You can have anything you want, if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, if you hold that desire with singleness of purpose.

--Abraham Lincoln

I'm terrible when it comes to determination. I give up before the going gets anywhere near being remotely tough. I have a hard time accepting the fact that the first time I attempt something it's not going to be easy and I'm not going to do it perfectly. I used to be too concerned with what people thought about me looking like a fool when I was trying something they were already experts at. I was raised with the notion that when you do something, you do it perfectly. There is no trying, there's just doing. Regardless of how many times you may or may not have done whatever it may be. My father is a perfectionist. Which translated into his daughters being perfect. Not that I necessarily want to place all the blame on him. It's my fault for falling into that idea for so long, I'm a grown woman I should be able to make my own decisions.

I've always known that I lack discipline. Yet my own admission never bothered me. It still hasn't bothered me. What bothers me is that Andrew considers it my greatest flaw. It hits a lot harder when it comes from someone that looks at you the same way Andrew looks at me. I don't like it when someone else says I can't do something. It makes me want to prove them wrong. And I don't like it when Andrew thinks I have a flaw. Although I know it doesn't make him like me any less, it still bothers me. It's still something I should improve.

I'm not as hopeless as I think I am either. I have small examples of where I've proven some sort of dedication. I finish this summer class, which as easy as Spanish 101 is....no class is enjoyable when you work 40 hours a week and go to class for two hours 4 days of week after that. Added with homework and a bunch of the regular house work I've had to do. And, I've stuck around in this relationship for six years and it hasn't always been all roses and smiles. So that's some determination. So I have some somewhere, I just need to tap that source more often.

What's my test to prove this to me? Running. I've gone off again on again with running. It's like a lover I keep returning too. I know things are better with her in my life, but I always let the nonsense take precedence over her. Not this time. Nope, not this time. This time, running is going to be in my life for good. I'm going to make up with running....just like New Balance has been telling me. Why? It's not that I ever think I'll be great. Nor do I particularly care about being great, it's just a goal I've always had for myself. I want to run a marathon, I want to be in a triathlon. Plus, running's pretty cheap to get into. It's not like I need to buy a super awesome bike....sure I have to spend some dough on sneaks...but it's not ridiculous money. In addition to that, I know my body. I'm short, but I'm not gracile like other short girls. It's not that I'm short and large. I'm just of a stockier build. I don't think I was meant to sit around and be "cute." I was an active little kid. I liked getting dirty, I liked playing rough, I always played with the boys. So what's my goal....my goal is to reach the third week and that ninth run. I've read at Runner's World that the ninth run is the make or break point. I've given up at that point and before tha tpoint. But this time, I'm going to destroy that point. It'll be behind me as a milestone! I'm going to keep running, I'm going to finish my first marathon and when I make it to the finish line, Andrew will be there waiting for me...just so he can hear me say, "I told you so." Which I know he'll accept with big smiles.

I've been motivated all week. I've read articles, prepared motivation ideas in my head and I'll finalize them all on my day off tomorrow. The running starts next week. And I believe I'm going to start blogging about how I feel each day. Hopefully on the 6th of September, I'll be able to tell you that I feel great!

This is an advertisement I saw on a website for I'm assuming an online university. My whole thing is....why do they all look like priests...except for the HR officer...she's amazed at their priestliness too.

Of course I find them all ridiculously cute!

Today is my final in Spanish and I didn't study at all! I should've called out of work, I'm exhausted! EXHAUSTED. I'm taking off Friday though to spend the day with the boy and possibly get things done. (And by get things done I mean level up my Priest! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA) I'll probably renew my license too, since I have to do that before this month is up. If only because it'll make getting into bars and getting drinks difficult and certainly not because I use the damned thing. I also have to pick up my bridesmaid's dress and might look into getting a haircut. (Haircut not on Friday...maybe Saturday morning.) Somewhere in this grand scheme of things will be a trip to the bank and some other nonsense. Pretty much I'll try to get as much done as possible.

Friday is super mega holiday in Greece, third largest religious holiday post Easter and Christmas. It's the day we commemorate Panagia's ascent into heaven. I take off on Name Days apparently. (I took off on mine!) It's my sister's name day that day, as well as my cousins' and my grandfather's. The later two will get a phone call, but I'll visit my sister and bring her goodies on her γιορτή.

I have no idea what this weekend has in store for me. I had a ton of fun this past weekend hanging out with Holly, who I see more frequently than I have when she was an undergrad. Then again Baltimore is only two hours away. Perhaps when this whole wedding stuff is over, I'll convince the boy that we need to make a ride down that way.

This week I have to plan out my working out regiment. I think to motivate myself I might get one of those boards teachers used to use and put stickers for every day I work out successfully. I should reward myself too, how I'm not quite sure yet. Back to the salt mines.

I busted my ass today at work. Not literally my ass, but shin got that glory. I work at an office that has a large window in front so we can "interact" with students without having them come directly into our office. When the door is locked in the afternoons, rather than using my key to open the door, I always hop the counter. Simply because I can, and I'm lazy. (Although that takes more effort than simply putting the key in the door.) Some days I hit my shin, other days, I clear it just fine. Today was neither of those days. Today, I bashed my shin directly into the edge of the counter, cutting myself and getting the largest bruise. It hurt so much, I had to limp to my desk, lock up slowly and limp to the bathroom before making my escape to Andrew's car and heading off to Spanish Class. It hurt all the way towards class and even walking to the Student Center post class. Let's hope it doesn't hurt tomorrow.

Speaking of Spanish class, I rocked my oral final. 14.25/15. Not to shabby, considering I really only memorized the oral part today! Huzzah. Came home right well into the Giants Pre-Game against the Detroit Loins. They're not doin' too hot and I must admit, this is the most boring game I've ever watched. Almost as boring as Romania v France....ok, maybe not as much!

Came home made Vodka Sauce...from semi scratch (I used canned tomato sauce) and it's DELICIOUS. I love it when I make something not normal and it comes out great. Ate, took a photo of my food and attempt to document my almost broken tibia (exaggerate much), photoshopped a photo of my food. Wrote a blog, bout to post it, going to clean up the mess I leave when I cook and come home. Eventually all of this will be followed by a shower and an attempt to pick out something almost human to go to work in tomorrow.

Here's my delicious cavatelli and vodka sauce!


(It's off to a third of the photo because Katie says that looks "artistic." I'll take her word for it...I guess. )

This weekend, my plans are few and far in between. Meeting up with Lesia to discuss things tomorrow night, probably going to come back here and attempt studying for my actual final. Then I'll probably hang out with Holly while she comes to visit us. Ruthy and I should think of what we want to do with her.

My Final Exam

This is what I have to memorize for my exam. I think I have almost all of it. In red are the parts I don't remember. I wrote it with the help of my partner and under the supervision of my professor...who corrected my grammar. Which wasn't much, I'm impressed. I actually like Spanish and would like to keep learning more. But I've never really met a language I didn't like...

A: ¿Por que inventó el cierre?

B: Inventé el cierre porque no me gusto los botones. El cierre es más fácil y rápido.

A: ¿Cuanto tiempo le tomó inventar el cierre?

B: Me tomó cerca de veinte años para inventarlo. Fue muy difícil trabajar y necesité un trabajo muy detallado cometí muchas errores y muchas fallas.

A: ¿Para que utilizaste por primera vez los cierres?

B: La primera vez, lo utilizaron en las bolasas de correo.

A: ¿Ganaste mucho dinero por inventar los cierres?

