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OMG.

third month in a row i've started cramping at work!! my body hates me. :'(
after work i went to the drug store to get a sobe (because it makes me feel healthy).
and there was this little girl with her grandparents. she was pretty cute...untill she opened her mouth...
little girl: nana, can you buy me this?
grandma: no, you only get one thing today.
little girl: nana, you're no fun to shop with.
grandma: really? i thought i was lots of fun to shop with.
little girl: no, because you only buy me one thing!
grandma explains why she can't buy a whole lot of things.
*5 minutes later*
little girl: nana, can you buy me this?
grandma: no, you only get one thing.
little girl: nana, you're no fun to shop with.
grandma: really? i thought i was lots of fun to shop with.
little girl: *whines* noo, because you never buy me anything.
yep, the exact same conversation over again. like 5 more times. there was more too it, but i was like woah little girl.. and then she was like hollaring for her grandpa accross the whole store. "GRANDPA! WHERE ARE YOU?" "I'M IN THE CHECKOUT." "OH OKAY!"
blarg.
anywho... i think i've filled enough space. i'm doing some work and then megan and i are gonna re-arrange our room. cuz i might get a desk soon! so that i'm not messing up my back [more] sitting on my bed with the laptop all the time :)

um... cool?

RESULT: Cucumber

You know - as in "cool as a cucumber." Because there's no cooler vegetable than you.

You've got a great attitude going on - friendly, laid-back, open to new experiences. Anyone should want to hang out with you, and if they don't - well, that's their problem, not yours. Just let it roll off your back. We're pretty sure you do that anyway.

Don't be afraid to show a little attitude every once in a while - it's cool being cool, but it's also pretty nice to get your way and influence the people around you. A little bit. We wouldn't want you to lose your cucumber-ness.

Take This Quiz!

super duper

whew! i am soooo glad christmas is (almost) over. it's too much work and stress to be considered a holiday. seriously. our house flooded the day before christmas eve. (christmas eve eve?) and yeah... it pretty much sucked because it was at 3 am and we had church that day. all my sheet music is totally destroyed. :( *le sigh*

i actually got a lot that i like this year. cuz you know as you get older, no one really knows what you like or want.. so you just end up with a ton of gift cards and stuff. which isn't bad. but you know, it's kinda lame when people ask what you got... so here's a few things i got:


1. an mp3 player. zen nano. (not the plus though) and it's dark blue.
2. a co-edikit callender :) it's funneh.
3. a hello kitty shirt. ya rly! it's cool.
and a bunch of other random stuff like books, socks, chocolate, and a hair brush :) i'm not too expensive... lol.

only thing i'm not happy about with the year being almost over is that i start back with school in january. and sure i'm only taking art classes.. but still. school sucks. :( guess i really am antisocial... lol.

merry christmas again! more co-edikit!!

The Nativity

i was basically forced to see this movie. didn't want to go at all.. i mean, c'mon.. i already know what happens! what more can you do?
but actually it wasn't as boring as i thought it would be. they do a good job of diving deeper into the story - showing the reality of how it would be to be in mary and joseph's situation. plus neat music, believable acting, and even some funny lines here and there. gave me warm fuzzies and stuff.
so yeah.. go see it and support the christian media industry! ...actually i think it may have been by a secular group? but still, more ticket sales lets them know that people actually like this stuff and then they'll make more. so go represent! :)

oh and i finally finished my christmas shopping! yaaaay!

~MERRY CHRISTMAS~

my brain is shrinking!!!

just kidding.

i wouldn't call this my actual IQ though. i mean it was just 18 questions. i've taken better ones than that..
you try! :D

EDIT: took a different quiz (a real one rather) and my IQ is actually 124.. i don't know that this link will work for you but here are the results: http://web.tickle.com/tests/uiq/paidresult.jsp?test=uiqogt&where=paidresult

an interesting article

researchers find that alcohol in moderation may extend life span?!

see the article

hmmm... probably just wishful thinking on the researcher's part.

any thoughts?

[sarcasm] happy holidays! [/sarcasm]

well, i've been sick all weekend... but still managed to do everything i had to do. play lead keyboard for the sunday morning service. which actually went alright. then played piano for the primetimers christmas caroling thing at the nursing home. man i did sooo bad at that. i really should have just stopped playing when i got lost.. but no, i kept going.. and it sounded terrible. =.=;; also did the christmas light thing. yay for "being monopolized"! lol...because i'm a commodity? kay but really, sorry for not sitting up by everyone else. i will try to be more sociable next time.
also, i think i'm bad at talking to people. i say regular stuff that isn't meant to be offensive at all and people get all offended? *sigh* i need to take classes on how to socialize or something.. on second thought, that's lame. maybe i'll go live in a cave!
rawr.
so yeah, i'm still sick... coughing, sneezing, runny (more like pouring) nose, sore throat, the whole bit. and with one week till christmas to do the other 70% of my christmas shopping. horray. when i get a car i am going to get all my christmas shopping early!!

duh i'm the hottest place in the world!

Which Extremity of the World Are You?
From the towering colossi at Rum and Monkey.
YOU ARE AL-AZIZIYAH, LIBYA

You burn with the fires of a million suns.

