black bag stress

so i’ve been trying to find a new purse for about….i guess since January-Februaryish…lets go w/ Feb and put it to rest. So yes. Here’s my dilemma: i need a new everyday and everything bag. HARDEST THING EVER!!!

Having to subject myself to a ‘practical’ item is a pretty traumatizing experience. There are too many feelings of commitment involved. I miss shopping w/ mom because she’d always help me decide. Sometimes I’d decide contrary to her suggestions BUT the point being: i would DECIDE. So far, i haven’t been able to make myself pick anything yet.

Today I was standing at TJMaxx and I thought…I miss school. You took one look around and bam! in school you know exactly what leather piece you should be whining to your parents about. this growing up/transitional stage i’m in sucks. i can’t make decisions. i have NO clue whatsoever what style items are socially acceptable for me. UGH!!! this is drastically annoying!

ok here is my solution:

Dear Superman,

Please run backwards really fast so that I might be back up in Ithaca with all the Gossip Girl wannabees if only so I might gain some insight into what sort of bag I should buy. 

Many thanks,

Lo

AS IF!!!  ok i need to get going.  If i try REALLY hard i might get my sister to go back with me to the store so that she could help me pick out my to be bag.

peace out my homebodies!!!!

puerto rican food

my brother in law is puerto rican. and right now he’s in qatar. i’m not entirely sure as to what he’s doing, i just know that he’s with the air force and will be returning in about 2 wks or so. Now that I’m living w/ my sister and him and my awesome niece i thought…i should do something nice for him. My sister told me that he likes pasteles which are basically a puerto rican tamales.
I’ve witnessed the making of mexican tamales and they’re labor intensive and intimidating…i’ve haven’t even tasted a pastel. i have the feeling that I’m going to chicken out. I’ve been doing some research but it’s just daunting from where i’m standing. ayyyy!!!!! someone help.

AND

WHY must I voluteer to do the impossible. oh whatev, this is america, everything is possible in america! right?! i repeat: AYYYY!!!!
i need a food network chef to come rescue me. well in 2 wks.

in other news, i want to teach. little kids. and i want to be a cool teacher- a ROCKSTAR at that. i’m talking, jack black in school of rock. yeah, if i have a classroom, i’m totally gonna get in trouble by making my class enter a battle of the bands deal-io like in the movie. yeah, just like in the movie. and then we’ll end the day by rescueing 101 dalmation pups from an evil and coniving woman named Cruella DeVille. muahahaha. right.

there go $4.50 I’ll not see again

ugh…forever ago I went on an interview for a very bare bones type of position for an Architecture firm.  I have a love affair w/ too many things architecture btw, so of course no matter how remedial the job was, i wanted it.  I NEEDED IT.  and i obviously didn’t get it.  From what my recruiter told me: 

“Unfortunately, PBK ended up going with another candidate who has less experience.  He was extremely impressed with you and honestly thought you would be bored after a few weeks.  I am waiting to get the scoop on the other firm and will keep you posted.”

awesome.  I didn’t get it.  because i’d be too good at it?! what a negative quality to have in an employee, like duh!  fine.  i’m flattered, but only to cover up the non-salary i’m getting, and still managed to lose 2 days of my job so that i could make the interview.  which, btw, the guy really did like me.  I left there feeling great! I was crushed when I didn’t get the job.  Now, they have a Marketing position open.  I don’t think I’m gonna get it.  I’m saying that now.  

Last night close to midnight I found out that the same firm, PBK Architects is hiring a Marketing Coordinator.  When I saw that posting on careerbuilder i felt like the clouds opened up so that sunlight could beam down on me.  YES! the firm i wanted, the job i wanted!!!!  omg… so i emailed the guy that I had interviewed with, real nice guy too, Darrell Pearson, a Director too.  I secretly thanked all my college roommates that many a times preached the power of networking and I emailed him.  

