Tookie!

• What's up homie G's? Yay it's Friday! I love Fridays, seriously. Can you tell? I think it's because I have an insane work week. Yes I have to work 3-7pm at Traffic.com. Yes I work 8a-1p tomorrow at KDFC. Least I get tonight off from work. I sleep, yes precious sleep. Am I making much sense so far? I hope so.
  
• As usual, not too much going on. Wednesday I worked, ate, worked again, blah blah. Thursday morning I worked out at the gym, took Dad and Michelle to Walmart, Lucky, Starbucks and Petsmart. Didn't get in bed until like 1pm. I was up for 23 hours or so, really tired. Then I got up, ate some Vietnamese food TJ got for me, watched the end of Hostage Train (Judge was in his undies in one scene kicking this Russian dude's butt.. it was hot) and came to work. Here I am. I did like 2 1/2 hours of bible study, no joke. Only interrupted by three phone calls, two of them from Michelle who apparently doesn't sleep. Other was Davina, she's awesome.
  
• I plan on actually sleeping this weekend for once. Well I'll try. I'll also be spending A LOT of time with Michelle and my dad, and although that's kind of annoying, family does come first. I'm planning on taking dad to the fair on Sunday, that should be fun. Hopefully I'll have cool stuff to report on my blog late Sunday night/Monday morning.. whatever it is.
  

same ol crap

• What's up my homies? It's the middle of the week, and I'm beat. These 60-70 hour work weeks are insane, but they should slow down in a few weeks. I don't mind it though, once I get the paychecks I'll be happy. Nothing much has been going on the last few days, really.
  
• Both Monday and Tuesday I slept, got up, showered, ate, went to work, came home and ate dinner, watched bad Judge Reinhold movies and went to my fulltime job. I'm doing exactly the same thing today, too. Thursday morning I'll finally be able to hit the gym and do the weekly grocery run, and then I can catch up on sleep that afternoon/evening. Then I'm working Friday afternoon and I can catch up on rest Friday night.
  
• Oh god the bad movies I've watched the last few days are great. In Four Eyes and Six Guns Judge Reinhold plays an 1800s optometrist who moves to Tombstone to help Wyatt Earp see better. It's awful, but I love it. I also watched Baby On Board earlier, well 3/4 of it. Nothing says barf like watching Judge make out with Carol Kane. Can I get an amen? The little girl in it is cute and the gags are retarded, but so are most bad family films. I wouldn't call it much of a family film since there's lots of violence/shooting with mob folks running after Carol Kane (hahahaha) but it's got the cheese. Judge has long hair pulled back and a scary looking mustache going on, it's wonderful. Okay now I'm going to rock out to the Free Willy soundtrack (I love Michael Jackson) and try to stay awake.
  

My name is Judge..

• The Lisa is back, and you know she can never be wack.. the Lisa is back, cuz you know she's the Lisaaaaaaaa.. (that's from a Fat Boys song in case ya didn't know) I am all kinds of tired, but I had an awesome weekend. Friday was hotter than a you know what, and after I got off work at Traffic.com I took Michelle and Dad to dinner at Red Robin so he could get out of the house. Then I went home and watched Friends with Cathy and went to bed.
  
• Saturday morning I did my usual gig at KDFC. It was pretty cool, and we got a second coffee machine. This one does froofy drinks like mochas, french vanilla coffee, cappuccino and that kind of thing. I had a decaf mocha and it was tasty. Afterward I went back to the east bay, hit up Jamba Juice (the one at Bayfair is GHETTOTASTIC!), and headed off to Lodi.
  
• I had so much fun at Kimmie's house, as I usually do. When I first got there she had several presents to give me for my bday. That woman always overdoes it with the gifts, but I'm used to it by now. Haha. First of all her mom gave me the most random gifts ever. A plastic toy gun that shoots marshmallows, and Cheech and Chong's Greatest Hits on cassette. What is some old white lady doing with Cheech and Chong tapes? ROTF. Okay Kimmie gave me a buttload of stuff. In Living Color season 1, Honey I Shrunk The Kids, Highway To Heaven Season 1 (cheesetastic!), Christopher Reeve's book, Christina Crawford's second book (sequel to Mommie Dearest), and Sybil (the novel, not Sally Field movie). I have plenty of stuff to watch and read now, for sure. First movie we watched was the Richard Donner cut of Superman II. See about halfway through filming of the second movie they changed directors to some other dude who totally rearranged the film to it's cheesy theatrical release. Well this is the version the original director had in mind. It was pretty good. Then we ate dinner, a nice homemade dinner Kimmie made from scratch, on the good dishes and silverware. She also had a pink rose in a vase on the table. This meant a lot to me because my mom loved pink roses. We had a great pot roast, mashed potatoes, yummy veggies and croissants. For dessert we had new york style cheesecake with chocolate gnash (ga-nosh) on the top. It was FANTASTIC. Yes Cathy I brought some home if you'd like to try it. The next movie we watched was No Place Like Home starring Judge Reinhold, Richard Moll, and a cast of unknowns who later did random crap on the WB. To me it seemed like a bad cross between Kyle XY and E.T. Judge seemed like he was pissed the whole movie and didn't even try to act, either that or his character was very manic depressive. It was so bad it was hilarious. After that we watched Teen Wolf, then Coming Unglued, another bad Judge Reinhold movie also starring Joely Fisher. These Lifetime movie kings/queens seem to stick together, don't they? Haha. The acting wasn't so bad in this one, but the cheesy family movie background music was getting to be a bit much after a while. Next up was Mannequin, a staple for any 80s good time. Meshach Taylor as a flaming gay guy and hotass Andrew McCarthy are a great combo for fun. While we played Mannequin we played the 80s Game, and I whooped ass two games in a row. Then Kimmie showed me her work so far on the "project", and we called it a night.
  
