Just a few Merry Christmas pictures!

opened some gifts. favorite one so far is a snuggie! my dad got my mom, sister, sister-in-law and I snuggies.

mom & me


me & sister


all 3 of us


too bad my sister in law wasn't here (she lives in Florida) or all 4 of us would have been in the picture lol

my dad wasn't presentable enough to be in any of the pictures lol

now getting ready to go to some friends for more presents and dinner. I'm sure I'll have more pictures to post later tonight and on Sunday (tomorrow will be going to a friend's birthday & house warming party)

Merry Christmas...

From my Family to yours!

there may be hope afterall

there might be some salvaging of my laptop and I hope this is true. My dad says he THINKS the motherboard is fried but he's going to take the laptop to one of his friends to have him look at it. If it is the motherboard and the hard drive is still good, my dad said I should buy a hard drive case which would turn my laptop hard drive into basically an external hard drive that I could plug into a computer using a usb port. AWESOME! I also looked at external hard drives to possibly replace the one my boss is trying to get to work again. I'll need something large enough if I'm going to rebuild my music/tv show/movie collection. My dad pointed out a 500GB for what he said was a good price.

Like I said I hope this is the case. We went to Fry's last night (I looked at the laptops, movies & books with my mom) and I don't know what my dad looked at, but he bought the new Star Trek movie. I bought my favorite movie, Constantine (it was only $9) and my mom bought Stigmata and Blade 2 (it was $4!).

My dad wants to go back for the after Thanksgiving sale but I don't get paid until the 29th. I could totally ask for and get my check early, but I know me. I'd be too tempted to spend it all, and I have bills due at the start of December.

it was nice while it lasted

I'm 99% sure my dad and I (yes I'm taking responsibility for it as well) killed my laptop.

it'd been overheating and the little external fan I had wasn't much help. we took it apart, took a bunch of dust out and it was working ok. Still overheating so that meant there was more dust.

when my dad got home from picking my mom up from work we went through and got to work un-dusting it again. my dad went a but crazy with the canned air. vapor was coming out and I asked if that would mess with the laptop in any way. he said no, but something told me that wasn't true. we put it back together and I turned it on. the hard drive wasn't going. I TOLD my dad not to mess with the hard drive. but he still did. there was power. I felt the air coming from where the fan was and the green lights were on, but no orange light saying the hard drive was going. GREAT! I call him back to my room, we take it apart, put it back together and the same thing. "You're in big trouble" he tells me. I'M IN BIG TROUBLE?! he's the one who went crazy with the canned air and messed with the hard drive!

Now I have no laptop and no external hard drive! I'll be taking laptop to place I bought it for them to look at it. hopefully it can be fixed & won't cost a lot.

I swore to myself I wouldn't let him tinker with my laptop as much as he has in the last 2 months and look at what happened! This refurbished laptop lasted me about 20 months. No telling when I'll have the money saved up to buy myself a new one.

eta: oh! big plus! I found the cell phone I had before the one that was stolen! and it still had a sim card! coming back to cell world soon!

still lost

finally got a "live body" with the insurance company who covered my phone. I asked abt the type of replacement phone I'd get if I placed a claim with them and the lady told me the only way she'd know that is if they start the claim process. well I don't have the deductible.

If I ask my mom for the money, I won't be able to pay her back until sometime in December, which would screw up my Christmas shopping

you win electronic universe

so...I'm pretty sure I broke my external hard drive...

I plug it in and it lights up, so I know it's getting power, but nothing else happens. Before that it would freeze in the process of transferring and anything that did transfer was said to be "corrupted" when I tried to open it. I magically did something because it was working fine up until about 2 hours ago when I tried transferring some videos when it would freeze...and now not do anything.

with the exception of Castle 208 Kill the Messenger, FlashForward 108 Playing Cards with Coyote and anything I haven't downloaded, ALL my music, tv shows and other videos/movies are on it!

edit 1: ugh! 3 times I said it's NOT my computer/laptop giving me problems and 3 times this girl tells me that I need more ram in my computer! UGH! as "technologically advanced" as you claim to be, you should know what I mean when I said external hard drive! 2 different devices connected by a usb cord

edit 2: and I removed her. I don't need someone telling me not to feel a certain way when I just lost 6000+ mp3s, videos and some other pictures! and if her friend tells me anything, she's gone too. I don't care if they say it's petty high school crap.

edit 3: so my boss said not to toss it. to bring it to church and she or her husband would try to get my music

what a relief!

my cousin didn't get my e-mail I sent her last week about my cell being stolen and she'd been calling me and there's a recorded message saying "per the subscriber's request, they aren't accepting incoming calls" and she thought I was avoiding her.

she came over to see me and we chatted for a while. then I asked about our other cousin Brenda (the one who had swine flu and pregnant). well she's better, out of the hospital and had her baby 11/6...that's a little over 2 weeks past her due date and everyone is healthy.

I'm so happy! planning my visit to see them now

and that's the end of that

I finally put an end to a 20+ yrs friendship I was desperately trying to cling to by being facebook friends with my ex best friend's mother. I took the mother off my friends list and that's the end of that.

I know that from time to time I'm going to think about them and wonder how they're doing, but I don't need to be reminded that they don't want anything to do with me every time I see pictures from their fun times with friends.

it's not worth my time and energy to complain to my mom and current best friend about how they don't want anything to do with me or whatever.

PS: my dad got my laptop working. apparently the internal fan was so clogged that Windows & my laptop knew it was best not to go any farther than it was going before shutting down. I still want to get a new computer, but at the moment, the ones I want are too expensive so increasing my ram to make it faster will probably be best. that'll happen my next paycheck or so.

*grumble grumble*

I can't get my laptop to stay on. I can't get Windows to load. I guess Windows not loading has to do with the fact that MY LAPTOP WON'T STAY ON!

I can't even log in on safe mode because the laptop will shut off.

went through 13.5 hrs of defragging last night and a scan for viruses only to not be able to use it today! what kind of mess is that!? Plus, it's still getting really hot and the plug in fan I have doesn't seen to be cooling it down any.

this is really making me mad.

well...yeah

so my little "sister" decided she didn't want to be on the Church Board anymore. don't know the reason but I'm sure it was something in her control that she didn't want to take care of. But she's a good kid and doing better than I was doing at her age.

anyways, I was asked to be on the Board and said yes. I kind of should have been asked from the beginning since I type up and store the mins and all other official documents. But now I have an in to give my ideas to get more people to possibly come to church (and stop hearing the elders complain about how there's no "young blood" in the church). My only thing is, I don't know how open the elders would be to my ideas.

Update about my phone...my wonderful friend Jeanine said she'd send me her old phone so I don't have to go through my insurance to get a new phone. yay! In the mean time, My mom put money on her pay as you go phone so I'm using that. It's very weird not texting. I don't update Twitter as much (I think). I also find myself getting on my laptop later and later in the day since I don't have my own cell. isn't that funny? lol I have to call T-Mobile and see about getting the unlimited internet access removed from my account or if I'll still have to pay that since it's apart of my plan...all things to do once I get a replacement phone

Church is over (12:15 pm). board meeting starting. must go.

toodles!

time is ticking away

with 20 something days to re-activate my t-mobile acct (or I'd have to pay a $200 early termination fee) & about the same amount of time to let my insurance know that my phone was stolen and pay the $130 deductible and they'd send me another phone (don't know if it'd be the same one or if I would be able to pick what I wanted) "in a day".

Point is, tho, I don't have that kind of money. like at all. Not with all the bills I have, that's for sure. Oh, and though my acct is suspended, I'm still a day late in paying it. it was due 11/3. oops?

Why did this have to happen?! My mom has an "old" tracfone and I'm sure she'd let me use it while I go for job interviews and while I'm just out in general, but you know what really sucks...I don't have $10 to buy a card to put mins on it! How pathetic is that!?

I need to figure out something. Thursday I'll be at a Career Fair in Downtown LA for most of the day, Friday I go to the Church for work and after the weekend, this starts all over again. planing what I can & can't do during the week just waiting for Friday when I go back to the Church.

I'll figure something out. I almost always do.

i wanted a new cell phone but not this way!

I was waiting for a bus and there was a kid also waiting. he asked what time the bus comes and I said it should be coming (several were actually due) and after a few moments he asked if my cell was prepaid and I said no. he then asked if I could call his grandmother to let her know he was going to be late. I said sure and he told me the first number. it didn't go through for whatever reason, then he told me another number and it started to ring. I gave him the phone as the bus was coming (he said he was getting on the same bus I was). I saw in through the bus driver's mirror and he was right behind me. I showed the driver my pass and went to the nearest seat to sit down. it was then i realized the kid wasn't on the bus! the next stop was about 1/3 a mile away so I got off and hauled butt back to the first stop. along the way I was looking at buses as they passed to see if I could see the boy but I didn't. when I got back to the stop he wasn't there. I freaked out a bit, then went to the pay phone to call the number. no answer. I freaked out more, cried thinking about all the bad things that could happen with no way to contact anyone, I only know a handful of numbers by heart (one being my sister's but she's a good hour from me).

All I could do was wait for the next bus home, try my number again and cry more. I still haven't been able to get anyone to answer my phone, and it's not turned off, but it's still on vibrate, which is probably why no one is answering.

I'm waiting for the next bus to go to the sheriff station to make a report, then I have to call t-mobile and asked how much a new phone will be since I had insurance on the stolen phone.

this just seriously sucks!

Its like I dont update this thing anymore! (copied from my writing journal)

Well hello there NaNo!

yup! it's that time of year again. NaNo is upon us!

with 5 mins left before Day 1 is over on the West Coast, I've done mighty good for the first day.

