Cousin Andy's Wedding in Taiwan (bride and groom)
Sunday, February 27, 2005
A 2-Week break
As I take a 2-week sabatical out of work, I hope to explore the greater existence of a world that's not the USA. This sabatical involves going to foreign lands with different bacterias, which means, I can look forward to an upset stomach for a few days. Yay! As if my gastro-system isn't as delicate as it is!!! Lactose-intolerant! Blech!
In the meantime, I will miss tiVo: Bachelorette Finale and After The Final Rose (I hope Jerry loses), Gilmore Girls, The OC, Alias and of course, ALIAS nite's @ the apt. I will miss aim. My cell phone. My fast-connection internet.
In the meantime, go watch Million Dollar Baby. I didn't really like Hilary Swank previously, but she gives such an incredible performance with the ensemble of Eastwood and my eternal favorite, Morgan Freeman. Freeman moves me to the edge of tears....shout out to Shawshank Redemption. This movie is one of the movies that made me "feel alive" and it reminded me again that everyone dies, but not everyone lives. Go find your calling and live life in some way that makes it AMAZING. I'm gonna research for my own.
For the next two weeks, a big 'ol shout out to my Macushla's!! Miss me! =)
"Macushla" -- Irish term of endearment for darling or dearest. Learned it from Million Dollar Baby, bay-beh-bay-beh!!!!
As I take a 2-week sabatical out of work, I hope to explore the greater existence of a world that's not the USA. This sabatical involves going to foreign lands with different bacterias, which means, I can look forward to an upset stomach for a few days. Yay! As if my gastro-system isn't as delicate as it is!!! Lactose-intolerant! Blech!
In the meantime, I will miss tiVo: Bachelorette Finale and After The Final Rose (I hope Jerry loses), Gilmore Girls, The OC, Alias and of course, ALIAS nite's @ the apt. I will miss aim. My cell phone. My fast-connection internet.
In the meantime, go watch Million Dollar Baby. I didn't really like Hilary Swank previously, but she gives such an incredible performance with the ensemble of Eastwood and my eternal favorite, Morgan Freeman. Freeman moves me to the edge of tears....shout out to Shawshank Redemption. This movie is one of the movies that made me "feel alive" and it reminded me again that everyone dies, but not everyone lives. Go find your calling and live life in some way that makes it AMAZING. I'm gonna research for my own.
For the next two weeks, a big 'ol shout out to my Macushla's!! Miss me! =)
"Macushla" -- Irish term of endearment for darling or dearest. Learned it from Million Dollar Baby, bay-beh-bay-beh!!!!
Wednesday, February 23, 2005
Friendly Word to the Wise: Don't be in self-denial of something that you think might be wrong with your body. Go soon. Go fast. Get results. Get fixed.
I echo this friendly reminder due to recent happenings in my life that has prompted me to go to the doc and alas, jess isn't dying (sorry, peeps), but jess isn't invincible. Let's just say I have been instructed by my doc to take a vicodin (sp?) before I visit her next month for a lil outpatient treatment. Rest assure, I should be alive -- and if you're wondering, no - I'm not breeding any kids or diseases. haha.
But anyways, the WAIT for results sucks, the WAIT for treatment sucks, and the fact that life's problems are sometimes internal, SUCKS even more. In the meantime, your life isn't as complicated and tragic as it seems cuz, I'm pretty damn sure, there are people out there that have MUCH bigger problems than your own.
Take care of yourself in the meantime. Go to the gym. Don't eat too many BigMacs. And most importantly: don't look for a blessing, be a blessing.
I echo this friendly reminder due to recent happenings in my life that has prompted me to go to the doc and alas, jess isn't dying (sorry, peeps), but jess isn't invincible. Let's just say I have been instructed by my doc to take a vicodin (sp?) before I visit her next month for a lil outpatient treatment. Rest assure, I should be alive -- and if you're wondering, no - I'm not breeding any kids or diseases. haha.
But anyways, the WAIT for results sucks, the WAIT for treatment sucks, and the fact that life's problems are sometimes internal, SUCKS even more. In the meantime, your life isn't as complicated and tragic as it seems cuz, I'm pretty damn sure, there are people out there that have MUCH bigger problems than your own.
Take care of yourself in the meantime. Go to the gym. Don't eat too many BigMacs. And most importantly: don't look for a blessing, be a blessing.
Wednesday, February 16, 2005
My Apt is a Crack Den
terrapinbluewood: what are you guys eating tonight?
UscJessC: rotessiere chicken that im picking up..biscuits from honey's fried chicken..and imma make a salad and make a side vegetable dish or something. more low key tonight.
terrapinbluewood: sounds good
terrapinbluewood: i might have to work late
terrapinbluewood: but i dont want to miss Alias
terrapinbluewood: because i'm an addict now
terrapinbluewood: and your house is like my crack den
terrapinbluewood: what are you guys eating tonight?