• On Sunday we ended up sleeping until almost 1pm, but we had gone to bed around 4am the night before. We started our day by ordering pizza and mozzarella sticks for brunch from Woodbridge Pizza and playing another round of the 80s Game while watching Stripes. Harold Ramis with an afro is hot. So is Judge Reinhold trying to smuggle drugs. Hey man, he was smokin hot in his mid 20s, mmmkay? After Stripes we decided to go for ice cream at Baskin Robbins (I had my free ice cream coupon.. haha). I had fudge brownie and Kimmie had pistachio. Yum. Then we had a random shopping spree at Walgreens. I found some $1 DVD with some TV movie of Ted Danson prosecuting a child molester. Now that's going to be interesting. I also picked up some makeup on sale, and some mugs you stick in the freezer to keep your drinks cold. Later on we got back to her place, and I went up to Subway to pick up dinner. I had a cold cut trio sandwich and apple slices, she had oven roasted chicken with Baked Lays. Then we watched 2 episodes of In Living Color (those Fly Girls with the biker shorts and push up bras are hilarious), and I had to skeedaddle outta there. I always have so much fun relaxing and having movie marathons.
  
• Here's some phrases for the weekend.. "Tookie Williams!" "Moses cums on fire?" "duuuurrrrr I'm Teri Hatcher!!!!" "My name is JUDGE!" "Sniff my bag of apple blossom goodies." "Zoom in on my flat titties. My bra came up ladies and gents. Yes Kevin I had a sexy party without you." and "Look I'm Lois, I'll jump out the window! Wait! I can't jump! SHIT!"
  
• Anyway, on the way back I got stuck in MAJOR traffic. I was in Tracy for over an hour. 205 was down to one lane due to construction and took forever to get through. Then I had to scramble home to go potty and grab a few things. I was about an hour late for work. I won't get in trouble, don't worry. I gave Victoria a ride home, and she gave me this huge cat condo that won't fit in her new apartment. Spencer's gonna love it. Well that's all for now. Boy I'm longwinded.
  

dude im old

• I am back from my lovely bday off and I loved it. Did I go crazy? Not exactly. Wednesday morning I went to the gym then did the usual grocery parade with Michelle and Dad. Later on that evening we went to dinner at Marie Callendar's and had ice cream at Coldstone since I had a coupon. I am a coupon fiend as you all know, especially in this economy. I had the rest of the night off from work (thanks to Brad at Family Radio and Paul at Traffic.com for rearranging schedules!!!!) so I used my time wisely by watching bad Judge Reinhold movies. I am such a weirdo. I have more bad Judge movies coming via the good ol Pony Express but they haven't arrived yet. Hopefully I'll get at least one of the four this afternoon so I can bring it on Saturday to Kimmie's. If not I'll bring Stripes and that bad UFO one, girlie.
  
• Thursday I slept in until about 11:30am and it was glorious. After barking at the Gateway people who need to send me restore CDs since mine are nowhere to be found, I ate yummy leftovers, picked up Michelle and went to the gym. Then I worked in Emeryville. Then I came home, said hi to Cathy's friend Amanda and made a bombass dinner. Then Cathy forced me to watch several episodes of Friends, and I watched a funny Dana Carvey special on HBO. Now I'm work and just read 6 chapters in 2 Kings. God telling people to massacre each other for varying reasons, folks being torn apart by dogs. Fun stuff.
  
• I should have a fun weekend since I'm kickin it with Kimmie. I'm bringing my camera, God only knows what kind of pics/footage I'll have by Sunday night. Haha.
  
• One more thing. Do you ever wonder if celebrities fart? I bet they do, but I wonder if they've ever ripped one at the Grammy's or anything? I bet the New Kids fart.. I should ask the New Kids On The Block about their gastrointestinal feats in October. Seriously. "Hey Joey Joe, do you toot on stage?" ROTF
  

go lisa, it's your birthday

• Go Lisa, it's your birthday, gonna party like it's your birthday, drink Kahlua like it's your birthday, you know we don't give a &*$% it's not your birthday.. well it is!!!! WOOOT. I'm excited, although most of my festivities have already taken place. I'm 28 years young now. I'm trying to stay in a positive frame of mind even though this is my first bday without my mom. So much has changed over the past year, it's insane. I live in a different house, drive a different car, have a different cat, one less parent. I am so blessed to have great friends like you guys, seriously. I'm also blessed enough to have 3 jobs, and a very weird sense of humor. I'm blessed in so many ways.
  
• FYI.. I won't be online tonight, I got the night off from all my gigs. I'm going to dinner with my folks and then I will have a nice well rested evening at home catching up on Scrubs DVDs. I think I deserve it. Okay I'll probably make my grocery list and go take a semi-nap here at work. You know.. sleeping but not really sleeping. One last thing before I leave..
  

"My name is JUDGE!"

Anyone seen that episode of Arrested Development? ROTF

woot there it is

• What's up homies? It's almost my bday.. yay I'm old. Like all early Monday morning posts, I'll start this out with "I had an awesome weekend." I did.. really. I mean it wasn't monumentally mindblowing, but it was fun. Friday morning I got my car washed/detailed at Hutch's and went to breakfast with Michelle at Mimi's. I had some yummy breakfast burritos. Then we went to Bally and got Michelle all signed up, and renewed my membership. I was a little too exhausted (having been up about 20 hours and all) to work out at that point, so I went home and slept. I got up around 5:30pm that afternoon, with Cathy and Stuart screaming "Happy Birthday!!" in my face and nearly causing a coronary. I then had one of those situations where a small get together turns into a full fledged party. We ordered pizza, Amy came with her pal David (not Magical David, it was Heart Transplant David), Alisha showed up, then Fernando and Grace came with Joey. Joey is 15 months old and loves chasing cats and helping people unwrap presents. Around 9ish TJ went to bed because he's 28 going on 75. Fernando and Grace left around 10:30, then Jeff showed up. Everyone else seemed to leave around 11pm. The party wasn't over though. Davina got off work around 12:30am, and she and Lorie came around 1. We partied until 3am, and I got 3 hours of sleep. I got great gifts from everyone, including A LOT of lip balm from Cathy and Amy. Hmm I wonder why. Got some cash, AMEX gift card, Best Buy gift card, Jamba Juice gift card, some Doritos (haha), a porcelain Kermit the Frog figurine, Bert and Ernie action figures, Mad Libs, bubbles, and a stuffed Gizmo doll (from Gremlins). So yeah I made out like a bandit.
  
