18 posts tagged “vox”
i really feel like i've 'made it'... Dancing bear tagged me! tagged me rotten!
Fill in the blank. It can be as simple or elaborate as you'd like.
1. I can’t believe I’ve never…
been arrested or fired.
2. Every time I think about … I still cringe.
That time I blacked out in the Haight..
3. I wish I’d …when I had the chance.
moisturized more
4. I’ve never felt so out of place as when I…
go to baby showers.
5. … is my guiltiest pleasure.
Nailbiting/Britney Spears
6. I hope … knows how grateful I am for …
my family..... Everything.. life.. breath... love.. joy..
7. In my darkest hours, I secretly blame … for my dysfunction.
Religion
8. … changed my life forever.
Swing dancing
Tagging.. hmmmm
SO.. i know i haven't been talking lately. It's not you, it's me. For some reason*, I just haven't felt like saying anything. I've been reading, of course. And thinking of clever comments I don't post. I keep reading and thinking and having full-on miniature conversations in my head, i just never get around to doing the work of actually engaging in them.
I've gone so incommunicado that my gmail inbox has all but dried up, but for facebook alerts, google calendar, and drugstore.com.
I went to see the donnas. it was fun. i have promoted the girl I went with to 'friend' because we have hung out more than once and she seems to still like me. I'm short on nashville friends, so new ones are great. Not just any new one, but cool ones, real ones.
I'm in DC this week for work. actually i'm about 7 million miles away from DC, in some wretched little business suburb with ONE starbucks. my room is nice, but it is as nice as the town is lame. tomorrow night, at least, there is dancing. I just have to drive to the train, take it an hour into DC, and walk six blocks. then leave by midnight to catch the last train. what is it with trains?? at least DC's metro runs later on weekend nights. ahem BART.
i bought the book called 'Skinny Bitch'. It's pretty funny. it gets a bit tiresome, girls who insist that certain foods and habits will make you look and feel like shit, but what can you expect from a book called 'Skinny Bitch'. It has also, by the way, totally turned me off meat and dairy. I haven't had either in .. 2 days? Bleh. so far they have no stance on movie popcorn. I'm sure they will. they are bitches.
Um that's all. I miss my boyfriend. I miss my cat. I miss the point in the universe where we three intersect. (probably the couch).
hugsies.
*i think it's the drugs
So. haven't been here lately. Um. it's not you it's me.
I just haven't felt like spending a lot of time in front of the computer, I guess. In fact I didn't even turn it on last night. If you know me, you know this is weird. this is totally unlike me.. this is..
...this is what's up:
a) OMG they have free cups of coffee at kroger. So like, you are shopping and you're like next to the donuts, looking at the donuts but not with intent to buy or anything. Just looking. Like, honey glazed donuts. Looking at the way the glaze has pooled and dried into a clump of honey-glaze sugar awesome ecstasy in the bottom of the box. And maybe you're thinking about the donuts.. like well hell. i'm NOT buying six donuts but if they sold ONE donut I'd probably get just the one and OH MY GOD IS THAT FREE COFFEE??? The coffee machine (robocoffee) is a bit complicated, considering that the persons using it are desperate enough for coffee to drink free grocery store coffee, after all, but the oldest man in the world showed me how. I said "has this always been here???" and he said "yes". and I said "OMG i'm totally coming here all the time".
b) Not that I need free coffee however. I just got my bonus from Awesome Wireless Company, and I'm a thousandaire, folks. yes that's right. Right now, and probably for the next several hours, I have an amount of money almost equal to my amount of debt. Or at least, the amount of debt on my Southwest Airlines Rapid Rewards Visa card, which had purchased many things to fill my inner void when I was living in cali (where inner voids are very, very large). and which I've been paying for since.
c) I skipped running today b/c it was misty and cold. I'm so not into being cold AND wet at the same time. I went to kickbox instead.
d) Thursday night I met up with Cricket, a fellow voxer. She works at an east nashville restaurant and bar, and we had a nice chat after she got off work etc. She's utterly adorable. and the bar has sake. I spent most of yesterday with a vague sake-induced headache, but it was so worth it. I vote we all (nashville) head down there on some random thursday night. and drink some sake.
