6 Jan
This year my camera and I weren’t great friends. It appears I didn’t take any pictures in July, which is fitting because July 2009 was a month from hell. So in this montage, July’s picture was taken in May. Just go with it.
One of my New Year’s resolutions is take more pictures.
1 Dec
Josh and I have recently started watching Curb Your Enthusiasm. We’re currently in season 3, which is all my fault because while I enjoy the show, I can’t bare to watch more than two episodes at a time. They’re far too awkward for me. Hilarious awkward, but awkward nonetheless.
Today I realized what an impact this show is having on my life. While running an errand today at work, I opened a door to a building and noticed a woman about 6 steps behind me. Because it’s the holiday season I decided to hold the door open for her as well. You know, ’tis the season. My door hold was not the hold it completely open for you until you walk through kind of deal where you’re standing on the outside and allow the other person to go in first. No, my hold was the I‘m halfway through the door about to continue walking, but I’ll hold the door open for you to grab it yourself type of hold. A kind of passing of the baton. And since I’m taking up half the door frame there is really no way to misread the hold.
So I’m holding the door open expecting this woman to grab it to keep it open and then I’ll be on my merry way, but her hand never reaches out. The door is never passed off. Instead she squeezes her way through me and the other half of the door and continues on without comment.
I mean, what is that? Isn’t there some sort of code or rule or something that frowns upon this? I just kept thinking WWLDD? He would have done something equally as awkward as the initial offense and it would have come back to haunt him because the woman would end up being the wife of a TV executive or his dentist. Pre-show I probably would have been a little annoyed by this, but would have forgotten about it by now because it’s just silly and non-important. Post-show I am still thinking about this woman and am still flabbergasted that someone would do such an appalling thing.
6 Oct
Our teacher played this for us last night in class and I seriously had will myself not to cry. I’m pretty sure I’ve heard it before from my friend Matt, but it never gets old.
11 May
Texting is a phenomenon that I used to be adamantly opposed to. My old phone didn’t have T9 or whatever it is that makes texting so fast, so a message as simple as “My house at 10″ would take 5 minutes to send. In that 5 minutes I could have called the person made the plan and talked about something trivial like what happened last night on Gossip Girl. Details get lost in texting. For me, it’s easier to pick up the phone and get all the details and clarification I need, rather than sending ten text messages back and forth. For example, “We’re making BBQ pizzas. Bring toppings” sent via text sounds like we’re making pizzas with BBQ toppings. Surpise to the Blanco’s when we show up with corn, BBQ sauce, and black beans and find out that BBQ pizza means regular toppings just cooked on the grill. This would have been an non-issue if the converstation would have happened via the phone.
But then I got my iPhone. And while I still think texting is sort of silly and still prefer the phone for some things, I am not opposed to it anymore. My iPhone has made it so easy to send a text now that I can’t help but use it. So for the past 7 months I’ve been a semi-regular texter. However, I refuse text incorrect English (which could explain the five minute texts). I type out the whole word and use commas, apostrophes and periods.
Most of my friends don’t follow my same texting rules, which is fine… my friends shouldn’t have the same OCD tendencies as I do. My friend Welles is my texting opposite. If there is something that she can abbreviate, she’ll do it. You’d think that I’d hate it. That I would want to throw my phone at her the next time I saw her, but I don’t. I actually enjoy her texts very much. They make me laugh and, because I have to decode each one, will keep me from getting Alzheimers when I’m 70. I’ve posted a few of her texts below, but unfortunately her most brilliant text was on my old phone and I don’t have it. I do know that it was pretty long and contained no vowels or punctuation at all. I didn’t understand it the first six times I read it and had to piece together the meaning over a day.
January 23rd at 5:39pm
Still dnt know what im brngn tomm but somethn.
March 26th at 12:50pm
U do n gnite 2nite?
April 18th at 11:15am
Tatoo at 2 n capital hill meet up? Lunch?
May 10th at 11:09am
I just gnt this but i got it ne way! Das right im awesome!
3 Mar
It’s only 9:39am and two things have happened that have made my day.
1. A call this morning at 8:27am from Welles to tell me that she saw a woman full out stretching while reading on the sidewalk. She was dressed in full work attire but had her leg up stretching away.
and
2. This g-chat conversation with Brooke:
Brooke: last night, during a rerun of gossip girl, danielle said she could see you narrating the show.
me: omg, that’s the best compliment I’ve ever received
12 Nov
Two years ago Josue and I went to our first Ray LaMontagne concert. It was the best concert I’ve ever been to with?the?exception?of the five minutes during a Ben Harper concert where Ben sang a cappella then proceeded to do?this matrix style back bend thing. No seriously, his body was bent in half backwards.
Sunday night we went to see Ray again and it was, of course, amazing. He talked more this time, which I didn’t like, except for when he said he likes Seattle because “Beards don’t scare people from Seattle.” And when he told himself to shut up.
