27 posts tagged “three things”
1. Went home this weekend to drop Pat off so he could go to his metal concerts in San Antonio. It was a good weekend. On Friday morning I got less than 3 hours of sleep because I didn't go to bed until late, and I had to wake up early to accompany a family member to the hospital for outpatient treatment. On Saturday, I went to my little godsister Raquel's birthday party. I can't believe she's already four. I remember sitting in the hospital when she and her brothers were being born. Crazy. Also, I dyed my hair. It is blondish...not as blond as I'd like. There is always next time.
2. I'm slightly sick with a weenie little...cold? I have no idea what it is. I don't have a stuffy nose or even feel bad. It's just my throat is scratchy and I sound like a smoker when I talk. Laryngitis? I really don't know what it is, and I have no idea where I caught it from. At least I didn't get sick like I did last year after ACL, that sucked. I hope it goes away by Thursday. I usually only get sick once a year. I hope this fills the quota for this year.
3. Ok, I will try not to blabber on too much about True Blood, but seriously, you guys, this show is giving me unrealistic expectations of what my next boyfriend should look like:
If I'm still single in five years because I'm waiting for someone tall, blond, and buff to walk into my life, then I'm totally blaming this show.
1. Omg I cannot stop eating chocolate. I don't even want to count how many wrappers there are in my plate.
2. Hey, sup gummi bears?
3. Patrick and I are seeing Green Day this Sunday! I'm excited. I hope parking is relatively easy. Pat is also going to spend the week with me.
4. Ok, so I finished the first season of True Blood. Thoughts: I definitely have to get this show on DVD, because it's amazing. I won't give any spoilers away, but I was so shocked at who the murderer ended up being. Also, the new little vampire chick annoys the shit out of me. I hope she's not around in Season 2 but something tells me she is.
5. I am getting addicted to 1 vs. 100. I am bringing others down with me.
6. BILLY MAYS DID COCAINE? I know I shouldn't be so shocked, because now the loud, exuberant commercials make a lot more sense. But still, it saddens me to think a fifty-year-old dad would be doing cocaine.
7. I've never been a huge Van Halen fan, but I've found myself liking them a lot more lately for some inexplicable reason. Here is a goody I've heard on the radio.
1. My brother and I went into the music section at Barnes and Noble. Pat is into collecting vinyl records, so he wanted to see what else he could add to his collection. I was acting dumb, bouncing around and singing. We walked by the Michael Jackson section at the front and I wanted to see if they had the Thriller record, since Pat had expressed interest in it the last time we visited. "I wonder if they have that record," I said, but since I was being silly, I pronounced it as re-cooord instead (like the British). It was at this moment that the Barnes and Noble clerk asked us if we needed any help. Patrick thought the timing was hilarious. "I need a moment," he said, walking away and laughing really hard. "Of course you would act like a total idiot when he asks if we need help."
2. When Patrick was buying his record (rather, as I was buying the record since he'd conveniently left his wallet at my apartment), the clerk asked us if we knew that the Sex Pistols album we were purchasing was indeed a record and not a calendar. "Oh yes," I said, secretly a little annoyed that older adults always assume my generation is completely clueless on such things as records. "My dad used to play records when we were younger." "No, I'm serious," the clerk said. "I had someone come in a little while ago wanting to return a record because they originally thought they were buying a calendar." On second thought, maybe I can understand why our elders think Generation Y is full of idiots.
3. I finally gave into the rampant commercialism and mass hysteria and purchased Off the Wall. Everyone else in America is doing it, so I should too! I'm doing it for the Jackson kids. Well, I'm doing it for Michael. Okay, okay, it's because "Working Day and Night" has been stuck in my head for the past two weeks, damn it, and the album was only 10 dollars. I always liked Michael Jackson's music but I really agree with the assessment I read in Time - people feel like it's cool again to like Michael Jackson again because his death has released us from the stigma. I'm happy to see this resurgence, honestly. He deserves to be remembered for his legacy, and it reminds me of the early 90's. Anyway, I want to get Thriller and Bad, and then I think I will be happy. I'm not sure I want Dangerous, even though I love "Black and White" and "Remember the Time." Other than that, the early 90's is when Michael started releasing all those socially-conscious songs and I'm not really into that era (even when I was little I dreaded hearing "Heal the World" on the radio). I just want his music to make me dance. I've been listening to his music nearly non-stop for the past three weeks, so there has been a lot of that.
1. Today my coworker and I went out to eat Thai food. I know, that shouldn't qualify as a "thing" right? But it was SO GOOD Y'ALL. There was a lunch special buffet, so along with your lunch plate, you could get all-you-can-eat soups, veggie rolls, and the like. Oh man. I seriously pigged out.
2. I had a really good run today. The run was 12 intervals of .25 miles, with a minute rest in between each quarter-mile. I did pretty well, averaging 1:45 - 2:00 for most of the intervals, and getting faster (into the 1:30 range) for the last few. This is because someone decided to use me as their pacer. I am usually not a big fan of when people use me to pace themselves, because that means I can't be lazy and have to run faster. Every once in awhile, I'm like, "Screw it, run ahead of me because I don't feel like keeping up with you." But the majority of the time, my competitive streak comes out and I can't let them get too far ahead of me. But I also like when people use me as their pacer because it forces me to be a better runner. I got some good times in because of this person, so we thanked each other at the end.
3. I saw this posted on my friend's Facebook page the other day, and it's too good not to share. It's a "literal interpretation" of "Total Eclipse of the Heart." There are several more of these out on Youtube, but this one is by far the best that I've seen - yeah, the singing isn't the greatest, but the video is hilarious. Enjoy. (And watching this will make you wonder what the eff the original video was supposed to convey!)
