Tuesday, October 11th, 2011
3:44 am - Writer's Block: Share and tell
Did you meet your significant other or best friend on LiveJournal? Tell us your story!
So...once upon a time there was this magical land of chatrooms called "Yahoo! Chat." Among these chatrooms was one called "On Broadway." In this place full of wonder and magic and musicals (and the occasional troll...who remembers the Prodigy kid? I know I still do! Dan and I were just talking about that recently, actually...lol) I met a horde of amazing people...including my husband. Later, many of those amazing people started on LiveJournal. Through the kingdom of LJ I met many more wonderful people...including some people I've been lucky enough to since meet and number amongst my good friends.
So...to Dan, and Amanda, and Lissa, and Alley, and Dana, and the Beths, and Karen, and...oh goodness SO MANY...this one's for you!
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Thursday, April 28th, 2011
11:34 pm - Writer's Block: Get up
If you had to eat the same breakfast everyday for a year (and it would be prepared and served to you), what would you choose?
This is so easy. Two eggs over medium, hashbrowns, vegetarian biscuits and gravy, and some sort of fresh fruit (strawberries or watermelon).
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Saturday, March 5th, 2011
11:13 am - Writer's Block: Dear LiveJournal
How long have you been on Livejournal? What major life changes has LiveJournal witnessed?
Officially...I first got an account under a now-deleted name either in 2000 or 2001 (I liked OpenDiary's format better and a lot of my college friends and I were writing there our first two years until it went defunct). Writing regularly? Since January 2002 under
athenaeriu. This site saw me through almost the entirety of college, and almost the entirety of my relationship with Dan, and through all my wedding planning, and all my work moves, and...it's been a long ten years...lol
Thursday, October 7th, 2010
10:31 pm
rofl...
Oops. Sorry about the random entry earlier. In emailing something to myself, it appears I emailed it to my LJ instead.
current mood:
amused
Wednesday, May 5th, 2010
9:20 pm - Writer's Block: Cinco de Mayo
Do you celebrate your country's independence? If so, how?
LIVEJOURNAL FOR THE LOSE!
...that is all. We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming.
current mood:
amused
Thursday, April 8th, 2010
1:28 pm - Hail Hermes!
It is shadowed too up in the Sky Room where Adam Godley at the centre of a vast stillness is going about his dying. Yes, he too is Adam, like his son. By the way, apropos names and the like, I suppose I should before going further give some small account of myself, this voice speaking out of the void. Men have made me variously keeper of the dawn, of twilight and the wind, have called me Argeiphantes, he who makes clear the sky, and Logios, the sweet-tongued one, have dubbed me trickster, the patron of gamblers and all manner of mountebanks, have appointed me the guardian of crossroads, protector of travellers, have conferred on me the grave title Psychopompos, usher of the freed souls of men to Pluto's netherworld. For I am Hermes, son of old Zeus and Maia the cavewoman.
You don't say, you say.
I understand your skepticism. Why in such times as these would the gods come back to be among men? But the fact is we never left--you only stopped entertaining us. For how should we leave, we who cannot but be everywhere? We merely made it seem that we had withdrawn, for a decent interval, as if to say we know when we are not wanted. All the same, we cannot resist revealing ourselves to you once in a while, out of our incurable boredom, or love of mischief, or that lingering nostalgia we harbour for this rough world of our making...When on a summer's day a sudden gale tears through the treetops, or when out of the blue a soft rain falls like the fall of grace upon a painted saint, there is one of us passing by; when the earth buckles and opens its maw to eat cities whole, when the sea rises up and swallows an entire archipelago with its palms and straw huts and a myriad ululating natives, be assured that one of our number is seriously annoyed.
John Banville, The Infinities
I am so in love with this novel so far.
Sunday, February 28th, 2010
10:58 am - Yay!
I am loving the Something Positive/Penny and Aggie crossover! Helen is finally getting some depth! If it continues in a positive direction I might actually start liking her character!
