Friday, January 30, 2009

...reading...

I am happy to say that I just finished two books in about 2 weeks! This may sound odd, but this is such a relief! All throughout college I gained this strange feeling that I shouldn't just sit and read fun books (and for me fun books aren't always book candy, fun books can be full literary meals). I think it started from a place of I have homework to do, therefore get that done and then enjoy yourself. Of course once I got done with the homework, or even before then, another impulse (the social one) took over. It told me to take the time to invest in friendships. So this summer, when school was finally over, I had every intention to start checking books off my reading list right and left! But, it didn't happen that easily. At first I had to work on finding a job and so just sitting and reading was being lazy and I couldn't let myself do that. Then, once I had a job, I didn't feel like I had a place to just sit and read...beyond not having a place I was seriously lacking in personal contact. As much as I am an introvert and I enjoy sitting on my own and reading, when I've had too much time on my own, I can't stand it any longer. Unlike an extrovert though, it doesn't mean that I'll feel better by being in a crowd or hanging out with lots of people at once. What I prefer is one-on-one, face-to-face interaction. The funny thing is that there are times that my "people" quota can be filled by just one or two of my good friends sitting in the same room as me while we're all reading with the occasional comment about our stories. I know, I'm a strange one. But the simple fact that I have been able to read, read like I used to, read with or without others around tells me soo much about my state of mind! Mind you I still miss my doppelganger and I still need more time with my friends, but this has been so telling for me that it just makes me excited!
Oh, ever extensive and growing book list! Here I come! :D

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

in the year 2049!

I'm currently working on another murder mystery party that I'm really excited about! :D It's set in the future...the year 2049...but there's a good number of similarities between 2049 and 1949. Well that's all I'm going to say for now about it, except for the fact that I sent out the invites today! This one is going to be rather large, if everyone comes. Rusty and I limited ourselves to a total of around 70 (we currently have 71, but one more won't kill us). Fortunately we have experience with 100+ groups, so 70 of our friends should not be too bad. Oh I guess I can say it here since all of the people who have received their invites now know: the victim is Frank T. Peabody, esq.

Friday, January 16, 2009

fun game!

RULES
1. Pick 15 of your favorite movies.
2. Go to IMDB, find a quote from each movie.
3. Post them in a note for everyone to guess.
4. Strike it out when someone guesses correctly, and put who guessed it and the movie.
5. NO GOOGLING/using IMDB search functions. That's cheating and it ruins the fun. Boo yah.
(I'm adapting this from my facebook version in that I'm removing the quotations already guess and replacing them with other quotations from the same films in different spots.)

1. "When I figure out what that means I'll come up with a crushing reply."

2."You know that place between sleep and awake? That place where you still remember dreaming? That's where I'll always love you..."

3. "Look at that. I have Africa all over my hand."

4. "See me. See me now."

5. "How extravagant you are, throwing away women like that. Some day they may be scarce."

6. "I like this Hugo Boss, he cuts a nice suit!"

7."Look, it's not in my nature to be mysterious. But I can't talk about it and I can't talk about why."
"Oooooooo"

8. "I could yell "Fire" into the intercom and we could call it a night."

9. "Well, you may not get hurt, but huff puff, you won't get loved either."

10. "Prepare to die that we may learn the identity of The Laughing Bandit!"
"Why wait?"
"Good heavens, it's Sir Reginald!"
"None other!"

11. "I need to call a phone. Do you mind if I use your cab?"
"There's a cab in the office."

12. "They come over here to take their third year and lap up a little culture...They're officious and dull. They're always making profound observations they've overheard."

13. "Yes. I saw him. I saw him with my own eyes."

14. "Tain't what you do it's the way that you do it. Tain't what you do it's the way that you do it. Tain't what you do it's the way that you do it. That's what gets me through."

15. "Talking between men and women never solves anything. Where we think, they feel. They are creatures of the heart.

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

An Exciting Weekend!

