In life we deal with a lot of weird things, we experience the ups and the downs and sometimes we get tested to see how strong we really are. For me I have recently started adapting to the concept of:
What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.
And thus whenever I am faced with a dilemma or obstacle I always keep a positive outlook (to the best of my ability) and try to weather through the storm. No matter how small or how big your obstacle the light at the end of that tunnel will shine through and light your way to a brighter and greater future.
I guess what I’m trying to say is in the words of Joseph P. Kennedy “when the going gets tough, the tough get going.” So stay strong and stay true!
It’s been a hectic week I’ve had one engagement after another (no not the ring kind but another kind, get your minds out of there!) I have a few posts lined up for this week but of course if you follow me on Instagram/ you will know what I will talk to you about here, I think I share too much of my life there (note to self: limit time online (note to other self: don’t listen to the first self)) so yeah back to the main topic, I haven’t felt this pushed to the limit in a long time hehe and it’s kind of nice but tiring at the same time.
One of the things I’ve been disliking about this week is the fact that I wake up really early (i.e. at 9/10AM yes that’s early for me!) and I get home late because of things I have to do during the day. When that happens I come home and barely am able to chillax in front of my sexy 27″ Cinema Display (read: it doesn’t have dead pixels but both of yours will!) watching the latest shows of the day, having dinner right there, and afterwards continuing the TV-athon on my Display of course while skimming blog posts on “Reeder” (the app on my iPad) and checking instagram afterwards. I sometimes get too exhausted and decide to give up but by the time I head to bed it’s almost 4/5AM and that’s sad because a few hours later I’d have to wake up!
I can’t wait for the weekend to arrive simply so I can catch up on some sleep and since “The Vampire Diaries” is on a break I will definitely get a chance to do that. Gosh darnit I’ve missed this place! I missed having a chat with you little Bloggie! You know what we’ve been through thick and thin these past few years I’m glad you’re always here when I need you!
Yes if you have reached this point in the post I believe you have realized that this post does not contain any advertisements, reviews, or anything that might “benefit” you guys really. It’s my place to vent I am having fun at the moment sharing my thoughts with dear ol’ bloggie! But if you did and enjoyed this part then be a dear and say hello :P It’s fun sometimes to reconnect.
So the main subject of this post is that I am tired, exhausted, and sleep deprived after this hectic week but otherwise I’m peachy fine! :D
Toodles!
P.S. Back in the day this is how I blogged, just words no pictures and allowing you the reader to imagine my life. Yes I am cool like that! :D
Earlier yesterday when I was at work catching up with the latest news all over the world I found an article on that basically told me that books are closer at becoming extinct now than they have been this past decade.
I mean e-Books have destroyed book stores and laid off people as well as gotten rid of the social aspect of going out to purchase a book but who would’ve thought that Encyclopedias will no longer be available in print and will only be available in the digital world. You might not know it but Encyclopedia Britannica was one of the first digital encyclopedias available but the most popular would probably have been Microsoft Encarta. I remember using that disc on the family computer back in the mid-90s (ahhh the Good ol’ days!)
“The print edition became more difficult to maintain and wasn’t the best physical element to deliver the quality of our database and the quality of our editorial,” Jorge Cauz, president of Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., told Reuters.
Yet even as publishing industry has created more digital products, it has struggled with financial losses, and Cauz admitted to a “long road to profitability” for many publishers.
“Britannica was one of the first companies to really feel the full impact of technology, maybe 20 years ago, and we have been adapting to it, though it is very difficult at times,” he said.
While Encyclopedia Britannica has continued to operate, he expected “many trade publishers will not survive — and any content development company will have to be thinking about how they are going to fill the gap.”
As to whether print editions of books will be viable products in the future, Cauz predicted, “print may not completely vanish from the market, but I think it is going to be increasingly less important. Many publications will never have a print analog and will only be printed on digital formats.”
With its scholarly, reliable reputation, Encyclopedia Britannica had not been affected by the popularity of free website Wikipedia, he said.
So the gist of the article was that Encyclopedia Britannica which was first published in Edinburgh, Scotland 1768 (gosh darnit that’s like eons ago!) will no longer be supplying you with their printed editions instead their digital versions will be available online for an annual subscription of $70. Previously the 32 volume printed edition would sell for $1400 which would be updated every 2 years. Because we are now insanely digitized and everything has to be available on an app they have already started supplying others with those and these apps range between $1.99 and $4.99 per month.
The company mentioned on Tuesday that they will keep selling their printed editions until their current stock of 4000 encyclopedia sets run out.
I just can’t believe it. I do hope that books do not become extinct but at the same time I kind of do simply because it would save the trees that we have and we would become more eco-friendly. Anyways, I just thought this was something insanely interesting and worth a sharing with the world.
P.S. GOD I LOVE MY JOB! :P
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It’s been a few days now that I’ve been semi-off the grid, you know not as online as I was before. I logged in today to check my Google Reader since I haven’t done so this past weekend and I found 1000+ Google Reader posts to go through! Luckily I got them down to 410 for now but I hope to clear them out today! By the way, it’s Leap Day today!!! Happy Leap Day! We just got an extra day in February to do everything and as Leap Day Williams said in “30 Rock” this past weekend “What happens on Leap Day, stays in Leap Day!” Seriously so we get an extra day and anything that happens just doesn’t count anymore. Not that I want to do anything extra but I’d love to have just one extra day in February it would be totally cool.
So why have I been a bit M.I.A. in the blogging world specifically well it’s because I am undergoing another Project Bedroom Redecoration version 2.0, which kinda means that my bedroom furniture stays but different things will change (aka color, changing the format of the closet, library, etc.)
Okay I would like to take this chance and warn each and every reader of this blog or those who stumbled here by complete accident; this post will be majorly ranty and will probably contain curse words but I will try and limit those.
