i heart macgyver's mullet

• Catch me I'm falling.. catch me now I'm faaaaallin *doing cabbage patch*. Hey folks, it's Fridaaaay. Yes! I'm a little chipper for 12:30am, I admit. Oh in case you still read my blog Noelle, Happy Birthday to You. I didn't forget. We aren't really talking right now, but I never forget birthdays. Well let's say I rarely forget. Okay about half of the time. But I didn't.
  
• Anywhoo, while I'm rocking out to 80s dance music, let me continue this brief blog. Wednesday was grocery day, then I got about 6 hours of sleep and had to come here for a 12 hour shift. It's weird that 12 hour shifts are so grueling, I think it's the boredom. I worked 12 hours today but it was split into 2 different shifts at two different places of employment. So it didn't seem so bad. Oh by the way, my computer is back. It's in working order, but I somehow misplaced my power cord and looked all over the place for it, so I have to pick up a new one later today. Yay! I also picked up new speakers since mine are pretty bootsy and make an annoying static like sound. So over the weekend I'll get stuff back in place, reinstall some programs and such. Yay!
• So yeah that's what most of my weekend is consisting of, rest and getting the computer back on track. Well this morning I'm actually hitting the gym for the first time this week, probably going to breakfast with Michelle, picking up the power cord and taking their dog Happy to the vet. Oh yeah and TJ's aunt is staying over for part of the weekend, so Cathy was actually cleaning. Yes I was shocked as well. Hahaha. So that's it. Maybe I can actually get 8 hours of sleep one of these nights. One can only hope.
  
• Oh yeah, congrats to Sandi, she landed a new gig. I knew you could do it, woman. Okay now I'll continue rocking out to Wang Chung and such. Later!!
  

she's a modern womaaaaaan!

• Dude, do you know that this is my 400th post on my Blogspot? I always write my blogs on that page first and then copy/paste to Myspace. I've been blogging steadily a little over 2 years now. Looking back at older posts brings a lot of feelings to the surface. Some entries were pretty funny, and others were plain depressing. Oh well. Such is life.
  
• Not much exciting stuff going on. Monday I woke up about half an hour earlier than usual because I set my alarm clock wrong, and I was cranky all day. Guess 30 min of sleep does make a difference. All I did on Monday was work, come home and watch TV/eat dinner, and work again. Then I took a big snooze at work here. Well a semi-snooze where I wake every time some alarm goes off, my body timing is great. I was so exhausted.
  
• Tuesday was more of the same thing. Worked at Traffic, took Dad/Michelle to Applebees, then to my house for like 30 min to watch Animal Planet, then to their house. Then I went to work here. I was a little late, but Dad decided he had to pee right when we were leaving so we had to take an extra 10 min to get him to the potty and back. *sigh* Anyway yeah that's how life has been lately.
  
• Today is grocery day, and then I work 12 hours tonight. 7pm-7am. That means no gym today, so maybe I can squeeze in 6-7 hours of sleep. Thursday I'm working two jobs, and Friday morning we're taking Happy (dad's dog) to the vet for a check up. I'll be glad when Friday is here so I can get more rest. Also Friday morning I'm forcing myself to hit the gym, since I haven't gone all week.
  
• So how are you guys doing? I'm so boring just talking about myself all day. Tell me about your life in comments or something. Okay, I'm rocking out to Billy Joel's "Modern Woman" from the Ruthless People soundtrack. Later. ROTF
  

laid back weekend

• Word up homies. I am back. In full effect. Word. Oh I already said that. Anyway yeah, my weekend did not go as planned. I spent a good portion of it home asleep. I backed out on the retreat so the headache/backache/nausea could subside on its own. It did, a day later. Well my back has still been hurting off and on for the last day or so, but oh well. It was awesome to actually be able to get some sleep for once and enjoy my cable TV, so there was a plus side to all this.
  
• I was feeling halfway normal by Sunday morning so I took Michelle and my dad to Sebastopol to see Mom at the cemetery. It felt good to stop by and visit. Dad had fun looking at cows and deer on the way up there. On the way back we stopped at A&W in San Rafael and had unhealthy food for lunch. Greasy food in my already bloated body, it was awesome. My weekend wasn't as exciting as I planned it, but I think it worked out for the best.
  