Well last weekend sure was a lot of fun! There's a nice kind of quiet that settles on the campus during interterm, whether that's because there are significantly fewer students around or because it's just that time of year, I'm not sure. It's probably both. Well last week was the beginning of that and it's nice! This last week ended with a half-day on Friday and so I went and met up with my good friend Ash for lunch! It was a blast hanging out and chatting and she bought lunch for me which was awesome! But the weekend only continued to get better from there! Friday evening I joined a group of friends to watch The Fall (a film I'd been wanting to see for a while, starring the amazing Lee Pace) and then we played Apples to Apples! Of course Friday night only got better because I got to go pick up Becky (my doppelganger) from the trainstation! Then, after staying up way to late and singing in Newsies Time ;) we got up early-ish and went to have breakfast before spending a most marvelous day in the Happiest Place on Earth! We met up with Ash and the three of us painted the town purple (in honor of Becky's birthday of course) doing so many rides! Then around 3 or 4 ish Dani showed up and we spent most of the rest of the night doing the rides in Fantasyland! To wrap it up we went and had celebretory desserts at the Napa Rose Lounge. For some strange reason though we seemed to be bad luck for three of the rides we were trying to get on. When we first went to Indiana Jones, it was down, then it opened back up but once on it stopped for a while...then when we were part way into Alice and Wonderland it stopped and we had to be walked out by a Castmember and then as we were in line for Snow White's Scary Adventure the ride stopped for a few minutes but started again and didn't have problems again while we were around it. It was a fun evening, to say the least!
Sunday morning Becky and I went to RH and the message must have been directed at me! I know it was! But more on that later. After that we went to lunch at Gypsy Den Cafe and then off to double-feature Sunday! It was such a fun weekend, all told! Besides that I found out this weekend that I was given the spot in an apartment that I'd been looking at! Yay! So I'm going to be moving closer to work and friends into the little town of Fullerton! Fullerton is technically my first home and it has always been a place I've liked. I'm excited about what this move will mean for my time here in So.Cal! Well, that's it for now. Until next time!

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Adventures on a Tuesday

Well, I've had an interesting last 20 hours or so! I was here at work, like any other Tuesday, until noon when I would have usually left to head down to my job in Corona Del Mar, but I found out that I wasn't needed yesterday, so when I got off and got a call from a couple of friends about going to lunch I was definitely down for that! After lunch I went to Starbucks to work on getting my time-sheet together for the job that I wasn't going to that day. I spent a while there getting caught up in chatting with friends, catching up on my blogs I read and things of that nature. Around 4pm, I decided to leave Starbucks and go do something else for an hour and a half until I went to watch Rear Window, back on campus. Well, while I was trying to figure out what to do with my time, I drove over and get some gas in my car. When I was getting out of my car, I had my keys, wallet, and cell-phone in hand, then I realized that my keys wouldn't fit in my pocket and I set them on the seat, intending to leave the door open or unlocked but then I remembered that I hadn't popped the door to the gas take yet and so by the time I did that I was in normal leave the car mode and locked the door as usual and closed it behind me. Not thinking about what I'd done, but moving automatically, I pumped my gas and then after getting my receipt, I walked back to my car door and...thinking ok, my wallet's here, my cell phone's here, my keys are....oh no! my keys are on the seat! Taunting me through the window! So I immediately call the people who have copies of my car key and although they're both out near Pasadena, one of them comes to my rescue. Of course, by the time I've called it's pushing 4:30 and traffic has started, so I was stuck outside, without my coat, as the sun is slowly setting around me at a gas station. I went and wandered around the convenience store, which wasn't that much warmer than outside was getting and I avoided curious stares from the people around me. There were a few kind bystanders who asked what the matter was, but they couldn't help much. There was one of the gas station employees who was a sweet older gentleman who chatted with me a bit and I got some time to talk to some friends on the phone while I waited. As my friend got slowly closer to me I really started to get cold, it was nearing 6pm and the sun had been set for a while and so I walked over to Little Caesars on the opposite corner to be able to bring some food with me to the movie viewing for the people I was watching with. When I got back, I was standing there for a while when a kind stranger pulled up on the opposite side of the pump and he asked: "how's it going?"
"oh, alright....I locked my keys in the car"
"sorry, can't help ya much with that"
"that happens. I have a friend who's coming to help, she's just been tied up in traffic"
"does she have AAA?"
"no, she has a spare key for my car"
"that's good"
"yeah, I'm glad I did that"
.....here the conversation paused for a while and he was getting back into his truck to leave...I noticed that he looked like he was looking for something in his car.....a moment or two later he came back out of the cab of the truck and asked if I was cold, of course I responded "YES!" or at least in my head that's how I responded, but I just said, "oh, yes". And he offered me this new company shirt he had which was still in it's packaging it was a long sleeve, XL, shirt, but as soon as I pulled it on over my arms, I felt warmer. I thanked him profusely as he drove off and fortunately I only had another couple of minutes to wait before my rescuer showed up! Then it was off to the movie and then eventually off towards home and bed.

Well...the night went smoothly enough, but this morning when I was getting ready, I pulled out my hair straightener to start warming up while I was blow-drying my hair. At some point while I was blow drying, the straightener and a bag that I keep them both in, with a few bottles of hair stuff, etc. decided to jump off the counter and onto my foot! When they landed on my foot, I thought that the pain that I was experiencing was simply from the the heavy bag landing on it. But as I took my time, to move the bag, I realized that the straightener was what was actually causing what I was feeling. So, removing it quickly, I placed it in an area that would prevent it from falling again and put my foot in the sink to run water over it. So as I'm using the evil tool that burnt my foot on my hair, said foot is being soothed by the running water. All I can say is thank God that I'm tall enough and limber enough to not have an issue with putting my foot in the sink! Well, there' my last few hours for ya! I hope you're laughing at/with/near me at this interesting turn of events! Have a great Wednesday!