2008: THE SECOND QUARTER CENTURY OF SONIA BEGINS

Time:

12:20 am.

this is what i encountered as i was leaving for work this morning:

today timmy did more than just tell me i wasn't allowed to leave- he literally blocked the door and would not move. it took me at least three minutes to actually get out that door. then he always wants me to leave via "the elevator", so i have to pretend to take the elevator and lower myself below the window. he goes crazy for that!

i worked a health fair this afternoon before my regular 4pm shift, and i was pretty beat. my feet hurt, but weren't throbbing or anything. i bought these shoes today- i hope they don't suck.

i am interviewing with the US Open lady on friday. kathy briefly told me about working the event today, but only for a minute because we didn't have any overlapping free time today- she's been doing it for four or five years or so, and i really want to pick her brain. i want to pick her brain in general! apparently she had no idea that i want to get into sports massage and thought i liked swedish work? ha! WRONG

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Subject:	KNITTING poll!
Time:	10:46 am.

since that sweater defeated me, it is time (of course) to cast on for another one! but i can't decide which one! here are the three i have yarn for at the moment:

1. february lady, which i will be knitting with this yarn

2. flutter sleeve cardigan, which i will be knitting with this yarn in silver

3. chamomile tunic, which i will be knitting with this yarn (dream in color baby in cloud jungle)

which one should i start??

Poll #1418543 Knittin' poll
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All

What should I cast on for next?

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february lady
2 (50.0%)

flutter sleeve cardigan
1 (25.0%)

chamomile tunic
1 (25.0%)

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Time:

2:43 pm.

alright, i have been in denial about this long enough. third time is NOT a charm for this sweater. i swear i swatched and washed and blocked and everything and i THOUGHT i made gauge but clearly have not. i did the back and 1.5 side panels and there is no way this is not going to be HUGE on me. and i knew that after i was done with the back, but i was in denial about having put so much effort into this so far for nothing. and the thought of starting this sweater over AGAIN makes me want to scream. i guess it was not meant to be? UGH! UGH UGH UGH!!!!

i think i just need to put this away for a while and start something else. maybe next winter i will pick it back up again, but for now it just needs to be far, far away from me.

back to re-watching season one of "true blood", yay!

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Time:	11:54 am.
Music:	The Knife - We Share Our Mother's Health (Ratatat Remix) \| Powered by Last.fm.

james showed me this video yesterday, and it is like my mom if she was from long island

so it's pretty awesome to still be in bed at this point on a saturday...sigh. i added a couple things to my resume, found a couple jobs to apply to. but i am going to wait until i am not in bed anymore to do that. or tomorrow. or something.

andrew is having the first fire escape bbq of the season, i hope the weather holds up. thunderstorms can wait til tomorrow.

and fuck the pittsburgh penguins, seriously. so much. let's all just pretend this last season never happened. actually i thought i was going to throw up at the point where i couldn't force my eyes away from watching crosby lift the cup, but i am taking this surprisingly well. it feels silly to be this "into" it, but as a client yesterday (who is from newfoundland, and thus supporting the wings) said, it is good to be passionate about something. the caps will win the cup before pittsburgh does it again.

my mom/aunt/cousin finally informed me that they are staying over on tuesday, after bugging them for a month (possibly more) to let me know so i could take off work if needed. i am not going to at this point. maybe i will clean up my apartment some more before then though.

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Time:

12:56 pm.

i went swimming today! it occurred to me yesterday that since i'm getting tattooed again on monday, i only have a few more days for a while that i can swim. and i've been feeling like a lump lately- time to get moving again.

three of the four corners at steinway and 34th ave have gyro carts. which one am i supposed to pick?? i decided to pick none, and as i walked home i remembered the new greek place that opened up on my corner and decided to get a gyro in there. my dad and i drove by the restaurant the other day and he said, "we'll see how long that lasts", and i have to agree with him. there were five or six people working there, and the place was empty. they better get their delivery service going, because their location is not fantastic, and it makes me sad when small businesses fail! and in my effort to support local business, i can now eat gyros guilt-free! :D

also ted leonsis is doing a chat on the washington post site right now and i love this submitted question:

Hi Ted,

I have a number of friends in Pittsburgh who were very frustrated by the ticket-buying process for the playoff games this year. Their zip code and area code prevented them from getting deep into the ticket buying, and they were very angry that such a measure had been taken by the Capitals.

Please, let me say to you sir, well done!

Ted Leonsis: Who cares?:-). I dont care-- just want to be good and right by our fans-- thought people made a mountain out of a molehill; thanks for agreeing with our policy-- only people that complained were not our fans:-).

i mostly agree with that, but was wondering a couple weeks ago what would happen if i tried to get tickets. everything about me is now situated in zip code 11103. i guess i'd have to get my mom's credit card info to buy them?

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Time:

12:07 am.

tonight i went with andrew, steph, val, and traczie to all you can eat mussels and half price drinks at essex. it was awesome. actually, it was even more awesome than usual, because now we have the option of two kinds of mussels and regular vs. sweet potato fries!

