Archive for at around evening time
February 15, 2007 in the early afternoon | 
Personal stuff
We’re supposed to go out for a nice dinner tonight, but I feel like crap right now. I think I have some bad karma going on right now or something. I mean seriously, I got my period right before Valentine’s day. And on Valentine’s day I had the worst cramps I’ve had in years. If that’s not the universe telling me something, I don’t know what is. Thinking back, I also got my period on Christmas day. I really must have offended somebody up there. (And yeah, yeah, I know TMI, but get over it.)
At least I should be free and clear by my birthday next week. Maybe I’ll just postpone the nice dinner until then. Right now I just want to go lie down on the couch and wallow.
February 14, 2007 in the early afternoon | Personal stuff, Relationship stuff
Well, I’m a big hypocrite. On the one hand I’ve always thought Valentine’s Day was pretty dumb. It was fun when I was kid and could hand out valentines to my classmates and eat candy hearts and pink cookies, but now that I’m an adult (or at least close to being one) and have been in a relationship for 8 years, the whole thing seems pretty pointless. But despite that rational thinking, the irrational, emotional side of me just wants some pretty flowers!
The one concession I could make to the rational side of my brain was to tell my boyfriend to buy the flowers at Costco, where they are about a quarter of the price than if you buy them from a flower shop. They’re just flowers. They’re going to die. I can’t reconcile spending over $100 for something like that. So yesterday afternoon he came home with a dozen (reasonably priced) roses. They are so pretty and I was so happy to get them, but also a little bit disgusted with myself. Oh well, I guess the rational and irrational sides of my brain will always be at war.
February 9, 2007 in the late afternoon | Personal stuff, Relationship stuff, The outside world
I’m not a very outgoing person. And by outgoing I mean, I don’t like to go…out. I don’t have agoraphobia or anything that serious, but I have been feeling lately that my non-outgoingness has been getting a bit worse since I started working from home. It doesn’t help that my boyfriend works 68 hours a week and has our car with him most of the time, so even if I wanted to go out, I really couldn’t.
For the most part I don’t mind, though. It’s not like I never go out. We usually go see a movie every few weeks and we go out to eat once or twice a week (used to be more, but we’re trying to cut back). Plus I have to go grocery shopping and get my Target fix regularly. And there’s the other random errands: bank, post office, bookstore, etc. I used to go walking on some nearby trails, but haven’t been able to go since daylight savings ended. I’ll probably pick that back up in the spring. But other than the movies I don’t usually go out to do anything “fun”. Sometime I wish I did, but then I try to think what would be fun and I can never think of anything. I don’t like parties or clubs, I don’t even really like alcohol that much (which seems to be whole point of going to parties or clubs). That kind of stuff has never been my thing and it’s not my boyfriend’s thing either. I guess we are just natural stay-at-home-ers. And like I mentioned above, he works 68 hours a week and being a freelancer, I’m pretty much “on-call” 24/7, so neither of us has a lot of “free time”.
February 7, 2007 in the early afternoon | Personal stuff, Work-y stuff
I am so freaking overwhelmed right now, I don’t even know where to start.
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in the wee hours | Miniblog
Useless Account. Just what everyone needs, another useless account!
Upgrade your account creating ability to +20. Now that’s funny.
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February 5, 2007 around lunchtime | Design-y stuff, Rants
People that use Internet Explorer on a Mac should be shot. In the stomach. So that they can die a slow painful death thinking about how absurd it is to use Internet Explorer on a Mac. Microsoft doesn’t even support that crap anymore.
Seriously, I have finally had to make a official form letter to send out to people still using IE Mac. I’m adding it to the one for AOL users. There are a ton of good browsers out there, why do people insist on using crap? 
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terribly early in the morning | Meta
I hate the first post. What do you say? How do you start?
I guess I’ll start with why I started this blog, which basically boils down to fact that I needed a fresh start. I had four years of archives on my old blog and I just couldn’t stand it anymore. So I deleted them all and turned that into a photoblog (link on the sidebar) and decided to start fresh.
You know those girls on America’s Next Top Model who always freak out when Tyra wants to cut all their hair off? And they cry and cry like it’s the end of the world. Well, that’s how I felt when I was deleting all my archives. I literally stared at the delete button for 5 minutes before I could push it. I felt like I was cutting off a part of myself. But after I finally pressed that button, I realized how much they had been weighing me down. I needed a fresh start and here’s as good a place as any. Plus, I did make a backup (I’m not stupid), so if I want to read those entries again, I can. One day, I might even import some of the good ones here, but not right now.
What else do I want to get out of this? Well, I hope to write more. My father found my old blog awhile ago and that’s when I stopped feeling I could write freely there. Plus, I’m keeping this one from my boyfriend as well. So hopefully, I will feel like I can write more personal things here. But you may want to register (link on the sidebar) because I might make a few private entries only viewable to registered users.
You might be wondering how I came up with the name “Surprisingly Shallow”? It’s not most flattering name. But it’s actually one of my favorite lines from one my all-time favorite TV shows (if you know what it is, you are automatically my new best friend), so it makes sense to me. Plus, you have to admit everyone is at least a little bit shallow, I certainly am. 
February 4, 2007 in the early afternoon | Miniblog
I noticed the shoutout to TWOP when the episode of My Name is Earl aired. The back story is pretty interesting.
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