OK, so that's an exaggeration. Perhaps only a thousand. Or 0.0106 suns, to be less fantastically inaccurate: that's the proportion of the Sun's surface temperature you reached on the 13th of September 1922. Your record of 60.6 degrees Celsius beats any other recorded for anywhere else on the planet. That's enough to melt an ox, create mercury from thin air or spontaneously turn oil into soup. 'strue. Really.

p.s. i joined this rum & monkey whatever it is that i got the quiz from. so if anyone wants to be my friend on there? ...yeah seriously XD

80's rockstar barbie called. she wants her hair back

i'm sorry but seriously?! why do we call this fashion? no one in their right mind would EVER wear these things in public. they are rediculous if not utterly HIDEOUS!! maybe artsy, but impractical - unless you live in a circus.

i give you: exhibit A and exhibit B and exhibit C (it's like a bad cosplay).
apparently strangely colored, "i-just-got-laid" frumpy looking hair is in... somewhere in the world. oh yes. actually i'm pretty sure it isn't and they just want people to try to look like that so they can laugh at how messed up they look...

what you wear and do with your hair should at least make you look good. why else would we bother wearing it?! if i can't even figure out how to put it on then i see no point. and don't get me wrong, i do like some fashion stuff. and i'm not saying i get it right all the time myself... but come on! this stuff here is supposed to be professional!!

but i guess if anything it has entertainment value. because i like to just look at it and laugh.

and laughing is always good. go ahead, look through those links and laugh some more :)

p.s. here's more. i guess i might sound mean... because you can tell these people are really excited about it and stuff. but personally i think they put most of this stuff together in the dark.

遠藤

My japanese name is 遠藤 Endoh (distant wisteria) 恵美 Emi (blessed with beauty).
Take your real japanese name generator! today!
Created with Rum and Monkey's Name Generator Generator.

suuushiii (>+.+)>

so tonight i had a few new experiences. my family was invited to dinner by some people. so, we went to a fancy seafood buffet in a fancy hotel downtown. so we had to all dress up nice and stuff. it was somewhat awkward because apparently these people eat there like ALL the time, they know like all the waiters and they were all greeting them like "hey! hi again! how are you doing?" and stuff. but yeah, i tried a bunch of funky foods i've never had before. some i don't even know what it was. stuff like scallops, caviar, sushi (tried before, but had some different kinds), and some Champagne. and of course the usual stuff like shrimp and whatnot. the dessert was yummy ^_^ they had a chocolate fountain! to dip strawberries and stuff in =) it was neat. although i'm sure you guys are around this kind of stuff allll the time and aren't really impressed by it.. lol.
here's some neat sushi shapped stuff. unfortunately they didn't have any of this.
k bye

sounds good

Your Dominant Intelligence is Spatial Intelligence

You've got a good sense of space and how the world around you looks. You can close your eyes and "see" images. You have innate artistic talent. An eye for color and shapes, you're also a natural designer. Since you think in pictures, visual aids and demonstartions help you learn best. You would make a good navigator, sculptor, visual artist, inventor, architect, interior designer, or engineer.

What Kind of Intelligence Do You Have?

boo

staff meeting for work today was real stressful. and i wasn't even part of most of the debates. but i'm still stressed. bleh... deadlines. i'm glad to be done with the meeting but i still feel stressed. usually i'm feel better after it's over. i guess because i was having to explain that i didn't get as much done as i should have because my internet connection has been on and off for a while. but still.....
i have too much work to catch up on.. besides that they are changing a lot of what i have to do, so i have nooo idea what i'm supposed to be doing, and neither do the people in charge of me? so then is it my fault i'm not getting anything done? yes.
also i offered to help the graphics designer with some stuff, cuz she's really stressed out too... i don't know what i'll be able to do.. i'll likely just make an idiot of myself. blah. this working on the computer stuff isn't as easy as you think!!!!!
anyway. complaining time over. i need to go sulk and kill things...
(video games, people! video games!)

japan's plan to solve the american obesity issue:

the Wii. lets make the fat gamers get up and excersise! yaaaay. heh, just thought i'd point this out...

lol. they have a thing set up at the mall where you can play the wii XD it was so funny watching people play. you have to feel somewhat self concious doing that... in the middle of the mall.

yeah i went to the mall in december...i must be suicidal XD lol.. it wasn't too bad today tho, cuz it's tuesday and stuff. and i'm so excited ^__^ i found a specific gift i was wanting to get for someone! i asked in like 3 different stores if they had it... they just looked at me dumb and told me no :( but i finally found it!! horray for strange memorabillia type stuff :) heh.

before that i went to class day (school) with everyone... that was kinda fun. watched them do the christmas play and everything. and saw some old friends.. that's always interesting.

annd yeah.. that's it for now~

breakfast for lunch at 3

still trying to figure out why i didn't wake up till nearly 2pm today after going to bed at 1am... usually when i do that i can wake up anywhere from 8 - 10 without any problems. also dad said the light in my room was on at 4 in the morning.. but i was in bed then? so i'm pretty sure i may have been abducted by aliens. or something....
no i'm joking... but man, i have a headache. stupid sleeping in. ugh.
saw casino royale last night... it was pretty good. i liked it :) i think the graphics designer who did the opening credits intro thingie was high though.. it was out of control.

Cramping 101

warning: this blog contains descriptions of graphic violence, female issues, and stuff that is just plain gross. not for the faint-of-heart or the easily-offended. read at your own risk.

today's meeting for work was 4 hours long. bleh. and i basically have the worst luck ever. the past two months i've started cramping at work, of all places! due to female issues of the once-a-month sort. now i know that at least 50% of my readers are male, so if you've ever wanted to know how cramping feels try this:

YOU WILL NEED: a pair of scissors (non-safety), duct tape, a golf ball, some matches/a lighter, a rusty 6" - 12" knife, and a close friend (or enemy, either one).

