melissa

 i started a song-a-day blog, for those of you who love music, like i love music, and may want to read it and/or follow it. 

www.culturallyspecific.blogspot.com

i am really excited about this! i have had this blog for a couple of years, but hadn't come up with a good idea on what to do with it until now. the address for the blog was created when i thought i would use it for an anthropological purpose, but that died very quickly once i graduated from college. 

 what do you think it means when someone says "i love you, but i'm not in love with you?" do you think it's legitimate or a cop-out break up excuse?

 as an addendum to my previous post, i would just like to say that people should do and can do whatever they want as far as it comes to marriage and the planning of such events, including gift registries. who am i to judge, really? the fact that the actions of people should frustrate me so much shows how emotionally involved i have become to traditional societal events, when really, i don't even care what other people want to do. do what makes you happy. i gotta keep remembering that. 

in other news, my dad gave me his lg vu, because he went back to using his blackberry (he lost it but apparently he found it again?) anyway, the lg vu is the touch screen phone, and it's pretty damn cool, if i do say so myself. for those of us who cannot afford an iphone, including the monthly bill an lg vu is a nice alternative. one thing bad that i inherited from my dad: the need for cool gadgets. don't know what i would do if my mac every got stolen or died, cause lord knows i can't afford a new one.

one of my really good friends is moving to cairo, egypt next wednesday for a job she took there with a newspaper (business today egypt... or is it business week egypt.... can't remember). anyway a bunch of us got together last night for sushi as a farewell and it was so much fun. i forget how fun it is sometimes just getting together with a bunch of people and laughing and hanging out. plus, i made her a kick ass farewell mix cd, which i think she will enjoy very much. i guess this give me an excuse to travel somewhere really exotic considering i will have a place to stay. 

 currently on day four of working 8, 8-hour days in a row. it would be really great if i could suddenly get some friggen inspiration on something worthwhile to do right now rather than work at starbucks. yes, i am thankful i have a job right now, but i would really love to do something not boring. it's fine, and yes, it can be fun and who doesn't love free coffee and all the pitfalls it brings, but man... i wish i could figure out what i was meant to do. i'm not really worried about finding that one thing i am good at, because i know what i'm good at. i'd just like to have a greater sense of purpose, i suppose. i think this is why people turn to religion. for purpose. or whatever. i'd also like to stop loathing 90% of the people i come into contact with on a daily basis and starbucks customers in issaquah are all crochety bitchy older women. 

in other news, taking up guitar again. i realized i've quit too many things in my life (viola, being one of them) and since i still have a guitar and i can play relatively simple things, i need to turn up the heat and start chipping away again. 

nothing else too exciting happening in my life. i am happy to say that i have made a significant dent in my credit card bill and my monstrous car repair from last august is almost completely paid off. this is exciting because it makes a trip to los angeles to visit carlie in may much more possible. also, considering a move to somewhere warmer... cannot handle anymore rain or snow. yesterday it just slipped my mind to bring a jacket with me and i was walking around in the pouring rain, rooting through my car with all the doors open trying to find my cell phone that had fallen in between the seats. plus, the box that i was carrying my free pizza in (courtesy of pete. it pays to have friends that work in different retail food and beverage establishments) got wet from the car to the front door of my house. 

you all remember bryan adams, right? "everything i do, i do it for you" and other amazing classics such as "cuts like a knife" and "can't stop this thing we started".... right? well, i downloaded the greatest hits the other day and i can't stop listening to it. 80s power ballads and hits really speak to me. 

someone also asked me if i was a member of the nra because of my gun necklace i was wearing at work yesterday. i explain to people that it was made by an artist and they don't get it. people are really stupid.

if you are ever depressed or feel worried or anxious or bad about your life, just watch an episode of intervention, and your mood will just shoot through the friggen roof! no joke.

 i know i kind of have a "grass in greener" kind of attitude, i have always known that about myself. i've grown to just kind of accept it because most of the time i can keep it at bay, but right now i just cannot control it. i am so envious of a lot of different people/things right now, and i want and need a change so bad. i know it has a lot to do with my job and little else... but man oh man, i'm feeling the burn out and the need to run far, far away with the one i love right now. 

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watched nick and norah's infinite playlist last night and it was oh.so.cute. go michael cera.

firefly a new obsession???? i would have never guessed it!!! for those not in the know, firefly was a sci-fi western that was on fox many years ago but was cancelled after one season. it's amazing though. really, really good.

enjoying two days in a row off and cooking fish. or watching it be cooked by andy. yum.

 mind numbing cramps caused me to take 7 aleve within a 10 hour period. oi! i hope i don't go into kidney failure tonight while i'm sleeping. 

speaking of periods, my periods have been really bad in the last few months. not the actual period part, but the pms and the cramps, basically the weak and a half leading up to my period, i am weird. my mood swings are such that i don't even recognize some of the feelings i have and i become insanely irrational, like even more  than i usually am. i'll be all about the sex one minute and then the next i don't want andy to even touch me or i freak out and kick him in the knee or knock my head into a wall (this actually happened recently). it's kind of freaking me out. today at work i burned myself with some coffee and normally this would just be kind of annoying because it happens almost every day but today i wanted to throw the cup i was pouring the coffee into against the wall, i was so irate. one of my co-workers is bringing me a book tomorrow about how the food you eat can affect your menstrual cycle. she's a vegan, so naturally this is her attempt at showing me how my meat and dairy based diet is making me miserable. i mean, my hormones have always been off the wall, but i really can't give up cheese and steak. not that i eat it every day, but come on man, steak can't go. it just can't.

last night andy and i went to an open mic at a bar in ballard to see my friend sean play. and now sean wants me to do some songs with him and sing at the next open mic he does. it sounds fun, but people in bars listening to free music can be really obnoxious. not sure i'm willing to offer myself up to the slaughter yet. 

andy got a new job. thank god! after he was laid off from his last job,  i was getting worried, but he's a resourceful feller. 

okay time to watch gilmore girls and go to bed. this is my routine and man, i fucking love it.

 

first the snowpocalypse and now the flooding. wtf man. normal weather, please. it's almost giving me some encouragement to think about moving to a more even tempered climate, as i am really not liking unpredictable weather. but i suppose every area of the earth has some type of unpredictable weather.

the flood waters have receded now (thank god) at my home and we were able to get back in today, but southern counties in washington are just straight up effed... feet and feet of water... water covering freeway overpasses. and the cascades had major, major landslides.

here is a photo essay if you're interested in checking out what's going on. the guy in the kayak is the city i live in, so this is what it was looking like last night and earlier today. www.foxnews.com/photoessay/0,4644,6215,00.html