.taking full advantage of my off days...

so today i'm going to do what i do best. hang by the pool! woohoo! i am very excited to actually be doing nothing and soaking up the sun. i can catch up with reading my magazines. catch up with reading my books. i was going to go paint pottery today, but i woke up and saw the beautiful sun and hardly any clouds, and who am i to pass it up?

yesterday was my total veg day. i kept planning on running all these errands, but i ended up not leaving here until 630PM, and just running a couple of the errands and going straight to the gym. i think i just about killed my right deltoid last night. it was already sore from lifting stuff at closing ceremonies, and i just worked it out a lot more yesterday too with lifting and then the cardio kickboxing class. i was so tired yesterday. i'm going to try to take a yoga class today. that'll be my nice day off. try some strength conditioning. it might help the rest of my body. i think i just need to stay out of the house so i don't eat as much. that is the goal. i lost everything i worked so hard at when i started working on this damn project. all my muscles turned into fat. and my strength is almost at zero again. that makes me so damn mad. i worked for months to get nice toned muscles. granted, i wasn't that ripped, but still. i was getting there. and if i hadn't taken such a long break, i know i'd be a lot better than i am now.

yeah, so i think i'm addicted to this damn show. i won't say which one it is, because it's very embarrassing. i can't believe i actually like watching this thing. it's so dumb. i think it's the drama. takes me back to the days. where things used to be so simple. and the littlest things were the biggest things in the world. but this show is so retarded sometimes. i wonder what they're all thinking when they watch these episodes. i wonder if they realize how dumb they sound. but i guess that's where they are in their lives at the time it was taped.

k, i have a meeting with the sun now.

weekend recap...

.friday.night.
good times at g and ch's condo. gregg telling his sex and the city date. terriyaki chicken. chocolate cake. candles. zentra. girls night. no eye candy. why does this happen when it's just us girls out??.

.saturday. gooooOOOOO RIDER!
closing ceremonies for the heartland aidsride 7. there were much less volunteers than i had imagined. and we got a nice new t-shirt! woohoo! it's a periwinkle color, unlike the other aidsride t-shirts i have already. oh, 1 thing that kind of upset me was that the crew this year were allowed to keep their fleeces! and they were NEW yellow fleeces! {is 'fleeces' a word? or is it like sheep? many fleece? or many fleeces?} anyways, so what did pallotta do with the cool red fleece that we wore last year, since they obviously got new ones for this year's crew?! oh well. i guess we did pay less than this year's crew. but whatever.

so it was a different experience just volunteering. but whenever the crowd cheered and welcomed home the riders, it was all the same feelings. that choke in the throat. the overwhelming feeling of being proud of people who you don't even know. and yelling out congratulations to everyone that made it. all those feelings made me miss not being part of it this year. but oh well. c'est la vie. can't change the past. the only good reason for not doing it this year : the emergency evacuation they went through on thursday night because of the heavy thunderstorms. phew for that!

it was so nice to see old friends from last year. there were about 4 of the same people on bike parking this year as last year. so i had a good time catching up and seeing how this year's ride went. there were also 4 riders this year who were on bike parking this year. i heard they did well the entire time. so i'm very proud of everyone. the worst reason for not doing it this year was that this will probably be the last one. at least for a while. they're actually cancelling it because of decreased attendance. but i really think they should keep it, and get rid of the vaccine rides. but i guess some things just weren't meant to be. at least i did it once. at least i had the experience. and for that i should be grateful.

i did find that some people who volunteered, did not know how to work on a team. is that how it always is? like one woman just watched as i sank to my knees while trying to give her a huge water jug that was heavier than the rest. no one really jumped in to help me carry it, except g. it was funny though, when we talked about it later. harharhar. we couldn't stop talking about it while we ate dinner.

and at the end of the day, i was exhausted as expected. *sigh* those were the days.