I'm right on target you could say.

Before I get into all that, the background.

Cover Art! It's not exactly good, but I'm learning and the best way I learn is by doing.

Family Secrets Series

That totally didn't come out how I planned. the colors are all off so this one will be done again!

Dead By Sunset

This was actually the first one I did for the series. I think it came out okay.

Ransom

This is the second one I did. This is the effect I was aiming for with the series art, but as you can tell, that didn't happen.

I'm still looking for the right images for Lost, Maybe Never Found. It is so hard finding just the right pictures. I'm sure the quick solution to that would be to do something abstract, but meh. I don't want to go that route. i also don't want to take up too much time looking for pictures that I don't get as much writng done.

Speaking of writing, Today's goal was 1667 and what do you know, I did just that! Tomorrow's goal is 3333. I figure if I work in hour chunks and take breaks (nap, read, watch tv/movie) I should do well.

Also, summaries for each story will come later. right now, my pillow is saying it's time to sleep

I don't know what's going to happen now

so I gt a call from my cousin. it was just to chat (though she had ulterior motives that soon came to the surface). She's getting married so her and the fiance are taking pre-marriage counseling classes. that made me laugh. I honestly thought I'd be married with kids (or at the very least married or with kids and not married) before she would. In the relationship field I was more advanced than she was, but boy did she prove me wrong! She's engaged to her first boyfriend and it's like O.O to me.

She also told me that our cousin Brenda (I went to her baby shower a couple weeks ago) is 9 months pregnant and in the hospital with swine flu! I got the chills and my heart stopped. people are dying from this and to know that my cousin is sick with it (and they aren't delivering her baby tho her due date was yesterday) it scares the heck out of me! I can't imagine what her 3 other kids are thinking! She's basically in quarantine and only her husband & mother can see her. Pray/think positive healing thoughts for her and (unborn) Baby Ebony Lovette.

Then my cousin tells me her mom is going to some women's meeting and asked if I wanted to go. this was the ulterior motive I knew she had. the only time she calls me is to invite me to church stuff. first I accepted, then I got a call from the husband of one of my college friend's Bonnie. She was in her 2nd week of being sick and she had a seizure. she hadn't had one in over 10 years. they have a 10 month old daughter and Bonnie's mother wasn't off work so he asked if I could watch the baby until Bonnie's mom got ff work. Watched the baby for abt an hr, Bonnie's mom came, we talked a bit and then Jennifer came over to use my laptop.

now for the fun news. I'm going to be Aunt Jemima for Halloween! well I'd like to be if my mom is able to help me pull it off. And I called one of my friends to tell her and she was like "Oh! I can be Mrs. Butterworth!" haha! if we go to a party on Saturday, it's going to be so much fun! I hope we don't have to explain who we are tho. lol

sometimes I do miss the stuff I toss away

today was an emotionally and electronically crappy day. I found myself staring at a picture of a guy I broke up with 3 years ago. He was a good guy. didn't do anything wrong to me, but he had no ambition to finish college, I couldn't deal with that. some may remember me mentioning him. I used to call him 'my love', then it was Brad, then it changed to 'Dick-Brad' (as to not confuse him with the other 2 'Dicks' in my life), now it's just Brad. Haven't seen or heard from him since that time he said he wanted to see me, made arrangements then flaked. *shrugs*

Also, the Angels didn't make it to the World Series. someone posted this on Twitter and I'm passing it along. "Now we all have to root for the Phillies. The saying is " I love the the ___, but my 2nd favorite team is whoever is playing the Yankees!" so yes. Go Phillies! make all those against the Yankees proud!

I went to the Columbia Memorial Space Science Learning Center [Columbia Memorial Space Center for 'short'] (it's a 10 min walk away from my apt) on Sunday with my dad and 2 of my bosses. we got free tickets as the place had it's grand opening on Thursday and Friday, Saturday & Sunday were free with tickets you get at City Hall.

This place makes me wish I was in elementary/middle school again! it's so much fun! lots of space stuff, there's a space shuttle/space station simulation room (in January it'll be fully operational like the real things!) there's lot of computers, videos, interactive tv things lol Pictures sorry they kind of suck. taken w/camera on cell

In case I didn't post them, here are the pictures from when I went to the Aquarium of the Pacific with Lora, Colleen & John on the 17th. They were also taken with the camera on my cell phone, but I think they came out a bit better than the ones from Sunday...

eta Also went to the Pastoral Installation of the new pastor of the Hispanic church (they rent the facilities where my church has it's services). we were going to stay for dinner but it was something like 70-80 people and of those, 50 of them speak English. My Spanish isn't up to par to hold a conversation, plus I was with my dad and he didn't want to stay so I had to go or I wouldn't have a way home. After the way the baseball game ended, I wish I would have stayed at the dinner...

I now pronounce you man and wife...or are you?

Imagine if you will...It's the late 1980s or early 1990s, you're at a church, among all your friends and family and you're standing next to the person who is soon to become your husband or wife. The ceremony is beautiful, everything has gone off without a hitch and now you're married to the love of your life. You go off, have some kids, get a nice house, all that stuff married couples do...

Fast forward to 2009. You're going through official important papers, looking for something or whatever. You come across your marriage certificate. you'd been looking for it for one reason or another. You do what you need to do with it. But...something is not right.