• Saturday morning I woke up and had a slight hangover. I partied a lot the night before, as you can read above. Good thing I've been taking a Vitamin B supplement, that helped speed up my metabolism and get the poison out of my system. You guys know I don't party that often anyway, really. I worked at KDFC as usual and had fun like I always do. When I got back to San Leandro I hit the gym and worked it, y'all. I was jogging again, and it felt great. Then I went home and did major housecleaning, took a nap and Davina and I went to Claimjumper for supper. Man I love that place. Had some garlic bread, whiskey chicken dinner and we shared a brownie finale for dessert. I tried to pay but she wouldn't let me, so I decided to give the cute waiter a good tip. After going home for a potty break, we went to Target. I got all three Beverly Hills Cop movies on DVD. Davina almost got a bike but decided not to at the last minute. We ended up going back to my house and watching Beverly Hills Cop III. Excellent choice. She left and I started watching Gremlins but got tired about 20 min into it and called it a night.
  
• Sunday morning I woke up and took a shower, picked up Michelle and went to church. It was a good sermon, mostly telling dudes to step up and take care of their families, a good Father's Day theme. Too bad most guys out there don't have this mentality anymore. After church Michelle and I hit the gym and worked it again. Cathy showed up and I wished I had my camera on me. All three sisters on treadmills pumping up the jam, it was awesome. If only Mom could have seen us. When I was done sweating my booty off we picked up Dad and went to Best Buy. He bought me seasons 1 and 2 of Scrubs, and I used a giftcard to get a few 80s CDs, along with The Offspring and P.O.D. For Father's Day I gave him a copy of The Sands Of Iwo Jima starring John Wayne, one of his favorites. Then we had a late lunch at In-And-Out Burger. So healthy, I know. Haha. Afterwards I went home and took a LONG nap, came to work and the rest is history.
  
• I apologize to anyone who didn't come to my "party" on Friday night. I didn't intend for it to be a real party, but my sister invited people, I invited a person or two.. food came, booze poured, and yeah.. it happened. My schedule is pretty insane for the next week or two, but we should all hang out sometime. I'm addressing folks I haven't talked to in forever, you know who you are.
  

pre-bday weekend

• Hey there homies. Thank god it's Friday! Whooo. The last few days of course haven't been monumental. Wednesday morning Michelle and I worked out, and got in contact with someone to set her up with a membership. We're going back this morning to get the paperwork done and stuff. Yes believe it or not I was jogging on the treadmill again. I'll try doing that again this morning, too. Yesterday I worked at Traffic.com, my usual gig. I'm working there A LOT next week. I'm insane, yes I know. When I see the check, I won't be disappointed I'll tell you that.
  
• This weekend I don't have too much going on, really. Trying to keep things low key. After work this morning I'm picking up Michelle and getting my car washed/detailed. It needs it, trust me. Then we're doing breakfast at Mimi's Cafe since I have a $10 off coupon for my birthday. Take it from me, sign up for every single restaurant's E-club, and you get plenty of discounts. After a yummy meal, we're gonna go sweat it off at the gym and get our accounts set up. This evening I may have a couple people over for pizza, drinks, whatever. Cathy made me a cake from scratch. I didn't make a giant deal this year since I've been kinda melancholy about the whole thing. First birthday without my mom, it's hard. She's with me in spirit, for sure.
  
• Saturday I've got the KDFC gig, then hitting the gym. Later on in the evening Davina and I have a heterosexual date for dinner at Claimjumper. Haha. If you wanna cheat and eat lots of giant portions of fattening food, that's the place to do it at.
  
• Sunday is church, and Dad wants to take me to Best Buy so he can buy me some DVDs for my bday. He can't go crazy like Mom used to do when she took me shopping, but he still wants to get me something. He means well. Of course he didn't even know that my birthday is next week until Michelle told him. I'm not offended, because even when he still had his marbles he never remembered any of our birthdays or how old we were anyway. I asked him how old he thought I was and he said 22. This was a few days ago. Haha.
  
• Well, I'm gonna go half doze and rock out to Huey Lewis and The News. Adios, mis amigos!
  

she must be somebody's baby

• What's up, my peeps? Not much here. I always say that but then once my brain starts flowing I write about 3-4 paragraphs. Oh well. Let's see what's been going on? I worked Monday night at Traffic.com. That was fun. Then I worked here later on. I had a really bad tummyache and barfed for the first time in over a year. No I didn't eat any tomatoes.
  
• Then yesterday I slept, got up and took my dad's dog to the vet to get his shots, went home and fell back asleep. It was very enjoyable, I needed the rest. I woke up around 6:30pm, took a shower, made dinner, and watched a few movies. It was an enjoyable evening. First Cathy had put on Son In Law, and I got bored about 3/4 of the way through it. Then I realized the cable was out and TJ had mentioned it was out most of the day. I called Comcast and was on the phone with them for about 30 minutes. They concluded that my cable box is defective, and a dude is coming by this afternoon to replace it and make sure all is well in digital cable land. I was still bored afterward so I put on Fast Times At Ridgemont High. I almost wrote Ridgemont Thigh. ROTF. Anyway, y'all know I have a fat crush on Judge Reinhold especially when he's playing Brad Hamilton and he's got a cute butt while washing his car. I need to get this on DVD Special Edition so I can pause and get some nice screencaps. I only have it on VHS. Sad I know. After the movie I grabbed food for work and came here. Exciting.
  
