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you're gonna have to wait your turn

i had a cop tell me that yesterday. right before he wrote me up a dumb ticket. it was really lame and i deserved it, but at least it wasn't for speeding. i guess he decided he wanted to give me a life lesson in "waiting my turn." thanks. thanks alot. and he also tried to check to make sure if i was wearing my corrected lenses as stated on my driver's license. he tipped his sunglasses and checked my eyes.... buddy, if i wasn't wearing my contacts, you wouldn't be pulling me over for a minor traffic violation, you'd be pulling me out of my car that ran into a light post. lame.

anyway, thank god this has been a short week. i'm tired. i only have a few more minutes of work left and next week will be a short week, too since we will be leaving for vegas on friday. VEGAS, BABY. ooh, and i made my appointment for the spa at the luxor. did you know they do spa treatments 24 hours a day at the luxor? they're hard core, man. anyway, so i scheduled my appointment for the same time that everyone else is going to be at the pearl jam concert. at least i won't be walking around vegas by my lonesome and will be doing something that is great fun. well, it is time to leave work. i was gonna go straight to costco right after work so i could buy some stuff, but then i remembered that my puppy has probably been in the crate for a while and has a bladder ready to burst. that darn puppy... i love him, so i will probably go home even though i have stuff to do. amen for the weekend!

he has a name... and his name is FIDELIS

so, we ended up getting a puppy on monday after i had blogged that morning. it's a boy and he ROCKS. it took us a couple days to name him and we decided to name him Fidelis (as in SEMPER FIDELIS... which is the marine motto for "always faithful"). he seems to be responding well to the name. i've been really busy since we got him cause i spend most of my time following him and meya around. i forgot how hard it is to house-break a dog. and i've definitely forgotten what it's like to have a puppy around that chews on everything it sees. i just wait for him to pee and crap on our floor. but i'm hoping it won't take very long if he can start following what meya does. also, i have to watch the two dogs together cause they wrestle, and even though there aren't any signs that meya would hurt him, i still worry. she's super gentle with him and they are so cute together. but i think meya is waiting for the slumber party to end and is wondering why this dog won't go home. i'm gonna take him to the vet tomorrow to take advantage of the free vet check up that they gave us when we adopted him. we got him from Helen Woodward and a few of his brothers are still there. he was part of a "7 dwarves" litter. anyway, i don't really have a lot of time to blog... i gotta go back out to the living room and work on my GRE vocab. it is so freakin hot and that vocab is eating me alive!

btw, j, if you want to see and get to know a big dog while it is still a puppy, come and see ours! you'd like him alot i promise... and maybe we can banish that pesky phobia of yours!!!!

me and glenn used to date?

this has been a fun weekend. on friday night we went to go see "bruce almighty." i am definitely not the biggest jim carrey fan, but at least i pick the ones that i can sit through to watch at the movie theater. "the truman show" was pretty good and so was "bruce almighty." it was pretty funny. i don't know if i think the line and the insane amount of people that were there to watch it was worth that movie, but whatever. we did it and we came out like champs. on saturday, i woke up with an even better idea. i made me and the boys breakfast and suggested that be the day we go out looking for PUPPIES. i promised andy (a very fatal mistake) that we could get another dog when neneng and ronald moved out. he's been wanting another dog, but with the 4 people, dog and cat, it was just too much. but with us three here, and meya, and since kyle is pretty good about helping out with meya, it put me a little more at ease with getting another dog. (i really don't want another dog, though cause that means less spoiling for meya but SHHHHHHHHHH....) so we went to the shelter and the humane society, and then we went to helen woodward, which is a place in rancho santa fe that has animals, but they don't euthanize them. anyway, we found a couple guys we liked, so i think we're going to take meya up there this morning and test them out. that night we watched "italian job" cause they were having a sneak preview. damn, that movie was worth watching just to see mark wahlberg sleeveless and playing basketball TWICE. yummy. it was a good movie too. when that bad boy comes out, go watch it.

