happy day after easter!!

• Hey Momma. Happy Easter!! Okay Happy Day After Easter!! I hope you like the flowers and random stuffed bunnies we put on your gravesite. Headstone ain't there yet, and we're mad. Other than that Easter was fantastic. Actually the whole weekend was.
  
• Friday night I worked here for a half shift, since I needed the extra dough. Then I went home and had a yummy relaxing dinner. Brad and Victoria stopped by for a minute since I left my Zune at work and Brad knew where it was. Long story there. Anyway, Good Friday was indeed pretty good. Except that I didn't get much sleep. Oh well.
  
• Saturday I did my parttime gig as usual. Then I picked up Michelle and my dad since he wanted to get me something for Easter. We went to Newpark Mall and he paid for my haircut and 2 new pairs of shorts. Doesn't sound like much to some people, but I don't take stuff like that for granted. Oh yes, and I saw my friend Magical David and his baby David there as well. Then I finally got home and prepared a homecooked meal, downloaded tons of music, made a new christian rock CD and went to bed. Oh yeah wait.. Davina picked me up at like 9:30 and we did a Walmart run since she was afraid of getting robbed while shopping at night. It was fun. Then I went home and went to bed.
  
• Easter Sunday was off da heezy, as the homies would say. I picked up my cousin Kim and we went to church at Chabot College, that's where Faith Fellowship has their Easter services. I loved it. Good to see Pastor Gary preaching again. Then we picked up Michelle and my dad and went to my Uncle Jim's house, and had fun watching the kids. Very cute. I want one, just need a husband first. Then we loaded up the car and headed up to Sebastopol to leave flowers and stuff on Mom's grave, or where the headstone will be anyway. Cathy met us up there with Amy and Stuart. I took lots of pics. I don't know why I don't find it too morbid to take happy pics in a cemetery, but I don't. Then we dropped Dad off at home and went to Mimi's for dinner. Then picked up pie at Bakers' Square. Then I went home and uploaded pics and took a nap before work. And here I am.
  
• I am so blessed to have great family and friends to make this an awesome holiday. Jesus died on the cross for you and me, ya know. Don't forget that. It was definitely sad since Mom wasn't there, but my sisters and others did their best to spoil me rotten with candy. Okay gotta go do some surveys or something. Later!!
  

did a funny blog on the Mandys site

• Helloooo Momma. I always address these blogs to my mom even though I doubt if she reads them wherever she is up there. I know you guys read them, but oh well. Okay then. Last few days have been pretty darn cool, nothing too thrilling going on. I hit the gym yesterday morning, and I plan on going today and tomorrow. Yippee. Oh yes, I wrote quite a humorous blog over on the Mandy's N More Myspace site, which is mostly run by Kimmie. I help her manage the actual Mandys N More site when I can. If you haven't checked it out, we're in the process of building an online store and selling 80s merchandise, with a giant amount of revenue going towards various causes that help victims of sexual abuse. Also towards finding a cure for breast cancer.. let's see and we always try to dispel myths about folks with disabilities and such. I'm probably leaving stuff out. Kimmie feel free to comment with more. Here's the link to the blog if you are too lazy to look at my top friends and find the link to the page. Yeah I use some rough language and yes I need to clean it up, so sorry. I love the picture captions, though.
  
• This weekend should be pretty cool and laid back. I may grab another half shift on Friday afternoon here since I need more dough. Saturday I'm working in the morning, running errands in the afternoon and then relaxing the rest of the day. Sunday is Easter. I'll go to church, then go and visit my aunt, uncle and cousins for a while, then we're going up to visit Mom in Sebastopol and put flowers on everyone's graves. It'll be nice to see the family, for sure. Okay everyone have a great weekend.
  
• P.S. I was trying to upload that video yesterday morning and Myspace was being gay so I'll try that again later. If it works I'll post it ASAP.
  

my awesome weekend

• Whoo what a weekend I had mother. I've been up since like 7:30am yesterday, so I'm just a little pooped. I'm going to try my best to describe the last few days in as much detail as possible. I haven't had a chance to upload any pics since I barely had time to run by my house for 5 minutes before buying gas and heading off to work. I'll be doing a MAJOR blog on the Mandys N More page tomorrow (or maybe later on tonight, whatever) and I'll repost all the pics and stuff in a day or so over here. Oh and videos too, I think I'll try to edit everything into a 10 minute montage.. haha.
  
• Okay so first of all I worked here on Friday night from 3pm until about 8:30pm. I was supposed to get off at 7:00, but no one told the weekend overnight guy he was supposed to come in early. I called him and he showed up like an hour afterwards. That was all overtime, baby. Yay. After that I had a nice late dinner with Michelle at Applebee's.
  