• This morning after work I'm picking up Michelle, we're going to Bally and I'm getting a new membership for myself and her. Mine lapsed over a month ago and I need to get back in my workout routine. Michelle needs to go desperately, and Mom was always encouraging her to lose weight so this should help. If I take her to the gym, she will go. After exercising we're doing the weekly Walmart/Lucky run, which is also thrilling. Then home to wait for the cable guy and sleep. That's about it, folks.
  

some like it hot and some burn when the heat is on

• I'm baaaack. Yeah it's only been 3 days since my last blog update, but oh well. I'm in a really good mood. Not sure why. Maybe it's because I'm working 55 hours this week instead of 63 like last week or 70 a few weeks back. Could also be the pretty fun weekend I just had, despite the extreme lack of sleep on Friday/Saturday.
  
• Let's see on Friday evening I went to dinner with Michelle at Marie Callender again. I seem to be addicted to their cornbread. Oh well. I worked later on that evening here as a favor for Yuriy. I spent a good deal of my shift half asleep, and watching My Girl. Saturday I went to Live 105's BFD with Davina, Cathy, Amy, and Mikey. It was pretty fun. Fun yet exhausting. I was running on about 2 hours of sleep, still had bronchitis and it was pretty hot. I did a lot of dancing and got a fake panda tattoo on my neck from some creepy guy who kept caressing my hair and tried to bite me. Video will be uploaded soon. Oh wait duh.. don't know if I mentioned it but my computer is at Best Buy being fixed.. it does have spyware issues and a virus, so I'll get it back in a week or two. I could have just had the hard drive wiped but I have pictures of my mom on there and stuff, so I'd rather have them take their time restoring it. Getting back to the BFD subject, it was tons of fun. We left pretty early, around 6pm due to exhaustion and Davina's bad reaction to her nachos. I'm sure she's stoked that I'm sharing her potty adventures. We went to In-And-Out after that for dinner (yes I'm bad), got gas in Menlo Park and headed home. I collapsed into bed around 8pm after doing random housework first.
  
• Sunday morning I opted not to go to church so I could get more rest. I slept about 12 hours total. I finally roused myself out of bed, did some dishes and mopped some floors. Then I took a shower, picked up Michelle, and bought my new bike at Target. It's a Tony Hawk "ANGRY" model. I'm not an angry person, but it was the coolest bike there. I need to adjust the seat then I can ride it. I'm excited. We watched TV for a few hours, then I took Michelle and Dad to Red Robin for dinner. Dad paid. Thank god. I'm not exactly broke anymore, but I just paid LOTS of bills, bought NKOTB tickets and a new bike. So yeah, trying to watch the fundage. That's my weekend in a nutshell, folks. I hope the rest of my week goes pretty smooth and I pray that I'll get enough sleep.
• P.S. Manny I'm praying for you. I know you're going through a very rough time and I don't want you to ever think I still don't care about you. :-)
  

YAAAAAAAY

• What's goin on, my peeps? Not much here. Well not much thrilling anyway. I've been working my tooshy off, and I finally got enough sleep yesterday. Eight hours of glorious rest, I loved it. I should get enough sleep today, when I get to. I'm going to breakfast with Leeanne after work, going walking with Michelle, then taking her and Dad to get medical supplies for him, and I need to drop off my computer at the Geek Squad there in Union City. I gotta work tonight, I'm filling in for Yuriy the weekend guy which is kind of a bummer, but I volunteered for it before I got my third job and was stretched for money. Oh well, 8 hours of OT will be coming my way soon. Saturday I'm going to BFD with Davina, Cathy and Amy. I'll be running on almost no sleep, but I don't work that night so I'll be alright. At the worst I'll ask Davina to drive on the way home.
  
• Oh yeah in case I didn't mention, Kimmie and I, along with her sister Carol and our pal Cara, are going 5 star VIP to see New Kids On The Block on October 10th when they play in San Jose. I'm so excited and still amazed that I was able to get the passes before they sold out. Yes I'm pretty much paying up the wazoo, but to be able to tell folks what Donnie Wahlberg smells like is well worth it. Yeah I'm that weird.
  
• Oh and I keep having this reoccuring dream that a young Judge Reinhold is a teacher at my high school (and I'm back in the 90s again apparently), and I keep flunking tests and skipping homework just so I can stay after class and get "help". I have a VERY overactive imagination, don't you think? That and I just changed my desktop here at work to a hot picture of Don Johnson circa 1986. Oooh baby.
  

Whooo I'm gonna MEET THE NEW KIDS!!! Rick Astley is hot too, Corey Haim, and Kirk.. oooh la la!



Whoo he was hot from Fast Times to Beverly Hills Cop III.... then he got old. He's still awesome, but not as hot. Hey in 10 years I'll be not so hot either.

oh the joy

• What's goin on, homie G's? Not much here. Work, work and more work. I'm getting about 6 hours of sleep a day, so I'm not exactly exhausted. I agreed to work another shift this afternoon as a favor for my boss in Emeryville, and it's more money for me. I will definitely get decent sleep on Thursday.. well I hope. Thursday morning we're doing the grocery run, getting crap from a medical supply store in Hayward, and after I put all that away I'm gonna drop off my computer at Best Buy for the Geek Squad to debug, etc. I know several of you will go "What's wrong with the computer? Maybe I can help." Well um my internet connection is fine according to Comcast, but my computer won't recognize that. Also, I tried reinstalling Windows XP, and it asked for my admin password. I never created a password. So um yeah I think I have a virus. For the past day or so the computer has been off and will remain so until I can get it to a computer physician.. i.e. the Geek Squad. I'd rather pay a few hundred to fix it versus buying a new computer. With all this being said, maybe on Friday I'll get enough sleep. *sigh*
• Oh yeah, other small bundles of stress. Can't buy VIP tix for NKOTB until today at 7pm. Fortunately I'll be at work and online, so don't worry Kimmie. I'm crossing my fingers. Regular tix go on sale at Ticketmaster for general public on the 9th. Oh and I never got my BFD tix in the mail, but I straightened it out with Ticketmaster, my tix will be at will call at The Shoreline on Saturday to pick up. Good lord I got so much crap on my plate.
  