yesterday we took a trip to the LBC. actually, we went to go pick up andy's friend, dave, who lives in paramount, then we went to long beach to go see glenn and mike, and andy's friend, alex (and his kids) met us at glenn's. we all went to have lunch. i went to starbucks and added a los angeles starbucks mug to my collection, then we went to the korean freedom bell. i'd never heard of it, but supposedly it was in "usual suspects." we ran around and took pictures and let the kids play at the playground and watched glenn try to show me some yoga poses and decided it was time to do something else. we went to downtown disney and hung out there for a while. nobody bought anything, and everyone looked really sad to see that it wasn't very big when we got to the end of it. after that, alex left to take his kids home, glenn drove all of us back to his house so we could pick up dave's car, glenn stayed home and we picked up dave's sister (and our car) so we could go out to dinner. we went to the cheesecake factory in redondo beach. that is a nice cheesecake factory. it's right on the ocean and it's two stories. i had pad thai noodles (i think that is all i will ever order from that place cause it is DAMN good) we hung out, dave's sister stole a glass, and we all went our separate ways and the three of us came home. we were all so tired, but it was fun to hang out with friends that we don't get to see very often.

oh yeah, and andy told his friend, alex, that me and glenn dated for 3 years while i was in high school. and that glenn is around 40-years-old. and he never told him it wasn't true the whole time we were up there. so, word to the wise, don't believe anything that comes out of andy's mouth.

my cuticles need some attention

i've been pretty busy lately. and tired, too. busy and tired... it's like this vicious cycle. anyway, i just thought i'd stop by my beloved blogspot and say hola. i bought andy a new game a couple of weeks ago and he's been playing that on the computer so i haven't been online while i'm home cause he's usually playing. and work has been hectic so i haven't even been able to check my email while i'm here. but today it has finally calmed down. and i have actually had time to sit here and stare at my cuticles and notice how much i've been neglecting them. oooh, a manicure and a pedicure sound really nice right now. actually, since we're going to vegas in two weeks i'm gonna stop blogging and look on luxor's website so i can make an appointment for their spa. i told andy that's what i wanted for my bday since we're gonna be in vegas the week before my birthday and they are going to a concert while we are there and i'm gonna be doing nothing. yeah, gotta go... that's kinda more important.

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get this, so there were people there dressed like Neo and Trinity. are you kidding me?????

A LUNAR ECLIPSE

well, no shit. no wonder everything is so crazy insane. SO CRAZY INSANE. anyway, i keep trying to figure out whey everything has been so out of whack this week, and when i opened my internet, that's what i saw. the moon drives people to do crazy things, that's for sure.

anyway, we're gonna leave soon to go watch "the matrix." andy and kyle bought tickets earlier today and our movie isn't until 10:30pm, but we need to get in line.... i just hope there aren't any people there that are dressed up like the characters.... it will be lord of the rings all over again.

goodbye dawson's creek

i actually liked how it ended. not the jen dying part, but i like pacey and joey together. yeah, it would have been cute to see joey and dawson together, but like i told neneng, soul-mates doesn't necessarily mean you have to be together as a couple. being soul-mates goes beyond all that. at least that's what i think. and i'm not saying that the person you are with CAN'T be your soul-mate, but i'm saying one doesn't equate the other. that's all.

work has been so insane lately. i don't know what the deal is with that place. some weeks i just sit with my thumb up my ass staring at the dust landing on my desk, and then there are weeks like this one where i can barely sit down to breathe. there is something really crazy about this week actually. monday started out really hectic, then i witnessed an insane accident yesterday morning, and with what they're calling "the worst traffic jam in san diego history" this morning completely made my morning crazy. thank god tomorrow is thursday. a funny little thing that a friend of mine and i used to call "friday eve." lol... anyway, i think we are going to watch the matrix tomorrow night. i'm excited. i so love keanu and he kicks massive butt in that movie. well, the first one, at least. i'm gonna go lay down now. i've had a long day and i'm tired. tired, tired, tired.

