My little world

I realized something last weekend: I live in the same place that I was born, grew up, went to college, and work in now. The same exact place where I want to raise my family and grow old. It is the biggest blessing in my life right now, though sometimes a bit of a set-back.

0.02% set-back partially because I always thought I'd be more "adventurous" and live somewhere in Belgium or South Africa or at least NYC for a while. I am in my 20s, pre-BF and pre-family. Shouldn't I be taking advantage of this? Also a set-back because I suck at keeping in touch with people and I don't know how to balance it all. I love you high school friends, I love that we are still so close. But freakin Terence wants to get plastered every weekend, what the heck. Then there are Berkeley kids that I miss so dearly and they are only a BART ride away, but I'm never sure how or who to see. I feel like I need an excuse to call them up, which is just not true. There are Berkeley grads that are spread throughout the Bay Area, but I took a BART ride to Fremont on Saturday and it's so long! Then there's me who needs a lot of "me time." Then there are nearby work friends that I want to hang out with, but never do. My family of course, with my lovely mother calling to see if she can pick me up on Saturday. So I wonder if maybe I lived in a place where I only had 2 friends, then I'd be better at balancing all of the branches in the tree that is my life.

But then I realize that I'm hella stupid for thinking that. I'd lose it all if I wasn't here. This is most certainly...

99.8% blessing. How the heck am I so lucky to have nearly all the people I love to death right near me (minus several key people that are off in some other non-SF land)? It's a blessing because I suck at keeping in touch and this allows me to meet up with people on the fly (even if I don't, it's nice knowing that I can). It's a blessing because I am never lonely. It's a blessing because I get a chance to solidify these friendships so that when I do go off to some far away land for a while, I can still never be lonely.

Let's change that to 100% blessing. Thank you my little world.

Classic Ron/Rah Convo

9:08 PM Sharon: YOO nmmama

9:09 PM me: alo

whatitisyo?

Sharon: u drunk?

me: did you read helen's wall lately?

9:14 PM Sharon: yes!

lol

me: go read what i wrote

Sharon: u make it sound so bad

me: i felt bad

i know!

Sharon: u love hanging out with me

me: well i just called her sluttly mcsluterson on her WALL! for all to see!

oh no, not about you

i meant about me apologziing

Sharon: psh that doesnt make me feel better

huh?

9:15 PM me: what?

Sharon: hold on let me go read it

me: HUH?? what do i need to make you feel better about? what did i do??

9:16 PM Sharon: yah!

cuz you make it sound like its a chore to hang out with me!

APOLOGIXZE

NOW

me: ur stupid

Sharon: LOL

9:17 PM me: i'm so sorry dear friend you are such a pleasure and a joy to spend even just one waking breath of a moment in space and time with you my love, my dear, my joy, my all

where i come up with this stuff i dunno...

Sharon: LOL

ahaha

me: lol

Sharon: okay now apologize for being sarcastic!

9:18 PM stop typing and erasing fool

just type

9:19 PM DONT ERASE

i can feel the delete key under ur fingers itching

DONT DO IT

O NO

u IDID IT!

9:20 PM me: i am at my deepest most sincere regret that i have ever felt in the veins of my pain for the loss of gratefulness and genuine emotion of the comment upon which i bestowed a remark to your vulnerable presence that allows us to continue the bond that we share in this one single solitude of dear friendship that is immaculately polished from the length of time and space that was created in the moment of love and despair and hope of al things good and wonderful yet still so solemnly bitter and tearful among the clouds of apologies and false sarcasm i surrender my pride and leave my eternal request of forgiving love

didn't erase one single word

9:21 PM Sharon: LOL

what the hellllll

did u just make that up??

me: if you read it....and decipher

Sharon: lol

9:22 PM me: it says: i am sorry for being sarcastic and hurting your feelings when we have been friends for so long, please forgive me

for real. that's a translation

read it again, for real

Hello?

It's official. Sharon and I are going to be PHONE BOOTHS for Halloween this year! Sharon will be an American phone booth. I will be a British one. We will attach a string and cups to connect us. We are going to Chinatown this weekend to find some human-sized cardboard boxes. Pictures to come. I'm so excited!

Small Changes

A new picture with almost my whole face is up! The other one has officially replaced the VENICE BEACH BUTT of my imeem profile pic.

I finally got a haircut! I went into Salon Baobao because my trusty friend Yelp told me to go there. I sat in the chair and simply said, "My hair has been in a pony tail for a month. Something needs to be done." Funny thing is that at our 1st ever IVCCF2008 Community Dinner, two people said, "Wow, your hair is finally grown out!" Cutting it somehow makes it seem...longer. Go figure. Anyway, I love the haircut. I highly recommend the place ($55 pre-tip for a trim with a LOT of layers and far better maintenance than any lame-o supercuts crap), but only if you have a good amount of time. She spent an hour and a half! But she was fun, did a great job blow-drying my hair and gave me a hug at the end :)

My room is begging to be decorated. That's right, not RE-decorated, but De-corated. It's been over 2 months now, so it's about time. An IKEA trip and a possible upholstery project is planned for this weekend. Pictures to come of a before and after.

The Cracker Game

This is a classic Allan-Sarah moment in time. This is called the Cracker Game. You throw a cracker at someone and they try to catch it with their teeth. Allan and I were on a team. Kudos to Helen for capturing the essence of our nonsense and to Jen for the awesome throw! Quite possibly my favorite picture of all time.

This picture might send me to an early grave, I'm laughing way too hard!

Save the Planet

As I was crossing the street today, I walked past a cab. Nothing out of the blue for my swanky neighborhood. But wait, that's no ordinary yellow cab! It's a GREEN CAB! We can now take Prius taxicabs all over our beloved city. Whee! Dial 626-GREEN.

la musica

i used to do a song-of-the-week on my blog, but i took it down after the "remodel." i think it's time to bring it back.

my musical taste is...not so tasteful. i'm a total top 40s gal. mainstream all the way! it's just more fun when other people know the songs too, you know? but on my little 1Gb of music storage I carry around I only really have one type of music. i'm not too sure what it's called, but the names i've seen it called are pop/pop rock/alternative/adult alternative/even indie pop, though i'm not too sure what that is. my musical style is to listen to one song, obsess over it by putting it on one-play-repeat for a month.

so now i give you this month's peacemongeroo's song-of-the-month, which will be on the right side of the blog. click the picture listen.

"Keep Breathing" by Ingrid Michaelson