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July 15, 2005
forever it's you / forever in me/ ever the same
The ibook arrived a day early, and I am in love. The universe rewarded my coming in before 8 yesterday with my laptop. The early arrival meant I could leave around 5 to go home and play with it. I left it in the box all day until i got home. I have so much willpower.
I had originally hoped that the laptop would arrive and my ring would be ready today. Since one happened early, I'm thinking the ring won't be early, as it is due to me done on Monday. (It is at the jewlery getting resized. Yes, i told hunk o' man the wrong size. I'm just not the type of girl that know what that ring size is. I had just assumed it was the same as my other hand. Though, in my defense, i do wear my rings loose and with this ring I just can't do it. I'm already paranoid about losing it. I don't need the extra help in that department by it being too big.) I am still holding my breath that it will be ready so ben and julie can see it tomorrow during our afternoon at the dog beach. Julie is going to be quite sad if I don't have it.
I would also like to know why it takes a week to resize a ring. Tom and I looked up how they do it and it seems like an afternoon of work - removing a portion of the material and then welding it and polishing it. Sounds like something i could do in our labs. Not that I would, but I could.
Knowledge I have to share today -
(1) When removing stickers from car windows (we have lots of them b/t northwestern and the city of chicago), a razor blade + goo gone works best. When I did my stickers, I did it all with goo gone, and it took a while because I had to wait for the goo gone to dissolve the thick adhesive. With hunk o' man's car last night, I scraped off all the sticker and used the goo gone to get to last of the adhesive off. It was so much quicker.
Knowledge I would like to be given -
(1) How though logically I know that I have all the important things in life - love (hunk o' man, fam, friends) and health, things at work still bother me a lot. I hope with time I gain the ability to not let things at work effect me personally. I wonder what it is like to be one of those people who can compartmentalize, who realize that work is work. I really wonder what it is like to be one of those people who just don't care about work, who takes advantage of the system, who coasts through. I don't want to be that person, but i wonder how it is possible since it seems so undoable for me.
Hunk o' man and my ibook rock my world, especially since I just figured out how to spell check a web box. awesome.
Posted by christina at July 15, 2005 12:45 PM
Comments
Wow! You're engaged! At least, that's what I interpretted from your ring resizing woes in the absense of the full, romantic tale!
So, congrats to both you AND your hunk-o-man :)!
Posted by: Becca at July 15, 2005 4:18 PM
My hypothesis as well. Congratulations, Christina.
Posted by: Jennifer at July 18, 2005 4:34 PM
hypothesis correct. This was my noncheesy way of announcing our engagement.
Thanks!
Posted by: christina at July 18, 2005 4:44 PM