Monthly Archives: June 2003

stephanie is: tired…
well after both of us searching all night (danny needs to stay the night before he goes back to work after his days off to get back on the right schedule) i think we found a doable getaway.

we can’t afford the outerbanks this year. camping is not an option since we have no gear. ocean city, while the closest beach, is too expensive lodging-wise. we decided on virginia beach.

we found a chain hotel (not on the beach, but across from it) that has good rates and an special discount on one of those travel internet sites. they do have rooms with whirlpool tubs but they cost like $40 more a night, so no. i’ll just be happy to get away for two nights! once we find out if we have a confirmed house sittier we should reserve our room.

it will just be a normal hotel room, but with: free local calls, free high speed internet, free bike rentals, free full breakfast, and indoor/outdoor pools. it is in the middle of the boardwalk area (just one block back) so we can walk everywhere or take a trolly. our vacations always end up being lots and lots of walking (cause it is free!) we do want to see the aquarium there.

and, for the first time in at least 4 years, i won’t have any part of my period on my damn birthday! bout damn time! it is a shame i can’t yet afford to spend money on a new digicam and new video cam before then, those are things that will have to wait till i am working full time for a while. (to see the ones i am looking at see my amazon list. opinions?)

if you’d like to donate to our vacation fund as a birthday gift to me (july 14th!) here is a paypal link. (i apologize if those of you who read my journal end up seeing this link multiple times, but my postings drop off the bottom of my webpage quikly.)

i am about to go to sleep. i only slept three hours and was awake at 11am. tonight danny goes back to work for the week. i plan to work on a freelance website design and some site updates. i have a posed members gallery to add.

there is a puppy crying next door. he/she sounds so sad i emailed our neighbor to see if she needs any help (she often fosters puppys and is not home during the day).

happy monday – talk to you all tonight!

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stephanie is: pretty good…
well, in spite of only getting 3 hours of sleep thanks to my uterus, i’ve had a good day. my daddy drove down in his new car to have dinner with us.

he got a hybrid car with a gps system i covet. i had emailed him the address of the mongolian stir fry place we chose, so he had it programmed in when he arrived. he drove us there using the gps’ instructions. i get lost nearly every time i am behind the wheel – i would love one of those things some day! we had a tastey stir fry meal. danny and i had noodles and my dad had rice. we got frozen yogurt afterwards – it is nice after spicy food.

he drove us back to our place and i ran in to get his fathers’ day gifts. this was the first time i had seen him this month, so he had only gotten a scan of the card i decorated for him (he said he printed it out and showed it off at work *beam*). i gave him a set of coasters made of circuit boards, and a pretty dark cobalt blue glass that says “geek.” on it.

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i chose a card with blank spots to draw in, then drew cartoons of us.

gifts i gave my daddy

well, we are still trying to figure out something special to do for my birthday. we are looking into a night or two somewhere close like baltimore or ocean city… one or two of you asked about donating to the cause as my gift… comment here if you are interested, and if there are at least a couple of replies i can put a birthday fund paypal thing or something.

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stephanie is: groggy…
happy weekend! danny and i are having dinner with my daddy tomorrow evening, so i need to get to bed. but you know you want to vote for the top search engine keywords that lead people to my site. (since i have a free-for-all site ranking list with all sorts of descriptions, i get a lot of weird ones…)

Take the poll!

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stephanie is: groggy…
i had a tough time sleeping. but not from insomnia. inda was sleeping in danny’s spot, danny was sleeping in my spot, and i was hanging off the edge of the bed. i was all stuffed up from skipping allergy meds (they dry my whole body out if i take them every night). i had bad dreams and woke up in the middle of a migrane. i stayed in bed till my vision cleared enough for me to shower. but i think maybe it was forshadowing…

i got an email this evening saying i didn’t get the job. it was kind of them to let me know. and honestly, i am not surprised. if anyone interviewed with magazine experience, they would get it. same old cycle – not enough experience to get the job – can’t get experience without the job. back to looking and feeling inadequate.

my birthday is in less than a month. no plans though. i’ve been humoring myself by adding things to my amazon wishlist.

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stephanie is: dreaming of the beach…
i had been thinking off and on about how much i loved my birthday “vacation” (weekend really) last year to north carolina. it was so nice! danny mentioned that he wanted to go again at dinner tonight and that got me wanting to go 10x as much. but since i don’t have a saleried job yet, the only way we could afford it is if my birthday present from several people is cash for our lodging. i know we couldn’t afford my ideal beach vacation* until i’ve been working full time for a while, but just a place to drive down to and stay at by the ocean is good enough for us! so i am currently looking at hotels and daydreaming before starting my work tonight. well, not going to happen this year. maybe next?

* my ideal would be renting an suv, and putting two kennels in the back so we can bring the pups. we’d enjoy the drive down and stop as often as they needed. we’d rent a beach house with friends that allowed pets, but we’d kennel the dogs when we went out without them so they wouldn’t damage anything. we’d we’d run along the beach playing with the pups in the surf… doesn’t that sound nice?

