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Sunday, September 28, 2008
Been Awhile...
Wow. It has been awhile. I guess I have just not had an opinion lately! Well, I still have no opinion on anything, but here is what we've been up to.
Last week we went to LA. Funny as it turns out, everything we planned to do we did not do. We planned to go to the Sound of Music Sing-a-long hosted by Julie Andrews at the Hollywood Bowl. Didn't happen. Also planned to go to the LA Galaxy game...Yeah, that did not happen either. What did happen instead, we saw Wicked at the Pantages Theater. How awesome was that. It was such a good show and we totally enjoyed it. We also hit the Huntington Library and took a ton of pictures and roamed the beautiful gardens there. We intended to go to the Museums too, but little did we know that they all close at 4:30pm. So we were denied! We spent some fantastic times with Albert, Kathy and Sven (Kathy's new beau...nice guy). It was so relaxing and great. We hit some of out most favorite spots in LA. We had breakfast at The Pantry, shopping in the Garment District, dinner and drinks in Santa Monica and my favorite morning ritual, walking from Kathy's apartment and getting coffee at the Coffee Bean. I did not want to come home. That was in part because I hate my job and did not want to go back to work, but also because the time was so well spent with people and places we love.
Coming home was not so fun. Walter and I both got colds (mine lasted a bit longer than his). I found out I was denied for 6 of the 7 jobs I applied for, and work, well, I still hate my job....
But, this is a new week. I am feeling better and have been having a great day all around (other than some fucking soliciter from UNLV calling and waking me up after only 4 hours of sleep...asshole!)
Coming up, a week full of continuing to look for jobs, look for places that are affordable and will allow us to keep Jasper, and trying to sell my dresser on craigslist. I may try to work in some packing as well.
Also, on a good note, I have started back on my eating healthy plan again (it went astray for a few weeks, ok a month...) and I lost 5 pounds! That was nice. I just need to get my ass working out now! Baby steps....
Well, thats about it on me. Hopefully I will get an opinion on something soon and can rant about it..LOL..
Last week we went to LA. Funny as it turns out, everything we planned to do we did not do. We planned to go to the Sound of Music Sing-a-long hosted by Julie Andrews at the Hollywood Bowl. Didn't happen. Also planned to go to the LA Galaxy game...Yeah, that did not happen either. What did happen instead, we saw Wicked at the Pantages Theater. How awesome was that. It was such a good show and we totally enjoyed it. We also hit the Huntington Library and took a ton of pictures and roamed the beautiful gardens there. We intended to go to the Museums too, but little did we know that they all close at 4:30pm. So we were denied! We spent some fantastic times with Albert, Kathy and Sven (Kathy's new beau...nice guy). It was so relaxing and great. We hit some of out most favorite spots in LA. We had breakfast at The Pantry, shopping in the Garment District, dinner and drinks in Santa Monica and my favorite morning ritual, walking from Kathy's apartment and getting coffee at the Coffee Bean. I did not want to come home. That was in part because I hate my job and did not want to go back to work, but also because the time was so well spent with people and places we love.
Coming home was not so fun. Walter and I both got colds (mine lasted a bit longer than his). I found out I was denied for 6 of the 7 jobs I applied for, and work, well, I still hate my job....
But, this is a new week. I am feeling better and have been having a great day all around (other than some fucking soliciter from UNLV calling and waking me up after only 4 hours of sleep...asshole!)
Coming up, a week full of continuing to look for jobs, look for places that are affordable and will allow us to keep Jasper, and trying to sell my dresser on craigslist. I may try to work in some packing as well.
Also, on a good note, I have started back on my eating healthy plan again (it went astray for a few weeks, ok a month...) and I lost 5 pounds! That was nice. I just need to get my ass working out now! Baby steps....
Well, thats about it on me. Hopefully I will get an opinion on something soon and can rant about it..LOL..
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Hurt, Hear-say, and A Dinner Party
The saying "What happens in Vegas, Stays in Vegas" was stolen from my rules for a dinner party. When I have friends over to my house, I expect that any conversation, happenings, ventings, embarrassings, etc. stay at the house party. There are things always said in the company of friends, new or old, that just don' t need to be repeated outside. Repeat them to your spouse/partner/girlfriend/boyfriend, but no one else needs to know especially if it will turn into malicious gossip and hear-say. Somehow if/when this happens, I feel somewhat responsible for the problem. I know I should not, but I am the one with the ecclectic circle of friends who brings them all together, most of them only knowing of each others existance at my home. I thought I was an adult. I thought my friends were adults. I hope we all are adults still. I didn't like Jr. High the first time and I don't want to experience it again.
The rule is officially posted and no longer implied! Come and enjoy our hospitality with no reservations.
The rule is officially posted and no longer implied! Come and enjoy our hospitality with no reservations.
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Reality of a College Education
" What do you do with a B.A. in English,
What is my life going to be?
