my weekend will be fun

• Hooray the weekend is finally here. Yes the next 4 days or so will be filled with fun and excitement. Right now I'm pretty darn tired, but that's because I didn't get much sleep yesterday. I won't get a lot of sleep today either. I'm going to breakfast with Leeanne, taking a nap at home for a while, then taking Michelle/Dad to Sebastopol to put flowers on mom's grave for Mother's Day. I'm sure I'll sleep later on, but I'm bushed. It's also hard to sleep with my stress level anyway.
  
• Let's see on Saturday I'm going to the Spring Celebration at Great America with Sandi, then going out to Lodi later that night to hang out with Kimmie on Sunday/Monday. I won't get back home until Monday night, and I have just enough time to grab food for work before coming here.
  
• Oh yeah I haven't officially passed my background check and they're putting me on the schedule for the 20th. At my third job that is. I don't mind though. It pays well and I think I'll be able to catch on to things rather quickly. I hope. I always doubt myself and act like a retard whenever I start at a new job, but oh well.
  
• Oh yes and to add to my stress we're having legal issues with changing names over on some of my mom's things.. so we get to hire a lawyer. The good times just keep on coming, don't they? I smell probate, and it's not pretty. We went through all this probate crap when my grandma died, and boy did it suck. Everyone do yourself a favor and write a will. Get it notarized. Don't cross things out and write in the margins. That kind of screws things up. Don't assume that you can just change your name on a deed to your husband's name. It doesn't always work that way. *sigh*
  
• Well, I can't think of anything else to talk about. I'm eating leftover asparagus (my pee will be funky later, oh well) and drinking Diet Mountain Dew, and talking online to Kimmie and Leeanne. I'll have a nice longwinded report on Monday night/Tuesday morning, so talk to ya later.
  

hooray

• Hey word up homies, I am back. I've got good news, I'm pretty sure I have a third job now. I had good feelings when I had my interview on Friday. I gotta fax in some paperwork this morning so I can start training. Only 2 days a week, sometimes 3, in the late afternoons and it pays good. I'm hecka juiced. Now I won't be as poor. Yes I will be getting sleep. I may be sleeping 6 hours instead of 8 on Mon/Tues, but no biggie. I still have my weekends.
  
• Let's see what else is new? I went walking yesterday morning (ankles still hurt) and I'm going again today. Then it's the weekly grocery run. Plus tomorrow I'm taking them to Costco for more stuff. My schedule's crazy any way you look at it. I am so rocking out to Prince right now, it's awesome. My thought process is oh so random. Oh here's a video I made from the past 3 weeks or so. Very random. Especially Brad's dancing at the end.
  

another great weekend

• Whoo I'm officially back from my weekend. And rockin to George Michael. My weekends are always cool, I love them. A lot. Let's see Friday morning I had an interview for a third part-time gig, and it went very well. It would be a few days during the week, from 3-8pm. That would be a tad less sleep for me, but at least I'd still have my Fri/Sat/Sun partytime. I'll know in the next week or two if I get it. If I do, then fantastic. If I don't then oh well, God's got something better lined up. After the interview I went home and got a little more sleep, then went to the A's game with Sandi. We lost to Texas 4-3. Oh well, we had fun. Baseball games are always awesome.
  
• Saturday I did the KDFC thing, nothing too exciting there. Except JD at the Wolf seriously burped in the hallway, and that was awesome. I appreciate great loud bodily functions. Then I went home and did a little housework, and headed on over to Davina's house where she dolled me up and turned me into a woman. Okay that last sentence could be taken out of context completely you perverts.. I mean that she dressed me up like a girl from the 1920s for this Chicagoland Ball thing in San Mateo. I really didn't want to go, since I have this social anxiety thing about dancing with boys, etc. It turned out to be pretty interesting and fun. Valeria came along too. I ended up hanging out with Valeria for a good portion of the evening there since Davina did get up and dance occasionally. Most of the guys there were already with dates, or really old/weird. So we made sure to avoid eye contact and all that jazz. Haha.. they played "All That Jazz." I'm such a nerd. We left there around 10pm and drove all the way to Fentons in Oakland for some bombass ice cream. Oh and a cheeseburger. But the swiss chocolate mocha ice cream there is to die for. I give it a 10 out of 10 on the Richter scale of awesomeness. Creamy goodness.
  
• On Sunday I dragged myself out of bed and went to church. I was really pooped out from the night before but I knew church was important. Especially since next week I'll be in Lodi and not able to go. So I went, and it was a lot of fun. After church, I went back home then Davina picked up Michelle and I and we went to Knudsen's Creamery in Castro Valley for lunch. Ice cream again, yes I know. I'm awful. It was fantastic. Not as fantastic as Fenton's, I give it about a 7 on the Richter scale of awesomeness. Then we went walking to the duck pond over by my house. Then we went back to my house, and I took a nap for a few hours. I promised Michelle that she and I would go to dinner together, so we went to Texas Roadhouse again. I love that place. I had the roasted chicken with a house salad and green beans. Really tasty. Their rolls are the best part. We went to Borders afterward and I had an iced vanilla latte. It was pretty good. Afterwards we went to my place and I watched the last half hour of the new version of the Bad News Bears, then the first half hour. Weird, but TNT was playing the movie twice in a row and that's how I caught it. It was good, but Billy Bob Thornton is no Walter Matteau. Okay that's it for now. This whole week shall be interesting, and I can't wait until Spring Celebration at Great America this Saturday.. front row for Family Force 5!!! WHOOOOOO.
  
