grrrr.

so, no new phone for me.

apparently, you can only use the promotions that are offered by verizon every two years, but they say you can do it up to two months before your contract is up, because people get antsy and want their new phones.

apparently, i don't hit that mark until TWELVE DAYS FROM NOW. by then the rebate on the phone i want will be gone. i might have to pay full price, or look for another phone that might not have the features i want. in my opinion, this is a GIANT LOAD OF CRAP.

i console myself by thinking about how two weeks from now i will be carousing with my best buddies in LA, eating sushi, sightseeing and getting my picture taken with mickey. ;-)

i love new toys!

i am so excited... if all goes well, tomorrow i will be the proud owner of a shiny new LG VX6000 camera phone!!

i'm really more excited about the other features on the phone, the camera is just an extra goodie... i am glad to finally have an alarm (my last phone didn't have one... so annoying) and it's got the kind of phone book where you can have one name with a bunch of numbers and e-mails attached. my current phone just lists everything... like, D's house, D's Cell, D's e-mail, D's # in boston, etc. Hate that.

I think this is the same phone that one of my friends has, and hers has this neat thing where you can take a pic of someone and it comes up when that person calls you. that's pretty cool, too! ;-)

i'm so funny, i have this obsession with new, cool tech toys. I need tons more money to keep up this habit... anyone want to give me some ? ;-)

mp3 player for sale

I am thinking about selling my 20 gig RCA LYRA mp3 player. it's one year old, in great condition (a few scratches on the outside, but that's it), and has all original accesories in the box. i can be used for mp3's OR files, and supports mp3PRO, a way of encoding files at good quality in half the size. great if you're thinking about digitizing your music collection, since you can get twice as many songs for the same space!

I purchased this 1 year ago for $250. I'm selling it for $150 and i'll even pay shipping! it's got close to 10 gigs of music on it, or i can erase it all, whatever you want. ;-)

I really don't want to use ebay or craigslist, so i'm posting here first. if you are interesed, or know someone who might be, leave a comment!!!

presidentmatch

someone sent me the link to presidentmatch.com today... basically , you mark whether you oppose or favor certain issues, and it compares your answers to the presidential candidates and ranks the candidates according to your answers!

here's what i got.

1 Kucinich Score: 100%
2 Sharpton Score: 92%
3 Kerry Score: 92%
4 Dean Score: 85%
5 Clark Score: 83%
6 Edwards Score: 78%
7 Lieberman Score: 69%

project.

i am working on a project and i need 5 people to help me out. it requires less than 5 minutes of time, and all you really have to do is fill out a form. you do not have to give me more than your e-mail address, and you actually get something out of the deal - especially if you like to take digital photos!

if you can help me out, leave a comment with your e-mail (1/24: had mine up one day and i'm already getting spam! WTF!) and i will give you more details.

thanks in advance!!

sleep is my favorite thing.

i just woke up. it's 10 to 1 in the afternoon. it's officialy the start of a great day!!!

a great day is defined, of course, by whether or not i had to wake up to an alarm clock. i hate alarm clocks, i think they are evil, and i'd like to throw mine out the window. i'm all for sleeping untl i wake up on my own, which is one of the greatest feelings. when i do, i usually sleep 10 hours. ten hours!!! i'm 25 and i still need 10 hours of sleep to feel rested! this annoys me because there is so much to do every day and i almost never get 10 hours of sleep which means i'm tired a lot. but not today!!!!!!

today i am 25 and one week. my birthday was great. first i went to work, which is normally not a good thing to do on your birthday, but i needed hours really bad so it was actually a good thing! then i drove to san jose, where me, my mom and my friend debbie went to e&o for dinner. if you live in the bay area, you really should go there... the food is great and the corn fritters are to die for! then, after a little snarl up with dessert (long story short, no dessert at all) we went over to the center for performing arts where we saw Dreamgirls starring FRENCHIE DAVIS!!!!!

oh. my. god. she was amazing. this is the first time i've really ever heard her sing for longer than a soundbyte and she is even more amazing than i thought she'd be. i read in the paper that she got a record deal, and i can't wait to go buy it! i'll buy two!! she is seriously awesome. ;-)

and back to today... i have a nice list of stuff to do and i'm gonna get started... and i WILL NOT get sucked into my tivo. ;-) HA. fat chance. but at least i can fold towels at the same time!!

if only...

i got an e-mail yesterday, for a contest to win tickets to see john mayer at a taping of the ryan seacrest show.

in LA.

on my birthday.

they just said to send an e-mail with a few sentences on why you should be chosen... i totally would have gotten those tickets. but i won't be in LA for my birthday. and I thought that i would never be able to get there in time because i had to work the day before. but i don't. so i could have gone. and the contest is CLOSED now.

whatever, not like i have the money to go to LA anyway.

but i would have totally won those tickets, so that makes me feel a little better. ;-)

web design is haaard

since my last few web designs have all been modifications of the same, boring template, i had forgotten how hard making a new design from scratch is!!

i'm working on a project for a friend, and while i have the basic designs down, i'm trying to make the layouts skinnable and that is waaay hard. plus every time i try to format my text, the css goes all wonky.

waaaah.

whatever, it's a challenge, and my poor atrophied brain could use a little bit of a challenge! BRING IT ON, CSS! I CAN TAKE YOU!

heehee.

