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Sunday, November 13th, 2005
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Well, I realized that I hadn't updated since August. Not that a whole lot has gone on. I'm still living in the same place, working the same job and hanging out with the same friends. I think I'm in a phase of same-ness, or something. I need some scandal in my life.
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Saturday, August 6th, 2005
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work lunch was nothing more. a least now i know.
but to continue the summer saga. i have a new friend from myspace who is super cool. we went out the other day for a drink and tomorrow we are going to hit golf balls at the driving range. :) she's also a fellow journanerd who works at the tnt. awesome.
i'm up to the lake after work tonight with connor and kristie, as far as i know. to continue with my goal of wakeboarding every weekend in august. summer rocks.
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I'm not sure how lunch on Tuesday went. I was pretty nervous and felt kind of awkward. An hour isn't much time to get to know someone. I'm thinking I need to see if we can do something this weekend. Hmm.
In other news, work is super busy this week with Travis on vacation. We are working six-day weeks until Aug. 10. I know my job seems easy...but it can be really stressful with deadlines and such. I think we collectively work on 2,000 pictures per week, so I probably do a third of that. That's a lot of pictures.
I'm sleepy. Anyone want to go to Lake Kachess on Sunday? Wakeboarding, yay!
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Thursday, July 21st, 2005
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not that anyone reads this, but i have fun 'friend's only' news.
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I think I'm going to go jump into Lake Washington. It's hot.
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Wednesday, May 25th, 2005
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| Time: | 11:15 pm. |
| Mood: |  sleepy. |
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Have you ever noticed that when your life is chaos you crave a routine. But when you have a routine life can seem kind of boring? Where is the balance?
So I think I'm in a boring phase right now. I'm settled into my new job, so my routine is getting set. I get up about the same time every day. Go to bed at the same time. My day is pretty predictable.
Tomorrow I'm going to clean the kitchen, do some laundry and if I have time tackle my car. It's cluttered. That's my plan. Maybe something unexpected will happen. Hmm...
I rented the first two discs of Queer is Folk season four on Monday. I was done watching them yesterday evening. I get hooked on those things. I don't know how many there are in the set, but I should slow down so I can space it out a while.
Goodnight.
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Hello LJ friends,
It's been awhile since I updated. I thought I would follow Kate's lead and rejoin the bandwagon of journalizing for a time. I even updated my user icon. :)
So, life is going well for me. I have a new job at The Seattle Times as a photo production tech for the newsroom. I love it. I get to play with photoshop all day long and make the pictures pretty for the paper. It actually has a lot of creative freedom to it and I really enjoy the work. I think the best part about it is being back in the Seattle area.
I'm really happy pretending I live on a farm. I rent the family homestead on a half acre from my parents. We have a little veggie garden and two apple trees. The apple trees are pretty small and the deer have been eating all the leaves, so it's going to be awhile before any apple pies can be made. Actually, I don't like apple pie, so I won't be making any even if there were apples. I have an excellent roommate and I'm glad Connor let me be friends with his sister. :)
Today I have the day off. I think I'm going to skip the gym today and do some house chores instead. Maybe even clean inside my car. It's dusty. I won't promise to update anytime soon, even though I do still read everyone's journal from time to time. But I'll try.
Heather
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Saturday, December 25th, 2004
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Saturday, April 10th, 2004
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| Time: | 1:08 am. |
| Mood: |  content. |
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It's over. I'm out to everyone in my family. My cousins, grandparents, aunts, etc. I don't have to worry, everything is out in the open. It's nice.
I had a good birthday today. I'm glad everything is worked out, it was my birthday present to myself. Now I just need to find a different job. Centralia sucks. I'm never working at another conservative paper again.
What was I thinking?
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I had a great weekend.
Yesterday was great. Today was great.
I came out to my parents today. This was huge. Not so much because of their reaction or lack of reaction, but because of the amount of progress I have made in the last year.
I can now be honest when I say that I'm happy.
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Saturday, March 27th, 2004
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| Time: | 3:41 pm. |
| Mood: |  cheerful. |
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Life is much better in Centralia. I've settled into my job and most of the people who I work with are cool. I think I just needed to give it more of a chance. My boss is a little weird, but I don't have too much interaction with him and can ignore his annoying qualities for the most part.
I'm staying in town this weekend. Today I wandered up and down Tower Ave. going in and out of the antique stores. Centralia is known for its antiques... Even though I saw tons of neat stuff, I didn't buy anything. I'm trying to decorate with some style, a mix of vintage and Ikea. I'm looking for some pictures to put on the wall, but nothing is jumping out at me so far. I need a shopping buddy. I don't seem to buy things on my own, I'm too indecisive.
Well, I should get going. There are a few hours left in the day and I should continue to be productive.
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| Time: | 3:20 pm. |
| Mood: |  blah. |
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So I'm working now. My job at The Chronicle, in Centralia, is going less wonderful than I'd planned. Today is the end of my second week. Everything about the newspaper is a little screwy. I miss Bremerton.
I'm really excited to go to Seattle (or as it's known to Lewis county folks, that scary liberal town) this weekend. I guess that bright side of my job is that I work 10-6:30 M-F, I can't complain about that.
Time to get back to work.
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Friday, February 6th, 2004
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Well...I was just offered a job at the Lynden Tribune. To be the sports editor/reporter/photographer. I turned it down. I applied last week, interviewed last Friday and today the offered me the position. I was their first choice and the editor seemed pretty disappointed, but I think I would hate working in Lynden. This is the weirdest feeling. I've never turned down a job before. I kind of knew going in that I wasn't going to take the job, I need to have some life experience before I start working. Plus, I think I would enjoy being a photographer at a daily a lot more than doing it all, at least for now.
