sunday, a day of rest and freakouts
| | Tomorrow the job hunt commences!
man oh man I'm scared. Alright, enough of that.
Today was a productive day, for being a lazy Sunday. I went to the bookstore, bought a book, counseled a friend (you know, sometimes when I am not ticked off I think I have helpful things to say. If people didn't piss me off as a whole I might make a good advice columnist), and watched a movie. I saw In and Out with Kevin Kline. I remember my parents not letting me watch it when it came out because it was rated PG-13 for sexuality. See, my mom was weird I could see action movies (even if they were rated R) but not anything rated for sex. Her reasoning was I would never be tempted to shoot someone (hah!) but that I would have sex. Eitherhoo, I was a little irritated with it. Watching Kevin Kline prance about was fun (that's good), but the preachy ending was well preachy (that's bad)... and there was also potassium benzoate (that bad, too). There are straight men who like Barbara Streisand and there are gay men who act flippin' normal (you know, for guys). I remember there was a TV show that didn't last called Normal, Ohio starring John Goodman and he played a normal gay guy in Ohio... yup totally tanked. We like our gay people stereotypical I guess.
Damn you imdb damn you to hell! I just spend like twenty minutes there (looking up John Goodman's name) next thing I know I'm trying to figure out what the guy who played David is doing with his life (more than DJ apparently).
Alright I'm going to bed...
posted by Amber at 1:45 AM
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womanhood
| | There comes a time in every girl's life when she makes that journey and crosses over into womanhood. It has nothing to do with getting her period, or losing her virginity.
It's when she finds herself in a bed baths and beyond (or similar such store) ogling contour rugs for her bathroom.
Yes, apparently all women are given the nesting instinct, and this comes out in frilly soap dishes and hand towels which are never to be used. I decorated my bathroom in my new apartment, and I'm really happy with it, but I also really really really feel like my mother. When did this happen? I didn't decorate shit in my last two apartments, never had the urge, never thought I need a throw pillow that compliments my carpet. I am a victim of my femininity. I also bought silverware and a wall hanging so I can have a little privacy in my bedroom (yay!). Now I just need a bed.
ALSO: why the hell can't I buy just one pot? They will only sell me 15 pot sets... I don't need fifteen pots, I need one, and a saucepan. Bastids.
I went out to EJ's tonight and saw Frank's bass teacher Hans play, and had really really good key lime pie. I met his teacher, he's nice... he stared at my tits, but my shirt was asking for it. It put my breasts on a lacy purple shelf and said "admire me, but don't touch because the safety pins will get you".
And I made it home before midnight, because Frank needs to play bass... grumble. At least I got out.
And with that, I am going to read my companion to steven king, a scholarly tome on selected works of SK (the author uses "we" and I hate that, because I often don't agree with him).
Night
posted by Amber at 11:57 PM
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| | | | | | Thursday, August 25, 2005 |
and now... back to the show
| | so, I'm in reno, to stay now. Yeah, pretty exciting I have my honest to goodness own apartment. No bitchy roomates, no phantom roomates, just me. I need to finish unpacking, but I don't want to so it can wait. A lot happened while I was away, and I would tell you about it, but it would take to long. I had a good time in DC it was way too hot and there were no places to eat in our quadrant of town. The tour sucked, but at least I got to go to Arlington. I also liked the smithsonians. Good rum is important, bad rum can make you very ill.
I also finished my work, which is good, because the last two times I was there, it was not so good. I was criticized for not doing my work, even though I was and I got a lecture from a floor manager for my attitude, I thought I was being respectful, but apparently I wasn't (then she turned around and apologized in a way that sounded suspiciously like a lecture... so whatever). Now I have to find a new job. Monkey.
I left Sterling a present (he doesn't read this anymore, but just incase he might, I won't tell you what it is), and a card. It is very very hard to find cards for coed friends, why that is, I cannot say.
I talked to Michael today (and played too much neoquest with my left hand I have the avatar) and he said the sweetest thing, that he can be himself around me. Then he said that at times he had viewed me as an enemy... he can be so endearing in his weird way. No, really it was nice. Tomorrow, I am going to clean this place up and then buy stuff!
Yay!
Goodnight internet, I missed you, too.
posted by Amber at 9:35 PM
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really, I'm not dead
| | See? However, I moved all my stuff to Reno (and by "I" I mean Sterling Frank and myself), and my roomate took all of her stuff. So, while I'm not actually going to LIVE in Reno until the 23rd, all my stuff is there. MEANING: I have my computer, but my roomate took the modem, so I have NO INTERNET UNTIL THE 23RD!!!!
