Stupid "10 Days of Madonna" on MTV Hits... Are the 10 days up yet?? I haven't been able to wake up and watch music videos for the past week and it's throwing me off track. The Comcast channel change a couple months ago still have me off track and I haven't been able to memorize the new channels yet, except for MTV (58). I can't even tell you what #s the other channels are on. Steph and I had all the old channels memorized but I haven't had a chance to get the new numbers straight.

Free Resignation Letters Samples - IQUIT.ORG - check out the last couple ones...

Don't use any of those though - The best place for resignation letters is I-resign.com. Daniel and I are going to have the exact same letter, except I was a little nicer in mine and I added: "I have learned a lot in the past 2 1/2 years." and "I will also work next weekend if you want me to, to organize
the desk and do some memos."

Way to ruin someone's 3 day weekend, huh?

I GOT IT! Now I can get excited. And now I have to figure out how to give my 2 weeks notice. Stan is gonna be pissed and he's going to take it personally. I'm going to give the 2 weeks notice tomorrow and I don't know what to say but I'm sure Stan is going to piss me off at some point during the day and that'll make it easier on me.

Enjoying my day off... checked out a couple apartments and went to Target. I was good though - I didn't buy anything. The interview this morning was cool but the business management co is my first choice and while I liked the company and what they do and how they're expanding, my heart wasn't in it. I only know business management accounting and thats different from regular staff accounting stuff.

MSNBC - Kobe gets good news on eve of court appearance - she might have lied to detectives?? hmmmmmmm...

I literally screamed when I was watching the 24 finale Tuesday night. Usually when I watch TV by myself, I'm low-key. I've had tears in my eyes when I watch Extreme Makeover: Home Edition and the OC Finale, but that's the extent of it. When Jack grabbed the axe in the finale, I just couldn't watch and when I heard the axe come down, I screamed.

I think I messed up my scalp this weekend. I washed my hair Sunday morning before I went home to Orange County and my mom was going to the hair salon so she took me along with her. She hated the "highlights" in my hair (I write highlights with the " " because I did them myself and I didn't know what I was doing - I've given up trying to use the L'Oreal Colour Experte because I've done it twice and messed up twice) so she wanted me to get them done in a salon. You're not supposed to wash your hair before you color it because your natural oil is supposed to protect your scalp. I don't think my four hour oil buildup was enough to protect my scalp cause it was hurting like hell. Now its flaking like crazy. I had dry scalp before, but it was never as bad as this!

Oh yeah - Soul Plane sucked... Dante bought the bootleg 2 days ago and we haven't finished watching it because Dante fell asleep and as soon as he did, I turned back to my TiVoed soaps. The movie is so stereotypical but I don't know why I expected anything else. The movie is supposed to be funny! I love Tom Arnold but this movie was just dumb. I don't even know if the movie has a plot! Waste of $10.

I gotta move.
I gotta move.
I gotta move.

My new roommate hasn't moved in yet and she's already pissing me off. If I'm paying the ENTIRE rent for this month (and making myself broke for the month because of this), I expect to be able to come home and park in the driveway without having to come up and ask her to move her freakin car so I can park either in front of or behind her. We can fit 3 cars in that driveway and she always parks where no one else can park behind her. I expect to have the freakin apartment to myself a couple days a week without seeing her the second I come home from a long day of work at a job I hate. If you say you can't move in until June 1st and make me responsible for the whole rent, DON'T COME BY EVERY DAY!!! It's midnight and she's still freakin here!!!

I should have just let the Korean dude move in May 1st. I wouldn't be broke right now and he wouldn't have given me any problems.

The business management firm in Santa Monica gave me an offer! The people seem awesome and I love their office building. The boss looks like George Hamilton. They're finishing up the background check and they'll let me know tomorrow morning. Until I get the final OK, I have 2 more interviews lined up for tomorrow. I'm taking tomorrow off for the hell of it and my other headhunter decided to take advantage of that. Both those interviews are production companies. They're supposed to call me with the final word on the business management firm tomorrow morning but I have to go through with these interviews because I've already scheduled them.

Argh!! Stupid Minnesota and their hack-a-Shaq... This game better end before 9:00 because the second it hits 9, I'm turning to 24!! The Lakers never make it easy, dammit... just kick their asses and we can relaxxxxxxxx.

I read the funniest thing on the TWoP Forums yesterday... re: 24...