• Saturday morning I ran the board for a live remote from the San Jose Tech Museum for KDFC. It was fun, I love participating in live radio. I love counting jocks down after every single song/stopset. Keeps me on my toes. They even gave me a shout-out during their last break.. John was like "Lisa, you're the bomb!" Okay after that I headed off to Lodi to hang with Kimmie for the duration of the weekend + Monday. We had SO much fun. Just that night we indulged ourselves with such bad cinema like NKOTB's "Step By Step" video, about 2 hours or so of cheesy 80s commercials I had on videotape, A Friendship In Vienna, and Home Team starring everyone's favorite Dancing With The Stars contestant, Steve Guttenberg. (Everyone knows I love Steve Guttenberg, my sister Michelle called while I was driving to tell me he was on TV.. LMAO) We had an awesome homemade dinner that night courtesy of Chef Kimmie. Tasty cheeseburgers with sauteed mushrooms and oven baked french fries. YUM! Oh yes and mudslide milkshakes made with chocolate chip ice cream. We were in binge heaven.
  
• Okay on Sunday we woke up around 9:30am or so, and Kimmie made some awesome french toast for breakfast. The fattening yumfest was continuing. So were the awful choices in cinema. Okay first we saw a bad Family Channel movie made in 1996 called Dad, The Angel and Me starring Judge Reinhold (of course) and Carol Kane. So cheesy, and his hair was awful. I have pics of that coming. Next, a great third season episode of Greatest American Hero entitled Wizards and Warlocks guest starring Bob Saget. Wait till you see those screencaps people. Then I showcased a cheesy first season episode of MacGyver called Ugly Duckling. I swear Richard Dean Anderson and this chick had the same mullet hairdo going on. Then we watched a two parter episode of Highway To Heaven about this blind chick falling in love with some guy with a huge birthmark on his face. Guest starred Ralphie from A Christmas Story and a gentleman Kimmie refers to as "40-year-old Chris".. I forgot to take pics, sorry Kimmie. After this a first season episode of St. Elsewhere guest starring Jeremy Licht (who also is my Blue Cross insurance agent.. lemme know if y'all need coverage, I can get you the hook up). It was so cute, so was Howie Mandel's rockin jew-fro. Next, yet another episode of Highway to Heaven, this one about this fat girl who really seems to love donuts that makes friends with the school jock when she tutors him in algebra. Yeah I think if I was going off the deep end into Krispy Kreme Land and Michael Landon showed up I'd be a bit distraught. Probably more so since he's dead and that would be a whole new set of issues. I can still see this girl's pain, none the less. After this, I threw on Staying Alive, the horrible sequel to Saturday Night Fever starring John Travolta and Cynthia Rhodes. Directed by Frank Stallone with Frank himself and the Bee Gees doing the soundtrack. About this time Kimmie's sister Carol came over since she helps her with housechores and stuff. I think John Travolta gyrating around in tights was a good visual aid for us all. Then, about 5 minutes after Carol left, the toilet started flooding. I mean like water spurting in the air and going everywhere. I took pics and video of that one. Carol came back to help us as we waited for the plumber that management was sending. I was emptying the water out of Swifty's litterbox into the toilet and kinda farted practically in Carol's face. Great moment. Eventually we got things under control and watched about 5 episodes of The Golden Girls back to back. During about the second episode the guy from Rotor Rooter came and fixed the toilet. He was very nice, I think his name was Jeff? Can't remember. By then we were exhausted and hit the hay. Oh I totally forgot, for dinner Kimmie made an AWESOME veggie lasagna from scratch and we had breadsticks as well. So good. Oh and cheesecake for dessert.
  
• Monday, Kimmie actually got up before I did. I got up at 7:30am so all I can say is wow. We both put on rockin 80stastic outfits and I tried very hard to get my hair volumized. I used plenty of mousse, hairspray and gel. Also the hair dryer, a lot. Got kind of an effect. I think with that and the makeup I looked more like a "slut", but that's just me. While getting ready, we listened to my karaoke CDs (and my bad singing) and ate leftover cheesecake. Now that's what I call breakfast. Then we took several buses and ended up at Sherwood Mall there in Stockton. It's right next door to Weberstown Mall. Who the heck builds a mall next to another mall? Anyway, first thing we did was hit the food court. I had a chicken burrito for lunch. Yum. We perused lots of stores, and got our pictures taken with a cheesy lazer looking background. That will definitely be posted. I also saw the Easter Bunny and said hi, and took his pic from afar. Then we went to the mall next door, and did more browsing. I ended up buying a few funny things at Spencer Gifts, said hi to the other Easter Bunny and took his pic, and headed on back to pick up our pictures. Then we went and waited for the bus for about 3o minutes later when an interesting lady came up to ask us about the bus routes and asked if I was Kimmie's daughter. (ROTF) Okay so we were boarding the bus and I noticed the dude in front of me had a swastika tattooed on his arm. I was like "Oh crap". Mostly because the bus driver was black and there were many multicultured folks on the bus already. I'm not saying that because he was a skinhead or whatever that he automatically causes trouble, but still you never know. God was on my side and the ride went smoothly. We got back to Kimmie's place and ordered a veggie pizza from Woodbridge Pizza. They have one called the Slick Dick. I am not lying, I took pics of the menu. We got our order in about 20 minutes, and the delivery guy was HOT. In a college student kind of way. Oooh baby. Oh yes then we watched most of E.T. before I had to leave. All in all my weekend was awesome. Lots of adventure, plenty of weirdness.
  