Four years of college and plenty of knowledge,
Have earned me this useless degree.
I can't pay the bills yet,
'Cause I have no skills yet,
The world is a big scary place.
But somehow I can't shake,
The feeling I might make,
A difference,
To the human race."
- "What Do You Do with a B.A. in English?" Avenue Q
How often lately have I felt this sentiment. This opening song from the musical Avenue Q is so fitting to my life right now. Here I am with a degree, finally, and not sure what I want to do with it.
How is it that some people fall into these perfect and exciting jobs? Some people just are in the right place at the right time. Some just trip over it. Some even find the job, don't want to take it and later accept it only to find out it was a dream job! WHY CAN THIS NOT HAPPEN TO ME??
While doing job searches on the internet, there is nothing but crap out there! There are jobs that sound like fun and that would be interesting, but they are all requiring 5+ years of experience or some requirement that I have never heard of. Where are the interesting jobs that pay well and people love? Am I just looking in the wrong places? Have I just been mistaken and there really is no job like that out there? Or am I just destined to be in a boring office job doing paperwork for the rest of my life? Is there really more to life after a college degree than I was thinking? or am I just going to have to really take a 50% pay cut to enter into the post college workplace? Could it be I went to the wrong University? or decided to major in the wrong area?
Speaking of the wrong University, I recently (and embarrassingly am admitting it now) went to go see Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 . It was here that I realized how people in movies always go to some fancy college or university. No one in the movies go to UNLV, University of Michigan, or God forbid, Community College. They all go to Brown, Yale, Harvard. Why? Are these places so unattainable, like the experiences in movies, that we have to dream of them as well? and are they that much better? Obviously the jobs you will get just by attending one of these places will be far better than the average person. And those of us who attended an average University will have to work a lot harder to make the incomes those elite students will be making, but why rub it in our faces when we should just be being entertained? Sorry, just a side rant!
But really. What do you do after college especially when you are not sure what you want to do? If anyone really knows, let me know!
What is my life going to be?
Four years of college and plenty of knowledge,
Have earned me this useless degree.
I can't pay the bills yet,
'Cause I have no skills yet,
The world is a big scary place.
But somehow I can't shake,
The feeling I might make,
A difference,
To the human race."
- "What Do You Do with a B.A. in English?" Avenue Q
How often lately have I felt this sentiment. This opening song from the musical Avenue Q is so fitting to my life right now. Here I am with a degree, finally, and not sure what I want to do with it.
How is it that some people fall into these perfect and exciting jobs? Some people just are in the right place at the right time. Some just trip over it. Some even find the job, don't want to take it and later accept it only to find out it was a dream job! WHY CAN THIS NOT HAPPEN TO ME??
While doing job searches on the internet, there is nothing but crap out there! There are jobs that sound like fun and that would be interesting, but they are all requiring 5+ years of experience or some requirement that I have never heard of. Where are the interesting jobs that pay well and people love? Am I just looking in the wrong places? Have I just been mistaken and there really is no job like that out there? Or am I just destined to be in a boring office job doing paperwork for the rest of my life? Is there really more to life after a college degree than I was thinking? or am I just going to have to really take a 50% pay cut to enter into the post college workplace? Could it be I went to the wrong University? or decided to major in the wrong area?
Speaking of the wrong University, I recently (and embarrassingly am admitting it now) went to go see Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 . It was here that I realized how people in movies always go to some fancy college or university. No one in the movies go to UNLV, University of Michigan, or God forbid, Community College. They all go to Brown, Yale, Harvard. Why? Are these places so unattainable, like the experiences in movies, that we have to dream of them as well? and are they that much better? Obviously the jobs you will get just by attending one of these places will be far better than the average person. And those of us who attended an average University will have to work a lot harder to make the incomes those elite students will be making, but why rub it in our faces when we should just be being entertained? Sorry, just a side rant!
But really. What do you do after college especially when you are not sure what you want to do? If anyone really knows, let me know!
Sunday, August 3, 2008
Lessons from Cooking Chili
Who knew cooking could teach you so many things. Here are the things I learned while cooking my chili today:
#1. Never, never, never touch jalapeño juice and then your balls.
#2. V8 relieves the burn from jalapeños on skin, so does lemon and a mixture of water and baking soda.
#3. Chili does not have to be hot; it is ok to not put the jalapeños in, especially after my experience.
#4. Soaking beans takes time...a lot of time. Never rush things that are meant to take time.
#5. A nice mixture of beans makes the chili more interesting and tastier. This one I used 3 kinds: kidney, pinto, and black.
#6. Seasoning is the spice of life, but too much spice can make your chili undesirable and no one will want to eat it.
How these relate to us in life?
#1. Never, never, never touch jalapeño juice then your balls. It's a lesson in and of itself!
#2. Some of the most unorthodox things can be soothing. Open up and let yourself be relieved by something you're not used to.
