I am a cold, wet, sponge...

ENYCE...not really, but close enough
I remember when I first saw that, I used to think it was pronounced eneece, ha ha ha...just goes to show how un-east coast I am, or just a dumbass, yeah yeah, shut up. Oh well. But here I am, my 3rd day in the east coast, and it's been okay. Honestly, I would rather be home right now, but I'm keepin my head up through all this cold weather and rain. The good thing about being out here for 2 weeks is that I can practically expense everything, meaning that all my food is taken care of for half a month practically. I haven't really been doing much except for being in my hotel room, talking on the phone, eating breafast downstairs, working out, and going to work. Pretty much the same routine for the past few days so far, and probably gonna stay that way. There's gonna be a Halloween party at that club/bar/restaurant Doc's downstairs. THis is the same place that had the amateur modeling contest the last time I was here. Maybe that'll be a fun. I brought my captain underpants costume, just in case it's a costume party. Look at me, always prepared.

I can't believe the firestorms goin on back home. I wish I I could send the rain out that way, and then maybe it could finally quench those darn things once and for all. They even moved the San Diego game to Arizona? Man, that's some serious ish. I swear, every time I'm out on some trip, something crazy happens, last time, the Blackout here, this time the Fires there...

I'm sad that I'm gonna miss several laker games while I'm gone. The Laker/Dallas opener tonight is on TNT, so maybe I'll get to see part of it when I come home from work? I'm crossing my fingers for that. It'll be a little taste of home while I'm a away.

It's funny how some people say words differently. I know I have my fair share of them, but I'm okay with that, I've walked a mile in the other man/woman's mocassins, so I get to point them out and poke fun, he he he. Roulette pronounced roulay, buffet pronounced, well...buff-ette, ha ha ha, so funny.

Well, that's all for now, no clear thoughts in the old noggin...

"Rain rain go away...NOW!"

I am a frizzle-frazzle of a brain...

here and there, and everywhere...
I originally had so much stuff to blog about since the last time I posted an entry, but I've been rather preoccupied with this and that. I hate when that happens. Those lost thoughts have gone to the magical land of Narnia and now they won't return...

Okay, here's the deal...
Just yesterday, I found out that I am going on a business trip to test out some stuff in New Jersey for a couple weeks. I was hoping that I'd get to leave late on Sunday because I was supposed to pick Cic up from the airport on her way back from the philippines. But I found out she's not coming back til Tuesday now, and I'll be gone Sunday, which totally bites. It kinda makes me a little sad that I'm not gonna get to see her before I leave. I was really looking forward to seeing her again, and now, I know it'll be at least a 3 week period that I'll get to see her again. I guess that's one of those things that happen when you get totally comfortable with someone and you spend so much time with them, you take it for granted...well not really for granted, but you just get used to that sort of thing and when it changes, it sucks. That's just one thing. The fact that this trip is kinda last minute emergency type, I have needed to do a bunch of things just to make sure I'll be alright for the trip. Cic had to borrow my big luggage thing for her trip cuz she didn't have one big enough(and she's only there for 8 days) and Chris borrowed the medium one when he went to Boston, so I had to make sure to get that to him. Laundry? Hella laundry to do before I go. Had to make sure my finances were okay for the trip, cuz we work on reimbursements...well that's for hotel and food and stuff, the flight is prearranged and already taken care of. But yeah, finances, gotta make sure I get enough clothes, had to send some stuff to Jersey, send my itinerary, okay it, verify it, just a whole bunch of stuff man....it's chaos in my head, I swear.

Here's things that I'm looking forward to:
Working with the New Jersey guys, they're cool
Food(I'll only be on Atkins 1 week over there)
Weather is getting cold, I can wear sweaters and stuff
Food
I might get a chance to visit some friends in Boston
Two words - Expense Report

Here's the stuff that sucks about this trip:
I'll be gone for 2 weeks
Don't get to see "her"
I'll be in NJ on halloween by myself(none of my friends will be around)
I'm on second shift the whole time(3PM-12AM...like Aileen)
Here's the doozy, I'll be working EVERY SINGLE DAY during those two weeks!!!!! I'm not kidding

...more thoughts to come...as soon as they're found...

