January 10, 2009

Today we slept until almost noon, but it's still my birthday weekend, so it's all good. We got up and Darrell made me an awesome breakfast with this egg dish he made with turkey, cheese, and I don't know what else was in it, he made these awesome fruit and yogurt parfaits, and I was STUFFED. Afterward we went to the mall to get our hair cut and then we went to Sam's Club to get some random stuff. The pic-of-the-day today is me taking a break and lounging for a minute at Sam's.

Random Thoughts About Me

Since you're reading this blog, you're probably a friend of mine, I went to school with you, we work together, or I know you from online. If not, that's cool too, but I figured I'd go ahead and give you 10 random things about me that you probably didn't know.


1. I sang competitively in high school (as a soloist, in a duet, in choir(s), and in show choir)
2. I taught myself BASIC (a programming language) when I was 14, even though I SUCK at math
3. I love to cook and to eat (obviously), but I hate the whole cleaning up thing, so I eat out a lot
4. I can crochet
5. I grew up in government housing (the projects) from the time I was 6 until I was 14
6. I've milked a cow
7. I've gotten lost walking alone at night in downtown Chicago
8. I've been in a commercial
9. My favorite home-cooked dish is spaghetti
10. I have absolutely NO sense of direction, which is why I have GPS with me everywhere



Today's picture is of the scarf I'm crocheting for Darrell. I started it yesterday!


And here's the commercial (it originally aired in March of 2006 in the Virginia Beach area). You can laugh, but I was on TV.

January 8, 2010

Today's picture is of me in my CPAP mask. It helps me not snore at night and breathe properly. I'm one sexy beast with it on, don't ya think?

Random Thoughts on My Birthday

As if you, my faithful readers, didn't know, today I turned 31. I am now officially in my 30s. Somehow, I still feel 13, so I guess it's not so bad. Today was an awesome day because I got to spend all day with Darrell. This is the first birthday I have had in as long as I can remember that we've been able to spend together all day because either I've had to work or he's had to work, but since he's been laid off, his calendar was free. We started the day off right by sleeping until 10:30, then we got up and he took me to lunch at Cracker Barrel (one of my favorite restaurants). We had an appointment at 2:00 to go see an apartment we're thinking about moving into in May. It was, in a word, awesome. I loved it. After that we went to see the new Meryl Streep movie, "It's Complicated." I laughed so hard I thought I was going to pee. Then we did some light shopping, bought a plant and then we went out to dinner at Burton's Grill. This is my absolute favorite restaurant because it's upscale, casual dining and the food is superb. Tonight, however, the food took nearly 45 minutes to make it to the table. For this, I got to have my birthday dinner complements of the management at Burton's Grill. Afterward we made the obligatory trip to Target where I got my very first pair of Converse All-Stars. Today was a no-nonsense, no-fuss birthday. No parties, no cake, no opening of presents. It was very nice to have a relaxing day that I could say was mine and I spent it how I wanted. Now the day is over, and it's been a very happy birthday, indeed.

I also wanted to thank those of you that wished me a happy birthday. I truly appreciate your thoughts.

Today's picture is the sun setting on my 31st birthday. I hope you enjoyed my day as much as I did!

My Birthday is Tomorrow!

My 31st birthday is tomorrow (if you hadn't gathered that information already from the title of this post). I'm not quite sure how I feel about this. I almost as difficult as turning 30 was for me because now I'm no longer 30, I'm in my 30's. Yikes. What's even more odd for me is that my mother is only 45. She had me when she was 15, but that's a story for a completely different post. I have friends that are my mother's age. It never bothered me because my my mother and I are so close, but when I actually stop to think about it, it seems like I'm creeping up on her in age, and she's more like a peer now than my "elder," as it were.

Anyway, my birthday is tomorrow. I was born at 5:27AM on Sunday, 7 January 1979, to be precise.

Below is the last picture of me while I'm a 30-year-old. Tomorrow I'll be 30-something...



In this photo my eyes look odd, I've got some sort of weird crooked smile, but eh... I've still got my youth... for now anyway.

Random Thankfulness

I know we celebrated Thanksgiving here in the US in November, but I walked into my apartment this evening, and was hit with a rush of thankfulness. My partner, Darrell, and I have built quite a nice life for ourselves, and even though he is currently out of work, we still have a lot of very nice things, and we have each other and our kittens (they're over 3 years old, but they'll always be my kittens). I look around our small-ish apartment and I'm amazed at how beautiful it is. Granted, Darrell is home during the day now and he is keeping it virtually spotless, but that aside, I'm very happy with our life we've built.

In the sprit of being thankful for our beautiful things, I wanted to share a picture of the painting (yes, it's a painting, NOT a print) over our couch.

Pic-a-day for 1/4/2010

I wanted to share a picture of one of my cats, Fiyero (pronounced "fee-air-oh") lying in the new bed we got him.

Pic-a-day Jan 3, 2010

Sorry for posting this so late in the day, but I was playing Super Mario Bros Wii and then realized my laptop wasn't working properly, so I had to reinstall Windows 7. Next thing I know it's 10:30, and I haven't uploaded my pic of the day!

Today I thought I'd share a picture of the majority of my shot glass collection. Nestled in with the shot glasses is Buddha with a red string around him to ward off evil eye. When I think about it, these items together seem counterproductive. I may have to relocate the shot glass collection.... hmm...

Random Thoughts of a Tech Support Rep

First real blog post of my new blog. I originally had a nice, long post about some of the things that irritate me about my job, but I took it down for fear that since I live my life so publicly it could be taken in a negative way, and I love my job and don't want to jeopardize it in any way.

Keeping that in mind, I have also been given very specific rules I have to adhere to since I live my life so publicly. One of those is that I cannot mention the company's name for whom I work. Just know that I work in technical support for digital cameras and camcorders ranging from pocket-sized point-and-shoot cameras to the big professional camcorders that your local news reporters lug around.

Now that we have that bit out of the way, I wanted to share a picture of my workstation. I have blurred out any of the elements that make it identifiable outside of the company I work (I almost put the company name in there, anonymity is going to be harder than I thought).

This is my workstation. There are many like it, but this one is mine.

Picture for January 1, 2010

Big empty spot where the Christmas Tree was. :(