day 13:
here is the after picture of my apartment w/ the new floors. you can see the before picture here: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=36244049&id=40507567
fancy eh? i’m ready to get settled back in. hopefully i can wake up early tomorrow to finish painting the bedroom. i ran out of paint for the living room, so i need to go get some more.
i went looking for a slip cover for a couch i adopted and those things are crazy expensive. $50 - 75! ridiculous!
day 12:
My apartment has been undergoing renovations the past 2 weeks and it’s almost done! This photo was taken after the carpet was ripped out. I’ve been living in a temporary apartment down the hall, “motel bizarro” which is laid out exactly the same way as my apartment except for a few small things (the bathroom and closet are switched and oh yeah.. there’s no fridge or stove, hence the name “motel bizarro”. I’m moving back in tomorrow hopefully and I’ll post a photo of the new floor and paint job. I’m really excited to get back in there and have things in order once again. All of my things are just packed up in boxes and/or stored in the closet.
oh and P.S. tacking up a to-do list next to my bed did not help me get out of bed. in case you were wondering
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(CNN) — ‘Family Ties’ actress Meredith Baxter made the media rounds Wednesday confirming the rumors that she is a lesbian.
“It was a later in life recognition,” the actress explained to Matt Lauer on the ‘Today’ show Wednesday.
The National Enquirer recently ran a story about Baxter being spotted on a lesbian cruise through the Caribbean with a “female friend,” which was then picked up by celebrity blogs. As a result, the 62-year-old decided to tell her fans herself.
“I didn’t want some tabloid to take the story and make it up,” Baxter said in the interview. “I wanted it to be in my own words.”
Baxter was also interviewed on Sirius XM Radio’s “The Frank DeCaro Show.”
Coming out was a difficult thing for the quiet actress to do. She told Lauer on ‘Today’ that she’s always “lived a very private life. To come out and disclose stuff is very antithetical” to who she is.
Baxter told DeCaro that she knew she could be outed when she went on the cruise with her partner, Nancy Locke, but she went anyway.
“We live a very open life at home,” she said. “Anyone who’s a friend of mine, anyone who knows and cares about me knows. It’s no secret that I’m gay, but it has been to the greater world.
“The reason I’m here [on the show] is because I’m saying, yes, I’m a lesbian.”
Baxter also told People magazine that she has been in a four-year relationship with Locke, who works as a building contractor. Baxter has been dating women for the past seven years, and “the thought of being gay never crossed my mind,” she said.
The actress was married three times before, during which she “was never comfortable with herself,” she told People. Now, she feels like she’s “being honest for the first time.”
Baxter has also come clean to her five kids, according to People. Her 25-year-old son Peter was all smiles. He told the magazine that he “just couldn’t stop smiling, because she finally figured it out.”
day 11: some days there are things that i actually want to do but i just can’t pull myself out of bed. so i’m going to try a new trick and write a “to-do” list every night with things that i want to do or work on for the next day. i’m going to tack it up next to my bed so it’s the first thing i see in the morning. this was todays list. i’m starting to question whether i think i’m depressed because i can’t focus. or if i can’t focus because i’m depressed. i’m trying to prioritize things and organize all the ideas in my head. i’m also learning how to say no to other people and focus on my own projects so i don’t get burnt out so easily.
day 10:
(i should have posted this yesterday. but i fell asleep early. frown)
today (yesterday) was lame. i am dubbing it a “privacy day” because as much as i’d like to be completely open and honest with this project, who am i kidding? i can’t be that open and honest on a social networking site. so there will be days where i write in my actual journal for my eyes only. this was one of those days.
i did eat a burrito from flaming amys though.
instead of “ta-da!” I say “to-do!”, wave my pen and make a new list
frustrated
day 9:
Today me and Andy went around downtown and at the mall to interview people for a documentary Andy, Laura, Gabby and Jordan are working on for their film class. I was surprised at how many people didn’t want to be on camera. The documentary is about Food Not Bombs and we asked people questions like “Would you eat food out of a dumpster?”, “How do you feel about food industries throwing out perfectly good food”, and “What comes to mind when you think of world hunger?” There were lots of “i think it’s ridiculous” and “it breaks my heart”. Most of the people said they wouldn’t eat out of a dumpster. Some said only if they had to or were paid money to and just a couple said yes, but those were people we knew would say yes pretty much.
We also tried to go to the landfill today, but no luck. I have yet to check it out so hopefully sometime soon! I love trash!
is working on music for a video podcast and vocal tracks for a Bete Tete song.
day 8:
Tonight we celebrated my parent’s 25th wedding anniversary. My dad joined the Marines after high school and was stationed in the Philippines at Subic Bay. My mom was a waitress at a restaurant kinda equivalent to Pizza Hut (i think this is how the story goes). My mom’s friend was dating one of my dad’s friends and I think that is how they met each other. Well long story short, I was a product of that. My dad went back to the Philippines after I was born and brought my mom to the U.S. and I joined them a few months later. Apparently there was some complications with my paperwork and I couldn’t go with them, so they left me with my mom’s family and my Aunt Eva brought me over. We lived with my dad’s parents in Long Island, New York for a few years. My dad got a job with the United States Postal Service when I was 5 and we moved to North Carolina. The rest is history.
bye buddy hope you find your dad
for xmas i want a plane ticket to NYC for new years please.
who wants a kitten? i found one last night. he’s super cute: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=36212754&id=40507567
"scantron" is Lynn Casper of North Carolina. activist, filipina, internet enthusiast & musician. I blog and do things at the sites below:
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