Heaven in a cup of coffee...
There is, you know. Coffee in heaven, I mean. If there is actually a heaven, somewhere, somehow... And there's a river of good coffee. But of course. I've always thought that heaven is just what you make of it. What you want, you need, you like, you expect... it'll be there. What makes you happy. But mostly what you expect. That'd be the same case with hell. If there actually is a hell. It'd be exactly as you picture it. Although, for some reason, I don't believe in the existence of hell - as a separate location of eternal fire and damnation, I mean, because there obviously is such a thing as Hell on Earth. Oh yes, there is -. Ahh... I've been questioning a lot of things lately. My religious upbringing and all that. I'm a recovering Catholic. Heh... never said better.
But wait. Where was I? Oh yeah. Coffee. Good coffee, even. I have a new coffeemaker, yay!!!! *does a little dance* The old one had been broken for months... and I'd been surviving on instant coffee. *hangs head in shame* It's just that, well, it was a Black&Decker, paper filter, drip kind of coffeemaker. And those things go for like... $40? Not that it's a lot of money or anything, but I just hadn't gotten around to buying a new one. Until the other day, when mom called and said (why in hell don't quotation marks work in here!?) - I'm in the store and there's this Black&Decker, paper filter, drip kind of coffemaker on sale for 21 bucks, and it has a clock and everything, you want it? - And I was like... HELL YES! The old one didn't even have the fancy timer and clock thingie... So she promptly went ahead and bought it... for $16. SIXTEEN BUCKS. (How was it that she got it for $5 less than the marked price, I have no clue, other than to say that woman has the magical touch for bargains!)
And now I'm enjoying a huge mug of coffee laced with cinnamon and I couldn't be happier. I'm a simple girl, with simple tastes. Doesn't take much to make me happy, I guess...
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Ohh Cyndi Lauper with Sarah McLachlan. Time After Time. How I love this song... *sings along* If ever I do fulfill my dream of being a singer - and it *is* a serious dream! - this will be one of the songs in my repertoire. Along with Tori's Silent All These Years and Purple People, Tegan & Sarah's My Number, Lisa Loeb's Stay, and Frente!'s version of New Order's Bizarre Love Triangle. Those are the ones I practice while driving.. :D
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Speaking of coffee, I'm seriously considering buying the bookstore in Boquete. Going over there next weekend to scope the location out, ask questions, get a feel of the business... so I can make a decision. I'd probably do better getting into it on my own, but I'm a scaredy cat. :S So I'm going with Joe & Carlos, who are also interested, maybe, probably... and we will see. Maybe it's too small a business for three people. I don't know. But I was talking it over with Joe the other day. We have so many ideas for the bookstore. Plus it's easier to split the money needed to start up instead of shouldering the financial burden by myself. We still have no clue how we'll get the money, though... but it's not too incredibly much. I'm really excited about this. I've always wanted to have a bookstore/coffeeshop and live in Boquete. And even if this doesn't pan out, I can still move over there, maybe. I cannot stand living in this city anymore. I've been saying that for a long time, but I never do anything about it. And this bookstore thing is an excuse, really, it's just an excuse, to get me to actually seriously consider doing something about changing my current living situation. So it all works out, I think... Anything that gets me off my butt and moving and doing and changing things is good. I tend to fall into a rut. I hate it, but yet, I do it all the time. So I'm excited at the possibilities for change... :)
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AAAHHHH China Girl!!!! I'll never again be able to listen to this song or watch the video without bursting into giggles... I remember that time a few months ago that we were watching MTV's compilation DVD of the best videos of the 80s (or something like that), and someone said - That has got to be the ugliest Chinese woman ever alive! - or something of the sort, and, well... it all went downhill from there. It's not like we don't usually make fun of EVERYONE anyway... But this time it was just too funny.
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Ok, so whining does have its good side, I guess. I whine and whine and whine, and complain complain complain... and I think all that whining and all that complaining floats around in the ether and gets somewhere and gets something moving, you know, because things sometimes do get sorted all out by themselves - or by that some divine hand, perhaps, I'm not sure.(*)
[song]Ahhhh a-ha. Hunting High and Low. I had such a huge girlie crush on Morten Harket when I was a teenager in the 80s. *sigh* But I had kind of forgotten about this band. And then someone over at the Green Dragon posted the literal version of the video for Take On Me. It is seriously funny. Almost, almost Weird Al funny. Nothing can compare to the genius of Al's parodies, of course. But this one's good.[/song]
Anyway, I'd been feeling the burden of working every evening on the TV newscast. It ended at 8pm, and then I had to write up the report, which some nights would take me about two hours to finish. So it was usually 10pm when I actually had time for myself. I even stopped watching TV altogether. Because even though some good shows do start at 10, I just lost interest. Plus I'm sooo behind on the other assignment, which is the Cuban radio newscast. I usually started on it at midnight or so, after the other one and after wasting time on the Web for a while. But since this assignment is not time-limited, as in I don't have to submit it right away, I've been letting the programs pile up. So right now I have 5 shows to work on. This week's shows. And I'd been stressing because of that.