UscJessC: rotessiere chicken that im picking up..biscuits from honey's fried chicken..and imma make a salad and make a side vegetable dish or something. more low key tonight.
terrapinbluewood: sounds good
terrapinbluewood: i might have to work late
terrapinbluewood: but i dont want to miss Alias
terrapinbluewood: because i'm an addict now
terrapinbluewood: and your house is like my crack den
RTB NATION 2005!!!
If you're not WITH US, you're AGAINST US!!!!
If you are a friend of Skess or Jess or Mell, and have spent time with us since Jan. 1, 2005, you will have already been priviledged to hear a certain ACCRONYM proclaimed from our mouths over and over again. That accronym is: RTB and many of you are curious to know, WHAT'S ALL THIS HOOPLA ABOUT. Well, today's entry does the dirrrrty work and deciphers it for one nite only.
What is RTB according to Skess and Jess' Dictionary of Insightful and Witty Accronyms:
Literal def: Risk Taking Behavior
Non-Literal def: removing our "tired and lazy" junk-in-the-trunks (whole lottttt of it, may I add) from the comfort of our own homes, on any evening of the week, to go and just do something "risk taking" instead of copin' out and stayin' home on our respective warm couches with our television and tv shows. We're obviously not getting any younger and if we want to make the most of these prime years...we can't be sittin our butts at home. Can't meet cool dudes from the living room, pal. It's all about making an extra effort to say, What the hell.. let's do it! Let's go out! Let's be spontaneous! Let's do it for RTB 2005!!!
What RTB Does Not Mean: RTB does not mean goin' out and being skank-hos, jumping outta airplanes, bullfighting, participating in the running of the bulls in Pamploma, or anything Fear Factor related - there are no eyeballs being eaten or bullball shakes to be drunkkkkkkk.
Now.....Are YOU crazy-in-love with RTB 2005? That's right! Get on the Train cuz this train is screamming, CHOOOOO CHOOOO!!! Chugga chugga chugga chugga...CHOOO CHOO! ALLL AAAABBOARD!!!
Current Status of RTB Nation 2005: it's goin' well, but where the hell are the cool-n-quality doodes?!?!
Upcoming RTB Event in the works: Memorial Day Vacation in Virginia. That's right... yellow girl Jess hopes to take over Virginia Beach by storm.
If you're not WITH US, you're AGAINST US!!!!
If you are a friend of Skess or Jess or Mell, and have spent time with us since Jan. 1, 2005, you will have already been priviledged to hear a certain ACCRONYM proclaimed from our mouths over and over again. That accronym is: RTB and many of you are curious to know, WHAT'S ALL THIS HOOPLA ABOUT. Well, today's entry does the dirrrrty work and deciphers it for one nite only.
What is RTB according to Skess and Jess' Dictionary of Insightful and Witty Accronyms:
Literal def: Risk Taking Behavior
Non-Literal def: removing our "tired and lazy" junk-in-the-trunks (whole lottttt of it, may I add) from the comfort of our own homes, on any evening of the week, to go and just do something "risk taking" instead of copin' out and stayin' home on our respective warm couches with our television and tv shows. We're obviously not getting any younger and if we want to make the most of these prime years...we can't be sittin our butts at home. Can't meet cool dudes from the living room, pal. It's all about making an extra effort to say, What the hell.. let's do it! Let's go out! Let's be spontaneous! Let's do it for RTB 2005!!!
What RTB Does Not Mean: RTB does not mean goin' out and being skank-hos, jumping outta airplanes, bullfighting, participating in the running of the bulls in Pamploma, or anything Fear Factor related - there are no eyeballs being eaten or bullball shakes to be drunkkkkkkk.
Now.....Are YOU crazy-in-love with RTB 2005? That's right! Get on the Train cuz this train is screamming, CHOOOOO CHOOOO!!! Chugga chugga chugga chugga...CHOOO CHOO! ALLL AAAABBOARD!!!
Current Status of RTB Nation 2005: it's goin' well, but where the hell are the cool-n-quality doodes?!?!
Upcoming RTB Event in the works: Memorial Day Vacation in Virginia. That's right... yellow girl Jess hopes to take over Virginia Beach by storm.
Tuesday, February 15, 2005
Saturday, February 12, 2005
Small Epiphany that might solve the questions of my life ---
I came up with this one-liner that explains many many many things.
"Being a friend means you never risk getting kicked to the curb."
Translation: Why it's better to be a friend than someone's gf/bf *relative to your situation*
Rejection.....not a good place to be.
I came up with this one-liner that explains many many many things.
"Being a friend means you never risk getting kicked to the curb."
Translation: Why it's better to be a friend than someone's gf/bf *relative to your situation*
Rejection.....not a good place to be.
Valentine's Day? What's that?!?! When's that??!
