it's gonna be alright
"I say to myself
'Self, why are you awake again? It's one a.m.'
Standing with the fridge wide open, staring
Such a sight,
florescent light
The stars are bright
Might make a wish, if I believed in that shit
But as it is, I might watch TV
'Cause it's nice to see people more messed up than me
I say to myself, as I smile at the wall, let myself fall
It's gonna be alright, no matter what they say
It's gonna be a good day, just wait and see
It's gonna be okay, cause I'm okay with me
It's gonna be, it's gonna be, it's gotta be..."
Blast. Initially this post was going to be really self-reflective and profound, because that's the kind of mood I've been in all day (if you even can be in a profound mood), but I've lost my eloquence. And probably more people read this than I'd like to know my inner-most thoughts.
So I'll just tell you about my weekend.
Friday I had my bi-weekly day off, so I did some boring errands like go to the bank and get a license plate (among other things). I wanted to get a GT license plate, but GUESS HOW MUCH THEY FREAKING COST? $70!!! I promptly said,"oh, no thank you" when the lady told me this. (Her name was Cindy, and she liked yelling across the whole place to tell her co-workers to go to lunch and to tell people that she used to live at 3030 street.)
Anyway, then me and my family went out to eat because we haven't done such a thing in over two years. It's hard to get everyone together at the same time these days. That's my sister up there.
Saturday was so good. I went shopping with Emily and Alicia, and let me just say that this was amazing because I haven't had girls to go shopping with in about a billion years. K, not a billion, but like, three. So I had fun with that, then we met our boys for dinner at Chili's and did stuff. The end.
Today I basically went back and forth between deciding to install Linux or not. I don't want to back my files up. Too many. So I haven't done this yet.
I haven't eaten chocolate or sweets in fourteen days. HOLY CRAP. That's so many days without chocolate. I'm going for twenty-one days, which means this Sunday I win the whole game. Emily told me that we can go to Cafe Intermezzo to celebrate. :)
Anyway, I'm going to sleep now. Good night.
unbelievable
I can't believe you'd do that to me. I can't even believe you thought that would be okay.
This, my friends, is why I don't have girl friends.
oh my
Would you LOOK at these adorable things!? Go ahead, go ahead and buy me one. I'll love you forever.
Gimme that tree one. ^^
fixed the comments
I fixed the cute issue with the comments where it only lets the first person who comments have the privilege of actually getting their comment displayed.
Only I took down the comments for now because I'm getting too much spam.
K, I'm going to work out now. :)
look at this
LOOK at these. I made them last year (Sweta and Brittany helped, too) for UWAB's Fall Festival (which is coming up again soon). They're peanut butter eyeballs. Lots of peanut butter and sugar involved. I was just looking through old photos today, and I found this. Ew, just ignore the crappy picture quality. I wonder what I should make this year. Only I don't think we need anything for Fall Festival as it's going to be a masquerade or something (as last I heard), so I'll have to bring my treats to work. ^^
Anyway. I had a good weekend! Friday night David, Adrian, Mitch, Ma, and I all went to see Dat Phan, the original winner of NBC's Last Comic Standing. He was unexpectedly hilarious. I really liked him.
Saturday I spent the day at my dad's. We hung out and learned Linux together. We're such nerds!
Today I continued my nerdism by playing video games...ALL DAY. I have't done this in forever; it was so good. I'm playing Kingdom Hearts II. WHY is it so good?
