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Friday, December 07, 2001 ( 1:42 PM ) Scarf Girl La la la... I'm just sitting around at home now cuz my brother is late. Some people just don't show up on time sometimes. Now is the time to be punctual because we want to beat out that Sacramento traffic. Hmm... guess I'll go watch some tv for a little while. Oh, I just found out that one of my friends is going up to Reno and staying at the same hotel! That's way cool! Heh, in fact, I think he'll be playing in that little tourney too. heh heh. Wish me luck everyone! Mental note: um... always split aces, and double down when the dealer has a 2-6 showing... um...oh... just win! heehee Have a great weekend, and if I'm not back Sunday night, that means I won big. heh heh.. so I suppose ya'll can expect an update Sunday night. Scarf Girl, gone gambling. # ( 8:56 AM ) Scarf Girl Ah... counting down the hours before I'm outta here. Yeah, I just got in a little while ago, but I can't wait to leave!! heehee. I wonder if I should hit the hot tub at the hotel. I probably won't feel much like gambling when I get there late in the afternoon. The hotel is neato cuz it's got an atrium swimming pool area with a hot tub. That means the sun is shining on you and you're not freezing cold. Vegas baby..Ve... oh wait, I'm going to Reno...hahaha. I'm so silly sometimes. SG, signing off. # ( 8:47 AM ) Scarf Girl Where the heck IS everybody? Sheesh, nobody is online. I guess the usual early folk are sleeping in from partying yesterday night. None of my co-workers are in yet too, so I guess I'll just goof off a little while. Heehee. So yeah, yesterday, I was wondering about the "Guy's Golden Rule," as one of my friends calls it. I was talking to him about it because he had put into action recently. You know, you meet a girl at a party or a club, get her digits, and call her after 3-4 days. Evidently, that is the "right amount of time" so you won't scare a girl by seeming "desperate" and risking that she might forget about you if you wait too long. Heh heh, boys and their games. It was just like in the movie Swingers where the topic somehow came up. And I'm sure most guys have seen that movie at some point and have been made aware of this "standard" that all guys must comply with. But I wonder about it sometimes though. I mean, if 2 people met and really hit it off, why wait? Why can't you call the next day? Because you know what that says to the girl? It says that she's been on your mind since you met her. It shows initiative, doesn't it? Personally, I think it means knowing what you want, and going after it right away. But I suppose it's different for everyone. Some girls would be scared off while others would be responsive to that sort of thing. I mean, it's a phone call for goodness sakes. It's not like you're necessarily asking her out on a date. You're just talking on the phone! All I know is if I met some guy who I thought was really cool, and my intuition [yeah, women's intuition folks] says that he's interested in me, then heck, I'd want to talk to him! I mean, if he has my number, then what's the hold up? heehee. The thing is, after a couple of days, the initial high from meeting a cool guy would start to wear off and then I'd have doubts and that maybe I was wrong. So yeah, that's what happens when you wait 3-4 days sometimes. Emotional games. I'm not so much a fan of that sort of thing, but I suppose sometimes it's necessary. Often times, people just aren't in tuned with their feelings and are very intimidated when it comes to dating. Hence, they use games to sorta protect and shield themselves in the event that things don't work out. That way, they may not feel as disappointed or hurt. So yeah, games are some sort of defense mechanism that we put up. I mean, if we went all out on this dating stuff, we could seriously get burned. I suppose that's why in the dating game, "power" shifts back and forth. Well, those are just a few of my thoughts and OPINIONS on them. Feel free to let me know if you agree or think otherwise. SG, signing off. # Thursday, December 06, 2001 ( 11:43 PM ) Scarf Girl Grr... sucky night of volleyball play. Ack. Well, I'm headed off to bed in a second. Yay, tomorrow is Friday! I love Fridays. I actually am looking forward to tomorrow even more cuz I'm going to take a half day. Yep, I'm leaving early so I can head up to Reno and do some gambling. Heh, we'll see how much I can actually win, eh? I'm a pretty conservative gambler simply because I like my hard earned money. Sometimes I can't get how guys can bet thousands on a hand of blackjack. It's funny, I was