Happy Birthday to the Prez. I was helping out my parents today so I took some reading material home. I just bought Bush at War by Bob Woodward last week and I decided to start reading it. I'm gonna be going through interviews soon and I'm trying to be a more well-rounded person. I'm only through the first 23 pages (too many distractions!) but the one thing I've realized is that not everyone gets along with everyone on Bush's Cabinet. Donald Rumsfeld and Bush's dad didn't get along, Colin Powell and Bush aren't that close, Rumsfeld blamed Cheney for stuff that happened in Gerald Ford's administation, etc. Also CIA director George Tenet had a chance to kill Bin Laden back when Clinton was president (these people (called Seniors) they hired to track Bin Laden wanted to just shoot everyone in Bin Laden's entourage and just run for it) but President Ford had signed a presidential ban on assassination decades ago so they couldn't do anything. All this from 23 pages! And the book is 362 pages.

One of the distractions at home was the Soapnet Channel. I don't get that channel here but my parents have DirecTV. I watched a whole weeks worth of All My Children this afternoon. I can't believe how superior that soap is to Days and Passions. I used to watch All My Children but when I lived with Steph, she got me hooked on Days. Passions was my own fault. I used to watch Sunset Beach before that was cancelled and they replaced it with Passions.

I don't know about this Trading Spaces Family, it isn't cast well. The carpenter and the host are too similar and those are the two people on every episode.

Why are my boys getting in trouble these days?? First Justin Guarini and the waterboat thing and now Kobe?? Part of me wonders if this is overblown because they are celebrities and people just want to take advantage of them to be on the news.

I had a very productive day yesterday... had lunch with Steve (was on-time for once!! or as close to on-time as I can get). Then came home and did nothing til 8:00pm when I realized Bloomingdales was open til 9. Eileen gave two $15 gift cards (from her client) because she hated parking at Century City Shopping Center and the cards were gonna expire today. She also gave me two $25 rewards certificates (also from the client) that expire in September. I decided to go because I needed some new jeans and all the jeans there were at least $120. I just got makeup instead. After I left Century City, I decided to rush over to Westside Pavilion because I had some clothes to return (I bought them back in March) and I got about $80 back. I decided to go to Home Depot afterwards to return these other things and I got $15 back - my old roommate had a PUR filter on our faucet and in order to install that, she had to take off the aerator (I've become an expert on aerators because I've been to Home Depot 4 times to try and find the right size) and I don't know what she did with it so I've been obsessed with trying to fix the thing myself. I got back to the apartment, saw all the dirty clothes here (mine and Dante's) and decided to head to the laundromat. 8 freaking loads!!

Sunday night... work tomorrow. Sucks. I need a life to make my weekends more interesting. At least I have America's Next Top Model to look forward to on Tuesday! Its the finale and I want Adrianne to win but we'll see. I got Jenny hooked on it last week. :) Her friend worked on this show a little bit and she knows who won... hmmmm.

There was a really good episode of While You Were Out on just now. They transformed a patio into an Irish Pub and it looked amazing. Just being able to watch Andrew the carpenter in action is reason enough to watch the show but when the idea and the outcome look amazing, its totally worth it. The host Teresa was wearing a My Little Pony tank top and I noticed she has on the same Tiffanys necklace I do! (its the one thing Dante has given me that I've loved and worn every day - he went to a Dodger game a couple nights ago and gave me a Brian Jordan bobble head doll - said he bought it for me because he was thinking about me when he went to the game... I knew better - it was a promotion giveaway).

Anyways, I found more things to do with my new digital camera - 26 Things International Photographic Scavenger Hunt. So now I have things to do with the camera besides let Dante take stupid pictures of his stupid car.

Still have a buttload of laundry and cleaning to do. Guess I shoulda done something besides sit on my butt all day. :)

What is wrong with me?? Last night I was on my way to Target and at the light, a cute black guy (my age!) in an E-class Benz tried to holla at me but stupid me, I didn't roll my window down. He was cute!!! and he had a Benz!! He was probably tall too. Damn. (I did roll down my window but the light turned green at the same time so oh well...) And the day before, I parked on the street and I was walking to my apartment and my cute young apartment manager Thomas said hi to me. I was like, "oh hi!!" really enthusiastically and we were just walking together but I had nothing else to say to him :(. I've lost my flirting skills and I'm only 25...

Heehee, Eileen is talking about how hideously ugly Nicholas Cage is... I can't believe how much I love the movie The Family Man despite him. That hasn't been on STARZ lately. My life sucks.

VH1 has the 50 Greatest Teen Idols on right now and how can NKOTB be only number 19?? (The website and the show have different rankings - I don't know why) They're the ones who started this whole boy band thing. It was so cool to have anything New Kids back in 5th/6th grade. Michael J. Fox is also on this list #13, I think... Alex P. Keaton is the reason I'm a Republican. I wanted a DeLorean so bad (yeah, I know they're UGLY) and I always thought that even if I messed up anything in life, I could go "back to the future" later in life and fix it. I was 8, what the hell did I know?? Boy, do I wish I had a time machine. It just seems so simple with the flux capacitor and the plutonium. Other teen idols... Scott Baio (#44 New boy in the neighborhood, lives down stairs and it's understood. He's there just to take good care of me, like he's one of the family. Charles in charge of our days and our nights. Charles in charge of our wrongs and our rights. So I say I want Charles in charge of me.), #31 Donny and Marie Osmond (Fez had the best line from That '70s Show - "Its hard to work with someone after you have sex with them. I don't know how Donny and Marie do it.").

Just got back from the gym 15 minutes ago, except I have no evidence to show I was there (except my bulging muscles of course!). I didn't have my membership card so I was gonna use my drivers license but the guy just waved me through. More proof I actually did go to the 24 Hour Fitness in Santa Monica - every weight machine I was on has the stick set at like 100 pounds or so. I know Eileen does this too - after we get off a machine, we put the stick down a couple weights so people can't tell how weak we are (example - we do some exercises at 35 pounds and after we're done, we'd set the machine to like 90 pounds so the people who saw us on the machine and who get on the machine after us would say, "wow that girl is strong!") But hey, seriously, I'm not joking about my bulging muscles. I can truly see a difference everytime I go to the gym (which is not very often). My stomach is tight again, even when I'm sitting down, I totally have arm muscles and my thighs look thinner!

The Trading Spaces rerun on right now is one of my favorite episodes... Doug did an amazing kitchen (even gave them more counter space and new wood floors) and Vern did an awesome living room complete with new wood floors, some feng shui coffee table with sand, and fish in glass pots hanging from the ceiling. Vern came in at exactly $1000... some people accuse Vern of using his Trading Spaces name and connections to get cheaper prices so his rooms look better but who cares?? As long as the homeowners have a nice room, why does it matter? People at home won't be able to do it exactly the same way anyways. Thanks for the Trading Spaces book Jenny :) Paige (her full name is Mindy Paige Davis and she married Patrick Page so she's Mindy Paige Davis Page) annoys some people because she's so cheery all the time but I was reading her section of the book and I loved how she was saying politics is her "sports" - during the State of the Union address, she and her husband were on the phone analyzing it - so cute!

I'm about to shock the hell out of everyone I know...

I'm off to the gym!! :0 And yes Steve, its still at the same place it was last time I went (I think). I can't believe I couldn't keep my New Years resolution of going to the gym at least once a month. I'm only going right now because Dante was parked in my spot when I came back here and now that he left, I need to go down and move my car because I parked somewhere where you're not allowed to park after 7am.

Bunch of random stuff:

Everyone's friendster says they're "in a relationship"... I'm sorta in a relationship, does that count?

Everytime I go to Home Depot, I always get hit on by some of the workers there. Is it because there aren't too many females my age who go there? I just go because there are so many useless people in my life and when I want to do something or fix something, I gotta do it myself. Too bad there aren't workers there who look like Ty from Trading Spaces or Andrew from While You Were Out.

Luke Walton Follows in Dad's Footsteps in LA - the third paragraph - "He's got a big body and he knows his way around the court," Lakers coach Phil Jackson said.... For a second there, I thought Phil had said - He's got a big booty :) Makes me think of what Mike pointed out about Rick Fox. He uses his big butt to push people out of the way for rebounds and to protect his rebounds. I never noticed it until he said something but thats all I can think of now. Kinda like when Asha pointed out that Dan Gadzuric (ex-UCLA basketball player, now with Milwaukee I think) has a head thats too small for his body.

I found a new show to watch - Modern Girl's Guide to Life on STYLE network. Cute little show, no thinking necessary. Also, why is Uncle Jesse (John Stamos) doing 10-10-987 commercials now? Can't he just live off his wife's money and his residuals from Full House? Or borrow some money from the Olsen twins? They're worth about $40 million each.

The benefits of having a cute roommate - (the conversation between me and my brother)

PoLox95: hey
PoLox95: im headin up to la today to help a friend move
PoLox95: you need anything?
Lucyla8: not really
Lucyla8: maybe dad's carpet steamer but i think its easier if we rent a smaller one from ralphs
PoLox95: carpet steamer
PoLox95: haha
PoLox95: im gonna be the janitor to your roommate
PoLox95: aight igotta run gonna take dads truck for a ride hehe
PoLox95: oil change actually =P
Lucyla8: man, come take my car for an oil change
Lucyla8: heehee :-)
Lucyla8: jk
PoLox95: if your roomie comes with the car
Lucyla8: heehee
PoLox95: free oil change
PoLox95: haha
PoLox95: wat time do you get off work?
PoLox95: maybe i'll drop by
PoLox95: i still owe you 50 bucks
Lucyla8: i get off at 6
Lucyla8: no you dont
PoLox95: cool if im in the area i'll drop by
Lucyla8: you paid me everything already
PoLox95: yes i do
Lucyla8: ok
PoLox95: would you just take the 50
PoLox95: i need an excuse to drop by dork
PoLox95: haha
Lucyla8: heehee
PoLox95: ok gonna run
PoLox95: ttyl
Lucyla8: bye

Darn you Steph!! Why did I waste half an hour of my life watching House Hunters on HGTV?? That show is almost as bad as Before and After (HGTV also) and it took me a couple months to stop watching that show. I can't believe they put shows together like this with people who have absolutely NO personality at all!! There's a random house hunter and real estate agent in every episode and I can't believe they've managed to find so many boring people! Damn, you're buying a HOUSE, look a little enthusiastic!! After they enter a room, the house hunter will say something about the room and on cue, the real estate agent will say, "Lets check out the blah blah blah room." followed immediately by an "Okay." They do this enough times per episode you could have a drinking game and be wasted in 30 minutes. Yeah, yeah, you guys are saying, "what else are they supposed to do for the show?" I'm way too jaded with reality TV - its not like I expect the house hunter and the real estate agent to start making out, fighting or voting someone off or something, but damn, make it a little interesting! If I were in charge of producing a show for HGTV, any kind of show, I bet I could make it funny and have it be the highest rated show on the network.

