Things to -- Ponder, To be Thankful For, and to Look Forward To........

So a couple weeks have past and it is that time again when I have had enough LIFE to inspire me to type out a few random thoughts to entertain my incredible audience with. This means YOU. =)

PONDER:
1. Great Friends - a miracle of life and a subject we often don't think deeply enough about. The great friendships I have in my life I often wonder how it was meant to be and whether or not those friends know how much I do value and appreciate their existence in my life. I think great friends and loved ones are the real reason why any of us are able to get through this life. If it wasn't for their ability to just sit with you and listen or read your AIM venting-sessions as you "*&#%$&$(!" or "(*$*%&*($%)$!" or just attempt to make you laugh during highly dramatic moments what would life be like?
2. Boys - is it that they're made stupid, subpar and/or thoughtless and ball-less or are our standards just over the moon? I know being picky is one thing but being far below average isn't any better.
3. Brad'n'Jen Kaputz - The celebrity couple we thought would make it count. Well, funny story first. At work yesterday as I was ringing up a female customer, she receives news on her blackberry, and she tells me, "Brad and Jen split!" I go, "Realllly?" She goes, "Whew! That's enough to have a cocktail over!" Ummm to which I thought, ARE YOU SERIOUS? Enough to have a cocktail over? What are you? LA?!?!! Anyways, whatever, this customer made me undress one of our window manniquins so she could have a freakin S in a teal vneck sweater!! I was doing my job, but lemme tell you, strippin the window mannequins takes aloootttta work having to redress her afterwards. Moving on....I'm a lil sad. Poor couple. Goes to show, being an A-list celeb is Temptation Island, always looking for the greener grass, no?
4. The Soundtrack of Our Lives: Funny conversation I had with Mell the other day. I asked her when we would exchange burnt cd's that would reflect the soundtrack to our lives. An idea to exchange cd's with those close friends of yours through out your life, every, say 5 years, just to see how our musical tastes evolve and a chance to go back to the past and re-live it. Good idea, no? Anyways, talking about cd mixes, everyone should make cd mixes with unique and innovative titles.... what do I mean you ask? Making CD's titled .... A. FOOD COMA MIX - aka slow songs you can just vege, chill to after a fulllllll meal. B. BOYS SUCK - self explanatory C. THE GLASS-IS-HALF-EMPTY Mix - when you're depressed D. THE GLASS-IS-HALF-FULL mix - obviously, the opposite of C. E. HIBBA-DEE-DIBBA-DEE - self explanatory. Anyways, those are some of the ecclectic cd titles that I have yet to Patent and Copyright, so please feel free to use those titles. =)

Thankful For:
1. Great Friends - Need I say more?
2. Loved Ones - to the ones I don't say I care about you enough or adore you enough, I do. In Jess' oh-so-silent way, of course.
3. Bonus Incentives - our store beat everyone in the West Region in beating Planned numbers by +18.0%!! What does that mean? $500 bucks for Jess along with our 3rd St. Promenade management team winning 4 out of the 5 weeks in the LA District.
4. Shopaholics - Without you, my store wouldn't be up-n-runnin' and I wouldn't receive any of the lovely incentives we earned this holiday. THANK YOU, SHOPAHOLICS!!!

Look Forward to:
1. Saving Money - 2005 is gonna be about SAVING instead of SPENDING. The future to look forward to, I must save, cuz god knows, I just might have to support my butt all by myself? Things to ponder?
2. Vaccum Cleaner - something I need to get. Am I preaching to the choir when I say that having a down-comforter is nice, but the fly-away feathers SUCK major balls? I swear, my carpet is covered by feathers... including the area under my box spring. Vacccummm Cleaner 2005 is being RSVP'd cuz I say so.
3. Arizona next week! Goin' to Scottsdale to see big sister Kat and Company. Mom's meeting us there and my cousin Liberty.... which makes me wonder, when the youngin's go out, what the heck is mom goin to be doing? Is she coming to the club/bars with us? Will she be doing shots and drink vodka tonics till the cows come home?
4. Being committed to everything I say I'm gonna do. I.E. Save. Save. Save. Pursue my life's bigger calling.
5. Quality Hot Commodity/Market Value Items - what do you say to a women's market value going down at around the age of, say 28, since our eggs start expiring and to a man's market value only going up as they get older? Men have no rush, no expiring eggs, no biological clock, no need to settle down before 30-35! They can sew their seeds till they croak! Unfair. Unfair. Unfair. Sure we can be grandma's and have kids at age 60 these days without even having a husband, bf, etc. , but is it really all that cracked up to be?!!? Who wants to be 81 and in a wheelchair with a oxygen chamber and tube helping you breathe when your kid graduates from college? I kindly, bow out.

And it being the new year, cheers to everyone being happy or happier, finding someone they genuinely enjoying spending time with, to boys with more on their mind then just getting a lil' acccion, and great food! Salud!!