quest for the tax return forms...OMGZ

hmm.. apparently the government doesn't want to give me money? SURPRISE! but seriously. it's like a flipping easter egg hunt just to find the forms!

this morning i went to 2 different post offices AND the library and i still don't have them. the post offices were no help at all. the first one said "oh you have to go to our MAIN post office for those" so i did. "oh aren't they out in the lobby?" i didn't see any "well that means we're out, sorry have a nice day" out? OUT? don't you have one back there you could just HAND me, instead of making me SEARCH! what is it like a limited time offer? once they're gone, they're gone till next year? WTF people?! GET IT TOGETHER! so then i went to the library... CLOSED! at 11 am on a friday? apparently no one needs books untill after 12:30 pm on friday.. uggggh.

not how i wanted to spend my day off. my one and only day off this whole week :( apparently the schedule is being changed again too.. jeez. but this morning i had to get up early to let the plumber in - out kitchen sink was broken. i was reaaaally wanting to sleep in on my day off, but noooo. T_T *sigh* then couldn't take a shower or do laundry, because the water had to be turned off. so that's half of my day off wasted already......

people need to stop giving me things to do!!!!

the new love of my life +

well, things have certainly improved since my last blog entry...

today was good because:
- i found my new favorite car ♥ ♥ i knew i liked it but now it's my favorite.

saw one outside starbucks on my way into work (all the good cars are at starbucks btw). wanted to take a picture of it... but i didn't have my camera and also i would have been late for work.

they called it "the best handling car in the world"... and it gets GREAT gas mileage!

watch it in action! it's amazing. and yes, i want it in this color. "racing green".

- today was also good because i got a $25 bonus with my paycheck! :)
- and because i don't have to watch a crappy movie tonight! we rented shrek 3. yays~
- and i get the weekend off from work! horray!

so that's why today was good.

bad parts of today:
- work today seemed like foreverrrrrrrrrr......
- the guy at taco bell charged me for water. ?! water is supposed to be free! and i'll bet it was TAP WATER... so i pretty much payed for the frigging cup. it made me a little mad.. but i guess a $25 bonus can make up for that... :( i just hate to waste money...

so all in all it was a good day.

forget AAA! call tookpick arms 8D

well today was wonderful..... was refered to a special dentist. paid $105 just to have him tell me the tooth that my other dentist wanted to do a root canal on should just be pulled, but 3 other teeth i have probably need root canals. awesome. so now that's 5 teeth to be pulled on my next visit to the oral surgeon. which means i'll have to ask for time off work to recover....ugh. my manager is starting me on 8 hour days soon here. bleh. and opening.. oy.

today i was walking around in carmel mountain and some girl came up and was all "can you help me? you look like you have skinny arms... i locked my keys in my car, but the window is open a crack. can you try to reach in and unlock it?" ...wow. i've never heard that one before. the window was open all of like an inch and a half, but she was able to pull it down a little more while i reached in... and was able to unlock it. she was very happy and thanked me. said she would have had to wait like an hour or something for AAA to come do it. heh..
so that was my super hero moment for the day i guess. HA! having skinny arms is a good thing! i can break into cars >:D .... hmmm.

and tomorrow is my birthday! i'm going to DISNEYLAND! weee~
i hope it's fun and not crowded or raining.... >_<;;
too bad it's only open till like 8 pm... stupid fall hours.

teeth = bain of my existance

soo yesterday i went to an oral surgion to have a tooth removed. it was already half way broken.. it broke at the air port in chicago, of all places...while i was eating chinese food. nothing to break a tooth on.. i thought it was a finger nail in my food at first. GROSSS!!
but anyway, getting the tooth pulled probably wouldn't have been so bad, except that i had a fever the day before (chills, throwing up, all that good stuff) AT WORK. ugh. came home and slept for pretty much the rest of the day/night. then mom got me up early and drug me to the dentist/oral surgion...i was so out of it. dizzy, almost threw up. the x-ray machine hurt my head.. they didn't put me to sleep for the extration. which sucked. they just numbed it. and it HURRRRT!!! and while he was trying to tear my lip off of my face, the stupid raido had to go and play the song i hate more than anything right now... that carrie underwood song, before he cheats.. i freaking dispise that song. i swear it plays every hour at work. it was the most miserable experience EVER.
then came home.. mom was 2 hours late getting my perscription.. so i was in quite a bit of pain. but you don't want to read about that.
so yeah, thanks to this last lovely dental trip we now know that i'll probably need to get 4 wisdom teeth removed.. plus that root canal i already knew i needed. daaaaaaamn. why me?! i take good care of my teeth, really. it just runs in my family to have bad teeth i guess.. ugh. not fair. all the most painful dental things you could possibly need done. and after all this i'm getting braces.
now excuse me while i ice my face...i have to be at work in 3 hours.

