long time gone

After quite a long absence from blogging, I am back. Since I last blogged (almost 2 months ago! yikes!) I have been enjoying the last fleeting moments of summer, making new friends, and enjoying my now not-so-new job at New Leaf Market in Felton.
One somewhat exciting thing that happened to me this last week was that I cut my thumb open while chopping onions at work. I have never cut myself so bad! I almost cut the tip of my thumb completely off. I was very flustered when it happened because there was a lot of blood and I was at work so I wasn't sure how to handle it. Luckily a co-worker (Candice) walked me to the backroom, set me up with a bag of cayenne pepper (which apparently stops the bleeding...on small cuts and scrapes - but I don't think they realized how bad my injury was) and a towel. Michelle, my friend in Produce was back there getting some broccoli ready and so she saw how distressed I was and told me stories and interesting facts to keep my mind and eyes off of the injury. Candice got all my first aid needs (ice, towel, band-aid [she really didn't understand how bad it was], etc) and Mark just stood there looking helpless, and tried thinking of anything he could do to help. So after about 15 minutes of non-stop bleeding and pain and filling the bag of cayenne with my blood, we got the Vitamin/Health Specialist Richard to come check it out, and he took one look and said "Woah, go have them stitch it up...That's why we have insurance!" So we called my manager and she said to go to Doctors on Duty, Mark was nominated to drive me, so we clocked out and headed there. Long story short, got a shot to numb the area which hurt like no other and then got 3 stitches in my thumb. Here are a couple of pictures from my cell phone so the quality isn't so great, but you get the basic idea.

that's my thumb in a bag of cayenne and blood, inside a gnarly bag of ice.

that's my thumb before the operation. ouch!

and after. 3 stitches! First time in my life.
Pretty exciting, huh?

The Dark Knight

I know, I know...I haven't blogged in a very long time. I have been pretty busy, and I've had a hard time thinking of things to blog about. But last night (or very early this morning, rather) I was inspired.
I saw the new Batman movie, "The Dark Knight" at the midnight premiere. It was completely amazing. This was, in my opinion, the best movie of the year, and overall one of the best movies I have ever seen. The performance, the plot, the acting, the delivery...Everything was perfect.
I do want to make a point to give credit where credit is due. Heath Ledger truly outdid himself in his final role as the Joker. It was one of the best performances I have ever seen, and it is tragic that he is not here anymore to get the acclaim he deserves for such a delivery. I hope this is how he is remembered, as a truly talented and gifted actor. The casting in the hands of anyone less capable would have been criminal. He was the perfect fit for this role, and he just did so well. I can't even stress how well he portrayed the Joker.
Christopher Nolan really did well on this film, as he has in the past with his others (Batman Begins, The Prestige, Memento) and makes you really think about the moral ethics in the movie, the state of man, and how everyone is capable of the greatest evil, even if they are the "good guy". It's a breath of fresh air compared to the Hollywood code of ethics, where "good" is good, "bad" is bad, and the two hardly ever mix, and no lines are crossed. I really appreciated the deeper philosophies this movie presented, it actually makes you think.
Anyway, I think every person needs to see this. It was outstanding.

self-discovery of some kind

I have been discovering things about myself lately. I want to just make a quick list, which some explanations.
-I hate downtown Santa Cruz. I used to love it when I was younger, and I even liked it last year, but now if I have to go down there, I just dread it, and avoid it until I absolutely have to.
-I like to micromanage things. Not people, really, although I can be really bossy sometimes, but things, and situations...I just like everything to be set right, and for things to be the way they are supposed to be.
-I hate clutter. I feel that when my life is cluttered, whether it be physically or emotionally, I get really depressed and apathetic. In the last week my room went from being a storage facility for a family member back to MY room, I rearranged almost everything, and got a new bed. I feel so refreshed, and happy. I have a more positive outlook on life. It may also be because my best friend got back from being in South America for 5 months, but they happened simultaneously, so I guess there's no way to be sure...
-I'm very very organized. I think this can come back to the micromanagement. I love to make lists, I love everything to be perfect. I'm very detail oriented.


The truth is, I haven't blogged in about 2 weeks, and I needed something to write about, and I have doing a lot of self-analyzing the last week or two, so I figured I could put it to good use.

Better with age

Something that has recently seemed really weird to me is getting mistaken for another age. When I was younger, 12-16, people ALWAYS, always always always thought I was older. Sometimes astronomically older. Like one time when I was 12 or maybe 13, someone guessed that I was 21 or 22. Things like that were always happening to me in my adolescence. I was never mistaken for being younger, and barely anyone guessed my age. In fact I don't even know if they ever DID guess it right. It was always older. Even when I would go out with friends who were a lot older, like 18-20 years old, people would ask if I was their older sister!! Maybe it was because I have always been tall...I don't know. Either way, I have been really weirded out lately because when I was 17, the numbers started to round out, people usually guessed 17-19 and maybe even the occasional 20, but were a lot more on the money. But ever since I've turned 18, almost every person who has made any reference to my age has thought that I was YOUNGER than 18!! One instance was at work I was getting cigarettes for a customer out of the cigarette locker, and one of the cashiers came up and said "you can't open that unless you are 18" and I was like "I am 18" and they were like "really? I didn't think you were". Also someone recently told me "you do NOT look 18"...So it has just been a very weird transition, now I have to defend how OLD I really am, not how YOUNG I really was.

ALSO, here is a video of me singing "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" by Queen at my Cabrillo voice final. I know you can't see anything. It was dark. But you only need to listen, so it should be fine. :)
Also, sorry for missing a week :(
...Yikes, so many smiley faces...yikes.

A day late

The title of one of my favorite songs, and also the truth about my blogging. I did miss a day...
Recently I became a member of Costco. So far, it has been one of the coolest things I have done since turning 18. I really like Costco a LOT, I have spent a lot of time there in my life, and it holds quite a few good memories.
Hopefully there will be more exciting things that I do now that I am 18...But for now, that has been one of the highlights.