Oh, no they DI'INT!!!

Oh my God! They killed Sherry! YOU BASTARDS!!!

I can't believe they killed both Sherry and Nina this season. I'm more concerned about Tony not coming back next season because he faces the death penalty for what he did to save his wife (treason). I was sooooo touched when Jack stuck up for Tony on the phone with the guy in charge. Tony looked super cute this episode though, great lighting.

2 interviews this morning... both went well I think. The second interview was for this rich family and it was my second interview with them - I met one of the sons today and he was super cute!! 29 years old, has an MBA. He likes Bush too!!! Their main concern at that job was that I'd get bored and leave and because they found me through a head hunter, they'd have to pay her and it's not worth it if I don't stay for a couple years. I guess that's why I haven't been as successful in my job search this time around. I've gone through a head hunter for most of my job interviews and they find me jobs I'm qualified/over-qualified for but because the companies need to pay the head hunter, they don't want to take a chance of me being bored and moving on. Anyways, I was kinda iffy on that family job - I like their office/office location (Brentwood) but there are only 5 people working there! It might be worth it if the cute guy was working there everyday but he travels a lot and he doesn't know if he wants to continue doing this job (goal is to retire at 31).

I really liked the first company I interviewed with this morning - they do business management for entertainment clients (like I do now) and they're a small firm (20 people) but they all do business management (my current co. is 16 people but only 3 do business management). Their offices are so nice - the Water Gardens in Santa Monica (lunch Steph!) and the people seem really nice. The first lady I met with loved me (according to my head hunter), I took an accounting test and met with two partners and there is one more partner I need to meet with on Monday. I was at that interview for 3 hours! Hopefully things work out, they're my first choice. The lady knew I had a 2nd interview at that other job and she asked me not to take that job without letting them know first. I think thats a good sign! :)

'Plane' could have steered Bryant clear of trouble - hindsight... The story is Kobe was offered a cameo role on "Soul Plane" that was filming the exact day he was in Colorado. He turned it down because of the surgery and Karl Malone was offered the cameo.

The movie looks soooo stupid but if Karl Malone is going to be in it, maybe its worth watching. I can't believe I actually said that... a year ago, I hated Karl Malone so much! Now that he's a Laker, he's cool with me. Like they say, "love the jersey, not the player." I would still love Rick Fox even if he wasn't a Laker though. First time I noticed him was in that dumb movie Eddie (Whoopi Goldberg) and I was so excited when he signed with the Lakers a year later.

Top 10 list: worst celeb baby names - Can you believe someone is running around with the name Tu Morrow?? Talk about messing up your kid for life! If you don't know already, I'm naming my kid Justin if I ever have a boy... unless my husband's last name is Time or something weird like that. Don't want the kid to get beat up.

I finally caught up on a lot of TV last weekend. I watched the Oprah from last Thursday with the Shrek 2 cast... the whole time Cameron Diaz was on, I was muttering "luckiest girl in the world" (Dante didn't appreciate that - he said, "You've got me and she has a Timber-worm" and I corrected him - "It's Timber-snake"). I love my clear skin (thank you Accutane) but I'll take her acne anyday if it came with Justin Timberlake and the $10 million Shrek 2 paycheck for a week's work. Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Antonio Banderas and Julie Andrews were also on. At one point Oprah asked Melanie Griffith about her nickname for Antonio and she says, "my very large Spanish cat" and while the audience reacted and Antonio looked embarassed, Mike Myers was telling his wife (who was sitting next to Melanie), "Honey, say something nice about me! Say something nice about me!" He just seems so fun to be around but that could just be his public persona... Shrek 2 looks good though - if I can find someone who wants to see it, I'll go. Maybe I'll drag my 12 year old niece to see it. That's the benefit of nieces and nephews, they're up for going anywhere.

I also added Chappelle's Show to my TiVo season passes because the season has ended for most of the shows I watch. Dave Chappelle's stuff is soooooo offensive but soooooo hilarious. My favorite skit so far has been The Racial Draft - blacks picked Tiger Woods #1, Jews drafted Lenny Kravitz #2, Latinos - Elian Gonzalez #3, Whites wanted Colin Powell but since he isn't white, the blacks made them take Condoleeza Rice too and the Asians drafted the Wu Tang Clan #5.

