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Cleaning the Office…Finally

Saturday, April 26th, 2008

This was a long time in the works here. Besides the piles of boxes of wine, there was also the piles of papers that needed to be shredded. On top of all of that, there’s still the fact that I need to empty out last year’s files and actually file this year’s files.

Did I mention the bags full of swag? There’s still stuff from the husband’s trip to SXSW both last year and this year. And NAMM. And the leftover Grammy week stuff that was passed on to me. Yes, we have bags of free shit just lying around. Don’t be too impressed, since most of it (like SXSW & NAMM is mostly crappy CDs and press-related stuff). But um, there’s, well, bags full of upcoming Christmas gifts lying around as well since I shop all year for the friends that I know well (and again, the swag that I tell myself I’m saving for Christmas gifts).

Which of course leads us to the mass amounts of CDs that we have in this house. My husband can get anywhere from 5-15 CDs a week between here and his office. Complete with their PR packet. The majority of them sit around unopened. Sometimes we luck out and find a band that the nieces or nephews are into (about 6 or so months after the CD has been lying about collecting dust) and we can pass it along. Most of the time, not so lucky. It sits. And sits some more collecting dust. Eventually, it gets moved into the office to join the other piles of dusty CDs. Yeah, that’s the plan - not the most effective plan, mind you.

Let’s not forget the guitars. I believe he has six lying around. Granted, due to the crazy old lady that lives next door he can barely plug in the electric ones, but that doesn’t stop him too much. At least there’s only one broken one in the office. That one I could squeeze in the out of the way space between the bookshelf and the wine rack. How do you ladies with kids manage?? Seriously.

Oh yeah, and then there are the books. Books that I need to ship out to contest winners. Books that I still need to read so that I can interview the author for my site. Books that I still need to give away. Books that I’ve read. Books that I’ve yet to read. The books the husband is using. The books he no longer needs and just wants me to get rid of. Well, just books, piles of books (in all the rooms, but more so here in the office).

But back to the issue at hand. Both yesterday and today, the focus has been on cleaning up this back room already. I’m totally clearing away the clutter to open the channels and energy to bring us something more fun, exciting and fulfilling than, well, clutter and junk. I figure if I can get this room into shape, it will be a lot easier to keep things clean down the road (especially when I get the cleaning lady). I have high hopes for us.

Between cleaning out my closet & drawers, cleaning up the rest of the living spaces and now the office…hoorah! I’m opening the door wide open for something amazing to come along, I tell ya. So watch this space because I’m sure it’s going to be BIG (and good…very, very good!)

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Wordless Wednesday: How Much Do I Love My Dog?

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

Or should I say…how I spent my Sunday? Notice the eyes watching my every move.

Only feel like sharing one photo today.

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Dork!

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

My husband is a big ol’ dork. He just got out of the shower and while getting dressed decided to bump me at my desk. I asked him what he wanted, thinking that, oh, I don’t know, he might have wanted something and he said “nothing. I just wanted to push you. What, you gonna go blog that now?”

Um…yeah, I think I will. And then I’ll go do laundry.

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At Least I Was Expecting It

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

To put it simply, my husband’s side of the family seems to be lacking some social graces. They are absolutely wonderful people and I love spending time with them. But…you knew a but was coming….but…they just don’t get the concept of event planning.

It wouldn’t be out of the ordinary to come home to a message on the answering machine on a Friday night (after 9:30pm) inviting us to something like a confirmation on Saturday morning at 9:00am. Mind you, they would have known this date for a month at least, but still, the actual invitation doesn’t happen until the last minute. This is across the entire batch of siblings (though it’s more likely to happen more last minute with one sibling - previous example - than with the other two). Same thing happens with recitals, school plays sporting games and birthdays.

For the most part, I’d been expecting this latest last minute invitation. I knew my nephew’s first birthday was any day now. I’d even already purchased his gift to make sure I had it on hand when said last minute invitation arrived. So yes, I wasn’t completely surprised when we received an emailed “invitation” to his first birthday for this Sunday - as in four days away. But I can still be grumpy about the whole thing.

I mean how does someone not know when they’ll be having the first birthday (or other milestone event)? They know when his birthday is. They know it will be a Sunday (dad is a mail carrier, so he only gets Sundays off). So surely they knew it would be this weekend and surely they knew it would be this weekend at least a week ago. So why wait until four days before the big event to even see if family can make it?

Most often, I don’t worry about it. If we can’t make it, we can’t make it. I don’t try to rearrange our schedule and I don’t feel guilty if we’ve got other plans. Mind you, it took at least 2-4 years before I finally stopped stressing and freaking about this sort of thing. Then again, it probably took me 4-5 years to stop freaking out and stressing about his family’s lack of social graces and planning around the family holidays as well.