Then this morning I sent printed out a ream of resumes and headed to the Austin office with a few resumes and a box of donuts to be shared.  he took the donuts and wrote an email address on a resume, then said good-bye.

encouraging?  very.

bye donuts.  I barely knew you.

bye-bye my sweets

san antonio

so i’ve been in san antonio for what seems like an eternity now. at least that’s how i feel when i’m in traffic completely heated by 1. the actual temperature and 2. the traffic attitude that dominates drivers and passengers alike. aside from that all the news i have to report…actually, all i have time to report at the moment is just that i found a roommate!!!! also i just got back from my Special Assembly Day. great program. I wish i’d caught it sooner or at least that someone recorded. that last talk was much needed.

it’s crazy but i’ll just have to explain later. ok i better go, my niece is on myspace and there is NOTHING that lulls me to sleep better than midnight giggles and the sound of a well utilized keyboard.

kisses

so today i registered for 4 more miserable hours of class EVER. yes it’s a little sad…but it’s ok, but still sad.
¡viva distance learning! i did distance learning last summer and it was pretty sweet. i wish i had done ALL of my schooling with certain liberties. like getting to eat during exams. this time i get to bring my pet w/ me to class…

and as for the cats: i named them today!

yes, that means, i acknowledge their existence now. so the gray one is ‘blue’ the white one is ’shady’ and the orange one is ‘leia’ as in…the princess because she is…in an annoying way. ok well peace out!

looking into those eyes reminds me why she gets to live rent free…

to the creepy guy downstairs

please don’t stare anymore.

ok so i’m oblivious to who my neighbors are.  with the exception of the formally dubbed ‘weird guy’ now he’s creepy guy.  but yeah i see him every so often outside in his little porch.  usually he’s just looking at the sky it seems like to me.  but tonight when i came home he was having a smoke…this was news to me.  i didn’t know weird guy smoked.  ok so weird man was totally staring at me today and i dunno if he was just bored but it creeped/crept? me out. ESPECIALLY since he knows exactly where i live and what i drive.  

in other news: i got a suit and monday i’ll stop by joseph’s shop so he can alter my coat.  i’m excited.  Also, I got an AWESOME gray pencil skirt. 

week no. 17

i am kinda in denial cos of my whole getting laid off thing.  so what do i do this wkend.  i spend money…i try to help the economy that has me down right now. 

I went to ikea and got a shelf.  i imagine i will be posting on craigslist soon being that I have ruined it.  i spraypainted it when i got home cos i just didn’t want it to get washed out, it being a creamy white and my walls being an ugly imitation of white too, not the same but not drastically similar.  anyways, so i spraypainted the side rails and got spray paint on other parts of my apartment but i’m just gonna say “i’m too generous…i like to give of my excess and i wasn’t gonna use that whole bottle of spray paint on just the rails.”  no one will buy that lame excuse but OH I WILL TRY!!!!

I also got some more glass things: 

apparently i want to start selling them myself or i will be planning to return them also? dunno yet…

 

i got a matching set salt and pepper shaker set!!! FINALLY–you have no idea how it weighed on me not to have them.

i got some stickers: and this is where i camoflauge-stuck them.  am i an artistic genius or a sucker of a consumer? you decide…

peace out my homebodies!!!

FRIDAY

let the weekend reign!  gosh i usually get excited on thursdays for the wkend but today is special.  today i get to wash my car.  although to be honest i have no yearning.  i wish i could ride my bike to work…and then when that’s realized…i wish i do ride my bike to work.  whatev i’m just way to anxy for mi fin de semena-que se hechen un grito y saquen al Patron!!!!!!

 

Ok so my wkend plans:

1. Wash my car.  His name is Silver, we met at a bar…lets not go into details.
2. ROCKBAND…why? why? Why? la pregunta es necia. my chick is so getting pierced.
3. shave my cat’s belly so i can give her a sonogram and find out once and for all if that street walking, corner cashing, loud mouthed of a wocat is bringing shame to the 202
4. go with heather to a morning meeting so she can figure out where she’s gonna be attending on sundays

somewhere there i’ll fit in service and study the watchtower and stuff like