A cloud. A rock. A murmur.

Privlege meme stolen from strawberry_star

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 03:31:18 GMT

1. Father went to college
2. Father finished college
3. Mother went to college
4. Mother finished college
5. Have any relative who is an attorney, professor or physician.
6. Were the same or higher social class than your high school teachers
7. Had more than 50 books in your childhood home
8. Had more than 500 books in your childhood home
9. Were read children's books by a parent
10. Had lessons of any kind before you turned 18 (dance, composure)
11. Had more than two kinds of lessons before you turned 18
12. The people in the media who dress and talk like me are portrayed positively.
13. Had a credit card with your name on it before you turned 18
14. Your parents (or a trust) paid for the majority of your college costs
15. Your parents (or a trust) paid for all of your college costs
16. Went to a private high school
17. Went to summercamp
18. Had a private tutor before you turned 18
19. Family vacations involved staying at hotels
20. Your clothing was all bought new before you turned 18
21. Your parents bought you a car that was not a hand-me-down from them
22. There was original art in your house when you were a child
23. Had a phone in your room before you turned 18
24. You and your family lived in a single family house
25. Your parent(s) owned their own house or apartment before you left home
26. You had your own room as a child
27. Participated in an SAT/ACT prep course
28. Had your own TV in your room in high school
29. Owned (an investment) in high school or college
30. Flew anywhere on a commercial airline before you turned 16
32. Went on more than one cruise with your family
33. Your parents took you to museums and art galleries as you grew up
34. You were unaware of how much heating bills were for your family
35. I am for the most part healthy and have no significant disability.
36. I have been born into a gender which I am comfortable with.
37. My sexuality is viewed positively in the media and by the majority of my society.
38. My sexuality is not visible to others just by looking at me.
39. My peer group is represented positively in the media and embraced positively by the majority of society.
40. My ethnic group is represented positively in the media and rarely stigmatized or stereotyped.
41. The language spoken by teachers in school was the same language as that I spoke with my family at home.
42. My parents and teachers took it for granted that I would attend university.
43. Any money I earned at part-time jobs before I turned 18 was mine to keep or put towards my education.
44. I know what my family's genetic history is.
45. When people see me with my parents, they assume we're related.
46. I graduated from college or university with no debt.
47. During college or university, I could use income from part-time jobs to supplement my spending money (rather than for tuition, books, or living expenses).

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 03:41:32 GMT

Concern. After typing "www.iammostboring.com" into my search field, I was redirected to my own gmail inbox. I guess it's true.

I'm itching for a luxurious, relaxing vacation. My mission lately has been trying to convince S that he really would enjoy taking a cruise. He claims that cruises are for lazy, bourgeois people who have no taste in food or entertainment and who are too afraid to explore parts of the world that haven't been appropriately gentrified into white tourist traps. My only argument thus far has been 24 hour pizza bar! How can you complain!? I can understand his side, truly I can. Honestly, I know that a cruise ship is no way to gain any kind of cultural experience of the Western Carribean, but right now I'm far more interested in afternoon cocktails with a crappy novel on a sundeck. Besides, there aren't many other opportunities to sneak off on a five day tropical get-away for less than $1,000. Even if we just drive to Florida and book a room for four nights and dine on $75 a day (even less than Rachel Ray does!), we'd be spending the same amount of money. Plus we'd be wasting 4 hours worth of gas and vacation time traveling both ways, whereas, with the cruise, we can catch the street car in front of the house and ride it down to the boarding docks for only $1.50 per person!

Somehow I will make this work.

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 02:56:52 GMT

During this period of uncertainty and impotency, I find myself binging on old Christmas candies and lima beans.

Sat, 15 Nov 2008 21:03:44 GMT

The most magical children's choir from P.S.22 in New York singing Tori Amos

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 12:56:17 GMT

I have the most intense cramps and the beginnings of some kind of e.n.t. infection. Chicken noodle soup for breakfast sounds divine.

Shawn brought a meat-stravaganza to me at my little desk when he found out I was mense'ing. Having someone know that sausage, eggs and bacon work just as well on cramps as chocolate makes all the difference.