Why do I always feel like I'm getting jipped?? And I'm never on the other side of any jipping! I paid $1200 this month for my apartment (I usually pay $600) because we were waiting for the manager to approve my new roommate before she moved in and the manager was gone from April 28 to May 4 so he didn't get back to us until May 7th. My roommate had already paid rent on her current place so she wasn't planning on moving in until June 1st and that makes me responsible for the entire rent this month. Since I doled out the $1200 I thought I'd be able to have the apartment to myself this month, that I would be able to walk around in my underwear IF I wanted to, etc. My old roommate still had some stuff at the apartment the first week of this month. I gave my new roommate the key to the apartment last week because she gave me the security deposit (which I had pre-paid to that lying, stealing roommate the end of last month to get her out) and now my new roommate and her gf have been over at the apartment the last 4 days painting, etc. I guess just wanted another week to myself but oh well... I'm too much of a wimp to say anything and it's not that big of a deal. I just feel jipped as usual.

I have a million more things to post but right now I'm just feeling irritated. 1) Does anyone honestly think someone else would be interested in listening to their bullshit ALL DAY? 2) If you're gonna talk all day, TALK!! Don't mumble - thats more irritating!

OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD!

I have to calm down before I post more... but all you Laker fans can thank me for single-handedly saving the Lakers. Right before Duncan made that shot with 0.4 seconds left, Dante went to the closet to put on his Laker jersey and I yelled at him - "You're gonna jinx them now!!" (He jinxed the Raiders by putting on a Raiders shirt during the Super Bowl 2 years ago just to piss me off). So Duncan makes his shot and I'm yelling at him to take off the freakin jersey! Right after he took it off, I told him, "OK, now they're going to make it because you took off the jersey." I didn't actually believe it myself but damn, I look like a genius now.

Let me say it one more time - OH MY GOD!! Right after Derek made his shot, 3 people IMed me the exact same thing - "HOLY SHIT!"

Yahoo! News - Schwarzenegger Signs Calif. School Degrees - now I remember why I wanted to go back to school. Too late now, I don't think I can enroll and finish by the time he's out of office, unless he wins re-election, but if he doesn't that would suck. I think he will, but you never know. Yeah, I would have another degree and it would help me out in my career, but it wouldn't have Arnold's signature.

I wonder if Arnold Schwarzenegger signs the CPA degrees too...

AMAZING 24 hour! I can't believe any TV show has the budget to have 2 freaking fighter jets... I love the Tony/Michelle stuff - Tony loves Michelle so much, it's always my favorite part of the hour. Poor Tony, the next hour is gonna suck.

New layout! Not as cool as the old one but I had that one for a long time... I might put that back up, but I'll try this one for now.

Archive pages work now, at least. Tried out the new comment thing on Blogger but I don't know what's wrong with the posts before May 6 so whatevers, I'm pooped. I gave up and I put the old comments back.

Argh, now that I figured out how to do archiving, permanent links right on this blog, I can't get it to look right when you click on the permanent link thing (the time published).

Got this in a e-mail from my high school friend Steve -

YOU KNOW YOU GREW UP IN THE 80's or early 90's IF.....

