This past week has consisted of Austin's B-day and lots of traveling to see family.
1. Austin's B-day
He got...
- a icecream cake surprise at work
- Dinner at PFChangs (the Tapas place we were going to go to was closed...)
- A Movie, Hancock: This movie I did not want to see... but was SURPRISINGLY surprised? I really realllly liked it. Novel, yet at times trite it was a refreshing action superhero movie. Will Smith only bothered me a little.
- Pre-ordered FFIV on DS for him
- 5 gallons of beer.
Twas so pleasant. :)
2. Went to PSl to see my Aunt Valarie, cousin Jessica and Uncle Bob. With me and Austin moving to Spain in a year it was worth it to rearrange some life details so I could see them. It was a very nice and surprisingly lowkey visit. Taught them the ways of the Wii.
3. Went to Auburndale to visit Austin's Mom (his b-day wish). Had really good sushi as per usual. Now I'm doing work on her couch.
4. I forgot! We also had a Y.A.W.E.R.S. meeting! Went well. Five people (although 4 read the book). Still that made me happy. I still need to up the advertisment though of the club.
Upcoming Events...
1. Swing Knights big dance this coming Friday. Shall be fun.
2. Southern Bell Swing Bash! I registered! Let's hope I can go! I'm so excited. Makes me nervous though to plan so far ahead when I know things will be hectic in the fall.
3. NY to visit my cousin. Hopefully soon. I'm rearranging things right now.
4. Boston for Nina's 21st! My back account will be angry but it shall be fun.
5. School ending for the summer.. in 3 weeks. And I will have to make 3 flash games... (and finish another). A little scared. In consequence I'm trying to keep my weekends open for work/homework.
6. I'll be assisting in selling a beer business on EBay. It's a really good opportunity for me and I plan doing my darndest to make it succesful.
7. Have enough in my back account now to atleast buy two roundtrip tickets to spain! I'll be transferring all the saved money over to an online account to get a higher APR. I just have to figure out taxes and my IRA contribution for this year.... and the rest will go towards the big move.
8. Becoming fluent in Spanish. Going well so far. I've already accidentally answered someone in spanish without thinking. This excites me.
9. Becoming fit. Too bad this week I have barely worked out. It seems once I added becoming fluent to my schedule something else had to go. I'll do my best to shove both back into the ole schedule.
Okay I could list forever... time to stop putting off my flash hw.
- S
P.S. Saw Bladerunner and it sucked... I can appreciate it being groundbreaking though.
Showing posts with label book club. Show all posts
Showing posts with label book club. Show all posts
Sunday, July 13, 2008
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Thirsty
I've been so thirsty lately!
Not much to say other than I'm trying to improve on this mood.
And I'm excited that in 3 hours I'll be free for the weekend! No class.. no work!
Just camping and birthdaying!
Tonight is our June meeting for the SciFi/Fantasy Book club. Shall be good though the book gave me the creeps.
- S
Not much to say other than I'm trying to improve on this mood.
And I'm excited that in 3 hours I'll be free for the weekend! No class.. no work!
Just camping and birthdaying!
Tonight is our June meeting for the SciFi/Fantasy Book club. Shall be good though the book gave me the creeps.
- S
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Oh Grumpy Day!
So a bit of a funk is carrying over from yesterday. I know.. how bi-polar! But I'm fighting it.
Basically yesterday wasn't bad until book club meeting time. Where only me and Bald Becky showed up.
But I can't get too down on myself... it was hailing dogs and cats and I know at least 4 others read the book but due to hw and work got in the way of them coming.
It just sucked driving all the way to downtown with becky in the car. And noone else showing up.
Two resolutions:
-Set the location a week before so that if there's no downtown people I can have it up here
-figure out some local advertising
-Don't get down because these things happen in the world of book clubs.
So we came home and I ate badly and drank homemade beer and hung out with the roomies, becky and new dude Bobby. I shouldn't get too down, it was fun.
Just started the club to discuss books, read and meet new people. At least one of those was managed. Though I had a nice discussion with Becky.
I also managed to be unproductive... which is bad. I have overdue projects.
Either way I refuse to let this funk carry over today. So I'm "hunkering" down.
On the bright side I was welcomed with a birthday party yesterday at work! The cake had a bearded lady on it. You see it was a "Goodbye Priscilla, Hello Red Beard (our new task software that we built), Happy Birthday Sheila" cake.
It was nice. We also had pizza.
Hence the groan in the diet department.
But it was sweet.
Literally - S
Basically yesterday wasn't bad until book club meeting time. Where only me and Bald Becky showed up.
But I can't get too down on myself... it was hailing dogs and cats and I know at least 4 others read the book but due to hw and work got in the way of them coming.
It just sucked driving all the way to downtown with becky in the car. And noone else showing up.
