Hey how's it hangin? Wait don't answer that. Haha. It is I, Lisa, writing around 1am on Thanksgiving Eve and trying to stay conscious at work. It's the middle of the week, and most people are working a half day and taking the rest of the week off. Luckyasses. I work in broadcasting, and the show must go on, so to speak. So yes, plenty of comp days and double time will be accrued, I assure you.
Let's see Monday I worked at Traffic, came home and made dinner, watched TV and went to work. Tuesday I worked at Traffic again, then picked up Michelle and went to In-And-Out (I got my cheeseburger with no extra salt, fries with no salt), then home to make some steamed carrots to add a bit of nutritional value to dinner. I got to kick back and watch TV for a whole hour (wow!), then dropped off Michelle and came here to work.
Oh yeah, on December 12th Davina and I are going to Cache Creek to see Australia's Thunder From Down Under. Oooh whee. Don't know who's hotter between them and the Chippendales, we chose the latter in Vegas since they were cheaper. Now's our chance to see them, and I can't wait. Now that's what I want in my stocking. We were going to spend the night there but the hotel room is WAY overpriced. The drive is only a few hours anyway.
Okay that's about it. Everyone have a great gobble day. I'll be working that night, probably blogging again, as always.
What's up folks? Not much going on. I had a cool and relaxing weekend. Friday afternoon I got up and went out to work only to discover that I didn't have to be there after all. Jarrod had asked me to work earlier in the week and I told him yes, but he was there when I showed up. I was slightly annoyed since I sat in traffic for 30 minutes. He did apologize profusely, so I give him credit for that. Later that evening I went to dinner at El Torito with Cathy and we drove around a bit, then we hung out at home. A while later we swung by Al's (Alisha) house to chill out, but there wasn't much to do except watch her other friends decorate for a party the next day and listen to her other annoying friend butt into other people's business. We hung out for about 45 minutes texting each other then went back home. I ended up drinking a rum + pineapple juice and going to bed shortly after.
Saturday I worked in SF, then picked up Michelle and went to Newpark Mall to do more Christmas shopping. I have about 75% of it done now. I'm starting to get more into the spirit of things and I love giving, so what more can I say? Later on we picked up Dad and went to Applebee's in Alameda for dinner then Borders so Dad could pick up a book or two, and of course we got coffee there as well. Later on at home I hung out with Cathy and watched movies/TV, then went to bed around 12am.
Sunday morning I slept in again. Yeah I know I haven't been to church in a few months. I kinda feel I'm spending my time with God five days a week while I'm doing Bible study here at work. I spend about 30 minutes reflecting on what I'm reading and realizing what it has to do with my life. Even Old Testament stuff has relevance to today. So yeah I have A LOT more room to grow but hey, I try. Anyway I slept in, did a little housework, then made organic pancakes with sugarfree syrup for breakfast. I know I'm not diabetic but I limit my sugar intake in some meals, so I can use it later on. Like later on that evening I had a bowl of ice cream. Haha. Anyway after breakfast I took a shower and went to the gym with Cathy. I worked out for a whole hour. 25 min of cardio and 35 min of lifting weights. Yay for me! This was my only gym visit until this Saturday. I'm working 66 hours this week, so sleep is going to be more of a priority. (I love holidays and holiday pay!) After the gym we got coffee and drove around for a while, then went home. I had a santa fe chicken salad for lunch, uploaded some movies to Youtube, downloaded lots of new music, uploaded it to my Zune, ate dinner, watched a lot of Night Court on DVD (I have season 1), then I took a nap for a few hours before work. That my friends was my weekend.
Like I just mentioned, I'm working a ton of hours this week. I always work an average of 55 hours a week but it's bumped up a notch due to the holiday. I don't mind one bit since I need the money. There are millions of Americans right now who are out of work, so I don't take this for granted. Also, promised the boss at Traffic that I'd work Thanksgiving so I don't have to work Xmas over there. I'll still work here on Xmas though, and maybe at KDFC for a few hours on Xmas Day. During the evening on Xmas Eve, I'm going to my Uncle Jim/Aunt Brenda's house to celebrate and Santa Claus is stopping by, I can't wait. Haha. Last year I had Xmas off, but my Mom was kinda dead. So yeah, it sucked. Okay I'm outta here for now. Toodles!
Oh yeah, posted 2 new videos on Youtube. One is from last weekend at Kimmie's house, other is just random singing/driving featuring lots of turkey gobbling from Cathy.
Hey there homies! What's crackin? Not much here. I'm just sitting here at work at 3am, eating celery (with peanut butter yeah I'm bad but I'm hungry) and drinking some type of citrus tea. It's pretty tasty. Not a whole lot to report.
Wednesday I did go to the gym (yay), then did the usual grocery trip. Then I went home, cleaned the litterbox, started some laundry, and finally caught up on sleep. Boy did I need it, too. Thursday I went to the gym again (woot woot!), home for breakfast then took Dad to a doctor appointment to have his stomach tube replaced. I did get in bed by noon and got an okay amount of sleep. I woke up around 6pm and watched some TV with Cathy/TJ, took a shower, made dinner, watched some TV and took another nap before work.
Oh yes, just to let you guys know, I LOVE MY PHONE! Yeah the G1 is freaking awesome. It has a touch screen similar to the iPhone, but the keyboard similar to the Sidekick. I love the downloadable Android programs like Twidroid (for Twitter), Myspace and Google Maps. Oh and I've gotten maybe half of my Xmas shopping done. Thank god for the internet, that's all I can say. Haha. Okay gotta go, I'm actually doing work as we speak. Automation is having serious hiccups and I've been fielding phone calls, leaving voicemails and rebooting computers. Oh the joy.
Hey there homies. Not much going on as of late. Let's see Monday I slept, worked at Traffic, came home, made dinner, watched some TV, and came here. I did pretty much the same on Tuesday as well. I also made time to stop by Dad's house and check on him, and eat some pizza with Michelle and her boyfriend Albert. He's doing yard work on the house and seems to be a nice guy.
This morning I'm going to make a point of going back to the gym (finally), then it's the usual grocery run. Dad hasn't gone in 3 weeks since he's been sick so I think we should bring him along, just to get him out of the house. That should be fun.
Thanksgiving is coming up. I'm working both jobs on Thanksgiving and the day after, so I'll be exhausted but the holiday pay/comp days are kickass. This will be the first time since 05 that we'll not be eating our holiday meal in a hospital. Dad had pneumonia in November of 06 and Mom was in and out of the hospital in November/December of 07 until she passed away. Cathy will be doing a lot of cooking including 2 giant turkey breasts and stuffing, and Michelle is even making Mom's recipe for sweet potato casserole. Yum! I won't be enjoying the feast until about 8:30-9pm, but oh well.
Okay not much else to discuss, I'll keep on eating leftover zucchini and farting around on Myspace and Pogo.com. Haha.
