Thursday, April 1, 2004 08:21 a.m.
I get annoyed with people so quickly. Usually it isn't triggered by one specific incident but numerous incidents that become compacted into my mind and I build this giant ball of annoyance to one specific person. I have a person that reports to me like that. Uuuggghhh....I don't want to go into much detail because I don't know who may read this. I would like to think only 3-4 people but who really knows. Anyway, I constatnly lose my cool with this person and find it extremely hard to talk to him. I just don't think he is the right fit here and only does the bare, bare, bare minimum of his required job responsibility! Idiot!
A co-worker of mine brightened up my day after my morning nonsense with the above person. She brought me a bag of Black Jack and Beemans gum. I love Black Jack it tastes just like licorice.
Wednesday, March 31, 2004 06:29 p.m.
Okay, my pal Amber did this so i'm copying her. Check out all the places i've visited in the USA.
create your own personalized map of the USA
Thinking of all the places i've visited made me remember Wall Drug in SD. While driving east, WA to Chicago, we kept seeing all these miles for free ice water atg Wall Drug. The signs got weirder and weirder and we were compelled to stop. Roadside America to the core. Not only was there free ice water, but homemade fudge, tons of eats, "general stores" and a strange ghost town thing with lots of photo ops of giant bunnies and covered wagons.
Ok, with the above map I thought about cheating and counting spots where the plane may have landed and I hung out for a few hours before my next flight but decided not to. I think I only would have gained Texas and New Jersey but what would be the reason of cheating on this map?
Mmmmm.....I want a slice of Cheesecake factory cheesecake or a Dairy Queen chocolate dipped cone.
Wednesday, March 31, 2004 05:31 p.m.
Alright the photos have been uploaded. That took a little longer then expected but I've got nothing but time!
I just gotta say, my doggie is so cute!
To bad we recently sold the Lambretta.
Wednesday, March 31, 2004 04:38 p.m.
So I finally unloaded the photos from my digital camera. I will be uploading them shortly and throwing up a link. Although I have a couple of the photos already on my Yahoo! photo album I still had the photos on my flash card which will now be deleted. I stayed an hour and a half overtime, thank the lord for hourly pay! But it was a very productive half hour.
T reported to work today. I'm so curious to here how his day went and want types of perks are included with the job. My doggies are completely retarded right now. They are running circles around the couch. I don't really see them from my desk but I hear the furious thumping resonating off the floor and the sound of heavy panting. I had the backdoor open so they could play outdoors but they never want to leave the house unless I do. If I could find my wireless card I would sit outside with them but no luck there.
I bought the most reddest, sweetest strawberries from Marukai. I came home sliced a few up and ate them as an afternoon snack. They were yummy and have only left me wanting more. I've learned my lesson though. There have been many a time I have OD on strawberries and grapes. I eat a ton, savoring every bite. Within moments of the last bite my tummy starts aching like nothing else. And I end up feeling ill for the remainder of the night. So, the lesson lerned is no more gorgeing on fruit.
Today at work I got to play with the label maker. This made me so excited! I love little gadgets like this even though the only mundane thing I was doing was re-labeling employee folders. I need to order a label maker for myself. When I hold that gadget in my hand I get a sudden urge to label everything in my site with "Amber." Isn't that pathetic?
Wednesday, March 31, 2004 06:18 a.m.
In an attempt to watch my Netflix rentals at a quicker turnaround rate, I popped in Shattered Glass after dinner last night so I could return it today. Maybe I was on my way to a mini food coma or just plain tierd, but I could barely get through the first 10 minutes of the flick. I had to have T stop the movie and save it for daylight hours when I would have much more attention span. It wasn't that it was a bad movie but the flow confused me. I will try again today.
Okay, this is totally a girl thing. Well maybe true for some guys but mostly girls. So anyway, has anyone ever had one of those mornings where you get dress with not a lot of thought in your outfit, brush your hair, through on a light coat of makeup and look in the mirror and to your surprise you look incredibly cute? Don't lie about this becasue I know everyone has those days. I had that day today. I left the house feeling good, thinking I look cute for the day and having an overall fabulous inner glow. I love, love,love these types of mornings. I didn't put a ton of effort into getting dress and it turned out in my favor. I though on a black new length cotton halter dress, not a puffy 50s style dress but a sleek fitted springy dress (I guess as springy as black can be), leather flip-flops with bits of tourquise sewn onto the straps, a little denim jacet, silver and tourquise bracelet and hair straight as sticks and brushed into a nice side part. Simple but nice. I'm happy with the results. What I do find odd is how this dress still fits me with my big-ol-belly. I've had this dress for about two years, sure there's some lycra in the cotton but to still zip up with the belly and boobs considerably larger. The dress will probably be stretched out and I won't be able to fit in it when my body returns to normal.
So its set, we're off to Vegas this weekend. The doggies were going to be in tow but the person we're staying with has another guest with her so we didn't think it would be right to bring them along. They'll be in the kennel for two days, which in hindsight, they may be happier then dealing with the heat of the desert. Boston Terriers are weird when it comes to swings in temperature. I'm already sad thinking that I won't have the sweet doggies with me. I'll make sure to have some yummy treats for them on Monday when we pick them up!
Tuesday, March 30, 2004 04:15 p.m.
My comapny threw a memorial luncheon for the employee that passed away last week. It was really, really nice. Some of his family memebers were there as well.
