A-roma

Last night I walked out of work and was greeted with this fantastically wonderful aroma of warm cookies and fall... Fall. The leaves have definitely started changing colors... in fact, they're almost done doing so. My favorite season has slowly turned into what I think is going to kill me. I've been waiting and waiting for this awesome fall weather only to be greated by the most horrendous allergies ever. EVER. What up with that?

I've tried to escape them by taking cold and allergy medicine several times a day and by avoiding the outdoors, which kind of stinks.

Gotta get to work now, but p.s. there are a plethora of hot men at Panera... but every last one is married. What up with THAT?

I, apparently, am only attracted to married men. lol.

Wowza

It's been a long time since I've posted anything... TOO long. There has been so much going on in my life that it's hard to keep updated... That, and I always start on these things and forget about them.

Anywho, since I've last posted, I've been to Korea and back and Africa as well. All crazy adventures.

Since my return, I've started my journey to unclutter my life. The Salvation Army is supposed to come by on Thursday to do a neighborhood pick-up and I plan on having at least a portion of my home outside on the curb, ready to be donated.

When I got back, I worked through the living room and kitchen to get rid of all the things in both of those rooms that I didn't need any longer. I organized all my pots and pans and got rid of all the ones that I didn't use or were no longer "non-stick" but rather "can't unstick" pans and have since made my way to my room/office to start the uncluttering process there.

I've picked up SEVERAL great ideas and suggestions from the folks at the Real Simple magazine and unclutterer.com.


GREAT, GREAT, GREAT things are in store for the future!

Sprint, again

They never lowered my bill or gave me my credits so I called back... added a $70 credit to Cathy's line so I can upgrade both phones today - spoke with Cindy. She transferred me to Fabian and he gave me my $20 monthly credit, but took off my 10%. Would've been nice to have both like Billy promised, but oh well. I still save any extra like... $11 a month.

I don't know why EVERYONE hates Sprint so much... their customer service is getting better and so is their reception. I'm getting a Samsung Moment today and upgrading my little sister to the Instinct s30... woot. Wanted the Hero originally but there's no place for a little cell phone charm and what's a Korean girl to do without that??!!?

Sleeping

I don't really know when this happened, but my sleeping pattern has changed... It's 3 am and I'm up and as awake as I am at noon. How odd. Maybe it's because I was deathly ill the last 10 days or so. Would go to sleep around 3 or 4 and wake up at noon. It's really hindering my productivity... (that sounds so familiar) I don't believe my neighbor would enjoy me blasting music, cleaning and vacuuming at 2 in the morning... so instead, I sign on to Youtube and just watch crap for hours. I've managed to clean my room - which my mom approves of, via Skype. I have quartet practice tomorrow morning, so I'm sure that I will be able to clean it all in time.

Went to a pumpkin patch place and bought fresh apple cider on Saturday. Bought 2 gallons, left both in the fridge and while we were drinking the 1st gallon, the 2nd somehow went bad and fermented. I had a small apple cider explosion to clean up in my fridge and $5 worth of apple cider to pour down the drain. Weird - it's not supposed to ferment that quickly, is it? Really wonder what went wrong.

Going to cook lunch for the quartet tomorrow... as well as decide on business cards and such. It will be a busy day and hopefully, very productive. I will be trying out a new recipe for Lemon Spaghetti and will tell you all how it goes. Hopefully, fabulously.


Re-loving: Hellogoodbye - Baby it's fact


Youtube channels I subscribed to today:

Mobilitytoday
Maangchi
Miaarose

(didn't mean to do just "M"s... things just happen that way)



Maangchi has been my favorite for a long time, I just never signed on to subscribe, but I was at the Korean market today and was talking to some woman and was telling her how much I loved Maangchi and that she should look her up. How terrible of me if I don't even favorite her myself! So, I did, and there. Dilemma is over.



Okay, time to at least attempt to sleep since I'll be up in a few hours to clean for rehearsal. Ick. But yay. HOPEFULLY, we'll be playing the Grieg String Quartet in G minor, Op. 27... It's pretty much amazing. Look it up if you're interested. It's basically just a mouthful of "WOW".

Once a year

There are tons of things people do once a year... some people make resolutions (to be broken several times a year), some people sleep in, some people do a good deed, some people volunteer...

Then, there are things that happen to you once a year... Like, today. I was woken up at 6am to THUNDEROUS booming sounds. Not reminiscent of the booms from cars that sounded like they were going to explode from when I lived back in "da hood", but a very in-time, very well-practiced kind of booming. Oh... it's the band invitational. You know, where every band known to man shows up and competes against one another. Joyous rapture. I'll be listening to mediocre high school marching bands from now until the end of time... (Does anybody know when that is, by chance?) I need to go get some coffee until then.


Anywho, I know it's been a while since I've blogged. *not that anyone is reading* But, I've been suuuppppeeerrrrr busy with everything. Work, quartet, life - you know. Last week was homecoming for Cathy and I got stuck baby-sitting the kids at the dance instead of going out to have my own party. Super duper lame.

Am I complaining? I sure feel like I am. So, I'll shut up now and get ready to teach.


Current Sound: Out of tune scales with Dvorak's New World Symphony in the background (also done by a phenomenal marching bad... I mean, band) There is also that AWESOME sound in the farther background sound that sounds similar to beating on tin trash cans and throwing metal recyclables around...

Current Mood: Looks a little something like this: o.O

Stupid People on the Line

Why do companies let incompetent people talk on the phone? I  called Sprint today to see what my pricing would be on the new Touch Pro 2 as well as if they could offer me any other discounts - and here's what happened:

1) Talked with a guy who said I could get the Touch Pro 2 for 199.99 today if I extended my contract, as well as a $70 credit on each of my lines. Really? I say... I double check, he says he's right, I agree.

2) He transfers me to the telesales department so I can buy the phone, the lady says no, he was wrong. You pay $450 and get $100 mail-in rebate in 2 months. WTF. That's totally different from what this punk kid just told me.

3) I say, ok, then I want to undo my contract renewal since you obviously have the terms all messed up. The lady says, you already agreed to the credit so we can't undo that. Bitch keeps trying to sell me the phones anyway. I say she doesn't know what she's doing and need to be transferred.

4) On hold for a million hours while I blog this....

Interim thought: FUCK YOU, Sprint. I hate you for this.

5) Wonderful Billy gets on the phone, and of course, I'm stuck with Sprint again. HOWEVER, he takes off Cathy's contract renewal, gives me an $80 credit instead of $70... and the BEST part... he lowers my plan to $110 instead of the $130 I'm currently paying... WITH an additional 10% off my bill every month.  Okay, so he was super. I'm happy-er and going to go shopping for a new phone! 

Yay, Billy.

FUCK YOU, Sprint. Not that I don't like you... but I could have gotten an Iphone at that price. 

11:30

I'm in bed at the moment, but only because my house has turned into the Arctic over night. I woke up at 7, ate a bowl of cereal, practiced, then went for a run. =) *claps* productivity! yay!

I'm still trying to figure out if I want to go with ATT or not. Is it worth the extra $400 I'll be paying a year?

Taking more classes this winter just for fun. Am I stupid? Anyway~

Gonna leave now to go to the mall to check in to ATT and then to Icing to maybe buy a ring. To Sears to visit Mrs. B then to work!

Gaarrrrrrrr. Happy Wednesday.