robynreid

another little hint that i might be completely nuts

2008-04-01T18:03:11Z

I finally settled on a bed i think i'd like. it's from It's fairly plain, sure, but put-up-with-able, AND on sale... i nearly bought it last night until i checked out Pottery Barn.

NOTE: i wish i didn't like pottery barn so much, it's really quite embarassing to be so, i don't know, "typical" but what can i do? love the stuff.

anyway, i stumbled onto a Better Bed. something i just really like about this one, and it's on sale too! but dammit, queen-size is only available in disgusting blue antique finish (gimme a break, blue? really?). so i'm disappointed. i sleep on it, then check out the first bed again. it just won't do after seeing the second bed that cannot be mine. but as luck would have it, i found another bed i love! i've loved this bed for a while. i remember it now. but it's not on sale. no, in fact it would be nearly $1,000 with tax and shipping, and special shipping. so, yeah. i really shouldn't spend that kind of money until my credit card is payed off/my savings account is up to $xxxx/I really deserve it. sigh.

THIS is why i still don't have a proper bed after what, nearly 2 years?

bon voy-ahh-gee!

2008-02-29T03:17:39Z

stewie and i are off tomorrow to scotland and london and gay pair-eeee! i'll miss everyone and my cat and my couch and bed but am so looking forward to this trip! i'm not even letting myself panic about the logistics or the flying. or maybe i'm still in denial. anyway, in the off chance someone visits here and wants to comment, i wanted to let you know i've turned off the comments until i get back to prevent crash-down from the fucking spam comments. piss me off, they really do. (serenity now!)

funny you should ask!

2008-01-09T03:43:52Z

hah! good, timely comment, nancypants! :) i just took the tree down tonight. i was all prepared to leave it up until my birthday. but then i came home tonight and just didn't feel like turning the lights on and so i figured it was time. it didn't take nearly as long as i'd imagined (and dreaded). and the cat enojyed jumping into and out of the empty boxes before i filled them up with artificial tree and ornaments. ah, back to normal. it's not nearly as depressing as i thought it would be....

the only way my cat knows it's christmas is that there's a tree she's not allowed to tear it apart.

2007-12-14T03:16:20Z

"Thank a lot for the opportunity to server you one more year!"

that's what one of my newspaper guys (or girls!) wrote in their christmas card... and i couldn't have said it better myself. not that i've actually servered you all this year, but if i had, that's how i would have put it. i love my chirstmas tree. stew even likes it! he said it looked "old timey" :) i want to have "people" over to see it, because what a waste otherwise, but then, who wants to come to my place? borrrring!! but anyway, for the first time in years i'm actually looking foward to christmas. not that i ever really dreaded it (much), or that it's any different this year (although i am switching things up a bit), but it's not the the changes that excite me. no, i think i'm just not as moody as i've been in years past. which i think means i'm aging. yes, losing my drama in my old(er) age. oh, nevermind. i'll shut up. it's probably just because i'm ahead on the shopping AND so far have been able to afford all the presents this year. SO. FAR. not like i'm done yet. but close. how about you? and what do you think of my tree?

thanksgiving follow-up

2007-11-19T01:31:18Z

i called my mother tonight to check in and she asked if i had "any special plans for later this week". like she was testing to see if i'd forgotten our anniversary or something. so i said i was planning on coming down to see her on thursday and she said she'd been invited to someone else's place for dinner. hah! but then said she didn't think she was going to make it but i wonder if she's just blowing it off because i'm coming down. and she also said it was fine if i didn't make it down because gas prices are so high and it's supposed to rain. no wonder i'm so weird. i was obviously born into it!

keeping up my end of the bargain

2007-11-17T02:52:28Z

yay! 3 people still acknowledge my presence! guess i should say something.

