jeepers creepers, where'd you get those peepers...

so, these are my (bespectacled)peepers.

and they're affected by these--jeepers!

and now I gotta put these thingies in 'em, creepers!

but now you know how I got them eyes.

note to self: think positive. eye allergies, even ones where they say your eyelid is inflamed and at risk of scratching your cornea if not treated, are better than all those sinus infections. maybe you'll get over all this eventually, eh?

okie dokie pokie.

so.

I'm being a bad blogger again. But I've been busy, and I've been having fun, and I'm [insert title here] with that.

saw shrek three on friday. it was good, and I bet the beer at mission valley made it even better. and if you live in my neck of the woods (or come visit) you should totally go to mitch's. it was fun to see betsy and her boyf mark there, too! matt and I both agreed that j. timberlake wasn't the best man for that job (we like him, we're just sayin') and seriously, it was fun-nneee! Although apparently they're ripping off month python jokes, sayeth pink is the new blog.

and saturday was cuteness 'cause of this book. boys do sweet things sometimes. it made my day. if you've never read it you totally should! it's one of my very most super faves!

I met a girl (who is also a twin AND a KD) who works for this magazine, and I'm gonna check out their photo submission stuff. also on saturday I kinda fell asleep sitting up while watching boondock saints, and then we had to drive home at four in the morning so I could sing my soprano part in church. ha!

if you're one of my fellow pale people, you should totally rock this sunblock in spf 70--it seems to work! granted, it was three o'clock sun and only an hour, but usually we would have had some toasted carrie, hold the butter. I kind of like not.

other fun things:
my $9.99 ross dress for less skirt


and gobi deciding he'd had enough with the tv, I guess. i love him that I caught him mid yawn.


and I got a raise today. of the annual merit persuasion. it's the highest percentage I've ever gotten. for a job where most of the time I don't operate at full capacity 'cause I'm trying hard to concentrate. it's kind of nice too because I've FINALLY hit/surpassed a mark that I really really wanted to. yay for me!

oh and--if you haven't seen heroes yet, you should. like, the ENTIRE season. it's rocktastic. the ending wasn't what I expected, but I liked it. :) more theories later, except I wanna know who the really really bad guy is!

time for beddy bye. nightynightnight. ~the tulsa terror (that's what the guy I nicknamed pappy called me because of my shorts that say tulsa on the butt. now I get teased when I DON'T wear 'em. ha!)

for old time's sake. and owies. and a cleaning monster! and comh.

yesterday we were a wee bit of bad kaydees. it wasn't on purpose, it just worked out that way. we kinda had our own little get-together than conflicted with a kaydee thing. the bad part is that it was a bunch of kaydees. but really? it's just the ONLY time for sure when we could do it and have everyone there since mary alise left for hawaii today and amy moves soon. I kinda feel a little bad about it, except I also know that sometimes things like this just happen and you've gotta roll with them.

y'see, amy, kara, mary alise, misty and i used to meet regularly for happy hours. marla and kara have been integrated. but really any lady is welcome, to be sure. however these are the ones that were there for the discussion about resuming. we all staggered in, but were there by 8! :) and were celebrating all sorts of good things!

i love girl time. and talking and beer and sharing a cigarette even if it's awful and divulging secrets. good stuff.

if you want to come next time email me!

I came home last night and didn't watch Grey's. Instead I talked on the phone. And cleaned. And got in a little fight with my laundry room door. It went a little like this:

chit-chatting on the phone, putting away the rest of the dishes, loading dirty ones in, blahblah blah-ity-blah. went and sat outside since the reception was better. came in to check movie times (we're seeing shrek the third!). went back out. came in and cleaned some more.

got off phone. listened to messages, returned sterling's call. while talking to sterling, finished mopping the kitchen floor. still on phone, went and put clothes in dryer. had a little trouble making the fold-y door shut (part is off its track) so I pushed really hard. and caught part of my left arm in it. immediately i had an inch-and-a-half long line that was bright red and blue.

it needed ice. ice is in the freezer. the freezer is across the just-mopped and still-wet kitchen floor. i wish i could tell you that i fell and busted my ass 'cause that would be hilarious, but such is not the case. i made it safely to/from the freezer. but boy did my arm hurt!

today it is just a red line. i hope it continues to fade. i tried to take a picture of it but none of 'em came out so good...

