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Lazy Summer Days

It's around 9pm on the first Saturday in June. I've been in Greenville since last night, and I've done nothing but relax. Went out and spent a few hours at Mr. K's this morning (by myself). There was some great stuff to be found! I bought a set of radio drama CDs from the Golden Era of radio. Can't wait to listen to them.

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I'm returning at 2:00AM after dinner and a movie. We rented Black Swan. That was not what I expected at all. Granted, I only wanted to borrow the movie because there was so much hype surrounding it for a while. Had absolutely no idea what it was about beyond the synopsis on the back of the DVD case. It was a really good movie, but it left a lot of things up for interpretation.

I've decided to take all the frustration I'm feeling with myself and channel it into something that might be kind if useful. Maybe I really just need a new hobby to think about. I know by doing multiple things at once, I can never perfect anything, but maybe that's ok. The only constant is my desire to get better in Adobe Creative Suite. Yet, slugging through tutorials seems rather unappealing.

I have to re-cycle through a series of things or else I get bored. There are a variety of things that will never seriously fall back into the cycle, but maybe I will revisit them from time to time. Or...maybe I just need to revisit the things I did when I was younger, more creative, and ambitious.

Either way, I've decided to take up sewing again. So, I got my very own sewing machine today. I've used my mom's all my life, then I moved and discovered that having a sewing machine around is actually very handy. I've recently had to do all my alterations and quick fixes by hand. A machine will at least make fixing the hem on my pants easier and cleaner. Plus, this is my sewing machine. It's similar to my mom's but with a few new features that I'm really excited about exploring them. Time to put that scrap material sitting in my drawer to use.

Bought a new pattern on a whim. It'll be fun!

Strut

It's a quiet Tuesday night. There aren't any TV shows on, so I watched Volume 2 of Welcome to the NHK. That was pretty good. Very cute. I'm starting to like Misaki (main girl character) a lot more.

This past weekend was a lot of fun. I went camping AND whitewater rafting for the first time. Hurray! Stepped out of the comfort zone and managed to come out mostly unscathed. I did kind of bruise my knee on a rock when we splashed around in the lake on Saturday evening. At one point we had a campfire and we were all eating cobbler and looking at the stars, attempting to pull out whatever astrology knowledge any of us had. I never realized how bright the stars actually are. I always felt like it was something they emphasized in movies to stress how romantic or calm the scene is. Now that I've seen it for myself, I can understand why.

Sitting out there reminded me of a story I heard at the Rocky Mountain Science Center when I was younger. Something about the animals getting together after a blanket covered the sun. They tried to throw things and come up with ideas to get rid of the blanket, but one little bird decided to try flying straight through and he poked holes in it to let in the little bits of light we now know as stars. Does anyone else remember hearing that?

I spent my first three day holiday of the year having fun. On Monday, Matthew and I walked around some random antique shops in Dillard; then we paid a visit to Goats on the Roof and had ice cream. I had vanilla bean ice cream on a cone. It's been so long since I've done that. As I got older I started getting a scoop of ice cream in a cup with a spoon. Racing the heat to lick the ice cream off the cone almost made me feel like a little kid again.

While I do still get excited when the ice cream truck goes by under the window at the apartment complex, I haven't gone down and bought any. For some reason the memory of a blue bugs bunny ice cream bar really sticks out. I got that all over my dad's old car.

And now, it's time for sleep. Hehe.

Creatively Blocked

I can't come up with any ideas for the poster contest at work. I sketch, doodle, draw, and stare at a blank piece of paper, but I just don't like anything I've come up with. Perhaps tomorrow will be better.

This was a good weekend. Went to the drive-in on Saturday night to see POTC4 and Thor. Got hit in the forehead with a frisbee. It didn't hurt so much as it surprised me. I couldn't stop laughing.

I forgot how nice it was to just swing back and forth through the air.

Hey Mr. DJ, let the music take me underground.

How long do you think it takes to fall in love?

According to Someday's Dreamers it's 2.5 episodes.

This show is turning out to be mediocre. They've got a weird blend of 2D and 3D animation going on whenever a mage uses their power. The characters are also turning out to have predictable backstories and feelings.

I guess it's ok to watch something like this once in a while. Honestly, I got the first volume from Netflix and thought it was going to be a six episode series following the lives of individual women. Then I popped it into the DVD player and realized I was thinking of Diamond Daydreams.