So, I’m an old school blogger, I belong to the school that believes in sending out messages with each post and showing our thoughts and interests in a creative yet non invading way.
I am extremely upset with the new school of bloggers that we see nowadays because well to tell you the truth “that ain’t bloggin’ honey!” Seriously it’s not!
I can’t believe that it’s been 5 years since I officially made the domain change from to ! Thanks to my favorite peeps , , , and I was able to settle on this name (well 90% of the vote goes to therefore he is mentioned first) and this year will mark my 8th year in the Blogging World.
I may not be an avid blogger. I may not update a thousand times a day or even a week but when I do write I write from the depth of my heart! It’s a doggy eat dog world (I think that’s how the saying goes) and yet I am still here and surviving staying afloat. I try to make minor changes but in the end I do not want to lose me.
Something that has kept my machine running is that lovely widget in my sidebar that tells me what I wrote a “Years Ago Today I Wrote” it basically gives me all posts that were dated on the day I am checking and to be honest to see my transformation year to year (not the transformation that you see normal blogs do nowadays; i.e. Check out this YouTube video, Check out this new restaurant, Check out this new thing, never giving you a glimpse into their lives or their true mind) I have matured over the years and some might say I have lost myself but in a way I think that it was a phase in my life that has now outgrown me. I try to maintain that same person and hope that it lives within me but in the end time will tell.
So January 20 2007 I made the switch over from my favorite childhood domain (it was also around the same month where I got a job and started working) to this awesome cool one! A couch I will forever enjoy and be lazy upon, a couch I truly and desperately love!
Happy Couch Avenue Today!
I had a dream last night it was crazy insane I don’t really think that it qualifies as a dream because of its insanity!
I remember dreaming about my family having a cat (P.S. We used to have 2 cats back in the 90s but because my sister was allergic we had to let them go and then they ran away). Anyways back to the dream.
In my dream, I saw our cat (which is adorably cute but menacingly evil!) playing with the Playstation 2 that we had in the living room. (Normally you would find doing that, so I am not sure if the cat was in fact Lujain or a pet cat). Anyways I saw the cat playing the PS2 I got up to see the cat but it ran away and left me the controls.
I tried to play the game but I lost whereas the cat was winning.
How messed up is that dream?
P.S. If the cat was playing Driver 3 then it would in fact be tricking me that she is a cat. We all know how crazy gets sometimes right?
You would think now that I am out of a full time job that I would sit and organize my life? I would go to the gym which I subscribed to back in January and which I have stopped going to since April?
But no!
I am procrastinating even more and I am being a bigger lazy bum than I have ever was! I can’t seem to get enough sleep and I can’t seem to get a fixed sleep pattern but I am not sure that is the main problem. I need a new idea for a closet system, not to mention I need to majorly THIN out my closet! I wear about 20% of the clothes that are there and I keep most items as sentimental pieces (I am a closeted hoarder! I don’t like getting rid of clothes I got as gifts, not to mention my graphic tee’s that are no longer my size) I should lay out my day in a schedule sort of way you know schedule 2 hours to do something and when they are up I leave the task maybe that way I can actually get stuff done!
I still haven’t written the shit I wanted to write about New York and trust me there are some good stuff I wanna write about! The shows I saw and what I did for recreational fun, maybe there is a pill somewhere that let’s me get highly active and allows me to do more than just sit watch TV and sleep!
We are almost 1 week into Ramadan, how is it going for you? What are you doing other than TV Shows?
Tomorrow is my last day at work! I can’t believe it I am seriously going to be out of that stupid job where I just can’t accept the different things I have never loved the banking sector and being in it made it a thousand times worse now if I was in the Tech sector “Ohhhh la la la!” that would be the life! No matter how hectic it gets its technology and I loves me some good technology and gadgets!
So tomorrow marks the end of the 5 year stint in Banking! I do not have anything lined up at the moment still exploring some options but at the same time I won’t be that destitute, as many of you know I like to design/re-design blogs therefore I will be dabbling into that for the time being until I line something else up. The reason I didn’t line up another job immediately was the fact that I would have to stay another full year where I worked at and I couldn’t handle that but good things come to those who want good things! :P
One of the best things is that in less than 2 weeks I will be back in the US this time in New York specifically with pure relaxation and interior designing (not much of it really just buying a couch and a television for my baby sis) and hitting some broadway shows and awesome movies! [Bad Teacher, here I come!] I can’t wait and I just can smell the awesome fresh air imagining how it’ll be there! Sister No 4′s apartment looks out at the Empire State Building from one window and the Chrysler building from the other sort of like what Neal Caffrey has with his pad :P (for those of you who don’t know him, he’s on White Collar, the con who helps the FBI). I will binge out on the awesome burgers and pizzas, catch the broadway shows, movies, walk around in the city, and just explore it! Since I’m staying put in one place I will spend more time on myself and that would be awesome! Can’t wait!
So off I go to sleep before my last day at work! :P
In less than 3 days I will be leaving on a jet plane to the US! I can’t wait to have the time of my life as I will be embarking on a lot of cool shows and extravaganzas but the one thing that I wanted to share.
I will be attending “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” I’ll be going to a live taping of the show! WOOOOHOOOO! Thanks to Sister #4 who booked the tickets today we will definitely have the time of our life in New York baby! Not only that but we’ll catch a few broadway shows! This trip will be one to remember!
Toodles!
a 28 year old Kuwaiti Gadget Freak who is obsessively in love with Apple Products so much that she probably has everything made by Apple. Currently she's being a lazy bum and putting off writing and everything else but when she does this is her space where she likes to vent and release everything, so welcome to it.
A blogger for the past 8 years and still loving it.
