Month: May 2013

Month In Review: May

Crap, it’s late. I’ll have to keep it short if I want to get this posted in May (which I do).

  • Read every day. Still going strong with this resolution. Yay!
  • Blog every day. See above 🙂
  • Exercise every day. Yeah, no. I spent most of this month sitting on my ass with the occasional walk in 80+ degree weather with my mom or trip to the driving range with my parents.
  • Brush my teeth twice every day. Yeah, no. On days when I couldn’t be bothered to shower brushing my teeth felt like too much work.
  • Break out of my comfort zone. Yeah, no. I realized the other day that I am scared (what I am scared of is as yet undetermined) and that the fear has kind of paralyzed me. This is why I will spend five hours sitting in my living room listening to podcasts and thinking about the five million other things I should be doing but never actually do any of those five million things. It’s also why I’ve only applied for two freaking jobs in five months even though I really, really, really want to move back up north.

The first step is admitting you have a problem, right? I hope that’s what I was doing in acknowledging my fear above. We’ll see though, won’t we?

Until tomorrow.

P.S. The Friday list is postponed until tomorrow. This was more important.

Ha

I realized that I have nine (9!) different kinds of ice cream in my house. I had this realization while eating my third ice cream bar of the day. I’m clearly a grown-up.

Other things I ate today: three Wawa pretzels and a large Wawa caramel cream smoothie (which was insanely delicious, by the by). That’s pretty much it. When you combine that with the two naps of unknown length I took this afternoon I am the grown-up-iest grown-up that ever lived.

In other news, today is the third anniversary of Roy Halladay’s perfect game. I am always going to regret not watching that game. I didn’t have MLB.tv back then, but I had FoxSports Florida, which broadcasts all Marlins games. Of course, I didn’t realize that at the time, but that’s no excuse. Judging by how nervous I got watching several plays on that video – even though I knew what was going to happen – I probably would’ve stressed myself the hell out if I’d watched that game live. Hell, I remember how nervous I was watching Doc’s no-hitter in the NLDS; to this day my heart races when I watch footage of the last out of that game.

Until tomorrow.

All’s Well That Ends Well

So my personal cheerleader finally received the package I shipped to her. And it only took 15 days. So glad I paid 18 bucks for that. (I am seriously considering asking UPS for a refund since they did screw me over.) Also, really stoked that no one at UPS ever bothered to inform me that they’d found the package. It’s not like I’m the sucker who paid them to ship it or anything.

I’m still angry because that’s more or less my default setting, but I have to give UPS credit. They cared that the package wasn’t delivered (after I persuaded them that, yes, I know your system says it was delivered, but my friend doesn’t have it). They offered me an option to deal with their mistake. And, hell, they rectified the situation. (I would really love to know where the package was for the last 10 days, though.)

So to recap: don’t ship anything ever, but if you must, use UPS. I mean, I suppose you could use FedEx (they haven’t screwed me over yet), but I have an irrational dislike of them.

Thus concludes the saga of shipping. I hope to God that I never have to blog about shipping ever again.

Until tomorrow.

Into Darkness

I loved Star Trek Into Darkness. Loved it. (Also, I managed to remain un-spoiled going in and I’m pretty proud of that.)

I know that some people really hated it and I don’t really understand that (which is not to downplay others’ opinions). It was a big, fun action movie. The first one was a big, fun action movie. What more do you expect from a franchise movie that’s one of the first (if not the first) blockbusters of the summer movie season?

You know what I find especially confusing? The people who loved the first movie but hated this one. This one has Benedict Cumberbatch; it has to be better 🙂 (Seriously, I think I like this one better. I certainly want to run right back out and watch it again.) For a kind of strange-looking man, Benedict Cumberbatch is one sexy motherfucker. I rather enjoyed watching him emote, too, since Sherlock so rarely has emotions.

(Random digression: I just discovered that both ’emo’ and ’emocore’ are in the Dictionary.com app and I had to share that.)

Until tomorrow.