• P.S. I love Huey Lewis And The News.. and I'll have a new video up in the next day or so. I have odd footage from the past 3 weeks that must be shared.
  

im tired.. as usual

• Hooray for weekends! I'm so glad it's here already. I'm exhausted. Gee that's a shocker huh? I seem overly tired today, but oh well. My schedule is a bit insane, so that's the main reason I guess. I have an interview later this morning for a possible third job. I don't know the hours or pay, but I'll go to find out and see if they even like me. I'm also going to the A's game tonight. Whoohoo! Essentially I'm getting like 5-6 hours of sleep broken into two segments. Yay for me. Saturday I'm working my part-time gig, and later that evening Davina is dragging me to one of her weird 1920's era dances or whatever they are. I'm not really into that kind of thing but she has no one else to go with and she's dressing me up. Oh well, maybe I'll take some fascinating pics or video. So yeah, this weekend will be interesting. I'll try to get some rest in between all the mayhem.
  
• Congrats to me, I went walking on Wednesday and Thursday morning, despite the painful arthritic ankles. I won't have time to go this morning obviously, but oh well. I'll try to take walks here and there over the weekend, that'll help my fitness level. Maybe.
  
• I haven't been this tired in a long time. Maybe it's depression, maybe it's stress. I have enough of it. Maybe it's hormones. Probably a combo of all three. I'm having my late twenties life crisis. Help.
  

i live in da ghettoburbs

• Hey there. Let me start off with a rant I have in my head. Why do they show commercials for good looking restaurants that aren't in my area? They always advertise for Ruby Tuesday, the closest one is about 2 hours away. What the heck is with that? Oh and Dunkin Donuts with "America Runs On Dunkin". There are no Dunkin Donuts in California. I was on their website. Change the slogan to "Most of America runs on Dunkin but California has Starbucks on every other corner so forget them." I know Dunkin Donuts owns Baskin Robbins, so why not replace at least one ice cream outlet with a Dunkin Donuts? I know I seem fanatical, but I wanna see the hype and magical donuts that the East coast seems to be crazy about. Oh and Cici's Pizza, that place with the pizza buffet. I doubt there are any in California. None in the Bay Area, anyway.
• All the good cheap places are afraid of the expensive yuppie wasteland I like to call home. Well I live in the ghettoburbs, so not exactly. Let me break down that terminology while I'm at it. Oakland is ghetto, and I live in a suburb of Oakland, in San Lorenzo. I wouldn't really call it a suburb because all the affluent mostly white folks have fled to Dublin/Walnut Creek/San Ramon. I live in a ghettoburb. A smaller suburb with plenty of check cashing places, billboard advertisements in Spanish and homie g funks at the local malls. I'm not being racist, well trying not to be. I'm just making observations.
  
• Wow that certainly was a mouthful, huh? Did I mention I'm hormonal today? Yeah so after that rant, lemme break down what's been happening the last few days. Not too much. Went walking yesterday, and after half a mile my ankles and back were on fire. Mostly my ankles. I was in dire pain and it hurt pretty bad just to change back into my flipflops. I don't know if it's because I'm fat (which is what doctors like to tell me), water retention (good possibility) or the onset of arthritis (both parents have/had it, and my knees hurt when it's going to rain). Whatever it is, I don't like it but ankle pain will not prevent me from exercise. I will walk at least a mile this morning even if it kills me. I shall overcome you pesky little stiff painful swollen extremities. Okay now I'm even scaring myself so I'll go now.
  

my weekend was okay

• Word up homies.. and everyone else reading. My weekend was pretty cool. I did a lot of vegging out in the lazy boy and watching TV/movies. Let's see on Friday morning after work I went walking with Michelle at the marina then hit up Starbucks. Big shocker there. Friday night I went to Stoneridge Mall with Davina and Michelle, and ate at Fresh Choice for dinner. Then we did lots of browsing and drove to Union City to check out Borders. Then we went to Starbucks again. (I told ya my family is addicted to Starbucks, we're caffeine fiends. I'm not necessarily one, but yeah) So Friday was pretty routine, and fun.
  
• Saturday I did my part-time gig in the city, then went home, did some straightening, went walking, and came home to chill. It was great. We watched tons of movies, including Beverly Hills Cop II. The "we" was Cathy and I.. until TJ came home. We also watched SNL Best Of Christopher Walken and I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry. I had like two rum + diet pepsis and one of my mocha lite fraps with the liqueur shot. Okay so I was bad. After three drinks, then I decided to make a bigass dinner at 9:30pm. LMAO. I made some turkey burger/chili/onion thing that turned into sloppy joes, and sauteed some mushrooms (which Cathy kept stealing)/asparagus. Great dinner, just kinda sloppily made. I love having a lazy day every once in a while.
  
