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If he made me in his image, then he's a failure too
It'd be great if my period would at least attempt to start at the same time every month. Now I know why I've been feeling extra emotional for the last day or two, though. I went to the bathroom and was like, "Ohhhh. Okay." It's pretty much a rule at this point that whatever amount of depression/anxiety/unhappiness-in-general I'm feeling normally will be turned up exponentially once period hormones kick in. It's like I have to just build a bunker & wait it out. Like a tornado.
Anyway. I'm mentally burnt out right now, so I'm just gonna give myself a break from talking about srs bsns in this entry & waste some more time on that photo meme.
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sumpta asked for: "I'd like to see your books, where you keep them or how you keep them. (One bookcase, or spread through the appartment, whatever bookish thing you can think of.)"
I also have requests fromgina227 & nomnivore, but I'll do theirs in a separate entry later.
I'm gonna be a major over-achiever with this, too, because while looking at my bookshelf I found a few photo albums I'd completely forgot even existed, and so I figured I'd share a few memorable pics from those with you all now as well.
(Oh, and holy criznap, I just found even more forgotten stuff. Photobucket was getting on my last nerve, so I decided to try flickr instead, right? And of course it ended up being an even bigger pain in my ass--sooo back to Photobucket I go--but there were pics from 3-5 years ago on there that I hadn't seen in FOREVER. Thus, visiting the site paid off. Totally sharing some of those too. Get comfy.)
Before we get into the book pics though, I feel I should add that I live next to a library, and even before I lived here I used to work across the street. I've read a lot of books over the last six years in particular (especially when I used to work at the call center. I'd sometimes finish a book in one or two days there when it was slow), but I only actually own a few. I used to check books out from the libary a lot as a kid/teenager too, so it's sort of just the way I am. I've also given some books out to others (for instance, Jayden got my entire collection of children's books minus only one or two). I do absolutely adore Powell's though (if you're not familiar with it, check the vid directly below. Bibliophile HEAVENNNNNN.), so I will occasionally go there to buy & sell stuff too.
See what I mean? MECCA.
Now, that being said, let's get on with this.
First up, here's a shot of my main bookshelf. I accidentally cut off the top shelf, but whatevs:
That figurine of the girl in the purple dress, btw? Was given to me by my grandma. She & Poppy had a glass case full of figurines just like this, and all the kids--my cousins and I--used to obsess over who was getting what, since we were told we could each choose one to keep once we were older. It was a ~big deal~, you see. Heh.
Next, here's the bookshelf I have in my bedroom:
As you can see, most of my books for school + sentimental crap ended up here ("A Horse of Course!" Aw). I'm such a freaking packrat. You never know when you might need a magazine from 1997!
And now for the random shit. We'll start with some hella old kiddie pics I found:
That's me with my dad up top. Below, from left to right, is my Granddad (dad's dad--passed away when I was like eight), my sister, my dad, and me.
Rainbow Brite! Carebear! Note the pillow next to me too in the bottom pic. I used to carry that and my blankie with me everywhere I went. I had a thing about repetitively flicking one corner of the pillow back & forth with my fingers. I flipped my shit when my grandma accidentally ruined the pillow by washing it (I wouldn't let anyone touch it either, heh. She had to steal it from me one day to wash it), and my mom had to run to a garage sale down the street as I SOBBED & WAILED to buy me a new pillow with sufficiently tickly corners. Heh, memmmmories.
I'm just gonna say it: we were fuckin' cute. '80s kids FTW.
P.S. My favorite part of that last pic? The way my sister's all "Woohoo! Let's go!" and I'm like *clutching the sides in fear* all, "I DON'T LIKE THIS AT ALL. IS THIS SAFE?!" Haha. I remember that so clearly. I was not cool with her steering it, seriously. They basically had to order me to go on it.
Moving on, I realized that some of you have probably never seen a pic of my little brother (i.e. my half-brother who lives in another state with my dad). Let's fix that:
He's twenty now, but this was him at like 9 (based on my hair color, I should be 18 there). He, like me when I was young, was afraid of swimming, and so I convinced him one day to let me try to teach him in the wading pool just to start. Voila.
Aaaand continuing…
I couldn't believe I found this one--I hadn't seen it in SO long. It was one of the pics Will (a.k.a. Ansel as I nicknamed him on here) took of me at 19 during the short time we dated. He was very into photography, hence the nickname.
My sister and me in Victoria, B.C. on her wedding day. What up, Canada!
Random pic I took of Jayden. CUTE.
I also found some more of my old photography stuff from high school:
That's the first pic I ever took for that class.
My HS friend Liz. She's the one I went to the Rocky Horror Picture Show with when I was 16. It's a pity no one got pictures that night, because I was dressed very…um, let's just not even go there. Heh. RISQUE.
(I found more too, but damn, this entry will be big enough as it is. So that's enough amateur photography sharing for now)
Lastly, here are three pics I found on flickr, which I knew I'd have to share:
I'm at my old call center job in the first two (so it's somewhere between 2005 & 2007)--note the book on my lap in the first one (goes with what I was saying above so perfectly!) and how I'm shamelessly napping in the second one. Haha. Okay, so I'm sure I wasn't napping (probably just had a headache & was closing my eyes between calls or something), but still. God, I hated that job. The ability to squeeze in reading time there was one of the only perks.
The last pic is of me at a party around that same time period. The guy on the right was one of my friends from work, and the one on the left was one of *his* friends and fyi hardcore hit on me ALL NIGHT. Haha. I remember that well. Nothing happened though (despite the fact that I totes would've hit that in a no-strings-attached sorta way. He's cute) because he was high & people were drinking, and yeah. I never saw him again, & I started dating Amy soon after, so there you go.
And that's it! I'll try to get to the other photo meme questions soon.