P.S. I am finding it hysterical that Helen is potentially the only character drawn IDENTICALLY in the Something Positive strip as she is in her own. I suppose it's Randy's own amusement that she really does look like a teenaged Davan. Funny that I never noticed it until he brought it up.
10:22 am - Random update
I just realized that I rarely post unlocked updates, and I know I have a few people who follow this journal not on LJ and such, so I should make this a more common occurance. The past six to eight months has, of course, been mostly wedding babble and work bitching, but recaps aren't ever a really bad thing...especially now that I can be more open about certain work things.
Basically, I just got myself out of an extremely toxic work situation. Part of the reason I chose to move to Cincinnati after the K'zoo restaurant closed was because I knew the Partner here, and I loved most of the employees. What I came back to was a completely different Partner. He often did rotten things, and was particularly rotten to his employees. This journal too often was a dumping ground for all of the mean-spirited, unethical, and occasionally illegal things he would do. He finally did a couple of the major things essentially in front of some of our employees and I went to his superior. I can't believe he still has a job, frankly.
A few weeks after all of that chaos I got a job offer from Bar Louie for a management position in their location less than ten minutes from my apartment. I'd been talking off and on with them for nearly a year before this offer. They were going to make me an offer around the beginning of September, but when they asked for a start date they decided they didn't want to wait until after the wedding for me to come on. Clearly, that hiring somebody else thing worked out well for them, because five months later here I am anyway :-P
Typically, their training is six weeks, but because they've been down a manager for so long they are losing another manager and now want me done in three. I'm sad that my training will have so many cut corners--I'm sad that all of my mgmt training everywhere has had cut corners while I've watched others get the full nine yards. At least they all seem to have the confidence in me to be able to perform just as well as others in less time, I suppose.
Well, time for me to run off and get some errands accomplished! These next two weeks are going to be whirlwind. I can't actually believe that my first week of training is already over!
current mood:
busy
Monday, February 8th, 2010
3:15 pm - Urban Dictionary meme...
So...a lot of people on Facebook have been looking up the definition of their names on http://urbandictionary.com and posting the results on their status. I just had to share mine here:
Lindsay 1.a girl who is hotter than the flames of hell
2. the marvelous and mysterious temptress from the land of eternal joy
3. a girl who is smarter than albert einstein but as gorgeous as helen of troy (you know the one whose beauty started the epic war)
4. this girl is in NO way affiliated with Lindsay Lohan. Lohan simply stole this girl's name
See that smoking hot amazing girl over there? Yep, she's a Lindsay.
The most cutest, heavenly, sweet treatiest, scrumptious, nicest, blissful thing the world has ever seen. It is rumored that this shrine put on earth by God dates back to the 1980s, a period where rock and roll and sex ruled
With a beam of light shining from the heavens above, the temple of Lindsay lies somewhere in the massive land of Tayha.
The original and correct spelling of the popular name meaning 'From the Linden Tree Isle.' Can be a name for both genders, but generally Lindsay is the female form, and Lindsey is the male form.
Other forms such as Lindsey, Lyndsay, Lyndsy, Linsay etc.. are just variants.
current mood:
amused
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Thursday, January 28th, 2010
11:08 am
This sounds about right :-)
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Sunday, November 22nd, 2009
2:41 am - *whines*
Why do these things always have to be so expensive? And why do all the good holidays have to fall on End of Month inventory?
http://www.cincinnatisymphony.org/Content.php?id=55
I'm so in the mood for a masquerade, and Dan and I were just talking about how much fun we had at that Radisson NYE bash a couple of years ago and how we'd like to do something like that again. Maybe I should look into the Labyrinth of Jareth masquerade again for this summer and actually go this time. It would be nice to spend a week visiting the various family and friends we know over there, and to see a state I've never been to before. And a real vacation for once!
Time to do some research...
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
2:40 am - P.S....