B: No, solo un poco. En ese tiempo el cierre no era popular. Pero cuando los jeans hicieron populares, el cierre fue muy popular. Sin embargo, yo vendí la patente tres años antes.

A: ¿Estudiaste ciencias?

B: Si, estudié muchas ciencias. Física, química, biología, geología, ingeniera. También estudié matemáticas. El cierre es muy complicado y es necessario saber muchas ciencas.

A: ¿Donde estuvieron viviendo cuando inventó el cierre?

B: Yo viví en el sótano de mi mama en Chicago.

None of this is based on factual information, so if you're reading this and going, none of this is about the guy who invented the zipper...don't leave me a glaring comment about my stupidity. I just had to make up things I could remember. Although it is true, the first zippers (which looked nothing like a zipper) were used on mailbags. And the guy didn't make much money, he actually died before the word zipper was ever coined!

Sleepy sleepy Tuesday and Monday. I don't know how I make it through the week. Class is coming to a close, I need to review what's been going on in my life. I sort of got somethings accomplished today. Blah blah blah. Ha ha ha so much for writing!

A picture is worth 1000 words...a captioned picture....1008.

That's how I felt this morning...I still feel the same way.

If Monday were a person, I'd stab him in the face. Which would quickly be followed by a high five from the mischievous Friday and his crew of Weekend Miscreant Fun Lovers!

Τι σου 'κανα και πίνεις

This has to be one of the best songs of all time. So you can watch both versions and read the lyrics :)


Τι σου 'κανα και πίνεις
Τι σου 'κανα και πίνεις, τσιγάρο στο τσιγάρο
κι είν' τα πικρά σου μάτια στο πάτωμα καρφιά

Πες μου για δε μ' αφήνεις με δυο φιλιά να πάρω
απ' τα θολά σου μάτια τη μαύρη συννεφιά
Πες μου για δε μ' αφήνεις με δυο φιλιά να πάρω
απ' τα θολά σου μάτια τη μαύρη συννεφιά

Οι πόνοι που σε σφάζουν, πόνοι διπλοί για μένα
σταλάζουν στην καρδιά μου τα δάκρυα που κλαις

Να 'ξερες πως σπαράζουν τα μέσα μου για σένα
που στέκεσαι μακρυά μου και λόγο δε μου λες
Να 'ξερες πως σπαράζουν τα μέσα μου για σένα
που στέκεσαι μακρυά μου και λόγο δε μου λες

Αμίλητό μου στόμα, φεγγάρι μου σβησμένο
ανάθεμα την ώρα και τη βαριά στιγμή
Όλα για σε τα δίνω, τα δίνω και πεθαίνω
για να μη σε αγγίξουν ξανά οι στεναγμοί


Στίχοι: Λευτέρης Παπαδόπουλος
Μουσική: Μίμης Πλέσσας


You can just feel the pain and heartache in both the lyrics and I think the music does such a good job of making that feeling even stronger.

50Cent is hilarious:

"Hell, no! Are you kidding me? That's like Amsterdam. Amsterdam is fun for some people, but I don't want no [bleep] that costs $50. There's too many people that got $50!"

Either my doctor is incompetent or I'm dying. Ok, so maybe it's not that extreme. Maybe I'm just a lot sicker than we all thought and the first round of antibiotics didn't work. I feel miserable though. I just want to go home and lay in bed with a heating pad on my back and the covers pulled up to my face and my bebee next to me...cause cuddles are the best medicine!

anaranjado

It's the color of the Blogspot B, the color of the RSS feed icon, the color of the fox in firefox and was also the color of my old bedroom. I fell in love with bright orange years ago but the love soon died when it was the first color I saw everyday for the last 2 years. Being surrounded in a cocoon of orange makes never lets you relax. No wonder why it's the color for high alert! I always felt like I was on high alert. Now I'm surrounded in a room of antique white, a beige comforter and completely blank walls. While the emptiness is somewhat comforting, it can a little disheartening and empty. Now I find myself missing a bit of the stress from the orange...

That was so emo!


AHAHA HA HA HA HA HA HA.

I'm a silly goose!

Just a random thought on gay marriage. I believe in the secular country that we are supposed to be, this should have been an open shut case years ago. Marriage in this country is viewed as a legal contract and with being married individuals are granted particular rights and recognitions that non-married individuals are not able to enjoy. A personal religious belief stating that marriage is some holy sanctified union created by God and only between a man and a woman, should hold no bearing on the law of the land.

Today Just Gets Funnier

Who would have thought reading the weather channel would result in something funny? Normally I hate reading user comments but this...this was truly a gold mine:

Man-made global warming is a fabricated lie. The people who promote it are evil. Why don’t we imprison them?

Posted by Nancy in Austin | July 23, 2008

Really? Seriously? Honestly? I suppose they should get the death penalty too.

Does everything being bigger in Texas include the morons? Is their level of stupidity greater than that of say citizens in California or New Mexico? I'm starting to think Mexico just didn't want to fight for Texas for reasons that are becoming clearer and clearer as the days go by.

Oh and I think we'll go after the Global Warming people AFTER we get them Evolution promoting bastards!

Google Alerts.

This is funny to read:javascript:void(0)
Publish Post
http://www.mu44.com.cn/Neanderthals-VS-Homosapiens--3087-1-1

I have an alert on Google for neanderthals as well as various other things, and this is what came up today.

I don't know what's funnier, lines like this:

No. No war. We would have only relocated them for their own good to some unwanted, God-forsaken piece of land that no-one wants, anyhow.

this:

they probably made love not war, and thats why we're really
'homosapithals'

Another contender only for the fact that human evolution is referred to as a "fun underdog story"

Frankly, in a war like this, it seems most likely that the Neanderthals would win seeing as the are larger, more robust, have larger brains, and better technology. Yet somehow Homo sapiens won. A fun underdog story.

and finally:

Through whatever circumstances humans won out in this arrangement leaving Neanderthals and all the other various species in the genus homo (there were several) to gradually become extinct.

You know, because all the other homo species were contemporary to AMH as well!

I'm proud of myself, I made rice and beans and they came out half way decent. I'm so happy that my rice comes out delicious!! Laugh, but I think rice is difficult to make. I simply love cooking, had I realized my fascination in the culinary arts sooner, I might not have gone to a regular university and most certainly a culinary institute. (Although I wonder how I'd feel about cooking when it was my source of income. I'm sure mechanics don't really like their job, even thought hey may love cars.) Though I feel as if my cooking isn't as diversified as I'd like it to be. Nor am I anywhere near my mother's skill...but I'm sure if I cooked enough, I'd get there. And maybe I'd even be able to make more diversified foods, like mix in some of the things Ruthy's introduced me too, with some of my more traditional flavors.

My bebee loves me!

Αυτό το Σαββατοκύριακο ένιωσα κατι που πιθανώς δεν θέλω ποτέ να αισθανθώ. Ήταν κάτι που είναι πολύ κοινό για "ανάποδες" κοπέλες σαν εμένα...και ξέρω ό,τι εάν το ακολούθησα, θα ήταν καταστροφή. . . .Άλλα, και στην πραγματικότητα, νομίζω και ξέρω ό,τι την αναζήτηση ενός τέτοιου εφήμερου συναισθήματος είναι λίγο ανησυχητικό...