My resume is 90% completed. It needs help stylistically, and I need to edit a few of the parts where I talk about how awesome I am. It feels so unnatural and just kind of douchey talking about how I'm supposedly amazing and have numerous invaluable skills that would make me immensely hirable. So I need to go back and take out the parks where I say I'm a sex goddess and highly trained automechanic.

I am begging you to show me samples of your resumes, if you're willing to share.

Absolutely pointless.

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 03:22:44 GMT

Oh, I had a big entry until LJ ate it.

1. Daylight savings time is ruining my life. I'm so tired!

2. My co-worker drives me batty. Most days I want to slap his face and hurt his feelings. I'll tell you all about his whackadoodle habits soon.

3. Made a wreath!

4. Husband has been riding his bike to and from work. I find this immensely sexy.

5. I fear that I am getting sick. Must find fabulous job with high pay and health insurance asap.

COOKIES AND MILK TIME!!!!

Sun, 09 Nov 2008 21:47:39 GMT

It's hard to be motivated. I went to the grocery store this morning and spent $35 on produce: squash, zuchini, eggplant, onions, garlic, new potatoes, cabbage, carrots, spinach, cucumber, tomato, lemons, honeysomething apples, bananas, satsumas <3, ginger, cauliflower...yeah, that's about all. $35, man. Oh, and a bell pepper.

It's a gorgeous day outside--I sat on the porch and talked to my mother on the telephone, then shut myself inside with the doors and windows open trying to make new meals out of leftovers. I got a pasta salad and some rice pudding out of it, both of which are pretty intense flavor-wise.

Gigantic pet peeve: People who eat out of the community container and liiiiiick their utensils before going back in for more. I know I french kiss my husband and all, but I almost threw up in my mouth when I saw him drooling into the pasta salad bowl. It's just really gross. You remember the episode of Reading Rainbow where they swabbed Lavar Burton's cheek and made a little culture colony in a petry dish? That's all I can think about. Gag gag gag.

Until I get the hang of writing again, I'll try to supplement junk with pictures. I'm not a photographer or anything, I just know that I'm nosy and think you might be, too.

This afternoon I must clean at least one more part of the house. Finish my resume. Write my damned thank you notes. I don't know why showing people that I'm grateful for their pyrex is so blasted hard.

Pasta salad on the left, some fruit on the right. Deelish.

Leftovers still seem unappealing whether put into salads or trashcans.
Left: pasta, tomatos, facon, mayonaise and ranch dressing mix, black olives, shredded cheese
Right: potatoe soup, red beans and rice, okra and tomatos, tin can, dish soap bottle, vanilla scented garbage can liner

Will I ever clean the bedroom?
Will I ever have some place to hang the painting Amy made for our wedding?
Shawn claims that there are nothing but vulvas and vaginas in the painting. I say that's what I like about it.

Once a day.

Sat, 08 Nov 2008 13:36:58 GMT

I just joined Good Reads this morning to help me keep track of the books I've read this year. I can't remember more than half of them. If you're already a member of Good Reads, or if you've been thinking about joining, please add me. I am desperate for recommendations Someone has an appalling love of "chick lit" and could use sturdy recommendations. I'm not naming names.

Please find me there: Ashley; aebock@gmail.com

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Weekend Ambitions

Reorganize the front room. Clean. Deeply.
Purchase ribbon for wreath. Feel festive.
Return clothing. Put in applications for Christmas work.
Make large dent in Thank You note progress.
Prepare for brunch.

Belgium waffles, a berry, whipped cream.
Frittata.
Frrrrr-uit.

I dressed up as Ashley Todd for Halloween. No one got it; they just got angry.

Thu, 08 May 2008 15:22:37 GMT

I think that I might graduate next week. When I find out, I will celebrate with french toast, whipped cream and strawberries; an hour long massage and a manicure (if my chewed off nails grow back); perhaps a little shopping for summer skirts, dresses, sandals; and giant-sized alcoholic beverages. Congratulations, little lady.

