Happy Black Friday, Thanksgiving was tiring

• Hey there people, Happy Black Friday! There is no way on God's green earth I am going near any retail establishment today, just to let you know. I worked retail, so I have experienced hell firsthand. It is not pretty. Also, I have no time since I'm working both jobs. Thirdly, I am sleep deprived and pretty crabby. Last thing I need is some old lady running me over with her cart over a $5 toaster. ROTF
• So yeah, the last few days have been fun. Wednesday morning was the grocery run. We didn't encounter too many crazies at Walmart or Lucky, but we started shopping at 7:30am so I think we lucked out. We bought a ton of food for Thanksgiving, and we have a ton of leftovers now. Oh well. I got a decent amount of sleep later on, then made dinner and watched some TV before work.
  
• Thanksgiving was okay, although I only got about 3 hours of sleep that day. I worked the overnight shift that morning, then home for what little rest I could muster. Tried for more but Cathy busted in my room to take a shower in my bathroom. Oh well. Then I got up, showered, picked up Michelle and Dad, made a very necessary Starbucks run, dropped them off, and came to work at Traffic. I worked there almost 8 hours until 8pm. There was stuff to do but nothing too stressful.
• I also caught a marathon of 50s Dance Party on KOFY 20. Those of you not from the Bay Area may not remember it but back in the late 80s, music from the 50s had a brief resurgence and all the middle aged and old geezers put on their greaser outfits and poodle skirts and shook their heinies. In one episode they played "The Stripper Song" and old guys took off their shirts. ROTF. Mom used to watch that show with us every Sunday afternoon when we were kids and dance along while doing housework. That show was the sh*t. Before that I was watching the Thanksgiving Day Parade on CBS and that made me even more emotional. From seeing a Smurf balloon to promos for Frosty The Snowman, anything connecting my childhood holiday years brought a tear to my eye. *sigh*.
• So after work there I went home and tried to take a nap. I got about 30 minutes of rest in. Needless to say I was a bit cranky. I was kind of snappy to both Michelle and Dad who didn't deserve it. After grabbing some leftovers to take for my dinner, I dropped them off at home then came to work here. I gave Victoria a ride home, settled into work, did my Bible Study and dozed for like 3 hours. Haha. I feel A LOT better, although still bushed. I'll get 6 hours of sleep this morning before working at Traffic again, and I'm off work tonight. Thank God it's Friday!
  
• Weekend should be low key. Working in SF on Saturday morning, and dragging my butt back to church Sunday morning. Rest of the time will be spent resting, I hope. Oh and eating leftovers. :-)
  

drooling

• Hey how's it hangin? Wait don't answer that. Haha. It is I, Lisa, writing around 1am on Thanksgiving Eve and trying to stay conscious at work. It's the middle of the week, and most people are working a half day and taking the rest of the week off. Luckyasses. I work in broadcasting, and the show must go on, so to speak. So yes, plenty of comp days and double time will be accrued, I assure you.
  
• Let's see Monday I worked at Traffic, came home and made dinner, watched TV and went to work. Tuesday I worked at Traffic again, then picked up Michelle and went to In-And-Out (I got my cheeseburger with no extra salt, fries with no salt), then home to make some steamed carrots to add a bit of nutritional value to dinner. I got to kick back and watch TV for a whole hour (wow!), then dropped off Michelle and came here to work.
• Oh yeah, on December 12th Davina and I are going to Cache Creek to see Australia's Thunder From Down Under. Oooh whee. Don't know who's hotter between them and the Chippendales, we chose the latter in Vegas since they were cheaper. Now's our chance to see them, and I can't wait. Now that's what I want in my stocking. We were going to spend the night there but the hotel room is WAY overpriced. The drive is only a few hours anyway.
  
• Okay that's about it. Everyone have a great gobble day. I'll be working that night, probably blogging again, as always.
  

Almost Gobble Gobble Time

• What's up folks? Not much going on. I had a cool and relaxing weekend. Friday afternoon I got up and went out to work only to discover that I didn't have to be there after all. Jarrod had asked me to work earlier in the week and I told him yes, but he was there when I showed up. I was slightly annoyed since I sat in traffic for 30 minutes. He did apologize profusely, so I give him credit for that. Later that evening I went to dinner at El Torito with Cathy and we drove around a bit, then we hung out at home. A while later we swung by Al's (Alisha) house to chill out, but there wasn't much to do except watch her other friends decorate for a party the next day and listen to her other annoying friend butt into other people's business. We hung out for about 45 minutes texting each other then went back home. I ended up drinking a rum + pineapple juice and going to bed shortly after.
  