this morning I woke up at 6am. like, woke up for reals. wide awake. wide friggin AWAKE!

me.
awake.
at 6am.

and how did I decide to spend my time while waiting on mary alise and michael since they were coming over around 820 to get a ride to the airport? I CLEANED. like, cleaned the sink (ps, barkeepers friend rules), wiped off the cabinets and the front of the oven, ironed my dishtowels and neatly arranged them in the caddy, all before 7am.

thus, my kitchen is my comh for this fine friday. and and and, you get a close-up of my dish towels, cute containers from everything but grannie's panties that hold my measuring spoons and my recipes (and once really freaked me out!) and my kitchen board that I bought for a dollar at Jo-Ann's. I'm sure that it's super helpful--not just 'cause of the hooks, but also 'cause if I ever forget what room I'm in I can see it there! ;)


my closet upstairs may be a real disaster area, and might be a fire hazard if it weren't a closet, but my kitchen? it's as spotless as I can possibly get it! :)

goodness me I'm glad it's friday. for reals.

i'm a leader/i'm a winner/and i'm cleaner/'cause i'm awesome/i don't need you/'cause i'm neato/and i beat you/'cause i'm awesome!/that's right!

~the dollyrots

for reals people, I forgot to mention this: I am CLEANING. as in, like, I voluntarily:
-cleaned out my fridge, removing shelves, the whole nine yards
-cleaned my oven, underneath the elements, in the oven itself, even the burner reflector thingies
-cleaned my counters, all of 'em, taking things off and organizing
-cleaned the microwave inside and out, and even behind and under it
-emptied the spice shelf, dusted it, went through all of the spices combining the ones that were multiples, organizing based on use and type (but not alphabetically, I have some self-respect! [no offense to you alphabetizers out there!])

and tonight, once I get home, I plan on putting away the rest of the dishes, washing what's in the sink and cleaning the floor. and changing my sheets. and vacuuming downstairs.

if you know me, you know I MIGHT have lost my mind. maybe. i'm sooooo not a clean-if-i-don't-absolutely-have-to person. i only clean when I MUST. and right now? don't hafta. could get away with the half-ass, no-under-the-microwave type of cleaning. but I'm getting down to the nitty-gritty (pun, yes?) and putting in some elbow grease. ha!

good lord. if you see me start to wipe down the baseboards please please take me to a doctor.

thanks.

a team with twosinging sopranodiddlediddledumplingcrying like a little girl with a skinned kneepotential roommatebein' nerdy

et al.

but not in that order.

yeah, yeah, I know, I know. I didn't post yesterday like I was supposed to AND I left a box of poptarts visible for those of you who succumb to not-so-subliminal messages. I should be shot. Um, or you should buy me one, whatev.

right. annnnnnNNnnnnyhoo...

so, I heart words o' the day. in college I used to learn a new word daily. i hate word-o-the-day desk calendars though. then you can't think "that word sucks, I'll learn a different one." it doesn't work like that.

today's word that I like? flagitious. isn't it swell? I'm going to call me nights out drinking flagitious times. I'm pumped about this word. pumped, I tell you. I shall add it to my wordie. Which needs new words.

***what are your favorite obscure words, mmmm?***

right. moving on.

our softball game on tuesday night was AMAZING. we seriously had an incredible comeback. nick makes it funnier here, but the gist is that we came back from being 18-2 in the third inning to win the game 20-18! We got 15 runs in the bottom of the sixth to take the lead. It was awesome. If we continue to gel like this we're basically going to be unstoppable!

it ruled. I heart softball. please don't buy me the charm though, okay?

i also went to the dentist and saw THIS. wtf, mate?

like, seriously, bartlesville friggin oklahoma? you've GOT to be kidding. like, the frank lloyd wright office building is neat (but that building gives me vertigo) and woolaroc is pretty damn cool, but c'mon! now, if you're living in OK or a neighboring state (say, Kansas) or within a few hours drive, okie doke. but this was next to adverts for cruises and beaches and safaris!

yeah, I'm totally going to take a safari to bartlesville, ok. rock and roll, people. goodness me.

(but now I do want to go take pictures at woolaroc when I come to tulsa. anybody wanna come with me?)

so tuesday night I cried like an ittle wittle girl. I watched the final episode of Gilmore Girls, and it was just what I would have wanted.

You saw the great characters in true form, many things were resolved, the banter and pop culture references were great and it was so sweet. Seriously, I just kept reaching for more kleenex.