In other news, I'm leaving on Wednesday for three weeks. I'm going on a road trip with my friend Karissa. It's going to be great. We are driving across Washington, down to Bosie, Id, Utah, Arizona (to see the grand canyon), over to the Bay area (I have family near SF, and she has friends around Berkley), up to Bend, Ore. and then back home. I've always wanted to do something like this. I've never gone on any kind of vacation/road trip with out my family and I really need to do some exploring.
I know I really don't update too often anymore. I'm living at home with my parents until I figure out what I'm going to do about a job. It's not driving me too crazy, they are pretty good about giving me space. My mom just basically expects that I'm not going to be home most of the time and then is happy when I'm at home hanging out.
ATTN LJ Friends: If you want a postcard from my trip, I need your address.
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Saturday, January 3rd, 2004
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Yesterday was my last day in Bremerton. I had a really busy week and a really excellent internship overall. It's going to be weird to be jobless. I don't like it already.
I'm going to Bellingham tomorrow. I'm taking my sister back to school, and then Annie and I are going skiing Monday. Yay. It will be a nice "vacation."
I don't like living with my parents again. I was thinking about going to Seattle last night, but decided not to. Then I changed my mind, it was 9:30, told them so and the guilted me into not going out 'because it's going to snow.' Arg. It wasn't even worth pissing them off on my first night home with them, but at the same time, it's going to be really hard to adjust to telling them my every move. Had I been living anywhere else, I just would have left, and they wouldn't have even known where I was going. I hope this living situation is temporary.
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Saturday, December 13th, 2003
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| Time: | 5:07 am. |
| Mood: | tired. |
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I'm up at 5 am. What is wrong with me? Actually, I haven't gone to sleep yet. It was an exciting night in Bremerton this evening. Now that I have actual friends, life is much, much better. Niki, Jessie and I hung out, they are both friends from work. Niki is the transportation reporter and Jessie works on the copy desk as a designer and graphic artist. Jessie's girlfriend is breaking up with her, so there was a need to do something fun. We went over to Niki's house and then later went to this skanky Bremerton bar, which I'm never going to again. It was frightening.
Anyway, now it's 5 am and time to sleep. I have Saturday and Sunday off this weekend. It's amazing, I have had a weekend on the weekend in six months. I'm going to Seattle tomorrow for sure. I have plans with Jillyan and then I'm going to the wedding if Connor calls me with the details. That's as far as I've planned. I'm hoping it's going to be a very fun day.
Time for sleep.
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Tuesday, December 2nd, 2003
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| Time: | 3:43 pm. |
| Mood: |  happy. |
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Yay for days off. I haven't been productive today at all, but it's been great. I took out the recycling, paid rent and went to the bank, so that's productive I guess.
I am thinking about going to Ellensburg tomorrow, but I haven't decided yet. Jillyan and I had an epic conversation last night while she was working on a paper. I felt bad for being distracting. She called me later and said I should visit if I get bored during my 'weekend.' Hmm.
Last week at work was crazy. I was in a slump, everything was chaos and my assignments were lame. It was really depressing. Yesterday was the first day that everything seemed back to normal. I'm glad.
Ok, I think I'm going to clean. (It seems a lot of my posts end that way. You would think that I was very tidy, but alas because I'm not cleaning is a full time job.) Later.
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Monday, November 24th, 2003
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| Time: | 9:22 pm. |
| Mood: |  angry. |
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Today has sucked.
Something really bad happened at work, and there is nothing I can do about it. One of my camera cards (think film) has an error and the images can't be retrieved. The pictures are of 25 football players from all over the county, it's a portrait that can't be redone. This error wasn't my fault and everyone knows that...but it still feels like I really screwed up. I'm driving to the News Tribune in the morning, it's the final glimmer that they may be able to save the card. This situation really, really sucks.
The only time I have laughed, or even smiled, was when my mom told me that she bought "a big ass turkey," for thanksgiving. Now, if you know my mom, she does not talk like that at all. And for her to say big ass anything is a once and a lifetime occurrence. It cracked me up because it was so out of character.
I'm going to continue moping around now. Grr.
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Friday, November 21st, 2003
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| Time: | 11:05 am. |
| Mood: |  chipper. |
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I didn't get the internship in Everett. I did make it to the top 15, there were 51 applicants, so I'm pretty proud of that. I'm disappointed, but I'm not crushed. I'm sending my application to the olympian today and I'll probably set up another meeting with the photo editor at the news tribune. Something will happen, but I hate the uncertainty.
Thanks for visiting me yesterday Brandon. I had a blast! *hug* I talked to my mom last night and told her all about our day, so you are now on my new friend list to my mom. She remembered the drag picture and was glad we had such a fabulous day. lol.
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Sunday, November 9th, 2003
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| Time: | 12:04 am. |
| Mood: | happy. |
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I went on another date tonight. I'm not sure when I became so popular. This time I had fun. I definitely made a new friend no matter what. Yay.
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Saturday, November 8th, 2003
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I had a dream that there was wildfire terrorist attacks in Bremerton/Seattle. Scary journalism-related nightmare. I hate having photography dreams. I'd rather not be working while I sleep. There was also a flood, a car crash and a rodeo that I was also covering in the same dream. I'm crazy.
Time to clean the house.
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