A much needed deep breath of relief

So today is the first day in a long time where I feel financially stable. I finally feel like I "got my sh*t together" and looked at all my financial obligations, heavily prioritized that obligation list and eliminated any unnecessary costs.

Alas, there indeed is a light at the end of the tunnel. I can still have a reasonable amount of 'float' money while still being responsible.

"Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery." - Spike Mulligan

My new favorite song

So
If you ever want something
You call, you call
And I'll come running to fight
And I'll be at your door
And there's nothing worth running for

When your mind is made up
When your mind is made up
There's no point trying to change it
When your mind is made up
When your mind is made up
There's no point trying to stop it

You see you're just like everyone
When you share your falls
All you want to do is run away
And hide all by yourself
When there's fall, there's fall
There's nothing else

When your mind is made up
When your mind is made up
There's no point trying to change it
When your mind is made up
When your mind is made up
There's no point even talkin'
When your mind is made up
When your mind is made up
There's no point trying to fight it
When your mind, your mind

There's no point trying to change it
When your


So
If you ever want something
Then you call, call
Then I'll come running

20th Birthday

As of January 24th, 2009, I am no longer a teenager! Even though 20 is no where near being old... I still feel it. It's like now is when my life is going to start picking up and the chess pieces of the rest of my life are going to start falling in place, you know? Which I hope they do.

I really did have a big blow out or anything like that this year. Actually, my roommate/best friend forgot about my birthday so nothing was planned. Granted, I would have planned something myself but my car cost me around $300 dollars to fix the week prior so all my fun money went to that.

Adam basically saved my weekend. He is such a great guy and a wonderful friend. Sydney made chicken fettucini alfredo before she went to hang out with some of her friends so Adam came over and ate with us. After dinner, Adam and I headed back to his house to check on his puppy. He took a detour and basically FORCED me to eat chocolate ice cream from Coldstone.

Somehow our topic, whilst eating the ice cream, lead to tape worms so Adam wasn't able to finish the rest of his ice cream; which wasn't too unfortunate cause he got nasty coconut flavored ice cream ;)

We wanted to go see this production called Color Fast at the Broadway center in downtown Tacome so we raced down there and caught the train and tried to make it before 8. Sadly, we were about 3 minutes late and they had closed the doors. So we went and got coffee and headed back to Adam's car where he triumphantly smashed every puddle that we came across.

We picked up Arryah from Adam's house and brought her back to my place to play with Boomer, it was really entertaining to see a 4y old rat terrier and the pit bull puppy intereact, and we then watched The Producers.

All in all, I am extremely grateful for friends like Adam. He turned my weekend around and tried his best to help me have a good birthday. And well Adam, you did well :) Thanks.

My Bucket List

So, inspired by Mary Beth Dempsey, I am going to share my bucket list.

1. Find that special someone and start a family with them

2. Travel through Europe; At least France, Ireland, Germany and Russia.

3. Learn to fluently speak Russian.

4. Publish some form of prose

5. Pose for a nude drawing

6. Go to Japan and try authentic sushi

7. Go to New York and visit the art museums

8. Learn how to ball room dance

9. Snorkel amongst the corals reefs of Australia

10. See the Broadway production of Wicked

11. Plant and maintenance a vegetable and herb garden

12. Be in a major motion picture

I will update more soon.

A Lazy Sunday

If any of you were wondering about my iron, it is working amazingly now :)

Today has been extremely lazy for me... I woke up around 8:30, as usual on weekends. Made some coffee. Played some shooting games. And just kind of BS'ed with Sydney and her boyfriend Jeff.

I decided that for my birthday, on the 24th of this month, that I do want to go up to Vancouver. I am think about the 6th-8th of February. I want Sydney and Michelle to come with me but I'm not sure about Michelle cause her boyfriend is extremely protective. I hope she can make it though :)

I was looking forward to go running with Adam this evening but it's snowing and icy outside so we are going to have to try for another night this week. He's so cute; he was like "I bought new running pants for it too", lol. Sad day.

My goal for 2009 is to be able to fluently speak Russian. I have the Rosetta Stone program for it so I really have no excuse not too.

Time for yoga!

The Ironing Experience From Hell

So I got that really nice iron (featured below) right?

http://www.shoprowenta.com/detail/ROW+DX8800/DX8800_Professional_Iron

Well, I was really excited to use it for the first time this morning! My parents have this iron and I love it and it is why I love to iron so much.

So I get up, get in a shower and do everything I need to in there. I go into my bedroom and pick out my work clothes and put them on. I take my shirt out to the living room and place it on the ironing board. Take the iron out and plug it in and go start some coffee.

I come back to the ironing board. Lay my shirt out. It's my sacred canvas of ironing artistry. The iron is nice and hot. My shirt is good and wrinkly. I start by ironing the front right side of my shirt... Nothing happens. So, I give the shirt a little steam and slide the iron down the side once more. Again... Nothing happens.

At this point I am thinking that I just didn't do something right, after all it is the first time this iron has been used. I read the directions. I did everything right. So I decide that the iron is faulty and sadly place it on the counter, once it cools down of course.

I grab our cheap, lame one and try to make the best of my shirt before work. That doesn't work out well and I go to work looking like a fool who put on a rolled up shirt.

To make a long story short, I got home from my lunch and was really irritated with the iron. I put my shirt in the dryer and let it tumble for a while, which seemed to help. Once I noticed that, I wrong the tags on the shirt and discovered that this shirt needs to be tumble dried to get rid of wrinkles... *face palm*

I felt like such a fool.

Hopefully tomorrow's ironing expedition will be more productive.

Christmas 2008

I am SO happy that Christmas is over! Finally things can start settling down and going back to normal. I will miss all this paid vacation time though. I think my next one is going the the 1st of January and then I can't recall any close ones after that.

I had a good time this Christmas. It was a lot less annoying/stressful than last Christmas. My older sister Sarah got married on the 29th of last December so the whole last 2 weeks of December were insane.

This year it was very low key and relaxing. I got a 51 piece kitchen set (super stoked about it) and an extremely nice iron, an electric piano keyboard :D and some smallers things. I was very pleased and grateful for everything.

I am really excited to use my iron, lol. The one that I currently have it basically junk... So this is going to be a nice upgrade.

I hope everyone else is having a wonderful holiday season this year!