WEST REGION - Round 2

lion y lion!! can mufasa and simba beat out the classic voltron?

(7) The Lion King

(2) Voltron (Lions)

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MIDWEST REGION - Round 2

boy vs. girl as the two heroes fight for a chance in round 3. will it be batman? will it be mulan? vote now!

(10) Batman Beyond

(15) Mulan

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MIDWEST REGION - Round 2

the pocket monsters enter round 2 fully recharged, screaming their names, ready to battle it out with the robotech crew.

(5) Robotech

(4) Pokemon

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MIDWEST REGION - Round 2

will garfield have enough in him to make it through round two?

(1) The Simpsons

(9) Garfield

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MIDWEST REGION - ROUND 1
part 1 RESULTS:

the princess of power fails to upset the robotech crew and advances with a mere 2 votes over greyskull, mulan edges out the tiny toons and batman beyond squeaks by old school d&d in a tiebreaking vote. make sure your favorite cartoon gets the credit they deserve! voting for the final round 1 battles ends tomorrow at 9pm EST. see the official bracketf or tourney results and schedule.

it's a blah day. very blah. not really feeling one extreme or the other. blaaahhhh....i hate rain. rain, rain go away. my brother has chubby cheeks!!! hehe...looks like a chipmunk cuz he got his wisdom teeth pulled. aww....but he can't eat real food. i brought home pizza house chicken tenders and fries and he couldn't eat any. that sucks. =P i need to get my wisdom teeth pulled. i'm a little hesitant, tho, cuz i hear sometimes they have to break your jaw and i don't want anyone to break my jaw. but one of my teeth grew in sideways...ewwwwww. at least i won't have to take vacation day to get them pulled...stupid me thought i would! but i guess it counts as a sick day.....blah blah blah. hope the sun is out where you are.

MIDWEST REGION - Round 1

the sailor man's source of strength is in the spinach....will he eat enough to take on the real american heroes?

(14) Popeye

(3) GI Joe

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here we go....round 1, part 2 of the midwest division:
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MIDWEST REGION - Round 1

uh-oh..it's the bartman and homer up against the menace that is dennis...will mr. wilson finally see dennis go down?? YOU decide!

(1) The Simpsons

(16) Dennis the Menace

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pistons rock. the palace was actually loud and people were going nuts...it was awesome. and we won, so woohoo!! boo on chrissy's work for keeping her til 8:30pm and causing her to miss the game. boooooo. it's alright, girl....we still got round 2. ;D and like chrissy mentioned, we gave paolo the wrong directions home (sorry, man!) from bubble bliss, and he ended up near st. clair shores....oops.

muchos props to alvin for setting up the cartoon tourney. so fun!! there goes productivity. =P anyway...you can check for the latest story on the care bears vs. woody woodpecker battle from our correspondent, reporting from hong kong. over to you....derek?

going to the pistons game today. game 2 against the raptors. why are sporting events so fun?

MIDWEST REGION - Round 1

are babbs, buster and plucky enough to take out the female warrior and mooshu sidekick?

(15) Mulan

(2) Tiny Toons

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MIDWEST REGION - Round 1

new school vs. old school. who will school who?

(10) Batman Beyond

(7) Dungeons and Dragons

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alrighty people...vote here for your favorite cartoon...have fun!!
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MIDWEST REGION - Round 1

will the princess of power defeat the almighty robotech? vote now!

(5) Robotech

(12) She-Ra

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i think i'm getting sick the way i was getting sick in l.a. i don't mind so much functioning all day with a little bit of a sniffle and cough here and there..it's the whole waking up and being sick that i hate. you know how you can't breathe and your head hurts and your chest hurts and your throat hurts and if you move the room goes round and round and round? ugh. even when it's beautiful and sunny out, i can't get out of bed if i'm sick. and i hate orange juice and everyone's telling me to drink it. HATE. yuck.

right now i'm watching cirque du soleil and the contortionist is grossing me out. how is it possible that her bones aren't broken from doing all that stuff? ewww..

wanna hear something cool? they built a philippine-american cultural center in southfield last fall. but that's not the cool part (i mean, it's cool, but not the cool part i was talking about). .....and now they're naming the street philippine street. cool, right? i thought it was a great gesture from the city government.

boo. my manager just asked me to stay til 9pm. figures. this stinks. i'm going out for a looong lunch involving shopping.

there's no one here at work...i came in yesterday at 9am, late, as usual, and i got the first parking spot next to the door. usually i have to park on the side of the building when i come in that late. and right now i'm the ONLY one on my side of the office. it's kinda lonely. i was all worried that i'd have to stay late and i'd miss seeing eric's new condo that he bought on tuesday. guess not...yay! i'm gonna go eat fast food for lunch cuz i'm sick of drinking all this water.

i think there are naked people running around ann arbor right now. that is, if the cops aren't being dumb and pouncing on naked people in order to arrest them. what if you were that cop patrolling naked mile? haha. i would NOT run after some naked person and take them out in order to ticket them for indecent exposure. run away, by all means. i don't want to see you naked. although, as a part of the umich experience, you have to go at least once just to see it. madness i tell you. i must admit that i'm grateful that i've never seen anyone i know running down south u in their birthday suit. that was a huge tangent. *sigh* my whole point is that an entire year has gone by since my last class, possibly ever. it's like i blinked and a year went by. it's funny how fast time goes by but doesn't at the same time and how easily people come in and out of your life but are still there for the important things. man...i wonder when we're supposed to get over this post-college bump into a part of our lives when we don't look back and see college as the best time in our lives...

i'm such a slave to marketing. specificallly, packaging.
my latest downfall: the grab and go cheetos cup.

ups: the top comes off to become a baby bowl for the snack so you don't have to try sticking your hand to get to those final cheetos. it's plastic and reusable if you're economical that way (i'm not...). since it's plastic, it keeps the cheetos from getting smushed during stressful transportation. and it fits in the cup holder in your car.

downs: waste of money. it costs almost two bucks when you can get a really big bag of cheetos for three. =( buy the cheapo ziploc bags and just be more careful during transit.

it's FRIDAY!!!...and it's quitting time. everyone go home or leave work and do something fun except it's raining so you'll have to stay indoors if you're in the detroit area. what a long week. i don't think i've been fully awake the whole time. have a good weekend!!!

it is SO beautiful outside!!! i ran out to my car to grab something and IT IS SO NICE OUT. =) boo on working indoors. lorie got a rental car for work and for some reason they felt they needed to give her a convertible to drive out to three rivers...we're taking it out tonight. hehe. it's supposed to be like this all weekend so let's do something fun outside. ultimate anyone?

can someone please tell me why it is that some people are morning people and some people (ahem, me) are not? i've been having the hardest time getting out of bed and staying out of bed in the morning...not that i was ever very good about it, but it's significantly worse now. usually, i'll just have a hard to getting up. but once i'm up, i'm up. now it's to the point where i will get out of bed, shower, and then go back to sleep. WHO DOES THAT?! me, apparently. showers are supposed to wake you up...and after i finally get my butt out the door, i spend the rest of the day trying to keep my eyes open. i think there's something wrong with me. i need help.

good weekend. alvin is the designated blogger for saturday dinner, so let's see if we can break his comment streak at 8... ;D

i'm "working". i hate this..feeling completely not motivated to work. blah. i've done everything but work since i met with my manager an hour and a half ago. i feel like i'm auto-pilot. maybe because i barely made it into work alive this morning. i'm so tired...i spent the night battling for sleep with my stomach cramps. ugh. guys truly have it easier. must stay awake....my clie is low on batteries, so i can't play bejeweled. i think chrissy's a little bit addicted now....i think we got her hooked on the way home from miami. i feel myself beginning to ramble, so i'll stop myself. happy monday! =P

guess what i saw on my way to work today?