Then, it will be my birthday!
Then, it will be my wedding!
Then, it will be everything else!
Then, I will win a new car!
Then, I will pay off student loans!
Then, I will take a weekend to sleep in!
Then, maybe when.

Now, I am dehydrated and achey from too many no-sleeping pills. I eat teevee dinners and play scrabble. I'm going to write one last paper.

Oh dear: Favors please.

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 18:28:44 GMT

For one of my final projects for school, I'm supposed to make a blog about how I'm using the internet to plan my wedding. And if it's not any trouble, would you mind visiting my journal, e_planning, and maybe leaving some comments or participating in some of the polls? There are a bunch of pictures to look at, a neat tutorial on how to make a wedding cake, Green alternatives for good sex. Can you resist?

If you have time, please visit my wedding blog and share your comments and insights. I would really love to make this part of my project interactive.

See me in wedding dresses! Vote on wedding music! Share your personal experiences with weddings!

Come see me at e_planning

Halp??

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:59:10 GMT

Dear lovely Livejournal ladies,

If you are married or have been married before, would you do me the honor of telling me about your wedding planning experiences? Mostly information about how you used the internet or technology that wasn't available to earlier brides to help you plan. I would really appreciate it.

You can send me a few sentences about your overall experience, or if you prefer, please answer some of the questions below in as much detail as you'd like:

1. What year did you get married in? How old were you? (you don't have to answer that!)

2. How long was your engagement? How long did you give yourself to plan your wedding?

3. Who helped you plan your wedding? Family? Friends? A professional wedding planner?

4. Were you in school, working, or caring for a family while you were planning your wedding?

5. How involved was your future husband in the planning process?

6. How did you choose the church, reception venue, caterer, music, etc.? Recommendations? Bridal magazines? Other?

7. If you were to plan your wedding in 2008, would you use technology to make the process simpler? If yes, what kinds?

8. How do you feel about using the internet to plan important events like weddings and other large parties? Is it reliable? Convenient?

9. What was the most stressful aspect of your wedding planning experiences?

10. What do you think of some of the new internet wedding crazes like:
(a.) Save the Date cards, (b.) Honeymoon registries, (c.) e-mailed Thank You notes, (d.) RSVPing on a couple's wedding website, (e.) anything else that you've noticed change in recent years?

A lot of my older lady family members have answered these, and it's been so illuminating! I was tickled by some of their answers. Apparently, my aunts will disown me if I email Thank You notes or have a Honeymoon registry. I'm really looking forward to hearing what my younger friends have to say about these things.

zee finale count dohn

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:09:40 GMT

Cheers, cheers to the last semester of all-nighters which culminate in two pages of paraphrased Victorian literature and copious amounts of internet "research" interspersed with potty breaks. I pray that once I am out of school, I will discover my desire to write again. I hate writing. Loathe it. Despise it. I never believed such a thing could happen. I never believed that I would miss studying math! These next three months seem to stretch before me, an endless abyss of deadlines and half-read assignments. I'm going to make a paper chain, a scholastic advent calendar, some perspective. Because I realize that while the end seems so terribly far away, due-dates are walking behind me, stepping on my shadow, tripping on the backs of my heels.

Sat, 19 Jan 2008 07:35:59 GMT

Please go see There Will Be Blood. It was amazing. Maybe one of the best films ever. A three hour movie that didn't contain a single lull. And I drank two giant sodas. I promise that you would risk a bladder infection for this film.

What is that...!?

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 22:16:32 GMT

Apparently, my laptop melted a hershey kiss that was tucked away inside the pocket of my jacket. So that's why my hand, bobby pins, and hair looks as though they're all smeared with feces. So that's why.

Ugggh.

Sun, 06 Jan 2008 16:30:43 GMT

School starts one week earlier that I'd anticipated. Since when does my university start school as early as the freaking 14th!

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 01:32:43 GMT

After a long morning of work, I choose to snuggle under my new polar-fleecey blanket and watch Barefoot in the Park in bed.

