feeling a little better now, though not quite 100%. it was just a cold, thank god. for a while, i was worried it was bronchitis again. lots of chest congestion...not pleasant at all. and watching the cal football debacle at oregon didn't help matters. worst game i have watched them play in oh, 8 years?? no excuse for it either. other bad games we've had, there were clear reasons most of the time. this one was just...pathetic and shocking. i'm hoping they somehow rebound next week - not likely to happen, but it's going to be a long and disappointing season if they don't pull it together and at least make it respectable. posted at 6:19 PM | 0 comments

ugh. maybe i'm just catching the flu or something...i just do not feel good at all. posted at 5:21 PM | 0 comments

i'm still getting emails from that bank. trying to contact the account holder about changes to her account. as in the change in her email address??? so stupid...

oh, and this week someone signed up for a facebook account with my email address as well. not the same person. but it seemed like she was able to set it up and everything, even without responding to the verification email. at least the email had a link where i could inform them it was the wrong email address!

anyway, other than that, i've been feeling like shit lately. pretty bad anemia. it's my fault for not staying on top of it and taking supplements as regularly as i should...i'm trying to be better about it now that i'm reminded of how fucking terrible it is. i intended to take a couple days off of work this week since i'm almost all caught up, but instead i said i'd take care of some other urgent stuff that came up for one project. and i'm supposed to get something else done for another project by tuesday but haven't been progressing with it as quickly as i was hoping...i don't think it'll be a big problem if it doesn't get done exactly by tuesday. but anyway...will definitely try to take a day or two off next week. i'm kind of freaking out because my apartment is still a mess and a friend is coming to visit next weekend. i don't recall her asking to stay with me, and i'm hoping she's staying with someone else, but...there is a chance she might be thinking she'll stay with me, i don't know...even if she doesn't, she'll probably still come over. and i'm truly embarrassed by how much crap is lying around. but i'm also too tired to deal with it. so...i don't know. don't want to think about it now...i'll just end up clenching my teeth at night. still haven't used the night guard...

one thing at a time. posted at 11:58 PM | 0 comments

i don't understand why all sites on which people register using email addresses don't first send out some sort of verification email before creating a new account. and i really, REALLY don't understand it when banks don't do this. i would not want to keep my money in that bank.

i have often been able to log into other people's accounts because they used my email address to register. (i did not log in to do anything malicious, only to remove my email address when there was no other way to do so.) but this was the first time i had to call a bank to tell them...really sketchy bank...i did not try to do the "forgot password" thing to log in, but i'm doubtful that they even had some security questions set up. it took me a long time to figure out how to get through to an actual person though. the automated system kept asking for my account number. when i finally pushed enough random buttons to get through to an actual person, she was completely confused by the whole situation and didn't know what to do. had to go ask her manager. but if i had deleted the email i got from them with the account holder's name and last 4 digits, i probably wouldn't have been able to do anything. it's pretty fucked up. i mean, how confusing is it to look up the person's phone number or postal address, and contact them to get their correct email address?

but anyway, it just seems like verification emails are the most basic thing to do...really doesn't make sense to me why any site with personal information (and access to money!) would not have this set up. posted at 7:03 PM | 0 comments

i don't know what the proper etiquette is for the whole tagging thing on facebook. if someone tags a picture of me that i don't particularly like, is it ok to just untag myself, or is that rude? i feel uncomfortable doing that, especially if others were also tagged in the same picture. but now someone that i tagged just untagged herself. however, she tagged a different picture of herself instead that i guess she liked better. (i stand by my first choice - thought it was a really pretty shot of her and that's why i tagged it. but oh well.) is it just kind of understood that if you tag someone and they don't like the pic, they can just untag themselves? i'd kind of prefer that people who upload pictures let the people in the pictures tag themselves as they choose...oh, another thing - am i supposed to tag myself in my own pictures? i find that strange. but anyway, seeing as i don't have anywhere near 200 "friends" and i don't really use facebook enough to know what the deal is, i guess i'll just let others do whatever they want and not mess with any tags. i just find the whole thing so weird and confusing sometimes... posted at 10:47 PM | 0 comments

i'm less stressed out now that i don't have to dress up all fancy for anything. at least, not for a few months. i'm still behind on work though...and my room is pretty much still a mess...i'm not the tidiest person in general, but it's been a lot worse than normal lately. i've just been so tired and not in the mood...not that that's a great excuse.