• Sunday was pretty much a lazy day as well. Michelle had been under the weather since she was pretty sure she had a urinary tract infection. She was running a fever and felt awful on Sunday morning so I took her to Kaiser in Oakland. This meant I had to forgo church, but oh well. I'm sure God understands, I was helping my sister ya know. Anyway she dropped off her pee at the lab and got her antibiotics, and then I dropped her off at home. When I got home I did a bit more cleaning and mopped the floors. Then I watched TV for about 3 hours (including Beethoven's 4th on Disney.. Judge drinking out of the toilet.. so sexy), and took naps off/on while periodically waking up to eat and pee. I did have some dream that I was like seriously late for work, then I got in an accident, and all these things kept happening to prevent me from getting here. It was odd. But I'm here. Hooray. Now I'm drinking some Zen tea, eating leftovers and rockin to Tobymac. Oh and talking online with Kimmie. Oh I took some interesting video but I want to wait for more footage so I can make a cool compilation of the last 2 weeks or so. Okay later sk8ters..
  

i finally watched more tv

• Hooray hooray the weekend is here! Seriously. I'm feeling tired lately but that's so big surprise. I'm always tired. I've been working overnights full time for over 5 years and my body still refuses to accept that I'm awake during niteytime and sleep during the daytime, at least Monday through Friday. Well that and my hormones are seriously wacked out. You know the commercial for those birth control pills where you only have a period every 3 months? I don't need that, I have that problem already. Except my body randomly likes to pretend I'm starting when I'm not and I get all the bloating, depression and hurting body parts for weeks on end. Some of my body parts like to double in size. Which is kinda cool but they hurt. Okay that was interesting wasn't it? This fake commercial from Saturday Night Live is awesome and entails how bad it would be if I only had it once a year.. although this is almost what it feels like already..
  

Saturday Night Live - Annuale

• Now that I'm done telling you all about me and my fire monster uterus, not too much excitement going on. I went to the gym both Wednesday and Thursday mornings, and got a great workout. I'm going walking this morning with Michelle, which is good too. I had a really relaxing day so far (my day started at 6pm Thursday evening and will probably end around 9-10am on Friday morning). I got up, showered, got laundry out of the dryer (while inadvertently locking my cat in the garage for 2 hours), made dinner, and watched hours of wonderful entertainment on TV in the comfy Lazy Boy in the living room. I watched 2 reruns of Scrubs, COPS, a new episode of Scrubs (can you tell I love Scrubs?), the episode of Seinfeld where Judge Reinhold guest stars as the "close talker", MTV's Real Life which dealt with young folks in their 20s supporting their families (I can relate.. just a tad.. ), then I Know My Kid's A Star. Then I came to work. That was the most TV I've watched in one sitting in a very long time. I pay for the cable, might was well watch it, right? Okay now I'm off to do some surveys or something, and finish these leftover veggies I made for supper. Yummy. Later!
  

peter cetera and special lesbians need ham

• Hey Momma. Shake it like a poloroid picture! (listening to Outkast) Anyway, not too much going on as of late. I'm pretty sure I have some type of ear infection. Right ear is swollen with some interesting drainage down the Eustachian tube, and yesterday my ear hurt so bad that it was affecting my jaw and I had to take Tylenol. Fun stuff. That and I've been in a fog the last day or so, kinda dizzy. I feel baked, but I'm definitely not. That's the only way I can describe it. Oh, and headaches. Constant headaches. Fun.
  
• Other than that, life is okay. I've been feeling more tired than usual, and having some issues sleeping. Oh well, I think we all go through cycles like that. Of course my life seems to be a never-ending conga line of stress, so that probably contributes to it.
  
• Went walking yesterday, and I'm hitting the gym this morning since it's raining. Then it's grocery day so I won't be in bed until about noon. I'm like Little Miss Complainer today, I swear. So yeah that's about it. I'm hoping to catch up on rest in the next few days, and maybe I'll feel better. As you all know I hate doctors with a passion (except the hilarious ones on Scrubs.. I'd have no prob with J.D. or even Dr. Cox checking me out), so I want to nip whatever the heck is going on in the bud.
  
• Kimmie and I are busy conversing about Peter Cetera and "special lesbians" and how they need ham, so I'm going to go now. Ta-taaaa!
  

tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies.. (stevie nicks ) tell me lies.. (lindsey buckingham) tell me tell me lies!

• Hey Momma, droppin in to say "hey!" *doing z-snap* after the weekend. It was pretty cool. Had a few ups and downs anyway. Friday night I went with Michelle to Texas Roadhouse. God that was good. Just their rolls are out of this world. A word of advice.. call ahead, you'll save yourself about 45 minutes. That's what I did and it worked. After that we went to Barnes & Noble and browsed, then I dropped her off and called it a night.
  
• Saturday I worked my part-time gig, then picked up Michelle and drove to Half Moon Bay. She'd never been there before and I wanted to show her God's beauty. It's really a great drive just getting there, seriously. She was tweakin out when we were driving over some pretty valleys and near the ocean of course. She doesn't deal with heights well apparently. Later she apologized for the freak out session, but I didn't think anything of it, really. We had Subway for a late lunch and Starbucks, then drove home. I spent the rest of the evening enjoying the new Lazy Boy chair in our living room (which is my dead uncle's, but that's okay our cousins gave it to us). Oh man I kept falling asleep in that thing. When TJ and Cathy are not occupying it, that's my new favorite furniture piece.
  
• Sunday morning I went to church and it was great. I was feeling the spirit everywhere, and it was the beginning of an awesome day. Then I went home, did a little housework, then went to my uncle's memorial service in Alameda. It was pretty cool. Free food, open bar (not like I drank anything but other people sure were.. lol), and meeting relatives with the same last name for the first time. I almost choked on a piece of pineapple, but thanks to the cup of punch in front of me I survived. I'm always the one doing something embarrassing in a social situation. When I got home Cathy and I had a fight, but we made up. Least I think we made up, she finally hugged me after much struggle. Why does no one in my family like to hug? Except cousin David apparently. Anyway.. yeah my weekend was interesting.
  

this blog has no purpose/direction

• Hey momma. It's Friday, and I'm pretty happy. This week has been pretty okay, nothing too eventful. I've been on the phone a lot lately, with a guy that I like. I want to know him a lot better though before I make any final decisions about anything. But.. he is very cute. And nice. Very nice. Now we're talking on Yahoo.
  
