being jewish around christmas and at boeing

Hmmm... Around when I started at boeing we had a party in our group and got pizza catered. There were probably at least 10 pizzas, maybe more, and all of them had some form of pork/meat on them. Not one that was vegetarian or even cheese. I am jewish, and I do not eat pork or meat on my pizza, so what was I going to eat? I asked where is the cheese pizza, and there was none. Oh, I was told, you can eat the salad. Great the nasty looking salad will be my "celebration" meal. Oh well....

So, today in a vey nice gesture, our management gave us holiday gifts. The gifts consisted of, first, a gift certificate to the deli in the building, and second an ornament. Although, the ornament was more like a little statue of santa clause. So, it was cute, but I don't want it! I'm jewish, this is the "holidays", and not just christmas!! Gosh, I mean , it's not a big deal, and it was a nice gesture, but people should be more concerned.

So, it reminded me of the pizza incident. After the pizza incident, I mentioned the incident to a colleague, and she said oh they are just not used to dealing with any situations. And, I'm thinking what you mean even vegetarians, they just assume everyone likes meat, and if they don't, oh well. It seemed like a pretty ignorant attitude.

fitness

Trying to get into shape. I come home and I'm so tired and don't want to work out at all!! I worked out today for a short time, just like 25 minute cardio, but hey, at least it's something MY GOAL is Work out everyday even for a little bit!!

my life as related to my feelings about yoga

In yoga it drove me crazy when I could not do a position. I would look around and everyone else would be doing the position perfectly. I was struggling. I could not accept that this was the best I would do for that day and move on with my class. I had to be perfect. I compared myself to others.

In my life, I'm always comparing. I cannot accept that some days I will do great and others are just not my day. I want every day to be my day. I want to be the best at everything I do. The hardest thing for me in yoga was that my instructor stressed being cool with where you were for the day. We have our good and not so good days, and wherever you are is fine. That is how I wish I was able to be in life, but I'm not there yet.

GO BLUE

Go Blue! I am so sad that we lost to OSU. I really hate OSU. We did not play a good game against them, and it was a sad loss. I know it's selfish, but what I was really thinking when we loss was, "oh great, now I get to go to work and face R"........ R, a guy I cannot stand, works with me and is a jerk. It should not surprise anyone that this jerk happens to be from Ohio. He was consistently making comments to me about OSU, and I was denying it, but now he can rub it in. Gr... I don't want to see him on MONDAY!

At least, I will be home on wednesday and have another break from work. I really need it :)

Anyway, dave and I had a michigan football party and it was a ton of fun as well as a ton of work. We bought tons of food, basically any type of breakfast food or breakfast drink you could think of , with the exception of eggs and of course nasty ass bacon. And, we have great friends who also brought tons of food to our place. It was really nice to have everyone over here to celebrate. Plus, stef and joel's dog, ann arbor, is absolutely adorable!! She was also pretty well behaved! After the party dave and I were so exhausted, we are becoming antisocial, I think, but this time we had an excuse, a legitimate one, we had woken up at 6 am and worked on our apartment. We were just way too tired and hung over. Oh well, all's fair in love and michigan football. I will always be true to blue! GO BLUE!

today ... headache, but what made me happy

what made me happy today? More like who made me happy today really? :)

I was happy to talk to Erin :) I have not talked to her in forever and I felt real distant. As much as we've changed and grown, she is still one of my closest friends. It's nice hearing about all her boy stuff, and talking to her again. It's crazy how far away she seems.

David!! :) He was real sweet today! I had an AWFUL headache today and he brought me advil, made food, brought me a cold compress, tea, and was just so sweet! :) He even offered to stay home from poker! I was very interested in having some alone time, so I turned him down,and I wanted him to have fun! :)

At work today, the only thing that made me happy was learning more about the process I was observing and being ready for a workshop for next week. I hate standard work!!! :)

happiness project

1. You must be honest about what’s actually fun for you. It’s a Secret of Adulthood: just because something is fun for someone else doesn’t mean it’s fun for you, and vice versa. (as quoted from an awesome site http://www.happiness-project.com/)