• Oh yes let me see if I can remember any random quotes from the weekend. "Dude he fuckin goosed Dee Wallace!!"... "If Peter Coyote and Richard Chamberlain could mate, that would be their lovechild. Poor Jenny Lewis."... "If I were a lesbian I would so not do Betty White.... " I'm sure there are more.. Kimmie feel free to list.
  

this weekend is gonna kick some ass

• Howdy Momma. First of all I know some of you will think I'm insane. Well most of you that read my blog know that I'm a little loopy anyway. Okay when I was trying to sleep yesterday morning a sparrow or perhaps finch, some kind of small bird was on a tree branch that was pressed against my window. It began tapping incessantly for about 10 minutes straight and I really wanted to shoot it. Then I sat up in bed and looked at it, and it stopped tapping, and stared at me for a full minute, then kept on tapping. Call me crazy, since I am.. but I think this was my Mom's spirit. Some of you may think otherwise but why would a cute small bird choose to tap on my window repeatedly like that? So mother, thank you for keeping me awake an extra 2o minutes or so, and getting Spencer all riled up trying to find a way to attack you through the glass.
  
• Anyway the past few days have been pretty cool. Went to the gym on Wednesday and Thursday mornings. I won't be able to go today, since I'm coming back here to work 3-7pm. I need the extra hours. Did the grocery run on Wednesday morning, and on Thursday I took Michelle on some errands as well. Nothing out of the ordinary. Oh yes mother and thank you for announcing your presence in Walgreens yesterday by randomly playing that Will To Power song you loved so much. Not "Baby I Love Your Way" but "I'm Not In Love".. I just think you always liked that because of the seductive guy whispering at the beginning. I think I am losing my marbles.
  
• This weekend shall be spectacular. I'm working in San Fran on Saturday morning as usual, then off to Kimmie's for 2 1/2 days of pure insanity. I won't be back until Monday night. I'm stoked. We're gonna watch so many movies, take awful pics at the mall, eat lots of crap. It will be great. See, I have tons of close friends, all of you guys are my friends. Kimmie and I have only been friends a few years, but it feels like decades. Seriously. She is the only person that I know who is just as weird if not weirder than I am. Also one of the most generous folks I know. So I love you guys too, but Kimmie is just awesome. She has gone above and beyond what most people in her situation would do, and then some. Check out her page, read her blogs. Oh and the Mandy's page too. You won't be disappointed.
  

jamba juice is my friend

• Hey Momma.. and word up my homie G's reading this!! I'm hyper. Why? I'm drinking some really fruity drink from Jamba Juice which probably has my blood sugar way too high. I thought I'd try it instead of Starbucks, just to be different. I love juice. I know it has calories, and sugar (natural sugar that is). But it's good for you, at least when it's real juice. I still have love for iced decaf skinny lattes too, but I do love the juice. How many times can I say juice in one paragraph? Five apparently.
  
• I got my new camera! I haven't fully read the manual yet but so far it's pretty awesome. I took way too many pics of Spencer earlier and a few videos of him trying to attack and eat my new beloved toy. I'm going to have so much fun with this thing.
  
• Yay for me I hit the gym yesterday morning, just to let you know. I'm pretty sure I'm going walking this morning, or hitting the gym, one of the two. My body decided to gain another 5 lbs, and it can't decide when woman time is coming. It's like "Lisa, this is your body speaking.. its time.. oh just kidding.. " then a week later "it's your body again, prepare.. oh just kidding again". Meanwhile my weight fluctuates like a yo-yo and I feel like Delta Burke must have during the 80s/90s. Also I've got my favorite acne popping up and I think I may be bipolar soon. Just warning you guys.
  
• Okay well off to drink some tazo chai tea and mess around on Myspace and Youtube here at work. I'll post some new pics soon that I took with the camera, so you can all the see the nice quality. It's fantastic!

includes a magical disclaimer

• Magical disclaimer for readers: Last Friday morning I did two blogs, as several of you noticed. One was public, one was for preferred readers. There were only 2 preferred readers. I'm going through some stupid drama right now that I don't want to disclose with the entire universe. Therefore, I didn't include most of you on my preferred list. 99.9% of my blogs are public. I'm sorry to make any of you have frowny faces this weekend but this is one of things I needed to vent about but not broadcast. Sorry for your reading inconveniences. Now on to writing my usual blog to my dead mother. :-)
  
• Okay Momma, I'm back from my weekend. It was pretty darn fun. Friday morning I took Dad and Michelle to Costco, and we all got membership cards. I also got a lot of pineapple, and many bags of carrots. Oh and a chicken Caesar salad, very tasty. I spent Friday evening at home relaxing, and it was great. I watched Kicking And Screaming on TBS, Will Ferrell is insane.
  