What's up homies? I'm back from my weekend. I had a lot of fun. Friday evening I met Sandi in Stockton and we went to a "Nerd Party" being held by her church group. At first I wasn't sure if I was going to be bored or not, but it turned out to be pretty fun. I really didn't know anyone there but Sandi, but everyone was friendly and made me feel right at home. Sandi won first prize for her nerdy outfit and I even flirted with a guy or two. Haha.
Saturday I worked at KDFC, then headed on over to Lodi to have yet another 80stastic weekend with Kimmie and her niece Joyce. First thing we did when I arrived was go on a field trip for dinner at Rick's Pizza. It was yummy, and yes I did have a mongoloid size side salad as well. Gotta get my veggies in when I can. Afterward we went to Baskin-Robbins, I had a scoop of chocolate fudge. Man it was good. Last stop on our adventure was Starbucks, I had a skinny vanilla latte. Once we got back home we watched a few episodes of Kids Incorporated from the first season. That show is so cheesy, but it's great. Then we all decided to do each other's hair/makeup, and take crazy pictures. Next we put on Hangin Tough Live (NKOTB, in case y'all didn't know) and did some awesome dancing/singing. It was my turn to pick the entertainment after this, so I put in Stay Tuned starring John Ritter and Pam Dawber, that movie where they get sucked into that satellite dish that evil Jeffrey Jones (the Dad from Beetlejuice) sold them. Yeah it was corny but as a child I loved that movie. By this point it was after midnight and I was bushed. Kimmie and Joyce were still wide awake, and put on a Peter Cetera CD. I promptly fell asleep in the middle of "Glory Of Love". Oh well, I was pooped.
Sunday morning I actually got to sleep in for 9 hours, and it felt great. After doing some straightening and taking a shower, we had poptarts and coffee for breakfast. Not the most nutritional thing, but oh well. Kimmie and Joyce watched the New Kids' "Step By Step" video and I caught the tail end of it while chowing down. Next Kimmie put on three episodes of the Golden Girls, one of them guest starring Mario Lopez, who was also one of the dancers on Kids Inc (was well as Saved By The Bell, etc). Those old ladies are always funny no matter what. Maybe I'm just too young but I don't know why they got so hot over mediocre looking old dudes. When I'm 60 am I going to be turned on by old geezers? Gross. So after a while we grew tired of the old gals and I threw on Ping! starring Judge Reinhold, Clint Howard and Shirley Jones. It was fairly predictable and more of a family/kid film, but it was cute. Also, Judge played a really dumb robber, so it worked well. Next Kimmie put on the original Freaky Friday starring Jodie Foster, John Astin and the guy who played Jimmy Olsen in the Superman movies. He was the guy Boris who lived across the street. I've loved the film since I was a kid and I still enjoy it. Kimmie bought it for me last year for Christmas, she has great taste. After this movie was over, Joyce put on Harry And The Hendersons. John Lithgow frightens me for some reason. Maybe because he was such a jerk in Footloose, I don't know; maybe his constant luring for Jane Curtin in 3rd Rock From The Sun. Anyway, the movie is cute but he's frightening. Last movie for the evening was Zeus and Roxanne starring Steve Guttenberg and Miko Hughes. Shirtless Mahoney. You can't go wrong. Oh yeah, we still had time to kill so Kimmie threw on a few more episodes of Kids Inc, including one guest starring The Hoff. ROTF.
Oh no Kimmie I am not forgetting all the food we made, and the preparation for it all. See since this was my November visit, Kimmie turned into an early Thanksgiving feast. She started cooking a little before noon, and we didn't eat until a little after 5pm. See when you have cerebral palsy and enjoy cooking/baking from scratch, things take A LOT longer. I helped out as much as I could by preparing the green beans (well snapping the ends off), putting in/taking out various things in the oven, and fetching ingredients from various random places in the kitchen. Things got a little intense as we got closer to eating time, but I think Kimmie was a bit stressed out. I hope I helped enough, Kim. I usually cook meals that take 10 minutes or less to prepare, so sorry for my ignorance on serving utensils. :-( I also put all the food away and loaded the dishwasher, do I get brownie points? I still feel like an idiot for not helping more than I did. Oh well.
Anyway I did have a great weekend and I'll have more pictures up sometime this evening, I'm hoping. I'm tired, may be time for a power snooze. *yawn*
What's up homie Gs? Things are a lot better today compared to my last blog. My foot doesn't hurt nearly as much and it's starting to heal. It's only painful to stand on it for longer than 5 minutes. Also, I did end up getting a new phone. It's the techy geek in me, I can't help it. Had to get the G1 from T-Mobile. It's got similar features to the iPhone but with the Qwerty keyboard similar to a Sidekick. I love the darn thing. It's so much fun.
No other important events happened in LisaLand lately. Wednesday morning I got out of work early and did the shopping run with Michelle, then went to T-mobile and signed my life away again. Eventually I went to bed, but I kept waking up to play with my phone. Haha.
Thursday I didn't do much at all, that's a good thing. I was contemplating going to the gym but I didn't think it was a good idea since my foot was still on the mend. I did sleep almost 9 hours, and that was awesome. Then I ate tacos for dinner (homemade, not Taco Bell), watched a lot of TV, napped, then came here. I needed at least a day with no productivity.
Of course this weekend should be rad. Tonight I'm going to a "Nerd Party" with Sandi in Stockton. I told I don't need to dress up I'm already a dork. I'll probably just grease up my hair, find a dorky shirt and hike up my pants. It'll make my butt look huge but who cares? Saturday I work in the morning, then I'm going to Lodi for the weekend. Kimmie's planning our Thanksgiving feast for Sunday afternoon. That girl goes all out, she's crazy. But you gotta love her. Okay toodles!
I am tired, and I've been so unlucky the past few days. I'm very sleep deprived as I write this so forgive the weird sentence structures and such. Monday morning I took Dad to fill out some forms to get a dumpster for the front yard. He's having both yards cleared later this week by a friend of Michelle's boyfriend. This lady behind the desk at the garbage place recognized Dad, he had helped with her dogs years ago when he was doing animal control. She thanked him for it, and I think that made his day, to know that he makes a difference in the lives of people. When I got home later that morning, I was walking through the hallway barefoot and stabbed myself in the left foot with a metal screw that was sticking out of part of a cat tree in the hallway. It hurt a lot, so I poured peroxide on it, slapped on a Garfield band-aid and went to sleep. I worked at Traffic that afternoon. Later on in the evening while at home and wearing flip-flops I stabbed myself in the same place in my foot AGAIN. This time on the corner of a random box that was sitting in our kitchen. (Note: TJ's sister is in the process of moving in so there's random crap everywhere) Oh man that HURT. It made a hole maybe half an inch deep in my foot and there was a lot of blood. TJ did some minor surgery (basically cleaned and bandaged it), and I went to work. I've been changing the bandages about 3 times a day, using peroxide/polysporin, and there is no sign of infection. It hurts when I walk on it, but that's expected. So yeah, that's been fun. I'll try to maybe stop by urgent care later today or tomorrow and get it looked at, just in case.