...I know some of the best people ever, and am incredibly lucky to have the friends I have...even when they're scattered across the globe :-) This is a painting done by my friend Amanda as a wedding gift :-D
http://savita-alexander.net/art/index.html
How astonishingly amazing is that?
current mood:
content
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Monday, October 5th, 2009
3:30 am - Post-wedding!
This post is not even CLOSE to dial-up friendly. Around 30 of my favorite photos so far from family and friends at our wedding on Saturday in Kalamazoo. I really can't believe that it's finally come and gone. The day was insane.
( Oh the pretties!Collapse )
There are so many more that I've been tagged in on Facebook, too, so if you don't have me added on there you really should add me ;-) http://www.facebook.com/LindsayJohanna. Or just look up Lindsay Laubenstein.
current mood:
happy
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Saturday, August 29th, 2009
3:49 pm - Two songs...
The two songs I am currently addicted to...
Half-Asleep
Sometimes I go whole days
listening bored, half sleep
I won't say anything
that's worth a thing to me
One day, suddenly, time
took a turn that once felt so brief
I blinked to see polite ghosts fading quickly
What begins as an unguarded
train of thoughts slowly can become
an addiction to the slumber
of disconnection and the resonance
of memory that no longer has a shape
but keeps you numb through
the hours till gone is another day
Be aware, my darling
these things I say I mean
are just traces of something
I long to feel again
I see our time expand
in the air almost forcibly,
spreading thinner till it dissolves completely
iamundernodisguise
Monday, August 3rd, 2009
1:07 am - Tomorrow's agenda...
I need a list, otherwise I'll forget.
-Post Office to mail off invites. It's kinda cool that they're going out exactly two months to the day.
-Wasserstrom's, a restaurant warehouse. We need a handful of things for the bar for the Buffett concert pre-party on Wednesday and Buffett Day on Thursday. Basically, we get an extra two days of busy-weekend sales because Cincinnati is the birthplace of the Parrotheads and they like to party. The concert this year was sold out seconds after tickets were released to the public. A guy this week told me a story about how he had the Navy atomic clock up on his computer ticking down the seconds, he hit the buy button the second it clicked to the time, and the screen loaded to a Sold Out message.
--Store 'n' Pours
--SnP flat lids
--Can opener
--Wine keys, multiple, because the last time I bought only one it disappeared within days
--Wine bottle stoppers
-I was going to go to the title office downtown to get an Ohio title. I just realized that insurance is unique to a state, so I'll probably try to do that at some point tomorrow instead of going to the title office. I have a temporary plate that's valid through August 30th, so I can do the title next week instead.
-Haircut! Wedding style haircut which means I will have bangs again. Granted, they're shaggy and layered bangs, but still...I haven't had any form of bangs since I was 16...lol
-Dress alterations. Eek!
-Go over catering contract with Dan, sign, and send off a check.
-Harry Potter in IMax 3D! Yeah! This will be the first one I'm seeing in IMax. I really wish I had made myself see the last one in IMax (it was sold out the first time I tried, and I just never really got a chance after that) because I think that last scene would have been phenominal in 3D.
-Grocery shopping.
...that's all I can come up with for the moment. I hope I'm not forgetting anything!
current mood:
busy
Sunday, August 2nd, 2009
3:54 pm - ...
Have I ever mentioned on here (I think I may have) how beautiful and fantastic Henryk Gorecki's "Symphony of Sorrowful Songs" is? Because it is. And Dawn Upshaw is amazing. I'm so angry I was working while she was singing with the Cincinnati Opera in Ainadamar in June :-(
As much as I would love to start ballet again once the wedding is done and paid for, I think I need to get back into singing and take real voice lessons for once in my life. I miss really singing.
2:33 pm - hehehe...
I'm apparently in an opera mood right now, so I'm watching things on YouTube. I randomly remembered this hysterical little short I'd seen on PBS way back when I was in high school and thought I'd try to find it. Of course I found it! It's called "All the Great Operas in Ten Minutes" and it's rather amusing:
current mood:
amused
Sunday, June 21st, 2009
11:32 am - Invitation question...
