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Archive for June, 2006

Starting a new tradition on Sundays. There will be only quizzes (memes) or pictures here.

Men See You As: A Difficult Challenge

You must be an incredible hottie… Because it’s the only way you can pull of the ice queen act You’re the type of woman that men love to chase But if you don’t stop running, you’ll never get caught!

I read today that Aaron Spelling passed away. I have been watching his television shows for as long as I can remember. Charlies Angels, Charmed, and Beverly Hills 90210 were the three that I watched the most. I loved those three shows. When I was a young girl, I used to want to be like Kelly from Charlie’s Angels. She was my favorite! 90210 was just an incredible show and I watch the reruns whenever I catch them on syndicated TV. As for Charmed. Charmed is the one that I watched from it’s inception to the end of the series just a few weeks ago. It was one of my all time favorite shows.

I found this story on the Charmed Ones.com. The story was written by the Associate Press.

LOS ANGELES (June 24) – Aaron Spelling, a onetime movie bit player who created a massive number of hit series, from the vintage “Charlie’s Angels” and “Dynasty” to “Beverly Hills 90210″ and “Melrose Place,” died Friday, his publicist said. He was 83. Spelling died at his mansion in Los Angeles after suffering a stroke on June 18, according to publicist Kevin Sasaki.

Mr. Spelling died at 6:25 p.m. (June 23rd) at his Los Angeles home, wife Candy and son Randy at his side, according to publicist Kevin Sasaki. Although daughter Tori Spelling was not reportedly present, Us Weekly reports in its latest issue that, days before the stroke, she reconciled with father following a months-long rift purportedly stemming from the portrayal of them in her semi-autobiographical VH1 comedy series, so noTORIous.

Spelling set a record of producing more than 3,000 TV episodes. His latter-day hits were among his biggest hits: The family drama 7th Heaven, which premiered in 1996, and the supernatural series Charmed, casting spells as of 1998, paced the WB into the 21st century.

Memorial services are pending.

God Speed and Bless You Mr. Spelling.
Thank you from all your fans for the wonderful TV shows you have provided us over the years.

Took me all day to take the time to post something.

I went out with some old friends last night and I was out until 2:15 this morning. I woke up this morning feeling like I swallowed lots of sand paper and got hit by a bus after eating said sand paper.

I every now and then do this to myself wherein I forget why I don’t drink a lot. I’ll then go out and do what I did last night and feel like shit for the following day and sometimes two days afterward. GAH!

So I met my old friend and his significant other at the Treasure Island for late lunch/early dinner (around 3:30 or 4). From there we came to my house so I could show them the house. We hung out here for an hour or so and then met another friend at a little bar on the other side of town. Our ultimate goal was to go to one of the PT’s Pubs here in town to see another friend of ours who is a manager/bartender there. We hung out at the little bar until about 11pm and then headed over to PTs.

Once at PT’s, said old friend who works there fed us lots of drinks. Different drinks. Damnit, he’s a bartender, he should know that we aren’t supposed to mix our alcohol. What was he thinking? hahaha Anyway, I finally got my friends back to their hotel and myself home at 2:15.

We had a fabulous time and I’m very happy I went out. The hangover is just a reminder of how much fun I had last night haha I don’t regret a second of it.

I’m not as bad off as I was this morning, that’s for sure, but man o man I’m not looking to drink any alcohol anytime soon hahaha

Hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend

Until next time…

What a day! I’ve done my bills and balanced my check book. I hate doing it but I like to do it early and get it done. Today is payday so that makes it nice!

Over the years, I’ve struggled with my finances. Either from when I was gambling or shopping. One or both would always keep me broke. I now have myself set in a way where I’m not struggling financially and soon I will be debt free except my car and my house. That will be VERY nice…it will be the first time in many many years that has happened. Coming up on 5 years in GA and I realized that it’s taken many many years to get financially stable enough to be comfortable. Takes a little longer for some I suppose haha

I’m getting ready to take my laptop down to a friend and he’s going to check it out. It’s been doing some weird stuff and it happens in both Firefox and IE so I don’t know what’s up with it. It’s even doing it in Opera. And yes, I’m a dork, I downloaded Opera ONLY to see if it would do the same thing in that browser hahaha

I’m looking for a Wordpress plugin to use the extra smilies Firefox offers. If anyone knows where I can find it, please let me know where to get it. Thanks!

Until next time…

This is a girls only…sorry fellas!

You Are a Bad Girl

You are 20% Good and 80% Bad You’re a total bad girl, from your wild hair to tattooed toes. But you’re too badass to even care if you’re labeled “bad”!

I check my Sitemeter fairly regularly, however I don’t get super deep into what URL referred the visitor or anything like that. Unless it’s odd and it catches my attention. I recently posted a picture that I absolutely adored and I loved the story behind the picture as well. I chose to post that picture and paraphrased the story behind it.

Someone linked to me at a chat room forum type thing on Webmd. 29 people have clicked on the link in that forum topic area and have visited my blog (in the last 6 hours.) Some of them have stayed for several seconds, if not minutes. I think that is very cool! Keep coming back, the more the merrier as far as I’m concerned!

I’ve enjoyed my evening so far, watched TV, read some blogs that I needed to catch up on, chatted in the forum and then checked the Sitemeter. I’m off tomorrow so I’m going to be sitting on this couch with the laptop on my lap for a few more hours. I love days off. They rock!!!

My friend (we’ll just call him Lockheed) is coming into town tomorrow with his significant other. My weekend is all about them! I’m so excited to see him I could just scream.