TO BEGIN: take your non-safety scissors and cut open your lower stomach area, exposing your large and small intestine. locate your small intestine (hint: it's usually the smaller looking rope of gross pinkness) and proceed to pull it all out of your body, tie a few large knots in it (doesn't matter where) and stuff it all back in however you like. you can use duct tape to seal yourself back up.
STEP 2: have your friend kick you in your lower back a few times. maybe beat you with a baseball bat a little.
STEP 3: swallow the golf ball. it might get stuck in your throat... but that's all part of the experience :)now here comes the fun part!
STEP 4: take your rusty knife and begin stabbing yourself in the lower stomach. it should go nearly all the way in. then either you or your friend give your stomach a few good punches. proceed with rotating back and forth between the stabbing and punching for about an hour or so.
STEP 5: after about an hour has passed light yourself on fire and induce vomiting. then have your friend continue with the stabbing and punching to the lower stomach until either (a) you pass out or (b) your friend passes out.
sounds fantastic huh? i know you can't wait to try it.

so now that you get an idea of how it feels... next time a female friend/relative/whatever informs you that she is cramping you should do everything in your power to make her feel better - buy her chocolate, offer her a back massage (if that's okay), or just let her know that you can't really relate, but heard somewhere that it really sucks and you hope she feels better.
=)

soggy couches are in.

i really like looking at professionally done interior design stuff... like the show rooms in ikea and such. maybe cuz it'll be a long time before i can do anything like that... but anyway!
was looking at this article today and saw this picture:

and i was like, yeah that's really pretty... nice little sitting area out on the patio/roof/whatever.. i wish i had something like that-- wait! what happens when it rains? those couches would get all soggy... ew. wow that would suck. kinda impractical. actually a lot of interior decorating is just rediculous. it isn't for real people. it's for people who are never home... who don't have any personality or STUFF. because you know in those pictures everything is always so CLEAN! where is all their stuff?! it can't sit out unless it matches the color of the room... so maybe it wouldn't be so fun to have a perfectly done house... haha.

nothing

well, i finally got around to signing up for my classes this year.. i'm doing life drawing & composition (aka: the class where you draw naked people). i need to improve my anatomy drawing skills. i haven't decided on other classes yet, but i'll sign up later. i don't know how i'll do much school with working 30 hours a week anyway... i'm so lazy. normally i'm not into new year's resolutions (why bother, right?) but i guess if i have one it will be to start going to bed and getting up at regular times. like bed at 11pm up at 8am. that sounds do-able. i just need to buy better sleep drugs.... or something. ugh.
i don't want a lot for christmas this year.. i'm having trouble coming up with a list. really so far it's just stuff i need... like a car (i don't know why i even put it on there. no one will get me one), an mp3 player of some kind... because college art classes are so boooring without some kind of music playing for when you have to draw for 2 hours strait. and the only other thing on my list right now is a 2007 callender. which i'm sure i'll get like 5 of, cuz it's the only thing affordable... heh.

i suck

no one likes me... i scare animals and offend people - without even trying.

=(

stop! break a fortune cookie!

last night we got chinese food =) i luv chinese food!!
my fortune cookie said:

Time, once lost, can
never be regained.

and the fortune cookie was stale.....

hmmm. maybe it's a sign? lol. nah, i'm way to superstitous for my own good. haha.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!!

♥

hot wata

well last week was interesting.. the water heater decided to start leaking and flood half of the kitchen.. luckily someone noticed before the whole house was flooded. and of course it would be while my dad is out of town and when mom is about to leave to go out of town... so we had no hot water for a while.. couldn't flush the toilets or take showers or wash clothes. yep, good fun.
and the past 3 weekends have been anything but restful.. 3 guest speakers in a row! doing 3 services a week. saturday night, sunday morning and sunday night. and having to play in the band for most of them. whew. glad it's over with!
and yeah.. guess i better do some work now. it's hard working at home!! i have to mannage my own time! which makes it easier to slack off! lol.

What superhero are you?

You Are Elektra

There's really no superhero with more style than you. Because who could beat being sexy assasin ninja?

What Superhero Are You?

sure why not...

no subject...?

well, i got paid today. i'm getting paid bi-monthly now ^_^ so i went to go cash my check after work, got to the bank and they're all "oh, this check wasn't signed" XD sooo no new monies in the bank yet.. lalala
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wow, busy weekend... i'm beat. even though i slept in till 12....
it was kinda fun though... some parts anyway.
working on updating my shop for the holidays! i'm actually finally making some money off of it now :) (not much...but some.) i've got more ideas for christmas stuff..
work is hectic...yay for fast approching deadlines and confusing ideas that people expect me to help them figure out :/
gonna be starting back with college in january... hopefully my work load will smooth out by then. i have noo idea what classes i'm going to take. i guess i could just do some general ed. and get that out of the way... but really that's so dumb. it's just high school all over again. the system is so retarded...

i voted!

yay, i'm awesome! and i even got the cool little sticker :D hehehe. not this one...
work in the morning! weeee! i have an offical title now! i'm an "independant consultant".. hehe, sounds pretty official huh?
oops, guess it's tomorrow already! happy wednesday, shanell!

what punctuation mark are you?

Ellipsis

...
Some people think you're wierd, and some people think you're just pretentious, but really, you just have a whimsical personality and aren't shy about it. You do what you want, and don't care much for what others think. Bravo for you!

Take The Quiz Now!Quizzes by myYearbook.com

change o plans..

i was planning to complain about the last two days.. but i'm over those and i'll just complain about today. not that they sucked any less. but i just don't feel like talking about them...
today i had a huuuuge head ache/migrain thing... it sucked. i hardly got out of bed because my head wanted to explode if it was any more than 4 feet above the floor (so anything more than sitting-in-bed-level basically)
didn't get anything done at all today. cept for some work 3 hours ago because i'm feeling well enough to type properly now... yaaay.
course now i have twice as much to do tomorrow...
i noticed i got mostly chocolate from halloween. doesn't anyone give out fruity candy anymore? i like fruity candy XD the plain hard fruit candy stuff. that's what i want...dangit.
this week went by fast... like there was sunday, and then it was wednesday and thursday in my all day meetings, and now it's friday night and i'm like "holy crap where is my week?" oh well... next thing i know i'll be 20 saying "dang, now i'm old". yep, cuz that's life in stuff. kay i need to go take my drugs now. goodnight all!

asplode

ugh, so out of it right now...
today and yesterday i had all day meetings for work.
gotta crash now....
i'll come up with something to say later,
once i turn my brain back on again...
yeah...

so lets pretend i'm a cookie...

You Are a Black and White Cookie

You're often conflicted in life, and you feel pulled in two opposite directions. When you're good, you're sweet as sugar. And when you're bad, you're wicked!

