I was on my way to being reading Bridget Jones Diary when I stopped... pretty much on the first page. I realized that I weight more than BJ. Lame. Basically Bridget Jones thick. Not fat. Yea, if the author was black or latino the story would have been a lot different. Sure Bridget would have probably still had the same problem with men, but her mother would have commented on her weight right a way (I can't loose two pounds without my grandfather asking me if I am sick). I still love the books.
Other Updates:
1)I am trying to figure out if there is going to be anyway that I can actually take a vacation (a real one!) this summer.
2)I'm almost done making my first slippers. The problem is that I am using ugly yarn. Picture soon to come.
3)Recently I have learned that I am one of the few girls from my Middle School graduating class who doesn't have a baby. But I can't take care of a baby and don't want one right now so I'm ok. I just think that its weird.
4) Nextflix hates me right now
5) I love Revelry.com . I even found a fellow Wooster Graduate who lives in the Bayarea
6) I am really tired and I am really going to have to make my next blog entry a good one to make up for this lameness.
Saturday, April 19, 2008
Friday, April 4, 2008
Most recent Ravelry.com Update
* You signed up on March 26, 2008
* You are #133011 on the list.
* 421 people are ahead of you in line.
* 5077 people are behind you in line.
* 96% of the list has been invited so far
Hot Damn! I think that I might hear something by Monday if not sooner.
* You are #133011 on the list.
* 421 people are ahead of you in line.
* 5077 people are behind you in line.
* 96% of the list has been invited so far
Hot Damn! I think that I might hear something by Monday if not sooner.
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Don't worry, this is not going to become a knitting blog...
I promise that this will not become one of those knitting blogs where all I do is talk about how knitting has taken over my life and how I seem to only attend knitting related events... or even worst how I make everything a knitting related event by bringing a bag of yarn to inappropriate places! There are lots of those out there. Instead I plan on keeping my posts the same as always but with a few additional posts about yarn, needles and kitting books that no one (other than other knitters) would actually care about.
List of Inappropriate places to knit (Part I)
-The bus
-2 Cafes (once while eating carrot cake, always while drinking a vanilla Italian soda)
-Walking back to work after my lunch break (there are advantages to keeping projects in large freezer bags)
-Sitting in my closet (it was the only thing that made me happy while I realized that I had a tone of crap to throw out)
-My cubical (what? it was an emergency!!!)
-While on a date. (Let me correct myself. I bought yarn just before the date and had to hide it in my purse. The four balls of yarn were so big that I had to take my wallet, cellphone and chap stick out so that I would avoid exposing my secret.)
With that said, let me tell you about the problems with knitting on the bus and in cafes. Sure I feel special when people ask me what am I knitting or when I make eye contact with a fellow knitter but the whole traveling knit thing can be expensive. I lost a whole set of stitch markers! I personally can't believe it! I just hope that I can find them one day.
Update on my Ravelry.com (i.e. Facebook for Knitters... but cooler) invite status
List of Inappropriate places to knit (Part I)
-The bus
-2 Cafes (once while eating carrot cake, always while drinking a vanilla Italian soda)
-Walking back to work after my lunch break (there are advantages to keeping projects in large freezer bags)
-Sitting in my closet (it was the only thing that made me happy while I realized that I had a tone of crap to throw out)
-My cubical (what? it was an emergency!!!)
-While on a date. (Let me correct myself. I bought yarn just before the date and had to hide it in my purse. The four balls of yarn were so big that I had to take my wallet, cellphone and chap stick out so that I would avoid exposing my secret.)
With that said, let me tell you about the problems with knitting on the bus and in cafes. Sure I feel special when people ask me what am I knitting or when I make eye contact with a fellow knitter but the whole traveling knit thing can be expensive. I lost a whole set of stitch markers! I personally can't believe it! I just hope that I can find them one day.
Update on my Ravelry.com (i.e. Facebook for Knitters... but cooler) invite status
- You signed up on March 26, 2008
- You are #133011 on the list.
- 1422 people are ahead of you in line.