For my Vid of the Day, I'm gonna go with a song. I first heard it yesterday, and I found it comforting:
Anyway. I'm mentally burnt out right now, so I'm just gonna give myself a break from talking about srs bsns in this entry & waste some more time on that photo meme.
Here's what
sumpta asked for: "I'd like to see your books, where you keep them or how you keep them. (One bookcase, or spread through the appartment, whatever bookish thing you can think of.)"I also have requests from
gina227 & nomnivore, but I'll do theirs in a separate entry later.I'm gonna be a major over-achiever with this, too, because while looking at my bookshelf I found a few photo albums I'd completely forgot even existed, and so I figured I'd share a few memorable pics from those with you all now as well.
(Oh, and holy criznap, I just found even more forgotten stuff. Photobucket was getting on my last nerve, so I decided to try flickr instead, right? And of course it ended up being an even bigger pain in my ass--sooo back to Photobucket I go--but there were pics from 3-5 years ago on there that I hadn't seen in FOREVER. Thus, visiting the site paid off. Totally sharing some of those too. Get comfy.)
Before we get into the book pics though, I feel I should add that I live next to a library, and even before I lived here I used to work across the street. I've read a lot of books over the last six years in particular (especially when I used to work at the call center. I'd sometimes finish a book in one or two days there when it was slow), but I only actually own a few. I used to check books out from the libary a lot as a kid/teenager too, so it's sort of just the way I am. I've also given some books out to others (for instance, Jayden got my entire collection of children's books minus only one or two). I do absolutely adore Powell's though (if you're not familiar with it, check the vid directly below. Bibliophile HEAVENNNNNN.), so I will occasionally go there to buy & sell stuff too.
See what I mean? MECCA.
Now, that being said, let's get on with this.
First up, here's a shot of my main bookshelf. I accidentally cut off the top shelf, but whatevs:
That figurine of the girl in the purple dress, btw? Was given to me by my grandma. She & Poppy had a glass case full of figurines just like this, and all the kids--my cousins and I--used to obsess over who was getting what, since we were told we could each choose one to keep once we were older. It was a ~big deal~, you see. Heh.
Next, here's the bookshelf I have in my bedroom:
As you can see, most of my books for school + sentimental crap ended up here ("A Horse of Course!" Aw). I'm such a freaking packrat. You never know when you might need a magazine from 1997!
And now for the random shit. We'll start with some hella old kiddie pics I found:
That's me with my dad up top. Below, from left to right, is my Granddad (dad's dad--passed away when I was like eight), my sister, my dad, and me.
Rainbow Brite! Carebear! Note the pillow next to me too in the bottom pic. I used to carry that and my blankie with me everywhere I went. I had a thing about repetitively flicking one corner of the pillow back & forth with my fingers. I flipped my shit when my grandma accidentally ruined the pillow by washing it (I wouldn't let anyone touch it either, heh. She had to steal it from me one day to wash it), and my mom had to run to a garage sale down the street as I SOBBED & WAILED to buy me a new pillow with sufficiently tickly corners. Heh, memmmmories.
I'm just gonna say it: we were fuckin' cute. '80s kids FTW.
P.S. My favorite part of that last pic? The way my sister's all "Woohoo! Let's go!" and I'm like *clutching the sides in fear* all, "I DON'T LIKE THIS AT ALL. IS THIS SAFE?!" Haha. I remember that so clearly. I was not cool with her steering it, seriously. They basically had to order me to go on it.
Moving on, I realized that some of you have probably never seen a pic of my little brother (i.e. my half-brother who lives in another state with my dad). Let's fix that:
He's twenty now, but this was him at like 9 (based on my hair color, I should be 18 there). He, like me when I was young, was afraid of swimming, and so I convinced him one day to let me try to teach him in the wading pool just to start. Voila.
Aaaand continuing…
I couldn't believe I found this one--I hadn't seen it in SO long. It was one of the pics Will (a.k.a. Ansel as I nicknamed him on here) took of me at 19 during the short time we dated. He was very into photography, hence the nickname.
My sister and me in Victoria, B.C. on her wedding day. What up, Canada!
Random pic I took of Jayden. CUTE.
I also found some more of my old photography stuff from high school:
That's the first pic I ever took for that class.
My HS friend Liz. She's the one I went to the Rocky Horror Picture Show with when I was 16. It's a pity no one got pictures that night, because I was dressed very…um, let's just not even go there. Heh. RISQUE.
(I found more too, but damn, this entry will be big enough as it is. So that's enough amateur photography sharing for now)
Lastly, here are three pics I found on flickr, which I knew I'd have to share:
I'm at my old call center job in the first two (so it's somewhere between 2005 & 2007)--note the book on my lap in the first one (goes with what I was saying above so perfectly!) and how I'm shamelessly napping in the second one. Haha. Okay, so I'm sure I wasn't napping (probably just had a headache & was closing my eyes between calls or something), but still. God, I hated that job. The ability to squeeze in reading time there was one of the only perks.
The last pic is of me at a party around that same time period. The guy on the right was one of my friends from work, and the one on the left was one of *his* friends and fyi hardcore hit on me ALL NIGHT. Haha. I remember that well. Nothing happened though (despite the fact that I totes would've hit that in a no-strings-attached sorta way. He's cute) because he was high & people were drinking, and yeah. I never saw him again, & I started dating Amy soon after, so there you go.
And that's it! I'll try to get to the other photo meme questions soon.
For my Vid of the Day, I'm gonna go with a song. I first heard it yesterday, and I found it comforting:
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I loan a lot of books too -- mostly from my mother's crazy huge private "library". I think books make the prettiest decoration in a house, but they take up sooo much space.
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Never lend books![/Adama] Heh.
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