Trials and tribulations of someone new to Chicago

There is great big city, on a great big lake, called Chicago. When the sun goes down, it is wide awake!

Monday, September 24, 2007

My Obsessions

* Table 52
* Shout Wipes: They really work!!!
* The Paper Source
* Scarves: This is nothing new!
* Bright Eyes: This is the first day of my life.....
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Cute Turtlenecks: Not ugly ones....they are just ugly!
* Blockbuster Online
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Coats: Also not new
* Being organized
* Mixed CD's: Every song is like Christmas....what song is it going to be?!?!
* Tank Tops
* Used book stores
* Hungry Howies
*
The movie and soundtrack Once
* Season Premires
* Being the first person to open a book: I always grab from the bottom of the pile!
* Fall
* Doodles
* Magnolia Street: I will live there one day
*
Goodreads
* Mini Coopers
* Wiiiiiiiiiiiiii: Only if said the proper way!
* Potbelly

Sunday, September 23, 2007

Rules to online communication.....

In the 40's, 50's and 60's our parents and grandparents had etiquette classes that showed the women how to be "proper ladies" and the men how to the "gentlemen". Those classes went out of style along with Poodle Skirts and Saddle Shoes. Should they have, though? With the new forms of communication channels maybe we need a new wave of etiquette classes. I think it is time to teach people the Do's and Do Not's of communicating in 2007. Facebook and Myspace have become everywhere you want to be and seems to be the easiest and best way to keep in touch with the largest amount of people. However, it is not safe for everyone. If there was a "how to" manuel for these sites I would send it to many people. Since there isn't, I will make it my personal goal to teach people the ettiquate that is so needed to be taught. I will have business cards soon so be looking for them. Until my classes are off the ground, here are a few of the more important rules that should never be broken. Please pass them along to those who break them!

1) Don't over share: There is no need to put that you have been unable to get pregnant, had a miscarriage or any other information that is not to be discussed with any one other then close family and friends. It would be awkward if I ran into you on the street and asked how you were and you responded with one of those things. It is just as awkward to have it in your about me or as a message on some one's wall. It is a private and sad matter and should stay private.

2) Don't add people you don't like: You know who you don't like. You know who doesn't like you. Why add them? Just because you feel as though you don't have enough friends on the internet does not mean you start to add people you talk badly about or it is obvious you don't like each other. It is just weird and not necessary. You don't pretend to like each other in public so why on the internet?

3) Don't demand to be #1: You might be joking about wanting to be some one's number one friend but it will never appear that way. If it is truly and inside joke then send a private message to that person....inside jokes are meant to be private. When you demand to be a top friend or make a comment about being moved out of someones top 8 you seem paranoid and insecure. Rating your friends is a superficial part of these sites any way. And not completely accurate since every single friend you have is not on said sites. Just because I make you my number one friends or me yours doesn't necessarily mean that you are my favorite friend or even that there is a favorite....there are many things to take into consideration so just relax!

There are many more rules that should be followed. For those, you will have to wait for my classes to start and you will have to pay for them. A girl has to eat....or buy clothes!

Birthday Color

October 29

Color: Beaujolais
Traits: Devoted, Perceptive, Persuasive

YOU are often perceptive and funny, and usually get what you want due to your interesting personality. The ability to disarm people with your wit and intelligence is remarkable. Try not to cover any fear or internal insecurities that you may experience with arrogance or a sharp tongue. Wearing, meditating or surrounding yourself with the color Beaujolais reminds you to combine ease with strategy and intention.

This seems like me....right? Perceptive? Check! Funny? Double Check. Wit, intelligence, interesting personality? It is all there :) What is your birthday color?

Friday, September 07, 2007

It's A New Year, A New Day.....

Since I do not really believe in New Year resolutions, I think that you can have "goals" at any point of the year. As I have been living in Chicago for a little over a year now, (can you believe it?!?!) I thought what better time then any to create New Year Goals. I will keep you posted on how these new goals work out for me, I am sure you will be anxiously awaiting my updates!

1) Update more (Hence me keeping you updated on how my goals are working out): I have been feeling very uninspired as of late on blog writing. I have some thoughts running around in my head, however, so hopefully that is just what I need to get me back into the blog world!

2) Stay in better touch: I have started this pattern of not calling people or returning phone calls for weeks. This then causes me one or two nights a month where I do nothing but talk on the phone! It becomes a vicious cycle where the longer you don't talk, the longer the phone convo will be making me want to push it off further. I have come to the conclusion that if I talk to people on a regular basis then the convos might not need to be that long!

3) Stop wasting so much time: I have the great ability to waste more time then any one I have ever known. I have a day off. I write my list (you know how I like my lists!) of what I want to do that day. By the end of the day I have to add the things that I actually did so that I can cross things off and look productive. Those additions are things like take a nap, watch bad tv and chat on line to people at work or in class being productive (well, they aren't being THAT productive since they are online with me!)

4) Read more: Since I waste so much time (see above) I find myself only reading on my lunch break at work. This causes me to take a long time to finish a book that I should finish in only a couple of days. When books take a long time to finish I start to not like it as much. I am not being fair to those books! I am not able to recommend these books in good faith because I am not sure how much I would or would not like it had I read it at a normal pace!

5) Stop wearing my wish bone where my back bone should be: I need to start living in the moment. Stop looking forward. Take life a day at a time. Enjoy today. I am going to wake up 30 years from now and realize that I lost so much of my youth by always looking to the future. (Yes, I am using youth loosely as I am almost 25!)

6) Do more Chicago things: I live in an amazing city and I do not feel that I have even done a tenth of what there is to do here. Maybe if I stop being so lazy I can do more Chicago things! My life is one big vicious cycle!!!!