I watched a shitload of bad TV today. I watched two episodes of America's Next Top Model (stop laughing, I think I like stuff more when people start making fun of me for it), Real World, the Osbournes, House Hunters, Mostly True Stories: Urban Legends Revealed (TLC) and part of If Looks Could Kill (Richard Grieco!!). Top that off with Days and Passions this afternoon and my day is complete.

I have so much more to talk about but its time to sleep... otherwise I'll be kicking myself in the morning.

I had a Mocha Cappuccino Blast last night from Baskin Robbins and it was soooo gooood (haven�t had those since I was in college and those suckers kept me awake in so many classes) but I was regretting it at 3am when I couldn�t sleep. My roommate and I did the hair dyeing thing last night. I didn�t know that I could use blonde in my hair to lighten it up a little bit but I�m so glad I did because I love the color. The ammonia smell is bugging the hell out of me though. I also finished a photo collage for my wall last night. I bought one of those big clip frames from IKEA for $6.95 and I�ve been working on it for the past 2 weeks.

Dante came over after work on Friday and he saw the Justin Guarini CD on my desk� all I heard for the next 10 minutes was him mocking me with a girly voice �Justin, I love you Justin, Justin is cuter than you� blah blah blah� then he spoke in his normal voice � �Babe, I�m gonna dub this.� He called me yesterday to tell me, �hey, this CD is pretty tight.� I was like, �DUH! I know!� heehee.

Eileen is rambling again � this time about her friend who went to a Harry Potter thing at midnight. �If it doesn�t involve a man, it�s not worth it that late at night!� Eileen, Mike, Mike�s friend Clarence and I had our �master of my domain� contest � I�m not gonna give details or tell you who won, but the contest lasted a whole 6 days! (total and complete SARCASM) :)

I completely wasted my day off of work. I took the day off because my mom is being sworn in today and I wanted to go to be supportive and I figured I could use a day off. Guess what I did today... went to the ceremony, came home, went to 2 stores at Westside Pavilion (kept running into people I knew there - someone from college (Katrina @ American Eagle) and someone from work (Felita on my way out)), then Dante and I had our cars washed during his lunch break, had Panda Express, came home and SLEPT. I had so many things to do too!!! I just came back from Sav-on though - picked up my pictures and bought some hair dye so my roommate and I can have our hair dyeing party tonight (took me an hour of looking through magazines and old newspaper ads to find my L'Oreal Preferences coupon - to save a freakin BUCK). Those pictures I took were awesome though - Dante is gonna be so mad at me when he finds out I took a picture of him bent over (in boxers and socks, butt sticking up) cleaning the tub. We also had other pictures where he was trying to pose like a model (the pursed lip thing, the jacket halfway off on the arm thing... it was my fault for putting up a Tyson Beckford calendar last year).

Shit is gonna hit the fan next week. Felita told me she was giving her two week notice on Monday. The company is already trying to hire two people (one to replace me, one for the other side where Felita works cause they're short one person) and they have been interviewing for like 2 months now - no one!!! I can't live on my current salary anymore and I've already given them 2 months notice so if I leave anytime soon, I shouldn't feel bad.

Wow, the room they did on While You Were Out was amazing!! An Asian zen room... the room looked cool before but this was amazing! Not sure if this is a repeat or not. And why does it seem like Mr. People's 50 Most Beautiful Andrew is doing all the work?? He should be saving his prettiness for ME! :)

I gotta go... I gotta clean the apartment before Amy gets here tomorrow.

OK, so who�s going to go see From Justin to Kelly with me tomorrow?? My roommate is suddenly MIA.

Remember the Friends finale when they got to Barbados and it was raining the whole time? Then the sun came out and the weather was perfect but they had to attend Ross�s speech and then after the speech it started raining again� When I have free time, it is cloudy here 90% of the time but last weekend, when I had to go to Amy�s graduation in Santa Barbara and then I had to drive back to OC for Father�s Day, it was perfect tanning weather. I got sunburned a little bit and it turned into a nice little tan, but I definitely still need to work on my tan � I�m still butt-white. It�s LA, it�s June, we�re supposed to be sweating our asses off!!

I�m gonna be making a Costco run either today or tomorrow if anyone wants to go � I *promise* I won�t drag you to the theater once I have you in the car! I need to get my disposable camera developed and I need to get some Equal sugar for Eileen and I to share (believe me, we can finish a Costco-sized box in a couple months).

I have a ton of stuff I need to do ASAP... clean my bathroom, mop the bathroom and kitchen floors, do my laundry, organize my room (i.e. throw everything in an orderly fashion into my walk-in-closet) so I can have my brother bring his old dresser, clean out and organize the refrigerator, wash my car, buy a vase to decorate for Eileen's birthday (I'm going to Costco again next Tuesday to buy a bouquet of flowers), get a sheer white shirt from American Eagle Outfitters to wear underneath all my other sheer shirts (some of the ones I have are too see-thru) - I don't think they have my size anywhere anymore though... go to Best Buy in Westwood because supposedly they give out a Justin Guarini poster if you buy the CD there, return the Justin CD I just bought at Target 3 days ago, write my cover letter for my resume...

Dante works 2 blocks away from my apartment now so he comes over at lunch to raid my fridge. We have a contest to see who can get to my apartment first from our jobs... he wins but that's cause he drives like hell and he's closer. Lets see how long this job lasts though.

I HAVE to get a new job. I was just writing this little cover sheet for a fax and I had to look up a word in the dictionary to make sure my wording was ok: "The service charge corresponds to the 5/16/03 wire to..." I can't believe I had to look up such a simple thing. The reason my vocabulary/grammar has deteriorated is because I'm surrounded by people who can barely speak English (my new roommie, the assistant) or speak ghetto English (Dante). I love my roommate and I love Dante but I just need to be surrounded by college grads or something. When I was working for Mona and I talked to her attorney and judge friends all the time, my grammar was so much better and I felt way more intelligent. All Dante really talks about is his car, racing, what he wants to get for his car, and what girls are "on" him. We talk about the Lakers occassionally but anything 'intelligent' is me talking and him listening. When I hang out with Don (Mona's former boss), Denise (his assistant) and Mona, we would always talk about current events, politics (they're strong Democrats but thats ok... the other attorney who hangs out with us sometimes - Brandon - is a strong Republican and we're gloating half the time), sports and what clients Don feels like taking on (Scott Peterson doesn't have enough money for Don to consider taking him).

Freakin A... The assistant just came in here with a check from Vivendi Universal and she was telling me - we only have 'Universal' set up. (See my journal entry on 5/21/03: I NEED to do a huge ass memo for this job... 1. Yes, for the 20th time... Vivendi Universal is Universal Studios and it really doesn't matter who you put down as the 'name', just be consistent. ) Need to find a new job, need to find a new job... It's sad when you'd rather find a new job than deal with an assistant you have.

My weekend was fun - went up to Santa Barbara again for my friend's graduation. It is so fun hanging out with her friends up there because they are so nice. There must've been at least 30 people sleeping in the house the night before graduation - we fit 8 people into one little little room (the girl who lived in there moved out that morning), Amy's roommate Jenn had her family sleeping in the room she and Amy shared, Justin had a friend in his room, the other Amy had her room to herself, and there were a couple people sleeping in the living room. Grace and I didn't get up to Santa Barbara until about 10pm Saturday night because we stopped by my friend's housewarming party first for some free food. My friend's roommate is a fireman so there were a bunch of firemen at the party... yum, and I don't mean just the food :). We went bar hopping in downtown Santa Barbara and didn't get to sleep until about 5am. Amy's graduation was at 9am so the Amys and their families left early while all of us were still sleeping. I woke up around 8:45 and no one else was up yet but we were planning on going just in time to see Amy walk so it was ok. At 10:30am, Rob (Amy's boyfriend) was still sleeping and I didn't know how to wake him up so Justin starts poking him with the wrapping paper core and we made it just in time to see the Amys walk. I took a ton of pictures (some with a digital and some with my disposable) - yay, Jennifer, I can finally develop that camera and give you the second part of your Christmas gift - the picture we took at that dinner! There was a barbeque after the graduation and then Grace and I headed back to LA so we could make it in time for Father's Day with our families.

Stan must have a girlfriend or something... He hasn't been bugging us about work, he hasn't talked to Eileen about being late and that cheap ass is shopping at Nordstroms and Banana Republic.

Eileen forwarded this to me:

Five Secrets to the Perfect Relationship

1. It is important that a man helps you around the house and has a job.

2. It is important that a man makes you laugh.

3. It is important to find a man you can count on and who doesn't lie to you.

4. It is important that a man is good in bed and loves making love to you.

5. It is important that these four men don't know each other.

I think Dante fits #2 only... except he makes me cry more than he makes me laugh.

Darn US Open!!! Days isn't on so what am I gonna watch right now at lunch? ... E! True Hollywood Story: Clueless.

Last night I watched a completely random show - MTV True Life: First Year and a couple minutes after I finished watching it, Steph IMed me and asked, "did you just watch True Life?" I was shocked. I know its MTV and most of the time I'd have the TV on MTV but still, how did she know?? I don't know why but it felt like I was caught watching porn or something (NOT that I know what that feels like cause I've never watched one in my life even though there's one in the VCR everytime I come home - damn boys...)