So for anyone who was obsessively counting down until my 21-days-sans-chocolate was over (oh wait, that was only me), I am happy to announce that yesterday was day 21. I did it!!! Yaaaay. Here is a recount of all the terrible chocolate-temptation events I had to endure (but didn't give in to!):
-my leftover birthday cake sitting on my kitchen counter
-the extra cake that my mom baked for my birthday (for the family) in the fridge
-cupcakes that my mom baked
-everyone and their mom buying me reese's for my birthday ^^
-Spenser baking brownies and shoving them in my face
-I bought David a bag of Kit Kats, and I didn't even eat one
-Spenser telling me he bought me a present, then shoving a pint of Ben & Jerry's in my face
-my neighbor's birthday cake sitting on my counter
-Spenser baking more brownies and shoving them in my face
-INPO bake sale
-free stuff from INPO bake sale
-INPO October birthday cake (although there WAS fruit available this time, so that was nice)
-my mom making banana bread (I decided I shouldn't eat banana bread)
-the fugsicles that were in my dad's freezer
-the donuts that were sitting in our cabinet for a week
-oreos in the cabinet too
Anyway, there was other stuff too, the point is, I am constantly surrounded by chocolate and sweets. I can't believe I resisted.
Day 3 was by far the hardest. For anyone who's wondering, I broke my abstinence today with Starbuck's Java Chip Ice Cream. Because why is it so good.
Anyway, now that I did nothing all day, I'm going to go work out.
Ew, this post is ugly. Don't look at it.
ugly
This is ugly. I am changing it.
so pretty
Well isn't this just pretty? ^^ I'm pretty sure this is the girliest layout I've ever made.
Don't come here if you're using Internet Explorer. Yet. And those links up there? Don't do it.
I had an excellent weekend. Friday I had AWS (which is code for my day off) so I did a bunch of errands and had a meeting for research. Then David, Tyler, Emily, Spenser, Ferris, and I all went to see Whitney play in the first home GT hockey game of the season. IT WAS SO MUCH FUN. I love hockey. My daddy used to play when he lived in Michigan, and when my uncles used to come down to visit they would all go play at the ice forum together. It was so much fun. Anyway, I want to go to another game.
Saturday I meant to be productive, but I came home from David's and went to sleep all day because I was mad that my face broke out yet again. When I woke up we went to Cheesecake Factory, just the two of us, which was nice because we've been hanging out with other people a lot lately. I forgot that it's equally important to hang out one-on-one with your boyfriend as well as with him plus friends.
We had the best waiter though. He was so awkward because he kept trying to tell unfunny jokes with poor execution, and he talked too quietly, but of course it was funny. Only because it was awkward. I liked the guy. This was the very first thing that happened (the waiter's name was Kevin):
*Kevin walked us to our table, and we sat down.*
Kevin: Your waiter will be with you shortly.
*Kevin stands there for three seconds.*
Kevin: Hi, my name is Kevin. I'll be your server this evening.
LOL. What a guy. The night continued on like this.
Later on after we told him that we were from Georgia Tech, he looks at me and says, "I always heard there were no pretty girls at Tech." Tee hee.
And today I just played video games and made this new layout. I'm not ready for the weekend to be over, but I am ready to finish Team Excellence work request.
what the...?
I was on my lunch break today and decided to look up stuff about video games on Wikipedia, as I've been playing Kingdom Hearts II lately, and I wanted to see if there were any other KH games out there. Well I searched for Kingdom Hearts, and you know Wikipedia, one thing led to another, and I found myself looking at the seventh generation handheld Nintendo gaming system (Nintendo DS) and I say to myself, "I wonder what the most popular game for the DS is." And this is what I'm presented with:
What the...? A freaking simulation dog game?!?! XBOX 360 and PSP have top-selling games like Halo 3 and GTA: Liberty City Stories (respectively), and I get dogs? I was expecting Pokemon Diamond/Pearl or something, not a waste of computer hardware about dogs.
I'm going to go buy this now.
it feels like winter
It feels like winter today.
Nothing good happened today. Nothing worth writing about anyway. When I don't have anything to write about, I do things like write about dog games. Let's not do that again.
Actually, one good thing did come out of today. Wednesday is status day at work, wherefore I must endure a forty-five minute long meeting with my boss, Kevin, who is Irish and says such things as "if there's a fly in the ointment, that'd be it." My boss scares me, like a lot of bosses do, but he only intimidates me because you can never tell when he's joking and when he's being serious. It's terrifying, really.