All in all the day flew by. I create to-do lists every morning and surprisingly I completed everything on todays list. I can already think of a few items I need to add tomorrow morning. The feeling of checking an item off that list is amazing. It's those little things in my day to day routine that makes me so happy. In a way that is kinda sad, but that's my deal. It's that time of year to change our clocks again. I don't mind it when we gain that hour but it sucks to lose that hour in the spring. Next thing you know it will be broad daylight at 9pm at night. When I first moved to the mainland that seriously freaked me out. We would be out and think it was 5-6pm but it was really 9.30 or so. Very strange to me at the time.
We're driving out to Vegas this Saturday. I'm only going to be working a half-day so we should ge heading out of town around 11am or so. We'll be staying for two nights and returning sunday afternoon. It'll be nice to get out of LA. Although our main motivation to head 4-hours east is to eat buffet food and check out Hoover Dam. I still have to figure out what else we want to do. I'm sure we'll do a little gambling but that isn't our main perrogative for going. Mainly, its a relatively quick drive, we can stay with family friends, and we can take the doggies with us.
We moved a shelf from the spare room to our bedroom and you can really tell how dirty the carpet is. On a day to day basis the carpet looks and feels clean. Then you move a giant piece of furniture and see what color your carpet really, truly is. Its quite disconcerting knowing that what you think is a beigy/off-whitesh carpet is really a white/sandy carpet. Maybe we'll have to bust out and rent a steam cleaner to clean the carpets. I don't think a good vaccumming will even get the carpet to the color it should be.
T got a job at a landscape architecture firm. I'm so happy. It'll be nice having him bring home a regular paycheck again. And it will be even more spiffy when we can return to our comfortable way of living with a baby coming. The company seems really nice and flexible, exactly what he was looking for. He's a lucky boy.
I need to do something with my hair this evening. Its very wavy right now as I went to bed with damp hair. Whenever I do this I end up with wavy to curly hair and because i'm not a fan of hair products the whole mess winds up in a ponytail.
Last night we grilled some Kalbi and it was so yummy. Outside of my family one of the things I miss most about HI is the food. Although you can get Korean, Chinese, Hawaiianish foods here in Cali it just ain't the same. There are minute differences in the taste that it weirds me out. For example, we went to L&L drive in and although the Chicken Katsu curry with rice and macaroni salad was DDDEEElicious it just wasn't the same. The curry was almost a stew like consistency that just wasn't right. The one place that super yummy and closest to what we're used to is a little place called Seoul Grindz. We asked if the owner was from Hawaii they told us know but he spends a lot of time there and the owners friend owns a chain there. When asked what chain they told us Yummys. All T and I could do was giggle. Seoul Grindz is definetly yummy and when we want some korean comfort foods we head out for our five minute drive to the restaurant.
Yesterday afternoon we went grocery shopping at Marukai Market. Since our tax guy is located in Covina we decided to make the special trip, it turned out Marukai was about 2-3 miles away from the tax office. We picked up a bunch of food for different dinners and a lot of snacks as well. I had some really shitty shoyu that I really wanted to toss so while at Marukai we piced up a small bottle of Aloha Shoyu. As soon as I got home I through out that shitty bottle. We also piced up some yummy Asian pears, japanses cookies that look like chocolate-capped mushrooms, saimin and a bunch more stuff. They did have Orangina on sale so I got a really big bottle of it and now its almost gone. When we first started going to Marukai we would by so much junk food it was unabelivable. Now that we make more frequent trips to this wonderful food emporium we are a lot more selective of what we buy and don't by as much cookies, nori, seeds and other hawaii treats. This is a very good thing!
Monday, March 29, 2004 10:23 a.m.
I jumped right into cleaning at 8am this morning. All the windows have been windexed, the dining and living rooms are spotless, sheets are being washed, all dishes have been washed, and a shopping list has even been implemented. The spare room is on hold until we have to move everything out to paint then that will be the next room to be tackled. It feels so good to get so much done so early in the day. There's still a bunch more items on my list today. Like washing my car. Which I have talked about for a few days, but today WILL be the day of action.
We grilled some steak again last night. And upon my request I also had some whole wheat pitas and hummos on the side. Yum, yum!
I've taken a little 30-minute break but now I need to get dress, head to the market and visit the tax guy.
Sunday, March 28, 2004 08:50 p.m.
Breakfast was great this morning. D and V showed up bright and early and we haeded over to the Hollywood Hills Restaurant in Los Feliz. Once we finished eating we stayed for about an hour to catch up. I hadn't seen D in about 6 months, right aroung the time she moved to Long Beatch. I see V once a month or so but not as frequently as I would like to. We spent a lot of time gossiping and poor T was getting so uncomfortable because the three of us together can get pretty graphic with our language. Part way through our breakfast the table next to us had a turnover and the second group of people had two toddlers. While sitting in the booth everyone at that table broke into song singing Twinkle, Twinkle, D and V nearly lost control. They started to threaten me if I were to ever pull that in public with them. I told them I wouldn't do that, its not in my nature. But that may change, who knows? D couldn't stop staring at me and before I knew her hands were on my tummy. She was a little freaked out at how hard my stomach had become.
We didn't get home until 11.30am. We rested for about 30-minutes after D and V left then decided to hit some open houses in Kenneth Village, Rossmoyne Village and Verdugo Woodlands which are all located in Glendale. I fell in love with the Rossmoyne neighborhood. I think I will be adding that to the list of areas I would like to potentially purchase a home in. We also took a ton of digital pictures. We want to buy new windows and repaint the house so we were looking for color schemes we like. We have an idea of what we want so having these photos will be very helpful in the final decision.
