the forties are here

it was 48 degrees when i walked to my car this morning. winter is finally here. good thing all my cold weather clothes are in california.

i ended up crashing vana's tinder date in downtown yesterday and this morning i was so hung over i bought mcdonalds, got to work, parked my car outside of my work trailer and felt so ill that i leaned the seat all the way back and slept in the parking lot for 35 minutes. don't think i ever anticipated doing that as a grown up. this was at the tail end of a long week of IAAPA, the big annual convention for themed entertainment and attractions. more on that when i'm less weak  

sleepinghead

Another close call - this morning I was supposed to be at work at 7am so we could take a van out to the cruise ship in Port Canaveral to see some recently completed projects and to take measurements for documentation. However, I was a dummy and forgot to even set an alarm and woke up in my bed, in downtown, at 6:40am. I woke up in complete shock and horror and ran out the door like my hair was on fire and luckily my manager held the van for me as I ended up being 15 minutes late.

Spent a really nice day in perfect weather on the ship and now have a lot of productive work hours to make up this weekend. After work I met up with my old mentor and his wife, who are back in town for a Halloween vacation. We went to the campfire singalong at Fort Wilderness and watched the annual outdoor screening of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and roasted oversized marshmallows over the fire pit. After that I gorged myself on food at their cabin and we went out at midnight to see all of the campsites decorated for Halloween. The families at Ft. Wilderness create an incredible Halloween spectacle every year, with inflatables and ghouls and projections and pumpkins and lights strewn everywhere.

It's almost 3am, the witching hour, when drunk idiots haunt the streets and hallways of my former hotel.

license and registration

Yesterday I got pulled over on my way to lunch for doing 51 in a 35mph zone. The officer must have taken pity on me and the two intern goons I was driving and let me go with a warning. I've never felt so washed over with joy and excitement as I did in that moment. Now I feel at least $200 richer

here's the competition

sticker shock

sunday is the day when i look at my bank account and all my expenses and think, oh my god

when you were small

slow go

is there a word for the kind of love you have for another human being when you realize you're driving and softly as you can so you don't wake it up in the passenger seat

boxes o' bits

i hereby dub myself the most ultimate queen of trinket hoarders

we're doomed

"sexy men under the age of 35 are all scary dickheads"
- aijia 

welcome to the metro

night two in my new apartment in dtwn orlando. im sleeping on the floor until i can figure out how to get a bed and i have the place to myself until vana gets back from working on a cruise ship in the bahamas. yesterday on my first night i opened a beer with a pair of nail clippers. sinay had helped me move in and then we went out to my favorite orlando bar and two strange men bought me a shot even though i kept saying not to and then it turned out that one of them lives on the floor above me in my new building.  

spinach rupaul

i literally went back to the office/trailer at almost 10pm to check on my fish and make sure his heater wasn't making him too hot because i've never left it on overnight before. the thermometer reading seemed okay. i've decided to name my fish spinach rupaul, though i will probably keep calling him booboo most of the time.

neverending to-do list

i really don't recommend moving (set up cable/internet install, buy router, jump on all friends' old beds that are for sale, turn on electricity, get money order for rent, get locked and unlocked out of bank account, pick up keys, change all addresses), starting a new job (end old insurance, find new insurance, set up 401k), participating in a week-long focus group (record videos of self talking about beauty products, make millions of blog posts about beauty), and taking up a health insurance claim dispute (fight with clinic, fight with insurance) all at once unless you're cruisin' for a bruisin'. 

old prune

1. i've had no alcohol today
2. i totally randomly picked funds to invest my 401k money in from 34 options
3. i feel like my life is the neverending to-do list

every day is an uphill battle with store clerks of florida to not give me plastic bags and let me use my hands and arms to carry things

tonight i watched house of flying daggers. like most other wuxia films that i've seen, it was beautiful and entertaining but the plot was totally bonkers

grown woes

i just looked at all the charges on my bank account and went through all my bills and thoroughly stressed myself out. good morning, saturday