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stephanie is: ehn…
i really hate doing software updates on my mac. i put off doing a security update for two weeks because 50% of the time when i do updates my computer will mysteriously decide not to boot back up. software update is evil i say! sure enough it didn’t boot up. 3rd time this has happened since i started using osX (been a while, so i guess three times isn’t as bad as i make it out to be). i tried resetting the pram, but that only rewarded me with the os9 where’s-my-system-folder-? icon. i booted off my os9 norton cd and fixed some major owies on the os9 partition. i rebooted to check that it really fixed them all, but it wouldn’t even boot from a 9 cd anymore. at that point i just gave up and reinstalled 10.2. i had everything backed up anyway, so i wasn’t worried about it screwing anything up. last time it completely fucked all my permissions, but it seems okay so far this time. that took way too much of my ‘day’.

since i had to baby sit my computer through installed and upgrading it back up to where i was (though i have not found the courage to try the security update again) i decided to clean the office some. *cough* dusty. i moved one of the bookshelves over to my side of the room to make room for the kennel on the other side. the dogs like it better there and i wasn’t fond of it being right behind my desk. i reorganized both of the bookshelves and my yarn baskets. i should probably neaten and dust my display shelves at some point.

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a picture of dr. poopoo in action

the night has gone super fast. i definitly need to request more hours in a day. more days in a week would be nice too…

if i make the waffles, will you make the hash browns?

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stephanie is: waiting for donuts danny…
since i have no more meetings this week and had gone back to sleep for a few hours wednesday afternoon, i managed to stay up till thursday morning. i wanted to be on danny’s schedule for his nights off (sat and sun night this week). i got a lot of chores done, but plenty more to do.

we are taking care a friend’s doggie this week. she is the one from the mirror photo. she has great fun playing chase with me and rolling around getting belly rubs.

i have a decent amount of freelance work at the moment. bring it on! never enough for the bills though. i look forward to getting back on a salary, hopefully sooner than later.

i’ve been trying to do stuff right with my interviews… i wrote thank you letters this time because everything i read said it was the polite thing to do. i worry that it seems like i am sucking up or over-eager, hrm. i was honest in it though.

i am trying to stay awake till danny gets home. he went to get doughiez for us. he called me on the way to a farther-away dunkin donuts because the one by us is always super crowded. now he is feeding our friend’s doggie before coming home.

i think i am making no sense. this is because i need the sleep. yes.

oh, and the design of my store is now updated to match my site more.

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stephanie is: tra la la…
i am trying to figure out friendster.

i just stumbled into a website that played a midi of “the hokie-pokie”. askjhdaskjfh@#@$!!! if you are going to play midis, at least make them cool like this.

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stephanie is: okay…
i was a bit too nerved up last night to sleep, i guess because i am getting my hopes up about the job. so i got about 4 hours of sleep. so not enough. i took 50 in to their office. it took about 40 minutes from parking spot to parking spot. i was early, but i’d rather be 20 minutes early than 2 minutes late to an important meeting. the receptionist (or office manager?) was very kind. i was watching what people wore as they walked by to get a sense of what the dress code is there. the men were in polos and slacks. i saw two women in business casual attire, three in flip-flops, and two in jeans. so it seems fairly relaxed. a good thing because i can’t afford nice suits right now.

my meeting was with the associate art director so she could have a chance to go over my porfolio in person. she walked in carrying a blue fleece monkey she had sewn for an expectant co-worker. i was impressed – it was a very cute stuffy. she was really nice. i still only know that they have 2 more people to interview and then they will be decideing soon after. so don’t mind me if i slowly go crazy over the next week.

i took the beltway home, thanks to the directions i printed out from mapquest. it only took 22 minutes. i got home less than 2 hours after i had left. since i was so tired i crawled into bed with danny (who was just then going to sleep) and got 3 more hours. 7 hours is a much better sleep total and i feel fine now.

i think i will be doing a photoshoot with photo_obscura and azcra on july 4th (so long as i don’t have work obligations that day). i will have to make sure i get a reasonable amount of excersize between now and ten. i know i am a skinny gal, but since i hit 25 i’ve been prone to less than smooth thighs. stupid aging process.

speaking of ageing – i will be 27 in less than a month! gaaah.

i have the hugest craving for a spicey queso and guacamole from don pablos. but eating out costs money.

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stephanie is: about to head to bed…
i am about to head to bed. hopefully i will get to sleep at a reasonable hour (last night i went to sleep at 5am) as i need to be on a day schedule tomorrow. i have a second interview at 10am. i am only nervous about two things: that i won’t get the job and that i’ll be late cause of traffic or getting lost. *crosses fingers*

here is a picture of my new snaily. my last snaily passed away after several months. i love thier little shells and i save them and clean them after they have lived their little snaily lives. i think they look pretty half-buried in the tank. new snaily is fond of cleaning them and he has managed to pull them all out of the gravel in a couple of days.

i have to go fold some laundry and get into bed now.

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