And then I called and left Sterling a message about how I hated him very very much. (for getting me into the show, dontcha know?). But that I loved him too. Odi et amo, mea amicus. :)

apparently it was so funny he saved it. if you ask him all nice-like maybe he'll make an audio file and share!

in other nerdiness, I finally bought this:

and I also bought a kaydee license plate frame to negate some of the uber nerd. just temper it a little or whatever, you know? i'm looking forward to getting it, it will make me smile, fo' shizzle.

also, I kept noticing this man on my street. he lives catty-corner (kitty-corner to you northern folks) from me on my street, and he clearly needs someone to take care of and/or to talk to. he has a daughter my age, and he's just a really nice guy. I think next time I bake I'm going to bring him some or whatever I make. I saw him outside this morning talking to another person in our complex who was walking her doggie, and I thought about my friend John. y'know, diddle diddle dumpling, my [friend] John... :)

last night I went to TWO church things. (overachieve, much? ) one of 'em was softball, which the other team forfeited. I started to just join in the practice, but realized that I could go to choir instead of skipping it. and I'm glad I did.

there were four altos, two basses and two tenors at practice, so joe asked another lady and me to sing soprano. we did. and I told him how previously I'd been told that maybe I was in denial and was actually a soprano. joe said, know what? maybe you are... and he asked me if I might move up to soprano 'cause they could use another strong voice.

oopsie. now I've gone and done it.

finally, I've got two potential roomies I'm looking at. I met with one today for lunch, and she seems like we'd co-exist just fine. I hope to get this all sorted out sooner rather than later, and to find someone who I'd be okay to live with for another 14 months. I really really really like this not-moving thing, and I totally want to continue with it if at all possible. cross your fingers for me.

i cannot wait for six pm. cannot. friggin. wait.

happy thursday, folks. oh, and don't forget to tip your waitresses. :)

what a deal!

so, usually I try to eat healthy: lots of fruit, lots of water, good lean protein, whole wheat bread, the like. I often drink soda with my lunch, but I usually don't drink the whole can, and that's usually the only soda I have and I try to go for izze or iced tea when I can.

i take my vitamins, try to limit caffeine and only have it before 1pm, etc.

but sometimes I get in a mood, or I get a craving, and unless it's for something I can't get here (like blue bell or mazzios) or unless it's suuuuuuuper terrible for me, I usually give in to the craving.

(this week I'm operating on the i'm-playing-three-softball-games-this-week, therefore-i-can-eat-whatever-i-want mentality) anyway, I decided to get some poptarts. my toast for breakfast just wasn't cutting the mustard.

I went the to vending machine downstairs, where they had strawberry poptarts for 85 cents. It would not accept my quarter, and I noticed there were no lights on in the machine.

Someone in the breakroom said that others were having trouble, too, and I should try the one upstairs. So up I went.

they had strawberry poptarts for 80 cents. and hey, if a penny saved is a penny earned, then a nickel saved is great!

I put in my quarter. and my other quarter. and my other quarter. and my dime.

and got back a dime AND my poptarts.

lesson learned: go to the vending machine upstairs, 'cause it's cheaper AND you're burning calories walking up the two flights to get there.

:)

in the postage stamp world you can all get in line...

~rogue wave

this is another postage post. :)

I am disappointed about today. I still want my 42 cent stamps, dammit!

but at least this one looks kinda cool. I hope the issue more comic ones so we can enjoy them at the 41 cent level. icks if they don't.


also, I am already looking forward to thursday and the weekend. and it is only monday. and this is a week where BOTH of my bosses are out of town. which you'd think would mean it would be great, but there's really kind of a lot to get done. I do have three softball games to tide me over, at least.

and I'm going to start something new. I haven't been making lists as much, as of late. I'm going to try making a list every week and adding/subtracting from it as necessary. a weekly list. I'll keep it in my planner. (I think I'm gonna get aqua for next year! for reals, no pink!) and that way I'll know what I need to be doing when I've got some free time. also? i heart lists.

h-e-a-r-t.

admit it, you do, too.

time to scarf food and go to softball! yip-to-the-ee!

baseball, beer and sushi.

y'know, a few of my favorite things. :)

here we are at the baseball game itself (which was still fun even though the bulls lost...and I saw a lady from choir who was working the concessions.