• Saturday I worked in SF, then picked up Michelle and went to Newpark Mall to do more Christmas shopping. I have about 75% of it done now. I'm starting to get more into the spirit of things and I love giving, so what more can I say? Later on we picked up Dad and went to Applebee's in Alameda for dinner then Borders so Dad could pick up a book or two, and of course we got coffee there as well. Later on at home I hung out with Cathy and watched movies/TV, then went to bed around 12am.
  
• Sunday morning I slept in again. Yeah I know I haven't been to church in a few months. I kinda feel I'm spending my time with God five days a week while I'm doing Bible study here at work. I spend about 30 minutes reflecting on what I'm reading and realizing what it has to do with my life. Even Old Testament stuff has relevance to today. So yeah I have A LOT more room to grow but hey, I try. Anyway I slept in, did a little housework, then made organic pancakes with sugarfree syrup for breakfast. I know I'm not diabetic but I limit my sugar intake in some meals, so I can use it later on. Like later on that evening I had a bowl of ice cream. Haha. Anyway after breakfast I took a shower and went to the gym with Cathy. I worked out for a whole hour. 25 min of cardio and 35 min of lifting weights. Yay for me! This was my only gym visit until this Saturday. I'm working 66 hours this week, so sleep is going to be more of a priority. (I love holidays and holiday pay!) After the gym we got coffee and drove around for a while, then went home. I had a santa fe chicken salad for lunch, uploaded some movies to Youtube, downloaded lots of new music, uploaded it to my Zune, ate dinner, watched a lot of Night Court on DVD (I have season 1), then I took a nap for a few hours before work. That my friends was my weekend.
  
• Like I just mentioned, I'm working a ton of hours this week. I always work an average of 55 hours a week but it's bumped up a notch due to the holiday. I don't mind one bit since I need the money. There are millions of Americans right now who are out of work, so I don't take this for granted. Also, promised the boss at Traffic that I'd work Thanksgiving so I don't have to work Xmas over there. I'll still work here on Xmas though, and maybe at KDFC for a few hours on Xmas Day. During the evening on Xmas Eve, I'm going to my Uncle Jim/Aunt Brenda's house to celebrate and Santa Claus is stopping by, I can't wait. Haha. Last year I had Xmas off, but my Mom was kinda dead. So yeah, it sucked. Okay I'm outta here for now. Toodles!
  

Oh yeah, posted 2 new videos on Youtube. One is from last weekend at Kimmie's house, other is just random singing/driving featuring lots of turkey gobbling from Cathy.

Wow I'm actually doing work..

• Hey there homies! What's crackin? Not much here. I'm just sitting here at work at 3am, eating celery (with peanut butter yeah I'm bad but I'm hungry) and drinking some type of citrus tea. It's pretty tasty. Not a whole lot to report.
  
• Wednesday I did go to the gym (yay), then did the usual grocery trip. Then I went home, cleaned the litterbox, started some laundry, and finally caught up on sleep. Boy did I need it, too. Thursday I went to the gym again (woot woot!), home for breakfast then took Dad to a doctor appointment to have his stomach tube replaced. I did get in bed by noon and got an okay amount of sleep. I woke up around 6pm and watched some TV with Cathy/TJ, took a shower, made dinner, watched some TV and took another nap before work.
• Oh yes, just to let you guys know, I LOVE MY PHONE! Yeah the G1 is freaking awesome. It has a touch screen similar to the iPhone, but the keyboard similar to the Sidekick. I love the downloadable Android programs like Twidroid (for Twitter), Myspace and Google Maps. Oh and I've gotten maybe half of my Xmas shopping done. Thank god for the internet, that's all I can say. Haha. Okay gotta go, I'm actually doing work as we speak. Automation is having serious hiccups and I've been fielding phone calls, leaving voicemails and rebooting computers. Oh the joy.
  

nothing much going on

• Hey there homies. Not much going on as of late. Let's see Monday I slept, worked at Traffic, came home, made dinner, watched some TV, and came here. I did pretty much the same on Tuesday as well. I also made time to stop by Dad's house and check on him, and eat some pizza with Michelle and her boyfriend Albert. He's doing yard work on the house and seems to be a nice guy.
  