I have to say, Happy 60th Birthday!!!

Who am I saying that too? Not who…but WHAT is turning 60? Why, the bikini of course!!! The world would be a different place without the bikini.

In 1946, two guys came up with the same idea (in a way). One created the bikini and the other created the two piece (the one that used to cover the belly button) Did you know it used to be taboo for women to show their belly buttons? Good God all those people from that era would be losing their mind nowadays hahaha

Until next time….

This is it! This is my favorite day of the week! Or what’s turning into my favorite day of the week anyway. HA!

OK so my first Fuck Off and Die Thursday (yeah, I have more than one!) goes to self righteous people who pass judgement on others and not know the person they are judging. As everyone knows, I’ve reconnected with some old friends. Well one of these friends has been accused of living in the past and not living in the present. The people passing this judgement has NOT spoken to this friend in over 8 years. So my question would be how do they know this person is living in the past? My friend wants to reconnect to all of us who were important in their life at that time. I see no harm in that. We talk about the past as well as the present and we have lots to talk about it. I don’t get self righteous indignation from people who really don’t know what they are talking about.

My second FOAD Thursday goes to whiney ass people I work with. I get sooooo tired of pushy people asking me for shit day in and day out. I’ve told this one person, it will probably be next week. OK, that tells me to shut up and ask again on Monday. Right? OK yeah, not this fucker. Bugs me EVERYDAY this week for this shit. I finally told him today to back the fuck off. So, mister whiney ass, fuck off and die!

I’m so glad this was my Friday. I am now off until Monday. Monday, I have an appointment to get my car serviced and then I’m taking Tuesday off. In our contract, we get two “floating” holidays per calendar year from July 1 to June 30. I’ve only used one this year. So Tuesday will be the P.E.R.F.E.C.T. day for me to take off. I can feel myself going into an emotional downslide and I think taking that day off will be good for me. Tuesday will be the one year anniversary of Todd’s death. I want to spend it with friends and family and laugh, cry, be sad, be happy, etc with them.

Until next time….

There are a few blogs that I read on a regular basis. On some of these blogs, I check for updates two or three times per day. Over at 3T’s, I have been checking every other day or so for updates on her husband. He had surgery recently and 3T was blogging about it. Today, I did my check of her site and guess what I found? I found this post by her husband. Giving us all an update on his recovery process.

As I was reading this post, my eyes started tearing up and I felt something very deep within me. I realized how deep their love for each other and their faith in each other goes. And I find that to be extremely beautiful and moving. His post moved me to tears and in just typing this, I’m tearing up again. I am very glad that he’s doing well enough to post something and I’m very glad that he and 3T have each other to lean on. To all you cynical, jaded folk out there, there is such a thing as true love and I believe 3T and her husband, K, have found that.

My day at work today was quite busy and it went by fast. Almost too fast cause I didn’t get half the shit done that I wanted to get done hahaha. I did, however, learn something new in our budget software so I’m jazzed about that! I love learning new things and I was very excited about it. Once I got the finance lady to stop talking to me like I was an idiot, the training went very well and quickly! I’m looking forward to learning more about the system.

Josie…God love the little thing…I love her I love her I love her. She chewed my favorite pair of Kenneth Cole Reaction wedge heeled sandals. I lost my fricking mind. She’s lucky she was hiding under my bed this morning when I found it cause I wanted to throw the little girl across the room. Would I have if I had gotten a hold of her? Who’s to say. I’d like to say no, I wouldn’t have cause I love her very much and I know I would have immediately felt like a piece of shit and cried for hours cause of it. However, as mad as I was….I don’t know that I would have NOT beat her ass in some way. I’ve had those shoes for YEARS. OK, did I not express that properly? Y.E.A.R.S.

I watched the Yankees game tonight. They won 5 to 0. So for their road trip they are 3 and 3. Hmmm coulda been better. We’ll see how they do on Friday.

Until next time….

First, I need to apologize to all my readers for being such a whiney ass the last few weeks. I’m beginning to feel better and believe I’m on the road to recovery from this sinus infection and all the other shit I’ve had. I promise to try (yeah, TRY) to not bitch and whine about that anymore.

I woke up this morning and debated on whether to go to work or not. I decided to go to work. I felt a lot better than I did yesterday or any day previous in the last week. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not feeling 100%, that’s for sure. Seems like it’s been one thing after another with my physical health and it did not help that I was feeling a lot of stress from the work area.

I’ve always prided myself in being able to leave work behind. You know, leave it AT work. I have failed to do that the last several weeks. We’ve been under a lot of stress with the manpower issue and it just seems to be getting worse instead of better. So instead of actually leaving it there, I was taking it out of the building with me into my life.

I was going to start participating in the Wordless Wednesday that a few other bloggers do and realized I had too much to say today. So I won’t be doing that. I will still post a picture a week and will most likely do that sometime over the weekend.

I’ve made a decision that is going to upset a friend of mine. I’ve decided to NOT go to Southern CA next week. I’ve missed a lot of work and I’ve been sick a lot lately so I realized going out of town would not be the right thing for me to do right now. I feel bad because I did want to go and spend time with her and her family. Another reason I chose not to go is the car issue. I feel uncomfortable taking my car on a 500+ mile adventure when it has not been serviced in several months. Since Desert VW can not get me in until next week, I don’t want to take a chance of it breaking while I’m going over the Cajon Pass or somewhere in the middle of the Mojave Desert, ya know?

I hope you all have a fabulous day!

Until next time…