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Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
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9:54 am - olbermann always has the right words.
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| Monday, September 8th, 2008
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11:25 am - very easily amused.
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Naming your kids: Palin Style!
Sarah Palin married her high school boyfriend, Todd Palin, on August 29, 1988. The Palins have two sons (Track, 19, and Trig, four months) and three daughters (Bristol, 17; Willow, 14; and Piper, 7). Todd Palin has said Track's name came from the interest Sarah's parents had in the sport and the fact that he was born in the sport's season; Bristol was named after Bristol Bay in Alaska, where Todd grew up and where he does commercial fishing; Willow was named after Willow, Alaska; Piper got her name because it is uncommon and "a cool name"; Trig's name is Norse for "strength".
1)Your first-born will be named after your parents favorite sport: Tai Chi
2)Your second-born will be named after a nearby area that you're not from but you like the sound of part of the name, and maybe you have nostalgic memories of said place: Long [after Long Beach, duh]
3)Your third-born will be named after another nearby place, for no reason other than you already have two children and don't have time to put much thought into another name: Eas Los
4)Your fourth gets a "cool" name: Robinette
5)Your fifth gets something mythological, possibly straight out of Lord of the Rings: Coyolxauhqui [not LOTR...Aztec goddess of the moon.]
So there you have it. My kids will be: Tai Chi , Long, Eas Los, Robinette, and little Coyolxauhqui.
current mood:  restless
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| Thursday, August 14th, 2008
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6:55 pm - how many of us have them?
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o hai, guyz! _(._.)/
i know i don't acknowledge this as much as i should...but i'm really fortunate and grateful to have my friends. i've been thinking a lot lately about how i ended up meeting and really bonding with nica and loving that i am able bring him around my friends easily. because, for the most part, they're all pretty awesome and welcoming. even though i'm part of this set now, i'd never take anyone for granted. it doesn't matter how long i've known someone, or how much we've experienced together...i know i gotta keep up and still make that effort to stay in touch.
i can't rave enough about the people i've collected in mah life thus far. the people i've chosen to keep with me, and the ones who've decided to stick with me are some exceptional individuals. doesn't matter if i see em everyday cuz i live with em, or every few months. i love all equally.
i am happy in knowing my friends and i are able to keep busy [even if it's stressful sometimes] enough that we don't get bored with life. i love that we can separate and come back together like we were never apart and still have fun and have that connection. i love that my friends have never made me feel bad about being caught up with whatever activities i'm focused on at any given time [and those that did got cut.] it's good to have people around who aren't needy babies. lol. needy people never get what they need from me and it always ends in disaster.
THIS tripped me the fuck out. i thought i was delusional.
i've been on a painting hiatus this summer. i've only done about 2 paintings...one spermie and mostly finished a selena portrait. been taking a well deserved break, but i feel like it's time to get back into it...i just hope the weather cools down a bit more in the next weeks!
dawn is in PUERTO RICOOOOOO and it's her birthday. she's 27. i'm jealous and can't wait to catch up to her!!
current mood:  cheerful
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| Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
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12:26 pm - 5.8 chino hillz is shakin and i missed it~!
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i was driving back from LA and drove up to the office to dolores and brenda standing on the porch with boone on a leash and a look of terror on their faces.
i kinda love how people around here seem to emit a slight sense of pride during our little earthshakes...like, yeah i'm in CA and the ground is quaking real hard...WHAT.
i like how our natural disasters get everyone talking and twittering and updating their status on myspace. lol.
i had a really good weekend. last weekend, too, come to think of it.
current mood: amused
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| Monday, July 14th, 2008
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3:14 pm
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i got a gym membership about half a month ago. it's the first one i've ever had and it's at LA fitness. not cuz i think it's a better gym than 24, or that i would even know how to compare the two ~ it just happens to be verrrry convenient; right down the street! yay. tony has a membership there also, so we go together and i copy his workout routines since he knows better than i how to shape up. so far i've mostly gone to do a biking/running/eliptical combo, but this past week he made me try weights for the first time. i'm sucha weakling~! i used the little 5 pounders and 20 pounds on another machine while tony was there with his 15 pounders and like 140 pounds or something ridiculous on that other machine~!!!
