It doesn't describe my mood at all, but I've always loved this song. The melodramatic oldtimeyness of it. The simple but powerful piano. It's just one of those songs you could listen to for ages.
Somehow mom's The McGarrigle Hour CD got lost, and of course that's pretty much the only way to listen to it. I finally found it on Rhapsody, so I'm going to use all twenty-howevermany of my remaining free plays to listen to it as I hopefully at last start working on creating a form in html for class. Since the extension makes it due tomorrow morning. Augh. ><
Tuesday, March 17
Friday, March 6
ZOMG two posts in a week
I'm meeting with a nutritionist/alternative medicine woman (NOT named Quinn) late this afternoon to discuss some things. Got my fingers crossed this will be useful and informative in good ways. Class this morning went well enough. I spent all of class last week furiously taking notes between working on the budget I've discussed
I've been invited to a dressy martini party tomorrow night. I will have to wear old shoes, but the dress is a real showstopper. Woo hoo! And I've been looking for a reason to wear it. Have beautiful Tahitian pearls in vintage settings to go with it. Will look smashing. Will have a good time. Will miss the boy like whoa.
That gets me wondering if the two of us will ever go to elegant parties. The hosts of this shindig are big anime fans and gamers, so using them as an example he could be comfortable with the people. Alcohol's not his thing, but surely somewhere in the future of our shared brilliance we'll be invitees to something formal. Mmmmmm, Josh dressed up...
Honestly, I just keep having hazy ridiculous dreams about scenes like the party in A Beautiful Mind. I never said that. Disregard the "honestly" opening bit of that line. Alllll fraudity fraud fraud. I would never.
Time to go home. Need to get $ from the credit union for gas and flowers for hosts of tomorrow night's party. Then gas, then home, then meeting with this nutritionist-not-named-Quinn.
I've been invited to a dressy martini party tomorrow night. I will have to wear old shoes, but the dress is a real showstopper. Woo hoo! And I've been looking for a reason to wear it. Have beautiful Tahitian pearls in vintage settings to go with it. Will look smashing. Will have a good time. Will miss the boy like whoa.
That gets me wondering if the two of us will ever go to elegant parties. The hosts of this shindig are big anime fans and gamers, so using them as an example he could be comfortable with the people. Alcohol's not his thing, but surely somewhere in the future of our shared brilliance we'll be invitees to something formal. Mmmmmm, Josh dressed up...
Honestly, I just keep having hazy ridiculous dreams about scenes like the party in A Beautiful Mind. I never said that. Disregard the "honestly" opening bit of that line. Alllll fraudity fraud fraud. I would never.
Time to go home. Need to get $ from the credit union for gas and flowers for hosts of tomorrow night's party. Then gas, then home, then meeting with this nutritionist-not-named-Quinn.
Wednesday, March 4
The Birthday
...Approaches.
Twenty three this year. I'm always surprised when it's time for a new birthday. Hopefully 2010 will be the year when it finally feels like it should be time for a new age. Twenty two was a major year, and lots of important, life-changing things happened. I don't feel like rehashing them all, but it was a lot. That's going to have to be good enough, sweet reader.
I'm so, so glad to be catching up at school. I'm still not too far from the mean of age, here, but I can't believe I ever allowed myself to work instead of going to school full time. I didn't even want to fund the lifestyle I was living! Arg. Moving on is sort of the point.
There's a lot going on around the time of my birthday this year... Josh is in town, this will be the last birthday in the forseeable future when Andrea will be in town, the first session of my library research class meets that day, there are ghost tours (what did I do that was so wrong as to merit this, Jeezy Creezy?), Heather's invited me over. On the one hand it's thrilling to have so much going on and I usually thrive in those environments. But on the other it's just too much. There's no way to get out of the ghost tours, sadly. But Josh has said he'll go with me to them that night. I just need to map everything out and decide what will be done, in what order.
Took care of some $$$ things today, continuing Friday's theme of being good with planning the finances. Rough but liberating. I feel peaceful and I'm sticking to paying for anything that isn't a recurring bill with cash. Have to keep myself out of trouble. The way I've calendar-ed things out is feasible and includes a little bit of leeway. The challenge now is sticking to it, and making sure there's income after unemployment goes away. Since ending unemployment by finding a job hasn't gone so well, I don't know about that. I worked out a reasonable amount for gas and a little bit for fun, made that a monthly amount, and then added the bill values I want to pay. Working that out into a weekly figure resulted in an amount that's not impossible. It'll take some doing to find the job, and beyond that I'm going to proceed humbly.
It was nice to learn that after a certain point, I'll be able to have substantially reduced all and eliminated most of my outstanding balances without killing myself. I wasn't thinking that was possible, and I didn't know what to do. I guess that's the oft-upside to facing your uncertainties. Won't always compute that nicely. But sometimes you'll learn what to do. Then you just have to do it.
So here I go.
Twenty three this year. I'm always surprised when it's time for a new birthday. Hopefully 2010 will be the year when it finally feels like it should be time for a new age. Twenty two was a major year, and lots of important, life-changing things happened. I don't feel like rehashing them all, but it was a lot. That's going to have to be good enough, sweet reader.
I'm so, so glad to be catching up at school. I'm still not too far from the mean of age, here, but I can't believe I ever allowed myself to work instead of going to school full time. I didn't even want to fund the lifestyle I was living! Arg. Moving on is sort of the point.
There's a lot going on around the time of my birthday this year... Josh is in town, this will be the last birthday in the forseeable future when Andrea will be in town, the first session of my library research class meets that day, there are ghost tours (what did I do that was so wrong as to merit this, Jeezy Creezy?), Heather's invited me over. On the one hand it's thrilling to have so much going on and I usually thrive in those environments. But on the other it's just too much. There's no way to get out of the ghost tours, sadly. But Josh has said he'll go with me to them that night. I just need to map everything out and decide what will be done, in what order.
Took care of some $$$ things today, continuing Friday's theme of being good with planning the finances. Rough but liberating. I feel peaceful and I'm sticking to paying for anything that isn't a recurring bill with cash. Have to keep myself out of trouble. The way I've calendar-ed things out is feasible and includes a little bit of leeway. The challenge now is sticking to it, and making sure there's income after unemployment goes away. Since ending unemployment by finding a job hasn't gone so well, I don't know about that. I worked out a reasonable amount for gas and a little bit for fun, made that a monthly amount, and then added the bill values I want to pay. Working that out into a weekly figure resulted in an amount that's not impossible. It'll take some doing to find the job, and beyond that I'm going to proceed humbly.
It was nice to learn that after a certain point, I'll be able to have substantially reduced all and eliminated most of my outstanding balances without killing myself. I wasn't thinking that was possible, and I didn't know what to do. I guess that's the oft-upside to facing your uncertainties. Won't always compute that nicely. But sometimes you'll learn what to do. Then you just have to do it.
So here I go.
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