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FEB '10 ARCHIVES 11:30 PM 2/3/2010five reasons why last week was AWESOME: 1. by thursday, i was so sick i could barely talk. i sounded like a cross between a 13 year old boy and an 80 year old chain smoker. 2. i got rear-ended on the 10 west in stop and go traffic. damage was minimal, but still annoying. i can't wait to drive an enterprise malibu for the next week and a half. i hope it's gold. 3. i got four vaccinations on tuesday morning and could barely lift my left arm for several days after that. i'm pretty sure that tetanus/lockjaw itself is less painful than the shot. 4. i got hit on by a friendly black dude friday morning on my way down to starbucks ("you ever been with a brother before? no? you're missing out! i'll even let your boyfriend watch!"). when i told lynn about it afterwards, she immediately said, "haha, must be the booty." :( thanks honey, that's sweet. if this butt gets any bigger, it'll have its own zip code. 5. somebody stole my stapler off my desk at work. and it was a damn good stapler too. this week has been considerably better. my body is still fighting this cold but at least i can move my left arm again. for the record, i really, really do not like getting jabbed with needles. especially when blood trickles out of the puncture wound and leaves a nice green-ish bruise for days. blechh. also, i am super-envious of people with huge, bulgy veins in their forearms. mine are actually fairly easy to find once the tourniquet is tightened but nurses and technicans have missed before and the pain of having to hunt around for a vein is excruciating. the things i do for that stinkin' two gallon pin from the red cross, i swear... the last thing i'll leave you with is a dumb yet entertaining meme from mary, which tells you to go to urbandictionary.com, type in your first name, and copy and paste the entries. here are some of the highlights for connie, with my comments in parathenses: Connie's are usually absolutely gorgeous girls. They have a love for bright colours and are usually hyper-active. They are known to come out with random things. Connie's are totally unpredictable! Boys are always chasing after Connie's (pffft not fair!!!) Everybody knows that if you are friends with a Connie you are special. Connie is also a fish name. (my favorite part about this definition? connie is also a fish name! i never knew. haha.) Girl who wacks her boyfriend on the head. (what? that's uh, random.) A gentle way of saying vagina, created and used especially by Mormon, or religious parents to describe the female genitalia. (oh, lovely.) A condom (word originating from the United Kingdom) (ugh. well at least my name is synonymous with safe sex.) there you have it. i am so gonna buy a goldfish and name it connie. for the record, i hate urbandictionary. it was funny for half a second until every idiot out there decided to add the stupidest definitions ever to the database. personally i think you should not be allowed to contribute unless you can at least spell properly. but that's just my two cents. soooo...super bowl sunday is coming up and i'm in a pool but doomed to lose. good thing i didn't want my stinkin' $20 back anyways. i will drown my sorrows in hot dogs and potaro chips. YUM. all right, gotta run now, more work to be done. i'll update later next week. hasta. 12:04 AM 2/8/2010 a year ago today i was suckered into running the super bowl 10K in redondo beach. i say "suckered" because the only reason i joined was to get a stinking medal and nobody informed me that there wouldn't be a medal for finishing a measly 6 miles until we were about halfway through the race. this year i wisely chose to sit on my butt and NOT run. instead, i ate a slice and a half of pizza, countless chicken wings and about fourteen hundred chocolate chip cookies over a span of six hours. let me tell you, it was SO MUCH more enjoyable than waking up early, wearing shorts in public, huffing and puffing for an hour and then having absolutely NOTHING to show for it. anyways, i got rear ended again on thursday, this time by a lady who apparently didn't see me as i was trying to make a left turn and went plowing right into my bumper. yes, that's right, i was rear ended TWICE in one week. i pulled off to the side to inspect the damage but the other driver was either 1) clueless or 2) shady as hell, since she kept going and left me behind in the dust. damage was minimal (again) and at this point i was too annoyed to chase after her so i just let it go. honestly, tomorrow i am expecting a grand piano to fall on my head. so i dropped off my car at the body shop on friday and now i am driving around a rental car from enterprise, courtesy of lady #1's insurance company. they tried to give me a blue impala but i managed to talk my way into getting a fairly new C300. it ain't no 3 series coupe but i am definitely not complaining, considering how i got stuck driving a mazda 5 around last time. the insurance agent was not thrilled when i asked her to reimburse me for the c-class ("ms. cheng, we cannot authorize a mercedes benz rental when you only drive a BMW....") which confused me a little bit because what car would i need to normally drive to be able to rent a benz? a bentley or a rolls royce? but i was not in the mood to argue and was about to drop it altogether when the agent suddenly gave a big sigh and reluctantly mumbled, "okay, fine, take the benz." thank you ma'am, that right there is first class service. like the extra cost for upgrading to a benz is coming out of your personal paycheck. i understand everybody's still cash sensitive in today's crappy economy, but if you're so interested in saving your company a couple of bucks, next time tell your customer not to rear end me on the 10 west, okay? i made lynn watch dear john with me on friday night and had to apologize to her multiple times before, during and after the movie because it was just so bad. channing tatum's acting was.... not so good. there was very little chemistry between him and the weird alien-looking actress, and the storyline was total crap (the blame falls squarely on nicholas sparks' shoulders for that one). man, there is nothing sadder to me than a bad chick flick. it's like when you have all the right ingredients for an awesome dinner and then somehow your kitchen explodes and you end up with a total disaster. it's even more tragic when channing tatum is one of the cooks. what a waste of potential. i've come to the conclusion that he needs a role like keanu's neo from matrix. minimal speaking parts, lots of action. that way people can focus on his stronger attibutes (i.e. looking pretty) instead of his weaknesses (i.e. ability to act). all right, it's almost midnight and i've got a busy week at work ahead of me. also, congrats (i guess) to tom, who won our super bowl bet and will now be getting a free lunch courtesy of yours truly sometime next week. he was all gloat-y after the saints won and sent me several obnoxious bbm messages expressing his elation. real classy. if i had won, i would have accepted my victory graciously and not rubbed his face in it. actually i probably would have been shrieking like a crazed baboon and calling him nonstop to scream, "I WON, SUCKAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!" over and over again, but whatever. that is besides the point. damn you, colts. you owe me $20 for lynn's pool and another $20 for tom's lunch. thanks. 10:43 PM 2/28/2010 one last update for february. i've been a bad updater this month. sorry. anyways. i only have a few minutes for this crap so i'm gonna keep it short and sweet.  flowers from jack. LOVE the colors.  small intestine at korean bbq. it was even grosser in real life.  my new home. i wish. it's actually terranea at PV. the spa there is TO DIE FOR.  me and lynn in mammoth this past weekend. it was my first attempt at snowboarding and skiing. i won't bore you with the details but let's just say i will not be the next lindsey vonn or torah bright anytime soon. sigh.  in case you needed visual proof of what a masterful skiier i turned out to be.  the saddest little snowman ever. | |||||||
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