Anywho. Tyler, Whitney, and I go together to these meetings at 1:15pm every Wednesday and we sit for about fifteen painful minutes each and talk about what we've been working on for the past week and what's coming up next, and Kevin asks lots of painful questions like how does this work and why did you do it that way. He's so scary, and he always makes me feel like I'm doing everything wrong; especially since he has a knack for always catching you when you're doing something bad. ALWAYS.
Also, he is a ninja.
ANYWAY. The real point of this story is that at the end of the meeting today, Kevin told the three of us that we're greatly appreciated and that we make such a good team and they're so glad to have us. He said there is a lot of professionalism in our group.
I was so excited to hear this because Kevin rarely gives compliments (I decide).
And I love my boys.
The end.
LPP presents...amanda's old xanga
Listen. This is a really good story. Please ignore the gold borders.
21 things
Image from: Vogue, November 2007. Emporio Armani.
some stuff
So I fixed some things on the site on Sunday. Such things include:
*each post will display its category
*the about page is up
*the links page is up (feel free to send me interesting links to add)
*the archives page is up; you can view by month or category
*instead of displaying "1 comments" the pages will display "1 comment"
*you can now also type www.lamppostproject.com into your browser's address bar and get here *bows to applause*
So this layout looks amazing in Firefox and even better in Netscape, but it's still ugly in IE. Sorry. That's what you get.
I'm going to bake Halloween goodies now. If they come out well, I'll post pictures.
October 07, 2007 :: Sunday
"I say to myself
'Self, why are you awake again? It's one a.m.'
Standing with the fridge wide open, staring
Such a sight,
florescent light
The stars are bright
Might make a wish, if I believed in that shit
But as it is, I might watch TV
'Cause it's nice to see people more messed up than me
I say to myself, as I smile at the wall, let myself fall
It's gonna be alright, no matter what they say
It's gonna be a good day, just wait and see
It's gonna be okay, cause I'm okay with me
It's gonna be, it's gonna be, it's gotta be..."
Blast. Initially this post was going to be really self-reflective and profound, because that's the kind of mood I've been in all day (if you even can be in a profound mood), but I've lost my eloquence. And probably more people read this than I'd like to know my inner-most thoughts.
So I'll just tell you about my weekend.
Friday I had my bi-weekly day off, so I did some boring errands like go to the bank and get a license plate (among other things). I wanted to get a GT license plate, but GUESS HOW MUCH THEY FREAKING COST? $70!!! I promptly said,"oh, no thank you" when the lady told me this. (Her name was Cindy, and she liked yelling across the whole place to tell her co-workers to go to lunch and to tell people that she used to live at 3030 street.)
Anyway, then me and my family went out to eat because we haven't done such a thing in over two years. It's hard to get everyone together at the same time these days. That's my sister up there.
Saturday was so good. I went shopping with Emily and Alicia, and let me just say that this was amazing because I haven't had girls to go shopping with in about a billion years. K, not a billion, but like, three. So I had fun with that, then we met our boys for dinner at Chili's and did stuff. The end.
Today I basically went back and forth between deciding to install Linux or not. I don't want to back my files up. Too many. So I haven't done this yet.
I haven't eaten chocolate or sweets in fourteen days. HOLY CRAP. That's so many days without chocolate. I'm going for twenty-one days, which means this Sunday I win the whole game. Emily told me that we can go to Cafe Intermezzo to celebrate. :)
Anyway, I'm going to sleep now. Good night.
Posted by Amanda at 10:00 pm in life
0 comments
unbelievable
October 09, 2007 :: Tuesday
I can't believe you'd do that to me. I can't even believe you thought that would be okay.
This, my friends, is why I don't have girl friends.
Posted by Amanda at 10:47 pm in life
0 comments
oh my
October 10, 2007 :: Wednesday
Would you LOOK at these adorable things!? Go ahead, go ahead and buy me one. I'll love you forever.