So, hmmm what's fun for me, in no particular order:

1. I love to drink tea
2. I love to have long really deep conversations preferably during really long walks with friends
3. Really long walks in the city (city hikes)
4. Exploring areas of the city
5. Going to the bookstore
6. Reading a good story (FICTION !)
7. DANCING
8. Hanging out with my friends at a chill place
9. Traveling to somewhere that I've never been to before
10. Learning something new
11. The occasional alone time
12. cuddling in bed
13. BRUNCH
14. Eating out and then YELPING about it
15. Laughing
16. Talking , preferably at a coffee shop
17. any of the above with dave :)

what makes me happy?

I'm trying to figure out what I want to do with my life. So I might start asking my friends what they can see me doing. I'm thinking something like consulting, or being a professor, or a rabbi :)

who knows? But in order to determine what I want to do and what makes me happy. I need to figure out what makes me happy. Sadly, I am still trying to figure this out.

sick still but not as sick

Yesterday, I felt like garbage, and yet I still drove 25 minutes to work. I arrived at work and was like what am I doing here, I do not feel well. I talked to my manager, who happened to be there, and was like I'm sick, I need to go home, and she told me feel better and go home. So, I went home, I called dave and told him I was coming home. Dave, is the best boyfriend, he went to whole foods on the way home from work and bought me some yummy chicken soup. He made me the soup and some tea, and was just really sweet. He also ran out and got us some yummy peanut butter m&m's! :) I am so lucky to have such a great guy! :) I'm feeling better than yesterday and I'm determined to go to work today and stay there.

feeling sick

I was sick today. Or rather, I am sick. I am supposed to work second shift today, so I think I should be fine to work by then. not 100% but fine. I went to rite aid today and picked up some meds and they are finally starting to kick in. It is really beautiful outside so I hope that it is beautiful tomorrow too.

where am I going in life?

Growing up I never really gave a lot of thought to what I would be when I grew up. I assumed whatever I decided on I would love and I would be good at my choice of job. I thought that I would have a ton of money and probably live in some big city like chicago or new york. Also, when I was younger I did not realize what age really meant, I thought 17 seemed old, and 24 (how old I am now), well that seemed ancient, so I would definitely be married, and maybe even have kids by then. I would be really old!

well... now I am 24, and I am living on the west coast in seattle. Seattle, which I love, yet, as a kid probably didn't even know existed. Seattle is an absolutely beautiful city and tons of fun. I am working as an industrial engineer and I am completely confused as to where I want my career to go. One minute I am thinking lawyer, the next minute it's psychiatrist, next minute businessman, and recently it has been rabbi. Of course I am doing tons of career exploration, and this is both fun and frustrating at the same time. I have done several informational interviews with people in various careers and try to notice what I find interesting. My biggest frustration is that I want to know the end result now. What do I like? what is the name of the job? My career coach says to just look for atributes and then for a job that contains all those attributes, but I am very keen on just jumping into the first thing that sounds interesting. Right now, I am restraining myself from doing this. There are definitely a lot of aspects about being a rabbi that interest me, and now I need to explore further. I also really want to go back to school, and need to determine what I think I should study. I have no clue!! I am a mess career wise. Well, not a total mess because I am employed and doing pretty well for myself.

So, my question to you, is what is your passion? Do you know your passion? If you do know your passion are you working at something that is your passion? And if not, why aren't you? Is it because your passion is teaching and yet you cannot survive on the salary? Let me know.

Amanda is injured!!!

Last night, I did happy hour with my friend danielle we went to Lolas it was very very good and entertaining. Picture drunk guys from idaho saying very funny things and then getting in a cab with a beer in hand. Anyway, then dave met up with us and we headed to umi happy hour. I am a regular at umi, so the bartender know my name, and is very nice to me. We orderered some yummy food, and then the incident happened.... dunh dunh dunh dah...... uhoh.... my friend danielle noticed the bamboo above the bar and was like I think this one is loose so she pulled on it, and it flung and hit me in the head!! owch!!! Painful!! painful!! She went up and got me ice and I wanted to cry. I know it was not my friend's fault and I am not mad at her and she felt horrible, absolutely horrible, so I was somehow able to control my tears while she was there, but then I was crying a lot and not sure what to do. It ruined my night and made my head in tons of pain. I took advil and had ice on it and called the 24 hour support to my doctors to make sure what I should check for. So, I'm okay, but my head still kills!!