• This week should be cool. I'm working 64 hours, which is great on the pocketbook. The holidays are coming up, so I need to start buying presents and such. Yay!! I love me some extra shifts @ Traffic and overtime here. Woot!!
  

if you don't like PMS rants, don't read

• Hey there folks, happy Friday! My Friday is not so happy. Today is Bloated Friday. Yesterday and today I've had the worst PMS symptoms since last year when I was in the ER doubled over. I spent most of Wednesday night and all day Thursday sleeping in the fetal position, popping Tylenol and waking up to go on ice cream and pancake binges. Not so good for my diet, but yeah my cravings have been balancing themselves out with nausea, so I deal with what I get. I'm still leaving to go on the retreat this afternoon, but I'm just dealing with the pain as much as I can. I may go pick up more ibuprofen on the way home at Walgreens, and see if that helps. I tried to get tonight off but I knew it wasn't going to fly. Last month I took a sick day and it turned into all kinds of confusion with my coworkers, and I didn't need a repeat. Not like I do much here at work anyway, I'll spend the rest of my shift half dozing in my chair with my feet up.
  
• Hopefully by my next blog I'll have a great report from my retreat, and I'll have felt much better. I hope to be more recovered in the next 12 hours or so. I get the feeling that some people think I exaggerate, but every 3-4 months I get my period BAD. I mean "OH MY GOD" kinda bad. Back hurts, I gain like 10-15 lbs, uterus feels like I'm carrying some alien spawn, legs hurt, ankles swell up, and I balance between wanting to throw up and wanting to eat everything in sight. Some lucky ladies only get these symptoms when they're pregnant, I get them now. Imagine if I did get pregnant, I'd have to wear a warning light on my head or something for people around me. I'd do some damage. LOL. Also, my hormones are about as predictable as Lindsey Lohan's love life, so my period comes when it darn well feels like it.
  
• Okay enough period rant. Wish me luck on my little trip. I don't really know anyone there but Sandi, and it's on a lake and I hate being in water but I'm sure I'll have fun anyway. Toodles!
  

I'm wiped out.

• What's up my homies? Not too much going on. I am SO tired right now. I don't know why, but I'm just wiped out. I got 6 hours of sleep today, and 6 the day before. Maybe I need more than that. I should get 8 hours of sleep this afternoon, hopefully. Anyway Monday was pretty normal. I worked at Traffic, went to Mimi's Cafe with Michelle then came to work here. Tuesday I worked at Traffic again, came home and made dinner, watched some TV and came here. Big wow, huh? This morning I should hopefully muster up enough energy to hit the gym then do the weekly grocery run with Michelle and Dad. Then off to sleepytown. That's about it, not much to blog on. I think I'll take a semi-nap in a few. Ugh.
  

Bustin makes me feel good

• What's up my peeps? I'm back from my lovely weekend. A little tired since I've been up since like 8:30am yesterday and it's like 1:30am.. okay yeah that's only 18 hours. I had a tiring day though. Also I'm not going to bed until like 7:30am, that's a 23 hour day. I may take one of my infamous semi-naps here at work in a bit, I desperately need one. Anyway getting back to my weekend details. Friday morning I slept about 3 hours, then got up and took Michelle and Dad to Costco for extras we wanted to stock up on. I didn't get home and back in bed until like 2:30pm, and planned on resting the rest of the weekend. At first Michelle tried to coheres me into taking her to the mall but I was exhausted and I'd been taking her and Dad everywhere all week. So I was sleeping, but Fernando, Grace and Joey stopped by to invite me to go for ice cream. I found this out by waking up with Fernando in my room dancing around like a giant nerd and literally pulling me out of bed. So we went for dinner/dessert at the Ice Creamery in Castro Valley, and then looked at Halloween costumes at the Halloween Superstore. I got the best costume ever! You'll see! Little Joey is going to be a chicken, and Fern is deciding between a pimp and being John Travolta's character from Saturday Night Fever. Haha. After this we went back to their house, drank margaritas and watched fart videos on Youtube. That was my Friday.
  