1. You've ever ended a sentence with the word 'PSYCHE'.
2. You watched the Pound Puppies.
3. You can sing the rap to the 'Fresh Prince of Bel Air' ...and can do the 'Carlton'.
4. Girls wore biker shorts under their skirts and felt stylishly sexy.
5. You yearned to be a member of the Baby-sitters club and tried to start a club of your own.
6. You owned those lil' Strawberry Shortcake pals scented dolls.
7. You know that 'WOAH' comes from Joey on Blossom.
8. Two words: Hammer Pants
9. If you ever watched 'Fraggle Rock'.
10. You had plastic streamers on your handle bars... and 'spokey-dokes' or playing cards on your spokes for that incredible sound effect.
11. You can sing the entire theme song to 'Duck Tales' (Woo ooh!).
12. When it was actually worth getting up early on a Saturday to watch cartoons.
13. You wore a ponytail on the side of your head.
14. You saw the original 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' on the big screen... and still know the turtles names.
15. You got super-excited when it was Oregon Trail day in computer class at school.
16. You made your mom buy one of those clips that would hold your shirt in a knot on the side.
17. You played the game "MASH" (Mansion, Apartment, Shelter, House).
18. You wore stonewashed Jordache jean jackets and were proud of it.
19. L.A. Gear....need I say more
20. You wanted to change your name to "JEM" in Kindergarten. (She's truly outrageous.)
21. You remember reading "Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing" and all the Ramona books.
22. You know the profound meaning of "WAX ON, WAX OFF".
23. You wanted to be a Goonie.
24. You ever wore fluorescent clothing. (some of us... head-to-toe)
25. You can remember what Michael Jackson looked like before his nose fell off and his cheeks shifted.
26. You have ever pondered why Smurfette was the only female smurf.
27. You took lunch boxes to school... and traded Garbage Pail Kids in the schoolyard.
28. You remember the CRAZE, then the BANNING of slap bracelets.
29. You still get the urge to say "NOT " after every sentence.
30. You remember Hypercolor t-shirts.
31. Barbie and the Rockers was your favorite band.
32. You thought She-ra (Princess of Power!) and He-Man should hook up.
33. You thought your childhood friends would never leave because you exchanged handmade friendship bracelets.
34. You ever owned a pair of Jelly-Shoes. (and like #24, probably in neon colors, too)
35. After you saw Pee-Wee's Big Adventure you kept saying "I know you are, but what am I?"
36. You remember "I've fallen and I can't get up"
37. You remember going to the skating rink before there were inline skates.
38. You ever got seriously injured on a Slip and Slide.
39. You have ever played with a Skip-It.
40. You had or attended a birthday party at McDonalds.
41. You've gone through this nodding your head in agreement.
42. You remember Popples..
43. "Don't worry, be happy"
44. You wore like, EIGHT pairs of socks over tights with high top Reeboks.
45. You wore socks scrunched down (and sometimes still do... getting yelled at by "younger hip" members of the family)
46. "Miss MARY MACK MACK MACK, all dressed in BLACK BLACK BLACK"
47. You remember boom boxes.. and walking around with one on your shoulder like you were all that.
48. You remember watching both "Gremlins " movies.
49. You know what it meant to say "Care Bear Stare!!"
50. You remember watching "Rainbow Brite" and "My Little Pony Tales"
51. You thought Doogie Howser/Samantha Micelli was hot.
52. You remember Alf, the lil furry brown alien from Melmac.
53. You remember New Kids on the Block when they were cool... and don't even flinch when people refer to them as "NKOTB".
54. You knew all the characters names and their life stories on "Saved By the Bell", the ORIGINAL class.
55. You know all the words to Bon Jovi - SHOT THROUGH THE HEART.
56. You just sang those words to yourself.
57. You remember watching Magic vs. Bird.
58. homemade Levi shorts.. (the shorter the better)
59. You remember when mullets were cool!
60. You had a mullet!
61. You still sing "We are the World"
62. You tight rolled your jeans.
63. You owned a banana clip.
64. You remember "Where's the Beef?
65. You used to (and probably still do) say "What you talkin' about Willis?"
66. You had big hair and you knew how to use it.
67. You're still singing shot through the heart in your head, aren't you!!!

I really like my CPA Review: Audit class... everything makes sense to me!! I'm going to try to do the homework, we'll see how that goes. I have really good notes from my Audit class at UCLA too (I took it with Gardner) so I'll look through that too. I thought the instructor was awesome before last night's class but he said something to make me like him more... People were trying to convince him to let us go early because there was a Laker game and he starts talking about TiVo - telling everyone they should get it. He has it too and mentions how you never watch anything on time anymore and how it takes 40 mins to watch an hour long show, etc. I don't know what I ever did without it. I like coming home whatever time I feel like coming home and knowing I have The OC ready to watch on TiVo when I'm ready. I remember Jenny coming over to watch Sex and the City one time and she was hurrying to get to my apt... when I opened the door, she asked if she missed much and I didn't know what she was talking about. I had paused it when it first came on so it was ready whenever we were.

Word of the Day on Yahoo! today is: LOQUACIOUS. It means talkative... I've been using that word way too much today to describe someone.

And lastly, word of advice to anyone with roommates, especially random roommates: TRUST NO ONE!! Arrrrrrgh. Who should I believe? The mail lady who described 'the incident' and my ex-roommate to the T (including the way she talks) or the ex-roommate who just keeps denying everything? How would the mail lady know this shit unless it happened just recently and unless she had interaction with her??