My husband likes to say that it’s just his family. He figures that his parents (mostly his mom) never bothered with basic social etiquette so there wasn’t any modeling going on while they were growing up. In fact, he said that his family as a whole rarely socialized with others period. And I guess I can let that work as an excuse.

But…they’re all adults heading towards mid-life now. They watch TV, they interact socially both at work and at home. Surely they must be aware just how rude inconsiderate their behaviors are. Surely they must. Though sadly, I don’t think they do.

And of course the planner and organizer in me wants to just schedule these family get-togethers in advance so we can know when they’re coming and plan around them. Yeah, we’ll see how that goes.

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I’m Here. I’m Here at Last

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

Let’s start by saying wowza, I feel better!! I’m not totally 100% better, but I’m nearly there. Yesterday was the first time in a looong time that I didn’t need a mid-day nap. And woohoo upon woohoo, I also didn’t need the vaporizer. Oh, the best part, the hubster and I “caught up” on some lost time *wink wink* So yes, it’s been a smashing weekend overall here at the LA Blogger Gal household!

While out sick I’ve managed to finally get caught up a bit on my LWL workload. I’ve got all my confirmed RSVPs for next Tuesday’s blogging workshop and I’m just ready to go. So now I think I’m going to focus on learning how to lead some paid workshops (and contact those realtors). Well, that and get started writing up my social networking workshop for later in the month.

Some randomness:

sometimes lean cuisine just sucks ass. ‘Nuff said.
I managed to get our taxes into the accountant with plenty of time to spare only to have it sit in his office waiting for me to pick it up (my fault) and yep, now the biz taxes are late…that’ll cost us *sigh*
looks like we might be going to Ireland in November!!! Herbie will be out there on tour and our friend has invited us along thinking it would be cool. And boy howdy would it be cool! I’d even be more than willing to call it “Christmas” and skip any and all gifts - Ireland would be more than enough.
Doing that crazy blog party, I was lucky enough to win a book from Robin Bielman’s blog - There Goes the Bride by Lori Wilde. Let me just say, after months of reading business books, chick lit and the more highbrow literature-y books (damn that book club) it was a very welcomed escape. A very light and fun read.
And speaking of winning, I won a beautiful turquoise pendant the other day from Hostess with the Mostess. Pretty cool if you ask me!

And now, I’m going to pick my way around the chicken in my lame-o lean cuisine and finish getting ready for the LWL incubator gals and happy hour in Venice. All while being serenaded by guitar strumming husband. I really is a smashing weekend I tell ya!

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Can Chumby Be My New Best Friend?

Friday, March 28th, 2008

Is It Wrong that I Want This? Because if it is, just let me be wrong! I mean this is every techie’s dream gadget. It’s an alarm clock. It plays music (either through MP3s or through the internet). It works as a picture frame in conjunction with my Flickr account. It can give me the weather, track my ebay auctions, give me the new, tell me jokes, let me watch the Food Network, you name it! It can even let me receive email while in bed.

I mean, what more can you ask for? “You can use a chumby anywhere there’s a power outlet and wi-fi coverage. Whether a chumby’s on your nightstand, bathroom counter, coffee table, in the kitchen, or out on the patio, it keeps you connected to your “Internet life” all the time!” What’s wrong with wanting to stay connected 24/7??? I don’t have a problem with that.

Really though, I think I wants me a Chumby. Think I can convince the hubby to spend nearly $200 on this, well, much needed, bedside wi-fi thing for my birthday in May? Probably not. He’ll just tell me to bring my laptop to bed (yes, he does this and yes, I know it’s just sick, sick, sick - but at least I don’t allow a TV in the bedroom). Until then, I can still covet.

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Still Here. Still Sick.

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

I’m not really up for writing much now. I’m feeling much better, but man, I’m still sick. All I want to do is sleep. Man, I’m so over it. And I’m so over whining about it - which is of course, why I’m not really tempted to write much.

I have a presentation tonight that I have to go to. If I had my choice, I wouldn’t do it. The commute alone is an hour one way (assuming there’s no traffic - and there probably will be). And of course, with this stupid post-nasal drip it makes talking difficult. But it should bring me in some business and well, that’s what it’s all about.

On a totally different topic, the hubby’s birthday dinner was awesome last night. I picked out a great Italian restaurant (Davina Cuccina). From start to finish, everything was delicious. The atmosphere was great, very romantic, very nice. I took a couple of cute pictures, but thanks to the recent stalking crap, I’m just not comfortable posting. I hate that.

