ah gotta love post-vacation let down.
suck it.
so, eric took apart my camera this morning after i mentioned that one of my friends suggested there was sand in it and sure enough he said there is sand in it. Luckily he is fond of tinkering with stuff and usually can fix and put things back together. So hopefully he can clean it and put it back together and it will be as good as new.
I feel lost without that little camera - it's become such a part of my life with the 365 challenge as well as scrapbooking - i mean really - what is a scrapbooker without a camera?!!!!! So, I guess for the 365 challenge I'll just have to "fake" it when i get the camera working to fill in the blanks of these at least 3 days I don't have it.
eric wagged his finger at me for 1. misplacing the receipt and 2. not getting a camera bag and i got pretty pissed. but he's a good guy he just laughed cause he knows no one can really tell me anything about what to or not to do. I'm my biggest critique!
I got to the train this morning and realized I had left my MARTA card and my time card for work in my other jacket since it was so cold (um and a bit snowy?!!!!!!) this morning I wore my down winter jacket. My knight brought me the cards and then drove me to work since it was so late. So, it usually takes me 30-40 minutes to get to work taking public transit - eric had me there by car in 7 minutes. grrrrrrrrrr. My hero.
i forgot to mention yesterday about this chick i saw on the train going to work.
she looked like she was out of a rap video - she would be the rapper though.
but she had made a backpack out of a rice crispies box - she strung rope through holes she made on one side and then had duct taped the bottom edges. but oh no the ingenuity did not stop there. I nearly fell on my ass literally when i noticed that the ends of her braids were wrapped in bottle caps that looked like she had taken some sort of wrench to "crush" them around the hair. holy shit that was fucking hot. And i so almost fell on my ass staring cause the train started moving and i wasn't holding on to anything cause i was staring at her and i fell backwards.
I went to my diet class last night. As far as my weight i had no idea what to expect. I did not stick to the diet on vacation and my body definitely was screaming at me for it! But i didn't gain a pound! I was the exact same weight as last week before vacation! Crazy. All i can think is the 8 months of dieting has unconsciously trained me to eat in the right portions and pick things to eat that may be better than others? I don't know. It's not like i really did much exercise. But that's pretty cool none-the-less.
But speaking of food and the Bahama's - i was very very frustrated by the lack of healthy options and vegetarian options! Do you know how hard it was to find something without meat or fish in it? Even the salads always had chicken or fish in them!! And once I tried ordering a salad without fish and the waitress got all confused. But by Sunday i was sick of salad cause it was all i had eaten cause i couldn't find anything else vegetarian! So for lunch on Sunday i had a grilled cheese sandwich - AND i asked if they could put lettuce and tomato in it (to give me a little vegetables i had to resort to that) and the waitress was like "excuse me? you want what where?" and she said she didn't think they could do that so i said just put it on the side and when i got it i put the vegetables in myself. But, really, it was kinda pathetic how few vegetarian choices there was everywhere! Eric said i shouldn't be surprised but it's not like I'm the only vegetarian who goes on vacation!! There's alot of us out there! Come on!
But, yes, i ate grilled cheese which wasn't as good as i remembered it being from last year when the last time i had grilled cheese pre-diet. I also had a really delicious pesto-alfredo pasta (no chicken - yes really). But other than that the food pretty much sucked. But it's all good cause i didn't go there to eat!
And all the shit i ate made my body feel kinda sluggish and weighed down. So, I'll have to remember that feeling for the future too :)
I've uploaded like 50 more pictures but I guess I'll make a slideshow rather than put them in a journal entry. The pictures are already beginning to look like distant memories. *sigh*
Friday I get my tattoo finished!!! Yippee!
And we're finally seeing Regina Spektor Friday night - she's cancelled her shows twice now due to illness. Hopefully she's all healthy again.
This weekend we have some housework to catch up on but i hope to make a shadow box with a bunch of stuff i brought back from the Bahamas. I've never made a shadowbox but i'm excited to try!!!! I also need to catch up on some scrapbooking stuff - i have 2 weeks worth of 365 pictures and layouts. Plus I'd love to scrap some vacation piccies. Also if we have time go see U2 3D again - even though it's not at the IMAX anymore I'm sure i still looks stunning in a regular theatre!! I have a feeling my brother is also going to rope me into helping him pack. He was supposed to leave for London on Saturday but he hasn't gotten his Visa yet. So he's pushing it back 2 weeks and the lawyers say he should have it by then. Part of him is relieved since he hasn't really started to pack yet, but the other part of him is mind fucked since he had psyched himself up that he was moving to London on Saturday.
OK, now to work. Been here an hour now and haven't done shit. Do i care? No, not really.
Yesterday i was borderline annoyed with the fucking snot snorter and helicoptor mom - today i'm highly annoyed. And everyone is so pissy around here and sick. OY. What kind of environment is that?
A shitty one.
aggravated
tired
relaxed