you know what i love?

free brunch at the inn season. fantastic!

today has been a really good day so far, which is nice since yesterday was completely bogus. i went to Rob's yoga class at 10am, and it was so crowded. it was literally mat to mat and it was a lot of fun. i am not used to classes being that filled. it makes me happy when there are so many yogis in one room, all sharing their energy with me. then i went grocery shopping at whole foods, and got corn bread mix, which i am excited to make vegan-style. they also had really good food in the prepared food section which i got. So I went home, showered and was going to make myself lunch, but instead got an invitation from John to go to Inn Season for brunch! way better. So we hung out for a bit, then I got home in time for my sister to come over and play scrabble with me. I won! I'm not really that competitive, but I did get a Bingo, and i do like winning. I like playing more than I like winning, so either way I would have had a good time.

now i just finished dinner and am heading over to my friend kathy's in a bit. i am looking forward to seeing her house and where she lives. It's always really cool to get to see where people live. it seems like a.. solidification of some sort, like i get to see what she sees when she gets up in the morning and go to bed. Like I will get to know her better. I never like having people over.. I guess it's because I usually feel pressure to be a good hostess, but maybe it's because i am uncomfortable with letting people get glimpses into my real life. this is a fact i am trying to change. i want to be more open with myself to others.. i think it's really the only way i can ever connect with people and make good friends, you know?

anyway, hopefully you all are having a good night and find other interesting things to read about on the internet machine.

a few spare days

lets see. updates include:

finalizing starting at the video store. that will be friday

an upcoming show on thursday, which i am hoping chicago people will make it to. and if not, then i will be more than happy to spend all time with jenny. but her boyfriend just got back from china, so i think they'll want to spend their time together.

almost done with my banana yoshimoto book. it is not as good as the others i've read by her. this one, called Goodbye Tsugumi, is about a young woman going back to live in her childhood town for one last summer before the Inn that was there closes. friendships, family issues and lots of scenery descriptions.

i'm painfully cold, but am sticking to my new style of skirts anyway. tights help and i am becoming more comfortable with the look. and, i'm not painfully cold because of the skirts. it's just bloody cold outside.

tonight i am thinking of renting the third disc of alias, putting on my new microwavable socks, relaxing and maybe finishing my book.

living vicariously

today (well, really the past few days) I have been ignoring my life because I have been consumed with veronica mars' life. I just finished the second season, and I keep having to tell myself to not start the third for at least a few days. this way I can give my life the attention it deserves.

So, I passed the crazy family video exam and have an interview tomorrow afternoon. it was supposed to be today, but they had to reschedule because something came up. Seems like a theme today. I was also supposed to hang out with a new, potential friend, but i am thinking there was a miscommunication because it was just me and my journal. oh well, i am pretty used to going solo at cafes.

i also decided to give up (for now) on reading the fountainhead. it's really good so far, but i have some serious mental blocks reading a book that long. so, i am going to start reading this book by banana yoshimoto. I read two of her books already and liked them a lot. plus, banana.

only one piece of flare.

that was the ending comment by the woman i interviewed with today at family video.
backup.

the other day, i was bored and wanted to walk to the video store and rent some movies. While walking to the store, I was thinking about my financial stress in life and all of this free time I seem to be having. I appreciate free time and relaxing, but I am definitely the type of person who likes her free time in small, frequent doses. Lately I've had large stretches of free time. So I get to the video store and see that in two days they have open interviews for all positions. I recently called the library where I applied to find out that it is taking them awhile to sift through the applications, as they recieved 125 of them. Needless to say I am not banking on becoming a library assisstant any time soon. SO.. i filled out an application and went to the open interview today.

As a note to how Michigan's economy sucks, I got to the interview at noon. it started at 11, and I was the 35th person in line for an interview, and while I was waiting at least 20 people came in. But my interview went really well. The woman got my sense of humor and movie references, she asked me to come back tonight for part 2 of the process.

so being a video store clerk might be in my future.