"Work is work is work is work...everyone's gotta take their licks."

the closer the better
Another thing I hate about working far away from home...well far in the sense that it takes me 25 min to get to work and about 45 to get back home. Aside from the obvious, I can wake up later, no traffic, get home earlier stuff...it's lunch. The closest I ever lived to work was when Iwas living back at 991 San Remo and working at MSC...a total of about 2.1 miles. I could go home for lunch everday if I wanted to...and even better, I could go home and sleep...sheesh, those were the days. Now, if I'm tired, I have to sleep in my car...which wouldn't have been so bad today if it weren't so freakin hot. But I wouldn't move out to Torrance...it's Either LA or the OC for me...that's all...I had some time to kill at work...I'll be here for another 15-20 min or so. Maybe I'll put on game channel to watch the World Series game, yeah, that's what I'll do..,

I am a marshmallow at a bonfire...

blah-time
It's been one of those slow days again, when I'm just staring out the window, longing to be outside and playing in the nice warm sun...

I took a 45 minute nap during lunch and then grabbed some McD's. Half of the people from my dept are out and a few more will be leaving for another trip. I think I'm going back to the NJ office for a while too in a few weeks. Yay, that'll sure break the monotony. It's just cuz we're sitting around waiting for certain things we requested to get fixed a while back...I hate inconsistency, I really do.

And to top it all off, my mind is drawing blanks as to what I wanted to blog about...here are some smidgens of them though:

-the strikes suck, there is traffic on my way to work now, and I have to leave earlier
-the lines at Trader Joe's are a mile-long because of the strike
-MNF was pretty good last night.
-I'm excited about going to NJ

"Take a deep breath, and keep walking forward..."

I am a sweaty sock...

burn, baby burn...burn
Good lord it was hotter than a mutha today. I can't believe this heat wave...damn high pressure systems. And it lokos to heat up for tomorrow before it cools down again finally. Why can't we just have some rain already?!?!? Anyway, I guess the heat has some perks, if any...I had the opportunity to eat dinner w/ the bff(by the name of Janelle) and we got to sit outside after dinner and the weather was just beautiful. And mind you, it was totally dark, so it kinda reminded me of when I was in Spain and everyone would come out at like 10 or 11 and eat dinner and hang out and stuff, even families, cuz the weather was just perfect and well, that was just the culture over there. So it was really nice... We got to catch up on a lot of stuff and I think this is the most I've ever been in contact with her in the last 3 years...yay!

So here I am, after dinner, after a long day's work, in my hotter than hot room, watching my Smallville DVD and blogging. I have also organized my bills, paid some, others, not so much. I think this has been the most productive, non-productive day I've ever had.

I just hope it cools down sooner rather than later...

"Live...or die trying."

The sound of music...
Here is my disclaimer, I absolutely love music...anyway, Kimberly, my new neighbor at my cube-thing(hard to explain, it's not really a cubicle, I'd post a pic here, but I have yet to learn that...) is pretty quiet. She's really nice though, but what's cool is that she always plays music, so I might not need to get a radio/cd player for my desk afterall. But she absolutely loves Celine Dion(I should intro her to Jos) and she's been playing her CD ALL day!!! I'm so sick of "Because you loved me," and all of Celine's songs... AAAAARRRRGGGGHHHHHH!!!! And she left too, with her CD playing, and I don't know how to turn it off because it's on her navi-unit, one that I don't know how to use, so now I am tortured forever!!! Calgone, take me away!!!!!! Man oh man, if I ever see that woman(I'm talking about Celine here, maybe Kim too, he he he..j/k), I swear, I am going to strangle her!

I am a high bouncy ball thrown into a small empty room...

