving up money to get a new phone, since the one I want would require me switching companies before my contract is up. I also have a large bone to pick with my current company, as they're trying to say I signed a contract I didn't sign, but I just got irritated and hung up before they started getting creative with my account when the bad words were about to come out of my mouth. ANYWAY. I'm sure you all care.

My very good friend shutterloubug came to visit over Thanksgiving! Thanksgiving which consisted of ham, tyvm, because turkey makes me physically ill. But she was here for a week, and we had lots of fun and spent lots of time just wandering around shopping which I haven't been able to do in AGES.

Speaking of shutterloubug, I just put her on her plane home a couple hours ago. :( Now I have to sit in my apartment alone for 10 more days.

It's 20F out and shutterloubug never let me turn the heat on because she's freakishly hot. I CAN TURN IT ON NOW, shutterloubug! HA!

10 more days because my roommate will FINALLLLY be back on the 10th December. He left 22nd November to be home for Thanksgiving (he has a giant family) and was originally going to return on the 2nd December, but decided to stay for Hanukkah like a good Jewish son.

I miss my Boy very much and I'm doing everything I can to finagle a trip to see him ~~next~~ this month.

It's been snowing off and on for two days, and I realized when I was getting gas today, with the "Feels like 1*" bullshit weather and the wind and being at the top off the hill and I REALLY need to invest in actual socks (I am very tall, so I wear flats, so I wear footies. brr.) and a new wool coat that isn't three hundred sizes too big. And a not-crocheted winter hat. BRR.

TL;DR: Work woes, cell phone woes, I ate ham for Thanksgiving, shutterloubug visited and I am ALWAYS FREAKING COLD.

sarijw @ 2010-11-07T09:02:00

2010-11-07T15:02:04Z

If you are a huge religious group (talking 20+) stopping at Starbucks before church, where other patrons overhear you say that you only have 5 minutes, do not order 20+ custom drinks and then bitch about the wait time.

Those of us who AREN'T part of your group, who who came in AFTER you don't appreciate the damn long wait time, either.

It's finally September thank god it's the best time of year

2010-09-06T22:47:41Z

Hai guise! Those that want to, can you message or email me your street address?

My first apartment was a 400 sq ft studio.

2010-08-15T01:01:24Z

And I thought it was absolutely atrocious. I had stuff pouring out of every nook and cranny, the walls were cinderblock, so I could only hang things with poster tack (and the one I so intelligently chose was blue, which left a lovely polka-dotted effect,) the floors were vinyl linoleum and I didn't have an oven or a closet to my name.

My first few months were horrible. It was constantly a mess because I couldn't ever get anything back where I got it from. Sort of like a brand new fitted sheet. Looks all nice and shiny when you first buy it. Still looks super pretty when you take it out of the package. But once you unfold it, you will NEVER get it folded the way it was before. Ever. EVER.

It was a lot like that.

That taught me a lot about downsizing. I thought I got rid of a lot of stuff but it always seemed like more and more appeared when it came time to move again.

I've had smaller apartments (~380 sq ft) and much, much larger (~900,) both with roommates and without and I've learned I've sort of become an accidental minimalist along the way.

I've learned that I actually don't attach a lot of sentimental values to things - rather, I am wary of others' sentimental value. Can't get rid of this because [family member that I haven't seen in years] will get mad. Can't get rid of that because what if [friend] asks about it?

Once I started learning about myself, it became a lot easier to not be saddled down by things.

I'm thinking about all this, because I just moved, again. I'm hoping this time I can actually stay for a year. The move was rather quick and uneventful, as I don't own a lot of things anymore. But it still took more car trips than I'd like. So, as with all moves, I'm looking at what I can discard or donate. I plan on getting rid of my dresser. I barely use it, I didn't pay much for it, and well over 90% of my clothes are hung or folded on shelves in the closet.

Moving on.

It's been awhile since I've posted. Mostly it's been a mix of doing three jobs at work, dealing with same old, same old home stress and just being tired all the freaking time. Nothing worth writing about.

