I swear to god I'm going to get better at this.

Alaina Turning Thirty... already happened. And after all my feelings about not being prepared, or not handling it well, it went as I expected: over in 24 hours. One day I was 29, and the next day I was 30. My biggest concern around the whole turning thirty thing was that I felt I hadn't ( Read more... )

So I think I've figured out why I'm not using maebynot as much as I'd like. Basically, over the past two years -- back when I was posting a lot -- it was because funny shit was happening. Or I needed to vent about something at work. But mainly, funny shit and conversations and ideas and The Vampire Diaries and other things ( Read more... )

It appears that Sydney, my ever-present and dependable laptop, may have bit the dust ( Read more... )

I know I have not posted in here in forever, it feels like. Mainly because I've been too angst-ridden to post about stuff. Mainly, work -- because work is taking over my life. It shouldn't have to be a struggle, right?

Can I just ask rhetorically: why do we struggle so damn hard at this? Why have I not met one single person who is ( Read more... )

Things that just happened ( Read more... )

Dear iTunes Library: why are you trying to kill me? I mean, yeah, I've been playing "Heart's A Mess" by Gotye on endless repeat for, oh, the past two days [link goes to ye olde youtube lyrics video, but at least you can hear the song without having to download] for reasons I can't explain. Meaning, I literally can't explain why; if I could, I ( Read more... )

I had to have my car towed this afternoon. My wonderful car, Margo, who has seen me through thick and thin ... well, I don't know who, but somebody forgot to turn the fucking lights off when she went in to work this morning at 7 o'clock, and really, it can't be totally her fault, because she was half asleep when she started driving (shh) and she ( Read more... )

Dear Genius:

I bought "The Flame You Follow" from iTunes. Doesn't it make sense that since I bought it from you, you'd be able to, I don't know, make a playlist? I'm bored and depressed and full of angst - I do not want to listen to The Ditty Bops on the playlist you create when I choose "Make This Go On Forever" by Snow Patrol. Just because ( Read more... )

Dear Everyday Food by Martha Stewart:

You totally lied! Your recipe says that the Crispy Cornflake Coating is an excellent last-minute dinner option for chicken! If it's so "last-minute," why have I just finished crushing the cornflakes after half an hour of mashing? And now that the chicken tenders have been coated with the cornflake coating, ( Read more... )

*sigh* And I was doing so well.

Mercury Retrograde came up this week and just kicked me in the ass. All of a sudden, I'm getting dates of appointments wrong, my short-term memory ain't worth shit, and now I can't write. And I was doing so wellI was working on "No Accounting For Taste", which was another faux-memoir I'm eventually going to put ( Read more... )