Gimme that tree one. ^^
Posted by Amanda at 5:48 pm in shopping
0 comments
fixed the comments
October 10, 2007 :: Wednesday
I fixed the cute issue with the comments where it only lets the first person who comments have the privilege of actually getting their comment displayed.
Only I took down the comments for now because I'm getting too much spam.
K, I'm going to work out now. :)
Posted by Amanda at 8:01 pm in website
0 comments
look at this
October 14, 2007 :: Sunday
LOOK at these. I made them last year (Sweta and Brittany helped, too) for UWAB's Fall Festival (which is coming up again soon). They're peanut butter eyeballs. Lots of peanut butter and sugar involved. I was just looking through old photos today, and I found this. Ew, just ignore the crappy picture quality. I wonder what I should make this year. Only I don't think we need anything for Fall Festival as it's going to be a masquerade or something (as last I heard), so I'll have to bring my treats to work. ^^
Anyway. I had a good weekend! Friday night David, Adrian, Mitch, Ma, and I all went to see Dat Phan, the original winner of NBC's Last Comic Standing. He was unexpectedly hilarious. I really liked him.
Saturday I spent the day at my dad's. We hung out and learned Linux together. We're such nerds!
Today I continued my nerdism by playing video games...ALL DAY. I have't done this in forever; it was so good. I'm playing Kingdom Hearts II. WHY is it so good?
So for anyone who was obsessively counting down until my 21-days-sans-chocolate was over (oh wait, that was only me), I am happy to announce that yesterday was day 21. I did it!!! Yaaaay. Here is a recount of all the terrible chocolate-temptation events I had to endure (but didn't give in to!):
-my leftover birthday cake sitting on my kitchen counter
-the extra cake that my mom baked for my birthday (for the family) in the fridge
-cupcakes that my mom baked
-everyone and their mom buying me reese's for my birthday ^^
-Spenser baking brownies and shoving them in my face
-I bought David a bag of Kit Kats, and I didn't even eat one
-Spenser telling me he bought me a present, then shoving a pint of Ben & Jerry's in my face
-my neighbor's birthday cake sitting on my counter
-Spenser baking more brownies and shoving them in my face
-INPO bake sale
-free stuff from INPO bake sale
-INPO October birthday cake (although there WAS fruit available this time, so that was nice)
-my mom making banana bread (I decided I shouldn't eat banana bread)
-the fugsicles that were in my dad's freezer
-the donuts that were sitting in our cabinet for a week
-oreos in the cabinet too
Anyway, there was other stuff too, the point is, I am constantly surrounded by chocolate and sweets. I can't believe I resisted.
Day 3 was by far the hardest. For anyone who's wondering, I broke my abstinence today with Starbuck's Java Chip Ice Cream. Because why is it so good.
Anyway, now that I did nothing all day, I'm going to go work out.
Ew, this post is ugly. Don't look at it.
Posted by Amanda at 7:56 pm in food
0 comments
ugly
October 17, 2007 :: Wednesday
This is ugly. I am changing it.
Posted by Amanda at 7:04 pm in website
0 comments
so pretty
October 21, 2007 :: Sunday
Well isn't this just pretty? ^^ I'm pretty sure this is the girliest layout I've ever made.
Don't come here if you're using Internet Explorer. Yet. And those links up there? Don't do it.
I had an excellent weekend. Friday I had AWS (which is code for my day off) so I did a bunch of errands and had a meeting for research. Then David, Tyler, Emily, Spenser, Ferris, and I all went to see Whitney play in the first home GT hockey game of the season. IT WAS SO MUCH FUN. I love hockey. My daddy used to play when he lived in Michigan, and when my uncles used to come down to visit they would all go play at the ice forum together. It was so much fun. Anyway, I want to go to another game.
Saturday I meant to be productive, but I came home from David's and went to sleep all day because I was mad that my face broke out yet again. When I woke up we went to Cheesecake Factory, just the two of us, which was nice because we've been hanging out with other people a lot lately. I forgot that it's equally important to hang out one-on-one with your boyfriend as well as with him plus friends.