• Let's see Saturday I did my usual work thing in San Francisco. Then I came home and actually relaxed for a bit and watched some TV. Then Cathy and Alisha picked me up. We hung out at Alisha's for a few then went to Jason's house to watch a Metallica concert on DVD and watch the boys design and race cars on his Xbox 360. It was pretty fun, just chilling out. Then I went home and fixed a rum + diet coke ( I haven't had any drinks for like a month.. yay) with a bigass hunk of pineapple in it. Boy that was yummy.
  
• Sunday morning I went to church. Yes I got there on time, I did set my clock forward before I went to bed Saturday night. Afterwards Davina and I went to Berkeley to see Leslie and The Lys. That girl is insane, it's awesome! What an experience. I bought one of her shirts and snagged a promo poster, and she signed both and took a crazy pic with me. Davina's pic looks even better than mine does, but that's because Davina is crazier then I am. We walked around Telegraph and got pizza beforehand for lunch, forgot to mention that. We did other shopping and split a crepe as a snack. Then we drove through downtown Oakland and paid a surprise visit to Davina's grandma. She seems nice, Shuki was cutting her hair. I felt so white in her house. Very cultural. Moving on, we got back to San Leandro and picked up Michelle and went to my house where we copied some of the pictures from Davina's camera to my computer. We went to dinner at Carrows ( I had coupons, and still do.. I belong to the E-Club!!) and browsed at Target. Oh I forgot to mention, Cathy did A LOT of cleaning at my house, she says it was out of boredom. I think she just wanted to pitch in since she practically lives there. She even cleaned the front window, swiffervac'd everything, did dishes, and baked a cake. It's like WOW. Domestication. She refused to scoop Spencer's stinky litterbox though, I gotta do that in the morning. All in all I had a great weekend.
  
• Tonight I'm working in San Fran then coming here, so my schedule's going to be interesting. I'm so blessed/thankful that Cathy did a lot of the housework so I don't have to do tons of it. I've been up since 8:30am yesterday with a one hour nap, so I'm kinda pooped. I need to clean my bathroom and I may mop the floors, depending on my level of exhaustion at 7:30am when I get home. Okay talk to ya later. Love ya.
  

i got new shoes, cheap ones

• Howdy Momma, the weekend is here. Thank God. Week wasn't too rough, but I love weekends just the same. Michelle and I have gone walking all week, and I even went on Sunday. So that's like 5 days in a row. Dad got me new walking shoes at Walmart the other day. My ankles have been hurting a lot, and I figured it was due to improper footwear. Well um my right ankle still hurts like a biatch, but there may be other factors. Right before that time of the month *cough cough* my feet and ankles tend to swell up. Also, I'm fat so that could be it too. But I've been fat for years so you'd think my ankles would be hurting for a while now. Oh well, maybe I'll take some Tylenol or Alieve next time I go. I think we're skipping the walk today since both of us have aching body parts and I promised I would take her and Dad to Costco later in the morning to get/renew a membership.
  
• This weekend should be nice and relaxing for once. No impending plans just yet, and that's fine. If someone wants to hang, cool. If not I'd love to actually catch up on movies at home and actually be able to veg out in front of my TV. Well the only plan I have set is seeing Leslie and The Lys at Amoeba in Berkeley on Sunday afternoon. She is freaking awesome!
  

Yeah she's just up my alley. Anyway.. ta-ta for now!

im pooped

• Hello there Momma. Oh dear I am so pooped. I haven't gotten enough sleep the last few days, I guess. I went walking Monday and yesterday morning, and I'm going again today. Yay. I'm still not losing any weight. Boo. It's about time to put on my wizard hat (Kimmie get it, message me if any of you are confused). That's probably why some of my body parts have doubled in size. Yes I do talk about them on Myspace. LOL
• Anyway yeah, Monday evening I did karaoke again with Davina and this time we drug Michelle along, since she wanted to go to the bookstore after. So much fun, I love singing 80s love ballads and pop songs. Earlier tonight I got to board op the symphony over at KDFC, filling in for Dane. It's pretty easy and I need the dough. I got less than 6 hours of sleep, since I was running errands with the family in the morning. Oh well I guess. Now today (Wednesday), I am going to get some freakin sleep. Nice restful sleep. I am not answering the phone. Probably won't be in bed until like noon, but when I do hop the train to sleepytown, I do not want to be interrupted by anyone. Unless the house is on fire and there's some hunky fireman rescuing me, I don't want to hear it.
  
• Oh yeah, finally got my refund. Thanks Uncle Sam and the Governator. I also bought my camera online. Used Bizrate.com and saved about $40 as compared to Best Buy. This is the one I picked, Cindy. Kinda an upgrade from what you suggested.
  

I think 7.1 megapixels is OK, I think my old one was like 5MP. I just wanted a small point and shoot. I don't remember each and every feature, but all the reviews I've read have been positive.

Ok I'm gonna go now, back to watching more stuff on Youtube to pass the time at work.Love ya mom!

my friends are awesome

• Hellooooo Momma. Back from my weekend. It was awesome! Friday morning I went to breakfast with Leeanne, then went walking with Michelle at the marina. I saw Shuki, Davina's mom doing tai-chi. Haha. Friday evening I met up with Sandi in Tracy and we ate at Wally's Drive-In, with the biggest freaking cheeseburgers I have ever seen. After that we went to see Definitely Maybe over in Dublin. Fun times.
  
