g appreciating his jell-o shots
October 30, 2006 at 4:42 am (Uncategorized)
yes. yes it does. but not if you’re an alcoholic.
October 29, 2006 at 7:02 am (Uncategorized)
yes. yes it does. but not if you’re an alcoholic., originally uploaded by chion.
Nina & Heather kick ASS and fed some AMAZING food to myself and Michelle tonight!!! All the food was great, and Nina’s lasagna was BANGIN’. B – a – n – g – i – n’.
OH! And we all went to see “The Departed” tonight- freaking FANTASTIC movie. you laugh all the way through it, amidst lots and lots and lots of gruesome, satisfying violence. my kinda movie. and i still think leonardo dicaprio is dreamy.
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it’s really a dental dam!!! me at the dentist. not just for fun on my couch.
October 25, 2006 at 5:00 am (Uncategorized)
October 24, 2006 at 10:34 pm (Uncategorized)
OH! i almost forgot. the Noka 6133 also has a radio, so i can listen to NPR whenever the hell i want. Finally, i can listen to ALL of car talk on Sunday mornings when i’m at work!!! And listen to All Things Considered while i’m pretending to listen to my boss!!! And listen to Wait, Wait Don’t Tell Me to drown out a customer telling me how it’s MY fault they got their phone wet!!! And listen to Marketplace while i avoid the sales floor while stocking phones and doing paperwork!!!
love.
October 24, 2006 at 10:29 pm (Uncategorized)
i. got. a. new. PHONE!!!
i’ve been carrying around my trusty ol’ Nokia 3220 for the last year or so. i’d been WAITING for Nokia to come out with something new, but the 6103 left me wanting and waiting more.
Yesterday, it ALL paid off.
The Nokia 6133 is everything i always wanted. It’s not perfect (nothing is!), and i am thinking of telling Nokia to let me be a tester for their phones because i have some really great ideas, but man oh MAN, it’s freaking great.
it feels great to open (a nifty side button to release the flip! cool!), camera features are fun (solarize!), battery life and RF are still great, speaker phone is SUPER loud, shortcuts are available for the soft keys and navigation keys… great sounds for alarms which are actually more fun to use as ring tones… some SUPER great included games and programs (It has a TRANSLATOR!!!), it’s still got the Predictive Text that makes me love and adore Nokia texting so much… and you can use a VIDEO for your screensaver AND caller ID!
a few things i’d change– the camera button on the side of the phone should have to be held down longer before it launches the camera program. often when i grab my phone from my pocket, the camera has been on standby. also, when replying to a text, it should default to the body of the reply message – now it starts you off on the recipient, and you have to press down to go to your response box. Also, when the built-in dictionary doesn’t recognize a word, and you want to spell it letter by letter, it should keep the last wrong word up in the text box. that way, if it’s just a letter off, you can tweak it, as opposed to re-writing the whole word again.
i was THRILLED to see that Nokia finally inherited Samsung’s brilliant, simple idea of holding down the # key to initiate the Silent profile (thereby avoiding the Menu-Settings-Profiles-Silent-Activate adventure), BUT, it defaults back ONLY to the Normal profile, as opposed to the possibly different profile you had used before the Silent push.
and SOMEtimes when you push the button to open the flip, it catches my index fingertip and it hurts a little. good thing i don’t mind abuse from the phone i love so much. it’s a small price to pay.
today i had the left side of my mouth all drilled on at the dentist! i’ve now officially gotten ALL those silver fillings out (and had a dental dam on my face!), replaced with lovely white ones, AND i got to see my dreamy dentist, Kelly.
as soon as she showed up to say hi while i was in the chair, my legs started waging like two tails and i had no interest in hiding it. she was the one that did my planing and scaling a few months ago, and gave me that vibrating flosser (sigh). I was sincere down to the bone when i thanked her for the work she did, and that she’d really been someone i didn’t want to let down with my brushing and flossing, and i’d been doing SO WELL with it. she was excited too, i could tell.
what’s REALLY cool about this dentist’s office is that they all know my name and they ALL pronounce it correctly. except for my dentist, but that’s okay, he keeps trying, and that’s almost the same thing. It’s great though, that they all made the effort to know and say my name correctly. it means a lot to me, even though if they didn’t, i wouldn’t be at all upset.
