7/26/2003
7/18/2003
i am trying to gear myself up to do some writing tonight, so of course i need to find some way to procrastinate first. so here's a friday five from last week, because i missed it:
1. Do you remember your first best friend? Who was it?
probably two of them, because i don't know which i met first: jennifer and allison. we all went to nursery school together, if i remember correctly. allison moved away after sixth grade, and i saw her a couple of times after that, then didn't hear from her again til about a year ago. we exchanged a couple of emails but that was it. jen and i were friends--not best friends, but friends--through high school, then lost touch shortly after that. met up with her again at our high school reunion a couple years back and we email from time to time. it's weird knowing someone as a fucked-up adult (me, not her) that i knew as an innocent kid...
2. Are you still in touch with this person?
see above.
3. Do you have a current close friend?
sho nuff! miss kristi, i'm looking at you.
4. How did you become friends with this person?
through her ex-boyfriend, who i worked with and became friends with. ironically enough, since they broke up, i rarely see or talk to him anymore.
5. Is there a friend from your past that you wish you were still in contact with? Why?
oh gosh, a few...john, from high school, i often wonder what he's up to...lisa, who was my best friend for many years--i could still be in touch with her, i suppose, but you know--antisocial me and all...hm, that's all i can think of right now.
1. Do you remember your first best friend? Who was it?
probably two of them, because i don't know which i met first: jennifer and allison. we all went to nursery school together, if i remember correctly. allison moved away after sixth grade, and i saw her a couple of times after that, then didn't hear from her again til about a year ago. we exchanged a couple of emails but that was it. jen and i were friends--not best friends, but friends--through high school, then lost touch shortly after that. met up with her again at our high school reunion a couple years back and we email from time to time. it's weird knowing someone as a fucked-up adult (me, not her) that i knew as an innocent kid...
2. Are you still in touch with this person?
see above.
3. Do you have a current close friend?
sho nuff! miss kristi, i'm looking at you.
4. How did you become friends with this person?
through her ex-boyfriend, who i worked with and became friends with. ironically enough, since they broke up, i rarely see or talk to him anymore.
5. Is there a friend from your past that you wish you were still in contact with? Why?
oh gosh, a few...john, from high school, i often wonder what he's up to...lisa, who was my best friend for many years--i could still be in touch with her, i suppose, but you know--antisocial me and all...hm, that's all i can think of right now.
7/14/2003
have i mentioned how freaking hot it is? i mean, like, not even funny hot. i am sitting still and it's making me sweat. i am going to go shower so i can go to bed and get up in the morning and take another shower. yay.
7/10/2003
i really am going to update killingjar.org very soon. i meant to tonight--was going to come home from work, take a nap, then write something to post, but...the nap ended up being very long, and i'm still tired. i have been beat all day. i think it was that i didn't eat much yesterday, had a couple drinks last night, and stayed up too late playing with dsl. then ran around at work all day. so i'm thinking i'm going to hit the hay early tonight (like in a few minutes) and start fresh tomorrow.
so yeah. hopefully will update killingjar within the next couple of days. in case anyone was wondering.
so yeah. hopefully will update killingjar within the next couple of days. in case anyone was wondering.
7/09/2003
make your own cosmetics.com.
someday i am going to get around to making all the things that i've been finding on the web and bookmarking...
i actually did find that my local crafts store (a.c. moore) started carrying supplies to make lip balms, lotions, and 'bath fizzies,' and i was going to buy some, but basically all you have to do is like mix some color into whatever the main ingredient of the thing is (they have it all pre-mixed) and put it in a jar or some such, which seems too easy to me. it seems like there should be a lot more to it than that. but i may give in and try out the bath fizzies, just to see how it goes.
someday i am going to get around to making all the things that i've been finding on the web and bookmarking...
i actually did find that my local crafts store (a.c. moore) started carrying supplies to make lip balms, lotions, and 'bath fizzies,' and i was going to buy some, but basically all you have to do is like mix some color into whatever the main ingredient of the thing is (they have it all pre-mixed) and put it in a jar or some such, which seems too easy to me. it seems like there should be a lot more to it than that. but i may give in and try out the bath fizzies, just to see how it goes.
