Salty Nuts

It is getting close to 4:30 in the afternoon and I'm getting a little hungry because I ate a late breakfast and skipped lunch, so a perused my cabinet for goodies. I found a quarter of a can of salted almonds in the back. Ugh. I remembered why I had put them in the back... I dislike salty nuts. They are just too damn salty for me.

I really wanted those almonds, but I wasn't about to suffer through the inevitable dry mouth I would get if I ate the salty nuts so I did the only thing I could think of - I washed them. Yes, I washed my salty nuts and now they aren't salty and taste the way an unsalted almond should taste. Lesson of the day: wash your salty nuts.

This slightly inappropriate post has been brought to you by Friday and the letter N, for nuts.

Side note: I also dislike the 'skin' on nuts. Naked nuts only. Thanks.

Can't Contain it Anymore

So yesterday I posted on Facebook that I've been thinking about creating an anonymous blog where I can share my deepest and darkest secrets. One person suggested that I create another Facebook account just for those people who I want to have access, but I wasn't sure if this was stuff I wanted to share with select friends because I may misjudge people and it may be too out there. I'm kinda liking the fact that random strangers may read some of my thoughts and stories. I'm not much of an exhibitionist in the real world, but in the virtual world I think I want to bare it all.

Private Life

So I was just reading a friends blog and it dawned on me why I don't really have too much to say here; I'm actually a pretty private person. Even though I share quite a bit of my personal life via my Facebook status updates, there is still a lot that no one but me and one other person knows about... and I like it that way.

At times I have a lot in my head which I think I can share, but the amount of backstory that would be needed for it to make sense, doesn't make it worth it. At other times there are things that happen at work that I find to be worthy of a blog post, but without me explaining everything in fine detail, you would never get it. Then there is my personal life... ugh. It is so complex right now, at least in my head, and there are some things that some people know and then there are somethings that only myself and the other participant are aware of - needless to say, I'm not posting anything about that either. I don't want to bore you will a million shots of my zoo, endless doggie pic and cute shots of the fuzzy kitties. They are fun for a while, but a good blog they do not make.

I'm going to put some more thought into this blog and why I bothered to start it. I hope to have something interesting for you in the near future.

Thanks for reading.

Sympathy Whining About the Financial Crisis

So ever since I took this 'less stressful + better hours = less pay' job back in September 2008 I've been in the hole. I took a $9k/year pay cut for the first 4 months and then gained a little of that back, but it was too late... I was already behind. Now over a year later I'm swimming in credit card debt, living tremendously far from my job for cheap rent and some space to move and I'm more frustrated than before about my career and finances. When this happens I have to stop and take a moment to realize that I'm LUCKY. I have a job, I have a place to live and there is food on the table. So many of my friends and family members have been negatively impacted by this financial crisis and there is absolutely nothing I can do to help... I've never felt so helpless before. All I can do is offer my support and I never feel that it is enough, even though I know that they are grateful.

While I sit here in my office, getting paid for work I'm not doing while I'm writing this blog post, I look for a new job; one that is better suited to my talents and higher paying.While I relax in my apartment with my zoo of pets I look at pet friendly apartments that I can't afford. When I'm at symphonic band rehearsal I complain about my crappy student trombone and how I long for a fancy one with an F-attachment. Why is it that even though I have everything I need to live (and then some) that I can't stop wishing and hoping for more? I'm sure part of it comes from the fact that I have $6.36 in my checking account, no credit available on my credit cards and no savings to rely on if something was to happen right now, but could it be that I'm having something akin to sympathy pains? I know it is normal for me to want to aspire for greatness, but am I just being selfish?

New 'Green' Font from Europe Saves Toner

This is one of my favorite finds from 2009; a doubly 'green' font that is not only good for the environment, but saves you dough too. Ecofont, a new typeface developed in The Netherlands, actually has small holes in the letters to save on toner. This works great for printing out stuff that you really hate to print and waste the paper and toner, but really need to have on hand. Now I wouldn't use it for any legal documents or school papers, but for everything else it is totally worth it. Visit the link to download the free version for private use.

Ah... that New Year smell!

So here we go folks... it is a new year which means we have to set some new goals that we are never going to reach. I really can't believe that it has been six months since my last post. No wonder no one follows me! I'm the worse blogger in the history of blogging! I think what is really rubbing me the wrong way here is that my boyfriend (soon to be ex-boyfriend) just started a blog about his fish tank on a fishy site and has posted something every day this week. Makes me really feel like a loser.

Here's the thing, I wasn't going to allow this blog to get personal. I was going to focus on the things that make me happy... being green, music, knitting, reading, accounting... but more and more I find that the stuff I want to really talk about is much more personal than that. I don't think I can keep this blog strictly 'business' because as you can see... there isn't much that I post when I'm sticking to that kind of theme.

Now I have to admit that I spend WAY too much time on Facebook. I play too many games, look at too many pictures, comment on too much stuff that doesn't really matter. I'm realizing that a lot of the subjects I bring up there in my status update are things I could be talking about here with you. So I'm thinking that over the next week or so I'm going to review the last year of Facebooking and bring over some things that I still feel very strongly about.

I'm becoming more and more of an internet presence everyday.

So just now I linked up my Flickr account and this blog with my Facebook page. I didn't know that was possible, but after uploading some pics from my computer I thought to myself, 'self, there has to be a better way', and so I found it. The crazy part is that it may take everything that I put on Flickr to my Facebook page, which wouldn't be good for when I'm taking pics of yarn or half f*cked up projects. I'm going to test it out as soon as I can and see if it works for me.

I just Googled myself, 'Yes, I Googled', and discovered that there are 10 links in the first few pages for me! A couple are Facebook, then there is Plaxo, this blog, LinkedIn, Twitter, Classmates and Spoke. I can't wait until I start my little online business... then I'll really feel like all this time on the computer will be for something. Although, I'm not too hopeful about it because I have a few things posted on Craigslist, Kijiji and Facebook Marketplace and nothing has moved. Fingers crossed. I'd hate to have to put it up on eBay... I hate paying their fees. I had at one point a lot of brand new, never been touched makeup that I posted on eBay - well of the stuff I sold off I lost money! Between eBay fees, PayPal fees and shipping... ugh, forget it. Maybe I'll go old skool and just have a yard sale.