A look at a "holiday" from the view of Glass Full and Glass Empty:
What does V-day mean for a "girl": a day outta the year to be shown an extra dose of love/affection/appreciation from her special slice of bread..her MAN...regardless of the fact that it's a commercial flower/chocolates holiday.
What does V-day mean for a "guy": a day outta the year monopolized by florists and chocolatiers swindling lovelorn men outta alotta cheddar when a guy just wants to be lazy and do just enough to get by. (FYI:To this.. I say... BOYS SUCK. Get real. Step it up. PUHLEASE. Just a lil bit. Enough to get by is NOT ENOUGH.)
This is just the way it is. Don't think you're special if you fall into these categories or not. Accept that V-day is just this and don't dissapoint anyone and fail to show up with a lil thoughtful expression of appreciation.
Ok. So I don't expect boys to pull out the stop and get a girl bling from Tiffany's and overpriced LV dog carriers/purses/etc. So, those of you out there reading this, we're not asking for the mooon. This entry is really just a message to put a lil thought into 2/14 as a way for your girl to REALLLLY THINK YOU'RE SOMETHING SPECIAL x 5 ---- cuz you actually tried. On this day, whatever good thing you say or do is registered as MUCH MORE IMPORTANT. aka HIGH IMPORTANCE. So think of this as a SUPER BONUS POINTS DAY for you.
I never figured it was THAT hard for a person to think of a way to make another person feel special - whether romantic or not, whether it's V-day or not.. What person doesn't like to hear that someone thought of them, got them something just cause... i.e. a cup coffee, a scone, a slice of pizza, a magazine, a snail-mail card, a beer! Everyone loves a lil simple indulgence!
It's the little things that count. If that person is of any worth in your life, don't be afraid to show a lil sumthing sumthing once in a while...cuz if that other person is worth it in general, the service will be returned tenfold anyways.
Whether it's the day before V-day, V-day, or 10 days after V-day... if you care, show it... but not just enough to get by.........GO BIG or GO HOME.
As for the single peeps such as myself, V-day has never existed in a way that included a valentine in my life. Maybe I'm a loser, maybe not, buy any way you cut it, ...let those people in love be in love... who can poop on love being celebrated. I'm not gonna say I'm not envious of those that actually have it, cuz, from what I hear, love's real great --- but enough of us single peeps being Sad Sally. Let's just set our karma wheel a rollin' a say cheers to love...may it be as cyclical as bad luck and good luck ---what goes around, comes around. There's always the hope of something over-the-moon...it's out there. Somewhere. =)
Anyways, in a nutshell, if you're in love - in a r-ship, whatever --- go big or go home. And if you're single. Enjoy all your glory. You're better off spending the day with your tiVo -- and can save yourself from the dissapointment from your cheap/thoughtless bf who thinks taking you out to a steak dinner at the local Sizzler and tacking on the All-you-can-eat Salad Bar and getting the waitress to throw in a few extra slices of Cheese Toast is going the extra mile on V-day.
A look at a "holiday" from the view of Glass Full and Glass Empty:
What does V-day mean for a "girl": a day outta the year to be shown an extra dose of love/affection/appreciation from her special slice of bread..her MAN...regardless of the fact that it's a commercial flower/chocolates holiday.
What does V-day mean for a "guy": a day outta the year monopolized by florists and chocolatiers swindling lovelorn men outta alotta cheddar when a guy just wants to be lazy and do just enough to get by. (FYI:To this.. I say... BOYS SUCK. Get real. Step it up. PUHLEASE. Just a lil bit. Enough to get by is NOT ENOUGH.)
This is just the way it is. Don't think you're special if you fall into these categories or not. Accept that V-day is just this and don't dissapoint anyone and fail to show up with a lil thoughtful expression of appreciation.
Ok. So I don't expect boys to pull out the stop and get a girl bling from Tiffany's and overpriced LV dog carriers/purses/etc. So, those of you out there reading this, we're not asking for the mooon. This entry is really just a message to put a lil thought into 2/14 as a way for your girl to REALLLLY THINK YOU'RE SOMETHING SPECIAL x 5 ---- cuz you actually tried. On this day, whatever good thing you say or do is registered as MUCH MORE IMPORTANT. aka HIGH IMPORTANCE. So think of this as a SUPER BONUS POINTS DAY for you.
I never figured it was THAT hard for a person to think of a way to make another person feel special - whether romantic or not, whether it's V-day or not.. What person doesn't like to hear that someone thought of them, got them something just cause... i.e. a cup coffee, a scone, a slice of pizza, a magazine, a snail-mail card, a beer! Everyone loves a lil simple indulgence!
It's the little things that count. If that person is of any worth in your life, don't be afraid to show a lil sumthing sumthing once in a while...cuz if that other person is worth it in general, the service will be returned tenfold anyways.