oh, i almost forgot...i actually found ginger altoids. i'd heard about them, but had never seen them, then lo and behold, i went to the 7-11 today to get a vitamin water and there they were! they are curiously strong, indeed, and, well...just a little weird.
by the way, the 7-11 has a fabulous assortment of vitamin waters. now if only they'd start carrying fruit water so i wouldn't have to drive the whole 5 minutes to the stop & shop for it...
man my life is sooooo scintillating!
by the way, the 7-11 has a fabulous assortment of vitamin waters. now if only they'd start carrying fruit water so i wouldn't have to drive the whole 5 minutes to the stop & shop for it...
man my life is sooooo scintillating!
by the way, have i mentioned how ungodly fucking hot it has been here lately? i almost want the endless rains of may and june back. almost. i mean, right now it's 82 degrees outside, and it's 1 in the morning. that's just not right. it's supposed to be cool at night, isn't it? sheesh.
happy belated 4th of july!
i am trying to post a little movie i took of the fireworks with my fancy digital camera, but it didn't upload right. i think it's because of this painfully slow connection. however, we are supposedly getting dsl--hey, tomorrow! so as soon as i figure out how to hook up my mac to it, or it to my mac, i'll try uploading it again. i just don't have the patience to do it again right now...oh yeah, and the movie/picture there on the left is sideways--i shot it vertically, forgetting that it would make the movie sideways...just so you don't think there were fireworks shooting out the side of a building or something. i mean, it was spectacular, but not *that* spectacular.
7/04/2003
happy 4th of july and stuff.
i had written this long and rambling post about work--all positive, for once--because for the last couple of days i've been thinking about why i do what i do for a living. and i've discovered that i have some real reasons for it. but my ramble wasn't very well thought out, so i'm not going to post it now. i will work on it and post it at another time.
what made me think of posting that, though, was something my sister said at our managers' meeting this last wednesday, about why we all work there. she said something about how we work with a population that has for a long time been largely ignored, and that we have the opportunity, through our work, to change the country. and i'm thinking, in light of this independence day thing, what a wonderful country this is that affords us the opportunity to do that.
anyway, i'll stop there before i start rambling again. instead, i will go thank my lucky stars that i am a tattooed, blue-haired, smoking, drinking, cursing woman with more possessions than i rightly deserve. god bless america. :)
i had written this long and rambling post about work--all positive, for once--because for the last couple of days i've been thinking about why i do what i do for a living. and i've discovered that i have some real reasons for it. but my ramble wasn't very well thought out, so i'm not going to post it now. i will work on it and post it at another time.
what made me think of posting that, though, was something my sister said at our managers' meeting this last wednesday, about why we all work there. she said something about how we work with a population that has for a long time been largely ignored, and that we have the opportunity, through our work, to change the country. and i'm thinking, in light of this independence day thing, what a wonderful country this is that affords us the opportunity to do that.
anyway, i'll stop there before i start rambling again. instead, i will go thank my lucky stars that i am a tattooed, blue-haired, smoking, drinking, cursing woman with more possessions than i rightly deserve. god bless america. :)
i've been watching way too much Buffy dvd this week, and all i have to say is: i really don't like hearing james marsters speak without the spike accent. i haven't heard him say 'DUDE!!!!!' yet, but he sounds like he wants to do so about every other word. he is ruining my spike fantasies.
not that i actually have spike fantasies or anything. i'm just saying.
not that i actually have spike fantasies or anything. i'm just saying.
and oh shit, i think i overbleached my hair again...it's a lovely platinum color, but...also coming out several long strands at a time...i'm going to wake up bald one day, i'm sure of it.
wow, a friday five made just for me!
1. What were your favorite childhood stories?
wow, so many...when i was very young, i was obsessed with Dr. Seuss's story about the Star-Bellied Sneetches, Grover and the Everything in the Whole Wide World Museum, and this book called Wendy and the Moon Lady. don't remember exactly what it was about now (wendy was a witch or something, a cartoon character), but i know i made my dad read it to me every night for several years. oh, and there was this one called The Magical Drawings of Mooney B. Finch, about a kid who drew pictures that came to life. OH! and Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. about a town where the weather all had to do with food. i still have all my books from my childhood...mostly in my dad's attic, but i still have them nonetheless...
