Sunday, July 23
I Built a Shelf
On the top floor (where my room is) we have dormered windows on one side, and the result is slightly sloped ceilings and this 32"x18" nook that is often hard to fit anything useful into it.
When I first took over this particular room the nook was reserved for my American Girl Doll Samantha. When I outgrew playing with her, I put a blow up "bubble" chair in the space, but it spent more time collecting dust and being an extra bit of storage space than a chair. Thus I decided it was finally time to put something else there - a new shelving unit!
This particular unit is from Home Depot, and cost me just under $30. it was flat packed furni, so I had to ask my dad for a screw driver and hammer so that I could actually put it together. I like to think that the fact that it's white isn't so much a sign of buying inexpensive furniture, as much as a way for the shelves to blend into the walls and show off my stuff. Also I have another bookshelf like it against another wall only about twice as tall.
It's basically being used to keep stuff off of the floor (and chairs) in my room, and I also moved over my dvds, pc & ds games. If the weather continues to be cool enough that I can spend 2 or 3 hours in my room without dying of heat I may streamline some of the storage in my room. I haven't decided what else I need to buy in order to keep my room "clean" and "organized."
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We picked the perfect shelf.
By E-ri-ca, at 12:54 AM, July 24, 2006
Tuesday, July 18
The Lord of the Rings
Well, it only took me about 2 years but I finally finished the Trilogy. Over that time I did take various breaks for school, and other books that were more pressing at the time.It was worth reading them for sure. I'm glad I did and yes there was a fair bit cut that was sad to see go. But considering how long it took me to read them, the amount of entertainment per hour is so much higher with the movies! Reading the books again isn't something I'm going to do for a long time. Watching the movies however will probably happen whenever I need a 3hr bit of fantasy.
Even with HP, I can read a chapter of any of those books quite quickly, and b/c I'm so familiar with the books I can take individual chapters out of context and still enjoy them immensely. With LotR there's so much more to pay attention to! I can't take just a bit and enjoy it; it's more the whole experience as a whole that needs to happen.
I'm not sure what my next book will be however. I talked about reading Davinci Code, but I'm not 100% about that. I may have to take a bit of time this week to go through all the old books we have around the house :)
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Monday, July 17
That's Some Lame Coffee
On my travels to Lexington last week, I felt like a latte while waiting around during my layover in Detriot. I walked down the terminal to The Coffee Beanery, and walked away hoping to be satisfied with some coffee goodness. Wrong! Even after I did my best to actually mix the milk and coffee a little bit better, the coffee just wasn't that great.I vowed then, that on my way back I would just get a regular coffee on the way back, which I did. But just like my latte it wasn't that great. I'm not sure why a coffee shop that has apparently has a monopoly over a major Airport can't make a decent cup of coffee, but they just can't!
I can often excuse a resturant for providing a less than great cup of coffee, because coffee isn't what they do. But if you're a coffee shop you need to do coffee right! Or at least somewhat right!
As much as Starbucks gets flack for their snobbery and sometimes higher than normal prices, I've never had a bad cup of coffee from them. I also don't think I've ever heard someone else say that they had a bad cup of coffee from Starbucks either. Really, it can be worth just going to a chain coffee store, and paying a little bit more knowing that you'll get a good cup of coffee that you'll enjoy.
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Amen! Preach it, sista Avila.
By Scottish, at 10:03 AM, July 19, 2006
Saturday, July 15
Scooty's Friends
I have met three good friends that I have been waiting to see in the flesh, and many more that I haven't been waiting to meet but have enjoyed meeting none the less :) Now to hope that I can get enough sleep "tonight" to not fall asleep at any point other point today (Saturday.)Posted by Avila at 1:56 AM
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Thursday, July 13
Integrating
It's an odd experience "joining" a family for a week; getting to know them and their approach to everything from electronics to food to transportation. But I specifically find myself in an odd position.There's every possibility that my relationship with Scott is such that someday I may be related to these people and will legally no longer be an "outsider" visiting their world. Because of this it's important that I make a good impression but also act like myself. The last thing I need is dislike from them but there's no use in hiding anything as it will probably all come out eventually.
