I made this for a friend today. It’s her birthday in a few days.
I must say that I am completely in love with the way it turned out and may in fact make some more of these.
Consists of the book, some old prints of mine, and a stack of polaroids wrapped in vellum paper. The little tag hanging from the book just says “open me” and the quote reads, “In the sweetness of friendship; let there be laughter and the sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things, the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.” – Kahlil Gibran
Total cost $10
xposted from my other journal since only a few people actually added it.
I made this for a friend today. It’s her birthday in a few days.
I must say that I am completely in love with the way it turned out and may in fact make some more of these.
Consists of the book, some old prints of mine, and a stack of polaroids wrapped in vellum paper. The little tag hanging from the book just says “open me” and the quote reads, “In the sweetness of friendship; let there be laughter and the sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things, the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.” – Kahlil Gibran
Total cost $10
xposted from my other journal since only a few people actually added it.
I like losing weight. I like the feeling of accomplishment. It’s my favorite when the numbers drop into a new ‘10′ (ie. 90, 80, 70). The most recent 10 can suck it. I’m growing impatient with you.
I’m not sure if it’s boredom or some other problem I’m dealing with. I work late into the evening at SBUX (eg. 3pm – 12am) and although I do stay up for a few hours when I get home, I end up sleeping well into the afternoon everyday which means I only have a few hours before I’m back to work. I’m not depressed (thank God). Life these days has actually been pretty good. Nothing amazing has happened but nothing terrible has happened either.
I have money in my savings account, work isn’t too bad, my bills (for the most part) are being paid on time and I’m losing weight.
Kelly is off at the Bonaroo (sp?) Music Festival in Tenn. so I haven’t seen her for a few days. She’ll be back on the 18th but then she’ll be off to St. Augustine for her church mission trip orientation. I think Kelly calculated something like 22 days that we’d not see each other. We’ve been hanging out almost nightly for at least a month so it’s a bit strange to get off work and not have anything to do. We’re still not dating but there’s obviously something there. I’m apprehensive about rushing things. About putting labels on what we’ve got. I like her. She likes me. I’m comfortable leaving it at that for now. I’m definitely going to visit her at school when she heads back out to St. Augustine. I know we’ll have some fun out there.
And yup. I’m losing weight. I’m not really sure if I’ve posted about it before but… in the last two years, I somehow managed to put on 80+ pounds and not realize it. I topped out at 305lbs a few months ago and it was only then I thought “WOAH?! THIS has GOT to change.” It’s been easier to focus on excercise and my eating habits now that I’m single. People at work joke about my cigarette and water diet but the reality is… I eat. I just only eat when I’m actually hungry. I’ve become addicted to V8 Juice and water as well. I’ve managed to lose close to 50lbs since I started really focusing on my weight again. In theory, I’ve got another 40 pounds to go before I’m back to where I was when I got out of the military but I don’t think it’ll be all that difficult. I’m not too concerned with losing weight quickly… I just want to lose it.
Pulled my mountain bike out of the shed the other day… it was a sad, sad day for me. I’ve been looking at new mountain bikes for a while now and figured I’d at least take mine out of ’storage’ and give it a few rides before I retired it for good. It was only when I took it out of the shed that I realized how bad off it was. Hasn’t been cleaned in a century. Parts need replacement. It basically needs a complete overhaul. And I realize many people relate overhauls to automobiles but… my bike is (was) my baby. Originally purchased for $800 and I think I put another $1,000 into at least. So to see it in such shoddy condition was a sad thing. I’m not sure if I’m going to spend the money on cleaning / overhaul or if I’m just going to save it for a new bike. We’ll see.. but DAMMIT if I don’t miss riding… A LOT.
That’s right. I created a new journal
I am still unable to figure out why my password is continually needing to be reset. It was merely a hassle at first but it’s now just too much. I did a test on the new journal and was able to stay logged in for days even when closing my browser window (as it should be). So as much as I hate to abandon this journal, I’m moving over to the new one to make my blogging life a bit less stressful.