SNOW!!

hmmm...march comes in like a lion and out like a lamb?? april...showers?

alvin said he might blog today. *gasp* let's see if he comes through.

i spent from 7pm to 8pm tonight doing aerobics at my church with the 35 and over crowd. my mom wanted to go, and somehow got me to go with....i mean these people were hard core...they had the exercise mats, hand weights, sweatbands...the whole bit. i must admit that there's nothing like 76-year-old ladies hanging with the instructor to keep you moving...especially when they do the arm exercises with 5 pound weights where they make you hold your arms straight out for an eternity. *must...keep...arms...out.....old lady next to me can do it....i can do it...too.* haha...i exaggerate, although i was extremely impressed by some of these ladies. not that we were doing super high impact tae-bo aerobics, but i hope i'm in that kind of shape when i get to be their age.

seeing that i was able to do aerobics today, i think i've recovered from the whole dance mix experience. my groggy voice turned raspy almost sexy-connie-esque...but it's almost gone now. i was feeling a little like phoebe, especially when i busted out my guitar and tried to sing and play. i still am not very good at all at all at all....(smelly cat...)...i really need to take lessons. that's the only way i'll really focus and really learn, i think. it'd be cool to be self-taught in something, but i need to be real: i'm not disciplined enough to teach myself an instrument. that, and i'm too anal...i'm big on technique, and how do i find out what good technique is without an instructor? there is only so much a book can tell you. i think i'm gonna go cut my nails now so i can start working on my callouses.

exhaustion has led to possible illness. i've had that groggy voice thing going for the last 3 days....i'm contemplating whether or not i should use it to go home sick. if chrissy had gone home "sick" and met me for lunch, i would have. i think both of us had the guilt factor in the back of our minds, so i here i sit, in my cube.

i'm not sure if i need to iterate the large quantity of people in town this weekend. our daily visits to pizza house were always for a party of 30. yikes. i bet they love us and hate us. anyway..i was a little sad cuz i didn't get to hang out with everyone as much as i wanted to. it was so awesome that everyone came out for dance mix but then it had to be easter weekend and family affairs had to come first. so i guess this means we'll have to get together again soon, huh? ;D just tell me when and where. see? we should get together quaterly....and the way it's working, we're right on schedule. so i guess we're looking at the beginning of july? hehe...start saving you pennies! that's only three months away.

9:42am. less than 24 hours since i've left 85 degree weather. at least detroit didn't meet us with snow. it's actually supposed to be nice today...nice being a relative term. nice weather because apparently it was snowing while we were on the beach....not so nice weather because it's not warm enough to sport flip flops and shorts. regardless...miami was fun and the fun has travelled to michigan. i can't believe how many people are going to be back come tomorrow. this is nuts. and why am i at work? everyone in my group is on vacation, too....so why am i here? i snoozed for a good 45 minutes this morning debating whether or not to come in. i conclude that practicing til 3am is not a healthy activity. i don't know how martin does it....anyway...i feel the tired but past exhaustion that you're on the brink of delirium right now.

sleep is good. very very good.

i envy those of you who are sleeping right now. i should be, too. =P i suppose it's time to be somewhat productive now that i've dragged myself into work......

la la la...going to miami!!! i had lunch with martin today and his excitement is contagious...and he's not even going to miami. he's just excited to see everyone next week. gotta love that guy. i slipped into a little bit of a food coma after lunch, tho', cuz martin decided to be daring and not go to taco bell for lunch and get soup at tim horton's instead. foooood commmmma....i hope that this isn't what will always happen now that i've cut back on caffeine. i haven't had coffee in forever and i've limited pop intake to once a day or less...mm..on average. ;D there are some days that are worse than others.

really, i shouldn't have to work. i can't concentrate. don't wanna work. need to get to warm weather and beach. it's way too cold outside..it snowed again today. ha. nice spring. for real...it's gonna snow in june. i feel it. what if that really happened? okay...must focus...maybe i'll go practice the dance in the bathroom....

i'm in a weird mood. i'm not sad but i'm definitely not joyous...and i should be. i'm going to miami on saturday to meet up with some of the greatest people in the world to dance and not dance. beach. friends. dancing. no work. blechh. i need to shake it. chrissy's right. victor's coming in today...woohoo! the fun begins. who'd a thunk that we'd ever get those cali boys to come to michigan to hang out? even james is coming next weekend (along with jon and hong and george!). just a sign of the ridiculous amounts of good times that are about to ensue...

in sam's words: it is officially not a game. ;D

alvin might be right when he said that david copperfield has demonic powers. i don't know how he does the stuff that he does. i left the show yesterday more puzzled than entertained....i mean, almost 24 hours later, i'm still puzzled and bothered.

i don't get it. ;=|

someone should really sign up to be on his tour for the next 5 years so you can tell me all his secrets.

went to the steven curtis chapman concert last night at hill...

amazing. it's beyond my vocabulary.

so much talent and so full of Spirit. the man played 5 different guitars. 2 acoustics (needed two cuz one had a capo), a 12-string acoustic, an electric guitar and a 12-string electric. conehead and i were in awe. and we were 5th row center so we could watch in awe in detail. a lot of the second half of his show was telling the incredible story of the auca indians in the amazon jungle and their change of heart and way of life....gives me hope that people aren't as bad or as mean as they appear to be. take for instance the mean person that's impersonated everyone on everyone else's comments. i really don't know what motivates people to be so mean. i mean if they think it's funny, well then haha i laugh at your immaturity and naivete that those to whom you target with your mean comments will actually care what you think or believe you are the person you're pretending to be...and frankly, i don't care about the comments. see, the thing is...i find that most people are inherently nice and are only mean for a few reasons. either they're angry and emotions get the better of them and meanness ensues but not on purpose, they want revenge and want to feel better or they have one or many insecurities, may or may not be aware of it, and need to put other people down to make themselves feel better....and it's usually the latter. so, mean commenter, my prayer for you is that you address and remedy whatever your issue(s) is/are and direct that energy along a more positive line...because acting out like that (which i'm guessing is pretty frequent for you) for whatever reason will only get you in the wrong place when it really matters.

it's been one of those weeks where i don't feel like doing anything. i'm entirely unproductive at work...it's amazing how hard it is to waste time sometimes. =P both of my managers are gone and yesterday i was pretty much the only one on my side of the building. what to do what to do....i'm not particularly inspired nor am i in what you would call a good mood. i guess i just felt like blogging cuz yesterday i wanted to blog, but the stinkin' server was being whack, so i couldn't get in blogger to blog. i wish i weren't feeling so yechh cuz it's gorgeous outside. back to "work"...

i am addicted to bejeweled. must keep clie off. must focus on work....what is it about those games in which the object is to line up 3 of the same thing? i'm addicted to all of them....