Whether it's the day before V-day, V-day, or 10 days after V-day... if you care, show it... but not just enough to get by.........GO BIG or GO HOME.
As for the single peeps such as myself, V-day has never existed in a way that included a valentine in my life. Maybe I'm a loser, maybe not, buy any way you cut it, ...let those people in love be in love... who can poop on love being celebrated. I'm not gonna say I'm not envious of those that actually have it, cuz, from what I hear, love's real great --- but enough of us single peeps being Sad Sally. Let's just set our karma wheel a rollin' a say cheers to love...may it be as cyclical as bad luck and good luck ---what goes around, comes around. There's always the hope of something over-the-moon...it's out there. Somewhere. =)
Anyways, in a nutshell, if you're in love - in a r-ship, whatever --- go big or go home. And if you're single. Enjoy all your glory. You're better off spending the day with your tiVo -- and can save yourself from the dissapointment from your cheap/thoughtless bf who thinks taking you out to a steak dinner at the local Sizzler and tacking on the All-you-can-eat Salad Bar and getting the waitress to throw in a few extra slices of Cheese Toast is going the extra mile on V-day.
Thursday, February 03, 2005
It's Been a While Again...
OK. A few nutshell news items...
I got promoted. Yay! To Associate Manager @ J.CREW Palos Verdes.... it's pretty far in the south bay...but on the bright side, I can finally eat at The Appetizer, Red Onion for Mexican Food and Happy Hour, Ruby's, and meet up with my South Bay friends like Jen Tong and Joyce more often! Yay! I'm excited to have gotten promoted as it's the pinnacle of what position I've been wanting to achieve with J.Crew as the past 2.25 years have been an incredibly learning experience professionally and personally. I will miss my associates dearlllllllllly as well as the management team cuz I've been with these 2 other managers pretty much my entire time with the crew. Who knows where life will lead me next. I start the 2/13ish...whatever that Sunday is.....boy will I enjoy the traffic!!
IRON CHEF AMERICA: BOBBY FLAY vs. MING TSAI
Thanks to Joyce's FYI, I tivo'd this show cuz I had missed it. I finally watched it, secret ingredient being DUCK, and boy was the competition suspenseful! Ming totally kicked butt and Flay can just go home. Him and his blue corn and habenero everything. MING RULES! I LOVE HIM. I LOVE HIS FOOD. I LOVE IT ALL!!! GREAT HANDS you have MING! LOVE a man with good hands!!!
NEW VACCCUMMM!
So I can officially say I will no longer be borrowing any of my friend's vaccums cuz I finally got a BISSEL yesterday. I spent the last of my bonus money on a VACCUM. How Molly Maid am I? IT WAS NEEDED, desperately. It's super special cuz it as a "clean" "dirty" light that tells you when the area is clean or not. How cool is that!!!
OK. A few nutshell news items...
I got promoted. Yay! To Associate Manager @ J.CREW Palos Verdes.... it's pretty far in the south bay...but on the bright side, I can finally eat at The Appetizer, Red Onion for Mexican Food and Happy Hour, Ruby's, and meet up with my South Bay friends like Jen Tong and Joyce more often! Yay! I'm excited to have gotten promoted as it's the pinnacle of what position I've been wanting to achieve with J.Crew as the past 2.25 years have been an incredibly learning experience professionally and personally. I will miss my associates dearlllllllllly as well as the management team cuz I've been with these 2 other managers pretty much my entire time with the crew. Who knows where life will lead me next. I start the 2/13ish...whatever that Sunday is.....boy will I enjoy the traffic!!
IRON CHEF AMERICA: BOBBY FLAY vs. MING TSAI
Thanks to Joyce's FYI, I tivo'd this show cuz I had missed it. I finally watched it, secret ingredient being DUCK, and boy was the competition suspenseful! Ming totally kicked butt and Flay can just go home. Him and his blue corn and habenero everything. MING RULES! I LOVE HIM. I LOVE HIS FOOD. I LOVE IT ALL!!! GREAT HANDS you have MING! LOVE a man with good hands!!!
NEW VACCCUMMM!
So I can officially say I will no longer be borrowing any of my friend's vaccums cuz I finally got a BISSEL yesterday. I spent the last of my bonus money on a VACCUM. How Molly Maid am I? IT WAS NEEDED, desperately. It's super special cuz it as a "clean" "dirty" light that tells you when the area is clean or not. How cool is that!!!
Thursday, January 20, 2005
After a wonderful weekend in AZ...I'm here to post the BEST OF.....for the week!
Highlights of the week off:
1. AZ - sun. food. family. sun. food. family.
2. Manhattan Beach in JAN. Los Angeles is great! Thanks to Pat who was able to drag me outta be to go. It was totally worth it. Check out the pics.