Tuesday morning Dad went back to the doctor. Turns out he has some kind of fungal infection in his lungs on top of whatever else. Tests are still being run. Dad's finishing the antibiotics and getting breathing treatments. He has to go have his stomach tube replaced next week, luckily it's an in-office procedure.
Oh yes also, my phone decided to stop working on Tuesday. It had died the night before and I put it on my charger while I was asleep. When I woke up I noticed it had the little hourglass symbol which meant it was still loading. I tried taking out the battery, waiting forever, putting it back in. Also tried alt-caps-delete. It reset the phone, but then it went to the loading screen again. I talked to T-mobile and I have to redownload software and reinstall everything on my phone. Problem is I have no clue where the sync cable is. Looked in my Blackberry box where the instructions still are, looked all over my extensive collection of random electronic accessories. No luck. See, it's not wise for me to live without a cell phone. I don't have a land line, and my roommates are at work during the day so I can't use their phones. I have 3 jobs and a seriously ill parent. My part time jobs occasionally email me during the day and I answer them via the Blackberry. So yeah, I really need a solution for this. I'm afraid I'll have to dip into "Taking Victoria To BART for 4 Years Refund" from work and get a new phone. BOOO. Oh yeah I found my old Sidekick 3 and tried to use it, but it froze 2 min after I put in the SIM card and booted it. Now I remember why I got the Blackberry when I did. *sigh*
Other than all those woes, life's okay. Brad's coming to work a little early so I can get a head start on grocery shopping. Then I guess I'll swing by T-mobile and see what needs to be done. Maybe they have an extra 8700G sync cable. If not I'm kinda screwed. Oh fun.
Heidi ho folks, I am back. I had a fairly decent weekend. Kinda busy but what else is new? Thursday morning Dad had a doctor appointment and it was confirmed that he has pneumonia. He's still on some hardcore antibiotics and staying at home, and has yet another follow up on Tuesday morning. He seems to be okay except for the hacking up of giant phlegm balls.
Friday morning I took Michelle to the lab to drop off Dad's phlegm sample, and it took a freaking hour. She had to sign in and wait that long to drop off a cup of yellow mucus. It cut in on my sleepytime so I was kinda mad. Then later on in the afternoon I worked at Traffic, and it was pretty fun. That evening Davina and I went to dinner at Mimi's Cafe then went to see Role Models in Dublin. The movie was pretty darn funny. Good job, David Wain. It wasn't one of those "OMG I gotta get this on DVD" kinda movies but it was very entertaining.
Saturday I did my part-time job as usual. Spent most of my time actually working, which was a good thing. When I got back home Cathy wanted to get out of the house so we went to Stoneridge Mall. We perused the clearance section at Hot Topic and got sweet deals. I got a new pair of shoes for $11 and a new backpack for $5. Score! Later on in the evening I went to dinner with Davina and Lorie at The Elephant Bar. I saw one of my former Burger King coworkers Pedro there, he's really nice. Then we did karaoke for 3 hours in Hayward, and had a blast. I love belting my heart out. I think Davina blows everyone out of the water with her style and pizazz. Kinda hard to beat that bravado. Although I'm more on key. Haha. Lorie does well with R&B and rap songs for some reason.
Sunday morning I slept in late, and it felt awesome. I hadn't gone to bed until 4am since I got in late from my night out and watched a movie there in my room. I eventually got out of bed a little after noon. I decided to be healthy and go to the gym with Cathy. I haven't gone in well over a week due to so much crap going on lately. When I got home I completely got my new room organized. I made 3 boxes of stuff for GoodWill and got everything else crammed in my closet. Later on in the evening I went to Chili's with Michelle, then we came back to my place to watch TV and chill. And now I'm here. How thrilling.
I have a feeling I won't be getting much sleep this week either, least in the next few days. I wish Michelle would stop scheduling errands on days when I'm working my afternoon job. I need my rest, dude. The doctor thing I understand about. We're keeping a close eye on Dad's health since he had pneumonia a few years ago and spent 3 months in the hospital. I'm tired of ailing parents around the holidays. Hopefully the antibiotics are kicking this thing's ass. So if any of you guys wanna keep my Dad in your prayers, go ahead and do that.
And.. I'm back. I normally blog on Tuesday nights but last night I was nauseated/exhausted and spent a good deal of my shift with my feet up trying to doze off. Here's how the last three days or so have been. Dad went to the doctor on Monday morning. He has the beginning stages of pneumonia (again), but we caught it in time. He's home on some hardcore antibiotics and feeling much better already. He has a follow-up appointment this morning but I'm going to be sleeping in the car, thank god. Monday afternoon I worked at Traffic, and it was the shift from hell. It was raining pretty badly, that meant flooding on freeways and spinouts everywhere. That and we were short a person, so there were two of us doing the job of three people. For every accident we would put in, ten more would pop up. Oh it was fun.
Tuesday nothing monumentally exciting happened. I worked at Traffic again but it wasn't so crazy. Oh yeah. I voted. And Obama won. Yes I voted for Obama, and although I'm not all gung-ho, I think he's better than McCain. Also, what's up with everyone speculating that he's the Anti-Christ, or he's a terrorist, blah blah? I swear everyone's got a conspiracy theory about everything. Let's give this guy a shot. Apparently the nation was stupid enough to give Bush eight years, give this guy at least four.
Okay I'm off my political soap box for now. That's about as much as I'm getting into. I hate discussing politics with friends since half of them agree with me, and the other half don't. I also shut my mouth about religion unless I'm with another Christian. Just nod and agree, since most folks who run off about politics/religion seem to be looking for an argument.
So early Wednesday morning I was working here and felt nauseated. This is a side effect of my hormones. I get all the lovely symptoms of being pregnant without the pleasure of having sex and really being knocked up. Haha. I puked a few times and spent the majority of my shift halfway dozing in my chair and trying not to think about food. Also I was kind of worried since at home Spencer had thrown up about five times. I figured it was because I had changed his/JD's wet food less than a week before and didn't do it gradually enough. His tummy didn't have time to adjust. When I got home in the morning he had barfed a few more times, but the last barf pile had a long string of yarn in it. I guess he had that stuck in his throat or something and was trying to dislodge it, and eventually did. The rest of the day he had a healthy appetite and was his active self, so I think he's fine now. Just in case for a day or so I'm going to give him baby food as a precaution, I don't know if his tummy is still upset. Then I'll switch him back to his original wet food. I spoil my cat, can you tell?