and then? then we went to tyler's. drinking outside is THE BEST. and we ran into dmitry--how crazy! more fun pics, of course.

and when I got to the car, somebody had made me these. cuteness. cuteness indeed.

saturday morning I made three friends: boston, who is four, tyler, who is two and a half and a seventeen year old named jessica. where did I meet these peeps? at a soccer game, that's where. it was a tie, but it was fun to watch. ;)

also, there are kaydees EVERYWHERE around here! I went to a birthday party on Saturday night, and while playing beer pong I made some comment about KDs. And this girl next to me said, "wait, what, you're a kaydee?" Yeah. Little did she know that she was the FIFTH kd there (two from high point, one from longwood and she was from georgia southern, I do believe.) oh and? we were all wearing black. ha! fun stuff.

hooray for kaydee,
hooray for kaydee
kappa delta is our pride
we'll be kaydees 'til we die
green and white,
rose and pearl
i'm a kappa delta girl

anyhoo. moving on...

so, beer pong is fun. and I'm not very good at it. but I'm told I've got the standing there and looking pretty thing down, and I did make the "clutch" cup, so it's all good. and there was more cuteness, but I don't tell everything on my blog, y'know. :)

today? today was fun too. I spent HOURS seeing Gobi and Hazel sit like this while I gardened outside--they wanted to come out sooooo badly:

And Gobi was soooooo sweet, when I laid down to take a little nappy nap he did something adorrrable...he, like he used to, climbed up on my pillow and curled up right beside my head. and purred. it was splendid. now he usually just sleeps on the bed by my pillow, but the kitty actually cuddled!

to end up the day, sushi with kim, stefan, kim's friend melissa, lara, kevin and matt. matt, who, by the way, hadn't ever eaten sushi before! he performed like a champ. i did not do so well my first time around. note to those of you who enjoy sushi and introduce people to it: rock the inside-out rolls. they're easier to swallow. :)

(*please excuse carrie and her forgetting-names-ness. they're all right now! :) )

and and and. apparently. allegedly. according to kevin. i am a soprano. kevin who is a director of music for a living. he says all he needs is five minutes and he'll prove it. he's got my curiosity piqued, for sure. don't worry, I'll keep you posted. (and way to end on a pun, eh?)

an invitation for boozing and the specific heat of very sharp cheddar cheese

yeah, that's what's on my mind today.

something about melting the cheese for my breakfast burrito made me think of specifc heat. i am a dork, no?

also, my itsy is my hero. she makes me giggle.

and and and.
it's raining here. and I've got one of my oh-so-lovely pressure-change headaches. at least it isn't a migraine....

off for more fun. pictures soonish...

things.

first off, something good and helpful: if you are an animal lover, go here. it takes like two seconds to click, and it funds food for doggies and kitties that aren't as fortunate as the ones that live in our homes.

next, let's talk about money.

things of annoyance.
1. the men on dollar coins.
this is not cool. the coins themselves are cool. they've got a neat little inscription on the side/rim. and now you get 'em at the post office when you buy stamps from the vending machine and get change back.

but really? (and this is kind of silly) it makes me pissed that men are on dollar coins. why? because though four women have been pictured on coins (beginning with queen isabella of spain in 1893), there are were only two dollar coins in circulation, and both had women. at least that's SOMETHING.

because let's face it folks, the ladies don't get a lot of play in this country. we do things and support things and whatever, but significantly less formal recognition. we're still working to be equal. but I digress.

anyway, I'm annoyed with GWash being on a dollar coin. I know it's prolly wrong, but I am. I liked it that at least women had ONE thing that was all them. not anymore...at least it looks kind of neat. here's the back and the side/front. I do dig the inscription on the side.

oh, and a shout out to Washington, Washington. This is funny. and a little crude. but I still think it's funny.

2. why do we need a ten dollar coin?
at least there are more ladies.

they're making more ten dollar coins too, I think. money money money.

Oh, anyone see LOST last night? (vague spoiler alert) I am SO MAD AT THEM. Finish your story arcs, people. Don't kill them off. And and and-a word to the wise--remaining characters on the island don't start to figure your stuff out. It's bad news for you. Gah!

I still miss Echo (and sorry if that ruins anything for you if you're behind, but seriously, catch up, y'all)

yay for thursday. yay yay yay.

got it goin' like a turbo 'vette

~sir mix-a-lot

please please please go listen to this. right now. and laugh.

happy hump day. more later.