• I went to the A's game on Wednesday night with Sandi, and we got whooped by Seattle. We got free blankets, so that kinda made up for it in a way. I went walking on Thursday morning, and I'm going this morning too. Then I'm supposed to go to Fernando's house for pancakes. Yummy yum yum!
• This blog has like no real purpose today, and I'm not sure why. Might be my lack of concentration. Might be that I'm trying to eat an apple why I'm typing. Oh well. I'll read this in a year or two and be like "Wow, what was I on?" Haha.
  
• Seriously, I can't wait for this weekend, since I'll be spending most of it lounging around. I almost always say I'll be kicking back, but it never ends up that way. Someone always wants to go out somewhere. Some type of fun activity ensues. Hey I can't help it. I would love to lounge in the living room on Saturday evening sipping a rum + diet wild cherry pepsi, watching some 80s movie. That is my goal. But if one of you calls and wants to kick it, that's cool too. I love any excuse to bust out the camera and take useless footage or great snapshots. Okay see ya'll on the flipside. Peace!
  

love thy neighbor

• Hello Momma. Another lovely blog here. The week's going pretty okay and smoothly. Went to the gym yesterday and took Michelle/Dad grocery shopping. After going home, putting food away, feeding Spencer and going to bed.. Michelle calls 5 hours later and wants to go out to the mall. It's like dude, let me get some sleep already. Made me so mad.
  
• You know, sometimes I worry that I care too much about people. I see the good in everyone, regardless of what they've done in the past or what others have to say about them. Jesus is kinda the same way. He wipes your slate clean, and sees how good/pure you can be. After I sat and pondered this for a while, that's what I realized. Christians are supposed to love their neighbor. Not be judgmental or critical. Okay so this person screwed up, does that give us a right to look down on him? No one on this earth is perfect. Yes there are bad people out there, that do bad things. That doesn't mean we have to mistrust everyone we meet or form opinions about people we don't know well yet. I guess I'm just silly to think this way. Your thoughts?
  
• This blog may or may not have ruffled people's feathers, and I'm sorry. See, I already am apologizing because I fear hurting someone's feelings. I'm a people pleaser. But I love God and I know that's the message I'm supposed to share today. It's what's on my mind at the moment, anyway. So everyone have a great day. I'm going to watch the A's whoop Seattle's butt and eat $1 hot dogs tonight. Later.
  

Bittersweet end to my weekend..

• Hey there Momma. I had a fantastic weekend.. well almost completely fantastic. I have some bad news to report first. My dad's brother, Uncle Jim S passed away sometime on Saturday night. We found out Sunday evening. So Mom if you see him up there, be nice okay? (inside joke, Cathy gets it) My dad is pretty quiet as far as I can tell, probably in shock. Poor guy lost his wife and now his brother. I'm pretty shocked, and I'm sad. Dad and his brother didn't talk too often and we only saw him every few years or so although he lived like 15 min away, but that's alright. He will be missed. RIP Jim Sovulewski.
  
• On a more fun and positive note, I did have a pretty fun weekend. Well aside from finding out about my uncle's passing. Friday evening I went to dinner at Applebees with Amy since we hadn't hung out in forever, then drove down Redwood Road blasting the theme from Beverly Hills Cop. After dropping Amy off, I stopped by Alisha's house and we partied for a few hours. It was pretty fun, and I think I may like jaeger bombs. Not sure yet though.
  
• Saturday I did the KDFC thang as usual. Then I came home and actually got to chill out during the afternoon. Did a little bit of cleaning and actually watched TV for 3-4 hours. I love lounging on the couch and watching Airplane! with some diet wild cherry pepsi. A little after 7pm Brad and Victoria picked me up, and we went for dinner/drinks at the New Zealander in Alameda. I had an awesome cheeseburger with steamed veggies and salad. I drank two diet cokes and had Kahlua/coffee with my dessert. Oh yeah I had bread pudding. Oh and we had cheese/crackers for our appetizer. Very nice quaint atmosphere, great service. We sat there and ate/talked for like 2-3 hours, man it was fun.
  
• Sunday morning I went to church, and it was great being back. Pastor Gary's pastor friend from Vegas was there. He reminds me of Chris Farley's brother. He's a great speaker though, and a good dancer. After church I picked up Davina, we swung by my house to grab some stuff, and headed off to Half Moon Bay to hit the beach with Amy and Cathy. The actual beach we went to is called Bean Hollow. Hahaha. I love the beach. We played in the water, wrote our names in the sand, took wacky pictures and such. Afterwards we followed Cathy and Amy to Round Table there in Half Moon Bay and had some late lunch/early dinner. Veggie pizza and cheesy breadsticks rock.
  
• The ride to Half Moon Bay and back is so beautiful, seriously. I think sometimes we don't fully appreciate God's beauty and take things like that for granted. I was mentioning that to Davina on the way over there and that's so ironic since I had no fathom about my uncle's passing. We always take people for granted too. It's horrible. Everyone does it, though. I think that's why I almost never say no when friends want to hang, even if I'm exhausted. You never know if today's your last day or what. Take that last road trip. Go for ice cream or dinner. Rock out at that concert. Or just have a great conversation. Don't wait until later. Do it now. Live your life while it's still your life.
  