I also started volunteering at the animal shelter by my house yesterday. It was okay. It's much better in theory. I spent the morning cleaning cat boxes and only marginally playing with the kitties. In my head it was vice versa. But I am going to continue going there about twice a week.

Right now I am oogling the new MacBoook Air, playing scrabble, updating my blog and people watching at a cafe, until it's time for my interview. Multitasker? yes. Bored? probably. Accepting of boredness? maybe. I really want to go ice skating.

bored kitty

so, i have been extremely bored most of the day.
i spent a lot of time wandering around royal oak, looking for skirts. not like i was going to buy one, because i'm pretty much broke.

luckily, jenny called and saved me from being bored all by myself. while i was waiting for her to show up at a cafe, i remembered the i can has cheezburger site and found this:




i hope it gives you as much joy as it gave me.

it did inspire me to check out local volunteer opportunities for animal shelters. i am going in to the animal welfare society monday to fill out some forms. i figure being around animals will be even better than looking at pictures of them.

happy cows

everyone has googled their own name before, right?

well, I just did and I found this from my old supervisor that i worked for. Scroll down to the end and look under Acknowledgments! AND, i found my name listed in an urban options energy center article under volunteers.

it's the little things in life that make me happy!

waiting, seeing, and trying to work.

well it's a warm, if not sunny, monday morning here. i came to royal oak with a surface mindset of getting some work done, but i think underneath that I knew I'd really just surf the internet and people watch for a good portion of my time here.

My weekend was okay. Some of the highlights include hanging out with jenny both saturday and sunday. saturday just briefly and sunday for most of the day, actually getting work done! it's just really nice to be able to see her on a semi-regular basis again. I didn't realize how much I missed doing that. You know the saying "you don't know what you got 'till it's gone" (or maybe that's a song lyric...). Well, for me, it's more like I don't know what I've got until it's gone and then I get it back again.

The lowlights include idleing my time away. I feel like I'm in this really transitory place and i'm not sure what to make of it. I don't know where I'm going. No answers, just ideas. And sure it's fun thinking of the future as a blank canvas sometimes.. but when it comes to living day to day facing that blank canvas, it really gets to me. I hate this "waiting and seeing" business about life. Maybe I'm just being too passive about life.. but I don't have it in me lately to stop waiting and seeing.

At least I have veronica mars to help pass the time.
That and games of scrabble, which i keep losing!!!

And: I need to start a budget. Except it's hard when I don't have a steady paycheck. I mean, really, how can I make a budget when I don't know what I've got? WAIT AND SEE!!! boo.

hopefully this will be better than livejournal

well it's a new year, and i really like the idea of having a new blog. my live journal account just holds too many memories, and it seemed like i was taking a step backwards rather than really living in 08. Plus, Meghan's blog just looked so pretty!

it's currently 8:30am and I thought I got up at 9, but in my sleepy glances I read the clock wrong. My plan was to roll out of bed, have some cereal then go to yoga. Now I have all this "free time." The last yoga class I was at made mention that new years are filled with the things every year is filled up with (different for everyone, i suppose.. but a common theme of sadness, anger, confusion, happiness, excitement, etc.) but that one thing didn't have to change: yoga. and while in bakasana, the truth of that clicked: sometimes life is not easy, but somehow we manage the strength to get through it. and yoga is not going anywhere in my life. so there will always be some sort of stability in my life!

I am also planning on working on some water diversion research later. I have been really nervous about this project, as I've only glossed over water laws and I don't understand them enough to write a publishable paper on it. But I was talking to Jenny about it, and she reminded me that I have a degree, and that this is like any other new job I'd have gotten. I just have to work hard and trust my ability to do the job I was hired for. Jenny is so smart sometimes. So I have been working hard and I am beginning to understand (gulp) legislative terms on water laws. Let me explain how much they need improvement! On second thought, let me not explain that.

Okay, I am going to start my day for real now.