weirdness at my local blockbuster
12/20/04 ~ 10:23 p.m.
night i got this wild hair to use one of my free blockbuster coupons (blockbuster online ain't half bad!) and go rent sex and the city: season 6, part one, disk 1 as a refresher, because season six part two is coming out next week, and i'll be watching them with mariah. as i own seasons 1-5, i'm plenty up-to-date on those, but the first half of season 6 is a little fuzzy, as i've only seen it once.
anyways.
so i head on down to blockbuster in my workout clothes, still vaguely sweaty from my run, hair up in an attractive bun with flyaways galore. i'm wearing a pea coat over the top of my workout ensemble, which clearly doesn't match, but whatever. i used to work at that blockbuster, but i had thought my old coworkers were long gone. no chances of seeing anyone i know, right? wrong.
first, i bump into heather, a nice but ditzy girl who used to talk about quitting everyday. i had to ask her where to find my desired DVD, because apparantly, they move the store around when you're not there every day.
then the manager, whom i don't know, comes out with cookies from edgar. i knew him! so they give me cookies. yay. although i feel a little odd; they're giving this homeless looking chick cookies. ah, well.
BUT THEN, i proceed to the register and i see someone... familiar. but i'm not sure why. wait? do i know that person from online? oh! it's natalye (from friendster and livejournal)! whom i keep saying i'll met up with, but we never make plans and she ended up meeting my friends in sacramento before me. and she's with a friend and it's sort of awkward and i'm such a mess she probably didn't even recognize me (because, see, the only pictures i post on here are ones where i look fabulous... hahaha. anyways.) so she gives me a hug and tries to explain me to her friend and then they're ringing me up and she has to go and i'm left feeling all, "whoa, that was weird."
so i came home, enjoyed 3 episodes while folding laundry, and now it's off to bed. dental appointment # 3 is tomorrow morning. maybe we'll have an incredible california snowstorm and i won't be able to drive there??? one can only hope.
christmas cheer
12/20/04 ~ 3:01 p.m.
brrr. i don't know what the temperature is exactly, but i'll just describe it as "far too cold for my spoiled california ass." i could never live somewhere where it snows, i just wasn't brought up to handle it!
i was too lazy to get on the computer and update yesterday. i did a lot of reading, some napping, and some DDR. sabrina came over in the evening, we made tacos, watched sex and the city, and scrapbooked together. quality girl time.
i took a picture of my christmas lights! it still doesn't look like much to me, but compared to last year, it's much better. i guess for being a poor 20-something who only buys a few decorations at 50% off after christmas, it's not that bad.
last year:
this year:
yay. so after christmas this year, i want to buy some icicle lights, because the way our roof/gutter is, it's super hard to string lights on it. the straight ones can't go striaght across the beams because they would be hidden behind the gutter. so we had to improvise and make them droop in between beams. but i think icicles would work because they already hang down, so we could string them straight. so yeah, that's the dec 26th goal. operation: icicle!
also, i want to show off my nifty christmas card displaying device, something my mom did every year when i was growing up, so i do it now:
i just string them on a length of dental floss (see, i use floss! ha!) and then i can appreciate them more than just littered on the top of our entertainment center. oh, and those are our cute bear stockings. yay.
i love christmas stuff, i don't care that the holiday has become so commericalized, i just think it's all so fun regardless. it makes it kind of difficult sometimes because david is a total scrooge. he hates expectations of giving gifts, he doesn't like to spend money, and he wishes people didn't get him anything either. in fact, he thinks i'm wrong for spending money and buying into the whole thing. he's come around a bit the past christmases with me, and has conceeded that he likes 3 things about christmas: our special "alone" christmas dinner, our gift exchange with each other, and wearing the santa hat. that's it. grrrr. i guess no one's perfect, but i'll keep working on him because i want him to enjoy it with me. someday. i think he likes looking at pretty christmas lights too, so i plan on driving him around to look at them and maybe that will give him a bit of cheer.
ok, still cold. my coworker brought in some hot chocolate, and i'm going to indulge now, if only to warm my my hands and tummy! hasta.
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interesting note: this is the first time since i started this diary that i updated on december 20th. odd.
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