Stan's story: Eileen and I were asking Stan if he saw The Italian Job yet and he gets into the story about how he went to an unannounced preview for the movie in the Marina a couple weeks before it opened and he was sitting behind this gorgeous girl so of course, he has to try and talk to her. He asks her, "Have you heard anything about this movie?" She turns around - it was Charlize Theron! :) - and she tells him, "I think you'll like it." heehee. He also told us a month or two ago that he has breakfast at the same place in the Palisades than Jennifer Garner goes to and I asked him, "where was her husband??" (This was before they announced the divorce). I can't remember if he tried to talk to her or not but a couple days after he told us that, I saw in the news that they were getting divorced.

Gregory Peck died... I always thought he was one of the cutest... him and Cary Grant. I went through an Audrey Hepburn phase when I was in high school and I watched all her movies - I loved Roman Holiday. David Brinkley died today too. I know I'm getting old when I actually know who these people are and have seen their work.

I was watching a tape of the Friends finale tonight and I just can't get over the beginning.... "Sarah" is exactly like our college roommie Sarah (except TV Sarah is way prettier) - they both wear dark rimmed glasses, are short, and are into archeology. Joey's line at the end is the best!

Charlie: Wow! This place is beautiful!

Ross: (very excited) Look at all these paleontologists!!

Joey: I know, there are gonna be some pasty folks by the pool tomorrow! (A woman goes towards them)

Woman: Oh my God, I can't believe you're here!

Joey: (to Charlie) I think I've been recognized, this happens all the time!

Woman: Doctor Geller, I'm such a huge fan!

Joey: That... never happens...

Woman: I've been following your career for years, I-I can't wait for your keynote speech.

Ross: Wow! This is very flattering, uh...

Woman: I would love your autograph. (hands him a notepad)

Ross: Uh, uh... Sure! Um... "Dear..." (he takes the notepad)

Woman: Sarah.

Ross: "... Sarah. I dig you", Uh? "Doctor Ross Geller".

Sarah: Thank you so much!

Ross: Yeah, oh and Sarah... I'd like to introduce you to my colleague, uh, Professor Wheeler, a-and this is Joey Tribbiani.

Sarah: (to Joey) Are you a paleontologist?

Joey: No, God, no! No! No no, I'm an actor. You'd probably recognize me from a little show called "The Days of Our Lives".

Ross: Dude, it's just "Days of Our Lives"... there's no the.

Joey: (thinking he's kidding) Ok, Ross! It's... It's fun, yeah! No, I-I play Doctor Drake Ramoray.

Sarah: I'm sorry, I don't own a TV.

Joey: You don't own a TV? What's all your furniture pointed at??

Found a link to that Music Video Boy Kmart Ad :)

You know I talk about Justin Guarini way too much when my friends are having dreams about him too!!!

petard03: i have to tell you...i had a dream about justin and its all your fault
Lucyla8: heehee
Lucyla8: what was the dream??
petard03: i only think about him cuz of you
Lucyla8: heehee
Lucyla8: i didn't go buy the album last night :-(
petard03: he was having like a signing at some store and i was there
petard03: and he followed me outside
Lucyla8: this is so funny... now my friends are having dreams about justin!!
petard03: and i was eating a box of snacks or something, but thats irrelavant
petard03: and then i was looking for the bus stops so that i could get home
petard03: and he said he was outside cuz he was smoking
petard03: but i couldnt figure out the bus stops so i decided to walk home
petard03: and he just followed me
petard03: i was like "dont you have a in store you have to be at?"
petard03: hes like "its ok"
Lucyla8: look at you steph... taking the BUS to go to a justin signing
petard03: so he just followed me
Lucyla8: see, he's so sweet!!
petard03: i didnt take the bus, i was just there...but for some reason i wanted to take the bus home
petard03: so i was walking home thru this city
petard03: and it was a busy city, like tokyo or beijing
petard03: asian-ish
petard03: and then i get home and kelly clarkson was there
petard03: i think she was my roommate
Lucyla8: heehee
Lucyla8: oh my gosh
Lucyla8: oh
petard03: i was like "this guy followed me home"
petard03: then he totally ruined it cuz he goes "my friend and i had this bet to see if i could get some girl to let me stay overnight
Lucyla8: oh, that sucks
petard03: and i was pissed
petard03: but he was like "i'm sorry, but i had to tell you"
petard03: i was like "i dont care...you can stay here if you want
Lucyla8: dont worry steph, he wouldn't do something like that in real life - he's too sweet
petard03: it was a weird apt
Lucyla8: :-)
petard03: anyways, i just remember walking thru the apt looking for my room and stuff
petard03: thats it
Lucyla8: heehee
petard03: its all your fault
Lucyla8: did you wake up happy cause you dreamed about justin?
Lucyla8: heehee, sorry steph :-)
petard03: actually, i was a little happy
petard03: hahhahaa
petard03: but i dont even like him
Lucyla8: totally... justin just makes people happy!
petard03: i think its cuz a boy followed me home
Lucyla8: damn, i do talk about him a lot huh
petard03: hahahaha
petard03: yes you do

Oh my god!! I was flipping through the Kmart ad from this weekend looking for a cheap microwave cart so I can get my microwave off the floor and I saw my Music Video Boy ... bottom left, page 6, in Joe Boxer men's loungewear and pajamas. His robe (on sale for $13.29) is open too soo you can see his chest and his abs... damn danm damn. (look at that, I'm so excited I can't even type right)... I'm cutting this out and putting it up on the wall. Have to find out his name somehow...

My new roommate and I were just in my room for the past couple hours just talking, watching TV. I just found out she did some modeling. She gave me a copy of the Chinese magazine she was in and I think she was in a calendar too but she didn't have a copy. She's awesome so far... I'm so glad Kristi moved out - the whole atmosphere around the apartment is just so much more positive. She is always cooking for me too - I feel bad when I go into the kitchen to heat up leftovers or whatever. I really need to go to the grocery store so I have something to share with her.

SURVEY!

last cigarette: never had one.

last car ride: to Titos Tacos cause Dante wanted to go for lunch... then my apartment, then work

last kiss: real kiss - way too long ago, peck on the lips - 2 hours ago

last good cry: whenever the last time the asshole broke up with me was, I can't remember - its happened so many times

last library book: What's a library? Is that what this card in my wallet is for? It says Anaheim Public Library but I haven't used it since elementary school!

last movie seen: in the theaters - The Bourne Identity (yes, it has been that long!), on TV - The Family Man on STARZ

last book finished: Shopaholic Ties the Knot by Sophie Kinsella... FINISHED is the key word here

last beverage drunk: Sunny Delight... I need to go grocery shopping

last food consumed: Titos Tacos - 2 tacos - it was gooooood

last crush: real life or celebrity? real life - just Dante unless you count those fleeting crushes.... celebrity would be Justin G of course

last phone call: dialed - to the audi dealer to see how much it would be to replace my headlight bulbs ($25-30 each), received - client calling to ask me to put $12,000 into his personal account... ah, the life.

last TV show watched: Days of Our Lives, at lunch... last real show watched was the Making the Band II rerun at 2 am last night... last real non-rerun show was a long long time ago.

last time showered: last night

last shoes worn: cute shoes/sandals I bought from Robinsons May - high heels, beige straps...

last CD played: some mix CD... I'll be playing Justin Guarini's new CD tonight after I go to Target!

last item bought: Lysol Cling toilet bowl cleaner - can't get around that cause I tried to be cheap with Comet cleaner, but it doesn't work as well

last downloaded: "If You're Not the One" by Daniel something

last annoyance: oh my gosh - don't get me started... dumb assistant! last annoyance was probably like 2 minutes ago

last disappointment: uh, last real disappointment was not getting that Deloitte job... other than that, I'm always disappointed at something or other but I get over it

last soda drunk: last night, my roomie's green 7 up

last thing written: besides journal entries and work related stuff?? I don't know

last key used: office key

last word spoken: o.k.

last sleep: this morning

last IM: Steve, proposing a Seinfeld-like "Master of Your Domain" contest between me, Eileen, Mike and whoever wants to join.

last weird encounter: so many freaks in LA, can't remember

last ice cream eaten: Thrifty's mint chip ice cream a couple months ago (yeah yeah I missed the free ice cream nights cause I was lazy)... shit - that ice cream box is still sitting in the freezer - I need to toss it out.

last time amused: watching Seinfeld last night - "The Contest" episode

last time in love: only time in love... Dante... yeah, I need to get over that.

last time hugged: 2 hours ago, goodbye hug - Dante

last time scolded: this morning, by my boss cause I couldn't find some home mortgage refi papers... I KNOW he has them, he always does this.

last time resentful: last week, that the client's MAID was buying a house

last chair sat in: my desk chair

last lipstick used: Garden Botanika Sheer Ginger... love that color, too bad the stores have all closed.

Oh no!! The Family Man is on... and so is "It's Good to Be... Brad and Jennifer" What do I do, what do I do??

I have to thank my family for being so hard on me when I was a kid, yelling at me when I didn't understand something and pushing me until I got it right... otherwise, I might be as dumb as the people here. Last week, the assistant's printer was printing all this gunk on the back of the papers she printed out so we told her to have the administrative assistant help her fix/clean her printer. 15 minutes later, the printer is clean but the power won't turn on. They were playing around with it for a little while and they gave up. I just assumed there was a REAL problem so we just started using my computer for printing checks, etc. We just assumed that printer didn't work and that was it. I don't know what they were waiting for though - I thought the big boss was gonna try and fix it later on when he had time but no one did anything with it the whole week. Eileen was complaining about how nothing works around this office today so I got up and decided I'd try to fix that computer - maybe change the settings, etc. I went over to the assistant's desk, the settings were for the wrong printer so I changed that and then I looked at the printer. The cord that connects the printer to the power outlet was loose so I pushed the plug in, turned it on and viola! printer works. Why is the youngest and almost lowest paid person in this office fixing everything?? Stan was asking me computer questions all last week and I fixed something on Eileen's computer. I was gone for an hour last week and the assistant had to print a check so she used my computer. I don't know what the hell she did but I was on the phone giving her directions and then she said the screen went blank but she insisted she didn't touch anything. (She turned the freakin computer off accidentally) Then I told her to turn ON the computer and then I told her to do exactly what she does on her computer to print out a check but do it on mine. It just wouldn't work so I came back to the office early to print out the damn check. That girl changed the settings on my computer!! What the hell... I changed back the settings and printed the check and just sat here for like 15 minutes shaking my head. I do need a damn raise if I do stay here.