- 5021 people are behind you in line.
- 94% of the list has been invited so far
Friday, March 28, 2008
What it's like to be an adult... or at least my version of it... so far
This is a blog entry that I meant to post in the beginning of the month. However, I got a little too ambitious and never quite took all of the pictures that I had planned on taking. So I am going to have to post it as is and add a sideshow or something later on.
There are a lot of things about being an adult that are a mystery to me. Such as... at what point are you really an adult. Some people think that its when you get to the point that your like "dammit I am an adult, a real adult and I am okay with that. I have my own vision of being a young adult.
1. I get to eat whatever I want for dinner. When I used to eat real ice cream I would sometimes have a lunch of Hagengas. Or I can have pancakes for desert. As an adult my eating habits are sometimes a 4 year olds dream. On the other hand, I am coming to terms that I am allergic to dairy. So I am begrudgingly/gradually changing my diet.
2. I get to have my own space. Its wonderful because Little by little I am putting together an apartment that I like. I think that when I was a kid I didn't really think about whether or not I liked the furniture around me. I was just happy knowing that I had furniture. Now that I have my own place I often go without a piece of furniture rather than having something that I don't like. For about four months I didn't have a sofa/futon. Until December I didn't have a kitchen table and chairs. And even today I have my small tv propped up on an storage bin. But eventually I will have all of the furniture that I want and of course by that time it would be about time that i move into a different aparg tment.
3. I am beginning to feel guilty about how little I actually exercise. The crazy thing is that I have books, I've taken classes and all in all I have a relatively active lifestyle. But living in a place where it seems that not going having a gym membership is equivalent of not believing in God and living in small town USA, my lack of actual "workouts"can be shocking. I personally don't have a real urge to do it. By not going to the gym I cut down the possibility of catching nasty skin rashes, bacteria, fungi and other gross stuff that by about 50%. But I do not have a rock hard body and in my opinion Bridget Jones (the literary character) is skinny. However, I still feel a little guilty that I am happy with myself. I'll get back on the horse. I will rejoin my pilates class and once the rain lightens up I will jump back on my bike.
4. Speaking of bike riding! I never really rode a bike as a kid and now I do. I've explored a lot of my neighborhood on my bike and even gone shopping. I can even tackle a couple of hills. Well, I can make it halfway up more hills than I can go down. I think that bike ridding is as close as I will ever get to driving. I'll start driving when gas and car insurance are free.
5. I read boring old dead authors for fun. For a while I have wanted to read some good ChickLit (if your offended by that title too bad I don't care and I don't want to hear/read your complaints). But I have read Bridget Jones multiple times, the Nanny Diaries, The Devil Wears Prada, and nearly all of the books in the Shopaholic series. And well, I frankly have no interest in reading anything new. So today I picked up two Jane Austen novels. The crazy thing is that I have spent nearly 6 years of complaining about JA. I think that my enthusiasm to read her has not real barring on my feeling about her works. I like it for what it is. But she is not my favorit author, and I don't have that much respect for her as a novelist (again, I really don't care to hear the complaints about this comment as well). But I think that people who know my feelings about Jane Austen would be happy to know that I voluntarily will read her work without any complaints.
6. I like to have planned activities. I already enjoy knitting, but there is nothing like knitting in a group. So I joined a knitting group that has been meeting for the past four years. All I know is that I am far from being a hardcore knitter. I have never gone to a knitting summit to listen to awesome pro-knitters and believe it or not I do not have a huge stash of yarn that I keep under the floorboards. Well I don't think that I do (but I am cleaning out my closet so who knows what I will find). Last but not least I am not a member of Ravlery.com. Until I attend this group I did not know that not being a member of Ravlery was actually the 8th deadly sin. I am trying to make up for that by getting on the wait list. YES there is a wait list!
Aside from knitting I need to return to my book club and start attending dance classes again. There just really is something about learning new things and having interesting conversations with other people who might be just as odd as you are.