• This morning I'm going to make a point of going back to the gym (finally), then it's the usual grocery run. Dad hasn't gone in 3 weeks since he's been sick so I think we should bring him along, just to get him out of the house. That should be fun.
  
• Thanksgiving is coming up. I'm working both jobs on Thanksgiving and the day after, so I'll be exhausted but the holiday pay/comp days are kickass. This will be the first time since 05 that we'll not be eating our holiday meal in a hospital. Dad had pneumonia in November of 06 and Mom was in and out of the hospital in November/December of 07 until she passed away. Cathy will be doing a lot of cooking including 2 giant turkey breasts and stuffing, and Michelle is even making Mom's recipe for sweet potato casserole. Yum! I won't be enjoying the feast until about 8:30-9pm, but oh well.
• Okay not much else to discuss, I'll keep on eating leftover zucchini and farting around on Myspace and Pogo.com. Haha.
  

Nerd party and pre-Thanksgiving feast

• What's up homies? I'm back from my weekend. I had a lot of fun. Friday evening I met Sandi in Stockton and we went to a "Nerd Party" being held by her church group. At first I wasn't sure if I was going to be bored or not, but it turned out to be pretty fun. I really didn't know anyone there but Sandi, but everyone was friendly and made me feel right at home. Sandi won first prize for her nerdy outfit and I even flirted with a guy or two. Haha.
  
• Saturday I worked at KDFC, then headed on over to Lodi to have yet another 80stastic weekend with Kimmie and her niece Joyce. First thing we did when I arrived was go on a field trip for dinner at Rick's Pizza. It was yummy, and yes I did have a mongoloid size side salad as well. Gotta get my veggies in when I can. Afterward we went to Baskin-Robbins, I had a scoop of chocolate fudge. Man it was good. Last stop on our adventure was Starbucks, I had a skinny vanilla latte. Once we got back home we watched a few episodes of Kids Incorporated from the first season. That show is so cheesy, but it's great. Then we all decided to do each other's hair/makeup, and take crazy pictures. Next we put on Hangin Tough Live (NKOTB, in case y'all didn't know) and did some awesome dancing/singing. It was my turn to pick the entertainment after this, so I put in Stay Tuned starring John Ritter and Pam Dawber, that movie where they get sucked into that satellite dish that evil Jeffrey Jones (the Dad from Beetlejuice) sold them. Yeah it was corny but as a child I loved that movie. By this point it was after midnight and I was bushed. Kimmie and Joyce were still wide awake, and put on a Peter Cetera CD. I promptly fell asleep in the middle of "Glory Of Love". Oh well, I was pooped.
  
• Sunday morning I actually got to sleep in for 9 hours, and it felt great. After doing some straightening and taking a shower, we had poptarts and coffee for breakfast. Not the most nutritional thing, but oh well. Kimmie and Joyce watched the New Kids' "Step By Step" video and I caught the tail end of it while chowing down. Next Kimmie put on three episodes of the Golden Girls, one of them guest starring Mario Lopez, who was also one of the dancers on Kids Inc (was well as Saved By The Bell, etc). Those old ladies are always funny no matter what. Maybe I'm just too young but I don't know why they got so hot over mediocre looking old dudes. When I'm 60 am I going to be turned on by old geezers? Gross. So after a while we grew tired of the old gals and I threw on Ping! starring Judge Reinhold, Clint Howard and Shirley Jones. It was fairly predictable and more of a family/kid film, but it was cute. Also, Judge played a really dumb robber, so it worked well. Next Kimmie put on the original Freaky Friday starring Jodie Foster, John Astin and the guy who played Jimmy Olsen in the Superman movies. He was the guy Boris who lived across the street. I've loved the film since I was a kid and I still enjoy it. Kimmie bought it for me last year for Christmas, she has great taste. After this movie was over, Joyce put on Harry And The Hendersons. John Lithgow frightens me for some reason. Maybe because he was such a jerk in Footloose, I don't know; maybe his constant luring for Jane Curtin in 3rd Rock From The Sun. Anyway, the movie is cute but he's frightening. Last movie for the evening was Zeus and Roxanne starring Steve Guttenberg and Miko Hughes. Shirtless Mahoney. You can't go wrong. Oh yeah, we still had time to kill so Kimmie threw on a few more episodes of Kids Inc, including one guest starring The Hoff. ROTF.
  