It's better now.

My uncle died today.

2010-07-01T04:29:44Z

We used to be close, when I was little. When I was in middle school, my uncle, aunt and their kids moved to Florida. After I went to college, my parents moved away from Chicago. Everyone drifted apart a little.

My uncle and aunt came to see my mom the week before she died.
Exactly one month later he was diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer. That was three years, six months and 13 days ago.

I love you, Uncle Bill. Even if I never got to say it enough.

Recipe for awesome:

2010-05-30T18:52:09Z

Fuzzy Navels:

1 part peach schnapps (lots of this part)
1 part orange juice
1 part lemonade

Put in a highball glass, top with ice and serve.

I plan on putting lots of these in my belly.

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Orthodox Jews still have barbecues.

2010-05-30T17:26:52Z

I switched my site navigation from "Vertigo" to "Horizon," so we'll see how long it takes me to get confused.

I spent a good part of yesterday ~~doing nothing~~ reading magazines and working on my style board. Some might call it an inspiration board. It's basically an oversized (we're talking seriously huge, I can't even hang it because I don't have a stud to nail it into) corkboard. I go through all my magazines that I am ~~obsessed with~~ love and cut out styles/fashions/things I like and pin to the board. It gives me inspiration for how I dress, makeup I do, how I decorate my house for a month or two months or however long I am inspired. If I start to gather a lot of things from magazines, I eventually switch things out. I put what's on the board in my stylebook - a giant scrapbook dedicated just to the clippings - and put the new stuff on the board.

Kind of lame, and pointless, but it makes me happy. I like being able to go back through the years and see what's changed.

So that's what I did yesterday. Today and tomorrow are barbecue central. Two barbecues today, one tomorrow. One of the ones today is at my boyfriend's dad's house, my boyfriend and his dad who are Jewish. Which means no pork, of course, which leads me to ask, what's the point?

I'm waiting for him to change (he's slow, bum knee) and then we are off! Barbecues are the only good thing about summer, methinks.

AND PEACHES.

Just so you know.

2010-05-29T14:02:58Z

I'm getting ready to head to the farmers market. And if there aren't any peaches, someone's going down.

ETA: We've been peached! Only... in a way that doesn't sound bad.

My LJ is a waste of space.

2010-05-26T23:21:15Z

I completely forgot I bought gummy peach rings. It's like I don't know me anymore!

What's that thing where you randomly yell at something without realizing you did until after?

2010-05-26T20:45:12Z

Cuz I just did that. I was trying to send an email to a dear friend, clicked a button and it said WOAH CRAP STOP ARE YOU SURE? so I actually looked to see what button it was and it wasn't the send button, it was the delete button so I ~~yelled~~ said loudly "WHERE IS THE SEND BUTTON?" and then I found it. Because you know, I'm a total n00b at gmail or something.

Today is a crap day, in case you were wondering. There's not nearly enough chocolate in this house and far too much sobriety.

At which point does it start looking up? I mean, I've been a pretty okay kid, right...? So why am I not being cut a break? How far down do I have to go before I can start climbing up? Any advice?

The depths of my randomness astound even me.

2010-05-26T00:34:43Z

You know, I've started this post half a dozen times. I just don't know what to say. I want to bitch and moan about my dad and how he keeps spending money I keep telling him we don't have and keeps putting his account into the red so I have to piece meal the shit out of my savings and have now spent around $300 on overdraft charges and there I got it off my chest.

Let's talk about happier things, shall we?

I work in Cubicleland. Gray cubicles (and floors and walls and ceiling) as far as the eye can see. We're rearranging/rebuilding some (most) of the cubes (except mine) on the floor to get ready for the sale that managers won't admit is going to happen probably this fall ( I mean, who paints a stairwell just because? Really?) and it's quite noisy and busy on the floor right now. I love how some of them are being rearranged - it's been needed for a long time - but, for example, I almost walked into one of the new cubes today. So, I'm awesome.