barbies are robots now // i'm still 5

i was so shocked going into toys r us today... THEY HAVE TALKING BARBIE DOLLS NOW!!!! like the mouth actually moves when she talks. omfg, why not me? actually it was pretty freaking scary. and not to sound like a pervert but i really couldn't have one because i would always be tempted to put things in it's little mouth.....while it's talking. i know, i'm terible. [of course, i already know i'm imature... now you do too. horray for you!]

i almost bought a tamagachi lanyard.... to put my phone and keys on. yes phone. that's what the cool kids [in japan] do. it was pretty sweet. it came with a little phone charm thingie too... but i managed to walk out with my $6.99+ still in hand. go me.

but that doesn't mean much since an hour before that i blew $3 on a happy meal at mcdonald's...all to get the hello kitty toy.

so i rest my case. i'm not almost 20, i'm almost 5... and i want a talking barbie for my birthday.

jk i want this for reals tho. collectors editon = $$ later.

trapped in a time warp...thing.

wow busy week. a billion graduations and parties... at my sister's high school graduation this weekend i was in the senior room helping her get ready and some guy walked up and was all "so are you next [to graduate]?" and i was like "no. i'm already graduated." he was just kind of like "oh..." i'm sure he was embarrassed, but i was pretty darn offended! i graduated 2 freaking years ago!! i'm in college! seriously like wtf man?! so yeah... i guess i'll always look about 16. don't be jealous.

also i updated my shop. http://www.cafepress.com/nemuiPanda05
trying to find some kind of character that people will like. so i give you PINK PANDA! if anything, i like it... i mean i bought this mug. so we'll see if it's any good.

the shop is doing pretty well... i make around $50 a month from it right now. would be nice to make more, but whatev. it's better than nothing. i still need to find a job though.
wish me luck!

ford morons - beauty tips from the pros?

oh the ford models... giving me beauty tips on the most intricate and
detailed of beauty secrets! such as:
1. "i like to use lip exfoliator...it's really great for like, exfoliating my lips...to make them exfoliated." and
2. "i like to use a miror...so i can see my self."
yep, sheer model genious. thanks girls. where would i be without you?

oh right.. probably at my local drug store buying my average person beauty products that apparently don't work? but since you've convinced me that your expensive stuff is "like sooo amazing", i guess i'll just HAVE to go to france right now and buy it all! hmmm. no.

3rd time's the charm?

hmm nope. (no spoilers...much)

i give it a
4.5 out of 10
here's why:

i don't really enjoy watching people suck at life.

peter parker, you suck. why can't you just talk to your girlfriend? why hasn't your voice gone through puberty yet? why do you live in a closet of an apartment?
mary-jane, you really suck. why can't you hold a good job? or wear a bra? why do you also live in a closet apartment? why can't you just pick one guy? actually...why are you kirsten dunst?!
harry, you're cute but suck also. why can't you give some of your billions to your obviously not-so-well-off friends?! and some to sandman too... that would have saved everyone a lot of trouble-- i could go on.

of course, the movie had it's good points too... 1. revenge is bad and 2. don't be like these people, because they suck. i really did enjoy parts here and there... but towards the end i was ready to be done. i'm kind of a tough critic, don't mind me :)

but movies are more fun if they can be made fun of...
http://buthedoesntswingthatway.ytmnd.com/
http://parkerpanic.ytmnd.com/
http://spider-man3.ytmnd.com/

don't hate. i'm just giving an opinion. :)

don't believe everything you see on TV

just to clarify, i like this bumper sticker for purely non-political and 100% selfish reasons. i just don't like being cold.

but since a lot of people don't seem to get it...