Tomorrow we're seeing our tax guy to complete our taxes or file for an extension. Anything has got to better then last year. Selling stock really kills me! I should really put some money away whenever I sell stock that way I have the cash at hand. Of all my friends here in Cali only one of them actually received a return everyone else owes the IRS. What I think the problem is most people don't own real estate for a deduction but they sell stock like crazy. This will be the first year we will be able to deduct our house. Last year, we didn't own the house long enough to to deduct anything so we got screwed so badly! Hopefully, this will be a much better year.
T finally took some photos of me so I can send them to my mom and through a few up on my photo album. My mom has been bugging me for some recent photos so this should satisfy her. It took forever to take the photos because I have a problem with smiling on demand. I end up looking like a huge, bloated dork most of the time. But I don't really care, I know what I really look like.
We finally washed the SUV today. It was in such dire need of a wash. The sad thing is we took it through the drive through car wash but it only scratched the surface. We'll need to do a quick wash of the rims and the back of the car and then we'll be set. But...then we'll have to wash the other car which is so disgusting. It's going to be tough. What makes it even harder is that the car is a really shiny black so if you miss even a dime size spot it really, really stands out. I think we're going to wash this one at home. Ideally I would like to wake up early and get the washing completed before it gets really hot.
I'm suddenly feeling really tierd. I think I want to watch some of Mona Lisa Smiles and go to bed.
Sunday, March 28, 2004 05:53 a.m.
Another Sunday and up way to early. I've been having the hardest time sleeping in. I'm afrai that the concept of "sleeping in" is not in my vocabulary anymore. That's so sad! I've already, pseudo-cleaned the living room, but I'm going to wait until 7am or so to wash the dishes and put some pots away. Once I get into the kitchen i'm normally pretty noisey. I also want to run over to the car wash this morning. Our cars are so dirty that the dirt now looks like it has been baked on to the cars. It's pretty damn bad.
We were checking out some airfare online so we can get outta town for a weekend. There's some decent things out there. One idea is Phoenix. It's only $26 each way, out of Burbank. This would allow us to rent a car and get out of the city. But who really knows if we're going to do it. I just feel like we have maybe 8 good weekends to get outta town on a mini-vacation before we don't have the chance to do it for a few years. T was even toying with the idea of going to Hawaii for a weekend or 3-day weekend. They have fares for $150 each way, leaving out of Burbank which ain't to bad. I'm a little afraid of flying because just sitting in the car for an extended amount of time makes my legs all numb and me uncomfortable so the Hawaii thing may be out of the question.
You know, singly ply toilet paper sucks! Never again do we go to Target and I say, "T go grab us some TP." I need to explain to him that we want double roll, double ply only. This remains me of another bathroom topic, folding vs. scrunching. Why do people care if one is more efficient then the other is beyond me.
Yesterday was quite an easy day at work. Half the day was doing some mundane e-mail stuff the other half was completeing some small projects and finalizing a proposal. Needless to say, all was completed in a timely fashion. I thank god every day for my effieciency and multi-tasking skills, without it I would be up shits creek.
I've been toying with the idea of getting a new couch and side chair. Our furniture is still relatively new, we've had them for about 2-3 years but because of the type of material the couch and chair are made out of the dog hair is attracted and embedded into the fabric so freakin' quickly. Our furniture is from this place that creates custom 40s-50s-60s furniture and I thought these things were awesome (I mean our couch is 8-ft long) I still do, never been to a house with the same thing but being pregnant and having to sit in these things are becoming unbearable. First thing the furniture is low, very low and the recline is deep. I need to grab through pillows and build up a back that doesn't recline so much and always use an ottoman. If I don't do the above it really hurts my back. I'm sticking it out as much as possible because I don't want to buy a couch for a few more years. I just need some other solution for the short term. I'm sure i'll feel totally differently about this once the baby is born. Short term, I'm thinking of buying a side chair from Ikea that I can use in the living room or nursery that wil be comfy for me and comfy for me with the baby.
I think T will be painting the spare room this week. We decided on a color called gelato, its a pale grayish color. That's just for the walls, the trim, base board molding, and doors will be painted white. It will all be very neutral in there. I think it will look nice since a majority of the furniture is white and wall stuff are all framed out in black. We wanted something completely neutral and not cutesy, babyish. I'll have to take some photos when we're finished.
I'm glad we don't live in Santa Fe. The doggies would not be happy campers.
Friday, March 26, 2004 07:01 a.m.
Great! Just what we need, a McDonalds that takes credit cards. I know there are other fast food chains that accept credit cards and that's bad enough. I don't know why this is such a problem for me. But I'm sure i'll get over it.
Thursday, March 25, 2004 05:38 p.m.
While sifting through yesterday's mail I saw the tip of that familiar red envelope in the mail. Yes! Netflix is here! It's Mona Lisa Smiles. I think I will watch it tonight since all the March Madness nonsense has made CSI non-existent the last couple of weeks.
In the next day or two I have to take some recent photos of myself for my mother. She is throwing a baby shower for me, however I won't be in attendance bacause I will be in CA and not in HI. My mom is silly and will be having the photo screened upon a cake. She better send me a photo so I can post it because that is so hysterical. Since I'll be taking some photos i'll finally be able to add some new pictures to my online photo album.