Change seems to be a recurring theme in my life right now. So, I think my bank account needs to change into having some money. See what I did there?

I splurged on a stack of trashy magazines today. God, I love magaznies. Bought Cosmo, Elle, InStyle and People. I always get Cosmo and a People, but I haven't read Elle or InStyle in eons, so I thought "hey why not." My best friend is abandoning me tomorrow and my boyfriend is abandoning me tomorrow, sooo I need something to do and this something shall be wear a beauty mask, eat unhealthy food and read trashy magazines. God, I'm so LA.

ETA: To show you the depths of my maturity, let me show you my eats today: breakfast broccoli (eesh I hate spelling that word) and carrots with spinach dip; dinner peanut butter cookie and iced tea; supper green pepper slices with a balsamic viniagrette, a third of a box of mac and cheese spirals and a handful of tortilla chips. RAWK. The theme today?: Lazy.

Meet Me Halfway

2010-05-24T21:17:43Z

Mm, gummy peach rings. That'll do, laddie. That'll do.

Because I've apparently turned into Mr. Rogers.

2010-05-24T19:29:59Z

These are my new polishes. I bought the navy and teal to replace my old navy and teal that, well, needed to be replaced. I had a hankering for the eggplant for my toes at my next pedi and I've been DYING for a deep, dark grape purple like this. Which now happily adorns my nails.

They are from L to r: Wild Night (dark midnight blue,) Devious (dark grape,) Femme Fatale (dark shimmery eggplant,) and Alter Ego (shimmery teal.) These are all pretty true to life, except the teal is a lot darker in person.

Stalk me, my lovely stalkers

2010-05-24T17:27:49Z

I am removing the FO-status from my LJ because I just don't care anymore. I will over the next short while open up whatever entries I deem worthy of being public. Some, of course, will remain private or custom or FO.

First World Problems

2010-05-24T17:15:38Z

I am SO irritated. The one thing I could NOT find at the grocery store was a peach. Apricots? Yes. All sorts of (mm) tomatoes? Yes. Onions (ew) out the wazoo? Yes. Which reminds me, got an excellent summer salad suggestion from a friend of mine: cucumbers, onions (ew, bypass,) avocado and tomatoes in a balsamic vinaigrette. I am super excited to try this for supper.

But no peaches!

Am I like way out of season here? As far as I'm concerned, summer = peaches, so I WANT A PEACH.

I'm over it. Not really, but I'll pretend for your sake.

Also got a really pretty ring I've been coveting for a couple weeks now (thank you, Discover) and the makeup store had Buy 2 Get 2 on house products, so being the junkie I am, I got four new nail polishes. All cheerful shades of dark purple, dark burgundy, dark, shimmery teal and super dark midnight blue. I'M SO CHEERFUL.

So, now I'm home and I have crap to do. I much prefer the shopping, wandering part of the day better.

Also? It is hella hot. And I normally don't overly mind the hot weather but DAMN. Hi, August.

Orange you glad I found LJ again?

2010-05-24T12:19:20Z

Scheduled today off, quite some time ago - thank god - and I woke up about 30 minutes ago. Which, if you know me, is majorly sleeping in.

It went from low-60s and misty and rainy (think London) on Friday to a low of 75 this morning with an eventually high of 90 with a dew point in the 70s, which will bump the heat index ("how the temperature feels," to those who live in areas without humidity,) up to around 100. And sunny. (Think New Orleans.)

Now, I have no problem with summer weather, theoretically. Every season gets its due, it's good for a change, etc. But this is August weather, after a quite lovely spate of October weather. Quite frankly, I'm not ready.

Anyway, I'll dress for it, in a dress, ponytail, sandals and spf.

The name of the game today is relaxation. And for me, relaxation is shopping. Not even buying anything, just wandering around and seeing what's out there. Contemplating a white purse (of course, it's me. Wouldn't be me if bags weren't in the picture.) and a peach. I REALLY want a peach.

This is a bit late coming, but...

2010-05-23T21:02:52Z

I only have one 2010 goal:

1) Survive