Yeah... I'm a little freaked myself. My neopets are going to DIE, I feel awful.
HOWEVER: I really wanted to talk about last night, not about how internetless my life is lately (am currently at my parents getting my air conditioning in my car fixed, hence the entry).
Sterling and I had our last night out, er, last night. I spent the afternoon looking for a blouse, because he's seen everything else I own many times. I got into a fight with frank whilst shopping, but we found one, purple and lacy with plenty of cleavage, but still looks decent.
SO, Sterling shows up at my house at eight thirty (ish). And then he tells me that he's already eaten, so we decide to go to the shindig at his neighbors house, for the free food. Oh man, I don't know what made me think that a college party with his roomates sounded like a good idea. It wasn't awful, I just didn't have a good time, I REALLY don't like his roomates, ESPECIALLY when they're drunk. He could tell I wasn't enjoying myself, so we left after like half an hour (by then he had consumed one, at most three drinks, hard to tell how they mixed 'em). I was glad to go, I was almost out of ways to look cool sitting against a wall and shouting.
So, we head to the bank, and I'm recounting my fight with Frank over shopping, and he says, "so, did you end up buying anything?" Man, if I ever needed proof he doesn't see me as a woman, that was it. This ontop of the uncomfortable party, almost made me cry, I didn't cry, we handled it well (by him apologizing and I changing the subject). Then, since we had time to kill, we went to my place and saw episodes of Futurama. THEN we went dancing.
It was fun, the music wasn't incredible (the upstairs DJ changed it back to rap again), but we had at least two sets worth of good music on both floors. He got a nice beer, that was really scarily expensive (hate to know what a mixed drink costs). So, after the music started sucking, we left. Again, we were only there an hour...whoops. At least the bouncers were really nice this time.
So, we went back to my place, and I proceeded to get really drunk, alone (he didn't want anything... sigh, its definently a pattern). And I stopped breathing for a while, but I threw up and felt better. So, after that, any magic last moments we might of had were kind of gone. I mean, I brushed my teeth, but I am sure I smelled, and he did rub my back, but it was more of a rub you might give to sad puppy. Then we said goodbye and I went to bed.
It was an alright night, I love spending time with him. I'm going to miss him like hell. However, it wasn't the night I had planned and look forward to all week... which is okay I guess.
Real life is not as cool as film life.
I should get me a film life.
PS (I'll type you next time I get internet, I'm going to DC[!] next weekend!!!)
posted by Amber at 3:51 PM
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| | | | | | Thursday, August 11, 2005 |
Goodbye internet
| | oh, I'm not going for long, BUT I will be gone for the rest of today, and tomorrow. I'll be back saturday. I am turning my computer off, yes, off, as in not on. Crazy as it seems, I have packing to do, and somehow the computer being on, doesn't allow that to happen.
SO, today. Well I woke up, got my ass unceremoniously beaten at badminton, showered, waited around and went to work six thirty pm. Today was a slow day, a VERY slow day. We were down $10,000.00 in the projected sales for the day. Yes, Mervyn's apparently pulls in over ten grand a day, enough to be SHORT ten... which is, crazy. However, on the upshot, we got to go home half an hour early. AND there is something crazy with the new doors... they close and lock, but you can just push one of the side panels, and it will open. So, the store is unlocked... right now.
Anyway, I'm heading to bed, see you when I'm done movin' my stuff.
posted by Amber at 12:09 AM
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meh
| | so yeah, today, I had off. I played badminton, and lost, AGAIN. Seriously either I have started to majorly suck at badminton, or Sterling has become much better. I haven't won in over a month. I'm losing my sense of goodsportsmanship, now I just kind of want him to die, by my own hand. Or at least get smashed about a bit. However, he doesn't fight back, so I just feel like a bully, a little one... sigh. I WILL get my satisfaction Sterling Robert Nelson. He says I make a face like a cat before I pounce. Which means I will have to start pouncing from behind.
Anyway, other than that, not much happened today. I think lime flavored mikes hard lemonade is my favorite, but so far, they're all good. I can't drink more than two at at time though, or I feel nasty (not drunk, just bloated). It would be very hard for me to get drunk off of these.
SO yeah, a lackadaisical day, no star trek fight music or anything. Alright, I'm heading to bed (ed's internet has been wacky lately, making conversation difficult). I have work tomorrow.
posted by Amber at 12:48 AM
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a short note
| | oh man, it's so hot... so incredibly hot. And I am bored... and its too hot to do anything, and I have no money.
