My Thirties so far (as reviewed in tweets)

In January 2011, I turned 30, and man was I pumped about it. My twenties as a whole were a rough decade and I was going to take my thirties by storm. I was ready! And then all of a sudden it was January 2012 and I was turning 31…

And I was not happy about it. AT. ALL. A funny thing happened, I believed that taking my thirties by storm meant everything had to happen in one year. I was sad, I was disappointed. Thirty had not been as amazing as I had planned. It’s been a few months and I’ve lightened up some, but I still have dark moments. Moments thinking, what if the next 9 years  are the same and nothing changes and nothing is amazing and then I’m 40. FORTY. OMG. WHAT AM I DOING WITH MY LIFE?!?!?!?!

Last night I got a nice dose of perspective as I was randomly scrolling through my old tweets. I guess Thirty wasn’t so bad after all. In fact, it was a pretty great year. I needed this.

“Hello from the 20! That’s right – we got field access ” – Feb 6, 2011 @ Dallas Stadium for the Superbowl

“So if you buy 6 bottles you get 10% off. But if you buy 10, you get the 10% off plus a look that silently asks if you are okay.” – 2/26/11 @ Total Wine buying the wine for book club at my place.

“Totally copping out by sending an email to tell a guy that I didn’t want to see him again. Avoiding his texts got too exhausting.” “Also… if @elizabeth_cw is much later to BSP, I may have to break up with her too” – 3/18/11 at BSP with EW (eventually)

“Poolside with a mimosa. Not a bad way to start the afternoon.” 3/26/11 in Clearwater, Florida on a station trip.

“‘Mickey Mouse You too!’ – SW #disneyappropriatecurses” – 4/3/2011 @ Disneyworld for a wedding.

“Got my new passport in the mail today, so… The govt has my permission to shutdown if they are so inclined.” – 4/8/11 @ home.

“He said, “I’ll wear you down eventually, even if it takes 2 years. We have all the same friends” I said, “I’ll make new friends” – 4/9/11

“Is it bad that I said yes when the Party City lady asked if the Princess Tiara was for my daughter” – 4/29/11 @ Party City buying a tiara for a Royal Wedding Party.

“Excited for Six Flags Today!” – 6/18/11 on my way to Six Flags for the first time since I moved to Atlanta.

“Walking Rusty after a couple margaritas is no easy task. I mean, the poor guy is stumbling all over the place”  - 6/24/11 after walking Rusty after having a few drinks at a summer work happy hour.

“Wouldn’t it be better if we just gave Keanu Reeves the job and ended this whole lock out think. Just Saying #badjoke #thereplacements” – 6/28/11

“In case anyone needs a unique compliment someday… my grandpa just told me I’m as handy as a pocket in a shirt” – 7/3/11 in Missouri visiting my grandpa.

“Cruising past Canada. Can’t wait to hit Alaska tomorrow!” – 7/9/11

“Taking tequila shots at Old Decatur Courthouse. I’d say it’s time to hit the dance floor…” – 7/23/11 at K&N’s wedding reception

“You know it’s a good night when you get home from book club and it’s technically the next day ” – 8/9/11 @ home after a super-sized book club.

“Wine & Cheese Happy Hour at work is the perfect precursor to Shade & Shots at the Botanical Gardens!” – 8/18/11 sometime in between the two…

‘Somali Pirates sentenced to life. Really? Couldn’t we have been more creative with that. Gang Plank over sharks or something…” – 8/23/11 and I still wholeheartedly stand behind this statement.

“Ready to dance to Yacht Rock at Park Tavern with Jools:)” – 9/2/11 @ Park Tavern

” ‘This is not Camp Hell, This is Camp Boring Ass Movie’ – me. ‘Yeah, when’s the murdering going to start’ – LH” – 10/12/11 @ my place for scary movie night with the girls.

“LH, Don’t you mean “The Orchestra – starring former members of ELO” Good Times at Epcot!” 10/21/11 in Orlando for Horror Nights and Epcot Food and Wine Festival

“If my mom had invented SIRI, then she would have been programmed to tell me to enunciate after everything I say” – 11/10/11 after getting my very first (and so far only) iPhone

and finally…

“I kind of want to get blue solo cups for Saturday just as a joke for AB. I think she’d appreciate it.” – 1/11/12, or as I like to call it 31 years after the most amazing person on the planet was born.

