Secretarying isn't for Everyone: Wherein I Test the Definition of a "Blog Entry"

Highlights of Life, Lately (And Lowlights for Balance, Body, and Dimension)

This is the most blog-y thing I've posted so far but whatever.

1. Alaska Trip
Highlights: Saw Fairbanks, Denali (SO COOL) and Kenai/Homer/Kasilof. Saw moose, caribou, pika, sheep, huge mountains, ocean. Went river fishing. Got drunk in the airport.
Lowlight: I want to go back. There's nothing beautiful here.

2. It's definitely summer
Highlights: The weather is aaaawwwesome. I'm never cold. I want to go swimming. I want to be outside all the time. The sun makes me feel like my life is golden.
Lowlight: I live with someone who cannot handle the heat. Who cannot, in 75+ temperatures, do much but sit directly underneath the ceiling fan and drink iced water. So I lay outside in the grass by myself a lot.

3. My mom is in town
Highlights: This must be sort of what it feels like to have a friend.
Lowlight: She left yesterday.

4. Legal weed stores
Highlights: This is totally historic stuff. The shop that's closer to my house, New Vansterdam, is really really cool. The people who work there are so kind and hip. The tables and display cases are very classy.
Lowlight(s): The product is expensive and stoner-y activities lately have been leaving me anxious, paranoid, and adrift in a confusing haze of intense self-loathing. Plus the whole federal/state disharmony is a little troublesome.

5. I'm back on Twitter
Highlights: Majorly improved quality of life.
Lowlight: My productivity at work is at an all-time low.

6. I've been at my current place of work for one year
Highlights: It went fast. I wouldn't feel bad quitting now.
Lowlights: I still don't know how to do anything and I probably won't find work anywhere else

7. 1.5 months until Labor Day
Highlights: I'M GOING TO VISIT JUNEAU I CAN'T WAIT I CAN'T WAIT.
Lowlight: The time between now and then is going to drag.

8. Mildly improved budgeting skills
Highlights: Slightly more money.
Lowlight: It's really really un-fun. I want like, five new bathing suits just because I told myself I can't buy them. I also want more ice cream.  

My life in a blog post: plans & changes

Wow. Wow. Wow. Where do I begin? I’ve moved to another city. So much has changed. Sometimes I don’t recognize that girl in the mirror anymore. I bought Folgers to economize?????? Sometimes I drink beer instead of a fruity cocktail, and furthermore, I've gained more than a few (still look mostly the same, but that could be a bit of the recognition/mirror issue?) (Is that because of the beer?). I’ve met some amazing people who have changed my life, one of which was featured in its own post “They met online.” If you haven’t read it yet, you should really consider checking that out. It’s a whirlwind of emotions, so don’t forget that Kleenex. 

Not everything has panned out the way I planned. I originally planned on shouting, "Take me to the jazz!!!”  to a driver upon my airport arrival; but, things didn’t really work out the way I’d planned. Instead, the shouting was directed towards an older couple as I argued about the amount of luggage I’d packed. Didn’t they know I was moving??????!!!

They did not offer me a ride. 

I didn’t give up on the jazz though and have been to a few concert so far, one of which I haggled an 80 year old board member of a jazz club for his business card in order to email him my qualifications to be the club secretary. Simultaneously, I was also staring uncomfortably intently at one of the band members. The stare was made worse as I was also sitting uncomfortably close to him. 

I have not heard back about this position.

In other news: I just unzipped my high-waisted pants because I consumed too much butter.

Well guys, the rest of your life starts NOW, so go start livin it!!!!!

La vida loca.

I’m outy.

They met online

She’s married to an executive chef at an athletic club. They met online. 

She doesn’t understand what all the fuss is over the Kardashians. They’re only famous because of a sex tape…. and you know what?? She’s decided that O.J. Simpson was definitely guilty. Robin Thicke is so cute but it’s a shame he cheated on his wife because she's so beautiful. She’s half black, which is maybe why it seems like he’s always trying to be black? She’s not sure what she meant by that.

She’s married to a chef. They’re vacationing soon to make up for lost time. They’ve only been married 11 years. They met online.

We click through the images of Bette Midler’s billion dollar apartment in Manhattan and ooh and aah at each sofa and light fixture. 

I ask her if she’s here all day. "Are you kidding?!” She’s got a mani and pedi scheduled at two. She’s out of here at one. She’ll be cabbing back home just as she arrived. When she gets home she’ll be making a tortilla with mozzarella and tomatoes. Another woman and I express jealousy. "Well ladies, it’s not hard!!!!” she reassures us. 

Her husband is a chef and he spoils her with his cooking. They met online. 

Everyone that passes by is a sweetheart and a doll, however, the man in the IT department is none other than a real dick. 

Pardon her language. 

We won't be working together again so as one o’clock hits she says “WELL THIS IS DEPRESSING!!!” We leave and she pulls a yellow post it out of pocket that reads “COFFEE” in large print. 

She’s off to Starbucks.