2. What books from your childhood would you like to share with [your] children?
any of the above, and probably dozens more that i've forgotten about by now.
3. Have you re-read any of those childhood stories and been surprised by anything?
sadly, no...but now i want to...i've been working for a few years on collecting copies of all the books i enjoyed reading as a kid--like the actual copies from that time period, not current reprints. i haven't reread many of them yet, though. i have bought and read some of this paperback series called 'Twilight' that i used to love when i was around 12--they're 'young adult' horror novels, and though a few of them really scared me back then, now they're just kind of quaint...i also recently found (and was way too happy about) a hardcover of this book called The Cricket in Times Square, which my third grade teacher, Miss Doyle, had read to us little bit at a time over the school year. that was a good book, and i got the exact same printing of the one she'd read to us. i'm such a nerd.
4. How old were you when you first learned to read?
don't know exact age, but i know i was reading before i entered kindergarten. cause i'm not just a nerd, but a nerd from way back. and i remember the first time i read by myself--it was a book called Two's Company, about a goose and a bear that were friends. i still have the book.
5. Do you remember the first 'grown-up' book you read? How old were you?
hmmmm...i don't really remember...grown up book? i remember reading Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory endlessly for quite a while when i was a kid, and i still had the 'children's room' library card at the time, so i must have been...i don't know, 10 or less? but i don't suppose those are grown up books, are they. i've been reading so much for so long, it's hard to remember transitions like that...the first 'older kid' book i remember reading that really had an impact on me was The Outsiders, which (as many already know) was the book that made me want to be a writer myself. i have like 5 different copies of it now. and that just warms my nerdy little heart. :)
1. What were your favorite childhood stories?
wow, so many...when i was very young, i was obsessed with Dr. Seuss's story about the Star-Bellied Sneetches, Grover and the Everything in the Whole Wide World Museum, and this book called Wendy and the Moon Lady. don't remember exactly what it was about now (wendy was a witch or something, a cartoon character), but i know i made my dad read it to me every night for several years. oh, and there was this one called The Magical Drawings of Mooney B. Finch, about a kid who drew pictures that came to life. OH! and Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. about a town where the weather all had to do with food. i still have all my books from my childhood...mostly in my dad's attic, but i still have them nonetheless...
2. What books from your childhood would you like to share with [your] children?
any of the above, and probably dozens more that i've forgotten about by now.
3. Have you re-read any of those childhood stories and been surprised by anything?
sadly, no...but now i want to...i've been working for a few years on collecting copies of all the books i enjoyed reading as a kid--like the actual copies from that time period, not current reprints. i haven't reread many of them yet, though. i have bought and read some of this paperback series called 'Twilight' that i used to love when i was around 12--they're 'young adult' horror novels, and though a few of them really scared me back then, now they're just kind of quaint...i also recently found (and was way too happy about) a hardcover of this book called The Cricket in Times Square, which my third grade teacher, Miss Doyle, had read to us little bit at a time over the school year. that was a good book, and i got the exact same printing of the one she'd read to us. i'm such a nerd.
4. How old were you when you first learned to read?
don't know exact age, but i know i was reading before i entered kindergarten. cause i'm not just a nerd, but a nerd from way back. and i remember the first time i read by myself--it was a book called Two's Company, about a goose and a bear that were friends. i still have the book.
5. Do you remember the first 'grown-up' book you read? How old were you?
hmmmm...i don't really remember...grown up book? i remember reading Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory endlessly for quite a while when i was a kid, and i still had the 'children's room' library card at the time, so i must have been...i don't know, 10 or less? but i don't suppose those are grown up books, are they. i've been reading so much for so long, it's hard to remember transitions like that...the first 'older kid' book i remember reading that really had an impact on me was The Outsiders, which (as many already know) was the book that made me want to be a writer myself. i have like 5 different copies of it now. and that just warms my nerdy little heart. :)
