cleaning up more of my room at my parents’ house, i found two old journals! a few observations from reading these old journals…
- i’m not a prolific writer. and i waste journals like crazy. between the 2 journals, there was a total of 5 written pages!
- i can see the progres… deterioration of my handwriting.
- i actually wrote excitedly about gaining 5 pounds! wow… how times have changed! if only i knew that was just the start of it…
a friend and i started a food blog! please visit piqqypiggy.blogspot.com!
i suppose it doesn’t make too much sense to have another blog considering i don’t even update this one… but i do love food. and she has some great pictures of tastiness!!
for example:
I like to leave this open in my browser at work to stare and drool at...
i drove about 6 miles in, parked my car at a park and biked in a little less than 5 miles to the office.
it took 25 minutes.
overall, it was not bad at all. i was on the trail for about 4+ miles and only in the last bit did i have to bike on the streets. i cut into a neighborhood to bike on their roads, but got dumped off onto a fairly major road closer to my office when the neighborhood ended. i ended up biking on the sidewalk (yeah, i know… not supposed to) but i really don’t think i’m ready for the road yet!!
case in point:
at the first intersection off the trail, i had to come to a stop. this was what i was dreading because the bike is much bigger than my old one… so i had practiced starting and stopping earlier, but never with a bookbag. so in front of the on-ramp to the major highway… with a bunch of cars waiting to make a left turn, i came to a stop and then…. toppled over. BAH! skinned my knee.
but besides that, everything else was ok!!
a lot of people think i’m a nerd/into technology. but here are some examples proving otherwise!
so my mom’s office uses this new “Secure Drawer” website that allows their clients to “drop” their tax documents online so they can access it from their offices. pretty cool! i tried to use it when i realized it requires silverlight to be installed! i didn’t want that installed on my mac (plus, their website is either out of date or they don’t support osx 10.6) so i told my mom i couldn’t use it because i didn’t own a windows machine. my mom started laughing! because apparently, she’s been making fun of client… “who doesn’t own a single computer with windows on it!?!?!” er… me…
for my sister’s bridal shower, i was trying to figure out ways to play some videos we have… at first, i was like oh! i can just buy an mini-dvi to hdmi adapter and we’re good!! who doesn’t have hdmi!? then i realized what a bad assumption that is… prior to 3 months ago, i didn’t have anything that’d display hdmi and even now… i only have the basement that has hdmi. the rest of my tvs are still clunkers!
my phone uses windows mobile.
i decided to come in early today because cindy’s in town! so i’m taking off at 3pm to go hang out with her.
so i got in this morning at 9am. the office is pretty empty. i love working for this company!!
i just realized my huge bottle of centrum expired 09/09. hrm…
so i just counted all the pills that remained in the bottle to see just how much i wasted before i threw it out. out of 325 pills, i had 293 left =(
i need to eat my vitamins… what a waste of money! my mom gave me a bottle of one-a-day women’s vitamins awhile back… 100 tablets due to expire in 10/11. let’s see if i can make better use of them!
hahaha, i recapped my attempt at completing 101 things in 1001 days – http://www.whodamonkey.com/2008/10/31/1001-day-project-recap/
more recently, i visited the list again because Clara mentioned it. i accomplished a few more items off my list in the past few years. So 5 years later, i completed a few more for a grand total of 39 tasks.
Here are the ones I’ve recently (in the past 2 years) completed:
Here are the recently completed, but outside of 1001 days, tasks:
1.15.11 – 63. Start a jar of coins and collect $100
11.12.10 – 92. Explore a city on foot
11.12.10 – 4. Visit an European country
2.27.10 – 8. Visit some place tropical
2.26.10 – 9. Go on a cruise
10.16.09 – 34. Hike some trail
5.30.09 – 88. Attend 10 weddings
10.11.08 – 90. Be a bridesmaid at a wedding (sniff.. sniff.. always a flower girl, never a bridesmaid!! =P)
got my voicemail forwarding to google mail so i can get emails with a transcript and recording when i get voicemail. this way the mailbox stays clear and i can listen to all my messages easily at work.
but google voice transcription is very hit or miss… (i’ve only gotten one good transcription… from a used car dealer!) AND my parents like to speak chinese/chinglish to me on the phone which makes google even more confused!!
the latest message was the usual… didn’t make much sense… random english words put together. until the end, when it ended very normally with “Thank you. Bye.”
Which I thought was a weird way for my mom to end the message. Like it’s a normal way to end a phone message, but not the way my mom usually does… So I listened to the message and she was saying “da dian hua hui lai” (call home)
BAH!
the week off is over now. i’ve accomplished absolutely nothing on my list.
in fact, my attempt at organizing my room resulted in everything strewn all over the floor! i like to organize by first taking everything out of everywhere… but then i lose steam and it just results in a bigger mess!!!
last night, i accidentally slept with a pile of hanging folders!
my company closes for the whole week between christmas and new years. it’s a pretty awesome thing i like about the company. i mean, sure u can take a week off whenever, but because the whole company continues to run while you’re out, there’s that crazy rush before you leave (to make sure everything is in order), the worrying while you’re on “vacation”, and then feeling behind when you get back!! having the entire company close for a week avoids all this!!
so for my week off, i decided to not go anywhere and to just relax. it’s been a crazy busy 2010. i feel like i don’t have much to show for it, but was just busy through the whole year! so i’m going to use my week off to do some stuff around the house and catch up on hobbies.
things i want to do:
