9 posts tagged “love and loathe”

Loathing:

• deadlines that I'm just not motivated to meet
• lack of motivation
• Deadbeat Bridesmaids who have done almost nothing thus far
• not having enough time (between two jobs and an upcoming wedding) fo fully unpack my house - I hate living in chaos and boxes

Loving:

• ABBA - I can't help it, I'm truly, madly, deeply and thoroughly in love with them and their music... and of course...
• Mamma Mia! - Its been running through my head (with the help of my ipod) since I left the show on Sunday
• Family
• Friends
• Looking forward to my best friend's wedding this weekend!!! I'm so excited to be her Maid of Honor :)
• My bridesmaid dress - its gorgeous and totally wearable for future events :-D
• Looking forward to the pampering that I'll be getting for being a bridesmaid (mani, pedi, massage... oh yeah!)
• My return to blogging/journaling/writing
• My Vox neighborhood

I got lost in the fold last week and just barely got my act together! Here's to trying really hard this week and hopefully staying up with the times ;)

Loathing:

• Being tired and not having a lot of time to myself to regroup
• Having to tell people things that you know they don't want to hear - As much as they don't want to hear it, I don't want to say it, but sometimes not saying it just makes it worse

Loving:

• Making some good money at the second job
• The impact my second job is having on my debt :)
• Meeting awesome new people at my new job
• My training walks for the Breast Cancer 3 Day
• Weekends
• Family
• Friends
• Beautiful weater
• My new Lypsyl lip balm - It's just the right amount tingly and all kinds of moisturizing-awesome, and I love the little honeybee slider to raise and lower it! I'm a Burt's Bees junkie, but I have to say, Lypsyl gives Burt a run for his money :)

But first thing's first. I've got two weeks of Loving and Loathing to catch up on.

Loathing:

• tree pollen
• my allergies
• inefficient prescription allergy medication
• tree pollen
• my allergies
• and oh yeah, did I mention tree pollen and my allergies?

Loving:

• Rain, sweet rain! Thank you for coming and taking care of all of that nasty tree pollen! I can finally almost breathe again :)
• Bob Woodward speaking at my job. Talk about cool! I was *so* starstruck!
• Taking a second job at a Ballroom Dance studio (I miss me some ballroom something fierce! Its like a wonderful homecoming!)
• Second job helping to make a nice big dent in my debt
• *NOT* feeling like I'm living paycheck to paycheck
• My friends and how they encourage (and love to partake of) my ridiculosity :)
• Guitar Hero
• My co-workers sharing Mother's Day Gifts with me for being a "kitty-mommy" :)  (I'm the only woman in my office who's not already a mom, so they didn't want me to feel left out)
• And most importantly, my family, who I will get to see again this weekend. Yay for Mothers and Grandmothers and Godmothers!!!

Loathing this Tuesday:

• Crappy weather - I need some blue skies and warm weather again VERY soon or the outcome won't be pretty
• Feeling blue for no good reason, but lots of not-so-good reasons
• The heart-wrenching pangs of sadness I've been getting for reasons I can guess at, but can't really do anything about
• Feeling like I'm living paycheck to paycheck

Loving this Tuesday:

• Escaping the city for a weekend and spending quality time with family and friends
• Short week - heading home to PA around lunch on Friday for Easter weekend
• Spending time with my family
• Getting back to Ballroom and writing and blogging and all the things that really help to make me happy
• Sushi dinners with cute friends

Loathing:

• New traffic patterns on the outer loop that make my morning commute hell
• The insane traffic this morning resulting from the Papal visit
• This nagging back pain that after 3 weeks STILL hasn't completely subsided (yes, I know, I'm going to head to the Dr. later this week)
• The fact that I wake up multiple times throughout the night for no reason and end up feeling like a zombie during the day

Loving:

• The fact that my job will pay for me to take public transportation to and from work - this will help me save on gas money and wear and tear on my car (the only downfall is the additional 30-45 minutes this will tack onto my commute).
• 1 month down, 23 left to go! I had my braces tightened yesterday, and I was expecting it to be a lot worse than it was. I guess the old adage is true... Prepare for the worst, but hope for the best :) Perfect smile, here I come!!!
• This week isn't dragging the same way the past 2 have (knock on wood!)
• Veronica Mars - I started watching the DVDs again, and I lovelovelove that show!
• Dinner with the Girls later this week :)
• Road trip to Williamsburg this weekend to spend some time with friends and hang out with my mom, who will also be there this weekend :)

Loathes:

• not being able to sleep through the night - for some odd reason, I keep waking up every hour or so.
• my alleriges... they make spring so much less enjoyable
• rising gas prices - Its a shame I can't metro to work, but the metro would add at least an hour to my 35 minute commute. And oh yeah, I'd probably be yacking all over people after riding the metro and then a shuttle bus for that long.

Loves:

• spring - its so beautiful! (even better when its not cloudy, rainy, damp and crappy)
• that Tuesday is one day closer to Friday
• my bed - I can't wait to go home and get into it
• reminiscing on IM with my old roommate/best friend over old photos - ahhh, how I love nostalgia (and her, too!)

Loathes:

• Returning to reality
• Delayed flights drawing out my return to reality
• Saying goodbye to the other half of my brain, my soul, my personality

• Amazing weekends, amazing music
  
• Ultra Music Festival
  
• Warm weather
• Palm trees
• Spending the weekend with one of my bestest friends in the whole wide world, my most favoritest roommate ever, and the other half of my brain, my soul, my personality
  

Things I'm loathing this week:

• Sleet and Freezing Rain, Black ice, and idiotic drivers
• Men who date you for a month and then just stop calling. Seriously, just man-up and tell me you're not interested. Put on the big-boy pants, its not that big a deal. But its common courtesy!!!
• Valentine's Day. Period. I hate it when I'm with someone, I hate it when I'm not with someone. I'm an equal opportunity hater. Its a bullshit holiday that Hallmark came up with to put themselves in the black, to the benefit of restaurants, candy companies, florists, etc. I hate the pandemonium, the mayhem, the expectations. I had a long-term ex-boyfriend who would literally come thisclose to a nervous breakdown if things didn't go JUST. PERFECTLY. I had another ex that just smothered me - 5 boxes of chocolates, 15 stuffed animals that I had to scavenge for in a formal dress, a dozen long-stem roses, a three foot tall homemade heart card, all in addition to a very expensive dinner dance. Talk about overkill. It totally ruined it for me.

Things I'm loving this week:

• My mother for buying me a Marpac Sleep Machine to block out the whiny dogs downstairs and the screaming sex fiends upstairs
• 

  Sweet dreams
• My new Marpac Sleep Machine (which should get here this weekend...)
• My Queen sized bed that I don't have to share with anyone (well, except the cat)
• Olld Blue Eyes, crooning to me in my iPod - my own personal version of Heaven
• My lifeline, my MacBook, who I named Giselle because she is so fabulous.
• Celebrating the one (or ones) you love privately, on your own special day (or days), in your own special way. None of this commercialized crap dictating how you should tell someone that they mean a lot to you.
• And most importantly, Irish Lucky Lass for inviting me to join this lovely group :)