March 7, 1995:

7 years and counting....

=)

so dinner buddy and i are finally gonna have dinner tonight...after a 2 month (almost) hiatus. it was getting ridiculous. i thought i was gonna have to cancel again today, cuz being a girl sucks, but i think i'll live through this one...last time i died, but this time i don't think i have to. plus, the inventors of aleve are great people. great. anyway...dinner buddy and i were planning a fun night that only kinda involved dinner...more of a grab mcdonalds or toxic hell and then go boarding!!..except i just got back from getting a new drivers license (i forgot to blog about the retard that i am cuz i lost my new wallet with money in it, which is rare, and my world in it--okay, tangent..) and i didn't wear a coat once i felt the temperature as i stepped out the door.

stupid michigan weather. all the snow that fell last night is all gone. not even a little melted. ALL GONE. =( ugh.

don't wanna work i don't wanna work!!! can i just be five so i can throw a tantrum, get my way, and get to go to my room? although, i don't think i really threw tantrums when i was a kid...not like you read about in books or see on tv....i mean, i used to fight really loud with my brother, but i don't think that qualifies as a tantrum. and why was going to your room the standard punishment? come to think about it...i don't think i ever got sent to my room either. but now it would be nice cuz then i could just sleep in my comfy bed with lots of pillows. hmm. i'm waiting for my manager to get out of a meeting so i can take some report out to detroit. i'm glad i get to leave the office....times like this i'm glad i'm at the junior level. no one really expects much...

my monitor is blurry. i'm not sure when this happened, but i'm pretty sure it wasn't fuzzy when i logged in this morning. =( i pretty much destroyed one of the buttons on my monitor...the stupid thing got stuck and kept flashing through the different options.

note to self: mechanical pencils do not unstick those little buttons on the front of your monitor.

fun weekend...we went to gameworks on saturday to celebrate j and eric's bdays...we were lucky enough to find tables to fit us all. but there was no karaoke, so boo...but there was a guy wearing a silver sequined jacket calling bingo (????), which was kinda funny. i felt bad that he had to wear it, but i guess if he was getting paid.... my arms are sore from playing the free throw game...i actually beat eric once, but he was drinking and i'm sure he would have kicked my ass on any other occassion. all in all...fun weekend. except yesterday i found out that my cousin's birthday party was on saturday and i completely forgot. i am the worst cousin in the world.

happy birthday eric and j!!! actually, it was yesterday, but i was gone all day and i kinda hate using my computer at home cuz i'm on one all day at work, so i didn't get to blog....eric's the big 2-5....it's the silver anniversary of his birth! hehe...i think it's funny to think of birthdays that way. why do birthdays get their own name anyway? when you get married you have an anniversary...but why isn't it referred to as your weddingday? or marriageday? i admit that those sound a little silly, but i bet birthday would, too if we didn't always call it that...stupid little things that i ponder...

it's freezing in my office right now...i don't understand why these people think that just cuz it's sunny outside that it's also warm. i spent all day yesterday in the freezing cold. yes. outdoors. it was cool cuz i got to get out of the office, but it wasn't cool that we were further north (hence, colder) and outside all day taking groundwater samples. water. water that freezes if you spill it on your nitrile gloves that don't keep you warm at all. brrrrr. i get cold thinking about it. and me and chris gave up coffee, so i can't even warm myself up with that. probably better anyway...i need to lay off the caffeine. i'm reminded once again by friggin mother nature how much caffeine hurts me. yechh.. i hate being a girl.

do you ever wonder about those people who are constantly feel it is their job to tell everyone what to do? i mean...those people who are just....bossy. (hey, i'm back in 5th grade.) i wonder what goes through their head to justify treating people like crap. i've spent all day listening to this woman just verbally beat on people....how are people so mean to belittle someone (in front of colleagues, no less) for the benefit of...what? i don't know...and the pathetic part is that she behaves like a lap dog to all the project managers. ugh. i just avoid her...

i love saturdays. i think if i lived alone, i might spend the whole day sleeping. not that i want to waste my day sleeping, but you have to admit, that sometimes that is not a bad thing. and everyone's gone! what am i gonna do with myself?

ah...back in the office. i feel entirely unproductive. i feel like i've been looking at the same stupid report for the last 5 hours. not being in the office for a week reminds me how nice it is to not work. half of me doesn't want to do anything, the other half wants to learn. so i sit in limbo (conehead can sculpt limbo, much to the dismay of eric) and blog.

hope everyone had a good valentine's day!! (or a single-awareness day, as kristine puts it..) the year's going by really fast....i think it's because of the lack of snow and the 50 degree weather. good and bad....i want it to snow because i think it would be nice to land a jump before the season is over. so bring on the snow.

i didn't have to work today, so i had a game plan to be productive and choreograph and run errands and everything...except for that lorie called me at noon, and i was still in bed. so much for productivity. =P i need to work on my lenten goal....i'm giving up being a lazy bum.....i contemplated giving up pop again, but i did that once and it ended up being no good. i figure i'll just cut back and drink more water. that's a part of not being a lazy bum, yeah? gives me energy...supposedly. off to productivity i go...i need to do something...i've only been up for five hours.

so i'm sittingin my required 40-hour OSHA hazardous waste operations and emergency response (whew!) training..the good part: i'm 15 minutes away from my house and traffic doesn't really exist on my way there. the result: 1 extra hour of sleep. good. the bad part: it might be the most boring place on this earth and the instructor guy spends 20 minutes talking about sea level and the atomosphere keeping our bodies from being floating molecules and blah blah blah balha BLAH!--all to explain how 2.05 atm can be the same as 1520 mmHg.

"1atm = 760 mmHg."

that is ALL he had to say. sea level? 20 minutes?!!! when we could spend those 20 minutes sleeping or going home and enjoying the weather. talk about tangents. i think i may have just been unseated.

driving to work at 20 mph is the pits.