Yeah, that's about it for today, I should start packing, but I'm going to wait until its good and dark, and cool... so maybe in mid october.
PS I am a sad sad geek, I spent about half an hour looking up star trek music, before I was able to find the battle theme from the episode entitled Amok Time... (its here). If you don't happen to know the episode... perhaps you saw the cable guy (fight scene at the end, where Chip starts singing). It made me happy (although the opening sound track to DS9 make me happier).
EDIT:921pm: I am a nerd too. I just called Sterling, to ask what he is doing tomorrow. He's being abducted by his parents... for dinner. So I asked (sincerely) who'se coming to dinner? Then, followed it up with "oh no wait, let me guess... Sydney Poitier!"
oh ho, I am too witty for my own damn good. I really just wanted to share that. (his uncle is coming by the way)
posted by Amber at 7:51 PM
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| | | | | | Thursday, August 04, 2005 |
giggle!
| | Frank is reading Dragonlance! Yay! He asked me to leave him Dragons of Autumn Twilight, so I did, and he's almost finished with it! So, it's on to Dragons of Winter Night and then Dragons of Spring Dawning (then maybe the Legends series? A girl can dream, right?).
In other news, man, when I don't have stuff to do, I sure don't do much, eh? I played badminton, it wasn't too rewarding today, our birds were retarded. But I found a new tube, so maybe Friday. Man, I haven't won in a while, I may need to pound a Sterling... in the context of the game, of course.
The consensus is that Sterling loves me (rather than is trying to get me the hell out of town), and that might be true... (of course by love I mean kind of like the way he loves his sister Kat, only less bloodrelated). He's not big on expressions of feelings... but compared to me, few people (outside of my family) are. But I know he'll miss me, and my drama, his life will be so placid, he might die of boredom (yes, yes, -that's- die of boredom not bask in the quiet). hehe I originally typed "flacid" instead of "placid"...
Anyway, things are good right now, I'm going to go to sleep and then... wake up and do nothing until work at six
I'm working Truck! AGAIN!
posted by Amber at 12:27 AM
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Below, the reasons why amber should go to bed earlier
| | I like Truck! I wish I could work on Truck all day! See, Truck is like the bestest best part of my job, the putting of clothes into order. Believe it or not, (and it might be hard to believe, looking at my room) organizing things makes me happy. Today I was very very happy. I only had to help TWO customers! Life is grand.
OH right, in other news (there was other news), I have an apartment... number 77... right above Frank's. I'm not kidding I will be living (pretty damn soon now) right above my boyfriend... its cool because its a corner apartment (two windows, baby! Do I play all the games? All the gameboy games, baby. Oh, wow, that has to be one of the most unrecognizable references I've made in a while...), so here's to things working out!
ALSO I watched American History X. It was really good, not earth shatteringly good (like the 400 Blows, a film I walked into quite sure I wasn't going to love... but I am a film nerd I guess). Jeeze, Edward Norton is a really incredible actor... who would have ever guessed that at most four years later, he was going to play a character described as "a bottle of pancake syrup with legs." See, having not seen his earlier work, the genius of having him be Smoochie was lost on me. I just thought he was sweet (and vaguely recognized him from "keeping the faith" as the priest, not the cool rabbi [Ben Stiller?]).
Huh, that was weird, in checking up on the Ben Stiller angle, I got lost at IMDB... for half an hour. Ending up, strangely, at Bewitched the original TV show. Huh, Ben Stiller (it -was- him, by the way) to Anchorman, to Stephen Carell (who plays the creepy weather guy who kills a guy, [yeah, I -saw- that! You should maybe lay low for a while]) to Bewitched (2005) to Bewitched the TV series (and I was going to the original Uncle Arthur, but the internet freaked). Man, IMDB could suck my brain out.
Now, what -was- I saying? Ah yes, right, brilliant choice on Edward Norton, very much an Edward G Robinson in Scarlet Street flashback (Mr. Robinson played gangster characters for many years, including I believe Little Caesar, the Last Gangster, and Outside the Law. In Scarlet Street he plays the mousiest of mousy men, Chris Cross, who is henpecked and really quite pathetic throughout the whole film.[the best line to ever haunt a person is in that film: "Jeepers, Johnny, I love you").
ANYWAY, on that rambling note, I'm heading off to bed, to sleep until the heat becomes unbearable.
It was a good day.
PS I am at level 21 in Neoquest I (I've been taking it easy)
posted by Amber at 1:53 AM
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