So yeah I haven't gotten much sleep over the last three days or so. Monday I got a total of about 3 hours. (not counting work dozing) Tuesday I got about 5 hours. Wednesday sucked, I got maybe 4-5 hours in two intervals. I left work early that morning and slept a few hours before grocery shopping, then I managed to finally get some sleep in the evening for like 3 hours before work. I tried so hard to sleep in the afternoon but my body would not let me. I think when you stay up for 24 hours or so it becomes rather difficult to send the message to your brain to shut off. Like an hour after I laid down TJ came home and was watching TV. The door to my room was off its hinges due to previous work being done in there, so it made it nearly impossible to fall asleep. I even tried listening to classical music on my Zune. Then TJ's friend came over to help replace the window in one of the other rooms, and God that was loud. TJ did apologize several times since he was under the impression that I would be working and not even be home. Also, he put the door back up in my room, but it didn't really muffle the hammering/drilling coming from the other side of the house. Luckily for me this renovation crap will most likely continue on weekends and I now have a door again so I should be able to sleep today. I hope. I think I need Nytol or something. Geez.
What's up, yo? I'm back from my weekend, as you can see. I had loads of fun. Friday didn't have that great of a start. I got off from work and went to my parents' house to drop off my car and borrow their van, since I was picking up Kimmie in Lodi later that day. Well first I had to gas it up, then it took FOREVER to get home since it was around 8am and I have to pass an elementary and a high school to get home. When I arrived, I realized I left my house key with the rest of my keys at my parents' house. So it took way too long to get back there, then I drove all the way back, and finally got in bed. I got about 5 hours of sleep, then headed on over to get Kimmie. Her sister Carol was there and helped me get her into the van using the lift. It was a piece of cake. After stops at Starbucks and Taco Bell, we were off to the Bay Area. We got back a little after 6pm, and I decided to show her my old house in Oakland, along with my elementary school and where I work. Only problem was driving down Fruitvale Avenue at 6:30pm on Halloween, it was crazy. Traffic sucked. Eventually we did get back to my house around 7pm. TJ and his friend Joe helped get Kimmie out of the van, up the 2 steps and into the house. My Halloween party itself was pretty fun. Our attendees were Amy, Alisha, Jeff, Joe, Davina, Kimmie, myself, Cathy, TJ, Michael Ray, another Cathy, Brad, Victoria, Grace and Fernando. Pretty good turn out. We watched The Worst Witch, the cheesetastic 80s movie with Mrs Garrett from The Facts Of Life and Tim Curry. It was awesome. We also watched the Amityville Horror remake, and then Beetlejuice. Fernando kept making drinks for himself and I, and we also did random dancing. I'm glad everyone had a good time.
Saturday I worked in "the city". I was a little late since I made myself confused looking for my backpack. See for some reason I knew it wasn't in the van, but I didn't think to look over by my desk, I convinced myself it was in my car parked in front of my parents' house. So I drove all the way to the other side of San Leandro, searched for like 10 minutes in both vehicles, then all the way back home to discover my backpack was there the whole time. Then I finally drove to Bayfair BART. This wasn't a great start to my day. I eventually made it to work, and stayed busy the whole time. I did the usual stuff, including extra tasks my boss assigned to me. I also caught a mistake someone made, had to call my boss and then his boss just to get permission to fix it. Don't you hate it when you see a problem, you know how to correct it but you have to go through a chain of command first? This is why I enjoy working by myself most of the time. So I got home in the early afternoon and helped get Kimmie ready to go home. TJ had to do some mechanical work on her wheelchair but eventually we got out the door a while later. After stops at OSH and Starbucks, we all drove out to Lodi. It was raining, but not too awful. Cathy decided to drive home, and I was tired anyway. The ride for her sucked because it started raining pretty darn hard and visibility sucked. Plus the windshield wipers on that van aren't that good anyway. Eventually we got back to the Bay Area. They stopped for Hawaiian food on the way, then I dropped them off at the house, and finally went to my parents' house and gave them back the van. Michelle wanted to go out to dinner so we ate at Marie Callender. I love their cornbread. Okay the next part of this is dealing with girly issues so boys stop reading here.. ** I had a feeling my period would be coming, so I was wearing a pad. Well um it started on the way to the restaurant so I changed my pad there. Apparently, the dam broke so to speak while we were eating, then I coughed and WHAMMO. Maybe guys have no idea what I mean but sometimes we just overflow. And I did, a lot. When we got up to leave I may have left a spot there in the booth, I'm pretty sure I did. Well soon as I got up I powerwalked all the way to the car and let Michelle pay. When I got home to change, it was bad. It was going down my legs into my socks, okay? The bathroom looked like a scene out of a bad 80s slasher film, I'm not joking. I got cleaned up and felt pretty woozy from the blood loss so Cathy was nice enough to drive Michelle home for me. Then I changed into my jammie pants and overflowed them 20 minutes later (while wearing 2 overnight pads). God I hate my period. I seem to be okay now, I just feel like I'm 500 lbs.* Later on when I was feeling better I watched Ping! in my room and fell asleep.
Sunday I finally caught up on sleep/rest. I woke up around 6:30am to upload pictures and eat breakfast, then went back to bed until 1pm. Michelle called and wanted me to take her and Dad to Newpark Mall so he could get a heads up on Xmas shopping. I was originally going to sleep all day but I obliged. So the mall wasn't too bad. I had some Subway for lunch (half a $5 chicken breast footlong with some strawberry yogurt), got a few things at Bath and Body Works and Hot Topic. Traffic on the way back was HORRIBLE. 880 North was jammed pretty bad, I ended up getting off the freeway in Union City and taking the streets back. Then of course they wanted Starbucks so we went through the drive-thru, then on home. After I dropped them off I got gas then sped back to my house so I could eat some dinner and chill out. I had the other half of my footlong and steamed asparagus. Yum.
I am not getting much sleep the next few days. Dad is coughing up green crap so we need to try and squeeze him into the doctor today. This sucks since I work at 3pm at my other job and would like my 6 hours of sleepytime. Depending on when his appointment is, it may get cut down to like 3 hours. Then Tuesday if it's raining (probably will) I have to drive Dad/Michelle to the polls to vote. I'll still get some sleep but it takes up too much time. I go to vote at like 7:15am when I get off work, I'm in and out in less than 10 minutes. Arrgh. Okay time for a power snooze. Later sk8ters.
What's up my homies? Today is HALLOWEEEEEEEEN!! Can you tell I'm hyper and barely sitting still writing this? That and I'm rockin out to America. "You can do magic, you can have anything that you desire.. magic.. and you know you're the one who can put out the fire.. " Okay I'm a dork, I admit it. Like that's a surprise, right? The last few days have been pretty okay. Wednesday morning I was pretty darn busy. Went to the gym, got my oil changed, did grocery shopping, I was awake about 24 hours straight. Have you ever had it where you stay awake so long that it's hard to fall asleep? I had issues sleeping that afternoon. Eventually I did though, but didn't sleep long enough.
Thursday I got more sleep, then took Michelle to dinner at Texas Roadhouse. I pigged out way too much, but oh well. Then Cathy was making cupcakes for my Halloween party and gave me a few of the "special" screwed up ones. I could only handle one since they're laced with enough sugar to put most people in a diabetic coma. So good though. Then I hung out with Leeanne at Dennys for a bit. We were bad and had fries/chicken/onion rings. I didn't eat many and saved most of it. So yeah diet-wise, I was a PIG. I brought a little leftover food with me but I'm going to eat my grapes, apple slices and yogurt first. I'll probably end up leaving it here in the fridge at work. The bad food I mean.