1. The baby birds in the nest outside of my apartment hatched. SQUEE. Between that and the baby chicks that hatched at my mentee's school, I've just been overloaded with baby bird cuteness in the past week.
2. The coverage of the Buffalo plane crash freaks me the eff out. Not only is it incredibly morbid to be hearing about someone's last conversation before crashing, but the pilots didn't even notice ice was building around the plane because they were too busy talking.
3. I'm so, so, SO sick of the media hype around Jon and Kate Gosselin. I don't condone cheating, but after seeing the way she acts on the show, I can't really blame the guy, you know? HOWEVER, I think they are both shitty people who need to stop parading their personal problems in the tabloids and put their children first and be adults, for once.
4. I want to perform tomorrow for the Frankie Manning tribute dance buuuut I haven't learned the choreography yet. So that's something I need to do before tomorrow.
5. Patrick will be here on Sunday! And The Offspring concert is on Tuesday! And his best friend/my adopted younger brother Steven is coming back from Japan for the first time in two years on Thursday! Next week should be awesome.
And just cuz:
1. I am making chicken soup. I am pretty lazy when it comes to cooking, but my mother gave me the idea yesterday. Why don't I make soups more often? It is not taking too long, and it appears that it will be quite delicious.
2. I am going back and forth between The Wizard of Oz. I have only seen it once, when I was ten or eleven. Back then I thought it was decent, but I wasn't crazy about it. I was a book purist and bitched about the differences between the film and the book (if you all have not read the book, then you are MISSING OUT. I have had this beautifully illustrated edition since I was eight and it remains one of my favorite stories to this day.) But of course, I'm more forgiving in my old age and I'd forgotten how great this movie actually is. If I could choose any singing voice to replace my own, I would chose Judy Garland's.
3. One more full day of work before vacation. YAY.
1. Just got home from blues dancing...I don't know if I'm getting more comfortable with blues dancing, there's more people showing up, or I'm getting to know more people there, but it's a lot more fun than it used to be. The venue is really intimate and fun, at a coffee shop.
2. This is weird. Before I left, I could have SWORN that I left my bedroom lights on and and closed the door. As I closed the front door, I remember thinking, "Okay, if the lights are turned off when you come home, don't freak out, because that could mean that the light bulbs went out." Well, when I came home, the lights were off. As in, the switch had been turned off. Freeeaaaaky. Obviously there was no one in my apartment. Maybe there's ghosts here or something, or, I just lost my mind completely and cannot remember whether or not I left the lights on (I COULD HAVE SWORN THAT I DID).
3. The other night, I dreamt that I opened a can of cool, refreshing Dr Pepper and started drinking it. I know, I have exciting dreams, right? In the dream, the drink was so delicious. Which meant, obviously, that the next day, I went to buy some. I think Dr Pepper should pay me for its usage of subliminal advertising in my dreams.
1. The run today really beat Monday's. On Monday we did a progressive 3-miler, and I ran it so embarrassingly slow (like I pulled out an 8-minute mile on the mile I was supposed to run the fastest. WOO OLYMPICS, HERE I COME). But today's I kicked it. 6 laps of .43 miles, the last of which Andi and I ran in 3 minutes, so not too bad, I suppose. And I almost swallowed a bug. It tasted gross, in case you are wondering.
2. Work today was busy, much busier than yesterday. I have found that sometimes most of the time, working with men is fairly drama-free compared to working with women. Haha!
3. I am on a Queen kick as of late. I should make a song of the week sometime here soon.
Okay, bedtime.
1. I LOVE this weather. I see myself having a future with this weather. I want to know what its hopes and dreams are. I want to bring it home to meet my parents.
2. My hair is officially past my shoulders. YES, THIS IS IMPORTANT ENOUGH TO BLOG ABOUT. Maybe I should never say never, but I really have no intention of cutting my hair short ever again. If I make a blog in another six months about how much I hate long hair, someone please remind me that 1. shorter hair takes longer to style, and 2. I can't do my wash, scrunch n'go hairstyle because my hair ceases to be wavy when too short.
3. Today at work:
Coworker: Do you ever hear the little "ding" that says you have email, but then you don't really have any email?
Me: Yes. It's disappointing.
Coworker: See, look at that, you're becoming a smartass.
In between an endless duration of work ahead (which is awesome because I stay busy, but sucks because deadlines are imminent), worrying about the hurricane (which luckily is heading north), and other little things occupying my brain, I sure was in a pissy mood today. But several things made it better.
1. The hurricane moved north. Not like I'm wishing that thing to hit anyone. But I'm glad that, at least for now, my family is safe. And if this means I have to endure hearing my father saying, "I told you so!" then so be it. Ironically, I hear the city I live in is in for some of the effects now...we'll see. I'm not worried. Though, as my brother told me, "Being on the top floor of an apartment building probably isn't the best place to stay with 70 mph winds." If I don't blog this weekend, then you'll know I was blown away with the wind. Aw and Rabia sent the sweetest text asking if my family was okay and if we needed anything. It made my day. I am adding "visiting Rabia" or "Taking the trip to London with Rabia that we planned on doing last year at the end of 2008, so obviously that needs to be rescheduled" to my list of things to save up for.
2. I finally got my New York & Company cardigan. It is pretty but looks a little school-marmish. Maybe I can wear it when I do my mentoring here in a couple of weeks.
3. I signed up to be part of Allure's Beauty Expert panel, for the sole purpose of receiving free shit in the mail and being able to try it out. It paid off because today, I got Chanel mascara to try. It's a full tube and everything. Do you know how much Chanel mascara costs? I don't either, but I know that it's more than I want to be spending on mascara. I love free stuff.
4. I made taquitos tonight and they were pretty good. Granted, a monkey can make taquitos, but we're building my confidence here. So at least I know my future husband can survive off of my taquitos.