the idea of global warming has been around FOREVER. ever since the invention of the microwave. (they probably thought refrigerators would bring on the next ice age too)

this time around they've brought it back as a scam to scare people into paying more taxes...and to make you think stupid democrat leaders actually CARE about something besides killing babies and getting us all blown up by terrorists! imagine that :)

now obviously we should do what we can to help keep the environment nice... but the people who support this theory aren't doing any of the things they're trying to force on us! what does that tell you about them? either they really don't believe it, or they don't care. they just want to win the election and take your money. but don't take my word for it ;)

here are some good articles on the subject:
http://www.everythingiknowiswrong.com/global_what
http://www.nationalcenter.org/NPA512.html
Don't Trust Al Gore on the Environment

and here's more than you'll ever be able to read on it:
http://www.nationalcenter.org/Kyoto.html

my point being, think for yourself. don't believe every THEORY that people try and pass off as fact.

thank you.

p.s. i got the bumpersticker here: http://www.cafepress.com/rightwingstuff

Prince Charles, you are stupid.

i'm sure most of you heard about how prince charles suggested that "mcdonald's should be banned forever". if you haven't, it's at about 3:20 in this video. He suggests that "getting rid of mcdonald's is the key to improving physical fitness in the world."
RIIIIGHT.
get rid of ONE fast food chain and suddenly people will be inspired to excersize and actually take care of themselves! oh sure...pure genious! that's why you're british. go drink some tea you old crumpet.
people have to want to take care of themselves to be physically fit. it doesn't just happen because you take the temptation away. you can still get fat from eating healthy! people just need to learn moderation.

and is it me or are all governments becoming a little toooo controling? *cough* communism *cough*

[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!!

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

ew i suck (and movie review/rant!)

You Are Cyclops

Dedicated and responsible, you will always remain loyal to your cause. You are a commanding leader - after all, you can kill someone just by looking at them. Power: force beams from your eyes

Which of the X-Men Are You?

and while i'm on that topic i'm just going to go ahead and rant about "X-men 3: "the last stand"... if you haven't seen it then you probably shouldn't read this because i'm sure there will be ***spoilers***

DISCLAIMER: this is all my personal opinion. how i saw it, from where i was sitting. and i am somewhat of an old-school x-men fan and take this stuff kinda personally. so don't hate.

first off, the movie itself, as just a summer flick to go see with your friends: just fine. it's fairly entertaining with plenty of action and special efects blah blah blah.. go see it if that's all you want.

the movie as part of the x-men saga: disapointing.
because you CAN'T just go around killing off half of the characters and then set it up for a fourth movie! you just can't! now they'll either have to bring them all back to life somehow, or pull in other random x-men.

i was especially upset about xavier.. that was so totally wrong. you don't just kill proffesser x. he's like the god of the x-men legend. he CAN'T just die. and not like that. i mean really. couldn't he have a more noble death for him than some war of the worlds (people exploding) rip off?! jeez. i almost cried.

character development could have been better. namely for angel. he was pretty much just in the movie to look pretty in the previews. he barely had any part in the actual plot. just "hey here's me with my pretty wings being all angsty. yay!" and the whole thing with phoenix was predictable for any x-men comic/cartoon fan. but sadly that was nothing like it should have been either.

one thing they did do good on was the character of beast. he was probably my favorite in this one and i don't think i would have done him any differently.
oh and storm's hair was pretty cool.. :)

juggernaut was retarded. i'm sorry. but really? "i'm the juggernaut, b*tch!!" yeah. nuf said.

and the "big fight scene" between ice man and pyro.... could have been soooo soo so sooo much better! but it was too short! it was like "i want to beat you down through the whole movie" "oh now we get to fight! hey why don't you just die after 10 seconds of DBZ fighting!" ..boo.

so i asume for the next one we'll have to bring at least one character (if not more) back to life. and the stuff that made everyone loose their powers will wear off. cuz that's what always happens. duh.
i'd really like to see them put gambit in the next one.. and then at the same time i really don't want to see them put gambit in, for fear of them totally ruining one of my favorite characters (like they did rouge... poo on them).

so on a scale of 1 - 10.. 10 being highest:

story/plot - 5/10
character developement - 5.5/10
special effects - 8/10
fight scenes - 6/10
dialogue - 3.5/10

over all rating - 6.8/10

all that being said, i actually did enjoy the movie (for the most part.. big surprise huh?). just those few things i have complaints about. so yeah....