Oops...I posted this in my personal journal and I meant for it to go in a planning community. Sorry, guys!
Question: A female cousin is getting married in mid-August. My invites are going out early August. I'm assuming I should use her current name on the invite rather than what her married name will be, even though she'll be married come the time of my wedding?
Also, a little bit of petty rant for a second. My FI's cousin addressed our invite to her wedding in May with both his and my full names. My cousin addressed mine to me and guest even though she has easy access to my FI's name (our Save the Dates and Facebook) and we've been together and engaged for even longer than she's been with her fiance. *sigh* Silly and petty, I know, but it's just yet another detail in the "My dad's family pays no attention" novella that's driven my mom and me crazy for years.
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Thursday, June 11th, 2009
2:01 am - blah!
I keep telling myself, "Oh, I need to make a list of all the wedding-related appointments to make before we go to Kalamazoo in July!" I keep telling myself all sorts of things that need to be done...have I yet? Of course not! *headdesk* I so need a vacation. Too bad my last one was wasted on my restaurant closing and moving and my next one will be the wedding week :-P
Also...I think Dan was going to call about the building we want to do the reception at (the former Kraftbrau building). I know they're trying to get their liquor license by the time of our event. I am currently staring at a piece of paper with the following written on it:
liquor license
120
100
Can I dream that that means $120 for the event if they have a liquor license and $100 if not? I'd be so ridiculously ecstatic you wouldn't believe. I've been praying to find a place around $500, and I know that's being crazy-optimistic. At his cousin's wedding last month I told him, "When we open our own restaurant we HAVE to open up a banquet facility simply so that we can offer people a nice reception venue with great food and drink options in the way they want for a reasonable price." I'm so tired of this stuff :-P
Okay...bedtime! Tomorrow entails more fighting with my invite design and my printer. I WILL get this right by Friday. Speaking of...it's been six months since I treated myself to a massage (after doing it on a monthly basis for the previous six). Tomorrow I need to set an appointment up to get one Friday. My back has been screaming at me for months now.
current mood:
busy
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Sunday, May 31st, 2009
9:39 am - hehehe...
So we're working on the whole "registry" thing even though I'm really not thrilled with the idea of people getting us gifts just because we decided to make the whole thing legal and we want them to come and watch...
I came across an absolute gem, though: http://www.bottlenotes.com A wine registry! Amazing! Really I think once we set something up (as we inevitably will given that we love wine) it should be more of a wine wish list for all future birthdays/occasions/etc...kind of like an amazon.com wish list (before Amazon started selling things like housewares and set up registries of their own).
current mood:
amused
Wednesday, April 8th, 2009
10:16 am - Photos...as promised...
New home :-D
( LOTS of photos below!Collapse )
And now to get ready for a 13-hour day at work...yay! :-P
current mood:
content
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Sunday, March 22nd, 2009
7:56 am - rofl...
So I started reading Penny and Aggie ages ago (I can't remember if it was through Something Positive or Queen of Wands). It's high school, and silly but really serious, and it's one that I've stuck with on my "Daily Reading" list for a couple of years now. Since then I've kept up on their other projects (I also read through Cool Cat Studio which was good, but lost me at times when it spun out into a couple of SFF storylines, and I tried to read another one that one of them is involved with but it just didn't click with me). They started a project called Menage a 3 at some point last year, and it is just so silly and so absurd that I finally had to share. It rarely fails to make me laugh hysterically, and I think I may have kept with it simply because I just have to see what they'll come up with next. Warning: Ma3 is VERY not work safe.
Okay...time to get ready for work now!
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Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009
12:16 am - I just posted this on my FB status, but...
