‘Deep Thoughts’ Category

  1. Extraordinary Claims

    January 1, 2012 by sassenach

    343/365

    I somehow managed to stay up until midnight last night! I’m definitely getting old though, because it was difficult and I just wanted to go to bed. M and I watched Kathy Griffin and Anderson Cooper to help keep me awake.

    We spent the first day of the new year with my family. My parents’ house has become a gathering place for all special occasions–birthdays, holidays, and the like. My sister and brother-in-law were there, too. We always start out by eating the yummiest of food (Filipino food FOREVER) and then we sit around the dining room table chatting.

    Inevitably, the conversation turns to the paranormal, haha. For some reason, my family loves to talk about their ‘personal experiences’ when it comes to ghosts. I always feel left out because I’ve never had a definite experience and the questionable one I did have was most likely something from a dream-induced state. I used to be a HUGE fan of the show Ghost Hunters–I watched faithfully and bought into it, but over time I’ve changed my perspective about the supernatural/paranormal. My family isn’t very scientifically-minded (and that’s not intended to be an insult or anything; it’s just a fact). I’ve become more skeptical as I get older and, in recent years, have been introduced to the awesomeness of people like Carl Sagan. It’s really interesting how drastically our beliefs can change over time.

    oh! I forgot to mention that I completed my December blog-a-day! I didn’t miss any days, woohoo! I’m going to try to keep up with my consistent blogging in January. And I’ll hopefully post about more substantive things…maybe. Sometimes I just can’t muster up any deep thoughts. :D And when I do write, I *still* feel the urge (even after all these years of blogging) to censor myself sometimes…because I think what I really want to write will sound silly or weird or…something. I don’t want to overshare all the time, but I do want to write more honestly, if that makes sense.

    I’m off work tomorrow and Tuesday (EXCITE!) and I’m planning on getting some secret knitting done and relaxing in general. I hope your 2012 is off to a great start!

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  2. Goodbye, 2011!

    December 31, 2011 by sassenach

    One of the cool things about doing my Year in Pictures project is that I have a visual journal of 2011. My memory seems to get worse with each passing year, so it’s nice to have an easy reminder of everything that’s happened.

    This post was inspired by Manda and Moni.

    January

    Bust of Poe

    M and I visited the Poe Museum in Richmond, VA.

    February

    Snow in Motion

    It snowed. A lot! A crazy amount of snow for Virginia Beach, to be honest.

    March

    48/365

    I started getting into fitness and losing weight. (sigh) I've definitely fallen off this wagon. I'm kind of sad about it, actually. Maybe I'll get back on Wii Fit in 2012. Also in March: I FINALLY bought a DSLR!

    April

    81/365: Green (and other colors)

    I put the new Foo Fighters CD in my car and didn't take it out for MONTHS. Seriously, I've listened to this hundreds of times by now. It's that good.

    May

    Four Girls

    I went to Maryland Sheep & Wool with my knitty girls and kc went with us for the first time! YAY :) It was sooooo fun!

    June

    7 Days: Day 7

    I put my new Nikon to good use and participated in the 7 Days (self-portrait) group on Flickr for the first time. (Unfortunately, I missed the latest round! I'll try to join next cycle.)

    July

    165/365: Happy

    I turned 31! And after years of work-related stress, I interviewed for a new job...AND GOT IT!

    August

    202/365

    Roughest month of all (maybe ever). My then-boss killed himself. I started my new job four days later. Hurricane Irene hit (and spared us, thankfully). Spent way too much time numb, crying, numb (lather, rinse, repeat), thinking about a lot of things I'd never had to consider before.

    September

    223/365

    I settled into my new job at the library and finally realized that I was meant to work in a library all along. If only I'd realized this years ago!

    October

    280/365: Muppets Collection!

    My nail polish stash grew...and grew...and....I'm still buried under it, actually...

    November

    310/365

    I had a very stressful month at work (loooong story...it's not the work, it's certain people). As always, my dogs were there to cheer me up (mopey faces aside).

    December

    322/365

    M had a birthday and we also celebrated five years together. I gave myself a break and chose not to knit for family this year, yay me.

    I’m pretty sure I’ll do another YIP for 2012 because it’s really been helpful having these photos to jog my memory. 2011 was super emotional for me, in positive and negative ways. What I’m hoping/resolving to do in 2012 is be more productive with my emotions…less bitching, more DOING, if that makes sense.

    I’m not going to say that 2011 sucked entirely because I did make at least one very big, positive life change (new job FTW!), so I’m just hoping that 2012 is that much better. :) May you have an even better 2012, too.

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  3. Work and Things That Must Be Done

    December 4, 2011 by sassenach

    There are a lot of things going on at work right now that I can’t talk about specifically (at least for now). But I spent the better part of my morning (about two hours) writing up a…statement? report?…for my boss’s boss, informing her of the issues that have been going on for a while. I hope that things will work out okay because I really love my job and it’s frustrating when certain people there aren’t pulling their weight–and that’s a massive understatement. I just really hope that things get better very soon.

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  4. Get busy living, or get busy dying.

    August 14, 2011 by sassenach

    It has been a while since I blogged about life lately, but now I’m coming here to blog about death.

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  5. Slightly damaged; otherwise, in great condition.

    March 14, 2011 by sassenach

    52/365

    So there’s a little story behind how this book was damaged. I bought it new, but I used to be quite a book hoarder when I lived in New Mexico. (I even collapsed a bookcase once with the weight of my books.) But that’s not how this particular book got crushed.

    When I was getting divorced, I packed up the majority of my books–most of which I hadn’t read yet, but wanted to hold on to–and shipped them in big boxes to my parents here in Virginia. The boxes made it here largely unscathed, but some of them (like this one) were slightly jostled in the mail and crushed a bit.

    When I took this off the shelf last night to start reading it (four years after it was shipped here!), I didn’t realize that it was one of the “bent” ones. I only noticed it when I took off the dust jacket. Anyway, it’s a really long way of saying that I’m sure there’s something symbolic here. Slightly damaged, but otherwise in great condition. Not unlike myself.

    (btw, the book is Light on Snow by Anita Shreve.)

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  6. March 5th

    March 5, 2011 by sassenach

    43/365

    Today would have been my grandma’s 90th birthday.

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  7. Insomnia and Reflection

    January 30, 2011 by sassenach

    I’ve just spent the past hour or so digging through the archives here. Wow, it’s amazing what my memory has retained and what it has blocked. I was hesitant about leaving many of the posts up because they’re part of a history I’d rather not remember, but looking back, I think I’ll leave them. The real doozy posts are password-protected since I only wanted friends reading them, which is how they’ll stay. But I think it’s a good decision to leave things up, just so that I can look back and see the progression of events in my life these past several years.

    And I can definitively say that my life in 2011 thus far is way, way, way better than it was in 2006. Thank goodness for that.

    Also: it’s 4 AM; why the hell am I still awake?!

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