Special mention to a couple of my favorite tweets written by someone else when I was thirty.

” Given our current economic status, I wonder if LFO would now settle for girls who wear Aeropostale” – @jscottmoore
“When a server asks, ‘Diet Pepsi okay?’ The proper response is ‘Do I look like a murderer?!’”  @kellyoxford

A Million…

In the “What A Girl Wants” Kelly Preston’s character, Libby, tells her daughter, “I love you a million Swedish Fish”

I thought this was a weird thing to say because I had never had a Swedish Fish. In fact I didn’t even know what it was the first time I saw this movie. Amanda Bynes’ character, Daphne’s, response made much more sense to me, “I love you a million red M&M’s” Red is always the best one of anything, and I now know that this is true for Swedish Fish as well.

I was trying to think what I would say. Here are some thoughts…

• I love you a million pairs of shoes.
• I love you a million grains of sand.
• I love you a million Switzerlands.
• I love you a million Jesse Spencers.
• I love you a million Bottlecaps – this one is tricky because I mean the candy but it could also be insulting if someone thought I meant actual bottle caps.
• I love you a million New York Cities.
• I love you a million romantic comedies.
• I love you a million books.
• But to be fair, I also love you a million TV shows.

Last, but not least, so it’s in terms he’d understand, I’ve taken to telling Rusty, “I love you a million Milk Bones” He seems satisfied with that.

How about you? What would your million be?

 

What happens if it’s not?

I’m not a big fan of bumper stickers, especially when they are on a nice car. Why anyone would want to pay 20K plus for something and then stick a bumper sticker on it is beyond me.

I saw one today that really seemed unnecessary:

“igbok” written in big letters that filled up almost the entire sticker, followed by small print underneath “it’s gonna be ok”

Even ignoring that the abbreviation is of “gonna” instead of “going to” this seems completely ridiculous to me.

Is this some common abbreviation that I have just completely missed? If it is, why would it then be written out below the abbreviation? Why wouldn’t you just put the whole phrase on the bumper sticker? Why would you chose this one when there are so many funny ones out there?

There’s just too many questions…

“It matters not…

whether you win or lose, what matters is whether I win or lose” – Darrin Weinberg

It’s a slow afternoon so I thought I’d go ahead and change the quote on my white board. I went with this one.

Watching the rain and counting the minutes

It is a crummy day outside. Add that to the fact that they have changed our buy specs AGAIN (exactly 10 minutes before I was going to turn them in) I have been completely unmotivated to touch any of my work today until we get final word on the changes. So, I did what I always do when I can’t find anything else to do around my office – I updated the quote on my whiteboard…

“I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.” — Emo Phillips, Neuropsychology: Clinical and Experimental Foundations

A weekend in Chucktown

The highlight of the weekend was definitely getting to see the bride and groom getting hitched, but here are some other great memories from my weekend in Charleston…

* On the drive down there, ECW was giving me a hard time because I said I probably wouldn’t get married in a church because it would be too formal for what I want, but then later in the trip was talking about the Chris Brown song church entrance video and then gave me a hard time because I said that it was stupid.

Let’s get things straight here – it’s kind of not ok if I don’t get married in a church, but if I do, it is ok if I do something completely and utterly ridiculous like this. For the record, if I do end up getting married in a church, I will not be entering to a Chris Brown song. I don’t think it would ever be an issue though because I’m pretty sure Peachtree’s rules do not allow for this sort of thing…

* This picture of MF and her boyfriend EC Friday night. When first posing for the picture, he was being silly and ignoring her with his pose so then when he tried to get serious and kiss her cheek she timed it perfectly with the picture to dodge his kiss. I was greatly amused…

* Everything KA and JLaw said on Saturday night.

* Sitting in a bar with everyone after the reception and making videos including one of all of us girls doing our window washing dance, but while sitting at the table because our feet were killing us. If I ever get a copy of this video I might add it below, but for now, just imagine the most awesome dance ever done by the coolest girls ever.

* After having the rickshaw driver stop for us to get pizza on the way home from the bar, JLaw, her husband SLaw and I sat in the hotel bar and ate our slices so I wouldn’t have to share mine with my roommates. It was closed, but we were thirsty so JLaw went behind the bar to get some water from the fountain. SLaw kept trying to get her to see if the beer taps worked, but we stuck with water. While refilling our waters I made some comment about being surprised no ones come over to see what we are doing since we are probably being kind of loud and going behind the bar. JLaw then says, “Whatever, we are the most honest people ever. I mean we’re only stealing water”

* In the morning while dividing up the hotel bar this exchange took place. For as tired as KA was Sunday morning, this was very funny.