.sunday. .patience. persistance.

did some shopping on sunday. got some new work shoes. and a couple new shirts. very nice. i really shouldn't be spending, but there were some good sales. so i figured it was worth it.

ate at bahama breeze that night, the new one on gold rd. it was so great. brought back a lot of memories. i really love eating at that place. i think it may be one of my fav restaurants in the area. it's different than any other place. and the drinks are awesome. can't get that anywhere in the burbs.

watched some tv. ended up watching 'door to door' on tnt. anyone seen that? it's based/inspired on a true story a true guy. starring william h macy as bill porter, this guy with cerebral palsey. he lived with his mom, and found a job as a door to door salesman for the watkins company. he didn't have full control of us left hand. so he couldn't put his tie on, or button his cufflinks, his mom had to do it for him. and at the end of his day, his mom would come pick him up at his last house. his mom made him sandwiches for lunch, which he usually ate outside on a bench. he had a tough time in the beginning making sales, so his mom would encourage him by writing in food coloring on his sandwiches "patience" and "persistance". that's how he got the job in the first place. he charmed his way into getting that job and in getting some sales. built a solid customer base. and gave them customer service that they couldn't get anywhere else. his mom got sick - they didn't specify, but i think it was alzheimers. she had to be taken care of, so she went to a home. so bill didn't have anyone to take care of him. he started taking the bus and made some new friends in a hotel, who put on his tie, buttoned his cuffs, and tied/polished his shoes. it was a very sweet story. basically about how he made a life for himself even though he was disabled, without accepting any pity from anyone. i believe he's still alive today, but i'm not sure what he's doing. they said that you can find him at www.billporter.com . i'm gonna check it out after i post this thing. i'm a sucker for sappy stories. but it also reminded me that we can all do whatever we want, as long as we have patience and persistance. patience is a huge thing. i obviously don't have enough of it. if there's something that you want to do, you should do it. no matter what anyone says to you. i really liked that movie. very simple. cut out the crap that usually goes on in everyone's lives and just told it like it was. it's easy to forget the simple, more important things in life. why does everything get so easily complicated?

so today i made a list of things i need to do, and i just have to do it. not be lazy about it. got it? i'm out.

some time off, FINALLY....

PHEW! i finally have a day off! thank god! i am so excited... time off is better than i ever remembered. i love not doing anything. i love not having to wake up at 6AM. i love not having to sit through traffic for an hour every morning. i love not having a plan to do anything. the only downfall is getting sucked into watching tv all morning and not getting anything done, that i need to get done. god knows i have a ton of stuff to take care of, that i've been putting off for weeks now because of work. i have so much crap to do to prepare for the condo. i need to call the seller and discuss some logistics. that will the be the biggest pain in the ass. so i better get that out of the way first. i also plan on working out today. oh, i also need to look for a new job. hopefully monster will be good to me today.

i think i've officially become a sex and the city whore. (excuse my language). i'm too obsessed with watching all the episodes now. that's the problem with having season 1 and season 3. i can just veg all day and watch all episodes from both seasons. too bad the dvd player isn't downstairs. my room is just too small to totally veg. oh well. i guess i just have to get over it. i suppose i can still watch maybe half the episodes today. don't need to be anywhere until 830PM tonight. i'll probably work out in a couple hours. come home, watch some tv, go to oak brook and return those j crew pants and then head into the city. i hope i'm still able to return those pants.i really need that 100 bones. those pants have been in my room for i don't know how long.

i've realized this past week, that i have a lot of food crumbs in my little laptop here. i cannot wait until i can switch this thing. goodbye ibm...hello dell. i don't know if it'll be better because they have that little extra mouse pad. that may get in the way of my typing. but i'll live. at least it'll be new.

what do i have in my room that i need to return? those j crew pants. and those eyelash curlers. shoot, i hope i can return those. i frickin lost the receipt for those things. and they frickin cut off my eyelashes! how dare they?! i'm just going to go to good ol ulta3 and explain to them how horrible that curler is. i just about fainted when i saw that right on my brand new eyelash curler were my little eyelashes! total beauty faux pas. at least it was only about 5 of my eyelashes. and it was in the middle of my eye, so it was barely noticable, unless you were about 2 inches from my face. and that doesn't happen often with anyone. {minus the obvious person, of course}

so tomorrow is the aidsride closing ceremonies! i am very excited to be part of it again. when i saw it on the news on monday night, i was kicking myself for not doing it this year. i think i said that in a different entry, but every time i hear about it, i wish i could turn back time and volunteer all over again. so i really need to remember to sign up next year. and i need to remember what it felt like that first time. maybe next year i'll volunteer for the cali ride. then i can relax somewhere in LA for the week afterwards. how awesome would that be?? something to think about for next year.

what is it about me and soap operas? and reading people magazine? and being so interested in everyone's lives? i know i'm just interested in everyone. and knowing stories about everyone. all the gory details i say. the more the merrier. the more the better. i guess it's all just fun for me. it makes people interesting. i guess i can be a total people person sometimes. other times, i don't want to be bothered. that's just the gemini in me. 2 completely different personalities for me. but people's stories fascinate me. i like stories. maybe that's why i like soap operas. drama keeps me happy 1/2 the time. if there's no drama life gets boring doesn't it? is that why sometimes i like having drama in my life? that's horrible to say, but it's the truth. keeps things exciting.