What Kind of Cookie Are You?

well, today i went on a lovely road trip... sorta.

see, my mom see's this doctor up in beverly hills who uses "natural medacine stuff" annd she's pretty into that, so she goes to see him every year. and this time she was all "hey, wanna come to the doctor with me? you can go shopping on rodeo (row-'day-oh) drive while i'm doing that!" suuuure :)
hahaha. i forgot how much i hate going to LA. and long car rides.
soo yeah. got up early this morning, rode in the car for 2 and a half hours.. i'll spare you the boring details. finally got there and i was like "holy cow! every other car is a mercedes or a BMW!!!" no joke! XD it's insaaane!! there were like 5 BMWs in a row.. and a saw some ferraris and lamborghinis too :D actually being driven! that was neat.. you rarely see them being driven around where i live XD they just sit on display in shops or whatever...
saw lots of interesting people too. you get all types there. rich people. poor people. poor people who try to look rich. rich people who try to look poor...yeah. it's cool. and of course all the people who hang out there simply to "get discovered" by some movie producer or modeling agent. some guy standing on the sidewalk tried to make me listen to his CD.. said something about ill wish i had when he's famous? yeah kay crazy. i can't remember his name, so i'll never know.
none of the fancy, expensive shops really appealed to me.. the only one that came close to being cool was guess... and i didn't even know that was what it was till i went out. yeah so i guess i could never be in fashion... cuz i don't like name brands? or know them... infact i can't pronouce half of them when i see them!!! and you shouldn't wear what you can't pronounce. ever! or eat for that matter. pronunication is important. so is spelling, but i think i just killed it back there. dang.
ANYWAY!! i don't think i saw any movie stars.. oh well. mom's appointment ended at like 2 PM, so we were gonna go to one of the little cafes on camden or rodeo for lunch.. buut they were all real crowded (go figure). so we decided to go to a certain mall to eat.. so. 3 hours later!!!!!!!! who has lunch at 5 PM? oh, i do. and we actually passed like 2 other malls.. but she wanted to go to this certain one. but what was cool was that i was wanting wendy's (i like wendy's). and she was all "oh come on, you can get wendy's any time!" (no, not really mom).. and then we got to the mall and right on the front there was a big wendy's sign XD wendy's!! in the mall! am i lucky or what! hahaha. so yeah, ate my deeeelicous jr. cheese burger delux, and then shopped around a bit.. didn't buy anything all day though... save for food of course. heh.

and yeah.. i guess that's really the most exciting parts... that i can remember. saw the street corner for sunset and camden...from singin' in the rain.. but i guess i'm the only one who would care about that :) hehe

la de daaa... blah

well, my boss wants me to work full time now, while i'm not in school... oy. oh and he finally paid me today after forgetting the past two weeks (and considering i only get paid once a month, that's not good..) i guess i have the time to work full time... the thing is do i have the motivation to actually sit down and work for 40+ hours a week... i barely make the goal i have now.. but only because i spend a lot of time drawing and doing stuff i enjoy...and i wouldn't really call the work i do exciting.. so yeah. this should be interesting. it would definately help me be able to pay for a car quicker though. i just wouldn't have any time to mess around. and messing around is like my favorite passtime XD lol.. oh well. guess i could be a workaholic... maybe.

kitty kitty

a good example of photomanipulation to look like a cat... (someone's ID off of deviantart. not mine XD)
if you can't see the picture here's a link: http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/30692294/

BEST GAME EVUR!

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/40255643/play it!!!
i'm so addicted XD
lol...

hmm ^_^

today...was my favorite day of the whole year.
yep yep! ♥

un tiens vaut mieux que deux tu l'auras

sometimes it seems like people are mad at me... and i don't know why?
annyway... enjoying playing with my tablet ^_^ heh.. and i managed to get a little work done too.
still not looking forward to going back to school.. just the thought of it makes me sleepy XD lol..
and my gosh.. i can't believe it's almost the end of the year AGAIN!! yikes..
yeah i really don't have anything important to say... just felt like saying something... soo yeah.

asldfkjasld;fjaalfjk1!!

yeah i'm pretty much freaking out XD lol..
i got a TABLET for my buuurfdaaay!! chris is probably the only one who will really appreciate that fact. if you don't know what a tablet is then i'm sorry. educate yourself; google it. it's a wacom intuos3 4x5. know what that means? THAT IT'S FLIPPIN AWESOME!!!! XD
so now i'm pretty much gonna take over the world. i've been playing with it for like the past 5 hours. and it came with a bunch of programs, liiiike photoshop elements 4.0 (2 whole levels up from my old one! w00t! lol..) and painter, and some photo editing program that i probably won't use... so yeah. way cool. i'm excited :) who cares that it's about the only thing i got.. save for 5 whole dollars from my grandparents (they love me so ♥) and a few other neat little things.. :)
anywhoo, i'm off to go draw more stuff with MY TABLET!! *squeals in techy-girl delight* i probably won't get ANYTHING done the next few days. and i don't care XD
farewell!

oh hey. . . . .

happy burfday to mee.
nineteen. my last year as a teenager... or so everyone keeps telling me. mentally i'm still 12.
doesn't really feel like it's my birthday. i remember as a kid it was like the best thing ever. after christmas. or maybe better cuz it's just for me? now i'm like "oh yeah... i guess my birthday is coming up huh?" and then i forget till the next person says something. i haven't had a birthday party in so long.. i don't think i've ever had a surprise party...that i can remember? that might be cool...
anyway... i should be sleeping.. because i have to go to work in the morning.. cuz i'm an adult or something.. i think i've complained about this before: i turn 18 and they say "congrats, you're an adult now! you get to be responsible and stuff!" and then i want to do something and they say "no, you aren't REALLY an adult until you are 21." ...........yeeeeah.... what's with that?!! i guess i'm having an identity crisis XD lol

mahalo

i think i should be a tattoo artist. not the person who gives them, but just someone who comes up with designs and sells them. as yet another side job...
another update to my shop! i'm happy...it's actually looking good now :) yaaay!