PS: Now I really want to watch 5 cm Per Second

I'm kinda hungry, but I don't feel like getting up yet. It's the kind of feeling you get when you know you're about to feel something, but the impact hasn't come.

So, I just discovered in the past ten minutes through facebook that two more of my friends have gotten married or engaged. It's getting kind of weird to think of all these people in long-term (hopefully everlasting) relationships. Especially since I can remember when one of them was crazy about another guy several years ago. They were practically inseparable for a while. Now she's married to someone else. Of course, I haven't talked to her in several years, nor do I really foresee talking to her again anytime soon. How times have changed.

Not to mention that fact it's kind of creepy to find stuff like that out on Bookface because they posted pictures of it. Hurray for social media?

Perhaps it's just this stage of life, but almost everyone I've had an acquaintance with in high school or college is getting married. If they're not getting married, then they're actively looking for a relationship (or at least complaining about having trouble finding one). It's weird enough to think about friends who are my age or a little younger with families already. Kid(s). A permanent connection to another human being. Weird.

Did I mess up somewhere? I listen to stories about dating and such, but I look back and realize there's not much I can add to the conversation that's not depressing. Or really, there's not much I can add to the conversation at all. I can't empathize with a lot of emotions. Nor do I want to tell stories about what I've seen or done.

Someone said they've known me for several years now, but there are still times when I reveal an interest that surprises them. Am I really that hard to "get to know?" I know I'm not open about a lot of things and I seem to have forgotten how to show mediocre interest. It's always either extreme dislike or excitement. Small talk has always been a terribly weak point, unless I am already very good friends with that person. I just feel like you should have a purpose in a conversation.

I don't really know where this entry is going. Just blogging out loud, I guess. It started with finding out about my friends getting married. Then I started thinking about how some people are always drifting from one relationship to another. It's possible some of these thoughts stem from Nana. Is everyone supposed to drift? If so, then I seriously messed that one up too. From listening to other people's stories, it doesn't sound like there is an instruction manual for any of this. How unfortunate.

I think I found what I want for the next gift giving holiday or whatever.

The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over the Lazy Dog

It's been a sort of long night, at least I don't have a splitting headache. ^_^

I finished Bones season 5 tonight. Man, what a cliffhanger ending. Watching Glee from episode one via Netflix. I miss when they had good music and cliche high school drama.

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Just need 70 more DMR points to get one of the rewards I really, really want. *sniff*

Damn my obsession with character pins. Le sigh. They're just so cute though!


EDIT @ 7:26 PM:

I just went digging through my movie collection and I found a bunch of points just waiting to be redeemed. w00t w00t! Hurray! Yay! Shazam! Ya-hoo!

Meow. =^.^=

Mein Herr

I went to see Cabaret on Friday night with Michelle. I had not realized how many songs from that show came on my Pandora station. Nonetheless, I had no idea what the show was about. I just know Michelle wanted to go so I tagged along. It was a fun night. We went to this place called Club Jungle (that's where the show was), and then we hung around in the smoky blue atmosphere to watch the drag show that came after that. Hehe. Yes, that's right. A drag show. I don't think I've been around that many "curvy" guys since I was in New Orleans.

It was a fun night nonetheless. ^^v The rest of the weekend was pretty good too. Nothing out of the ordinary really happened.

It's almost Monday. OT got turned off. I'm not sure what I'm going to do with all the extra time I'll have. I'll be able to start walking to zumba class again. That's a plus, I guess.

PS: I want to add some more anime music to my iPod. Suggestions?

Mistakes

I finally made a mistake at work. These past two work days have been rather irritating. It's all ok though. I can only fix what I can. Just gotta keep smiling. Like my post-it note says.

Glee tonight was pretty awesome. I liked the new songs. Wonder what Josh and Michelle are going to say tomorrow.

Raising Hope was hilarious.

I can't believe I'm really talking about TV.

There hasn't been anything too exciting going on. Went up to Clemson with Matthew last weekend and played board games with his friends. Yay. That was seriously a lot of fun.

Zumba party this weekend, but I skipped class on Monday to work till 7 pm. John might be right. I don't have a life. Le sigh.

I have a really neat PDF of a color wheel to put up on my cubicle wall for tomorrow. Gamut! What the crop! Gee-See-Are!

Work really isn't everything. It's just something to keep me from going crazy.