on friday i went to que sera with ryan n nica, where we met up with sandra, jose, khoi, suzy, and ben. good foot is a lot of fun~! i'd never been, but had heard dawn talk about it a lot. i thoroughly enjoyed myself and i think everyone else did too. ^_^
i don't feel 100% today. i feel sleepy and like something is wrong with my voice! this weekend i had a headache saturday night and half the day on sunday. i don't think it was a hangover headache since i only had dos margaritas at the fair, but who knows.
robin and i have been doing pretty good with eating our groceries instead of going out. i do still want to try ramen...at bray's spot in lil tokyo ~ daikokuya.
i dunno...according to bray i'll like it better than pho which i highly DOUBT. psh. nothing can replace that...in fact! i need the nourishment that only pho can give me~!! right. now.
oh, and i've been swimming the last two weekends and i can't get enough. more every weekend from here til it gets cold again. lindsey. come over!
oh yeah, went to the fair this weekend~! ate me a giant sausage and some deep fried australian potatoes. so yummy and i'm going back sunday to watch the vandals~!
current mood:  groggy
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| Monday, July 7th, 2008
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6:32 pm - hands on my device.
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driving home from work today i saw a man in a brown pick up truck puffing on a crack pipe...it was at that point that i realized my texting while driving problem is not that bad.
fuck what the law says~!
current mood:  defiant.
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11:51 am - ...everyone hates mondays.
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i had two dreams last night ~
in the first we all had to prepare for the huge weather shift that would result in us losing 50 degrees over night...it was terrifying because in my dream we had to run around everywhere looking for blankets which were, for some reason, very scarce. O_o i woke up to no blanket and the fan and frozen feets. 
the other is more difficult to explain because it was mostly visuals and less dialogue...i think i was the only character in the dream on a trip around northern california, southern california, and mexico collecting photos that portrayed how nature and architecture can work together to create something beautiful. someone gave me the assignment and i spent most of my time sightseeing and messing around instead of actually completing the task at hand. it wasn't until my last days on the trip that i got some work done, but it was some very good work if i do say so myself. and that's the way it always is in real life, too!! hehe. 
as for my weekend ~ i think this was one of my favorite 4th of julys in a long while. having a 3 day weekend really helped with that...thursday night we headed out to maggie's to listen to some awful karaoke and hang out with lotsa friends. tony and robin and nica and i headed out there first, then some of nica's friends joined us as well as jaime and crystal. i really enjoy nica's friend, jose. he's such a nice person and always chats with me about painting and disney and singing. we were talking about school, and he was encouraging me to continue to take courses at a community college...that i shouldn't stop with my education. :] i agree with him...maybe when robin signs up for cerritos i'll join her for a class or two. i enjoy being busy and productive and i think it'd be fun to take a class i wouldn't have taken before a couple nites a week. maybe spanish ~ or beginning ballet. ^_^
friday i left nica in my room for a few hours while i went and hung out with the fam in whittier...ate some turkey burgers then came home to save nica from himself. we headed over to jaime's parents house in norwalk where ryan, jaime, robin, renee and jade had already gotten the party started with some of jaime's fam. it was a pretty standard 4th of july celebration...lots of foods and dranks and fireworks. they had a buncha illegals that kept spraying us with debris. that was kinda gross!! i really, truly hate fireworks which is sorta outta character for me considering they're bright, colorful, sparkly, magical...etc. they're also really loud and smelly, and the pretty ones just kinda get lost in the smoke towards the end. jaime's parents were super happy to have us, and his dad thanked us for making his son happy. :] it was pretty sentimental. we ended up heading back to my house for nite swimming and some robin n renee sexy time. not me though. too cold.
saturday i had korean bbq for the first time. i love the side dishes and the chicken. there were these scrambled eggs in a bowl that were heavenly, as well as these cold slimy glassy looking noodles that i became obsessed with. nica ate a whole plate of beef and i think i ate almost as much chicken. probably not though ~ i think i filled up on sides. so yummy. i can't wait to go back to cham sut gol. 
we ended up at detroit and avalon that nite with sandra and rajeev. sandra has this new puppy named chloe and she's just the most precious thing. she's a boston terrier and she looks like a frog. the bars were fun. nica hated detroit and i loved it...there was a hip hop room full of asians getting down. :P avalon is super cute and tiny. sorta grimy, but i liked it that way. they had really pretty lights and giant hefs.
sunday was a funday for sure. we went swimming, had some friends over, and drank some dranks ~ poolside. i got to wear one of my new bathing suits and had mah turquoise fingernails to match. it officially feels like summer~! but you know, it's not that hot yet...i keep forgetting it's already july.
speaking of july ~ niece is coming to town from TX annnnnd the oc fair is coming up!! who wants to go fill up on deep fried foodz?
and as always, life is the bubblez :)
current mood:  pleased
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| Friday, July 4th, 2008
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5:33 pm
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| Friday, June 27th, 2008
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1:02 pm - i love egyptian kings!!