We had the best waiter though. He was so awkward because he kept trying to tell unfunny jokes with poor execution, and he talked too quietly, but of course it was funny. Only because it was awkward. I liked the guy. This was the very first thing that happened (the waiter's name was Kevin):
*Kevin walked us to our table, and we sat down.*
Kevin: Your waiter will be with you shortly.
*Kevin stands there for three seconds.*
Kevin: Hi, my name is Kevin. I'll be your server this evening.
LOL. What a guy. The night continued on like this.
Later on after we told him that we were from Georgia Tech, he looks at me and says, "I always heard there were no pretty girls at Tech." Tee hee.
And today I just played video games and made this new layout. I'm not ready for the weekend to be over, but I am ready to finish Team Excellence work request.
Posted by Amanda at 9:20 pm in life
0 comments
what the...?
October 23, 2007 :: Tuesday
I was on my lunch break today and decided to look up stuff about video games on Wikipedia, as I've been playing Kingdom Hearts II lately, and I wanted to see if there were any other KH games out there. Well I searched for Kingdom Hearts, and you know Wikipedia, one thing led to another, and I found myself looking at the seventh generation handheld Nintendo gaming system (Nintendo DS) and I say to myself, "I wonder what the most popular game for the DS is." And this is what I'm presented with:
What the...? A freaking simulation dog game?!?! XBOX 360 and PSP have top-selling games like Halo 3 and GTA: Liberty City Stories (respectively), and I get dogs? I was expecting Pokemon Diamond/Pearl or something, not a waste of computer hardware about dogs.
I'm going to go buy this now.
Posted by Amanda at 6:46 pm in video games
0 comments
it feels like winter
October 24, 2007 :: Wednesday
It feels like winter today.
Nothing good happened today. Nothing worth writing about anyway. When I don't have anything to write about, I do things like write about dog games. Let's not do that again.
Actually, one good thing did come out of today. Wednesday is status day at work, wherefore I must endure a forty-five minute long meeting with my boss, Kevin, who is Irish and says such things as "if there's a fly in the ointment, that'd be it." My boss scares me, like a lot of bosses do, but he only intimidates me because you can never tell when he's joking and when he's being serious. It's terrifying, really.
Anywho. Tyler, Whitney, and I go together to these meetings at 1:15pm every Wednesday and we sit for about fifteen painful minutes each and talk about what we've been working on for the past week and what's coming up next, and Kevin asks lots of painful questions like how does this work and why did you do it that way. He's so scary, and he always makes me feel like I'm doing everything wrong; especially since he has a knack for always catching you when you're doing something bad. ALWAYS.
Also, he is a ninja.
ANYWAY. The real point of this story is that at the end of the meeting today, Kevin told the three of us that we're greatly appreciated and that we make such a good team and they're so glad to have us. He said there is a lot of professionalism in our group.
I was so excited to hear this because Kevin rarely gives compliments (I decide).
And I love my boys.
The end.
Posted by Amanda at 7:08 pm in life
0 comments
LPP presents...amanda's old xanga
October 25, 2007 :: Thursday
Listen. This is a really good story. Please ignore the gold borders.
Posted by Amanda at 10:34 pm in life
0 comments
21 things
October 28, 2007 :: Sunday
Posted by Amanda at 10:05 am in life
0 comments
some stuff
October 30, 2007 :: Tuesday
So I fixed some things on the site on Sunday. Such things include:
*each post will display its category
*the about page is up
*the links page is up (feel free to send me interesting links to add)
*the archives page is up; you can view by month or category
*instead of displaying "1 comments" the pages will display "1 comment"
*you can now also type www.lamppostproject.com into your browser's address bar and get here *bows to applause*
So this layout looks amazing in Firefox and even better in Netscape, but it's still ugly in IE. Sorry. That's what you get.
I'm going to bake Halloween goodies now. If they come out well, I'll post pictures.
Posted by Amanda at 5:15 pm in website
0 comments
