Last night went to Michelle's and saw a lot of people from high school/Rice. It's kind of cool that they all still hang out together. We hung out at Michelle's for a while, went to Two Rows, and then to Genji for karaoke. At Two Rows I saw Kjohn and Marcus. I haven't seen Kjohn in over a year and Marcus for even longer. We had a few drinks there then went to Genji. I've never been to a karaoke bar before. The nice thing about this place is you pay for a private room and then can order the equal amount of food for free. We sang until about 2am and then I came home gave Kevin a call and went to bed. Tomorrow night may be poker night depends on how busy other people are etc.
left for the Galleria at 2 pm just got home... 7:30pm... oy long day of shopping. Luckily it was more productive than the last three months of shopping. 2 pairs of pants, 1 sweater, 1 pair of boots, and 1 dress. The dress was the hardest. I don't think I could put anyone through the torture of dress shopping with me. Every dress I found that I liked was way too big for me. Though consistently I found that I liked Ralph Lauren dresses the most. Next came some nice BCBG ones but until I lose some more weight / tone up / get a really amazing push up bra... I don't think I can wear that one... it was SO cute though... (look I really am a girly girl).
i really like what they've done to the Galleria. There's an entire new wing of shops (lots more). It's like Robson St. plus the Galleria on steroids. The Banana Republic was so much larger than the one in Bellevue Square. Makes me want to go to the one in downtown Seattle to see if they have near the selection. Not that I need anymore clothes...
I think it's really time to clean out the closet when I get home. (oh dear now it's in writing...) I think it'll do me some good to minimize the wardrobe a tad more. No one needs that many clothes.
so... last night watched Timeline with Oliver. It's an okay movie; I had to close my eyes twice so it's not that gory. Freaked out a little bit about being single again... Called Irwin to freak out for a good hour and as usual he calmed me down. Thus today begins the day of me striking out as independent again... I'm drawing inspiration from Michelle (not that she's single, but I always remember her during high school and college). Michelle - if you have some advice let me know :)
Woke up at 6am today to go to Foley's. Wow talk about a lot of people. There were more people there than at the one rave I went to a few years back. Talk about crowded. We walked around the mall for half an hour and then came back home. I slept until 10am until Kevin called to say he was at the airport. Had a good conversation for him and then fell back asleep until 11am.
yeah i'm in houston! flying in i could see brown muddy rivers, houses all in neat little rows (gotta love master planned communities), and no mountains! ah the comforts of home.
yesterday had dinner at Fuddrucker's. i know it's not exactly nice, but hey if you don't have it where you live you end up missing it once in a while. today i had kolaches for breakfast. surprisingly i haven't been able to find these in seattle, the closest thing is a piroshky.
i also got my haircut today! i had reddish highlights put in (not red lights, just reddish highlights) and i got it trimmed. it's layered in the front so it looks a bit shorter, but the back is definitely looking much better. no more split ends!
chick on tv! no literally a chick on tv! how cute... anyways, after helping tony move, shopping, and a late lunch we had dinner and went to the barenaked ladies concert. it's been so cold and rainy here i just want to stay in and nap, yet i can't seem to fall asleep for the life of me. every day i've been awake at 7:15am tossing and turning and trying to fall back asleep and i can't :(. though yesterday i did nap at travis' before the concert for about 30 mins. then i woke up all groggy & out of it. some hot tea at dinner did help a little.
okay back to the subject at hand, barenaked ladies. as usual a fun concert. i'm still not sure how i feel about concerts. except for classical concerts in shepherd school of music at rice; i'm not sure how concerts enrich my life. don't get me wrong it's fun to go to concerts with friends, but i'm not sure i'd plan to go to a concert by myself. i think it was to do w/ having to sit for 3-4 hrs. i still haven't outgrown shifting etc.
anyways time to run to the airport... gotta drop irwin off.
friday night was brian's 30th b-day and travis's 25th b-day. (mutually exclusive) i ended up leaving work early and going downtown w/ travis to find a table cloth and additional napkins... then picked up a cowboy bebop anime poster for brian. then it was back to the eastside, over to daniel's for dinner (i had caesar salad, new york strip steak?, and creme brulee). yum. afterwards, i met up again with irwin to go to the garage for pool & drinks w/ travis. brian, rob, bill, and tom came with me. it was fun, except some nasty shots were ordered. all in all a good time.
this morning i woke up to snow... actually i woke up to ivy knocking on my door and saying "snow...snow... snow..." as i have never actually lived in a place that really snowed before (other than salt lake city and then it was just always covered in snow) this was a very cool occurrence. no pun intended. my car got to see snow for the first time! i had ivy take pictures since my camera was at work... i'll have to post them later.