A Case of the Mondays

I do not feel like being at work at all today. I don't even feel like going to class. I don't even feel like eating the pathetic excuse of food I brought for lunch. But here I am at work, and I'll most likely go to class and I'll eat the food I brought, even though I don't want it. Maybe I'll be motivated within the next 20 minutes to get my lazy ass up to walk to the student center to get a salad from Gerlanda's. Or maybe not, but a nice big coffee will be very delicious and welcomed...or maybe some hot chocolate! YUM!

I took a test and now i know everything about me.

I took a test on facebook and now i totally know who I am....here are my so called strengths and weaknesses:
ENFP Strengths

● Good communication skills

● Very perceptive about people's thought and motives

● Motivational, inspirational; bring out the best in others

● Warmly affectionate and affirming

● Fun to be with - lively sense of humor, dramatic, energetic, optimistic

● Strive for "win-win" situations

● Driven to meet other's needs

● Usually loyal and dedicated

ENFP Weaknesses

● Tendency to be smothering

● Their enthusiasm may lead them to be unrealistic

● Uninterested in dealing with "mundane" matters such as cleaning, paying bills, etc.

● Hold onto bad relationships long after they've turned bad

● Extreme dislike of conflict

● Extreme dislike of criticism

● Don't pay attention to their own needs

● Constant quest for the perfect relationship may make them change relationships frequently

● May become bored easily

● Have difficulty scolding or punishing others

I feel like I mostly have the negative and none of the positive! Ha! Maybe I am hard on myself...or I think that all these tests are so generalized and full of bullshit that none of it is true! :)

Silly Hat

You ever have one of those moments where you realize you're never going to accomplish all the things you hoped you would and then you start flipping out because it seems like what you need to do is like climbing two Everests? That makes you get a knot in your chest and you feel like a complete and utter failure. Yeah, that's pretty much how I feel right now.

It's the Little Things

that just about make my day. This is one of those things.

[16:59] Ruthy: nope, no she's not
[16:59] Ruthy: fucking liar
[17:01] Ruthy: out
[17:01] Ruthy: ttyl

Ranting

I've been getting migraines for as long as I can remember. So much easier to deal with when I was a kid. Sure it was excruciating pain, but I wasn't at work! I'd be at home, wrapped in a blanket to keep the light out, my head soaked in some Greek cologne that my grandfather (and I'm sure all old men) wears, with either my mother, my grandmother or any other Greek woman who was present at my side...deflecting the evil eye. Now at 24, I'm at work wondering how I did not bring any of the three bottles of aspirin with me to work and wondering how I'm going to make it till 8:00pm when it feels like my brain is going to seep through my ears and my stomach is going to join in on the revolution. Luckily, Jill had aspirin. Crisis averted!

Whilst perusing the internet at work, I noticed something that would weird me out if I ever became famous. A girl left a comment on a lead singer's myspace page which is all fine and dandy. The freaky part though, she made her name, include his last name and no something common like Smith! And perhaps I'm reading it wrong, the chance does exist that they could indeed have the same last name. For all intensive purposes though, I'll stick with my assumption that they do not and how much that would creep me the fuck out. Fine write Francesca Nakalicious in your diary, on your book covers pretty much anywhere where I can't see it. It would weird me out though to see it in the form of a social website display name and then have you leave me a comment on my page.

And taking this probably in a direction I shouldn't ever have gone but it makes me wonder if all of this social website stuff is demeaning the value of the word "friend." What suddenly constitutes as a friend? If suddenly everyone is now grouped into this one category regardless of degree of relation or acquaintance how does it change the way we interact? Are we becoming too friendly with one another? Are we sharing secrets and acting more casually than we should towards people who for the most part are complete strangers? In doing so, does that make us less polite?

I'll get back to this later and make it more coherent later at home.

Motherfucking Canadia!

I'm a little too excited for Canada. If I weren't as sleepy as I am right now, I'd be bouncing off the walls, but I guess not doing my work and writing a blog about my excitement is almost the same thing...I guess. I'm more excited than a kid in a candy store...a kid in a candy store on Christmas Eve. Why? I'm not entirely sure. It's not some crazy exotic place, it's Canada, America's hat. But I just can't wait to go!!

June Bugs

Καλό Μήνα!

It's been a while since I've posted and I believe a while ago, I promised a review of Ludo live, and a bunch of other stuff, so let me recap what's gone on in the month of June now that it's over!

Spanish Class
With June ending, Spanish I comes to a close my friends! In those four little weeks, I subjected myself to an extra two hours a day of being out of the house and additional time doing homework to learn a language that I'll most likely mix up with the other three that I know :). It was a lot of fun though, it reminded me that I like school, but I also learned that full time work + part time class = the pits! So miserable! I work work work, and then I have to go to class and learn, go home study, sleep and repeat. Granted it could be a far more miserable existence that I lead, but it was rough. I pulled through though and got an A in the class! With July beginning I'll begin Spanish II and we'll see how much I've retained in my week off :).

Fun Time!
I've had tons of it in June. I kicked off the month at RU Gardens with RuthyRebecca and The Drew. I got a bamboo staff, well realistically a piece of bamboo that will sit in my house till I decide to turn it into a staff! That was a lot of fun, I like doing outdoorsish things, so walking around there and hiking was an excellent starter to that sort of stuff!





The first weekend in June, I spent it with RuthyRebecca, Erica and the Drew. On the 6th we saw Ludo live at the Stone Pony. It was a great show! The funny thing about this show is that they were all hanging out maybe 5 feet away from where we were in the bar outside and I kept talking about I should just go up to them right? But I never did, because I'm a shy lil girl and I'd get all star struck and act like a retard. I didn't particularly care for Spill Canvas, nor do I think that they should've been the headliner, but that's just my opinion.

Ludo's performance definitely ranks on my top live performances list. Their sound was great, they had tons of energy, my only complaint was that it was such a short set! Afterwards we went to buy some merchandise. (RuthyRebecca and I will only buy merchandise if we really really really like a band) And we took a picture with Andrew Volpe, the lead singer got a CD and a tshirt signed. I probably look like a complete douche cause I was a lil tipsy. Which in retrospect I probably seemed like a complete tool, but that's not so different from any other day! We left a little into Spill Canvas' set. Took a couple pictures by their van for god knows what reason. Noticed Tim Ferrell, the guitarist outside and after debating whether or not it'd be rude to interrupt his phone call conversation, I put on my best polite little girl voice and Ruthy Rebecca and I went up to him and asked him to sign our goods while Erica and the Drew sat in the car awaiting our return! (I still think it was rude to interrupt him, but after Ruthy Rebecca messaged Ozzie he assured me it wasn't -- and he's a rocker!) Dropped Ruthy Rebecca back at her place, went to the Reo with Erica and Drew where we sat for hours feasting on a various assortment of comestibles and bullshitting the night away!!




That Saturday I also went to Ruthy's family reunion. And what a family reunion it was. This was the reunion to end all reunions! I originally thought it was going to be around the same number of people that were there for her graduation, if not a few more. At most 50 people. I was dead freakin' wrong. There were at least 200 people at the Cacheeries family festival. Tents, live bands, a stage, traditional Peruvian dancers, name tags, absurd amounts of food, a banner welcoming the family, family members from various states and peru itself, families with T-Shirts and even Cacheeries family historian...who traced the family ALL THE WAY BACK to I think the 15th century...and was giving people tours and explaining relations. It was insane.

