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life update

2009-11-04T13:25:10Z

Paris was awesome. I only wish I had more time so I could have gone to other places other than France. I think my favorite thing was Versailles.
Scout got bit by another dog while we were away and had to get staples which put a damper in the vacation. But he got them out this past weekend and is all healed.

I've been happier at work since I moved my desk from the front into the back on friday and now share an office. No longer dealing with the students directly.
I think about opening my own store constantly but I know it's not really the time. Jim and I are still talking about buying a house soon and that's about all the serious life I can handle for the moment.

SEPTA went on strike yesterday and I'm just really happy that I have a scooter and don't deal with the subway anymore. I fucking hate SEPTA. As much as I feel bad for everyone who doesn't have transportation anymore, it is so nice to not have to deal with SEPTA buses on the road. Did I say FUCK SEPTA? Yes, FUCK SEPTA. Traffic has increased but it hasn't affected me too much. It's really pleasant living so close to work.

I really want the yankees to win the world series, not so much because I care, but just because I really hate most Phillies fans and want to see them miserable.

Thrift store shopping this weekend as well as lots of relaxing.

humlikearadio @ 2009-10-07T07:31:00

2009-10-07T11:33:23Z

I noticed on Saturday Scout had fleas.
On Monday, I got sick with a fever.

Not sure Paris is happening on Friday. Might have to postpone the trip.

I am really upset as I've needed this vacation and have been waiting so long for it.
I really hope everything works out by Friday.

=(

humlikearadio @ 2009-10-02T08:16:00

2009-10-02T12:20:58Z

The fall term started last monday so work has been pretty rough the past 2 weeks. Plus one of my coworkers (who i can't stand) called out 3 days in the middle of it. He's such a turd.

Other than that, life is pretty good.

I am going to Paris one week from today and that's all I am trying to focus on.
Drinking coffee at the cute cafes, seeing the sights like notre dame and versailles, fleamarkets, and just exploring a city that I've never been to before.
I am beyond excited. Not only to have 9 days off of work, but it's PARIS. I've never really been out of the country (Mexico and Canada don't count).
I pretty much have the best boyfriend ever for taking me. I feel a little spoiled and thats ok.
<3

a few good things

2009-08-13T12:27:58Z

Paris in October! Our trip is booked and I'm super excited, I can barely sleep at night!

I am in the process of opening an etsy shop for all my vintage clothing. I have like 40 pieces to sell right now. It's a lot of work but I can't wait to get it all started. I just got my dress form in the mail yesterday!

Get to see Leanne/Ben on friday night for the first time in like 4 years. I have not seen them since I moved away from Athens.

Have a free half day of work on friday as well as taking off Monday for a long weekend in NY with the boy. Plan on catching up with some childhood friends as well as spending time with the folks and going into the city.

Life is really good to me these days.

humlikearadio @ 2009-07-31T08:24:00

2009-07-31T12:26:07Z

2 things

Jim and I got our passports yesterday which means we can now start booking our trip to Paris. I am so excited there are no words for it.

Lately, even more so than in the past few years, I have been thinking about owning my own store. I think this is something I could potentially see happening within the next 3 years. I know this is what I want to do with my life. For sure.

humlikearadio @ 2009-07-10T21:05:00

2009-07-11T01:12:37Z

Jim went camping with my dad, brother and some of their friends this weekend.
It's nice to have alone time but it's completely weird, this is the longest we've been apart in 8 months.
I miss him and it's only been a day.
That boy is my heart.

I fully plan on being super busy though.
Punk rock fleamarket is this weekend with completely different sellers both days so I plan on going to both.
I plan on seeing UP.
I plan on lots of time at the dog park for scout.
I plan on seeing Ashley and hopefully Meg as well.
I plan on riding my bike on Kelly drive.
I plan on netflix movies.
I plan on taking the scooter to go get yogurt on south street.
I plan on making lots of crafts like headbands and hairpins and finishing sewing fabric onto a lampshade.

Life is pretty good these days. The promotion at work has not just helped financially but it's more stimulating as I have more responsibilities and am being trained in more stuff. Plus it's nice to have more money to waste on etsy.

Jim and I are planning a trip to Paris in October. This will really be the first time I've been out of the country (canada and mexico don't count really). I'm pretty excited however I figure I should learn some basic french words before we go.

I've been reconnecting with some people from my past lately and it feels really good. I'm very much the nostalgic type and sometimes I really miss my old friends.