So yeah today is the party. I gotta go pick up my parents' van after work and gas it up, then home to sleep for like 6 hours, get up and get ready, then drive to Lodi to get Kimmie. I wasn't able to wrangle anyone to come with me and help but her sister Carol is going to assist with getting her in the van. By the time I get home TJ will be there along with several other dudes so exiting the van and going into my house probably won't be an issue. I'm hecka juiced though. I love dressing up, spending time with my friends and eating bad food. Like I really need it. Saturday I'm working in San Fran then taking Kimmie back to Lodi, and um Sunday I am sleeping in. Supposedly I'll begin moving into my new room this weekend, but lord only knows. Okay I'm going to go rock out to bad 80s soft rock. Toodles!
Oh my goodness I am all kinds of tired. I've been getting 5-6 hours of sleep the last few days and now it's catching up with me. Fortunately, the rest of the week should be bringing more rest. I hope. Nothing too thrilling going on, as you can imagine. Monday I slept, worked, took Michelle to Walmart, watched some TV, and worked some more. Tuesday I did more sleeping and working. Pretty mundane, I know.
Today I've got a bit more on my plate. After work I'm going to the gym (finally), I need to get my oil changed, then the weekly grocery run with Michelle/Dad (we need A LOT of stuff), help them put their stuff away then home to unpack my groceries. Then starting some laundry and finally getting in bed around 1pm. Whew.
I am a bit excited because of Halloween on Friday. Cathy's going to start decorating for the party tomorrow. Including myself at least 10 people are coming, with maybe 5-10 more that might drop by. Now if you are reading this going "I want to go, I didn't get invited.. " then just message me, text me, gimme a call.. whatever. The more the merrier, I say.
On a serious note one of my friends David is in need of prayer/thoughts. (Not Magical David that just got married, but Heart Transplant David.) See he got a heart transplant when he was 14 and his body is now rejecting the heart, so he's cooped up in the cardiac unit at Stanford, hoping he gets approved for another transplant. He may need a kidney transplant as well. Poor kid is only 22. I've only hung around him a few times but he's always been a really nice guy. He came to my bday party several months ago and we all had a great time. I'm praying for a miracle transplant or something, he already had a second shot at life, how bout a third, huh? If any of you can send a shout out to God, it's appreciated.
Well that's all for now. Hope I didn't bum everyone out with the last topic. Let's all think positive and be thankful for the lives we do have. Most of us are in good health, and have good friends/family around us who care. Don't take your life or anyone one else's for granted. You never know when your number is up so live every day like it's your last. Don't sweat the small stuff. That's enough cliches, I'll leave you guys alone. I'm gonna go take a power snooze. I need one. Toodles!!
Howdy doody. I'm back. Did you miss me? Maybe. Maybe not. It's okay either way. I had a pretty decent weekend. Friday we took Dad to the doctor, he had blood/urine tests done. The doctor ruled out any stroke or heart problems, but he really didn't pinpoint anything either. Oh well, he has an appointment in January, if he gets way out of hand before then we'll bring him in pronto. After that I spent Friday evening at home relaxing with Cathy/TJ, it was great.
Saturday I worked in SF. I actually stayed busy with work the whole time, it was weird. Not bad since I do get paid to work and not sit around on Myspace, but I'm just not used to it. Haha. After I got back to San Leandro I decided to spoil Cathy. First I took her to lunch at Mimi's, then inside Southland Mall since I had to get a birthday gift for my other sister, then I treated her to a pedicure, and I got one myself. Oh and I got my eyebrows done too. I really enjoyed my very first pedicure, although I admit it was odd sitting in a massage chair while some random Asian dude was massaging my calves. It was worth it, though. A few hours later I picked up Michelle and we got In-And-Out Burger for dinner (no salt on my cheeseburger, no salt on my fries), then came back to my place. We were going to go eat at a random restaurant but I was tired and everywhere seemed crowded. That was my Saturday in a nutshell.
Sunday morning I slept in late, made myself organic pancakes for breakfast (with sugarfree syrup), then Cathy and I headed on over to my parents' house to pick up Dad and Michelle to head to Sebastopol. Of course on the way up there was had to stop at Starbucks first. Told you my folks were addicted. Then we went to the cemetery and put flowers on everyone's grave. It was really nice. Afterward we had lunch at McDonalds. I told Michelle that I wanted a McNuggets Happy Meal with apple slices, and instead she got me a McNugget value meal with fries. I was kinda pissed since I had fries the day before and I've been watching my salt intake like a mad man. Oh well. I only ate half of my fries anyway. Damn addicting McFries. Then we headed back home. For dinner I had a chicken breast patty and peas. Wow I monitor my food a lot. Guess I feel like I need to. I try hard to eat healthy and exercise, and I often get disappointed with myself. Both my sisters tell me I'm doing fine, but I still worry way too much and put myself down constantly. I hate it when I do that.
Anyway, here I am at work as usual. This week is fairly normal. Working @ Traffic later today and on Tuesday, Wednesday is grocery day, Friday is my Halloween party. YAY!!! Okay I'm going to go do a Myspace survey and take a power snooze. Toodles!
Oh yeah, I made a short video of random clips from the last few weeks. Warning: Offensive Language. LOL
Howdy folks. Sleepy Lisa here again. Trying to stay conscious at work and eating grapes. As usual life isn't too thrilling. Let's see Wednesday morning I went grocery shopping with Michelle and Dad, that was fun. Note to self: Remember to pick out seedless grapes next week. Spitting out seeds is a major pain in the booty. Anyway yeah once I got home I put away the groceries, started some laundry, cleaned the litterbox, and eventually got in bed. Wednesday evening I watched some TV and actually relaxed for once.
Thursday morning Michelle and I went to the gym then stopped by Target. I got all the Garfield holiday specials on DVD for $5. What a deal. I can't wait to watch Garfield's Halloween Special next week. Yay! So eventually I got in bed, and did get some sleep. Probably not enough, but oh well. Then I watched The Benchwarmers with Cathy, well about half of it. She rented it on Netflix and that copy had issues. It kept repeating a scene of Nick Swardson running and screaming like a banshee back to his closet, and then froze on Jon Lovitz looking like his eyeballs were melted. I laughed so hard I was crying. LMAO. So after that I watched too many episodes of Scrubs, burned a CD for Michelle and went to work. Here I am.
This weekend should be fun and hopefully relaxing. Dad has a doctor appointment this afternoon so I want to go home and sleep before that. Lately he's been more confused and we want to see if we can get some medication to help him out. On Saturday I'm working in San Fran then I'm not sure what's going on after that. I may go get a pedicure with Cathy, we'll see. Sunday the family's going up to Sebastopol to visit Momma and put flowers on everyone's tombstone. Fun stuff I know. Okay toodles, I'm gonna go take a semi-snooze.