Well thats what being an adult is for me. Its basically trying to do my own thing while also finding my nitch out there in the world. Luckily San Francisco is a place where there are lots of other people who are interested in things that might seem a little boring, odd or just random... and they are willing to meet at least once week.
There are a lot of things about being an adult that are a mystery to me. Such as... at what point are you really an adult. Some people think that its when you get to the point that your like "dammit I am an adult, a real adult and I am okay with that. I have my own vision of being a young adult.
1. I get to eat whatever I want for dinner. When I used to eat real ice cream I would sometimes have a lunch of Hagengas. Or I can have pancakes for desert. As an adult my eating habits are sometimes a 4 year olds dream. On the other hand, I am coming to terms that I am allergic to dairy. So I am begrudgingly/gradually changing my diet.
2. I get to have my own space. Its wonderful because Little by little I am putting together an apartment that I like. I think that when I was a kid I didn't really think about whether or not I liked the furniture around me. I was just happy knowing that I had furniture. Now that I have my own place I often go without a piece of furniture rather than having something that I don't like. For about four months I didn't have a sofa/futon. Until December I didn't have a kitchen table and chairs. And even today I have my small tv propped up on an storage bin. But eventually I will have all of the furniture that I want and of course by that time it would be about time that i move into a different aparg tment.
3. I am beginning to feel guilty about how little I actually exercise. The crazy thing is that I have books, I've taken classes and all in all I have a relatively active lifestyle. But living in a place where it seems that not going having a gym membership is equivalent of not believing in God and living in small town USA, my lack of actual "workouts"can be shocking. I personally don't have a real urge to do it. By not going to the gym I cut down the possibility of catching nasty skin rashes, bacteria, fungi and other gross stuff that by about 50%. But I do not have a rock hard body and in my opinion Bridget Jones (the literary character) is skinny. However, I still feel a little guilty that I am happy with myself. I'll get back on the horse. I will rejoin my pilates class and once the rain lightens up I will jump back on my bike.
4. Speaking of bike riding! I never really rode a bike as a kid and now I do. I've explored a lot of my neighborhood on my bike and even gone shopping. I can even tackle a couple of hills. Well, I can make it halfway up more hills than I can go down. I think that bike ridding is as close as I will ever get to driving. I'll start driving when gas and car insurance are free.
5. I read boring old dead authors for fun. For a while I have wanted to read some good ChickLit (if your offended by that title too bad I don't care and I don't want to hear/read your complaints). But I have read Bridget Jones multiple times, the Nanny Diaries, The Devil Wears Prada, and nearly all of the books in the Shopaholic series. And well, I frankly have no interest in reading anything new. So today I picked up two Jane Austen novels. The crazy thing is that I have spent nearly 6 years of complaining about JA. I think that my enthusiasm to read her has not real barring on my feeling about her works. I like it for what it is. But she is not my favorit author, and I don't have that much respect for her as a novelist (again, I really don't care to hear the complaints about this comment as well). But I think that people who know my feelings about Jane Austen would be happy to know that I voluntarily will read her work without any complaints.
6. I like to have planned activities. I already enjoy knitting, but there is nothing like knitting in a group. So I joined a knitting group that has been meeting for the past four years. All I know is that I am far from being a hardcore knitter. I have never gone to a knitting summit to listen to awesome pro-knitters and believe it or not I do not have a huge stash of yarn that I keep under the floorboards. Well I don't think that I do (but I am cleaning out my closet so who knows what I will find). Last but not least I am not a member of Ravlery.com. Until I attend this group I did not know that not being a member of Ravlery was actually the 8th deadly sin. I am trying to make up for that by getting on the wait list. YES there is a wait list!
Aside from knitting I need to return to my book club and start attending dance classes again. There just really is something about learning new things and having interesting conversations with other people who might be just as odd as you are.
Well thats what being an adult is for me. Its basically trying to do my own thing while also finding my nitch out there in the world. Luckily San Francisco is a place where there are lots of other people who are interested in things that might seem a little boring, odd or just random... and they are willing to meet at least once week.