That's about all I've got for now.

humlikearadio @ 2009-05-18T08:02:00

2009-05-18T12:07:15Z

it's weird.
i can't remember a time in my life when i was this happy, when things were this good.
yet, i've been having major anxiety lately and i've had problems sleeping since we moved into the new place.

there have been a lot of changes lately/a lot of events happening: moving in with the boyfriend, getting a promotion, issues with the dog, the scooter, getting tattoed, my birthday in 2 weeks, our one year anniversary in a month. there are just a lot of things going on and while they are mostly good things, it's still a lot of things.

i have off memorial day and then i took off the following 2 days for my birthday. sometimes a gal needs to treat herself. a 5 day weekend is much needed.

xposted

2009-05-15T19:28:09Z

the time has come for me to get my reading tattoo.

I'm going to get a mockingbird (to kill a mockingbird is my all time favorite book) with one of the quotes below. I need help narrowing them down. Which one do you like best?

1) Look in a book and you will see
words and magic and mystery.

Look in a book and you will find
sense and nonsense of every kind.

2) Read to me riddles and read to me rhymes
Read to me stories of magical times
Read to me tales about castles and kings
Read to me stories of fabulous things
Read to me pirates and read to me knights
Read to me dragons and dragon-book fights
Read to me spaceships and cowboys and then
When you are finished- please read them again.

3)A book, I think, is very like,
a little golden door.
That takes me into places,
where I've never been before.

It leads me into a fairyland,
or countries strange and far
And best of all, the golden door,
always stands ajar.

4) "Everything in the world exists to end up in a book." Stephane Mallarme

5) "The things I want to know are in books" Abraham Lincoln

6) "We read to know we are not alone" C.S. Lewis

7) "Man reading should be man intensely alive." Ezra Pound

my new baby

2009-05-03T16:09:57Z

birthday present from jim!!

he's so cute it kills me

2009-04-30T19:38:28Z

note:

2009-04-20T15:53:08Z

Jim and I officially now live together.

He is 100% everything I ever wanted.
Everything.

update

2009-04-13T20:01:36Z

So thursday Jim and I went to NY for passover. It was the same as it is every year, my dad and uncle being drunk and obnoxious during the seder. It's the funniest thing. It is the one time of the year my mom decides to be religious.

Anyways, it was a fun weekend. We went bowling with my parents and I kicked everyone's ass the second game which is weird since I haven't bowled in like 8 years. I think I would like to do it more often as it was so much fun. We also went to visit Amanda and Daniel in Astoria and I'm so glad they got to meet Jim.

We move into our new apartment this coming weekend. We spent sunday painting it and I am so super excited as this apartment is the bomb. I seriously feel like i'm living in a house. I have so much to decorate (Jim calls it 'nesting' and thinks it's very cute) that my thoughts are just everywhere.
The guy who lives next door to us already offered us over for a drink when we move in. Man, my neighbors seem awesome.

Life is good.

humlikearadio @ 2009-03-26T12:16:00

2009-03-26T16:17:20Z

Jim said something to me last night along the lines of "am i as perfect for you as you are for me?".

i stared at this boy and wondered how i got to be so lucky.

humlikearadio @ 2009-03-20T14:14:00

2009-03-20T18:20:05Z

i've been a little burnt out the past few weeks. i sat down with my boss this morning and he literally told me to go home for the day. !!! he is awesome. as much as i feel like i don't like my job sometimes and need out, i have to remember how good i have it.

so i've been thrift store shopping and hanging out with the pup. about to play some wii, work on painting my dresser, and watch a movie.

i just found out that jim and i got the apt. we originally wanted. the landlord dropped the 750 pet deposit. we sign the lease tomorrow and move in mid april probably. i can barely contain my excitement. this apartment is so so so nice. 2 bathrooms, 2 bedrooms, washer and dryer, big kitchen, living room, patio, and in the best location. i cannot wait.

in other news, my boyfriend is my hero. he knows how stressed i've been with the dog lately so he offered to give me the night off on tuesday where i go to his house after work and he comes to my house after work to deal with the dog. he is seriously the best. he treats me like a princess. <3

humlikearadio @ 2009-03-18T13:37:00

2009-03-18T17:38:45Z

My boss constantly tells me I am extremely detail oriented, almost anal about things. It's strange that I never thought this about myself. However, once he pointed it out it became very obvious.
I like that he is not just my boss, but my friend as well. We go to lunch sometimes. It's cute.