Two resolutions:
-Set the location a week before so that if there's no downtown people I can have it up here
-figure out some local advertising
-Don't get down because these things happen in the world of book clubs.
So we came home and I ate badly and drank homemade beer and hung out with the roomies, becky and new dude Bobby. I shouldn't get too down, it was fun.
Just started the club to discuss books, read and meet new people. At least one of those was managed. Though I had a nice discussion with Becky.
I also managed to be unproductive... which is bad. I have overdue projects.
Either way I refuse to let this funk carry over today. So I'm "hunkering" down.
On the bright side I was welcomed with a birthday party yesterday at work! The cake had a bearded lady on it. You see it was a "Goodbye Priscilla, Hello Red Beard (our new task software that we built), Happy Birthday Sheila" cake.
It was nice. We also had pizza.
Hence the groan in the diet department.
But it was sweet.
Literally - S
Monday, June 23, 2008
Oh Happy Day
Things have been awesome... lets do a quick update:
1. Blues and Soul Experience
Was amazing! Talk about loving friends, good auras and awesome dances. The caliber of dancing was just so amazing and it has been one of the most beneficial dance experiences I have had in a long time.
I don't know if it just came at the right time for me... what with me being gone from dance for the last month, and really the general disconnect I have felt from it, but it was the right medicine for my dance "blues". Ha!
I haven't always been a fan or the blues but I really gained a greater understanding appreciation for it. I think it also helps the Orlando Blues scene has greatly matured. I'm gonna try to go to late nights more often.
I only got molested once! ;P
It was just an overall fun weekend.. and super cool that I could sleep in my own bed! Went to every dance except for one due to work. Which made me sad because I wanted to hear the band, Band of Brothers. But duty called. Danced from 3pm to 5am on Saturday!
And the best part of the weekend? And I know I keep on raving about it... but my body due to Yoga was AWESOME! I felt confident, I felt flexible, and rarely sore! Heck I felt Sexy! It's like my miracle drug. I've been getting in to it so much lately and its really been life changing. I barely felt sore all weekend. My knee only hurt a little the last dance due to sticky shoes.
It was just a nice weekend... I got to dance, drink some beer, and just hang out. Pretty stress free and pretty awesome. I needed it :)
My dance is definitely at the next level...
2. General Happiness
Just a lot of good things going on in my life despite the usual day to day stress. Just working out, being productive and reading as much as possible.
Class started today, Flash Game Design. Shall be interesting... I'm not a big fan of Flash. Shall be hard... but necessary to learn better.
3. Random Happenings:
- Tom the roommate made 5 gallons of beer that is yummy.
- Camping for my Birthday.
- Tom the roommate made 5 gallons of wine that is very alcoholic.
- Made stew today! So excited. I've been thrifty in the kitchen.
- Working with one of my freelance client. Going well. Hoping to pick up at least one more before the summer is out.
- Working on designing the ORLX site... I've been a bit stuck.
- doing a hundred pushup challenge.
- EVERYTHING seems to be planned for July 4th weekend...
Really I need to go work on ORLX.
Y.A.W.E.R.S. Meets tomorrow!
- S
1. Blues and Soul Experience
Was amazing! Talk about loving friends, good auras and awesome dances. The caliber of dancing was just so amazing and it has been one of the most beneficial dance experiences I have had in a long time.
I don't know if it just came at the right time for me... what with me being gone from dance for the last month, and really the general disconnect I have felt from it, but it was the right medicine for my dance "blues". Ha!
I haven't always been a fan or the blues but I really gained a greater understanding appreciation for it. I think it also helps the Orlando Blues scene has greatly matured. I'm gonna try to go to late nights more often.
I only got molested once! ;P
It was just an overall fun weekend.. and super cool that I could sleep in my own bed! Went to every dance except for one due to work. Which made me sad because I wanted to hear the band, Band of Brothers. But duty called. Danced from 3pm to 5am on Saturday!
And the best part of the weekend? And I know I keep on raving about it... but my body due to Yoga was AWESOME! I felt confident, I felt flexible, and rarely sore! Heck I felt Sexy! It's like my miracle drug. I've been getting in to it so much lately and its really been life changing. I barely felt sore all weekend. My knee only hurt a little the last dance due to sticky shoes.
It was just a nice weekend... I got to dance, drink some beer, and just hang out. Pretty stress free and pretty awesome. I needed it :)
My dance is definitely at the next level...
2. General Happiness
Just a lot of good things going on in my life despite the usual day to day stress. Just working out, being productive and reading as much as possible.
Class started today, Flash Game Design. Shall be interesting... I'm not a big fan of Flash. Shall be hard... but necessary to learn better.
3. Random Happenings:
- Tom the roommate made 5 gallons of beer that is yummy.
- Camping for my Birthday.