• Oh no Kimmie I am not forgetting all the food we made, and the preparation for it all. See since this was my November visit, Kimmie turned into an early Thanksgiving feast. She started cooking a little before noon, and we didn't eat until a little after 5pm. See when you have cerebral palsy and enjoy cooking/baking from scratch, things take A LOT longer. I helped out as much as I could by preparing the green beans (well snapping the ends off), putting in/taking out various things in the oven, and fetching ingredients from various random places in the kitchen. Things got a little intense as we got closer to eating time, but I think Kimmie was a bit stressed out. I hope I helped enough, Kim. I usually cook meals that take 10 minutes or less to prepare, so sorry for my ignorance on serving utensils. :-( I also put all the food away and loaded the dishwasher, do I get brownie points? I still feel like an idiot for not helping more than I did. Oh well.
  
• Anyway I did have a great weekend and I'll have more pictures up sometime this evening, I'm hoping. I'm tired, may be time for a power snooze. *yawn*
  

I'm a dork, big shocker

• What's up homie Gs? Things are a lot better today compared to my last blog. My foot doesn't hurt nearly as much and it's starting to heal. It's only painful to stand on it for longer than 5 minutes. Also, I did end up getting a new phone. It's the techy geek in me, I can't help it. Had to get the G1 from T-Mobile. It's got similar features to the iPhone but with the Qwerty keyboard similar to a Sidekick. I love the darn thing. It's so much fun.
  
• No other important events happened in LisaLand lately. Wednesday morning I got out of work early and did the shopping run with Michelle, then went to T-mobile and signed my life away again. Eventually I went to bed, but I kept waking up to play with my phone. Haha.
  
• Thursday I didn't do much at all, that's a good thing. I was contemplating going to the gym but I didn't think it was a good idea since my foot was still on the mend. I did sleep almost 9 hours, and that was awesome. Then I ate tacos for dinner (homemade, not Taco Bell), watched a lot of TV, napped, then came here. I needed at least a day with no productivity.
  
• Of course this weekend should be rad. Tonight I'm going to a "Nerd Party" with Sandi in Stockton. I told I don't need to dress up I'm already a dork. I'll probably just grease up my hair, find a dorky shirt and hike up my pants. It'll make my butt look huge but who cares? Saturday I work in the morning, then I'm going to Lodi for the weekend. Kimmie's planning our Thanksgiving feast for Sunday afternoon. That girl goes all out, she's crazy. But you gotta love her. Okay toodles!
  

my foot hurts, my phone sucks ass

• I am tired, and I've been so unlucky the past few days. I'm very sleep deprived as I write this so forgive the weird sentence structures and such. Monday morning I took Dad to fill out some forms to get a dumpster for the front yard. He's having both yards cleared later this week by a friend of Michelle's boyfriend. This lady behind the desk at the garbage place recognized Dad, he had helped with her dogs years ago when he was doing animal control. She thanked him for it, and I think that made his day, to know that he makes a difference in the lives of people. When I got home later that morning, I was walking through the hallway barefoot and stabbed myself in the left foot with a metal screw that was sticking out of part of a cat tree in the hallway. It hurt a lot, so I poured peroxide on it, slapped on a Garfield band-aid and went to sleep. I worked at Traffic that afternoon. Later on in the evening while at home and wearing flip-flops I stabbed myself in the same place in my foot AGAIN. This time on the corner of a random box that was sitting in our kitchen. (Note: TJ's sister is in the process of moving in so there's random crap everywhere) Oh man that HURT. It made a hole maybe half an inch deep in my foot and there was a lot of blood. TJ did some minor surgery (basically cleaned and bandaged it), and I went to work. I've been changing the bandages about 3 times a day, using peroxide/polysporin, and there is no sign of infection. It hurts when I walk on it, but that's expected. So yeah, that's been fun. I'll try to maybe stop by urgent care later today or tomorrow and get it looked at, just in case.
  
• Tuesday morning Dad went back to the doctor. Turns out he has some kind of fungal infection in his lungs on top of whatever else. Tests are still being run. Dad's finishing the antibiotics and getting breathing treatments. He has to go have his stomach tube replaced next week, luckily it's an in-office procedure.
  