Sunday was Erica's Graduation Party Round 2. She had a party up in Maine and now back in the Dirty Jersey. I went with my fellow commrades and we rocked out...in Erica's ridiculously hot house. (Her AC decided it didn't want to work on one of the hottest days in the summer) Despite the ridiculous heat, I had a great time. Hung out with Erica and her familia, got fed delicious food, had ridiculously delicious coffee, took pictures! All around an awesome Sunday and great close to the end of the week.

The following weekend, I went to a party at Jeremiah's house. It was actually a good time. I mostly hung out with Ozzie, Abe, Ruthy Rebecca and as usual The Drew. We drank a little, avoided dancing as much as possible. Party broke up, our little group gathered at Ruthy Rebecca's. Bullshitted there and then the night culminated at the Reo.

The following weekend I went Whitewater Rafting with Maria, Jay, Andrew, Tom, Lesia, Joe, Matt and Mindy. Had an AWESOME time. Even though I got a migraine which made me stomach upset and caused me to vomit...my team however (which consisted of Maria,Jay, Andy, Joe, Peter, Paul and myself...in boat 69) were number 1! WOOT! I fell out of the boat twice too, it was great! Definitely worth doing again. Next time I'm brining Cacheeries along for the ride...and will probably pull her out of the boat when I go flying out the same way Maria did to me!


June ended with Holly coming home and our catching up with her. Along with going to see Louis CK at the state theater and buying my bridesmaid's dress for my sister's wedding. Louis CK was EXCELLENT. Hilarious, I don't think I've ever laughed for that long in my entire life. I should have rock hard abs after that show...but sadly I don't. Holly's the same, but now she's fueled with kayaking power. She showed us her Antartica album. I saw lots of snow and rocks. We watched a couple of movies, played a couple of card games, ate some delicious popcorn, did a lot of talking and chop busting. I also spent part of the weekend with Ruthy trying to figure out Montreal and all of that nonsense for next weekend as well as trying to catch Ellisif up to Paeen on WOW. This weekend also was the announcement of Diablo III. Which sparked Andrew to install Diablo II and start playing again. I'm sure when that game finally comes out, I'll surely lose him...but I'm also sure that when that game comes out...Ellisif will fall even farther behind Paeen! (Unless I hit 70 by the time that comes out, but with the expansion looming it's pretty head, I'm sure Danny will be at 80 long before I ever come close to 70!)

That was pretty much June.

Let's see what July has in store:

• Montreal Trip this weekend!!!!
  
• Possibly going to Warped Tour
• Possibly going to the Tom's River Ice Cream Festival
• Rock band with the Sac-ettes
• More bs-ing and hanging out
• Spanish Part Deux.
  

Dear Diary, Mood: senseless

How the fuck is insubordinate a mood....but ridiculous isn't? Whose fucked up reality is this?! What gives Tom?! WTF GIVES?! That's why everyone deletes you....Cunt!

Never in my life has this ever happened:

Random Person Asking me How I am: Hey, Leni how are you?
Me: Hey random person asking me how I am who I may or may now know, I'm feeling rather insubordinate. I just feel like just not listening to my superiors today. Give me a couple hours and I might go back to my obsequious self.

Nope...never happened. Although, I have often feel ridiculous.

Work is going to be great tomorrow....with my tired self and the tedious job I have ahead of me ALL SUMMER LONG! At least I get to go to Canadia this weekend. WOO HOO! I need to learn me some French! (And not this kinda French...although that could come in handy!) Although this will help more I think!) Perhaps a trip to the bookstore might indeed be necessary!

And it seems I never like going to countries where I know the language. Haven't been to Greece or Germany in ages and now that I know some Spanish....let's go to Quebec...where the only French I know is Parlez-vous anglais?, Je voudrais une omelette de fromage and Voulez vous coucher avec moi ce soir. Two of those are thanks to pop culture...thanks Pop Culture!! I'll be eating cheese omelets and being indecent for the entire weekend!

Time for sleep!

Ill

I've been sick for the past week. Sick to the stomach, literally. It all started the Tuesday before my final for Spanish, I was at work munching on my delicious Spicy Nuts & Cajun Sticks trail mix. I think it was one of the few things I've snacked on all day. Moments later my stomach feels...sour. That's the only way I can describe it, it just felt like someone poured a few liters of lemon juice into my stomach to replace the acid, as if it were a good idea. Now ever since then I've woken up and my stomach just feels the same way...sour. I don't even know what that means and I can't describe it any other way. I feel like vomiting and I can't....but I really really really want to.

Anywho, today's the end of Euro 2008 and for me it's a battle of languages I can sorta speak. Part of me wants Spain to win, because...have you seen Iker Casillas? Jesus Christ! Someone thank his mamma. Plus, I've been to Spain and I love Spain. So why wouldn't I want them to win? The other part of me though wants Germany to win, because...I've been to Germany and I loved Germany, so why wouldn't I want then to win? You would say it's a win-win situation for me, but I can only think about how upset I will be when the other team loses! For now though I'm going out with Ruthy...and I'll record the game so no one tell me what happens. I want to next messages of who is victorious! I'll watch it when I get home!

In other news I rocked my Spanish Final. I got a 98! Woot! Apparently the only thing I don't really know about Spanish is shopping and where I like to go on vacation because that's the chapter I did the worst on. My thing with languages is, I just have to tune out every other language I know and my strengths in each of those and focus on the one I'm spoken to at hand. I should probably pick up my German again and read in as much Greek as possible...to keep them all going and be a complete mess when I'm ridiculously inebriated when I bust out something like Now, you don't καταλαβαίνες, das ist nicht gut, verdrad? Or something to that effect! How terrible will that be...poor Andrew....Poor Ruthy!

EURO '08

So it's Germany V. either Russia or Spain, we'll find out in 22 hours or so. Now, I really dislike comments from commentators like the following:

Well, what an unbelievably dramatic night that was! No-one had expected a five goal end-toend thriller, or if they did they'd long been carted off to the nuthouse. The Turkish players are crushed, and they've every right to be. They've outplayed Germany, taken the game to them, and somehow, somehow, they're out. Astonishing.
I suppose the only consolation is that if Germany don't transform in the next few days, they'll get hammered by whoever wins tomorrow's semi-final between Russia and Spain. Join us for that. Until then...

See, the problem I have with that is no one got robbed (unless the ref was getting involved and not calling penalties, which is the case). It doesn't have to be pretty football, or flashy football. It has to be effective football. The team that didn't win can't outplay the other team...or they would've won! That's just my opinion on the matter.

I'm predicting a Spain v. Germany final. With Spain taking the whole thing. We'll see though, I could be completely wrong! I didn't even predict Russia or Turkey making it this far, so chances are high that I am wrong!

Estudiando

Tengo que estudiar mucho, pero no puedo porque estudiando es muy aburrido. Segunda no tengo tiempo!! Woe is me...for sure! It's gonna be a loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong night. (From the number of O's you know it's going to be SUPER long!)

Her Medium....MS PAINT!

Office View
MS Paint , 2008

Rebecca might not dance, or stand still, or like boxed wine getting on her fat unicorn shirt....but boy she sure is talented in the way of MS Paint!

Edit: I have to give it a fancy shmancy art name and all that other stuff

Whoever has been reading my blog like it were going out of style. It's kinda creepy....

Leave it to Euro to make my day better. Though now I don't know who I want to make it to the final. I want every team to win...so even if anyone wins, I'll still be upset because all the other teams will lose!

This is why International Soccer is better than Club Soccer. The surprises here are always welcome!

Talking to friends about your problems is supposed to make you feel better, but then why do I feel worse?