More then 50% of my day today was spent in meetings. I don't mind meetings because it breaks up the mundane and I consider it payback for all the shitty days I have. I brought up the topic of coverage while i'm on medical leave. I was surprised nobody has even approached me about when and how long I will be out. We through out some suggestions and will probably have an employee under me fill the position. Whoever is selected for this temporary assignment will gain some valuable experience as well as receiving a pay differential to make it worth their while. I'm not stressing over this to much because I'm not the one that will be screwed in the end i'll just be squeezing out an 8 pound baby.
T checked out a daycare yesterday. The price is in the range we were hoping to spend and the daycare is minutes from my home. Although we have found one place we're planning on contacting my EAP for some other options in our neighborhood. It sucks to have to pay so much for daycare but I don't think we can afford to have me be a stay at home mom. Ideally I would like my cousin to move in for awhile a be my sitter. She has no desire to go to college and just wants to work. Considereing she has zero skills who knows what kind of crappy job whe will be stuck with. Since i'm willing to pay her, give her a place to live and even willing to pay to get her car shipped here I think my offer looks pretty damn good. I know at 18 I would have jumped at this chance. I mean she would only have to baby sit four times a week for about 7 hours per day. Not a bad deal in my opinion. But she doesn't take my offer seriously, I think I will need my mom to help me convince her.
I quickly flipped through the new In Style. That's what I do. I get a new magazine. I skim through the entire issue only reading little captions and looking at the photos. Then I go back a few hours later or the next day and obsess over photos and absorb every article. I truly love In Style. I have boxes out in my garage filled to the brim of back issues of In Style. I think I've been subscribing to it for, geez, I don't since I lived in Washington and that was a long time ago.
T is cooking a roast for dinner and it smells fantabulous. I think the baby smells it to because he is going beserk in my tummy.
Thursday, March 25, 2004 07:26 a.m.
I ended up going to Gordon Bierch last night. The company rented out the entire restaurant and the entire piazza was tented with tables and a buffet. The food was flowing the beer was flowing (Sprite for me) everyone seemed to be having a great time. I ate some of the garlic fries at the buffet and that taste is still lingering. Gross! Damn, those were pungent fries.
I'm eating breakfast so hopefully it will rid the garlic taste from my palette.
I rushed home yesterday evening so I could watch the season finale of Newlyweds. I don't know why I am so addicted to that show. Luckily I have east coast cable so I could watch it a 7pm instead of 10pm. We're debating of getting local "primetime" channels on east coast time as well. Since I go to bed so early I want to watch th 10pm CSI at 7pm. I need to look at the Direct TV site. I want my local channels as normal and that's a separate package but I want east coast local as well to watch the primetime shows. That means my primetime would start at 5pm! That would be heaven.
Thursday, March 25, 2004 05:27 a.m.
Could this be the end of lederhose? What is this world coming to?
Wednesday, March 24, 2004 07:41 a.m.
I fell asleep at 5:15pm last night. I honestly don't know what happened to me, but damn I must have been tierd!
I'm debating a haircut. I want to cut about 2-4 inches of length off my hair and add a few long layers to lighten the load. I'm also debating going to a hairdresser to have this done. You see, i've been cutting my own hair for over 3-years now and I've done a pretty decent job, the idea of going to a hairdress scares me. My last hairdresser was this gril named Nikki and she worked at Milios in Chicago. And she was awesome! Since moving out to LA I've been a little scared to find myself a new hairdresser, but i've been so tierd lately that i'm ready to just through down the cash and be pampered.
Tonight my company is having a party at Gordon Beirch here in Pasadena. Normally these parties are a lot of fun, free food, free drinks, fun atmoshpere. As of yesterday I was going to attend but today, I don't know. Because I went to bed so early the things that I needed to get done yesterday didn't and now I have to do them today, like gathering all my tax stuff for the tax guy. We'll see if I get pressured to attend after work.
I've been trying to entice T to drive to Vegas on my weekend. Not so much to gamble but just for the drive and so we can eat lunch/dinner at a buffet. I know that sounds ridiculous but we don't do much on our weekends and it would totally be something to do. So far he hasn't bought into it but I will keep trying to convince him. Maybe I need to cry? Such a girlie thing to do!
Monday, March 22, 2004 06:00 p.m.
I got a call from work today. It was my boss who was calling to let me know some bad news. A co-worker of mine named Cori died. He was about 33-years old.
Monday, March 22, 2004 08:23 a.m.
Okay, now that I have cleared my mind of those awful commercials, I can write again.
As previously mentioned I was up at the butt-crack-of-dawn (what a strange expression, not sure if I like it but whatever). Fast forward to about 8am, T wakes up and I tell him that D should be over around 9am and to get dress. For a boy, he takes a while to get dress, sometimes he even takes longer then I do. **Although you'd never know it, I got up to make a mug of hot spiced cider** So by 9am T and I are dressed, hungry and ready to go. Then 9.30 rolls around and no sign of D. I get a little worried because tardiness without a phone call is non in D's nature. So I give her a ring and I leave a voice mail. I decide to give her until 10am. And sure enough 10am is here and no D. I pretty much say screw it, we're dressed and hungry so lets get some food. I leave a little note for D on my door, letting her know where we are if she would like to meet us. We decide to go to Fred 62. T's not a big fan of the restaurant, unless its somewhere betweem the hours of 1-2am, but I convinced him that this is where we needed to go. We hadn't even ordered our food when my cell phone rang, it was D. She was so apologetic I felt terrible for hating her a few minutes prior. Apparently, when making plans a few days earlier she gave me some incorrect info. She meant the following Sunday since she was currently in Orlando for a business conference. I forgave her and made plans for the next week. We were so hungry when we got to Fred's that we ordered three breakfasts for the two of us. T ordered this Santa Fe Fritata, which was a giant fritata with peppers, onions, bacon and a few other ingredients then smothered in ranchero sauce. I ordered the Belly Bomb Omelette which was filled with gooey cheese, chili and onions. And we shared an order of The Bearded Mr. Frenchy, which is briche french toast rolled in corn flakes. We ate everything and walked out of there so full we could hardly move. We learned our over eating lesson the hardway.