And on that note, I’m going to veg out on the couch for a bit longer. Then I’ll get ready for tonight and my commute. Happy Thursday y’all!

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I’m Taking a Sick Day

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

I never should have gone out last night. By about 8:00PM I was a mess: ~~barking~~, coughing, blowing my nose, not being able to breath through my nose, sinus pressure in places you never even knew you had sinuses and better yet, not being able to concentrate on anything. I think I used enough sanitizing gel to be considered an accelerant (and boy howdy did that dry out my cuticles). I pretty much came home and crashed.

I am feeling a bit better today though. Well, better when yesterday at least. I’m still crappy enough that dammit, I’m taking today off as a sick day. I’m going to zero out my Reader - no blogs for me today. I won’t be checking my email (much). I won’t be answering my phone. Nope, I’m just going to lie around and either finish up Friday Night Knitting Club or watch some DVDs that I have laying about.

Today is actually my hubster’s birthday. Since I’m sick, he’s decided to do a work meeting with Herbie’s sound engineer to talk about some of Herbie’s web stuff. He leaves on Wednesday so really, tonight was all he had available. So we’ll celebrate with the birthday dinner tomorrow instead - plus I’m sure I’ll feel much better by then. Maybe I’ll stop by somewhere and pick him up a fruit or lemon tartlet for dessert or something.

I wonder though, does anyone else have challenges coming up with birthday, Christmas or anniversary gifts for their significant others? For anniversaries I tend to request a house-ish gift or we go on a vacation. But this year I never got anything for Christmas, but I got the hubs some cool camera gear.

I really can’t think of anything to get him though. First, he’s the kind of guy that buys what he wants or needs when he wants or needs it (or after the necessary research) and I pretty much buy all his clothes as he needs it. Second, he pretty much feels that gift giving on any particular holiday because it’s expected is just kind of silly. And thirdly, he’s never really all that excited by gifts, so unless it really wows him, well, it won’t necessarily be all that appreciated and might even sit around unused - therefore a waste of money.

So I figured that I’d just get out of bed before him and head out to the car wash since he’d been complaining that his car was dirty. I just feel like that’s such a let down of a “gift”. Especially since we’re not even celebrating today. Heck, even the cat got a gift for his birthday yesterday (a pouch of pink salmon and some tilapia jerky).

Okay, I’m off to veg. See you guys in a day or two.

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We Have My Wedding Ring!!

Monday, March 24th, 2008

Not that I was hoping for a new one or anything (heck, I barely wear this one), but was a part of me thinking an upgrade would be nice. Shameless, I know. But really, the landlord just laughed and said it happens. I just needed to clarify that while I did actually throw it down the sink, I wasn’t intending for it to go down into the pipes.

I was actually trying to put it someplace safe (ha!) and threw it over the glass doors knowing it would land in the sink. Too bad I forgot until a couple of hours later that we don’t have our drain covered! So yep, down the drain and into the elbow it went. I’m sure if I wasn’t so sick and therefore halfway out of it, I’d probably have been fuming, cursing mad. But hey, it happens. The hubs misplaced his a while back too (when he dad was in the hospital with cancer) so now we’re even. So to speak.

And yes, I’m sick. Again. I was so proud of myself for not getting my husband sick those four weeks I had the sinus infection. Of course, he can back from SXSW with a cold. And of course, my body said “what fun!” and turned it into yet another sinus infection. Joy of joys!

We’re trying a different antibiotic this round since it had only been a week and a half since my last two and a half weeks worth of meds. Here’s hoping this round kicks it out ASAP. ‘Cuz let me tell you, I’m sick of being sick dammit! And tonight I have a LWL meeting that I’m really hoping I’ll feel better for. Until then, it’s nap time!

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There’s Just Something About Full On Holiday Light Displays

Sunday, December 30th, 2007

Griffith Park does an awesome job on their holiday light display. We go every year, though most of the time we try to avoid the long waits - so go that first week or so, or anytime after Christmas. Last night, the hubby surprised me with this year’s trip after we had dinner.
There’s just something about a display of lights so large that you stay in your car to see it all. A display that takes nearly two months to build. A display where people will wait in a line for hours just to experience. I mean, there are even lights that you actually drive through. And they twinkle! What’s more fun than that I ask you?
There are still a few days left, so stop by if you’re in the area. To make the most of the experience I suggest parking and walking over driving it - just be sure to dress warmly. But if you are going to drive, be sure to roll down your windows to be able to hear the holiday music. And a cup of hot cocoa wouldn’t hurt I took some pictures, but since I didn’t use any tripod and we were in a slowly moving car, they’re not the best. But you get the idea.