movie movie movie!

one night with the king is a good movie. a lot better than i was expecting. you should definitely go see it if you can :)

wow.

today i learned something VERY important.
i do, infact, get very very sea sick.
mmhmm. of course i didn't know this when i payed $50 to go deep sea fishing with my chuch. how could i? i've never been fishing before. *all gasp* yep. and since i'm all about trying new things and all that jazz, off i went!
got up at 4 AM. yaaaay. waited for everyone on the dock forever. 6 PM: board a little ship, with liiike 25 or so other people - all of whom i more-or-less know, save for the ship's crew.
was doing pretty good, ship took off, rode at the front of the boat for a while.. saw the sun rise and stuff. then had to go to the capitan's little spot to sign some paper (incase i die). didn't even make it half way when i started feeling sick. so i got the bright idea to maybe take some of my sister's motion sickness medacine (too bad the directions said to take it an hour before you go..) so yeah. i'll spare you the disgusting details and just say that i spent the next 3 hours over the side of the railing.. good times.
then the boat stopped so everyone could fish (boat stopping on moving ocean = not good for melissa). and i got kicked out of my spot by the rail... apparently fishing is more important than me dying. yeah. freaking miserable. i seriously thought i was gonna die. tried sitting up top to get out of the way (plus my legs where hurting from standing at the rail).. but yeah, going to the top = stupid idea. was so sick i had to have help getting down to a part of the boat that wasn't rocking as much. which was the place where everyone tossed their backpacks.. stayed there for the rest of the trip, just had to move whenever someone needed their stuff. and movment of any kind made me sick.. so i was throwing up like every 15 minutes... after a while they made me eat just so i'd have something to throw up... XD
i was sooo happy when they finally said we were heading back and we'd be there in 2 hours. so happy, in fact, that i threw up some more. yaaay. i swear i threw up like 50 times. lost track after 10 times.. and that was only around like 9 AM... and the thing went till 3:30 PM. you can do the math.
oh and everyone caught yucky looking fish and a good time was had by all. save for me, and the few other "landlubbers" who spent most of the trip leaning over the rail. i couldn't even hold the fishing poll i felt so bad.. so i guess technically i still haven't gone fishing. but i know i'll probably never do it again either!
the room is still rocking back and forth.... bleeehhh.

friday the 13th

does this really merit a blog post? no, not really... i know someone who was born on friday the 13th... he's a strange kid.
anyway. it's supposed to rain here tomorrow. on the day we're going fishing. at friggin 5 am. what's with that?
kinda frustraited. i can't draw today. or last night. or this week. or last week. why? i just can't. i know what i want to draw, but it doesn't come out how i want. meh.
i keep forgetting my about my birthday. people will say something about it and i'm like "oh yeah that's next week, huh?" heh..
and now everyone is talking about getting sea sick. yaaay. such lovely stuff to hear about.. i don't plan on getting sick. but the rain thing kinda sucks...
anyway.. i'd better get to work. weeeee

uuuugggghhhh

oy. longest day of my life. sooo happy to be home... cept now i'm going out again...after this.
went to work this morning. soooo boring. i hate trying to figure out stuff that doesn't make any sense to begin with. and glad i get paid this weekend. i spent most of my cash today. after work we went to lunch and to a movie. greek place... eh. then saw all the king's men. holy. freaking. cow. longest 2 hours of my life, i swear. nothing could possibly describe how badly i wanted that movie to be over. ughhhh! politics and drama. spare me. i have a massive headache. ah, life... politics are for sure not my thing. i'm glad other people are into that.. or else we'd be in bad shape. just so they take care of it so i don't have to i'm good.
anyway... yeah i'm done talking.

sunday vs. monday

sunday night:
-went to bed at 10 PM
-woke up at 5 AM
-decided that was too early and slept till about 9 AM

monday night:
-went to bed at 4 AM
-was woken up around 6 AM to take out the trash before the trash truck came, because i forgot to take it out the night before. (because for some reason my dad couldn't do it even though he was up?) soo there i was in my plaid flannel pajama pants and an over-sized sweatshirt, on 2 hours of sleep, knocking down spider webs with HUGE spiders in them.
like this ------------------------------------ big. and dragging out the trash cans that are 3 times as big as me...while all the kids are walking to school. i may have scared one or two..
-went back to bed and slept till 1 PM

jeeeez. i have the most messed up sleeping schedule EVER.

i got bored...

no actually i had a lot to do.. i think i was more just putting off working (which i did today, so it's okay) but yeah... i finally re-did my walls! (all 1 and a half of them. yay for sharing a room!) but yeah.. i guess if you're turning 19 you shouldn't have DBZ stickers and stuff up still... haha.

BEFORE: wish i had taken some pictures before i changed my bedspread too. then it would be a HUGE difference! you can't really see the majority of the wall (i mean you can't anyway because pictures litterally cover every inch. but you can't see the wall i'm gonna change here). this was just supposed to be a picture of my new quilt
thingie :D


AFTER: took down all the pictures and started over. made the net thingie higher. spread the pictures out more (didn't put a lot of the old ones back up). turned my bulletin board horizontal rather than virtical.. just to switch it up a little. then i put up a bunch o crap i bought from ikea (i ♥ IKEA) some lanterns that i've wanted since i was like 14, some little mirrors, some neat postcard-looking travel picture thingies, annnd i also got some bamboo. but you can't really see it...
i'm not finished with putting up pictures... i'm hoping to get a chance to buy some posters... that way it's not all small pictures like before.. heh.
decorating is fun :D