3. Doin' nothing.
4. Getting an iPod from my godparents. They are the bomb. I'm very into the iPod. Very.
5. Using the digi-cam and being camera happy.
6. Cousin Lib and friend coming to visit on my last day off.
It's been real. Gettin' paid to sit on your arse for a week. Sweeeeet.
Highlights of the week off:
1. AZ - sun. food. family. sun. food. family.
2. Manhattan Beach in JAN. Los Angeles is great! Thanks to Pat who was able to drag me outta be to go. It was totally worth it. Check out the pics.
3. Doin' nothing.
4. Getting an iPod from my godparents. They are the bomb. I'm very into the iPod. Very.
5. Using the digi-cam and being camera happy.
6. Cousin Lib and friend coming to visit on my last day off.
It's been real. Gettin' paid to sit on your arse for a week. Sweeeeet.
Saturday, January 15, 2005
What We Do For The Name of Love/Family.
What does it mean to sacrafice?
Where is your step in the right direction?
It's nice you say you care, but could you show it a lil more often?
Maybe it's that some people have no concept of what that is because they never knew it growing up so they are ill-equipped to even try expressing love.
I must say I slighty [ =) ] ill-equipped with expressing my love...mainly to my family..but I SWEAR, I'm trying. I'M TRYING. It's probably an inner fear of something or other.
And ladies, if you want some guy to worship/adore you, make sure he wants you first. For guys, if they want something, chances are, they go for it. If he doesn't want you now, he prolly won't want you later - so save yourself the misery, he's just not that into you. Attribute it to their "hunter-gather" identity. We're all lil more negotiable cuz we're emotional, we get tied up, and we can stick with someone we didn't necessarily want to begin with but we end up attached to them cuz we get emotional. For girls -- we are be wishy-washy and then commit, for boys, not-so-much. If you weren't hot then, you aren't hot now. Am I saying to for you? For myself? I think I'm saying for womankind. Move on to greener pastures - he's bound to be out there so keep the faith.
What does it mean to sacrafice?
Where is your step in the right direction?
It's nice you say you care, but could you show it a lil more often?
Maybe it's that some people have no concept of what that is because they never knew it growing up so they are ill-equipped to even try expressing love.
I must say I slighty [ =) ] ill-equipped with expressing my love...mainly to my family..but I SWEAR, I'm trying. I'M TRYING. It's probably an inner fear of something or other.
And ladies, if you want some guy to worship/adore you, make sure he wants you first. For guys, if they want something, chances are, they go for it. If he doesn't want you now, he prolly won't want you later - so save yourself the misery, he's just not that into you. Attribute it to their "hunter-gather" identity. We're all lil more negotiable cuz we're emotional, we get tied up, and we can stick with someone we didn't necessarily want to begin with but we end up attached to them cuz we get emotional. For girls -- we are be wishy-washy and then commit, for boys, not-so-much. If you weren't hot then, you aren't hot now. Am I saying to for you? For myself? I think I'm saying for womankind. Move on to greener pastures - he's bound to be out there so keep the faith.
Saturday, January 08, 2005
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!!
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!!
Tuesday, December 28, 2004
A New Mission: My Commitment To You
So this week has been a BIG week in the mind of Jess. I was presented a more innovated outlook for my life through a book recommended by dear MELL. I've talked about this book with some of you online and in person, and I can't get enough of it. I rarely ever finish a book in a week but i did it. I did it cause this book had such a deep impact on my mindframe and you beautiful people will reap the rewards of this incredible literature. The book - Love is the Killer App by Tim Sanders.
Lessons This Book Help me Learn .. which in turn, I hope yall will try and digest:
1. Bizlove is the act of intelligently and sensibly sharing your intangibles with your bizpartners. It is a matter of sharing your knowledge, your network of relationships, and your compassion - or any combination of those three. And this is the killer app.
2. Nice, smart people succeed - not the shrewd, the mean.
3. Love is the selfless promotion of the growth of the other.
4. When we start a job, whther as a recent graduate or seasoned professional, we take on a contract to create more value than what we are paid. If we don't add value to our employer, we are value losses. What the hell is YOUR VALUE?
5. Without a network, knowledge is nearly useless. You get value from your knowledge, but it becomes real when you share it with your peeps.
6. Compassion is a personal quality a machine will never possess.
7. Attention is one of the world's scarcest resources and decsion-maker attention is something companies are willing to spend billions on. Attention is money. Bizlove gets you attention. Other get only time. The difference between having their time and their attention is the difference between ham and eggs. The chicken is involved, but the pig is committed.
8. Business education without execution is just entertainment. Execute your moves.
9. Dale Carnegie: "You''ll accomplish more in the next two months by developing a sincere interest in two people than you'll ever hope to accomplish in two years trying to get two people interested in you."