• Oh one more fun thing. I have yet another sinus infection. Had the sore throat yesterday morning, woke up in the afternoon with lots of yellow snot pouring everywhere. I've been feverish all day (since I woke up at 1:30pm yesterday) and I've had nice headaches. I only get headaches when my sinuses act up. My last doctor said I have chronic sinusitis because my sinus cavaties are very small. He's probably right. Anywhoo, all I can do is try to get enough sleep and pray for the best.
  
• I do enough complaining lately, don't I? LOL
  

back on the grind

• What's crackin my homies? I'm back from my weekend. It was nice and relaxing, thank god. Friday afternoon I worked at Traffic.com, then went to dinner at Marie Callender's with my dad and Michelle. It was really yummy. Afterwards, I went home and watched Back To The Future with Cathy and TJ.
  
• Saturday I worked my normal shift at KDFC, then took Michelle and Dad to the Cherry Festival there in San Leandro. It was fun just walking around and visiting various booths. The overpriced funnel cake was okay too. Then I stopped by Target to pick up new earphones, since the ones I had only worked in one ear, and homey don't play that. Next stop was Barnes and Noble, where everyone browsed for about half an hour, and Dad picked up a few new Tom Clancy novels. Then we drove down to Claimjumper, where I had made reservations. The food there is always awesome, although it's crowded/noisy. Dad didn't like all the commotion around him, but he loved his mashed potatoes and ice cream sundae. I had a turkey burger with salad and some garlic bread. I think Michelle had chicken and noodles. Then I went home and Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, a little TV, and went to bed around 11.
  
• Sunday morning I woke up, picked up Michelle, and went to church. The message was about tithing, not my favorite topic but I sat through it anyway. Afterwards Michelle, Davina and I decided to go for lunch at Sweet Tomatoes in Pleasanton. Similar to Fresh Choice only much better. Man it was yummy. Then we went to Stoneridge Mall and walked around shopping for an hour or so. I got a new shirt and wristband at Hot Topic (used the last of that giftcard, Amy) and a shake at Haagen-Dazs. Oh man that was good. Then I went home and took a LONG nap, and here I am. Yay.
  
• This week my schedule is busy, but not as bad as last week. 58 hours, not 70. I'm working an extra shift here Friday night, I volunteered for it long before I got hired at the third gig. I'll be TIRED for BFD on Saturday, but oh well. Speaking of BFD, I don't think I've gotten my tix yet. I doubt I threw them away. If I don't see them by Wednesday, then I'm worrying. Oh yes, and I'm trying to get VIP tix for NKOTB this morning, gotta set my alarm clock for that. I fear I'm not getting much sleep the next few days. Oh well, what can I do?
  

im no supergirl

• What's up homies? Me again. I am like way burned out at this point. I'm so glad my schedule is back to normal next week. Whew. I think I'm actually more exhausted because of outside sources, not my working so much. I'm tired, but everyone seems to stress me out even more on top of it. Family stuff, worries/requests about upcoming concerts. etc. Sometimes I just want to scream out of frustration for everyone to leave me alone and just let me be. This weekend I need some serious relaxation. I'm taking Michelle and Dad to the Cherry Festival on Saturday afternoon and then to dinner, so that should be fun. What I truly need right now is a good 8 hours of sleep. This morning I'll sleep about 6 hours and work in the afternoon. That won't be so bad. I can catch up on my beauty sleep this weekend for sure.
  
• I'd like to apologize to anyone I've snapped at this week out of crankiness. It's about that time of the month *cough cough* plus I'm sleep deprived and everyone is asking me for a favor, lately. I love all you guys very much and you know I'd give you my left boob if you needed it, but believe it or not I am not Supergirl, unlike Kimmie who is. I think sometimes I expect too much of myself and push myself hard. Then others see me as a superhero of sorts with the mentality of "Oh well, Lisa will do it.. she'll help.. " with whatever task they need assistance with. Sometimes I just need downtime. I don't want to think about upcoming things that may or may not cause me my head to explode. I like living my life one day at a time, not letting myself worry about what may or may not happen. This calls for some Coke Zero and jammin 80s hits. Good thing I brought my Zune player. Have a great weekend, peeps!
  

Snoozarooni..

• Hey there homie G's. What's crackin? Not much on this end. I'm TIRED. Seriously. I got about 6 hours of sleep yesterday, and today I'll get 3-5. This is because I "have to get Dad to City Hall" this morning.. well at least my sister Michelle proclaims. Basically I'm taking them there, and sleeping in the car the whole time. Then I'm going home to sleep what little bit that I can. Later on I'm working at Traffic.com, then I'm taking Michelle to do grocery shopping. Then I get to put away my food and go to work. Good thing I can half doze off here. So if any of you guys IM me while I'm here and I'm not exactly responsive, remember I'm probably taking a quick snoozarooni. I still wake up if something goes wrong, but if it's something online and I know it is.. I'll be like "Oh heck no" and ignore it. No offense, guys.
  
• Next week my schedule will be much better. Praise God for that one. Sorry this blog is so short but I'm pooped. Okay now I'm gonna half doze and watch Spenser For Hire.. I found an ep with Dr. Cox from Scrubs playing a boxer, it's amusing. He has some jammin 80s hair.
  

Hey yall

• Hey y'all, I'm back. When I say "Hey y'all" I feel like Paula Deen from the Food Network. Have you ever seen that Youtube video where it looks like she's constantly farting? It's great. Anyway, I had a pretty good weekend. Friday morning after working here I did some training at Traffic.com, then slept at home until about 6pm. Then I took Michelle to dinner at Carrows, she had coupons. I had the chicken tacos, they were pretty yummy.
  