#3. Life can be nice without the heat. No matter what you do, switch it up and break conceived rules. Go unconventional!
#4. We are in too much of a rush in life. Take your time. When you do, things really do turn out better.
#5. Having a nice mix of friends makes life better. Why have people around you who are all the same. The more diverse friends we have, the more we can learn.
#6. It's good to be yourself. It's funny to be crazy. But sometimes, too much is really too much! There is a time and a place. Learn how to figure out when and where.
#1. Never, never, never touch jalapeño juice and then your balls.
#2. V8 relieves the burn from jalapeños on skin, so does lemon and a mixture of water and baking soda.
#3. Chili does not have to be hot; it is ok to not put the jalapeños in, especially after my experience.
#4. Soaking beans takes time...a lot of time. Never rush things that are meant to take time.
#5. A nice mixture of beans makes the chili more interesting and tastier. This one I used 3 kinds: kidney, pinto, and black.
#6. Seasoning is the spice of life, but too much spice can make your chili undesirable and no one will want to eat it.
How these relate to us in life?
#1. Never, never, never touch jalapeño juice then your balls. It's a lesson in and of itself!
#2. Some of the most unorthodox things can be soothing. Open up and let yourself be relieved by something you're not used to.
#3. Life can be nice without the heat. No matter what you do, switch it up and break conceived rules. Go unconventional!
#4. We are in too much of a rush in life. Take your time. When you do, things really do turn out better.
#5. Having a nice mix of friends makes life better. Why have people around you who are all the same. The more diverse friends we have, the more we can learn.
#6. It's good to be yourself. It's funny to be crazy. But sometimes, too much is really too much! There is a time and a place. Learn how to figure out when and where.
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Harry Potter Trailer!
Ok, so the new Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince trailer is out. There are a bunch of phony ones on youtube, but here is the real one! I am so excited for this movie. It is going to be so good! Here it is!
Let me know what you think! I loved it!
Let me know what you think! I loved it!
Monday, July 28, 2008
Life Is A Gamble
If you look at the true definition of gambling, it is to risk something of value on something with an uncertain outcome. This "valuable" thing could be our hearts, our time, our hard earned cash, but no matter what it is, we are willing to risk it for something better (i.e. the uncertain outcome). My friend Albert was here last night and we went out gambling (in a casino). As we were talking I started to think why I was so willing to lose the $20 I put into a slot machine. I knew my odds were bad of winning a jackpot. Hell, I know better just by working in the gaming industry here! But I was still willing to do it. My twenty buck lasted a long time actually. At one point, due to a very nice hit on Keno, I had doubled my money. Why then did I come home with nothing?
I look at our decision to move to Austin as a gamble as well. We are risking comfort, good jobs, familiarity, and closeness of friend to go to a place where we don't know the outcome. I guess that is the excitement of gambling. The adrenaline rush of waiting to see the outcome, to see if your risk was a good one or one that leaves you going home with nothing.
To me, the risk is always worth it! No matter the outcome, something was always learned. Last night for instance, I learned to leave while I am ahead. Doubling my money IS a good thing even if it was only $20. I learned what games paid me more and what games took more money faster. I learned that life is like a casino. You go in hoping for a winning streak. You risk everything to gain something. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, but in the end you have to reflect on if the whole experience was worth it. To me, last night was. I was able to spend hours with my best friend who I have not seen since Christmas! We caught up, talked deeper into what was really going on with us, our lives and our relationships. For that alone, it was worth the $20!
I guess what I am trying to say is: Gamble it all! Make the choice, and gamble it all! You may have to lose a little to gain a lot! I think our move will gain us tons! New friends, new experiences, new jobs that might be better than the jobs we have! I am willing to gamble it all! Nothing in life is ever gained without a little risk involved!
I look at our decision to move to Austin as a gamble as well. We are risking comfort, good jobs, familiarity, and closeness of friend to go to a place where we don't know the outcome. I guess that is the excitement of gambling. The adrenaline rush of waiting to see the outcome, to see if your risk was a good one or one that leaves you going home with nothing.
To me, the risk is always worth it! No matter the outcome, something was always learned. Last night for instance, I learned to leave while I am ahead. Doubling my money IS a good thing even if it was only $20. I learned what games paid me more and what games took more money faster. I learned that life is like a casino. You go in hoping for a winning streak. You risk everything to gain something. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, but in the end you have to reflect on if the whole experience was worth it. To me, last night was. I was able to spend hours with my best friend who I have not seen since Christmas! We caught up, talked deeper into what was really going on with us, our lives and our relationships. For that alone, it was worth the $20!
I guess what I am trying to say is: Gamble it all! Make the choice, and gamble it all! You may have to lose a little to gain a lot! I think our move will gain us tons! New friends, new experiences, new jobs that might be better than the jobs we have! I am willing to gamble it all! Nothing in life is ever gained without a little risk involved!
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