10. Don't just be involved, be committed to as much as you can in your life. Says me.
A lot of the above may sound a 'lil buttery, a 'lil cheddary to you, but at the end of the day, this is what counts and I have a gut feeling it's gonna make a difference, hence, from this day forth, I'm gonna try and stick with this newfound innovative idea and declare my commitment to be a guiding light, a helping hand in seeing that I will help you grow/succeed in any way I can. Anyone with me?
(If you read every word of this entry, I thank you sincerely for doing so, because you are THIIIIIIS MUCH more wiser and I hope you find at least one of those 10 things significant. Now go share it.)
So this week has been a BIG week in the mind of Jess. I was presented a more innovated outlook for my life through a book recommended by dear MELL. I've talked about this book with some of you online and in person, and I can't get enough of it. I rarely ever finish a book in a week but i did it. I did it cause this book had such a deep impact on my mindframe and you beautiful people will reap the rewards of this incredible literature. The book - Love is the Killer App by Tim Sanders.
Lessons This Book Help me Learn .. which in turn, I hope yall will try and digest:
1. Bizlove is the act of intelligently and sensibly sharing your intangibles with your bizpartners. It is a matter of sharing your knowledge, your network of relationships, and your compassion - or any combination of those three. And this is the killer app.
2. Nice, smart people succeed - not the shrewd, the mean.
3. Love is the selfless promotion of the growth of the other.
4. When we start a job, whther as a recent graduate or seasoned professional, we take on a contract to create more value than what we are paid. If we don't add value to our employer, we are value losses. What the hell is YOUR VALUE?
5. Without a network, knowledge is nearly useless. You get value from your knowledge, but it becomes real when you share it with your peeps.
6. Compassion is a personal quality a machine will never possess.
7. Attention is one of the world's scarcest resources and decsion-maker attention is something companies are willing to spend billions on. Attention is money. Bizlove gets you attention. Other get only time. The difference between having their time and their attention is the difference between ham and eggs. The chicken is involved, but the pig is committed.
8. Business education without execution is just entertainment. Execute your moves.
9. Dale Carnegie: "You''ll accomplish more in the next two months by developing a sincere interest in two people than you'll ever hope to accomplish in two years trying to get two people interested in you."
10. Don't just be involved, be committed to as much as you can in your life. Says me.
A lot of the above may sound a 'lil buttery, a 'lil cheddary to you, but at the end of the day, this is what counts and I have a gut feeling it's gonna make a difference, hence, from this day forth, I'm gonna try and stick with this newfound innovative idea and declare my commitment to be a guiding light, a helping hand in seeing that I will help you grow/succeed in any way I can. Anyone with me?
(If you read every word of this entry, I thank you sincerely for doing so, because you are THIIIIIIS MUCH more wiser and I hope you find at least one of those 10 things significant. Now go share it.)
Saturday, December 25, 2004
Do You Prefer the Truth or The Lie?
The movie CLOSER has been kinda recommended to me by a few friends recently and I also wanted to see it myself. Those that have seen it have called the movie, "disturbing", a "mind*uck" and intense --- I watched it with Mell and sis Pat and I left realllly liking the movie.......not... "gotta wait in line for the dvd to come out" like but liked it in such a way because it made me leave after the movie questioning how I would prefer the relationships in my life (of lack thereof).... would I want them completely truthful or full of lies??
After watching CLOSER this evening, I've been faced with asking myself whether I'd prefer the truth or the lie. Is ignorance indeed bliss or does truth really set you free? Does 'fessing up and freeing your own guilt really the right cure even if it leads the other party crazymadpsycho? Or should you carry the burden of your guilt and not tell anyone and punish yourself with the guilt that's hidden in the depths of your soul?
How about gettin' rid of all the guilt and need to decide between truth and lies by NEVER COMMITTING any acts that lead up to that decision to begin with?!?!? Which brings me to the theme of THE MOMENT...that point in your life when you have your freewill, your choice, to decide between A and B? This is the moment where you decide if you want to *uck up or get it right and realize that you better be able to live with it, otherwise, SHUT THE HELL UP and go sit your butt in the corner. Every person has that MOMENT where they say, yes or no. If you have that self-control, that rare, precious ability to think straight.... you just might save yourself some stress in your life, huh?
FREE-WILL. CHOICE. Set your damn self free from the stress. The moment..... is all you've got.
So do I prefer the truth or the lie? Tough question...but I'd have to say...gimme the truth...but dust it with powdered sugar. The heart can only take soooo much fire.
The movie CLOSER has been kinda recommended to me by a few friends recently and I also wanted to see it myself. Those that have seen it have called the movie, "disturbing", a "mind*uck" and intense --- I watched it with Mell and sis Pat and I left realllly liking the movie.......not... "gotta wait in line for the dvd to come out" like but liked it in such a way because it made me leave after the movie questioning how I would prefer the relationships in my life (of lack thereof).... would I want them completely truthful or full of lies??