( here are some pictures of tim wearing the sweater i made him! )

i saw a little kid waddling down the street holding his daddy's hand the other day and it occurred to me how big tim is getting! he's past the cute age now (though if you ask he still says he's two and a half)! :D

also once traczie gets her ipod fixed we are going to have a contest to see who can listen to the most smashing pumpkins in one week. when steph and val went to the bathroom we talked about pumpkins b-sides and rarities just because we could, and also to see if we could make andrew explode! (he did not, and we are nerds)

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Subject:	good weekend!
Time:	10:33 pm.
Music:	hell's kitchen finale.

lucia's party last night was fun! it was a smallish gathering, the ladies all dressed up and there were lots of balloons! we "voted" (ie lucia stuffed the ballot box!!!) for prom king and queen, and gardiner and lucia won (though james and i voted gardiner for prom queen, not king), so they had to do the first dance, which was to that "this is the time of your life" green day song, and i blew bubbles over them while they danced! it was awesome!!
and lucia and i are going to see 9 to 5: the musical next sunday! hooray!

this morning i didn't wake up til 11- i mean, i'll sleep that late, but i wake up a few times before that in the morning and just got back to sleep. today i just SLEPT. so i was late getting to the BUST craft fair, but eventually i got there and met up with traczie and matt after i was done with my shopping.

my haul:

-strawberry margarita vegan lip balm from here

-three soaps- buttermilk baby, papaya mango, japanese yuzu. because i need more handmade soap :D i managed to stay away from other soaps after seeing these though, they were the best at the fair.

-a TON of vegan mineral makeup. the women running the booth were very pushy, which turned me off, but their prices were FAB ($2 for eyeshadow????? YAY!). when i went up to the booth, this woman immediately started telling me about their foundation, which is something i have thought about trying. she tells me, i think you're this shade, it'll help even out your skin tone and cover up some of that pink in your cheeks, is that rosacea? and i was like WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY ABOUT MY ROSY UKRAINIAN CHEEKS??? I LOVE MY CHEEKS! grr! but yeah, so i got some foundation, a few brushes (kabuki, eyeshadow, angled liner), a lip tint, and six eyeshadows (forest nymph, deep steel blue, antique gold, antique copper, smokey purple, and forest floor)

-since matt and traczie got there early, they got bags with lots of free stuff in it, and they each gave me their skeins of o-wool yarn! it's a teal wool/cotton blend, but there's no info on the label in terms of yardage, etc. there is, however, a big disclaimer: "this skein did not meet our dying specifications. this yarn is not what we sell, but gives you a nice taste of our yarn, we hope you hunger for more." huh? why would they give out yarn that they don't want to represent themselves with??? :D

then we went to some other part of brooklyn and walked up 5th avenue for a big street fair. we started, of course, with funnel cake and fried oreos (!)(they were 6 for $5, so matt got a bag- they literally throw 6 in a bag and then dump a TON of powdered sugar on top of it. it was gross/awesome) and got powdered sugar all over ourselves due to the wind. we saw kittens and shamwows (totally should have got one) and i got this great super discounted upholstery purse from brooklyn industries...i felt like a total asshole getting something from them at a street fair, but i was in the mood for a new purse. by the end my feet were kiiiiiiilling me, so i just went home and chilled for the rest of the evening. called rob about doing an exchange but he was busy, which was probably fine because my feet and legs hurt so bad that i don't know how i would have gone over to his place anyway.

tomorrow, i don't plan on leaving my couch. it will be awesome.

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Time:

4:48 pm.

it appears that cabbie and bobby ryan have discovered the keys to winning:

i would like for the caps to particularly pay attention to #1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8**, and 10. they are not ducks, so they don't need to be mighty. and great isn't good enough. please win tonight.

**everyone stfu about ovie being dirty, he's not. he just isn't. he is, however, too reckless, and that is something i would LOVE for him to tone down.

on that note, here is a question for those who know hockey better than i do: why would anyone ever purposely hit someone else knee-on-knee? doesn't that put their knee in just as much danger as the other person's?

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Time:

10:09 pm.

does anyone else on ye olde friends list watch the show chuck? because the end to the season finale was AWESOME XD XD XD

#savechuck has been trending on twitter all day (i can't believe i wrote that)- i am going to be so pissed if that show isn't renewed!

the foot massage place was...weird. i guess the guy was working on someone when i first showed up, so he had me take a seat and use one of the foot massager machines. after a few minutes he came back out and turned on this crazy massage cushion on my back that did mechanical tapotement- it was SO crazy! but kind of awesome! i had the feet going, the lower back going...after a few minutes i had to put down my phone and just relax... :)

but the foot machine didn't target the heels, which are what have been giving me so much pain. unfortunately, it was the same case for the foot massage. ok, setup: the main room has a row of maybe seven or eight automatic massage tables. when it was time for my foot massage, the guy just had me randomly lay down on one of them (you know, so anyone walking down the street could peek in and see- not that i cared, i was gettin a foot massage and they weren't, suckas!) and went to work. his english was bad so he basically just put 30 minutes on his timer and i gave him the thumbs up and we started. the foot massage was pretty good, but again, not enough focus on where i really needed it. the metatarsal/toes part of my feet feel AWESOME, but the heels still hurt just as much :(

kat and i went to the point, which was a zoo- though mostly because people were waiting in line to check out! i didn't buy any yarn, but did pick up a couple books- The Knitter's Book of Yarn, which I'd actually gotten from the library, but it's so informative that I really needed my own copy, and this Whimsical Little Knits book. Plus another sock pattern, and row counters. I guess they found out last minute that their lease wasn't going to be renewed or something, so everything in the store was 30% off. Woo!

I finally washed and am blocking the shawl I made before, am starting to put together a list of things I need to take home for Jenny's wedding. I'm so excited :D

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