We then headed to Home Depot because we needed to get new springs for the garage door. Three of the four springs had snapped and it was nearly impossible to open that damn garage door and when we did get it open we had to prop it up with a pole. However, we now have a fully functioning garage door. Once fixed T took a nap and I watched some bad afternoon TV.
We decided to eat an early dinner and since the grill was out we grilled again. T had bought some ground sirloin, okay I need to backtrack. About three weeks ago we ate the best cheeseburgers of our lives at this place called Alfredos, located on thrid street near the Beverly Center. Since then we've been blinded by the cheeseburger goods and have been constantly talking and thinking about it. Okay, so T bought ground sirloin, since Alfredos used gournd sirloin. The day before we watched the Barefoot Contessa on Food TV and she grilled hamburgers so followed her recipe. I think what really sold us was when she was forming the patties she put a pat of butter into each hamburger patty. So, we made our hamburgers like she did and they turned out fabulous. T made the burgers so big that I felt like I was eating two cheeseburgers and once. Three quarters of the was through I deemed myself full so as not to repeat the stomach ache I experienced earlier in the day. For a second night in a row the doggies got to chow down on some good read meat mixed with their Iams. No sooner that I get them of the cheese they are now spoiled with red meat. However, I think this will be the last time in a long while that they get to partake in human food.
After dinner we ate some ice cream, well, I had a milkshake, and watched TV. The entire day was pretty uneventful but peaceful. Sometimes it feels so good to just slow down and have a very chilleriffic day.
Monday, March 22, 2004 08:06 a.m.
Over the last few months there have been a few commercials/product slogans that have bugged me. Here they are:
1. Those damn Quizno commercials with those singing rats/hamsters/rodents! Why would singing rodents make you want to eat sandwiches? Luckily those commercials aren't running as much.
2. Sara Lee has changed their slogan and now it just sounds awkward. I believe the slogan used to read, Nobody does it like Sara Lee and now its Nobody doesn't like Sara Lee. A very subtle change but I, personally, don't like it.
3. And lastly KFC. First they were Kentucky Fried Chicken, but due to the connotations of fried foods they shortened to a hipper, more role off the tongue, KFC. Fine, I can deal with that it's shorter and nothings wrong with shorter. Now these damn annoying commercials for KFC, you know, "Honey, whatcha eatin'?" "Kitchen fresh chicken." "Don't you mean kentucky fried chicken?" "No, kitchen fresh chicken." Uugghhh....yes, she means kentucky fried chicken FROM KFC. I don't know why I find this one annoying but I do. kitchen fresh chicken is fried if its fried chicken so what are they trying to hide? Just call it what it is already. They had us all sold at KFC, now, just leave it alone.
The damn Sara Lee commercial came one, rubbed me the wrong way, and I had to write it down. Sorry for the lame venting.
Sunday, March 21, 2004 06:43 a.m.
God damn it! I went to be so freakin' early that I woke up at 6am this morning! I hate when that happens. Unless I nap this afternoon, i'm going to fall asleep at 8pm or so. Anyway, since I'm awake I figured I would watch a bit of TV and do some cleaning. The best thing about Sunday morning is three glorious hours of Beverly Hills 90210. Although the episode oh is from a bad season, kinda towards the end of the series when Dylan came back after leaving the show. I'll watch it anyway.
I don want to get quite a bit of "straigtening" done this morning because D is coming over around 9am so we can head out to breakfast. I was thinking about where we could go without driving to far. My first instinct was head over to Silverlake but we always do that but I think I would rather his one of the coffee shops in Los Feliz. Now that D lives in Long Beach I don't see her as often as I used to, like when she was in Silverlake, so there is a lot to catch up on. I debated if I should invite V as well but decided against it. Maybe if I saw D more often I would have but I want to be a little greedy and have her all to myself.
We did end up BBQing last night and it was yummy. We are not fans of giving the doggies table food but I did convince T to buy a teeny, tiny little steak for the Bostons which they loved, loved, loved. The smell of the fire getting started was wonderful. As T was preparing the Weber I pulled out our patio furniture and cleaned it up from being in storage. I think it will remain on the patio for good. While we were eating dinner it was weird staring into our yard with our gigantic camphor tree now gone. The yard looks so baron. But this is a good thing, as we really haven't taken care of the backyard like we have the front. This gives us a clean slate to start with. We have some prilimanary ideas of what we want to do. I personally want a pool but that doesn't fit into the picture right now. I think the perrogative is, mow the lawn regularly, trim the back bushes and do some basic landscaping. And since the weather is finally warm, bring all of our patio furniture back out. I need T to move the hammock back to the patio as it has been in hibernation for a few months. This hammock has got to be one of the best wedding gifts we recieved (thanks, Jay!). Definetly not something we would have bought on our own, but something we love having and use A LOT.
Why are cats such asses?