• Oh yes also, my phone decided to stop working on Tuesday. It had died the night before and I put it on my charger while I was asleep. When I woke up I noticed it had the little hourglass symbol which meant it was still loading. I tried taking out the battery, waiting forever, putting it back in. Also tried alt-caps-delete. It reset the phone, but then it went to the loading screen again. I talked to T-mobile and I have to redownload software and reinstall everything on my phone. Problem is I have no clue where the sync cable is. Looked in my Blackberry box where the instructions still are, looked all over my extensive collection of random electronic accessories. No luck. See, it's not wise for me to live without a cell phone. I don't have a land line, and my roommates are at work during the day so I can't use their phones. I have 3 jobs and a seriously ill parent. My part time jobs occasionally email me during the day and I answer them via the Blackberry. So yeah, I really need a solution for this. I'm afraid I'll have to dip into "Taking Victoria To BART for 4 Years Refund" from work and get a new phone. BOOO. Oh yeah I found my old Sidekick 3 and tried to use it, but it froze 2 min after I put in the SIM card and booted it. Now I remember why I got the Blackberry when I did. *sigh*
• Other than all those woes, life's okay. Brad's coming to work a little early so I can get a head start on grocery shopping. Then I guess I'll swing by T-mobile and see what needs to be done. Maybe they have an extra 8700G sync cable. If not I'm kinda screwed. Oh fun.
  

sing with bravado

• Heidi ho folks, I am back. I had a fairly decent weekend. Kinda busy but what else is new? Thursday morning Dad had a doctor appointment and it was confirmed that he has pneumonia. He's still on some hardcore antibiotics and staying at home, and has yet another follow up on Tuesday morning. He seems to be okay except for the hacking up of giant phlegm balls.
  
• Friday morning I took Michelle to the lab to drop off Dad's phlegm sample, and it took a freaking hour. She had to sign in and wait that long to drop off a cup of yellow mucus. It cut in on my sleepytime so I was kinda mad. Then later on in the afternoon I worked at Traffic, and it was pretty fun. That evening Davina and I went to dinner at Mimi's Cafe then went to see Role Models in Dublin. The movie was pretty darn funny. Good job, David Wain. It wasn't one of those "OMG I gotta get this on DVD" kinda movies but it was very entertaining.
  
• Saturday I did my part-time job as usual. Spent most of my time actually working, which was a good thing. When I got back home Cathy wanted to get out of the house so we went to Stoneridge Mall. We perused the clearance section at Hot Topic and got sweet deals. I got a new pair of shoes for $11 and a new backpack for $5. Score! Later on in the evening I went to dinner with Davina and Lorie at The Elephant Bar. I saw one of my former Burger King coworkers Pedro there, he's really nice. Then we did karaoke for 3 hours in Hayward, and had a blast. I love belting my heart out. I think Davina blows everyone out of the water with her style and pizazz. Kinda hard to beat that bravado. Although I'm more on key. Haha. Lorie does well with R&B and rap songs for some reason.
  
• Sunday morning I slept in late, and it felt awesome. I hadn't gone to bed until 4am since I got in late from my night out and watched a movie there in my room. I eventually got out of bed a little after noon. I decided to be healthy and go to the gym with Cathy. I haven't gone in well over a week due to so much crap going on lately. When I got home I completely got my new room organized. I made 3 boxes of stuff for GoodWill and got everything else crammed in my closet. Later on in the evening I went to Chili's with Michelle, then we came back to my place to watch TV and chill. And now I'm here. How thrilling.
  
• I have a feeling I won't be getting much sleep this week either, least in the next few days. I wish Michelle would stop scheduling errands on days when I'm working my afternoon job. I need my rest, dude. The doctor thing I understand about. We're keeping a close eye on Dad's health since he had pneumonia a few years ago and spent 3 months in the hospital. I'm tired of ailing parents around the holidays. Hopefully the antibiotics are kicking this thing's ass. So if any of you guys wanna keep my Dad in your prayers, go ahead and do that.
  

