music: nothing mood: waiting for training to start
my way here was mostly uneventful. i got to the airport just on time, made my connection on time - both with no time to spare, which i'm thankful for. all way good until it was time to land in gibralter. when we were literally on top of the rock, the pilot announced "we will not be landing in gibraltar due to fog. please look and see gib out of the right side of the plane as we fly around it and head back to malaga." that was fun. i will not go into all the details but let's just say that instead of being at my hotel by 13:30, i was there at about 16:45. yea. then i ordered food cuz i hadn't eaten anything, and i spent the rest of the day laying around in my room and watching tv.
day two - we were supposed to begin training. that didn't happen since everyone who was supposed to arrive also had the problem of being diverted to malaga and most people just didn't make it on time. what we ended up doing was a little work at the main office and then heading out for drinks. that was followed by a serious steak dinner at a fancy restaurant and then (obviously) sleep. mmm... food coma!
day three (today) - we are sitting in the classroom waiting to begin this session. but as usual, things aren't completely organized and i'm sitting here fuzting around online waiting for everything to be straitened out.
the weather here is actually really nice.
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Dina on 07.31.07 @ 11:35 AM EEST :: [link]
Saturday, July 28th
thankful
music: petshop boys - it's alright mood: ok
i have friends that make me want to be a better person.
i'm glad i decided to visit nyc in november. i know it's way in advance (apparently this is the way i do things of this nature - kindly recall how far in advance i bought my ticket to israel), but it's making me happy. some people are already making plans with me, which i think is really sweet.
1. i ran into ola this morning on my way to work. she lives so close now, i think i'm going to have to take my lunch breaks at her house. 2. i'm wearing a super-long black skirt and a red button-down shirt. i look amusing. 3. no idea why, but i'm in an excellent mood this morning. 4. have to make the shopping list for my eventual trip to nyc. 5. yay! (no idea where that came from)
there are so many errors that i'm going to have to fix manually, that i think i would like to shoot someone. i know the errors were not my doing, which is what makes this all the more annoying.
other than that, i'd be really greatful to anyone who can bring me a pillow and/or a bed right now...
...that the day would come when i said "ok, i've actually lost all of the weight i wanted to lose." that i could actually stop whining about it. it's been five or six years since i began bitching about this and today i can positively say that i'm done. i believe i will be keeping my current eating habits, simply because they are much healthier than what i had previously practiced. and obviously because i have no desire to gain any weight back.
i got my apostille in the mail today. now all i have left to do is head over to the apropriate place and get my status changed. finally.
another thing that i had taken care of a while ago were my taxes. i actually paid someone $250 to do them for me. doing them here is not like getting someone to do them in the states. from another country there are like a billion things to fill out. not to mention that some of my income was as an employee and some was as a freelancer in addition to the fact that some was from jersey and some from nyc, while i lived in nyc the whole time. in short, it was a mess to do. but i got them done and sent them in, thinking that the $250 was just an expense i'd have to live with in order to just be done with everything.
then i actually got a tiny tax refund. LOL. it's not much, but it's almost half of what i paid. this makes me happy.
...is becoming retarded again. and i'm totally enjoying every minute of it! i had a blast at the cheers tonight. rona claims that i am becoming an addict. lol. i suppose this would be true if i were able to bring myself to go there on weekends. still can't do that.
but i did have the sweetest night there tonight. for reasons only rona knows (lol. i love you, you DO realize that, right? =D)
i really don't have the desire to say exactly what's on my mind right now. it's just that i feel there should be an entry here to remind me that i just feel really good at the moment.
last night was fun. i hung out with a bunch of random people at the temptation and danced to music that i will totally deny having danced to (though there were lots of people there who saw me, so i'm not sure how the whole denial thing will work). drank a crap-load, talked rona's ear off and then went to eat in the middle of the night.
last night had the potential of being seriously cool. but instead of partying my ass off in some remote part of the woods up north, i spent most of the night lying on my back, enjoying the music and staring at the stars. not this this is a bad thing. not by far. i was actually quite content lying there. but i suppose that if i travel two hours to anywhere, i might as well do what i went there to do. lol.
anyway, at about 6:30am, some of us headed home while others stayed on a little bit. not sure how much longer they lasted, but as soon as my head hit the pillow - i was out.