talking to a friend recently and he asked me how I come up with all these topics on my blog. Heh, then he asked me if I'm seeing someone and that's why I'm thinking about these things. Can't these topics just come up in random conversation? Anyways, next topic: Guys' Golden Rule about calling a girl 3-4 days after meeting her and getting her number. Any sooner and you seem desperate, and any later, she may forget you. What the heck is up with this "standard?" and who the heck came up with it? Sleepy time for me. *yawn*. More on this topic tomorrow. Scarf Girl, signing off. # ( 9:36 AM ) Scarf Girl So I was watching a recent episode of South Park where Mr. Garrison was fed up with airlines and decided to create his own mode of transportation. So he was working on it, and somehow he thought of a gyroscope and then he created "IT". Well, then the other day on the news, I saw this thing called the "HT" (Human Transporter) made by Segway. I think they also use this gyroscope thing to make it balance and all. It looks pretty neato if you ask me. You're not supposed to be able to make it fall cuz it's always at equilibrium.. yadi yada.. I'm not very science-y. SG, signing off. # ( 9:17 AM ) Scarf Girl Yay, IM works!! heehee, I can IM from work again... um... but of course, I don't use it a lot cuz um... I do my work... at work.. um.. yeah. heehe # ( 9:11 AM ) Scarf Girl hahaha, I had a pretty good laugh this morning to offset the seemingly long train ride to work. Muni is so slow sometimes. I suppose that's what I get for leaving the house 5 minutes later than usual. The train is more crowded, and often stops in the tunnel. Grr.. So anyways, if you've ever ridden the Muni on the surface, you know that there are those steps you have to walk to be in the train. Right before the trains enter the tunnel to the undergroud, the steps are raised to form a flat surface for the people on the platform to board. Well this morning I caught a 1 car train and it was pretty crowded by the time it reached the tunnel. People were standing on the steps right in front of the door. Usually, if there are a few (like 2) people standing there, the steps can still go up. Well, I'd say there were 5 people standing there and the steps just couldn't go up. Hahaha, the steps beeped, but nothing happened until we got to the second stop in the tunnel. Hahahah. Maybe I'm strange that way, but I found it amusing since I've never seen that happen before. Okay, that's my random Muni story for today. SG, signing off. # Wednesday, December 05, 2001 ( 1:09 PM ) Scarf Girl So I was watching a rerun of Friends yesterday while cleaning up my snowboard. Evidently, Any Mountain didn't do a very good job of tuning up my board. grrr to them I say... Maybe I'm just being picky, but I wanted to check out the bottom of my newly-waxed board to admire it's smoothness, but what I saw instead was an inconsistent job. I remember when my board was waxed during last season and it was real purdy... but this time, looks like they did some shotty work. Hmph. I guess I'll be taking my board to Tri-City or something just to get it maintained properly. Grr... And what else? Oh yeah, there was some wax that escaped onto the edges as well as seeped on the top of my board. Grr... As for sharpened edges? Well, I don't even think they did that! Sheesh, I know my board is in good condition since I only bought it back in January, but I expected better quality service. Okay, enough complaining... stupid Any Mountain... Anyways, while I was watching Friends, I was thinking back on the time when Rachel & Ross were in that "we were on a break" phase. And then Rachel said to Ross something like her mom was saying "once a cheater always a cheater." You think that's true? Do cheaters always have a cheatin' heart? Personally, I would think if you've cheated before, you sorta deserve a chance to prove yourself that you can be faithful. The thing is, I find that people who cheat, tend to keep on doing so. I know this one girl who cheated on her boyfriend. They broke up, but at least they tried to put the broken pieces back together. Well, I think they were kinda secretly getting back together, but at the same time, she was seeing someone else and lying about it. So, after she initially cheated on her faithful boyfriend, while they were trying to salvage the relationship, she was "cheating" on him still. Sheesh.. that kinda makes me think that cheating is just a part of some people's personality. How can it stop? Well, maybe they have to get their heart pounded on big time before they realize the kind of pain they cause by being unfaithful. Okay, I'm going