Wednesday, January 24

Blogging...

For the sake of blogging...

I have a serious topic, and a silly topic on my mind. Tonight I'm choosing the silly topic but only b/c I know exactly what I want to say about where if I get into the serious stuff I'll end up rambling more so than normal.

One of my gloves is missing. I have (had?) a decent pair of black leather gloves that I got two winters ago. I like them (it?) very much. They keep (kept?) me warm and I feel very in control wearing them while I drive. But yesterday I found that I've lost one of them! Here's what I know. I went to work with them both on, I took them off inside the building while going up the stairs and put them inside my hat like always and stowed the hat/glove combo with my coat and bag under "my" desk.

When I left for lunch I put on my coat, grabbed my bag and hat/gloves but didn't put either on. I gently tossed my bag and the hat/gloves onto the passenger seat, drove home, brought them all inside and placed those things on the hall table. I had lunch and made sure that I was generally ready for the second half of my work day and grabbed my things from the hall table. This is when I realized that one of my gloves was missing! Since I didn't see in inside I would have bet anyone that it was in the car, but it wasn't. I didn't look thoroughly through the snow on my way out, but I didn't see anything remotely close as I went back outside. When I got back to work I ended up in the same parking space and looked around but didn't find it, I also went back into the office the same way I had come out and it wasn't anywhere along there or under my desk.

I don't know if large companies have lost and founds, or where they might be if they do exist. I also don't know if anyone would bother turning in a single glove, though it wouldn't do them much good. I looked outside at the house more today, short of digging through the snow but I don't think it's out there. I'm betting I dropped it somewhere at work but I don't expect to get it back. For now I have a pair of fleece gloves which aren't quite as nice for driving in, but they are warm enough, I also have a pair of mittens. For the past few Sundays I've gone over to the mall and/or surrounding stores so maybe this weekend I'll look and see if I can get a better pair of driving gloves at a decent price. I know they've started to mark down winter things which is silly since winter won't be over until late March or early April.

Poor little lost glove.

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awww that's sad v_v

By Erica, at 3:11 PM, January 28, 2007  

Sunday, January 14

Wall Art

I want to do more in my room to make it cool and mine and all that. I have a few things but there's still some wall space that just looks empty. Part of this is because I had hung up my advent calendar over Christmas and now that it's down it really does look like a blank space on my wall. I probably should have hung the regular calendar I got where the Advent one was, but I didn't. I guess I could move it but I still like the idea of having more stuff on my walls!

The biggest thing is that anything I put up can't ruin the walls since not only are they not technically mine, they also got newly painted so I don't want to leave any marks. To aid me in this I have a small fleet of 3M products. I have one last "small" hook that is very non-descrip to hang a light weight... something, or I have 3 "large" hooks that stand out significantly more but could hold something much larger if needed. I also have 14 "mounting squares" that could hang a poster or something else very light, it should be noted that multiple squares may be needed on one item to be hung.

The next biggest thing is that I don't want to spend a lot of money on doing this. I just went to Micheal's and everything nice is either too small or too expensive. I'm not opposed to making something but I find that the kits of any sort that they have are too juvenille for me. And I do think that trying to pull something more adult together on my own is too much work for this need.

So, any suggestions?

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Vintage travel posters!

By Shane, at 5:52 PM, January 18, 2007  

Thursday, January 11

I Was Dead Wrong

I thought at one point that by doing the netflix thing I'd eventually run out of things to rent. For going on a long time now I've always had at least 50 movies in my queue. How crazy is that? Really, some of them are TV shows, but most now are feature length films. I span most genres from romantic comedies to Sci-fi Thrillers, have movies going back to the 30s as well as new releases, main stream, indie, anime, as well as a few documentaries for good measure. I think I have the most Schizophrenic list for a single person.