I hate bullshit, I hate dealing with it. Especially on lazy Sunday mornings.

Mr. Wright Makes Me Have Sleepless Nights.

I get a moment to be The Creator of all Creation...and I make a family of turnips!

Vh1's New Show

Should star Ruthy Rebecca and be titled, Worst Week Ever.

First the poor girl is sick for two days and can't eat anything without her stomach deciding to throw a coup. Then her car dies the morning she can finally go to work . Today her sister's car (the same make and model apparently) goes kaput as well and now I find out that her dad's not doing to hot.

I know I might joke about it being a show, but I don't really mean that. I was a lil insensitive when she told me about it and I know that pissed her off. But I don't mean to be insensitive about those things, it's just that I'm a ferret and don't pay attention to people...especially over AIM. I do hope he's ok though. In fact, I hope he's so OK that he's healthy an back to his usual trips to Peru as he normally does in no time! (Which I'm sure he will be!)

Hopefully, Ruthy Rebecca will be Best Week Ever next week!

Behold The Power of Cheese!

I sometimes like to reveal my cheesiness to the general public, just so everyone know who they're dealing with here!


Before I went to the Ludo show about two weeks ago, [which reminds me that I have to blog about that weekend...] I downloaded their Broken Bride LP. While I was listening to it, I almost started crying. Almost thanks to Andrew who took a break long enough from killing the Horde or something to that affect to turn around and go "Oh Jeez, you're not gonna cry are ya?!" Which was only followed by the expected but also most sheepiest of sheepy noos the world's ever heard. Eyes red, voice a little cracky...completely believable! Shame the world wasn't there to see it....which is why I've decided to blog about it.

So that's my band for right now. They now have a spot in my Πυξ-Λαχ, Κατσιμίχας, Damien Rice, Weezer, Cake rotation. Where somehow Dragon Force with Through the Fire and the Flames also manage be too.

Yep! I'm a dork!



P.S. Whoever decided that when switching over to a Greek Keyboard that a J=Ξ rather than an X and that a V=Ω is an a-hole!

Diver in Antartica.

This came up on my iGoogle Art Tab as a picture of the day. I think it's awesome.


Scuba Diver, McMurdo Sound, Antarctica, 1986

For more info and the original click here!

Things To Do

1. Clean my apartment.

That place is a mess! Talk about not being able to keep things neat! Honestly, I've been so sleepy lately that I just leave things where ever instead of placing them back where I've found them. It's like entropy, shit's just everywhere in a crazy and ever growing mess. My apartment is like a small scale version of the universe.

2. Put together a more presentable appearance.

Jesus Christ I look like shit when I get ready for work in the morning. I look like shit when I get ready for a weekend out...hell I even look pretty unkempt when I'm getting ready for bed! I just lack the motivation to try to piece anything together simply because I feel like I've become the size of a blue whale, which brings me to number three

3. Start Running.

You'd think walking two miles a day would eventually amount to some type of weight loss right? Well apparently, I must eat like I'm in a competition or something. And when I think about it, I honestly don't. So maybe I'm just not doing enough to get rid of whatever is left? And realistically, I have this sick fascination with getting completely tight. (The only fat I'll allow is boobies and booty.) This have been a goal of mine for a while, but like all my other goals, I'm a slacker and haven't accomplished this.

4. Seriously think about Graduate School.

I saw a special on Neanderthals and Cro-Magnon man coexisting and interacting on the history channel on Monday. That's pretty much what I want to study when I grow up. (Yup, I'm still a kid!) To me, there's something fascinating about there being another hominin species running along side with us and I think it has a significant impact on our evolution and I think we definitely had an impact on theirs. And I know specials are overly dramatized and what not, so I mostly try to pay attention to what the scientists are saying. I definitely have to get cracking on my book, my articles and my graduate school research so I can piece something together. Which leads me to point number 5.

5. Get over my A.D.D.

This morning I read an article about Career A.D.D. I realized that after reading it, I have life A.D.D. And I don't mean that I'm an adult with A.D.D. Rather, the article stated that people with career are never satisfied with what they have. They're always thinking about how the grass is greener elsewhere. I sent the link to Andrew, he's the one who noticed that I have life A.D.D. But my problem is that I don't even take the time to look at the grass I'm in, I just focus on what I think may be better. I could be standing in the best golf course fairway grass, but I'm looking at a field full of crabgrass and weeds thinking it's better over there. I'm not looking down, I'm not focusing on what I have. I need to start doing that because I've got some pretty nice stuff around me.

Facts and Figures:

According to Google Analytics my lil' blog has had 172 visits from over 10 countries. Check me out I'm international!! A visit is define by Google Analytics as:

The number of visits your site receives is the most basic measure of how effectively you promote your site. Starting and stopping ads, changing your keyword buys, viral marketing events, and search rank are some examples of factors that influence the number of visits your site receives.

Sadly although I'm hitting the globes, this really means that I'm completely ineffective when it comes to promoting my site. Apparently a link in my facebook profile and my aim profile are not nearly enough to attract super audiences! Who would've thunk it!

Since March 13, 2008 I've also had 205 pageviews. Which pretty much means my site is not being used at all. That means people look at one page per visit, almost 2, if I'm lucky althought I doubt I am since everyone spends less than a minute on my site. Plus I have an 84.3% bounce rate...so no one's really sticking around. (Then again who really is interested in what I did in on February 13, 2005! I'm not even interested!!)


I don't have many new visitors...those who are new are probably lured my way from a google image search bringing up some type of keyword that matches with a picture I've posted. (Suckers!) But I do have some loyal readers (or as I like to call stalkers, people who are ridiculously bored, or LO :) )

Most people who visit my site use Firefox and have a Windows based machine. It seems like the people who use Safari aren't really running Mac OSX, it's from an iPhone.

I think the keywords that lure people into my page are the best with of course a lil comment by me next to them and where if ever I have reference these words!!! Here's a list of what they are, just to boost my visit number!!

Keywords:

• flight 411


• andy loves me (it's true he does, but who needs to google this?!)


• lisa rizzo shot at love 2


• silly scallions


• lisa rizzo""


• this is just to say"" poem mood (who's doing homework with this!)


• 2 tickets to the gun show jokes (at least I'm not the only cheesy one)


• how do i write my performance review?


• lisa rizzo


• lisa rizzo from shot of love


• lisa rizzo picture codes for myspace


• lisa rizzo shot at love (damn she's popular no?!)


• lisa rizzo stalker on birthday


• looking for my own lisa rizzo


• olympic air way


• olympic flight 411


• olympic flight 411 june 2, 2008 (apparently,any flight to the JFK from Athens via Olympic is 411!)


• photos of lisa rizzo


• rebecca nothing to write home about (ha! ha! ha!


• sad songs means so much lyrics


• sad to say, it's sad but true there is nothing song


• shot at love 2 lisa rizzo


• sibling rivalry (anthropologists)


• this is just to say read write think


• what to write on my performance review (performance reviews were all the rage)


• epic fails


• i wanna rock!"" lolcat

This tempts me to write a blog that's just a myriad of popular keywords, regardless of making sense or not. I'll just type an insane number of memes just to get my visit number up!

On a not serious note, I am long overdue for a blog of some substance (considering I've never actually written a blog of substace to begin with...) Sadly, the procrastinator in me will push this aside and I'll get around to it when I finish studying for my Spanish test, which will ultimately happen when I finish cleaning my apartment and go out shopping with Ruthy. And apparently eat dinner at some point of this night!