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| Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
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8:41 pm - check you out.
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so, i made a new painting~! all on my own with no assignments or grades or deadlines attached to it. granted, it's not my favorite painting...i'm still really proud of it just because i painted it completely based on my own free will.
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current mood:  nerdy
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| Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
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11:20 am - oh, talentdatabase is such a sweetie...!
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| Sunday, May 11th, 2008
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10:29 pm - new lu painting~! and other news.
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i finished this one a couple weeks ago, but i've not posted it because i wanted it to be a surprise. [it's a gift.] but i thought, fuck it, she'll still be surprised to see it online, i think!! ^_^
the second painting in my unfertilized series. lindsey lu was my first choice to add to this series because 1) i love her; she's so pretty like a disney princess. 2) she's not offended by spermies. 3) her bday was approaching when i started my unfertilized self portrait, my final project was due shortly after, and i needed a good gift idea.
i killed many birds with this painting.
heh.
ok, so last night i went with chazzy, robin and corey to hollywood. club bang to be exact. chazzy wanted to get out and corey was able to get us in for free [fuck a $15 cover] so we said, why not. i'd only went running once this past week so i needed the exercise. i cut my teacher dress all short and hoochie and drank a buncha lemonade vodka and was good to go. like a dumb bunny i ordered TWO long beach ice teas. mistake number one. mistake number two occurred at the end of the night when i managed to lose all my friends and found me a boyfriend for the night. [<3 the perks of single life.] i don't know his name and i think i lost my phone while trying to get his number. idk. i ended up sitting out front with my one night boyfriend and he waited with me on the sidewalk til my friends found me. they ended up going back to get the car and pulled right up to the front and i said a very quick goodbye and hopped in the car. very hazy are my memories of last night, but i know i had tons o fun and am not even mad about losing my phone or am i concerned that i don't have insurance on it. i just got a buncha government cheese so i'm covered. i had thee worst hangover this morning. robin, too. we took turns vomitting. lol. i'm still feeling weak. i'm in a happy mood though because it kinda felt like oh four all over again!! except i was wearing a dress and tights instead of ripped jeans and a t-shirt. ha.
current mood: lethargic
current music: tu solo tu/selena.
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| Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
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9:54 pm - you have it or you don't.
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6:47 pm - next round in the photobooth pet series...
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| Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
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11:28 pm - last set of watercolors.
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these five lil paintings really wore me out. not only am i tired of painting me, i'm actually thrilled to not have to paint with watercolors for a while. they are so unfriendly and unforgiving. and despite all that, i think they turned out alright. i usually end up over working 'makeup' because if i make a line too thick or too dark, there's really no getting rid of it, hence the crazy eye makeup. >_<
the hand drawings in these are mudras, hindu and buddhist hand gestures that symbolize various, 'deeper' meanings. i first learned about these in comparative religion 101 many years ago, but have recently begun to lightly research them. i tried to match up the mudras with the self portraits to some extent. probably stretching in some, but whateverrrr i'm tired!
( clique. )
oh and i found these lil guys earlier. they go perfect with my last self portrait in oils.
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in addition:
yesterday i had my critique for this series and my teacher was more thrilled with them than i've ever seen him with any of my other projects. lawrence is the one instructor who is so brutally blunt with his students that he's made some cry. i never take anything he says as an attack against me personally, so i think i've been able to gain a lot from the 4 courses i've had with him. he's never come across as a mean guy, just very honest and straight forward, and for me, it translates into comedy most of the time. like yesterday he says to me, 'jennifer, you don't have to come back for a final project. i'm giving you an A. i even would go so far as to say that these paintings almost made my day. these are gonna look great framed.' lol. i appreciate his criticism and how he points out what's not working in my paintings so i can improve upon those problems. most people don't understand that it's more beneficial to hear what needs improvement than just hearing that we made a pretty painting. it doesn't hurt my feelings and i'm really very grateful to have had a teacher that has helped me to develop my skills so drastically. he let me know that i've improved, but of course he didn't let me forget that i still have tons of room to grow and develop my technique further. he recommended i do 100 more of this series over the summer. ha. we'll see. ^_^
he thinks i'm a good candidate for grad school, which is an amazing compliment considering i've heard him discourage MANY of his students from applying right after completing their bachelor's degree. [mostly very young students; 22-23yo.] he says i would be able handle the tough crits and have the self discipline necessary for the master's program. i was stoked. it made me want to apply right away...but i'm taking a break. i told him i'll take a year off and see how i feel after that. i really want my master's in fine arts so i can teach at a college one day. that would be ideal~!!