(and thanks muchly jeremy for passing this one on.)

eight eight I forget what eight was for

~violent femmes

so, cuteness. and weirdness. and stuff.

did you know:
you can buy practically anything with your sorority or fraternity name on it? like, really. a scooter, an ipod cover or a clock. seriously, check it here. (I couldn't find the kaydee versions of them all so I decided to be panhellenic...after all, I kinda gotta be...)

also, yesterday I learned a new phrase: jumping the shark. apparently it's weird that I didn't know it. I heard this phrase TWICE in like, oh, let's go with 18 hours. This phrase I'd never heard before. I like it. Consider it integrated.

oh and? Good for Claire Bennett: "The universe cannot possibly be that lame." I HEART HEROES. If you're not watching it I really really encourage you to check it out. This show RULES. go watch the eps PRONTO. you will not be disappointed. if you are? I will send you a cookie. okay? okay.

other things:
1. I hate having my hair wet. It makes me a little crazy. I actually made my date wait while I dried it (I missed his call, didn't get the message, my softball game went over and if I hadn't checked my phone again it's highly possible he would have knocked on the door while I was still in my underwear. which, all in all might not've been terrible for him, but still).
2. apparently I can float. Like, in softball. At second base. And my team thought it was rocktastic that I held my ground on my base despite the runner barreling towards me. this is nothing. recall: blood blisters on my left leg in the shape of the ball stitching and my time playing catcher during fast-pitch softball. goodness me.
3. i am nervous about tomorrow at 845pm. I'm having my picture taken for the church directory. and while, on one hand, this is awesome 'cause I've actually found a church I love and all, on the other hand? I'm having to be in that picture all by my lonesome, and that kind of freaks me out. I also don't know what to wear.
4. it is cute when a guy says "aw, shucks." and means it.
5. i love love love it when people like my photos. more specifically when people compliment them directly and go out of their way to tell me so. this pleases carrie greatly! what he actually said was "so, while you were drying your hair (see #1) I checked out your photos again and I've really gotta say, they are great. I really like them. I just looked at them all and I kept thinking, 'wow, I really like her photography.' I went around and looked at each of 'em--and then I saw one and I thought 'I don't really like this one as much as the others' and I felt kinda bad, but then I saw that it was taken by someone else! your pictures are exactly the type of photos I like to look at." this kinda made my day. anyone who's an artist prolly understands.

alright. one last thing: wedding crashers is a very hilarious and highly quotable movie. you should watch it. and? the rappin' granny is in there, and she's a kd! :)

fits and starts.

ever feel like that's how everything goes? in fits and starts? or, y'know, by them. whatev.

sometimes that's how I feel I operate--in fits and starts. gogogogogogo-stop. gogogogo-stop.

so, pictures from the fun this weekend: pity kara and susan couldn't join us, but marla and I had a spleeeeeeeeeeendid time. see?




and and and I bought m'self some pretty pink roses that smell DIVINE. which is especially nice since I can smell, y'know, since I couldn't (and sometimes still can't) after those sinus infection and surgery of yore.

also, how often do you get to use "yore" in a sentence? only slightly more often than "daft" methinks. oh, and then there's methinks... :) you can see where this is going...seriously though. I DID get to use "daft" last week. yay!

so, we had to forfeit our softball game. :(
and the wonderful betsy-lou (can I call you that from now on) came over to watch heroes. yay! :)

and I am tired. so I shall sleep. night night.

happy as can be doin' what comes natur'lly

~annie get your gun

good weekend. MUUUUUUUUUUUUUCH better than last weekend.

I'll put pictures up tomorrow. The Siesta, Fiesta and drinks on Friday were quite fun. As was the planting. I'm gonna have...

sweet basil
red rubin basil
cinnamon basil
geraniums
vinca
lantana (three different colors!)
tomatoes
cherry tomatoes
green bell peppers
red bell peppers
hot peppers
mint
verbena
lavender
zucchini
squash
sunflowers
zinnia
snapdragon
green onions
rosemary
poppies
painted daisies
cilantro
parsley
peas
wildflowers
butterfly flowers

and I'm not sure what else in my yard o' fun. I'm opting out of the pumpkin or watermelon this year. They TOOK OVER last summer. yikes.

