it's monday. let's hope this week goes by quickly. a four day weekend wasn't quite long enough. ha.

i forgot how much you can get done when nobody is around. take this morning, for instance. i show up on time, so of course there are only a few people in the office....so productive! amazing. and this weekend everyone was busy except me. it was me, the tv, my laundry, and, oh yes, even my books. i know. it was a crazy saturday night.

ooh..and my cousin's wife had thier baby. get this: 10 lbs. 12 oz. WHOA. that's a big baby. he's sooo cute and sooo fat! heehee!! such a joy. makes me smile big smiles. =D

hours of pain so excruciating not even super motrin could help. and even worse was that it wasn't the kind that would knock you out..instead it would keep you on that line between wanting to vomit out your insides or just die. ugh.

boys, respect your mothers and your sisters and your girlfriends and your girls who are friends. it's not a game.

i knew it!!! dinner friend and i were progressing into temporary study friends but nooooo she had to go run off to california. i totally forgot. for work she says. HA. to SKIP work is more like it. ;D how am i supposed to study by myself? i need to feel that i'm not the only one who has to study after a long day of work when all i want to do is sleep. ahhh...sleep. i love sleeping. i wish there was some way to spend quality time with people while sleeping. hahahahahaha....

4 weeks of studying attempts left. i NEED to pass this exam.

you know those tasks that you dread doing so you put it off until the last possible minute? and not because it's super difficult or anything, but you know it might take a little longer because it's gonna require you to actually use your brain and make a conclusion and stick by it. conclusion!--aka a decision based on the information available and your understanding of it. not that i'm super insecure...of course i'm a little insecure...cuz when lawyers get involved with the decisions and you know you're writing something that people are gonna use as an official document and many many many dollars ride on the job...sheesh. the pressure of being correct. and knowing you're correct. how am i supposed to know i'm correct with less than 8 months under my belt? i must have fooled somebody good to be entrusted with this job.......and so i procrastinate...and worry.....just do it, nana...what's wrong with you? ugh.

lesson of the day:

bi-monthly = twice a month, not once every two months.

if ya wanna way "once every two months" then say "once every two months" or "every other month". is there single word for "every other month"? maybe one needs to be invented. any suggestions?

i can't believe it. bunso is no longer a teen. eric met her when she was 12. heehee!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, KIMMIE!!!!

that campfire smell would not leave me alone!! it's been two days and many showers later and i still smell campfire.

...and yes, porta, i used soap. sheesh. =P

and for some reason i can only smell it when i'm sitting at my computer. what the --??

picture me at the computer....right hand on mouse, left hand on my head in frustration as a stare at my monitor and will my computer to move faster than an apple IIG. and then that smell!!!!

i'm so dumb.

did you know that baby-g watches retain campfire smell really really well?

i meant to get to work early. if not early, on time. really, i did.

and i meant to get a lot done this morning. get a whole phase of a project out of the way. i swear i did.

and now it's almost lunchtime and the end of an utterly disappointing and unproductive morning.

*sigh*

what's wrong with me? can i just crawl back under the covers? i'm content (and honored) sitting in the royal court of blogelot. =)

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www.nanaba.com.

wheeeee!!!!! =) i'm a dot com now, too. thanks, guys!!!

i listened to christmas carols on my way home from work today. makes me smile!!! =)

don't you hate when everything seems to be going....not so much wrong, but definitely NOT right.

i feel disapointed and sad. not super sad or anything...but my heart is frowning.=\

and for the record, my arms were the official feasting site for mosquitoes in southeast michigan today. between this last site visit (think thick thick woods and vast fields--38 acres to be exact-- of ragweed) and world youth day, i am oh so ready for camping this weekend. bring it on, baby.

somehow i managed to get mosquito bites (note: biteS) above my knee through my jeans yesterday. it's like they feasted. gross. i hate itching. i think it's funny how some people are so paranoid about getting west nile....i admit that i freaked out at first cuz people in almost every state died from it, but then it was always people with weak immune systems--children, elderly, etc...so it would actually be better for people our age to get it cuz we're generally healthy and could fight it off and develop the antivirus or antibodies or whatever it is you make to be immune from it forever to pass it on to your kids, thus ending the west nile virus. blah.

happy belated to george and jon!! =)

i wonder if it's weird to call someone up on your birthday to wish them a happy birthday and receive a "you, too!" on the other end. huh. if i knew michael jackson, i could do that.

ahhh...friday. =)

why did this week seem so long? and it was a short week...i hope i'm not getting bored. i fear that i'm one of those restless people that can't stay at a job for too long cuz the novelty wears off and it becomes old and then you become antsy after 6 months to a year. maybe i need to get on those guitar lessons. or just dance more. i'm sooo excited to start hiphop classes...eric got them for me for my birthday (thanks, baby!) and him and martin are taking them, too. woohoo!! we're practically a dance group again. and to reciprocate martin's sentiments....i LOVE having lunch with martin. =) it's so nice to have a good friend to chill with in the middle of the day to escape work for an hour (or two...hahaha). and it's good when your friend gets your money back for contaminated taco bell.

happy birthday to gary g!!!

today is sneeze-the-most-times-you've-ever-sneezed-in-your-life-day. sucks cuz i've spent the day sniffling and barely breathing, but! i did get that feeling of utter satisfaction after relieving that itch in my nose that will only go away with a great big ACHOO! (and must consequently be celebrated with a "woo!" as demonstrated by alvin) at least a hundred times today. i need to find my zertec.

p.s. kelly clarkson, you go girl! thanks for saving me from shooting myself in the foot if justin actually beat you. and yes, i am a loser and have already downloaded the live version of your first single.

slacking off.

let's talk about it.

i've been doing it since i've gotten back from vacation. i think, technically, that i'm still on vacation. i just watched office space this past weekend..and i totally felt like that dude....like in the last two weeks since i've been back from europe i've done like one day's worth of real productive billable work. and it's not like my manager cares that much cuz he's pretty much got a who-cares?-attitude himself. what to do what to do..why is it that we don't get to be super productive til the deadlines approach? and of course once the deadlines are around the corner, you get dumped on with all this other work that needed to be done yesterday.

*sigh.*

someone motivate me, please.