I'm a walking zombie

• And.. I'm back. I normally blog on Tuesday nights but last night I was nauseated/exhausted and spent a good deal of my shift with my feet up trying to doze off. Here's how the last three days or so have been. Dad went to the doctor on Monday morning. He has the beginning stages of pneumonia (again), but we caught it in time. He's home on some hardcore antibiotics and feeling much better already. He has a follow-up appointment this morning but I'm going to be sleeping in the car, thank god. Monday afternoon I worked at Traffic, and it was the shift from hell. It was raining pretty badly, that meant flooding on freeways and spinouts everywhere. That and we were short a person, so there were two of us doing the job of three people. For every accident we would put in, ten more would pop up. Oh it was fun.
  
• Tuesday nothing monumentally exciting happened. I worked at Traffic again but it wasn't so crazy. Oh yeah. I voted. And Obama won. Yes I voted for Obama, and although I'm not all gung-ho, I think he's better than McCain. Also, what's up with everyone speculating that he's the Anti-Christ, or he's a terrorist, blah blah? I swear everyone's got a conspiracy theory about everything. Let's give this guy a shot. Apparently the nation was stupid enough to give Bush eight years, give this guy at least four.
  
• Okay I'm off my political soap box for now. That's about as much as I'm getting into. I hate discussing politics with friends since half of them agree with me, and the other half don't. I also shut my mouth about religion unless I'm with another Christian. Just nod and agree, since most folks who run off about politics/religion seem to be looking for an argument.
  
• So early Wednesday morning I was working here and felt nauseated. This is a side effect of my hormones. I get all the lovely symptoms of being pregnant without the pleasure of having sex and really being knocked up. Haha. I puked a few times and spent the majority of my shift halfway dozing in my chair and trying not to think about food. Also I was kind of worried since at home Spencer had thrown up about five times. I figured it was because I had changed his/JD's wet food less than a week before and didn't do it gradually enough. His tummy didn't have time to adjust. When I got home in the morning he had barfed a few more times, but the last barf pile had a long string of yarn in it. I guess he had that stuck in his throat or something and was trying to dislodge it, and eventually did. The rest of the day he had a healthy appetite and was his active self, so I think he's fine now. Just in case for a day or so I'm going to give him baby food as a precaution, I don't know if his tummy is still upset. Then I'll switch him back to his original wet food. I spoil my cat, can you tell?
  
• So yeah I haven't gotten much sleep over the last three days or so. Monday I got a total of about 3 hours. (not counting work dozing) Tuesday I got about 5 hours. Wednesday sucked, I got maybe 4-5 hours in two intervals. I left work early that morning and slept a few hours before grocery shopping, then I managed to finally get some sleep in the evening for like 3 hours before work. I tried so hard to sleep in the afternoon but my body would not let me. I think when you stay up for 24 hours or so it becomes rather difficult to send the message to your brain to shut off. Like an hour after I laid down TJ came home and was watching TV. The door to my room was off its hinges due to previous work being done in there, so it made it nearly impossible to fall asleep. I even tried listening to classical music on my Zune. Then TJ's friend came over to help replace the window in one of the other rooms, and God that was loud. TJ did apologize several times since he was under the impression that I would be working and not even be home. Also, he put the door back up in my room, but it didn't really muffle the hammering/drilling coming from the other side of the house. Luckily for me this renovation crap will most likely continue on weekends and I now have a door again so I should be able to sleep today. I hope. I think I need Nytol or something. Geez.
  

Yeah it was fun.. I hate my hormones

• What's up, yo? I'm back from my weekend, as you can see. I had loads of fun. Friday didn't have that great of a start. I got off from work and went to my parents' house to drop off my car and borrow their van, since I was picking up Kimmie in Lodi later that day. Well first I had to gas it up, then it took FOREVER to get home since it was around 8am and I have to pass an elementary and a high school to get home. When I arrived, I realized I left my house key with the rest of my keys at my parents' house. So it took way too long to get back there, then I drove all the way back, and finally got in bed. I got about 5 hours of sleep, then headed on over to get Kimmie. Her sister Carol was there and helped me get her into the van using the lift. It was a piece of cake. After stops at Starbucks and Taco Bell, we were off to the Bay Area. We got back a little after 6pm, and I decided to show her my old house in Oakland, along with my elementary school and where I work. Only problem was driving down Fruitvale Avenue at 6:30pm on Halloween, it was crazy. Traffic sucked. Eventually we did get back to my house around 7pm. TJ and his friend Joe helped get Kimmie out of the van, up the 2 steps and into the house. My Halloween party itself was pretty fun. Our attendees were Amy, Alisha, Jeff, Joe, Davina, Kimmie, myself, Cathy, TJ, Michael Ray, another Cathy, Brad, Victoria, Grace and Fernando. Pretty good turn out. We watched The Worst Witch, the cheesetastic 80s movie with Mrs Garrett from The Facts Of Life and Tim Curry. It was awesome. We also watched the Amityville Horror remake, and then Beetlejuice. Fernando kept making drinks for himself and I, and we also did random dancing. I'm glad everyone had a good time.
  