DEREK. of course you are invited to dance mix!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! come come come!! we will talk.

saw janet last night. amazing, just like before, although, i must say that i was feeling the crowd more at the garden than at van andel....nevertheless, it was awesome. a-maze-ing. plus it was just fun because it was lorie's birthday (happy 25th!!!) and eric and ny and donna and alvin and j and chrislum were there. =D i was pretty surprised by grand rapids, tho'....it's a pretty nice city. if detroit could just get it's act together to be like that....

so there's snow and snow and snow and oh yeah...ice and freezing rain on top of it. doesn't make for a fun three and a half hour drive at midnight. or a morning commute. i'm pretty much the only one in my office right now. i wonder if anyone else is gonna come to work....it's way too treacherous out there for any vehicle to be on the road. last night we saw at least 10 cars stuck in ditches and this morning i saw 5. i'm sure there were more cuz some of the cars i say were waaaayyy stuck in those ditches. none of the schools are open...with maybe the exception of michigan...they'd technically be open but no one would go to class....just cuz of that lawsuit a few years back. silly law students....i'm always surprised at the things people sue for.

so i thought i had blogged one of my more clever blogs, and it's not here and i don't know what happened to it, but i can assure you that it was clever. so clever that i can't rethink it. alvin finally checked up on the comments on his blogspot. i would have linked him, except there's nothing new to link to seeing that he hasn't blogged in over a month now. at least he acknowledged our comments. =P alvin, blog!! stop working and blog!

lorie's gonna celebrate the 25th anniversary of her birth on wednesday, gettin' old. hittin' that quarter century mark. and hey, insurance goes down! saving money is always a good thing. =D we're all going to see janet jackson in grand rapids. why she's going to grand rapids, i have no idea, but the tickets were cheap and we have good seats. kimmie and co. will be sitting on the main floor dead center. just need to figure out that "and co." part. i feel we're gonna be cutting it close to making the show. phllbbtt. i hate cutting it close..too stressful. like fast card games and encore.

blah blah...nothing fun happening to me. my tailbone still hurts from last weekend...starting to think this might not be normal. i'll ask porta...he should know. ha. anyway..here i go...back to work...

there is a world of traffic out there for me to face and yet i sit here blogging instead of trying to beat it. maybe cuz i don't look forward to getting in my car. every time i get in, i'm reminded of that stupid patch of ice (or should i say ice boulders) that took me out on saturday. ugh. if you ever go up to shanty creek, stay away from summit and just go to schuss. the snow was sooo much better and so were the runs...well except for that ridiculously flat one we foolishly went down. torture it was. but what a fun weekend for snowboarding. like chrissy said...nuts and lorie just started boarding and they did so good!! i think the falling might have taken a toll on donna, tho....it'll get better! soo much fun...hanging out with conehead and chrissy and porta and donna (who i never see ever) and lorie and ny. =D once again: i am so blessed. and we even made it home before midnight on sunday to get a semi-decent night of sleep...even though me and chrissy shouldn't have had to work in the first place. companies that don't take off mlk get a thumbs down. two, in fact. the only good part was that there really wasn't any traffic...okay...time to go home. g'night all!

one more hour before i leave for up north. techinically, it's like 2 hours cuz i have to go get chrissy and conehead first. i haven't been to this resort since i was 9 so i'm hoping that i remember right that the runs are waaaay better than they are in southeastern michigan. they probably have some natural piles of dirt instead of some made out of garbage. and taller, too...but then again i was also a foot and a half shorter. conehead has the brilliant plan of stopping off at birch run on the way up. brilliant i tell ya.

oh, yeah...i'm blogging at work. amazing. who ever thought i would blog at work? not that it would be outside of my nature, but who would ever think i would have a job in the first place that would give me my own computer?

i think i drove halfway home in first gear today. a good 15 miles. first gear! the roads weren't even bad yet...just a little bit of snow.--just like every other winter we've ever had in michigan--and there people go driving retarded. i realize that there is a degree of caution that must be taken during times of precipitation, but people! it's just snow and it wasn't even sticking! well, whatever. i just like to complain. i'm glad that i got home alright and that i didn't see anyone else have an accident on the way home. the good part: snow for snowboarding. real snow. the good kind. it should be even better up in traverse city. =) the even better part: lorie said we could make spring rolls. =D

it's hard to want to move forward when your life plateaus in contentment.

my week of bumdom is coming to a close. i stayed up past 2 every night just cuz i could. actually, last night i didn't because i realized it would be dumb of me to get used to sleeping so late since i start work on monday. don't want to be late on the first day. not that i could...you know how you're pretty anxious to start a new job that even if you are perpetually 15 minutes late for everything, you'll be on time, if not early, for those first couple weeks on the new job? yeah. anyway...i'm excited....no, not excited. don't want to get my hopes up. i'm looking forward to starting this new job. it will be nice to work with people that are within a decade of my age.

so i woke up this morning with a sore throat. i'm not sure if it's because i'm at the tail end of my sickness or if my whole neck is just sore from falling on my head yesterday during snowboarding. hmm. my mom reckons i should get a helmet. yeah, yeah. i think i should just stop falling on my head. regardless, everyone should take time off of work to go boardig. =) it makes it that much more fun, right, chrissy?

one more day of dumb lab work before a week of no work before i start my new work. heehee. what to do...i figured i could get some reading in (that's right, i read) since eric has repeatedly brought it to my attention the downward spiral my vocabulary and communication skills have taken since i graduated in april. i admit that this is true, hence the reading. i'm also hoping we'll get some more snow (sunday's forecast says so) so that maybe one of my home friends with 22 vacation days not including holidays will take time off and be a snowboarding buddy, too. ;D

i feel that my life is beginning to roll now....i have no reason to complain about anything....i have my family and friends and a job and a mode of transportation. i'm pretty set...the new year really brought a fresh start, i feel. cheesy, i know....who cares? it's a good thing. finally, i feel that it's okay for me to do all the extra things that i want to do without feeling guilty about not having a good job.

(side note: is it supposed to feel like your fingertips will fall off when you first learn the guitar? it's a little painful to type. i don't know how i'm supposed to develop callouses.)

i'm excited to see what this year will bring. people are looking at buying houses and are moving all over the place....and i just found out that my friend michelle just got engaged to her doctor boyfriend (congrats!!!) and that chris and sheila got engaged at a pistons game last month. my goodness...we're all growing up so fast! haha...for real....it's like the video they made for jon at avalon. half a dozen young professionals being completely retarded in jon's underwear. how is it that we are so silly and can still get hired to do real world work? i love it. i have no idea if that made sense. oh, well..it's bedtime for me. bye bye to jon for a little while...good luck and safe travels in england!

oh, yeah...happy birthday to STEEEVEEE!!!! (in 30 minutes and counting...) happy 23rd, man!