new year, baby

aaah, 2004. you know you're getting older when you can actually remember how you spent new year's eve ten years ago (at a party at deanna's house, sans boyfriend, who was in tahoe and who called at midnight.) scary.

this year new year's was a four day event of sorts... we rang in 2004 in grand, santa cruz style, dancing at the blue lagoon. it was great - good music, cheap, and not too crowded! everyone got kisses at midnight, and eventually we made it back to my house where a few more folks joined us and everyone just talked and ate and drank until we all dropped ourselves into beds and couches around 4 am.

new year's day we had breakfast (at 2pm) at the santa cruz diner. we all agree that they have the best hashbrowns ever. when we got back to my house we realized how bad it smelled (i think the whiskey jeff brought had something to do with that) so we opened the windows and cleaned everything up. later that night a few of us met at the mercado and saw mona lisa smile. on friday we played cranium, ate obscene amounts of pizza and watched pirates. saturday i did a little shopping, had luch at miyake's with d and d (d squared) and then went to work. (and now it's monday and i feel like i'm still recovering.)

the only problem i have with the new year is that everyone makes such a big deal about it being a new start, when it really isn't. i always hype myself up about all the changes i'm going to make in the new year, and i only dissapoint myself when i can't (or just don't feel like) making those changes. that doesn't mean that i'm not going to make 'resolutions' this year... i am, i'm just going to go about it differently this time. i bought myself a notebook, and each month i'm going to pick one small goal for myself. the point will be to build one good habit each month and then maintain them. if i can make at least two good habits i'll feel like i actually accomplished something. ;-)

so this is the new year....

so this is the new year,
and i don't feel any different.
the clanking of crystal
explosions off in the distance (in the distance).

so this is the new year
and I have no resolutions
for self assigned penance
for problems with easy solutions

so everybody put your best suit or dress on
let's make believe that we are wealthy for just this once
lighting firecrackers off on the front lawn
as thirty dialogues bleed into one

i wish the world was flat like the old days
then i could travel just by folding a map
no more airplanes, or speedtrains, or freeways
there'd be no distance that can hold us back.

there'd be no distance that could hold us back.

so this is the new year....

-death cab for cutie

whooooooosh

where does the time go??

all of a sudden christmas has come and gone, and now it's creeping up on new years and yet again we (me & the high school buddies) have no concrete plans for new years eve. some things never change. ;-)

i've been having fun playing with the best present ever, and i'm still cleaning up after the party i threw saturday - my annual holiday party. the last one was a bit of a dud (everyone was sick), and last year we couldn't nail down a date that everyone could do, so no party. this year, however, was fab, we ate tons of food, traded gifts, played games, sang songs, and ground some chocolate into my couch. ;-) but all ended well and we had a great time. who knows, we might even break a record for my little house and have two parties here in one week. we'll see what happens on the 31st!

good news on teh job front, too - my boss told me today that i'm one of the seasonals they want to keep on after the first of the year. this is great news becasue i am quickly running out of money! i'll only be part time, but i'm gonna file for unemplyment and that will hopefully help pay for some of the bills. and you know, it's really nice to have a job that i don't DREAD going to every morning, so hanging on to it for a while longer will be cool. plus, i have a little crush on one of the other seasonals, and i'm hoping he's staying on after new year's too. i still don't know his last name or how old he is, so i could use a little more time to work on it :-)

i carry your heart

i carry your heart with me (i carry it in
my heart) i am never without it (anywhere
i go you go, my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing, my darling)

i fear
no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet) i want
no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)

- e.e. cummings

dear lexus,

your advertizing team should be shot.

or at least fired.

your 'decemebr to remeber' commercials are the most asenine thing i've ever seen, not to mention the single most annoying holiday commercial ever. you know, the one where, like, the dog comes up and there's a key around it's neck, and then there's a lexus in the snowy driveway with a gigantic red bow on it. i mean, COME ON, PEOPLE! a car as a gift would be a nice thing, but not very many people would go out and buy a car without discussing it with their sig. other or something. i dont' know if it's that assumption that pisses me off more or the giant fucking red bow.

< /rant >

newness all around!

i started my new job yesterday, and it was 8 hours filled with smiling too much (face still hurts, ow), repeating the same phrases over and over (how are you today? did you find everything you were looking for? credit or debit?), and really, really sore feet.

and i loved every minute of it!!

i've never worked for such a big place before - the store is really really big and there are something like 25 or 30 people that work there. i've already met a few super nice people, a guy who doesn't cashier but offered to answer any questions i had, a girl who has been there longer than me and is annoyed that i got to learn the register on my first day when no one has trained her yet, and all the managers are so cool and don't get annoyed when i interrupt them with really stupid questions.

the thing i hated the most about my old job was the sales, and thankfully there's none of that pressure now. just ringing things up and taking people's money. ;-)

obviously i have a new design. i was so excited when i found that mermaid over at stock stash (link on the left... i'm lazy) that i had to make somethign with it immediately. ;-) my theory is that i used to post a lot when i had designs i loved (like strawberry shortcake). lately i've been making really lo-fi layouts, and they never kept my interest very long. i guess i just need color and pictures. ;-)

one final thought: while christmas shopping, please stay calm. the person ringing you up is not your personal punching bag, they are not going slow on purpose, maybe it is their first day! be nice to them - it will give you good karma.

but i am le tired.

no matter how many time i watch it, the end of the world always cracks me up.

notice the prevalent use of abreevs! plus, i like it when hawaii says 'w00t'. teehee!