• Saturday I worked at KDFC as usual, then I made a few stops before I headed out to Lodi. I had to go home and grab a few things that I forgot and changed, then I stopped by in Pleasanton to pick something up from Sandi. I got to Lodi by 4pm where we first watched Fatal Attraction. Wow Glenn Close is one crazyass biotch. Seriously. Not only is she scary in general, but she's nuts for boffing Michael Douglas. Ewwww. So after this I drove to Stockton and picked up our very unhealthy dinner from Sonic, but stopped for a salad at Del Taco. Hey man, gotta eat semi-healthy. Then once I got back I tortured Kimmie with three programs from Insight, this cheesy afterschool special type programming made in the late 70s/early 80s sponsored by The Catholic Church. One of the episodes was A Step Too Slow starring Judge Reinhold and the dad from Teen Wolf. ROTF. The singing at the end was awesome. Then Kimmie put on a 2 hour NKOTB concert. It was at the height of their career, right before things started going downhill. This video got both of us excited since we'll be meeting them backstage at their concert in less than a month. YAY!!! After this I put on a short documentary about the making of Beverly Hills Cop III where Judge explains why he was so orange (he drank a lot of carrot juice), then we both hit the hay. It was a long day.
  
• Sunday we woke up around 8:30am, ate some Lucky Charms, drank some coffee, I ate a leftover corn dog, and watched Mad TV while Kimmie got ready for the Grape Festival. During this fun time her mom came over and gave me some microwave brownie thing. Oh boy. So we headed on over to the Grape Festival, and had a blast. I got my dad a few bday presents, ate roasted corn on the cob, a hamburger, chocolate ice cream on a waffle cone, and drank 2 large diet cokes. We took several pics with the Bimbo Bear (you know, the company that sells Mexican bakery products and gives out LOTS of samples?) and with Zippy The Clown. It was awesome. Oh yeah, and we saw some guy that looked like Elvis and this guy selling souvenirs started singing the Greatest American Hero song when he saw my shirt but got shy when I turned on my camera. Haha. So around mid afternoon we went back to Kimmie's place and watched A Woman Scorned: The Betty Broderick Story starring Meredith Baxter and Stephen Collins (Reverend Camden from 7th Heaven.. hahaha). She's some crazy jealous wife who goes insane when her husband divorces her. He was kind of a jerk, but there's no excuse for what this broad did. She ended up murdering him at the end. There's a second part to the movie series but I can't handle 4 hours of Meredith Baxter unless it's a Family Ties marathon, sorry. After this we ordered pizza and salad for dinner from Pizza World (we had a coupon), and watched National Lampoon's Holiday Reunion starring Judge Reinhold (of course) , Bryan Cranston (from Malcolm In The Middle) and Penelope Ann Miller. It was pretty hilarious. By the time that movie ended it was like 8:45pm so we had to make a few hilarious videos, take crazy pictures, and call it a night. Then I drove home and grabbed stuff for work, and here I am listening to George Michael's "I Want Your Sex" from the Beverly Hills Cop II soundtrack. I'm random.
  
• Here's a few random quotes from the weekend. "Why do all psycho people have sterile white apartments? That's some scary shit.".. "That lady used way too much Formula V05 or something." "Oh get the fuck out.... oh no I can not!" (that was from BHC III.. lol).... "Do you think that guy's fully aware he looks like Elvis?".. "Gee, that sweater's not gay.".. "Is it me or did all us white trash people have tapestries on our walls back in the 80s? We had a moose in our living room." "Well we had one of the last supper in the kitchen, it was tasteful." ROTF.. "I think Ray's funny but I have NO attraction to fat Dan Aykroyd.".. "Who ya gonna call, bitch?" Okay that's all I can remember for now, Kimmie add more quotes as you remember them. We're WEIRD.
  

sleepy mcsleeperson

• Hey there homie Gs. Not too much going on the last few days. Wednesday morning I hit the gym with Michelle, then did the usual grocery trip with Dad, did housework and went to bed. We didn't buy as much stuff as usual since we're going to Costco this morning to stock up on water, paper towels, meat, cheese, milk, toilet paper, shampoo/conditioner, all that fun stuff. Anyway I did get a decent amount of sleep for once. Thursday I got about 6 hours of sleep. We had an appointment with the lawyer in the afternoon and it went pretty well. Least he isn't a jerk, that's a plus. When I got back later in the afternoon I should have gone back to sleep but I ended up watching TV and making dinner with Cathy, then eating dinner, then watching even more TV. Now I'm sitting here tired at work and wishing I had taken another nap. Oh well. It's my last work day of the week so I'm cool.
  