At least it sounds like that.

Ruthy: Ozzie just invite you and i to jeremiah's party
Ruthy: hinvited*
Ruthy: invited*
Ruthy: he sent me a text message
me: did he spell my name right?
Ruthy: he spelled your name awesome
Ruthy: E Lain Knee
me: ha!
Ruthy: exactly what he wrote

And suddenly the world got a lil creative.

Me: http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23845865-23109,00.html
Maria: holy shit
Maria: we'll have to start putting funny things on our genitals just to fuck with them

Blog on the go! Last night was great! Ludo rocked! I was too much of a dork to go up to them when they were like 5ft away from me but I di

Blog on the go! Last night was great! Ludo rocked! Probably one of the best shows I've ever been to. I was too much of a dork to go up to

Conflicts of Interest.

What I'd like to be doing:


What I am doing:

The two don't quite work out do they?

Customer Disservice.

I hate being rude to customer service people. I deal with angry people on the phone...trust me, no one's angrier than an undergrad that's not getting what he or she believes they are entitled to. These kids feel like they are high and mighty, so I know what this lady is going through. However, I feel like dealing with incompetance. And that's pretty much what you deal with when you deal with Pearson Education. And I'm pretty sure this Lady isn't doing shit, but keeping me on hold for no fucking reason, but that's ok, cause I have no problem ripping Pearson a new one!!

Honestly, you sell me a $100 plus something dollar book and you fuck up?! And can't even correct it by giving me a new code or rectifying the problem. Go fuck yourself buddy. Honestly, I was going to be polite, but I honesty hate waiting on fucking hold. I just want to do my god-damned fucking homework. That's all I want to do. I've never heard of anyone that just wants to do their Homework in my entire life, until this moment.

Save The Date!

Catching up to the Speed of Nak.

Taking a cue from my beloved and daily companion, I figured it was time to update my stinkin' blog. So faithful readers (Megansaurus, this obviously means you!) pull up a chair, grab some refreshments and put on your best pretend I'm working face this will be lengthy, so please stay a while and listen.

Video Games

Rock Band has taken a back seat lately, not because I'm half way through Medium or whatever, but Grand Theft Auto IV was released and that took precedence in the Xbox. I can't compete with that type of epic game, and epic it most certainly is. Anyone who knows me, knows I'm primarily a cutesy gamer, with of course a few exceptions. However I have dabbled in the previous GTA games. This includes both trying to play them and just running around the game like a mad woman killing random pedestrians. (Or running over them back in the day.) Liberty City though looks sick. The story, the detail in the game, the character development, all want to make me play. Not only does it make me want to play, but it's the one game I don't mind watching. I've watched enough video games, I get pretty bored half way through, but not with this one. It's just amazing. I actually think when Andrew's had his way with it, I'm going to pick it up and try it out for myself.

What's hopped back on the burner since GTAIV has taken up shop in the Xbox? World of Warcraft of course! Along with not rock banding it up and finding out that Wratch of the Lich King will be out late 2008, I need to gear up and get to 55 more so than ever. When I got back into playing before Bruning Crusade came out, I knew I was no where near getting to 60 so I could hop into the Outlands and level myself to 70. I'm not dedicated enough to power grind myself either, so I took my sweet old time. But now at 46, I'm close enough to reach 55 and at least make a Death Knight when the game first comes out. I've also come to realize that I need to pay more attention to my alts. I wish I could devote more time to the game, but with 2 Summer classes, it's going to be difficult. Maybe in the Fall, when things slow up, I'll have time to actually play. Too bad that's when my guildmate starts school again!! So far we're looking into making Sundays, WoW days. Now that's my kind of church! (I do play a priest after all, I could bless us all!)

After taking a 2.5 month hiatus from game play, I was slightly worried. The last time I did that, I got pwned by people at a much lower level than I. And even if I'm not getting ganked, I have a hard time fighting mobs and remembering how I set up my spells and what does what etc. etc. But everything came back to me, like second nature. It was like riding a bike, only I was killing the Horde! Exciting!

Wii Fit is AWESOME! Not because the balance and aerobics games are so cute, but the whole keeping track of your improvement makes it that much better. I'm a sucker for data and information and charts and if all I have to do is hop on a board and it does everything for me, the better! I think on X-Play they said if you normally work out you won't feel a burn, I guess they didn't do the yoga or the strength training exercises. And sure some people might not treat it like it's an actual gym and just half ass it, but I think it definitely helps get some people off the couch. I'm not going to say I got a Wii Fit body, but if you do say that, it's probably better than having an Xbox body? Right?

News
So apparently gay marriage is catching on like wildfire. Ok, maybe not wildfire, but NY seems to be wanting to file suit with California and allow same-sex couples to marry. I for one think it's awesome. Though I might be slightly biased, I think it's about time. I don't want to hear the argument that marriage is a Christian tradition, look up the history, it's been around for forever and more for legal than for spiritually purposes. If people want to enter a contract together, let them enter it. If you're church doesn't agree with it, then that's fine, but don't deny it from a legal standpoint because of your close minded beliefs. What I like the best about this topic is how the uber right wing conservatives think this is totally going to destroy the Family unit! Apparently the four horsemen are really two married gay couples out on a double date. They're coming to destroy you...mounted on their lil vespas. (Or I guess hogs, if you want to make them dykes. I'll leave that up to your own imagination.) You didn't know re-read the bible! It's finally true, now that NY is following suit, the US is definitely 21st century Sodom and Gomorrah. Hide your daughers....I'm still not sure from who, it could be anyone! Men, woman, shit maybe even children who knows!! The world's going to fucking hell because Sue and Sarah want to get married....legally. Sweet mother, every one get on their knees and pray that we don't feel heaven's wrath!! May the power of Christ compel us! EEEE!!! Aren't there really more important issues to discuss than what two people want to do in a legal context? Honestly people, let's move on and focus on issues that matter....like how we just got told that the Bush Administration pretty much lied and how terrible gas prices are, and how there are families all across the US that are considered middle class but scraping to make ends meat all of a sudden? No? We'll bypass that and focus on the gays....ok!

Personal

Lately, I'm trying to have a go-getter mentality. I've been trying to lose weight that I didn't even realize I had put on. (Well I noticed, I just tried to pretend it wasn't really there and hoped it'd go away) I'm trying to figure out what the hell I want to do with the rest of my life. I'm taking two summer classes. I feel pretty good about it all. Although I was pretty damn terrified about my first class! It's been a while since I've been in school, but with two down and the third one tonight, I have no fears!

As far as the getting in shape is going, I'm trying to squeeze as much working out as I possibly can into my now jam packed work week. It's easy to fit it into the weekends and friday nights, but Monday - Thursday are pretty booked. So far I've lost 2.5lbs! Woo hoo!! That's a feat all in itself! Or so I tell myself. I'm so results driven and impatient that I have to give myself slight pats on the back in order to keep myself going.

Thinking of going back to school. Well that's been on my mind since I've left, but I've been getting slightly more organized. It's just finding the time to read articles, come up with ideas and growing the balls to email people. I've already emailed Lluis to ask him some questions and I think next I'm going to haggle Prof. Feibel. I'm not really sure how much they can help me, but any help is help I say. Feibel's helped me a lot so far, so I'm waiting to fall back on him. I have plans though and definitely more of a direction now than I ever had before. Patricia knows about it. It all came to me in a flash when I was talking to her about Spanish. Hopefully one day I'll have a Eureka moment and jot it down, write it up, send in apps and be on my way!!