mmmmm. I'm not very interesting. I kinda think my body is trying to get sick. I hate it when that happens. I go and I go and I go and eventually I gotta rest. And seeing as how I've been tired ALLLLL weekend (despite sleeping plennnntee) I am a skosh concerned. Eh, I shall take my vitamins, drink lots of fluid and the like.

also, a neat thing for all you healthy, sporty people out there. have you heard of myofascial release? due to my body storing all of my stress in my neck and back (as opposed to letting me have a breakdown) and because of all of the stress caused by dental work, I go to a medical massage therapist every few weeks. And she told me about foam roller exercises. it seems like a completely ridiculous idea, but I'm pretty certain I'm going to be quite thankful that I spent the thirteen whopping dollars. thought I'd share.

oh, and. spiderman three? asi asi. (how do you do those little accent thingies over the i, doesn't it need that?) anyway. it was OKAY. it was not amazing. it does not rock socks. which is okay. I liked it that you saw a side of spidey that was new. :)

night-night dearies.

corners of my home accessories

yeah, it's a day early. or like almost three weeks late. whatev.

so. first off, I was wrong. exactly one picture was taken on tuesday (thanks, kim!) this is when michael and I played rock, paper, scissors for paying his bar tab. I told him I was buying them dinner, but he doth protest too much. I won. We only threw twice since I won both times. :) by the way? read that little article to the end, you won't be sorry.

also, sorry to remind you of the title, but we learned what happened this day. see the label? yeaaaah. guess what brilliant girls added tequila? yikes.

okay, so onto--well, I'm still calling it comh, 'cause otherwise it's coma. and while I might bore you enough to make you feel like you're in one...let's not drop hints, k?

thing one: see this pretty keychain? a girl named megan gave it to me my senior year of college after I tutored her in high school chemistry. she was really cool and quite smart. she actually came to like chemistry a whole whole lot more and her grade improved A LOT. (pats self on back) but there's another reason I like it, too. so, I attribute my love o' science to my third, fourth and fifth grade science teacher, ms. vincent. because of her I got to go to this science camp at TU (which was run by a man who later was my pchem professor) and she basically was AWESOME and instilled a whole lot of confidence in me. and yes, I've thanked her. but the other part is that she is the one who hooked me up with this rocktastic tutoring job. (which paid more per hour than I'm making NOW). We'd kept in touch since Harvo had gone to Eliot too, and basically this little keychain reminds me of all this mushy stuff, and why-i-heart-science stuff, etc.

thing two: this purse. a few weeks ago my choir-friend lucinda (whose family I celebrated easter with) brought this cool purse to choir. it's sorta like this, but very different. she said her friend made it. I went to the Farmer's Market (and the durham art walk) to look at the purses but didn't love any. The lady, Becky, let me pick out my own fabric two weeks ago at Hancock's Fabric in Raleigh. Apparently she was worried the patterns would be too busy, and also that I wouldn't like it. Last night at choir I got the purse. I had to pry it out of Challie's (Lucinda's daughter's) hand. and I LUUURRRRRRVE it. It's even more wonderful than I ever imagined. YAAAAAY! It will be perfect for the summer. Perfect, perfect.

Also, I told Lucinda how someone told me I'd been "Sullivanized" because I knew all about Star, NC. And she said something so nice, about how she and her friend who made the purse said how I was a chemical engineer AND a photographer AND cute AND skinny AND creative AND don't you just hate me? But then they agreed that I was nice too, so they couldn't. Made me laugh. Man, oh man am I soooooo glad I am in the choir. Even when I get in trouble with Joe.

Oh, AND. Choir. Yesterday I discovered I can sing an a-flat. might not be a big deal to you, but I was kinda surprised by it. We're doing this descant to a song, and I was singing the melody, and Joe said, "nope. you're young. you sing the descant." I looked at him dubiously, but come to find out, he was right. I can sing it. And here I thought I had to stop at an f.

alright, time to go.
to do:
finish yogurt
check on tube
work on spreadsheet
go have crown delivered (1 down, 2 to go!)
do more work
go to kaydee stuff
watch LOST from last night.

also, tomorrow? spiderman3!

what's the go with all these new set of rules that you live by? 'fraid you might die? watch 'em go by...

~the grates.

right now I feel like I'm doing some weird stuff. thinking some weird thoughts. and doing some weird things.

oh, none of 'em are that bad, per se. but the combo makes me go "hmmm...?"

like, what, exactly, is going on in carrie's life, eh?

