intrigue.

Happy Thanksgiving!

2010-11-25T11:59:00.000-08:00

Today is going to suck. Minus the food part! That I'm excited about. My mom got a huge ass turkey for pretty much only 3 people. She wasn't even going to do dinner this year but I talked her into it. I wish I had siblings that were younger than me that could help her with dinner so that way I could just come over and v'walla! lol.

Working up at the house today. Well I know Michael is at least. We have all the rooms painted IE: Dining room, living room and front entry way and the living room and front entry way still need a second coat and all the radiators still need to get done but it's looking really nice. Michael wont let me post any pictures until it is complete. I'm excited to get to the point where we finally move our new couches in and TV :)

Any who, I'm going to make this short got lots of crap to do for food prep.
-mjz

I hate snow

2010-11-23T11:41:00.000-08:00

Tuesday November 23, 2010

Well, we painted yesterday. It looks pretty slick! I can't wait to take the tape off and paint the radiators. It'll look even more snazzy. Still have a second coat to do but that shouldn't take super long. Pictures to come! It's one of those things my mom said that someone would have to come see in person to appreciate or understand so when I take pictures I hope I get good ones. I just can't wait to finally move our new couches in there and on top of all that our TV!!! Michael needs to built a corner mount still but that shouldn't take him more than a couple days with the right supplies and free time.

Yesterday and today I slept in until 12:30 and my god does it ever feel nice! I can't even remember how many years it's been since I've done that. I blame the weather! But I'm not complaining. I figure I must need it and on the plus side being well rested puts me in a better mood even though my day is half started when I wake up, lol.

Going to wrap this up, getting to distracted, lol.
-mjz

On Broadway

2010-11-22T11:24:00.000-08:00

Monday, Monday November 22, 2010

Good morning! I'm still half dead right now and I even slept in until noon thirty. I'm so surprised that Silver let me be for that long unless I was so sound I didn't feel her pulling my hair, scratching my face or biting my arm. Silver is our god spelled backwards in case any of you were wondering.

I'm hoping for today to be a good one. I got a good rest and wasted half of it but next on my list is to grab something to eat really quick then get some shower power. Still have to cash in cans, get paint brushes and go up to the house and start painting. The color we picked out for our dining room/living room/front entry way is very bold and I'm very nervous to see the results. The color is called "Broadway". Now that gives nothing away by the name so I'll just flat out say it is BLACKish. Not super black but not super not, ha ha. I figured we can get away with it because the rooms that we are painting are basically all one huge room and every wall has a huge ass window. SO I figured, lots of natural lighting/openness = The perfect place to paint anything that bold of a color. Our Radiators are going to be a lighter off grayish color along with the undersides of each archway to open it up so it's not all black darkness. Along with our medallions, they are staying the white that they are. Oh did I mention our ceiling is going black too? ... I'll wait a second to let you pick yourself back up off the floor. But yes, and this wasn't Michael. I guess I have to say I can take full responsibility if it comes out bad. Michael just said he likes anything dark or anything close to the Oakland Raiders colors so he's just fine with it. He banned me from using 2 colors though. He will not let me paint any room in the house yellow, or red which sucks!!!! Because I love some shades of yellow. I'll post a couple pics at the bottom of this so you can see how a room looks painted black and a swatch of the actual color we are painting.

Any who I'm going to get rolling and start my day.. I mean afternoon..
-mjz

Null

2010-11-21T17:50:00.000-08:00

Sunday November 21, 2010

Human beings are selfish creatures.
I realise this more and more on a daily basis.

OK. Now, on to my humble jumble of words that have nothing to do with the first two sentences above:
Today was semi interesting, boring and odd. I think I need to start keeping a notepad with me to write down things at the time I think of them.

Today I had a customer come in and pay his whole order in pennies. I never thought I'd see the day. I've always joked about it and talked about it but money is money. It all spends the same whether I found a plastic toy penny in his pile and had to switch it out with one of our extra pennies or not. I just would think to go to the bank first and cash it in. His words right when he walked up were "YOUR GOING TO HATE ME!!". But I know how it is. Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do. It was kind of nice not worrying about having to crack open a new penny roll. It sure was an interesting day for customers. I had another older gentleman come threw my line. He talked about the weather and I smiled and made small talk and before he walked out the door he said "I'll remember you in my will". I don't know why but him saying that stuck with me all day. Then after he left I realised I had forgotten my name tag and with no name to put to a face.. well.... my fortune is history. Jk, I'm terrible!

Gotta run, catch ya later.
-mjz

Bonjour

2010-11-16T18:37:00.000-08:00

Tuesday November 16, 2010

I'm just going to jump right into this. I always feel like I need to have some sort of intro to these things but it's not nessisary.

A lot of thoughts have been weighing on my mind latley about what was and what is. I've been missing my past but am still greatly attatched to the present. Never in my teenage lifetime would I have ever thought i'd be where i'm at today. I feel very accomplished but at the same time greatly overwhelmed. My life has changed drastically in the past 3 years for the better. I am with the love of my life, I own a house as of January 2010 and have a full time assistant manager position at our local dollar store. I have 2 dog "children" and have everything i've ever wanted but get confused as to why I am so unhappy at times. Working on the house to get it ready to be able to move in has been a NIGHTMARE. There has been a lot of hurdles I have had to jump to be able to go into something with someone and realise you both have different opinions and priorities. The downfall is none of the opinions or priorites are mine. I just go with the flow. We are close to moving in now so I just hope the best for the future.

There has been many new beggingings and a lot of chapters i've had to end. Now I feel like a stronger person but still wonder where some of "Marilyn" went in the process. I am 21 and occasionally wonder if I took too much on at too young of an age. But on the upside i've always been more independant due to the circumstances I grew up in. Wasn't easy and I can not wait to leave it all and start my own life.

On anoter note, I have been really getting into Tarot latley and been keeping up with my daily readings and writing them down in a journal. I have to say i'm not a firm beleiver but am pretty close to that. It intriques me more than anything. Michael (my other half) had gotten me Tarot cards for Valentines day a couple years back and I havn't really gotten to seriously use them until this past year. Most of the time all my readings I can 99.8% realate to which is pretty cool. I have a few friends that come over every now and then for me to do their readings. You have to take it seriously instead of playing fun otherwise how are you going to get good results? To me it's very relaxing.

But I should wrap this up and I really hope I stick with this!
-mjz