aviator
whichever moron said that leonardo di caprio couldn't act was plain old deaf dumb and blind. i saw the aviator last night with gb. seriously awesome acting from an incredible cast. cate blanchett as hepburn was AMAZING. di caprio... again, amazing. i did not expect to really like the aviator but lo and behold... turns out i liked it tons! thanks gb for taking me out for an early birthday present. oh, and z mario's has an awesome chicken with artichoke dish. mmmmmmmmmmmm. my next movie stop, spanglish.
there are so many things going on for new year's and i'm not sure what i'm going to do. i just got invited to go to vegas too. i've always wanted to go there for new years but i gotta save money for australia so i think that's out. plus erin won't go with me and i'm not about to be the only girl. golly gee whiz. i'll figure it out sooner or later. hopefully sooner rather than later.
i went to the gym last night. that's 2 x so far cicely! yesterday, i bought New Balance shoes that were on sale at Mervyn's. plus i got me some mulskin (sp?) so that i can prevent me some nasty new blisters. i'm ready to run now!
crazy rain
could it be any more windy today? not to mention the rain? i almost got knocked over today. i went to get my starbucks and then when got out of the car, an unexpected gust of wind knocked the car door against me and i almost fell over. how sad.
it's a gooooood day! i get to go home early. my boss is sayin "go home!" i'm gonna run some errands then my friend is gonna take me to see a movie and go to dinner as an early birthday present. woohoo!!!
good times
friday i went running for 10 freaking miles!!! it would have been 9.4 but then belle told cicely that if we ran to a certain point it would be 10 miles and of course she said, "let's go dana!" and i did. i'm glad she made me though. i felt very accomplished to be able to say i'd gone 10 miles. the only problem is that i need better shoes 'cause i got two crazy blisters that hurt mucho and that was only at the 5 mile mark. belle asked a nice cop guy for band aids that helped a lot. he started talkin to us and asked us who our leader was so we all pointed at jovan. it seemed like mr. cop wanted in on the running circle. kinda funny.
christmas was pretty cool. it's always nice to be home but more than that, paul and robert came up. it was like having three brothers again instead of just one. we all hungout, ate a lot, and played games. the only thing is that i can't play monopoly anymore. i get too angry and it's just a stupid game. :)
i don't have work tomorrow! woohoo!!!! i'm going to sleep in and then go to the gym. then i'm going to come back and do something about my room. it's not very messy but it's very unorganized.
yea!!
the bible study gift xchange was tonight. i got two more johnny depp movies!!! blow and benny & joon. woohoo!!! thanks dorothy! i ate a lot of cookies tonight and a brownie. and i do mean a lot... over 15. :) so much for dieting before australia!!
oh and thanks to joe for pointing out that i spelled bezerk wrong but i know that i did. i always write it like that. jeez joe.
thank goodness
it's wednesday!!!! if all goes well, and my boss doesn't go bezerk today, then i don't have to work tomorrow! how great would that be? if i don't then i'm going to do some last minute shopping, some errands, finish wrapping gifts, and clean my room which is a crazy mess.
jay stole the wind from my sails because he wrote first that harry potter is coming out on july 16, 2005 even though i'm the one that told him. :) it's ok. i'm excited!!! i can't wait to see what happens.
dec. 27th marks the day that i must once again pick up my books to study for the lovely GMAT. my focus will be on the math portion of the test. my retake should go better. it's almost guaranteed as long as i'm not sick again when i take it.
i was supposed to go to the gym last night but i ended up hanging out with a friend instead. it's ok i guess. i went on monday and i'm goin tonight for sure. tomorrow i don't think i'll be able to and then i'm runnin on friday. those crazies i run with...jovan suggested a 7 AM run!!
sweet
there are a lot of times i complain about my boss to chris, jay, and cicely. yesterday was no exception because he was being a complete butt brain. but then, as jay can attest, i've loved him one minute and hated him the next. maybe hate is too strong a word but you get the drift. then in the midst of his being all snarly and mean, he says i don't have to work thursday. what?! really?! cooooool!!! let's see if that holds up.
i can't believe the Angels didn't offer a contract to Eckstein. all for orlando cabrera...poo, he ain't nuthin. eckstein is a HUGE fan favorite there. come on now, he's a scrappy player and he gives everything to his game. go to the mariners eckstein...mariners. ok so the drop dead date for hockey must be close but the NHL just isn't sayin. such a sad year. no hockey season. i couldn't watch my boyfriend, i mean, favorite center (Andy McDonald), play. talk about a scrappy player that gives everything to his game. that's him. but the ducks on the other hand were smart, and they resigned with him. ooooh, and that bertuzzi dude is still on trial. i wonder if moore will ever be able to play again. 'nuff 'bout sports.
weekend
lots of stuff goin on lately...