Hey there homie G's! Why the exclamation points, I don't know. Felt like being expressive. Not much going on at all. It's my midweek "nothing going on I work too much" blog. Let's see on Monday I worked at Traffic, took Michelle and Dad to Bakers Square, and worked here. Tuesday I worked at Traffic again, then came home and made dinner and watched TV. Then I kidnapped Spencer and brought him to work with me again. Oh yeah I guess I forgot to zip up his kitty carrier all the way and he got out while I was driving on the freeway. He was in the backseat with his paws on the window resembling Garfield, it was funny. The unfunny part was fighting with him for 5 minutes, getting him back in the carrier so I could take him inside. What a brat.
Nothing exciting happening today either. I'm gonna take the brat home, go to the gym, then do the grocery run as usual. My eyes are so droopy now I think I may power snooze soon. Fun. Oh and I'll take too many gratuitous pictures of Spencer while he's here. Haha.
What's up my homies? I'm back from a pretty cool weekend. Let's see what happened on Friday? Well I still felt like crap yet somewhat better, so I went with Davina that evening to see Vera Wilde at the Ashby Playhouse in Berkeley. She got free tickets, and it was interesting. Okay to be honest I found most of it boring, but I understood it. A good percentage of my friends have no interest in European politics of the late 19th- early 20th Century, nor would they be able to follow the confusing time line. Most of the audience were the intellectual types that would shell out $30 or more to watch people in tights discuss the Russian Revolution and the sexual preferences of Oscar Wilde. Myself and Davina (who spent most of the 2 hours nodding off), not so much. If you're into this type of thing or are an insomniac who wants to get a good snooze in public, then go for it.
Saturday morning I worked in San Francisco as usual, then off to Lodi to hang with Kimmie since it was her birthday weekend. As our usual weekends together go, we spent the majority of our time watching random movies and talking over them, eating crap we probably should not be eating, and staying up way too late. Oh and she opened her presents from me right off the bat. She received a "One Up!" t-shirt (Super Mario Bros reference), the Back To The Future Trilogy and 12:01 starring one of her favorite actresses Helen Slater. So the first movie she tortured me with was 12:01. Jonathan Silverman was cute, and this just seemed like a cheesy sci-fi version of Groundhog Day. Only no Bill Murray anywhere. Next movie was Hiding Out starring the ever so cute Jon Cryer and Keith Coogan. Not a very original plot, typical 80s average high school I so wish I attended. Did you know Cryer's mom actually played the part of his aunt? Cool. Now I have Pretty Poison's "Catch Me I'm Falling" in my head again. That's my jam. It was Kimmie's turn to pick a movie again, and I had the fortune of finally viewing The Shining. The only thing scary about this movie was Shelley Duvall's wardrobe. Wow. Jack Nicolson was frightening too, but when is he not scary in some way? Okay he was awesome as The Joker in the first Batman and that's one of my favorite flicks but come on now. It was already way late when I decided to throw on one more movie before going to bed, and our 80stastic weekends wouldn't be complete without at least one Judge Reinhold movie. It was time for Roadhouse 66. They had some pretty interesting sex scenes going on. Not like I'm a big perv or anything but that was like "WOW". Very graphic. William Defoe was kinda hot in that greaser kinda way. Is it me or does he resemble a mountain lion? It's those teeth, he has fangs, those giant incisors. I think he did the voice of Mufasa in The Lion King, maybe I'm mistaken. I have prominent incisors too, I hope most of you find I look like a friendly member of the feline family. Not like that has anything to do with William Defoe, I'm just throwing that out there. After this we finally went to bed, well I tried. It was around 5am.
I'm going to tell you right off the bat I did not get enough sleep on Sunday morning. It took a LONG TIME to fall asleep (probably too much caffeine/sugar in my system), and when I woke up Kimmie was on the phone. When I woke up hours later she was still on the phone. I'm not mad at her, her apartment is small so she can't help it. I was also PMSing something serious and still getting over the stupid cold I had. So I woke up VERY BITCHY. Poor Kimmie. Her sister (we call her Mulletene) and niece Joyce came over to wish her a happy birthday, then we got back to our movie viewing. We started watching The Sixth Sense and the pizza came, but we almost didn't get it. They told me over the phone that they take cash and checks, so I wrote a check out for the dude. Well I'm from "out of town" so they had to call the manager and approve it, and I had to show the driver like 3 forms of I.D. It was nuts. Anyway getting back to the movie, it was pretty good. I've seen it before, and Haley Joel Osment's performance was remarkable. Bruce Willis was kinda creepy but he kinda resembles my boss so there's a reason right there. Then Kimmie and I had a long drawn out discussion about Demi Moore's choice in men and why Aston Kutcher is so annoying. It was fun. After this I put in a lovely number called Hard Promises starring William Petersen (Grissom from CSI) and Sissy Spacek. Oh yeah, and Mare Winningham. Early 90s cheese. It was a cute story and a few of the characters reminded me of folks from my own life. Petersen seemed to show off his butt a little too much in those jeans, and I found that a little disturbing. Well back when he had a butt, I guess. You'd never know if you watched CSI. Oh wow now people think I'm totally after Grissom's ass. This is going nowhere. We watched one more movie, and it was Kimmie's turn. One of Sissy Spacek's better movies, Carrie. How can anyone say that movie is scary whatsoever? Okay so at the end William Katt (Greatest American Hero) gets hit over the head with the blood bucket and dies, then the rest die brutally in a fire.. then she goes home and her crazyass mom is stabbed with like 5 knives then the house catches on fire and falls on them both. I must mention John Travolta was hot, and I don't really get why PJ Soles had that red hat on the whole time, even at the salon. By this time it was 9pm, and I made Kimmie watch Easy Money with me. The show is pretty good. I started watching weeks ago since I'm a Judge Reinhold fan (although he was credited last week and I guess his scenes were cut) and although he has a small part I enjoy the storyline. Plus the guy that plays Morgan is very hot. By this time I was way late for work and left, promptly getting stuck in Tracy amidst a buttload of construction. Eventually I got to work, here I am.
This week is the same old routine, for the most part. Lots of work, sleep, etc. Oh and they are finally doing work on my new room. The old carpeting got ripped out and there's fresh paint on the walls. Very pretty aqua I picked out a loooooooooooong time ago. I should be in there within weeks. Yes!!
Hey everyone. I'm just warning you I'm under the influence of some cold meds so I'm either writing something prolific or not making much sense at all. Let's see, what's goin on? Not too much. Wednesday morning I hit the gym after work, went home and did housework, then went to the dentist. My dentist is very quick and efficient. I got in there at 9:30am and was out by 9:45, no joke. All I had was 2 teeth filled. As soon as I got in the chair she numbed me up, drilled, filled and I was outta there. I have to go back in January to get some crowns done, how thrilling. After that I went home and slept. Later on that evening I went with Michelle to TGI Friday, it was tasty.