Lately on my mind's been a particular person I probably talked to on a daily basis and have not done so for a long long time. Saying lately isn't exactly true, I have to admit I haven't stopped thinking about her and I'm always curious as to what she's up to or how she's doing. And I want to reach out and say hello, but I don't want that to cause any problems. So maybe I should just get over it. I'm sure that having lil memontoes of her in my cube and at home doesn't help with that. I'll comment more on this later, maybe tonight when I'm done with class. That seems so far from now. It's actually six more hours till I get to go home and relax! Realistically, till I get to go home and finish some errands, work out and THEN get to relax. C'est le vie!

Up coming plans:
I'm going to bullet these, you're sick of reading and I am sick of writing. I don't really have the heart for this anymore. I honestly don't. It's starting to become like my regular journal, incomplete and fragmented except it's not as personal!

So up-coming plans:

This weekend:

• St. Demetrios Greek Festival! Greek wine + Souvlaki = fantastic! That should be fun!
  
• Dress shopping and save the date magnet making. Which should also be fun, I like it when the girlie side of me and the creative side of me come out! Now they'll get to do so in one weekend!
  
• Going to the bookstore to get a new access code so I can do my Spanish homework and studying! Yipee!!
  
• World of Warcraft of course....Warcraft Sundays duh!!

Next week:

• Ludo performs at the Stone Pony with The Spill Canvas. (I have no idea who The Spill Canvas even is, but I like Ludo, so that's why I'm going!)
  
• Erica's Graduation Party
• Studying for my first exam!
  

Now stretch out there reader(s), give yourself a pat on the back...that was just a tad bit boring, but you made it all the way through. Kudos!

Victory!

Danny: Check how much it is 2 go from exit 15w to exit 11 on the turnpike. Exit 11 is amboy right?
Me: Yeah.
Danny: Yeah cause this morning I came here 2 kearny and only realized that I didn't have my ezpass after I passed the 2nd toll n it said ezpass toll unpaid
Danny: So I wanna take to tp back but I only have 2.00 in change in my car and I wanted 2 no if that was enuff
Me: $2.05
Me: you're a nickle short
Danny: Fuckin shyt
Danny: Do they accept pennies?
Me: they say no pennies
Me: but technically they have to
Me: because it's money
Danny: I gotta look under my seats then
Danny: I have only 4 fuckin pennies
Me: Damn
Me: Today is not your day sir
Danny: Lol muthafucker!
[08:28] naktastic: Bum a nickle son!
Me:or look on the floor!
Me: people always drop shit!
Danny: Ha I found a quarter under my seat!
Me: WOOOT!
Danny: Nice!
Me: VICTORY!!!

I just though this entire convo was particularly interesting!

Redact.

I kinda wish I had more powers over this thing, so that now everywhere my blog says Ruthy, this happens:

Ruthy Rebecca is like the motherfuckin' Ikea catalog!

I'm going to have to talk to the boy about this to see what he can do!!

I also kinda want what LO has, and everytime I type a name that has a blog, the link magically appears...I'm too lazy for the whole, selecting text, clicking a button, entering a website!!

Makings of a Lolcat!

Charlie is lolcat material!

My dorkiness knows no bounds. I signed up for that IamonMTV thing, just cause I was bored at work and whilst perusing the interwebs I came across the page of Lisa Rizzo from A Shot of Love 2. I noticed that she replied to people and thought that it was pretty awesome that she took the time to do that. The truth is though, I'd never do that. one, because I think it's kinda cheesy and second, because I'm ridiculously shy!

So I was like this is kinda stupid...and proceeded to flip out when I couldn't figure out how to delete the whole thing. I didn't want to be on there for forever...the whole scenario is all too cheesy. Luckily I took the time to actually read this time! Magical things happen when you take the time to read. (Take note IRS...reading IS fundamental!!!) So I deleted it....and decided to proclaim my dorkiness via blog! Afterall, only about 5 people read this shit anyway!!

Non-Sibling but almost Sibling Rivalry

Ruthy blogged today on her myspace. Since I don't have a myspace, I can't comment....so I'll comment here: (Yup, I'm blogging about her blog on my blog. )

I could let Frontalot speak for me and comment via stolen Mp3 and say: "I hate your blog it's incredibly terrible and bad" I digress though, if I hated her blog, then I might as well hate my own. I mean I too write about nothing particularly interesting. It's just now...I feel like I have you know...competition! Another person in the sea of useless bloggers taking up my valuable internet space! And I mean...she has it on myspace...where she has at least 95 friends! That means there's a possibility that 95 people (not including me!) will read her blog! How does that compete with my 167 page hits, of which only 51 are unique?! It doesn't!! It just makes me realize that I have a few stalkers out there!

Realistically though, I hate my blog too. Aside from just posting random camera phone pictures, (which I've missed in placing some wonderful bathroom Graffiti, courtesy of the Rahway QuickChek on Routes 1 & 9. ) there's no real point to my blog...other than being wasteful of bandwidth. So maybe I'll start to reconsider exactly what it is that I find to be blog-worthy. Although I do feel that I may have some posts of merit as I think Ruth does too, I don't consider her Peru posts to be completely meaningless and found them to be rather entertaining and delightful.

Although all of was prompted this conversation:


[16:06] me: your myspace is sooooooooooo pink
[16:06] me: nice blog
[16:07] me: but you were supposed to write me a blog dumbass
[16:07] me: I wish i could fuckin' comment
[16:07] me: but i can't
[16:08] ruthy: haha
[16:09] me: so I'm blogging about your blog
[16:09] ruthy: lol on your blog?
[16:09] me: yup

Speaking of me and Ruth though, when she finally does realize that she's really gay and wants to be with me for the rest of her life, so we can take our dysfunctional relationship to the next level (and I promise to only hit her because I love her) at least there's almost one more state that we might be able to get married in!

Erica done did graduated! WOO HOO!!! So exciting! I'm sure she's excited...and a lil sad. It's always a lil sad when college ends! But I'm so proud of her!! :)

This weekend was eventful. I was supposed to go to Raquel's birthday extravaganza, but that turned out to not be so extravaganza. So, after not knowing where anyone was going and deciding that my stomach was not in any condition to enjoy a full meal, I skipped out and went to Wendy's with Andrew. I told Danny that if he had plans to go out afterward to let me know, I'd meet up with him, but he said that that was highly unlikely, he was out late the night before. So , I met up with Ruthy and we went to Abe's party. Twas much fun although I had entirely too much to drink! Hung out with most of YnB, made plans to go to their show this weekend at Cagney's. That too should be exciting.

Last night, Mark came over and relayed to us his terrible weekend, which was actually quite humorous. (Or maybe I just enjoy other people's misery? I kid! I kid!) I did a workout and a yoga with my babes, and then went to sleep.

Adding to the list...

As if reason number 67:

weren't reason enough to convince me to not have children...

This woman is birth control enough!!! I think she's had enough children for me and even my non-existent future children!

18 Kids? Jesus christ, her bladder must be in worse condition than mine! And just think about how much waste they produce!!

Aiding Their Ego

Reasons why I love programmer guys (aside from dating one and the fact that it's basically free tech support! Oh and some of them think I'm teh sex!)

I couldn't test my code because my serial key had expired! haha Luckily I also wrote the serial key code generating stuff, so that didn't take too long to fix.

LiveJournal sucks. Open Diary sucks. Blogger sucks. Xanga sucks. Myspace sucks. So I wrote my own.