whoa. what a trip. i don't think i've ever done so much in a week in my life. it was super concentrated fun. eating, dr. mario, movies, boarding, shopping, eating, sleeping, dancing, bonfire, cranium, mafia...my goodness. it was so much more than just those things, tho'. la...sd..irvine...i'll say it again. my. goodness. fun fun fun!!! i love my friends. i really think that i have the greatest friends in the world...we're so far apart, but when we get together, it's like no time has passed. so thank you thank you lynn and hong and james and victor for spending practically every minute of our visit with us and housing us and for driving us all over southern california and jon and george, too, for playing host to us in sd. you guys are the best ever for showing us such an amazing time. just think...only 3 more months and we'll be in miami. =)

so eric and i arrive at lax super early for our flight, get our bags checked in without a hassle, board our flight on time and even arrive at dtw early. atypical for northwest. of course, the idiots at the airport failed to notice that our plane had arrived, so we wasted a good 15 minutes on the plane waiting for them to connect the walkway to the plance so we can de-board(?). did i mention that it's 10:50pm on new years eve? (enter frustration.) we can make it to my house, i tell myself as we book to baggage claim...you will not miss watching the ball drop with your family because you have never missed the ball drop with your family in your entire life. i figure, we actually got to detroit on time, no doubt will i make it home on time. baggage claim to it's sweet time and by 11:18, we're running out of the airport with our snowboards in hand. (enter anxiety)42 minutes to get home, i think...i'm barely gonna make it. at 11:43 we're at southfield freeway and 8 mile, at least 20 minutes from my house. (enter disappointment) my brother calls me 5 minutes before midnight like i asked (so i could pseudo drop the ball with the family) and we count down and midnight hits. *happy new year!* i'm in a car less than a mile away from my house. i must say i was pretty close to devastated. i mean, i ran into my house without unloading the car so i could make the tail end of the new year excitement, but it wasn't the same. at least i got to see my cousins before they bounced off to other new year parties. i missed a tradition and i don't think i want to do that again. makes me realize how attached i am to my family....further reinforcing that this is where i'm supposed to be.

anyway...i've spent new years day sick. it was building up all last week and finally just blew up this morning. it's the kind of sick that makes you miserable because you can't breathe or swallow or talk or move your head. yechh. i have to go to work like this tomorrow. the only good part is that there's only 3 more days left at ppg (aka pppoopy--like kimmie says). then i have a week to do...nothing!!! hahahahaha...can't wait. i think i can try out my new snowboarding skills on our snow-covered landfills...

okay...lots of last minute shopping to do. i thought i was done, but i need another something for my mom so it's not just a bunch of theater tickets that she's opening tomorrow. hmm...what do you get someone that doesn't need anything? last night was white elephant....4 years and running now....probably the quickest and least stressful of them all. that was nice. but then there was cranium. i think that made up for the lack of stress in the gift exchange. club cranium's involve way to much stress for a post-white elephant game, and i was queen of them last night. *sigh* but, as always, it was a ridiculous amount of fun and i hope that everyone has friends to have that much fun with.

so i got the job. i'm an engineer. =D

i can't believe how fast christmas came this year...(2 DAYS!!!)....only been 8 months since graduation...it's interesting to see how much all our lives have changed in that short time frame, yeah? anyway....MERRY CHRISTMAS, everyone! i guess the more appropriate thing would be to say happy holidays. so HAPPY HOLIDAYS!! have a wonderful time spending it with those close to you...and be safe...very safe. and if i don't blog before the year end...happy new year, too!

isn't it frustrating when you're trying to tell someone something but you want them to guess it, so you try to initiate the guess-mode, but it fails miserably? hmm..does that make sense? see..i tried to do that to munfung today, but she just completely missed it. whooo...right over her head. so now i guess she'll have to wait, huh?

*patience* i think i have it now. =) praises.

it was snowing on my way back from royal oak last night. what a tease. i thought it would snow a lot cuz the sky's been looking like it had tons and tons of precipitation to dump on us, but nooooo....it's supposed to snow on sunday now. i just want to have a white christmas. it's not christmas without the snow.

despite good things going on in my life, i've been feeling very blah. i'm in a blah funk and i can't shake it and i don't know why.

*shake shake shake*

nope. no good. maybe i'll feel better in the morning. better pack...going to columbus for the weekend.

move over 2tongues...say hello to sharon kim. she is definitely on her way. good job tonight, sharon!!

p.s. weather forecast for tomorrow: partly cloudy with a high of 55F. 55?!! not your typical december 13th michigan weather. i'm not sure if i should love it or hate it cuz it won't snow so i can practice snowboarding before la....

one of the cutest things in the world: little kids singing their heads off about christmas.
pure joy. makes you wish that life was that simple again...reminds me of that brian mcknight song. =)

one of the most fun things in the world: cranium. now...i usually hate board games. H-a-t-e. i think i was traumatized in my childhood. but cranium is the exception. maybe it's because we get to see g and eric dance around like cowboys or alvin reach delirium while figuring out flying butresses...or maybe just because it's a team effort? it's way too stressful when it's each person for him/herself. regardless...i've never laughed so hard in my life. i guess you had to be there. we played at the guevara's place in e. lansing after g's school christmas concert. ha..they're the guevaras now. i still need to get used to that. =D

wow. what a test of patience. no car and no new job. i had to have my brother drive me to work today and my mom pick me up.

"hi, i'm twelve."

i couldn't even be cool and have my boyfriend pick me up because he's been galavanting in vegas with fun people while i'm here having my patience tested. yeah, i'm a bit jealous. teeny tiny bit. but i got over it about 2 seconds after i realized i wouldn't be going. i did get to have a fun saturday with alvin and conehead and chrissy and j and chrislum. it was a good thing bubble bliss closes because i feel that we would have had an eternal euchre tournament otherwise. it might be the best card game ever (which means that more people than those originating from michigan should learn how to play it so they can play with their native-michigan friends.) ;D

i was going to end at the ";D", but i just realized that i really need to work on my conclusions. even in high school, i was never very good at ending a paper, which might also be why i tend to go off on tangents and never really make it back to the point at hand. i'm going to work on it. it will help keep my mind off the things i'm being impatient about. (ha!)

coming december 5, 2001.
GS Titatnium Pearl

ordered my car today.

it's pretty.

=)

i might get it tomorrow.

hey!!! i bet you missed me, huh? so it's been, what? a couple weeks, it looks like...what have i been doing? nothing! i'm a bum. thanksgiving was good. i swear i blogged about it, but i guess not. didn't eat myself stupid, but i did watch the buffy marathon that was on. it was ridiculous...14 hours of buffy reruns. i love it. now that i think about it, i think i just commented on everyone's site instead of blogging on thanksgiving. i'm not even going to dare try to catch up on everyone else's blogs right now in fear of not getting to bed before i have to go to work. anyway...i got to catch up with steen last thursday and then psycho me decided to try to go to best buy the day after thanksgiving at the crack of dawn only to find that the line wrapped around the building. what??!!! i'm telling you, people are c-razy.

my psycho-day-after-thanksgiving-shopping-buddies: ny, vince, alvin, chrislum, and jasmine (chrislum's cousin from cincinatti? it's definitely ohio...) =) i am not alone.

that was a great day. lots of driving, but great. the only part that was poopy was having to drive up to birch run by myself. yeah...alvin and chrislum met up with me later so that i could spend time in espirit without them waiting around for an hour. i was missing lynnchen. the rest of my poopy face friends met up with us at great lakes crossing...sticker pictures were taken...(i have them, btw)...we got boba (sorry, kyle...can't spell the chinese you taught me)....played cranium...yay! fun day. wanna know something else that's fun? i'm getting a new car! woohoo! maybe that's why i haven't been blogging...too busy doing research. haha...i hope everything goes okay. this is such a big step. financing. whoa. that's a grown-up word. an even bigger grown-up word: mortgage. yikes. anyway...

