last night i finally did something i should have done a while ago... i chopped off about 5-6cm (~2in) of my hair; getting rid of split ends as well as most of my left-over black/turned red. yay! now my hair looks weird. and it will continue to look so until next time i wash it =P
on a different note, as i walked home from work last night - i think i saw about five or six destroyed unbrellas. casualties of the weather. lol. people don't seem to understand that although it's raining, opening an umbrella while it's as windy as it currently is, is not such a good idea.
i truely love this weather. it's windy and raining and just the right amount of cold. that is to say that i really don't find this weather very cold at all. just wet. it makes me miss amsterdam even more than i do all the time...
speaking of which, golan and i started buying euro for our trip today. we figure that if we buy a little every month until it's time to go - we won't feel it quite as much as we would if we were to buy the entire amount all at once.
i have zero patience. really.
=D
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Dina on 01.29.08 @ 09:23 AM EEST :: [link]
Sunday, January 27th
more jeans
music: nothing mood: okie
well i managed to find yet another pair of jeans that fit perfectly, thanks to mariana. we shop well togather =P
thursday night golan and i went to the alternative to help lior celebrate his birthday. good times indeed. i simply love watching golan dance and have fun <3
other than that, i managed to sit at home for two whole days and do absolutely nothing. i'm fat. yes.
this morning i went in to renew my lease. the management company raised it a total of 105 shekels (this includes rent, municipal fees and maintenance fees). i was really happy to hear that that was all they were going to raise it.
the lease and all the checks are signed. all the remains is to go pick up my signed copy and the receipts on sunday. then i'm good for another year.
oh, and this month will also be when golan starts sharing the rent. i'm thrilled that my total expenses will be going down and that it is now officially 'our' apartment =)
started off at the alternative on thursday night. went with golan and mariana, as per usual. we had an excellent time except for the fact that when we were leaving, golan and i found a friend of ours sitting in the corner in pain. she looked wasted, but it turned out that some asshole had shoved her hard enough for her to do something awful to her arm. it later turned out that it was broken. i really hope to point this jerk out, so that he can be permanently removed from said event. we shall see.
for the rest of the weekend i was at home most of the time while golan had a couple of shifts to do at work. i did manage to walk him to the office twice. i just really wanted to get out of the house.
other than that, i managed to clean the apartment and we did food shopping. fun? =P
been moving some of the photos from acerbity to my flickr account in methods that are pretty much ridiculous. at the same time, i've been trying to remove the ones i've taken already from the evilgenius server, but i can't get on with almost any ftp client. there is one crappy, web-based client that i seem to be able to log on with - but this shit is so slow that it times out before i can do anything.
my host is probably on his way to work, since it is now just about 10am in nyc. i hope he can answer some of my questions cuz this is pretty frustrating.
in other news, i now finally have leopard installed on my macbook. i am quite pleased with the retail version. it doesn't come with all of the crap loaded into the pre-insatalled version that comes with the computer. makes it easier to handle removing nonsense i don't want =P
i have recently decided that other than being a tool without which i could not live (you know, for purchasing stuff, checking schedules, etc) - the www is really just boring. during the recent past, i have discovered that i am less and less interested in what blogs/news feeds/social networking/otherkindsofcrap websites have to say. i'm much more amused just sitting blankly in front of my television set.
i would pick up a book if i knew what i liked to read. i don't enjoy fiction, drama, romance, text or any other common types of books. i love science-fiction, but i'd much rather watch it than read it. i suppose that i was seriously traumatized by the written word during my years in college. i'm assuming that managing a 3.95 GPA (which means i obviously busted my ass) totally made me jaded on the whole 'reading' concept. sad, i know.
now i'd rather travel and see new things.
we'll see how i manage some of that this year, the way i did last =)
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Dina on 01.14.08 @ 05:29 PM EEST :: [link]
Thursday, January 10th
booze and cigars
music: nothing mood: amused
nothing like walking into a room in the morning and finding the remains of the evening before... four (almost) empty glasses of whisky and the faint smell of cigars.
what's worse is that i just washed my hair and now it feels saturated by that smell.
the vet came to take him early in the morning. gray was obviously reluctant to get into the cage. but when he was brought back in the evening, he seemed rather comforable in it. or was it that he was still feeling all floopy from being knocked out =P
anyway, he was absolutely adorable all evening. sweet, calm and cuddly.
last night, as i was going to sleep, benji calls me to ask if i was going to the underground or not. and since i was already in bed with the lights off, i said that tonight i was ready to just fall asleep. to which i replied with surprise, since it was just before 11pm =P
yesterday was productive even though i have been drinking a little the night before. even though i kinda felt like death; i got up at around 9:30am, took a shower, straightened up the apartment and left. i managed to get some stuff for teh kitty, drop a few of our posters off for framing (a process which is a lot easier in the states, where you can just buy the desired frame at a bed bath & beyond or any other similar store for really cheap), bought a router that works (as apposed to the one we bought a couple of weeks ago that simply would not connect) and a copy of WoW.
after golan woke up from his after-work nap, we did a little food shopping and ate. that was followed by me actually setting up my WoW account and creating my first character. she is an undead warlock named... Acerbity! duh. she's hot =D
anyway, by that time i was already ready to go to sleep. but not before picking up the book that came with the game. i have to read at least a little to know wtf anything is about. i've never played anything. really. well, except for tetris. lol. so a little reading is/was in order.
but then all i really wanted to do was crawl into bed with my favorite person ever. i hadn't even considered going out. it's much more fun to stay in when you're living with your best friend <3
so just a few minutes ago, over the waters at the shores of tel-aviv, a bunch of us here at work saw a tornado. that's right. i thought it was really strange to see something that is not supposed to exist in this part of the world. i mean, it wasn't by any means huge or scary. in fact, it was rather small... the top of the funnel was visible as well as where the tornado came in contact with the water. but nothing in between. and obviously, it was gone as soon as the clouds moved over land.
it's really too bad that i didn't have a camera with which to take a picture of this... someone managed to take a few pictures...
i suppose that now (or maybe i should have done this yesterday) is the time to sum up what kind of a year 2007 was for me?
there is so much i can say, but i'll stick to the basics...
* 2007 was a year in which had the pleasure of working at a company i truly enjoy. while this started in 2006, it was this past year that really made it feel like home. yes, i said home. * it was also the year in which i first traveled for work. * hell, it was the year in which i first went to europe! then i went again and again =D * it was a year in which i was able to find inner happiness and peace. yes, i realize this is cliche as all hell, but it's true. i really did manage to just chill out about so many things that used to bother me. * but most of all, it was the year in which i fell in love with the most amazing person i have ever met. he is the love of my life and i am truely lucky to have found him.
my new year's resolution is only to continue being happy, to love and be loved the way i am right now.
thank you, my shamen, for bringing in the new year with me <3