• Saturday I did the KDFC gig, then went home and took care of some housework. Davina called, and I met her at the gym. We really didn't work out together, but I got one heck of a buzz while on the treadmill. I actually jogged. Yes you are reading correctly, I jogged. It was awesome. I haven't jogged since high school. I can barely walk at the marina, but I think it may have to do with uneven pavement. I can jog on a treadmill, I'm so amazed at myself. My gym membership is technically expired, but I may sign up on Cathy's plan as a family member, and we're trying to get Michelle on as well. I'd get much more of a workout at the gym compared to walking in various outdoor places. After my workout I stopped by Fernando's house to water his plants, then went home and relaxed the rest of the day. I had quite a few drinks which I'm not proud of, but I had a great time. Amy came over, and we played Uno. Oh yeah, Cathy was there too. She practically lives at my house, but most of you know that already. Amy got tired and left around 11pm, then Alisha and Jeff showed up. Alisha played Uno with us for about 3 hours, it was pretty fun. TJ's other pal Jason came by for a bit as well. At 2am Sesame Street came on Sprout (digital cable channel), so of course everyone around me was partying, and here I am watching Bert sing about how sheep made his blanket. I'm so weird. I ended up going to bed around 3am or so.
• Sunday morning I should have gone to church. Michelle actually was interesting in going. I made a bad decision and decided to sleep in. I slept A LOT. I'm working 70 hours this week between all 3 jobs (mostly because of the holiday, plus my boss at the new gig is going out of town and asked me to work extra days), so I thought it would be a good idea to sleep as much as possible when I can. I did get up at like 2pm, showered, ate a salad, went for a walk, and watched TV until Sandi arrived. Then she and I went to go see Rush of Fools with Group 1 Crew at Celebration Hall in Santa Rosa. Both groups were AWESOME. Seriously. I know hip hop isn't Sandi's thing, but even she was rockin out to Group 1 Crew. Rush Of Fools was amazing, and we watched from right in front of the stage. May I mention that Wes the lead singer is HOT? I have 2 pics with him. We ended up meeting all the members of Rush Of Fools, and I met Group 1 Crew and got a pic with them as well. I'll have them up in a day or two. Due to crazy work scheduling, I'm barely squeezing in sleep tomorrow, but I should have time to post stuff on Tuesday evening. Yes I'm insane.
  

Oh yeah.. here's a very poorly produced Judge Reinhold homage I made on Saturday afternoon. I taped stuff off Youtube with my camera and edited it with Windows Movie Maker. Primitive, and yes I have issues..




Oh yeah.. here's Paula Deen and her fake farting.. I'm sorry but I love strategically placed fake farts.

just for the taste of it..

• Hooray it's Friday! After working 12-16 hours a day nearly all week, I am so glad. Oh yes, I think some of you guys are curious as to what my third job is. To those that don't know, I'm an editor/producer at Traffic.com. The title sounds fancy, but I just get traffic information from the CHP (California Highway Patrol) and other info sources and put it on the website. I've been training there all week in the mornings. Next week I'll start working afternoon shifts. I'm excited and my coworkers are pretty nice and laid back.
  
• Nothing that exciting has been going on besides working my patooty off. I get up, shower, grab food, work, sit in traffic then work at my other job, sit in more traffic, come home, feed the cat and go to bed. Then I wake up and do the same thing over and over again. Luckily my schedule will calm down in about a week so it won't be as monotonous.
  
• This weekend I don't have too much planned. I am going to go see Rush Of Fools/Newsboys with Sandi on Sunday night. That will be fun, for sure. I haven't really listened to any of their music to be honest, but I love Christian rock so there's no doubt I'll have a blast.
  
• One more thing, don't you hate it when you get paid, then you figure out your bills, then you have almost no money left? I just got paid yesterday, but 90% of it is going towards my rent check I have to send in a little over a week. I also just made a credit card payment, I owe my dentist some money, I just bought gas ($42 to fill up my tank) and got my oil changed/tires rotated. My second job pays me next week but I'll only get like $50, that's gas money essentially. I'm not even in the system at the third gig yet so I probably won't get paid until June. ARRRGH I love money. Being a responsible adult sucks sometimes. Okay now that I've given myself a headache I'll end this blog on a happy note with a random 80s commercial.
  

I couldn't help it, I was sitting here drinking Diet Coke and that song totally popped in my head. I love my 80s! God bless Youtube.

My name is Lisa and I'm a workaholic

• What's up homies? Not much here. Well not much interesting stuff anyway. I've just been working my booty off nonstop. Sunday night I worked 12 hours, then worked almost 4 more hours training at the new gig. Then I went home and slept over 9 hours. I'm sure you can understand why. Monday night I worked my usual 8 hours and worked 4 more at the new gig again. Can you see a pattern?
  
• This morning I actually have time to go walking, get my oil changed, then take Michelle and Dad on our usual weekly errands. Next week I don't know how I'm going to arrange things, since I'm working all freakin week. Oh lordy lord. In about 2 weeks or so, my schedule should be a little more normal, thank god.
  
• Other than working way too much, there's not really a whole lot on my mind. Kimmie and I have been working on a project about the New Kids, it's taking longer than expected. I feel bad, since I wish I had more time to contribute towards it. I did do a lot of camera work that weekend when I was at her house, but still.. Oh well she knows I'm kinda tied up right now.
  
• That and tonight is Sandi's graduation from Sacramento City College. Congrats girlie! I'd go up there for the ceremony, but I'm not getting in bed until like 1pm. I'm slightly burnt out so I'm trying to sleep as much as humanly possible. Thanks for understanding.
  
• Okay well off to eat some celery, listen to Metallica, and do surveys and such. Oh yeah, my boss here is out of town until July for some Air Force Reserves thing.. so party central! Just kidding.. kind of. :-)
  

im a busy woman

• Howdy folks. I'm back from a pretty laid back weekend. Why am I blogging so early you may wonder? I'm working a 12 hour shift here at Family Radio (Victoria took the day off since she ran Bay To Breakers today and is exhausted). When I get out of here at 7am, I'm working at my new gig from 8am to noon. It's training actually, but I'm still getting paid. Yes I'm insane. Actually, I agreed to work this long shift long before getting hired at the third job. Oh well, more money for me.
  
