to do today:
-sleep through first (and probably last) earthquake
-miraculously repair a 15-year-old's mountain bike
-hold three-day-old human being
done, done, and done.
30 January 2009
28 January 2009
shoulder morals
last week i was biking to work. i saw one of those six-pack plastic ring thingys on the sidewalk, just waiting to choke a bird. my shoulder angel and demon popped up on their respective shoulders.
shoulder angel: becca, stop. pick that up and rip it apart.
should demon: you're already late for work.
s.a.: choking birds.
s.d.: you'd have to get off your bike, then get back on your bike...
s.a.: choking birds! don't be a lazyass!
me: gahhh! i'm late for work, i'll pick it up on my way home...if it's still there...if i remember...blast, i wish i had never seen that plastic ring thingy.
and i secretly knew i was going to forget on the way home. and i did.
and then i had a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week that included: work drama, missing deadlines, losing keys, people drama, collections, and a terrible sickness. and probably a dead bird somewhere.
and then the other day i was walking down the sidewalk and, lo and behold! the same plastic ring thingy! in the same spot, right where i left it. i picked that shit up and ripped every ring before throwing it away.
when i go home, my boss emailed me that she had found my keys.
just waiting for the rest of the goodies to roll in...
*sigh*
oh life, sometimes i wish you worked like this for real. usually i'm glad you don't. sometimes i'm really mad when you don't. or when you do. i'm always sad when birds get strangled.
shoulder angel: becca, stop. pick that up and rip it apart.
should demon: you're already late for work.
s.a.: choking birds.
s.d.: you'd have to get off your bike, then get back on your bike...
s.a.: choking birds! don't be a lazyass!
me: gahhh! i'm late for work, i'll pick it up on my way home...if it's still there...if i remember...blast, i wish i had never seen that plastic ring thingy.
and i secretly knew i was going to forget on the way home. and i did.
and then i had a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week that included: work drama, missing deadlines, losing keys, people drama, collections, and a terrible sickness. and probably a dead bird somewhere.
and then the other day i was walking down the sidewalk and, lo and behold! the same plastic ring thingy! in the same spot, right where i left it. i picked that shit up and ripped every ring before throwing it away.
when i go home, my boss emailed me that she had found my keys.
just waiting for the rest of the goodies to roll in...
*sigh*
oh life, sometimes i wish you worked like this for real. usually i'm glad you don't. sometimes i'm really mad when you don't. or when you do. i'm always sad when birds get strangled.
26 January 2009
haunting
oh. my. lord. hello, resolution #2: investigate paranormal activity in seattle. who knew? check out the part about the lock-in. yes, a ghost lock-in with alexander, the poker ghost. also, please note that the seattle museum of the mysteries is home to seattle's only oxygen bar. this just seems too good to be true.
my own ghost story: i had heard that theo chocolate had a ghost. a lot of weird shit happened in that building before theo inherited it. it was built in 1905 as a trolley barn...and there is an underground tunnel connecting theo to a nearby business (which i have yet to explore...).
that said: in the tour room, there are two rows of folding chairs, which often get pushed around throughout the day, as the room is sort of a central hub for staff traffic. about two weeks ago i was setting up my tour and i noticed that one chair in the middle of the back row was turned backwards, facing the south wall. it seemed random, but i figured someone was just too lazy to push it back where it belonged. so i turned it around and continued to prepare my tour. ten minutes later i walked back through the room and the same chair was turned around. the rest were all in order. weird...so today i walked through the room while another tour was on the factory floor and noticed that the same chair was turned around facing the back wall. i returned the store and told my coworker to go look at the chair without giving him any context. when he came back, he said, "weird. that exact chair has been turned around like that before. i've seen it."
possible explanations:
1. someone is playing a joke on me.
2. someone has a logical reason for moving the chair...hmmph.
3. poltergeist.
i vote for #3. but i'll keep you posted.
my own ghost story: i had heard that theo chocolate had a ghost. a lot of weird shit happened in that building before theo inherited it. it was built in 1905 as a trolley barn...and there is an underground tunnel connecting theo to a nearby business (which i have yet to explore...).
that said: in the tour room, there are two rows of folding chairs, which often get pushed around throughout the day, as the room is sort of a central hub for staff traffic. about two weeks ago i was setting up my tour and i noticed that one chair in the middle of the back row was turned backwards, facing the south wall. it seemed random, but i figured someone was just too lazy to push it back where it belonged. so i turned it around and continued to prepare my tour. ten minutes later i walked back through the room and the same chair was turned around. the rest were all in order. weird...so today i walked through the room while another tour was on the factory floor and noticed that the same chair was turned around facing the back wall. i returned the store and told my coworker to go look at the chair without giving him any context. when he came back, he said, "weird. that exact chair has been turned around like that before. i've seen it."
possible explanations:
1. someone is playing a joke on me.
2. someone has a logical reason for moving the chair...hmmph.
3. poltergeist.
i vote for #3. but i'll keep you posted.
25 January 2009
united nation of rats
tonight i spent an hour helping disassemble our brand new vacuum cleaner. it was clogged. with this.
otherwise, the evening was devoted to cold medicine and rat-proofing our kitchen.
otherwise, the evening was devoted to cold medicine and rat-proofing our kitchen.