Random Thought

I’m going to see Star Trek Into Darkness tomorrow. I’m pretty excited. I watched part of Star Trek this afternoon in anticipation and I realized that I’m so used to seeing Chris Hemsworth with long hair that I barely recognize him as Kirk’s father. I said as much to my parents and my mom refused to believe that he was the same guy who plays Thor, so I guess I may be on to something.

In other news, why the hell did an Of Monsters and Men song pop into my head just now? (And it’s not even “Little Talks;” it’s “King and Lionheart.”) Fun fact: I liked them when “Little Talks” came out but then it got overplayed and I bought their record when it was on sale at Amazon but only listened to it once because it was, like, the never-ending record. Now I mostly change the channel whenever the radio subjects me to them, but somehow I learned some of the words and melody to “King and Lionheart.” But the last thing I listened to was Metallica, for crying out loud. Why is the DJ in my head subjecting me to crap? I’d better listen to some The Neighbourhood or Bastille or Cayucas or some other alt rock band that hasn’t upset me yet ASAP.

Until tomorrow.

Friday List: Graduation Edition

It’s graduation season (and I don’t have a job and my competition has increased and I am so screwed – moving on) and lots of bloggers are writing advice for the class of 2013. I’m not, though, because I don’t have any advice to give. Instead, I’m compiling a list of pieces I found amusing and/or helpful. Seriously, I wish someone had told me some of this stuff when I graduated.

  • First, from everyone’s favorite cartoon penguin, we have Zoo With Roy’s post. Much as I generally love ZWR, I hate him for referencing that damn “Sunscreen” song/spoken word piece/whatever that for some ungodly reason received significant radio airplay when I was in high school or college. (I hate it so much that I’ve repressed when it came out.) Other than that, though, I enjoyed the post and thought there was some actual, good advice included, especially the part about living with your parents as long as possible. I lived with my parents for years and, even though it could suck sometimes, it is the reason I have been able to live in my own house even though I’ve been basically unemployed for 2.5 years.
  • From Deadspin, we have Drew Magary’s post. It was posted last week so I’m a little late, but there’s some good stuff in it. Drew’s advice is the stuff that I most wish someone had told me: be reckless, fuck up a little, and travel. (For the love of God, why did no one tell me to travel after graduation??)
  • From Jezebel, we have Katie J.M. Baker’s post. What really caught my eye in the post was the last paragraph in the “Don’t create drama. Create stuff.” section. I may not be filling my days with Wife Swap marathons, but I am filling them with my own brand of idleness and, y’know what, ignoring my problem isn’t making it go away and is making it more stressful.
  • Finally, we have Lifehacker’s post-college survival guide. There’s a ton of useful information in the post and I will definitely be returning to it a lot now that I’ve inspired myself to work on my damn job hunt.

Until tomorrow.

Oh Fudge

I was pleased to find out that the Boy Scouts of America finally lifted its ban on gay scouts. (But not gay leaders? C’mon, BSA.) But then something horrible happened. The Phillies decided to have Michael Martinez take Chase Utley’s roster spot while Utley is on the DL. I remember how happy everyone was when Mini-Mart was (finally) bumped from the 40-man late last year. I was super happy. I mean, I knew he was still at AAA, but I thought I’d never have to see him in a Phillies uniform ever again. But I guess that was just asking too much. I know that Mini can play second, but so can several other guys currently on the big league roster (including Freddy Galvis, who really ought to get most of the starts there while Utley’s hurt). Why not bring up Darin Ruf instead? He’s already on the 40-man and at the very least he can DH in Boston next week.

Grr, this makes me cranky. If only I hadn’t checked Twitter a while ago I would be blissfully ignorant of this crappy news.

Until tomorrow.

Random Thought

While watching the Phillies game I realized that, technically speaking, I was watching WPHL 17 in Philadelphia even though I was sitting in my living room in Tampa. That is so wild.

I realize that I watch almost all Phillies games on Philly TV channels, but for some reason the fact that it was PHL17 really stuck out to me. This is probably because I watched channel 17 all the time when I was growing up, but never watched CSN Philly (and not just because it didn’t exist).

I don’t know why I had this realization today, but I’m glad I did. It’s nice to remember just how awesome the world is every once in a while.

Until tomorrow.