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Also, this song makes me insanely happy: OMD's If You Leave. I need to start my collection of John Hughes films on DVD.
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But then, yesterday, the light at the end of the tunnel. :D The guys at the Embassy wrote to ask me if I wanted to work on another product, the RPC radio newscast from 5pm - 6pm and drop the SERTV cast. And I said OMG YES!!! Well, I didn't exactly reply like that, but it's what I was thinking! I will probably be wrapping up the report at 8pm at the latest. So now I'll have my evenings free! Yay! I still have to do the Cuban radio thing, though. But if I manage to get up to date with this week's summaries (and I need to do that by tomorrow, at the latest), then it'll only be the matter of working on the previous date's program the next morning. Or something like that.
[song]
So everyone thinks of Manic Monday when they think of the Bangles. And it's a cool song. Or Walk Like An Egyptian, even. As long as you don't make me listen to Eternal Flame. Agh. Such a horrible, horrible boring song. But the one I love the most is their cover if Simon and Garfunkel's Hazy Shade Of Winter. It's a powerful song. Plus it's in the soundtrack of a powerful film, Less Than Zero.
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Ok, this is too long, and I need to get to work.
[song]
OMG! Red Rockers' China. I had that song stuck in my head for DECADES. And I didn't know the title (but I guess it was kinda obvious) or even the name of the band, so I'd always just sing Chiiiina Chiiiiinaaaaaaaaaaaa humhumhumhum and that was it, 'cause I didn't know the words to the lyrics either. And Google is fantastic. I love Google. BUT Google doesn't know everyhing. Well, it does. But it's kinda like an idiot savant. You actually have to give it a few clues so it knows how to look for the answer to your question, right? And typing just China in the search box wasn't exactly restricting. Not even China lyrics. So yeah... I'd resigned to always have that song in my head and never knowing much more about it. And then last Saturday, while in the car with Ariel and Joe after the Purple Night, we were listening to that 80s radio station I'm always forgetting the name of, and poooof! That song comes up. And I'm like OMG OMG OMG OMG I have to know who sings that!! And Ariel and Joe were like so Google it, d'oh. *stared at them* Yeah... And THEN, when I got home, I tried again. Just Chiiiiinaaaaa Chiiiiinaaaa lyrics - I did type it just like that - and Google spits out Red Rockers - China. And I just sat there, staring at the screen. I could've just kissed Google. If it was, you know, like an actual pysical presence. Or is it? I wonder. Kind of like an elf, a goblin, that sort of thing?
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Ohhh my. I do tend to ramble on and on, don't I? Oh well... it's not like anyone reads this, anyway...
But wait. Where was I? Oh yeah. Coffee. Good coffee, even. I have a new coffeemaker, yay!!!! *does a little dance* The old one had been broken for months... and I'd been surviving on instant coffee. *hangs head in shame* It's just that, well, it was a Black&Decker, paper filter, drip kind of coffeemaker. And those things go for like... $40? Not that it's a lot of money or anything, but I just hadn't gotten around to buying a new one. Until the other day, when mom called and said (why in hell don't quotation marks work in here!?) - I'm in the store and there's this Black&Decker, paper filter, drip kind of coffemaker on sale for 21 bucks, and it has a clock and everything, you want it? - And I was like... HELL YES! The old one didn't even have the fancy timer and clock thingie... So she promptly went ahead and bought it... for $16. SIXTEEN BUCKS. (How was it that she got it for $5 less than the marked price, I have no clue, other than to say that woman has the magical touch for bargains!)
And now I'm enjoying a huge mug of coffee laced with cinnamon and I couldn't be happier. I'm a simple girl, with simple tastes. Doesn't take much to make me happy, I guess...
[song]
Ohh Cyndi Lauper with Sarah McLachlan. Time After Time. How I love this song... *sings along* If ever I do fulfill my dream of being a singer - and it *is* a serious dream! - this will be one of the songs in my repertoire. Along with Tori's Silent All These Years and Purple People, Tegan & Sarah's My Number, Lisa Loeb's Stay, and Frente!'s version of New Order's Bizarre Love Triangle. Those are the ones I practice while driving.. :D
[/song]
Speaking of coffee, I'm seriously considering buying the bookstore in Boquete. Going over there next weekend to scope the location out, ask questions, get a feel of the business... so I can make a decision. I'd probably do better getting into it on my own, but I'm a scaredy cat. :S So I'm going with Joe & Carlos, who are also interested, maybe, probably... and we will see. Maybe it's too small a business for three people. I don't know. But I was talking it over with Joe the other day. We have so many ideas for the bookstore. Plus it's easier to split the money needed to start up instead of shouldering the financial burden by myself. We still have no clue how we'll get the money, though... but it's not too incredibly much. I'm really excited about this. I've always wanted to have a bookstore/coffeeshop and live in Boquete. And even if this doesn't pan out, I can still move over there, maybe. I cannot stand living in this city anymore. I've been saying that for a long time, but I never do anything about it. And this bookstore thing is an excuse, really, it's just an excuse, to get me to actually seriously consider doing something about changing my current living situation. So it all works out, I think... Anything that gets me off my butt and moving and doing and changing things is good. I tend to fall into a rut. I hate it, but yet, I do it all the time. So I'm excited at the possibilities for change... :)
[song]
AAAHHHH China Girl!!!! I'll never again be able to listen to this song or watch the video without bursting into giggles... I remember that time a few months ago that we were watching MTV's compilation DVD of the best videos of the 80s (or something like that), and someone said - That has got to be the ugliest Chinese woman ever alive! - or something of the sort, and, well... it all went downhill from there. It's not like we don't usually make fun of EVERYONE anyway... But this time it was just too funny.