• This weekend should be pretty fun since I'll be spending most of Saturday/Sunday in Lodi. Not only are we watching cheesy 80s flicks, but we're also going to the Grape Festival. Yay for corn dogs! I'll try to take some interesting pics. Hahaha. Now I'm gonna go and make a small shopping list, do some Myspace surveys, maybe take a half nap. I love naps.
  

loading more pics on Myspace

• Howdy doody. I'm back. Not too much craziness going on right now. Monday morning I got off work a little early and ran by Walgreens to burn my pictures from my memory cards to CDs. Then I went home and slept, got up and went to work at Traffic. I picked up the CDs on the way home, ate dinner and came to work.
  
• Tuesday morning here at work I spent most of my time organizing/editing pictures that I had downloaded onto the computer here. That took a while since a good portion of them were sideways and had to be corrected. I uploaded my first 100 and I have a way to go. Later on I'm going to sort what I uploaded into albums and add as many as possible. After I make my grocery list of course. The rest of my day was pretty normal. I slept, got up, went to work at Traffic, then I took Dad and Michelle to Red Robin for dinner. Hey I got a free meal out of it, and since Dad helps me with groceries I don't mind burning gas at all. Then a brief stop over by my house, and now here I am. I sure am tired. I kind of have reason to be due to my schedule and hormones. Yay.
  
• Hey did you know Halloween falls on a Friday this year? I think I'll throw a fat party or something along that line. I need to brainstorm with Cathy and TJ. Whoo Hoooo.
  

fun with family/friends

• What's up folks? I'm back from the weekend, back to the same old grind. I actually had a ton of fun the last few days. Let's see on Friday morning first Michelle and I went to Walmart so I could order some pics to be developed and put my pictures on CDs so I could finally upload them to the computer here at work (which I will be doing shortly so you will see A LOT of new pics soon). Then to the post office to mail bills, then we both did a good workout at the gym. On the way home we were stopping at Starbucks when Davina called. We met up at my parents' house and all went out to breakfast at JD's in Castro Valley. Yum. Then we made a very spontaneous trip to Stoneridge Mall and I eventually got back home and in bed by about 2:30pm. Meanwhile Fernando had texted while we were shopping and told me about a BBQ that evening, so of course I wanted to go. So I got about 3 hours of sleep, then I got up, picked up Michelle and headed over to Fernando's house. Now that was so fun. Tony came, Michael, Irma, her son Ian and his friend Brent (neither of whom I've seen in like 4 years since we went camping), and Fernando's pal Nate. Davina showed up later on after lots of coaxing from myself and Fernando. Haha. We ate food and everyone was drinking. Michelle even had 3 margaritas, and she was feeling great. So was I. I have some great pictures and video. I think my favorites are of Fernando rollerskating in his living room. It's been so long since I've seen all of my boys, freak danced with them like old times, and just had fun. Highlight of my weekend.
  
• Saturday morning I worked at KDFC as usual. Then I got back to the east bay, got my pictures from Walmart, picked up sandwiches at TOGO for TJ, Cathy and myself, then ice cream at Coldstone. I was surprised when I arrived at home that Amy had come over! I hadn't seen her in like forever. Later on we went to run some errands over in the manor (buy booze/munchies @ Porters Market) and passed by my uncle's house, and my cousin Kim was out there with her husband Bob and their son Joshua, so I stopped to visit and say hi. I love catching up on stuff with family. We all need to hang out more often. So eventually we made it back to our house and had a great time with a few drinks and watching movies/TV. I tortured everyone with a lot of Scrubs and we watched some 80s stuff too. I didn't get in bed until about 1am.
  