• Okay here are a few videos from my weekend. Enjoy. I like the "Sexyback" part on the second video the best. :-)

another way too personal blog

• Hey there momma. I thought I would blog about something more private and emotional than usual today. Something I was talking about with Michelle yesterday morning, and even with Kimmie over last weekend. I don't know why but putting my feelings into writing is so much easier then talking about it. I've been blogging for like 2 years now, at least on my blogspot. Ain't that a trip? Life sure has changed, lemme tell ya.
  
• Anyway, on with the main topic. It's hard to put this into words just thinking about this. Since you've been gone (insert Kelly Clarkson hook here.. ) I've gone through a rash of emotions. Tons of them. Hurt, anger, fear, abandonment, insanity. It kind of feels like I've been orphaned. Yes I'm almost 28 years old. A little too grown up to be considered one. You see, Dad is still technically here. So I can't say that anyway. He is not being a Dad, that's the thing. His short term memory is way shot, he can't remember what you told him 2 minutes ago. Every time we go shopping I have to remind him that he's buying the groceries, that he doesn't smoke anymore, things like that. He also forgets what day it is, what month it is, what year it is. Once in a while he wakes up and asks where Mom is. Luckily I don't live there so I don't have to explain that one. Oh yes, and he's usually very grumpy. Most of the time. Rarely cracks a smile, always telling me to stop talking so much. I mean some of this is probably because I remind him of Mom. I look/sound just like her, and I'm usually cracking jokes like she always did. On the other hand, he's always been kind of the party pooper. He's been telling me to shut up for years. So yeah Mom is gone and now my father's the equivalent of a 3 yr old, least it feels like it. So that's my sob story as of late.
  
• I'm not trying to throw a pity party or anything like that, don't worry. Just something I wanted to get off my chest, so people know where I'm coming from. So if I'm bitchy sometimes, remember what I'm dealing with.. that and working way too much. Waaah waaaah.
  
• I'm still praising God all the way, of course. I'm so blessed to have great friends to keep my spirits up when I feel like crawling in a hole somewhere. I thank God every day for his grace, cuz I sure have screwed up here and there. Anyway, that's what's been on my mind the past day or so.
  
• In other exciting news, I went walking both Wednesday and Thursday mornings with Michelle. I went to La Pinata on Thursday night and had a killer grilled chicken burrito famoso. I'm eating the leftovers as we speak. I love mexican food.
  
• This weekend should be pretty cool. I'm getting some OT later today working a half shift. Saturday night I'm going out with Brad and Victoria from work, I'll bring my camera for that one. I'll probably make another insane video out of it. Okay taa-taa for now!
  

this video if off da heezy

• Hey there momma. I've been having weird dreams lately. And I mean weird. Am I going to share them with the world? Of course. Okay on Sunday morning I had this dream that I went with you, Dad, and Michelle to Newpark Mall or something. I was finishing a corn dog when all of a sudden we saw what I can describe as a Muppet Carnival. It was a carnival with rides, booths and fun stuff, completely run and populated by Muppets. As you all know, I LOVE THE MUPPETS! That is a complete understatement. If I met an actual Muppet even with the Muppeteer's hand up it's butt, I'd faint. Seriously. I love Sesame Street and The Muppets way too much. This place was full of them. In my dream I took like 75,000 pictures and everyone was having a blast. Then, they all left in a big fancy parade procession. Muppets and kids, then Big Bird took you (Mom) in your chair and pushed it along the procession, and you all went away. It was a sad ending, but so awesome at the same time. Guess it's my way of knowing you're in a happy place, maybe kickin it with Jim Henson or something. Tell him "Wussup!" if you see him, okay?
  
• Okay then on Monday I had this dream that I was trapped in this sitcom with Kirstie Alley playing my mom and Daniel Stern playing my dad. I asked Kirstie what's up and she's like "I'm playing your mother." then I pointed at grown up Kevin Arnold (ask Kimmie) and she's like "Yeah well he's got blue eyes and he's retarded. Travolta was busy." Then she told me "Just stay on the right track, do the right thing and you'll be okay." My subconscious does weird stuff lately, I swear.
  
• Anyway in my nonsleeping time, life has been pretty routine. I went to the gym yesterday morning, yay for me. Also took Michelle and Dad to OSH, Target and Starbucks. Thrilling. I should go walking (I always say "should" since Michelle always says she wants to go, but I call her at 7am and she's like "I'm tired.. waaah waah" so I end up hitting the gym.. oh well) or hit the gym after work this morning. Then it's grocery day. Hooray.
  
• I made a funnyass video from my weekend adventures with Kimmie. I'll be posting an interesting blog on the Mandys N More page in a bit so look out for that if you're bored. My top 40 on my page is on "random" so if you need a link it's www.myspace.com/mandysnmore. Yeah check it. So here's the video.. enjoy! P.S. It's not supposed to make sense, and I had to edit a lot out for time.
  

Another crazy weekend

this town needs an enema!

• Hey there Momma. I am TIRED. I had one fantastic weekend, though. Let me start from Friday, and I'll try to detail as much as possible. I will do an even more detailed blog with illustrations tomorrow on the Mandy's N More blog.. just FYI. I haven't had a chance to upload pics or make any video montages just yet. Okay so anyway, Friday was pretty cool. I went to dinner with Michelle (you treated technically Mom, don't ask), we went to TGI Fridays. Then we got ice cream from Coldstone. God I love Coldstone. I love ice cream period. We brought some home for Cathy and TJ. Then Michelle and I watched Diners, Drive-ins and Dives on the Food Network when Davina came over. We're all fat girls so the Food Network is like watching hot ripped guys washing cars on a hot Sunday afternoon. You get the drift. Man nothing is more awesome than eating ice cream and watching the Food Network. Mmmmm. So a while later we dropped Michelle off at home and went to Dennys. I had a diet cherry coke since I had enough food earlier. It was pretty fun just getting out though.
  
