Weekday Update
In no particular order, some stuff on my mind:
1. I am still carless. I still wish I lived in a metropolitan area (as opposed to suburbia) or a COUNTRY which values public transportation so that I would never need a car again. But I do. Badly. I'm going to yell at my insurance company today, and the company of the driver that hit me, that I need a fucking rental NOW because this accident was not my fault and they need to hurry up and settle this or give me something to drive. It's nice to be on a normal sleeping schedule and waking early and going to my classes, but it's not nice to have to depend on others for rides when I have errands or places I'd like to go. BOH.
2. I need to get my head back in the game, school-wise. I've been immersed in all things bellydance again and this is not conducive to helping me GTFO of school. Tribe.net is addictive. Etsy is more addictive, though less so in that I can't afford half of what I want on there. I am also getting extreme urges to spend money at Joann's fabric (if I could get there), and start making tons of costume stuff. I'm making a coin bra this summer. That's final! And hopefully a sweet belt to go with.
I need to re-learn how to sew stuff as well, in that case.
3. I need a job! I'm not graduating until August now because I have four more classes it turns out (surprise surprise!), but my dad's cutting me off in June, so I need to start looking for part-time work for the summer and beyond. I'm still figuring out post-grad stuff, but right now the plan is working and paying off debts. If I keep up my good behavior vis-a-vis credit cards, I could be debt free in about 2 years. So yay for that.
4. School. Ugh. This quarter is going fine. I've been doing all the work, studying, etc. but now something else has come back to bite me in the ass. I need to settle the issue of my two UCLA Comm classes (Journalism travel study) for which i still have Incompletes. That means contacting Andrew. That means a great, great deal of humility on my part.... not that I'm not used to that or anything. It's going to suck, though. I also need to turn in some financial aid docs finally, because otherwise I am *fucked* for the summer and won't be able to afford summer school. Sigh.
5. As if I don't mention it enough, I love yoga. It never fails to make me feel amazing and full of life. At the start of every class I'm always like "oh, I don't know if I can hack it today..." but I do, and it's so worth it! Otherwise, I fell off the running bandwagon, but I'm getting back on as of this week. Going to try running twice a week, plus yoga on Mondays, plus hiking on Sundays. Last Sunday my mom, sister, and I hiked El Moro Canyon in Laguna/Crystal Cove state park. I was amazing. That hike kicked my ass, but it was 8.5 hilly miles of rock and dirt and nature and general awesomeness. I'm going to try to hike with them every Sunday again. Hiking is especially awesome with 1.5 hours of yoga following it the next day. :D
6. Happy (belated) birthday, Farzad!
7. My "stepmom" (she hasn't been much of one lately or ever, though) is 40 today. If she weren't a bitch about keeping my beat-up/broken car at my dad's house here in Corona (where she lives) lately, I wouldn't be debating about wishing her a happy birthday. I help her all the fucking time, and she can't even be so kind as to help me in the way of being cool with keeping my car at the house. WHICH ISN'T EVEN INTERFERING WITH HER DAILY LIFE. It's just sitting there. Ugh. Whatever. Car will be gone once the accident is done being investigated, and then she'll never need to deal with me again. As in, I'm through helping her. Tough cookies.
8. I want to start (re)growing a vegetable garden. And composting (I know, so trendy. I don't care). I wish I had the time.
9. I wish I could had the money to go to yoga everyday. :(
10. I realized that, even though my ears are stretched to like, an 8, I don't have to toss out my old dangly earrings! I can still wear them! See, I can't put them through my hollow plug because it's too long and the hook will fall out. But at Raqs LA Zoe had some long feather dangly earring things in her ears and she's got bigger gauge than I do, and I saw that she stuck the hook of the feather-earring UNDER her plug, and it works! I tried it out on earrings I still have, and it looks perfectly fine. I can have my cake and eat it toooo! XD
I still want to go up to a 4 though, but I'm considering a 2. I found cheaper awesome organic plugs. Tawapa is the high-end stuff, not the only stuff. I still <3 Tawapa, but yeah. And once that heals, I'm getting a second small piercing next to the gauged one so I can still wear the studs I own. Yay!
11. I finally figured out the sanskrit script/writing of "satyam shivam sundaram," which I know is an old Bollywood movie and the title of a (lovely) Thievery Corporation song, but I'm pretty damn sure I want to tattoo the phrase on my (right?) forearm. I'm really excited.
I need to start saving up for so much shit. O_O
Being responsible sucks, but it's actually less stressful too. Sigh.
