meanwhile....

fountain exposure, originally uploaded by yenna.

that photo is from lollapalooza and i may or may not have been intoxicated when i took it, then really surprised at how cool it was when i went through my camera days afterwards.

so, anyway. i haven't been to work since last tuesday. LAST! TUESDAY! more than a week. its depressing and worrying. but not too bad, since i am a freelancer, i make a pretty high hourly wage, and since i worked 50+ hrs a few weeks in a row made some mad bucks, which i need to save like a squirrel given this current slow time. i had a few meetings/ talks with supervisors and they want to hire me (some more than others) and say i should have been permanently hired months ago, they just haven't had the discussion/ budget for such. SIGH. so, i now am in an odd purgatory of having this job but sitting at home for a week and a half because there is no work for me.

and i hate sitting at home. i've gone from manic working out at the gym to crying fits to home repair, just because i am bored and my mind wanders. andy works from home so i have to toe the line and only bother him a minimal amount. the cats are sick of me, and i've watched all the episodes of intervention ondemand already. what is a girl to do.

things that would make this lag time easy:

1. a bike - i want a fucking bike that works and isn't rusty/ going to collapse because i bought it on how cute it was not how functional it was. we've been planning a trip to the working bikes coop forever now but i don't want to part with the cash now. but man riding around town on a bike when i get bored would be the sweetest thing everrrr.

2. design ideas - our apartment is ridiculously sectioned off into pretty rooms that i have bothered to decorate/ put money into and cluttered rooms that i just can't figure out, also known as our bedroom and dining room which is more like my office/ place we put tables and chairs we dont use. i've pretty much hit a wall and cant figure out what i want these rooms to be and if you know me or have ever seen where i live, i NEED my living space to be workable and CUTE. especially the bedroom.

it's a small room (10x11) and we have a queen bed and dressers and a tv. and thats it. i hung a floating shelf yesterday and put a bonsai tree on it, in an attempt to get super pumped and inspired, but nope. i really don't think i can express how much this bothers me. i wont even START on the dining room. ugh, annoying.

3. my back - i pulled my back the other day. it goes from unnoticeable to me writhing in pain on the bed with a heatpad on and a whole lot of advil in my system. i thought maybe some swimming yesterday would help. nope. as the day goes on its worse and even the slightest little twinge on pain in my back leaves me completely useless because i am MISERABLE. so, id like lots of pills. wish i could get lots of pills....

4. obama text - are you signed up to get a text from teh obama campaign? if not, what the fuck? if so, isn't it just KILLING YOU. also, isn't it sort of an amazing way to promote the candidate?? people are going nuts! tomorrow, obama and co will be in springfield and up until 20 mins ago i was going to go, but i have been talked out of it by my significant other because he sort of sucks. in that he is logical and we have plans that evening. but, boo. i want to go see history and possibly keith olbermann.

well, now its raining so i think ill go eat soup and watch anthony bourdain

i suck at blogs

IMG_8210, originally uploaded by yenna.

yea so august is pretty much over now, and i haven't updated in a while mostly due to a crazy week at work (50+ hr weeks!) and my comps internet connection being wonky and shitty.... a problem andy fixed with a fancy wireless usb doohicky. did i spell that word right? is it even a word. point is that i have wireless on my pc now! and besides it freaking out and having "a thermal event" when i turn it on sometimes, everything is cool.

so, i went to picthfork and got really sunburned, then it was andy's birthday! whic was right smack in the middle of hell week at work, so i spent it with him and his fam, but we didn 't get to have a big party for him until last week. which we did and which was super fun. i was scared about having a bunch of people in our place, especially drunk kids, ESPECIALLY since our lease makes us ask for permission if we have people over and NO ONE Is allowed past 1am. yea, i know! but we had like 15 all here past 3 or so, and no one freaked out. also, if youd like some rum or tequila we have lots since andys doesn't really drink and i think i'm going to stop completely as i've gotten super sick each and every time i have.

anyway. also went to the lollapalooza, worked a bunch more, went to a white sox. red sox game, showed andy around downtown (he'd never been to millennium park!) got some korean bbq - still delicious! and mostly settled into the apartment and have general fanciful times with andy. oh and i got a new fancy phone that is wine colored and technically a pda/ smart phone so i can like, type super quickly and store uhm, data? shrug. i use it just as less as the old one. so.

oh! the best thing is that today (or over the weekend, i;'m not sure) the chicago bears ad i did are being posted so if you live in chicago, and see an ad on your local billboard, el stop, bus shelter, tv or on the actual bus, think of me. because i worked my ass off on those. (look here!) in another week the catalog will be released, as well. and bears fans, i hope you like it. because you will never know how close i was to bombing soldier field. especially after that saturday i had to work.