| Friends! |
[Jan. 1st, 2025|01:08 pm] |
Hey everyone. Most of my posts are open for anyone to read. The ones that are Friends-Only are just for that...Friends. Please don't be offended if you add me and I don't add you back. I only really add people that I either a) know in person or b) have talked to online for a long time.
Thank you for understanding!
CHEERS! |
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| Weekend Shenanigans |
[May. 7th, 2012|01:08 pm] |
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It happens pretty often with me where I will get SO pumped & SO excited for an event, only to have it let me down. Don't get me wrong - this weekend was AWESOME and active. I guess I was just hoping/expecting it to be a bit more mind-blowing/life-changing.
Left work early on Thursday to go home and rest before that night's Slash show. Timm got home a pinch later than expected, so while we rushed there and got to the venue 1.5 hours before the show, we were already several hundred people back in line when we got there. Bummed, I contacted (read: BEGGED) the guy I talk to at the venue, and he was able to get someone to shuffle us to the front of the line, and we got in and snagged a spot about 4 people back from the stage (exactly at the part where Slash would be standing).
We made it through the first band - swell. Made it through the second band - getting annoying. This is when OLD DRUNK BITCHES EVERYWHERE started leaning on me. Not pushing...LEANING. After repeated shovings and telling them to back off, I got claustrophobic & had to move to the near back before Slash even came on. My little pipe dream of having him recognize me = crushed. The show was still fantastic, and I consoled myself by saying loudly to Timm, "NONE of these bitches got to hand him his guitar on stage. NONE OF THEM!" Yep, I win at being an adult.
Friday was spent napping and running errands, which was wonderful. Around 5pm, my friend Lindsay came in from NJ to go see Sharon Needles with me. We ate the worst possible foods you can imagine (pizza, fries, mozzarella sticks, etc) and met up with a few other friends at the club. The performance was kind of pitiful. She only performed two songs, and we were so far away and the club was so packed that we couldn't see much. It was still fun, and I loved just being OUT.
Saturday was more napping and more errand-running before managing to drag my ass out to the club. It was AWESOME to see people (Nicole, Jamie, Erin, Anna, Robyn, Granma Dave, Stacia, Mike, Sean, Patrick, Neska, Jeff, etc.) and I actually (gasp!) recognized & danced to two songs. Plus, I snagged some incredibly fabulous nailpolish there. ;) As much as I still desperately want to love the club, though, it's just hard. I'm so attached to the memories that I have there, but I need to know it's just not the same. Plus, it makes me miss Steph & Kathy like CRAZY when I'm there. :-/
Sunday, we went for a walk around the Towsontown Spring Fest with Alicia & Bubby, grabbed some food, and went back to their place to watch the recording of the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame Inductions. I completely cried the whole way through the GnR induction again. I've said it once, and I'll say it again - I couldn't be happier that I DIDN'T sell my tickets to that. It will go down as one of the most memorable experiences of my life.
Today, I'm catching up on work, and getting back on my diet/exercise regimen. It will be hard since this is a Hell Week at work, but I have to start somewhere. Again. ;) |
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| Shallow things |
[Apr. 24th, 2012|09:09 am] |
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Warning: This post is full of fluff & shallowness. If you don't feel like hearing about diet/exercise stuff, you can skip right by.
On good weeks, I've been exercising 3x per week. On bad weeks, I've only been going 1x per week. My goal is and always has been to get up to 4x per week. Blerg. It's a bit harder when your "gym" of choice only has classes at very specific times. I really want to get into the habit of finding exercises that I enjoy doing at home so there are no excuses. I wish there were more hours in the day.
I bought myself a piece of "goal" clothing a few weeks ago.
I NEVER, EVER, EVER show my stomach. None of it. At all. Even when I was stick-skinny, I've just never really been comfortable with a bare midriff. I can count on one hand the number of times it has been exposed in the past 10-15 years. However, I really have been working at keeping my diet & exercise to something reasonable, and I wanted to reward myself. My goal is to work extra hard this week (hopefully going at least 4x to the "gym" and walking another day or two) and early next week, so that I can wear this to the Slash show next week and feel HOT in it.
I stopped weighing myself. I stopped tracking how many calories I was eating per day. I decided instead to just not eat like an asshole and to work out as much as I could without injuring myself. It does feel good, but I wish I had some sort of monitor as to how I'm doing to push myself along & know that I'm doing something good for myself. Some proof.
I'll get there. I actually feel pretty confident for the first time in years that this is something I'm going to stick to. |
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| What's the T? |
[Mar. 26th, 2012|12:53 pm] |
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Last Wednesday, I took the day off of work and went up to Jersey to visit with my mom. While our plans for the day were uber-typical (lunch, Cherry Hill Mall, discount stores, etc.), I REALLY had a great time. I'm so glad to be at the age now where I just love spending time with her. I miss a few things about Jersey, but above all else, I miss her - all the time.
After a quick nap, I met up with Lindsay to go to Voyeur (a gay club in Philly) to see drag queens again, including the inimitable Sharon Needles. The show was A-MAZING. Between a suspension act that left one queen dangling 20 feet above the stage from 4 hooks in her back, to another queen literally shoving all of the tips she got into a blender with vodka and drinking it, it was the show to see. hahah I saw that my friend, Nick was there with his boyfriend, so we hung out with them most of the night. At the end of the night, I had the pleasure of meeting Ms. Needles herself.
"Hiiiii sweetie!! How are you?"
"Oh I'm just superb. How are you?"
"Oh, you know. Sweaty, in heels and a thong, covered with fake blood."
"So...your average Wednesday?"