ok, i need to look up the lifetime workout schedule. i need to get back into shape. if i don't, i'll always be somewhat unhappy.

have a good weekend everyone! and congrats to all those riders who made it through this hot hot week. goooooo RIDERS!

and now i wait...

i just have to wait now for everyone to finish sending me their damn tprs to log. i wish they would just send us an email telling us if they're going to send anymore. i feel like i'm pestering them...'hi this is myra olympia from blahblahblah...just wanted to double check to see if you will be sending us anymore tpr's to log tonight...yakyakyak....' but i guess we need to do that. and if we don't call and email them, then we will get in trouble. so whatever.

i just got a couple documents from them, so now i just have to rifle through them. be back later....

so there's some frickin drama on this stupid project. i don't have time to write all bout it now, but just know that management over here sucks ass. they seriously need to take a class on how to properly manage a project. and stop displacing blame on just anyone.

the aidsride is going on right now. god bless all of them. it must have been a very exciting day for all of them. i'm not sure if today was the first day or not. but i think i will be volunteering for the closing ceremonies this saturday. it's gonna be so much fun to see all of them! and it'll bring back mucho memories.

well, i finally get to leave early again tonight. yahoo for me! have a good night everyone! hopefully i'll have more time to blab tomorrow.

WOOHOO!

i finally get to leave before 7PM today! we reached our deadline and now i get to go home early and have a fairly easy day tomorrow. thank god for small favors...

i don't really have that much to write...just that i am VERY excited to finally have some kind of life! i think i might go work out tomorrow after work also, after my haircut. just getting a small trim. nothing major or fancy schmancy. just a trim, so that my hair actually grows out nicely.

so everyone have a happy thursday! i'm off enjoying mine! WOOHOO!

*as a sidenote: i hope you're not being too much of a lush tonight, lushy! actually, scratch that...i hope you're drinking it up all you can...don't worry, you'll be fine for you client call tomorrow...if not, oh well..you do better when you wing it anyways! *

i read an article yesterday about how working many long hours for a long period of time will lead to heart disease. granted, they were talking about men in the article, but i think this also applies to women. But here's their advice:

'Their advice: Restrict working hours to 40 or less a week. If working extended periods of overtime, make sure you get sufficient sleep and have at least two days of rest a month.' - MSN Article "Workaholics Court Early Heart Attack"

well, that does it for me. i am a classic candidate for a heart attack. i've worked extended periods of overtime, and have not gotten sufficient sleep...oh wait, maybe i'm not qualified for a heart attack..i mean, i did get 2 days off last month..that's enough right?...riiiiiggggghhhht.

and since there are mostly guys working on this project, i feel for them...i mean, who wants an early heart attack? or have heart disease? someone should forward this article to our partner. better yet, to our client. so they can see what their stupidness is costing us. okok, i know some of it is our fault...but if they wouldn't be so difficult and actually have a clear vision of what they wanted, then maybe this thing can actually go live.

i wonder what i should have for lunch today. everyone else just left, and now they're doing a build, so now i don't have much to do. just catch up on email. i should have gone with them. oh well...i'll find something here to eat. probably go to the deli and get something quick to eat. i keep forgetting to pack something from home. but i always seem to be in a rush to leave...i really need to start getting up earlier. i've been such a slacker, coming in at 10AM and even later. but who could have guessed there'd be traffic at 930AM? i swear, chicago is getting just as bad as LA when it comes to traffic.

k, gotta get something to eat, so i can get more work done when the site comes back up....

ok, i started this a while ago, and somehow it got erased....those sneaky little IE windows....don't even warn you when they're going to take over an already open window. and i thought i had already changed the setting, so that all the new links will open in new windows...whatever...

anyways, i haven't written in a while now...have to catch up....the weekend was defo fabulous. there's nothing like cali during the summer. there's not much that can beat the low humidity, but hot temps. perfect tanning weather. here in chi-town we just burn and then sweat like pigs cuz you know that humidity will git you every time. so i tried to imagine actually living there...for real. and i can't tell if i'll really enjoy it or if it's a place to just vaca for months at a time. so ideally, i'd love to just go there for work or something for 1/2 the year...how does that sound? maybe when/if i ever get rich, i can own a place there and just go there whenever i need to get away. those adult years are starting to pass by. not good. this is the time to be doing anything we want. and i am. for now.