current mood:  cold
current music: queen.
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| Friday, April 18th, 2008
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1:10 am - new paintings.
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unfertilized. about 10"x24" spray paint, oil, paint marker on wood.
my friend lori ann invited me to be in another show at the mountain bar earlier this month and told me the theme was rebirth. i immediately thought of microscopic images of the human eggs being fertilized by sperm. i know that has nothing to do with the concept of being reborn, but i have a hard time sticking to assignments sometimes. since i hate the idea of reproducing and conceiving and birth, [i don't have a problem with sex, just the making babies part.] this painting makes me giggle. so far the people who've seen it associate the sperm cells with jizz [obviously] and have concluded that i want it all over me. interesting. i wonder if people ever think that their interpretations say more about them than me. ^_^ i'm really just into grossing myself out and laughing about it more than anything. i love this painting; i think it's pretty and silly and not perverted at all...we all started out as an egg under attack of some spermatozoa. i'd like to paint more people like this and have a whole collection of unfertalized friends...anyone down?
princess stephi. 6"x8" spray paint, oil, graphite, semi precious stones, crystals, plastic beads, and a pearl.
this is stephi. she loves her kitty and speaks very softly and daintly sometimes, and other times she laughs loud and has a love/hate relationship with this life. she is a very pretty lady with rosy cheeks and two different colored eyes! sometimes she gets frustrated with the redundancy of her day to day life and the stupidity and meanness of some of the people she comes in contact with, but who doesn't? one day she plans to break free from the confines of cypress and the rest of the most orange of orange counties, and run away with me to the farthest reaches of...europe. most likely western europe. she dreams of finding the love of her life resting on the steps of a gothic cathedral...or sitting on a bench older than this country. lol. we're going to buy vespas and ride around town like we ain't got nothing better to do. stephi is a princess unicorn kitty baby and deserves all the most precious of gems.
current mood:  accomplished
current music: britney spears.
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| Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
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10:44 am - makes me want to kill myself.
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the redback spider is one of only two animals to date where the male has been found to actively assist the female in sexual cannibalism.
current mood:  terrified.
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| Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008
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6:20 pm - ooooh, snap! happy oh eight~!!
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in recent months i've found myself most drawn to and appreciating the time spent with people that possess three outstanding personality traits; sense of adventure. sense of humor. sense of self. i lose these senses sometimes and i love the people that remind me of their importance...sometimes without even realizing it, i'm sure.
i'm very much into venturing out and seeing as much as i can. i went on adventures all summer with deanne all over so cal and ever since dawn moved in i go on certain night time adventures with her sometimes, and now i'm seeing that stephi is also the adventure seeking whore that i love to hang out with! morgan and i are itching to go back to baja and she wants to go to puerto vallarta this summer and fred and i are beginning the early stages of seriously planning out a three week trip around other parts of mexico. i have my inhibitions and concerns about that trip, but i'll talk about it more as plans progress. i just wanna run around everywhere, all over the world...! it seems oh eight will have a lot of trips to mexico, so me learning spanish is vital. my dad gave me a burnt copy of rosetta stone for xmas. i'm fucking stoked. :]
along with adventuring and vacationing i'm really starting to fully understand and connect with people who have an awesome sense of humor. people who know how to not take too seriously all those petty issues that so many stress over are some of my most favorite to be around. people who grasp that the majority of things we experience in this life don't 'happen to you', but rather, we make them happen for ourselves = tight mfs. people who can brush off negativity, or at least not let it affect them too deeply, are really some of the people i admire most. people who understand that life is a series of choices and don't dwell on the bad ones they make or are able to extract something of value from those negativities are usually fun to be around and can make jokes and make me laugh. i appreciate that.