In other news, sometimes I really feel like I need a vacation from my dog. Like I'm going to explode if I don't have a few days where I don't have to deal with him. Any other dog owners feel this way sometimes?

humlikearadio @ 2009-03-17T08:20:00

2009-03-17T12:31:21Z

This morning on the train there was a woman screaming at her kids. There was a 2 year old on her lap and 2 six/seven year old boys. Everyone on the train was really quiet and uncomfortable. I wanted to say something a million times. She then pulled one of the boys over and hit him and I just started crying right there on the train. She was yelling about how she can't live with them anymore and was going to call DHS on them (which is ridiculous since DHS is child protection services) and that when the train stopped she was going to whoop his ass. And the kid is sitting there crying with his hands in front of him as a shield, obviously terrified. I felt disgusted.

And I sat there and I hated myself for sitting there. I hated myself. But I felt that there was nothing I could do. I felt that had I said anything i would have made it worse. And I just sat there and cried and thought about how terrible their home life must be if this is how she was in public. And I thought about how these boys have been given no chance at life.

They got off at my stop and I asked the subway booth guy to keep an eye on her because I was scared for the kids.

And then I walked away crying and felt like a piece of shit.
Happy tuesday morning.

humlikearadio @ 2009-03-12T07:52:00

2009-03-12T11:52:56Z

when i take scout to the dog park, there is always this one dog there named cody and he runs around the entire time he's in the park humping other dogs nonstop.

i just think everytime, thank god that is not my dog.

humlikearadio @ 2009-03-09T15:19:00

2009-03-09T19:24:30Z

so the apartment fell through (because the crazy landlord wanted a $750 pet deposit amongst other things) and we spent this weekend looking at apartments that sucked. total bummer.

this weekend was filled with quality boy time: getting haircuts together, riding bikes to rittenhouse, lunch in the park, reading quietly together at barnes and nobles. <3<3

recently: scout burned his paw pad on rock salt (poor little fucker)

otherwise, life is carrying on as normal. i'm pretty content these days.

humlikearadio @ 2009-03-04T14:14:00

2009-03-04T19:16:06Z

Jim and I just discovered our mutual love for end of the world apocalyptic movies.

oh man I love my boyfriend.

humlikearadio @ 2009-03-01T13:53:00

2009-03-01T18:59:39Z

i'm trying not to get ahead of myself but Jim and I found the most awesome 2 bedroom apartment yesterday. it is located at 23rd and naudain (fucking awesome because i wanted to live on a side street) and it's in a gated courtyard which rules.

it is just a really really nice apartment, pet friendly (and super close to my favorite dog park) super close to rittenhouse, super close to a little grocery store/bars/food places. and it seems like it's going to work out, the landlord emailed us the rental application already.
this is only the second place we looked at but oh man we both love it and the area.

Xcrosses fingers.

humlikearadio @ 2009-02-24T15:16:00

2009-02-24T20:17:00Z

Let the apartment hunting begin.
I think the places we are concentrating on are the graduate hospital area/art museum/bella vista/queen village.

I am so excited to move in with him and to take that step forward.

<3<3

humlikearadio @ 2009-02-14T08:37:00

2009-02-14T13:38:04Z

i think that valentines day is the shittiest "holiday" ever.

humlikearadio @ 2009-02-09T16:28:00

2009-02-09T21:28:32Z

i can't believe i have never read catch-22 before.
what an amazing/wonderful book.

humlikearadio @ 2009-01-19T05:48:00

2009-01-19T13:52:36Z

being in san francisco is the bomb. it was -2 when we left philly on saturday morning and yesterday i sat outside in the sun in short sleeves and was sweating. best thing ever.

i would say the toughest part about being here is the realization of how much of a shitty/dirty/cold city philly is compared to san francisco. i feel like i'm over it.

the best thing is that my hotel is 2 blocks from sofi's apartment. not even planned. the best thing is sofi in general.
other best thing = being on vacation with my boyfriend with no worries in the world. we are getting along fabulously, work is thousands of miles away, my dog is being looked after. i feel euphoric. i feel like i can breathe for the first time in months.

today = fisherman's wharf and riding bikes over golden gate bridge.
wednesday we are renting a car to drive to santa cruz to visit my twin cousins.

life is good.
jetlag stinks.
the end.

humlikearadio @ 2009-01-13T15:26:00

2009-01-13T20:27:16Z

love should be a fairytale. and oh boy, am i in it.

4 days till san francisco.

<3<3