"YES! OMG, average Wednesday!"
So yes. Glamorous. ;) I also took off Thursday, so it was nice to just relax for a day. The weekend was sadly uneventful. Saturday was WAY too lazy for my tastes. Sunday, we had a last-minute BBQ lunch with Alicia & Bubby, followed by a nap. STOP - I KNOW YOU'RE EXCITED. ;)
I have to keep reminding myself that April & May will be fanfuckingtastic.
- March 29: Work Party
- April 6: Free concert at Rams Head (All metal tribute to...THE BEE GEES!)
- April 13-15: Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame Inductions
- May 3: Slash
- May 4: Sharon Needles (yes, again)
- May 5: Possibly Elektroschock
- May 17: Steel Panther
YES YES YES. |
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| Body image |
[Feb. 27th, 2012|08:33 am] |
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I'm putting this out there, on the internet, on "paper" so that I might help myself stay on track. I complain nearly constantly that I'm not happy with my body/my weight. Well, that's not entirely true. I'm always scared to complain about that because then I'll have people say, "SHUT UP YOU'RE NOT FAT OMG." By posting this here, I'm looking for support - both from myself and from my friends.
I'm getting myself back on track in a hardcore way (but not TOO hardcore). I'm back to putting all of my food intake in my food diary. It helps me not so much to "count calories", but to really take stock of everything I eat/drink. I'm going back to Xpose tomorrow and (hopefully) Thursday. This weekend, I plan to at least walk each day. Baby steps.
Current Weight (as of this morning): 116.1 lbs.
Goal Weight: 110-111 lbs.
Goal Date for success: May 1, 2012
This means I want to lose .75 lbs per week.
I think it's perfectly reasonable, too. Tonight (or maybe tomorrow morning first thing), I'm going to take pictures of myself in several angles in possibly a bikini or something of the sort. I want to track my progress and give myself little happy points, yanno?
I really hope I can do this. I'm so tired of hearing myself bitch and sit on my ass and not do anything about it. Today is my day. |
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| Yes, yes, and YES. |
[Feb. 15th, 2012|12:23 pm] |
2012 is turning out to be my year for music, and I couldn't be happier. Seriously. For someone who has never picked up an instrument (not counting flute in elementary school), music has been (and IS) such an important factor in my life. Hearing music live (the way it should be heard, IMO) is seriously one of my greatest joys, ever.
As of right now...
March (possibly) = VNV Nation
April (possibly) = witnessing a Guns n' Roses reunion at the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame inductions. One of the former members today said point blank that all of the members of the band will be in attendance, but nothing has been said of if they will perform or not. I'm thinking that if they genuinely all committed to even being there together, there's a good chance they'll play. Yes, I could get over $1000 if I sold my tickets...but seeing GnR together at least once in my life is worth it to keep them. (Silly? Maybe. Who cares.)
May = Slash (May 2nd), Steel Panther (May 17th), Possibly MMRBQ (May 20th) - might sell the MMRBQ tickets. Not sure yet.
Oh! And the tattoo convention is in May, too. I'm looking forward to that just for the shopping alone. haha
Things are looking good. I REALLY thrive when I have something in the future to look forward to, and these things are fitting the bill just fine.
On another note entirely...
My paid account expired today. I'm not sure how to feel about that. Last year, I renewed because I thought that it would maybe help keep this place alive in case it started to thrive again. It still seems to be dying a bit every day. Sad... |
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| Whoop |
[Feb. 13th, 2012|09:19 am] |
I'm trying to not focus on yesterday, as it was NOT a good day, but otherwise, things really have been going swell lately. :)
On Friday, I played that game again where I logged onto a ticketing website and hit "refresh" until tickets went on sale at noon. The show is the MMRBQ - a show put on (apparently) yearly by the old rock radio station I used to listen to in high school. The show is in Camden (*shudder*), but I love the venue, and the show has Steel Panther and...Slash. Yerp. The headliners are UBER-shitty (Godsmack & Shinedown), so I figure that I can leave right after Slash is over. We got tickets in an okay area (seats, to the right of the stage which is the side Slash plays on, Row X), but they're not the best seats. Still...I GET TO SEE SLASH IN MAY. Whoop!
I'm such a loser that I'm trying a bit to reconnect with either his guitar tech or band members via social media. Hey, who knows? Maybe I could have "Linda Meets Slash, version 2.0". LOL
The weekend was made up mostly of just running errands - laundry, grocery shopping, etc. I did splurge a PINCH, though, since I've had to be such a penny-pincher as of late. I got my eyebrows done, bought a LUSH face mask, got a MAC lipstick (for free since I had empty containers to trade in), got a new eye pencil, and snagged a new nailpolish. All of that came to about $30, so not TOO bad, and it made me feel worlds better. :)
PLUS! I sold my iPod finally! I'm even pretty pumped since I sold it to a friend. This means I can use that "free" money to get my hair done!! Considering that I haven't had my hair done since AUGUST, it's looking pretty haggard. I'm really excited - way more excited than I should be.
Otherwise, things are pretty good. :) I feel all "adult" saying this, but I've been thinking of having a dinner party lately. Nothing really crazy - just a night to literally sit and eat dinner together with a bunch of people. The loser/Crazy Craft Lady in me has been looking to sew some dinner napkins anyway. LOL! |
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| Days Gone By |
[Feb. 5th, 2012|03:20 pm] |
I haven't done a true update in a while. I usually only seem to update when I'm feeling horribly bad or something. Figured I'd throw a good 'ol "Here's what's new" post in the mix. So..
( Here's what's new ) |
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