In honor of tonight's series finale, there are my 13 favorite Friends episodes... (I can't narrow it down anymore). I've seen all of the episodes at least 10 times, they will be showing it forever in syndication and I still bought the DVDs. These people are marketing geniuses! They add a couple deleted scenes to every episode and that makes people go out and buy them, just to see those scenes.

1. The One Where Rachel Finds Out - Chandler accidentally lets out the fact that Ross liked Rachel and when he realizes this, he rubs his temples... Joey says, "Yeah, keep doing that. It'll turn back time."

2. The One Where No One's Ready - the sight of Joey wearing all Chandler's clothes and doing lunges while "going commando"....

3. The One With the Embryos - I loved the game where Joey and Chandler win Monica and Rachel's apartment.

4. The One With All the Resolutions - My brother still cracks up when he sees Ross with leather pants down to his knees, in some girl's bathroom, with lotion and baby powder all over his legs, trying to get the pants back on and then hitting himself in the head cause his hands slipped.

5. The One With the Cop - 3 words: PIVOT PIVOT PIVOT!

6. The One Where Ross Got High - I liked the part where Monica and Ross were yelling out each others' secrets to their parents and then Phoebe, Joey and Rachel get in on the action. Joey's was: "I want to goooooooooooo!" and Rachel realized she wasn't supposed to put beef in the dessert truffle. Oh yeah - when the rest of the guys found out the pages in the cookbook were stuck together and Joey immediately accuses Chandler.

7. The One Where Chandler Can't Cry - Reese Weatherspoon guest starred and at the end of the episode, she was telling all of them off... to Ross she said: "I throw myself at you and you say no? How gay are you?" It was the way she said that...

8. The One Where Chandler Doesn't Like Dogs - They're playing a game where they have to name all 50 states in six minutes. Monica forgets 14 states, Rachel forgets 2. Chandler asks Joey how he did... Joey: "Say hello to the new champ of Chandler's dumb states game." Ross: "Wow, how many have you got?" Joey: "Fifty-six!"

9. The One With the Holiday Armadillo - I loved the way Ross said "I'm Santa's representative for all the southern states... annnnnnd MexicO!" in the armadillo costume. I love that little kid from Big Daddy. Joey bursting in with a Superman outfit was hilarious too.

10. The One With Joey's New Brain - Ross was funny playing the bagpipes, but Phoebe was beyond hilarious when she started singing along. You can see Rachel trying hard not to laugh. I also loved when Joey ran in and started talking about DOOL, and the others didn't know what he meant... "Days of Our Lives"... The way Joey says that is funny, like you should already know what he meant. I thought only internet nerds knew "DOOL" so I started cracking up.

11. The One With Joey's Award - I liked seeing the Days and Passions people, plus I loved Joey's actions after they announced that he didn't win.

12. The One With the Rumor - Brad Pitt! There was a scene when Brad Pitt was looking for someone to give him a high 5 and Phoebe runs to hug him... she says, "It's just like I always imagined it would be." I want to use that line... when I meet Justin Timberlake!

13. The One in Barbados - I loved Joey and Ross's argument about whether Days of Our Lives has a "THE" before it. Ross says yes, Joey says no. Some girl tells them she doesn't have a TV and Joey asks her, "You don't have a TV? Where is all your furniture pointed at??"

Still can't sleep!! I got American Wedding from Netflix this weekend so I'm watching that right now.

I was so caught up in the Michael Vartan lookalike last week, I forgot to add that there's a Will Ferrell lookalike in the CPA class too - he sits close to us and he looks like Will Ferrell trying to be serious. I was soooooo pissed off at work today, more pissed than I usually am (half my day is wasted looking for stupid ass files Stan loses, which are in his office half the time, then he gets on my case about getting shit done), so on the way to my CPA review class, I put on the Justin Timberlake CD. Then when I got to class, I sat next to Michael Vartan lookalike (his name is Kyle) again and all was good in the world again. He promised to wake me up if I started dozing off :). I didn't get too much sleep last night so I left work early to have enough time to buy a Mocha Cappuccino Blast at the Baskin Robbins in Kerchoff. Those babies work wonders!! kept me and Maria awake in our Econ classes. They still work. The CPA review instructor wasn't a UCLA prof and I'd usually think I was wasting my time sitting in a class a non-UCLA prof taught, but this guy was young and he was awesome.

Dammit, I think those Mocha Cappuccino Blasts work too well... I'm not sleepy at all.