The minister who preformed your wedding NEVER FILED THE LICENSE! for the last 20 years you've been living with your husband or wife, filing taxes, filling out insurance papers AS A MARRIED COUPLE, but legally you aren't married. Spiritually you're married, but according to the government, you aren't.

~~~

That, ladies and gentlemen, is not fiction! I get a call during the week from someone who was married by a former Pastor some 20 years ago and they leave a message saying I need to talk to the Pastor about a wedding he preformed. I was thinking oh they need a copy of the wedding certificate. I called and left a message and went about my business. about an hour later I'm packing up to leave and something tells me to call back again. so I do and the person answers. I explain how that Pastor was no longer at this church and the lady then tells me her story (the one above).

Part of me thinks, oh wow that sucks, but what do you want him to do? you already went through and redid your vows and you're legally married now, but another part of me was like oh wow! their lives could have been ruined while they were filling out some important papers or whatever.

I just got off the phone with Colleen and she said to e-mail the Pastor the information and let them deal with it. What good would that do? They already redid their vows and are now legally married, albeit, it looks like they've been married a short time and not the 20 years they thought they were. Colleen also told me this Pastor had done that a few times in the past! That he was late in filing her license.

Then I thought of my sister & her husband. This pastor preformed her wedding in 1990. Is she legally married to her loser husband?

Have to figure out how to word this e-mail to the Pastor to let him know. I'll do it when I get home.

I was a good neighbor

my neighbor doesn't have a computer (or at least one that works) and asked if I could help her daughter practice typing. she was just transfered to a typing class. school's been in session since the beginning of September so I was surprised they transfered before the start of new semester in January. I have nothing else to do during the week so I agreed.

For about an hour and a half I taught the girl some basics, what I assumed she would have learned had she been in the typing class since the beginning of the school year. She picked up things rather quickly.

So I let her go to type and then my laptop over heated before I could get her to save so we took a 20 min break while it cooled down and I got the document back. Luckily all of it wasn't lost and she was able to pick up where she left off. I told her to save after she typed each sentence so if something happened, she wouldn't have to start over from the beginning.

Her total typing time, had we not stopped, was 30 mins. That's VERY good for a beginner typer! I told her to save the paper again and showed her how to print. She accidentally printed 2 copies but I told her that was ok. She'd have a copy for herself and one to turn in and if the teacher lost his copy, she had the other copy.

when she left, I told her that if she ever needed to type something to come over and let me know and I'd set her up so she could do her work. Another neighbor mentioned to me that she was getting a new computer at Christmas and would be giving this family her old computer. she said it was too slow for her, but it would be something this girl could use the practice with.

That was my good deed for the day. I felt good being able to help this girl.

In other news...any time the topic came up of people moving, I always mentioned that I had all my dishes & silverware save for drinking cups. How was this possible? I claimed complete dishware sets that my mom had but never used. This included Coventry fine China service for 8! It'd been sitting in the side China cabinet for years and hadn't been cleaned in I don't know how long. Well, a few months ago I got my own storage unit and I've been slowly filling it with this from my room and my things out of the garage. I also said that I'd wash & pack the China that I claimed but never actually got around to doing it...until today. I took everything down, washed & dried them and now I'm packing & labeling the boxes so they can be taken to my storage. when my mom gets the chance, she's going to go through the silverware that's in the kitchen to make sure there's a full set and I'll wash & pack those away in storage as well.

now all I need is my own place to put all this stuff in and maybe I'll feel like a grown up lol

I told you that I can't do anything that involves spending money

So why am I going to the Long Beach Aquarium with John, Colleen and Lora? Because Colleen had a free ticket from her job and invited me. All I would need is spending/lunch money.

I don't have spending/lunch money. So I asked my mom for $10 because I didn't plan on buying souvenirs and that was more than enough for lunch.

Why does fun always happen the day BEFORE I get paid?!

My mom also told me that I can't stay in my room all day. It does me more harm than good. Fine! To avoid argument, I'll find something to do during the day that doesn't require spending money. When I get my next paycheck (at the beginning of November) I'll be able to buy a monthly bus pass and then they won't be able to keep me in the apartment! HA!

My horoscope today made me laugh "You need to resist the impulse to spend much money today -- it doesn't solve any of your problems, and you might find that people are all too willing to let you throw down more than you can afford."

Just a mention of your name

So...last night's dream. DO. NOT. LIKE.

It started out that I was the sole woman with all these older (60-70 yo) guys. There were 2 other girls but they were more busy with one upping each other. They were suspected to have caused this explosion at this really nice house that was on a cliff that had a beautiful view of the ocean. Somehow I was out walking the beach when the explosion happened and I was helping people get settled and to safety. I had to get back to the apartment I was at with these older guys.

On the way back, this cute pier worker (I'm assuming he was a pier worker because he had on a polo shirt with the pier's name (Okaloosa Pier) & logo) appeared and started asking me questions about something. I was trying to be nice, but was in a hurry. He asked if I had to use the bathroom and I was like yeah (funny thing was, before he asked, I didn't have to go lol) so I told him to give me 5 mins and ran up 3 flights of stairs. when I got to the right floor, it didn't look the same. it looked so plain and not as fancy and decorative as it did before. I tried opening the 3 doors but none would open. There was a guy I knew that said the old guys left. that they sold everything and left. Thing was, it wasn't theirs to sell. It was mine, but something happened and I gave it to them. they were con artists.

So I left and when I got outside of the building, the cute pier worker was still there. I took his hand and suggested we get lunch. We walk down the Pier and get to this place that sells chili dogs and he orders. I say that I'll have the same as him because the menu is like a foreign language to me lol then I go look around the gift shop while he waiting for the food.

While I'm walking around the gift shop, I hear someone give me the cheesiest pick up line. the guy said "wow, are you a model?" I had this little smile on my face and looked up to see who it was. Not who I expected to see. Army Chris in his uniform. Not who I wanted to see. I went stone faced and walked back to the guy I was with. Chris followed me and was like "oh this is who you're with?" (he has a thing with me being with white guys) but somehow we manage to ignore him. We got our food and went to this table where some other friends were. The whole time Chris was just bragging to this guy all the stuff he and I did (it's totally something Chris would do), but the guy I was with seemed to not see or hear Chris. No one seemed to see or hear him. Just me.

then I somehow ended up in this weird car with my former best friend and her family. we were outside this really nice house in this nice neighborhood and she was bragging about how smart her daughters were.

then I woke up.

Chris is the one guy I know who could potentially ruin anything good that I had going on if he were to come back and suddenly be single. He did it with one of my high school friends, Christina, he did it when he was separated and then divorced from his wife Christina (not my high school friend). Now that he's "found the Lord" and gotten all religious, I don't know how he would be, but he has that potential to ruin me. He knows me deep inside that well that he could do that, whether I allowed him to or not.

6 words brought me to tears

my close friends know my history with guys. It's not even funny all the losers I've let into my life

But it's especially hurtful when one of the "nice" guys turns out to be the biggest snake of all.

Army Chris and Dick David don't come close to Johnny. Actually, Dick David is in his own field.

I'm getting better at this trusting my "sinking feeling" thing. It started last Wednesday, continued on to Friday, was slapped in the face with it on Sunday and today I've accepted it.

Now tell me honestly, do I have "jerks welcome" or "I'm easy" tattooed on my forehead?

I should have trusted my Oreo cookie induced dream tho...at least the relevant part of it.

See, in this dream I was in a relationship. But the guy's face kept changing between that of Johnny's and some other guy. This other guy was an okay guy, but Johnny...he was a snake. Keeping me around for some reason but never showing me attention...never really having anything to do with me. Other girls would come & go and I kind of said whatever about it. But then I finally had enough.

I don't know if it was because "Megan Fox" was the other woman or if I knew that I deserved better and had enough. But oh boy did I let him have it. And none of it even phased him. None of the stuff I threw at him, none of the words I said, phased him. He just laughed and went off with this other woman.

Then I had a dream about USC and stinging bugs in my pants. I have no idea what that was about or if it even means anything.

At 930 or so, maybe 10 pm I sent Johnny a text message asking when I'd see him again. a couple hours go by and I get a reply back. I saw the letters hor and for a split second I thought it was Dick David sending me a text about how he's horny and blah blah blah. It wasn't until I looked at the name of the sender and selected to read the text that my stomach dropped and I started to cry. I'm not going to repeat what those words were as I'd rather forget them. I'd rather forget him...that I replied to his stupid "how's life in Downey" message on pof. I just want to forget.

strike 1

so mr "lets go out this weekend" e-mailed me back late Sunday night. Apparently the Friday boys night extended into Saturday and I didn't get my 2nd date. I'm not so much upset that I didn't get a 2nd date as he didn't tell me what was going on. I didn't need to know the play by play, but drop me a text to say sorry that plans changed can we go out another day.

I tried not to come off sounding like a clingy bitch but I let him know that flaking on me wasn't acceptable, that I'm very understanding when it comes to spending time with friends but he just needs to let me know considering we already had plans in the works.

The ball is back in his court and all I can do is wait again to see if he'll reply.

FlashForward

(Premieres Tonight @ 8/7c on ABC)

if it were possible, would you want to see 6 months into the future?

me: without a doubt, yes I would want to know. I'd also want to know the path, the ups & downs, I took to get there.

I guess a follow up question would be, if the 6 months into the future were bad, would I change how I am now? I don't think I would.

so worth missing tv for

the guy I was supposed to meet on Friday sent me a message saying he forgot he had prior plans for Friday and if we could meet during the week. I said I'd have to check my schedule (aka see when none of my tv shows are on) and get back to him...and I gave him my cell saying that if he was ever at the Landing (a strip mall of sorts) to let me know

