*I can't think of a subject today, so deal with it* =)
On Tuesday, my old college buddy Joe G. came over to see my condo and go out to eat with me. He's 37 and just a big, fun lug of a dude to hang with. We worked on the student newspaper together and were Journ. majors. I got him listening to ICP back when they were hot, LOL. We used to say, "S'up, biiiitch?!?!" in a funny way to each other. But just don't piss him off, 'cause he "...gets a little hostile." heh. Ah, the good ol' days. We had dinner and a few hours of talk at this REAL oriental restaurant not far from my house. I say "real" because they didn't have your generic, Americanized Chinese food on the menu. This place had hibachi tables with vents over them, you have to eat with chopsticks and they brought out these odd appetizers, like spicy kim-chee, spinach with garlic, potato, cauliflower in sauce (from what I could tell what it was), etc. I've never seen stuff like this before. I had some kinda spicy chicken stuff, which was good. Maybe next time I'll try their sushi... they had a chef making it fresh in one area. Anyways, great times and we'll have to do it again. Joe is my HOMEBOYEEEE and I missed him. We have a riot together.
Today was boring at work, just like many days. Ever since JABBO and I started putting copy into the database and building the basic pages over the past week, I was reminded of just how boring my job can be, just like it was before I was made an editor. Some days were tolerable, yet others I'd get distracted easily and was looking forward to the drive home. It probably doesn't help that I don't have any real buddies there anymore, just JABBO, but nobody to go to lunch with or yak with. Well anyway, I do a lot of mind-numbing data entry, really, so of course I'm dragging my ass in getting the work done, being distracted by email all the while. Even though this new copywriter position will be better for me and possibly open a few doors there, I don't think it's what I need.
In fact, I don't know WHAT I need to do for a living. I know have to be creative. I love art and cooking and photography (but I don't think I'm THE BEST at any one of them). I love coming up with ideas on how to do things. I have tossed about the idea of owning my own business... a small independant movie theatre or old drive-in, a coffeehouse/local art gallery downtown, or even a seasonal ice cream stand. (But then I'd rarely get to travel and I love doing that.) I saw a woman on Food Network, a few years younger than me who had a degree in fashion design and worked for a high-end clothing label. She quit it to make gourmet creative cakes for a living, like ones that looked like dragons and purses and all custom stuff she came up with designs for herself. Of course, it was a substantial pay cut, but she loved it. I was in awe and thought, wow, I could SO do that. She had lots of the same attributes as me, which also made mt think I could be like her. On the same show, a brother/sisters trio opened their own wine bar, and knew nothing about it before they started. After 3 years they were finally making their money back, but they had great loyal clientele. How stressful but awesome. But then I also think designing brochures/menus/flyers/invitations for people would be fun. Maybe even doing some social work... I love helping people and I really feel for kids in need. Dammit, I just don't know. I guess I will have to do a broad search for what is out there, and see what comes my way. My main problem is that I have little prior income to fall back on, so I can't just stop what I am doing now and be poor.
So in the meantime, I gotta put up AND shut up. *sighs* Jen offered me a job with her, but I'm not sure if I should be in that field, either. Hmm. Thanks so much anyway, Jen, 'cause you know I appreciate it. Really.
Who ever knew rolling over your 401k from one company to another was such a pain? I got the check sent to my new plan from the old one, but the new plan wants me to get a form filled out by the old plan's administrator before they can cash the old plan's check to make sure it's legit. Oh lordy.
I was cleaning out my computer room to get rid of a lot of paper clutter in drawers and under the bed. Paid bills, reciepts and stuff that had to be filed away that I haven't done in 6 mo. or so. Eeek. In one box I found my old diaries and of course, had a good read. I read about how much I "loved" Donnie (my first boyfriend at 16)soooo much and how we went to the movies and only a few people were in it so we made out pretty heavy, hah. And boy, all the drama we had back then over nothing! Sometimes I wish I could relive a few years and pay attention to insignificant details of life around me. Makes me glad I kept paper journals. One day I'll probably go back to doing that. In the meantime I gotta find out how to back this journal up so I can save it. Computers fail us, esp. when we haven't backed things up.
I'm not much of an olympics watcher... I don't know anyone who does. Sports bore me in general. But since the olympics on a few hours a night (from Athens, Greece this summer), I pop it on for a moment for kicks. Yesterday I watched the Romanian women get the gold in gymnastics. Of course, when their anthem is played and they look so pretty with their flowers and laurel wreaths upon their heads, they zoom in on the winners. One of the young girls started to silently cry and of course, the camera was UBER CLOSE to her face to catch the drama. I felt like a sissy 'cause it made me want to cry! Today I saw some men's gymnastics and how one of our guys (21-yr. old Paul Hamm) really screwed up his routine on vault (the horse thing they spin around on)... he freakin' fell off the mat into the judges' table it was so bad! He did an OK job on the parallel bars which boosted him up but then... did a *flawless* performance on the high bars that jumped him from 12th place to 1st and beat out China's Yang Wei by... get this... a margin of .012 of a point! It was crazy! If he had a fraction of a point less, the best place he could have gotten was bronze. You should see how crushed the Chinese guy was! You can read the story here.