Me: Ok, so it’s going to be $120 each, well I guess if you want to get technical, it would be $121.10 each. I can cover the extra two cents.

KA: Good, then I don’t have to give you mine.

Feeling Uninspired

I don’t really have anything I want to write about right now, so I just followed Ignorant Historian’s lead and thought I’d answer some questions about myself…

1. What is your current obsession?

Getting over the last obsession – does that count?

2. What are you wearing today?

Jeans, a black top and black heels. I have lunch with a rep today so I had to glam it up with the heels instead of flip flops…

3. What’s for dinner?

Probably something quick and easy – maybe couscous with some vegetables thrown on top.

4. What’s the last thing you bought?

A soda from downstairs.

5. What are you listening to right now?

The new The Dead Weather CD on iLike

6. What is your favorite quote?

I don’t know if I can narrow it down, but I would probably end up with something by Mark Twain if going for famous quotes. However, if you count the years of hilarity that have been created by the quotes I will go for these…

“I’m a witness” – Little sister around age 4-5 to my parents when big brother and I were fighting over who did what. The actual event was soon forgotten, but the quote will remain the bane of my sister’s existence for years to come.

“He’s jogging now” – Again this was little sister, but at an older age. We were all just hanging out in the living room one day and this man walked down our street. Then it started to rain and when he came back from the opposite direction he was running. You probably had to be there.

“Look – it’s a guy full of jeeps” – my friend Annie one night in high school – driving around. For about the next year we said it backwards on purpose because it was just funny.

“Oh really,” “No O’Reilly” – This is the punch line to a joke** in the Laugh-a-Minute joke book my grandma bought my sister and I when we were little. I still tend to add the “No, O’Reilly” whenever my sister says “Oh really”

7. What language do you want to learn?

I guess Spanish would probably be the most useful, but I also wish I would’ve kept up with French. After taking 5 years of it from age 14-19, I know a dismal amount of it now.

8. What do you love most about where you currently live?

The weather, the trees and neighborhood feel even though it’s a big city. More specifically, that I’m close to work and only have a 15 minute commute.

9. If you could travel anywhere, where would you go?

I think I’d like to go to Japan, China and Thailand, but I’m also still working on all 50 states – only 8 more to go.

10. If you could do or be anything (career wise), what would you be?

This is a tough one because I really enjoy what I’m doing now, so I think I’ll stick with it.

11. What’s your favorite piece of clothing in your own wardrobe?

That’s a tough one. I am really digging a pair of wedge sandals currently so I’ll go with them. I don’t know if shoes count, but whatever, this is my answer.

12. Describe your personal style?

Hair’s kinda, I dunno, brown? No, it’s not really brown. Oh, and tall. Yeah, kinda tall. Sorta tall. And like always wearing like t-shirts. So, sort of tall? Kind of. With… hair? Yeah. And wears t-shirts sometimes? Yeah. (not really to describe my personal style – I just wanted to throw in a “Can’t Hardly Wait” reference)

My real answer would go something like this conversation I had at work.

Coworker: Oh I like your outfit. Did you put it together yourself?
Me: If by “put together” you mean, liked what the mannequin was wearing and bought it, then yes, I put it together myself.

13. Do you collect anything?

Hat pins when I travel – they are all on my bulletin board at home since I don’t wear hats and think it would be kind of lame if I actually pinned anything to them if I did.

14. What makes you follow a blog?

If it’s funny and/or interesting.

15. What makes you comment on a blog?

I don’t know, I guess if I have something to say then I will comment.

16. What is the most enjoyable thing you did today?

It’s still pretty early and I’m at work, so the most enjoyable part of my day so far was probably taking a shower.

17. What’s your favorite thing to do when you have free time?

Read, play tennis, play board games, watch TV.

**Jane: Aunt Sheila, did you hear I’m enganged to an Irishman?
Aunt Sheila: Oh really?
Jane: No, O’Reilly.

“There are two kinds of people,

those who finish what they start and so on.”

- Robert Byrne

I updated the quote on my white board today – this one made me laugh so I picked it…