iPhone Apps

I'm working on iPhone Applications now. Check out KandyApps (www.kandyapps.com). Andy and I make apps together. So far we have Drink Up and Drink Up Lite (hot-potato type drinking game). Version 2.0 is coming out in the next few days. Also Girls Night, a bachelorette party game. BouncyMaze is a maze game where you tilt the phone to bounce a ball around a maze. And the first one I worked on is Guess the Number, which is for young kids to help them with number sense - a very simple number guessing game. The KandyApps blog goes into details. Definitely more apps to come. Coding is fun!

b gets married tomorrow. i called him today to wish him good luck and congratulations. so weird...

letters that never get sent

do you ever write someone a letter and not give it to them? i do this every once in a while when i have things i want to say, but i don't think the recipient necessarily needs to hear the things. it's more of a cathartic activity. but if somebody wrote me a letter i would want to read it. what do you think? should i send my latest letter?

oh, and thanks for all your support for my medical procedure. it was totally scary since they were putting this needle into my hip joint, but it hardly hurt at all since they numbed it up, so turns out there wasn't anything to be worried about. i still have a bruise from it, and it hurt for like 3 days after but it was nowhere near what my imagination led me to believe. i told my doctor that it wasn't anywhere near as bad as he said it would be and he said most people find it very very uncomfortable. guess i'm tough. or lucky. or both!

fear is a great motivator

not sure why but i've been especially freaked out about my mri appoinment tomorrow when they're going to inject dye into my hip. look it up if you want - it's called an arthrogram. i haven't looked it up because if it's going to really suck i think i'd rather not know. (the doctor said it would be very uncomfortable. the nurse said it was nothing but a simple injection.)

anyway, this dread over a (probably) simple medical procedure is making me think i should eat better, exercise more, and do whatever else i can to prevent more doctor appointments. so far i've managed to avoid ever being put under. craziest things that have happened to me include hairline fracture of my elbow (basketball-related), removing impacted wisdom teeth (i asked to stay awake to avoid the iv), and probably worst was when i dislocated my kneecap and the doc had to put it back (soccer try-outs in 8th grade). none of them were preventable including this hip thing i have now, but i want to keep this list as short as possible.

i dreamt about crazy needles last night. they better not find any problems that need surgery.

if i close my eyes maybe they won't see

it doesn't work that way

making time

i'm making time for blogging again. the sun has finally come out on the heels of june. i've been trying to do a painting a week. last weekend i was so focused i forgot to turn on my music. i almost always paint to music. i wonder if the songs i'm listening to come out in my paintings.

my sister is moving back from nepal in less than 2 months, and we're all happy about that. i'm looking forward to the big bbq we'll have in ny so i can finally wear my nepali linga outfit again.

seems like everyday there is something to do. i haven't really watched tv in weeks which is good news. i actually sort of did karaoke yesterday as a backup singer but that's kind of a big deal for me. i'm not exactly a singer.

red orange yellow green blue
i'm totally bored with nothing to do

we all falter

yesterday was one of those days. there was no single awful thing that happened, but nothing was going quite right. i had that heavy feeling all day where you're focused and moving forward on the outside but weighed down on the inside. nothing was quite working out the way i had hoped or planned. everything was good enough, but good enough was not good enough for me. i was bummed out by one thing after the other. my trip to ny is probably cancelled. i had some weird people interactions. had some work meeting woes. in the big picture, everything was going just fine and smooth. i accomplished a lot and life was generally perfect, but sometimes if the small things all pile up at once, they can really get you.

so in the midst of my funk, i was complimented in the most perfect way for what seemed like 2 minutes straight. it was startling in many ways. i believe in angel moments, when angels are sent to you through people, and this was an angel moment. it was fleeting yet fulfilling.

on the way home i couldn't find a song that was right for the mood until finally, obviously, miles davis accompanied me home.