After watching CLOSER this evening, I've been faced with asking myself whether I'd prefer the truth or the lie. Is ignorance indeed bliss or does truth really set you free? Does 'fessing up and freeing your own guilt really the right cure even if it leads the other party crazymadpsycho? Or should you carry the burden of your guilt and not tell anyone and punish yourself with the guilt that's hidden in the depths of your soul?
How about gettin' rid of all the guilt and need to decide between truth and lies by NEVER COMMITTING any acts that lead up to that decision to begin with?!?!? Which brings me to the theme of THE MOMENT...that point in your life when you have your freewill, your choice, to decide between A and B? This is the moment where you decide if you want to *uck up or get it right and realize that you better be able to live with it, otherwise, SHUT THE HELL UP and go sit your butt in the corner. Every person has that MOMENT where they say, yes or no. If you have that self-control, that rare, precious ability to think straight.... you just might save yourself some stress in your life, huh?
FREE-WILL. CHOICE. Set your damn self free from the stress. The moment..... is all you've got.
So do I prefer the truth or the lie? Tough question...but I'd have to say...gimme the truth...but dust it with powdered sugar. The heart can only take soooo much fire.
Friday, December 10, 2004
MEN: THERE IS HOPE FOR ME........maybe?
The Story of Girl that Gets Hit on at the Ralph's Deli Counter...by a ghetto fabulous salvation army bell ringer. (this doesn't even do justice)
Ok. Just got home from getting my haircolored, getting a pedi and buying groceries at Ralph's. And have I got a wonderful entry for ALL OF YOU. Today, my trip reknewed my faith in the possibility that men just might be interested in me......but, of course, I didn't mention what kind of men!
So I got to Ralph's today after getting my hair-colored in the Valley (for the newline xmas party tonight, yay! I'm Tin's +1!) and getting a pedicure. Here I am, in my wonderfully flat-ironed hair with amazing pedicure, strolling thru Ralphs buying the likes of water, salmon, frozen chicken and top sirloin.... I suddenly have the urge to get a Grilled Focaccia Panini from the great deli counter since I've been eyein' one for days.....so I push the cart on over and grab a number and waiting patiently among a handful of men waiting to get a sandwich. La-di-da... I patiently survey the scene...there's a tall white man getting his sandwich made, a tall light-skinned black man waiting, and a black Salvation Army Bell Ringer (description: 5'7", curly hair under a cap, kinda dishelved, raspy voice, not my kinda guy) who grabbed the previous number ahead of me and a bunch of friendly-looking deli associates catering to our sandwich needs.... SABR (salvation army bell ringer) comes up behind me and says:
SABR: Hey..how ya doin'?
(Being the kind person I am I respond. My biggest mistake...looking back)
Me: Great! Thanks and you?
SABR: I'm doin' good.
Me: That's good. (I smile and await my # in line)
Deli Associate calls SABR's number and he orders 2-pieces of fried chicken. And I'm hoping conversation with SABR has commenced.
SABR: My guess is that you have a boyfriend??
Me: (thinking... uhhh...oh no... must lie....) Yeah, I do. (sympathy smile)
SABR: Awee, well you must have some single friends?
Me: (thinking...oh shit, great, what did I just get myself into?) Mmm.. I have some of each.
SABR: Well lemme tell you, how bout I give you my number to give to your friends and you have them call me. Do me that favor?
Me: Kinda like a gift that keeps on giving?
SABR: Yeah, just like that.
Me: (nods, speechless)
Deli Associates asks what I want... I order...hoping SABR won't actually give me his 7-Digits...I look over to my left, and he is kneeling on the ground ripping a piece of paper off and scribblin'.
SABR: Here ya go. (passes me the scrap of paper) Lemme say this, your friends would be doing themselves a diservice if they don't call me, so have them call me?
Me: I'll try! (smile)
SABR walks off
Me: (i breathe a sigh of relief and look over to my left and the other black man in line is smirking and I am blushing out of embarassment.. he says, "what was that fool doin'?!?!?" I respond, "You try to be nice..and look where it gets you....!" He goes, "Yeah, I know how that is...hahah"..me continuing to be embarassed, black man continues laughing, and I look up and see DELI ASSOCIATE MAN smirking. I go, "You heard that going down too?" Black Man: "Yeah he did, he was right across the street there!" Other Deli Associate Woman who helped me with my order won't stop smiling and laughing either.
So this was my embarassing-WEIRD experience of the day.. in the DELI line @ a RALPH'S nonetheless. WTF?! SABR was total g-fabulous and not-my-type, he attempts to hit on me and then indirectly my friends, offers me his phone number, I have an audience watching all of this, I have audience commentary and a well-amused audience. LASLTY, I will forever be THEIR STORY TO TELL ABOUT THE GIRL WHO GOT HIT ON IN LINE @ THE DELI COUNTER BY A foolish SALVATION ARMY BELL RINGER!!!!
