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February 4, 2008 mid-afternoon | 
Personal stuff, Relationship stuff, Work-y stuff
Well today is the official start of Get My Shit Together 2008. I’ve let myself get unhealthy and unproductive and I’m letting work take over my life. It’s just not a good way to live, so I’m trying to change. I’m not just saying that either. Brandon is doing this with me because he’s feeling the same way.
First, we’re starting with an exercise routine. Our new apartment has a “gym” and while it leaves something to be desired, it’s a BIG improvement over the “gym” at the old apartment where ALL the machines were broken. It has an elliptical, bike, stepper and a bunch of different weight machines, which is enough for us to work with. There are two broken treadmills and we’re hoping they might get fixed or replaced soon. If not, we’ll make due.
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December 19, 2007 at around evening time | Relationship stuff, The Days of my Life
As if we weren’t busy enough today with the 80 billion things we need to do before we leave tomorrow, my boyfriend was called in for a job interview. Well, it was actually more like a pre-interview. The real interview is on the 26th but for some reason they wanted to talk to him today as well.
I went with him because the interview was in an unfamiliar part of town and he has about the worst sense of direction of anyone I’ve ever met. The awesome thing was that the building the interview was in was right in front of this giant park/lake in the middle of the downtown area. So I took my camera and walked around the park taking pictures while he was in the interview. It was FANTASTIC. The lake was beautiful. There were TONS of birds and pretty trees and plants, but since it’s also in the middle of downtown I got a bunch of “urban” kind of pictures as well. I shot almost 200 photos in about an hour and I’m REALLY happy with more than half of them. I’m usually only happy with a few of my photos, so this was a big day for me. I posted one of my favorites on my photoblog already. I’ll post more when I get back from our trip.
December 17, 2007 around lunchtime | Relationship stuff, The Days of my Life
The following recently took place between me and my boyfriend at a restaurant:
Me: (Eats a slice of cucumber off Boyfriend’s salad plate)
Me: uhhhhggg (Scrunches up face in disgust, tries to get it down as quickly as possible)
Boyfriend: What was wrong with it?
Me: (Inhales half a glass of diet coke) I don’t know. (More coke) I can’t even describe how horrible it was. It just made me want to vomit. (Coke)
Boyfriend: That’s a pretty good description.
A few minutes later…
Boyfriend: (Eats remaining cucumber slice)
Boyfriend: (Scrunches up face in a myriad of unpleasant ways, obviously grossed out by what he’s eating)
Me: I told you it was bad, why did you eat it?
Boyfriend: (Inhales water) Well, Number 1, I wanted to know what you meant when you said you couldn’t describe it and Number 2, I’m an idiot. (More water)
December 11, 2007 in the early afternoon | Personal stuff, Rants, Relationship stuff
We’ve just been guilted into going up to visit my boyfriend’s family for Christmas. I really just wanted to stay here and have a low key Christmas, but now we’re stuck driving 20 hours and having to deal with his massive family.
My boyfriend agreed with me about not wanting to go and gave his mom the excuse that we didn’t have enough money to make the trip (which we kinda don’t). Well she called yesterday saying that she WORKED OVERTIME so that she could GIVE us the money to get up there. There’s no response to that. So now we have to go. Blurg.
December 7, 2007 in the wee hours | Relationship stuff, The Days of my Life
Looky what my boyfriend brought home tonight! Why you ask? Well, it’s our anniversary. Despite that, I was NOT expecting flowers at all. I don’t think he’s EVER brought me flowers at any other time besides Valentine’s day, so this surprise gesture was really awesome. He told me he went to an actual flower shop and got them to make me a custom bouquet. Wow! It’s like a completely different boyfriend from the one I’ve had for the past eight years (actually that’s not true, he used to be like this…before he got laid. :rotfl: ). But eight years! That’s a long ass time. Plus we’ve been together since high school and I doubt there are many people who can say that these days. We’ve been though a lot of shit together and we could have broken up but we stuck it out and I think (I hope) we are better people for it.
After that we went and had a nice dinner. Then we came home and got into comfy clothes and settled down for some Project Runway and 30 Rock. Our vacation last month was really our “anniversary” celebration, but tonight was a nice little cherry on top. A night like that may sound totally boring to a lot people, but for me it’s a great night. He’s my best friend and even after all these years I love spending time with him, no matter what we do.
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”.
