coming soon...

...themed blogging. just before Katie's B'more departure, I joined her & her roommate, Rachel, for a walk around the hood. On this walk, we came up with the idea of each of us writing a blog based on the same theme. I'll give the first theme a whirl in the next few days. you can find their blogs listed over in the sidebar if you want to check out their take on things too.

i wish dan wouldn't steal my titles

me at age 3 - a carpenter at heart from way back...

there's a lot to say & nothing to say, all at the same time. i don't know how that's possible. it seems like a lot of things have been going on - but i think most of the goings-on have occurred in my head. not too much happening here on the ground. i realized this blog has made it more difficult for me to process life. i don't do much thinking or journaling about my thoughts anymore. i expect to take more long breaks from blogging in the future to make time for personal writing. i guess that's just FYI. if i'm gone from the blog-o-sphere for a stretch, don't curse me too much (like i do you, every time i check your page & it says the same thing...)

so, what's happened lately? katie moved away this weekend & i was sad to see her go, though i know she'll have some great adventures, learning & time to build her farmer confidence in the next several months. i just wish we didn't have to stay here. baltimore's become this strange place where almost everyone else we know leaves... i've never been in a place like that before & i don't like it. i wish baltimore felt more like "home" - solid & secure, with lots of friends around. it's strange that i had a lot more friends during the first 2-3 years i was here than i do now. i hate this starting over crap. if i have to do it, i should at least have the joy & adventure of moving to a new place.

had a group of folks over from work the weekend before last & totally stressed myself out about it. so, it ended up kinda sucking because i wasn't relaxed. which i knew would probably happen because i don't know any of the people well, they hadn't been over before & i'm at least a little batty. so i went all crazy cooking & cleaning the hell out of our apartment (which doesn't happen often & i was glad to have the motivation for a good cleaning).

i turned 32 last week. it was unusually fun becuase i got to spend time with dan & with katie & we did something out of the ordinary (took a trip to DC & had ethiopian for dinner). the fun didn't stop there - it stretched into 2 days - the day of & the day after because i took the actual day off work. when i got to work on friday, my desk was decorated with lots of balloons & streamers. i felt pretty special. i had to share a baby picture & something about myself, which i'd spent an exceptionally long time thinking about because i wanted it to be funny. i think it went over well.

my brain is melting now & i have to go to bed.

are we there yet??

i was reflecting on life a bit on my walk home from work today. my days have been unusually boring lately & it's left me feeling kinda crummy. my own skin is feeling increasingly uncomfortable. a confidence thing, i think. i have no patience. i'm tired of winter. where is spring? i'm tired of feeling tired & hungry all the time. i need more sunshine.

my passport probably expired, because i was lazy. i think about it every day after work - "oh, i should renew that..." & yet i do nothing. EVERY DAY! why do i do this? same thing happened with the class i wanted to take this semester (just for fun). i made the decision over new years but didn't go to sign up until last wednesday, only to realize the class was already full. of course it was!

also, i don't want to walk to work with M & i wish she would stop asking & calling our apartment in the morning. i enjoy being lost in my own thoughts on the walk. it's funny - i think of myself more as a morning person that an evening person, but only after i have a significant amount of time to myself to 'begin' the day.

wow... i need to go to the gym.

will i even dig out my passport??

the exciting life & times of J.L.A.

last week at work, one of the newbies was looking for some drywall mud. i escorted her to the appropriate area & suggested she open the bucket & make sure it wasn't all dried out since it was leftover from a job 6 months ago. i then went about my business elsewhere, noticing from afar that it sure was taking her a long time to choose a bucket of mud. a short time later, she came & told me she'd driven into the garage door & it was broken... yikes! (this door is my nemesis. you may remember from an insomnia inspired post from Oct '07.) the following day, she told me the first bucket she opened was full of poop... old, smelly human poop.

also last week, dan woke me up in the middle of the night whine-yelling, "do we have a cat?!?!" it freaked me out & i thought a cat had somehow gotten into our apartment & our bedroom. then i went back to sleep.

the end.

it was me

i cut the fart in yoga class

sorry...

highs & lows

my day's been a bit bizarre, mostly due to an exchange i had w/ my boss. i rarely see the guy - our offices are on different floors & we don't work together or anything... anyway, he consulted my advice on plunging one of the toilets & was really embarrassed about it. the fact that he asked me for help even though he really didn't want me to see his toilet-clogging poop was kind of endearing in a way. he was completely human for that few minutes. everybody poops.

the shoulder seems to be getting better. i may be done in a few more weeks, which would be great!!

thinking of signing up for voice lessons this semester... i feel kinda excited about it.

i close w/ a few final pics from 2008.

(katie showing off her mad milking skills)

(our visit to see katie on the farm)

(dan's folks on our trip to the jersey shore)

1 comments

i've been waiting & waiting for my final physics grade thinking they surely still send them in the mail, right? cuz that's the only way your folks know if you're flunking out. not that my folks care about my physics grade, but i do, dammit!! i wised up today & found 'em on the internets. i think this is the first time i've ever sported a 4.0.

i just went back to work after a 5-day break. thought i'd have plenty of time to do a nice long end-o the year blog post but somehow that didn't happen. i got all caught up in baking & goofing around & reading books about real estate. good times...

my first roasted veggie recipe was a dud. it was so beautiful! ...until it slid off the baking sheet into the bottom of the oven (i FREAKED OUT). we rescued it & reassembled everything as best we could. in the end, it got a little over done & dry. alas. it sure was pretty though.

not much else to say.