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There was a moment, just a minute ago... The office was silent, no phones ringing, people walking around or fellow planners leafing thru drawing sets... and for a second I felt completely alone.  It scared the shit out of me.

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Came across this and couldn't help myself.  Stalposite, I heart your anonymous letters!  Hehehe.  An exerpt for your reading pleasure: 

you are as common a grain of sand on the beach, and like common, i see the bitch in you. you're a waste of space, a waste of time and a waste of human being. you need to know that about yourself before you can move on and actually become a productive member of society and someone another person can actually be happy with. you disgust me and if given the chance, i will write this all on my hand and slap you across the face so you get the message loud and clear.

thanks for your time and consideration,
sincerely, f you,

me

Nearly two weeks into August and not a single [public] post??!?  Unacceptable sister, unacceptable.  I guess as of late, I've been pretty busy here at work... and by busy I mean only appearing busy, usually fielding calls while I combat AIM and Gchat IMs and simultaneously add apps to my new phone while streaming off imeem or pandora and sipping on my morning coffee that typically goes cold before I can finish it.  Haha... but seriously, I have no acceptable reason for NOT posting.  Let's just default and stick it to the man... that beezy!  Grrr!!

I swear I'll post life updates soon.  Forreals.  Seriously.  Promise... pinky swear... cross my heart. :) 

Until then, have a beautiful sunny filled day!

DekaRay

I begin to salivate when I come across good jewelry... and straight up drool when it's great jewelry by an even greater designer.  Today's The Latest Drool: Deka Ray by Eugenie Huang, an architect turned jewelry designer.  I don't know what it is about architects (sooo bossy hehe), but when they decide to crossover into other aspects of design... it's nothing short of amazing.  I'm specifically droolin' over her Multiply series (pictured above) inspired by gilt coronations, laurel wreaths, leaves and buds, black winged ravens and wrought iron fences... and absolutely hands down in love with the stacked ring action going on.  Beautiful.

Milk

I couldn't stop laughing when I saw how this pic turned out.  Muahhaahaha Christie, Rudes & Kasey are cra-craaay... love it!

Debbie Deb - Look out Weekend

It's Monday... 7:45 am and instead of thinking about what I gotta tackle this week, Look out Weekend's playin' in my head and all I'm thinking about is if I should pack clothes up for the weekend & crash somewhere instead of making the trek back home after a night of funnnnness to the nth degree. What to do, what to do ;)

Nbfg

As an avid hoodie, jeans & kicks kind of girl, don't tell me this ain't cute.  London's Not Bad for a Girl (don't ya just love the name) teamed up with Addict & came up with this morning's The Latest Drool.  With all the recent weather fluctuations (was that fog and mist this morning... and in mid-July?!), a sista never knows when she'll need a warm and comfy hoodie.

Disbelief.  Apparently this past month I've morphed into a texting fiend.  Frickennnn crap, dumb me.  Today while checking my cell phone bill, I nearly doubled it... by one simple mistake: I sent/received 1000+ texts last month.  My jaw literally dropped when I saw it.  UGHHHH face to the nth degree.  Never, EVER have I exceeded my 200 texts per month and now... more than a 1000?!  What the heck is going on here??  This is major kawawas, dude.  Major.   

Sidenote: I have 73 texts to last me until my plan resets on August 8th.  If you need me, please just call instead... I have plenty of rollover minutes.

Some recent thoughts from recent conversations.... in no particular order:

• A friend of mine called me a "vague monster" yesterday... Hahaha, really?!  Me!?
• What happened to people sending cards... me included?!  and eCards don't count.  I miss those days of searching at the local Hallmark finding "the card" for whatever reason (high school bf anniversary, birthdays, holidays, etc.).  The whole card giving and receiving practice feels kinda throwback, but in a cool romantic way. Hahaha... I wanna bring this one back.
• I need a cool blog title.
• Why is Heroes sooo addicting?!  I see now why many folks are hooked.  Yattaaaaa!!!
• My LEED exam is next month and I'm starting to get anxious.  Thing is I have a plan... but sticking to it is extremely difficult... especially when folks wanna go out or do happy hour.  Realization: saying no to a night of fun is an art I have yet to master.

Sooo, I turned a quarter century on folks last month and I've been thinking a lot about the next 6-12 months.  Mostly goals, things I wanna tackle and such.  I've been giving a lot of thought about going back to school.  True, this isn't a new idea.  Hah, I've been talking about going back since I finished Cal in '05.  The indecisive me that I am wanted to pursue a Masters in Architecture (MArch) and then I thought, fck it and double that up for a MArch and Master's in Urban Planning (MUP).  At the time, circa 2006, I thought I'd drop my previous job and jump right back into school, full-time full force bona fide overachiever status at some super tight school (think east coast, possibly SoCal or something along those lines).  Basically, I was ready to leave The Bay and shake things up a bit. 

Now don't get me wrong, there's still a piece of me that really wants up & leave for a couple of years... the dilemna comes in leaving the job I currently have.  Hands down, it's a great job... it's difficult, but it's great.  In fact, for many this job is folk's lifetime job.  So technically, unless there are budget cuts (don't let me down Newsom!) and I get laid off, I could stay here for the rest of my career.  So in my left hand I have this cool job and in the other I have grad school.... how to mesh the two is what I've been trying to tackle. 

And here is my current solution: keep working full-time and go back to school part-time for a MUP.  I found an evening program at San Jose State... it'd be 2 classes per semester and a total of... wait for it, wait for it: 4 years.  Dammmmn, right?!  Trust me, I know.  4 years is quite a long time (with no summer school I'd finish in 2013 and be 29.. OMG), but it's really hard any other way.  Regardless of what school I'd be going to, I'm planning on paying my way.  Asking the parentals isn't an option... they've done so much already.

And it is here where things get difficult.  In order for me to work in SF and school in SJ, I need to move which means I need to start paying rent (hah, don't hate... living at home is a sweet deal).  In addition, I'm gonna need a new car soon.  Sadly, the Rodi is nearing retirement and I've been meaning to get a new one, but never really looked forward to car payments or the insurance and blah blah blah since nowadays I rely heavily on public transportation, but having evening classes probably means I'll need to drive back and forth.  [Wow, talk about run-on sentence!]  See things are adding up already: tuition, books/materials, rent, new car, expensive ass gas, food (I'm gonna miss coming home with dinner on the table) and general life stuff.  I'd transition into full-time ADULT.  I think it's safe to say I've been playing the recently-finished-college-still-figuring-it-out card.  Meh.  I guess the next step is to do some number crunchin and make sure this can all happen.  I keep thinking: is this gonna work?  Is this really gonna work? 

I'll keep ya posted.     

Mood: uneasy but excited