Eileen was looking up job opportunities on the internet and she printed this out and highlighted some stuff for me. I've italicized the stuff we were laughing at...

APPLY FOR THIS JOB IF YOU MEET THE FOLLOWING CRITERIA:

1) EXTREMELY HARD WORKING & SUCCESSFUL MULTI-TASKER - rigorous approach to the work day given limitation of time/resources;

2) SCORE HIGHLY ON INTELLIGENCE TESTS - solves mathematical and logic-related problems with speed/ease;

3) THOROUGH & ATTENTIVE TO DETAIL - triple-checking work and constantly seeking industry best-practices;

4) PERSISENT GOAL ACHIEVER - tenacity to see each project to expeditious completion;

5) SELF-MOTIVATED - needs almost no supervision/prodding by management once the job/project has been assigned.

6) STRONG SOFTWARE SKILLS - Microsoft Office, W2K, IE, Advent Axys, Quickbooks.

The workday usually starts at 7:30-8:30 a.m. EST (we are on Wall Street/New York hours). If you are not a "morning person," this probably is not the best fit.

Wow... we're not gonna get a job anywhere else...

This friendster.com thing is totally going overboard� Steph emailed me the link to it last week and this weekend when I was up in Santa Barbara, Amy�s friends were talking about it too. How does word spread so fast among the �cool Asian� (or wanna-be cool Asian) community? One person decides something new is cool and everyone gets on that thing for like the next week, then it dies down?? (i.e. hot or not.com, xanga � how many people actually keep up with it daily like they did in the beginning? There were some other stuff but I can�t remember right now)

Friendster brings up a whole new dilemma too � I think Steph and I make too much of it but sometimes people want to add us as friends but we don�t know them well enough to think of them as a friend and we don�t want to offend them by declining them so we approve their request to be added to our friends list and then bitch about it for the next couple days about how we don�t want them to be on our list for other people to see. This is a total Seinfeld moment� Amy�s friends and I were trying to figure out a way to decline people or delete people without them knowing but its impossible. They�re gonna know. Heehee, Steph and I went through this huge thing yesterday about how to delete someone and say it was an �accident��. didn�t work cause the guy noticed this morning and was all offended. Friends of friends should stay friends of friends� that�s how friendster works! People just want to add more people so it looks like they�re popular.

Anyway, enough. I borrowed my dad�s digital camera this weekend for my trip up to Santa Barbara and I noticed that everyone and I mean everyone has a digital camera now� well, except for Amy�s boyfriend Rob but he has a professional 35mm camera cause he�s a photographer. We were making fun of the one girl with a 35mm disposable camera. I know, I know, spoiled brats� I want to get a digital camera of my own but I�m waiting to see if the novelty will die down before I go out and spend $300 +/- for one. I learned my lesson from the Sony Clie that�s sitting on my desk at home gathering dust.

On the way back from Santa Barbara yesterday, Amy and I were talking about what it would be like if we got an apartment together with Mike� I think Mike and I would still be IMing each other all day � �What�s up?� �Nothing, what�s up with you?� �Just sitting in my room chillin�� � �Wanna get boba tea?� �Ok, meet you 3 feet away in 30 seconds� This would be like when I was living at home and my brother and I would IM each other from our rooms � we�re across the hall from each other and we can see each other when we�re sitting at our desks/computers. My mom was walking by this one time and I think we were talking to each other loud across the hall� my mom started yelling at us for yelling at each other so we got onto IM and IMed each other something like, �What�s her problem??�

McDonald's chicken nuggets are cheap again (according to a radio commercial on STAR)!! Well, only on Tuesdays and they're $1 not 89 cents like they were when we were in college. People used to get excited on Tuesdays... we'd make plans to head down to that crappy drive-thru McDonalds with all the homeless people on Wilshire and whatever that street was (halfway from UCLA to that Fresh Fare Ralphs on Wilshire/Bundy). I haven't had chicken nuggets in a while either cause I think $1.99 is too much to pay for 6 pieces. I'm still mad that the 99 cent fish filet Fridays ended a couple months ago and I didn't take advantage of that offer more.

Eileen told me something this week that kinda pissed me off a little... one of our client's maids is buying a house. A MAID dammit... she's only a couple years older than me and she can barely speak English and she's on her way to home ownership. I think I'm mad at myself for not being in a position to be able to do that. I'm a college graduate working an office job, bossing around a person who is 10 years older than me, taking on full responsibility for a couple client's accounts... but i'm making way less than that maid makes!! And this is a girl who can't afford to repay her boss $25 off her $1000 weekly paycheck every week... Our client gives her employees a credit card to charge household expenses on and this girl will charge some personal stuff on the card so we set up this system where we deduct a loan repayment on her paycheck every week. Every other week she would call us up and ask if we can not take that $25 off, she'll send us a check for that $25 later on in the month. How does she think she's going to afford mortgage every month??

Its just like with Dante... you can barely keep a job, you're always an hour or two late to the security guard job you have right now, how do you think you can afford to pay $900 rent for your own place and a $350 car note... this doesn't include money to live on, utilities, car insurance, etc. Also, at the end of the year, what do you have to show for all the working you did?? A car and the knowledge that you had a place of your own for those 12 months (even though someone was willing to let you move in and give you all the freedom you want and you wouldn't be paying rent, utilities, food, etc.) No savings, nothing... and you still owe California courts a lot of money for all the damn tickets you've gotten in the past 3-4 years. I've been getting mad at him a lot lately because he seems content to just do security guard work (no offense to any security guards out there)... he has no motivation to make his life better. Maybe I'm mad at myself too, for having fallen in love with such a loser.

I'm going up to Santa Barbara again this weekend... hmmm, maybe I'll meet someone :) In the meantime, I'll just play MASH - I've done it 3 times, with different numbers and different positioning of names and in all 3, they told me that I'd marry Justin Guarini (stop rolling your eyes!!) and be a business manager in New York and have a white car... everything else fluctuates (#kids, locations, cars, and housing structure).

Ok, and since everyone and their mommas are doing this - sign up as my friend on Friendster.com. You can see who your friends are friends with and what degrees of separation you have from some people - like a network of friends thing.

Amidst Eileen's morning ramblings - "My eyebrow pencil is gone!! ... I can't work." We have such a boring work environment, no guys to impress here so Eileen and I just get our bodies in the office in the morning... all our getting ready stuff is done here at our desks. I have my tweezers here, I have my toothbrush, toothpaste here and I carry my makeup in my purse :) Eileen even has her blow dryer and flat iron here!

I swear, I'm going to pick up a Sharpie and write "CHECK WHAT WE DID LAST TIME" on my forehead! I'd write it in normal pen, but it would wear out before the dumb assistant figures it out!! This is her third month of doing bank reconciliations and she's still asking me simple stuff every single time the situation comes up. She's been in here 3 times already this morning and every single time I've told her, make the entry the same way we did it last month. It was like this all day yesterday too. Last week Stan told her to do a journal entry and she comes in here telling me Stan told her to do that. I didn't know if she was just telling me or asking me how to do it, so I explained to her, look on the books from May 2002 and see what we did for it last year because I distinctly remember doing it last year. She buzzes me from her desk, "ok, I use this account but what is the other account?" (for accounting journal entries you have to debit one account and credit another account to even it out). I told her again to look at May 2002 because I don't remember what accounts we've set up off the top of my head. She buzzed me a minute later and said it wasn't there. So I get up, I pull out the hard copy of the financial statements (she had the file open on her computer and 2 people can't access the same file at the same time) and I go over to her desk and tell her, ok, debit this account and credit this account. How hard is it to find past history??? That's how I learned how to do this job and I don't think I'm any smarter than the normal person. This girl can't figure anything out, even after we give her directions on how to do it or where to look. There was this one incident last month where I was pissed off because the file was in the drawer and she came into my office three separate times to look in that drawer and she couldn't find it. All three times she doesn't tell me what she was looking for... Stan finally buzzes me and asks me where the file is and I tell him, everything we have for that client is in that drawer (I assumed it wasn't in the drawer cause she looked in there) and he lectures me cause I'm supposed to know where that file is, that's one of our biggest clients and that's an important folder, yada yada yada... As he was lecturing me, she comes in here again and *finds* the folder... in the same freakin drawer she looked in all those times!!

I was playing around with the settings for this journal and I found this thing where you can put in email addresses to email the journal entry to after you've posted so people don't have to check this page a couple times a day to see if I've posted anything (cause I know you guys all do that :) - *complete and total sarcasm*). This also helps if my page loads slow or doesn't load at all... Just let me know if you want me to put your email address on that list. Can you believe it *only* took me 7 months to figure this out??

Wow - I'm exhausted right now but I just wanted to get this in...

I love my new roommie!!! And you know why?? Cause she loves Justin Guarini too!!! heehee. I have someone to go see From Justin to Kelly with now :). She moved all her stuff in here today and we were just talking for the last couple hours. Its amazing how much we have in common. This will be fun - I'm so glad my old roommie moved out and she moved in.

What a difference a week makes... last week I was so happy with Dante, he was moving back in (temporarily) again, we had a great time at dinner with my friends... then this week, he's already pissed me off to the point where I'm 90% sure I want to ask him for my apartment key back and tell him I never want to talk to him again. I've never reached a point where I even considered not letting him come and go at my apartment whenever he felt like it, even if I wasn't there. Eileen thinks I'll finally clear the hurdle when I start at a new job because I'm stuck in a rut right now. UGH, I'm just so pissed off right now I need to just get my mind off it... think of happier times.