to use another girl-cheating-example, but for the record, not all girls cheat! Anyways, this girl, I'll call her Kara, was in an LDR and eventually sorta emotionally cheated on her BF. Time passes and they break up. Oh yeah, side note though: the guy, I'll call him Linus, was emotionally cheating on his at-the-time GF. Well, pretty much right after both of them break up with their ex-, Kara & Linus get together. They have a local relationship. Time passes, and Kara starts emotionally cheating again. This time, it is with Barry. The twist is that Barry has a GF. Time passes and both Kara and Barry break up with their SO and get together. What do you think about that? It's like a vicious cycle that keeps going on and on. Well, I just wanted to delved into the topic.. tis all. SG, signing off. # ( 9:01 AM ) Scarf Girl Hmm... strange. I can't seem to log onto IM. I guess that means some of my friends will be more bored at work. Heh, I suppose once they read my blog today, they'll figure out why I'm not online! So I'm feeling pretty loved by my friends. *grin* I'm thoroughly convinced that people DO talk about me while I'm not around... Evidently, some word got around the friend-grapevine that my office is being shut down at the end of this month. Lo and behold, I got 2 phone calls and an email. It's like, I only need to tell one person and then other people start to find out. According to them, I seem to be taking this pretty well. The way I see it, fretting over this won't get me my job back. I guess technically speaking, I'm not being "laid off" since they did offer me relocation. I'm like...."you can take that offer and shove it!" Sure, it's kinda sad to lose your job, but I was pretty ready to move on from this place. I've seen the good, the bad, and the ugly; gotten that dot-com experience I was curious about. Now all I need to do is figure out what I want to do next. I didn't know what I wanted to do after I graduated from college, and now that the end is near, I still don't know what I want. I guess I'll just apply to random interesting jobs and see where it takes me. In the meantime, I'll be bumming around and probably head up to Kirkwood for some boarding. Anybody wanna join in? Yeah, I know Kirkwood...but I have a season pass there and it won't cost me much to board a lot. So I think my mom's pretty concerned about this. She kept reminding me how hard it is to find a job these days... yadi yada. Then she gave me the "I warned you about buying your car so young." Considering that this is my first car, I don't think I'm so young to have it. Truthfully, the insurance is kinda butt-kicking. $970 per half year. Sheesh, that's nuts. I think the other ones out there are ruining it for me by getting caught speeding and getting into accidents. I think after my birthday passes next month, I'm going to call around for insurance quotes. Hopefully it'll go down a lot. My dad's not SO worried about it, or maybe he's just keeping his opinions to himself. Although, I think he really wants to give me that "I told you so" speech about straying away from my college degree and working for an Internet company. When I first told my parents I'm going to join the company, he kept saying "Why are you doing this job? It has nothing to do with what you studied. I don't understand." I guess he's more old-fashioned that way. I mean, the way he sees it, you study what you like in school and do that for the rest of your life. He studied engineering in college, and hence, he was an engineer until he retired. Oh well. We'll have to see what goes on for me. There's a slight chance that they'll have to contract me for an extra couple months because the work needs to be done by somebody. Whether it be up here by my team, or down in LA by some newbies. If that happens, I'll have to train some folks to replace me. Oh great... Scarf Girl, signing off. # Tuesday, December 04, 2001 ( 1:43 PM ) Scarf Girl Topic #2: Does a person seem way more desirable once you find out that they have an SO? or maybe that they've dated a lot? I think this is kinda true. I mean, if someone else likes them, then there has got to be something really great about this person. Maybe you just haven't learned about all these wonderful qualities and your mind starts to fill in the empty spots. You invision this person to be as wonderful as your own ideal SO. Hmm.. maybe that's what makes them seem so much more attractive. As for the second question, I'm a little divided. If they dated a lot, then it could've meant that they aren't so great, and hence had to keep trying again. Maybe it just means that they have a great initial