Budget Money
Graduate
Get a job
Move
Get Fit
I fucked up budgeting money, but luckily I Graduated, Got a Job, and Moved, so it was less of a problem than it would've been otherwise.
Get Fit is kinda up for grabs. I gained a lot of weight over the summer, but then lost ~10-15 after moving to CA.
On the whole, 2011 was a very good year. My emotions were relatively stable, despite some major stress related to getting hired. I had the best last semester I could've hoped for, spending lots of good times with my friends and classmates.
( Year summary and wrap up )
For 2012, I resolve to get Lola cat back in my life for good, keep up the good work on weight loss and fitness, and be brave when my work contract is up in April. Maybe I'll get an engineering position then, or another position at Konami? There's all sorts of potential!
Happy new year, everyone!
- Location:Torrance
- Mood:
happy
- Location:90504
LOWERED DEPRESSION AND IMPROVED SELF-WORTH YAY.
Things are pretty good right now. I'm not sure what we're going to do over the holidays. My parents have started talking about possibly visiting in January though! Exciting~
my dovely had his birthday this week, and mine is coming up soon. and holidays are starting up, and I bought wrapping paper, and!
- Location:90504
- Mood: fulfilled
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gabrielleabelle at Mississippi Personhood AmendmentOkay, so I don't usually do this, but this is an issue near and dear to me and this is getting very little no attention in the mainstream media.
Mississippi is voting on November 8th on whether to pass Amendment 26, the "Personhood Amendment". This amendment would grant fertilized eggs and fetuses personhood status.
Putting aside the contentious issue of abortion, this would effectively outlaw birth control and criminalize women who have miscarriages. This is not a good thing.
Jackson Women's Health Organization is the only place women can get abortions in the entire state, and they are trying to launch a grassroots movement against this amendment. This doesn't just apply to Mississippi, though, as Personhood USA, the group that introduced this amendment, is trying to introduce identical amendments in all 50 states.
What's more, in Mississippi, this amendment is expected to pass. It even has Mississippi Democrats, including the Attorney General, Jim Hood, backing it.
The reason I'm posting this here is because I made a meager donation to the Jackson Women's Health Organization this morning, and I received a personal email back hours later - on a Sunday - thanking me and noting that I'm one of the first "outside" people to contribute.
So if you sometimes pass on political action because you figure that enough other people will do something to make a difference, make an exception on this one. My RSS reader is near silent on this amendment. I only found out about it through a feminist blog. The mainstream media is not reporting on it.
If there is ever a time to donate or send a letter in protest, this would be it.
What to do?
- Read up on it. Wake Up, Mississippi is the home of the grassroots effort to fight this amendment. Daily Kos also has a thorough story on it.
- If you can afford it, you can donate at the site's link.
- You can contact the Democratic National Committee to see why more of our representatives aren't speaking out against this.
- Like this Facebook page to help spread awareness.
Mississippi is voting on November 8th on whether to pass Amendment 26, the "Personhood Amendment". This amendment would grant fertilized eggs and fetuses personhood status.
Putting aside the contentious issue of abortion, this would effectively outlaw birth control and criminalize women who have miscarriages. This is not a good thing.
Jackson Women's Health Organization is the only place women can get abortions in the entire state, and they are trying to launch a grassroots movement against this amendment. This doesn't just apply to Mississippi, though, as Personhood USA, the group that introduced this amendment, is trying to introduce identical amendments in all 50 states.
What's more, in Mississippi, this amendment is expected to pass. It even has Mississippi Democrats, including the Attorney General, Jim Hood, backing it.
The reason I'm posting this here is because I made a meager donation to the Jackson Women's Health Organization this morning, and I received a personal email back hours later - on a Sunday - thanking me and noting that I'm one of the first "outside" people to contribute.
So if you sometimes pass on political action because you figure that enough other people will do something to make a difference, make an exception on this one. My RSS reader is near silent on this amendment. I only found out about it through a feminist blog. The mainstream media is not reporting on it.
If there is ever a time to donate or send a letter in protest, this would be it.
