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.:: Monday, May 31, 2004
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went on a hike today. it's been a while
so it was nice to be out and about. i was hoping for better weather, as
the weatherman said it was supposed to be warmer than yesterday. we went
to mori park in pacifica. the trail was right along the cliffs! the
ocean on one side...it was veeeerrrry niiiiiicce. that's what i'm gonna
miss most when we leave this side of the bay...the ocean! there's
something about the ocean that is so mesmerizing. *sigh* all we can do
now is take advantage of it while we're here.
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joyCleeP 6:14 PM [+] ::
... .:: Sunday, May 30, 2004 ::.
whenever we rent DVDs, we just watch the
movie and that's pretty much it. we rarely ever go thru the "special
features" or director commentary, etc. i rented love actually and LOVED it. it
was just the sweetest movie, and i'm not one to reach for the romantic
comedies at the video store. the different aspects of love, in all its
stages. i actually started watching the deleted scenes. they were just
as great as the rest of the movie. i wish they had the original version
of the movie on the DVD. i would definitely have watched it, even in its
3.5 hour entirety!
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joyCleeP 11:51 AM [+] ::
... .:: Friday, May 28, 2004 ::.
w and i actually had today off! woohoo!!
so we watched super size me.
it was interesting, kinda grossed me out. i mean, we all know that
eating fast food as your main staple isn't the healthiest, but this
movie really showed just how detrimental it is to your body! ugh. makes
me ill just thinking about it. i thought the funniest line was when
morgan spurlock says that when he has kids, everytime they drive by a
fast food joint he's gonna punch his kid, basically to condition him/her
to dislike fast food! hahaha, genious. a lot of the topics i knew from
reading fast food
nation (which is a must read for everyone, imo).
it's so
gross for me to see little kids drinking sodas (big gulps at 8am??) and
eating mc d's for breakfast. when i was growing up, i NEVER ate that
stuff. i never drank sodas, i hardly ever had junk food. i can totally
remember in the 4th grade, my mom would pack me a sandwich and minute
maid fruit punch for lunch, and would add a bag of skittles! funny
thing, i used to give it away, or trade it for my friend's beef jerky.
hahahaha... i can't even imagine not having a home cooked meal every
day, made with fresh vegetables and meats (NEVER frozen). i never really
ate fast food til i got to high school, and even then, it wasn't like
something i wanted to eat all the time. my friend introduced me to
frozen tator tots sophomore year in high school, and my mom was appalled
that i would eat that "junk." and in college, i hardly ever ate fast
food. we had tons of tacquerias, bbq joints and GOOD places to eat!
altho not the best for you food, it still beats super-sized fries.
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joyCleeP 8:50 PM [+] ::
... .:: Thursday, May 27, 2004 ::.
i have a really smart rice cooker! my
parents bought me a REALLY fancy rice cooker during my senior year of
college (all i asked for was a rice cooker with a "warm" feature). i
recently switched to brown rice, and i've never cooked brown rice before
and had no idea that it was THAT different than white. well, my rice
cooker sure knew! it usually takes 35 minutes for my cooker to cook
white rice (the short-grain sticky variety) but 50 minutes later, my
brown rice was still steamin' away! of course it was dried out cuz i
didn't put enough water, but how did my rice cooker know?! i did nothing
different...that's so weird! WEIRD!!
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joyCleeP 6:42 PM [+] ::
... .:: Monday, May 24, 2004 ::.
jebus, as if jack-hammering all day
wasn't enough, they shut off our water, without telling us in advance,
and then the power went out!!! and my dsl was down for most of the day.
but that's okay, it gave me no excuses to CLEAN!
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joyCleeP 8:50 PM [+] ::
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how annoying!! to have jack-hammering
right outside my house, and then at 11am, the garbage man is here? he's
very late today. AHHHH...this noise is driving me crazy! i can't wait to
move out of this sh*t-hole. but the thought of buying a house is kinda
scary... cuz now it means we're really "settling down" and "staying
put." no more talks of moving away, outta cali. we're here forever!
okay, not forever, but for a good amount of time. kind of a weird
feeling...so "adult."
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joyCleeP 12:00 PM [+] ::
... .:: Sunday, May 23, 2004 ::.
it is physically very difficult for me to
do anything sllooooowwwwly. (except maybe sleep, hahaha).
i eat
(and drink) very fast, except during the year i had my tongue pierced. i
try to eat slower, but when there is food in front of me, i have to eat
it!
i talk fast. well, i used to. i mean really fast. my
nickname in jr. high school was "speedy" as in speedy gonzales. my dad
used to get frustrated cuz he couldn't understand what i was saying, and
would yell at me to speak slower. so i did. okay, that's one thing i
don't do fast...anymore. :)
i walk fast. very fast. i try to walk
slow, when i'm at work and i'm escorting guests to where they want to
go, and man, i feel like my legs are just going to buckle and i'm going
to fall!
and last night, i realized that i have a hard to
driving slow. with this whole CHP crackdown on speeders, i've forced
myself to drive no faster than 70, which may not be that big a deal for
most ppl, but i just feel like i'm driving sooooo sllllooooowwww. but i
know i'll kick myself the day i go 71 and i get pulled over. so i'm
teaching myself to drive slow. *sigh*
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joyCleeP 11:04 AM [+] ::
... .:: Friday, May 21, 2004 ::.
you know that feeling when you have so
much on your mind that you don't know what you're thinking anymore and
everything kinda starts to shut down? well, that's what i'm feeling. i
have brain overload. heh.
