As I did not make good on my New Years resolution to donate time and/or money to a charity/non-profit each month, I've decided that all purchases made at my Etsy shop during the month of December will be donated to a charity of your choice (minus shipping costs). If anyone does purchase something, please be sure to send me a message with your full name, e-mail address, and a link to the charity you would like your purchase to be donated to. If you do not have a charity in mind, I will be donating to United Way. Thanks, and happy shopping!
Not much happening here lately. Today is the last day of a short 3-day workweek, which I'm grateful for. Work has started to finally pick up again, so I was uber busy yesterday. I even worked through lunch in hopes that I could leave early today. Unfortunately, my boss left for lunch right as I was finishing everything up, so now I need to wait until he gets back to see if there is anything else that needs to be done. So... blog time!
Tomorrow is Turkey Day which is going to be a sad day this year, as it will be the first Thanksgiving without my sister (Vegas) and my grandma (Hawaii). I'll have to keep my mom preoccupied so she doesn't tear up. Due to my already unusually small family, it will only be my parents, my brother, and myself. But I sure am looking forward to the food. I will probably be in a turkey coma all day long.
Friday I have plans to clean out the old condo and finish moving the last few things that are still there. Then I'm going out for margaritas with Kristy since her pseudo-boyfriend is DJing. Saturday is going to be a fun-filled day of being a girl... I'm going up to Fort Collins to hang with Karina, and we're going to go get pedicures, and then I made a hair appointment as well. It's been well over a year since I've had my hair cut, and it's definitely time for a trim. I always have grand plans to go in and ask for a cute new cut that involves cutting tons of hair off, but I always chicken out at the last moment. So yeah, I should be safe with saying I'm only getting a trim.
In other news, I've been trying to put the new Killers album on my iPod, but iTunes doesn't want to import it. I've tried adding the album as a folder, and I've tried adding the songs individually. I've tried clicking and dragging them into the library, and I've tried updating the ID3 tags. No luck. Has anyone else had this problem before? And I wanted to listen to it on the way to work this morning... :(
Yesterday I was having a conversation with my dad regarding his genetic gift to me.
Me: I need to dye my hair tonight, I'm getting too many gray hairs. Why oh why did you have to go full gray in your 20's?
Dad: And just think, with all the medical advances, you may live to be 120. That's another 100 years of dying your hair!
Thanks, dad.
This is the ad I posted on Craigslist yesterday:
I am selling a 1999 Honda Civic in silver. It has 77,800 miles on it. The car still runs but I was told it was NOT SAFE to drive due to a 48 inch crack in the frame (front passenger side). I do not know how much this would cost to repair, but this car would be great for parts. Has 4 new tires, a new battery, new front windshield, and a new timing belt. The title is salvaged, and I have it in hand. It was in an accident by it's previous owner. The AC does not work, nor does the cruise control. Everything else runs great. I am asking $1500.
Since posting it yesterday at 3:30pm, I've received nearly 20 calls on it. The first guy who came to see it last night asked if I'd take $1000 for it. I told him no. Did he not read the damn ad? He therefore wasted my time and his. I called the next guy, who said he would buy it with certainty and to hold it for him, but couldn't come to see it until today. He even asked me to take the ad down off Craigslist. I met him at the Borders bookstore near my house this morning, and after taking a look at it, he said he was sorry and that he knew he told me he would buy it, but he would only offer $1200 due to the damage of the car. Again, did he not read the fucking ad? I'm not selling it as a drivable car, just for PARTS.
So this afternoon I arranged to meet a third guy at 2pm. I waited and waited, and he never came, so I called him and he said he was still waiting for his friend to get home to drive him up. He finally arrived here at 4pm, and after taking it for a test drive, asked if I would take $1300 because that was all he had on him and he thought that I would take his best offer. ARE YOU KIDDING ME? He said his mom only gave him $2000 to buy a new car and that since it would have to have work done on it, he wanted to pay less than what I was asking. I told him no, and he began whining, saying he needed a car for school and that he couldn't drive up again because his friend couldn't drive him, like it was my problem. DO PEOPLE NOT KNOW HOW TO READ? What part of "NOT SAFE" do they not understand? What part of "PARTS ONLY" do they not understand? I just called the fourth guy and he is on his way down now.
God help me...
[EDIT: The last guy bought it. FINALLY!]
The last week or so has been really strange. Those who know me in real life know that I'm a girl who loves to sleep and eat, but I haven't been doing much of either as of late. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's the shock of living with my parents again, but I'm guessing it has more to do with saying goodbye to what has been a part of my life for the last 4 years: Matt. I haven't been consciously thinking about him, the breakup, or the past. Mostly I've been thinking about the future and how excited I am about things to come. Maybe my sub conscience is trying to tell me something? Either way, I've been sleeping very little and eating even less.
I keep waiting to feel something about this breakup. Right now I'm feeling numb, or maybe I won't feel anything at all. You would think that spending 3 years with someone would induce a small twinge of sadness, but it hasn't hit me yet. If anything, right now I'm just feeling bitter. Maybe sadness comes after bitterness?
And of course, since my TV is not yet hooked up at my parents', I've had plenty of time to myself to think, as well as jump back into my internet life that I have neglected over the last year. Hello Twitter, hello Facebook! Hello Vox, hello Photoshop! How I've missed you all.
Anyways, the point of this is to tell everyone I am still alive, and will hopefully be posting more frequently. Hope everyone has a great weekend!