• Let's recap the weekend, shall we? I got out of Traffic.com after 1pm, and didn't get in bed until about 2pm. I got an offer to go to dinner and a movie with Sandi, but I was HECKA tired so I opted on sleep. Well that was my plan anyway. Then Davina called and wanted to go exercise later on that evening. I told her I wasn't sure, since I was exhausted. Finally, Michelle called, saying Dad was suffering from heat complications and needed to get out of the house, etc. Of course I'd only had 4 hours of sleep. Kind of, since I kept getting woken up. So I opted on helping my folks since they're my first priority (besides work). I got up, showered, and took Michelle/Dad to Red Robin at Newpark Mall, then we went back to my house while Dad watched Animal Planet. I love my family to death, but I sometimes wish they'd understand that I need rest too.
  
• Saturday I worked at KDFC in the morning as usual. I actually had some busy work to do, so it was fun. Then I came home and did some housework, and went walking for a while around the neighborhood. Afterwards I took over the TV in the living room. I watched a little of Ghostbusters II that was on Spike TV, then watched Little Giants with the commentary from the director and the girl who played Icebox. I love that movie. Probably because I love Rick Moranis. Soon I went to Victoria's apartment for some pizza. Brad was there too. We had fun, and sort of a farting contest. Then I went back to my place and played Uno with Cathy and Amy while having a few drinks. I needed to unwind. We finally called it a night around 11pm.
  
• This morning I woke up refreshed after 9 hours of sleep, then showered and had a donut for breakfast. Blame TJ. Then I went to church. I love church, well the worship time the most. The sermons aren't too boring, but I enjoy singing/clapping more than sitting still for 3o minutes. After church Davina and I went to Chilis for lunch. I ate pretty healthy. Next we went walking at the marina. I tried my best to powerwalk and get a good cardio workout since I won't have many exercise opportunities this week. I'm working almost 70 hours, I just calculated. Don't worry, this won't be the norm.. in a few weeks my schedule will go down to 55 hours or so. That's nothing for me. Anyway, later after the marina I went home and napped for 3 hours, and now I'm blogging at work, listening to one of my buddy Denny's podcasts. He's playing a lot of country for some reason. Interesting.
  

its getting hot in here..

• Hey there homies. Not too much important stuff going on. I went walking yesterday morning, and I'm going today. My ankles/legs still hurt, but oh well. That's life. I'm going to start training for my third job on Friday morning. I'm pretty excited. I hope I don't screw up at it. They asked me to work a lot of hours next week to fill in for someone, so my schedule's going to be kinda nuts. Like it's totally normal now, right?
  
• I'm going to try to have a nice relaxing weekend. Friday night I may hang out with friends, or just stay home and chill. Saturday morning I'm working in San Fran, and that evening I'm going to Victoria's place to pig out on pizza. Sunday is church, housework and relaxation. Relaxation.. that's what I need the most of.
• Oh yeah, here's a video I made with footage from my awesome Great America concert trip last Saturday. There's a lot of Family Force 5, but they're one of my favorite bands. I can't help it.
  

wow it's like I wrote a novel

• Hey there homie G's. It's me again. I'm back from my totally awesome/insane weekend. This is going to be LOOOOOONG. Just thought I'd warn you. I haven't uploaded pics/video just yet, since I pretty much came to work straight from Lodi, with a 5 min stop to my house to pick up some grub. Anyway, here goes. Friday morning I went to Denny's for breakfast with Leeanne. It was grubbin. Then I went home and took a 2 hour nap, then took Michelle/Dad to Sebastopol to put flowers at Mom's grave for Mother's Day since I was going to be out of town on Sunday. It was emotional since her plaque/headstone thing was actually there, and it's a giant dose of reality hitting you in the face, just in case you somehow forgot someone you love is dead. Anyway, bittersweet times up in Sonoma County, and I had a Chicken McNuggets Happy Meal for lunch [apple slices, not fries.. :-)]. I finally got back home around 4pm, and I slept the rest of the evening away. I got up at 10pm and pondered fixing a very late dinner, but I was way too tired so I just slept until morning.
  
• Saturday I went to Spring Celebration at Great America with Sandi. We got there around 9:20am and had to wait forever to get in the gate and park the car. Then we had to wait 15 minutes to get into the park. I was really excited once we made it inside, because I took my picture with Spongebob Squarepants!! Then we went potty and made it over to Top Gun.. oh I'm sorry it's called Flight Deck now. Whatever. Now this was one of the few low points of my day. We only had to wait about 2 minutes to get onto the ride.. but my fat ass couldn't fit in the harness. Look I know I'm chunky.. okay fat.. but damn. The belt thing could barely buckle. If the attendant pushed the harness hard enough I could have squeezed in. This was proved later on another ride. Anyway, it was embarrassing to get off because I couldn't fit, and have everyone stare at me. Plus some other attendant's like "Oh you didn't fit?" way too freaking loud. Gee thanks lady. Although I was humiliated/bummed, I didn't let it ruin my great day. We soon got over to the Vortex, and I was a bit skeptic about going on that one. I already had one embarrassing situation, I didn't need another. I got in line anyway, and miraculously, the attendant squeezed me into my harness. Well gave it a nice extra tug anyway. I got to ride, and it was great. Next was the The Demon, one of my faves. No harness probs on that one. Next we attempted The Grizzly which I love, but the seatbelt was way small. Okay I've had the same pants size for the last 10 years, and all of a sudden I can't fit in that seatbelt on the ride. What gives man? Ugh. I didn't feel that bad since two Samoan looking dudes had to get off the ride as well. Then I made Sandi get on Psycho Mouse and that was great. Ironic how I can get on a kid's coaster and not the best one in the park. Anyway, after that we went on Centrifuge and I took some cool video. It'll be on the Great America compilation I'll try to work on in the next day or two. After we got off the ride while searching for the Loggers Run, I ran into Chucky/Angelica from Rugrats, hugged them and took pictures. I was too old when Rugrats was popular plus I didn't have cable, but you all know how I feel about anyone in a costume. It was cute. We found Loggers Run and got pretty wet, then got drenched on Rip Roaring Rapids. I'll have to agree with Sandi and say that's my favorite ride in the park. Always has been. Spraying people is even more fun. We got some people good. Soon it was lunch and funnel cake time. Yeah I was bad, but hey it's Great America.
  