• Saturday was another awesome day. How many times can I say awesome in this blog? I have no clue. So I worked at KDFC like I always do. It was pretty fun and routine. Lots of listeners leave bitter voicemail because they say it's not classical enough. I think classical music is so full of snobs, especially here in the Bay Area, where everyone on the other side of the bay (San Francisco, Marin, Palo Alto) acts like they're the shite since their real estate is worth twice as much and they pay over $4 for gas. Okay enough complaining. After work I headed on over to Lodi to kick it with Kimmie and got there at 3pm on the dot. Her mom was there, and boy was that interesting. You'll see from the video I make in the next day or two. Anyway we started by watching the pilot episode of He-Man. Then, the He-Man live action movie starring Dolph Lundgren and Courtney Cox. It was god awful. Let's see, after that we started to watch Superman III, and got about 10 minutes into it when Joyce and Mulletene (ask Kimmie.. LOL) showed up unexpectedly. Then we all watched Alvin And The Chipmunks. Jason Lee looks SO much better without facial hair. Also, I LOVE Matthew Gray Gubler because he's a hot dork on Criminal Minds (I named my cat Spencer after his character), and he was the voice of Simon. Pretty cute movie. They left soon after that, and I put on Bushwhacked starring Daniel Stern. Boy is he goofy, and that movie was retarded. Hence why I wasted an hour and a half of our lives watching it. I got a lovely screencap I'll show you guys. Next, Kimmie put on Rosemary's Baby, but I passed out like 5 minutes into the movie. She threw a New Kids blanket at me during it and I woke up when Mia Farrow was whining about their new apartment. That's all I remember.
  
• Sunday was also a totally awesome day. LOL We finally got to watch Superman III, starring the ever so hot Christopher Reeve (RIP) and Richard Pryor, who was insane (RIP to you too). Boy wait till you see the clips, folks. I'm not dropping hints yet. After that was watched The Making Of Superman III. That was cool, and Chris' 80s hairdo was stylin. Then we took a fantastic field trip up the street. First to Apple Marketplace, which is NOT WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE, least their check-out stands aren't. We have video of it too. We picked up sour cream and wine coolers. Good combo. Then we went to Baskin Robbins, (did I mention how much I love and adore ice cream? Guess the double chin gives it away...) and listened to old school Peter Cetera and the Backstreet Boys. Two separate songs. If they did a song together, boy that would be a winner. Then we crossed the street to Starbucks. No Kenny Rogers/Michael McDonald look-a-likes, sorry folks. We were hunting for some but no luck. We still had fun there anyway. We headed on back to Kimmie's house, and I put on one of my favorite movies, Batman. The best one, with my movie boyfriend Michael Keaton.... and Jack Nicholson who is hilarious but definitely not my movie boyfriend. I LOVE that movie!! "This town needs an enema!!" Then we put on Rosemary's Baby, and I saw most of it. That movie is CREEPY. Mia Farrow can't sing, and the hair/clothes of the 60s were um interesting. Also, Roman Polanski is a great director I guess, but they were trying too hard with the whole experimental thing with this one. I had to leave at 9pm to go home, but I wish I didn't have to. We have so much fun just watching and critiquing bad movies.
  
• Oh yeah, I was pretty much sick the whole weekend. I had a sinus infection that started maybe on Thursday night with my swollen ears and painful throat. Friday I felt sluggish and my throat hurt. Saturday I was kinda feverish all day and blowing lots of yellow snot everywhere. Sunday I was still kinda beat, and still blowing tons of yellow snot. Right now I'm okay, but I've started coughing up yellow phlegmballs. Fun. I love my sinuses, and every 2-3 months, they seem to love me too.
  

i wanna be with you everywhere...

• Hey there Momma. The weekend is here once again. I should be having fun, since I'm going to spend most of Saturday/Sunday at Kimmie's house watching crazy 80s movies and eating great yummy food. I can't wait! Right now I feel a cold coming on, and I'm trying my best to combat it. Unfortunately Airborne and Zicam don't work for me that well, I think it's because there is too much zinc. My body doesn't do well with massive amounts of any chemical, vitamin or substance I've noticed. Too much sugar = bad. Too much zinc= bad. Too much alcohol= bad. Secondhand smoke on an empty smoke= bad. The hardest drug I ever took was half a Vicodin after having wisdom teeth out, and I passed out for like 12-14 hours. So yeah I'm sensitive.
  
• I also wanted to share a few weird dreams I had yesterday. The first one was that I was in elementary school again, but Jeff Goldblum was my music teacher. I don't remember much except I was really young and he looked hot like he did back in the 80s and kept pinching my cheeks. I got that a lot as a kid. My cheeks pinched, not hot Jeff Goldblum experiences. Haha. The second dream was that I was working at Burger King again. (Which I would NEVER do even if I get a third job again, I'd rather go back to Longs, okay?) This one massively obese woman ordered 100 whoppers with cheese and no mayo. Then she proceeded to eat them, and die of a massive coronary. Very interesting. So yeah, dream analysts, comment away. Haha.
  