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Myspace Sucks so you get to see this entry
Alright. I have had a couple of problems with MySpace recently and I think that i am just going to have to get rid of the account altogether. About a month ago people asked me why weren't they able to open the last message that I sent them. The thing is that I hadn't sent out any messages and couldn't even remember the last time that I even logged in. Today I wanted to at a silly blog entry and realized two things: 1) "Politics" was no longer listed as a category 2)MySpace had a popup that said that I had spyware that required that I download some bogus software to get rid of it. Basically I am not happy with MySpace right now and I might just delete my account all together. Which makes me sad because that means that now I am forced to put all of my trivial and silly posts on this blog rather than the MySpace one. I will apologize now for the increase of pop culture inspired rants that will now appear on this Blog.
A friend of mine sent me this clip a couple of days ago and it made me laugh. I haven't really watched too many of the debates because they personally make me cringe. Currently the democratic debates just seem worst than highschool debates. The difference is that in highschool politics you pretty much know that it is a popularity contest based on looks and how cool the candidates friends are and only a fraction of the student body actually cares about voting... oh wait a minute...
I mean can't you just hear the gasps and the "ohh no they di'int" from the audience. I mean if you can't I sure can... or maybe I just can't help but react to the debates as is if it is a good episode of "Yo Mamma". I am just waiting for Wilmer Valderrama to come out and announce that the winner will have to travel to Yonkers to battle Chauncey form Jamaica, Qeens (Yes I do realize how little sense that makes.. but that show is just ridiculous).
This is a SNL skit that I heard about on the news the other day. I can't believe it, this is actually entertaining! Who knew that all it too was a 3 month strike to get the writers of this ol' skit show to write something that was relevant and funny!
A friend of mine sent me this clip a couple of days ago and it made me laugh. I haven't really watched too many of the debates because they personally make me cringe. Currently the democratic debates just seem worst than highschool debates. The difference is that in highschool politics you pretty much know that it is a popularity contest based on looks and how cool the candidates friends are and only a fraction of the student body actually cares about voting... oh wait a minute...
I mean can't you just hear the gasps and the "ohh no they di'int" from the audience. I mean if you can't I sure can... or maybe I just can't help but react to the debates as is if it is a good episode of "Yo Mamma". I am just waiting for Wilmer Valderrama to come out and announce that the winner will have to travel to Yonkers to battle Chauncey form Jamaica, Qeens (Yes I do realize how little sense that makes.. but that show is just ridiculous).
This is a SNL skit that I heard about on the news the other day. I can't believe it, this is actually entertaining! Who knew that all it too was a 3 month strike to get the writers of this ol' skit show to write something that was relevant and funny!
Friday, February 8, 2008
Writers strike is over and I am back to blogging
I know that this is odd, but when the writers strike was going on I felt a little odd blogging. I am a big supporter for shows that have writers. I don't care what anyone says, a well written sitcom beats a reality show any day. I do have to admit that I do have a couple of favorites that I watch when I remember to turn on my tv. I love that show where the people have to complete the song lyrics and I also enjoy the lie detector show. But I really do miss The Office and Ugly Betty. I just have to know what happens with Micheal Scott and Jan!! I just have to!!!!
So what have I been doing while not blogging, thinking about blogging or watching Thursday night television? Well strangely enough work has taken up a lot of time. I got my wisdom teeth removed, I've had the flu and a mystery illness. I've been reading. Today I started reading "Choke" and I am really excited about it. I have also watched a ridiculous number of movies. And I lost 3 hand-made hats. Other than that the internet has become my friend.
I am officially a Yelper. At some point between November and January I decided that I needed to view reviews on Yelp before I left the house. Then after awhile I realized that on Yelp my opinion matters just as much as anyone else's (or as little as any other Yelper?). So I made a couple of reviews and I have actually received feedback. In addition to Yelp I have been introduced to the best The Office (US) fan site ever. I don't know who created this site, but DunderMifflin.com is just great.