let me tell ya, snow is heavy. i didn't realize the slush could be that heavy. irwin & travis stuck my snow brush thingy in my trunk the other day so i had to get it out, and when i went to lift the trunk i felt some considerable weight there. i didn't even have to really close the trunk; it sort of just dropped. i found it somewhat ironic seeing my texas inspection sticker as i'm wiping snow off of my front windshield. at any rate it was kind of cool (esp since the roads weren't covered in it). anyone want to come pick me up for work when that does happen? (i still have yet to really drive in snow)
a coworker suggested that i try walking, biking, skiing to work when the roads do get covered. now i know i only live like 5 miles away from work, but seriously if i don't walk to work when it's nice outside, why in the world would i do it when there's snow?!
yeah i can't wait. next tuesday i get to go back home to houston. i can easily say that the first thing I want to do is eat! i've become absurdly accustomed to paying at least $10 for any meal I eat out. i can't wait to go to chinatown and get a big bowl of noodles for $5.
still trying to decide what to do with my future. i'm debating taking the GRE just to see how i do and maybe apply to some graduate schools. if igure i'm the only one who can push my career the way i want it to go. now if i could only figure out what i want to do rather than what i don't want to do...
so not as good as NY pizza, but not bad. i think i'm a big fan of deep dish pizza, but every now and then i crave the types of pies i get when i go visit my aunt in NJ. we had the gotham pizza w/ the caesar salad. i liked the caesar salad though i really couldn't chew very well (i had two cavities filled this morning). the pizza wasn't bad either though i don't know what coppocola is, and from what i could guess it's just a spicy ham.
i'd go there again, but it's not one of my favs. personally i was more impressed by flying pie pizzeria. but this is all my personal opinion.
i have now gotten used to some of the cold. i have resigned myself to knowing that once i get out the door in the mornings it will be another 5-10 mins of cold before i can actually get going to work.
an interesting phenomenon (yes i know i'm silly): after you scrape ice off of your windshield in the morning, if you spray your windshield with water (no not hot water - i know better than that) it's so cold that the water refreezes on your windshield. but after driving in direct sunlight for a while it does get a little better... i can usually see very clearly by the time i'm pulling into the parking garage at work.
next on my shopping list: gloves. i need a pair. my hands are very unhappy with me.
... you're installing something, you've clicked install, you walk away from computer. an hr later you return to computer to find that the drop down sheet for authentication has now appeared. one hr of installation time wasted.
due to this constantly happening to me, and software update always appearing... i have to look over my shoulder like every 5 mins when installing an update to make sure that it's still going. ugh. i thought macs were supposed to be simple and user friendly. can't they just know what i want and do it?
if anyone knows of jobs in a warmer climate... please let me know i'm freezing in seattle... i need to migrate south ASAP before i become encased in a block of ice or a frozen popsicle (no dirty jokes here). (no i don't really need a job, i'd just like mine to transport itself to hawaii or somewhere toasty warm)
seriously, there's ice on my car in the mornings, not just frost, ice. all of my plants look miserable outside. i'm wearing 3+ layers and still shivering. i don't know how anyone lives in temperatures that fall below 40 degrees...
i'm generally not the quiet type. though sometimes i get quiet. i've never thought being quiet was necessarily bad, just that not being quiet generally makes people feel more comfortable. i can understand some reasons for being quiet: 1) there's just nothing to say - i.e. you don't care about this subject, you never will, and therefore don't see the point in commenting 2) you feel uncomfortable - you don't know these people, you're in a new situation, you don't particularly like these people 3) you're secretly talking in your head - you find what these people are saying to be so utterly ridiculous you're not going to comment, you're just going to tell yourself "OMG" over and over again 4) you could comment, you just chose not to - you want to be mysterious OR 5) some reason i can't come up with now.
the first four have all gone through my head; i figured i should leave a fifth one open for all those that i haven't covered. i don't pretend to be an expert in quiet. like i said, i'm not particularly quiet, get me started on almost any subject that i have a remote interest in and i will talk.
the reason i bring this up is that "being quiet" has come up a lot in conversation lately so i figured i'd write about it. yes i know ironic. i just figured i should publish my thoughts. they're there just dying to get out. lots of people i know are quiet. i like talking to quiet people. generally, if you get them in private they have tons to say. quiet can be creepy, and sometimes i get frustrated too, but i figure if these people want to talk they will so i will try to leave them be. either that or i'll just tickle them. that seems to work too :)
(btw - I think the myers-briggs says i'm an ESTJ)