So I got a new phone...that Motorolla V60. I love flip phones, but I hate having to learn how to use a new phone. It's totally different from the last two phones that I had. Being that it's a different brand is probably the main reason, but the most tedious part is gonna be fixing the phone book, cuz when I switched the simcard into my new phone, it saved everything all weird...dangit, so I'm taking Jon's advice and I'm going through the entire owner's manual, so I can know my phone like the back of my hand...it's gonna take a while though...

steeeeeeeeeeeerrriiiike!!!
Dang, it's been about a week now since all these strikes have been going on, and of course I'm talking mainly about the Grocery Store and MTA strikes, but I guess I can include the Deputy one too, but that one was just the "blue flu" thing and seems to be waning already. Anyway, back to my point, this whole strike thing is starting to hurt a lot of people. And I'm not talking about myself, I don't really care that I have to go somewhere else like Trader Joe's or something to buy my groceries, it's not that much of a burden. But the less fortunate people, who get like foodstamps and stuff, I heard that they are having a hard time getting their groceries, and then the MTA strike is giving people a difficult time getting to work. Sucks how the higher-ups can't cut the blue collars a break, it's a sad world sometimes...

blind leading the blind
How's this for setting an example, Jose and I were on a test-drive and while on the freeway, I see a SUV bearing the Cingular Logo on it, obviously a company car. And the driver, what's he doing? He's on his phone of course, but NOT using his hands-free!!!!! It's like the chief executives at Philip Morris not wanting to smoke because they know of all the cancer-causing dangers smoking has... But that cingular guy, what an idiot...

"Laughter is the closest distance between two people."
-Victor Borge

I am a migrated bird...

movin on...up?
I spent all morning today moving all of my stuff from the temp desk to my official desk. I spent half the time actually cleaning the particular workstation because it was FILTHY, blech. And the thing I hated most was that some one put their grubby fingers on the anti-glare screen on my flatscreen LCD monitor, grrrrrr. It took forever to clean man. But I'm finally at my designated location. The information on my business card is finally true, after 3 months of being here full time, am I a lagger or what?

It never ceases to amaze me how multi-faceted people can be. I was talking to Linh during lunch today and he was reading a book, I asked him what book he was reading and it was a cognitive sciences book. He has a background in cognitive sciences, yet he is one of our design group engineers, so cool. Sometimes, it makes me want to go back to school and pursue a second degree in psychology, so I can be a school counselor or something, but only sometimes, he he he. But yeah, it's pretty cool.

Damn, it's another one of those days when I first had a ton of things to blog about, but now am drawing a complete blank...

"From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it."
-Groucho Marx

I am a new door...

Chuggin along
Atkins, day 15...I get to have fruit today! I'm not sure a bout peanuts and stuff yet, I'll have to ask the diet dictator, he he he. Woohoo! It's pretty cool to be able to add another option to my meal though, it becomes less and less selective with the passing of the days, which is pretty cool. It's worked though, and like Tommy said, he goes on it and cheats on the weekends, but like I repeatedly say, I'll probably do it half-time to get my sufficient doses of fruits and vegetables, and when I quit smoking(again) I'll be totally, well...more healthy than I've ever been. Ha, who would've ever thunk I'd be thinking so much about my health...go figure...

Hump day
Man, the middle if the week is usually not my favorite time. It's neither here nor there, neither the beginning nor the end. Arrrrrrrgh! It's so funny, beacuse to Chris it's already Wednesday, but to me, it's onlyWednesday...what a difference a few days off work can do for you...what a lucky duck. Oh well, at least I'm not really tired, although I was up til about 2. And I have Smallville to lookforward to today, woohoo!

dum dee dums
I forgot to mention this yesterday, I know it seems a little pansy-ish, but whatever. Anyway, I go to the bathroom quite a few times throughout the course of the workday, so I wash my hands every single time I'm finished, resulting in the continual drying of my hands. But yesterday, someone did the kindness of putting a bottle of lotion on the sink. "Cool!", I thought to myself, someone's looking out for the good of others. I thought maybe someone just left it in there by accident, but it's still there, so soft hands, here I come! ha ha ha, I know I know, pansy...shut up.