• We finally got into the Redwood Amphitheater right before Family Force 5 came on. That is one of my favorite bands, lemme tell ya. I'm so glad I finally got to see them live. They were rockin. I took way too many pictures of them, and plenty of video. Sandi took video of me too, headbanging to the music. After their set I waited 45 minutes and was able to get them to autograph a poster. I got a hug from Phatty (who said he saw me headbanging in the first row and thought I was awesome), Chap Stique, and Soul Glow Activator. Soul Glow posed for a picture as the mean security lady screamed "No pictures!" at Sandi and grabbed her arm. Soon afterwards we got back to our seats and watched the last half of Hawk Nelson who also rocked. Next was Barlow Girl. I really like them, I think I'll download some of their music. Then Mark Stuart from Audio Adrenaline came on as a guest speaker and told an awesome poop story. Just remember when God doesn't want you to do something, you crap your pants. Words to live by. When Mark was done we met him, Sandi got autographs on some pics she had, and we both posed for pics. He's really a nice guy. Cute, but married. Bummer. We got back to our seats for Kutless, and they rocked. Soon Switchfoot came on, the last act of the night. I love a lot of their music. This part of the concert sucked, even though Switchfoot was rockin. As soon as they came on, hundreds of stupid tweens/teens rushed the stage, and decided to dance right in front of us. We were in the front row. Yes the FRONT ROW. Halfway through their set, security finally started checking tickets and they went back to their seats. Then, the lead singer decided to go out into the audience, and the kids went berserk again. So we had to deal with these screaming kids jumping up and down, and some of them really needed Right Guard. Good lordy. The concert ended, and we went out to the parking lot. I was bushed and my feet were hurting, so I decided to change into my flipflops that were in my trunk. May I add that all the stupid kids from the concert were convening there in the parking lot and acting like idiots. Screaming, hanging out their windows. Well a car full of them decided to yell at me and call me a whale then a walrus as I was changing shoes. That hurt my feelings. How can it not upset me? I know I'm fat, I couldn't fit on two rides, I feel very unattractive/not pretty a lot of the time and they had to just add their little 15 year old humor to the fire. Ugh. Some of you may read this and think "Oh well, kids are kids." You know what? This was a "Christian" rock concert. Christians do not behave like that. Jesus wouldn't call some fat girl a walrus. Plain and simple. Just pissed me off. We got the heck out of there and went to Applebee's, where we both had salad. Then I headed off to Lodi to spend the next few days with Kimmie.
  
• This is turning into a novel, isn't it? I'm only like halfway done, seriously. So I got to Kimmie's late on Saturday night, and went off about what had transpired at Great America. I needed to vent. Then we did a little work on the New Kids project (top secret.. lol), and watched a second season episode of Wonder Woman guest starring Ed Begley Jr. He is such a dork. I think after that we both called it a night.
• On Sunday I woke up to Cinnamon Toast Crunch and coffee, and we watched 4 episodes of The Smurfs. I had a strong desire to punch Brainy Smurf in the head by that point. Then we went to Kimmie's niece Joyce's 12th birthday party. It was fun. Their family is interesting, to say the least. We ate nothing healthy at all. Hot dogs, chips/dip, cake/ice cream. Yummy. I'll have pics up of that, don't worry. We came back home, and did a little more work on the project. We had Subway for dinner. I got a turkey sandwich, and apple slices instead of chips. I then subjected Kimmie to Beverly Hills Cop II. Judge Reinhold plays such a lovable goof. We worked more on the project, and I crashed around 11pm while Kimmie kept on working diligently. I feel guilty for doing that, but I was exhausted.
  
• Monday we woke up around 9am, had coffee and a few cookies to tide us over before IHOP. Oh man when we got to IHOP I had stuffed french toast topped with cinnamon apples. I'm bad. I also had eggbeaters and hash browns. Could have been worse. Then we went to Walmart and I got Hot Shots/Hot Shots Part Deux (then later found out Cathy already had it), a scented candle and a magnetic photo frame. Then we came back to Kimmie's place and did more work on the project. Carol (Kim's sister) came over and helped, then later on Joyce and her mom Mt Rushmore came over and helped a bit, as we watched Howard The Duck. That movie is really funny. Oh yeah, we were bad and had Baskin Robbins. Okay so three hours later I returned my Hot Shots movies at Walmart, and picked up dinner from Wendys. I had a chicken club sandwich and a salad. Then we did even more project work and watched Problem Child. That's about it in a nutshell. I had a fun yet eventful weekend. I probably left out tons of stuff Kimmie, so add as much as you want.
  
• Random quotes that I can remember.. "I never thought I'd say this, but I want John Lithgow.".. "If Joe turned into a duck, you would help him right?"... "When God doesn't want you to do something, you shit your pants.".... "She's not fat, she's a national monument.".... "This scenario would totally make some bad lesbian porn movie. Why do we keep getting in these awkward situations?".. "Sorry, but I gotta poo.".. "Niiiiiiiiiice.. ".... "I'm sorry but if I'm walking in some alley, and both Jeff Goldblum and Whoopi Goldberg pop up out of some garbage can, I'm running.. because Robin Williams is probably nearby." Kimmie add more that you can think of. LMAO