my conviction on not getting anymore ink before i complete the unfinished piece on my ribs, that is. heh.
last night, i was having drinks with nik and ola at the cheers, when nik and i were talking about ink (duh). i suddenly got the urge to do something new. i haven't had this feeling in some time. and so it was decided that today i will be meeting with arad from b-street tattoos to see about picking up where steve left off on my star wars tattoo. nik has offered to come with me so that i get a decent deal on the price... but mostly i'm just excited that i'll finally be working on something again =D
oh, and apparently i live across the street from a tag shop.
i never would have noticed if it weren't for golan's interest. i always thought it was boards or blades that they sold in there. lol.
i'll just say that since last monday i had the pleasure of being at shani's wedding - which was amazing, hang out with a bunch of seriously cool/funny people and just generally have a decent time =)
i had a four day weekend. which totally kicked ass. but i suppose that tomorrow it's back the grind.
then again, this week will be a short one too! hooray for holidays! =P
that's what i decided to call the kitty. and i think it's safe to say that very shortly after i got her some litter and a makeshift box, the little fuzzball has already been potty trained. this makes me endlessly happy, since i was thinking i'd have to leave her in the bathroom today with her food/water and her box. now i'm thinking it's ok to trust her. at least with not peeing or pooping all over the apartment. the rest remains to be seen. hehe.
very shortly i shall be calling the vet who's number i got from bareket. according to her, he makes house-calls. which is rather convenient. i'll set up an appointment for him to look at her and give her shots etc. then, after work, i shall go on over to the pet store across the street from my apartment to get an actual box, something for gray to scratch on and consult about what foods and litter i should be using.
this is amusing on levels that you cannot imagine. heh.
i found a little black kitten on my way home from the birthday party tonight... it was so cute, i didn't have the heart to leave it there. after a short phone call to bareket, i found myself carrying the adorable creature home with me.
still haven't quite figured out if i have a male or female, but i guess it won't be too hard to figure out. bareket has said she'll help me out with vet stuff and so on...
i don't know if i want to keep it. i mean, it's the cutest thing i've ever seen, but i'm not sure i'm ready for this. heh. i'm assuming that even if i decide i don't want her/him, it'll take at least a little while until i find it another home. so either way, i need a box, kitty litter, food, feeding dishes and to cross my fingers that he/she becomes house trained quickly.
oh, i have no idea what to name him/her. so if you have any ideas, i'm totally open to suggestions =)
yesterday i had a really good time up in the pardes-hana area. today, i got home with enough time to pass out right before the holiday began. since the country pretty much shuts down on this day - now that i'm awake, i am experiencing the only really quiet time i'm ever going to have in this apartment. i'm so used to the cars, buses, screaming people and loud music that come from this street, that it's kinda surreal... hehe.
later i have plans with ola. one of her friends is celebrating his birthday and ola has decided that i must accompany her =)
oh, and i should probably eat something since all i managed today were some peanuts and yesterday didn't look much better... *goes hunting for food in the kitchen*
music: in my head: castles in the sky by terminal choice mood: ok
i just wanted to wish a very happy birthday to the owners of one of my favorite bars, right here in tel-aviv. that's right, the bloom bar is celebrating its fourth year of existance.
best wishes!
unfortunately, i will not be attending celebrations this evening due to having plans elsewhere. i hope whoever does go has a drink for me =)
last night ola and i went to the cheers (look! they have a website! lol). again. i suppose i now have to admit that i have become somewhat of a regular. oh, the irony...
we were joined by rona and a group of her co-workers, shortly thereafter. lots of alcohol was consumed by all of us, we enjoyed some very good conversation, the charming bartenders' performance and each others' company. after that, rona and i sat down at the adjacent food place and ate to our heart's content.
after work yesterday, i barely managed to get home when i was asked to join a group of ola's friends at the center. so i inhaled my food and headed back out. the center excursion included shopping, food (not for me, i was stuffed) and good company. then we headed to some art display in another part of tel-aviv, which was pretty disappointing. with nothing else to do, we all headed to the cheers for happy hour. since ola had introduced me to something i had never thought of drinking before last week (vodka-apple), it was my drink of choice. and surprisingly, the rest of the girls' too. heh.
went home rather early cuz i wanted to put these pictures up.
anyone got any ideas for what there is to do tonight? =)
so for a minute there i thought that transferring my entire gallery to my flickr account would be a good idea. while uploading it to flickr a breeze, downloading shit off of the server the gallery is currently hosted on is a pain in my ass. it simply keeps on timing out and i have to do it in parts. umm... no thanks. so i think that i'm going to grab a couple more albums from their current location (no more today, thanks) and put them on flickr. the rest will simply be new photos etc.