I love that!! It's so less QQ more pew pew.

It's All Gone!

So I got it cut. It looks like nothing I asked for and when I got home Ruthy had to help me fix it....but c'est le vie! I miss Jennie! Come back Jennie!

Couldn't Agree More!

Is it dumb to rant from someone else's rant? I dunno, but Andrew sent me this and I couldn't agree more!

As we all know after graduating from college I got a job in the City. I was excited about the whole concept, before I started commuting (and actually started working! ha ha!). Actually being excited about the concept sort of amazes me. I guess it was the "I FINALLY GOT A JOB!" But I have to admit that part of me was stoked that it was at a major company and what not! I don't know why, I'm not corporate whore material, but whatever!!

Anywho, never in my life have I ever encountered ruder people in then men in suits! I've seen Suits run to get a seat before a pregnant woman, or women with children. I've been pushed out of the way by them, hit, squished up against the pole because they need ALL the room in the world. They don't move out of their way, complain when you have to run past them to get to your train even though they're taking their sweet ol time. It's as if everyone else is Riff-Raff and they are entitled to everything.

It's not even just on the subway, just everywhere. These individuals have this air to them, they they're better because they work these stupid corporate jobs, they make big money and they have this conflated idea of that they're uber-important. I've got news, they aren't.

Part of the reason why I won't work in New York City anymore is because of the commute. I'd come home so livid, it was ridiculous!! I don't like being disrespected by pompous little dicked pricks that don't know anything of any real importance. Another part of the reason is that I don't like being introduced as the "temp that doesn't know what she wants to do with her life." I swear if it weren't for the actual cool people there I wouldn't have lasted there that long, nor would I have kept my cool.

So...I never got my haircut! See voting brings about no change!! Ha ha ha! It doesnt' help that only 5 people voted. Instead of getting ti cut, I found more haircuts...so there's even more to chose from. I now have over 130 different looks to go through before I decide on a final one....although I think I should just ask my hair dresser. (Even though sometimes tells me you really can't walk in there with 130 pictures and be like PICK ONE!) I have actually narrowed it down to 11 and working my way down. This pretty much means nothing major is going on in my life because I'm worrying about a hairstyle a lil too much! It's been entirely too long since I've cut my hair though and when I did, I wasn't thrilled, usually I'm thrilled when I leave Jenny. This is why I want to be prepared.

Shallow Indecision....

So, because I have nothing better to do with my time and because I like to procrastinate. (That statement itself is a contradiction, I can't procrastinate if I have nothing better to do...or can I?) Also since I'm ridiculously shallow and partly due to my inability to make a decision. I'm asking my faithful audience to vote on my next haircut. Not that the decision will be democratic anyway, ultimately I'll bring in pictures and ask my hairdresser which she thinks is the best. But let me know so I don't go into her with a photo album. Any other suggestions are welcomed. Megansaurus, I expect a prompt reply from YOU!

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A reminder

I don't have flash at work and I'm only posting this because Megerrific suggested I watch it. Looking at the title, I completely agree....this is just to remind me!! Now I wonder who will remind me to check my blog!!
http://www.break.com/index/cute-kittens-bop-their-heads.html




Edit: Those kittens were too cute!!! I want a kitty!!!

Cookies....

...are delicious. There's been entirely too much food at my office....since the first day I've worked here. I'm convinced that working with great people and consuming large quantities of treats should have been included in the job description! I'm going to gain so much weight!!

Yesterday was Administrative Professionals Day or whatever Hallmark likes to call it. And my bosses loves me, so I got tulips and taken out to lunch at Rutgers Club. I have to say I've only eaten there twice and excluding my mother's cooking, that has got to be some of the best food I've ever eaten in my life. DELICIOUS!! It beats the $26 Shrimp Ceasar Salad at Brasserie....(actually I think Brasserie had a weak menu, but I was there for lunch so who knows) ! So a big thank you goes out to them, it's nice knowing people appreciate what you do!!

More later.

Ranting Alphabetically

Annoyances
Not giving former students access to old syllabi of classes they've already taken is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. Thank goodness my school doesn't do that whole "We need to be contacted by the department in order to send it to you." What nonsense! Granted it may be student's fault for not keeping a copy of their old work, but it's not like a syllabus is some kind of super classified piece of information!! Thanks for making my job that much more difficult university I choose not to name. Not to mention trying to find out who to contact to obtain said syllabus is like looking of Osama...you think it'd be easy but NOOOOOO on said University's website, but it's not! Thank you!!! It's not bad enough that I decided that while walking to work I need to bathe in my coffee....no no, now I have to navigate through your shittastic website AND try to find the Holy Grail...all whilst looking at the pope!!! Thanks!! At least I managed to get a cute ass birthday present at the last minute today and I got to eat cake!!

Boasting
Colbert Live is AMAZING!!! I didn't really think it would be all that great, I was a lil worried that my whole view of the show would change and that he'd just be a complete asshole in real life, but he's not. Aside from waiting in line for what felt like eternity and a day and being searched more thoroughly than going through the gate at JFK, it was actually pretty awesome. Though I must admit, some fans terrify me. They know entirely TOO much about the show. I get it you like it, so do I, but what's the reason behind needing to know EVERYTHING about it. And when I mean everything, I mean even things about the Audience Manager's life!! Does that make you a bigger fan or do you have something to prove? I don't know...creeps me out and makes me glad I'm not famous. But if I ever become famous, I'll delete this blog in an instant and ask Google to get rid of any traces of post-famous Leni from the internet. I guess I'd have to call up Internet Archive and ask them to get rid of it too. I'd be terrified if complete strangers were able to come up with so much trivia about. Maybe I should get rid of this blog..... Back to the show, it was incredible!! They want you to like laugh extra and clap louder...but you really don't have to laugh extra because it was hilarious!! Maria even caught a wriststrong bracelet (the one he was wearing!) And gave it to moi! Picture to follow soon!!

Greek
I feel a lil off and usually when I do, I listen to Greek music or read Greek. There's just something about the melody of the language that cheers me up. When I feel really sick, sometimes I'll just mouth Greek...the movement of my lips and tongue when making the sounds sort of soothes me. I also feel that it's a language where you can actually express yourself completely. There is a word for everything, you can capture the exact feeling, the exact thought, you're never really off. I don't get the same feeling from English. I feel that in English I'm always struggling for words. There's never really a word that captures what I'm trying to say and even though my Greek isn't perfect, I know in that language the perfect word exists out there. Lately though my Greek is fading, not having my parents around and not having Greek TV or Greek music as a constant in my house is making it dwindle away. I bought the paper this weekend in attempts to bring it back....I wonder how long it'll take me to get through one article! I also have that book that I bought how long ago and never finished?! But I should sit down and attempt to get through it, try to write in it...do something. I really don't want it to vanish....I think knowing Greek is such an important part in being Greek.

Lunch
Is always entirely too short! And with that I'm done with this rather boring post for the day!!

Goodtimes with the woman part iii

Goodtimes with the woman part ii

Goodtimes with the woman!

Hey It Can Happen

If I ever hit a super lottery jackpot, there are two things I'm definitely doing:
1. I'm going to Fortunoff with a baseball bat and having a field day in the crystal and glass section.

2. I'm buying all the As Seen on TV stuff!!


After all that I'll consider paying off my student loans in full, buying a house, getting a car and living the new money high life!

Piles of Kittens

have to be one of the things that makes me ridiculously overjoyed!!