• Saturday I worked my part-time gig, then went to Joey's 1st bday (Fernando's son). It was lots of fun. I reunited with Michael and Tony (who smelled great by the way.. hey baby.. you're 18 now I can flirt), and we played in the inflatable jumper thing. There was also tons of food and a pinata for the kids. I saw several people I hadn't seen in a long while. It was fun. After that excitement I ate dinner at home, and took Michelle to Southland so she could look at bras. We window shopped for a bit and some hot guy with a french accent did some nail demonstration on me trying to sell me some manicure stuff. He was hot and I got tingles down my spine while he massaged my cuticle, so I didn't mind. Later on that evening I hung out with Cathy, TJ, and his friend. I forget his name. James, Jason? Starts with a J. Okay when I barely got home from that guy's house, Davina picked myself and Valeria up, and we went to a karaoke place in Hayward. So much fun! They even made a CD of us singing, Valeria's making us copies. I can't wait for people to hear it.
  
• Sunday was pretty normal. Got up, went to church, came home, did some housework, went walking to the duck pond, went home, watched some TV while eating a spinach bacon salad, then took a LONG nap. Then I got up and made dinner, and came here.
  
• I am so blessed to have great friends to make my days special. Seriously. All of you guys rock. Even those who I only see on Myspace, or those who I only see once in a blue moon. Just wanted to let you guys know that. Okay gotta go do some surveys here on Myspace. Later!
  

jesus and all night dance parties

• Howdy doody Momma. What's shakin? Do they have all night dance parties up there? They should. I bet Jesus can really get down with his bad self. Anyway, nothing too thrilling going on down here. I went walking yesterday, and I'm going walking today. I'm glad Michelle likes to walk, both of us need all the exercise we can get. I made an AWESOME dinner last night. Sauteed some onions and chopped up potatoes, grilled a piece of bratwurst and chopped it up (we got it free a few weeks ago from Lucky.. lol), scrambled some southwestern eggbeaters in there, added some avocado and salsa.. it was GOOD. Wrapped it up in some tortillas and made some tapas.. out of sight! I haven't had a meal that grubbin in ages. Michelle said it looked like something I threw up but she's weird anyway. As you are very well aware.
  
• This weekend should be cool. Tonight I'm hanging out with Sandi and going to some place with awesome burgers, then we'll maybe hit a movie after. Haven't seen her in ages. Saturday I have work in the morning and Joey's 1st bday party is in the afternoon. I think Cathy's going. I can't believe that kid's almost a year old. WOW. That reminds me Fernando and I have been playing phone tag forever. Okay Michael I know you read my blogs, first of all I need to call you and second of all why does your profile say married? Did you and Irma elope? Maybe I should just call you instead of broadcasting it through my blog. Hahaha. Hope I catch you on Saturday. Okay Mom gotta go, I'm like hella farting up a storm in here. I feel bad for Brad in the morning.
  

hyperactive lisa

• Hello Momma. It's the middle of my lovely work week here. The past few days have been okay. Monday was a little crazy. Took Dad to the eye doctor, Starbucks, Longs, paid off my dentist, went home and took an hour long power nap, then went for an interview in the city. (City = San Francisco) I think I did well, but the PD is factoring in that I already work a lot and if I get this job I'd literally be working 7 days a week. My gut says I didn't get it, but I won't know for sure until later on today. No biggie. I think God's telling me to manage my budget a little better, and I'm trying. Not my fault I'm popular. Everyone wants to go out every single weekend. I get booked. I also feel guilty right now since I made plans to go to Kimmie's niece's birthday party in May and forgot about it when I bought front row tix to Spring Celebration at Great America on 5/10. Family Force 5, front row!!!! WOOT! Okay I'm a bit juiced. I know that night I'll go out to Lodi and hang out with Kimmie and Joyce the next day, make it up to them. I still feel awful though. I always buy daily planners but never use them. Now I have an excuse. LOL
• Yesterday I went walking with Michelle and got my taxes done. I am getting money back!! Enough to get my new camera with a sturdy case and put the rest in my savings where it shall remain until the end of time. (Or I'd like to promise myself that anyway.) Today is grocery day, and like Dad said in the car yesterday, "I'm so happy I could just s*#t." Yes Dad lovely sentiments. I also am going walking this morning, and hooray for that. I'm hoping to get more rest the remaining days of this week, since I'm tired. As usual. Okay Momma gotta go, Kimmie is IMing me about her weird relatives and discussing her even weirder dream about Joanna Kerns attacking Alan Thicke on the set of Growing Pains. Like my dream about her being in her kid body pushing me across her carpet while Judge Reinhold was trying to fix the floorboards wasn't odd enough. "Kim! Kiiim!"
  

i think i'm insane

• Hey there momma. How was your weekend up there? Do you even have weekends, keep track of time? Probably not, no need really. I am so exhausted. I think it's more stress and emotional exhaustion than anything else. My schedule is so insane lately, especially doing stuff for Michelle and Dad this week. I also have an interview for a possible third job this afternoon, I don't wanna get into details since I don't want to jinx myself. I know what you'd say, "Don't go in over your head, slow down." I would love to mother, but since I gotta pay for medical now and I've had unexpected expenses the past 4 months (since I got let go from KKIQ) draining my checking account, it has gotten to the point where something has to be done. Don't worry, it's in radio and I love radio. We'll just have to see.
  
