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Apr 28, 2008 by

So my day in the office on Saturday was quite productive. Besides working on my guide, I decided to copy out all of my old diary entries from Diaryland. It took awhile to format it and all, but I got it printed and in a binder. It was 170 pages! I can’t believe I ever wrote that much. And there is still so much more. I need to now copy out my rapunzal entries from Diaryland. Since they were both running in parallel for a long time, I’m going to actually incorporate all the entries, so it’s all chronological.

Naturally, doing all this inspired me to blog more, so I will try to blog every day this week. We’ll see if I actually have anything to report on or discuss.

So the rest of my weekend was quite nice actually. After working here, I went to pick up my sister for a night out. First we went to Whole Foods to eat dinner and then we went to see “Forgetting Sarah Marshall.” That movie was totally hilarious. And it made me want to meet a guy just like Peter, who I just keep calling Marshall (because of his role on “How I Met Your Mother). We had a fun time.

Then yesterday I woke up with a terrible headache! It took me several hours to get out of it, so I laid around for a long time. A diet pepsi and two advils later I was feeling better. So I did what I usually do on the weekend, I cleaned. I feel like I’m always cleaning but I just can’t get my place as clean as I want it to be. I actually turned off the TV at around 3 p.m. and just had Radio Paradise blasting through my house.

After cleaning and then cleaning myself in a much needed shower, I picked up “Eat, Pray, Love” and read a good chunk of it. If I’m good, I should be able to finish it this week. It’s such a great book.

Anyway, I’m just about to take my publication over to the printer! Then I might not do anything this afternoon as a treat since I’ve been working so hard lately.

Who am I kidding? I’m sure I’ll keep working.

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Apr 26, 2008 by

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A different kind of 4/20 & Guest Room Done!

Apr 20, 2008 by

Today, as some may know, is 4/20, which means a lot of things to a lot of people, but to the pot smokers of the country (and maybe the world, I don’t know), it means get high all day. At the university I work at it, students in the hundreds, maybe thousands, come together and smoke pot on university grounds. Every year there are a few arrests, but mostly it just happens. I guess you can’t argue with tradition. I used to be a pot smoker back in college, and so I loved 4/20. I would take off work and everything. My roommates and I would get prepared with delicious snacks and funny movies. We would buy a new pipe or make sure we had a bong. It was all together typical.

Now that I’m past that, I actually try to be as productive as possible on 4/20. It’s like the antithesis of my older self. So I have a whole list of things I want to do around my house today.

Meanwhile, my 20 year old sister (who attends the same university) is totally enjoying the holiday the way I used to.

At any rate, here goes something I’ve been talking about for a while…

This weekend I finally redecorated my guest room. More like I decorated it for the first time. I spent $125 on the room, and I am quite happy with the results. That amount covers all the decorative items I bought, baskets, down comforter and duvet for the bed, and artwork.

Here are some before and after pictures.





I’m pretty happy with the results. I feel weirdly accomplished and I think it is because I’ve always wanted to have a nice guest room and not a storage room. When I moved in with Brian nearly five years ago, I planned on making a nice guest room for our guests. Instead it became the repository for all things that I felt didn’t belong in the rest of the apartment. It was a hodgepodge of items, decorations, etc. There was no flow and mostly it was just cluttered. When I moved to my new place, I had the same aspirations. It took me six months, and I finally have done it!

I type this entry from my guest room because I have put my laptop in here and it is an enjoyable place to be. My goal for this week is to leave my laptop in here. I think that it will be very helpful to me and break me of nightly ritual of looking at stuff on the Internet as I watch TV. I have a feeling that I will spend less time online, and the time I will spend will be better quality.

So we’ll see how that goes.

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Grey is okay

Apr 17, 2008 by

I just finished talking to Brian on the phone and I feel a bit relieved. We had a really pleasant conversation. It’s always wonderful to hear how great you are and how perfect you are from someone, and he dished out plenty of that. But I still felt a bit panicked at it all. So as we talked longer I told him that I am in no rush to get back together and that I need more time. He of course needs more time to grow. I feel relieved right now, because there is no pressure to get back together. I need my space and this place and this time of my life to learn what I really want out of life.

So yeah, I’m feeling like a weight has been lifted. It was such a positive conversation and very sweet.

I wonder what my life has in store for me. Wait, I take that back, I don’t even want to know, I just want to experience it.

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