• Sunday morning I should have gone to church. I admit it. I was tired, I had partied too much and not gotten enough rest. So I slept in until about 11am. It was wonderful. I finally got my lazy booty out of bed, ate breakfast, did a little housework and took a nice walk to the duck pond, all the way around the park and back home again. After that I relaxed and watched TV for a few hours, then took Michelle/Dad out for dinner. Now Dad has a problem swallowing things as some of you know, so he really can only eat soup, ice cream, milkshakes, stuff like that. He even chokes on mashed potatoes. Our dining choices are limited. I decided to take them to Sonic all the way out in Tracy since they have awesome shakes there. Their food is awesome. Totally bad for you, but awesome. Then we visited West Valley Mall right across the street. Mom would have loved it, they have a carousel. Mom always told me whenever I went to an amusement park that I needed to ride the carousel. It's a sentimental thing. So anyway, I had a great weekend, full of fun with friends/family. Yay!!
  

I finally got sleep, and joined Facebook.

• Hey there homie Gs! I'm back. Well it's only been a few days since I blogged but you know what I mean. Not too much going on. Tuesday I worked at Traffic, came home, ate dinner, watched TV, and came back to work. Oh boy. Wednesday morning I should have gone to the gym but I was way tired. I decided to start our grocery shopping early, and I was home and unpacking by 11am. It took a while because we seemed to be running out of everything this week. Diet soda, laundry detergent, cat litter, etc. So I did that, started laundry, cleaned the litterbox and went to bed. I slept 8 glorious hours, and got up and took a shower. Then I made some scrambled Eggbeaters with sauteed onions and broccoli for dinner, and watched some TV. I wish I would have checked my mail sooner, then I could have watched this Afterschool Special I bought starring Judge Reinhold and the dad from Teen Wolf called A Step Too Slow. I'll definitely watch it this morning before I go to bed. Hahaha, it should be great.
  
• Not much planned for the next few days or the weekend. I need a break from all the craziness so I can catch up on sleep, housework and movies. I need peace and quiet. Oh yeah, I joined Facebook so you guys can shut up about how I should join, blah blah. It's not that exciting so far, and kinda confusing. I did find some friends and stuff. It seems more like it's networking and not so much fun. Oh well.
  

I love L.A.

• Howdy doody. I'm back from my little 3 day vacation to Southern California. I'm way tired, but I had a blast. Friday morning I left for Stockton right after work. I stopped for gas in Tracy, but eventually I got to Stockton. Then we grabbed Sonic for breakfast and headed on down. I got a few hours of sleep, which I really did need. Sandi did all the driving, by the way. I woke up around Bakersfield and pretty much stayed awake the rest of the trip. There was traffic in L.A., but what else is new? No matter what time of day or night it is, the L.A. freeways are busy. We finally arrived in Orange around 3pm. Sandi gave me a tour of Chapman University, where she went to college. After the nice tour and exercise, we went to an international street fair right down the street. They had food from several different countries. We had some type of pastry balls dipped in honey from Greece, but I can't remember the name of them. Next we hit up Downtown Disney. It was Labor Day weekend and neither of us felt like shelling out $80 to go wait in 3 hour lines for rides inside Disneyland itself, so we figured we could at least do some shopping and have fun. I bought way too many souvenirs and enjoyed watching the fireworks show from Disneyland, it was awesome. Instead of staying in a hotel, Sandi's friends from college, Jen and Julie were letting us stay there for a few days. We went back to their place in Santa Ana and I slept in the recliner. That was the end of Day 1.
  