By the way, Big Shoutout goes to the idiot Chicago Fan that tried to catch the foul ball in last nights NLCS game...that was a huge turning point in the inning and the Cubbies lost, his picture is all over the paper and people were throwin all this stuff at him and he had to get escorted out of the park. Damn, the most hated person in all of Chicago...hoooweeee. Man, I sure would hate to be that guy.

Work has actually been a little busy today, so the day is goin by fast...shiyat, shouldn't have said that...I bet I just cursed myself.....ARGH!
"The most wasted of all days is one without laughter."
-E.E Cummings

I am the signs of progress...

Atkins Day 14(since I started over), and I've lost 6 pounds!!! Praise the Lord! Cic, my sis, and my cousin told me that I look like I've lost weight too, I guess Atkins really does work, pretty cool.

Conditioning
How many times does something have to happen to someone to make them react a certain way given the right conditions? To me, I think it's like the touching the hot tea kettle theory, you touch it once, and every time you touch it thereafter, you will be a lot more careful. So I guess it only has to happen once. It kinda sucks that that has to happen, that the one burn causes a reaction such that you are actually scared to do it again. Yeah, you're more cautious, but sometimes, there is a little too much caution. And it's totally natural and understandable...who wants to get burned more than once? It just sucks that it has to happen...that they have to go through those feelings...

I never knew the title, well kinda from the song, but never knew the artist that sings that one song, "Cut my life into pieces, this is my last resort, suffocation, no breathing, don't give a f*** if I cut my own breathing..." Anyway, I love that song, and cic told me yesterday that it was by Papa Roach, and I asked her, "Like cacaroach?" and she starts busting up...funny how you don't make certain connections sometimes and when you finally do make them, it's hilarious...it was so funny hearing her laugh so hard...I started laughing...thanks Paparoach...he he he.

Yesterday I had the mundays, today I have the toosdays, he he he...

"Darkness, is merely the absence of light..."

I am a 5'something slug...

I feel soooo sluggish today, and I don't exactly know why. It was pretty hard getting up this morning, but eventually, after I could not snooze any longer, I did. Even on the drive to work, I felt so sleepy and tired, that never happens. Not on the drive at least...I wonder what's going on...I really do think it has to do with food...cuz i just ate some of my snack bar thing, I haven't even eaten 3/4 of it yet and I am feeling a lot better. Maybe it's just hard to get into workmode on Monday's...I don' t know.

Anyway, 'twas a good weekend, did mostly nothing but relax. Took Chris to the airport on Sat Morning, watched the "Rundown," chilled, ate, watched, DVD's, helped Jos get the car serviced, went shopping in the OC, and went to Interfaith...very chill weekend, I thought. One of those, I didn't really do much great weekends. But here we are, Monday...the beginning of the vicious cycle once again....(sigh)

On the brighter side, I have definitely made some progress with this Atkins diet...my clothes are fitting a little looser and Cic and Jos even said they could notice....sweet! So come Halloween when I'm officially off of the diet, I think I'm gonna stay on it like half-time(I think I might have said this already...), just because it's kinda healthy, I eat way more veggies and stuff, hence balancing my cholesterol...

Appreciations
-wakeup calls
-random searches
-my think thin low carb diet bars
-when London sings the trick or treat song(if you haven't heard it, call my voicemail)
-chillin weekends

"Faith is not believing that a person can walk on the tightrope, faith is jumping on their back and going across it together"

I am an deep fried brain...