What to do?
- Read up on it. Wake Up, Mississippi is the home of the grassroots effort to fight this amendment. Daily Kos also has a thorough story on it.
- If you can afford it, you can donate at the site's link.
- You can contact the Democratic National Committee to see why more of our representatives aren't speaking out against this.
- Like this Facebook page to help spread awareness.
two dorm rooms, an apartment with stu, my own apartment, another dorm, and now out here in CA.
going into college as a freshman, I never dreamt that the little desk supply drawer would grow to be such an indispensable piece. Thinking about it now, those three teal drawers kinda function like a rich person's personal assistant, giving me what I need nearly as quickly as I think about it (except stamps. I keep forgetting to buy stamps)
there are a couple of big heavy plastic plates that I've toted around to all of these places. I think we got them in the late 90s. I used them every day as a kid and a teen, and most days today.
Brian Carper/Dr Unne gifted me some origami sometime, and since it's lightweight and almost guaranteed not to break in transit, the whole set comes along (A dragon, a rose, a frog, a carp, a lizard)
After I repainted them, I couldn't bear to let my wizard dude and forest maiden stay away from me. I spent so many hours just looking at them and painting them in elementary school. Not really fantasizing or making up stories, but they basically serve as mystical/fantasy archetypes and have for a long time.
I took some of my art nouveau posters to Atlanta last summer, and have them up now. I bring the little PuPu and Moogle, and a music box that plays Moonlight Sonata.
- Location:90504
- Mood:
introspective - Now Bassin': :The Alarm - Rain In The Summertime
That's not to say I blame her, it's probably that most of them occurred when I was a kid and she was the one who drove me then.
But of all the close calls I've had since I've started driving, well, they were close calls.
Until today!
there isn't a happy ending, but there is a determined and a everyone-still-has-all-their-limbs-intac
- Location:Holiday Inn Express - Yukon, OK
- Mood:
sore
I interviewed my parents, my maternal grandparents, and my friend
anyway, it paints an interesting picture for these five people at that state of their life. My grandparents have since passed away, my parents have made the transition into being retirees, and my friend is due to give birth any time now.
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My mother wrote hers in backwards slanting print, a trait she picked up in school when a teacher told her she had the ugliest writing of any girl
My father wrote his in engineering all-caps
My grandmother wrote hers in neat cursive
My grandfather wrote the first six of his in a heavy simple cursive, and the rest in heavy all caps, with wide spacing
My friend didn't write hers personally because it was the night before and I was using MSN messenger to interview her, so I just wrote it like I would imagine she would.
I wonder why I was so blind.
- Location:Pottvegas
- Mood:
disquieted - Now Bassin': :Crystal Castles - 1991
- Location:Torrance, California
- Mood: pleased
visited 20 states (40%)
Create your own visited map of The United States
I have technically stepped in Virginia, but that was like fifteen minutes, so whatevs.
And damnit minnesota, really? REALLY?!
- Location:Home
- Mood: pleased
- Now Bassin': :Animaniacs 50 states song
I loved it. At least as much as the first time. I hadn't read this book since it first came out, that summer night, just after I graduated high school. I went to a party hosted by a bookstore, wore a costume, colored pictures with tiny children.
I was a pretty different person then, physically, chemically, emotionally, spiritually. None of those changes diminished my reception of this novel. If anything, they enhanced it. I drew conclusions and realized the nature of things before they were explicitly explained in the end (some people hate that, but not I).
I guess I'm rambling. I just wanted to tell you all how much I cried at all the emotional parts, and how much I've had invested in this series, and while I can never go back to eagerly, innocently awaiting the next book, at least I have them all now, as their cohesive whole.
- Location:Home
- Mood: happy
on day 2 of pool building. feeling good about that, too.
going to go to fayettechill tonight and hang. feeling really good about that!
today's a pretty good day, imo.
- Location:Pottsville, AR
- Mood: happy
- Now Bassin': :The Protomen - Breaking Out
- Location:Pottsvegas
- Mood:
bad - Now Bassin': :Electric Light Orchestra - Yours Truly, 2095
- Location:duplex
Secondly, I am the furthest west I've ever been. My previous record was Colorado and New Mexico. Hell yeah!