e) health: there is more to discuss with respect to health, but that's going to be probably tomorrow and certainly neighborhood-only. Which means if you're in my neighborhood you can get the nitty-gritty, if you want it. and if you aren't, you get this: I'M HEALTHY! THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH ME! I FEEL LIKE A MILLION BUCKS!!
and that's all true.... with some provisos. but true nonetheless. Recently, I've had the most amazing workouts, I sleep like a baby, and I'm feeling almost completely well. I expect the coming weeks to bring further improvement. and then I'll be back to my old awesome self. AWESOME. hella.
Ok that's it. I fell asleep during our ipod'd LOST episode last night, so it's time to plop on the couch and get my LOST-on.
Actual moments of not-so-clarity, brought to you by Toprol XL:: K: Hey did you have coffee last night? ...... C: Peej? Did you put the soymilk where the cereal should go? Toprol XL !!! Just you try to keep a Scrabble score. Just you try! ----------- PS, I had a -mother- of a time getting this post to save; Initially I cut and pasted from wordpad, and i kept getting an error telling me a script was causing my computer to run slowly, i should abort it or it would crash my browser. which it did. It seemed to be something in the body of the post; I deleted portions of it, and finally i stopped crashing the browser, but it failed to save anything beyond my 'Hey did you have coffee last night?'. At which point I gave up and pasted it from Notepad. Worked like a charm (but I had to redo the formatting). If anyone has had similar problems with IE6, lemme know. This is the first time I've seen it.
C: Yeah, remember? I told you I felt like having a soda but had coffee instead?
K: That was last night? I thought it was the night before..?
C: No. that was last night.
K: Really?
K: Huh? Maybe? Probably. That's weird. But yeah, probably.
This started as a comment on Shush Now's release 41 post, but it got away from me, so I am posting it here.
Re: You'll get used to it
My feeling is that Vox has a reason for the direction they've chosen. It could be that they need to make money via ads, it could be that they want to enrich the experience with content they provide. Maybe they wanted to develop an editor position for their staff and were looking for a way to do it. Not all of their decisions are good ones for me, but I feel like the product is so above-and-beyond wonderful for something free on the internet, that I can get used to the occasional unwieldy change.
My use of vox is pretty basic. I compose, i 'my neighborhood', and when I'm feeling particularly ambitious, i'll 'explore'. I don't care if it's tab or drop down, really. The [this is good] changes are somewhat annoying, but really, i just won't use them as much. and that's it.
Vox has been awesome about communicating with the user base. So overwhelmingly awesome, in fact, that I removed 'Team Vox' from my neighborhood long ago due to the volume of their posts, which generally didn't concern me. Their latest statement indicates that they get it: the users don't like X,Y, and Z, and those will be corrected in the next release, as for their stance on [this is good] and drop-downs.. well...
...Well, i kind of admire the 'you'll get used to it' attitude. It's direct, it's the hard-line. It says: This is our product, and we feel like taking it here and here. You are welcome not to enjoy this. We expect some people will dislike it enough to leave, and we've done all the math, and we are willing to risk it. Have a nice day!
I just love a good stance.
You know, out of everything that's changed, the thing that bothers me most is that the 'compose' button now says 'create'. When I click it, I feel less like I'm blogging and more like I'm failing some sort of artistic prerequisite. But that's just me. :)
Anyway, I'm in with Vox, for the long haul. At this point, I'd probably even pay for service this good.
normally I would have replied to your comments on the 'breathe' post, but I was so overwrought at the time, and most of today, I just didn't have a chance.
But I wanted to say thank you for putting so much thought into what you wrote. It made me feel immensely and rather immediately better to read what you'd written. I had renewed hope, and I felt valid in one of my weaker moments. Or one of my more honest moments, perhaps.