I don’t expect to catch everyone with this post and I don’t expect that everyone will add the new journal but I figure I’ll see the ‘important people’ over there. Toodles!
ps. I’ve been doing my best to keep away from posting ‘project related’ crap in my journal but… just this one last time? haha. I recently discovered Virb.com and have concluded that with Virb along with sites like Flickr and YouTube, now is the PERFECT time to bring the Travelinghead Project back from the dead. So if you’re a Virb member, feel free to add Travelingheads Project.
A list… maybe I’ll come back and flesh it out later.
I spoke with my Store Manager yesterday at SBUX and it’s been confirmed (not that there were rumors) that by the holiday season, I should be promoted to Assistant Store Manager. That’s good news considering that I’ve only been working for them a short while.
I’m still having problems with my log-in sessions and livejournal regardless of how many times I’ve changed passwords to both my email and my LJ account. It’s annoying enough that I’m considering starting a new journal to see if that makes a difference or creating a WordPress blog on my Lumpstuff.com website.
My trip to LA for the Fox Reality interviews went well. On the way home, I missed my connecting flight in New York due to the gate being different than what was printed on my ticket so I took the opportunity to head into New York City to check out Times Square etc as I’d never been to NYC. It was quite the adventure. More on this later.
I believe I’ve hit my weight-loss plateau. I’m happy to be holding steady where I am as I’ve not been eating quite so healthy this past week but I’m obviously going to need to kick it up a notch if I plan on losing anymore weight.
I’m headed out to lunch at a yummy deli.
Hello again from California. Posting from the hotel. I haven’t talked much about what is going on because it only came together a week or so ago. It appears that the Fox Reality Network has leased Average Joe: The Joes Strike Back from NBC and they will be re-airing it under the guise of “reality revealed.” I was flown out to California for the weekend to do some interviews with them which they will ultimately splice into tiny soundbites and stick into the show when they decide to air it.
I was apprehensive about digging up the past but figure… why not? I’ve grown a LOT (at least I’d like to think so) since the show originally aired and although I haven’t done much of anything with myself over these past few years, I feel more of an ‘adult’ these days. I spoke with Anna Chudoba, the token female from the show, while I was sitting at the airport in Tampa waiting for my plane to come in. We’re going to TRY to fit in a coffee or lunch seeing as how I haven’t seen her in three years. I believe the last time I actually saw her was when the producer called out “that’s a wrap!” and she was ushered off to her vehicle. I don’t even recall saying goodbye to her at the hotel in Tahiti… we just weren’t given the opportunity. A strange scenario nonetheless.
I’ve been anxious since leaving Tampa earlier this evening. The events of the show being regurgitated in my head, the fact that I’m going to miss Kelly, my dog and the comfort of my home for three days. Los Angeles is a lonely place for the wayward traveler. It’s too big. Too confusing. Too impersonal. There’s just too much going on overall.
I’ve been provided a hotel for tonight and a rental car for tomorrow to get to the shooting location but I fly out of L.A. at 11pm tomorrow (Saturday evening) and must check out of my hotel room before noon. I’m going to end up having six or seven hours after my interviews where I’ll need to find something to do. To be honest, I still don’t know where I’m supposed to drop off my rental car tomorrow… I had at first assumed it would be the airport but after looking at the contract which was left here at the hotel, it doesn’t appear to be. There’s so much that I probably should have asked about BEFORE agreeing to come out here but I just wasn’t thinking.
I made sure they were paying for my cab fare from the airport to the hotel but… what about the gas for the rental car? What about transportation from Enterprise (wherever it ends up being) BACK to the airport? It was a $35 taxi ride. I’m not going to pay that out of pocket. If they think so… they’ve got another thing coming.
Anyhow, just wanted to make a quick post while I was here in front of a computer. I love traveling but to be honest with you, I’d rather be back in the comfort of my home right now.