♥

headaches are teh suck

what is worse? being bored to the point where you want to kill yourself? or busy and overwhelmed to the point where you want to kill yourself? thankfully i'm neither! ;P haha.
though i am feeling extremely busy these days... it's weird. cuz i'm not even in school right now. (but i don't even want to think about that) but yeah, at work everyone is really busy doing all sorts of things, so stuff gets delegated to me all the time, right? and basically someone came up with this great idea that they didn't know how to do. it's tough, we don't understand how it will work, but it's brilliant "hey, lets give it to melissa to be in charge of!" sooo now i'm trying to figure out how to do something no one else has ever been able to do in the history of internet. and i can't even begin to explain it! yaaay. typing up really long e-mails, giving assignments to bunches of people twice my age, and keeping track of huuuuge lists of stuff... working till 12:30 at night, existing off of eggo waffle cereal and advil... i feel so grown up ;_; ahaha.
aside from that, i went to the wild animal park today. i remember seeing all of 3 animals. no joke. they are so spread out there it's amazing you see any. (of course it doesn't help that we missed the tram thingie) but i'll tell you what i did see! BIRDS. 84,930,726 freaking different types of BIRDS!!!! bleh. also i met the giant catfish from hell, who shall from here on be refered to as "JAWS". but lets not talk about that... oh and there was his distant cousin the killer ninja grasshopper. elliott and i almost had heart attacks. me from shock and him from laughing at me. what a good friend.
oh but good times where had by all! mainly involving elliott's camera.
(ELLIOTT YOU NEED TO MAKE ME A CD OF ALL OF THOSE PICTURES!!!)
*ahem* thank you for your time. that is all.

oy sushi oy

apparently i'm a week ahead of myself... because i seriously thought tonight was next wave and this saturday was fishing... silly me, i'm all confused.
i added more stuff to my shop today.. liike these niffty little sushi...things...?cute, no? you can see them here at my shop ..among other things... now i just need more people to buy stuff... hahaha

HUUUGE update!

did a few updates to my shop!

here's a little preview:




♥ mel

holy moly!!

i know i'm the only one who cares but...we didn't have pizza for dinner tonight!!! lol. for family night. we had chinese food instead! yaaaaaaaay!
if you've read my blog at all you'll know why this is such a big deal.
anyway.
that's all.
^_^

DRIVE-THRU FUN

i'm begining to think that if i order the opposite of what i actually want, that i might end up with what i really want. because everytime i order a cheese quessadilla with jalapeno sauce from taco bell, i get no stinkin jalapeno sauce! and given the sauce is my favorite part of the quesadilla and that's what i really want, it's kinda frutraiting that they would mess that up every time i specifically ask for it.
i remember back when i used to order just bean and cheese burritos, WITHOUT sause and onions, how they would ALWAYS put sause and onions. now i get it without cheese but with sauce and onions, and they don't add those things. stupid people at taco bell. stop messing with my head!
ANYWAY. back to my theory! i think if i use reverse pychology on them (say no jalapeno sauce) i might actually get what i want!!!

pluto's revenge

"your momma's a dwarf planet."
http://www.intrepidmedia.com/column.asp?id=2637&read=N

beach daaay

today is my dad's birthday! so my familia went to the beach. it was really nice :)
here's a picture i took...
there were a lot of these cool little birds running around... so i took a picture of a whole mob of them (maybe a 'flock'? w/e it's a mob!). also in the water they saw stingrays, dolphins, sharks, lots of fish, and a sea lion 0_o

defective candy

soo after work the other day i went to the store and bought 2 things. a thing of non-permanant black hair dye, and a bag of candy corn (yay for seasonal candy). i don't get it any other time of the year, even though they sell it year round.
well. the candy corn is pretty much like eating wax. and it's "guaranteed fresh" so i guess this particular brand just sucks.. bleh.
and i tried the hair dye today. i figure a few weeks of having black hair might be cool... so yeah. it didn't work. i didn't mess up on the directions (cuz i'm OCD like that, i read directions like 5 times to get it right!) so now i just have very dark brown hair... oh well, it's cool :)
OH! and freaking ESS finally called me back about yet another job interview! and you know what i say to them? screw you! i got a waaaaaaay better job! (okay no, i didn't really say that, don't worry) but yeah, i think i'm allowed to be a little frustraited with a company who allows their hireing process to take a full freakin year. not three months. A YEAR. because i turned in my application fall 2005. if i were living on my own i'd have died by now.
anyway.. i think i need to draw stuff now.

man bites panda

panda bites man. man bites panda back. ahhh i see..... no wait. no.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14922482/?GT1=8506
in other news... i drew a hot azn guy today :3

then my scanner ate him......... ;-; so it looks like poo...

for the sake of my memory...

well, working hard.. got paid yesterday :D about 6 more months of saving up and i should have enough for a used car! weee~
so i went to deposite my check, and the lady at the bank pretty much told me i don't look 18 XD!!! and here i'm going to be 19 in less than a month! that is sad... i guess i don't really feel that old either... *sigh* maybe i just won't grow up.

arrrrg?

hey guess what, kids! today is talk like a pirate day! yep. aren't you glad to know that? now you can walk around calling people 'matey' and saying 'savvy' and all that good stuff :D i know you're excited!
and my family from texas left this morning......while i was sleeping.. didn't get to say bye :( oh well... hahaha
hmm, that's all... no one likes me anymore i guess...
oh well...
cheers!

tallyho g.i.joe!

well, yesterday all my plans got changed...
ended up not going to old town and casa de pico..
went to jalapeños and meg and bobby's house to swim instead
course i didn't swim... so i was bored outta mi cabeza! XD
i played on the piano for like half an hour....
and mom was kinda bored and she wanted her drugs (starbucks), so we went to go find her some (with the excuse that we were getting relish for the hotdogs?).. ended up getting lost on the way (even though she drives around here all the time!), and going into the wrong store not realising it was the wrong store till she walked in! (i thought maybe she had a reason to go here and just didn't tell me?) lol ..i blame my addict mother. i told her she should let me drive, but noooo... anyway.. that was my adventure.
was invited to a party with jaunny's family (the whole huuuge filipino family) buut since i had to do my own family things (which ended up not being all that familyish) i couldn't go :(
anywho. went back to meg and bobby's.. was bored for forever (drew this picture). we finally left sometime after 10...
now everyone else is at the beach.. i'm sitting this one out. i need to take a shower when there aren't 10,000,000 other people in the house needing to use the bathrooom. plus i haven't gotten any work done since they've been here... sooo yeah. they are leaving sometime this evening i think. it's been fun.... but i'll be happy to be able to walk around the house in my pj's again..