• This weekend was okay for the most part. Friday night I went out with Noelle to Claimjumper for dinner, then to Walmart, my house for a bit, and then her house where I fell asleep during some episode of Family Matters.
• Saturday I worked in San Fran, then met Noelle at BART, where we walked over to the Moscone Center to Wondercon. That's a sci-fi/comic book geek fest they have every year. David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson were there to talk about the new X-Files movie coming out in July. Now you remember how big of a crush I had on David back in the day. Well just breathing the same air as him was exhilarating. Noelle took some pics for me since my camera is on the fritz again. I also took pics with Batman, Superman, and Oompa Loompa, Darth Vader and a few troopers. It was so fun. We went back to San Leandro and picked up Michelle and went to La Pinata for dinner. Man I love their chicken famoso burritos. I make 2 meals out of em. Afterward Michelle needed more underwear so we went to Mervyns. Noelle bought more bras. I was making a joke about her wearing a teddy to the Saddlerack sometime and I think she took it literally. Oh well, still fun.
  
• On Sunday I went to church in the morning, then came home and did tons of housework. Even mopped. Afterward I went for a walk over by the duck pond, then came home and took a LONG nap. I mean like 6 hours. I felt guilty for sleeping that long, but I know I work and do a lot of stuff and don't have much down time. Although I'm here at work being paid and I'm blogging, so I dunno. Okay well I'm going to go drink some diet wild cherry pepsi and get hyper, maybe do some surveys. Love ya!!
  

no one said life was easy

• Heidi ho there Momma. Again, not too much excitement going on down here. Today I've just been kinda stressed out about money, Dad getting progressively worse, stuff like that. I'm seriously considering getting another 3rd job. I applied for a board op job at another station in San Fran for weekend work, crossing my fingers on that one. I know God will open a door when the time is right. It's like financially I'm barely making it, I'm paying for medical insurance now, and everyone wants to go out every weekend. It's insane. That and Dad forgot that he buys my groceries and I almost had a panic attack in the middle of Walmart before I reexplained my whole situation. Ever since I got laid off from my on-air gig back in October I've been $200 short a month. It's like good lord, man.
  
• Also I've been having some issues with temptation and sin, all the lovely stuff. I live in the Bay Area, which to me seems like the sin capital of the world. Maybe besides NYC and Las Vegas. I'm saturated with bad stuff 24-7. You know I'm probably exaggerating and everyone is bombarded with it. It's like most of my close friends aren't believers, and my friends that are live kinda far or are pretty scarce. Everyone has sex on the brain 24-7. Everyone says awful things about one another. Everyone cusses. This includes me. I know it's in our nature to be awful and sin and all that, but man it's insane. It's so hard to put all that aside and start over. This is crazy.
  
• Besides all this nonsense it's so hard to sleep lately. I have you on the brain totally, and the whole situation with you in the hospital plays in my mind like a bad movie, and you laying there dead. This is probably some common grief mechanism or something, but yeah it sucks. I'm sure someday I'll get over it. Cathy and I were talking earlier about how rough it's been in the 2 months since you passed on. No one ever said life was easy for anyone, though. I'm taking good care of everyone, and I'm so glad I have a great family and friends to lean on. I think I've aged about 10 years in the last 6 months, seriously. I'm so old. My priorities are totally in another place now. Crazy, huh?
  
• Okay well off to enjoy my weekend, well I can in like 4 1/2 hrs when I leave work. Michelle and I are going walking again, and that's a good thing. I hate it because for the first 1/2 mile, I always feel like I'm gonna pop the big one since I'm so outta shape going slightly up hill. It's worth it in the long run. Okay talk to ya later. Taaa-taaa!
  

same ol crap

• What's crackin, Momma? Not too much down here. The last few days have been pretty uneventful. Dad had a fever the other night, but it went down so we didn't take him to the doctor. He's going grocery shopping with us in the morning so I hope he's feeling better. I went to the gym yesterday morning. Yay for me. I'm going again this morning too, gotta get that exercise. Not like it helps me any, but it's worth a shot. I keep losing/gaining weight like a yo-yo, it's quite frustrating. Such is life, I guess. Kinda hard when Cathy comes over and makes a ton of pig-in-a-blankets and fudge walnut brownies for TJ. They were yummy. I made some scrambled eggbeaters with sliced bell peppers and salsa too, so I ate a little healthy. Freakin sodium filled wieners probably are why I'm retaining water today. Grrr.
  