anyway, the wedding wasn't too bad. i was very mad at my hair though - when i went to get it styled, the hairdresser was in a hurry and not paying close attention to me because she was behind schedule and working on someone else at the same time...that's always a bad sign. but aside from that, the wedding was pretty nice and my cousin seemed really happy, so that made me happy. posted at 12:25 AM | 0 comments

i hate my hair. why does it have to be so annoying????? posted at 11:43 AM | 0 comments

*sigh*....

couldn't get work stuff done because there's some stupid error when i try to load the thing i'm supposed to be QA testing.

can't decide if i should take a purse with me tomorrow or not...i feel like i was the only one who had one on thursday, and frankly it was annoying to lug around and i hate having a purse in pictures. especially when it doesn't really match my outfit. but i kinda want to be able to carry stuff. tissues. camera. cell phone. ok, cell phone isn't necessary, but i'd like to be able to check the football scores somehow...and i definitely need the camera, so if i don't have a purse, i'll just be lugging around a camera by iteself.

can't figure out which lipstick to wear. i don't really like any of them...for some reason, 99% of them turn bright pink/fuschia when i put them on. no matter how red or brown they might look in the tube. it's annoying. i typically don't ever wear lipstick so i just get extra confused when i do have to...

i'm a little worried about wearing my outfit properly. and about it getting messed up in the car ride anyway. i'll be squished in the back seat with 2 other people. hard to keep pleats arranged nicely when i'm sitting on them anyway. i think i'll just be a wrinkled mess by the time i arrive.

and to top it off, i feel sick. woke up feeling like shit this morning - i only got 5-6 hours of sleep. i don't know if i'm getting sick or if it's just allergies...had a sore throat all day. i don't feel good at all right now... posted at 6:55 PM | 0 comments

disasters in dressing up:

1. i accidentally droppped my eyeliner right into the toilet. when i was only done with 1.5 eyes. and it was an expensive eyeliner!!! (do you think i can still use it if i cut off the tip, or is that just gross?)

2. i realized about 15 minutes before i was supposed to leave that i had left the jewelry i intended to wear with this outfit at my mom's place. luckily, i had backups.

3. when i got there, i took a few pictures with various people, and then someone informs me that i had lipstick on my teeth. a lot of it. i feel like such a moron whenever that happens to me...

4. i haven't looked at the pictures yet, but i'm pretty sure my hair got fucked up at some point, and i'm also pretty sure my face got really shiny at some point.

5. my room looks like someone ransacked the place. it's ridiculous. posted at 12:25 AM | 0 comments

giant pimple on my chin and about a million things to do for work. yay. posted at 12:49 PM | 0 comments

talk about forgetful...it's september and i'm still dating things 2008. posted at 12:19 AM | 0 comments

can't get an appointment to get my hair done on the wedding day...*sigh*...that totally sucks because my hair looks like crap when i do it. now i can't decide if i should do it on thursday (before the sangeet party) or on friday. if i do it on friday, it'll still look pretty ok on saturday (the wedding day). if i do it on thursday, at least my hair will look good for this other party, but there's no way it'll last until saturday. in fact, i'll probably have to wash it again, which would suck. so basically, either my hair looks bad at the sangeet and decent at the wedding OR it looks good at the sangeet and bad at the wedding. i can't decide. posted at 7:10 PM | 2 comments

i hate being forgetful...i'm sure i've said that already, more than once. but i just hate it more and more each time i forget something that i normally would have remembered...

anyway, forgive me if i've said this before too, but i really can't remember...my dentist made me get a night guard because i was clenching in my sleep and it was causing all sorts of problems with my gums...so i paid like, $300 for it (that's AFTER insurance), and stupid guard which was supposed to be "hardly noticeable" is so fucking uncomfortable that i will never be able to fall asleep with it in my mouth...*sigh*...i can't even leave it on for more than a minute when i'm awake. i should have known it would be a waste of money, but my hygienist kept insisting that i get it. and i was tired of avoiding chocolate because of the pain...i think i'll just use sensodyne toothpaste instead and hope that the clenching subsides once all this stress has passed... posted at 12:11 AM | 0 comments