Last week we had dinner with Steve and his girlfriend Linda, Jennifer and her boyfriend Brian and it was so much fun. Of course, everyone has to tease me about my obsession with Justin Guarini - Dante was telling them how I told him: I always thought that whoever I dated in the future would have to deal with Dante being a huge part of my life but if I met/dated Justin, I couldn't talk to Dante anymore because I wouldn't want to hurt Justin. :) (He's so goofy and carefree and innocent and fun - I can't hurt him like that!!) and then he told them about how I have that mix CD in my car and whenever Justin's song came on, I'd tell him each time, "I think this is Justin..." (you guys - he was totally exaggerating!! I'm not that bad!) The funny part was, after dinner when we got into the car, he turned the CD to one of the Justin songs!! There was another song playing and he switched it to 'Be a Heartbreaker'.

Wow - I just realized, last week was just like a vacation or something... I saw/went out with almost all my friends, my boss was gone, Dante and I were having a good time, etc. etc. Now things are back to normal - boss back, drama with Dante, and I'm back to spending most of my evenings at home with nothing to do.

I was watching "It's Good to Be... Brad and Jennifer" last night and their life / spending habits are amazing. Brad Pitt ordered a $75k Mercedes G500 in silver and when it was delivered, he decided he didn't like that color... but Jennifer saw it and she liked it so he gave it to her and ordered another G500, this time in black, for himself. Can you believe that life?? Damn. Oh, and their $20 million paychecks dwindle down to $14 million after paying their agents, managers, business managers, etc... and after taxes its about $6 million net. $6 million!!! One damn movie!

Just got a call from Eileen this morning - she is so pissed off they docked her 2 days pay on our last paycheck that she's as determined as I am to look for another job. Sure she did take her vacation 3 months before her anniversary date (its that thing where after a year of working here, you get one week vacation, after 2 years, 2 weeks, etc) and she took 2 extra days, but when she had her medical problems at the beginning of the year, the managing partner told her to take any time off she needed. Eileen works on straight salary, no OT, and we just finished tax season recently where we had to work 6 days a week... she also stays here until 7:30-8:00 just about every night so she's pissed they didn't just give her those 2 days as goodwill. I know this company will also screw me when I leave - I just know they're not gonna give me my vacation pay even though I've accrued it. I need to leave this company - I've been here a year and a half and they started me on like a high school grad's salary even though I have a BA in Economics from UCLA (not one of those bullshit colleges either) - it was understandable back then because I was just an assistant. After 5-6 months of working here, they gave me a promotion to my current position as business manager because the guy left, but they didn't give me a raise! (Kristi - the roomie who just moved out - was telling me to check the labor laws to see if it is even legal to give a promotion without any raise). I have way more responsibility in this position (I have full responsibility for a couple clients' accounts) as opposed to just doing what the business managers told me to do (file, write checks, make deposits). I think the last assistant Eileen and I had was making the same salary as I was - how screwed up is that?? I guess you can't pay any less than what I'm getting but still - do I have to go in and demand a raise? I've been at this business manager position for a freakin year now. Don't companies give you reviews after like 6 months?

Ok - I just got a call from Stan - he's at the airport in Oregon and he was promising me that when he gets back, his highest priority is to interview, etc... cool, so I shouldn't feel bad about leaving. I told him that I could stay until he found someone new to take over this position and that I was gonna move back home and study for the LSATs or CPAs or something for a couple months. Mona (my old boss, the criminal defense attorney) already looked over my resume and helped me with the wording, style, etc. She is awesome. The problem right now is finding the cover letter Mona helped me on last time. I need to tweek it a little to update it but it was an awesome cover letter. It isn't on my computer at home anymore - I don't know why but I'm assuming it was Dante because he messes everything up so I'll just blame him and I'm probably right - and I found one copy of it when I was cleaning out my room at the old house. I had it in my hand last week when I was moving stuff up from the car to the apartment but now I can't find it!! That was probably the only thing I really needed in all that junk too. Oh well... I'll find a solution...

Shit, what if Stan finds someone before I get another job?? Nothing like the panic factor to get me off my butt and start applying. I could probably work for Jay for a little while until I find something permanent that offers the salary I want. I got hired at this job 5 days after I put together my resume, cover sheet and started faxing them out... I can do it.

A Time to Kill is on right now and I just loved the acting in this movie. Yeah, its a John Grisham novel, its not Oscar material but who cares? This was the first time I saw Matthew McConaughy in action and I was so impressed... his closing statement had me in tears and I heard somewhere that he did this long speech in one take. Ashley Judd is so beautiful in this movie - I'd be jealous of her if I was Naomi or Wynonna cause they're all famous and decent/good looking but she's the prettiest in the family.

I just got home from an afternoon/evening at my parents' house... I'm working on a long journal entry but I just don't feel like doing it right now... maybe after the movie.

I have so much cleaning to do its unbelieveable... yet I'm still sitting on my butt doing nothing. Actually, I'm eating a slice of apple pie so I have an excuse right now. (I bought these frozen apple pies when they were 2 for $2.99 or some incredible deal like that at Ralphs 5-6 months ago and I finally baked it last week). I want to try to get some organization into this room but I don't know where to start! Plus, my current roommate is moving out today and my new roommate will be moving in tomorrow so I want to clean the entire apartment (at least mop and vacuum) so it'll be nice when she moves in. Also, Dante is moving the rest of his stuff back in sometime this weekend so I need to move things around to make space for his stuff again.

I went to IKEA today and I didn't find anything major worth buying. There was a huge sale this week starting Weds and I knew by the time I could go to IKEA, they'd run out of the stuff I wanted to get and sure enough, they were sold out of almost everything in the ad. I ended up buying a cheap clip frame so I can make a collage of pictures to hang up on the wall. I also bought some cleaning brushes but you know I'm cheap when I stand in front of the 45 CENT toilet brushes trying to decide if I want to buy it or not.

I think I've been watching Trading Spaces way too much because now I'm obsessed with 'concealing' everything - it just doesn't look nice when you have everything out in the open. I wanted to get this wide TV bench from IKEA (beechwood, on sale for $49 and it used to be $149) but they were sold out of them so I'm stuck with my TV on the cherry wood colored dresser and the VCR, DVD player and cable box on this dark blue cart thing about half the height of the dresser. While I was at IKEA, I realized Paulo had that nice double chest beech veneer dresser in his old room so I just called him and he's gonna bring it over next week... yay! free furniture and more drawers! Nothing better than that.

On the way home from IKEA, I decided to stop by Home Depot and see if they have anything for my really slow drain (bathroom sink). Dante shaves his head every other day and the little little bits of hair go down the sink and I thought that was what was clogging the drain. The guy showed me this plastic thing called Zip-It for like $1.99 but I didn't think it would work cause it looked so flimsy and thin. I decided to try it because the guy said it would at least break some of the gunk up but I also bought this professional strength liquid thing. I got home and stuck that plastic thing in there (heehee, sounds dirty) - and all this hair (oops, it was my hair) and yellow gunk came out... so gross, but the drain is perfect now. I don't think its ever been this good, even when I poured a whole bottle of Drano in there. What do guys like better anyway - girls who can do everything on their own or girls who are hopeless so the man can feel like a man? I put all the furniture in this apartment together myself. I even put Eileen's furniture together when she was still living here.

Did 'Idol' Misdials Doom Clay? - are people really that stupid? I know its not that serious, like voting for the president or something... (ahem, Palm Beach, FL?) but still, if you can't read the letters/numbers right, maybe you shouldn't vote. That's why the founding fathers came up with the Electoral College for the presidential election... to make sure it's done right. Damn those guys were smart! :)

Besides, people mistaking an O for a Q wouldn't affect just Clay... unless Ruben's fans are smarter.

me and my bro -

PoLox95: haha the funniest shit happened to me on the freeway today
Lucyla8: what?
PoLox95: this echo cut me off so i cut him off
PoLox95: and he was next to me all staring so i told him to follow me off the exit..i was goin to school off temple
PoLox95: so he's behind me at the stoplight and i hop out of the car to see what the fuck is wrong with him
PoLox95: this fool comes out with a bat
Lucyla8: what??
Lucyla8: man
PoLox95: yea
PoLox95: but then the funny part is that he didnt put his car in park so it started rolling down the hill
PoLox95: LOL
PoLox95: and he hit the guy behind him
Lucyla8: heehee
PoLox95: hahahaha
Lucyla8: holy shit
Lucyla8: heehee
PoLox95: the light turned green and i just hopped back in my car and took off
Lucyla8: heehee
Lucyla8: man
PoLox95: after i laughed in his face of course
PoLox95: hahaha
Lucyla8: heehee
Lucyla8: when did he notice?
PoLox95: when the door hit him on the way down
PoLox95: lol
Lucyla8: heehee
PoLox95: he couldnt get his bat out of the car
PoLox95: i wanted to pound his face in too
Lucyla8: heehee, dumbass
PoLox95: the guy was an asshole on the freeway
Lucyla8: piece of shit echo
PoLox95: i saw him when the 57 merged with the 60 ..tailing some altima like 3 inches from his bumper
Lucyla8: what race was the guy?
PoLox95: some asian
PoLox95: guy
PoLox95: i woulda kicked his ass
Lucyla8: oh
Lucyla8: totally
Lucyla8: if he needed a bat
PoLox95: shoulda taken his bat and beat him with it
Lucyla8: he must've sucked
Lucyla8: yeah
PoLox95: lol he must have felt like the biggest idiot
Lucyla8: i would if i were him
Lucyla8: heehee

Guess what exciting thing I did for Memorial Day? I went back to Orange County and� cleaned my room. It took all day, I threw out a ton of stuff and the room still looks as cluttered as it was before I did anything. My parents bought a huge new house in Brea with 4 bedrooms, a bonus room and a study (after all the kids moved out!! except Paulo, the youngest one, he�ll be living at home forever) so they wanted us to clean out our rooms so they can renovate the old place. I�ve lived in that room since I was eight years old so I found stuff from elementary, junior high, high school, college, and the short time I lived at home after college.

