poohmusings's bemused musings

The good: There are people there! And there are gifs. Lots of gifs!

The bad: I'm having the hardest time making heads and tails of it! I feel OLD. Plus, I can't leave any comments/chats/whatever they're called on tumblr yet. WAH.

P.S. In case it wasn't obvious, I'm on tumblr now. Same username as always cause I like that consistency. :)

Wait. Is that a sign that I AM old?!

You know I love you. And am madly obsessed with the information you provide me on a hourly basis. And don't even get me started on your ability to predict the weather 15 days from now.

But when you insist on telling me it's 72 degrees outside when it's really 94, those are fighting words. Very Big Fighting Words.

Grossly sweatily yours,
Karen

Not sure how many readers I still have to this ol' LJ -- and how many of you live in LA -- but a good friend/co-worker of mine just received a huge promotion at work that's requiring her to relocate from Portland to Los Angeles. Unfortunately, due to wacky life circumstances, her husband is not moving with her because he just received his dream job offer, so he's staying in Portland for that job. This means my friend -- who I've know for almost 15 years -- is having to really budget her money when it comes to finding a place to live in Los Angeles. Below are her "specs"; if you know of a place that may work for her, could you let me know? She really, truly is awesome and I'd love to help her get settled back in California.

What am I looking for? I have pretty specific requirements, so I need your help getting the word out.

I'm looking for the following:
400-600 sq ft
Free standing bungalow, cottage, guest house, or duplex
Off street parking (or ample street parking)
Quiet safe neighborhood
Eastside only - Pasadena, South Pas, Eagle Rock, Glendale, Altadena etc.
Onsite laundry (prefer in the unit)
<$1300 per month
Willing to sign year lease

Who am I?
Working professional (20 years in my field)
Respectful of personal space and privacy
Quiet, easy-going, and friendly
Married (husband's job in Portland prevents relocation at this time)
Will take very good care of property
Like outdoors, hiking, working-out, gardening, cooking
No pets or children
Commuting a great deal to NCAL and Portland

Completely unrelated but this is the first time in a really long time I've posted on LJ NOT from my phone. How strange! Everything looks so different! My brain is wrinkling. ;)

Why, heeeeeeello there. How's everyone doing?

I have had a truly hellacious last 4 weeks -- nothing truly terrible; just a lot of work stuff -- and today it has all officially ended b

Wait. That sort of sounds like I lost my job. No, still have job. But the last of my big projects (for the moment anyway) ended today and I am freeeeeeeeee. Now, if I can only get out of Portland.

Apparently Obama is flying into SFO tonight and that is wreaking some serious havoc on my return flight home. First, we were delayed 30 mins. Which then turned into an hour. Am hoping it doesn't stretch to an hour and half.

To fill my extra time, I went and had dinner. And wine. But the fact I've slept about 10 hours across 3 nights has me barely able to walk straight after only having 1 glass of wine. Oopsie.

Please, I just really want to crawl into bed. Please.

But, Portland, I love me your no sales tax. And so will my wardrobe based on the 2 new sweaters and 1 new blazer sitting in my suitcase. :)

For the longest time, I've always thought I'm not very "smart." I put that in quotes because I'm not trying to say I think I'm stupid. I know I'm not. But at work, I always feel like there's a lack appreciation for what I bring to the tables -- besides a strong work ethic. And I think I've always chalked that lack of appreciation to how I'm simply not knowledgeable enough because I didn't study the right things in school, or didn't spend enough time in school, etc.

But I've recently come to realize that I AM smart and knowledgeable and should be appreciated, dammit. But the one area in which I'm definitely NOT smart? Work politics. At that I really am downright dum, perhaps to my own detriment.

This post is brought to you by the words "navel" and "gazing."

#SoMuchFigureSkatingDrama

#SoLittleTime

#ThankGodWinterOlympicsAreOnlyEvery4Years

#IThinkIMightBeDoingTheseHashtagsWrong

#ButTheCandlesWorked!

#ErrSortOf:(

P.S. #CanYouFrownyFaceAHashtag?

And my body can't figure out if it should be really tired or really hungry. (Ha! In its grand confusion, I just typed "hired." Brain, you're so smart by knowing to be both simultaneously.)

In other news, I have survived that thing known as "wind chill" -- nandamai, you are never allowed to repeat my ridiculous question about how thermometers register wind chill -- and have lived to tell the tale. :)

I had no idea Community returned today! What a great surprise.

Oh, and happy 2014, all. :)

Oh x 2, ah yes, that's how Sherlock ended season 2 ...

Okay, but first, when did LJ change its "Post an Entry" design? Whoa, so different. My brain struggles against change, yo. (Ha! Have started mainlining Breaking Bad -- better late than never, right? -- and Jesse Pinkman-speak has started creeping into my own in the most hilarious ways. I'm waiting for the day when I suddenly blurt out "Blah blah blah blah, bitch." Bwah.)

ANYWAY. Hi! I had every intention of posting this really heartfelt "I love y'all and am thankful for y'all" post last night, but then I got home from Thanksgiving dinner and almost promptly fell into a food-induced slumber which may or may not have been aided by this cold I caught from the weepeeps. Those weepeep germs -- man! When there was only one weepeep, I did pretty good at keeping the germs at bay. But with 2 weepeeps, it seems like my immune system has just given up. This is my THIRD cold in 2 months! Though my stress level and insomnia may not be helping matters any. :P

ANYWAYx2. (Sorry, my sinus pressure is making it really hard to concentrate.) With exactly 15 days to spare, I have just finished uploading all my fanfic to AO3. The deadline was because, I'd decided at the beginning of this year, that I wasn't going to automatically going to renew my website anymore. It was just feeling rather silly and, well, wasteful money-wise to keep paying $130/year to hold on to a site just so my fanfic would have somewhere to live. I didn't mind paying the money when I was still writing somewhat frequently, but now that the writing has really diminished to a trickle, it just felt like I could be putting that money to better use somewhere else. So I gave myself a deadline of Dec 14 (which is my site's renewal date) to upload everything to AO3, but because I'm me, I did procrastinate on this as much as possible. :) But the last of my Alias fic got uploaded today, and now I'm done. Wheeee.

But uploading all my fic like that made me really nostalgic for the "good ol' days." God, I loved chatting online with so many of you and brainstorming fic ideas and dissecting/mocking eps after they aired ... Good times. I feel like so many of you helped shape me as a writer and person and, though I'm one day late, that's something I'm really thankful for this year. And while I know so few of us remain on LJ these days (myself included), I just wanted to put this out there. *GROUP HUG*

It cracks me up that my one 2013 entry is about HGTV. WTF, self? Though, to be completely honest, I had been watching a lot HGTV for a while there.

So. Heeeeello! Felt like I should check in and prove I am still alive. I'm ... Okay. 2013 has not been good work-wise and that's been playing a lot of havoc with my emotions. Hence the LJ-silence. I feel like I started off this year trying really hard to be really good at my job and have failed at almost every turn. So I'm now tempted to shove my head in the sand and lay low for the rest of this year. Which, seeing as how it's only May, is probably not the wisest career move, but I'm tired of crying so much.

But in TV news, is anyone here watching Shameless (the US version)? I got totally hooked on it and want to blather about it with someone! :)

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