Frustration No. 174

Sat, 15 Dec 2007 18:37:38 GMT

Attempting to hang lights and garland on the front of the house with SO. Of course, I mis-measured a few things, but I told him last night that we would need larger nails and tacks. No one is right, and everyone is mean. All I want is a little bit of pretty, Christmasy home decor! Does it have to be this difficult? Geez!

And no, I don't really want to wrap lights around all of the posts and banisters and windows, even thought I am the one who oooh's and aaaah's over houses covered in lights. So quit trying to do it to my house, darn it!

Sun, 09 Dec 2007 03:14:45 GMT

Oh, I was going to make some dumb post about how I'm tired, and exhausted, and physically hurting, and mentally hurting, and how life is just so hard. But really, I whine more than any woman really has a right to. I've got papusas and plantains in my belly, a nice boy who swears he'll rub my legs for me tonight, and a teacher who is graciously giving me until tomorrow to complete my research paper. I almost don't even care that the A/C is broken and that the temperature has been in the mid-80's in freakin' December. Because the low tonight is going to be 69 degrees and there's a nice breeze through the screen door.

Jill--I just got your Christmas card. Thank you! You brightened my day. :)

Motivation.

Mon, 03 Dec 2007 04:40:42 GMT

Hellooooo?

Is it meee you're looking forrrrrrrrr?

OMG, so funny: Wedding First Dance

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 20:44:47 GMT

Someone found this video on TheKnot.com boards and posted it in weddingplans. It's so freakin' hilarious, I promise. Just watch, and imagine witnessing that at your best friend's wedding.

glumbert - Best wedding first dance ever

Courtesy of strawberry_star

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 01:20:04 GMT

On the twelfth day of Christmas, sacchrinetokyo sent to me...

Twelve reflections sharing

Eleven show-offs staring

Ten guffaws a-dreaming

Nine altos cooking

Eight trees a-learning

Seven cupcakes a-smiling

Six pictures a-hording

Five co-o-o-old fingers

Four tom waits

Three lucinda williams

Two small breasts

...and an imagination in an astrology.

The more things stay the same, the more things change (for the better).

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 19:13:46 GMT

I'd forgotten that Livejournal had simplified process for updating usperics. Hurrah! While I know better than to use my cell phone's sad little camera for "serious" picture taking, I ain't go nothing else in my possession. So journal, prepare yourself. You're fixin' to be upgraded with fuzzy photos from the present.

I also just realized recently that I can fix accidental disappearances of entire journal entries due to fumbly fingers near the touch mouse and the backspace button by using the Edit>>Undo tab on my Internet window. Halle-lj-lujah.

It's not Road Home, but it's a pretty fantastic surprise.

Tue, 13 Nov 2007 04:05:18 GMT

Last Christmas, my mother lost her wedding ring. She was heart-broken, and suspicious of everyone, but managed to console herself with a new two karat wonder. Today, nearly a year later, my father found the ring. Inside of a chair that he, she, I and everyone in the family had turned upside down searching through. He was on the hunt for his misplaced Zippo lighter when he found it in the "crap trap" beneath the cushions and the lining. When he placed it on her finger beside her new ring, he realized he'd been made into a sucker. She had probably hid the blasted thing herself. ;)

Another happy note: My mother gave me a semi-official budget for my own wedding, which will help me to begin planning for serious now.

Remember that episode of Full House when Stephanie is afraid of the earthquakes?

Mon, 12 Nov 2007 13:15:45 GMT

The garbage men come on Monday mornings at 5a.m. They stop their truck in front of my house and unload my can and all of the neighbors' cans. It takes them a good ten minutes to complete this task, which is sufficient enough time to wake me up, force me to the bathroom, and keep me from falling back to sleep for several minutes. Which is the worst when your alarm clock is set for thirty minutes later.

Ah well. Watchu think about cinnamon rolls? I've been baking them in the morning lately. Not the most healthy, sure, but they make the house smell nice and they're warm and delicious.

Sun, 11 Nov 2007 02:08:10 GMT

My boyfriend is a fabulous cook, sure. But tonight he made tempe Ruben sandwiches, and these little toasted delights were ay-may-zing. This is how vegetarianism leads to obesity.