Some highlights of what I found�

- Crossword puzzles from The Daily Bruin � we used to tear these out and do it in class. They didn�t seem that tough back then but if I try it now, I don�t know if I�ll be able to get as much because I haven�t had to �use my brain� in a long time.

- A blue book!! Does anyone need this? I can�t give it to Paulo because the blue books say UCLA on them and I don�t want to toss it out.

- A 2002 Britney Spears calendar I got for Steve cause it was only $3� I never gave it to him though cause I hardly ever see him � do you still want it Steve?? It has nice pictures.

- A Jem doll � she�s truly outrageous, truly truly outrageous� Her earrings light up!!

- The high school newspaper with a list of where everyone was going to college� I wonder how many people actually finished.

- The program from a high school football game� Awwww Sam #7 (I�m not gonna put his last name because if he googles himself and sees this, I�ll be embarrassed), starting QB, I had a huge huge crush on him back in high school because I sat next to him in Spanish junior year (he had just transferred to our school from Mater Dei that year � I think he transferred because his younger bro Nick was gonna start at QB over him) and we had so much fun� didn�t learn squat.

- Our Canyon Point A-2 Memory Lane scrapbook (sophomore year of college) � it has pictures of everyone who lived in that dorm that year. So many things I forgot about � our neighbors Dennis and Johnny, Alicia and Shannon, Juli and Debbie, Katrina, the noisy people upstairs, the 2 cute black guys downstairs� I forgot Oliver, James and Chris (Steph�s friends) lived in our �house�. Oh � and Juli had a cute friend Brian who lived in A-1� he�s half white, half black and Jennifer just told me recently she thinks he works for The Tonight Show. Juli took a picture with him, I scanned it for her and she says I didn�t give her the picture back but I couldn�t find it. I guess I had it all along. Oops :).

- Pictures from the dorms freshman year� I thought Gary was really cute and I have this picture of him and his roommate Andy. I think we used to call them Ace and Gary instead (The Ambiguously Gay Duo on Saturday Night Live) even though they�re not gay. I love them though � we�re all from OC � they went to Mater Dei and I think I remember Gary saying something about how he didn�t like Sam.

- A Valentines Day card from �Jimbo� � don�t remember who that is but I�m guessing it was someone from band in high school� The card said, �Lucy � have a kickass V-Day. Tell Ricky I said Babaloo.�

- A picture of Monica in her "purple prom dress"... it was actually her 8th grade promotion dance picture but we like teasing her about that dress.

- A little monkey keychain wallet with $2 inside!! Whoohoo!

That�s all I can remember for now� So now I have 3 boxes of crap sitting in the back seat of my car (the trunk has too much junk) but I'm too lazy to move that up to my apartment. I'll wait until dumbass wants to use my car and I know he'll move my stuff up without me asking him to. Last time he wanted to use my car (last week), I had him go get a smog check, get the renewal stickers and wash the car.

Oh - just wanted to share a convo between me and my sis... I was complaining about the assistant again...

Lucyla8: man, this dumb girl keeps asking if i have anything for her to do
Lucyla8: but when i give her something to do, she messes up on it after she asks me 20 million questions
ns9888: well.. ask her to sit down and shut up
Lucyla8: heehee
Lucyla8: she'll mess that up too

Whoohoo!! #546 The Top High Schools... Is that good? I mean, at least we made the list right?

Why do I do this to myself?? When I go to bed, I should just turn off the ringer on the phone or at least ignore it when it starts ringing. Dante called me about 45 mins ago and now I'm fully awake. At least I've used this time productively :) I was checking out the Justin Guarini message board thing on msn (J-man's World) and they had a link to 4 of the songs on his album... they're pretty good but I'm kinda biased. Can't wait til the album comes out on June 10th. Oh - note to my friends - Dante called it already... he wants to get that album for me for my birthday. I'm already telling some people to not get anything for me for my birthday, just come with me to see From Justin to Kelly! I have to bribe people because I don't want to go alone!

Funniest thing today - Dante is one of those lame people who like driving around with the windows down and the music loud (it bugs me but I don't say anything) - he was 'bumpin' that Justin Guarini's song I Saw Your Face (he sang it on American Idol 2 weeks ago). I do realize that in order to put Dante out on blast for this, I'm admitting I downloaded that song on a CD that I play in my car :) I know I'm lame, you don't have to tell me...

Heehee, Clay is singing that "hello, is it you I'm looking for" song... I remember that from one of my favorite Seinfeld episodes - "The Voice" where Jerry was trying to decide between using this "Helllllllllll-oooo" voice or this girl and he's sitting on the pier thinking while the song is playing in the background... then he decides, he runs and the birds are flying, he knocks on her door and she opens it waiting for his decision... "Helllllllllll-oooo!"

I NEED to do a huge ass memo for this job...

1. Yes, for the 20th time... Vivendi Universal is Universal Studios and it really doesn't matter who you put down as the 'name', just be consistent.

2. You need to understand the concept of PERSONAL SPACE. Especially when you smell like mothballs. I was telling my sister about it this weekend and she said that a guy from her office stinks too and he'd get really close to her when he is asking questions, so everytime she would see him walking towards her desk, she'd open her desk drawers so he couldn't get close to her.

3. When I write a post-it that says "deposit to ____'s personal account, #_______", you deposit it to ____'s personal account, #_______. You don't need to buzz me and ask if you deposit it to ____'s personal account, #_______.

Thats all I can think of right now... I know I'll have more later.

bananame69: overslept today
bananame69: well, i did wake up on time
bananame69: but i went back to sleep
bananame69: i'm glad i did tho
bananame69: cuz i had the most wonderful dream during my second sleep
bananame69: i don't remember it, but i woke up feeling good even though i had to go to work
Lucyla8: it wasnt justin guarini was it??
Lucyla8: hehee
bananame69: i said it was a good dream
bananame69: i'm not a fan of his to your degree
bananame69: all i remember was it involved me hanging out w/ friends
bananame69: tho i don't remember which friends i was with
bananame69: man, Passions is on right now.
bananame69: they are talking about the same things they were last week
bananame69: nothing has changed
bananame69: when i get my own country, i'm gonna outlaw inner monologues and rhetorical questions in tv shows
Lucyla8: totally
Lucyla8: its just passions though
Lucyla8: passions and days are the worst worst soaps - the funniest ones
bananame69: i haven't laughed yet
Lucyla8: laugh cause its SAD
Lucyla8: you're laughing now arent you
bananame69: and by sad you mean shitty, right?
bananame69: now i'm laughing
bananame69: they should get rid of the dialogue
bananame69: and the old and the fat hags
bananame69: and the guys
bananame69: just leave on the hotties
bananame69: that's a real show
Lucyla8: heehee
bananame69: you know what else they should get rid of?
bananame69: shirts
Lucyla8: heehee... some of those girls are way annoying though
bananame69: that's why you get rid of dialogue
bananame69: and some of them should probably wear paper bags on their head
bananame69: ONLY paper bags on their head

Watching the Daytime Emmys last week made me realize how ridiculous Days and Passions are... those other soaps take it too serious though - there are real emotions and real ACTING involved!! I used to watch All My Children (for Kelly Ripa's husband - Mark Consuelos) and I don't ever remember them having inner dialogues, etc... a sign of real writers! The storylines have moved on a little bit on Days but Passions is horrible - the guy Antonio has had this terminal illness (he can die any moment now) for over a YEAR!!! Die already so Sheridan and Luis can get together dammit. And Sheridan and Luis have been planning on telling Antonio about their relationship for over a year now! Stupid annoying Theresa has been in love with Ethan since the soap started - she stalked him, befriended him, got him, then slept with his dad Julian, married Julian, had Julian's baby... Ethan went back to his ex-girlfriend Gwen because she's pregnant with his baby and Theresa is still trying to get Ethan back. Give it up girlie! You're his stepmom!! Oh wait, Julian isn't really Ethan's dad but he thought he was and thats a whole other can of worms. Don't get me started on Whitney and Chad... they're in love and they've made love... too bad the show is hinting that Chad is Whitney's half brother (he doesn't know who his parents are so he came into town to find out and Whitney's mom Eve thought that the secret illegitimate kid she had with Julian died at birth). Wow - why do I know all this crap??

Poor Sean Phaler - Phaler encouraged to move on - the only reason I care is because he's from Villa Park High School and I was excited to have someone from my high school play on the UCLA basketball team. I hope Coach Howland knows what he is doing in general because you know the alumni will start calling for him to get fired in a year or two (unless you win 10 championships in 12 years like Coach Wooden did back in the 70s, nothing is good enough). I was a diehard supporter of Coach Lavin because he was young, cute and his first year as the UCLA coach was also my first year in college. I knew he couldn't 'coach' or 'develop players' but he did a darn good job of winning games.

Why do I get hooked on shows a couple episodes before it ends? I finally started watching American Idol last year 4 episodes from the end after hearing Steph talk about it for months before then. And even though I only watched 4 episodes of American Idol last year, I liked it way more than the boring group they have this year (which I've followed from the beginning). Anyway, back to the point - I started watching The Bachelor 2 weeks ago and I caught the finale tonight... now I'm wondering what happened all season. Luckily, ABC has the ABC Family Channel that does repeats of their reality shows - there is a marathon next Sunday. (That's how I caught up on Celebrity Mole - Hawaii last time). 'Good' won out over 'Evil'... Dante stopped by for a couple minutes to pick up some stuff while I was watching the show and he asked who the guy chose. I said it was the nice girl... "cause some people choose not to be with bitches." I don't think he appreciated the comment but who cares :).

Western Medical Center in Santa Ana is in the news again... some surgeon is being investigated. I was a candy-striper there back during high school and I was always under the impression it was a small hospital. All the 'cool' candy stripers worked at St. Joseph's Hospital (also in Santa Ana).

Why am I watching the Daytime Emmys??