1. I am still carless. I still wish I lived in a metropolitan area (as opposed to suburbia) or a COUNTRY which values public transportation so that I would never need a car again. But I do. Badly. I'm going to yell at my insurance company today, and the company of the driver that hit me, that I need a fucking rental NOW because this accident was not my fault and they need to hurry up and settle this or give me something to drive. It's nice to be on a normal sleeping schedule and waking early and going to my classes, but it's not nice to have to depend on others for rides when I have errands or places I'd like to go. BOH.
2. I need to get my head back in the game, school-wise. I've been immersed in all things bellydance again and this is not conducive to helping me GTFO of school. Tribe.net is addictive. Etsy is more addictive, though less so in that I can't afford half of what I want on there. I am also getting extreme urges to spend money at Joann's fabric (if I could get there), and start making tons of costume stuff. I'm making a coin bra this summer. That's final! And hopefully a sweet belt to go with.
I need to re-learn how to sew stuff as well, in that case.
3. I need a job! I'm not graduating until August now because I have four more classes it turns out (surprise surprise!), but my dad's cutting me off in June, so I need to start looking for part-time work for the summer and beyond. I'm still figuring out post-grad stuff, but right now the plan is working and paying off debts. If I keep up my good behavior vis-a-vis credit cards, I could be debt free in about 2 years. So yay for that.
4. School. Ugh. This quarter is going fine. I've been doing all the work, studying, etc. but now something else has come back to bite me in the ass. I need to settle the issue of my two UCLA Comm classes (Journalism travel study) for which i still have Incompletes. That means contacting Andrew. That means a great, great deal of humility on my part.... not that I'm not used to that or anything. It's going to suck, though. I also need to turn in some financial aid docs finally, because otherwise I am *fucked* for the summer and won't be able to afford summer school. Sigh.
5. As if I don't mention it enough, I love yoga. It never fails to make me feel amazing and full of life. At the start of every class I'm always like "oh, I don't know if I can hack it today..." but I do, and it's so worth it! Otherwise, I fell off the running bandwagon, but I'm getting back on as of this week. Going to try running twice a week, plus yoga on Mondays, plus hiking on Sundays. Last Sunday my mom, sister, and I hiked El Moro Canyon in Laguna/Crystal Cove state park. I was amazing. That hike kicked my ass, but it was 8.5 hilly miles of rock and dirt and nature and general awesomeness. I'm going to try to hike with them every Sunday again. Hiking is especially awesome with 1.5 hours of yoga following it the next day. :D
6. Happy (belated) birthday, Farzad!
7. My "stepmom" (she hasn't been much of one lately or ever, though) is 40 today. If she weren't a bitch about keeping my beat-up/broken car at my dad's house here in Corona (where she lives) lately, I wouldn't be debating about wishing her a happy birthday. I help her all the fucking time, and she can't even be so kind as to help me in the way of being cool with keeping my car at the house. WHICH ISN'T EVEN INTERFERING WITH HER DAILY LIFE. It's just sitting there. Ugh. Whatever. Car will be gone once the accident is done being investigated, and then she'll never need to deal with me again. As in, I'm through helping her. Tough cookies.
8. I want to start (re)growing a vegetable garden. And composting (I know, so trendy. I don't care). I wish I had the time.
9. I wish I could had the money to go to yoga everyday. :(
10. I realized that, even though my ears are stretched to like, an 8, I don't have to toss out my old dangly earrings! I can still wear them! See, I can't put them through my hollow plug because it's too long and the hook will fall out. But at Raqs LA Zoe had some long feather dangly earring things in her ears and she's got bigger gauge than I do, and I saw that she stuck the hook of the feather-earring UNDER her plug, and it works! I tried it out on earrings I still have, and it looks perfectly fine. I can have my cake and eat it toooo! XD
I still want to go up to a 4 though, but I'm considering a 2. I found cheaper awesome organic plugs. Tawapa is the high-end stuff, not the only stuff. I still <3 Tawapa, but yeah. And once that heals, I'm getting a second small piercing next to the gauged one so I can still wear the studs I own. Yay!
11. I finally figured out the sanskrit script/writing of "satyam shivam sundaram," which I know is an old Bollywood movie and the title of a (lovely) Thievery Corporation song, but I'm pretty damn sure I want to tattoo the phrase on my (right?) forearm. I'm really excited.
I need to start saving up for so much shit. O_O
Being responsible sucks, but it's actually less stressful too. Sigh.