Saturday, March 20, 2004 11:47 a.m.
A couple weeks ago I was watching Cypress Hill Makes a Video for the song What's Your Number. The song samples a Clash riff, which is great and Tim Armstrong from Rancid is the guest guitarist on the song. I was very surprised when I saw this. There are so many cameos in the video: Tim Armstrong, Fez from That 70's Show, Warrick Brown from CSI, Rob Aston, Slash and Travis Barker.
Its another day at the office for me. But I do love working on Saturday. Its so relaxing and I am able to catch up on all my work. And it doesn't really feel like a work day at all. Probably fifty percent of my day is work andn the other fifty percent is personal stuff. My kind of job!
The weather is so nice that we're going to grill some steaks for dinner tonight. I'm excited. There's nothing better then grilled steaks and veggies, and eating it outdoors. I can't wait.
Friday, March 19, 2004 01:37 p.m.
Next Thrusday we're going to go see The Von Bondies for free. I love that Amoeba has their free concert series! I really need to take advantage of this. Normally, a band will play Amoeba for free and then a couple days later play at a club in which you have to pay. Cool Deal.
Friday, March 19, 2004 07:43 a.m.
After 3-weeks of holding Netflix's Lost in Translation hostage I finally watched the DVD. It was well worth the wait. I loved it! The look of Tokyo is truly amazing and makes me really want to visit.
Thursday, March 18, 2004 06:57 a.m.
I don't know what it is but I feel like I am surrounded by semi-incompetent people on a day-to-day basis. I work my butt off and it kills me to see others working half-assed everyday and for some reason it slips through the cracks and nobody says anything. Am I the only one that notices this?
Why is work such a big issue for me. I fully know its "just a job" and "it pays the bills" but I feel like i'm subjected to idiocy so much that it makes it almost unbearable. I know its bad when I spend 40-50 percent of my shift away from my desk, essentially hiding. I grab my laptop and go. I've reached a point where I frankly don't care about my job. I show up, do what I have to do and go home. No more OT for me. Its not worth my sanity. I know I have the ability to look for another job but frankly I don't think I will find one of equal pay that affords me as much slack time. My friend K, here at work, summed it up best stating that this is the place for slackers. I'm not a complete slacker, in some aspects of my life I may be but I do make sure my shit is done so I don't have to worry. Very unslacker in my opinion.
So yesterday was my first St. Paddys day without any plans. Normally we would go out and have a blast but yesterday we stayed in and I crashed extremely early.
Okay, I use Y! instant messenger at work. My biggest pet peeve with IM are people who over use those damn emoticons. Sure, sometimes they may be appropriate but not for every comment. It makes me crazy!!!! The perfect emoticon for that would be a agitated "smiley" face pulling its hair out. Although, I love messengar. On my lazier days it allows me to chat with friends that sit 4 rows ahead of me without leaving my desk. Wow....that last sentence sounds really, really, lazy!
I've been all about the flat shoes lately. Someitmes I wear my old navy flip flps but mostly I wear my chinese house slippers to work. I love how sparkley they are! I have an all black pair, a black pair with colored sequins, blue pair with colored sequins, all red pair, and all silver pair. The are so comfy and match practically every outfit! In fact, I'm wearing the black on black pair today with a knee length denim skirt, black and white striped halter and black track jacket. Very Casual, i know, but very comfy. I'm all about comfort.
I ate a McDonalds sandwich this morning and I now have a major stomach ache. UUUggghhhh!
Wednesday, March 17, 2004 01:40 p.m.
Sometimes I forget how good some songs are. I hadn't listen to any songs by the Toasters in ages. Yesterday while scanning my MP3's I decided to play Thrill Me Up. Within moments of the first three notes I got all giddy. I loved this song. No...I LOVE this song.
Tuesday, March 16, 2004 06:58 a.m.
I got a diaper bag like this in lime green.
Monday, March 15, 2004 04:17 p.m.
I finally picked up some frames from Ikea for the prints purchased for the baby's room. It's funny how you start to see things from a different perspective when you know you will be expecting a baby in a mere 3+ months. Anyway we picked up two frames, a hamper and garbage can all for the baby's room. For myself I picked up two chocolate brown, velvety bolster pillows. I plan on using them for my back as it makes sitting on our couch so much more comfortable. Three quarters through our browse through Ikea T totally lost focus. He was overwhelmed. I would say isn't this cute and I would get a grunt like yes form him even though he didn't once look at the item I was pointing at. We checked out and headed home.
Following Ikea we grabbed the dogs and headed to the Silverlake dog park. We didn't stay more then twenty-thirty minutes. The dogs ran around a bit but because of the heat the kept retreating under benches to sit in the shade. Although Daisy did find a nice extra soft dirt patch and proceeded to roll around for two or three minutes. By the time she was finished with that it looked as though she had a hefty covering of cocoa powder all over her. She was more then a little dusty. The dogs got a nice bath when we got home. They were pissed at me. For about an hour neither doggy even acknowledged that I was at home.
Its almost 4:30pm in the afternoon and there's still so much I want to do. I thought I would have some energy to wash my car but I really don't. Maybe tomorrow. But I think I will be emptying the cubbyhole bookshelf in the second room in preparation for its move into the master bedroom. Why is it called the "master bedroom?"
Monday, March 15, 2004 10:49 a.m.
