Blogging is Hard!

Especially when you have two.

I haven't posted here in a while because I've been really complainy lately, and basically hating just about every person on the planet...especially those who drive down 280. I didn't want to bother you all with my hateful musings but, let's go over some things.

1) You know what? Constantly switching lanes is not gonna get you there faster. In fact, it's going to make the rest of us get there slower.

2) When you have a giant car don't be in denial about its size and decide to park it in the tiny spot, that not even a Mini would fit into, next to my driveway. (This one is especially good because I don't even use the driveway however, this car prevented me from pulling into it to unload groceries and prompted me to write the following note and leave it on the windshield: Next time why don't you BLOCK my entire driveway. That would be totally AWESOME! So,...just don't.

3) When people are gonna make, say a left turn...why do they pull their wheel to the right? I don't get that. Do they think that is gonna make them turn better? Easier? Idiots.

Last night I watched the Sopranos. I haven't watched since the new season started. In fact, I cancelled my HBO a week before it started. I was never really THAT into them. And since their last season was the year I left Boston (hi. 3 years ago) I practically forgot the show ever existed. For me, it was just ok. But I kept thinking...where are they gonna go with this show? It didn't seem very expandable. I heard they did an "alternate universe" show last week. Isn't that like jumping the shark?

In other news, me: the highly hermitable-hating-to-go-out girl, is feeling particularly isolated. All this extracurricular triathlon training has left me out of the loop on lots of things. Last week, instead of going to a TnT sponsored event on Wednesday, I went to Thee Parkside to support Bagel Ted and his Noise Pop happy hour. Even though I was RIGHT THERE I still felt slightly alone. Which leads me to something else I have been thinking about. I am trying to figure out what my problem is about living in this town. I mean, besides the obvious...leaving boston with BF, love of my life, leaving me 6 months later, entering serious depression etc etc. And finally decided that I am having a really hard time finding an intimate connection with anyone. Man or woman. Like, I think that a relationship might have the possibility to be that and then all these weird boundaries pop up. So, I have been trying to figure out if I have always been this way in my life and maybe just didn't notice it in Boston because I just had all these people I knew for a really long time and wasn't ever really pressed to make new friends. A lot of the time I think of moving back to the East Coast but, you know, I'll probably just bring this issue with me. I'm kinda melancholy like that.

ANYWAYS, I read Kate's blog about joining this "Thing" called The Compact. It sounded really interesting to me because sometimes I really get bogged down by my stuff. Or I get bogged down by the thought of having to get more stuff. Or I go visit my mom and look at her pack rat house and think: omg, this is my future. Or I get enticed into the romance of shopping for that perfect thing that will make my life AWESOME.

*blink*

Yeah, so, I had this rolling around in the back of my head and when I opened my computer over the weekend I saw this headline. And I started to think about it some more. (And well, obviously these people aren't doing a triathlon...I buy something for it almost every week). And I was thinking, well, jeeze, I almost am already in a self-imposed Compact situation since I make like $2.00 a week. But could I really do it? Not buy stuff for a year? In this article the woman didn't eat ice cream for a year because it wasn't a neccessity nor did she rent movies? Hmm...you know, if I am not buying stuff or able to spend money to go out...I think I still want Netflix.

Do any of you buy stuff to make yourself happy? I do that a lot. I guess it would really help me analyze that behavior...if I wasn't allowed to do it anymore. But what would I do when I got that "I just need to shop" feelin? One of the allowables in The Compact is underware. I was thinking...man I'd be buying a lot of underware. Hahaha. Anyways...

I wish it would stop raining.