went to see the rockette's christmas spectacular at the fox with eric's family tonight. we could have been on a cruise, that's the type of show it was. it was good....we were all pretty surprised that they ended it by re-enacting the nativity scene. it was really good, and the craziest part was that they felt that it was necessary to bring out three camels, some sheep, and a goat to make it super duper great. and for those of you taht care...there were five midgets that pretended to be santa's elves. (see me shrug) one of the rockette's is from the heights and went to school with me and my brother...more so with ny cuz they were in school plays together. she was probably the best one onstage, and that's not cuz i'm biased. okay...time for bed and to let ny use his computer.

i have more caffeine pumping through my veins right now than i have had in the last year. i was shaking before. i've calmed down since then. this is exactly why i should never become one of those coffee fiends. i'm glad now that i don't need that cup of coffee every morning to get me going. i would be beyond hyper. and once i've developed a tolerance for it and tried to quit, my caffeine headaches would be infinitely worse than they are now...and i only drink one thing of pop a day. (that's soda for all you non-midwesterners.) the only thing is that coffee is free at work and pop is not. the benefits certainly need to be weighed. eric would probably say to just quit them both. hmm...pretty sure that won't happen in the near future. i don't know.

people! i realize that there is the whole "i" before "e" except after "c" or when sounded like "a" as in "neighbor" or "weigh". BUT!--there are exceptions.

excepcion supremo numero uno: the adjective that's used to describe things that are out of the ordinary...W-E-I-R-D. weird. it looks funny, but that's definitely the correct spelling.

i only bring this up because james is not my only friend that has issues with this word. so, class, the lesson for today? w-e-i-r-d NOT w-i-e-r-d.

weirdos.

no throwdown. the pistons are safe. buffy: the musical was awesome and i can't believe that joss whedon was audacious enough to make an episode where every actor bursts into song and dance. impressive.

let it also be known that chrissy has finally completed her boba mission. me and my wednesday night dinner buddy were joined by our gm-dork friends, eric and conehead, at the new boba shop in downtown rochester. very cool place...boba and korean food. (yum!) if it were closer, i might be there everyday. it was such a great night...gorgeous fall weather (sweater weather!), boba, good friends, good conversation....how lucky am i to have such great friends. it has also been determined--and this is for real--that in order for eric agustin to get it in his head how frustrating it is to never be able to reach him, an order has been declared that no one, i repeat NO ONE, should answer any phone call bearing his phone number, cell phone or home. this is extremely important in our cause to be able to effectively contact our dear friend when we need him. so help us help him come to this understanding. it's really for his own good, yeah? ;D

tonight is the night. buffy: the musical will be airing in t-minus 68 minutes. all i know is that there will be a throwdown if the pistons keep me from watching it.

what a weekend. i just finished watching the tape of the performances, and everyone rocked. funktion brought it. 2xs was amazing. i was so impressed. amazing. i'm just so proud of all of them...what a great first performance. =D what a great weekend. i don't think i've ever seen so many people from michigan while not in michigan. time was definitely fully maximized, though limited. we got into chicago a little late because of running late, traffic, accidents and ryan and alvin needing to buy work out benches (kidding, guys!) before they left...so i was a little worried that people wouldn't want to go out because they were tired. they were, but we went out anyway to zentra. crazy fun....ran into college roommates (!?), funny inebriated frineds, hip hop was spun...fun times. =D watched monster, inc....soo good. boo might be the cutest thing to ever be cute. then u of i. ahh. practically all of umich 2xs--old and new-- was there, practically all of funktion was there. i can't believe how many people showed up. the only bad part was all the driving we had to do. let me just say that the drive from u of i to chicago at 4am is very very difficult. tunnel vision. but it was all worth it. seeing all our friends...really it's priceless. just like the commercial says. haha. i have great friends. beautiful people, they are. i'm so blessed.

lorie has a blog!!! woohoo!

happy halloween, everybody! did everyone celebrate by stuffing themselves stupid with candy? the number of trick-or-treat-ers in my neighborhood has declined steadily since i was in middle school. we were the only house in the dead end (for those of you who have been to my house) that was passing out candy. what party poopers. even my next-door neighbors who are teachers didn't pass out candy. hmph. if i were a little kid, i might be frustrated. but i'm not, and the lack of kiddies asking for candy has left me and my brother with lots and lots of chocolate! haha...my mom always buys too much. now all we have to do is discover her stash. shouldn't be hard. she's not too good at hiding candy.

this whole daylight savings time is messing with me. i walk out of work at 4pm to go home and i don't know if it's semi-dark because the weather is poopy or if it's semi-dark because it's supposed to be dark soon. huh. and if it's just semi-dark because the weather is yucky, then i wish it would just rain already, because i'm not digging this *dreary* motif. well, i don't wish it to rain on the trick-or-treat-ers. it's more like i wish i wasn't so affected by the weather. gray days really make me want to do nothing. my brother tried to get me to run today at 6:45pm. okay...#1: it was dark. dark dark. like the middle of the night dark. ##2: it's cold. i feel snow threatening halloween. #3: it's devil's night. "only to schoennher and back," he says. 3 miles?! ha. maybe to conehead it's *just three miles*. i told him i'd rather do 1000 sit ups than run a mile. but i should do something active. i feel myself turning into a slug. mindless and slow-moving. i can't wait to go to chicago this weekend. i'm ridiculously excited--practically giddy. practically. i get to hang out with my greatest friends, including ny and lorie who i hardly ever get to hang out with together, and see 2xs (bunso's debut!) and funktion perform. i better sleep now cuz i probably won't be getting any this weekend....

chrislum is the best! look! it counts comments on its own! this is very exciting for me...

pet peeve #102801: boyfriends that never answer their cell phones EVER. frustration.

today, there was snow. it's very disappointing to see snow fall before halloween. my brother recalls a halloween when it was snowing. i remember no such thing. at all. halloween = fall, yeah? what happened to fall!? i love the fall. i love sweater weather. and we've completely skipped it.

why is my date and time a different color than the rest of my blog? hmm...i must have messed something up when i kept moving the comment thing around. and now my computer's being whack. argh. it's been a frustrating half hour. first no boba, then no eric, and now this. i wish i knew html. i think i'll just go to bed.

comment away! i did it all by myself. like james was saying earlier....copy and paste: gotta love it.

the most disturbing thing on tv these days: the levis (?) low-rise jeans where the belly buttons are singing.
ewwwwwwwwwww.
belly buttons should never be filmed, never mind filmed singing. my brother has graciously taped it for me as some form of sick torture.
(fyi: the girl singing the jingle is the girl that's on the sopranos...jamie lynn something or other. she was also on the cover of maxim a few months ago.)

my house is empty. my tita and my cousin and my lolo left to go home to the philippines today and i'm sad. every time my tita leaves, i cry. i'm such a baby. it's not like i'm never going to see her again (she's coming back in the spring), but it's been that way since i had to say goodbye to her the first time she left the states when i was nine. and then i make her cry, and then we're both sitting there hugging and crying ourselves ugly. ah, well...life must go on..