• Well that's about all that's going on, really. I work, go to the gym, sleep, watch TV. That's life in a nutshell this week. Hope you're having fun up there. I still miss you so much it hurts. Can't ever go to sleep without you on my mind. Later Momma. :-)
  

weekend fun

• Hey there Momma, what's shakin up there in heaven? I had a pretty okay weekend. Quite a bit of glutenous eating, and I'm picking at the leftovers as we speak. Friday night I went to dinner at Mimi's with Noelle and Michelle, then we went shopping at Newpark Mall. Your favorite, I know. I got a cool new shirt at Hot Topic with the giftcard Amy gave me for Xmas, and I got a few things at Target.
  
• Saturday I worked in San Fran, then all 3 of us girls plus Dad went to go see Kim's new baby. Joshua is sooo cute. So is Caden, she loved my Oscar the Grouch shirt. She got in trouble for throwing a tantrum and had to go in the naughty spot. Haha. We took lots of pics. My camera has been gay for a while but Michelle and Kim took enough, believe me. Shelly got hers developed yesterday so I'll probably be scanning them on the computer later this morning. Later that night Cathy, TJ and I went to dinner at Claimjumper in Concord. I had a mudslide, it was yummy.
  
• Sunday I got up like a good girl and went to church. Later I went home and did some housework, then Davina and I had lunch at La Pinata and ice cream at Clancy's. We tried to counteract the guilt by taking a walk to the duck pond. Oh well. Still was yummy, and we had fun as always. You remember Davina, she's always funny as hell. Not that hell is a riot, but it's a figure of speech. My rambling continues.. Anyway after that I went home and took a nap for like 5 hours, then got up, grabbed food and came to work. Here I am now. Yay.
  
• Today Michelle and I are going to go walking too. She's got bread for all the ducks and geese. You'd love the duck pond, Mom. Wish I would have taken you there. Talk to you soon.
  

it's friday.. woot woot

• Hey Momma, what's shakin up there in heaven? Nothing too thrilling going on down here, I guess. I didn't get much sleep today, I'm pretty pooped. We took Happy to the vet since it looked like he had something stuck under his gums. It was a ton of his hair, guess he was chewing himself again. I got a few hours of sleep in the morning than took him, went home and slept 4 hours, then went to pick him up with Michelle and Dad. He's a great little dog, but he deprived me of sleep, man.
  
• When I got home I tried to get more sleep, but didn't succeed. TJ caught Alf peeing on the couch for the last time, and chased him around the house yelling. He chased him into my room and woke me up. I wasn't exactly pissed.. well maybe I was a little bit. TJ made the decision to get rid of Alf and Cathy took him back to the shelter. Yes I know to a lot of you this seems mean, and my heart is slightly broken myself. My heart goes out to all kitties and doggies in shelters, especially the older ones. I was actually brought to tears. Mostly because Spencer's friend went away. It was either that or TJ losing his temper again, and um from the looks of it I don't wanna see that again. Alf meant well, but he peed on the couch every single day right in front of us. We tried spraying water at him, vinegar, smacking him with a newspaper. We encouraged him to go outside and he wouldn't budge. I know this seems to make TJ a bad guy, but I guess he did the right thing. His sister gave Alf to him since he was peeing all over her apartment, and after 4 months of him destroying my couch well it was the last straw. I'm just too nice. Anyway, Spencer will probably be sad for a while and I'll be sure to give him lots of extra love and attention for sure. He's very resilient, I know he'll be okay.
  
• Oh yeah, I'm finally getting real health insurance. Well if I get accepted. *crossing fingers* A good Myspace friend of mine (who is a former child actor.. lmao) is gonna get me the hookup for $73 a month. Deductible is kinda high but hey I just need this stuff for emergencies and my work covers 80% of what insurance doesn't. Essentially my doctor visits would be $6 and generic drugs would be $3 after the insurance/work reimbursement. Mom I saw what your original ICU bill was and almost popped a coronary. I need something just in case. (Note to readers: if any of you are California residents and need lower cost health insurance, gimme a holla.. I'll give you Jeremy's contact info)
• Well this is about it. Went to the gym on Wednesday morning, and I'm going again today. This weekend should be okay. I'll give the full report Sunday night.
  

starbucks= yuppie crack

• Hey there Momma. How's heaven these days? Pretty amazing I'll bet. Earth is the same ol thang. Nothing too eventful the past few days. I've worked a lot of overtime due to Victoria being sick. Worked 12 hours last night and 12 hours the night before. I was going to work another 12 hour shift tonight but Brad covered some extra hours which was nice.
  
• I went to the gym yesterday morning. I'm so glad to get back in the swing of things. I'll probably go this morning too, since I bet Michelle will go "my ankle hurts" when I call to see if she wants to go walking.
  
• I hung out with Cathy and Amy yesterday. We got Starbucks and drove down Palomares in Cathy's car. It was cool just to get out for an hour or so and talk, listen to music and stuff. I got a nice 2 hour nap in after that, and I needed it. Ya know I had Starbucks three times in a 24 hour period. I swear Starbucks is yuppie crack. I'm semi-addicted but not really. I can go weeks without it, but my family can't. Last night Cathy and Michelle brought me a skinny iced hazelnut latte here at work. (Yes they both were in a vehicle together without killing each other, shocking but true.) Then yesterday morning after the grocery run I had to take Dad and Michelle through the drive-thru Starbucks and I got a skinny iced cinnamon dolce latte. Earlier tonight I had a skinny iced mocha. It's like good god, man. Whatever.
  
