sorry for lack of newness, been (and still am) sick. boo!!! it is simultaneously good and bad timing--at least work is relatively slow, but its (the only big) party-extravaganza of the year this weekend, and i'm wondering how well i'm going to feel for that. also have to stand up to some ad reps tomorrow and negotiate $$$, but considering my current state of wellness, i am dreading it hugely. blugh. i hate to even admit it, but may pull the "i'm sick, please have mercy upon me" card...
please send me healthy thoughts! :(
hopefully i will power through tonite and emerge rested and chipper tomorrow. (cross fingers)
xoxo,
.l
as of late, i've been slacking hugely. i have no desire to get anything done right now. so, just to continue my streak, i'll bring up my latest conundrum slash pet peeve.
weddings. what the fuck. i mean i am looking forward to having my own wedding, and i am truly excited to be going to most of the many i have coming up this year. BUT, what the hell. why is it when people are planning a wedding that it becomes this huge affair, totally blown out of proportion? am i going to become some raging OCD bitch the instance i get engaged? i was, no shit, asked recently in so many words if i thought $50,000 was enough/too much to spend on a wedding. why the hell should i be asked that? in respect to that person, she is someone i have come to know quite well, but in every other instance we have completely avoided financial conversations. so why, all of a sudden, is it okay to discuss about her marital budget?
next question. i received a "Save the Date" card in the mail yesterday. it is for someone whom i met while in short residence (3 months) in Oregon. she is absolutely a sweet person, whom i have kept in
very loose contact with over the last three years. her wedding is in Portland in the fall of this year. while i feel honored that she thought to invite me, at the same time, what the fuck? i mean, maybe she doesn't have too many friends, and we have differing gauges of what types of friends we are to each other. in a perfect world, where money and societal paranoia weren't an issue, i would like to go. but to spend money to get to a wedding where i will know absolutely no one next to the bride whom i dont exactly know to begin with....? strange, i think. or not?
then, the last one. and this one i feel the most guilty about. someone in my family is getting married this summer, and out of boredom i looked online for their wedding registry. i found their "wedding website page," and all gift encountrements. between the sheer volume of stuff they are asking for and the sappy description of their meeting and proposal and ...GAG. i really suddenly felt nauseous.
why does this turn me off so bad? am i spiteful? jealous? it just seems like a myopic excuse to ask for presents and act like the world revolves around you.... ? i haven't been to many weddings, but i will say the vibe i got from my college pals Megan and Andy's was decidedly low key, even though it was still very nice. I'm not expecting as much from some of the upcoming affairs...
i dunno. maybe i just need to get engaged so i can throw my own personal shit fit and not feel so left out.....
hi all.
i just wrote a big long post then decided it was boring, so i axed it.
instead, i will say i had a really nice long weekend. it was great to spend time with Pete and just be out of the office and Sun Valley in general. whenever i'm at home i'm running around trying to get in all the things i want to do and people i want to see, and when he's up here, he always gets roped into some major home renovation project. so, it was good to be in neutral territory for a change--having the main option be just hanging out was nice.
in other news, i had a great get-to-know-you meet with the Marketing Manager at Spy yesterday. he was up in SV for the weekend--we actually have an interesting web of connections and events... he used to work up here for Scott, and moved down to Encinitas to work for Spy exactly when I moved up here. strangeness. very good guy, we got along well. they dont have anything exactly at the moment for me, but he said he would definitely keep me in the loop for future possiblities. cool.
also have been obsessing about and planning out my yard. i think it's definitely taking the place of drawing and painting for me. i worked outside around the remaining snow piles yesterday and it felt so good to be out in the sun. i've definitely inherited a craving for an obsession with the sun--my Mom and Grandmother are big gardeners and also have always been sun worshippers. i should be more careful than i am, but i really can feel it when i havent been in th sun for a while. i actually just read a quick bit yesterday about the amount of natural daylight absorbed by your eyes directly affecting your health and well being. the article said you should get somewhere in the range of at least 15-30 minutes of natural light a day. will do.
happy Monday.
.liz
well hell.
email's down and i'm leaving in two hours and still have projects to do. guess i might be taking the laptop with me after all, dammit.
in the meantime, i shall blog. so, i just got notice that we (Smith) are being threatened with a lawsuit. more than two years ago one of our athletes poached a rooftop of a house in Lake Tahoe. we ended up buying the photos and using them in an ad that ran twice in early 2002. we in no way endorsed those activities, but we did publish the photos. we are being threatened with a cease and desist by the homeowners who say that their house is now being targeted by skiers and snowboarders, and that we are a huge contributor to their now neverending stream of tresspassers. the lawyers letter states that "your company promises commercial benefit derived from the illegal use of our home." whatevah. crack smokers. they probably just realized that the eighties are over, they snorted away their remaining pension, and now they need dollars. oh, and i forgot to mention--the photos were in a tiny sequence that ran at the bottom of the page, below the main athlete photo. you have to be trying pretty damn hard to figure out what and where that damn house is. and reading a lot of old back issues.....
all for now. jamming, trying to finish up and get outta here.
xoxo.
this is an image i took a few weeks back while in Mammoth from Chair 16 (now known as the Canyon Express). i have spent many a ride on this Chair--i'm guessing in the hundreds. and it's one of my favorite views in the world. plus the kids behind me are some of my favorite peeps as well. :)
i'm realizing i havent been updating the blog too frequently as of late. for that, i apologize (to anyone who actually reads this thing). but again, things just have been moving along, nothing too exciting one way or the other has been going on.
i read the Boise Weekly yesterday--or at least cruised through it, and was refreshingly surpised that it is so liberal. plenty of Bush-bashing going on. anyways, what i found the most interesting was
this. its a debt tracker that shows just where good 'ol GW has put us. how about a debt of $24,218.74 for each person in the United States?!? thanks pal! way to go!
enough politics, i better get to work. we had company ski day on Friday, so i was out, then am leaving on Thursday and Friday to go down to the SLC for some snow-shredding madness. werd up.
.liz
hi all.
what up. the weekend was fine/good/great. take your pick. went bowling, went skiing, drank, ate, whatever. no new snow yet. which i'm deciding is a double-edged sword. i'd definitely like to get some more goods before the season ends, but again, i'm also jonesing for all the snow to get the hell out of here so i can get outside and work in the yard. i've been rabidly perusing gardening sites for info... am learning that i didnt do a very good job of winterizing my plants... most everything's gonna be dead come spring. oh well. either way it's probably not a big deal, if i do have to move, i would be bummed trying to relocate and find homes for plants...
hmm. other than that....??? just waiting back on some things. actually i did get a call back from another job possibility too, so things could get moving here, hopefully.
also planning some trips--one short term--Pete and I are hoping to get some good snow down at "the Bird"--one of my favorite hills ever--in the next week or two. we're also looking at getting to Fiji later in the year, which could be so amazing. fun fun....
.liz