don't do drugs, kids.

did you know it's a $500 fine or 6 months in jail for spitting off of the sky rail thingie at the zoo? yep. pretty crazy. i forgot to say so yesterday...
anyway. for today's sight-seeing adventure with our cousins from texas we went to cabrillo and point loma... so they could look at the ocean and stand on the cliffs and see the tide pools and all that good stuff... benjamin got yelled at for climbing on some hill....the officer said it was a $50 dollar fine...if he caught him doing it again. and all his little friends too (them being my cousins).. heh.. lame. luckily he didn't have to pay. and there were like 5 weddings going on... apparently everyone wants to get married up on the cliffs by the ocean. some advice for you if you ever go to one of those weddings. don't wear a short dress.. even knee lengh can be dangerous if it's loose. megan got totally flashed by some chick...and yeah.... you don't want to be that chick that is flashing everyone, do you?
my legs are so freakin tired.. from walking so much the last few days. sheeshh.. how do toursits stay so fat?! XD lol, i'm such a meany...

so sick

most of you know about my friday night ritual of "family night"... if you don't, basically all it is is every friday my family eats pizza while we watch movies. usually we'll have ice cream or some sort of dessert as well. and i must say, i am REALLY getting tired of pizza every friday. usually i'm so hungry by the time it comes i don't care... but it's just getting gross! and i was just thinking about that and came up with a little spin off of neyo's song 'so sick'. the chorus just came to me.. and i attempted to make up stuff for the rest.. and i did, but it was sub par. so! here's the chorus. :D

and i'm so sick of pizza, so tired of grease
so done with wishing that i had got cheese
said i'm so sick of pizza, so big and gross
so why can't i just get some tacos?

yep, that's it. welcome to my life...

yippy skippy

ended up taking my cousins to the zoo instead of the beach. cuz it wasn't really good beach weather today.. was interesting. annnd i've lost my motivation for writing at the moment. i'm so sick of pizza. ugh... also don't get the nachos at the zoo. they are gross.
but yeah... saw the pandas.. i ♥ pandas. and saw other stuff too... basically anything cute and furry, i like... meerkats are cute. and koalas.. i like those.. they sleep up to 20 hours a day sometimes.... i think we'd get along quite well :) annd yeah. blaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah....... okay i'm done talking. i'm beat. goodnight world.

oh joy n stuff

wellp, my uncle and aunt and 4 cousins are here now.. came last night. was interesting. they drove here, after doing a butt load of sightseeing between here and texas (and apparently stopping in las vegas XD ..little out of the way) so everyone was all tired.. save for my uncle. he was double OC. and speaking of outta control.... apparently we're going to the beach today.. and it's like 60 something degrees outside XD bleh.. not good beach weather. then probably some sight-seeing type stuff...even though i've seen it all a million times ^^; oh well..... should be fun.

the classic crime

i'm drowning

but i don't care

cuz when you've got what i've got

who needs air?

oh my good golly gosh!!

apparently i'm the only one who is ever home and bored these days... even with work :/ how sad...
but if there is someone else out there who is bored... this is a great website to waste time at! http://www.oldgames.dk/
my favorites one is goldminer... the others aren't too bad either. i'm good at the chinese checkers one.. annnd yeah................
wow... i feel like such a loser today :(
*sigh*

well thaat's noice!

wow. thanks photobucket..... hope it's fixed before anyone sees this mess...
and wow again! i just noticed i've been on blogger for a year now. hmm... yeah wow.. time sure is flying by.. except when i'm bored, that is.. then it's draaaaags on forevvvuur! ugh. go figure.
should be an interesting week coming up here.. some of my family from texas is coming out on thursday... my uncle on my dad's side, his wife and their 4 kids... meaning there will be 12 people living in my house for a while.... so yeah. i'm sure you'll hear about it.
ciao~

hmph...

welllll i guess today is september 11th.. 5th anaversary of you know what... and i don't really have anything to say about that. XD omg i'm so bad! *hides*
my 19th birthday is in about a month... october 18th if you didn't know. and wow, my last year being a teenager.....hmm... can't deside if that's good or not :/ dunno what i'm gonna do for my birthday yet... it's on a work day.had a good weekend! ^_^ and i think i've just about had my fill of teriyaki for a while. *everyone gasps* omgz it's teh end of the wurld!!! lol jk. had it two days in a row...from the same place! huuuge bowl of it.. it was super good though.
work is going fine... still haven't thought about going back to school again. enjoying the break. i'm learning a little french on my down time... figure if i'm gonna travel i should know more than english, spanish, and japanese ^^; yeah... go me.
kay that's all bye bye! ♥

somewhere in heaven...

"Somewhere in heaven, a very groggy, very confused angel has just woken up and is trying to figure out why a boisterous Australian man is poking it with a stick." -zihuatanejo

too friggin cute not to post! and don't get me wrong! i feel bad for his family and everything... that's so sad that he died. i am gonna go to austrailia one day... now i won't get to see him :( ..and not to make light of the whole thing or anything.. i just find this cute, because it's so true XD you know he totally would!
and no, i didn't draw this (wish i had!).. i found this littol beauty on deviantART. gotta love it! <3 (r.i.p. croc hunter)

dandy like candy

well mi madre e padre are back safe and sound from africa. funny. 3 weeks didn't seem long at all. here's some pictures from their safari.. it's funny how the terain looks a lot like the lake area over here by my house. they got to pet a cheetah at the game reserve.. i'd post a picture of that but i dunno if they want pics of themselves all over the internet ;) lol.. you know how some people are about their pictures... so yeah. here's a picture of the cheetah, and a mysterious hand petting it. they brought me a neat shirt and necklace... annd some nice chocolate from our english friends who were with them.. dad jokingly told us it was made with babboon milk, AND WE BELIEVED HIM!! lol... it was good. ^^
other than that... i updated my shop a bit... check it out! hmmm... k, nothing else to say...

aww, i'm shy..

