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| Whiplash and other Fun Fun stuff |
| 06.17.03 (4:33 pm) [edit] |
I have lost my ability to capitalize the appropriate words in a title...
Last weekend:
Friday night - went clubbing. Was fun. Very smoky. Not good. Met new people. Nice people. Not geeks. A good thing.
Saturday morning to afternoon - Went to work. Bad. Quiet. Nobody there. Had to reformat and reinstall. Not fun.
Saturday evening - Went exploring in Redmond with friends. Lots of fun. Interesting stores. Outdoor mall! Dinner. Video (Princess Bride). Good movie.
Sunday - parents visit. Went to EMP. Was fun. Learned drum fills. Cool place. Sort of. Took brother on first roller coaster ride. Got bad neck pain now. Dinner at swanky restaurant. Good food. Yummy food. Went for tapas after with friends. Yummy flaming cheese.
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| My Week Thus Far |
| 06.13.03 (10:48 am) [edit] |
Well... what to say... I haven't done too much this week.
After the very awesome weekend, this week has been quiet, very quiet indeed.
Monday: Went to work, stayed at work till 10:30, went home, went to bed.
Tuesday: Went to work, went home, cooked dinner for me and my roommate and a couple of friends, ate dinner (very yummy sea bass), then played badminton till 11.
Wednesday: Went to work, went home, made pasta, ate pasta (yummy too), studied my Distance Psychology course, went to bed.
Thursday: Went to work, went home, ate more pasta (leftovers... but still good), watched "Eat, Drink, Man, Woman", had an accident with my laundry (it decided that it didn't want to wash the comforter because it was too big), went to bed.
Friday 13th: today...!!! My boyfriend decided to come down here in 3 weeks, so I am happeeeeee!!! So nothing can possibly ruin my day today, even if it's supposed to be unlucky. It's only Friday morning, so I don't have much to say yet. But how the day is shaping up so far: going to the company store to pick up stuff for my family and the post office to mail stuff, and home for lunch because i forgot to bring it, then back to work, then go home and make steak. then finish doing my laundry and clean my room. then if I have time tonight, I guess I'll figure out what to do then. :)
I know it's a boring post, but... oh well.
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| My V. Awesome Weekend |
| 06.09.03 (6:06 pm) [edit] |
I guess I did a lot of stuff last weekend. A friend came to visit, so a bunch of us took advantage of that and actually had fun :)
We started off hiking. We decided not to go to Mt. Rainier because it was still snowy there, so we went to the Olympic Penninsula instead. Problem was that it was snowy there too. It was a little strange to be trekking thru snow without big winter coats on. It took us a long time to get there, and a long time to get back. But we got about 4 hours of good hiking there. Very good view, but a strange hiking concept, where you start off at the top of the mountain and just walk along ridges to other peaks. The terrain was half forest, half meadow. Most of the forested area was snowy. Apparently the terrain had something to do with how much sunlight and wind. But running over the last week helped a lot because I felt a lot more fit than the first time I went hiking.
We had dinner after we got back to the city. A very interesting dinner because I had the blandest fish I've had in a long time. Monkfish. Either it is a bland fish, or the person who made it wasn't a very good cook. The side dishes that came with it were pretty good though. Apparently monkfish is called "poor man's lobster". It does have some interesting consistency similarities with lobster, but it sure doesn't compare :)
Sunday I went to a cathedral for church. It was very interesting because most of the singing was in Latin, and there was a cathedral choir there. Very beautiful. Also, since it was Pentecost, everything was very elaborate. Very very nice, but I would rather not go to church there every Sunday because it's too grand. We explored the city a little afterwards, got lost and found the swanky area of the city. V. BIG houses there.
After that, I went to a teeny-bopper concert - the Justified/Stripped tour. It was fun, but I think I lost a lot of my hearing, from all the screaming girls that went. Christina looks very interesting with black hair. Quite the opposite from the platinum she sported for a while. Justin, well... very Michael Jackson-like. And girls screaming at every full stop. I don't really understand why, but oh well.
Traffic at the parking lot was awful afterwards. We were stuck for a half an hour there. But we got back in (very) good time. However, it was late, and I'm in a very cranky mood today. Perhaps I should stop writing then.
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| Running |
| 06.04.03 (11:47 am) [edit] |
I'm a couch potato at heart. All right, not just at heart... I am more or less a couch potato. Problem is, being one isn't the best thing for my health.
Enter a gorgeous gym... for free (practically).
This is a good way for getting into shape. So, I've decided that by the end of the summer, I will be able to run 10k. Well, in perspective, I can run/walk about 2k. I'll have to test how far I can actually run (really run).
Let's see how this goes.
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| My New Office |
| 06.03.03 (10:06 am) [edit] |
I moved to a new office last week. It's awesome now. Before we moved, there were 3 people that were squished into something they called a "den", except it functioned more like a storage room for recyclables.
