| Visiting home |
[Sep. 6th, 2010|04:02 am] |
I'm visiting my family in Indiana this week over Labor Day weekend. Been kinda crazy tho esp. trying to cram everything in before I fly back to Seattle on Thurs. It's esp. been busy because there's Labor Day events happening around town and I sort of have to pick and choose what I wanna do. Only trouble is, everything "summer" closes by tomorrow (Labor Day) and we're trying to get in swimming or going to parks before they shut down for the season.
Sofar I've gotten to do the things I've wanted to do tho. We went to a ballgame the other night and yesterday we got to ride Indy's "Pizza Train", which is a local train that every once and a while rides passengers up to this pizza place further north to have dinner. Hopefully we'll take a day trip tomorrow for Labor Day (we're thinking of going to either an amusement park or to a beach). |
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| What's wrong with FB? |
[Nov. 11th, 2009|03:30 pm] |
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I swear lately Facebook's been acting really weird. I post something and my post is nowhere to be found. It's on my personal profile but not on the updates feed like it's supposed to be. One of my other friends on there, I couldn't see her post till I looked on her profile, the same. I did sort of send a heads up to the FB team to see if that will help. But still, just retarded and weird. Well, to anyone I have on my FB, if I can't get my posts to work correctly in FB, I'll be posting here. And I do like to update to here from time to time anyway. |
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| Fall trip home, part 2 |
[Oct. 27th, 2009|07:08 pm] |
On Mon. we went out to do some errands, one was stopping by Target and Walmart so Ben and I could buy some Indiana and Colts souvenirs for ourselves and for Ben's young niece and nephew (who asked for Colts attire). Afterwords we ate at Chik-Fil-A for lunch (not in Seattle) and headed over to both the Zionsville Country Market and Stuckey Farms. I wanted Ben to see how nuts Indiana is about pumpkins and harvest. We got a couple of gourds, which I left at my parents' house.
( More pics below... )
Kristy's flower painted pumpkin
My painted pumpkin of Peter Pan from Fox's Peter Pan & the Pirates
I carved a Ninja Turtle
Ben carved a scary face
On Tues. we drove down to Metamora, IN, which is down in southeast Indiana. It's an old antique town that had a windmill and old shoppes. It's pretty there cuz it's very hilly in that part of the state, reminding Ben and I of Seattle.
Mom and Dad
Me and Ben
On Wens. we had to say goodbye. It was a bit hard for me, as it always is.
All in all, it was a great trip and I was happy that my bf got to get to know my dysfunctional family a bit more, lol! But I was assured that my folks would come to visit me and Ben in Seattle around the holidays or possibly in Jan. or Feb. Hopefully that will happen. Otherwise my folks thought about coming for a visit in the summertime.
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| Fall trip home, part 1 |
[Oct. 27th, 2009|01:53 pm] |
*linked from FaceBook*
So I finally have time to post about this. Last week, Oct. 14th - Oct 21st, I flew home to Indianapolis to visit my folks, this time with my bf (Ben) in tow, :) He's met my parents before when they came out here to Seattle, last year to visit me. So we all decided this time he could come with me.
We left our apt in Seattle and went down to the airport in Seattle's newest mode of transportation, the Light Rail train. It just opened back this summer. It goes to various Seattle-surrounding neighborhoods (much like where we live, Beacon Hill, which is just south of downtown) and it transports people to downtown and all the way down to the airport. Waaaaay better than taking the nasty bus! It's still being built as we speak and soon enough it will go father south than the airport and further north than downtown.