so no, i'm really not going to bore ya'll with my daily smoking and drinking stats (read: haven't been as good as i should be). and to answer nancy, yes it's true, i am no fun anymore. although i still drink, just trying not to do the wine every night thing. couple times a week ain't bad, right? and avoiding the den of iniquity that sucks the wallet dry and leaves me feeling completey wicked. instead, on a wild and crazy friday, i sit at home with fire and cat and czech netflix movie (which btw, turned out to be REALLY good!). now it's time for Men In Trees. ahem, i may end up going out after all...

anyway, thanks for coming! i have a survey question. i have decided what i'm going to do, but wondering, regarding Thanksgiving, should i do what i WANT to do (stay home, sleep, read, watch TV) or what i SHOULD do (run down and see mama and grandmama). would it be unforgivably selfish to do the former?

saying goodbye to vices

2007-11-06T04:19:09Z

so, i can't say i've actually quit smoking, but i do like to say "i'm in the process". am down to just a couple here and there. also doing well with the drinking less. mostly ;) . also the requisite diet and am starting to run regularly again. hopefully. at least i did today. so i think i might try to record my efforts here in order to shame myself into being more vigilant. i'll attempt to record my success (failings) and then trust you all not to be huge assholes about it. it helps that i realize no one checks in here anymore. hee. if you DO check in here, please leave a comment. say something (nice)! i'm bored!

new friend, more later

2007-05-23T06:51:16Z

here's a little fella that hung out on the beach with me. and everyone else. in real life he was like a big chihuahua. or a small mutt. i'll call him Sam after my sister's former dog, Sam. he was pretty scruffy but loved, LOVED!, to lie in the sun and sleep. all. day. long. would come around especially when you had food, but would never beg. but sometimes he would come into my shade and take a minute to dig a little hole in the shaded sand, and then lie there for just a few minutes. right next to my chair. (first time he did it i was expecting him to leave a pile of shit in the hole. but no, just his self.) then, when he was done with that shade bullshit, he'd pull himself out into the sun again with his front paws, nether regions dragging against the rocky sand, as if scratching his balls, or something, and then sleeeeeep and sleep some more in the sun. i assume he slept so much because he was never fed. i also think he was trying to give me relaxation lessons. they almost worked. anyway, have some pictures will try to post to flickr soon, and stories to be transcribed from my travel journal. for now, i'm going to try to figure out how to wind down and go to sleep. (where my mosqueeto net?!?)

p.s. - my kingdom for a nail file! eeeee! one good reason to go back to work, i KNOW i have one there....

ya ya weekend

2007-04-27T03:15:27Z

ah, feels good to be back home with my cat and my tivo (ahem, DVR). was good times in sunny florida though! spent a couple of hours in the sun the first day, without sunscreen, and of course got a little burned. but not too badly. did a lot of eating and tv watching and reading and sitting by the pool. (almost) early morning walks on the beach too. and some redecorating at the house in ormond beach. woot. now i'm wading through 3 episodes each of The View and the Ellen show, Desperate Housewives, The Sopranos, 24, The Riches, Amazing Race, etc. etc. (what happened to Brothers & Sisters?! and Lost! oh nooo, DVR filled up). oh, and there's laundry.

p.s.-thanks no doubt to stew, my new chair survived the cat while i was gone!
p.p.s.-am watching ellen dance right this very minute.

swanky!

2007-04-14T22:10:59Z

last night i went to bed at 9:15. then i woke up around 5am and read for a while. then i went back to sleep until 9:30. (whee!) anyway, my point is, as you can see in the picture above, i bought a new side chair today! down at the Restoration Hardware outlet in Leesburg. it was $200 off! also bought a lamp at $30 off (that's not it in the picture). and a couple of lampshades. one of which is quite hideous. which reminds me, anyone need a cat? stupid sammy has already gone at the chair, i knew she would but it still made me scream. maybe i should have left the shrinkwrap on... and so now apparently i need a new couch.

