03.29.07
meditation everything’s broken!!
oh, just breathe….
in addition to my jetta fun, i found that 2 of the washing machines at my building are still broken. having planned to take care of it tonight, i am still toiling away at 1 am. which wouldn’t be so bad, except i’ve been up since 5, working on 4 hours of sleep. i might be delirious. i just found myself scrubbing the baseboards in my bathroom just to stay awake while waiting for the damned washer!!!! oh dear.
oh yeah, and the laundromat down the street caught on fire a few weeks ago, so my ever-diligent apartment manager’s suggestion that we all ‘go to the coin-op’ is just making me even more pissy at the moment!
the point of my tile-cleaner-induced ramble is that i’ll be mia for the next week, hitting every tourist spot in southern california with my parents!
so i won’t be babbling at you for a whole week… how will you survive??! :)
03.28.07
awesome
today, on the way to work, another window fell out of my jetta.
okay, so i’ve had the front driver’s side fixed twice, front passenger once, rear windows each once. the problem: volkswagen insists on replacing the broken faulty parts with the same faulty part. (i used to blame on the fact that my car was made in mexico [and i don't mean that as a racist remark!!! what i mean is: why is a german car being made in mexico and sent to the u.s.??? seems a little like they're selling to the lowest bidder all around, no??])
anyhow, i’m one of thousands: check out the window complaints!!!!
after doing my research, i found that the regular cost of the affected parts made by any manufacturer is about $40. vw, wise to the defect, yet refusing to recall them, raised the cost for these particular parts to $500. hmmmm.
i love the jetta. but vw, if you’re gonna make cars that last 200,000 miles, you oughta make sure the windows don’t drop out after 2,000.
so, with my parents flying in tomorrow night, i’ve had to rent a car for the week. there’s no way in hell i’m gonna make my mom ride in the back with no a/c and two broken windows!!!! jeez, no wonder they never come to visit! :(
anyone out there in blogland know a good mechanic?
meditation 28 march
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
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03.27.07
meditation 27 march
they who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
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poe (the first one)
03.26.07
rough morning
so far today, i’ve been rammed, chased, confused, and fully grossed-out.
i skipped school in lieu of sleeping an additional 2 hours and then getting up to study for my midterm (which i have yet to begin).
but needing coffee required a run to the grocery store, which i haven’t been to in at least three weeks. (yes, it’s a habit… no, i don’t know why) so i’m in the express lane paying when an old lady who needed an entire cart for one can of manischewitz macaroons rams me in the hip with said cart. since she was old, i refrained from kicking her ass, but when she kept pushing it into me after the initial crunch, i totally gave her stink eye.
then the garbage man, backing out of the alley, chased me off the road and i had to slam my car into reverse and luckily slid into a parking space for the building next door. he was going like 15 mph, and when your vehicle is a garbage truck, that’s damn fast. my offense? waiting for the garage door to open.
it might be international asshole day… i never seem to get the memo.
i have trouble with coffee makers. apparently, pushing the ‘on’ button repeatedly, staring at it, and then trying again will not turn the thing off.
my roommate’s room smells so bad… febreze air sanitizer, my one defense against what can only be described as “bad roast beef breath meets dirty laundry”, has failed me. what i need now is a blowtorch and 500 dryer sheets.
meditation 26 march
don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. it’s already tomorrow in australia.
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tag this!
dear kristina,
you’re the only person i know personally who blogs. we are lonely, lonely nerds. hee-hee!
so since you’ve tagged me, and- destroying everything i know about “tag” and therefore, effectively turning my entire world on end– since there’s no running involved (and i probably won’t get hurt), i’m happy to oblige.
but i don’t do well with conformity.
love, me
1. “hey” by the chapin sisters, cos even girls wanna be “just friends.” (also, “let me go,” which i’ve already gone on & on about.
2. “big river” by johnny cash. because it’s awesome… and if you see a redhead in a jetta singing a very jubilant version of this… gimme a little love.
3. “30,000 pounds of bananas (live)” by harry chapin. “just imagine: 30,000 pounds of bananas.”
4. “dear someone” by gillian welch, which is a sweet lullaby about traveling the world and dreaming of love.
5. “pale blue eyes” by lou reed because we’ve all got a lingering someone.
6. “capturing moods” by rilo kiley, because i’m going to “where the clouds meet the snow.”
7. “spanish doll” by poe because it’s just perfect.
8. “endless dream” by conjure one (rhys fulber, vocals by poe) because i just found it, am longing for “one word,” and have trouble following directions. (also, “extraordinary way” is one helluva track.
03.25.07
meditation 25 march
if you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies in yourself.
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minquass proverb
meditation 24 march
my baby hates me
and it’s nobody’s fault but mine
he said he’d leave me
but he sure is taking his time
i don’t wanna be bad
but i gotta make him mad
so he’ll let me go
let me go, let me go
you don’t need to be treated this way
i’m bad for you darling
so don’t beg me to stay
let me go, let me go
i’m so tired of being untrue
gotta let you find another woman
loves you more than i do
more than i do do-do-do do-do-do
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who i saw live last night for the second time, introducing a few friends to the indescribable level of talent the wonderful, lovely chapin sisters possess.
03.23.07
meditation 23 march
03.22.07
meditation 22 march
03.21.07
meditation i love fashion week
thank you, myspace!!!!
i am now fully aware of exactly who from my graduating class is fat. and in some cases, i’m not talking 20 pounds… more like 100+. like, i have to expand my browser… and i just imagine all the fatties (cos they’re all still friends, apparently) chowing down– like when they walk into the olive garden, all the servers fight for the rights to the big-ticket table.
is it totally wrong that i take great pleasure in this?? (and looking at the photos proclaiming “so cute! lol!”, “my n my hot mamas”) i’m not talking about every one of them- there’s a few that are my friends, and i genuinely feel a little bad that someone is probably thinking the same way about my friends as i am about these girls.
but, in my defense, these girls were colossal f***ing bitches to me. and, okay, so they’re married and i don’t even have a boyfriend- but HEY- at least i can still shop in the juniors department. and anyhow, marriage is no great achievement when the apparent goal is having someone around to roll your fat ass off the bed every morning…
or maybe i’m just thrilled that i’m actually 2 sizes smaller & have better hair than the last time they saw me?? not that i find myself smokin’ hot or anything, but i’m comparatively much improved since high school.
please tell me someone out there feels the same!!! or am i going straight to hell? or does karma really work in strange ways?? just cos i’m not gonna go and pick on them and make their lives a living hell (if i ever actually see them again), but maybe they’re getting their own self-induced punishment now?