When we moved, we got moved to a big room with space for 5 desks. There's 3 of us now, but today we're getting a new person, and at the end of the month, another new person :)
The lighting's a lot softer, and there's a big pane of glass instead of a wall for the wall facing the hallway. The washrooms, foosball table and kitchen are close by. We started off with dividers between the desks, so like mini cubicles, but they got rid of them so now we don't have to speak to a divider to speak to the next person.
So it's cool now. That and the computer faces away from the door, so I can write this :)
Now if only they can turn down the air conditioning.
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| Cruising Down the Highway |
| 05.28.03 (11:30 am) [edit] |
I went home for the long weekend last weekend. Not only that, but the ones in charge at work gave us the Friday off too, so I managed to get a 4-day weekend.
The way back home wasn't the most interesting ride. There were relatively few cars, so paying very close attention to the road wasn't too hard. To amuse myself, I used up a lot of windshield wiper fluid to try to get rid of the bugs that splattered themselves all over the windshield. It turned into a game... to try to get rid of *all* the bug innards from the windshield. Sadly, the bugs won.
I had fun over the weekend. We had sushi Saturday night, although all-you-can-eat does not work so well if you have to wait a half hour before the waiters come by again. We stuffed ourselves though, which made the worth it. We were not deterred either when we were regaled with stories about badly made sushi and the consequences thereof.
Sunday was hiking. That went all right, sort of. It's not much fun if your eyes are trained to the ground because you don't want to slip in the mud, and not too much fun if you look ahead because it's a giant staircase up the mountain. Walking back down is even more unfun. But dinner later was fun. Food is always fun. One of my friends stayed over on Sunday night. We decided to watch LotR documentaries from the Fellowship Extended Edition, as well as hack through some music pieces. Great way to end a night.
Monday, my parents took me and my friend to a Malaysian restaurant. Very good food, and we stuffed ourselves. Having coconut juice from a coconut (includes a spoon to scrape off the meat!!) is very cool.
Driving back to work took a long time because everyone seemed to be doing the same thing. Not only that, some very smart guy out there decided that Monday afternoon is the very best time to do some road repair work. We got back quite late, but had very good pizza to make up for it.
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| Baseball |
| 05.22.03 (5:40 pm) [edit] |
So last night for the first time I went to a pro sports game. If I had my choice, I'd have gone to a hockey game. But I didn't, so baseball it was.
Here's a few problems with my experience:
1) I don't know the rules, although I managed to get people to explain what was going on to me.
2) I'm not from the area, so there's no local pride.
3) Baseball is a slow sport to watch.
4) The home team lost badly.
5) Food is expensive.
Here's some of the good stuff:
1) You can leave for long stretches and not miss too too much.
2) It's outdoors (at least this one was).
3) It was a nice field - you could see everything.
4) There were lots of people watching.
So it wasn't so bad. It's just not something I see myself doing again.
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| Milk Carton Madness |
| 05.21.03 (8:30 am) [edit] |
Have you ever tried to open a milk carton and the glue is just a little too stuck? Because of that, you try to pry off the part of the cardboard that won't come apart, and then you eventually shred it. By the time you have it open, it starts to leak whenever you pour (because of the shredded cardboard).
Isn't that annoying?
I like the concept of free milk, free bowls and free spoons at work. It lets me get up a little later, because I don't have to eat breakfast at home now. It's a long time till lunch otherwise.
I watched the series finale of Buffy last night. It seemed kind of anticlimactic. The Smallville finale wasn't bad, although I didn't really understand what's going on (probably because yesterday was the first episode I have ever watched).
My roommate cooked dinner last night. She made Indian food, and it was really good. She invited lots of people over, and everyone watched Smallville. Quite funny actually, since everyone was so riveted, people didn't even talk during the commercial breaks.
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| The Beginning |
| 05.20.03 (9:10 am) [edit] |
Well, I am finally online publishing a blog useless to the rest of the world except me and whoever is interested enough in my life and what I have to say to read this.
At this point, I hope I'm going to be able to remember to update this every once in a while. I usually start off all right, but then get sidetracked and forget about these things a little later.
Since most of the people reading this will be people I know already (hopefully other than myself), I won't bother with any more introductory comments. You should know me well enough already.
To get you up to date, here's my life in points over the last month.
1) I spent my two and a half weeks at home generally doing nothing with the exception of getting my wisdome teeth out and painting the fence.
2) I started work last week. Work is awesome. The perks are awesome too. But there's absolutely nothing to do on the weekends in this town. I'm definitely looking forward to my weekends home.
3) I drove on the highway for the first time 2 weeks ago, the second time a week ago, and the third, fourth, fifth and sixth time last weekend, after going downtown, coming back from downtown, getting on the highway by accident, and having to come back afterwards.
4) I don't have a phone yet. These people seem to take their merry little time hooking up a phone. It's very frustrating (not to mention expensive). At least we got our TV and cable working, although they forgot to bring the VCR.
Well, that's my life thus far this month. Should get back to work now.
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