my Mariners lost a pitcher to the stupid Twins... Ryan Rowland-Smith. apparently, if every spot on the roster is filled, you can't select anyone from a Triple A roster. "Any player selected in the Major League phase of the Rule 5 draft must remain on the 25-man roster the entire season, be offered back to his original team for $25,000 (half the draft cost), or work out a deal before the player can be removed from the roster." i don't really get it but it sucks 'cause we need pitchers. i welcome with open arms a player from my second favorite team, Adrian Beltre. plus, there's the Richie Sexson addition. SWEET! maybe we won't finish third to last in the LEAGUE... BOTH the AL AND NL. yeesh.
ok... my GMAT went horribly. admittedly, I was sick so I somewhat expected to do poorly. I just typed "doorly" by accident for a combo of "do poorly." weird. anyway, i found myself reading the questions and then thinking, "what?" and re-reading them thinking the same thing, "what?" how sad. i couldn't concentrate. i think other people in the testing room were angry at me because they all put on their earphone dealios. despite this, i am in the 73rd percentile for verbal. my obvious strong suit. then i became only all too aware that my downfall is math seeing as i am in the 10th percentile for math. TENTH! stupid stupid stupid. the only consolation i felt was in the fact that i was sick. BOOOOOO! i shall take it again next year, probably mid february. another $225 that i could have spent elsewhere.
i think i watched enough t.v. friday, saturday, and sunday to last me a lifetime. it was sad because everytime iya came over with chris, she saw me in the same spot in front of the t.v. i went to the gym cicely but i hafta say, it was a sad sight. struggling thru 30 minutes of cardio. i did my other 2 days of cardio on saturday and sunday. i tried to run/walk but it turned out to be mostly walking. too much gross coughing goin on.
can a person get toned in 2 weeks and 3 days? well, that's what i'm aiming for. i ate incredibly crappy ALL of last week so it dumped the previous 2 weeks work down the drain. gotta get ready for AUSTRALIA baby!!
dude
i just posted a few minutes ago. so why the rush to post again? such a crappy morning. i go to espn.com only to find out that the nhl has rejected the union's offer and vice-versa. what is that?! most likely that means no hockey this year. SUCKS. Oh, and i forgot. i didn't study for 2 nights in a row and my test is Friday morning?? hello?! am i thinking right? obviously not! AND i haven't gone to the gym. i wonder if cicely has.
my boss
is a big poopy pants. one second he's happy and the next he's a mean raving neanderthal. it sucks. take this morning for instance, guy comes in and is happy 'cause some "super hot chick" smiled at him while driving on the freeway. not two minutes later, he's talking about a lease payment, how i am not to pay it and that i'm not proactive. this, mind you, comes out of nowhere. sometimes i HATE working here. ok, seriously, if i don't get into grad school at UCI, by next fall, i'm either going to be at a different job or living in a different city or maybe even a different state. one or the other. BLECH=work when boss is in.
OMG
ok... i was chatting with my friend and he said that when we first met, his first impression was that i was a b**** and that i was "one of them Asian Princess girls." jeez. i wonder how many other people get a bad first impression. i know chris didn't get the best first impression either. how sad. but honestly, with chris, it was 'cause i was stressed over a calculus exam that jay was trying to help me study for but i was just getting frustrated about it.
xmas
thru church i got a family to sponsor for xmas... toys, clothes, dinner, whatever they might need. i got a family whose mom said her 2 kids need clothes and stuff for school. i'm sure they'd like toys too. it was crazy because the mom didn't speak a lot of english so there was a lot of spanglish goin on in that conversation. it is times like that i wish i was fluent instead of just talkin spanglish. but hey, it worked. it's pretty cool. i'm gonna ask everyone to join in and sponsor this family so they can have an awesome christmas. :)
the GMAT sucks
i'm stressin about my gmat. i'm stressed about being stressed. i'm also being paranoid and overthinking a lot which causes me to miss a lot of questions. why can't they just ask straight forward questions? why the trickery? it's not nice. at least i'm getting over half of the math problems right now as compared to the less than half that i was getting right last week.
fortune
i went to pick up stix for lunch today. quite delicious. with the fortune cookies, of course my coworkers and i add on the "in bed" to the end of the fortunes. mine said, "Fortune is on your side - play it for all it's worth... in bed." now isn't that interesting? huh. but then... i think this means i should play the lottery. right? right.
last night at the gym, this guy was on the treadmill but he wasn't really running. it looked like he was leaping not running. and when he landed from the leap he didn't step down with his heel first. weird, huh? it certainly looked weird! and he kept it up for half an hour. i've been to the gym 3 times so far this week and i'll probably go again tonight after i study. it's great!
playing jokes on unsuspecting individuals is quite fun!! i didn't get into work late this morning but i certainly was sleepy. thanks a lot! i need my sleep!
good day!