well at 9 tonight I got a txt from him asking if I wanted to meet up. I was honestly torn. the 2nd hr of Dancing with the Stars was just starting and other tv shows would be premiering tonight. But I gave that up (I missed the last 15 mins of DwtS) to meet him.

Totally worth it! We talked about traveling, our old high schools (cross town rivals of sorts) and walked around until closing. He made me laugh, blush (not an easy thing to do). He asked if he could hold my hand (the scene where Ace says "like a glove" (1:26) popped into my head"). We were standing face to face talking and he kept staring at my lips, making me a bit self conscious, and asked if he could kiss me. I said no and we kept talking, and out of the blue he pulls me to him and kisses me. OMG! and I mean that in a good way! He wrapped his arms around me and hugged me...it wasn't too hard and it wasn't too soft

I totally want to see him again and there aren't many guys I say that about.

has a non-date date!

Saturday got this message from a guy and we hit it off pretty well. I think it mostly had to do with the fact that we live in the same city? lol AND he's traveled to a lot of the places I so want to go to!

he asked if I wanted to meet up sometime. sure why not. it looks like Friday afternoon we'll be meeting. Starbucks seems to be a good location...and there are 2 near me too. waiting to hear back from him about that.

something that makes me even more happy is Chinese food! lol my fave Chinese food place by my church delivers so I ordered a combination of chicken, beef & shrimp chow mein (yum!) and veggie egg rolls (double yum!)

OMG seriously?! I forgot to post this again! I started at 720 and here it is an hr later. I got wrapped up in Jeopardy!, Wheel of Fortune and now Dancing with the Stars so I'm ending this before I forget again!

will be active

i got busted for not doing the real dusting like i was told to do on Saturday. it didn't bother me as much as it usually would when i was told i'd have to do it again. why? I get to go shopping for a container/big box to pack away all the dishes. they are mine (or will be when i move) and since they haven't been used in probably 10 yrs, I figured I'd clean, wrap & pack them away in storage. and my dad agreed that was a good idea!

I'll be doing that on Tuesday or Wednesday. Tomorrow/Monday I'll be either riding the bus/train to downtown LA to the library or going to Hollywood.

Had a birthday celebration at Church for those who have Sept birthdays. there are quite a few, but only myself and my boss's brother come to church regularly. we had subway, chips, cake, ice cream and soda and watched "Signs". I had to bit my tongue quite a few times as my dad was working on my last nerve. but i made it through the night and now I'm listening to music before bed

Also...I really want a bicycle like crazy! I see people riding and I want to ride! I was never like this when I had a bike (it was stolen because I didn't lock it up over night in front of my front door!) will be checking craigslist and The Salvation Army for bikes. might get one before week is over.

give me something to do

so now the "lectures" about being in bed and doing nothing all day happen about every other day or whenever I'm alone with either of my parents. I need something to do...someplace to go so I'm out of the apartment for at least 6 hrs a day.

I dusted as much of the furniture as I could reach, but a good third of it is blocked...BY MY PARENTS THINGS! if your crap is blocking my access to dust, I'm not dusting. simple as that.

Got my dad to take me to Blockbuster. I was told there was a possibility that his card would need to be reactivated since it hadn't been used since 2007. Well, I got 3 movies, The Number 23, Mr. Brooks and Seven Pounds. My dad asked for the last one, and yeah, I want to see it too, but originally I wanted to get specific movies off of a list of 17 I complied from my netflix list, but I couldn't find them. I was, however, able to lessen my online netflix list by 1 when I removed The Number 23. There are still over 200 lol When we got the movies, turned out, his card didn't need to be reactivated . Now I can go whenever I want to rent a movie and I didn't time things right with Netflix. I can also rent my TV shows and not have to wait on netflix. Down side though is I'll be spending more money at Blockbuster in addition to the 1 time fee with netflix.

After Blockbuster we went to Walmart. I wasn't in there 5 mins when I saw a dress that I HAD to buy lol. I was making my way to the $5 movies (never got there haha) when the dress caught my eye. I grabbed 1 to try on and it was a bit too tight so I got 1 size up and didn't try it on thinking it'd be fine. check out, go to McDonalds and then leave. when I got home, I tried on the dress and IT WAS TOO BIG! lol but my mom can take it up some for me or I can give it to her

Umm I guess that's it. I need to make sure everything is ready for tomorrow. In the evening is the Birthday celebration & movie night at the church. I couldn't get Oh, God! so I asked Colleen & Elizabeth if they could bring some Church appropriate movies that we can choose from. I hope they aren't overly churchy or that religion is hammered in with every shot. I can't stand movies like those.

oops! started this over an hour ago and just now posting. guess I forgot abt it. lol

Those apartment houses are for rent again but I can't afford them

this morning my mom really made me cry. she basically said that I need to either get a job, go back to school or i might get kicked out because I'm spending too much time in my room "wasting away".

she also said that the reason I didn't get a cake was because of my attitude. wouldn't you get pissed off if someone was telling you every day you aren't doing anything with your life and you need to find a job and generally making you feel like crap?

I'd go back to school for my Bachelor's degree in a heartbeat if the schools weren't cutting classes, raising the cost of tuition and loans weren't being cut. And work, I'm looking for work every day. Before I do my fun stuff, I look at the job alerts I've gotten over night, send out resumes and send out follow up e-mails from resumes I sent the previous week and nothing. I haven't found anything.

I know that if I really speak my mind about the getting kicked out part, I really might get kicked out.

then like 30 mins ago, my dad tells me that my mom has something for me. and I was like wtf?! then I thought I really don't want to cry again if she's going to lecture me or something, but i call her at work and she tells me that the Bally's Total Fitness across the street has some special or something going on for like $20/month (I checked online and the cheapest they have is $25/month for 1 club only or $30/month for national access) and if I wanted to do that she'd pay for it.

anyone need a secretary

sitting on my ass, do nothing and get paid isn't as fun as it sounds. That's all I do when I come here. Every Friday when I come into work that's what I do.

I actually DO have work that I'm supposed to do, but my "boss" has another "job" and when that "job" gets busy, I get screwed. My "work" depends on her getting information to me. Every Friday between 930 and 1030 am I e-mail Colleen the information she needs to send me the information I need. Basically, the title of Sunday's sermon. All she has to do is pick out TWO SONGS to go with the sermon! I could easily do this myself, but I never know if she has the songs picked out a head of time (a lot of times the songs don't match the sermon). I hate looking through the Bible and looking through the hymnal trying to find songs that match the sermon because a lot of times there isn't anything to match the Sermon so I have to find 2 that kind of match. It's work that, as far as I know, isn't in my job description. So anyways, I leave home, take the bus, get something to eat and go on to work. That's like 2-3 hrs. Plenty of time to find 2 songs. She's been doing this for the 8 yrs that I've been secretary, it's not like it's a new job for her. Then I have to e-mail her a reminder, after waiting an additional hour and still probably end up waiting another 30-45 mins.

This also happens when it comes time to do the monthly Love Notes. It's only 1 time a month and I'm freaking waiting and the stuff never goes out on the 1st of the month like I want it to.

Today was no different. I e-mailed her at 1030, which is a bit later than I usually do, I didn't end up leaving home until 1130 and I didn't get to the office until 1 something. Still 3 hrs since I e-mailed her. about 20 mins ago (230 pm), I sent her a reminder e-mail and also said that we didn't have the words to one of the monthly praise songs.

so yeah, here I am waiting. and tired. and hot. and pissed off.

edit got a reply back from Colleen. "That Praise Book is old. I have the words, but they might be at home." tell me something I don't know! I've been using and adding to it for 8 years! Still don't have the 2 hymns I need! and the fact that the words "might be at home" doesn't help either of us. You being at work and me wanting to leave RIGHT NOW!

what an eventful day

Not just for me, but for my sister. This morning she was getting ready for work & to take the kids to school when she suddeny felt dizzy. The room was spinning and every time she opened her eyes, she said it felt like the room was spinning faster. On top of that she had horribly painful cramps.

Marlin called 911 and I believe Jasmine called here. around 6 am or so my mom wakes me up to tell me all this and that they were going to her house and my dad was going to take Marlin  & Jasmine to school and my mom was going to go to the hospital to be with my sister.

Around  730 am my mom calls me to tell me to call directory assistance to get my sister's job's number and then to call and tell them she wasn't going to be in today. I did that and my mom came to get me so I could go with her to the hospital, which btw, my sister lives in LA and the hospital is all the way over by us in Bellflower. That's quite a ways to go.

At the hospital, my sister had a blood sample, urine sample and a CAT or CT scan (I can't remember which it was). The results of the scan showed nothing - except that she had a brain lol the joke the technician told her. Her potassium levels were low and she had high blood pressure medication she hadn't taken yet or hadn't taken in a few days? I'm not clear on that part. The doctor told her she had vertigo and gave her medication for that as well as something to bring her potassium levels back up. Then she was released.

Right now, I believe she's sleeping on the sofa. When the kids get out of school, my dad will be taking them, and my sister home. I don't know what the plan for tomorrow is as far as my sister going to work and how the kids are going to get to school.

I told my sister not to worry about giving me money for the cruise I may or may not go on. She is 3 or 4 months behind on paying the registration for her car and her insurance is going to be due soon. She gets paid on the 21st and I rather her get her car stuff taken care of than to have to deal with it being impounded for no registration/insurance if she were to get pulled over.

It's been about 4 hrs since I've eaten. I'm hungry, but not really. I crave fatty greasy foods and I don't need that...but I so want it!

Happy birthday to me?

while I'm thankful for the gifts and wishes I got, today wasn't anything special. I didn't get any kind of birthday meal and if i wanted anything special, i would have to use the money i got. didn't go anywhere and my sister gave me a coupon for a free scoop of ice cream...THAT I PRINTED OUT TO BEGIN WITH! she did however say that when she gets paid on the 20th, she'd give me money to go towards a cruise i want to go on that i may not be able to go on after all

and the frosting on the invisible cake, i had to clean the kitchen.

yeah. happy birthday to me! maybe I should have gone out with pushy clingy guy from last week!

thanks to the 30 or 40 something ppl who wished me a happy birthday on FB and Twitter and here?

there are like 3 hrs & 12 mins left to my birthday. we'll see if it gets better