• The past few days have been cool, other than weird dreams here and there. I worked out both Wednesday and Thursday mornings, and I think I'm going walking today. If not I'll work out if I don't feel too crappy. I've been opting for getting more sleep when I can, and I definitely will this weekend as well. Don't worry I'm still up for the usual antics, Kimmie. I just may pass out sooner or something on Saturday night. We'll see. Well, I'm sure I'll have a giant blog to post early on Monday morning, and pictures to follow from this weekend. It'll be a blast. For now I'll just chill and listen to Fleetwood Mac, and talk online with Kimmie, Leeanne and Dusty. And no not Dusti Rhodes, Leeanne. This one is a dude. Just FYI. LMAO
  

no more sex talk

• Hey there Momma. Sorry I was jammin to Kanye West there for a minute, had to pause Golddigger. Kinda hard to get serious and concentrate when bumping rap music at loud volumes. I've missed you so much lately. Mostly since I've had some really fun adventures and I wish you were there to hear my stories. I don't know if you read my blogs from heaven or even watch on me from time to time. I have faith that God reads my blogs so that's good enough for me. He can pass along the messages.
  
• Speaking of faith, I just got done reading a little bit of James there in the Bible. Faith and works go hand in hand. I've been reading Starving Jesus and they talk about the same thing, pretty much. Don't just talk the talk, you gotta walk the walk. I'm still growing in Christ, and I have a LOOOOOOOONG way to go. Man it's HARD. Of course they said it's going to be hard, so DUH LISA. Anyway yeah, temptation is everywhere. I don't just mean the brownies that have been sitting on the kitchen counter for the past two days. Thank you Cathy. I'm talking about SEX SEX and more SEX. I used to be a bad girl, and now I'm not. But it's so hard to not look at stuff and say things. Hey at least I'm putting it out in the open, people. Get me away from the smut!!! Sometimes I get confused and forget that love doesn't equal sex, sex doesn't equal love. I get so boyfriend deprived that I want something I shouldn't have. Satan sure is sneaky.
  
• Anyway enough of the Christianity lessons for today. The past few days have been routine. Monday I was way too exhausted to exercise. I came home and slept, ate dinner, watched Scrubs, slept more, went to work. Blah blah. Yesterday morning I did work out at the gym, then went to Fernando's for breakfast and to play with his son. Oh and smell his stinky diaper as well. It was a wonderful experience. Today is grocery day, but I'll either go walking or hit the gym before that. I think I need more cat litter. (writing that down.. ) Okay.. later skaters.
  

lisa's awesome weekend

• Hey Momma. Boy did I have an exciting weekend. Let me sum it up for ya. I'll try my best to do some good recaps and I hope I don't miss much. I should have blogged earlier on but I was exhausted so I kinda half dozed for a little over an hour. Well I tried to, but I had two phone calls and *Linda* coming in convinced that we had a burglar downstairs and it was really Zack from programming. Okay anyway, here goes.
  
• Friday afternoon I worked a half shift here until 7pm. I really need the OT badly so I didn't mind. Then I went home for a bit and grabbed all my Corey Feldman DVDs/VHS tapes to take the Goonies screening. Fernando had texted while I was at work and invited me over for tacos, so I came over. We hung out, and played liars dice with Grace and Mary. Then Tony came over too, and we talked about our various relationship problems. I left Fernando's house a little after 9 and went to pick up Stuart, my date. Some of you know him as my "husband". We call him that because one of my parents' neighbors at my mom's viewing thought he was my husband. She mistook him for my ex boyfriend. LMAO Moving on, I picked up Stu and we went to Castro Valley Cinemar or whatever it's called. It took a while to get everyone in and seated, and eventually Corey showed. Boy is he awesome. He did a little Q and A, then we all went up row by row to meet him and get autographs. Due to time constraints the theater management said he could only sign one thing and no posing for pictures. So I gave Stuart my copy of the Goonies and I had him sign Stand By Me. This movie means a lot to me since it was one of my mom's favorites. When we got up there, I was nervous but surprisingly did not lose my ability to talk. We snuck a pic together and he even squeezed my hand. He seemed nice. Genuinely nice, not fake nice. It was so cool of him to come to Castro Valley and make an appearance like that. He said during the Q and A that he came because he supports small businesses and that the theater is fighting hard against cineplexes, stuff like that. If I find a video on Youtube maybe I'll post it in the Mandy's blog, I'm doing one a little more detailed later on. I'm sure someone taped it. Overall, it was a great experience meeting Corey for those glorious 30 seconds or so.
  
• Saturday was a great day as well. You know everyday on earth is a great day, if you think about it. Enough waxing philosophical. I worked that morning, like I do almost every Saturday. Then I went back home for an hour or so to freshen up and upload Corey pics onto Myspace. Big shocker, huh? Then a little before 4 I went to Davina's house. Jennifer and Kristin were already there. Then the "party van" as I call it went and picked up Ana, Valeria, and then Lorie. We drove to San Francisco, and boy California Street is steep. I hate stop signs/stoplights when you are stopped and when you take your foot off the brake to go you still roll backwards, even in an automatic. I had my foot on the imaginary brake the whole time, Kristin thought it was hilarious. So we went on this "vampire tour" on Nob Hill. I thought it was okay, but personally I don't think it was worth as much as Davina paid for it. It was educational, but most of our 2 hours were spent freezing our butts off in various locales while the goth lady with a candelabra told us about the history of various buildings and the relation to some local vampires. I give her props for memorizing that much of a script though. We did go inside the Fairmont Hotel for about 10 minutes or so. Most of that time was spent in the potty since some of us had to pee. I wish we had visited the inside of more of these places instead of just hearing about them. That's just my two cents though. It was fun and I'm glad Davina invited all of us to go. After that we had dinner at the Nob Hill Cafe, then we drove over to the Mission District for organic ice cream. I forgot the name of the place we went to, it was right by Mission High School. Yummy. Then we drove back to San Leandro, and called it a night since everyone was so pooped.
  