...when i sit at home all day, all i do is eat. seriously, i've been eating all day. haven't stopped for one minute. and now i'm thinking what i should order from outside. lol.
never, have i ever been SO insulted by someone who claims to be my friend. ever.
she managed to do it twice (well, regarding two issues... it was much more than twice) today. for the first time, i tried to pretend i didn't care. but then when it started happening repeatedly regarding the second issue, i started growing seriously aggravated. i've been told a few times not to let it get to me, but this is seriously the most insulting thing that's happened to me in well over... umm... i don't know. YEARS.
then, another friend takes something i said the wrong way, twists it around and also turns out to be a little more than i am willing to put up with.
i don't know. maybe it is me. perhaps i'm wired completely wrong. but seriously, i really don't fucking care anymore. people who pretend one things and really feel another... or people who say one thing and then turn out to really think the opposite can GET OUT OF MY LIFE. i don't want you anymore.
my life has been nice lately. i don't want you in it to fuck it up for me.
three things that i managed to do yesterday were get the dress for shani's wedding altered; see dik, whom i rarely get to see; and purchase my first (well, first in about fifteen years) hair removal thingie.
techno party with ola @ 5:30pm. saw shai there. three hours of fun. sushi. too much food. cheers with hasa. skipped bereket's friend's thing. too tired. sleep now.
i got to do exactly what i wanted to do last night... that is, staying in; chilling with h. i think he was just slightly more exhausted than i was. even though i was pretty drained as well. so it was pretty much tv and sleep etc.
for some odd reason, we were up really early this morning. so we went out wandering, looking for a place to eat. after that, i came back here and actually went back to sleep. big surprise.
now, ola wants me to go to some party with her, bareket has asked me to do the same (tho somewhere else) and all i really planned today was to go have food/drinks with hasa. ideally, i'd somehow like to do them all. lol.
i need band-aids for my poor feet. the new shoes i bought are getting the best of them.
additionally, today is my brother's birthday. it's really too bad that he lives on the other side of the world. not that i was ever really good at going to spend this day with him when i was living in the states, but now that i can't i feel like i'd really like to. figures. anyway... HAPPY BIRTHDAY, HESH!!! i hope you're having a good one =)
music: on tv: charlie & the chocolate factory mood: meow
last night was a lot of fun. from what i can remember. i know i was totally wasted by the time i got to the sublime, and i don't even think it was that late yet. heh. i know i did my usual nonsense but then ended up on the far side of the bar, talking to a really sweet guy.
no more details on that =P
for tonight there are all kinds of possibilities... going to hang out with ola at the silon, where she's working; going to the zamir where i'm assuming most of my friends are going to be; staying home and relaxing.
the last option is the most appealing to me. especially if i have the pleasure of H's company. but it all remains to be seen =)
while everyone was out at the NIN show last night, i was long asleep. i think i fell asleep at about 8pm. heh. and i slept right through till 6 o'clock this morning. not bad. all signs of that cough/sneeze are gone. i hope they don't come back.
i think i have a dress for shani's wedding. i still have to see if i can get the alterations done on one of the ones i bought the other day. if that's not done in time, i'll simply wear the other one =)
as it turns out i actually weigh one kilo less than i had originally thought. while i keep on thinking that perhaps i am gaining weight, it turns out that the way i've been eating really is the right thing to do... see, i changed my eating habits under the guise of a diet back in the beginning of june, and have religiously stuck to the new 'regime' ever since. i cannot even tell you how much more i eat now than i did before i started. but it turns out that eating healthy actually is the key to maintaining my weight. who'd have thought? =P
in other news, today is my boss' birthday. this is mostly interesting because last year on his birthday celebration, i was attending my first interview at intermedia. hehe. and in six days i will have officially been at my current job for an entire year. this makes me happy =)
i've loved you for the longest time. we both know that if things had been different at the time, we would have been very happy together. i miss you like i don't think i currently miss anyone else. we will always be able to look back on the little time we did have together.
i suppose that it's not worth wondering "what if." but maybe, one day... if i ever find my way back there... maybe.
the boss is away for the week, so things are relatively calm. got a whole bunch of things done... you know, those that have been piling up because i had not time to do? yea, those.
other than that, ola got back last night and i can't wait to see her!!
sitting at home most of the weekend only made me antsy. and since i did not go out on friday night, i was up rather early on saturday morning. this gave me plenty of time to clean the apartment and straighten up. however, but about lunch time i was already wondering what the hell i was going to do for the rest of the day/evening. since ola isn't here, i was seriously haveing a hard time finding ideas (what can i say, she's the creative one =P) and decided that i would head to jerusalem by myself if i couldn't find anyone to join me.
after checking with a few people, bareket said she would gladly join me and it turned out that we even had a ride cuz shai had to be there for a friend's party.
unlike the couple of times i was there with ola, bareket insisted that we walk around the city and get lost in the streets a little. so i ended up taking her on the little 'tour' that D had originally taken me on. i find it entirely too amusing that my memory works in an incredibly photographic way. i had no idea where i was going until i found places that looked familiar. at some point, i turned off that track cuz i wasn't really planning on ending up anywhere near his house. lol. instead, i came across one of the few streets i actually know, and headed up there.
jerusalem really is beautiful. next time i go there i think i'll have to do a little more walking. and be a little more adventurous about it, too. i had a blast. thank you bareket =)
music: soilwork - wherever thorns may grow mood: okie
ola has been away in france, putting together a couple of events since wednesday. what can i say, i'm mostly bored without her. it's mind-boggling how quickly we became such good friends. and a little odd it took us so long to do so, considering we've technically known each other for about four-five years. just about. anyway, i find myself mostly unentertained in her absence and i can't wait for her to get back.
in the mean time i leave you with a photo she sent me of one of the events she put together in mote-carlo this weekend:
