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.:: Monday, January 31, 2005
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another birthday, come and gone. i can't
believe it's the end of january already. i swear, you can't blink or
else time will pass you by!
in case you were wondering, i had a
fabulous birthday surrounded by friends, eating delicious food. just how
a birthday should be spent!
p.s. i did not buy tix to the U2
concert. maybe i'll regret it, but i probably won't.
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joyCleeP 12:05 PM [+] ::
... .:: Thursday, January 27, 2005 ::.
i finished reading the five people you
meet in heaven, a christmas gift from a friend. it was really
good.
i think everyone has their own idea of "heaven," and i
certainly know my idea of heaven has evolved over the years. born and
raised catholic (for most of my youth, til i stood up to my mom one day
when i was 13 and told her i would no longer be attending mass and
nearly broke her heart), of course i was fed what i should believe
heaven to be. and hell. when i was little, my mom would tell me what
hell was like. a place where you are so hungry but you can't eat cuz
there's a "force" that prevents your fork from ever entering your mouth,
it just keeps getting pushed away from your face. and this image of
heaven, it's always white, like you're in the clouds, floating in the
sky, an angel wearing a white robe, looking down on the living world...
afterall, this is the image that's plastered on tv whenever heaven is
involved.
after reading this book, you see a totally different
vision of heaven. i don't know what i really believe is heaven, i can't
say i even believe heaven exists anymore. but i like the idea that you
are once again joined by the people in your living existance, getting
questions answered, a sense of closure. but then i snap out of it and
think to myself, when you die, you die. that's it. there's nothing
beyond that. but a small part of me still wants to believe there is so
much more still waiting for me.
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joyCleeP 12:53 PM [+] ::
... .:: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 ::.
there is nothing more that i want than to
go see U2 in concert. but here's my gripe. it's not the $160 price tag,
afterall, i paid $130 for the elevation tour, so i was expecting a
whopper of an admission price. the reason why i don't want to see them
is because they're coming to san jose, to the HP pavilion, which i
absolutely hate for concerts. it has the worst accoustics ever, and i
just don't understand why bands keep going back there. i suppose they
have lots of seats, which means more tix sold, which means more money.
but come on...why would you sacrifice quality sound for a few extra
bucks that you don't need anyway? i just might skip this one. *gasp* did
i really say that? well, i've seen them twice already, do i really need
to see them again? hrm...but they really do know how to put on an
excellent show. what to do, what to do.
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joyCleeP 2:24 PM [+] ::
... .:: Monday, January 24, 2005 ::.
i love splenda. okay, i don't love
it, but it's a great sugar substitute. and i use it a lot. but i'm
afraid in like 10 years, they're gonna realize that it causes some
horrific cancer, and i'm going to be one of the victims. hopefully my
children can sue and get their millions. hmph. maybe i should just use
regular sugar and live with the calories. better to be fat than dead?
:-/
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joyCleeP 2:30 PM [+] ::
... .:: Sunday, January 23, 2005 ::.
my friends and i were so excited about SF's dine about town, so we
picked a restaurant, made our reservation, and made our way out to
downtown SF to dine at asia
de cuba at the clift hotel. well, they failed to mention that they
don't offer the dine about town menu on sundays. :( but all was not
lost, they had a very comparable lunch "bento box" menu, with 4 courses
for $25, and it was pretty good. the coolest thing at the clift was this
giant chair in the lobby! it was huge! picture an armchair, that's just
2x bigger. i wanted to sit in it, but there was no way for me to
actually get in the chair. i want one.
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joyCleeP 5:26 PM [+] ::
... .:: Thursday, January 20, 2005 ::.
so you know how i'm always saying tivo
will forever change the way you watch tv? well, it's also warping the
way i listen to radio! in the car today, i missed what the DJ said, and
i went to rewind it! doh!
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joyCleeP 2:38 PM [+] ::
... .:: Monday, January 17, 2005 ::.
so...the verdict is in, and W still has a
job! of course, his new employer is oracle, and it's like he's
signing his soul away to the devil, aka larry, but at least he won't be
at the unemployment office.
on another note, W can't seem to
stop watching this korean infomercial on nemobox. it's like a mechanical
mandoline, and it's fascinating.