[/song]
Ok, so whining does have its good side, I guess. I whine and whine and whine, and complain complain complain... and I think all that whining and all that complaining floats around in the ether and gets somewhere and gets something moving, you know, because things sometimes do get sorted all out by themselves - or by that some divine hand, perhaps, I'm not sure.(*)
[song]Ahhhh a-ha. Hunting High and Low. I had such a huge girlie crush on Morten Harket when I was a teenager in the 80s. *sigh* But I had kind of forgotten about this band. And then someone over at the Green Dragon posted the literal version of the video for Take On Me. It is seriously funny. Almost, almost Weird Al funny. Nothing can compare to the genius of Al's parodies, of course. But this one's good.[/song]
Anyway, I'd been feeling the burden of working every evening on the TV newscast. It ended at 8pm, and then I had to write up the report, which some nights would take me about two hours to finish. So it was usually 10pm when I actually had time for myself. I even stopped watching TV altogether. Because even though some good shows do start at 10, I just lost interest. Plus I'm sooo behind on the other assignment, which is the Cuban radio newscast. I usually started on it at midnight or so, after the other one and after wasting time on the Web for a while. But since this assignment is not time-limited, as in I don't have to submit it right away, I've been letting the programs pile up. So right now I have 5 shows to work on. This week's shows. And I'd been stressing because of that.
[song]
Also, this song makes me insanely happy: OMD's If You Leave. I need to start my collection of John Hughes films on DVD.
[/song]
But then, yesterday, the light at the end of the tunnel. :D The guys at the Embassy wrote to ask me if I wanted to work on another product, the RPC radio newscast from 5pm - 6pm and drop the SERTV cast. And I said OMG YES!!! Well, I didn't exactly reply like that, but it's what I was thinking! I will probably be wrapping up the report at 8pm at the latest. So now I'll have my evenings free! Yay! I still have to do the Cuban radio thing, though. But if I manage to get up to date with this week's summaries (and I need to do that by tomorrow, at the latest), then it'll only be the matter of working on the previous date's program the next morning. Or something like that.
[song]
So everyone thinks of Manic Monday when they think of the Bangles. And it's a cool song. Or Walk Like An Egyptian, even. As long as you don't make me listen to Eternal Flame. Agh. Such a horrible, horrible boring song. But the one I love the most is their cover if Simon and Garfunkel's Hazy Shade Of Winter. It's a powerful song. Plus it's in the soundtrack of a powerful film, Less Than Zero.
[/song]
Ok, this is too long, and I need to get to work.
[song]
OMG! Red Rockers' China. I had that song stuck in my head for DECADES. And I didn't know the title (but I guess it was kinda obvious) or even the name of the band, so I'd always just sing Chiiiina Chiiiiinaaaaaaaaaaaa humhumhumhum and that was it, 'cause I didn't know the words to the lyrics either. And Google is fantastic. I love Google. BUT Google doesn't know everyhing. Well, it does. But it's kinda like an idiot savant. You actually have to give it a few clues so it knows how to look for the answer to your question, right? And typing just China in the search box wasn't exactly restricting. Not even China lyrics. So yeah... I'd resigned to always have that song in my head and never knowing much more about it. And then last Saturday, while in the car with Ariel and Joe after the Purple Night, we were listening to that 80s radio station I'm always forgetting the name of, and poooof! That song comes up. And I'm like OMG OMG OMG OMG I have to know who sings that!! And Ariel and Joe were like so Google it, d'oh. *stared at them* Yeah... And THEN, when I got home, I tried again. Just Chiiiiinaaaaa Chiiiiinaaaa lyrics - I did type it just like that - and Google spits out Red Rockers - China. And I just sat there, staring at the screen. I could've just kissed Google. If it was, you know, like an actual pysical presence. Or is it? I wonder. Kind of like an elf, a goblin, that sort of thing?
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Ohhh my. I do tend to ramble on and on, don't I? Oh well... it's not like anyone reads this, anyway...