i might be getting a new car. it's actually more of an i-am-going-to-get-a-new-car, but now i just have to find one to buy. but it can't be too expensive because i have no money and my insurance is going to be ridiculous since i like to drive fast and i'm not 25. shopping for a car is not as fun as shopping for clothes. at least for clothes you can just see if it fits...if it looks good and has a good price, buy it. but with a car, you have to know so many more things that i don't know, but should care about, and i assume i eventually will because i am a soon-to-be car owner. plus, i'm pretty sure that ny and eric will sufficiently educate me on everything i need to do as a soon-to-be car owner. they're good that way. i don't feel old enough to have my own car. maybe it's the whole financing thing...i've never bought anything big enough where i have to pay in installments. it's scary--like my first baby step to being independent from my mom. of course, at college i was independent from my mom because i didn't live at home, but she still made sure everything was paid for and that i didn't starve. and now i'm home, and she cooks and lets me live here for free...and, technically speaking, i'm still her dependent (so says the irs). i don't know what i'd do without her. i'd be so lost otherwise, but i don't think she knows it. maybe i should tell her.

connie cheung is my hero.
she is the only person i know that would and did run 26 miles just to run 26 miles. straight. 26 miles!!! that's nuts! i now have a friend who's a marathon runner. it is incomprehensible to me why she would do such a thing, but she did and i'm soo proud of her...so yay, conehead!!

i've decided that i hate being at home alone. it's a completely different being-at-home-alone at home-home than at school-home. at school-home you have 20 closest friends and a couple dance groups to hang out at all hours of the day and going home at the end of the night/beginning of the morning is just so you can get the minimal sleep required to get through the next day. and everyone's a short walk or a shorter drive away. here, you have to drive everywhere and everything closes early, and currently, everyone's gone. ny went to visit lorie at her pad in k'zoo, eric went to help out at the youth retreat for his church, my mom, cousin, tita, and lolo all left for branson, missouri on thursday, and kimmie was in a2. she's here now, but she was supposed to come up to the pistons game with chrislum and alvin and j and brian (and galvez--he met us up there) to meet me, but she hoed me out for this thing called 2xs. ;D so after a great night hanging out with my great buddies (fyi...pistons beat the heat: 90-76, i think), i came home to an empty house. it's scary. on my way to being well into my twenties, i'm still afraid of my basement (there is a very valid reason, ask me later if you want), so you can imagine how creepy i feel the rest of the house is when it's dark and late and i'm by myself. so i try to busy myself by watching iron chef, but the sensor light in our backyard kept going off, and i was too chicken to see what it was so i just went to bed. the important thing now is that i'm chillin' with my favorite sister, watching old episodes of buffy and drinking bubble tea. =D and i'm not at home alone. it doesn't get much better than this.

so yesterday i said my brain needs to be challenged.
today eric and chrissy and me are a book club.
needless to say, the mess of mush that is my brain was stirred, and now it will be challenged to form into the mass that used to be useful and must be again.

haha...mass mess miss moss muss. those are all real words.

it is a good day. there was sunshine, my pool got closed, i had dinner with my 7pm wednesday night dinner buddy + 1, and i'm going to read a new book.

my brain needs to be challenged. i've found that i speak only in simple sentences ever since i graduated. even my job doesn't even remotely require me to speak or write in polysyllabic words. and my attention span has dwindled to the size of a pea. maybe that comes with being a human robot for money. i hate money. i wish we didn't need it, then i wouldn't have to be a human robot for 40 hours of my week. we should just barter goods.

look at me. i have a template. i know it's boring, but it's better than just white, yes? i just need to figure out how to change the damn title (since it is way past my birthday) and the message on the right. kimmie did that, and i thought i changed it, but apparently not.

huh.

i feel there is much confusion in my living room right now. my cousin and my aunt are trying to send a box off to the philippines, which they thought was going to be sent tomorrow, but the guy is ready to pick it up like now. there's a lot of freaking out and my one cousin is yelling into her phone. over a box. it must be a pretty big deal if they're making this much fuss about it. all i know is that the weather is really poopy right now. it makes me want to sleep all day. i want the sun to come out. people are never in a good mood when it's this gloomy.

don't you hate it when people call you by a nickname that only your dear friends and family call you? it's as if they think they know you, but they have no idea. (haha...this is the diary of annalisa...i am such a dork.)

between dequindre rd. and john r rd. is a distance of 1 mile. i travel that using 15 mile rd/maple rd. it usually takes me 20 minutes max to go from my house to my work on 15 mile rd/maple rd which is a distance of 6 miles. maybe 7 and a half. so tell me why it took me 20 minutes to get from dequindre to john r this morning. granted, i was late (yeah, yeah...nothing new), but 20 minutes!!!! it's not like this is the city. it's suburbia for crying out loud. there was no accident, no construction, no school buses stopping you every 10 seconds...just plain old people driving their cars RETARDED. i mean, did i miss the memo that said to automatically drive like a dumbass between dequindre and john r??? come on now...reaction time, people! that's all i'm talking about--stepping on the gas once the car in front of you starts to move instead of waiting for them to cross the damn intersection before you zone back to earth, take a minute to realize that the light is green, realize that you can go and then go. and the worse part is that once you pass john r: normal. no traffic at all. so avoid being that guy. or those guys. you know...the ones that drive retarded. stay alert. remember: retarded drivers = traffic jam = no good (+ super duper late for work).

well this is no good.

my page is so boring. to everyone who's reading this, i'm sorry i have such a boring blog spot. it's just that i'm not motivated to put the template back up cuz kimmie did it for me, but it was from a temporary spot (or something, can't remember), so now it's gone and i'm boring. =( boo. maybe i should get off my lazy bum and learn to do it myself. i'll be a computer nerd. but i can't start now, cuz my lolo and my tita are already back from their cruise. translated: the spider solitaire addict is back. no computer time for nana. huh. so maybe around halloween, huh? that's when they leave. yeah...it'll give me something to do since i'm pretty much a loser cuz i don't do anything except go to dinner with chrissy every wednesday at 7pm. we're dinner buddies. (HAPPY BIRTHDAY, dinner friend!!!! woohoo! the big 2-2. =| you're right. what a dumb birthday. we should just become 21 until we're 25 and our car insurance goes down.) i guess i watch tv, too...all i have to say is: buffy lives. my brother says fx is becoming one of his favorite channels, and i must say that i agree. i mean, anyone who shows buffy and ally--i know really different, and i know that there are a lot of you that think i'm a dork for watching buffy, but i don't care!--five times a week is a great channel. and if you're into the practice, they show that, too...so yay.

i've been making my lunch every day so that i can have money to go to l.a. i feel like a little kid. i'm going to make my lunch for tomorrow now, and i'm going to put a jello cup in it. lemon-lime...the best kind. =D and then i'm going to go to bed because i'm old now and i have to get up early. yuck. i will never be a morning person.