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joyCleeP 2:05 AM [+] ::
... .:: Thursday, January 13, 2005 ::.
we didn't win the lotto. :( $81 million
would have been reeeeeaaaally nice. but we did get one number and the
mega number, which is something, not sure how much we get tho. maybe a
dollar or two?
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joyCleeP 2:07 PM [+] ::
... .:: Monday, January 10, 2005 ::.
i am sooooo over this "low carb craze"
that is everywhere i go these days. it's just annoying. i don't know why
i hate it so much. maybe cuz i know i could never go on a low carb diet,
cuz carbs are my life! the foods i love most are noodles, rice and
bread! how do i give that up?! like last night, we went grocery
shopping, and i grabbed a nice, warm fresh loaf of french bread at the
bakery, and it was soooo delicious, in all it's white fluffy goodness...
and they want me to say no to that?! i can't do it. no way. i'd rather
be fat and happy eating my bad "white carbs" than ever give up that part
of my life!
i remember a time when i was really little, like 5
or 6 years old, and i was at our friend's house, and me and one of the
boys (who was probably about 10 or 11 at the time) ate an entire loaf of
bread one morning! hahaha, we just kept putting slice after slice in
their monster toaster that toasted like 10 slices at a time (there were
7 kids in the family, everything was monster sized at their house), and
just kept spreading on jam and butter over and over, til we got to the
end of the loaf, and we stopped, and realized how much trouble we'd be
in once his dad found out. i remember i could eat a lot when i was a
kid...i had no trouble finishing off a pack and a half of ramen, when
today i have trouble finishing the one pack. strange. i think i was just
burning more energy back then.
i think the thing that really got
me was watching "the low carb revolution" on food network. one of the
nutritionists said that the low carb diet will stick around cuz it
works. it really works. it's just a matter of giving up all that i love
to eat, not just for a couple months or a year, we're talking for the
rest of my life... *sigh*
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joyCleeP 6:36 PM [+] ::
... .:: Friday, January 07, 2005 ::.
this sounds pretty exciting,
but it's lame how they only have 3 day passes for the grandstands. what
if you only want to go on one day? well, general admin is usually better
anyways, then you have the freedom to go to different spots. still
haven't decided if we're even going yet. if only we knew someone who
worked in one of those buildings, then we could just watch from the
office buildings!
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joyCleeP 11:20 AM [+] ::
... .:: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 ::.
last night i took down all our holiday
decorations, and now our house looks so empty!
i've made the
switch to soymilk. it wasn't hard, since the only time i drink milk is
in my cereal. but it definitely tastes different. i've even started
getting coffee drinks with soy, which isn't the greatest idea since you
add 40 cents more to a drink that is ridiculously overpriced to begin
with.
so even tho we think larry ellison is the devil incarnate,
he is actually doing good for once. oracle/peoplesoft is matching dollar
for dollar every donation given to the victims of the tsunami by an
oracle/peoplesoft employee. too bad we don't have a million dollars like
sandra bullock. but still, i think that's pretty impressive, and i'm
sending in our check today.
i think i want to learn to paint.
watercolor. i attempted it in a high school art class and wasn't very
good at it, but maybe i just wasn't trying hard enough.
YEA!!!
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joyCleeP 10:14 AM [+] ::
... .:: Monday, January 03, 2005 ::.
why do people have such a hard time
understanding that i don't drink? they look at me like i'm an alien.
"what?! you don't drink?! why not? are you pregnant?" they need a valid
reason for why i don't drink. i don't drink cuz i just don't like the
taste of alcohol. is that so hard to believe? granted, i'll have an
occasional drink here and there, and when we go out, i like to have a
drink, sometimes even two! :P but seriously, there's nothing
wrong with me, i just would rather consume something i like the taste of
than something i don't care for. is that so wrong???
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joyCleeP 3:05 PM [+] ::
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