God Bless iPods!

Well, really, God bless those little white ear buds. Wearing them at work (not even listening to my music!) has made my boss completely ignore me. It’s AWESOME. Now when he wants anything, he just emails me (mind you, he sits 5 feet away from me). It’s amazing. I don’t even have to look at him.

Aaahhhhh.   :)

And I get to listen to non-NPR! (we listen to NPR on the radio all day). Trust me, I appreciate NPR but you know how it’s annoying when you listen to a radio station all day and they replay songs? Try having to listen to the same depressing news stories all day.

On the Subject of Jobs..

There are few things that stress people out more than looking for and finding a job.  I know that job hunting is right up there on my "Things I Love to Do List" right next to getting surgery and  watching High School Musical.   Anyway, it's painful and we all know it.  In "this economy" (the most loathsome phrase of 2009) it's not only painful, but damn near impossible.  Companies just aren't hiring.  Many people close to me have been laid off in the last few weeks (my brother, and my good friend Nicole both are mechanical engineers and both of their projects got cancelled due to lack of funding, thus they are out of jobs).  To think someone with a Master's Degree in Mechanical Engineering can get laid off... well shit.  I have just a run-of-the-mill business degree, and though I am pretty safe in my current job, I don't want to stay there.  You all know how much I "dislike" my job (to use a nice word) and I have been looking for a new one for weeks.  Now how the hell am I supposed to get hired by companies that keep announcing that they are laying off 1000, 2000, 5000 workers???  I guess I can't.

I have applied for a job at Anthropologie, but I don't want to say anything more about it until I at least have an interview.  Let's just say my desire for this job burns like the passion of a thousand suns.

 

How did they know I wanted to watch Chick Flicks???

So in the last seven months, I have barely watched TV at all.  All I every get around to watching is usually Tivo-ed political commentary at Bret’s house.  Well, my boyfriend and all his friends went to Vegas this last weekend (I wasn’t invited, then at the last minute I was invited, but then said no out of principle because the only reason they invited me was because someone dropped out and they wanted to keep their costs down… long story) anyway where was I... oh yeah, Bret was in Las Vegas.  So, in my current friend-deprived state, I stayed home Saturday night.  This is, of course, after a trip to Pinkberry, where I got a medium instead of a small because I was treating myself.  Anyway so I went home and plunked down in front of my roommate’s giant flatscreen.  I was expecting to have to watch the Real Housewives of Orange County marathon on Bravo, but lo and behold!  Cable TV panders to single women on Saturday nights!!!!  I was fully occupied from 6pm to 1am with an appetizer of  A Cinderella Story, the main course being The Devil Wears Prada and the sweetest most delicious dessert of The Notebook.  Mmmm so filling and satisfying.

 

But then I realized, oh my gosh, if I were single this would be my Saturday night every week!! In my current situation, if I didn’t have Bret I would have seen the Notebook at least 50 times by now!!  So long story short, thank God for boyfriends that always spend time with you so you don’t end up eating ice cream every weekend watching sappy chickflicks for 7 hours straight!!

 

Lesson #2:  Make more friends that don’t bartend.

Yay I love these things!!!

5 things I was doing 10 years ago...

1. Meeting my best friend Hillary in 7^th grade

2. Going through my “rebellious” phase by not doing my homework and getting Bs instead of As

3. Struggling with math for the first time in pre-algebra

4. Straightening my hair a LOT

5.  Thanking God that middle school wouldn’t last forever

 

5 things on today's "to do" list...

1. Buy a small cute chandelier for my room

2. Paint an accent wall in my living room purple (because I can!)

3. Set up a time to see Hillary

4. Put together Bret’s birthday present

5. Finish my parent’s ski scrapbook

 

5 Snacks I enjoy...

1.  Kettle Corn

2.  Fresh fruit (watermelon, pineapple, green apples, etc)

3.  Ritz Bitz with peanut butter

4.  most candies (I have a terrible sweet tooth!)

5.  cheddar cheese and wheat thins

 

5 things I would do if I were a millionaire...

1. Buy a house and vacation homes and fill them with amazing things

2. Travel the world

3.  Buy a vintage porche like the ones Steve McQueen’s girlfriends always drove

4.  Completely materialistic shopping spree! All the most amazing clothes

5.  Never work a day in my life again (unless it was something fun that I wanted to do)

 

5 places I have lived...

1. Ridgecrest, CA

2. Virginia Beach, VA

3. Camarillo, CA

4.  San Luis Obispo, CA

5.  Los Angeles, CA

 

5 jobs I've had...

1. Sales girl at Express

2. Blender’s smoothie extraordinaire

3. Cal Poly Admissions student assistant

4. ADP sales intern

5. MashStudios Marketing Manager

A Week in Review

 Survived another week of commuting.

Won Balderdash with Bret’s family

Job hunting.

Got a new roommate (Becky. Awesome.)

Bought curtains (white) and new kitchen towels (jewel tones)

Finished 2008 scrapbook

Another car accident outside my office

Finished Fall on Your Knees (sad, but excellent)

Got a new water heater (helloooo scalding hot showers!)

Indulged in protein-style In n Out

Raided Target’s clearance scrapbook stash!

Made Belgian waffles from scratch

Oops!

So yesterday I read an AWESOME article and then I posted it here... actually I ended up positing a link to the web stats for my work website- oops!  Here is the article:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,477434,00.html

Enjoy!

Happy 2009!!

Check out my sweet hat!!

New Year's kiss!!

Shots with Jennifer

The Christmas Tree at LA Live

At the Eastern

First I want to wish everyone a WONDERFUL New Year!   2008 was pretty great and I can only hope that 2009 will be even better :)

I had a really awesome New Year's Eve.  Bret and his friends and I went to Downtown LA.  We hung out for a few hours at Bret's dad's loft (which is in an amazing Art-Deco building called The Eastern downtown... soooo awesome).  Then around 10:00 we walked to LA Live, which is this area of downtown with the Staples Center, Nokia Theater, Lucky Strike and some other cool stuff, that is kind of like a smaller, west-coast version of Times Square.  So we went to a few bars there, had some drinks and hung out, and then at midnight they had a countdown. Afterwards we went back to The Eastern and hung out at the roof-top pool.  That's where the details get a little fuzzy because all the champagne & shots caught up with me.  All in all, a great night.

Now I just need to figure out how to put the pictures AFTER my post, not before.  Ugh.

My Resolutions

1.  Move into a 1-bedroom apartment and live ALONE

2.  Eat healthier/ more often (haha)

3.  Explore Los Angeles more

4.  Go on a trip

Did I miss any?  I can't remember.