obligatory list of ongoing resolutions

2007-01-03T15:46:44Z

drink less coffee, more water (for the skin. it's all about the old lady skin.)
eat less, drink less, smoke much less (obviously)
sign up for (AND ATTEND) yoga class
run on treadmill at least twice each week, outdoors once
wake up early (AHAHAHAHA!)
stick to regular weekly cleaning schedule (primarily bathroom/catbox)
spend less on frivolous & slightly expensive purses (after the one i buy tonight after work -- i have a coupon!)
speaking of which, beef up savings account
visit momma once a month (okay, maybe once every 2 months)
visit papa in newport
go snowboarding
lay on a beach in costa rica for 3 days straight
stop walking around with half chipped-off polish on fingernails
stop shopping for clothes exclusively at old navy
check daily websites just once per day (or call them hourly websites)
stop compulsively checking email when not at work
watch each netflix dvd within one week of receipt
- to be continued...

Happy Whole Lee Days!

2006-12-27T18:43:22Z

sooooo, what didja do for Xmas? (Or Channuka, Kwanzaa, etc)
My nieces had a video camera malfunction during their attempt to catch Santer eating the cookies and milk, on film.
I got a coffee mug with pictures of E and J on it. And a different coffe mug that plugs into cigar lighter in the car to keep coffee warm.
Ella got a phone that looks like the one on The ElectricCompaneeee-uh-eee-ee, that drives around on wheels.
And, no snow. Just rain around these parts. Maybe we'll have a sucessful snowpool in January.

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oh good lord, where has the time gone?

2006-12-12T03:31:55Z

too much work! too little of interest going on in life! that, and amy lost her password, apparently. at least SHE used always write something when no one else would. i'm tired. worked too much today, now catching up with the view (embarassing, yes, but taylor hicks was on today!) and having a glass of wine before bed. with stew's help i rearranged my living room this weekend. it's all cozy and nice although a big fat mess. i have also been neglecting my magazine and newspaper reading. i went through a stack of magazines from my bedroom yesterday and some were from march. march! only a few more stacks to go...

in other news, i visited the nephews yesterday (also neglected) and they were fun as usual. which reminds me of two things. first, a question. do you think it's incredibly hip that a 7-year old listen to Disturbed while he plays video games? i mean, i knew he liked green day but disturbed is so hanson! ;) anyway, i was watching him play and oohing and aahing at his electronic stakeboarding skillz and wondering how the hell he came to like heavy metal music and know all those skate rat moves. HE'S ONLY SEVEN! then i learned what a nose grind is vs. a tail (?) grind but i've forgotten already. kids.

oh, and the other thing was, as i walked past their bedroom where a neighborhood friend was playing with them, i heard one of the boys says "that's the hole where babies come from. that's why it hurts so much" EEK! i just let it go and kept walking.

gotta go, it's craft time with rosie and barbara.

sunday, 8 october

2006-10-09T04:51:59Z

watching shaun of the dead outtakes (still laughing after soooo many times!). admiring my new bookshelf (thanks stew!); feeling happy about not having to go into the office tomorrow (yay!); looking forward to dinner with dad et al at outback tomorrow night; knowing full well that if anyone still actually visits this site, they are bored as hell by it. but isn't tyler adorable?

thoughts on Celebrity Duets

2006-09-30T04:17:19Z

who the eff is that host (and who knew he could sing?)?
who's ever heard of hal sparks?
alfonso ribeiro is SOOOO the black paul hanson (sorry dawg, is true!)
xena only got so far because she had great hair (er, i meant tits)
little richard, uhm, whaaa????
what the hell was that blonde chick doing on the swing on the last episode??
that guy from styx who was TOTALLY rockin' was actually the inspriation for snow miser (i'll bet you guys didn't know that...)
i'm actually more embarrased about watching it than american idol, and competitive sewing, and even that show with my hearthrob

but still, it was better than all those (except maybe the last...). bottom line, i was very pleased that paul, er, alfonso, won. good times. too bad they never last.