M.I.A.

sorry i've been out of the loop lately. i've been painstakingly busy. i had friday off last week, so andy and i ran errands (i've picked out my ring!!!! woohoo, and let me tell ya... it is bling-blingin... maybe too bling-blingin that i can't even handle it) we went to the mall, had lunch, and i dropped him off at work. then i ran more errands by myself. and this weekend was more arranging of the house. it is pretty much done. andy still has a few more boxes that i want him to go through, but other than that, it's done. we also have an entertainment center that i was trying to give away, but the people that were supposed to take it bailed on me, so now i think andy will just have to drop it off at the goodwill. unless any of you out there want it. if you do, you have the pick up this bad boy tonight cause it's not chilling at our house any longer.

i don't really have anymore to talk about. i had to get up to take andy to school and now i have to get ready for a meeting at UCSD. i didn't sleep very well, i don't even know why. i gotta go... i've got a long day ahead of me.

i have caramel on my nose

"why," you ask, do i have caramel on my nose? you see, i am extremely unlucky when it comes to eating (and actually walking around without hitting a part of my body on something that will bruise me, but that's a different subject) because i get whatever it is all over the place. i've been known to get sour cream in my hair, crumbs in my pants, and little particles of whatever down my shirt. but today, i got a toffee almond bar from starbucks. i love those things, but they are definitely not something that someone who ISN'T trying to gain 50 pounds from a teeny-tiny 3x4 inch square bar should be eating. but i eat them anyway. and if you've ever had one of those little squares of satan, you know they have caramel in them that is gooey and wonderful... up until i get it on one of my hands, then, of course, touch my face. and you see, that's how i have caramel on my nose. but notice, i'm too lazy to get up and go to the bathroom to wipe it off.

chain letter emails are the devil

so i've checked my email a bunch of times today and all i've gotten is junk email. i hate that. i also hate forwarded emails. well, not really forwarded emails necessarily, but those emails at the end that tell you to make a wish and if you send it to however many people, this will happen to you, or if you don't send it, birds will shit on your car and so-forth. sometimes, if it's a pretty good email, but it says that stuff at the bottom, i'll take it off and forward it away. but yeah, those other ones, make me crazy. it's been a while since i've gotten a good legitimate email from someone just saying wassup. that's a little disappointing, but i guess everyone gets busy with their own lives and whatnot. i don't know why i'm bringing this up, i just am. i was gonna go to costco today after work, but i'm not in the mood at all. i think i will go tomorrow morning, but that means giving up the ability to sleep in. eh, oh well. we'll see what i'm motivated to do when i blow this popstand.

i have stuff to do at home and since i have nothing to do here at work (i'm completely bored outta my mind) all i keep thinking about is how i could be doing this or that at home and it's making me crazy. it's a bad feeling. that's another reason i don't want to go to costco after work. i didn't get home until 6:30pm last night cause i was running errands and at that point, i barely had enough time to do a few things and make dinner. so, i kinda just want to go straight home and see what i can get done. if i could just get a bunch of stuff done and clean my kitchen floor i would be the happiest pumpkin around. maybe we'll just order pizza for dinner. i was gonna make lasagna, but the thought of the effort that would have to go into that is not something i really feel like doing. maybe lasagna for dinner tomorrow night. well, i realize this is not the most exciting blog entry, but i'm completely bored so i can barely muster up more than this. damn, sucker, i still have 45 minutes until i can leave work. calgon, are you there? yes, i would like you to take me away.

where to start? what to do?

don't you hate when you have SO much stuff to do, you don't even know where to begin? well, our house is pretty livable at this point, but i know i need to organize and get shit straight. i also want the house to be at a point where things are settled where they're gonna stay so i can start cleaning. i want to clean our floors, our bathroom, and give meya a bath, but if shit is gonna get dirty all over again, i'm not doing all that crap twice. sorry you aren't getting any help over at your house, neng. the boys here are doing an alright job, but i can see what it's gonna be like living with the two boys. i was watching something on tv last night (i was actually doing stuff, but the tv was on) and as soon as the boys got home from work, they were searching for some sports thing on tv. great... sports 28 hours a day up in here. i don't want it. andy's actually not that bad, but from what i understand, that's pretty much what kyle watches. i'm sure nobody could be worse than ronald (if the lakers are playing, the man is watching), but i'll just have to get used to kyle's schedule. well, i got up this morning to go to UCSD, but i sat out in the metered parking lot waiting for a parking space for half an hour and decided it was crap, so i called them and said i was bouncin. i came home and did a little arranging in the kitchen (cleaned out our fridge cause we have stuff growing its own friends in there), and my plan was to do something else, but i couldn't figure out where to start. blogging was definitely not one of the options. but i went online to balance my checkbooks and that always leads to reading blogs and so i thought i'd type one out.