more plans for tonight. this time, right by my apartment. and i get to see tali!! <3
i can't believe it took me a whole week to connect. the external HD i bought last week is seriously one of the sexier things i have had the pleasure of owning =D
i'm thinking i need an actual desk for my computer, what with the amount of stuff i have connected and all. and i do have where to put it. on the other hand, i like having it at the foot of my bed and i want to take the two-seater that a co-worker offered me, which would be taking up the space in which i could put a small desk. so i guess my dilemma has been solved before even becoming something to seriously contemplate. lol.
i keep on thinking "fuck it, i can fix this now." but so much damage has been done, i have to remind myself that waiting is the right thing to do. not everyone is as impatient as i am. time does fix things.
additionally, i think that i am in need of actually straightening things out in my mind. and although i like to think that i can do that in a snap, too - i have come to notice that in this case it is simply not true.
what's wrong with me? why is it that out of my entire life this is when i lose my ability to drop everything and just.move.on? wtf is wrong with me? why have i become such a sentimental wreck?
i would like to gather myself up and walk away from all of this. and i've always been able to do just that. so seriously, what.the.fuck!?
music: pantera - strength beyond strength mood: almost conscious
so far it's been a good weekend. only good. no drama. last night i stayed in even though i was originally going to head to my now usual spot. but at about midnight all i felt like doing was crashing. so i did. today the plan is for a small pool party at a friend's house in herzeliya.
i have lots of photos. perhaps i will edit them before i head out for my afternoon activity. perhaps.
still downloading music like a mofo.
oh, acerbity will be down for most of sunday. so be prepared ;)
music: in my head: stabbing the drama (soilwork) mood: ok
so, umm... i think i've been in hibernation for the past year or so. for a while there i was lazy and uninterested in doing anything truly geek-related. but in the last couple of days i think i've woken up. it's a strange feeling that i don't think i've ever experienced.
today, throughout everything i've had to do in the office, all i could think about was (is?) going home and seeing the progress on my torrents and playing around with my last.fm profile. truthfully, i would do that music thing from here but the ports aren't really open for that and currently our office mp3 server is out of commission.
however, while i am thrilled to find interest in things that i've long since forgotten, this also means that i will have to go out and find that external HD bay. i'm actually thinking i will be getting this one. i've called the store at which i want to purchase it and they said they have them in stock. they are reasonably priced and even look sexy!
i guess you all know what this means... next up and an external DVD burner ;P
music: rammstein - mann gegen mann mood: productive
after almost an entire year of just listening to what i have on my ipod and mostly not even bothering to even take any of my cds out - i have taken the issue into my hands. not only have i started ripping music onto my machine, but i've actually started a last.fm account. i have no idea how often i'm going to make use of it, but right now it seems like a good idea.
other than that, i have actively started getting some new music. well, not all of it is new per se. but it's new for me =D
met bareket in the park where she takes her dog. we sat there, drank a bottle of wine and i got to meet some of her friends. then i headed over to meet tali and a friend of hers at some bar right across the street from my apartment. the show we were seeing was boring, but tali and i were laughing most of the time so it was at least somewhat amusing. besides, i was only there to hang out with her anyway. following that, we went to sit at the cheers for a bit. and then finally, i went to hang out with someone i've been saying i'd hang out with for at least a week. turns out he lives in the same building that chen does, one floor up. i learned a lot of things about this guy yesterday today. mostly good evil. i also learned some things about myself... like, it's easier for me to say no to sex than it is to munchies (apparently, thank g0d for my instincts). who would have thought? lol.
yes i know, i'm hopeless.
oh, and here's a confession; i actually like the cheers. the only catch is that it probably has to be on a sunday or some other day when there are like three other people in there. it was so nice to sit in there without having to push or being pushed by two billion people. not to mention that i could breathe and actually feel the AC. yep. empty is when i like it. heh.
this is the beginning of the fourth week of my so-called diet (i.e. i've been on this thing for three weeks). and while my scale doesn't say anything different from what it did last week, i definitely feel different. my pants fit me again, without squeezing anything out of the top. some of them are actually becoming loose - the way they were when i first got them. other than that, today someone actually asked me if i lost weight. i supposed one would not notice it if he/she sees me all of the time, but this person hadn't seen me in a couple of weeks. i'm actually surprised that it shows, cuz i really don't see it. i only feel it.
in other news, i got my blood test results back (for some reason you can get those online in this country, whereas in the US you have to go in and see the doctor for results). i'm healthy. which is always a good thing to know, even if you sorta know it anyway.