last Wednesday we get a flier in the mail from the plumbers the apartment managers/owners use stating that water was going to be off for 4 days - Thursday & Friday Sept 3 & 4 and Monday & Tuesday Sept 7 & 8 from 9 am to 4 pm.

The water was indeed off Thursday and Friday, but it's 4 pm on Monday and I've been using the water all day for various things - including going to the bathroom and the water hasn't been off.

I think when the fliers were made, they didn't realize Monday was a holiday...or they finished their work. I'll have to see tomorrow if the water is shut off when I wake up.

pushy clingy man is pushy clingy

I thought I was going to have a date (my FIRST ONE in 3 years!) this weekend or next weekend, but the guy was pushing exclusive dating too much. Like from 1st date on we'd only date each other with the idea of it becoming a relationship.

I'm sorry, that doesn't work for me. I don't get asked on dates (at all really) and I don't want to be exclusive with someone I'll be meeting for the first time. and this guy's "old fashion gentleman" ways was being too pushy for me.

fine, whatever. I took him off my messenger friends list, removed his number from my phone, deleted all e-mails to and from him and deleted his e-mail from my address book

what REALLY creeped me out was that he showed my pictures to people he worked with and told them we were working on a relationship and he said they said we'd make a cute couple.

*SHUDDERS* to think, I was going to send my resume to him so he could forward it to the human resources department of the company he works for...he'd have access to my home address and phone number.

guess i won't be going out next week for my birthday after all. oh well.

when do I get my toilet back?!

the water in the apartment building (6 units) for 7 1/2 hrs. Tomorrow (Friday) will be the same, as will next Monday and Tuesday.

I guess the property owners are finally getting around to replacing the 20+ yr old pipes! At least I HOPE that's what's being done!

lack of water hasn't been too bad, but around hour 5 I really had to use it. I put the thought out of my mind until the slightest movement sent me running to the bathroom.

Friday will be better. I'll be at work for all or a majority of the time the water is to be off. I don't know what I'll be doing next Monday & Tuesday though.

edit 1 the water came back on about 5 pm, but I got sidetracked talking with S and I never posted this. oops
edit 2 MY BIRTHDAY IS IN 6 DAYS!!!!!!

9 days until my birthday!

on September 9, 2009 (that's 09-09-09) I'll be 27! OMG!

ok, not so much OMG but more "will this birthday be just as crappy as the last one?" (birthday 25 was AWESOME because I saw dolphins and sea turtles at a beautiful beach in FL and I got to meet one of my best online friends and see my twin nieces and my brother & sister in law)

For all the plans I make and all the things I'd like to do, none of that happens. I celebrate it at church with another person who has a birthday in September. For what it's worth, it is fun. Movie, cake, ice cream, some kind of food. On my actual birthday my mom either makes me a cake or buys one (of course pink is somewhere on it).

I guess, I just wish my friends (who are almost all in other states) would be able to celebrate with me.

This birthday...who knows what'll happen. There's an Angels baseball game (against Seattle) that I'd like to go to...there are a few restaurants I'd like to go to and I probably will by myself.

Serious Request

I want to go on a cruise. There's a great 4 day Baja Mexico Cruise January 18-21, 2010 I'd like to go on...but not alone (I will if no one can go with me).

The cruise leaves Monday, Jan 18 from Long Beach at 530pm, arrives at Catalina Island on Tuesday, Jan 19 and is there from 730am to 430pm. From there, it arrives on Wednesday, Jan 20 in Ensenada, Mexico and is there from 900am to 10 pm. Thursday, Jan 21 is a Fun Day At Sea and Friday, Jan 22 returns to Long Beach 8:00am

Yup, that's everything. There are shore excursions at Catalina Island & Ensenada, Mexico, but as far as that actual cruise, that's everything.

For me to go by myself it's $489.70 with a $199 deposit when I actually book the cruise. I could totally swing it by myself, but I don't want to go alone. You know, safety in numbers when you go out and all.

But yeah...that's it. I'm hoping I can get some money together to book at the beginning of September. If not, I'll have to pick a cruise in February as the rest of January looks to be very busy.

i think my dad sends some of my calls directly to voicemail. he said that I'm the ONLY one who hasn't been able to get through to him hmmm

he asks what i want and I tell him abt needing laundry soap and he does this over dramatic finger snapping thing and walks away

I go to kitchen & there's laundry soap. wtf! he could have told me he got some! i tell him that he's like you didn't give me a chance

wtf! HE walked away from ME while I was still telling him why I was calling him! UGH

in which I rant about tv

I squandered my Friday and now Saturday I have to go to work. No fun and not fair.

in tv news for myself...there's a local station in southern CA called KDOC-TV. Their tag line is "Endless Classics!" and have been showing the original Star Trek, Twilight Zone, Perry Mason and they just (or at least I just noticed) started showing Charlie's Angels and Starsky & Hutch. in my eyes, those are classics. They also show Fraiser and Cheers but I can put those aside in my mind. what I can't put aside, however, are the shows they will be playing in September. they are not, by any stretch of the word, a classic.

what are they going to be showing? Chappelle's Show, Everybody Hates Chris, My Wife and Kids...and 2 other shows. I can look past the first 3, but absolutely, 100% do not approve of the last 2 shows. Laguna Beach & The Hills. Yes. That's right. Spencer Pratt, Heidi Montag, Lauren Conrad and Brody Jenner ( don't have a problem with the last 2) and the rest of them.

did I miss the memo going around that changed the meaning of classic? If they wanted to bring other shows, why not The Brady Bunch, The Cobsy Show, Family Ties, Family Matters...there are lots of other shows! why these ones?!

I understand it comes down to what shows the original networks would allow to be shown on this station, but include 2 MTV Shows?!

*sighs and steps off soap box*

so...I did it!

I was a "big girl" and went to BJ's by myself. I saw Kelly but the section she was working was busy, the patio area hadn't been cleaned so I got to sit at the bar. Oo fun!

My server was Jamie. She was nice. Kind of pushy (barely set my purse down and she was asking what I wanted!), but that was okay. I ordered the pomegranate sunset (don't remember what was in it, besides pomegranate but it was good)*, flipped through the menu and decided on the fettuccine Alfredo with grilled chicken.

from the time I ordered to the time my food came, I waited at the most, 10 mins. seemed a lot longer than that tho. Sad thing, the guy sitting next to me had been waiting 45 mins and all he ordered was a salad...and I got my food before he did! Manager ended up paying his bill.

I ate and watched like 4 different sporting events. there was just too much going on that I couldn't focus.

I ate as much as I could (wanted to take a pic of my food & drink but felt silly doing that at the bar) and got the rest of it to go. There's enough left for dinner!

I paid the same amount at CPK as I did at BJ's and today brought home much more food!




*POMEGRANATE SUNSET - Created by Amber J. from Cerritos, CA
Don't let the sun go down without trying this mix of Stoli Razberi Vodka, PAMA Pomegranate liqueur, BJ's fresh squeezed lemonade, orange juice and Monin Pomegranate. (very very yummy!)

you go to hell now!

PETA has reached to a new low! They have a new ad in Jacksonville, FL...and it's aimed at women and to get them to go vegetarian.

PETA wants to save the Florida Whales - Fat Women

Since it will be a few months before Michael Vick takes the field, PETA has decided to target someone else in preparation - fat people.

A new ad campaign, which recently launched in Jacksonville, takes aim at overweight people in about as direct a way as you can. A huge billboard in the city reads, "Save the Whales. Lose The Blubber. Go Vegetarian." Next to the words is a pretty large woman, who looks to be about a biscuit away from becoming a whale dressed in a polka-dot bikini.

Now, that's a low blow.

"Our goal is help overweight Jacksonville residents - the best way to do that is to go vegetarian. We're not trying to insult anyone," Ashley Byrne, a senior campaigner for PETA told Huffington Post. "Vegetarians look and feel better than meat eaters. This is a life-saving message."

Could this message find its way over Interstate 95 in the magic city? Don't be surprised if it does. PETA has become a pretty noticeable force in South Florida recently.

But the billboard could also get local PETA protesters sat on by upset chubby folks who more than likely will take offense to the billboard. As far as we can tell, this is PETA's first real harpoon shot at large people. Usually the organization goes after seal clubbers or fur hunters and recently the group's M.O. has been to use sexy images to draw people into their message.

But instead of sexy models barely covered in pieces of lettuce to push a vegan lifestyle, PETA is going with the shock and awe approach. It doesn't appear that the billboard will be coming down anytime soon and its unclear what city the anti-fat message will show up next.

Maybe next month, PETA will be trying to save the hippos.

excuse my language, but BULLSHIT they aren't trying to insult anyone! and seriously, overweight and being called a whale are drastically different! I am so...incensed that I can't get my thoughts in the proper order to verbalize how mad this makes me!

Can it be Monday?!

so I posted yesterday that I fell and really hurt my knee, well today one of the animals I've been watching (there are 2 cats, a rabbit and a bird) went crazy. It was the bird. I don't know what it was doing but somehow the cage it was on crashed from the perch it was on and water and bird food spilled to the floor. I went to investigate and the bird flew/bounced my way scaring the crap out of me and I stumbled back...hurting my knee even more!

I was in so much pain that I nearly fell twice trying to get to the sofa (which was even more of a no no) to call my dad to come help me. I got the cats closed in the bedroom and waited for my dad to come get the bird.

My dad told me 30 mins but it took him 45 mins to get to me. In that time the bird flew at me (i swear it wanted me to break my knee/leg) 2 or 3 times! When my dad came, the bird flew in my face 2 more times! I screamed like a little girl. heh my dad was like "haven't you held the bird before?" uhh NO! it's never been out of the cage while I was here...I've NEVER seen it out of the cage!

so he gets it back in the cage, I give it fresh food & water and then clean up the spilled stuff. my dad gave me some muscle relaxant cream and a wrap for my knee. the relaxant kind of helped, but I still get a sharp pain whenever I step the wrong way. Thing is, I don't ever know which way is going to be the wrong way until it happens and I have the crippling pain.

So can it PLEASE be Monday? I want to go home and snuggle with my cat? at least there's no flying birds trying to attack me!

There are helpful people out there, right?

There are people who'd help someone if they fell...right in front of their house, right?

Good luck finding that in Compton!

I was walking to the bus stop and was maybe 2 blocks away and I tripped, felt my left knee lock up and I fell. I'm pretty sure on the way down I screamed (maybe it was just in my head?) and kind of rolled on to the grass by the curb. It took me a good 5 mins to stand up and limp to a fence to regain my balance and put my shoe back on.

While this was going on, there was a guy, no more than 5 feet away from me washing his car! Does he stop...ask if I'm okay...come to help me stand up? NO! he kept drying off his fucking car! I was in front of his damn house and fell!