Today is my Sunday but I feel like I've been off of work for at least four days. Yesterday was a really beautiful day. We woke up really early, watched a little bit of TV and decided to go out to breakfast. We headed over to a little Coffee Shop called Rods which is located a few blocks from the Santa Anita Park. We took our time eating our omelettes while pouring over the Sunday paper. I'm convinced I only buy the Sunday paper for all the sale and coupon inserts and occasionally reading the real estate section. I read about a neighborhood in my town that I want to drive through today. Rossmoyne sounds beautiful, tons of old Spanich Colonial Revival, English Tudors and Victorians all from the 20s and 30s.
After breakfast we headed over to the VW dealership in Pasadena to check out the Passats. We finally contacted our leasing company about terminating the lease on our black car and we were given the ok and what it is we need to do. In exchange for our to expensive German automobile we want to change to a less expensive/reasonable priced German automobile. I'm very biased when it comes to vehicles and am very devoted to German craftmanship. Luckily our silver German SUV is mine, mine, mine and I love it!
Man, I can go off on a tangent. After that T jetted off to meet with his partners for a couple of hours. When he got home it was still very early and beautiful so we took a drive out to Camarillo and got home just after sunset.
Alright, I love steak! Love it, love it, love it. But i'm very picky about where I eat it. Normally I love steakhoused that serve nothing but red meat but for a change and to try something new we went to Outback steakhouse. Yuck!!! Never again. It wasn't horrible steak it was just pricey for a gigantic chain for outback and the whole Aussie theme is pretty damn lame. The portins were rather small and the steak was not a juicy as I am accustomed to. From now on, if I want steak on a whim I'm sticking with the Polynesion themed Damons.
T is home with me today. As I write this sentence he is sitting in the living room staring at me, his way of hurrying me up, and watching CNN. More later, I feel the daggers heading my way so I guess I should get dressed for the day.
Saturday, March 13, 2004 09:36 a.m.
In junior high I fell in love with the Dead Milkmen. Today I found out that bassist Dave Blood committed suicide earlier this week. How sad!
Friday, March 12, 2004 07:03 p.m.
Last night we went through our music and sold a bunch of CDs, DVDs and Vinyl we never listen to. I mean there were things we owned that shocked us as we sorted through our collection. We weren't thinking that we would get much money for this stuff at the most we thought $200 but to our surprise we got over $500. Not bad considering there were CDs we bought for one dumb song and never listened to the entire disc. We had a ton of vinyl we bought at Jelly's for 95 cents and they bought it. I was so happy I kept staring at the check. Now that our music has been streamlined we can actualy remove one of the three CD racks we have in our living room. We didn't sell a ton of vinyl so no space saving for that. Although we still have a ton of vinyl and don't listen to them as much as we like (CDs are just so convenient) I don't think we could sell the music because so much of our vinyl are original pressings of lots of old punk and oi! I think its more sentimental value then monatary value.
We're suppose to meet up with friends to night for a birthday dinner Saladang Song in Pasadena but i'm just so tierd and lazy. I know i'll feel guilty about not going but we ate a really huge lunch and have been out running around on errands all afternoon plus these last couple of weeks I've had some major-ass heartburn. I've also had some aversion to asian foods. Not one particular asian food but asian foods in general. I don't think eating Thai food for dinner will be a good thing.
Everytime I look at my dog i'm amazed at her teenyness. I've never seen another boston terrier as small as she is. I've seen small ones but she's extra small. The smallness and the domed head is amazing to me. I could rub the little dome all night long and the best part is she would let me. I wonder if all the pups from her litter were as teeny as she is? Supposedly two of her sibs are in the los angeles area. Our breeder told us if we wanted their numbers he would give it to us but I feel that its such an invasion of privacy to call. I think this because I would kind of get pissed. Maybe that's just me because I hate when strange people call me. Hence disconnecting my home phone and keeping only the cellular connection.
I'm tierd and I want to watch tv.
Wednesday, March 10, 2004 07:49 a.m.
Last night we went to a "New Beginnings" class at the hospital. This class is mainly for women in their first trimester, which was evident when I got there since nobody except me and three other women actually looked pregnant. It was an okay class, very interesting but my main perogative for going was to tour the maternity ward of the hospital. The ward was very quiet and I was happy to learn that the baby remains in the mom's room after birth. At the end of class they gave us some folders with magazines, other info and a list of other classes. I think I want to sign up in the Childbirth Prep class but not until May or June.
I went to bed at about 10pm and am so super tierd today. I'm in the midst of eating breakfast so hopefully this will perk me up.
I know work is work and its not suppose to be fun but I'm just so sick of it! I'm tierd of being treated like a child and being lied to about dumb work stuff. I'm trying to let this all roll of my back because I don't care and shouldn't care but in the bigger picture its the principle that matters most to me. All in all the stress is what's pissing me off the most. It makes me tense and very emotional. I had a nervous breakdown with my senior director on Friday and at that point I knew this was not a good thing nor a healthy thing. I'm just keeping track of it all so I can report it all back to Doc at my next appointment.
I finally bought some cute maternity jeans on Monday. Two pairs in fact. Ross had them on clearance so it only cost me &7.99 each. One pairs is a nice dark denim with a faintly worn look to it and the second pair is a little lighter with regular pockets and button patch pockets on the thighs. The second pair is a teeny bit big which is good so it'll fit me for a while, the only thing I need to do is hem them.
