stephanie is: 
tired…
today i got up at 9am after about 3 hours of sleep. i fed the animals, dressed, packed my laptop and lunch in my backpack, and drove to the park&ride just after 10am. then it was the normal bus-metro-walk to the office. sitting on my desk when i got there was a box of business cards with my name on them. swanky! i feel somewhat employed. i’m still only contract though… alas. i munched on my food all day while working on an architect firm’s websign design. food i ate: plain bagel with chive cream cheese, black grapes, a few mini carrot sticks, mini bag of cheetos, mini bag of nutterbutters. mm. my metabolism is one of it’s monthly spazes so i must eat eat eat! foood. ahem. i left work around 5pm… i had to stand on the metro cause it was packed. not fun when you have a computer in you backpack that is gouging your shoulders. got to the bus and there were already 3 people standing. dang! but i got to the middle to stand and a kind man reading a book on moses gave me his seat without a second thought. i was reading on the bus right when we suddenly veered left, pulled over on the toll road, and the driver turned the bus completely off. word got back that the bad engine light thinger was on and he had to leave the bus off for a minute before trying again. then he went the rest of the way. now i am home and STARVING, hehe. we are going to cook burritos and stuff for deener. food food food.
i just read through my lj friends list for the day and various bookmarked journals… i keep reading ‘…i hate wishlists, but here is the link to mine!’. i felt bad about posting mine last year – like i am begging for gifts. so i didn’t post it for my birthday (and only got 3 gifts unsuprisingly – but they were awesome ones) and i have resisted the urge to post it now. anyway there is no christmas this year. danny and i aren’t buying each other (or anyone i bet) gifts cause we can’t afford it on our irregular contract saleries. i am making little things whenever i get spare moments, but nothing spectacular.
i am really hungry so ima go cook deener.
i don’t think wishlists are really lame, but more the folks that point out all the time that they do have one. there are times though when they do come in handy when you’re trying to figure out what to get someone for a present.
i hope that work/play/lack of sleep aren’t getting you down… 🙂
yes i like them too… it is fun to “window shop” and i get out of giving out gift ideas to my family by sending them the url so they can get an idea for what i like… hehe
I was going to buy you a birthday present this year but since you didn’t post the wishlist I took that as a subtle hint that you really didn’t want gifts. The year before you had a big birthday party with a list and I participated. (How fun! You had the party online too!)
I like the lists because that means that gifts are ok to send. I wouldn’t want to be uncouth. 🙂
i never really thought of gifts as something you had to ask for…
it was sad – i didn’t even get cards from my relatives last birthday and i couldn’t afford to have a big party… i did get to hang out with wendy though 🙂
But you’re not asking, are you? I see it more as “creating an opportunity for those so inclined to give gifts.” I would rather give something that someone needs or desires rather than some gruesome white-elephant gift.
My birthday has been forgotten for as long as I can remember, especially since my daughter and I share the same day. We celebrate her b-day and we all forget it is mine too. Oh well.
By the way, your wishlist link didn’t show up in your post. I guess I can find it on the site.(?)
hrm… maybe that can be a birthday present every year? (me coming to see ya) hehe. I enjoyed your birfday and had lots of fun with moose picking out your giftie 🙂
i did a painting of a ferret that i was going to give to you… it’s of one of your former fuzzies… i did 2… because at the time i thought they were going to become my new family and i wanted one for myself and i was going to give you the other. i have one over my tv in the living room. i just thought maybe it’d be too hokey now… and danny was madz at me anyways about the whole thing… i was too embarrassed to bring it to you… i guess it was a hokey idea anyways.