I don't know when he noticed I was leaning on his fence for support but he stopped drying and looked at me. I was like "oh no, don't stop drying your car on account of me! I'm fine. I'll just limp my way to the bus stop." apparently sarcasm is lost on him, just like being a good Samaritan. He watched me limp off, saying ouch, ouch, ouch with each step and he went back to drying off his car *rolls eyes*

Now my knee really hurts when I put pressure on it. casual walking and stepping up some steps is ok, but running or walking quickly makes my knee give out and feel like I'm going to fall.

needless to say, I made it to work, I'm done with my work and going to head either to taco bell or just ride the bus around

wow! 3 days in a row of going out!

Sunday I went to church
Monday I went to the mall and California Pizza Kitchen
Today I went to the nail salon (I now have bright ass pink nails. wish I could take a pic of them but I can't) and the grocery store. Did all that in a matter of 4 hours? It would have probably been like 2 or 3 hrs had the original nail salon I planned on going to to doesn't take credit cards so the only time I go to them is when I have cash (I pretty much hate carrying cash). I ended up going to the place by my house, which is another 45 mins away. get my nails done in about an hr, wait for 5 mins for the bus then when I get back to Compton I spend some time in the store getting food so I won't have to go out to eat...which also means I probably won't be going out much either. lol

Trip to BJ's Restaurant & Brewery will have to happen with my next paycheck...or maybe for my birthday in September. even tho it's during the week (it's on a Tuesday), I'm hoping some of the ppl I went to high school with, who I'd like to reconnect with before our reunion next year, will be able to go (doubt it tho)

Gonna nap now. Toodles ya'll!

and...I went out today!

yay I got out yesterday (Monday). somehow I found the motivation to get dressed and leave and went to the mall. I would have done some shopping but all of my paycheck didn't post to my account from when I deposited it on Sunday at the ATM.

anyways, I walked around the mall, mainly deciding where I wanted to have lunch and get my dinner from and decided on California Pizza Kitchen. Before I ate there today, I'd only eaten there twice and both times I got the Carne Asada Pizza. Got the same thing again and just like before, it was yummy. I also got a passion fruit mojito. also yummy

a lot of my friends think it's silly when I take pics of my food, but it's cute when they do it *rolls eyes* I took pics of my food (and drink)

my mojito


my pizza


A week from Today, Lora, her parents and Staci (shh that's a surprise) will be back and I'll be back in my bedroom (yay?). I'm saying this now, I'm not looking forward to seeing Staci. Yeah, I guess we're friends, but I have a hard time grasping change. Not change for myself, but change in others. like I find it hard to believe they've changed for the better when for the last 5 yrs or whatever they've been out partying and doing what not to hear they've done a 180*...I can't grasp that. Maybe it's because the change that everyone has said she's done goes against what I'm struggling with...I don't know. it always seems to come down to church with me.

why am I up so early on a Saturday?!

the house I'm staying at has an alarm system and I was showed how to use it. last night I turned it on because I heard police sirens and this neighborhood isn't all that great.

well at 5 am, I was going to the bathroom (the room I'm in is in the back of the house - behind the kitchen) and just as I got to the living room the alarm went off and scared the crap out of me. I rushed to stop it and then turned on every single light in the house before going to the bathroom.

here it is 20 mins to 7 am, all the lights are on and I'm waiting for it to be a bit later before opening the curtains so I can turn out the lights.

Also I have to call my friends I'm house sitting for and tell them/ask them if they knew why it would go off so early in the morning. I mean if I'd had still been in bed sleeping and it went off I would have crapped my pants from being scared.

can it be Thursday already?!

starting tomorrow (really Friday 830 am) I'll be house & animal watching for Lora & her parents while they're in Texas for 10 days. Tomorrow afternoon/evening Lora's going to pick me up on her way home from work and take me shopping for food. I see their freezer being packed with many planned meals so I don't have to do much of any cooking using their stove/pots & pans and the like...plus I'm sure I'll have left over food from planned trips to BJ's Restaurant and Brewhouse and California Pizza Kitchen.

anyways, my bags are packed, for the most part, and it feels like I'm taking too much stuff. lol I have a suitcase of clothes, duffel bag of shoes, travel bag for hair/makeup stuff. plus my laptop and purse. Lucky for me I'll only be 20 minutes from home so I can go home if I need to get something else or drop something off at home.

I can't think of anything else and I'm kind of starving so I'm going to find something to eat and finish this episode of Supernatural.

omg so yay

Thursday night Lora is picking me up to start house sitting for her and her parents while they're visiting Anastacia & Pablo for 10 days in Texas.

Lora is also going to take me grocery shopping so I can have food to eat (and I'm sure so there is food for the menagerie of animals they have)

I did a quick scan of my bills and it looks like I'll be able to shop for fun! There are 2 malls a mere bus ride away so yay!

also, cable and wireless internet access! I can spend the entire 10 days catching up on all the downloading I've neglected over the MONTHS.

Can't think of anything else so I'm going to try and watch Sherlock Holmes (for the 4th time tonight!)

why can't my horoscope ever be spot on when it comes to money coming my way!?

Today's Yahoo! Horoscope was about work:

Virgo
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You're pretty good at self-discipline, and today that trait comes in handy as you face a daunting to-do list. Force yourself to tackle it in the right order, instead of doing the fun stuff first.

It's not that what I wanted to do first was "fun" but it was definitely easier & faster. Copy-Paste-save-print out tomorrow. But what I ended up doing first was what I needed to do first. The Bulletin's for Sunday's Church Service.

There's still a lot left to do and my "to do list" but that'll have to wait until tomorrow. we got a late start and still have to take my mom to work in the next 20-30 mins and I'm almost positive my dad is going to come back and finish the lawn. there were lots and lots of weeds that needed to be whacked lol

eta: we have no home phone. apparently Verizon was working on the phone lines yesterday and now we don't have service...but we still DSL service. I told suggested my dad call Verizon to have them fix it. he never responded. This is exactly why I give everyone my cell phone number and I'm glad someone near me has unprotected wireless. Barring our power & water being shut off, I'm okay. I have my cell phone & wireless internet until it's settled. And as of this morning before we left for the church, we were still without landline service. *shrugs*

*is embarrassed*

going through more boxes in my room to see what needs to go to storage or be tossed and thought to myself, "my god! how into boybands was I?!"

I found unopened box of 98* Valentines Day cards, a BSB gift bag and magazines with *NSYNC on the cover!

I thought I put that stuff in the garage long ago & that I took it to storage on Monday!

guess not! lmao I think I as clean more, I'm going to find EVEN MORE boyband related stuff.

for those wondering how the testing for the school office assistant position went here you go:

there were about 500 applicants, of those there are 7 testing groups. testing started today (7-28) and will go until Monday (8-3). I won't know if I passed the test until around 8-10.

after all the testing and scores have been calculated, the top 30 will be asked back for further testing. of those 30, the top 20 who pass the 2nd round of tests will be asked back for interviews.

they're only hiring for 3 positions - two 8 hour 11 month positions and one 3 hour 10 month position

that's kind of it. I have to wait another 2 weeks to see if I'll be asked back for more testing or I'll know if my results will be kept on file for 2 yrs.

so...waiting...

I see cute brothers

Tuesday I test for the school office assistant position i applied for. i wish it wasn't past the 2 yr mark since the last time i applied or i would use the results from that test. i had to have been in the top 30 back then because I was called for an interview (which i sucked at). oh well. this gets me out of the apartment and the testing keeps the stuff fresh in my head so both are a plus.

for the longest time I've been telling my mom how her china was mine and I was going to take it when I move (my brother & sister don't 'deserve' it because they aren't here to clean it) and she keeps saying "I know I know". well today (Monday) I took some stuff to storage and she gave me boxed dishes (they'd never been used!) and some other bowls (and when she finds them, some silverware) and they are mine as well. yay! I don't have to go shopping for dishes (or a china cabinet) when i move.

downloaded the first 6 episodes of season 1 of SPN and will watch them this week. I can't wait.

gonna shower now. I want to watch the pilot episode of SPN and be "in bed" by 1 am so I get plenty of sleep.

eta
I'm really starting at this late, but that's better than nothing, right?

My tv watching plan for the rest of summer to the end of year: watch at least one season of "it" tv shows.

On my list so far is:
Supernatural
One Tree Hill
Moonlight
Merlin (I know it's currently on NBC but it's almost always on opposite something I want to see on PBS)
True Blood
Heroes

I KNOW there are more, but I'm completely drawing a blank as to what they are!

comment me with a tv show you think I should check out and I'll add it to my list
commenter beware: should I find full time work, who knows when I'll get a chance to watch these shows. :(

who am I? Lizet Elaine!

sorry, currently watching Drumline and Petey Pablo was just "singing"

Like I expected, I got a testing invitation letter from the school district I applied to 2 weeks ago. my testing date is July 28th at 1045 am. I'm confident I'll pass. Only applicants who pass the test and score within the top 30 are invited back for more testing/interviews. I do fine when it comes to testing, it's the interviews I balk at.

I dyed my hair today (Thursday). with the lighting in the apartment I can't tell if I got the desired color, but my mom says it's a reddish brown. I was going for more of a red over brown, but I do know it's lighter.

one of my cousins is having her sweet 16 on Saturday. our grandmother said I was invited but I haven't gotten an invitation or a call about it so idk what's going on. I do have a dress out in case I get a call the day of inviting me to it (it's happened that way before)

I've been invited to like 4 baby showers (for cousins) and I have gifts (hand made blanket from my mom) but no paper invites. so I'm uber confused about what's going on. word of mouth invite used to be fine, but with how this part of my family is, i'd much rather have a paper/electronic invite.

umm yeah, that's everything I guess. Got work in the morning (Friday) and my sister asked me to type up some papers for her and will pick them up before she goes to work. this means I have to be up 3 hours earlier than I usually am :(

to call or not to call

there are these apartment like houses I see for rent about 5 minutes or so from my church. there's a whole tract of them, like 2 blocks or something. well they look like they wouldn't be much to rent but I've been too chicken to call and ask about them (at one point I got off the bus, wrote down the number & walked 6 block to my connecting bus stop but I've since lost the number)

anyways, the for rent sign is back up and it's got me thinking about moving again. I totally can't afford it nor can my parents afford to help me (and I wouldn't want them to for that matter) get the place until I got a better job to pay for it myself (she offered to pull early SSI when I thought about moving to AZ and I almost took her up on it, but glad I didn't)