• We woke up pretty early on Day 2, and I had a Charlie Horse in my left calf from sleeping with my feet elevated for so many hours. Other than that I felt great. This was the day we were going to visit Hollywood. Well for half the day anyway. First stop was Riverside Drive, where the defunct University Medical Center is located. This is where they film Scrubs. We weren't able to get through the gate thanks to the lovely security dude, but I took some pics and a cool video featuring some sweaty guy with man boobs. I was like way too excited to be anywhere near where they film Scrubs since it's my favorite show. Well besides Sesame Street. Oh yeah, big shout out to Manley, he plays Snoop Dogg Attending (I always want to say Snoop Dogg Intern) on the show and he added me this morning, probably because I commented on Zach Braff's page. Either way, holla! Okay I'm digressing. So after I drug poor Sandi through my Sacred Heart Hospital worship session, we went on over to Hollywood Boulevard. It's fun, but parts of it are ghetto. Yes, for those who aren't aware, there are even crappy parts of Hollywood. We stuck around the mall at Hollywood and Highland and took great pics of the Hollywood sign. Oh yeah, before we even parked we randomly drove through the hills for about half an hour trying to find a closer view of the sign. It was fun but the hills were steep and the streets were narrow. So we hung out at that mall, and it was pretty hot and muggy. Sandi dared me to run through the water fountain, so I did. Haha. We had lunch at Johnny Rocket's, then took pics with random folks in costume out in front of Grauman's Theater. I took a pic with Elmo of course, Jack Sparrow from Pirates of The Carribean and that creepy dude from Scream that walked up and put his knife to my throat randomly. Haha. Then we walked further down the street and checked out all the souvenir shops and had a lot of fun. We still had extra time on our hands so we drove down Sunset Boulevard and ended up in Bel Air or Beverly Hills, one of them fancy neighborhoods. Then we drove up Laurel Canyon to Muholland Drive and checked out the awesome view of Los Angeles from the Hollywood Hills. It was breathtaking. Soon after that we headed back to Santa Ana to have a girls night with Sandi's college friends. It was pretty cool. We watched the first season of The Office, ate spaghetti and salad for dinner and chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream for dessert. We were watching some taped episode of So You Think You Can Dance or whatever it's called and I started falling asleep. See when I fall asleep, its embarrassing. I don't just nod off like everyone else. The second I'm out, I snore like a chainsaw. A few times in college I was sitting in class, and the next thing I knew I woke up with drool on my notebook and people staring at me. Again, I'm digressing. So soon after we headed for bed, and that's how Day 2 ended.
  
• Day 3 was our last day. Well obviously. We had to get up at the buttcrack of dawn, and of course I took a while in the bathroom. Then after we packed and said our goodbyes to Jen and Julie and got to my car, I realized I left my camera battery charger in their living room and had to go back. Then we got Taco Bell for breakfast but I talked Sandi into taking me to McDonalds for iced coffee. So you can say we had kind of a late start thanks go me. Whoops. Anyway, we made it to San Diego at little before 10am, and spent some time shopping by the water. They have some cute stores. Then we went on a tour of the U.S.S. Midway, and that was really neat. We got to see where they slept, ate, went potty, where the prisoners went, all kinds of stuff. I liked the half naked mannequin in the shower. Oooh baby. I wish we would have had more time there, there was a lot we didn't get to see. Oh well. Then we had to go get ready for Sandi's stepsister's wedding. This was the original reason Sandi came down this weekend. We ended up changing our clothes at a Wendy's then doing our makeup in the car. Well I did my makeup and Sandi watched. I really don't think I'm the one you should get makeup tips from, dear. I am no pro. Anyway, after that we went to the ceremony in a very nice church. The reception was at some clubhouse that was on military property. I enjoyed myself there even though I was really bored the last hour or two. I liked the appetizers and the dinner. I loved my cake. I even found some of the random dancing amusing. After a while, I was tired. I still had a fun time, even if I was wearing a dress. We left the reception at almost 10pm, and began our trek home. We got to Orange about an hour after that and got gas, then got chicken to go at Dennys and changed our clothes there. Then I got a giant iced coffee, and we hit the road for the long stretch. I made it all the way to Fresno without falling asleep while Sandi took a nap. Once we got to Fresno we pulled over at a gas station so I could pee and we could switch places. I snoozed for about an hour and soon enough we were in Stockton, at Sandi's house. After our goodbyes I headed for the drive-thru Starbucks so I could get something to tide me over on the ride home. I was home a little after 6am, and got right in bed.
  
• Okay well that's my story. Not much else going on. We got a new couch, one of TJ's friend's moms gave it to us. It's very comfy. Today I get to work both jobs, and I'm exhausted. Can't wait to go home in an hour and hit the hay. See y'all on the flip side.