I need to make my way to Sephora today. I need to buy a new compact. I've stretched it as long as I could but now I need to buy a new one. As exciting as it is to visit Sephora I become frieghtened because I'm afraid I'll drop a bunch of money down on beauty products I may not necessarily need right away. I have so many eyeshadow pots in colors that I only wear for "special occasions." I must practice restraint, today I will run in with blinders grab my Lorac compact and bolt for the cashier. Nothing more and nothing less, just one single compact.
Monday, March 8, 2004 08:40 a.m.
Yesterday was such a beautiful day. It was warm and sunny! I couldn't bare to stay at home and miss an opportunity to bask in the sun. Or so I thought. The thing is most of the places we like to go to are not open until 11 or 12 in the afternoon and being the early birds we are we woke up at 7am. We watched some TV made breakfast and got dress. Okay it was no 9am. We opted to do some grocery shopping first since we needed to kill more time. Now that the grocery strike is over their were so many sales at Ralphs. I couldn't bare to wait around at home. When we do this I normally become very lazy and don't want to do anything. After dropping the grocery's off it was off to Third St. in LA. By the time we got to that general area, this was going the "long way," it was only 10:45am. I suggested we kill some time at the Beverly Center. To my surprise T obliged. Only thing was once we parked and got into the mall the stores were still closed for another 15-minutes. We "cruised" the mall for 15-minutes. As soon as stores opened T wanted to hit Pet Love. I know, I know, very weak name for a Pet Store. I hate going into these stores because the doggies all look so sad and I want to take them all home. There was a Boxer that was cute and depressed. A baby pug that looked depresseed. A little Boston Terrier that looked depressed. And an open cage of chihuahuas that you could pet that were happy and fiesty. One of them even nipped at me, twice!
We went to Bloomingdales because I wanted to see if they had the Belly Basics line so I could pick up a few t-shirts. They didn't. Thinking about it, it's probably Nordstrom that has. We also wanted to check out Diaper Bags. Since the bag will become second nature to me it has to be something I really, really liked and could live with. That said I refuse to own any gay pastel, teddy bear infested, plastic coated bag! Moving forward, we found this awesome Kate Spade Diaper Bag. It was on sale and the pattern was fantastic, very mod looking. After much deliberation we put it on hold and wanted to check out our other options. There was nothing at the mall. We left the mall and walked over to Third Street. By now my choice of footwear was KILLING ME. I had to stop at Old Navy and pick up some flip flops. I bought a pink pair, a white pair and a black pair for T.
I love third street. There are a ton of home accessory stores which are my favorite, and a bunch of cute boutiques. We headed into Puppies & Babies to get some treats for the dogs. We ended up getting the doggies some carob daisy shaped cookies and we picked up a new collar for Oscar as he has gotten to fat for his old collar. Next time we head down their I want to take Daisy because I want to buy her a new sweater but I need for her to try it on.
We walked the street for a bit more then headed over to zipper to see what kind of baby stuff they had in stock. They did have a diaper bag which was ehhh....I didn't like it and it hasn't crossed my mind since. We found somehtings we liked but are a little burnt on buying baby stuff for the baby. I don't mean for that to sound selfish but we've done a lot of baby shopping recently. We left and grabbed some burgers at Alfredo's. I must say I had the best bacon, swiss cheeseburger!!!! MMMM....it kept me full all day and night. While we were leaving there was a brand new Rolls Royce Phaton parked infront of a studio space. And it was for Christina Aguilera. She was inside singing. Doors opened wide with that powerful voice filling the sidewalk. But that car was so freakin' huge!!!!
By the time we made it back to the car we were burnt out! The sun sucked all of our energy away and we came home for a nap.
It's now monday and I'm off to my doctors appointment.
Saturday, March 6, 2004 02:54 p.m.
All work and no play makes me a sad girl. One more hour until the weekend begins.
Why is ping pong so much fun?
Another weekend with no plans. I have nothing specific I want to do but if tomorrow is as nice as it is today I definetly want to get out of the house. Any ideas?
I wore all black today with a red and white herringbone sweater. And now i'm covered in red and white lint! I hate that. I need a mini lint roller for my desk to clean myself up. I noticed that lint covering my thighs about 10 this morning and I've had to look at myself all day this way. I hate the way certain materials attract lint like flys to shit. It's annoying as hell!
Thursday, March 4, 2004 07:06 a.m.
I got outta here a little early yesterday. It was soooooo nice! I got home relaxed for a bit then pulled out my laptop and got some work done. I felt as though I had more motivation at home then I did at work.
Check out htis Madonna wanna-be.
Wednesday, March 3, 2004 09:04 a.m.
Back at work doing audits. Yippee! As much as I hate doing audits it is so much better then some of my other responsibilities. One of the most frigtening things about doing audits is knowing that my audit score will directly impact an employees bonus. Ouch. We have a big department meeting today that I am dreding. It means two hours of complete boredom and two hours cut into my audit time.< br>
It's only 9am and Im already hungry for lunch. I just finished my english muffin and i'm alredy thinking about what I would like for lunch. It's a toss up between a Gordon Biersch bleu cheese cheeseburger, teriyaki beef sandwich or a regular deli sandwich w/pasta salad. I know option three may be the healthiest but it is bottom on my crave list.
We had some weird rainy weather yesterday. It was gray and overcast for the majority of the day here in Pasadena. When I got home I turned the boob tube on and saw that it was pouring in Pasadena. Somehow I missed the downpour between Pasadena and Glendale, it passed over the 134. However, it is nice to have this rain since it is so infrequent here. I don't have to water my lawn at all its great. But my cars are filthy!!!
I'm starving!