24 January 2009
dang, kid, why you gotta look so good?
only writing so you know i'm still alive...
i mean, i'm not entirely alive. i'm sick enough that i shouldn't be going to work, but have a shitty enough job that i have to go to work regardless.
falling back into old, unhealthy habits. new year, new funk.
i can cross #1 and #21 off the list though, which is a good start for the first month.
other notable things so far in 2009: abilene paradox played in public for the first time ever (that counts as progress towards #8), i marched down the streets of seattle banging a pot with a broken plastic spoon in celebration and protest on inauguration day, my mean 'ol shelter boss finally resigned, and i'm going to train to become a doula because i think i'll be good at it.
also my official view of babies has shifted from "bleh, ew, no touchie." to "well. certain babies are severely cute."
i would say that baby cedar is responsible for that:
only certain babies, though.
i mean, i'm not entirely alive. i'm sick enough that i shouldn't be going to work, but have a shitty enough job that i have to go to work regardless.
falling back into old, unhealthy habits. new year, new funk.
i can cross #1 and #21 off the list though, which is a good start for the first month.
other notable things so far in 2009: abilene paradox played in public for the first time ever (that counts as progress towards #8), i marched down the streets of seattle banging a pot with a broken plastic spoon in celebration and protest on inauguration day, my mean 'ol shelter boss finally resigned, and i'm going to train to become a doula because i think i'll be good at it.
also my official view of babies has shifted from "bleh, ew, no touchie." to "well. certain babies are severely cute."
i would say that baby cedar is responsible for that:
only certain babies, though.
14 January 2009
of course.
i think i have my first cavity ever.
i checked out webmd first, to see what symptom finder had to say. the diagnosis: heartburn, bulimia, or methamphetamine use. thanks, webmd.
in elementary school, every thursday morning there was a mandatory schoolwide 30-second fluoride swish. the teacher would pass out dixie cups and after the morning announcements, we all had little mouths full of fluoride and faces contorted in disgust. after the longest half-minute ever, every k-5 child would spit in unison and that was it.
23 years and cavity free.
i guess protection leftover from a forced childhood routine can't last forever. nor can being covered by my parents' dental insurance.
timing, you always do things like this.
i checked out webmd first, to see what symptom finder had to say. the diagnosis: heartburn, bulimia, or methamphetamine use. thanks, webmd.
in elementary school, every thursday morning there was a mandatory schoolwide 30-second fluoride swish. the teacher would pass out dixie cups and after the morning announcements, we all had little mouths full of fluoride and faces contorted in disgust. after the longest half-minute ever, every k-5 child would spit in unison and that was it.
23 years and cavity free.
i guess protection leftover from a forced childhood routine can't last forever. nor can being covered by my parents' dental insurance.
timing, you always do things like this.
12 January 2009
embed? i think i will, thanks.
renai, you've created a monster. an embedding monster.
let's keep the holiday season going, shall we? with this much enthusiasm. at least.
let's keep the holiday season going, shall we? with this much enthusiasm. at least.
01 January 2009
2009
1. always carry around a small notebook
2. investigate paranormal activity in seattle
3. design tattoo
4. learn wilderness survival skillz
5. learn about the circle of fifths
6. take a yoga class
7. learn about herbs, especially re: dissolving kidney stones and strong immune system
8. abilene paradox: learn songs? write songs? play outside the house more often
9. develop 5-year debt payment plan
10. learn more about fixing bikes
11. go whale watching
12. go to rainforest
13. apply for an apprenticeship
14. get hula hoop from ground to knees
15. spend some time in portland
16. improve foreign language skillz
17. smoke fewer or equal to five cigarettes/week
18. make LED hula hoop
19. be a better family member
20. spend more time with asha
21. sew a bag for my saw
22. save money for a home planetarium projector
23. turn 24. try to embrace such an ugly, even, divisible number.
24. start and maintain a house blog
25. learn to operate sewing machine
26. be more aware. in general.
the house is finally not empty, and finally clean, and there is finally edible food in the fridge, and we finally have toilet paper. i've snapped out of this lonely-lazy- trance and surprisingly (but just barely, i think) survived the last, most difficult month of 2008. it was a doozy. lots of firsts, for better or for worse. last night i said goodbye with dancing, champagne, and kisses for everyone who would let me kiss them. exactly how i wanted to say goodbye.
i'm re-reading the awakening. partly for book club, partly because i think it's a good thing to do every so often.
"but the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. how few of us ever emerge from such beginning! how many souls perish in its tumult!"
twentyshood= every f-ing day is the beginning of a world.
2. investigate paranormal activity in seattle
3. design tattoo
4. learn wilderness survival skillz
5. learn about the circle of fifths
6. take a yoga class
7. learn about herbs, especially re: dissolving kidney stones and strong immune system
8. abilene paradox: learn songs? write songs? play outside the house more often
9. develop 5-year debt payment plan
10. learn more about fixing bikes
11. go whale watching
12. go to rainforest
13. apply for an apprenticeship
14. get hula hoop from ground to knees
15. spend some time in portland
16. improve foreign language skillz
17. smoke fewer or equal to five cigarettes/week
18. make LED hula hoop
19. be a better family member
20. spend more time with asha
21. sew a bag for my saw
22. save money for a home planetarium projector
23. turn 24. try to embrace such an ugly, even, divisible number.
24. start and maintain a house blog
25. learn to operate sewing machine
26. be more aware. in general.
the house is finally not empty, and finally clean, and there is finally edible food in the fridge, and we finally have toilet paper. i've snapped out of this lonely-lazy- trance and surprisingly (but just barely, i think) survived the last, most difficult month of 2008. it was a doozy. lots of firsts, for better or for worse. last night i said goodbye with dancing, champagne, and kisses for everyone who would let me kiss them. exactly how i wanted to say goodbye.
i'm re-reading the awakening. partly for book club, partly because i think it's a good thing to do every so often.
"but the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. how few of us ever emerge from such beginning! how many souls perish in its tumult!"
twentyshood= every f-ing day is the beginning of a world.
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