i woke up late and was 20 minutes late to work (because someone kept me up on AIM. jeez. ever heard of sleep?!j/k.) i was incredibly productive especially in comparison to yesterday. we had a meeting and this jerk face, he requested the meeting, was incredibly condescending and acted as if he was royalty. boooo on him!
cicely, i went to the gym last night! and i'm goin tonight. woohoo!
being lazy at work
so i'm being lazy at work. it's hard to work knowing your coworkers and boss are out having a grand old time playing golf and eating free food. bummer. i decided to eat an unhealthy lunch. chicken quesadilla from baja fresh. mmmmmm yum.
is it just me or do girls get more interested in guys faster? or do girls get slightly interested in someone and then over anazlye everything to death? usually i wouldn't think that of me but maybe i'm wrong. i think i do over analyze especially when i don't know if the guy i'm interested in is interested in me. blah.
i'm gonna go to the gym for sure tonight... maybe spend a few hours there. :)
oops
as it would turn out, i don't get to take the rest of the day off because my boss turned into mr. hyde this morning. booooo on him. anyway, i almost forgot to put on my deoderant this morning (not that it would have mattered too much since it's cold outside, but something about not wearing it bugs me and makes me paranoid) and it reminded me of joe's $22 deoderant from sephora. hmm... label whore=joe. :) he may say he's an undercover label whore but it boils down to the same thing, dontcha think?
the day after
man oh man have i been spoiled at work with T1 lines... dial up at home is ridiculously slow.
saturday morning, santa monica along the beach...slow jogging and walking in intervals with cicely while trying to look ahead to see where belle and jeovan were jogging. when we got back to the car, belle said we went 5 miles. omg... really?! cicely and i were in doubt so on my way home i measured the distance using my trusty odometer and lo and behold it was 2.2 miles one way. amazing!!! i felt very accomplished. wow... i'm sorry for doubting belle.
a bunch of laziness caught up with me this weekend. i didn't do nearly as much GMAT studying as i was supposed to do. for some reason, i'm not overly worried or stressed about this test but i feel like i should be. well... 11 more studyable days to go.
it's gonna be an awesome week. tomorrow i'm touring a non-profit center in L.A. and then i get to take the rest of the day off. then of course i don't work on friday so it's a great 3 day work week! wooohoooo!!!!!!
birthdays
stupid me... had this as a draft when i thought i published it...
thursday... joe's surprise birthday dinner was fun. good times at D&B. i started him off on his first drink and after that, well, impossible for him to eat since his friends were lining up to buy him a drink. oops.
finally got over the coldstone craving on friday. i had french vanilla with chocolate sprinkles and oreo cookies while joe had some weird pecan crap thing. ;) then went shopping with chris, iya, and joe which was cool 'cause i might have gotten another entry into my work's fundraiser next year and iya hooked me up with way cool discounts. ok... question, who buys $22 deoderant? then ate at wahoo's and watched the terminal. not the best movie but not the worst either. do you notice little mistakes while you watch movies? it was funny 'cause in this one scene he's getting ready to leave the airport and you see him with his little bag but not his suitcase. you don't see him go back to get it either and then all of the sudden in the next shot with him by the door, he's got his suitcase. weird.
we all saw a girl at the mall that cicely woulda made fun of because she was wearing a tank top and mini skirt with those nasty ugg boots and a big trenchcoat type thing. then outside where it's even colder we see this girl in a mini-tee, micro shorts, and sandals and chris says in not such a quiet voice, "check out this chick." i was laughing more at the fact that chris said that so loud than because of what she was wearing. too funny.
unexpected gifts
giving unexpected gifts is usually awesome and today proved to be no exception. i just gave Nomar a 500 pc poker chip set today as thanks for hookin me up with coffee. it is almost exactly like the one I have. It was sweet because he turned red. he was very surprised and maybe a little embarrassed. best of all, he looked excited to have gotten it. it was awesome. i love it i love it i love it!
hey cicely, i went to the gym last night. woohoo!! two down one more to go!
Finding Neverland
in my opinion, Johnny Depp is one of THE best actors. tracey says he isn't because he never changes his expression BUT, it isn't the case. he is simply a great actor. anyway, finding neverland...great storyline, great actors, quietly romantic... my kind of movie. i can't wait until charlie & the chocolate factory.
i went to see the movie and hungout with my friend because he was in need of some major venting. i would be too if i were in his shoes. what i kept thinking over and over in my mind was, how could someone possibly stab you in the back after you've helped that person countless times?! it takes a lot of gall or is it simple selfishness? either way, booo on that person.
ooooh, and there's this cool store outside of D&B at the block. everything inside is $8.98 each. i got a pair of jeans. they're not the BEST quality but they're decent and for $9.61 including tax, i'm down!
i didn't go to the gym last night but i went monday night and i'm going tonight. woohoo!!