and that all pretty much goes along with my appreciation for people with a sense of self. people with motivation to create value in their lives are usually the people who know exactly who they are or at least the type of person they would like to be and are constantly working towards improving their situations. and by creating value in their own lives, they tend to be happier and more pleasant to be around than...those who take what they can get from everyone around them and feel victimized on the daily as a pitiful and stagnant form of existence. the former are inspiring to me, and i have endless appreciation for their willingness to hang out with me.
i've been fortunate to be surrounded by a majority of people who have at least one, if not all three of these traits...plus so many more.
one thing i really HATE lately is koko. and i mean it. [ha] she is growing to be more and more of a pest than a good little pet. i think she feels restless in the house and gets easily bored with her limited surroundings. she is a kitty and kitties were meant to wander and be curious and climb and eat little animals. i feel like i'm robbing her of what is natural, but for one thing i don't think she can hang living as an indoor/outdoor kitty and secondly, when i let her outside she immediately wants to come back in. *sigh* it's a neverending struggle with that animal. she is destructive and spazzed outta her mind. GAH! someone take her.
i should be running right now. but my nye hangover has sorta carried over an extra day. i would really love to consume some sort of asian feast after this.
i've not gone running in about a week. maybe a little more. [slacker!!] i was feeling a little pent up today in the office and started getting restless when i saw how nice it looked outside. i wanted to go join steph on her day off so badly, but me working so much right now while school is out will hopefully help me not scrape by so much for a little bit. which is always nice. ^_^
running will resume tomorrow.
current mood:  chillen.
current music: enchanted sdtk.
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| Wednesday, December 5th, 2007
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2:41 pm - fact:
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those who lead the most miserable and shitty type existence are always the first to deny and always the last to accept that we get what we give. they are so certain that some other force must be at work; working against them to make sure they can never be happy. they can't possibly grasp the concept that they are creating their own misery, not the people or circumstances surrounding them.
i wonder why it's so hard for people to take responsibility for their causes and regain control of their lives.
current mood:  working
current music: xmas tunes.
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| Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
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5:41 pm - i just wanted to document this somewhere.
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"Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence . . . When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up." C.S. Lewis
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my days lately are busy and fulfilling. our house will look so different come saturday. i can't wait til you won't even recognize it as 'the fe house.' i'm thankful for dawn's help and motivation...even though i still think she sux and is a pushy betch. and she's absolutely right when she says, 'so who the heck cares about what isn't in my life right?' we all need to strive to lessen that worry for what we haven't got and concetrate love for what we do have and i THINK if we all did that the things we don't possess will come to us more naturally and easily. so many give so much negative focus on what they don't have which disallows them to appreciate the things they do. eh, what am i saying...it's all about finding that balance.
i think i'm probably mildly bipolar, ps.
or just extremely scatter brained.
and i don't even know how to verbalize any of it, so i'm not sure if anyone can tell...aside from my roomates maybe?
anyway.
i've only been running with tony for a week and i already feel so much better about it. not even very sore today and already up to six minute sets with only minor objection. i came to the conclusion that i'm entirely too immobile for someone my age and needed to step it up. i sit all day at work, in a car, or at school...then would come home and sit and eat and sleep. not moving nearly as much as i should throughout my days. so now i run with tony. and i go out with dawn which is exhausting. i don't know if i can keep up with her which is depressing cuz we're the same exact age. ha.
i can't stop thinking about how i have so much work ahead of me for like the next 6 months. that is until something new begins for me...but for the most part the tasks to be completed will be things i love doing so it won't even be work at all. moving offices i may not love as much, but i'll be glad to be mobile!! i want to squeeze in a book somewhere in between all this, too, i have decided.
i really don't like thinking about full time jobs. but i do like thinking about paychecks that will allow me a comfortable living instead of barely scraping by every two weeks. :] actually that's not completely true...i am way comfortable with only slight debt compared to what i could have racked up by now. and scraping. it's what i do, man. but i do know what my responsibilities are and i am looking forward to taking care of everything in a timely manner. or at my own pace. i know i move slow with most everything i do, but i also know i'm constantly moving forward. rare occurrances of stagnancy [which i loathe and have avoided for a long while now] but for the most part i'm always making some kind of progress...looking back to remember where i've been, but never moving backwards.
fuck that.
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