Late on Wednesday night I knew I was coming down with something, but it didn't seem to hit me until Thursday morning. Blowing my nose constantly, sinus pressure, headache, and a fever. Oh and I felt like I had been hit by a truck. I still had to work and get the grocery shopping done that morning, so I did. I ended up getting about 9 hours of sleep on Thursday which is awesome, thanks to generic Nyquil. I woke up on Thursday evening still in that sickness fog, but I forced myself to take a shower and make myself dinner, then come to work. I would have loved having the day off but it's hard to get people to cover the overnight shift. So here I am still way out of it. I did take a Sudafed PE Severe Cold tablet a few hours ago. It just makes me feel even more odd. I'm glad it no longer contains psuedophredrine, which is basically speed. I'm trying to watch the blood pressure and that's a big no-no. Right now everything is pretty hazy and I fell asleep for 10 minutes on the toilet a while ago in the bathroom. Hahaha.
At this point I'm not sure what the weekend will hold. I'm sure I'll work part-time in San Fran on Saturday morning. I think I may skip any activities for today so I can get some rest. I like rest. My bed is my friend. The End.
What's up my homies? It's the middle of the week, yo. Not a whole lot going on. I'm still recovering from the New Kids last weekend, and I posted a few versions of our pic with them here on Myspace. I look like such a giant nerd. Other than drooling over pictures, life's been pretty routine. Monday I worked, came home and ate dinner/edited my video, then came to my other work. Tuesday I did pretty much the same thing.
Today I'm actually hitting the gym after work and later on I have a dentist appointment. I get to have a few cavities filled. I figure by that point I will have been up for 20 hours straight and too tired to get nervous. Just shoot me up with lidocaine and I'll take a snooze while you drill and fill my teeth for 45 minutes, if it takes that long. My dentist is fairly fast. The second I show up in the waiting room they open the door and drag me in. No time to sit around and get paranoid. Haha.
So that's about it. I did finish making my video, but Youtube said it was too long. I'll try posting it on Myspace or Google later tonight. Toodles!
Yo yo yo! I'm back! I had the best weekend ever! This post is going to be LONG, I'm just warning you. I have a lot to talk about. Let's start out with Wednesday, since the last time I posted was early that morning. I didn't get much sleep that day at all. Dad had an appointment at the DMV to renew his license. We didn't have to wait in line long since he was in a wheelchair, which was a plus. He got a temporary license that expires in December, and he has to come back and take his written test before then. He could have taken the test right there but he was unprepared and I was exhausted. Michelle is studying to get her driver's license so they're both going over the handbook together. Later that day I worked at Traffic, got a few hours of sleep and came here.
Thursday was pretty busy. I got off work a bit early (thanks Brad) and Cathy drove me to Millbrae to pick up the special van from Wheelchair Getaways. It was a bit confusing finding out where exactly the place was and we kinda got lost, but eventually we found it. On a side note Fernando texted me asking if we were in the Greenhouse parking lot around 7am since he saw a car just like Cathy's hauling ass into the McDonald's drive thru. His assumptions were right, we got breakfast before we hit the road. LMAO. If you guys know Cathy, you know she has a lead foot. Hence why a few weeks ago she spent her Saturday in traffic school. Okay anyway I got the van and began my 2 hour trek from Millbrae back across the bay and on to Lodi. The commute wasn't really that bad at all. I got to Kimmie's house around 10:30 am and she wasn't ready yet. In fact we didn't leave until about 2 hours later. I wasn't mad or anything. I'm sure most of you know my pal Kimmie has cerebral palsy and lives independently, and it takes her three times as long to do everyday things like getting dressed, packing for a trip, etc. Plus her mom was there and overpacked way too much stuff she didn't need. I know she meant well and this was Kimmie's first major trip away from home, first stay in a hotel, first major concert. So with Kimmie's sister Carol driving, we took off for Sonora to visit their Uncle Freddie and Aunt Norma. The drive there took a few hours, and it was fun. Kimmie had a very random CD with lots of cartoon songs and the theme from Greatest American Hero, among other things. Kimmie's aunt/uncle's house was really nice. They are really nice down-to-earth people with a great sense of humor. We spent our time there watching a cheesy Lifetime flick about the guy from JAG losing his memory in a car accident and eating sandwiches that Aunt Norma made us. Fun time for all. We left around 5pm and made the almost 3 hour journey to San Jose with a stop in Oakhurst for gas, a pee break and snacks. Eventually we got to the hotel and were going to settle in our room, but the bathroom was too small. I had asked for a double bed room since Kimmie really didn't want to share a bed, but it wasn't handicapped accessible. We ended up getting our accessible room and shared a king sized bed, and all was okay. Carol had her own room on the floor below us. She pretty much left us alone since we were driving her up the wall with excitement and she needed a hot bath. Bedtime came around and I figured out how to properly use a lift to get Kimmie from her chair into bed. It was a great learning experience.
