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February 20, 2008 mid-afternoon | 
Personal stuff, The Days of my Life
Well, the first half of my birthday didn’t start out too great. I wound up staying up all night in order to finish a site that was to launch this morning. But I did get it launched, so I am happy about that. And when I got up this morning (this afternoon, actually) I only had 1 work email (I usually average 5-10)! I consider that a gift from the email gods (the google gods?). Possibly the best gift I could get. So I guess my birthday hasn’t been so bad. Tonight Brandon’s taking me out for a nice dinner (I’m going to order dessert, too!). And now that this project is done I can relax a bit and watch some of my DVR backlog. Our trip up to Savannah next month to see Ben Folds is my real birthday present, but after the travesty that was yesterday, having a laid back “boring” day will be nice.
So yeah, yesterday. Not even counting the whole staying up all night crap, it was pretty bad. I was beyond frustrated trying to get that site done and it was taking forever due to circumstances completely out of my control (pretty much the whole afternoon was a complete waste of my time). In the middle of that (mid-highlight, in fact) my keyboard AND my mouse completely died. Those fuckers are broken now and by broken I mean into little pieces after I hurled them at the wall. I completely lost what I was doing when I had to restart the computer using Brandon’s keyboard and my little laptop mouse.
After that I went down to the mail to see if my new iPod was there. Sure enough it was (two days early!). My new apartment has larger boxes big enough for packages and they just put the key for a box in your mail box when you get something. Well, all the mail boxes have seen better days, they’re pretty old and rusted. And the key I got was equally crappy. So you can guess what that means: I couldn’t open the damn box. The key wouldn’t fit in there and it kept bending, the lock wouldn’t turn at all. Combined with my earlier frustration, I was pissed the hell off. I just wanted my damn iPod! I must have looked like a crazy person too, because I was hitting and kicking the boxes, cursing, all of this in my pajamas with no make-up on. I must have been a sight.
February 18, 2008 mid-afternoon | The Days of my Life
All I want to do on rainy days are curl up on the sofa and watch movies. But no, I have tons of work to do, so that is not to be. Wah.
This weekend was nice, though. We went down to the beach on Saturday. I really am liking this apartment more and more, it turns out we’re only about 10 or 15 minutes away! I’m not really a beach person in that I don’t care for swimming or tanning or anything like that, but I like walking and watching and relaxing. Plus taking pictures! Unfortunately, even though it was very nice day (sunny, cool but not cold), clear skies do not make for the most visually interesting photos. I got a few good ones, I guess. I’ll definitely be going back regularly. One day I really want to go there and watch the sun rise, but of course that involves getting up at butt early in the morning, so who knows when I will make that effort.
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January 21, 2008 just before lunchtime | Personal stuff, The Days of my Life
Seriously, it needs to be over. There is one word that describes the last week of my life. Miserable. Completely. Freaking. Miserable. And no, it’s still not over.
We’ve made a trip from Orlando to Jacksonville or vice versa almost every single day since last Sunday and we still have to go down there one last time today. We had planned to just go Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday, but things never work out like you plan.
December 26, 2007 around lunchtime | The Days of my Life
2 slices of cheesecake (1 for breakfast, 1 for desert)
m&m’s
reese’s peanut butter cups (5+)
bowl of popcorn (made in my new popcorn popper)
eggs
bacon
pancakes
grits
orange juice
coffee
2 glasses of wine
Well, that was possibly the piggiest day EVER. But you should get to eat whatever you want on Christmas, it’s a rule (well, it’s my rule).
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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 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.
November 25, 2007 around lunchtime | The Days of my Life
Thanksgiving went pretty well this year. It was just me and my boyfriend, we didn’t want to go anywhere since we already went on vacation earlier this month. Thanksgiving is pretty much the only day of the year that I look forward to cooking. I love making turkey and stuffing (from scratch!) and all my fav foods. So that was nice and all the food came out great. Well, not totally. We had some pie issues.
My boyfriend is always talking about having pecan pie. I despise pecans, so I’ve never made or even eaten pecan pie. (I say pecan like the northerners do - peecan - just because it always annoyed my mom and now my boyfriend who says it pecahn.) But I wanted to be nice, so I decided to use my mom’s old recipe (which I remember people raving about) and make him a pecan pie. But I guess I read the recipe wrong (it was handwritten) and the pie didn’t really turn out right. I think I put too much butter and as a result the pie never really set. It was pretty much goop with pecans in it. It looked pretty though.
Luckily, I had also made an apple pie for myself and that turned out really well. It kind of fell apart trying to get it out of the pan, but it tasted yummy, so that’s all that matters to me.