• Sunday I missed out on church but I had a great excuse. I went to the A's/Giants game at AT&T Park in San Fran with Sandi. We met at San Leandro BART and took the train to San Fran, then caught the Muni down there. The seats were awesome. The snooty couple on the other side of me were not so awesome. They were dressed like it was a business lunch, not a ballgame. The guy was remarking about how the American League sucks, blah blah blah. Eventually they left to go find "decent Asian cuisine" and never came back. Good for them. It's like dude this is a ballpark, not Rodeo Drive. Rich people make me wanna barf. I was being as obnoxious as possible and even farted a few times. Maybe they were overcome by the fumes. I hope that's what did the trick. The A's scored like 6 runs in the top of the 7th inning, and we decided to go walk around after the 7th inning stretch. We found the giant Coke bottle slide, and of course slid down it. Then we found the lovely cable car and took pics on that too. So touristy. After the game we walked up 3rd street and I showed Sandi where KDFC was. I took her on a tour of that station, as well as 95.7 The Wolf and KOIT. It was fun. Then we walked back towards The Embarcadero and caught a streetcar to Pier 39. I hadn't been there in ages. Our driver was pretty entertaining. Some guy broke the fair box so she just let everyone on board and kept yelling about how "That guy in the back broke the fair box, just get on!! Hurry up, blame him!" Anyway, we had dinner at the Hard Rock Cafe. Not as expensive as it could have been, and they subbed out my fries for broccoli. I had a pulled pork sandwich. Yum. Oh yeah, I had a meatball sub at the ballgame. Not too good for me, but hey I ate an apple I had brought from home. So ooooh. Okay so after dinner, we did A LOT of walking around. I was good and didn't spend extra dough, only on a Nutella crepe for dessert. It was awesome. I took lots of video though, as you'll see at the end of this blog. It's a compilation of the whole weekend. I had a great time, but boy am I pooped out.
  

3/30 weekend fun

im gonna have a cool weekend

• Hey there Momma, the weekend is here. Lemme tell ya what went on the past day or so and then I'll elaborate on what I'll be doing in the next 3 days. Wednesday morning I hit the gym, then took Michelle and Dad grocery shopping. Nothing too thrilling on Wednesday sorry. Thursday evening was awesome, though. Sandi and I went to see Tyler from Audio A play an acoustic set at a really small church that I can't remember the name of in Merced. Sandi you need to refresh my memory. In case any of you don't know who Audio A is, look up Audio Adrenaline, 3 time Grammy award winners. He was/is the lead guitarist/second vocalist. I do remember that the opening act was some youth band of teenagers that sounded awful. Sorry kids. Singer was offkey, drummer offbeat, bass player looked bored. Then the youth pastor made me stand up in front of everyone since I traveled the farthest to be there. 2 hours.. oooh wow. That was a bit embarrassing. Anyway eventually Tyler came on and he was amazing. He looks amazing too, I might add. He's happily married with kids, but yeah he's easy on the eyes, boys and girls. Now I sound like Robert Culp, if he were gay. Okay only Kimmie got that one. Anyway, after his set was over Sandi and I went over and talked to him for a bit. He is so nice, and makes excellent eye contact. Of course I'll have my pic with him up on here in a while. On the way back we listened to more Audio A in the car while Sandi did interpretive dances and farted. Well she waited to rip em until she got in her driveway. Still fantastic.
  
• So I'm going to have a fun filled weekend. I just know it. Later today I'm working an extra half shift here since I need more dinero. Then, I'm going to a special screening of The Goonies, and Corey Feldman will be there to do autographs, etc. I have reserved seats and am bringing copies of Stand By Me, The Goonies, Gremlins, and License To Drive. I hope I don't pass out.
  
• Saturday should be fun too. I'm working my gig at KDFC, then staying in the city an extra 2 hours or so. Then I'm meeting Davina and the gang for a vampire tour on Nob Hill and dinner. It makes no sense to take BART back, and get back on BART another hour later, that's why I'm just chilling at work. I'll take a nap in the "chill-out" room that sales people go when they're ready to jump out the window.
  
• Sunday I'm going to an A"s/Giants game at Pacbell Park. I've never been to a game there. I'm bringing some of my own water and snacks since I'm a cheapass. Haha. I am so grateful that I'm able to have a working camera. This weekend I sure will need it.
  

oh lordy

• Heidi ho there Momma. Nothing too thrilling going on lately. I hit the gym yesterday morning. Michelle wants to go walking today, and if not I'll just go to the gym again. This will pretty much be my last chance this week because my schedule is so insane. Also today is grocery day. I am so blessed that I have a dad who will help me out with groceries. I'm telling you if I didn't I'd HAVE to work a third job, no doubt about that one. If things continue they way they are, I'll get one after May. I have a few things going on in May on the weekends, and most part-time gigs want folks to work on Saturday/Sunday. I may have to stoop as low as retail again, but alas someone has to pay the bills.
  
• Anyway, I did finally upload a video I made of random stuff from Easter weekend. Not to thrilling except for the Funkytown soundtrack I added. God I'm weird. I am so jammin to Billy Joel right now. Doesn't surprise anyone does it? "In the middle of the night.. I go walking in my sleep... " If you don't know the words to River Of Dreams then you suck.
• Okay here's the video.. talk to y'all in a few days.
  

easter weekend