This brings me to the movie that I saw today! It is a documentary but it doesn't feel so set up and blah like some can. It's called Beyond the Gates of Splendor and tells the story of 5 missionaries that were killed in Ecuador during the 1950s while reaching out to a tribe of natives known for their violent nature externally and internally. The Documentary goes into the story of how those missionaries got to Ecuador in the first place with some of what they were doing with the other people there and how they decided to seek out the Waodani. After the incident however some of the remaining wives with their children decided to go back to the Waodani and try again and eventually brought them to Christ, and forged friendships that still last to this day. It's a very powerful story and I think this presentation of it does a very good job of informing you of what happened without being too sensational and overly dramatic. Also they were able to use a lot of original film and photographs instead of having to rely on re-enactments as filler. The few reenactment shots are brief and don't steal focus from the narration. I personally didn't think that the "Christian" elements of the story were very overbearing and were actually somewhat downplayed. At least one reviewer on Netflix disagreed but I don't think anything about it makes it a "Christian" documentary. So yes, go rent it!

Also, I'm leaning further towards buying a printer. I've had it in my mind since I knew I was going to be moving from home and I might go to Best Buy this weekend and check stuff out.

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You should totally rent a movie called 'Hard Candy'. It's horribly disturbing but it's AWESOME.

By Andrew, at 10:44 PM, January 14, 2007  

Money!

I have a job! Well, I have a temporary job that's going to last at least two weeks. But even two weeks working 37.5 hours a week at $10/hr is significantly more than I'm making now. I get to be in an office... filing... specifically for a big financial firm so that's cool. I start on Tuesday.

More specifically it's through Adecco which had an open recruitment thing this morning and I didn't expect to hear back from them until next week but I had to go back in this afternoon to file my direct deposit and they confirmed it! I'm debating if I should buy any new shirts or things for this. Since I could justify it, but I don't really want to spend any money. Tomorrow I may go out, just to Target probably, since those sorts of shops are actually close to the office park that the Company is in. w00t.

Thanks to everyone that's been praying for and thinking about me, it means a lot and I feel like things are starting to go in an even better direction.

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Tuesday, January 9

Why I Haven't Written

I just haven't... I've had ideas (because I like my posts to have a central topic not just a laundry list of what I did that day,) but they all either seem either too fluffy, or too personal, or I just think of them too far away from my computer and forget about it when I get back to it. Or I exhaust the idea in my head thinking about it so by the time I'm at my computer I've said enough about it to myself that I don't want to blog about it.

So anyway, first of all I'm not working at AE anymore :\ I was just disappointed that they didn't say on my last day "This is your last day." I called up to get my schedule when I was out of state at Christmas and they said "Oh, you're not scheduled because we don't need you to work anymore, call us in April OK?" So no cool spring line clothes on major discount for me... not that it's spring weather anyway! It's actually barely snown at all here. Which doesn't bother me but it does seem off.

Now I'm looking for jobs again, and I'm going to temp agencies tomorrow to be all "I need a job!" which better work... I'm looking forward to the thought of getting an office job (:: crosses fingers ::) if only because I can justify more wearing cute clothes, haha.

Anyway, the biggest thing on my mind right now is just how I'm living my life. It's skewed right now of course because I'm not working, and I tell myself that it's also allowed to be that way b/c I was sick in bed for 3 days last week, but still... It's also more than how I spend my free time (playing video games and watching movies, w00t,) it gets into how I'm interacting with people when out and about and just being able to be me.

Before I left I really wanted to approach this change by letting myself be ME, the problem is is that the me that I was in NH had been tainted by adverse conditions and not being able to overcome them, and I think this is a somewhat clean start. I can leave some of what happened behind me and not need to dwell on it. I don't deny it but I also don't call attention to it and that's fine with everyone involved. This all means that I feel justified in also being able to shape my world truly to my desires. Not in the sense that I start breaking social rules or laws, but just that I don't have to feel compelled to do something b/c someone else marginally decided that that's how it should be. I'm not sure I'm saying that right. Basically I'm being ME since up until now I haven't been able to be me completely on my own.

Also, before I left mom and I got a box for all my Christmas Ornaments! I have 57 of them now, as well as two Nativity Scenes and one misc decoration. When she took down the tree last weekend she put mine in my box so that next year when there's a good chance I'll have my own tree (;_;) she can give me the box and they'll be all set. It also only holds 72, so, within a few years I'm gonna need another box XD

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If you ever need me to talk, I'm all ears, okay? ::hugs::

By Erica, at 9:35 PM, January 10, 2007