oh, crissy, you didn't tell me you talked about that suicide thing in your class. i wrote a paper on it in one of my social psych classes. it's a pretty crazy phenomenon, and my professor told me that i should write my master's thesis on it, but i think that would require me to go into social psych and that's not really my deal. okay, i gotta do something productive.

hang up your phone, and DRIVE

i've always wanted to get that bumper sticker and put it on my car cause i don't know how many moronic people i run into daily who are unable to multi-task and can't drive while they are on their cel-phones. if this is the case with you and you see you are pissing people off, and almost running over pedestrians... put the phone down already and do drive like a normal person. or maybe, you are a shitty driver anyway? hmm... i'm getting too philosphic about the whole thing. the only reason i've never gotten that bumper sticker is because i, of course, drive while i'm talking on my phone...not long, drawn-out conversations, but i have been known to do both at the same time. but anyway, the point of bringing this up is because when i was coming home from work (staples, actually, but that was after work) i was behind this jeep and we were in the fast lane. i noticed a po-po on motorcycle in the lane on the right and since it was pretty trafficky, nobody could really go faster than 70 so i just kept driving, minding my own business. as the cop is getting ready to pass the jeep, i guess the jeep decided he wanted to be in that lane and looked over his shoulder just in time to NOT hit the cop. i was laughing my ass off... and the best part was that the cop pulls up close to the guy's window and looks in like "hello?! you just almost ran me over, idiot." that made me laugh even harder... i was pointing and laughing at this point. the guy was on his cel-phone and when someone does something idiotic to me while they are on their phone and driving, i look at them so they know i'm aggravated (like they care, i'm sure), but it was even that much funnier cause the cop did it. it was classic.

sorry i've been lagging on my blogs lately. it's been so drop-dead, kick 'em in the crotch busy around these parts. i'm just trying to get in where i fit in. lol... andy's been saying that alot so i thought i would say it too. well, i have to get back to slaving over the house... i feel like cinderella. and andy and kyle are my wicked step-sisters.

hello internet. my dear, sweet friend

i'm at work today, and honestly, the only good thing about it is that at least we have the internet here. everything is unplugged and unworkable at our house... except for the radio. and that is only good as long as you are changing the stations, and not just different radio stations, they have to be different types of music or you are listening to the same songs every retarded hour. i painted ALL day yesterday. ronald and bobby's mom helped me and thank god they did or i don't know how i would have finished it. we had the radio on the entire time and i think i heard eminem and R kelly every 4 minutes it was making me lose my mind. anyway, i'm happy to report that the painting is all done and we have new carpet in the two rooms. now, we just have to move all the crap. i'm so tired it's not even cool. but i'm not sleepy tired (i am that, but that's not what i'm talking about), but my entire body just hurts. from helping neneng and ronald move their stuff on wednesday to yesterday having to bend and reach and all that poopy stuff just to paint. hopefully, by tonight me and andy will have most of the stuff we need in our room and we can get everything pretty settled by tomorrow night. at least the weekend is here and most of the hard stuff is out of the way. neneng and ronald are almost completely moved in with a few straggling things, but it shouldn't be too terrible. oh, i was gonna do something today. i should try to do it now.

before i go, when i got to work i found out one of the women i work with has CC. lol :) yeah, she's got contagious conjunctivitis (in lamens terms*... that's pink eye) and i just wanted to go "ummmm.... is it your goal to give it to the rest of us?" i've worked with someone before that has had pink eye and i wasn't too freaked out, but i don't know why i am this time. actually, i do know, but anyway.

one more thing before i go: "yeah, i think your fetus is fine. i think it is more damaging to your fetus that you're the father." awww. rough.

*edited to note: Merriam Webster called me up and let me know that i'm spelling "layman's" incorrectly. i wish he would just mind his own business and look at something else... haha.. just kidding. neneng called me up and told me that. if you don't want neneng to point out your spelling/grammatical errors, spell check, people, spell check.