gosh, it's been forever. chrissy told me i had to blog. good thing, cuz i almost forgot about this. (i know...yikes! forget about blogging...it was almost a shame). but for real, almost really means almost. i am presently blogging. logging my brain. or letting my brain log. anyway...see, the thing is that my lolo and my tita and my cousin are all visiting from the philippines for a month or so for my other cousin's wedding...and my lolo just happens to be an 81-year-old free cell/spider solitaire FREAK. yes, freak. i don't think he does anything else while he's here. i mean, my mom has to pry him away so that he can eat, but i think that's it. it's cute...(he wants to buy a computer now so he can play when he gets back to the philippines)...but that means i can't use the computer til really late, and being the grown-up working girl that i am (...haha...not!) i have to sleep early so i can make it to work by 7am, which, by-the-way, i have not been very successful about for the last week and a half. it's bad. and what's even worse is that i spend half the work day honing my minesweeper skills. being a rookie minesweeper-er, miss mun fung had to show me the easy way to play and i finally won the expert (? i think that's the level...the one with 99 mines) level today. woohoo! i was pretty pleased with myself, but i had no one to share my victory with cuz i wasn't supposed to be playing in the first place. so now whoever reads this can be happy for me, too! =) yay. =D so anyway..the point of my story (whoa, sidetrack) is that now i can blog cuz my lolo and my tita are on a cruise in the carribean for a week. i knew i had to bring this back around somehow. i need to work on that. eric pointed that out to me. (thanks, man..) so if you ever find me just running away with a story with no point whatsoever, just stop me and ask me to get to it. yeah? yeah.

i'm leaving for toronto in a few hours so that i can be at my cousin's wedding. it should be fun...(i need to pack). i'm not looking too forward to the car ride there, tho'. have you ever gotten acquainted with someone who you just don't seem to click with. and not just not clicking, but you get this funny bothersome...um,...irk, i guess, cuz you really can't handle being around them for too long? yes? no? i do, and i don't like it. i'm supposed to love everyone, even the people i don't like, and this is truly a test. not that i don't love this person, i do...cuz we're related, but i don't particularly like this person. y'know? it's already been a month (yikes, a month?!) of that in my house. i think it's gonna be another month. i guess that gives me time to develop my patience, eh? (look...i'm getting ready to go to canada...heehee. i'm a dork and it's really late for me, so give me a break.) anyway...i'm just gonna be content knowing that at the end of the car ride is gonna be some really good....(dundunDUN!)...boba! yay! i think that will make my whole trip. that and eaton center, except i'm not supposed to shop cuz i'm a poor girl that's going to l.a. after christmas and i need to save. speaking of l.a....can i even put into words how excited i am?!!! i don't think so. all i know is that i'm going, and i'm gonna get to hang out with eric and chrissy and conehead and lynnchen and hongshin and jon and james and george (she said she would go so she better!) and who knows what friends we'll suck in by making them play with us. (heehee..that's how we got james.) i am currently playing the part of the ignorant l.a.-goer who's going along with the flow. like amit last year to tahoe. just as long as i get to see my friends and to snowboard, i'm cool. =)

laundry calls and i feel like i've written a book. maybe like a page compared to some of chrissy's entries...(just kidding, girl!). i got to go to 2xs call backs and see the newbies...it was so good to see everyone and to be in that atmosphere again. i really miss it. i'm so jealous that i can't be there to see the group carry on, especially with such an awesome bunch of people....did i mention that everyone is so talented? i'm very excited to see what happens. but yeah...i did that, too on my bloggin hiatus. ooh, and i got to meet the funktion newbies. studs, i tell ya. i really feel that becoming part of funktion ups the stud factor at least 5 points. i'm excited for them, too. so laundry and packing are both calling....i'm so glad i don't have to go into work tomorrow....

so i decided to call in sick to work today so i could do some hard core job searching for a real grown-up job. you know...making connections, phone calls, emails, faxes....i was feeling weird about doing job-hunt calls at work. i feel that i have to be super sneaky about making the phone calls when i'm at work so that someone doesn't walk in while i'm going " can i have your fax number so i can send you my resume?" and then get all offended that i'm looking for a new job cuz mine is not so great and then--this is the worst part, tho' it's pretty certain that this will never happen--they would tell on me to my project manager. not that people actually tell on each other. anyway...making phone calls at work was way too stressful. so here's my point: i took the day off to job search but then some stupid group of terrorists decides to hijack planes and ram them into manhattan and the pentagon, sending panic to everyone in the u.s. (especially me), ultimately sending everyone in every major metropolitan area home from work. so much for making contacts. looks like i might have to stay home from work again tomorrow. do you think that work will be open tomorrow? hmm..

but i do have to say that i am so so so so so so so happy and grateful that all my friends in nyc are safe and sound and my prayers and my heart go out to all the victims and their families and friends. what a shock. for everyone, i mean. it's such a scary thing that we could have lost so many of our friends and that thousands of people are probably dead because of this and that the attacks didn't have to stop on the east coast. hopefully they're stopping.

it is a sad day.

it's really important to pray for everyone affected by this, and it's also really important to pray for the people who did this. i know it's so hard to pray for the people that hurt you, but they are the people that probably need the most prayers out of anyone.


p.s. big HAPPY (belated) BIRTHDAY to mr. porta for celebrating quarter-century!!!! my quarters go out to you... ;D

hmm...not too much going on with me. i watched the vma's last night like a slave to pop culture. i taped it, too, even though i know it will be on a million more times this week alone. i'm about to go to ann arbor in a few minutes...if eric can get his blogger to work. i like ann arbor. great bubble, umich. =D i have to remember to bring a fan for bunso. see? i didn't forget. not that i remember the rest of the stuff she asked me to bring to her....

i'm getting the feeling that this won't be a very consistent thing for me. it's like me checking email and getting on aim...not very often. you know what i need? i need my own computer at my own desk at a job where i have my own phone. is that so much to ask? i didn't think so. that's why i'm looking for a real job. i need to get out of ppg and industrial labs where everyone is at least a decade and a half older than me. =P but you know what? i'm not gonna complain, cuz i'm going to be motivated in my jobsearch. thank God eric's helping me...he's the coolest. i miss being a student. i feel that not being around my twenty greatest friends in the world has left me to be really boring. and dancing...man, i need to do that more often, too. it was so awesome to dance last sunday (even though it was in front of a gym-full of filipinos there to watch basketball) with eric and steve. and the greatest part was that jonyang and sam and pz and gonads and rollen and chrislee and babbs were all there. ooh! you can't forget joeria...that is where my dancing at umich began (right, martin?!). i really need to find a way to dance. maybe my cousin will hook me up with a gig as a hip hop aerobics instructor....

whew. finally. after a bit of confusion i have made it to my first blog. so yay for kimmie, the best bunso EVER, cuz she made me this blogspot for my birthday(thanks, man! you're the bomb.), hence, the birthday greeting and the "i love you ate" marquee. by the way that's a-te not ate like i ate a banana. so does this promote me to the ranks of cool people cuz now i can blog? hehe...

hApPy BdAy AtE!!

to my dearest sister.. hehehe..



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