You Are 56% Shy

Although you live a pretty normal life, you tend to be a fairly shy person. Many situations make you feel uncomfortable, and you sometimes find your shyness hindering your life.

How Shy Are You?

so far, so good

The quest to make a new template continues...

i keep trying to make the text bigger and it's still reeeally small... hmm. other than that i think i'm happy with it for now. maybe i'll add something here or there later on. or change it all together. that seems to be happening a lot.. lol.

i want to go here one day: shinjuku, tokyo. looks like fun :)

oh and work meeting again today.. boooring. 3 hours of listening to people argue about website layout/design. it's amazing the little things that go into that sort of thing.. that you don't even notice!
but anyway, i survived the boredom. and my parents get back from africa in a few days. maybe i'll get some pics off mom's camera and post them?

~ciao

oh boy!

about to undergo some template changes...shanell, since you're the only one who reads this.. lol. so don't freak out if something doesn't look quite right yet. i'm gonna make it look awesome! :D

leftalooo

it's hot and gross in san diego again. what is going on!?
and i.am.STARVING. megan and michelle are making dinner (lord help us) and they left to go to the store XD and LEFT a pot of water on the stove.. so gee i guess i'll babysit dinner :/ since i'm hungry. but wait! you left children here for me to watch too?! with all the doors wide open to get rid of this confounded HEAT! XD thaaats safe. thanks for telling me. ...mostly kidding about the lord help us bit *runs to go check the boiling water* ..eh, i cheated and ate some nachos... but i'm still hungry, soo they won't be mad at me...hopefully. blaaah... why is my life so boring!?!?!?!? and why won't my computer ever work properly?!?!! so frustraiting.... i don't even have anything interesting to post about :(

sigh

a day in the life of me:
6:27 AM - a rude awakening from my sister asking me if i want to go hiking. hmm, lets see... hiking at 7 AM on a holiday?...erm no. i think i'll sleep, thanks.
10:14 AM - woken up again. they are back from hiking. going somewhere else. do i want to go? nah
10:59 AM - get up.
11:15 AM - get up for reals.
11:39 AM - check e-mail and computer stuff... nothing interesting, as usual ;-; steve irwin died.. that kinda sucks.
11:55 AM - made a quesadilla ^_^
12:06 PM - take a shower...after cleaning everyone's beach stuff out of the tub... uuugh.
12:42 PM - do dishes....while jamming out to some music! (only way to wash dishes)
1:13 PM - check computer again... still nothing new :/ i give up
1:29 PM - did some laundry
1:43 PM - play some metroid... the second one for gamecube? echos or some such? anyway... samus rocks my socks.
3:23 PM - my sister informs me she needs apricot jelly.
3:56 PM - finally find a saving point in the game!! arg.
4:19 PM - we drive to the grocery store to get apricot jelly
4:23 PM - found the freakin jelly
4:27 PM - decided there wasn't really anything cool to look at in the grocery store
4:30 PM - check out line.. i got a butterfingers ice cream thingie.. and our phone number wouldn't work for the discount thingie.. lame.
4:34 PM - leave the grocery store. some weird asian guys loitering outside the store made weird sounds at us..... guys are so dumb T.T
4:50 PM - rockin out in the mini van! woot! also i ate my ice cream.. it was good.
5:00 PM - challenge sister to a game of super smash bros. melee. i own. cept at bonus mode.. i suck at that. but i'm good at coin apparently? hmm. anyway. i still own.
5:37 PM - cerial brake! mmm.. eggo waffle cinnamon cerial :D
5:45 PM - we watch count of monte cristo.. i saw it once a long time ago.. so didn't remember most of it. also had some nachos..
6:36 PM - more computer...
7:03 PM - here i lost my memory
8:23 PM - played an mmorpg.... cuz i'm a nerd like that.
11:02 PM - typed up this rediculous recount of my day today.. guessing what time i did what i did.. probably forgot a few things too...oh well.
disclaimer: keep in mind today was a holiday! lol.. i'm not always that lazy..

welly well well wellers

gee.. beach yesterday, then ice skating today.. fun stuff. so far having both my parents away in africa isn't so bad ^_^ it's actually going by real fast! heh

lalala TITLE!!

well today's work meeting was a little less boring than usual.. lol. a few good laughs. especially involving the conference call thingie making people sound like robots...ahh yes. hehe. good times...
i guess i wouldn't mind living on my own.. it's not too bad not having a bunch of people in the house ^_^ i'd just need a dog or cat or something...for..company? eh, i'd probably have people over for that i guess. that would be awesome actually XD
too bad it cost a fortune to live on your own in so cal.....hmm.. guess i'd better work a little harder ;)
annd apparently i'm going to the beach now! yay for spontaniocity! and yay for making up words! spontanious...ness? yes. that one!!
so yeah
ciao~

some random quotes i ripped off someone's site

"If at first you don't succeed, redefine success."-Anonymous

"I figured out what's wrong with my life: It's other poeple."-Dilbert

"That which doesn't kill you postpones the inevitable."-Despair, inc.

"My Karma ran over your Dogma."-Anonymous

"War does not determine who is right, it determines who is left."- Chinese Proverb

something neat!

watermelon carving.
seen it around here and there.. these pics are off the internet..
looks hard.. but might be fun to try!
i guess it would be kinda like doing an ice sculpture? only it's food..
pretty cool!