another long night
I am so freakin tired right now...I talked to Cicely til about 1 and then I tried to go to sleep, Well, I was exhausted cuz we played ball so long last night, so it wasn't as hard to sleep as usual. I was juuuuuuuust about to fall asleep when the freakin dog next door started barking(my window was open, because it can get hot in my room, but that freakin dog) like crazy, so I woke up...this was probably about 1:30-ish. So now I was awake...dangit. So I just read, and ended up reading for about 2 hours. I slept at 3:30...so by the time my alarm went off I had decided to sleep in a little and if I had to, go to work late. So I relished the "extra" sleep I might get, only I never got it. I received an unexpected phone call from Jos at 7:45 or something while she was on her way to the house to drop off London this morning telling me she thought there was something wrong with her car(Yeah, I'll tell you what's wrong w/ it, you never take care of it, that's what), asking if I could go check it out. So I was awake now and there was no turning back, dangit, I felt like Christmas was stolen from me.... So here I am at work, running on 4 hours of sleep... sooooooooooo tired. At least I'll be on a test drive for most of the day, so won't be tempted to fall asleep at my desk throughout the course of the day.

"The mind is deeper than the ocean"

I am three minutes before 4 o'clock sharp...

sigh of relief
I did it! I had 2(One which I've been working on for the last month and another which just came in at like 11) projects to finish today by 4 PM and I finished! With time to spare too! I totally thought that it was gonna take me forever to do that one they gave us this morning but it was actually a lot easier than I thought, especially since we know the system back and forth...if this was like 3 months ago and I still didn't know didly doo, I would be dead right now...it's kinda high stress around here lately...everything is in its final stages, so lots of people are high strung, I'm walkin on eggshells man.

On my mind...
I was attending a Life Group meeting for Mosaic(my friend Aaron's church) last night and while we were in discussion, someone said something that totally stuck out in my head. He was talking about people who are really deep down sincere Christians and those who were "cultural Christians." I think that was the first time in my life I had heard that word, but it got me thinking nonetheless...just about how many people out there follow their faith blindly simply because that is what they have been forced fed throughout most of their lives, it's a family thing, it's become just "something they do," or whatever. I'm not judging anyone on their personal relationships with God, I'm just wondering. But I guess I would like to know where people stand. Because to me, it seems like this isn't really that important of an issue to most people, it's even taboo, a lot of people skirt around the subject of faith and stuff related to it. But to me, it is probably one of the MOST important issues that we can have...because to me, God is responsible for every blessing that I have in my life, for all my happiness, even the tough times(there's a bigger picture that I can't see), because this is about eternal life and salvation of my soul. So I try to live a good life...and of course, I am no Saint, and I'm not perfect, I don't think anybody is...actually, I struggle pretty often, but I think I try hard to keep developing my relationship with God...Why? Because that is what I believe, because God is the foundation for everything I have, because I want to go to heaven...and because I have a million and a half questions to ask, and I hope I'll get to ask them... he he he.
...lots of blabber...don't mind me...

?
Anyway, here's something that people who like to analyze dreams might find interesting, I had yet another one of my absolutely bizarre dreams. This time, I was supposed to go deep sea diving, we were looking for something, there were a whole bunch of us, but the only person I could remember was Dais, one of my friends that was in Mech Eng back in school. Anyway, they needed me to go because they needed me to translate something in French. HELLO, I only speak a little, they could've picked someone much more fluent. Plus, I can't even DIVE!!! So they told me if I traded in my black jacket, I could get the O2 tanks and the wetsuit...but I'd have to make my own goggles. The O2 tanks were like twin tanks, silver with a whole bunch of nobs on them, and they attached to your head, like those beercan hat thingies...we never actually did the dive, I woke up before that happened, but all of this happened in the sporting goods section of some store...I was standing next to those circular clothes hangar things...

randoms
I was listeing to my Outkast CD today(cic gave it to me, THANKS mang!!!! I love it!) and it totally made me laugh. There's one song that has the words, "...roses smell like poo poo." It is freakin hilarious. But I just thought about it, I have a very difficult time hearing lyrics and almost always get them wrong, so it would be pretty sad if those weren't even the words...what if it was a serious song like "...roses smell like you...pooh..."? I'd sure feel dumb.