So we got up around 9:30am on Friday, the day of the SHOW OF THE CENTURY. I got Kimmie out of bed, hit the shower and we began getting ready ASAP. We wanted to leave the hotel by 3pm at the latest to allow time for traffic, getting out of the van, etc. The meet and greet was scheduled at 4:30pm sharp. (I almost wrote SHART.. ROTF.) It took us a while to get ready since Kimmie was bathing, getting dressed, etc while I was helping her get cards/notes/gifts ready for the various New Kids and making signs to hold up during the show. We were also donating $100 to the Betty Wood Breast Cancer Foundation so we were organizing that as well. Danny Wood lost his mom to breast cancer 9 years ago and that money goes to the American Cancer Society, great cause. Anyway, we actually got on the road a little bit ahead of schedule, parked in our free spot, and found the line for the 5 Star All Access VIPs. I ran across the street to Guadalupe River Park to go pee briefly, then came back and waited for about an hour. Oh and I reunited with my friend Marianne, she and I worked at Longs together a few years ago, she works in the pharmacy. Unfortunately she had to wait in the back of the line. Haha. Poor woman. Since Kimmie was in a chair we were pulled out of line along with another girl with cerebral palsy and taken through the building and downstairs through the elevator. We then had first dibs at souvenirs. I got a program book which I paid too much for, oh well. Then we got to sit at our tables at the little VIP party and eat finger foods, have some drinks, etc. Oh and we got free gift bags as well. A fleece blanket, a mug, postcards, a photo album to put pictures in. Pretty sweet. So eventually came the time to go meet the boys. We were in group B, which was awesome. As we got in line to see them, Kimmie got a little emotional. Okay very emotional, with tears streaming down her cheeks. She had waited 22 years to see her boys, and there they were on the other side of the curtain. Robo, the New Kids' bodyguard since the Hangin Tough days, noticed her and came over to hold her hand and console her. He felt so bad that he let us go to the head of the line, because Kimmie was a special priority. So finally, it was our turn to meet the New Kids, the chance of a lifetime I will never forget. We went through the curtain and there they were, just standing there smiling. We rolled in (well Kimmie rolled, I walked and Carol pushed) with me holding Kimmie's hand. All of a sudden my nerves went away. I gave Donnie a hug first, since he was my favorite. He's a great hugger. He was like "Hey girl!" Next was Danny. We hugged and smiled at each other but that was about all our interaction. Next I hugged Joey, who had just let go of Kimmie. He's like "Hey girl, how you doin?" in his Boston accent. So cute. He also smells VERY nice. After I let go of him, I noticed Jon standing by himself so I'm like "Hi JON!" hella loud like the excited dork that I was. He gave me a really long hug and was like "How are you?" and I was like "I'm GREAT!" I'm such a nerd. Then I saw Jordan standing there so I'm like "Hi JORDAN!" and gave him a bigass hug, then told him about how we saw him perform in San Jose last year. He was like "Oh cool." The song Tonight was playing out in the main room and he randomly started singing to his older brother on the other side of me. "Jon Knight!!.. Jon Knight!!" and doing some random dance. I love Jordan but I think he has some serious A.D.D. That man needs Ritalin. Then I noticed that Jon was trying to talk to Kimmie but she was starting to cry again and Jon's like "Why you cryin?" and she's like "I'm nervous" then he said "Awww why you nervous? You don't need to be nervous. We don't bite." and we all laughed. He also bumped his knee on her chair when he was squatting down for the picture and Kimmie apologized. He's like "It's okay." So we got our pictures taken, and when we were leaving I gave Jordan another hug, and Jon another hug, then Jon said "Have fun tonight, girl" and patted me on the head. He's so cute and nice. I think Jon is my favorite New Kid now. He's so shy. So we went back to our table in shock, ate more refreshments, and eventually left to go pee and find our seats. Our seats were totally awesome, in the 6th row. At first security was being mean about Kimmie transferring out of her wheelchair into a regular seat since if there was an evacuation, she'd be at risk, etc. She told them flat out that she waited 22 years and didn't pay all that money to sit up in the nosebleeds. Carol and I managed to get her into a seat, and there she sat for about 4 hours. The concert was AWESOME. Lady GaGa came on first and luckily only performed for like 15 minutes. She was dressed like some space age hooker and most of her songs made no sense. Next act was Natasha Bedingfield, and she rocked. She can sing. At 9pm, the New Kids finally came out. Their show was the best concert I have ever attended. EVER. About 90% of their songs were not from the new album. They all still can dance their asses off and get the crowd going. I could tell they were having a lot of fun and loved performing. They even came out for two encores. Amazing. After the concert was over I went to find Sandi, who sat in sec 110 with her friend Shannon from work. Sandi is a physical therapy assistant and has plenty of training with transferring folks to and from wheelchairs. The one obstacle we had was getting back on the floor to help Kimmie. Security was a royal pain in the ass. I understand it's their job since they were dismantling the stage, removing chairs and such. Still sucked. So we got down there eventually, got Kimmie in her chair and were escorted by security back upstairs. I do have to say security at the HP Pavillion is well organized, they treat their job like it's the secret service. "10-4 we have a wheelchair and 3 attendants in elevator A.. " LOL. So I briefly chatted with Sandi, then we got the heck outta there and headed for Denny's for some real food. I had french toast, it was good. When we got back to the hotel we decided to toast with some champagne, but I couldn't figure out how to open the bottle. Carol wasn't answering her phone (found out later she was surfing the Tookie wave.. lmao), so I went downstairs to the front desk barefoot at 3am so the guy could open my bottle. Haha. We had a very eventful day that I will never forget and didn't go to bed until like 4:30am.
Saturday we got up around 10am, I showered and started packing while Kimmie was getting ready. We didn't end up checking out of the hotel room until 12:30, then we headed to Pleasanton since I wanted to show Kimmie what Stoneridge Mall was like. It's fairly upscale, and she doesn't see Abercrombie and Fitch around her neck of the woods so I thought she would enjoy the experience. We did shopping, got Starbucks, Subway for lunch and headed back to Lodi. I didn't stay long since I had to get the van back to Millbrae by 8pm. I helped unload the van and I was on my way. I arrived in Millbrae, gassed up the van, returned it, and Cathy picked my booty up. Boy did I have stories to tell, but Cathy tried to shut me up/drown me out with the Ghostbusters II soundtrack. She knows me well. After I got home I put my stuff down and picked up Michelle and Dad, then brought them over to my place to celebrate Dad's birthday. He was turning 69. Cathy made an awesome chocolate cake, the same kind she made for my birthday. I gave Dad an "Army Veteran" hat and a camouflage Beanie Baby. He loved his presents. That's one thing I love about my family and what both my parents taught me, to appreciate even the small things and not be greedy. Both my parents grew up fairly poor so they know what it's like to not have nice things. Okay I'm digressing again. So I dropped them off at home, loaded pics on Myspace, and went to bed.
Sunday I slept in until about 11, then ate leftover zucchini for breakfast. Then I did some housework I needed to catch up on, took a shower, edited about half my New Kids Trip video and relaxed for a bit. Later in the afternoon I went with Michelle to the gym, then took her and Dad to dinner at Applebees's in Alameda, followed by Borders since Dad needed new reading material. I finally dropped them off at home, then went back to my place and watched some TV before I went to work. The second episode of Easy Money came on the CW, but I was disappointed since my movie boyfriend Judge Reinhold wasn't in it. He was credited though, maybe his scenes got cut, his role is pretty minor. Oh well, I think I'll be leaving Kimmie's house late next week so I can watch it before I drive home. Haha.
What's up homie G's? My last blog entry before the big New Kids concert. Yay! I'm really excited, yet exhausted at the same time. I've been keeping myself busy with work and other responsibilities the last few days. I really need a nap. Monday I worked at Traffic, then went to Mimi's with Michelle for dinner. Then I went home, did housework, then came to work. Nothing too thrilling.
Tuesday I worked at Traffic again, then did the grocery shopping with Michelle. I was about 20 minutes late for work here since I had to put the groceries away at home first. Oh well. I wish I could have gone shopping at a different time but I'm way busy tomorrow and our NKOTB adventure begins on Thursday morning.
Today I have to take Dad to the DMV to renew his license or get an ID, whatever. Then I gotta work at Traffic in the afternoon again. (My boss asked me to come in this afternoon a LONG time before I scheduled Dad's appointment.. of course my sister didn't tell me about his renewal thing until the last minute so maybe I could've done it earlier, yadda yadda.. ) Then later on in the evening I have to do last minute housework and packing, and come to work again. Somewhere in there I'll squeeze in maybe 4-5 hours of sleep. Fortunately on Thursday Kimmie's sister Carol is doing most of the driving so I can sleep in the van. I know Thursday night there at the hotel I am gonna SLEEP!! That's for sure.
Okay well speaking of sleep I'm going to take a half-snooze here at work since I'm really pooped. I'll blog with all the juicy trip details in the wee hours of Monday morning, like I usually do. Later!!