ALSO, along these lines, the other day when i called our company’s help desk to fix a computer problem, i did what i usually do when they ask my name – i spell it out. i don’t say it. the lady on the line then responds “Okay, khy-own, how can i help you?”.
she said my name right. off the BAT. i choked on my spit a little. shocked. i told her so. What’s even MORE amazing is that she continued to say my name three more times, and CORRECTLY! how. cool.
it makes the more-common attempts of: chee-ahn, chahn, shay-anne, shawn, cayanne (yes, like the pepper, you’re very clever), and my favorite, ky-lawn (!?), much more bearable. i know i asked for it, but it’s nice to hear it said right sometimes.
i’ve got the whole night with Momo, some books, and some new Netflix’s!! AND plans for Saturday to walk through a corn maze, carve pumpkins and make lasagna with friends!!! i’d also like to see Mom & Guy soon. Nothin’ like Mom & Guy.
Oh, and i also went on a nice date the other night! We went to Tisane to have coffee and catch up and talk about life, get to know each other more… This girl is SO fucking funny. and smart. and quick. and easy to distract, which i’m using presently to dodge questions i’d rather answer later. 
I love talking with her, i love her stories, i am really enjoying having her around. i teeter between wanting to kiss her and having butterflies, to looking at her and seeing just what great friends we could be. both of which are great things. we shall see.
enough of this novel! off to sit down carefully and flex my toes.
i can lift a BANJO with NO PROBLEM!
October 24, 2006 at 4:33 am (Uncategorized)
i can lift a BANJO with NO PROBLEM!, originally uploaded by chion.
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fucking so so so sincerely happy to be standing in NPR!!!!!
October 21, 2006 at 12:05 am (Uncategorized)
October 20, 2006 at 3:17 am (Uncategorized)
so get this… about 2 weeks ago, i wrote Lauren an email explaining what happened with me. why we broke up, now that i can really articulate my feelings, now that i’ve had plenty of time to sort it all out. saying that i loved her so much, but i just wasn’t feeling as strongly as she was. we just weren’t meant to be, as they say. i said thank you for everything, i apologized, i was exposed completely. i thought that’d help both of us to write that email. she didn’t contact me back, so i sent her a text today, just asking if she’s gotten the email.
she certainly has gotten the email, and this is her text, ver batim:
“you’re an artist and you being happy prevents yourself from entering that dark sad state of creativity… so it makes perfect sense that you would subconsiously self-destruct a beautiful relationship. …you left me because you are still attached to your old patterns and i didn’t fit into them.”
i had written her a bare, honest, emotional email explaining myself and she thinks i left her so i’d have material for a SONG.
well, there’ve been no songs. she says that once i realize what i’ve done then i’ll have songs about it.
frankly, now that she suggests it, i kinda want to write a song, a HAPPY one, about how glad i am to have been honest and done the right thing even though the other person flat-out doesn’t believe me. fuck ‘em.
funny, this happened with a friend that i am no longer close with… because i was not in love with her, she suggested to a mutual friend that i had perhaps been abused or molested as a kid.
you have got to be kidding me.
why’s it always gotta be some hidden, psychological storyline? LIFE IS NOT A MOVIE!!! for god SAKES, people! Sorry, i loved you a lot, but you didn’t make my heart sing like i know it can, and i tried my best, but we’ve gotta move on! that’s it! christ!
The irony is that i’ve recently met someone that i really, really like. We’re both on self-imposed relationship probation, and we’ve both agreed to go stupid slow with this. i’m cautious because i just went through a break up and kind of still am going through it, especially with today. and i. am. in. no. rush. the last one was rushed. i can’t keep up with rushing, i know, i tried.
i got to talk to my brother Paul today (hi paul!!!!!!!), which was lovely… AND my mother stopped by the store today to surprise me! i’m always blessed to hug that woman, but today i really needed it. i am the luckiest. i came home after this long day and saged the hell out of my apartment. i said goodbye to Lauren and her big heart.
time to see who gets to play the Tigers in the world series!!!
p.s. day 5 ciggie-free! a w e t h u m.