And more importantly, why am I not turning the channel?? Oooh - Tyson Beckford!!

Takin' care of business... workin' overtime... sorry, thats the only part of the song I know.

Working undertime is more like it, but don't get me wrong, I've been working. When the top 2 people are gone from a 4 person mini-company, and I'm 3rd on the totem pole, I take on a lot of responsibility.... especially cause my assistant still can't do shit on her own. She had ONE thing to do today - instead of sending a bulky Fed-Ex yesterday, I told her to send a messenger to the client's house this morning and did she do it?? All morning she was asking me every 10 minutes if I had something for her to do while I was trying to handle all the phone calls and client requests. (By the way, don't you HATE it when someone is just sitting there listening in on your conversation or trying to talk to you when they clearly know you're on the phone on a business matter? Bugs the shit out of me.) Finally, at 11:15 am, I buzz her to make sure the messenger came to pickup the package and she said she hadn't done anything yet for that. This is getting beyond ridiculous... I told Stan back in mid-April I had to leave but because Eileen was going on vacation and because he had to find someone who can handle what I do, I'd stay until he finds someone... he's interviewed 2 people since then and I guess both haven't worked out (hint - maybe its the shitty pay... oops did I say that out loud?)

Read this when you have time - its hilarious - Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About... I don't know how often he updates this though.

I came into the office today expecting a totally chill day - Stan is gone and there really isn't too much to do here. Then I check my voice mail and all hell broke loose. One of our biggest clients called because she took 11 people to dinner last night (the show was picked up for another season and it was a celebratory dinner - she actually knew it would be picked up 3 weeks ago but she couldn't tell everyone because some actors weren't going to be returning) and her American Express card was denied. She also said she tried to use her Bank of America card up in San Francisco last week but that was denied for some reason. I've spent the past hour on the phone with these credit card companies trying to figure out why the cards were declined and trying to get them to raise her credit card limits - she only makes $1.5 million a year! And besides, I thought American Express didn't have limits but apparently her unofficial limit was $8000. Her BofA limit is lower than that. She has another credit card with a $50,000 limit (they usually spend about $20,000 on that card per month but we pay it off in full every month) so she's fine with her monthly spending, but still. She should have the ability to charge whatever she wants on whatever card she wants so I'm sending these credit card companies copies of her bank statements. At least that gives me something to do...

Raise your hand if you want to get into the entertainment industry too... Geez, the amount of money these people make is amazing, even with the economy the way it is. I love watching these reality shows (American Idol, The Mole, Real World, Trading Spaces, While You Were Out, etc) but I never thought of how these shows take business away from my clients. Sucks. I hope the balance remains the same because there are just enough scripted shows out there to balance out some of the crappy ideas they're passing off as reality shows these days. Some reality shows are based off good ideas though but seriously, "Are you Hot?" and they made that into a show??

I miss Eileen... I've been updating her via e-mail on what is going on at the office - I told her Stan was going to be gone for the rest of the week to go to a Vegas convention... this is her reply - happy to see she hasn't changed. (fyi - u know who - is her husband)

hey,
knew that bonehead was gonna be gone for couple of days while i was gone but didn't know exactly when..cool, so u get a reprieve...anyway, went to argentina all over and am in chile and saw spectacular places but trying to get to tierra del fuego argentine side, not chilean and it's hard and of course, i'm now fed up with u know who and ready to kill him and ready to go back...anyway, hang in there girlie, i'm almost back, maybe can get back earlier by a day or two, but don't know..will call u as soon as i get into la.

bye,
e

Whoo Hoo!! Justin Guarini on American Idol tomorrow night!! singing Unchained Melody I guess. Now I got something to look forward to.

Watching American Idol right now but I'm a little bored because none of them are *Justin* or Kelly to me. I know this year's crop are better singers but they don't have the same showmanship they had last year. Oh well.

Lakers are down. :( Too stressful for me - I can't watch this alone.

SURVEY! Haven't done these in a while...

What's on your bedside table? alarm clock and a bunch of junk papers... I need to clean my room.
What is the geekiest part of your music collection? Ally McBeal soundtrack
What do you eat when you raid the fridge late at night? anything that is easy to make and doesn't involve cleaning.
What is your secret guaranteed weeping movie? An Affair to Remember - the end when he figures out she's in the wheelchair... makes me cry everytime. Also Armaggeddon - when Bruce Willis takes Ben Affleck's place :'(
Do you have a completely irrational fear? being alone
What is the little physical habit that gives away your insecure moment? biting my nails I guess
Do you ever have to beg? sometimes
Are you a pyromaniac? scuse me while I look that up... oh. no - I'm afraid of fire
Do you have too many love interests? um, yes? ask me how many of them are realistic though.
Do you know anyone famous? Just our clients... but they're not that famous - I didn't know who they were when I first started but now I love them to death. They do get a lot of work for people who aren't super superstars.
Describe your bed: so comfy! worth every dollar I spent on it ($650)
Spontaneous or plan? I plan mostly. Its hard to be spontaneous when you're trying to get together with people. The only time I remember being spontaneous was a couple weeks ago when Amy and I decided to go up to Santa Barbara for the hell of it.
Who should play you in a movie about your life? Not too many asian actresses out there so my selection is limited.
Do you know how to play poker? not really
What do you carry with you at all times? nothing but my keys I guess - I've minimalized a lot. I used to never go anywhere without my wallet, ID and cell phone.
How do you drive? I think I drive fine but butthead Dante says I can't drive.
What do you miss most about being little? NO STRESS!
Are you happy with your given name? Sure, given that my kindergarden teacher gave me the name because we had Asian names to begin with.
How much money would it take to get you to give up the Internet for one year? a lot (like "winning the lotto" a lot) - what would I do all day??
What color is your bedroom? boring ass white
What was the last song you were listening to? Hella Good - No Doubt... downloading songs for Steph :)
Have you ever been in a play? nope, the only time I was on stage was drama class in 8th grade and I can't remember what I did.
Who are your best friends? You know who you are :)
Have you ever been in love? Yes and I got hurt but everyone has to go through that at least once in their life
Do you talk a lot? I think I do...
Do you like yourself and believe in yourself? usually
Have you ever done any illegal drugs? nope
Do you think you're cute? I guess
Do poor, homeless, or starving people sometimes annoy you? yeah, although I know they can't really do anything about it
Do you consider yourself to be a nice person? totally
Do you spend more time with your girlfriend, boyfriend, or your friends? uh... I think boyfriend cause we usually just do nothing here at the apartment. I see my friends a lot but its harder to plan get-togethers.

OK - American Idol is picking up - they're singing songs they've chosen themselves and its more interesting now. Wait a sec - what the hell is Clay trying to do with "Unchained Melody"?? Wow - that part of the song was good though.

Conor (the client's assistant) came by a little while ago - what happened to the notion that guys are supposed to be bigger than girls?? I'm only 5'5, 120lbs but it seems like I'm bigger than a lot of guys out there. Granted, my 3 inch heels don't help my cause (makes me 5'8) but I love these shoes way too much. Dante is only 5'7 1/2, 150lbs; Steve is taller but he probably weighs the same as I do; Mike is a little taller too but he also weighs about as much as I do. Where are all the manly men?? My roommate's boyfriend is 6'2, 250lbs but she's about the same size as him too. I just want a guy (preferably cute of course! heehee) who is taller than me and a little built so I can feel protected, like any girly girl wants.

Conor is just so full of enthusiasm. It takes a special kind of person to work as a personal assistant to a celebrity or semi-celebrity. I think I can do it. I've heard how hard it is to deal with certain people, how hard these jobs are but I think I'll be able to take it - working for Mona was tough but I did it because I had patience. So many people don't get along with Eileen because of personality differences but we get along great. The pay for any personal assistant is decent (more than I'm getting here) and you don't sit at a desk 24/7 - I think that's the biggest appeal for me. I was basically Mona's personal assistant (except for the decent pay part :) and the celebrity part) and I liked it because even though I sat at a desk, I still had to leave the office a lot for her errands - courthouse, bank, other attorney's offices, food, etc. I had to take the bus but the DASH downtown is great - 25 cents a ride and it takes you close to where you need to be.

I made sure I came to work on time / a little early this morning because a client's assistant was going to stop by and pick up some packages for the client. He made it sound like he wanted to stop by as early as possible but now its 9:30am and he's not here yet. I'm so sleepy - I only got 4 full hours of sleep last night because I took a nap around 9pm and then Dante called me and woke me up. I fell asleep again around midnight and guess who calls me again and wakes me up. I took a shower around 2am and I was still fully awake at 3:30am. I need to go get the smog check done on my car and I need to go to AAA to get my renewal stickers ASAP but I think I'm just gonna go home at lunch and SLEEP!

New $20 Bill - It took 67 years to redesign the bill to the one we're using today and now, 7 years later, they redesign it again?? I still can't believe it's already been 7 years since the last new $20 bill came out. It will always be the NEW bill to me. I guess I'm old school like that - I'm still calling Costco - Price Club... I think it went from Price Club to Price Costco and now its just Costco. I still remember how Sav-on Drugs changed their name to Osco Drugs and then changed it back. Rite-Aid will always be Thrifty to me (how wrong does Rite-Aid ice cream sound?? It should always be known as Thrifty's ice cream). Albertsons bought out Lucky's... The Great Western Forum loses its advertising value when there are no more Great Western Banks. What went first? The buyout or the Lakers and Kings moving out of there? Maria and I had this conversation a couple years ago and she brought up something I vaguely vaguely remember - Ralphs used to be Alpha Beta!

Yippee! Stan is leaving tomorrow to go to a convention in Vegas. I swear, this is the first time he's left for a couple days since I've started working here (November of 2001). I think he had some kind of surgery last year and he was back in the office 2 days later. I wish Eileen were here to help me enjoy the 2 1/2 or 3 1/2 days (not sure yet) but she's still on vacation...

