A transformer down the street blew out after catching on fire and power went out completely. We had 5 outages thru the morning but this one literally put us out on the street, complete with a campus-wide evacuation notice.
I sent the entire team home even before the evac notice, now am just laying around watching tellie and cleaning up the apt. Wish I just took the day off or had gone to the beach!
Kill me now and put me out of this misery- I actually find these kids adorable.
/Taken at yesterday's campus party./
Btw, it was almost impossible taking a picture of kids yesterday, they were bouncing off the walls from the sugar overload our company provided. I've never seen so much cotton candy around.
i think my announcement went well! glad that everyone is telling me it will work out. :)
Wow, there is SO MUCH sugar flying around the office these days :(. Today I need to pick up ice cream for someone's bday surprise, there's a campud Halloween celebration where I'm sure cookies/candy/cake will be aplenty, yesterday we got a truckload of dove ice cream bars for our giving/charity campign and now I just found out on fb that someone has macaroons from France (must. eat. this) and she is willing to share one with me but "not with anyone else."
Weekend plans: get hair "did", two partays, maze/haunted house in a corn field, embark on quest for tomy "sunshine buddies" and just some good old fashioned errands. I sense fun times ahead.
Mark your calendars! Nordstrom’s Half Yearly Sale starts next Wednesday. I’m crossing my fingers the items I’ve been eyeing will be hitting the sales rack.
Ash Olivia Boot – I’ve decided on the Midnight Blue. PLEASE GO ON SALE! I will accept nothing less then 33% off. It’s been almost three months, I’ve been waiting patiently.
Kelsi Rosabella Bootie - Along with the Ash Oliva boots, these were featured prominently in Nordstrom’s Fall catalog and they too have yet to see a price reduction.
L.A.M.B. Raina Bootie – I’ve already seen this at Neiman’s Last Call, but in a size 10. Bugger. If these have already made it to another department store’s outlet, surely they should go on sale soon. SURELY.
I’m not sure about the following as they are fairly new adds to Nordstrom's inventory, but one can wish, eh?
Elizabeth & James D’Orsay – I love the color, shape, perfect addition to my closet.
And in the realm of “Cha right, these will never go on sale, but I’m still going to will them to anyway” Chloe boots.
one hint...
i'm making it with foamboard and so far, this is what i've got. i hope it doesn't turn out lame!
A week ago, we stopped by a pumpkin patch with Kylie and THK got us three mini pumpkins. His was the largest, about the height of a coke can. Ky's pumpkin is teenytiny. I spent all last night carving these... next year, we're getting regular full sized ones!
i had to off two ppl but a girl has to do what a girl's gotta do.
when i was told last thursday that the window i've been eyeing forever was passed up by someone more senior than i, i immediately jumped on it. i asked if it would be OK to start moving my crap into the new office before the official move date (which is tomorrow, wednesday, 10/28) and he asked, "got cash?"
as a matter of fact, i did. i had $2. he laughed, "i was kidding!" when i showed up at his office with the money.
heck, "I'M NOT. if $2 is all it takes for you to give me the green light on moving in NOW, it's A BARGAIN."
what goodwill will do with rejected clothes including your dirty underwear...
http://planetgreen.discovery.com/videos/g-word-second-time-around.html
recently a friend was in town and he introduced me to his fab cousin one day when we went to for lunch at santana row. my friend, being a little older than i, told his cousin "man, if i were your age again, i'd totally do things differently. i would have made different choices in my life" to which the cousin responded, "so what WOULD you have done, if you were my age (26) again?"
my friend couldn't come up with specifics. don't tell a kid that YOU would be in another place than where you are today if you haven't thought it through and can't articulate the specifics, and esp don't tell that to an intelligent, bright, driven and grounded 26 year old.
the cousin then turned to me and of course, asked me the same question. i had to give it a few minutes before concluding that yes, while my life isn't as fabulous at times as i had imagined it would be, ultimately, i have a good deal. i would not have left my company to join a start up nor would i have done something extreme as it just is not in my character to do so. so i only had these thoughts for him:
1) i would NOT have spent so much time and energy 'fighting the system' and being angry/upset about beauracracy/politics. there will always be politics, in any environment, and i should instead have found a way to make it work in my favour rather than just whining about how 'wrong' and 'messed up' things were. the glory days of 2000 are over and i had a hard time letting go of that.
2) i would NOT have severed some close friendships i had, just b/c we were too proud and/or mad at each other to apologize or to extend an olive branch to the other. i'm finding that these days, there were ppl in life from many yrs ago that i wish i had bothered to keep in contact with, b/c they played rather important roles and as i get older, i'm starting to appreciate how much their friendship meant to me. yeah, my ego got in the way. disclaimer: this does not mean that i regret not keeping in contact with EVERYONE that i've ever interacted with. some ppl don't belong in each other's lives or they need significant time to pass (eg: years) before attempting to reconnect.
curious: what would YOU do over again/different if you were ~5yrs younger ... 1) knowing what you do now and/or 2) NOT having the same knowledge as you do today?
anyway, what brought this on is seeing these quotes from 'before sunrise' and 'before sunset'... two of the best romance movies in the past 20 yrs, IMO.
If there's any kind of magic in this world, it must be in the attempt of understanding someone, sharing something. I know, it's almost impossible to succeed, but... who cares, really? The answer must be in the attempt.
--Before Sunrise
"I guess when you're young, you just believe there'll be many people with whom you'll connect with. Later in life, you realize it only happens a few times."
--Before Sunset
WHOA, i posted LOTS this week. (almost) unbelievable.
have a great weekend, interwebs!