Appreciations
-The soft eggshell crate thingy underneath my sheets.
-panda express substituting veggies instead of rice or chow mein
-meeting deadlines on time
-thoughtful people

"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
-Oscar Wilde

I am a quarter-full tank...

barf
I went to the gym last night, and I think I overdid it a little. Well, I only worked out a little harder(weightwise) than usual, but when I got outside, I felt like I was about to throw up. I mean I ate before I went to the gym, but I didn't eat that much and I also waited at least 30 min before I actually started working out, but nonetheless, I almost yakked...it felt so weird. Like I said, I need that extra meal to sustain my energy levels...

little ones
I also went back to see Mike, Lan, and the baby last night. We didn't get to see her the night Mikaela(still don't remember how to spell it, this is gonna take a while) was born because she was in recovery and it was getting much too late and we could not stay cuz most of us had work in the morning. So I went again, to meet up with mom and jos and b and the other fam. I think little Mikaela got overwhelmed with the amount of people there because she was crying and when some people left she stopped. I even got to hold her...I forgot my camera so I didn't get to take a pic, but mike took one for me and I just told him to burn his pics onto CD when he gets them developed. But man, holding that baby is the craziest feeling. I never even held london right after she was born, I was too scared. I guess after taking care of London for 3 years or so and just gradual growing up, I wasn't so scared. She is so tiny(I mean she's pretty big, 7lbs 7 oz) but tiny relative to us...man, it's so crazy that we all start out that small...it was really an awesome feeling.

"The size of a man is measured by the size of the thing that makes him angry."

damn, I'm about to bust a nut man...

GP & Malone in LAKER uniforms baby!!!!!!!!!! Hell yeah!!!!!!!

BLAH people
Here are some types of people just are NOT(as you can see I just learned how to do that, he he he) cool in my book:

people who don't greet you back when you say hello
people who don't signal
people who don't give you the hand wave when you let them in your lane or turn or merge or whatever
people who are too serious about everything
hypocrites
selfish people
people who take out their anger on other people
people who lash out
people who are being selfish but make it seem like they're not
people who are closed or narrow minded

there's probably a lot more...but yeah, that's what I was thinking about right now...grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

I am a cold start...

First off...
Congratulations to MIKE and LEILANI!!!

Last night they welcomed Mikaela into the family and she is absolutely BEEEEAUTIFUL!!! 7 lbs 7 ounces and 19 1/2 inches...she is adorable. I am going again to see them today, cuz I only got to see the baby last night and not my cousin, she was still in recovery and it was getting really late...pictures to come!!!

Breakfast
I've once again realized the importance of having breakfast. Especially now that I'm on Atkins for a while, I need to be smarter and know that I need to eat this first and most important meal of the day. The body runs on fuel, put in by means of food consumption, and being on a diet decreases that fuel...and not eating breakfast does so even more. That's probably why I feel so lethargic and tired when I get up in the morning...I've been so used to eating a lot for lunch and dinner that my body is probably adjusting to the change to not eating so much...which I think means I need to eat breakfast so that I have more fuel to burn throughout the day. Cuz after I ate my atkins bar, I felt so much better... It'll probably be easier to eat something for breakfeast when I'm not full-time on atkins cuz my range of foods will expand, but for now, I'll have to make a mind to grab some eggs(or egg substitute if I've already had my 2 yolks a week) and spam or something on my way out in the mornings...

I'm determined to get into the gym today and work out...I have a few things errands to do, but I'm going...I wanna see how my workout energy is affected on this diet...

words of advice
Jon called me last night..

Jon - "I'm at Target right now, and I'm standing in front of a game cube, and before I did something stupid I thought I'd call for some advice."

me - "Buy it dude!"

Jon - "Damn, I knew I shouldn't have called you."

Chris told me he didn't get it yesterday but he most likely will today...he he he. Man, I'm such a bad influence. I shouldn't give people shopping advice, when I am probably one of the most impulsive shoppers out there...a retailer's wet dream. At least Jon had the mind to get a second opinion to back up his own...me, shoot, I'd just get it and then hear people say, "I can't believe you bought it." ...impulse... ha ha ha Speaking of shopping...I need to get myself some new snowboard equipment...and I need to do it soon, before prices shoot up on that stuff and because the holiday season is fast approaching and I don't wanna be buying myself stuff during that time because I need to get gifts for my friends and family...so hopefully by the end of this month I can get some new gear.

