If I were...

Originally posted: If I were...

If I were a month, I’d be September.

If I were a day of the week, I’d be Monday.

If I were a time of day, I’d be 6:00am.

If I were a planet, I’d be Neptune.

If I were a sea animal, I’d be ....
If I were a direction, I’d be North.

If I were a piece of furniture, I’d be a bookshelf.

If I were a liquid, I’d be Diet Coke.

If I were a gemstone, I’d be a ....

If I were a tree, I’d be a ....

If I were a tool, I’d be an ice pick.

If I were a flower, I’d be a daisy.

If I were a kind of weather, I’d be a foggy fall day.

If I were a musical instrument, I’d be a flute.

If I were a color, I’d be gray.

If I were an emotion, I’d be ambivalence.

If I were a fruit, I’d be a starfruit.

If I were a sound, I’d be white noise.

If I were an element, I’d be As.

If I were a car, I’d be a Jetta.

If I were a food, I’d be vinegar.

If I were a place, I’d be a concrete park.

If I were a material, I’d be soft.

If I were a taste, I’d taste like ice cream cake.

If I were a scent, I’d be lavendar vanilla.

If I were an animal, I’d be an otter.

If I were an object, I’d be a railing.

If I were a body part, I’d be the elbow.

If I were a facial expression, I’d be a :P.

If I were a song, I’d be <3

If I were a pair of shoes, I’d be chucks.

What's In My Bag?

Inspired by Just Sweet Love

-phone & iPod (always)
-wallet, keys
-lotion, eyedrops, lipgloss and hand sanitizer
-mirror
-notebook and pens
-magazine or novel
-Coach bag a Christmas gift 2008

What's in yours?

Family Weekend

Last night I went with the family to see How To Train Your Dragon.

It. Was. Awesome.

I've been working on a new art journal. Quiet Nights was so much fun, I've decided to do another class: Tell Your Story.

My mom and stepdad got wireless internet last week, so Sam brought their laptop upstairs and I brought mine from home and we set up shop in the kitchen.

And tomorrow is...

Easter!

I am Inimitable!

A few weeks ago I e-mailed my picture to Vivianna for the I Am photo project.

Click to see all of them & participate yourself :]

Complainy Pants

It's hot out. HOT. In Wisconsin. Also, my idiotic landlord painted the windows shut, so it's stuffy and the air is stagnant. After years of a more heightened self-awareness, I've realized that any semblance of a seasonal affective syndrome I exhibit leans toward a spring depression, overall (if we're even going to stretch so far as to call it that). A lot of the poetry in my senior thesis (written over the last four years) paints a really bleak picture of springtime, which I really never noticed until recent. What can I say - I was born upside-down. I'm so not even joking about that (but kind of).

All the joking that I am a 25-year-old in an 80-year-old's body came to a head today when I stopped at Walgreens to pick up some sole inserts that came highly recommended and a velcro ice pack for my ankle (walking to work this morning was terrible today). The automatically generated coupon that printed with my receipt was for an AARP discount. I like it better when I buy feminine hygiene products and get chocolate coupons. Bitch.

URGH not only am I hot sweaty and sore, but the pizza I had for lunch is really not agreeing with me, and for all the hassle it was - they delivered it a half hour late (which happened to be one minute after I punched back in for work) and the girl was all, "in the future, we're not going to deliver here anymore. it's too far" so I said, "oh, don't worry. in the future we won't order." It's actually not that far, but she got lost. I wanted to pull my portion of the tip out of the group total, but didn't want certain people to think I was that much of a jerk. But it was that kind of day. Dammit.

Favorite Song This Week

Take that, Tuesday!

Okay, so this particular day has been truly fantastic. Let me count the ways:

• A patient brought me a sweet card and a box of candy for all I do
• I left work in a really good mood - and not just an I'm so glad work is over thing, but totally sincere
• Walgreen's had birthday cake scented candles on CLEARANCE and then the grocery store had my favorite kind of birthday cake ice cream. It's not even my birthday!
• I needed to get an anniversary card for my mom and step-dad (even though I am two days late today), but at Walgreen's, the only anniversary cards they had were SO dumb. I tried to find a blank card that was interesting enough to turn into happy anniversary, and settled on one featuring two pears on the front of it. Because what says you belong together better than a pear pair?
• While I was walking up to the post office, I realized that the soonest the card will make it to their house will be Thursday, but I looked up to see a big mail truck, a cart of mail, and a postman waving - he took my mail right then and there!
• My CCS package showed up with not only a free Vans makeup bag, but also a free beef stick. For real.
• Netflix. Discovery Classics: Essential Dinosaur Pack: Disc 1 (need we say more?)

