and so it begins

"Don't call it a comeback; I've been here for years..."

- LL Cool J


How is everyone?

As promised, I've shown up on February 1, and I will attempt to blog every day this month. This will be difficult, as:

1. I am out of the habit of blogging
2. I have extremely busy at work
3. I have a couple of trips planned

Nonetheless, I plan on giving this the good ol' college try. We'll see how it goes.

Life in Sleepy Hamlet is...all right. I'm getting used to the fact that I'm here on a permanent basis, slowly but surely. I'm nesting a little bit - bought an HDTV and PS3 last weekend, and I got new tires (in anticipation of all of my trips). I've had a couple of fun adventures recently...but I have to save SOMETHING to write about...

i thought she was serious for a minute

via text - Maxine is home for the holidays visiting her mom

ME: How was shopping?

MAXINE: Well, i'm done so i'm happy!

ME: What did you buy me? ;-)

MAXINE: Hah! Cowboy boots!

ME: Great! I needed brown shoes...

MAXINE: Oops, well, i hope you like crocodile.

getting organized

I'm finally tackling a project that has been months in the making: I'm organizing my room. It's made a little bit difficult because I don't have enough storage for my clothes, and I have a rickety crappy little desk with no place to store things.

I also have a laundry list of things to replace or buy, including:

a new desk chair (to replace the death trap I'm sitting on)
curtains (I don't have any)
dresser (the one I have is made out of something like cardboard)
big bookcase (because my roommate is using mine)
shoe racks
desk
bed frame


This is all kind of difficult to purchase when you're unemployed. I was hoping to use some of my surplus money for this stuff, but I'm having to spend that to survive. (Ain't the life of an actor grand?) Despite all of these money woes, I'm really happy to be (finally) sorting stuff out and finding a home for it. It just feels good, you know?

Good weekend to all; back to sorting and shredding and filing for me...

lazy Saturday

I don't really want to do anything today. I just want to sit on my couch, pick through the things on my DVR, maybe watch some college hoops (that's what I'm doing right now). But that's it.

I was productive this morning: went grocery shopping, picked up some things at Target, checked out a new eye doctor that's in my 'hood, dropped off some jeans at the tailor. That's enough for one day, right?

I am going to another Knicks game tonight with a friend, and I think that will be a good time. But right now I just want to sit here forever...

buyers' remorse

I always suffer from it, no matter what it is I buy.

Today it was one of those rolling shopping/laundry carts. I always have too much laundry to carry to the nice laundromat, which is about six blocks away, so it's essential for me to buy one of these. I picked one up at Target about a month ago, but in my moving-crazed hurry, I failed to notice that it was waaaaay too small. (That one wasn't buyers' remorse - it was just me being stupid.)

Today I picked up a cart that was the size I wanted. But my brain already started nit-picking as I walked home: should have gotten it in black, should have gotten one with rubber wheels instead of plastic, paid way too much for it, it's not a quality product, etc.

I do this every time I make a major purchase.

I feel better about it now (except for the wheels; rubber is WAY better), probably because I now have clean laundry and full cupboards, which I didn't have a few hours ago.

All right, TV, dinner, a little rehearsal for my audition tomorrow, then bed. Catch ya tomorrow - maybe I'll be brave enough to write from the temp job...

a productive early morning

I've had an "adult" day so far.

I set my alarm clock for 8:30 so that I could beat the crowds at the Trader Joe's in Manhattan. (Why go later and risk standing in line for 45 minutes, as I did last Friday evening?) It was like shopping in a crowded grocery store, rather than standing in the middle of a riot. I breezed in and out of there in half an hour.

After returning home and putting my groceries away, I went back out the door and headed for Target to get toiletries, medicine, and a couple of name-brand items I couldn't get at TJ's. It was about 10:30 at this point, and the lines at Target were relatively short, too. At this stop, too, I was able to get what I needed and get out without being hassled.

I stopped off for a cup of (decaf) coffee on the way home, and I was done with all of that stuff before eleven. I called my grandma and talked to Lil' Bit for a while, took a shower, made lunch, and balanced my checkbook. Now I've got a couple of hours to kill before making dinner and going to work, and all I have to do is go over my lines for my audition on Monday.

It's days like this when I feel mature, like an adult. I feel thirty. In a positive way.

Hope everyone's having a good weekend. Oscar picks coming tomorrow.

i am now officially an adult...

...because I just bought a bed. I really wanted a queen-sized one, but it won't fit in my new room, and I couldn't get it downstairs into my current setup, so I have to settle for the full. I'm pretty jazzed, though. Macy's was having a clearance, so I got the bad boy for half off! Good times.

And yesterday I went to IKEA and bought dishes and glasses and mugs with saucers. Add this to my couch purchase, and I am on the way to full fledged adulthood!

(At 30.)

shopping spree

I'm about to embark on a shopping spree of unprecedented proportion - at least, for me.

My good roommate is moving out at the end of the month, and she's taking a lot of the apartment with her. After all, she was the one who bought it in the first place. Because the bad roommate is fresh out of college (and therefore could exist with just a chair, air mattress, and television), and StefStar (who is replacing the good roommate) is a transient, it's up to me to provide for my living space.

So, I now have to buy:

a couch (the top item on the list today)
pots & pans
dishes (though I have some in Pittsburgh to rescue from the clutches of my parents' basement)
a kitchen cabinet (we just really need one)
a coffee table
a rug
a bed (because I'm 30, and it's not cute for me to sleep on a futon anymore)

First up is the cabinet and the couch - Maxine is going with me, because I have no taste. ;-) I would also accept donations...