impression, but whenever someone got to know them better, there wasn't, as much substance to the personality. I suppose length of time dating makes a difference too, and under what circumstance did the dating end. If someone has had quite a few relationships that lasted a while, then it may have been bad luck. Also, if they did all the dumping, it could mean that the relationship may not have been balanced, and that the other person in the relationship liked them more. SG, signing off. # ( 1:31 PM ) Scarf Girl So let's see... on 12/1, I made a mental note to myself about a subject I wanted to explore. The question was: Is it okay for you to ask your SO to change for you? I always thought that when you choose to be with someone, you would've accepted them for the person that they are. I mean, if they have THAT many flaws, then why go out with them in the first place? Then again, I'm sure that in the beginning, people's true nature doesn't all come out and information just isn't known yet. I say that if you knew about stuff before getting together, then it's YOUR fault, and that you shouldn't really expect them to change. If there is something that bugs you about your potential SO and you think that you can probably deal with it, well forget it. You won't. It'll eventually drive you nuts. Even if you're super-patient, you will eventually either try to change that one trait or just break up. Now, if it is something that comes out while you're together, that's when it gets kinda sticky. Personally, I really wouldn't want to have to "change" an SO. I don't mean to make him the perfect guy or something. To change him meaning to have him compromise his ideals or basic personality. It's one thing to broaden his horizons (like introducing new ideas and such), but it's another thing to try and get him to basically be someone he's not. That was my initial response to that question. But then I thought about it. Are there reasonable things that you can change about your SO? For example, if your SO smokes, is it okay to ask them to change it? I mean, studies show that smoking is bad for your health and those around you. So, for the sake of themselves and you, maybe it's okay to have them quit smoking. But say it's a personality trait, like... being high maintenance? How do you change that in someone? "um.. can you stop being so needy please?" Can you imagine saying something like that to your SO? Sheesh... a family-size can of worms. So there you have it. I suppose some things are okay to try and change about a person, but mostly, you choose to be with that person afterall. If there are things you can't stand about their basic personality, then maybe you need to be with someone else. Scar Girl, signing off. # Monday, December 03, 2001 ( 11:53 PM ) Scarf Girl Yeah yeah, so I forget things and that's why I need to jot them down before they're gone. Another topic I want to write about: Does a person seem way more desirable once you find out that they have an SO? or maybe that they've dated a lot? # ( 9:31 AM ) Scarf Girl 27 Hours In a Day So yesterday was supposed to be my first boarding day of this year. I was going to ride up with some friends, we were going to board, and I was supposed to be sore this morning. Only 1 of those things actually happened...the first part where I rode up to Tahoe with some friends. We did not board, and hence, I am not feeling the snowboarding soreness. It all began for me when I woke up at 4am yesterday morning. My friend was going to pick me up at 4:45 so that we can pick up someone else at 5. That all happened on time. So, we set off for Kirkwood. We got there around 9:30 since there was quite a bit of snow going up. Visibility was pretty crappy towards the end of the drive and we ocassionally saw cars driving in the opposite direction, which is rare for a Sunday morning. Right when we turned in, we noticed that none of the lifts were moving. Oh great... we drove all the way up there and the resort is closed because of the high winds and low visibility. It was snowing like crazy there and I think it would've been pretty unsafe for people to board. Made sense to me. It sucked, but it made sense. So we chilled out a little bit there and decided to pick up our season passes, play in the snow, and be on our way. We decided that since we were up there already we might as well hit up another resort. After all, we drove a long way! We decided to go to Sierra, which is the closest resort to us. When we drove along the route, there was a "Road Closed" sign. Awww crap! So we decided that we should just go home then. We made a U and started heading back towards the