So this is a really lame entry. I think that I might be out of practice... anyway. I went to the Rocket Room this week. There were three performers but I could only find the website of two. Phonofly and Weather Pending. The other group is called Silk Trade (one of the guy used to work at the same place that I do.. but he upgraded to the happiest company on earth...). I will have to make an addition if I ever do find it.
So what have I been doing while not blogging, thinking about blogging or watching Thursday night television? Well strangely enough work has taken up a lot of time. I got my wisdom teeth removed, I've had the flu and a mystery illness. I've been reading. Today I started reading "Choke" and I am really excited about it. I have also watched a ridiculous number of movies. And I lost 3 hand-made hats. Other than that the internet has become my friend.
I am officially a Yelper. At some point between November and January I decided that I needed to view reviews on Yelp before I left the house. Then after awhile I realized that on Yelp my opinion matters just as much as anyone else's (or as little as any other Yelper?). So I made a couple of reviews and I have actually received feedback. In addition to Yelp I have been introduced to the best The Office (US) fan site ever. I don't know who created this site, but DunderMifflin.com is just great.
So this is a really lame entry. I think that I might be out of practice... anyway. I went to the Rocket Room this week. There were three performers but I could only find the website of two. Phonofly and Weather Pending. The other group is called Silk Trade (one of the guy used to work at the same place that I do.. but he upgraded to the happiest company on earth...). I will have to make an addition if I ever do find it.
Wednesday, January 2, 2008
Great Start to the New Year
So my New Year's Eve reflected a lot of how I hope my 2008 to go: I hung out with great friends, took a risk and did something that I usually wouldn't have done, and in the end I learned a little bit more about myself. At the time it all just seemed that I was having fun! The night started off well. I went to see "No Country for Old Men" early in the afternoon and did a little bit of shopping with a male friend of mine. Then I headed home to get ready for the evening.
Ever since I have started being an "adult" I have felt somewhat pressured to create a good time. You know, find an awesome restaurant, find a fun club/bar/lounge. In the end I generally get frustrated and have a horrible time... or I just stay at home. This New Years I found a number of viable options (I think that I found 6 potential places that me and two of my friends could hit up). In the end we decided to go to a party which was described as "being hosted by a crazy Greek Photography Major"... who wouldn't pass this up? I mean, it was a chance to hang out with some new people, it was free, and the apartment was relatively close to bars and late night eats.
The night went well. My two friends and I had some good times before we went out for the evening. I swear kung-foo babies and Harry Potter singing puppets really are good pre-party entertainment. The following shows just how good of a time we all had.
Awe, don't we all look like a sweet bunch of girls? I mean wouldn't you want to have any of us babysit your newborn?
Sitting on the "N Juda" on new years is a party in and of itself!
Look who really loves riding public transit!
Oh, didn't you know that Tenderloin was actually code for place of secret Japanese gardens?
For some odd reason one of my trio seems to have gone scoty free this night... Humm I guess that I will have to capture her dibautchury some other time.
Ever since I have started being an "adult" I have felt somewhat pressured to create a good time. You know, find an awesome restaurant, find a fun club/bar/lounge. In the end I generally get frustrated and have a horrible time... or I just stay at home. This New Years I found a number of viable options (I think that I found 6 potential places that me and two of my friends could hit up). In the end we decided to go to a party which was described as "being hosted by a crazy Greek Photography Major"... who wouldn't pass this up? I mean, it was a chance to hang out with some new people, it was free, and the apartment was relatively close to bars and late night eats.
The night went well. My two friends and I had some good times before we went out for the evening. I swear kung-foo babies and Harry Potter singing puppets really are good pre-party entertainment. The following shows just how good of a time we all had.
Awe, don't we all look like a sweet bunch of girls? I mean wouldn't you want to have any of us babysit your newborn?
Sitting on the "N Juda" on new years is a party in and of itself!
Look who really loves riding public transit!
Oh, didn't you know that Tenderloin was actually code for place of secret Japanese gardens?
For some odd reason one of my trio seems to have gone scoty free this night... Humm I guess that I will have to capture her dibautchury some other time.
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