my days

What do I do all day you may ask? Well....

I wake up around 1130. (though yesterday I woke up at 10!). Then I clean up and have a light breakfast while watching my friends DVD. Boyfriend comes home for lunch around 1 for about an hour. Then I do laundry or dishes or hem pants or watch friends and look for jobs or apartments. I may drive around to check out places for rent. I read newsweek or the nyt (which we get for free from the dispensor thats broken =) and sometimes meet boyfriend for tea at the beanery around 330. He gets off work at 5, and we make dinner and watch netflix movies or do the nyt crossword, play backgammon or watch arrested development. He sleeps around 11, and I read until maybe 1230. He gets up at 830, and we repeat!

PS-they offer tennis classes at the community college, 2 hours twice a week for 10 weeks. Im signing up! and im really looking forward to it getting warmer, so I can play tennis, golf, run, etc. And yes, that job hunting is commencing but I hate the concept of my future job depending so much on my word choice on a piece of paper. Did you know I can work at the post office for $20/hr? Cool!

Yesterday boyfriend replaced his sisters brake pads and routers. I helped a bit, and learned some cool stuff about cars. And i officially jacked a car and removed a tire!

grey and cloudy

I know i've speant most of my time in LA missing the rainy drizzly grey skies that cover most of mukilteo 7 months of the year. but now im here in oregon, similar weather, and i find that its making me more gloomy and frustrated than contented. Some of which I'm sure is a result of not having any clear goals for each day. I've speant year after year with the structure of school, and I know im going back, but i really want to learn to enjoy this free time. and I hope i can, soon.

Last monday I was watching super nanny on abc....something i should probably not like or enjoy but find much guilty pleasure in. And last semester I discovered to my embarressment that I enjoyed flipping through my roommates people and usweekly...when i should be reading newsweek and nyt.

baby

there are some days i really want one of these...can you blame me? boyfriend's brother has a baby thats 2 months old, and last time we visited i got to hold him and feed him and he fell asleep in my arms. sigh. =)

being lazy

So its now well into february and i can say that i have not really accomplished a whole lot in the tangible sense of the word. I pretend i'm working when I clean or look for an apartment to move to, and occasionally scroll through job postings, but the truth of the matter is I am absolutely loving this do nothing time and it has been so much fun and relaxing. Though the part of me that feels the need to always be doing something feels really guilty about it, but for the most part i've managed to push those feelings away. Oregon has been great, with the small town feel and walking to get coffee or thai food, and living with the boyfriend has been so great as well, better than i expected. i do miss LA, and all the places to eat and go and shop there, but oregon does offer some of these things, theyre just an hour away. This weekend we made a trip to portland, and had lunch and bought spices at Penzeys and uwajimaya and had so much fun browsing through food and shopping. We love the cooking, and the shopping is almost as fun.

but i think this week ill apply for that lab tech position, ugh. im going to miss my free afternoons watching tv and reading and sleeping in till noon. literally.