Happy birthday Michelle and Amy! Congrats Laura!

This weekend was a lot of fun! Dave's sister, Rachel, and her boyfriend, Brett, came to visit us, and we played tour guides. We went out for jen's bday and dinner, climbed some of mount rainier, saw musicians at bumbershoot, and checked out tons of neighborhoods. Overall, an extremely exhausting weekend!


Today is full of great news. First, today is both Amy and Michelle's birthdays and also, my good friend Laura Fletcher just got engaged this weekend!! I am so excited and happy for her!! Also things are looking up for her in terms of work opportunities, also very exciting!

Congrats Laura!! Can't wait to hear more about your wedding plans coming up!! Happy birthday michelle and amy!

Tuesday ...... the day that is Not monday

Today is tuesday. I have 2 more days left of working in my current job, and then I'm off to my new job!!! :) SO excited for the new opportunity that is coming up. I really hope that it is a good one. I go in optimistic and yet careful.

In other news, Dave came back from Korea on saturday and it was really really nice to see him!! We got breakfast, he rested off some jet lag, and we celebrated my promotion!!! :) Yay!

Basically a lazy weekend with dave. The night before I went to Geoff's birthday celebration, which was a bit drama filled in my opinion, but only a bit, and a ton of fun. It was cool to see everyone, like both of the jens, who I have not seen in a long time!! Also, it was nice hanging out with amy, she is really cool.

Other than that, I am just cleaning a bit because I'm feeling lazy t oday, and dave's sister and her boyfriend are visiting us this weekend. I like having visitors and I think we will have a great time! Our plans are to do tourist stuff (I probably won't do that), bumbershoot, Jen H's bday, mount ranier, etc..... I have not been to mount ranier yet, so I am excited for that.

just a nice little saturday

Hmmm... I hope this is readable. I just love the color pink.

So far this weekend is pretty good. I met up with Liz and some of her friends last night, and had some fabulous sushi at my fave restaurant umi sake house! It was so so good and we got put in the special room in the back that I have always wanted to sit at! :)

Then, we did a mini bar hop which was also a ton of fun...:) I just had a really great time, and I realized that I don't go out enough, and I like to go out!

Today, I woke up early, and lucked out, and got to talk to DAve on gmail talk this morning. It was really nice, and he told me about his experience in korea so far.

I had to call his parents to let them know that he got in safe, and I did this on the way to breakfast with alyssa, but now I'm really sleepy so just chilling and relaxing before tonight.

candy runs

When Dave and I first started liking each other, and we were too nervous to hang out, we would go on candy runs together. It started out with us iming each other and talking about m&m's. I said, you should go to meijers and get me some m&m's, but he refused. Refused? I was not used to being refused. But, then he came to hang out with me the next day and had a "surprise" PEANUT
BUTTER M&MS!!! WE ate them and cuddled on my couch. WE threw them at each other and tried to catch them, it was cute, trust me. Anyway then we would call each other at the library and go on candy runs, for me it was just to see him because I liked him and it was an excuse to hang out. :)


So, Dave is going on a biz trip to south korea tomorrow, and he went to run some last minute errands. HE came back here with a surprise for me, PEANUT BUTTER M&M's it was so cute and sweet. I am going to miss him a ton!!

one job for the next

so about 2 years ago I started a job pretty much out of college. I expected great things, and some it was great, but then I left, hoping for more. I left and started my current job and again expected great things, and it's not so great. The people, they are pretty cool, well most of them. The management, mostly not so great. The expectations are fairly low, but it has it's moments. The benefits now those are great, but that's a side note.

Side note: I live in seattle and today it was 95 degrees, which means a heat wave. Luckly we live down the street from 1 of the 12 quickee marts out there :) and so we got slurpees (squishees)! that made my day good, and I finished a book today.