ABC's of me

Kindly yanked from

A-Age: 25

B-Bed Size: Full

C-Chore you hate: Dishes

D-Dog's Name: I am pet-less, but the family dog is Munson

[this is not him]

E-Essential start to your day: Diet Coke

F-Favorite colors: violet, silver

G-Gold, Silver or Platinum: platinum. no, silver.

H-Height: 5'1

I-Instruments you play: oh... ALL of them! no, just flute, some piano, and back in the day a little trumpet and horn... some sax... my voice... and PICCOLO!

J-Jewelry you wear everyday: nose ring

K-Kids: kid brother=Sam

L-Living arrangements: college-y apartments in a neighborhood I have seriously outgrown (listening to keggers at 11:00 on a Thursday night gets old fast when you have a real job...)

M-Mom's name: Jane

N-Nicknames: Meggo... Meggie?

O-Overnight Hospital Stay, other than birth: never

P-Pet Peeves: a-holes who call others out on crimes against grammar. unless you teach sixth grade, it's so uncalled for.

Q-Quote: "Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you'll start missing everybody" -Holden Caulfield

R-Right or Left Handed: Right

S-Siblings: two cool-as-heck brothers, the best sister-in-law ever, and i'm going to stop there.

T-Time you wake up: usually around 7. even on the weekends (but i'm always napping again by 10!)

U-Underwear: pink polka dots

V-Vegetable you dislike: asparagus

W-Ways you run late: snooze button

X-X-Rays: stomach, both feet, teeth

Y-Yummy food you make: i don't

Z-Zoo Favorite: otters

Go-Go-Go-Go-Goals! A Girl Can Dream.

I'm not moving until August, but it's going to be a major ordeal. I moved into my first apartment, the one upstairs where I live now, in the fall of 2005. Prior to then, I was moving around between dorm rooms and my room at my parents' house. In other words, I had quite a manageable load of stuff, which by necessity had to be combed through often.

It wasn't until nearly a year ago that I decided I needed to find a different apartment. At this point in time I wasn't entirely thrilled with life in general, so I approached the apartment problems the same way I do all others in such a mood: half-assed. I lazily set my sights on the apartment directly below my own and vowed to go through my stuff and purge four years of enthusiastic shopping, throw things away, take things to goodwill, maybe even have a garage sale.

Just when I was beginning to think life could go as planned for once, I lost one of my favorite people in the entire world. Life literally stopped for a week and a half and things like my apartment, my job, my shady friends were completely out of my mind. Needless to say, moving was not as carefully calculated as I had hoped, consisting mostly of heaving stuff down the stairs and piling it up in my new entryway. I had zero time to really organize and decorate as all of my earned time at work was spent planning and attending a funeral. I literally moved empty boxes, which now sit empty in my new apartment begging to either be packed or tossed.

I don't move until August, but I already have some boxes. The changing weather lends itself well to packing away my coats, long-johns and winter accessories. There are only so many books I can read in four months, so I might as well pack up some of those. As much as I wish I do, I will not be needing my skinny clothes by then. It's also not unreasonable to try to finish stuff off - empty the shampoo bottle rather than buy a new scent a month later, use up the free samples, make sure the ibuprofen is gone before picking up another bottle (I am notorious for having lots of doubles in the bathroom). And stay on top of the trash because everything is just that much harder when the whole apartment is buried beneath one solid layer of junk mail.

This is entirely reasonable. If I can carve out a comfortable space within the mess, I can work this through in a weekend. I'll be updating...

I Think I'm Bored

I'm so proud of myself for getting so much done this weekend. I went to the parents' house and did three loads of laundry, got groceries and spent lots of quality time with the little bro. My mom asked me to make it a point to hang out with Sam, but little did she know I was bringing my Planet Earth DVDs precisely so I could hang out with him. There is nothing in the world quite like having a kid who looks up to you.

Tuesday night I'm going back to E-Ville because I have a dentist appointment on Wednesday, and then I come back up Thursday morning (and have the day off Thursday... yaaay!) If only all weeks could be like that - 2.5 days off, work two days, off two more days, work one day, and then another weekend.

So... I'm writing right now to kill time because I think I'm bored... even though I need to put away my clean clothes, pick up my apartment, dust and some other stuff... so much to do!