Third, I am in the City of Sin, sitting 19 stories up, looking west at millions of lights nestled in between some beautiful mountains. I thought we had mountains back home. These things are gorgeous! Not done any gambling yet (we won't be here very long, but I'll have another chance on Wednesday), but I did meet a forumite, and completely gorged myself because I neglected to eat all day! xD Mom says this is in the Mojave desert. I got no idea, and she loves western geography, so maybe it's true. No grass! So bizarre.
Mountains!
Fourthly, this hotel sucks pretty bad. Despite having never been to a casino before, it is stranger that everyone is all smoking indoors than that they're gambling. But that's not the bad part; the bad part is that the pool closed at 7 pm! LAME
Finally, tomorrow we're headed for Hoover Dam. My mom and I have always shared a special bond over the song Highway Man, and the third verse of that is about someone working at what [became? was?] Lake Mead. Then after that, it's the Grand Canyon and mule ride :D
It's so strange though. I've travelled quite a bit, but never really felt like I knew what to expect going anywhere. I guess so much media is based on Vegas that I feel like I know it. Scenes from Fool's Die, Fear and Loathing, and The Last Vampire 3 keep flashing through my mind. All three of these had a pretty big impact on me, with Fool's Die having the greatest (so it comes up the most)
- Location:Stratosphere Casino and Hotel - Las Vegas, NV
- Mood: happy
- Now Bassin': :parental snores, oh god they're teaming up on me
Understand that I love my parents and will be moving back in with them for what I hope will be a short period.
But I have lived on my own for four years now, and in this apartment for a year and a half. They're in that parental state where they expect everything to be as they would have it in my house, OR they assume that there is not a procedure for a given task.
Obviously, this is not the case. Cans go in the little blue basket for storage until there is enough to think about recycling; food and some paper waste goes into the bucket until there is enough to think about composting; etc; etc; etc.
And when I tell them this is not how things go down in my house, my dad gets temporarily confused, and my mom gets temporarily hurt, like I'm blaming her.
If this is how things go down in my apartment where I have some modicum of authority, this coming stay may be less pleasant than I envisioned.
- Location:Duplex
- Mood:
irritated - Now Bassin': :make waaaaaaay for prince ali! (in head)
There is a contest to win a reading part in the American Gods 10th anniversary audio book, and it's an amazing book, and I've kinda gotten myself excited about this, so if you would, please <3 You can vote once per day, and I know it's LAME when people whore this stuff, but it's just for a few weeks ;D
- Location:Duplex
- Mood:
bubbly - Now Bassin': :ELO - Hold On Tight
One of these days, I'll practice enough where I can actually keep up with my thought process.
Looks like it's gonna be a long, hard slog through the end of the semester. Le sigh.
We finished watching Avatar: The Last Airbender. I'm having withdrawals I think. At least I keep having these incredible dreams. I'd like to encourage anyone who's taken their time in choosing to watch to go ahead and do it. It was so wonderful!
And this concludes my Practicing Typing in Colemak post.
(p.s. we've decided to watch Giant Robo next. It seems to be pretty good, too)
- Location:Duplex
- Mood:
calm - Now Bassin': :http://myportmanteau.com:8080
But I can't know anyway; I'm supposed to hear back by the 7th if I am in the running for what seems to be an awesome job, in everything except possibly location. But I'm all for it.
I've felt this way for months, but there are an inordinate number of ways that the next few months could work out, each with its own unique set of advantages and disadvantages. I just don't have enough information to make any firm decisions.
In fact, I had already made one, and then got an e-mail asking if a lady could interview me over the phone for a position I hadn't even heard of. So now, I'm back to indecision.
In the meantime, I am definitely not trying to make things as easy as they could be,
but I still have my sense of nonurgency. Even if I fuck up, it'll still be okay.
- Location:Duplex
- Mood:harried
- Now Bassin': :Lolapurrs