• Oh on Saturday we're going to visit Kim and see her new son Joshua. He was born 4 or 5 days after you died. His pics look so cute. I'm sure we'll take more pics while we're there. Today I got some picture Aunt Brenda took of us right after the holidays, and Dad's wearing my sparkly Santa hat. Date says the 28th, but I stopped wearing that after Xmas. Oh well. I gotta scan that in on my computer soon. It's cute.
  
• Okay that's about it for now. Gotta do more Myspace surveys and eat some broccoli. :-)
  

i can only imagine

• Hey there Momma. Here at work again, doing a nice 12 hour shift. Victoria's sick again, she caught my cold from last week. I don't mind, I need the overtime. Like you remarked often, the economy plain sucks. All my money goes to bills and a small amount for entertainment. Oy vey. I'm considering getting a third job, but I've really been enjoying having most of my weekend to myself. Everything just costs so damn much, it's nerve wracking. Speaking of high prices, Cathy got a new car. She and Amy went to Tracy Honda and traded in her craptastic Ford Focus for an 08 Honda Accord. It's really pretty. God knows how much it costs though.
  
• Here's how my weekend went down. Friday I had to run some errands with Michelle and Dad in the morning. That evening I went to dinner at Mimi's Cafe with Noelle and Michelle. Then we went to Walmart. Not too eventful, but I was still having girl issues anyway.
  
• On Saturday I worked in San Fran, then picked up Michelle and Dad. I drove to the duck pond to show it to Dad and we walked around for a bit. Then we went back to my house to relax and watch Scrubs. Afterwards we hit up Hometown Buffet and back to my place to meet Cathy and get a ride in her new car. We dropped off Michelle and Dad, then picked up TJ and went out for a bit. We got Starbucks, drove down Palomares, visited with Naphtali and her mom, and then dropped by Barnes and Noble. Then I went home and watched Are We Done Yet? with Ice Cube and John C. McGinley. He plays Dr. Cox on Scrubs, it was a dorky family movie but seeing him in booty shorts was worth a laugh.
• Sunday I got up on time and went to church. Good sermon about not trying to be one way at church and another way in the outside world. Just be yourself and be a reflection of God always. Well try to live like Christ all the time, not just on Sundays. That's it. After church I went home and walked to the duck pond for some exercise, then did most of my housework. I took a nap, then hung out with Davina and Valeria. We drove around looking for this karaoke place on Mission in Hayward and finally found it, but they only open in the evenings. We ate dinner at Rigatoni's, then went to the duck pond (again.. lol) and had a nice little walk. Now I'm here at work.
  
• Life is thrilling, isn't it Momma? I would say you probably miss it, but you probably only miss us. I know it's gotta be a hundred times more exciting up there than down here on plain ol Earth. Ya know that song "I Can Only Imagine"? I wonder what you did when you saw Jesus. I bet you cried like a big baby and gave him a hug. That's what I'll probably do too. Or get all excited and jump up and down like a huge retard. I do that when I have too much sugar. You're up there nodding and smiling, saying "Yes Lisa I know". Okay that's all for now. :-)
  

anemia sucks

• Hey there Momma. I'm still having girl probs. It doesn't hurt as much today, but I've lost way too much blood. Been feeling woozy the last 3 days or so. Today especially. Yeah I took my iron pills, and yes I'm eating.. well trying to. There's not a whole lot to report, not much excitement going on this week. I've been dragging myself to work, and getting off an hour or so early (don't worry I should be using sick pay for it). Michelle and I took Dad to the chiropractor yesterday, and I'm almost done with my Criminal Minds book. I was reading it in the car. I haven't been to the gym all week, but I don't think I'm in much of a condition to go. I've gotta take Michelle somewhere today, I think it's the hospital to get something signed for your insurance and a medical supply place to get Dad a better cane. Tonight I'm going to dinner with Noelle, then probably going back home to rest. I need it. That's about it. Hopefully when I blog again on Sunday night/Monday morning I'll be back to my old self full of energy. Being anemic sucks. BLAHHHHH
  

giant unicorns in my uterus

• Hey momma. Life isn't exactly peachy right now. My body seems to hate me. Okay I still have that cold thing I mentioned last time. And now I have major woman problems. I mean major. Remember back in August when I was in the emergency room for 7 hours? Yeah it's back. I think there's a unicorn in my uterus trying to burst forth. Not a good feeling. My thighs are burning. I'm trying not to puke. I think I'm investing in some Tylenol Women's Menstrual Relief and a heating pad at Walmart today. I just want to crawl back into bed and go sleepy for a long time. A long, long time. After work today I'm going to breakfast with Leeanne at Carrows, then doing the grocery shopping with Michelle and Dad. That reminds me I need to make a list. Ugh. Sorry this blog is so short Momma, but I feel like crap on a stick.