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joyCleeP 12:52 PM [+] ::
... .:: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 ::.
i've seen ted coppel around the hotel two
times already. he's short. everyone on TV is much shorter in person.
that's what i've discovered.
last night, with nothing on TV, we
landed on "WB's Superstar." it was horrible. those ppl are going to
hell. if you don't know what it is, it's a spoof on "American Idol"
except instead of finding GOOD singers, they're picking all the BAD
singers, and as a giant hoax, sending them to hollywood to perform in
front of an audience and basically get laughed at (cuz they REALLY can't
sing). it's AWFUL!! i can't believe someone thought this was a good
idea. people...i swear...
today is day 7 without a day off. i
realized what happens to me when i'm overworked...i become a grouchy
b*tch and pick fights with everyone. *evil cackling laughter*
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joyCleeP 10:10 AM [+] ::
... .:: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 ::.
woa, they really changed blogger...i'm
not sure i like this! everything's so big. do they think we can't see
the screen?
my new favorite food right now is hummus. i can't
stop eating trader joe's spicy hummus. yummm...
my new favorite
drink right now is french lemonade. it's really just carbonated
lemonade, but it's so delicious! also found at trader joes.
yummm...
my new favorite tv commercial right now is the citibank
identity theft commercials. they're so clever and funny. i like the one
with the black lady at the salon...ahahahahaaaaa...
and my new
favorite show on FoodTV is Paula's Home Cooking.
she's this total down-home country lady that makes the fattiest,
greasiest, completely-bad-for-you-in-every-way foods, but she's so cute
with her southern drawl, i can't stop watching. makes me want to move to
texas. okay, maybe not.
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joyCleeP 5:53 PM [+] ::
... .:: Saturday, May 08, 2004 ::.
i know it's sad, but i admit i'm bummed
that "friends" is gone. well, except in syndication. but still...what am
i going to watch on thursdays now?? :P i was happy with the ending tho,
i knew it was gonna happen, but i liked the way they did it. i think my
all time fave series finale was the "seinfeld" finale. what a way to end
the show! i need to find a new sitcom to watch. there aren't any that i
really watch religiously anymore. it seems that everything on TV these
days is reality shows. i remember reading somewhere that sitcoms are
dying, being phased out. that would suck. i need mindless entertainment.
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joyCleeP 10:08 AM [+] ::
... .:: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 ::.
8.2 miles today! that's a new record! it
was a crazy day though, so i'm not surprised. i even jumped in to help
be an expeditor at the restaurant! crazy, since i've never done anything
like that EVER. but it further engrained in my brain that i don't want
to ever work at a restaurant.
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joyCleeP 8:10 PM [+] ::
... .:: Monday, May 03, 2004 ::.
saturday was M & J's wedding. she's
the 4th of our group of 5 from high school to be wed. so i'm the last
one left... the weather couldn't have been more on our side. it was just
gorgeous on treasure island! if anyone out there is looking for a
wedding venue, and they are looking for city views, definitely check out
casa de la vista on treasure island! it's a great spot! i've posted pics
of the views to the right. --->
anyways, this was my first
time as a bridesmaid, and it was a fun experience, mainly cuz of the
company i was in. my friends from high school and i have all gone on to
do very different things. L is in japan, teaching english, after
receiving her masters in english comp hoping to teach english at a jr.
college (who flew back from japan for the wedding!). Y moved to seattle
to be closer to A, and they married (the 1st one of us) and moved to
richland, wa and bought a house, starting a family soon. M is getting
her PhD from UCSF, doing something in the bio field...never was quite
sure what. J moved to LA to be with B, got her MPH from USC, and is now
working to improve our public health system. me, well, i'm still trying
to figure out what the heck i'm doing. :) but i'm happy, so i'm not
worried. yet, even with our moving away and onward, we still managed to
keep in touch after high school, mostly thru emails and occasional phone
calls. and during the holidays, when everyone is visiting family, still
in the same general area that we all grew up in, we get a chance to see
each other, if even just for a quick breakfast. it's nice, to have ppl
around like that. so this was a great weekend for us, the first time we
were all together, part of one of OUR wedding days. but for me, it was
also an interesting learning experience, being that this was the first
wedding i've ever been apart of. and this was also the first time i've
EVER seen a groomzilla. the bride was calm and radiant and laughing and
having fun. the groom was stressing more than i've ever seen a guy
stress, especially over a WEDDING! and trust me, i've worked with
numerous brides and grooms, and this was truly a first! and don't even
get me started on the demandingly-blunt-to-the-point-of-rudeness
photographer...
so my weekend was filled with wedding prep, then
wedding, then wedding recovery. hahaha... and now, back to work, for
more wedding prep, wedding, and wedding recovery... =P
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joyCleeP 10:17 AM [+] ::
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