"The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next."
-Matthew Arnold

I am an eggbeater omelette...

double yawn
Man, I am ti-ired. I didn't even really do much this weekend, well, not as much if you compare it to my typical weekend, party here, party there, trip here, trip there. Friday, went to a show to see the Here and Now performance at SOKA University...man oh man, is that school beautiful. They have less than 500 students there and only offer liberal arts, and the campus looks like the freakin Bellagio! Crazy...but it was sure nice. After loungin around for a bit, we headed to Nara Nara, some spot down in the Spectrum, where it was hella loud, the food was hella expensive, and most appealing, you could smoke some hooka. Jon, got some and smoked it pretty much the whole time while we danced and tried to fill ourselves on diet coke and hummus(damn you atkins)...because the food was so expensive. Stayed there til about 12:30 or so and headed out to IHOP...then went home. Saturday, I went to carson w/ mom in the morning to run some errands up until about 1. Then I headed down to Irvine(again) to play some ball with the guys. After that I headed home where I then got ready for Kyle's Martini B-day party...that was pretty fun, I met some new people and ran into some REALLY old faces...small world. Then it was Priya's b-day after...didn't stay too long at that cuz we were all(Chris, Rob, Cic and me) gettin tired. Sunday, was spent relaxing pretty much, watched the morning football games, went shopping, dropped by the airport, and went back home...

I guess my weekend was more packed than I thought....hmmm, it didn't seem like it though. Lookin forward to this weekend though, nothing planned at all, and I think I'm just gonna sleep in and watch DVD's all weekend...maybe play a little ball here and there...but that's the plan.

"The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity."
-Harlan Ellison

Hey doofus...
Don't you hate when you don't plan on running late and what do you know...you run late? So I went to lunch today, and upon returning to my car, I couldn't find my keys...so I ran back to where I had been sitting and there was no sign of them anywhere. I never pulled them out of my pocket, but I checked whether or not I left them on the counter at Subway...no dice. I retraced my steps back to my car in the parking lot but I could not find them anywhere. At this point, I kinda started freakin out. But I get to my car and look inside to see if anything was taken and bam, there they are, sitting on the seat!!! So I had to call AAA for the second time this year(the battery on mom and pop's car died at the carwash before one of our vegas trips). I called work to let them know what was going on and everything was cool. I finally get back to the office 2 hrs and 15 minutes later than from when I had left....sheesh, I hate that.

Thoughtlings...
Heinz is coming out with low carb ketchup! HELL YEAH BABY!!! That's tight. Their target consumers are the Atkins and other such "revolutionary" dieters. Only one gram of carbohydrates per serving, how tight is that? So when I have ketchup, that'll be like 5 grams of carbs! TIIIIIIIIIGHT. They were reading my mind... speaking of low-carb foods...how do we really know that it only has like 1 gram of carb? Can't they just SAY that? Just like with the whole Dr Pepper thing, diet Dr. Pepper tastes just like regular Dr. Pepper and I don't remember who said it, but they said, "what if Diet Dr Pepper was really regular Dr Pepper?" Hmmmm, something to think about....,

I hate smear campaigns. Mud-slinging disgusts me. It is such a low-level type of campaigning it makes me sick. It just amazes me that people, instead of convincing the populous that they are the right candidate for the job and win them over, resort to defacing the character of their opponents. It turns instead into a pick me because that guy is worse than I am. We're not made to choose the best of the crop, we're forced to choose the least rotten...what is THAT all about? That's not politics, man...I don't even know what to call it.

I am the morning delivery, waiting at the door...waiting...