i've realized that i have a severe case of multi-tasking syndrome. i'm not sure if i'm at the point where i have to get help. it's gotten to the point where i have about a billion windows open on my little ibm thinkpad 600x and the javascript window pops up and says 'you are running low on virtual memory...blahblahblah' maybe i'm a bit of a sas too (sas = short attention span), since i can't remember the ending to that warning. so all these windows are open and all i can do is continue on with my work, and hope that i actually get something done. but with all these windows open, will i? or will i start a bunch of things and never finish anything? in a nutshell, that's what being a gemini is all about. i am very much my zodiac sign. anyone else out there? does anyone even read this anyways?? i'll have to add a guestbook. since no one ever wants to email a shout out. i think i'm just talking to myself, but i guess that's the point of this journal. to pretend, hope even, to have an audience, but in reality....not a peep. not a giggle. not even a cough from anyone out there. yoooooooouuuuuuuwwwwwwhhhhhoooooo! anyone? anyone? bueller? do yall know how to use email? or to use a web page? just click on that say.it. link over there..see it? good. now spill.

supposedly we'll be going back to a more 'normal' schedule of work. we'll see bout that one.

so now that i've asked you to holla at me, i've decided that i need to make up a comments link to every blog. i see an example out there, but right now, i don't have time to fix it. so one day, in a land not too far away, i think i will update this template with a little 'holla' link....then you'll have no excuse. you dig?

so i tried to make an appointment with this dentist who was referred to me by my co-worker. got the number...called the office....was put on hold for a couple minutes...the secretary comes on and asks if i've ever been there before...i say no, i've been referred by a coworker...and she proceeds to tell me that this guy up and passed away june 1st. how wierd is that? here i am, excited to get referred to a good, non-drill dentist, and then i find out that i might not get that anymore. i mean, i feel horrible that this guy passed...and then i had to tell him that his dentist isn't around anymore, and he said that he wasn't young, but he wasn't old. hmmm...just another reminder how short and unexpected life can be. everything's a gamble.

i can't wait to talk about other things besides work. like how much i want to get new dvd's. i want to get sitcoms on dvds. that will keep me entertained FOREVER. they need to make dvds out of the seasons of dawsons creek; especially the season when joey and pacey got together...but i don't think they're doing that yet...my guess is that they're not going to either...but friends is out there now....so i have to start on that...

just got free slurpees from 7-11! go get em now! it's the 75th anniversary ... WOOHOO!


oh, and don't forget, it's the 90th anniversary of the oreo cookie. so happy anniversary, oreo. we love your 2 chocolate outsides and creamy inside...mmmmmmmm...oreos...

marcelush say:

speaking of engagement... what about you?

no time better than the present to get hitched, eh?

how's the slurpee today?

playing games until 2am every night is sad... and i'm doing it... along with val and joe.

have fun in LA... i guess we weren't invited? hehe.

peace out!

i really like this template a lot better than my old one....i finally got it working...but now i have to recustomize it...

here goes nothing....

so i'm so tired of this project..it just keeps dragging and dragging...long hours until forever..we set a deadline and it seems to just extend the long hours....when will this end?

i'm excited about LA this weekend. it's the 1 thing i have to look forward to.

and if we're lucky then next week will be the last week of long hours. but who knows...

last weekend was so damn relaxing! 4 FULL days off...can't do much better than that...well....actually you can, but i'll take what i can get...and i might be going to new orleans the last weekend in july...to visit christine..that will be fun too...that's the 1 big perk with working for a consulting firm.

so it seems that getting engaged is the thing to do now...just found out one of my friends' sisters got engaged; she's kinda my friend too, but whatever...so nice to hear...and one of my co-workers got engaged too. who's next? who's next?? congrats everyone!



bah.

since i'm so busy lately, i'm having a guest writer fill in for me today.....



introducing....MARCELUSH!



check one, check two...



so, why is it that my weak ass neck always gets a crick in it at the worst possible times? before some big party in high school, crick... the day after moving into my new place during college without unpacking one thing yet, crick... and now, right before entertaining guests for July 4th in San Fran, crick...



i was so dead tired friday night that I ended up sleeping with the pillow two inches above my head. no support for my noggin. i woke up at 4am wondering why my neck was all contorted and then i tried to pick up my head and there was sharp pain all over...