Let's re-cap why the above DELI DATING situation might have happened this afternoon:
A. The freshly chemically-colored hair
B. The freshly french pedicured toes
C. I give off endorphines that attract only g-fabulous Bell Ringers who like 2-pieces of chicken from the Ralph's Deli Counter.
(all signs point to C.)
EDITED: or OPTION D thanks to nick: THE BOOOOTAY junk in the trunk.
I hope this entertained you a lil bit and gives you and I faith that, yes, there are men out there who find me the least bit...inviting enough. My self-esteem soars!
The Story of Girl that Gets Hit on at the Ralph's Deli Counter...by a ghetto fabulous salvation army bell ringer. (this doesn't even do justice)
Ok. Just got home from getting my haircolored, getting a pedi and buying groceries at Ralph's. And have I got a wonderful entry for ALL OF YOU. Today, my trip reknewed my faith in the possibility that men just might be interested in me......but, of course, I didn't mention what kind of men!
So I got to Ralph's today after getting my hair-colored in the Valley (for the newline xmas party tonight, yay! I'm Tin's +1!) and getting a pedicure. Here I am, in my wonderfully flat-ironed hair with amazing pedicure, strolling thru Ralphs buying the likes of water, salmon, frozen chicken and top sirloin.... I suddenly have the urge to get a Grilled Focaccia Panini from the great deli counter since I've been eyein' one for days.....so I push the cart on over and grab a number and waiting patiently among a handful of men waiting to get a sandwich. La-di-da... I patiently survey the scene...there's a tall white man getting his sandwich made, a tall light-skinned black man waiting, and a black Salvation Army Bell Ringer (description: 5'7", curly hair under a cap, kinda dishelved, raspy voice, not my kinda guy) who grabbed the previous number ahead of me and a bunch of friendly-looking deli associates catering to our sandwich needs.... SABR (salvation army bell ringer) comes up behind me and says:
SABR: Hey..how ya doin'?
(Being the kind person I am I respond. My biggest mistake...looking back)
Me: Great! Thanks and you?
SABR: I'm doin' good.
Me: That's good. (I smile and await my # in line)
Deli Associate calls SABR's number and he orders 2-pieces of fried chicken. And I'm hoping conversation with SABR has commenced.
SABR: My guess is that you have a boyfriend??
Me: (thinking... uhhh...oh no... must lie....) Yeah, I do. (sympathy smile)
SABR: Awee, well you must have some single friends?
Me: (thinking...oh shit, great, what did I just get myself into?) Mmm.. I have some of each.
SABR: Well lemme tell you, how bout I give you my number to give to your friends and you have them call me. Do me that favor?
Me: Kinda like a gift that keeps on giving?
SABR: Yeah, just like that.
Me: (nods, speechless)
Deli Associates asks what I want... I order...hoping SABR won't actually give me his 7-Digits...I look over to my left, and he is kneeling on the ground ripping a piece of paper off and scribblin'.
SABR: Here ya go. (passes me the scrap of paper) Lemme say this, your friends would be doing themselves a diservice if they don't call me, so have them call me?
Me: I'll try! (smile)
SABR walks off
Me: (i breathe a sigh of relief and look over to my left and the other black man in line is smirking and I am blushing out of embarassment.. he says, "what was that fool doin'?!?!?" I respond, "You try to be nice..and look where it gets you....!" He goes, "Yeah, I know how that is...hahah"..me continuing to be embarassed, black man continues laughing, and I look up and see DELI ASSOCIATE MAN smirking. I go, "You heard that going down too?" Black Man: "Yeah he did, he was right across the street there!" Other Deli Associate Woman who helped me with my order won't stop smiling and laughing either.
So this was my embarassing-WEIRD experience of the day.. in the DELI line @ a RALPH'S nonetheless. WTF?! SABR was total g-fabulous and not-my-type, he attempts to hit on me and then indirectly my friends, offers me his phone number, I have an audience watching all of this, I have audience commentary and a well-amused audience. LASLTY, I will forever be THEIR STORY TO TELL ABOUT THE GIRL WHO GOT HIT ON IN LINE @ THE DELI COUNTER BY A foolish SALVATION ARMY BELL RINGER!!!!
Let's re-cap why the above DELI DATING situation might have happened this afternoon:
A. The freshly chemically-colored hair
B. The freshly french pedicured toes
C. I give off endorphines that attract only g-fabulous Bell Ringers who like 2-pieces of chicken from the Ralph's Deli Counter.
(all signs point to C.)
EDITED: or OPTION D thanks to nick: THE BOOOOTAY junk in the trunk.
I hope this entertained you a lil bit and gives you and I faith that, yes, there are men out there who find me the least bit...inviting enough. My self-esteem soars!
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