Winnie's

02:33 pm - Excited!

In less than a week I am getting married! Six days to be exact. I am so excited. Check out the webcam of Yosemite here and here. Looking amazingly beautiful, photographers and snow sport enthusiasts delight! We are bringing up with us the loveliest of dessert wines from Navarro along with a case of red wine for dinner Saturday.

Wedding presents came in the mail this weekend. We, and when I say we I mean me, couldn't deal with wedding registration which means Crate & Barrel and Amazon are the only places I registered since you could do it all online. I found out that three weeks after the wedding, Crate & Barrel (and Macy's if registered there), send out a coupon for 10% off your entire purchase. I am going to get new flatware since we do not have a complete set.

I got a sweet valentine's day present from E, furry boots to wear up in the snow and something from my favorite chocolate shop. Tonight, we're having dinner at home and then going champagne tasting at a friend's house.

"Honeymoon" in March might be delayed if I am offered a contract and accept. We'll take a longer trip in May or June and another one in July. I am not particularly attached to the whole "Honeymoon" concept since we go away pretty regularly on trips. Maybe we'll take a weekend trip to Vegas to see "O", if taking a trip in March doesn't happen. I also would not mind going to Canada to stay at the Ice Hotel and try ice wine. Canada and Germany being the major producers of ice wine which is something I have not been able to find locally.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Current Mood: jubilant

02:23 pm - Post Mortem

Liberals breed and infuse your spawn with liberal ideas!

Know conservative families with children? Give their kids innocently subversive books that introduce different perspectives.

Current Mood: bitchy

02:57 pm - neverwhere

got the neverwhere dvd of the bbc production. looking forward to viewing it. anyone seen it already?

02:56 pm

Manka's was awesome in so many ways...

10:14 am - RAWK!

Been reading LJ Friends and it rocks to see everyone talking about how their significant others RAWK and being head over heels in love! I am in the same boat :-D

Current Mood: giddy

01:37 pm - Square Pegs in Round Holes

I decided I wanted to change my relationship to work and finances. I didn’t want to repeat patterns and behaviors that were no longer useful. Talked to E about what was going on. From our conversation it made sense for me to do an evaluation, in essence a series of use cases and interaction models to see how things have existed in the past, currently and to create a model of how I would like things to be going forward.

I drew a basic interaction diagram and wrote about work this morning. It became apparent that my work relationships are similar in dynamic and behaviors to my experience of elementary school. In my drawing I was a nickel sized round and work (manager, cow-orkers and customers), were a gum packet sized rectangle. Anyone hear of that old adage about round holes and square pegs…

Current Mood: contemplative

12:42 pm - Riding the bus...

I was thinking on the bus about people and how people could be grouped into three states: negative, positive and neutral. These three states can also be synonymous with taking, giving and balance. Most people run thru these three different states depending on situations, people and other stimuli. Though some people seem to be mostly negative or positive.

Negative. There are folks that I perceive as negative some or most of the time, but it doesn’t seem to affect me strongly. I know it is their stuff and has nothing to do with me. Then there are the folks I find negative because their actions/behavior affect me adversely bringing me off balance a number of ways including crossing my boundaries or triggering me in some way. I generally do not want to spend much time with a person who affects me this way. If I do find myself in a situation where I spend time with this sort of person I manage by establishing and defining a strong boundary of what is acceptable to me and communicate this. If the person crosses my boundary that is information telling me it is time to get out of the situation.

11:09 am

Got a dresser and tonight we're making a Target run for those various household sundries! So happy that I will be able to organize my clothes. We picked up a dresser posted on Craigslist last night, the dresser was not as nice as in the picture and not all wood per the ad. The price was right, $50 which means I won't feel bad about recycling the dresser later vs spending $150-$250 plus at Target or Ikea for something I like so-so. I need to save my pennies to get something from Evolution Furniture, mmmm the "Sarah" collection. E and I are gonna go over and gawk sometime without any credit cards ;-)

Someone had expressed interest about the Microwave. I replied and haven't heard back so I am posting on Craigslist along with the following...

Queen Size Futon Mattress - Black (no cover)
Cutlery Tray
Assorted Clothes Men and Women, Large
Glass Vase

If you are interested, email me to arrange a time for pick-up. This weekend around 10-11 or in the late afternoon 5-7 are some tentative times.

The people at the new job are nice and the environment mellow which kinda makes up a bit for the so-so pay. I did get my first paycheck this week which was useful. The agency I am contracting through pays weekly. I might take on another contract if it is offered (simultaneous), while continuing my search for a perm job. All in all things seem to be stabilizing and working itself out in due time. I am of course impatient and want things to happen all at once *and* when things happen all at once I am often overwhelmed..heh!

Current Mood: productive

07:51 pm - When it rains if pours!

Jesus! I am pretty sure everyone has heard me bitch, complain or otherwise kvetch about the job hunting/work/money situation. The past couple of weeks I have been getting contacted about once a day about jobs. Had two interviews the week of the move and since then I have had two more interviews. Got offered a contract at a non-profit. I accepted. The folks I interviewed with were cool. I liked the hiring manager/environment and I need the cash $$. It may turn into a perm job. Of course I have to bitch about something...the rate at the contract is low riding the line of being unsatisfactory. Feeling like I can't or don't know how to renegotiate this since I need the job/money and like it's too late since I accepted the contract.

Today, I interviewed at Wells Fargo at the Web Research and Design department. I thought the interview was alright, not great. The chemistry wasn't there. It felt good to know that I had a bird in hand of another offer. I also talked to two more contacts about jobs. One of which is a perm position at an agency which I am interested in going forward with. I want to find the right match and stay on for a while.

Does moving and unpacking ever end?
/rhetorical question

I got everything out of my apartment, but it wasn't cleaned out completely and most assuredly I will be dinged on my deposit. That is a first for me! E put it into basics of time and money...just glad my move is over! This weekend we gotta clean out E's place and do some home decorating. Need to get a dresser, preferably the high boy kind and window furnishings to block out light in the bedroom. We get a lot of morning sun and the mini-blinds aren't a complete solution. Hoping we luck out and find something we both like and is affordable this weekend.

Feeling disconnected from people/community and unpacking/organizing has taken over my life. I really really hate not being able to find things and feeling like everything is in disarray. Drives me quite mad! Needing to have a day of doing nothing or something relaxing like a spa day/day of beauty at the moment. Guessing it maybe weeks before this happens, c'est la vie!

Current Mood: stressed

10:03 pm - I to have been sucked in!