after about 20000mg of ibuprofen and bitching like a sissy, I was temporarily loose as a goose while riding around San Fran in these little scootcars with Annie and G in tow. the scooter cars are like little deathmobile gokarts that hit up around 55mph. we drove to the golden gate bridge. drove past the palace of fine arts. drove through union... drove near lombard street. slid down the steep ass Hyde Street. drove up to Coit... almost busted my left quad muscle trying to go reverse on a downhill. annie and g honking at me. waving at tourists. cutting off cars... still having road rage... enjoying my little yellow gay scootercar... too bad my ass was squatted in the little car for an hour... or both my knees were sticking outside of the vehicle... or that people looked at me thinking I strayed away from the circus... but hey, it was damn fun!



the rest of the days were filled with relentless tourism... fireworks... eating at Ghiradelli Square... chinatown shopping... north beach eating... sunnyvale chilling... metreon movie watching... bus riding... numerous useless facts coming from my mouth... etc.



talking of numerous useless facts coming from my mouth, I did notice that i talk about shit too much... G mentioned in some many words that it's ok to just be quiet. so i did stay quiet. even after seeing Colma, "which is the biggest graveyard in the Bay Area"... or the Oakland Port Cranes, "which inspired George Lucas to create the AT-AT in the Star Wars movies"... howabout the white house on Lombard, "which was the Real World San Francisco house." ohohoh, have you heard about the Bay Bridge section "that collapsed during the 1989 earthquake"? yeah, lookie, it's right there... damn natural landmarks and tourist guidebooks? I lived and breathed that stuff for the first two weeks I moved here... and it still sticks in my head when I pass by stuff like that... it just hurts not letting people know that I still remember how much it costs to take a picture of old chinese women making fortune cookies in some Chinatown alley. ok, so i'll keep my mouth shut... but damn, what do you expect when I'm in tourist mode!



ahhh... now it is a monday and i'm happy i don't work at monday. harharhar. all the visitors are gone... my crick in my neck is still there... and i'm tired as all hell. well, that's my guest blog for today...



ciao for now.

finally going home...

it's a little after 8:30AM..i've been here for about 24 hours...i just need to finish this diet pepsi before i leave so i can have some good caffine in me before the drive home. i just hope that i don't hit traffic. that would be the worst. i just wouldn't be able to handle it. i think i'd have to pull off the road and take a nap. i think i napped for about 15-20 minutes last night. it was kinda refreshing though...so that's good...i better get out of this place now, before too many people come in and wonder why i'm wearing workout clothes and bright yellow slippers....just gotta finish the diet pepsi....mmmmm....sounds like a commericial...and a very bad one at that..

ok, i'll probably end up writing a lot more later today and also for the next 5 days because i have those days completely free! WOOHOO!! i can't wait to just sleep and not do anything for once! i do have plans to meet up with friends, but i can always adjust those times..WOOHOO!


k....nighty night....*yawn*

waiting for the site to come up (again)....

i think i might apply for a new job...but what he said today was right...why would i want to leave now, unless the pay is significantly better? if it's an industry job, then the pay will more than likely be less than now. and if i have to start all over again, i don't know if i can afford that. especially with the condo closing in september.
that charisma gets me everytime...sometimes i just keep thinking about it...and he's not dumb...so intelligent..i guess my other guy friends don't really act like he does... or maybe he acts differently around me. that must be it...he must not act the same around other people as he does around me, or girls in general. but i do appreciate his personality and how focused he is...that is very admirable. and i love making new friends. a lot of people i know now are still in the partying phase, not very focused on any particular thing...i'm glad i know some people who are very different. makes it even more interesting when i talk to them after a long time...it's like i know some of it is an act, but still, i think he's part of the good people group. you know those types? i think i'll be friends with him for the rest of my life. those types don't come along often. it's like one of those friendships where you don't talk for a while, but when you do, it's all about catching up and it's just a good time...and silence is fine...not a big uncomfortable thing....i enjoy those friendships....

so we'll be here all night executing regression testing....great. hopefully tomorrow we won't have to come in at all...that would be nice. then i can have a 5 day vacation...woohoo! we'll deal with the rest later...

and hopefully, soon, we'll be done with these crazy hours...it'll be wierd not seeing my work family every day anymore...and maybe i can go shopping for some new clothes, since these people have seen me in the same damn thing 5 times already....ran out of clothes about 1 month ago..

i'll probably update this later when i need a break...