I'm not a person who accepts defeat easily most of the time, so it was difficult to try and fail with my own health. Twice, as far as I was concerned. You all made me feel like I had so many other options to try, and that I was justified to feel as frustrated as I did. That helped so much with the anxiety. I swear, 80% of what's going on with me is sheer panic, of not breathing, of illness, of being out of control of a basic human function. After reading your comments, I felt.. well not 'healed'. but better about being sick. Or something.
So today, I went to the doctor and just layed it out... How I'm feeling physically and how it's making me a crazy person, emotionally. I started crying right away, and she did just what you guys did, she told me it was ok and totally normal to get stressed out. She understood and agreed that I was making it worse with anxiety. She in fact offered to treat the anxiety at least temporarily, to take the edge off of what I'm experiencing. I said no, mostly because I'm functional right now, and so far I'm hanging in there with the occasional verbal nudge. I'd rather not medicate unless I'm desperate for it. I think antianxiety meds are probably a lifesaver for people who need them occasionally... I'm just not ready to be one of those people, not yet.
I get by with a little help from my friends.
A thousand thanks, guys, really. Super hugs.
kat
I've been thinking about it, and I'd probably take the occasional ass-beating if it meant I could have a good salad whenever i wanted.
1) I'm getting a haircut/color tonight! I have the best stylist ever, and she's going to make me gorgeous, she always does. she's a magician.. no.. a good witch. I think we may talk about 2008's roadmap for my hair. Grow/bleach/reddish/chunks?/panels?. I'm thinking of getting a little black in the mix. I want my hair to be like a box of godiva chocolates; rich, creamy, and all different colors. Luxurious, uncommon, and very, very expensive. Yay. so there's that. 2) I'm not sure b/c it was darkish and there was no coffee (!!) but I think my boyfriend is even cuter than he was yesterday. I will let you know 3) Tonight at 6pm and 1 second, my vacation begins. and 24 hours later, my parents and grandma arrive. Seriously? I could pee that's how excited I am. Forget that it's Christmas and there will be opening of presents and general togetherness and joy and FOOD.. i miss my folks. They're the best. *pees* 4) I've got like ten books to finish this coming vacation week. I should probably get rolling on 'I am legend' since I wanto to see the movie and sound like I know what I'm talking about at book club 5) I have the most awesome magical Vox 'explore' button ever. Everytime I click 'explore', somewhere in the top-five most-recent posts there is some awesome, hip woman posting about truly interesting things. How lucky am I? (collect the whole set). For now, focusing on the next um.. 7 hours. which should feel like 15, courtesy of the 'vacation dialation' affect on spacetime. (it's a theory i have)
So this morning I was reminded what it is about blogging, and in particular, my neighborhood that i love so much. You guys are so normal and lovely. There are a lot of blogs out there that are just so damned.. sculpted all the time, you know? Every post involves some life-changing, mind-expanding drama, and the comments resound with affirmations and sympathy. You know those posts where, the comments all start to sound the same after a while?? Those are the ones I'm talking about. and I find these boring. (not to mention I seriously wonder about people who live life on those kinds of rollercoasters) But you guys! you are stunning in your normality. You're real, and you have real lives. For some reason, I'm incredibly interested in what goes on in your day-to-day. I feel like your comments have depth and warmth, and real thought; and I feel like I can relate to you. We have conversations, and we learn things about each other the long way. Almost like real neighbors. right? In the last couple of days, I read a great post about, among other things, how Miss A didn't like her pants. Today I shared a giggle with Shush Now because we got caught dissing bodhibound's QOTD.. oops! And Kitty posted a year in review which, by the time I got to November I wondered what about it compelled me to read every last word.. The answer? nothing and everything -- She's just a woman having a year of mixed blessings. It's the same year any one of us could have had, and it was a joy to read it from her perspective. Sure, it's interesting to read the occasional uber-entry, but my daily bread is hearing about WR's incompetent colleagues, Kelly's movies, Gunderson Bee's and Melissa's kids, and JennyE's dating stories. Crashley doesn't post much public, but her photos are adorable. I'm learning about Finland. I could go on and on and on. some day I will. For now, I want to say thank you and happy holidays to the most neighborly neighbors ever. Thank you all for being a (very real) part of my everyday.