• Saturday I worked in "the city". I was a little late since I made myself confused looking for my backpack. See for some reason I knew it wasn't in the van, but I didn't think to look over by my desk, I convinced myself it was in my car parked in front of my parents' house. So I drove all the way to the other side of San Leandro, searched for like 10 minutes in both vehicles, then all the way back home to discover my backpack was there the whole time. Then I finally drove to Bayfair BART. This wasn't a great start to my day. I eventually made it to work, and stayed busy the whole time. I did the usual stuff, including extra tasks my boss assigned to me. I also caught a mistake someone made, had to call my boss and then his boss just to get permission to fix it. Don't you hate it when you see a problem, you know how to correct it but you have to go through a chain of command first? This is why I enjoy working by myself most of the time. So I got home in the early afternoon and helped get Kimmie ready to go home. TJ had to do some mechanical work on her wheelchair but eventually we got out the door a while later. After stops at OSH and Starbucks, we all drove out to Lodi. It was raining, but not too awful. Cathy decided to drive home, and I was tired anyway. The ride for her sucked because it started raining pretty darn hard and visibility sucked. Plus the windshield wipers on that van aren't that good anyway. Eventually we got back to the Bay Area. They stopped for Hawaiian food on the way, then I dropped them off at the house, and finally went to my parents' house and gave them back the van. Michelle wanted to go out to dinner so we ate at Marie Callender. I love their cornbread. Okay the next part of this is dealing with girly issues so boys stop reading here.. ** I had a feeling my period would be coming, so I was wearing a pad. Well um it started on the way to the restaurant so I changed my pad there. Apparently, the dam broke so to speak while we were eating, then I coughed and WHAMMO. Maybe guys have no idea what I mean but sometimes we just overflow. And I did, a lot. When we got up to leave I may have left a spot there in the booth, I'm pretty sure I did. Well soon as I got up I powerwalked all the way to the car and let Michelle pay. When I got home to change, it was bad. It was going down my legs into my socks, okay? The bathroom looked like a scene out of a bad 80s slasher film, I'm not joking. I got cleaned up and felt pretty woozy from the blood loss so Cathy was nice enough to drive Michelle home for me. Then I changed into my jammie pants and overflowed them 20 minutes later (while wearing 2 overnight pads). God I hate my period. I seem to be okay now, I just feel like I'm 500 lbs.* Later on when I was feeling better I watched Ping! in my room and fell asleep.
  
• Sunday I finally caught up on sleep/rest. I woke up around 6:30am to upload pictures and eat breakfast, then went back to bed until 1pm. Michelle called and wanted me to take her and Dad to Newpark Mall so he could get a heads up on Xmas shopping. I was originally going to sleep all day but I obliged. So the mall wasn't too bad. I had some Subway for lunch (half a $5 chicken breast footlong with some strawberry yogurt), got a few things at Bath and Body Works and Hot Topic. Traffic on the way back was HORRIBLE. 880 North was jammed pretty bad, I ended up getting off the freeway in Union City and taking the streets back. Then of course they wanted Starbucks so we went through the drive-thru, then on home. After I dropped them off I got gas then sped back to my house so I could eat some dinner and chill out. I had the other half of my footlong and steamed asparagus. Yum.
  
• I am not getting much sleep the next few days. Dad is coughing up green crap so we need to try and squeeze him into the doctor today. This sucks since I work at 3pm at my other job and would like my 6 hours of sleepytime. Depending on when his appointment is, it may get cut down to like 3 hours. Then Tuesday if it's raining (probably will) I have to drive Dad/Michelle to the polls to vote. I'll still get some sleep but it takes up too much time. I go to vote at like 7:15am when I get off work, I'm in and out in less than 10 minutes. Arrgh. Okay time for a power snooze. Later sk8ters.