( Pics below.... ) |
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| Blue Angels |
[Jul. 31st, 2009|01:44 pm] |
Well, it's that time of year again. It's Seafair! Or at least it will be this weekend. It's essentially a big summer festival they have every year in Seattle. They have a hydroplane race on Lake Washington, a marathon, fireworks and a concert, and the Blue Angels performing in an air show! As I speak, I hear the Blue Angels overhead circling around. They are apparently practicing, and what a beautiful day and beautiful city do to it over! Here's the link for more info: http://www.seafair.com/events/airshow/
I remember back in Indiana when I'd go to the Indy Air Show down at that old airfield off I-70, and it also was around this time of year also. Though according to their schedules website: http://www.blueangels.navy.mil/schedules.htm looks like they were in Indy already this year; back in June. The highlight was always the Blue Angels though, just cuz they were so damn good! Also just like when we'd go to the airshow, sometimes we wouldn't bother paying admission to get in but rather watch them for free from our parking spot. That's how it is where I live since I live near downtown Seattle. We can see 'em from our apartment! They are really loud flying overhead sometimes too, scared my poor cat! |
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| Do you Facebook? |
[Jul. 15th, 2009|09:16 pm] |
I post little tidbits there, little random thoughts too. It appears that it's winning over the once-popular Myspace too. Facebook is less annoying than Myspace and I'm finding more ppl use it now, ppl I know and can easily connect to. Though admittedly, I do blog on LJ more. Anyway, if you'd like to connect to me there, (I think this link will work) here ya go:
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=546804209&ref=nf |
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| Good news! |
[Jul. 11th, 2009|04:00 pm] |
I know I posted only a few months about about finally getting another job, only to have that job end a short few weeks later. For that reason, I am a bit more careful about posting good news but...I still I have to post about this!
( Read more.... ) |
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| Updates |
[Jun. 22nd, 2009|02:14 pm] |
No easy way for me to say it but it turns out my job at the printing/mailing place didn't work out. I was told to "Not be distracted with anything else while printing", least for this one job I was working on, and I did. I was sooooo effing bored between printing that I sorta surfed the net and worked on smaller jobs in-between. Mostly everything was fine though, till the end of the day I screwed up a small portion of the job. And it wasn't even truly because I was "distracted" but rather, because the machine was printing off-kilter a little bit and I didn't notice it till a bit later.
I was keeping an eye on the machine and was right by it, plus I was thoroughly checking the quality of the prints to make sure they weren't smudging and that they were in aligned correctly. I mostly just flipped thru them and could usually tell. But somehow when I was flipping thru them, I happened to miss a batch of them. But we had enough materials to finish the job so I reprinted all the mess-ups, and I got it done on time and it was sent on time to the customer. So I dunno what the big deal was. Sure I didn't "do what my boss asked" but he said it in a way to me that didn't sound like a warning, per se. And I didn't think it mattered if I was working on something else or web-surfed alittle while it was going, rather than just standing around being bored.
( Click to read more about this BS... ) |
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| Finally good news! |
[May. 3rd, 2009|04:55 pm] |
Well I finally got a job, after four long months of unemployment. I've actually been working at this place for several weeks now, but since I was still on edge about loosing my last job (laid off), I wanted to make sure this job was something 'for real'. So I held off on making it public till now.
( Read on... ) |
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| Back home visiting |
[Apr. 9th, 2009|09:18 am] |
Yesterday I flew from Seattle to Indianapolis to visit my folks for a week around Easter. I did the same thing last year and visited them when they were still living in Houston, TX. But unfortunately, like myself, my dad also got laid off from his engineering job he had down there so my folks had to move back to Indy a couple of months ago. Bad everywhere in the country, :( At least they are back in their own house again though, which is paid off and he's getting unemployment, so all's good for now.
Anyway, sad news aside, my folks decided to help fund my air ticket for me to come back over the holiday. And fortunately I found a really cheap Southwest ticket so I snagged it! $226 isn't bad at all esp. if you're traveling THAT far! Usually tickets from Seattle to Indy or vice versa run like $300 and up, esp. if it's during the summer months, or at Xmas time...even more! So I'm back typing on their oooooooold Compaq computer that I used to use yeeeeeears ago, and even today want to kick it for being so slow!
Not sure what plans we have in store. We may take one day trip up to Lake Michigan, since they know I love that lake and love big bodies of water (I mean obviously huh, I DO live in Seattle after all; right next to water). In the summer months when I fly back, we always go up there for the day and go swimming. Otherwise I know I'll be going to some Easter church services with them, decorating eggs, visiting friends like Kristy, :) Glad to be back though. Even though I moved away I still do miss some things, and definately some people in Indy! Plus my dog isn't doing well as she's very old and feeble. So I wanted to see her one last time before she passes, which will probably be within the year... :( |
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