also, there's a vacant apartment behind me. it hurts to look at that place day in and day out. I daydream about how to decorate it, all the cool furniture I could get from Ikea, Target & Walmart. But apartments in this city are overpriced out the ass! $1200 for a cramped 2 bedroom/1 bathroom. outrageous!

it's all pathetic on my part. really it is.

supposed to hear back from the school district. I think letters go out this week to the applicants they want back for testing. I got to testing (and interview) when I applied for a different position 3 yrs ago. I really hope it pans out this time, but I interview horribly. why can't my resume & references speak for themselves?! *sighs*

oh gosh, I'm dragging

at work right now. been on the go go go since 8 am. I know that's not too long ago, but I was up until 2 am or something, then I had to lug boxes around and the heat isn't helping...it's just making me more tired.

Friday I finally got a storage unit. I was up until 1 am telling my dad which boxes in the garage were mine (there's still 1 more buried deep), then I couldn't go to sleep once I was done with that so I washed more dishes, finally went to sleep and at 8 am my dad woke me up. it felt like I had JUST fallen asleep, but I got up at 6 am when my cat was thisclose to my face meowing. gave her the rest of her dry food (I have to pick up more b4 going home), fresh water and I closed my bedroom door to go back to sleep.

By 815 my dad and I were at storage putting my stuff in my unit (which btw is the size of my closet! lol), he cleaned out his unit and by 915 we were back home. Thought my mom was going to return something to Kmart but she decided to do it tomorrow since she doesn't have to work, dad and I made some other stops before finally arriving at the church at 1015.

He's supposed to be doing the lawn, but I don't hear any machines going. I hope he's not still reading the news paper. we have to be back to take my mom to work by 1 pm and I need to get the cat some food.

OH! Yesterday my mom bought my this cute dress from Kmart! It was originally $26.99 but there was 60% discount (30% on the particular dress then another 30% store-wide)!! Hello! I'd like to go back with her and maybe get a couple more dresses! She also got me some hair dye and said if she didn't have to work today she'd do my hair, but thats not going to happen now, so I'll have to wait until next week (I want to wear the dress w/my freshly dyed hair lol)

I'm sure there's probably other stuff I could go into, but I need to see what my dad is doing (he has 1 1/2 hrs b4 we have to leave) and I need to finish my work!

oh that's disturbing

I'm watching SoCal Connected and I hear them mention my city. so naturally my ears perk up and I pay more attention.

they're talking about hospitals and the cost to run them or some such. Well, there's a hospital within walking distance from me (about a 15-20 min walk) and it's the one I'd prefer to go to if I had an emergency at home.

then something was said that made my mouth drop open...a few yrs ago (b4 hospitals started closing left & right) there were 8-9 hospitals around me. now there are THREE! that is unbelievable...that's unacceptable!

I totally understand why the emergency room at King Drew was closed in 2007 (a woman DYING while waiting to see a doctor is insane! a man in pain for 4 days before his family took him to another hospital where he was diagnosed with a BRAIN TUMOR!)

but how do you go from there being 10 hospitals with emergency rooms to THREE.

I don't get it. I don't like it.

also, California being 51st in repaying hospitals due to patients not having full or any health insurance (apparently we're behind Puerto Rico!) is also bad.

I'm just so disappointed in the way my state has been run into the ground.

I ventured out for the day

I dropped off my job application at one of the local school districts. the lady told me the closing date is July 14th and about a week after that I'll get a letter in the mail for testing. I've gone through testing with this school district before (about 3 or 4 years ago) so I'm confident I'll pass that with no problems. it's the face to face interview part I kind of suck at. Anyways, she also told me instead of the 3 positions that was listed on the website, there's only 2 - an 8 hour and a 3 hour. I'm not picky so I asked for both. the pay and benefits are great for either one.

After that I made my way to downtown LA to go to the Central Library. There was a bit of increased traffic, but honestly, nothing too bad. I keep forgetting that when I go Downtown, I need to take a camera because the buildings are so...wow! beautiful and big! It's the one time I don't mind being a tourist in a city I go to all the time. I was in and out of the Library in an hour and I was home by 1 pm.

dropping off the job application, going to the library and back home was like 4 hours.

my mom complains that I'm in my room too much, and would like for me to get out at least once (not counting going to work & church). so I did that today. I'm not in the walking mood and I don't have enough change for 3 bus trips so the next time I go out is Friday when I go to work and for my "yearly" check up.

cross your fingers ya'll

I'm applying for another job!

I'm finally getting tired of being at home 5 days a week that I searched some local school districts to see if they're hiring and one I checked (Paramount Unified) is hiring! I'm sure it's going to be a lot more than who were applying at WalGreens that's for sure.

The position I'm applying for is School Office Assistant. If I read the site right, that position is going to hire 3 people: 2 positions at 8 hours per day; 11 months per year and 1 position at 3 hours per day; 10 months per year. I'd be happy with either! Working 5 days a week, whether its 8 hrs a day or 3 hrs a day is still working and I KNOW it won't be like how it is at the church. ALSO the pay is pretty good! 8 hours per day/11 months $2,507 - $3,055 per month - 3 hours per day/10 months $940 - $1,146 per month.

Just realized that while the listing was posted on the 28th of June and that's not that many days ago, that's plenty of time for enough people to see, fill out applications and turn them in. I need to get on the ball!

Checking other school districts though. I want to apply to as many as I can.

Random: suddenly, I'm not as tired as I usually am this time of day

Hmmm

I posted this question of sorts on twitter, but I want to expand/ramble on about it here. Just to get mt thoughts out and maybe try to figure out why I do what I do and I'm so secretive, despite how much of myself I put out for others to see. this also isn't going to flow in any kind of order. it's just me getting my thoughts out as they come to me.

what does this say about my relationship w/my family: I worry more about not living up to the expectations of my friends than my family

read any number of entries in my journal and a blind man could see that I don't have all that great a relationship with my parents & sister. I think more so my father & sister's kids than anything. could it be because at 27 yrs old I still live at home with my parents and work under min wage (technically speaking) and have no desire to change either. probably, more like absolutely. very so often I'll look at apartments & jobs in other states and it looks like I'm moving in the right direction towards "growing up" but that's just wishful thinking.

I have some heavy stuff on my mind. I eluded to some of it in one of the communities I belong to but what I'd really like to do is to be able to open up completely to someone without them lecturing me about how what I did was wrong and blah blah blah. I do that to myself enough. I KNOW the things I've done were so completely wrong I wouldn't be friends with me, but I'd still like to have ONE person truly in my corner...no matter how stupid my actions are.

the daughter of one of my friends, who I guess is also my friend...or started out that way...well she made a comment to me one day, and parts of kind of stuck with me. she said she has her friends she goes out with all the time/does stuff with, then she has friends like me, who haha on me, I'm the only one, who she knows will ALWAYS be there for her. I guess that's good and all, but wouldn't it be good to also do stuff with the friend who's always going to be there...I mean, just so she knows she's not the only one working to make the friendship work?

I think that's why my friendship with Crystal ended. sure we did stuff together. church stuff and that's a whole other story for another time. but ultimately her life became more about church & her family (which is understandable) and I was left hanging there. for a good 3 years I would call on her kids birthday, her birthday, around the date of her husband's birthday (I honestly never knew the EXACT date) and their anniversary. Crystal & I had been friends since I was 4 and she was 3. in 2000 (right when things went south I guess) that was my longest friendship. 14 years. that's a long time. and for maybe 7 yrs after that I continued to try and do things with the friendship that she just wasn't putting the effort towards.

There's this same cycle with other people I'd considered friends and I know myself well enough to know that I'd always consider them a friend.

this is me ending this because I'm tearing up now.

I'm a PC and i think I need a new browser

Since Saturday night I haven't been able to access my yahoo email, then facebook, then twitter...and who knows what other websites, using Firefox.

so I saved my bookmarks (I'm sure there's probably a thousand of them), uninstalled FF, restarted the computer and reinstalled it. That didn't help. I still can't access the previous places and what's this? I can't type addresses in the address bar to go to other websites.

now this is where I'm at. I don't feel safe using IE (been hammered in my head that it's easier for viruses to get through), but it's the only other browser I have on my laptop that I can access the websites I need/want to go to.

so my question to my friends list is this: what browser are you using, do you like it and would you recommend I try it out (I'd be willing to do so for a month)

until then, I'll continue to use IE (and FF when I can)

I miss East Middle of 14 yrs ago

wow, it has been that long since I set foot on the campus of my old middle school!

Today my nephew was promoted from 8th to 9th grade. I feel kind of old. it looked the same, but different at the same time lol

I will also think twice before dismissing my nephew when he says he doesn't like someone (teacher or administrator) for whatever reason. the Principal was a grade A jerk! First he said no cheering whatsoever while they read the names because they had like 400 something students names to read. for the most part, people followed that, but then a couple people would cheer and the student they were cheering for was DENIED THEIR CERTIFICATE! okay, action, consequence. I get that. but he wasn't doing it on a consistent basis. apparently my nephew is kind of popular so when his name was said, HIS FELLOW CLASSMATES CHEERED, NOT HIS FAMILY AND HE WAS DENIED HIS CERTIFICATE! my sister was pissed! I get why she was upset up every other time someone cheered and we heard but not the principal and nothing happened, she went on and on about it!

the ceremony ended and my sister waited a while to cool down before going to talk to the principal (and he had to be found) and she explained what happened and he was all, "I'm sorry. I tried to do the best I could" and blah blah blah "come on MONDAY to pick up his certificate." School sis over for the semester on Thursday so why not then...or Friday? Why Monday. That's bull!

so yeah, I don't like him. even before I knew he was the principal there was something about him I didn't like. I think it was how he told the standing people to keep the aisle clear (for emergency purposes).

but that's all over with. I bought my nephew his yearbook since they weren't going to be able to afford it, and tomorrow he's going to Knott's Berry Farm with the other promoted students.

