This is My "Lately"

Why hello there! It's been a while, hasn't it? Well, yes, I have been a little preoccupied with things. I have this new jewelry line that I've been trying to get off the ground before the holiday season really sets in... and yaknow, after being a jewelry designer for over 6 years it's still difficult to define a collection well enough that it can just "flow". Oh, and I've been actually getting out of the house more, which is always a good thing. Finally reconnected with a friend from my life in Eugene, and she just so happens to be yet another friend who lives on the complete opposite side of town. (I guess we know where we'll be moving, once we get around to it...) Plus I think I spent a week straight playing Pharaoh. I don't care that the game is almost 10 years old, it's still wonderfully addictive and damn if I don't always take longer to complete my city missions as I should! But look, aren't all the parks and statues nice?! Uh huh.

But the real reason I've not been writing here is because every time I think "I should write about this on PF", the "this" tends to be something of an angst-based nature. Not on a nerd-rage level mind you, but enough so that if I actually got into what I was writing/ranting/venting about, I'd end up with high blood pressure for the rest of the day. And we don't want that. I'm not an "angry" person, per say, but damn if there aren't a lot of things in the world right now that are striving to piss me the fuck off.

Hey, you know what? Here's a list. If you've been reading this blog long enough, I'm sure you'll have no issue imagining the rant I would post about the following subjects. And imagination is the key to success!

Things that Piss Merrick the Fuck Off (in no particular order):
- iTunes perpetually updating software, which sometimes won't sync iPhones correctly
- unemployed photographers who say they'll take a month to get you your photos, then three months later get a new job that takes up all their time (i.e. still no edited photos)
- people who don't return voice mails, texts, or myspace messages, then months later blame it all on their disconnected phone line
- cats who are so fat they upturn the litter box, spilling the contents (yes I'm looking at you Jack)
- cats who eat the fucking crystal cat litter (YES, I'm looking at YOU Jack!)
- apartment managers who take no responsibility for the insidious black mold growing behind your sweaty toilet tank
- fucking insurance agents who practice "standard protocol" no one else has ever experienced
- store buyers who say they want x-much product, then tell you they can't buy anything until (maybe) late October
- sellers who say they will have product for you on Friday, then that evening turn off their phone after the second time you call to inquire as to the location of your purchase
- perpetual road construction in downtown Portland--spiced with the occasional marathon--messing up the bus routes
- the utter LACK of bus routes at certain times of the day
- vain, gossipy, hypocritical people who never change, yet talk about all the other people that should change themselves for the sake of the friendship
- parties that are always the same people, the same booze, and the same boozed up people playing video games
- using gaming consoles or new partners as excuses to not fulfill obligations
- fucking undecided voters! What the fuck is wrong with you people?!
- people who insist that their way is the "right" way
- the inability to accept the evolution of culture as aspects become more/less relevant
- Google Docs retaining invisible formatting when pasting text from an actual desktop-app doc
- service providers who take days to respond to your request for help, and are still silently "working on the issue" two weeks later
- needing to wait for other people before you can move forward

There you go. Obviously, I've been a little frustrated lately. Nothing catastrophic or devastating, I've just been easily annoyed I guess. It happens, and I've been trying to not let it get to me (hence the lack of writing here, like I said). And it's not like everything's been rain clouds and brussel sprouts; yesterday Makal surprised me with tickets to see Lykke Li at the Doug Fir at the end of the month. Awesome! I kind of fell in love with her music instantly after I watched her video for "Little Bit" and couldn't get it out of my head, downloading the entire "Youth Novel" album the next day. So hey, that live is definitely a good thing and something to look forward to.

See? I'm not *really* all full of angst. ;) I'll probably start blogging about mundane things like my favourite fall/winter foods, and the silly thing our budgies do, soon enough. After my jewelry biz is a little more stable, after I don't have an overwhelming urge to yell at people for not understanding the importance of keeping McBushCain out of the White House, etc. etc. Until then, watch this Lykke Li video, bring out your fashionable autumn layers, and register to vote.