At the same time, it's fully possible that this could be my last visit not just to their house as a guest, but also to this state/city! I have no real connection to them outside of the guy I'm dating and when I'm not visiting all of our communications go through him.
All that said it's not that I'm having problems or that there's some kind of major conflict that we're all stepping around in an attempt to keep the peace while I'm still here. It's just that if things were 100% moving forward (or going so at a faster pace) then I feel like it all might be easier. But everything is so much more important than with the parents/siblings of people who are "just friends." I'll also go as far as to say that things would be different if they had been family friends first (or at least lived in the same town/area,) though I can't comment on that as I haven't experienced it first hand.
Relationships are hard to start out with, but they can get even more complicated when the rest of the family is involved.
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I totally understand how you feel...when I was with andy (and with the prospect of getting back together with him if the move to NH goes well and if he and I then rekindle back to where we once were) I never even met his family yet, nor he mine...it was a weird thing knowing that like...at some point it would happen and then wondering about becoming part of them or not eventually, etc etc.
By erika, at 6:23 PM, July 14, 2006
Friday, July 7
Fly Manchester!
I love airports with free wireless :D I couldn't remember if you needed to pay for MHT wireless 'net or not as last time I was here I played sims and subjected myself to eating a chicken sandwhich thing from McDonald's :OThe other thing I love about Manchester, is that in general the people who check your luggage are nice, or at least don't have a perma-frown and look like they might kill you at any minute. AND best of all the security lines are pretty short! Waiting 20 + minutes to walk through a doorway and have some chick see what random stuff I've packed - nope! I was start to finish there for 5 minutes tops :D
The only not happy thing is that when I checked in online last night I saw that I would be at gate 3, which is what is on my boarding pass. However they have been devious and changed it to gate 4! How dare they! It's on all the big notice boards though, as well as on the screen behind the desk. And I don't think I'd be able to get on the wrong flight anyway. Also of note, normally when I've checked in online and had connecting flights they've printed the bording pass on a seperate sheet of paper so that if someone wanted to take it from me they could, but these two passes are right next to each other on one sheet, and I only have one copy of it O_o There is a sizable bar code on it however, so it'll just get scanned.
Also of note, there's a mom with a baby who was until just now crying. I'm not sure I ever want to actually travel with kids that young unless perhaps I do so with another adult or adult like person. It was really cute one time when I was at an airport, and there was a mom and a little girl who was around 3yrs old, and the mom had a camera (a nice one) and was taking pictures of her running around and being cute while they were waiting for their connection - awww!
Alright, enough rambling from me about nothing - I get into Lex around 6:15 tonight, woohooo!
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Sunday, July 2
I Don't Know What I Want
I essentially spent my whole day hanging out with some cool people and having fun. And I did have fun and really have no ill to speak of them for anything that may or may not have happened. But I'm not satisfied on some level with things that happened or didn't happen or should have happened or something.As much as I wanted to be there I also caught myself wishing that things were different, and then trying to tell myself to just enjoy it because it is fun and good and it won't happen that often and things like that.
At the same time I'm getting glimpses of different friends doing somewhat different things but still in the vein of crazy fun, and I want to join in with that! I wish I could be closer to them in some respects, but I don't really want to actually do that and I don't feel like I could and I don't think it'd be worth it because at the end of the day I'm often just very happy being me in my own little bubble.
I feel like as time goes on I loose friends but gain acquaintances. And I don't really have a problem with that in and of itself, but I'm also not completely happy with the situation.
I'm just not sure what I want right now.
Posted by Avila at 11:24 PM
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I very much agree with you. We should get coffee and talk about this more. :-*
By E-ri-ca, at 12:45 AM, July 04, 2006