We need more power cap'n!!!
One of the things I hate about my house...all the water pressure is connected...from the bathroom from the outside hose to the sink in the kitchen. I was taking a shower this morning when pop decides to water the freakin lawn. And of course, the hose has the strongest pressure and I lose practically ALL mine. It literally felt like I was one of the littles standing underneath one of those faucets that you can kinda turn off but not all the way. I low pressure showers, I like higher pressure...shoot, if I had to choose between extremely high and low, I'd choose to be thrown to the wall by my shower water than have it trickle down on my head. I've been meaning to learn about the pressure system in the house and find out how I can set it up so that turning on one system doesn't draw too much pressure from the others, but I haven't really had that much tinme to invest. Maybe I'll take it up as a hobby...home improvement stuff. Yeah, I could learn from the guys here...3 of them are ALL working on their houses...well actually, 2, because the third is having people do it for him.

Look, but do not touch
Again, it's breakfast Friday and here are the items on the list which I could not have:
apples and caramel
strawberries and cream
bagels and cream cheese

But I did get to eat some brocolli, and carrots(I still won't try the celery). Mmmmmm, people must be SO jealous of me right now....(can you feel the sarcasm eminating through the text?)

"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."
Isaac Asimov

I am a tiger's stripes...

same 'ol same 'ol
Ever since I went on Atkins, went off, and went back on, I haven't really had the desire to diversify the already limited types of things I can eat. For example, dinner? Almost always some sort of meat(spam, chicken, or something) and an omelette. For lunch? Well, I've pretty much been going to McDonald's when I don't pack a lunch, and that's been like 4 times already...and I always get the same thing, grilled bacon ranch salad w/ ceasar dressing. I even eat at the same table whenever I go, I'm like a McD's regular, how sick is that? Well one time, I picked up a salad from Subway, and it was pretty good, it's just that there are too many people that go to the plaza where that subway is at, so I don't like to go cuz it wastes too much of my time. Anyway, so I've been eating pretty much the same thing everyday, even with the snack bars I have...same thing. But I wonder if I have the same thing simply because I'm too lazy to have anything else or if I just like it so much...as in the it ain't broke so don't fix it type thinking. I'm not really getting sick of any of these meals, just pointed out how regularly I have them. And knowing me, repetition is not such a bad thing...dude, I can have mom's beef sinigang for the rest of my life and I'd be satisfied. I guess my mind is just simple like that...simple mind = simple food = 'nuff said, ha ha ha.

When I think about all my friends around me, they are all going through so many different things, and it trips me out to see how each of them handles their own particular situations. Some needed to get away for a while, some need to be alone for a while, some trying to strengthen friendships, others, want to know what else the world has to offer. But what I admire about them is that they are not letting their unhappiness, or frustration, or any of that, get the best of them. They are all doing something about their situations, which makes me realize how strong people can be. Go Friends! You rock!!!

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
Frederick Douglass

I am a vhs tape rewound to the beginning...

Dilbert-ish
This is so hilarious...I was asking everyone what they wanted to be for Halloween and now my whole department is trying to figure out what we're gonna be...AS A GROUP, for the halloween costume contest...we are such nerds. We're gonna be a navigation unit...HA HA HA HA...with VP icons, maneuver windows, POI icons and everything! HA HA HA For like 15 minutes, we were getting so into it. And yeah, none of you guys are gonna think it's funny because as I've learned, occupational humor pretty much doesn't extend beyond the borders of one's own particular work invironment. But it was hella funny...

Car registration triples starting today...what a freakin rip off. I can't believe that...grrrrr man, grrrr.... I heard one guy saying on the radio that he has to pay almost $600 to register his car...where is this money supposed to go to anyway? Into the rich mans' pockets...that's where.
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Funny how sometimes you can be so happy about things and then be hit with certain realities about life that just makes your stomach cringe. It's like there's a certain force out there that is trying to prevent you from being completely happy...it really sucks. And I really do believe that there is an evil force out there that is maliciously trying to hurt us and keep us thinking that the world sucks and that there is no good out there. But there is good out there, we gotta roll w/ the punches. These are all just trials and tribulations, and we have to overcome them... "I can stamp you out you devil you!!!"

"The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist."