[x] 095. get henna'ed by coffeechica

022/101 completed

I hate goodbyes. When I was a kid and relatives came to visit, I would hide when it came time for them to leave so I wouldn't have to say goodbye. Sometimes I still avoid goodbyes, intentionally or not (I missed half the people leaving the AF house).

[x] 040. stop using the elevator at work

020/101 completed

I guess I could have marked this off after leaving LJ, since that's what it meant. But now at new job and still not using any elevators. (Well, there isn't one and I'm the first floor, but sometimes I have to get up to the second floor..)


[x] 003. write again

021/101 completed

( NaPoMo 2009, x-posted from DW, originally written a few days ago )

*cheats* this.

I hate being called Stace. It's Stacey. Very few people can get away with calling me Stace. I also really hate it when strangers call me pet names like honey or sweetheart. Hell, I don't even really like it when people I like call me that. Except sometimes.

I love you.

That water we had in Vegas? It costs even more in SF o_O

The larger bottles were 7-something dollars plus CRV.

Thanks urban_ballerina! ♥

Too many good things today. I'm afraid that it'll all unravel tomorrow. But for now, I bask in happy.

Rain is one of my favorite weather elements. Streets slicked shiny and lights reflecting movie-like. The gentle refreshing spray of a drizzle or light shower. Falling asleep to the rhythm of raindrops dancing across any surface.

And yet I don't have a rain userpic.

[x] 76. get a professional massage

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For Valentine's Day, Rich got me a gift card to Tru Spa, good for a TruTheraphy treatment. It came in a gift box with three different mini bottles of the shea butter they use for the massages. Also, Rich made me quite an impressive card. Anyway, I had scheduled my appointment for today, figuring that by now, I'd be even more stressed out, especially still not having a job and all. And I was. And now I'm all relaxed \o/

The spa was really nice. The water in the sinks came down a slide on the wall, and the showers had an option for spray from both overhead and the handheld. And I was offered champagne and there were cheese&crackers and brownies in the waiting lounge.

The massage was also really nice. I got to choose which shea butter I wanted—Energize or Relax. I didn't want to smell like a candy cane, so I went with the relaxation one, which was tangerine and vanilla. There were moments where I'd close my eyes and almost fall asleep; it was that relaxing. My neck and shoulders feel so much better now. Everywhere else too, but especially my neck and shoulders.

Yesterday it was red, today it's purple. I didn't just fall, I crashed hard onto the ice landing first on my right knee, then on my left side. I must have been 8 the last time I scraped my knees. Other than the bit of pain when I bend my leg, ice skating was fun. And I can sort of do the two foot spin now, and was given pointers on going backwards.

Afterwards, we enjoyed a relaxing Wei Qi 茶 and cookies on the Samovar patio. It was a nice day out and Yerba Buena was unexpectedly quiet. Though I guess that makes sense since everyone else was at work in the tall buildings surrounding the nature. I should go back again with a book.

1. 01/09/09 photolog (January 10, 2009)
2. stars and ♥ (October 9, 2008)
3. my sky is starless tonight. (May 17, 2004)
4. reset, restart, new game? (March 1, 2008)
5. something to get me right (January 17, 2008)

I picked based on style (and memory, since I didn't want to go through 1,471 entries). If it were the top 5 entries that defined me, I wouldn't even know where to begin. Actually, my reflect tag is pretty encompassing of that, and breaking up/moving on is where I discovered strength I didn't know I had. The shooting stars tag shows the opposite, mostly. Re-reading those gave me shivers (the filtered entries, which not many people have access to).

If it were my top favorite moments that I've written about, the totally awesome! tag comes pretty close. Entries tagged hell yeah also fit here ;)

bonus: My favorite entry written as an LJ employee is this one. Though it doesn't really count since that wasn't an official post..

I was 13, playing ice tag, and very determined to tag a certain someone who I totally got before falling forward. I had my hands flat instead of balled into fists when I was getting back up, and someone skated over my right pinky. The cut wasn't deep, but it left a tiny scar about a centimeter long.

we left behind these shores of past
the seashells that held our stories
mistakes dispersed in grains of sand

we headed for the horizon
where just beyond laid our future
aglow in a golden light
majestic, so full of promise

i should have known
magic isn't real
& neither are promises.

silly me to have believed differently
to expect that you'd understand
because how could you
forget what i've given, my existence

as the shores disappeared from view
so did everything i'm worth
(to you)

[x] 011. get chasethestars.com back up and going

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I had this idea a few years ago for a one page portfolio and sketched out how it would work. Until last September, that's all it was—sketches in my notebook. Then I created the illustrations.. and neglected it again.

chasethestars.com used to be so active, a showcase of my creativity in various forms. Way back in the day, I used to update my websites with a new look at least once a month. Same as with my writing, I had lost that drive when I became too caught up in the real world.

Today, chasethestars.com has something again¹. Not as great as it had been, but it's something. The scrolling effect doesn't work in IE and the image map is the only bit that wont validate in XHTML 1.1. But hey, it's more than just sketches in my notebook now \o/

¹ And I needed a gauge of how much coding I still felt comfortable with. I should probably pull PHP and Javascript off my resume until I (re)learn it.

I made my goodbye post to lj_design, and there were a bunch of comments. It trickled down after the 9th, at the end of page 8. Then it really picks up again on the 18th, and there's still a steady stream of comments coming in now. Not as many as when the post first went up, but a lot more than between the 9th and the 18th.

Did something happen? Was there another big announcement somewhere? Was there some big holiday break where everyone had been gone from LJ? My best guess would be the feedback link on the profile page, but it has been a few weeks...

I'm really curious. Enlighten me.

It's been a long time since I've crossed the Bay Bridge from above, heading West, at sunset. This cameraphone photo does not do it justice. I can't believe there are people who will go their entire lives without ever seeing the sun dip into the water.

[x] 083. go to my first comedy show

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One of my other birthday surprises, which I had totally guessed, was a comedy show. Rich took me to The Comedy Store last Friday. There were 5 performers, but the only name I can remember is Mike Gunn (when did I start having memory fail?). All of them, including the host, were great though.

I think my favorite joke was about women's Viagra, that the name was stupid and he could've done better: Niagra, like Viagra, but for women, and the commercial would be of a young one under the waterfall. Also, I learned something new. Viagra for women? wtf? Uh, lube?

( + other things I can cross off my 101 )