way we came. Then, right after we passed by Kirkwood, there was that sign again!! "Road Closed." WHAT THE...?" The one thing that people don't like about Kirkwood is that there is only 1 road (highway 88) that takes you there. If it's closed, too bad. We head back to the lodge to rest and figure out what we wanted to do. By then, it was around 11. After thinking it over, we decided that we'd take our chances at one of the "Road Closed" signs. We decided that we'd wait along with the other cars that were eager to get the heck out of there. Around 11:30-ish, we pulled up behind those cars again, and heard that it would be about a 4 hour wait... Geez.. that mean't the road would PROBABLY be open around 5. Oh great... So from around 11:30am - 5pm, we waited. We napped, we chatted, we snacked. We just cozied up in my friend's super-comfy SUV. Ocassionally, we got out to clean the wipers since ice was starting to form on them. When 5pm came around, it was pretty much dark by then, but as promised, the 88 was opened for us. Yay, we can FINALLY go home... So we'll take the 88E to 89N up to the 50W and then back down the 80W. Seems simple, doesn't it? Well, at around 7-something, I think we arrived at 50. We saw a long line of cars parked and waiting to be let through. It turns out that the 50W was closed for the time being because of poor visibility. Oh great... We decide to fill up the car and buy some snacks. Afterwards, we parked our car in line with the others in hopes to get home via the 50. After about 20 minutes, we heard that the 50 MIGHT open around MIDNIGHT. Okay, so it was around 8:30 at the time, and we had the option of waiting till midnight for the POSSIBILITY that the highway might open up. Geez. We decided to make a couple of calls to check our options. We figured that if we took the 89N, we'd hit 80W and be on our way. When we called up a friend back home to check the internet for us, we discovered that the 80W is closed. Oh great... more bad news. That left us with pretty much no choice but to wait for the 50 to open at midnight. So more snacking, chatting, and laughing. Oh yeah, did I mention that for most of the day, in order to keep our windshield from freezing over, we turned on the heat FULL BLAST to defrost it? It was so warm inside the car that I was wearing a tanktop! Anyhow, midnight rolls around and GUESS WHAT HAPPENED? Caltrans decided to close the 50 INDEFINITELY. What the...? Crap crap crap... I don't want to get stuck here! Well, after the announcement, some random guy was trying to rally up a bunch of cars to go around the east part of Lake Tahoe to hit the 80W since that sequence of highways were open. We decided to join in on it since it was the only route home. At around 12:30am, we set off for home. Oh yeah, I should mention that the conditions throughout the ENTIRE time were totally crappy. It was super windy... snowed like no one's business. It was the kind of blizzard that people get lost in that you hear about on the news. So we headed out on the 50E. After driving on the windy & dark 50 for a while, we turned off onto 29N. The 29 is this super-tiny road that you won't even know you're supposed to turn onto. All the signs were covered in snow. That meant we probably should've missed the turn had we not had the greatest invention ever: GPS. Even when we arrived where the turnoff was, we weren't sure, but according to the GPS map, we were supposed to turn. Sure enough, it was the right place for us to turn. If we had missed our turn, we would've kept driving up the 50 and ended up somewhere in Reno, and apparently, that portion of highway 80 was closed. At leasted we could've went gambling. heehee. At any rate, we drove down the narrow, dark, and windy 29, which eventually led us to the 267. The 267 drove through a few small towns so at least there were street lights to help us see. A little while longer, around 3:30, we found ourselves on highway 80W. At last, we had arrived. We were going to FINALLY head home. The conditions were still very bad on the 80, but at least the roads were open. So 3-1/2 hours later, after hitting a little bit of the morning traffic in the East Bay, my friend dropped me off at 7am. 7-stinkin'-AM- in the morning. I dumped my things on the ground, took a shower, and headed off to work. Don't worry, I did manage to nap throughout the day so I'm not crazy-tired, but i'm pretty darn exhausted just thinking about the one of longest days I have ever had. I might add a few more details later, but this is the gist of my Sunday Adventure. Scarf Girl, signing off. # |
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