I'm sure at some point you've all seen the illustration of filling a jar with lots of little different sized rocks. and y'know, at first they just pile 'em in there all willy-nilly, and they don't all fit. so then you start over, and you find if you make room for all the big rocks first, then it's a lot easier to find a place for the little rocks, too. and there aren't all these unsightly gaps and holes that you wish were filled but you can't make fit. It's about priorities.

I feel like very recently mine have been shaken up. And somebody erased all of the labels. And now I'm looking all over again at what actually matters to me. This process has brought me to one conclusion though...The Grates are soooooo right. Science Is Golden. Particularly definitions 3, 4, 5 and 6. At least for me. I'm like 80% sure I'm not gonna be a patent lawyer. I know I was all up and at 'em about it, but really? Not so sure it's for me. In addition to being frightened by the hours that I might have to work, I also realized that I keep straying from this central idea I've had the whole time--more engineering, please. pass the equations and calculations.

Yesterday I finally started applying to NC State for the Spring semester. I have a project here at work that will last until some time in October, and my work ethic isn't gonna let me quit before then. Yesterday, too, I admitted to someone that I just didn't know what I wanted to be or do, not for sure. He and I talked about that for a while, and how it's so weird to be in this place in life. I told him how last month someone asked if I had to choose between having a career and having a family, which would I pick? I think I should get to have both, really. But if I had to pick, the choice is more than obvious to me. It's a weird thing to think about, but it's true. Also? Realized again how I'm an engineer and a scientist. Not a lawyer. Not a chemist. Not anything else. I need to stop contemplating a career path that just isn't me.

I've also been thinking about a lot of things. People, for one. People who matter to me. And I've gotta say, I'm a damn lucky gal. I was talking last night about how I feel like I'm parading Matt around to meet people, and I've just now put a dent in the list of people who I want him to meet!

Carrie est laeta, methinks. :)

alright, time for choir for the first time in WEEKS! and then? dinner, wine and cleaning with Mary Alise. it's odd to be excited about cleaning. if you've ever visited my home, you understand just how freaking weird it really is...

'cos science in golden, science is golden, watch your soul 'cos science is golden

there must be something wrong with me.

I hung out with a bunch of people whose company I love tonight, and I didn't take a damn picture. Not a single one. I blame the glass that would reflect the flash--we were seated outside near the window--but still. when does that EVER happen?

I also have to say that I LOVE it that 1) more of my area friends got to meet the guy I'm dating and 2) that he did a lovely job of interacting with them. yes, incase you were wondering, even my nemesis, Michael. my, how I've missed him. yes, you now have that in writing. do enjoy.

we celebrated Mary Alise and Michael's engagement with dinner at the mellow mushroom in durham tonight. hooray for pizza and beer--purple haze for me. :)

today has been tiring, tedious day that ended on a very super fun note. and? I got to wear my cute, new, less-that-twenty-dollar target skirt that kara inspired me to buy. honestly, she was my inspiration for TWO skirts. Michael actually said, "wow, you look like a girl!" I don't think he's ever seen me in a skirt before. I'm not so keen on wearing them most of the time, you know? mean boy though. he made a crack about how now all we need to do it get you a tan! the looking like a girl joke I can handle, but the tan joke? not so much.

also, kinda ironic factoid: almost exactly a month ago I saw Michael in jeans for the first time. he hadn't owned a pair before. and now for the first time he's seen me in a skirt. interesting, no?



oh, and. does anyone else have this happen? I wore a headband to work today because, well, quite frankly I was too lazy to wash my hair twice today, and so I rocked the ponytail and headband combo look. And now I STILL feel like I have on a headband. it's been off for like six hours. you'd think the feeling would have gone away by now. it hasn't.

also, I must say, that look? used to sooooo be dorky. and now it's cool. only I think it's still dorky when I do it. especially since I wear safety glasses most of the day...

alright, I'm tired. and tired of typing. i typed some long long emails today, about, oh three or four of 'em? and did some kd stuff. and gchatted. and now my little fingers hurt. and I mean little as in slightly-short, not as in pinkie. get with the program. or learn about pinkies. (shout out to jackie's old blog. i like your new one better, by the way. more *you*)

ps, someone please come up with a word. please please? you know how you can call your feet your tootsies when you're trying to be all cute? what's cute word for your hands/fingers? that would be really helpful, thanks. brooke? kat? sterling? someone?