- Tom the roommate made 5 gallons of wine that is very alcoholic.
- Made stew today! So excited. I've been thrifty in the kitchen.
- Working with one of my freelance client. Going well. Hoping to pick up at least one more before the summer is out.
- Working on designing the ORLX site... I've been a bit stuck.
- doing a hundred pushup challenge.
- EVERYTHING seems to be planned for July 4th weekend...
Really I need to go work on ORLX.
Y.A.W.E.R.S. Meets tomorrow!
- S
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Words, Words, Only Words
So I've been reading quite a bit lately... which makes me happy.
Mostly due to me forming a book club and joining another.
Book Club #1
I helped co-found Y.A.W.E.R.S. (Young Adults Who Enjoy Reading Still) with Nina. It's going pretty well. We have 37 members currently. Probably only 10 active ones and so far it seems 6-8 people at a meeting is a good number.
Our first meeting (and only meeting so far) was 11 people but I have a feeling that will be a fluke and already participation has slacked a little. But that's to be expected with any club. Still, I'll probably want to make a flyer to keep the new blood coming as people come and go from the group. Plus in the end small numbers keep the conversations smoother (but not too small!)
Our Facebook Group: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=16117212518&ref=ts
Anywho we have read High Fidelity and our next meeting (next week) will be Running With Scissors. Both angsty books... I will have to do review for what I have read so far.
Just got back from club movie night which I probably would consider a failure if Mike and Audra weren't such good company. It was me, Austin, Mike and Audra. It was fun to watch the movie and we ended up discussing the book afterwards. Totally liked the movie better than the book. Probably in the future I'll try to combine movie viewing with book discussions (if the book has movie) because it really does lead to great threads.
Book Club #2
I joined a SciFi-Fantasy Book Club: http://scifi.meetup.com/331/
I've been to one meeting (my second will be this week). Nice people, small group, actually the group leader words as UCF as a systems administrator (small world).
Probably can't continue though due to school starting up next week and other priorities. A shame. We'll see how it goes.
So far we have read: The Android's Dream and Empress
The Android's Dream was a fun "romp" but ended satisfyingly.
Empress was just disturbing. And when I get the energy up I want to do a full review. Finished it last night and was damned happy to have gotten it over with. It really got to my head and left me clinging to Austin as 3am. Poor boy. It was a good book but I just couldn't wait for it to be over.
So I suppose that is some of my "Self Betterment" I have been doing this summer.
I started Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris today. So far so good. Surprisingly relatable. It's Y.A.W.E.R.S.' next book.
I am so thirsty its distracting. I've been so sensitive to salt lately.
I need to go get work done.
So I will. Or sleep. Or read?
*sigh* - S
Mostly due to me forming a book club and joining another.
Book Club #1
I helped co-found Y.A.W.E.R.S. (Young Adults Who Enjoy Reading Still) with Nina. It's going pretty well. We have 37 members currently. Probably only 10 active ones and so far it seems 6-8 people at a meeting is a good number.
Our first meeting (and only meeting so far) was 11 people but I have a feeling that will be a fluke and already participation has slacked a little. But that's to be expected with any club. Still, I'll probably want to make a flyer to keep the new blood coming as people come and go from the group. Plus in the end small numbers keep the conversations smoother (but not too small!)
Our Facebook Group: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=16117212518&ref=ts
Anywho we have read High Fidelity and our next meeting (next week) will be Running With Scissors. Both angsty books... I will have to do review for what I have read so far.
Just got back from club movie night which I probably would consider a failure if Mike and Audra weren't such good company. It was me, Austin, Mike and Audra. It was fun to watch the movie and we ended up discussing the book afterwards. Totally liked the movie better than the book. Probably in the future I'll try to combine movie viewing with book discussions (if the book has movie) because it really does lead to great threads.
Book Club #2
I joined a SciFi-Fantasy Book Club: http://scifi.meetup.com/331/
I've been to one meeting (my second will be this week). Nice people, small group, actually the group leader words as UCF as a systems administrator (small world).
Probably can't continue though due to school starting up next week and other priorities. A shame. We'll see how it goes.
So far we have read: The Android's Dream and Empress
The Android's Dream was a fun "romp" but ended satisfyingly.
Empress was just disturbing. And when I get the energy up I want to do a full review. Finished it last night and was damned happy to have gotten it over with. It really got to my head and left me clinging to Austin as 3am. Poor boy. It was a good book but I just couldn't wait for it to be over.
So I suppose that is some of my "Self Betterment" I have been doing this summer.
I started Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris today. So far so good. Surprisingly relatable. It's Y.A.W.E.R.S.' next book.
I am so thirsty its distracting. I've been so sensitive to salt lately.
I need to go get work done.
So I will. Or sleep. Or read?
*sigh* - S
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