We went to IHOP for, what should have been breakfast, but they were so busy that we didn't get & eat our ordered food until after noon! But it was good and I'm full.

Here it is later and I'm back!

This will mean nothing, unless you really want to know me better.

8 things about me
1) My favorite flavor of ice cream is chocolate
2) My favorite type of music is country (though I do listen to ALL KINDS)
3) The cell phone network I use is T-Mobile (hello! it's pink!)
4) Depending on the sex of my child, I would either name him Gareth Daniel or name her Catherine Leigh (and should I have more children, I have a whole list of names lol)
5) When I was younger I wanted to be a teacher. In high school I thought about going into law enforcement and as I finished college I thought about being a lawyer. now I'd just be happy with a full time job!
6) In my nearly 27 years on Earth, I have had 3 boyfriends: M when I was 16, D & B in my early 20s (early 20s sounds weird considering I'm only 26.9 year old or something lol but I haven't had a boyfriend since I was 23)
7) My favorite pizza topping is pepperoni (though bbq chicken is growing on me)
8) My favorite Disney character(s) are Mickey & Minnie Mouse

what's that? more to come later

Neglected

I should really stop neglecting this place, but honestly it isn't on my radar and I don't think anyone reads this. So really, what is the point?

I have several blog "series" I need to finish some kind of way but I don't feel like it. The time for them has come and gone. Though I think my friend one can easily be revived, but it's a matter of really wanting to.

And my life? It's a big bore fest. By choice I don't work enough (there isn't all that much work to do in the first place).

California has been shaken up so much the last few weeks it's crazy! I was almost "trapped" in my bathroom too! That would have been something.

Had a job interview that I don't feel went well. Arrived late due to a car accident (I wasn't involved as I was on the bus) and had no way of contacting the interviewer. Did some waiting around which kind of grated on my nerves but I sucked it up and dealt with it. This week I should hear something. Positive or negative I'd like to hear something.

Unexpected visit from Dick-D & his wife. That was unexpected and will never happen again. Dick-D also continues to txt me and it's annoying at bed. Recently it was like being in elementary school all over again with the txt messages we were exchanging.

d: do you like me?
me: you're ok.
d: but do you like me?
me: atm you're pissing me off.
d: ok. but do you like me?
me: NO! LEAVE ME ALONE

I guess he took the leave me alone to heart. Haven't heard back from him. *knocks on wood*

Found out that Dick-C has remarried and leading a good Christian life.I'm finding it hard to believe that people change [bad to good, but good to bad can totally happen] (maybe it's because I see that I don't change?). And for all the jumping and shouting and trying to convince that they've changed comes off as very fake to me. Hypocrite just screams in my head (again because I see that I am also being a hypocrite as well).

Every so often I think about Dick-B because well, he did nothing wrong (other than had no motivation but for sex) and I ended things giving a pretty lame excuse. Then I tried to rectify the whole thing but he blew me off. I guess I deserved that, but still. NOT COOL!

more to come later...

Are you eye flirting with me?

Went to Fight Night XI & after party with Jen.

It was freaking awesome!

There were 9 matches, 4 demos including the Capoeira group who practice at the Dojo (Power Kick Cardio Kickboxing and Martial Arts Academy) and a raffle with proceeds going to The American Diabetes Association (they raised $2200 or $2300 I can't remember which).

The youngest fighter was 16 I believe and the oldest was in his 40s (and a drinker/heavy smoker). The 16 yr old won her match and the 40 yr old won his fight.

It was just so awesome...and packed!

The raffle. They were giving out diverse prizes. DVDs (Fox produced movies I believe), shirts, items from Yahoo!, BMW, a few books, shopping gift cards, 1 month free membership to the Dojo...and the one I wanted to win - a Dolce Vita Spa Package valued at $450! If I won it I was giving it to my mom for Mother's Day. I bought my 1 ticket and waited for my numbers to be called. I held my breath everytime the numbers got close and the prize wasn't what I wanted. 15 to 20 prizes later my number was called and I WON THE SPA PACKAGE! omg! I wanted to tell everyone (and I kind of did on Twitter).

The night went on, all the rounds were finished, 2 additional trophies were given out - biggest heart (to the fighter who gave their all even when they thought they didn't have anything else to give) and best fighter of the night (whether they won or lost their match). They aso gave one of the sensais a trip to Hawaii. That was pretty cool.

after all the hub bub of that, Jen and I made our way out and headed to the after party/ That was mellow but fun. I laughed so much I started to cry and I eye flirted with this guy from the halloween party. I didnt have enough alcohol in me to go up and talk to him (eww beer!) and I doubt I would have made much sense had I done so.

we left at midnight and here it is 2 hours later and I should be alseep!

Happy Mother's Day to all the moms and moms to be. Hope your day is full love, hugs, kisses and relaxation!

It still seems surreal!

In a matter of HOURS I'm going to be in LAS VEGAS FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME!!

I'm so excited and nervous and just plain silly about the whole thing!

I packed & unpacked like 4 times tonight to make sure I had everything...and like when I was first packing for my trip here (Arizona for those who don't know) I forgot to pack underwear but in the end I remembered. But just the simple fact that I forgot in the first place makes me go "wtf is my brain?!" LOL But not to worry! I packed them. LOL

I'm too excited to sleep. I know I should though. We're (Jeanine and I) going to leave at 930 or 10 am. I don't remember the time exactly, but I should be up around 7 or 8 am.

I'm going to watch another episode of A Nero Wolfe Mystery and bookmark some more links before I finally go to bed. I'll more than likely post pics [[H E R E]] while I'm in Vegas if you want to check them out. Or you can wait until I get back to Jeanine's for me to post them.

And I'm off!

My sister should be here to get me in about 20 minutes so I'm typing this as fast as I can. Sadly she doesn't have the internet so I won't be able to get online, but I think *knocks on wood* my cell phone is on it's way to working again. I'm just having a bit of problems with e-mail and maybe pic messaging. But I can get and make calls and send and receive reg txt messages!

I'm all packed (I think) and like I said, waiting for my sister. Better do last minute checks before time completely slips away!

Thus my 2 week vacation starts

but first things first, I guess.

I'm without a cell phone. I mean, I physically have one, but about all I can do is take pictures, use it for a clock, play games or make notes. Oh and I can look up phone numbers. Sunday around 4 pm my phone went down the crapper. the phone itself is good, it's the service/network that I'm having problems with. Like I said, Sunday around 4 pm I started having problems with it. Dropped calls, not being able to call out, no reception, the data aspect of my phone (txt messaging, pic messaging, e-mail & web browsing) are shotty - I can receive all of them (minus pic messaging) but I have to hope and pray I can send out. I was on with T-Mobile tech support twice yesterday. The first time I got through about 30 mins of trouble shooting before I was disconnected. I waited a few hrs and tried again. The new person I spoke with told me I wasn't the only one experiencing problems. Apparently various towers I could/would connect to were going down and booting me from the network. So she entered the info and gave me a service # or some such. I don't know how they're going to get a hold of me if I can't send of receive calls. though I can check my messages from a landline phone in case anyone calls and leaves a message (which no one rarely does so it doesn't really matter, right?) [while out at the bank I was able to send txt messages so I think something with where I live that's suddenly giving me problems w/my cell phone]

My dad got a car April 3rd and Saturday (April 18th) the ignition messed up or something. Of course I didn't find out until 1030 pm that night...the ignition stopped working at like 4 pm! wtf!? I was very annoyed with my dad about that. Sunday I called Lora and she was back to being the chauffeur for my mom and I as my dad rather take the bus to "get to church on time". whatever. The lack of car also put me in a spot as I knew there was no way he was going to have the car fixed in time to get me to the greyhound bus station on Wednesday by 630 am [back from a trip to the bank] so I was freaking out. My parents threw out lots of suggestions as to how I could get there and then dad suggested that I ask my sister. He said I should stay the night and since she lives in LA (about 20-30 mins from the Greyhound station) she could take me. That's better than the idea I had of waking up at 4 am to catch the 509 am bus/train/bus to get to the station around 6 am.

so tonight I will be staying at my sisters. I don't think she has internet so if she doesn't, I won't be back online until LATE Wednesday night...for sure Thursday as I will already be at Jeanine's house!!

Hmm what else... I need to type up my itinerary to leave with my parents. I'll also e-mail them a copy in case they misplace the paper copy. [whoops got sidetracked and didn't finish/post this entry]

so that's everything. Off to clean the kitchen and make sure I have everything I need for tonight & for when I leave tomorrow.

so...that was out of left field

I have a job. 16 hrs a week. it's obvious to anyone who sees me on Twitter, that I don't nearly work 16 hrs a week. At most I do 8 hours (4-5 on Fridays and the rest on Sundays). So Monday-Thursday my fat butt is parked on my bed watching talk shows and tweeting what I see on TV.

Well today I get this message from my cousin: Lizet I think you need to get a job being a talk host on a radio station, or either writing for a newspaper or magazine.

That's totally out of left field. First, I have no idea what I'd speak or write about, second, several of my online friends have/had jobs in both those fields and have been doing it for pretty much all their lives and have had their hours cut or lost their jobs and I'd feel really bad to up and get a job as a radio talk show host or writer when they're looking for work.

and like I said, totally out of left field. But I replied back to my cousin: my writing is no where near good enough to writer for a newspaper or magazine and I wouldn't know what to talk about on a radio show

but that got me to thinking...who's to say I can't host a podcast or whatever. Scan the news for stuff that's of interest to me, ask my friends what's interesting to them and gab about it for 30-60 mins

but I'm just so ehh about it. Even what I've typed up right now I find completely horrible and just lacking.

No. What I need to do is find a sugar daddy and just coast.

Long time no post, right?

Over a month since the last time I posted.

Nothing of excitement here though.

Money problems causing havoc on my travel plans, dental problems causing havoc on my travel plans...many things causing havoc on my travel plans.

But I WILL be going to Arizona and Las Vegas for 2 weeks and I will deal with everything else when I get back!

I have a wedding to go to on Saturday and I'm looking forward to that.

Sometime between now and when I go on vacation (or possibly when I get back) I'll be meeting with a counselor at Cerritos to see about the Paralegal program and what I need to do to get in. From my research, it's just a matter of registering for the classes in the program, but I want to know for sure. It's been 4 or 5 years since I've done a concentrated program there and I don't want to get screwed over like I did when I was in the Teacher TRAC program when I first started there in 2000.

That's all. I'm going to watch tv or some such like that