My summer weekends are always busy since I haven't been working. This weekend I'll be moving Clara, going out on the town and going to the Woodward Dream Cruise. I'll bet it will be nuts, since this year they actually have power. Remember Blackout 2003? I can't believe it's been over a year since that.
Today was boring at work, just like many days. Ever since JABBO and I started putting copy into the database and building the basic pages over the past week, I was reminded of just how boring my job can be, just like it was before I was made an editor. Some days were tolerable, yet others I'd get distracted easily and was looking forward to the drive home. It probably doesn't help that I don't have any real buddies there anymore, just JABBO, but nobody to go to lunch with or yak with. Well anyway, I do a lot of mind-numbing data entry, really, so of course I'm dragging my ass in getting the work done, being distracted by email all the while. Even though this new copywriter position will be better for me and possibly open a few doors there, I don't think it's what I need.
In fact, I don't know WHAT I need to do for a living. I know have to be creative. I love art and cooking and photography (but I don't think I'm THE BEST at any one of them). I love coming up with ideas on how to do things. I have tossed about the idea of owning my own business... a small independant movie theatre or old drive-in, a coffeehouse/local art gallery downtown, or even a seasonal ice cream stand. (But then I'd rarely get to travel and I love doing that.) I saw a woman on Food Network, a few years younger than me who had a degree in fashion design and worked for a high-end clothing label. She quit it to make gourmet creative cakes for a living, like ones that looked like dragons and purses and all custom stuff she came up with designs for herself. Of course, it was a substantial pay cut, but she loved it. I was in awe and thought, wow, I could SO do that. She had lots of the same attributes as me, which also made mt think I could be like her. On the same show, a brother/sisters trio opened their own wine bar, and knew nothing about it before they started. After 3 years they were finally making their money back, but they had great loyal clientele. How stressful but awesome. But then I also think designing brochures/menus/flyers/invitations for people would be fun. Maybe even doing some social work... I love helping people and I really feel for kids in need. Dammit, I just don't know. I guess I will have to do a broad search for what is out there, and see what comes my way. My main problem is that I have little prior income to fall back on, so I can't just stop what I am doing now and be poor.
So in the meantime, I gotta put up AND shut up. *sighs* Jen offered me a job with her, but I'm not sure if I should be in that field, either. Hmm. Thanks so much anyway, Jen, 'cause you know I appreciate it. Really.
Who ever knew rolling over your 401k from one company to another was such a pain? I got the check sent to my new plan from the old one, but the new plan wants me to get a form filled out by the old plan's administrator before they can cash the old plan's check to make sure it's legit. Oh lordy.
I was cleaning out my computer room to get rid of a lot of paper clutter in drawers and under the bed. Paid bills, reciepts and stuff that had to be filed away that I haven't done in 6 mo. or so. Eeek. In one box I found my old diaries and of course, had a good read. I read about how much I "loved" Donnie (my first boyfriend at 16)soooo much and how we went to the movies and only a few people were in it so we made out pretty heavy, hah. And boy, all the drama we had back then over nothing! Sometimes I wish I could relive a few years and pay attention to insignificant details of life around me. Makes me glad I kept paper journals. One day I'll probably go back to doing that. In the meantime I gotta find out how to back this journal up so I can save it. Computers fail us, esp. when we haven't backed things up.
I'm not much of an olympics watcher... I don't know anyone who does. Sports bore me in general. But since the olympics on a few hours a night (from Athens, Greece this summer), I pop it on for a moment for kicks. Yesterday I watched the Romanian women get the gold in gymnastics. Of course, when their anthem is played and they look so pretty with their flowers and laurel wreaths upon their heads, they zoom in on the winners. One of the young girls started to silently cry and of course, the camera was UBER CLOSE to her face to catch the drama. I felt like a sissy 'cause it made me want to cry! Today I saw some men's gymnastics and how one of our guys (21-yr. old Paul Hamm) really screwed up his routine on vault (the horse thing they spin around on)... he freakin' fell off the mat into the judges' table it was so bad! He did an OK job on the parallel bars which boosted him up but then... did a *flawless* performance on the high bars that jumped him from 12th place to 1st and beat out China's Yang Wei by... get this... a margin of .012 of a point! It was crazy! If he had a fraction of a point less, the best place he could have gotten was bronze. You should see how crushed the Chinese guy was! You can read the story here.
My summer weekends are always busy since I haven't been working. This weekend I'll be moving Clara, going out on the town and going to the Woodward Dream Cruise. I'll bet it will be nuts, since this year they actually have power. Remember Blackout 2003? I can't believe it's been over a year since that.