...does anybody have any idea how Bella is unaffected via her shield by all "talents" except for Alice's, Jasper's, and Renesme's? I just don't get it. "You can't read my mind, I can't feel her fire, but I'm soothed by him, and she can see my future." The only thing I can come up with works for Alice's alone--she may just be able to see Bella through other people's futures. And maybe Renesme's works since it's her daughter. Jasper, however? No sense.
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Wednesday, February 25th, 2009
12:52 am - For anybody looking for something to write about...
I had a random person IM me on AIM. They asked me the following question, and I would really actually like to see my f'list answers to it:
What makes a relationship a relationship, besides sex? How is it different from a friendship?
I was asleep when the IM came, so I never responded, but once I'm finished with my current streak of "stuff to get done ASAP for work" I'll probably piece my own answer together.
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Friday, February 20th, 2009
12:38 pm - ha...more meme...
This is quite possibly the most amusing of the set, and from
vox_diabolica.Relocation
I am always torn between whether I love it or I hate it. I understand that largely my relocations have been for the better (excepting the Sterling Heights relocation...I was not happy there in any way, shape, or form), and they advance who I am and what I want to do. Aside from moving to Michigan with my family when I was 12.5, this is my biggest move right now, and Dan's, too. I see this is a major opportunity for what I want to do with my life, and I've always wanted to live in a real city. Even though I've spent most of my life in smaller towns I never feel more alive than when I'm driving into a bigger city. I like being able to walk everywhere if I want to, and I like the variety of places and things to do. I am certain this is not where I will stay, but I think it's the right next step for both Dan and I, and so I'm embracing it. The apartment thing sucks, though, as those of you on my Facebook are probably getting thoroughly annoyed with ;-) The apartment I have not found yet will be the sixth apartment I'll have lived in in the past two years (and that's not including all the long-term hotel stays).
Beards
I hate beards and facial hair...HATE them--just ask Dan. When he first had to grow one for the Shakespeare Festival I wanted to cry (and laugh...he's German blond hair/blue eyes, but he's also Scottish and his beard grows in red...it's a very amusing dissonance). Every winter after that, until this past one, he always liked growing it out. Now that he has realized how ridiculous it is to have one in his line of work I am ecstatic.
Girls in ties
I'm indifferent, probably because I've actually worked in a restaurant where I've had to wear ties, and I've seen it in so many restaurants that I don't even think twice about it. Dan always got a kick out of my uniform when I worked at that restaurant because suddenly I had to learn how to tie a tie and wear one after he had been forced to wear them throughout his high school years. I don't mind wearing them, and I think when done correctly they can look really cute on girls. I love my Ravenclaw tie, of course, but that's something different entirely--HP house pride because I'm obsessed like that ;-)
Phantom of the Opera
I first heard the soundtrack to the ALW musical the final choir class of my freshman year of high school. Fast forward a little under a year and I became OBSESSED. I learned what the show was and bought the soundtrack. My best friend in high school and I would read phanphic online (I didn't have a computer at that time, so she'd print things out for me to read), and I discovered it was a book, too! I read the Leroux novel and fell even more in love with the story. I tracked down other versions of the story (oh, I adore Susan Kay's, still). I went to see it in Toronto for the first time when I was 16 with a family I babysat for, I watched movies based on the story. I think I love it so much because of a lot of things. I identified with Christine's solitude and loneliness, and there's something about obsessive love that stirs me, especially in this case because he heard potential in her voice and took her under his wing as teacher/student. I liked that their story wasn't perfect, I liked that the characters were all so deeply flawed, and I loved the passion and the intensity and the simultaneous innocence and horror that played so well against each other. I'd always loved the Beauty and the Beast stories, and I'd always loved the Persephone and Hades stories, and this was a wonderful rendering of the same idea. Like every obsessed high school soprano I really wanted to act/sing the role of Christine onstage someday. I know that it would be terribly unlikely to happen now, but that's okay.
Godzilla v. King Kong
I can't answer that because I actually don't know anything about either. I've never seen the movies, I really don't know the stories. Sorry!
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