Oh yeah - and my roommate told me yesterday she was moving out. Oh well :). I'll do the usual ads in westsiderentals and probably the Daily Bruin and hopefully I'll find a roommate who isn't a prick like this one was. Eileen was talking about how we can scheme to kick her out so Eileen could move back in but its probably all talk. Dante didn't move in (kinda, sorta) until after Eileen moved out but it would've been fun for the three of us to live together. Anyway, if you guys know anyone who needs an apartment in Palms - $600/month for a private bedroom/bathroom in a 2BR/2BA apartment, just call or email me. I would say that Dante won't be around much but he just told me he's stuck paying $1000/month (by himself) for that apartment in Pasadena so I know he's not going to be able to keep that apartment for long (oooh, he's paid rent for 1 freakin month and he's already complaining) - I give it another month. He just lost another job after working there 2 weeks and he's going back to security guard work. Even if he finds 2 security guard jobs, how is he supposed to pay $1000/month for rent, $300 for his car (which is still in the shop), $200 for his car insurance, at least $100 for utilities, $$ for food, etc... ha, good luck sucka! Oops, am I sounding too mean or bitter? :)

I have a new show I'm addicted to...That 70's Show. I've been watching the syndicated episodes every so often but it wasn't Friends or Seinfeld for me. I caught the end of Wednesday's show (only cause I turned FOX for American Idol a couple minutes early) and the scene I saw had me cracking up. Fez was getting deported so he was writing a letter to Prez. Carter... In the letter, Fez gave three reasons why he should be able to stay - I forget the first one, but the second one was (and you have to imagine Fez saying this) "Fez is the name of a hat... Uncle Sam wears a hat... coincidence??" The third reason was the best though: "Where am I supposed to go? France? F**k France." heehee. I loved how the writers tossed that in, in light of what happened last month (which is probably when they wrote the episode). Oh, by the way, have we stopped boycotting France? I also found it funny that there was no Cinco De Mayo celebration at the White House this year... Vicente Fox was against the war... COINCIDENCE??? :)

The stupidness bar has been lowered some more... nothing Dante does can reach the new lows my assistant is at. Amy and I were laughing about how when Dante talks about the show Punk'd (MTV), he pronounces it Punk - Dee but I guess I can see why people do that. Anyway, the assistant comes in my office and asks if we should schedule the semi-weekly cash delivery ($1000.00) from the bank to one of our major clients for Thursday. Keep in mind, this client is in San Francisco until Friday and I've mentioned that a couple times already this week (2 days so far). Everytime we have sent cash over to her house, we have called her to make sure she was going to be at the house to receive the cash personally - that's a lot of cash! If this assistant had any common sense, she wouldn't have even asked me. Why are we going to send the cash over to her house so her maids/gardeners/nanny/etc. can get a hold of it?? They're already getting paid too much for what they do and they already charge too much personal stuff on the credit card she gave them for expenses. I guess I should be happy that she asked me instead of just doing it...

I am really worried about the work she's done. She writes checks from the clients' accounts (I like to handle my clients' bills personally cause I don't want anything screwed up), she doesn't show me or Eileen the checks before she gives them to Stan and Stan is supposed to look them over before he signs them but half the time, he'll sign anything. I had her reissue a check last week because I guess we mailed it to the client and he hadn't sent it back to us yet (for accounting fees). I thought she'd print the check and mail it to the client again but no... she gives it to Stan to sign, then Stan told her to give it to the office administrator and I don't know why she came to me to show me the check and tell me what Stan told her to do, but thank god she did. I made a comment - "aren't the clients supposed to sign those, not Stan?" and she was like, "oops!! I forgot!" I'm mad Stan doesn't check before he signs stuff. It's a good thing I'm so anal about stuff because thats the way my former boss taught me how to do things.

Try this when you have time - Tea Leaves - Destiny in a Cup (You need to have the Macromedia Flash Plug-in for this)...

Here's my tea leaf reading:

As the steam from the tea evaporates, I see many interesting events in your future! The presence of so many circles suggests that much happiness may be headed your way!

Along the top rim of the cup is a bull, symbolic of good fortunes to come. You may soon have reason to celebrate. I also see a shell, symbolic of a journey. Pack well and plan ahead. Treasures may be revealed.

Closer to the bottom of the cup I see a lion, a symbol of strength. Surround yourself with friends. They will spur you on to success and happiness. Rejoice! I also see a tower. A detour from your current route may prove the fastest way to success.

All the shapes reveal themselves in a clear counterclockwise spiral within the cup. Your fortune may change here and there as you make your way through life. The letter J is apparent along the outer edge of the cup. Someone with this initial may be in need of your assistance. Offer it willingly and be repaid tenfold.

1. I will be taking a detour from my current route soon and it will definitely bring me more success than if I didn't make a change.

2. Initial 'J'!!! Whoohoo! Geez, who is the first person who comes to mind? Only the guy I've been talking/dreaming about these past couple weeks :) I even mentioned him in my last post. Fate, I tell ya. Bring it on!

I'm just gonna ignore that (Note: Tea Leaves is for entertainment purposes only.)

It's starting already... it's only 9:23am on the first day of a regular work week and already that assistant is in here with dumb questions I've answered so many times this past month (I don't know what her problem is - maybe she has to ask the question a couple times for every different company we handle (15), even though we handle all companies the same way! "Geez, maybe we changed the way we do things all of the sudden in the past 2 hours, maybe I should ask her again.") What is wrong with me? Am I just being too critical or too easily annoyed? (I coulda picked up the 'easily annoyed' part from being around Eileen too much) Every morning I tell myself to be more patient but the stupidness bar keeps getting lowered with every passing hour. She's been here a damn month!!

Eileen and I would be the first to admit that if the assistant was a hot guy, we'd be over at his desk helping him 24/7. But this assistant is an Asian woman in her 30s with a strong strong accent who smells like mothballs. Maybe we have a predisposed bias against Asians who didn't grow up in the US and who don't "get things" the way we do. I just don't know what it is but so many people I know who have assistants are always complaining about their assistants. I was visiting Mona (my old boss) the other day, and she was complaining about her current assistant. She hated the people that worked for her before I started with her, and after I left. She even complained about the people who took over my job when I left for a quarter or so because of school, etc... but she was always gushing about me to everyone... hmmm... oh. I wonder if I was bad when I first started working here. Stan said something about this new girl being on a "trial basis" but he never said that about me or even the person who took over my job after I got promoted. I'm embarrassed I complained about him too but he was nowhere near as bad as this girl is. He could at least remember the stuff we told him and he'd find ways to think on his own (wasn't always the right thing but at least he tried).

I KNOW Dante can do a much better job at that position than this lady can. Yeah, he may be irresponsible and move from job to job but Eileen and I would be covering his ass all the time anyway. We've always said, give us raises and we can handle the company, just the two of us. Stan wants a college grad for the job though, so that would rule Dante out - my UCLA degree was my 'foot in the door'. And, the fact that I was into sports in general and that I knew UCLA sports... I knew I had the job before my interview.

... She's in here again! Stan gave her a project to do and she has some questions. First of all, why is Stan giving a "project" to someone who can barely do deposits?? I don't know why she's asking me either because I don't know what Stan wants her to do and I don't even know what she's trying to ask me!! I was so pissed off last week I had to go to Felita (another employee here, doesn't work directly with us) to bitch about her. She was asking where to file this one client's accounting expenses invoices and I told her to make a new folder and put it in the drawer where I have everything else because I wasn't sure where Asher had everything and we'd add those to the old ones when we do find them... she goes to Stan and asks him what to do with it, Stan buzzes me and gives me a hard time about it ("where are all the other ones", etc). Then she comes back in here and says she's sorry she forgot and asked Stan about that, and I tell her AGAIN to make a new folder and put it in the drawer - I actually OPEN the drawer show her where... she's there for like 2 minutes and then she says, "I can't find the folder." AAAARGH!!! Did this girl have any previous experience working anywhere??

I'm glad I brought some CDs from home... just what I need to destress - Justin Guarini's voice :) telling me he can "hardly wait hold [me], feel [his] arms around [me]..." Don't worry Justin, I won't ever let you go... heehee.

You know there is nothing on TV when I'm watching the Democratic Party debate right now... I guess I'm just checking out the competition. No one really stands out as the favorite and to beat an incumbent like Bush, you need a guy with a lot of charisma who has something extra to offer (even with our current crappy economy). This election is gonna be like the 1996 one where we really didn't have a chance with Dole as our candidate but he was the best candidate out there at that time. Just watching this debate, you can already guess who has a chance and who doesn't, because as "open-minded" as America is/should be right now, you know things aren't going to change - it's going to be a white male... who are we kidding. I really wish Colin Powell had decided to join Bush in 2000 as the Vice Presidential candidate.

This is turning into a Bush bashing session... I got better things to do than watch this crap. I remember writing a paper for sociology back in college (this was fall quarter 2000, around the time of the 2000 election) about how people who are either Democrats or Republicans usually go along with the party lines and are trained to hate/criticize everything the other party does no matter what, but if the situations are reversed, they don't have anything to say about it. I know I'm guilty of it. This was totally evident these last couple weeks... geez, how did I know Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins, Barbra Streisand and almost everyone in Hollywood would be criticizing the war??... but they had nothing to say about Bosnia a couple years ago when Clinton was in office.

John Kerry is definitely gonna win the nomination. Either him, or Joe Lieberman. No one even comes close.

I am so pathetic... I rearranged my schedule on Thursday so I could watch the Bush speech. "Sorry Monica, I can't go to Target until 6:30p cause I want to be home watching the speech." I had planned on leaving work at 5:55pm on the dot because I know if Bush said the press conference was at 6, it's going to start at 6 on the dot, but Stan started talking about who knows what and I got stuck in his office. That speech was pure gold though... everything from the location, the arrival on the aircraft carrier, the speech, and Bush shaking everyone's hands after the speech. The military sure does love him.

I can't watch this debate anymore... I guess there is a reason only one network aired it and it wasn't even live. I know its sweeps month and its way to early to think about the presidential election late next year but to air the first debate at 1am? Shows how much people should care about it.

Whoo hoo! South Park is on...